Hi everyone,
I spent a big part of my saturday trying to solve this problem : I installed piCorePlayer with LMS on a Raspberry Pi with a DigiOne hat. It works great, both with Spotify, Tidal and USB storage. I encountered some problems when I tried to access my MinimServer library.
1. Most of my library is in ALAC (for those glorious iTunes days), and although LMS is able to play ALAC files on a USB drive (by transcoding them or not, depending if you have FFmpeg installed), it doesn't seem to be able to play the same ALAC files when they are shared by the MinimServer. I found a workaround by using MinimStreamer with the rule alac:wav. Is there a way to play them directly without transcoding on the server side?
2. While I can live with the transcoding, my main problem is that for the files coming from the MinimServer, LMS doesn't see any album art. The album art is really there, both embedded in the file and within a folder.jpg file (I tried with FLAC files that plays directly, so we can't blame the transcoding). I also tried cover.jpg and both .png with the same result. I also have an AURALiC Aries, streaming from the same MinimServer and this streamer sees the album arts all the time.
Can anyone help me solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Z.
I spent a big part of my saturday trying to solve this problem : I installed piCorePlayer with LMS on a Raspberry Pi with a DigiOne hat. It works great, both with Spotify, Tidal and USB storage. I encountered some problems when I tried to access my MinimServer library.
1. Most of my library is in ALAC (for those glorious iTunes days), and although LMS is able to play ALAC files on a USB drive (by transcoding them or not, depending if you have FFmpeg installed), it doesn't seem to be able to play the same ALAC files when they are shared by the MinimServer. I found a workaround by using MinimStreamer with the rule alac:wav. Is there a way to play them directly without transcoding on the server side?
2. While I can live with the transcoding, my main problem is that for the files coming from the MinimServer, LMS doesn't see any album art. The album art is really there, both embedded in the file and within a folder.jpg file (I tried with FLAC files that plays directly, so we can't blame the transcoding). I also tried cover.jpg and both .png with the same result. I also have an AURALiC Aries, streaming from the same MinimServer and this streamer sees the album arts all the time.
Can anyone help me solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Z.