Roku SoundBridge devices can be treated as dumb speakers; they offer a
texted based protocol, RCP, that allows the server to request the Roku
device to connect to the server's stream.mp3 and provides ability to
control volume
Roku devices appear as speakers automatically via mDNS announcements on
the server _roku-rcp._tcp
This solves for the case where hosted RSS podcasts have self signed or
expired certs: using default (verify peer) in these instances results
in 'SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK'
Select use of either libspotify or librespot-c as streaming backend via config
option.
librespot-c (renamed/improved spotifyc) impl has the following:
- sync interface
- seek support
- honor bitrate config, set client and thread name
- use web access token with "streaming" scope for login
- fix issue with podcast playback
Also say goodbye to file-based Spotify login.
With this commit auto reconnection per default will only be done for ATV4s and
HomePods. Reconnection is not always desirable, for instance if the device cuts
the connection because it is busy with something else, ref. issue #934.
The commit also adds an option to override auto reconnection, thus either
enabling it for other devices or disabling it for affected devices.
The changes in commit 6612899 mean that we now do more to maintain selection of
a user selected speaker, even if it fails or is powered off for a while. Thus
this option is no longer relevant.
The option was also never very good for people with many speakers.
* Don't save artwork for permanent items (file + Spotify) to the stash. The
stash is only for short term artwork.
* If a request comes with a different max_w/max then search the online source
again.
* Make artwork requests thread-safe by mutex protecting the search history.
* Add config option
Since it is unknown how to do real sync on Chromecast, this commit instead adds
a primitive delay to the stream, so that it is at least somewhat closer to
Airplay/local audio.
Also some cleanup of unused stuff.
The unconfigurable resync period of 10 seconds was not frequent
enough to keep my own ALSA device in sync with the AirPlay stream.
Now the period is configurable. The default is still at 10
seconds, to prevent any change in behavior unless opted in by
the user.
Currently the adjustment causes a tiny "click" distortion in the
ALSA output, so it is better to make the check as infrequent as
possible, while still being frequent enough to stay in sync
over lengthy sessions of playback.
Added source_sample_rate, target_sample_rate to alsa_session.
This is a first step toward rendering ALSA at a different
sampling rate than the AirPlay stream, so that (a) we will
be able to dynamically adjust the ALSA sampling rate for an
improved sync algorithm, and (b) later, a more generalized
resampling algorithm can accommodate very different hardware
sampling rates like 22050 Hz or 48000 Hz.
Reworked alsa_session_free() so that it can be used to
tear down a partially initialized alsa_session if an
error occurs in the middle of alsa_session_make().
This simplifies the error handling logic in alsa_session_make().
This refactoring will be helpful later when resampling is added,
because more data structures will be dynamically allocated
during initialization.
Signed-off-by: Don Cross <cosinekitty@gmail.com>
Some clients aren't really capable of authenticating + some users probably
don't want to enter a password for the web interface. This option allows
clients on for instance the local network to connect without authentication.
For people who want to avoid the web login, or want to get around pairing
problems. This is also added because commit #e59a1a1 means that all
Remotes are now subject to auth, not just those with a user-agent name that
starts with "Remote".
This also introduces a new config option to define a default playlist
folder. The default playlist folder is used by forked-daapd if the
playlist is not a full virtual path (simpifies creation of playlists
with mpd clients).
ejurgensen
whatdoineed2do/Ray
Nigel Hannam
chme
Don Cross
Wolfgang Scherer