STV Import: Simple Web Radio V1.2

[koelec]

Originally Posted by Morgan111

Chris, Will the use of Slim Server allow playback of audio CDs in the drive?

I tried this with slim server and the answer is no. I also did not find any reference to this ablility on the net. Slim server has the ability to use plugins and a large number is already available (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerPlugins), but no CD Drive support. Maybe if you start asking for this on the slim server forum (http://forums.slimdevices.com/), someone will pick it up and create just such a plugin.

- Chris

[mkanet]

Thanks for the answer Chris... last question.. does Slim Server take up CPU cycles when a client (ie, SageTV) is not using it?

Originally Posted by koelec

Yes, the Slim Server is an external application that can be used by multiple clients (players), SageTV is just one of them.
It is like a Sage Client and Sage Server. Just like Sage server, you don't want to shutdown the slim server.

- Chris

[jimmyb]

Koelec,

I have used slim server in the past. Needs some umph to stream, but I believe most of the plug ins you linked to are for the Slim Devices (hardware) and NOT for the actual server software.

Unless you are planning some sort of Device emulation.

EDIT: Re phrase that, they are to be displayed on the Squezze Box or the Slim devices.

[something fishy]

@Koelec
This is truely awsome news. From my perspective, the main advantages will be to use the AlienBBC plugin (which transcodes all BBC live realaudio streams and indexes and transcodes all their 'on-demand' programs) and potentially get gapless playback of flac files (does softsqueeze do this, I know it should). But the libary of plugins goes far beyond this (though unfortunately I don't think that it will give you Pandora access, that's on the SqueezeNetwork). Do you have an estimated release date?

@Jimmyb
The plugins are loaded on the slimserver. As I understand it the client (hardware or software) is little more than a dumb terminal and an MP3/FLAC decoder.

I'm running the Slimserver and Softsqueeze (plus Excel, Outlook, IE7, Firefox, Word and all the other stuff normally found on an office PC) on my work PC at the moment. This is a P4@2.8GHz, 1Gb ram and not doing anything else Windows reports total CPU utilisation at 5-6% when playing MP3s stored on a USB HDD.

CPU utilisation for Slim.exe (the slimserver itself) never rises above 00% in the process manager (though memory use is around 65Mb with a library of about 500 CDs).

Using AlienBBC to transcode realaudio raises CPU load to about 10-12% because there is an instance of mplayer and flac.exe running to do the realaudio-> flac transcode.

The slimserver when idle doesn't seem to consume any CPU cycles (though its memory use remains at 65Meg). It fits ideally into a SageTV server - client relationship, running on the PC where the media files are stored. But I would be surprised if it were a problem running alongside SageTV on a client PC (connecting to localhost). Slimserver seems very mature and I've never had any stability issues.

Cheers
Eric

[Madcoder]

Originally Posted by koelec

Yes, of course you can continue to use the web radio plugin if you are satisfied with it. But the Slim Player plugin has so much more to offer (see my previous post).


Ok, I've created a special for you (and any others experiencing stutter on some stations).
Please copy the attached webradio.zip file into the JARS folder in your current SageTV installation folder. Rename webradio.jar to webradio.jar.old and rename webradio.zip to webradio.jar.
This new jar will enable you to set the buffer size if you create a file called webradio.properties (be sure the extension is .properties and not .properties.txt) with the following line in it:

buffer=64000

and put this properties file in the same folder where the stationlist.txt resides.
The current buffersize default value (if you don't set the buffer property) is 16000.
You have to restart Sage for the new setting to become effective.

Hope this solves your problem.

- Chris

This is excellent! My stations that were skipping now play completely smooth! Many thanks.

[jimmyb]

@somethingfishy

Thank you for the detailed report. I shall have to revisit the old Slim

[wbarber69]

so any word on when we can expect this new plugin

[koelec]

Originally Posted by wbarber69

so any word on when we can expect this new plugin

I made some great progress today and I'm really excited about it. Still some work left before releasing it. I think the end of this week would be quite feasible. One thing to know in advance is that the plugin requires version 6.5 of the slim server, which is currently beta.

- Chris

[wbarber69]

thats cool, no problem with that, hey if you need to beta test the plugin I'm here for you

[CanadianEh]

Hi there,

Any chance someone can add or show me how to add volume control icons to this plug-in? I'm using the old Hauppauge 34 button remotes still, and the volume controls in the plug-in move in and out of the window structure instead of adjusting the volume. I just tried adding one through Studio, and um.. yeah, it didn't work.. (doh!) .... can anyone point me in the right direction? If not, could this be added as a feature to the existing plugin?

[JDizzy]

I have installed this and added it to My Menu and all is well.....
BUT, for some reason it has not generated the stationlist.txt file the first time I have run it...
Anyone want to share their list??
Or, how can I get one?
JD

[koelec]

Originally Posted by JDizzy

I have installed this and added it to My Menu and all is well.....
BUT, for some reason it has not generated the stationlist.txt file the first time I have run it...
Anyone want to share their list??
Or, how can I get one?
JD

If it has not generated it, there must be a problem. Look into the log4j.log file to see if any errors have been reported. I've attached the default stationlist.txt file. Hope this will help.

- Chris
ps Look out for my new plugin called Simple Slim Player to be released in a couple of days, which supercedes the webradio plugin.

[koelec]

Originally Posted by CanadianEh

Hi there,

Any chance someone can add or show me how to add volume control icons to this plug-in? I'm using the old Hauppauge 34 button remotes still, and the volume controls in the plug-in move in and out of the window structure instead of adjusting the volume. I just tried adding one through Studio, and um.. yeah, it didn't work.. (doh!) .... can anyone point me in the right direction? If not, could this be added as a feature to the existing plugin?

Look out for my new plugin called Simple Slim Player to be released in a couple of days, which supercedes the webradio plugin.

- Chris

[koelec]

Main screen very similar to the old webradio plugin. Notice you can change the list being displayed from favorites to playlists.


Info displayed is automatically refreshed as music changes.


Have access to all features of the slim server in transparent mode, like browing for new stations, creating playlists, settings and so on.

All coding done. Works like a charm. STill need some days to creating stvi import code, so everybody can enjoy it.

- Chris

[wbarber69]

can't wait

[CanadianEh]

Me neither... looks really nice! This seriously has been one of the better plug-in's that has came out in a long time

[jrd102780]

Here is a program to accompany web radio... Station List.exe. It is a small program to add stations downloaded from Shoutcast.com

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/down...do=file&id=116

[setherd]

Originally Posted by jtrick

I am really excited about this plug-in because I listen to shoutcast streams all the time, and having them integrated into Sage will be great, but I cannot get this to work. I keep getting the "webradio.jar is missing or wrong version" error. I am running Sage 5.0.4 client and I have a separate Sage 5 server. I am assuming that I do not need to do anything with the server, but I even installed the webradio files to the server just in case. I have copied the webradio files from the zip more than once into the sage directory and made sure the all the jar files are in the jar directory. I have run out of ideas to make this work. Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Originally Posted by koelec

Either on the following things could be wrong.

1. webradio.jar not in JARS folder of sagetv directory.
2. webradio.jar is old version, i.e 1.0 version. Could be that the old webradio.jar is loaded from a different place and is used instead.

- chris

I have the same problem and have triple checked everything.
Has anyone come up with a solution?

take care,
Seth

[jlabrue]

Originally Posted by setherd

I have the same problem and have triple checked everything.
Has anyone come up with a solution?

take care,
Seth

Ditto for me. Triple checked yet keep getting the same issue. I have probably 10 or more plugins installed and many (neilm's) have java files and I don't have any issues with them. Keep hoping an update will come out and the problem will be magically fixed for me otherwise I would have already posted. Figured it was just me and I haven't had time to work through it.

[mkanet]

Hey Chris, any idea when we might see the new Web Radio? Needless to say, I can't wait to try it!

-Michael