Hi everyone, n Not sure if that was already posted before but I have a bug while streaming web radio. The unit does switch to another favorite web radio without any reason. Quite annoying while switching from quiet ambiance music for a dinner to metal any trick or work in progress? thanks
Maybe some setting that forces switching to the next available radio upon low-bandwidth / poor connectivity...? Have you tried playing that radio ALONE, not being part of a playlist / or chosen-from favorites? What happens? Does it stop?
Read my comment above. It can make a difference to understanding WHERE the problem might be. If it is a case of poor connectivity / bandwidth you should just experience dropouts / hickups / playback-stop. And if this is the case; try with another station, and report. It could be everything, but the symptoms being described here, lead me to think of this only possible thing. The more details you provide us with, the best we can try to help.
Not so much a bug but a suggestion for improvement: In the Music Player section genres are not separated correctly, rather they show as semicolon separated strings like so: Pop;Rock This would be because genre fields are not correctly read as multivalue fields (like artists) and the semicolon is not evaluated as a separator but rather as part of a string.
Since I can't find a "whishlist" thead, my I be so bold and add another wish here: Support for ratings I am guessing many of us use the device to stream their network music library to their hifi-system. My own music library is carefully curated over many years and I have tagged the majority with ratings. The issue is not trivial, I admit. For FLAC - which usess VORBIS comments - usually the "RATING" metatag is used with values from 1-100, where 20=1 star, 40=2 stars, 60=3 stars, 80=4 stars and 100=5 stars. You can find some great info on metatags for different file formats here: wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Tag_Mapping
Another wish: Support for HDMI CEC It would be great, if the device could turn on my receiver via HDMI (and vice versa) and shut it down when it turns off (and vice versa).
I have 900/300Mb optics internet which is a decent speed. It didn't work for me before the new update either, only now after 1.5.10 and you see, someone here writes that they have a certain error here and that is not a coincidence. It would be good for Eversolo to look into it and fix the error. Maybe only A6 Gen 1 like mine does it.
Different file formats use different tag systems: FLAC, for instance, uses VorbisComment, which makes MANDATORY to use MULTIPLE GENRE tags to specify multipple genres. There is no semicolon separated list concept in the Vorbis standard. MP3s, OTOH, use IDV2 tags, for which I cannopt speak much, but seem to remember they allow for whatever-separated lists... What is your music format? what tags are you using?
A speed connection test is not representative of the connectivity between your unit AND a streaming service provider (aka: their servers' bandwidth, not all the hops your connection goes through) Any speed connection test has really no meaning (unless it shows itself being utterly slow to begin with...)
I don't want to get into a discussion about basics, let me just state that I use Musicbrainz Picard and foobar2000 for tagging and never had an issue in any other software.
If you trust those tools, then, who am I to teach you how to do it... I tag my files by hand. Never had an issue. (which is different from "never had an issue in any other software").
I've been doing this for decades and know the stuff inside out. Please stop sidetracking the issue I reported and second guessing me. You're not even staff.
Can you elaborate about semicolon-separated genres (shown by a tool) vs how they are really written in the metadata tag? Some actually save them as a separator-based list; some other do create multiple tags. Although, visually, withing the tool, you may see the very same representation: a semicolon-separated list of genres... comments? I don't need to be staff. I simply know things, and as far as I can tell, still a little better than you: I have written many audio tools; not just used a few, even less without even knowing how they work.
As far as I know, some do, some don't. Some do, but still not correctly. Any specific usecase you are trying to refer to? A track? An album? Generically speaking? A language?
That is in no way connected to the lyrics. The lyrics are specific to the author of the album... what was not clear in my questions?
Fair enough, I concede that your knowledge is superior. In that case I will have to elaborate. I use foobar2000 to write and check metatags. fb2k uses the semicolon as a separator but under the hood separates values as is correct for each file format. You know this is a complex topic so I won't delve into how those differ for i.e. Vorbis comments or id3. There is also a possibility that genres are separated correctly in my tags now but haven't been from the beginning. In that case, the bug would be that the music library does't update correctly when rescanning the files/folders. I would simply start the library from scratch if there was a way to backup or retain my favorites which took a very long time to mark. In the end the fastest way to check would probably to use some of my files for testing.
