Can you create something like an AutoPlay Yes-No check box that starts the player as it loads... like the Android app?
I wonder if that would function with an event scheduler. I have http://radioparadise.com/m3u/aac-128.m3u scheduled as a wake up alarm to start WinAmp. It'd be nice to have the FLAC player wake me up.
Yes. That's what we'll be doing (in the player settings). I don't see why you couldn't use it with your event scheduler.
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BillG wrote:
No reason we couldn't offer that as an option, I guess.
Can you create something like an AutoPlay Yes-No check box that starts the player as it loads... like the Android app?
I wonder if that would function with an event scheduler. I have http://radioparadise.com/m3u/aac-128.m3u scheduled as a wake up alarm to start WinAmp. It'd be nice to have the FLAC player wake me up.
I love the sound of the new web player, but for years I've scripted RP to play in itunes with a push of the start button on the iMac. Push the power button and walk away. A minute or two later RP is streaming wirelessly from the computer to my stereo system.
I can get the web player page to load at startup, but I still have to push the play button. I know this seems minor, but I wish I could figure out a way to get it to start playing automatically.
No reason we couldn't offer that as an option, I guess.
I love the sound of the new web player, but for years I've scripted RP to play in itunes with a push of the start button on the iMac. Push the power button and walk away. A minute or two later RP is streaming wirelessly from the computer to my stereo system.
I can get the web player page to load at startup, but I still have to push the play button. I know this seems minor, but I wish I could figure out a way to get it to start playing automatically.
I'm new to the forum so please forgive me if this has already been discussed. I have looked but couldn't find anything.
Is a FLAC stream URL planned any time soon?
Many thanks
Paul
We don't currently have a way to provide a stream URL for FLAC. We're investigating possibilities, but our FLAC implementation requires software assistance at the receive end.
Been trying out the FLAC streams using JRIVER using the streaming option which sounds great but is prone to buffer and is a finite playlist. I then tried using the link address to the new web player in the URL address tab and it sounds great-not sure if it is flac but it is a noticeable improvement on the normal 320 ACC stream. https://newradioparadise.com/player
The default on the new player is 128k AAC. Click the 'gear' icon to switch bitrates.
Been trying out the FLAC streams using JRIVER using the streaming option which sounds great but is prone to buffer and is a finite playlist. I then tried using the link address to the new web player in the URL address tab and it sounds great-not sure if it is flac but it is a noticeable improvement on the normal 320 ACC stream. https://newradioparadise.com/player
People, don't keep you hopes high - even FLAC will sound awful because audio stream is heavily filtered (probably some kind of compressor and expander). So yeah maybe its lossless, but without original dynamics, focus, sound stage, imaging. Not suitable for serious HIFI listening at all, maybe for car or cheap headphones while commuting in noisy train.
I think I explained somewhere else how we do processing, as well as when & why. Saying that our "audio stream is heavily filtered & processed" is not even close to accurate.
Plenty of people find RP eminently suitable for serious HiFi listening.
I don't think the poster here understands the difference between dynamics compression (which is used to one degree or another in virtually all recordings) and data compression (which always adds distortion, sometimes a lot of it, and is evil except when truly necessary). The file he singled out as an example elsewhere was one that was mislabeled in our database as being a FLAC source when it was really MP3.
There are a few remaining poorly-sourced files in our library. I'm always happy to have those pointed out.
People, don't keep you hopes high - even FLAC will sound awful because audio stream is heavily filtered (probably some kind of compressor and expander). So yeah maybe its lossless, but without original dynamics, focus, sound stage, imaging. Not suitable for serious HIFI listening at all, maybe for car or cheap headphones while commuting in noisy train.
Wow. Welp, when I'm banging around the house working on things, or have it pumped to the outdoor speakers for yard work it sounds great to me. Then when I switch to audiophile mode I sit back in the living room, carefully located in my stereo sweetspot that only I can enjoy, put a 180g disk on my Denon turntable and lose myself in some St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
People, don't keep you hopes high - even FLAC will sound awful because audio stream is heavily filtered (probably some kind of compressor and expander). So yeah maybe its lossless, but without original dynamics, focus, sound stage, imaging. Not suitable for serious HIFI listening at all, maybe for car or cheap headphones while commuting in noisy train.
Wow. Welp, when I'm banging around the house working on things, or have it pumped to the outdoor speakers for yard work it sounds great to me. Then when I switch to audiophile mode I sit back in the living room, carefully located in my stereo sweetspot that only I can enjoy, put a 180g disk on my Denon turntable and lose myself in some St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
People, don't keep you hopes high - even FLAC will sound awful because audio stream is heavily filtered (probably some kind of compressor and expander). So yeah maybe its lossless, but without original dynamics, focus, sound stage, imaging. Not suitable for serious HIFI listening at all, maybe for car or cheap headphones while commuting in noisy train.
Hi marco79 This works fantastic! I just love these handy people that are able to do such amazing things Thanks a lot
marco79cgn wrote:
Thanks! I fixed some bugs and added some new features. The current version includes
the FLAC version of Radio Paradise (playing endlessly like a real stream)
the current track information (artist, title, album, year)
a playlist of the current event incl. random access
previous and next buttons (for skipping)
a volume slider
the progress (time and bar)
a donation button (to show some love to Bill & Rebecca and support their awesome work)
It works best in Google Chrome. You can download it from my github page. I'll probably leave it like that and continue with the plugin development in Volumio.
