duncsimpson wrote: > I did some more experimenting over the weekend and answered some of my > own questions. I set up LMS 8 on another server, also running 1.40.9 > version of the bridge plugin so I can compare what I'm seeing with the > bridge and Roon as the upstream LMS server versus the behaviour of the > bridge with regular LMS. >
It's a long post so I won't quote t but here are a few informations wrt what the bridge do and Roon - In short, the bridge does transcoding only if configured to using the <mode> parameter. Otherwise, it's a passtrough except for PCM where limited changes (sample size & headers) and flac where headers can be updated on the fly. But there is *no* decoding of audio in "thru" mode. - When a player discovers a server (and Roon emulates one), in its HELO message, it tells a bit what it can do, including a codecs list and a maximum sample rate. That informs the server when it should do transcoding on his side. Information like maximum sampe size is not provided. - In "thru" mode, the codecs set in <codecs> are what it is reported to LMS as supported codec, pending that the UPnP side of the player claims to support them. When doing transcoding, <codecs> are what's reported to LMS pending successful loading of the codec libraries (-static versions have them all). When doing transcoding, the bridge also can do resampling - Roon does not emulate some part of a LMS server and especially does not respond to the bridge query for metadata and that explains why you don't see anything. There is an alternative to get metadata that is supported by Roon, but this is not the one I've chosen to use and it's an important work to do the change. Hope this helps LMS 7.9 on Pi 3B+ & Odroid-C2 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, Riva 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103728 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
