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I did some test with USB audio adapter (mic in - , speaker out) which appears as hw:2,0 on my Ubuntu.

When running my LSM on Ubuntu as a process, the command below worked ok, "wavin pcm" was the only entry custom-convert.conf I removed flac and mp3.
I enable player.source...

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The Waveinput plugin does nothing with audio subsystem - all it provides is a mechanism to enable a "wavin://" type url to be valid and then parse the URL to pass on a parameter to a command line to be executed whose output to stdout is a CD quality PCM, Flac or MP3 stream is then taken by...

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To debug what is happening with arecord or aplay, Redirect syserr ( something like 2>& /tmp/error.txt ).
You can also use tee between arecord and aplay to check if problem is input or output.

Better still in the custom-convert.conf execute a shell script containing the arecord...

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The station play ion V2.08 - because of some issue with 2.08, I made a change making to assume "audio/mpegurl" is not HLS
I need to go back to look at the issues that required change to 2.08 and see whether this change is actually part of the solution.

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LMS/plugin scanning has decided it is a m3u playlist and not a HLS one - so lots of small files are played and playlist is not updated.
The MIME audio/mpegurl has taken precedence over the suffix m3u8.
I have a memory that I had tried early on for playing to grab all m3u/m3u8 MIME type stream...

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Not really incompatible just the install.xml is old.
Stop LMS.
Edit Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/RemoteControl/install.xml file and change the maxVersion from 7.* to 8.*
Start LMS

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Alternatively just check the box "Use unsupported extensions"...

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I did a proof of concept for a TP-Link smart plugin where On/off was triggered by HTTP / GET on an URL - thread below is the exchange. Event trigger plugin may be easier.
https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum...yer#post106286 post 16 onward...

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Menu handling for older players is wholly an LMS operation whereas for Squeezeplay is is within the device (i.e. Lua code with remote type calls to LMS).
The More menu LMS code for older players just doesn't pass the icon item to the save Favouties routine - it probably could be fixed.
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Favorites are kept in a opml format file
You can use the OPML editor (enable the option under Settings/Advanced/Plugins/Favorites) so put the stations in a separate file and then later add to the file to Favorites as a sub folder.
Keep a separate backup copy of the flac station opml file...

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According to github ogf was added to types.conf in Sept 2019.

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I see Ogg Flac in FileTypes in my CORE32 8.3.0...

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What version of LMS ?
Ogg/Flac is standard in recent LMS - so should be available in your Setting/Advanced/Filetype

If player cannot play it natively (some player can - maybe latest squeezelite) - trasnscode is flac/sox as LMS will strip the Ogg transport.

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A few more details to be aware of. My interest came about when after using my RadioNet plugin some users noted that saved station logo was not always correct.

To reliably save icon in Favorite entry, use WebUI (e.g. search, plugins) to find station and from search results list menu, BEFORE...

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The entry has for the icon and imageproxy path - which has an embedded URL ( http://cdn-profiles.tunein.com/s28014/images/logoq.png ). I'm guessing the URL is the key used to look up imageproxy cache and if no entry then refetched from source and processed & placed in imageproxy cache.
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The actual opml entry from favorites.opml would help answer the question

I don't believe cache plays a part in the Favorites icons.
Icons in Favorites are either saved in the opml entry or somehow derived from the URL.

A "Radio" search usually means a Tune-in...

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It would help the explanation if you showed the problem Favorites OPML entry.

If the URL is from an aggregator (e.g. Tune-in/Radiotime) they sometimes provide out of date icons.
If a station icon is explicitly saved in Favorites, it can depend on when & how you saved the Favorites...

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Since icecast2 works - you can choose to spend time to sort out the HLS issue or not.

The "unable to play filetype" is usually because player cannot play audio format - in this case AAC (icecast2 stream is using MP3)
Is PCP your player or LMS or both ?
If PCP is not...

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I think RTE is trying to encourage use of apps and player ad use of HLS.

The Tune-in URL you provided doesn't return ANY stations.

If you install PlayHLS - then the URL becomes
http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?...ls&partnerId=1...

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You could report to station that there seems to be a problem with 178.170.14.188...

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Agreed, I had the same concerns about using the "old" v2 API when doing the iHeart plugin - I hope it won't just stop working one day....

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I only did a quick test with one playlist direct from the site and it played ok from LMS with PlayHLS installed with big gaps of silence.
The BIG problem with the servers, is if every second access fails - I'm not sure what timeout is used with LMS - this explains the long periods of silence I...