Bit Rate Display

Volumio Development Suggest a feature
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is it a chromium browser or firefox?
the 2.xx version is in its last fase so maybe its wise to switch to 3.xx that one is up to date

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Chrome exactly.

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that should be good, most of it is build on that browser ā€¦

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So Iā€™m getting confused regarding the upper answers. Should be the bitrate info displayed on the ā€œplaying nowā€ screen at least for local files or itā€™s still not implemented? And does it show the dynamic bitrate, or just some static, i.e. what should be read out from the pre-coded track meta data?

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does it show the dynamic bitrate.

no, if it does like in radioā€¦ its static

what should be read out from the pre-coded track meta data

id3 tags contain data of the songs , but this isnā€™t used in volumio

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id3 tags contain data of the songs , but this isnā€™t used in volumio

So than where does the bitrate info come from, if itā€™s not dynamic read-out and nor from the id tag?

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i really dont know im just a user like you.

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Ok, but is the bitrate of the track anytime, anywhere, anyhow showed up for you in the GUI with local file playback? (So radios doesnā€™t count).

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if its there you can see it in ip/dev but sometimes its empty then it canā€™t.
ā€œsamplerateā€:"44.1 kHzā€,ā€œbitdepthā€:ā€œ24 bitā€,ā€œchannelsā€:2,ā€œbitrateā€:ā€œ128 Kbpsā€

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Also good to know, but Iā€™m still talking and asking about the GUI, not the ip/dev request method.

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all that is in ip/dev can be shown in a GUI

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So the GUI for you can also display the bitrate? So the next thing is to figure, how and from what is the bitrate info is being read fromā€¦

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i use it from info i can pull combined in the ip/dev i pull it from the rest api to use it in a rainmeter skin

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Sorry, but itā€™s too complicated what you have just written form me. Please letā€™s try to focus on the questions and keep it simple and understandable as it could be for a Volumio newbie (like me)ā€¦

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its a part of volumio where you can pull the info provided
iā€™m not a programmer so i understand what your getting at learned somethings in time.

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Still donā€™t have clue what you have talked about.

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i understand that het you can see how rest api works. with getstate command you can get it.
https://volumio.github.io/docs/API/REST_API.html

in the example there you see there is no bitrate included so i cant pull bitrate on that song.

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I understand now the API part of it, but thatā€™s totally not what I have asked for. I want to get the bitrate displayed in the GUI as itā€™s expected. Hereā€™s an example: Link
Thoā€™ so far I have only found images on the web showing that itā€™s playing songs from Spotify that has the bitrate info displayed. All in the other cases (like in me too with local file playback) thereā€™s the sample rate displayed rather than the bitrate.

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Ok, so now from the lack of any new answers or info, I must conclude that the Volumio never had displayed the bitrate in the GUI in the cases I have asked about (so with local file playback). I guess I have (somehow) misunderstand the statements in the previous posts of this thread, which lead me here to complain about it. (Still would be a good and useful feature to implement it finally, I like to see and know this information displayed constantlyā€¦)

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Can we be so lucky that this feature can be seen in the new great release of Volumio 3 :slight_smile:

Available with web radio, but could be so great to have this with everthing streamed with Volumio :slight_smile: