Posts by awiouy

  • Librespot Add-on

    Quote from principio

    I have tested 109b (from your link) as well as version 110 from libreelec-repo on my fresh installed LE9 Milhouse build (from april 1st and april 2nd). Each combination doesn't work for me: my spotify-app doesn't see the device. The dependencies-section says: os.libreelec.tv is unavailable.

    I have activated logging and then uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin. Hopefully the log is useful. (In the log, os.libreelec.tv is shown as loaded.)

    Please provide a log produced with "journalctl -u service.librespot"

  • Librespot Add-on

    Please provide a log produced with "journalctl -u service.librespot"

  • AirPlay / Spotify by Snapcast

    Quote from ariendj

    I've been looking and I did not find any environment variable that defines the location of alsa plugins either. That's unfortunate.

    I thought there was a possibility to specify plugin locations via asoundrc or asound.conf but I misremembered. While you can set the location of LADSPA plugins in asound.conf and specify their location via a variable called LADSPA_PATH there is no way to do this for alsa plugins.

    Having the alsa plugins in LibreELEC would be really cool though. We'd be able to use alsa's 'file' plugin to write audio to the snapserver fifo instead of using pulseaudio. For playback we could use the alsa 'dmix' plugin to have snapclient play through alsa while at the same time not blocking the output device for Kodi. We'd be using snapcast as it is intended to be used by badaix, running on alsa. As there is no native pulseaudio support snapcast can manage latency for raw alsa devices but not for pulseaudio.

    A benefit of using alsa directly would be that we would not have to set the snapclient's '--latency=xy' parameter to offset the latency that is introduced by pulseaudio (which is a unique value for every output device and cannot be statically defined for all systems and devices).

    The drawback would be that pulseaudio would still be required for playout of snapclient to bluetooth devices. Also setting the latency parameter would be required for synchronous playback. But since bluetooth playback itself introduces considerable latency, the latency parameter would have to be used to account for this anyway.

    I have reworked the alsa-plugin package to only build pulse in less than 100KB. I will submit a PR when it is ready.

    I will think about how to go forward with Snapcast and Librespot during the next days, and propose it here.

    At a glance, output to pulse and being able to control Snapserver via RPC from Kodi, at least to select a stream and set volume would allow to simplify a lot of things.

  • AirPlay / Spotify by Snapcast

    meh... with the above Alsa creates the device but cannot open it, due to : (snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so.

    No idea if it is possible to have Alsa search plugins in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

  • re-enable alsa-plugins

    Amazing progress guys!

    There is no need to add the libraries to the image. Simply add them to a directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH and edit /storage/.config/asound.conf to use them.

    I will add pulse to Snapclient, because there is a use case. I let someone else add all or the rest to the audio-tools addon.

    Please discuss the pulse with Snapclient use case in the Snapcast thread, so that everyone can share without searching much.

    Thanks

  • AirPlay / Spotify by Snapcast

    By default there is no asound.conf in LibreELEC. You could try to create /storage/.config/asound.conf to create a pulse output. You will have to reboot LibreELEC for ALSA to pick up that asound.conf.

    According to what I found /storage/.config/asound.conf should be:

    Code
    pcm.pulse {    type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {    type pulse
}

    Let me know if it works

  • AirPlay / Spotify by Snapcast

    Quote from Catscrash

    Hi,

    I have a bluetooth Receiver on one of my libreelec devices (milhouse 9 build) - How can I make snapclient on this device play to the bluetooth device? Everything else on this device plays to bluetooth without issues

    System Audio is set to "PULSE: (SPEAKERNAME)"

    "snapclient -l" on ssh also only delivers the ALSA devices, no pulseaudio device

    Snapclient outputs to ALSA, not to Pulseaudio.

    What you are trying to do is therefore not possible at the moment.

    Moreover, I suspect that Kodi holds the Pulseaudio speaker, and that Snapclient will not be able to share it.

    Maybe someone else here has an idea of how this could be implemented, and wants to give it a shot.

  • AirPlay / Spotify by Snapcast

    Thank you for this information:

    1. resample-method = soxr-vhq in /storage/.config/pulse-daemon.conf.d/10-snapserver.conf improves sound quality

    2. Setting Audio offset to  Ahead by 1.000s easily achieves audio/video synchronisation

    I will see if I can add both to snapserver (and librespot)

    In the meantime both can be done manually

    I attach updated previews for RPi2

  • Librespot Add-on

    Quote from nexus.duci

    I am simply streaming to kodi from my macbook running spotify and using spotify connect for it. I am mostly using playlists. There is no single track or anything that reproduces this.

    This issue occurs seamingly randomly, sometimes after 1-2 tracks, sometimes after a whole day of playing.

    Librespot is bad at handling network errors. It is being worked on.

  • Librespot Add-on

    Quote from nexus.duci

    Noone who can help me solving this? Should I try reverting Kodi version to a more stable one?

    Nothing to do with Kodi.

    Please explain what you are doing (from what device are you streaming? Are you streaming a playlist? Do you experience this with a single track? What track? etc)

  • AirPlay / Spotify by Snapcast

    Have you tried to set Latency to 600 in Snapclient settings? This somehow achieves a/V sync here.

  • AirPlay / Spotify by Snapcast

    Quote from heisenberg

    Tested the preview version with LE9-Mihouse on RPi3:

    Works on Audio, can't get A/V-sync with Videos or Live-TV

    A/V-sync works with ALSA or Pi:HDMI sound-setting in Kodi-settings, but not with Pulse together with snapclient

    Thx so far!

    Will do further tests. Maybe I find a setting for A/V-sync

    Is "Stop Snapclient on Kodi playback" set in the settings of the addon?