LMS and the whole Squeezebox eco-system is really a very well functioning system today. But of course there's always a few wishes for further improvements. There's a bug-database where you can also add feature requests, but I'm not sure how much it is used and monitored these days? Also there's probably a lot of old stuff in that, from people who left the Squeezebox systems long ago, and don't really care anymore.
So I decided to post my little wishlist here...
So I decided to post my little wishlist here...
- Don't post-fix disc-number when scrobbling the album-title to last.fm
It doesn't match the album data in last.fm's database, messes up my statistics, and prevent other service to make correct use of my last.fm data. - OrangeSqueeze with better player support
The integration with SqueezePlayer is quirky. There's probably room for improvements in how the two apps cooperate, however it probably never gets REALLY GOOD unless OrangeSqueeze gets its own integrated player functionality :-) - Better stream url compatibility (Tune In URL)
For example you might find links like http://legacy.kcrw.com/pls/kcrwmusic.pls on the net. They are sometimes referred to as "iTunes links". I don't know about that part, I have never been an iTunes user myself. But link like this plays nice in WinAMP and other players too. Just LMS wont eat it... However if I download the pls (text-)file, I typically find content like this inside:
And it's pretty easy to extract another url from this which plays just perfect using LMS Tune In URL. But why can't LMS do the unpacking itself?... And yes, there's a nice radio plugin where you'll find the station I used for this example. But still at times you want to stream something that ain't (yet?) to find using the Radio plugin...Quote:
[playlist]
numberofentries=1
File1=http://kcrw.ic.llnwd.net/stream/kcrw_music
Title1=Kcrw Music Stream
Length1=-1
Version=2
- Support for album subtitle
Show album subtitle in menus and Now-playing screen. That is the TSST tag in MP3/ID3v2 and the SETSUBTITLE(/DISCSUBTITLE) in Flac/Vorbis. Btw, ID3-tag TSST was officially added from ID3V2.4, but for example MP3TAG also happily writes the TSST tag when using ID3V2.3 (and I can't image there should be any problems with that either...). No related changes in LMS functionality besides this requested. It's just a cosmetic nice-to-have show-off thing :-) - Show release year in album lists/menus (when available of course)
It does in the web-interface, but not on the players. Edit: Well, It also does on my Squeezebox Classic, but not on my Touch'es or OrangeSqueezes (Did I miss a setting?)... - Album sort by year, descending
Yes, I've been told it is supported with erland's Custom Browse plugin. I quickly admit I haven't tried this plugin yet. But would be nice if it was integrated into LMS. - Fix problem of constant repeating (short, but interupting) rebuffering when connecting SBTouch over the internet
Having a spare Squeezebox and an internet-streaming LMS setup, I just really want to play with this...