Configuring radio streams with minimwatch

[simoncn]

(13-04-2014 15:41)clio09 Wrote:  I am sorry but I misread your user guide instructions. My interpretation is that the stream.converter needed to be set to *:L16. That was where I was getting the error. I am able to set the stream.transcode to *:L16, but still cannot get the stream to play. I imagine my renderer does not support streaming at all unless there is something else we can try.

Streaming a radio station is very similar to streaming a local audio file from your NAS. If this works, your renderer supports streaming.

I think the next step should be to determine the streaming capabilities of your renderer.

1) Can you use PlugPlayer to play audio files on your renderer? If so, what kinds of files (e.g., FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAV, MP3, MP4) are you able to play?

2) If you enable transcoding in MinimStreamer, what kinds of transcoded streams are you able to play? For example, if you are able to play FLAC files in step 1) and you set stream.transcode to flac:wav or flac:L16, do these play on your renderer?

Note: After making any change to stream.transcode, you need to quit and restart PlugPlayer. This is because PlugPlayer caches the previous stream information until it is restarted. If you didn't do this in your previous test with *:L16, this might be the reason why the L16 stream wouldn't play.