Library contains 0 audio files in 0 folders

[mercury]

(24-12-2022 00:39)simoncn Wrote:  You can use the BubbleUPnP Android app to do this.

Thanks for the suggestion, but i wan't clear enough. Sure with BubbleUPnP i can open the Samsung Multi Room app and see the music files on my phone and choose and play them to the speakers.
Instead, a server and stream, that resides on my phone, i can activate and broadcast my phones audio via a local URL, just like streamer does now from the Rpi and radio streams, but from the phone, so my speakers can play whatever audio my phone is playing. So like MinimServer.Streamer, but for Android.

[mercury]

Hi Simon, thanks for your continued support.
looking at the logs, I see bitrate as 96k

Playing stream bbc_london bitrate 96000 HLS
MinimStreamer: transcode setting is 'aac:wav24'
Playing stream bbc_6music bitrate 96000 HLS
restarting MinimServer[raspberrypi]
starting MinimServer[raspberrypi]
Library contains 0 audio files in 0 folders
MinimServer[raspberrypi] is running
Playing stream bbc_radio_five_live bitrate 96000 HLS

So added aac:wav24 to stream.transcode
restarted, but I still see 96k.
What am I doing wrong do you think?

[simoncn]

This message is showing the original bitrate of the network stream you are playing, not the bitrate after transcoding.

[mercury]

Understood. Is there any way to verify?
Because I was reading another thread where you helped someone else...

"To use MinimStreamer without transcoding, you need to add a stream ID prefix to the stream name in the #EXTINF line. For example, you can change the first stream to

#EXTINF -1,[BAYERN2] Bayern 2 "

And my heading is like so..
"#EXTINF:-1,[R6;aac,48000] BBC Radio 6 Music"

Does this mean I'm not getting the 320k streams or I am?

[simoncn]

Transcoding cannot convert a 96 kbps stream into a 320 kbps stream. The original stream only contains 96 kbps of audio information and transcoding cannot add more information than the original stream contains. With your stream.transcode setting, you are getting the best possible LPCM encoding of the 96 kbps AAC stream to send to your renderer to play.

[mercury]

And my setting I mentioned is ok? ""#EXTINF:-1,[R6;aac,48000] BBC Radio 6 Music"
I'm not blocking transcoding right?
The confusion about the bit rate, was from your previous comment, ii thought I had the highest bitrate stream already..
""Don't change what's in the .m3u files. The details there are the original quality of the stream and this should not be changed. To enable WAV24 transcoding, you need to do two things..""
I saw another comment to swap from 96 to 320...//as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_6music/bbc_6music.isml/bbc_6music-audio%3d96000.norewind.m3u8
So is there anyway to get a 320 stream into ministreamer? Apologies for the non-nerd questions. At the momemt I'm using this //a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/dash/uk/dash_full/ak/bbc_6music.mpd

[simoncn]

Are you in the UK? The streams you posted in post #3 of this thread are the highest quality 320 kbps UK-only streams that were available at that time. These streams are no longer available because of restrictions imposed by the BBC last year. I don't understand how you can currently be using the stream //a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/dash/uk/dash_full/ak/bbc_6music.mpd because this stream was withdrawn by the BBC last year.

The other stream you mentioned in post #26 is a 96 kbps stream and as far as I know is still working. You could try changing 96000 to 320000 in the URL to see if this produces a 320 kbps stream.

Your .m3u entry is correct and you should not change it. The 48000 in this entry is a sample frequency, not a bitrate. All BBC streams (96 kbps and 320 kbps) have a sample rate of 48000 Hz.

[mercury]

You're absolutely right, I checked again the correct source folder and I am indeed using 320 already, it's quite confusing, coming back to it every few months, as I have copies of folders due to the stress of the BBC changes. Thank you for clearing it up for me, much appreciated.