When librespot is built with Avahi turned on, it will crash if Avahi is
later not available at runtime.
This change avoids it crashing hard when Avahi is not available;
librespot will merely warn of the issue.
This affects some distribution packages too, where the maintainer might
prefer leaving Avahi support enabled, but many setups don't (or can't)
run Avahi.
Co-authored-by: Nick Steel <nick@nsteel.co.uk>
This sets the name displayed by PulseAudio to Librespot - Instance Name if a name is given otherwise Librespot (the default name).
This also sets the correct "role" as per the docs:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Developer/Clients/ApplicationProperties/
PA_PROP_MEDIA_ROLE
"This is a property of the actual streamed data, not so much the application"
Roles are used for policies, things like automatically muting a music player when a call comes in and whatnot.
For bonus points this also sets PULSE_PROP_application.icon_name to audio-x-generic so that we get a nice icon in the PulseAudio settings by our name instead of a missing icon placeholder.
Make librespot able to parse environment variables for options and flags.
To avoid name collisions environment variables must be prepended with `LIBRESPOT_` so option/flag `foo-bar` becomes `LIBRESPOT_FOO_BAR`.
Verbose logging mode (`-v`, `--verbose`) logs all parsed environment variables and command line arguments (credentials are redacted).
This makes `--device ?` only show compatible devices (ones that support 2 ch 44.1 Interleaved) and it shows what `librespot` format(s) they support.
This should be more useful to users as the info maps directly to `librespot`'s `--device` and `--format` options.
* Don't panic when parsing options. Instead list valid values and exit.
* Get rid of needless .expect in playback/src/audio_backend/mod.rs.
* Enforce reasonable ranges for option values (breaking).
* Don't evaluate options that would otherwise have no effect.
* Add pub const MIXERS to mixer/mod.rs very similar to the audio_backend's implementation. (non-breaking though)
* Use different option descriptions and error messages based on what backends are enabled at build time.
* Add a -q, --quiet option that changed the logging level to warn.
* Add a short name for every flag and option.
* Note removed options.
* Other misc cleanups.
* When autoplay is disabled, then loop back to the first track
instead of 10 tracks back. Continue or stop playing depending
on the state of the repeat button.
* When autoplay is enabled, then extend the playlist *after* the
last track. #844 broke this such that the last track of an album
or playlist was never played.
Fixes: #434
* Improve error handling
* Harmonize `Seek`: Make the decoders and player use the same math for converting between samples and milliseconds
* Reduce duplicate calls: Make decoder seek in PCM, not ms
* Simplify decoder errors with `thiserror`
* More meaningful error messages
* Use F32 if a user requests F64 (F64 is not supported by PulseAudio)
* Move all code that can fail to `start` where errors can be returned to prevent panics
* Use drain in `stop`
Better error handling in Alsa backend
* More consistent error messages
* Bail on fatal errors in player
* Capture and log the original error as a warning when trying to write to PCM before trying to recover
* Go back to 4 periods at 125ms.
* Deal strictly in period time and periods to set ALSA buffer.
* Rename `buffer` to `period_buffer`.
* Add comments and change some other var names to add clarity.
* Let ALSA calculate the size of `period_buffer`.
* Remove deprecated use of std::u16::MAX
* Use `FromStr` for fallible `&str` conversions
* DRY up strings into constants
* Change `as_ref().map()` into `as_deref()`
* Use `Duration` for time constants and functions
* Optimize `Vec` with response times
* Move comments for `rustdoc` to parse
Dithering lowers digital-to-analog conversion ("requantization") error, linearizing output, lowering distortion and replacing it with a constant, fixed noise level, which is more pleasant to the ear than the distortion.
Guidance:
- On S24, S24_3 and S24, the default is to use triangular dithering. Depending on personal preference you may use Gaussian dithering instead; it's not as good objectively, but it may be preferred subjectively if you are looking for a more "analog" sound akin to tape hiss.
- Advanced users who know that they have a DAC without noise shaping have a third option: high-passed dithering, which is like triangular dithering except that it moves dithering noise up in frequency where it is less audible. Note: 99% of DACs are of delta-sigma design with noise shaping, so unless you have a multibit / R2R DAC, or otherwise know what you are doing, this is not for you.
- Don't dither or shape noise on S32 or F32. On F32 it's not supported anyway (there are no integer conversions and so no rounding errors) and on S32 the noise level is so far down that it is simply inaudible even after volume normalisation and control.
New command line option:
--dither DITHER Specify the dither algorithm to use - [none, gpdf,
tpdf, tpdf_hp]. Defaults to 'tpdf' for formats S16
S24, S24_3 and 'none' for other formats.
Notes:
This PR also features some opportunistic improvements. Worthy of mention are:
- matching reference Vorbis sample conversion techniques for lower noise
- a cleanup of the convert API
