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Roku TV frontend for the Subsonic streaming music server
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Add support for podcasts #15

Closed maihde closed 9 years ago

maihde commented 12 years ago

Add support for podcasts using the podcast API

skywaymsn commented 9 years ago

+1 I was looking for this last night. Please provide a suggested donation amount for this feature.

maihde commented 9 years ago

This feature should be straight forward to add, I see if I can get to in the next week or so. I'll post again when I have a test version for you to try.

Donations are greatly appreciated but not required. When the feature is finished feel free to give as little or as much as you choose.

~Michael

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:51 PM, skywaymsn notifications@github.com wrote:

+1 I was looking for this last night. Please provide a suggested donation amount for this feature.

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maihde commented 9 years ago

If you have the chance, please try to install this 1.9 release candidate:

https://owner.roku.com/add/Z5EV5

You may need to delete the current version you have installed. The 1.9 release candidate includes podcast support...please let me know if it doesn't work for you.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Michael Ihde mike.ihde@randomwalking.com wrote:

This feature should be straight forward to add, I see if I can get to in the next week or so. I'll post again when I have a test version for you to try.

Donations are greatly appreciated but not required. When the feature is finished feel free to give as little or as much as you choose.

~Michael

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:51 PM, skywaymsn notifications@github.com wrote:

+1 I was looking for this last night. Please provide a suggested donation amount for this feature.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/maihde/roku_subsonic/issues/15#issuecomment-74377882 .

skywaymsn commented 9 years ago

The two can live together, you just have to know which is which.

The new beta is great! I messed around with the podcasts last night. I noticed two things: 1) There is a distinct lag between selecting a podcast and the audio starting, but this may be more about disk access on my backend. 2) There is title, but no date information on the available podcasts making it difficult to determine order.

If the API exposes date information about a podcast, adding it to the display would be great. Other than that, it's pretty solid.

-Matt

maihde commented 9 years ago

I've just published an update that fixes item (2). Let me know if your a happy with the change.

As for item (1), the lag would be outside of my control. With the Roku device I have to provide it the streamURL and then it deals with all the details of fetching the content. On my system with a classic Roku I don't observe any noticeable lag.

Try hitting your Subsonic server with the below URL (obviously replacing the host, port, uname, and pword):

http://localhost:4040/rest/getPodcasts.view?u=uname&p=pword&v=1.7.0&c=test

and look at the reported contentType. It it's not 'audio/mpeg' then the server is performing transcoding and perhaps that is the source of the lag.

You can also see how long it takes SubSonic to send the stream by reading the streamId from the getPodcasts.view and sending it to this URL

http://localhost:4040/rest/stream.view?u=uname&p=pword&v=1.7.0&c=test&id=streamId

If that is having noticeable lag, then it something about your subsonic server. If that is fast...then either the network or the Roku is the issue. If the later, it would most likely be caused by the device/firmware that you have. If you provide those details to me I'll scour the documents/forums to see if anybody else has had issues.

Cheers, ~Michael

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM, skywaymsn notifications@github.com wrote:

The two can live together, you just have to know which is which.

The new beta is great! I messed around with the podcasts last night. I noticed two things: 1) There is a distinct lag between selecting a podcast and the audio starting, but this may be more about disk access on my backend. 2) There is title, but no date information on the available podcasts making it difficult to determine order.

If the API exposes date information about a podcast, adding it to the display would be great. Other than that, it's pretty solid.

-Matt

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/maihde/roku_subsonic/issues/15#issuecomment-74668405.

maihde commented 9 years ago

Matt, any luck with the new update?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Michael Ihde mike.ihde@randomwalking.com wrote:

I've just published an update that fixes item (2). Let me know if your a happy with the change.

As for item (1), the lag would be outside of my control. With the Roku device I have to provide it the streamURL and then it deals with all the details of fetching the content. On my system with a classic Roku I don't observe any noticeable lag.

Try hitting your Subsonic server with the below URL (obviously replacing the host, port, uname, and pword):

http://localhost:4040/rest/getPodcasts.view?u=uname&p=pword&v=1.7.0&c=test

and look at the reported contentType. It it's not 'audio/mpeg' then the server is performing transcoding and perhaps that is the source of the lag.

You can also see how long it takes SubSonic to send the stream by reading the streamId from the getPodcasts.view and sending it to this URL

http://localhost:4040/rest/stream.view?u=uname&p=pword&v=1.7.0&c=test&id=streamId

If that is having noticeable lag, then it something about your subsonic server. If that is fast...then either the network or the Roku is the issue. If the later, it would most likely be caused by the device/firmware that you have. If you provide those details to me I'll scour the documents/forums to see if anybody else has had issues.

Cheers, ~Michael

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:38 PM, skywaymsn notifications@github.com wrote:

The two can live together, you just have to know which is which.

The new beta is great! I messed around with the podcasts last night. I noticed two things: 1) There is a distinct lag between selecting a podcast and the audio starting, but this may be more about disk access on my backend. 2) There is title, but no date information on the available podcasts making it difficult to determine order.

If the API exposes date information about a podcast, adding it to the display would be great. Other than that, it's pretty solid.

-Matt

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/maihde/roku_subsonic/issues/15#issuecomment-74668405 .

skywaymsn commented 9 years ago

I've been out of town for a few days. I'll fire it up tonight and let you know.

skywaymsn commented 9 years ago

Looks great!

maihde commented 9 years ago

Cool. I'm going to publish it then so it becomes the official version (which will also automatically update).

~Michael

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:02 AM, skywaymsn notifications@github.com wrote:

Looks great!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/maihde/roku_subsonic/issues/15#issuecomment-75699999.