WMA stream - bitrate lowering?
I listen to a new WMA stream which uses a very high bitrate codec (for no real reason) and I want to listen on a cellphone, with a limited data plan. Is there a way to have LMS make the bitrate lower?...
View ArticleNetwork Test on wired sb3 player showing slow performance (< 75% at 1000kbps)
Hi I have the following LMS server: Logitech Media Server Status Logitech Media Server Version: 7.7.3 - 1375965195 @ Mon Aug 12 03:09:39 PDT 2013 Operating system: Debian - EN - utf8 Platform...
View ArticleLMS woes
After several years of running LMS7.7 on WHS, things suddenly went wrong a couple of weeks back. It started with the nightly rescan failing part way though, and then, after a power failure, LMS...
View ArticleMy Music categories in LMS 7.9
1. I notice that LMS 7.9 includes lots more categories in "My Music". I'd like to use "Classical Music by Conductor" but don't know how to produce a tag for the mp3 file. I am using mp3Tag as an...
View ArticleLMS 7.8 Rescan stuck at discoverying files/directories
I recently switched my server from my NAS back to my Windows Vista Server (Q6600/8GB) for performance reasons. The NAS version was fine, but very slow doing searches etc. I installed 7.8 over the old...
View ArticleLMS access to /etc/passwd
Hi, I'm building an apparmor profile for Logitech Media Server 7.8.0 and I noticed that the squeezeboxserver process is accessing /etc/passwd and /etc/nsswitch.conf (both read access). Now, I know that...
View ArticlePlayers can't see LMS, but LMS can see players
Hi all, I'm trying to get ubuntu LMS working on freebsd in a jail, which is, I know, an odd configuration. I'm having some difficulties. LMS 7.8 appears to be running ok:- - I can access the web...
View ArticleMajor Corruption ... or can I fix it
Hi, I have around 2000 CDs ripped onto my 7.8 server. Recently I started adding some LPs, VinylStudio. All I did was to create the folders of flac files (one per track) together with the album art and...
View ArticleLMS 7.9 refuses to pick up my new batch of music
I have used LMS for years. While scanning would have certain problems every now and then, this is the most troubling one I have experienced yet. I just wiped my NAS and re-installed LMS and...
View ArticleLMS on ARM and Debian Jessy ???
Hi there. I was wondering if there are any plans for LMS to be made compatible with Debian Jessy. Jessy will soon become state of the art on ARM based server machines. The main issue with LMS for ARM...
View ArticlePlayers not appearing in SqueezeCommander list !
Hi I have recently moved over to a Samsung S3. This runs Jellybean 4.3. Have installed both Squeezecommander and Logitech app. There is a weird issue now - players are listed in both apps for LMS but...
View ArticleSound from Touch and Radio randomly stops with 7.8
I'm having this weird issue where the sound on my Touches and Radios just stops for no reason. Sometimes the sound comes back after a few seconds, other times I have to restart the song to get the...
View ArticleCan't Scan Library
I get this message in the scan log - Thanks for any suggestions [14-07-16 15:55:03.1311] Slim::Utils::SQLHelper::executeSQLFile (85) Error: Couldn't execute SQL statement: [DELETE FROM comments;] :...
View ArticlePandora port on Synolgy LMS
I have LMS running on a synology box. I recently installed an Adtrap (ad blocker). The issue is that now I can not play pandora stations. I can see my stations, but can't play any of them. I get a...
View ArticleLMS 7.9 vs. Readynas Pro i386 compatibility issues?
Hello, LMS 7.9 won't start on my Readynas Pro i386. The server log is showing this "Logitech Media Server died. Restarting." over and over again indefinitely. I tried to upgrade from 7.8.1 which works...
View Articleusing the CLI to get Currently Playing ID or URL?
Hi, Not sure I'm in the right place - but here's what I'm trying to do: Get the metadata of the currently playing track (artist, album etc...)Especially get a URL of the coverart file.When the source...
View ArticleSIRIUS XM - retrieving the real cover art?
So the sirius plugin on LMS doesn't seem to return actual art for the current track - but instead returns the channels artwork (i.e. coffeehouse). There is a way to get it (the SONOS player does it and...
View ArticleCover Art of currently playing track
Hello, I am trying to get the cover art of the currently playing track to display in a remote interface I am setting up. I am using an ios/android remote control software called iRule. I am able to...
View ArticleYosemite Beta 4 and logitech squeezebox media server not starting
> Hi, had the beta of Yosemite since launch and LMS has worked fine but on > the 4th beta released today it appears to have stopped working. I wouldn't be surprised if they updated Perl... They...
View ArticleLMS breaks on OS X Yosemite beta 4.
> Almost certainly not the right solution, but I got it working by > replacing /usr/bin/perl (which is 5.18 on beta 4) with the version from > beta 3, 5.16. /Library/Perl/5.16 was still on my...
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