MUZECAST FORUM

Looking into it. Will check error logs and will get back to you.

Hey thanks for taking a look and sorry for not responding.
This would happen when folder scan was not in progress, and even if I was on the same wifi on both android and desktop.
Recently I have made it so muzecast on android preloads 100 songs or whatever, and so far I have not had any issues listening to a certain playlist, except when I select a different playlist and start listening right away.

Please let me know what Streaming quality you are set?
1. Is it Original with FLAC support?
2. If not Original, do you have OGG (Vorbis) checked ON?
3. If OGG (Vorbis) is not checked ON, what Algorithm is selected? Is it VBR or CBR?
4. Is ExoPlayer checked ON in Streaming Settings? If yes, Checked it OFF.

What artwork quality is set?
Was your tablet connected via WiFi or LTE? if by LTE, were you doing any heavy downloads or uploads on your computer? (QoS might limit or interrupt streaming if there is an active long download or upload by other apps on Computer).

How much free space you have available for caching? Preferable that you have at least 512 MB of free space available.

I would recommend the following settings while you are on WiFi:
1. Streaming Quality - Original and enable FLAC support. For kindle I would not go over 24/96. It might not support it.
2. OGG (Vorbis) checked ON.
3. Algorithm - VBR (preferred for OGG), Seek will be supported. OGG does not have issues with seek. It is mostly for MP3.
4. ExoPlayer checked OFF;
5. Seekable Checked ON - it might delay playback start for lossless (FLAC or lossless ALAC) files because it has to generate seekable FLAC. Usually delay is no longer than 5 seconds.

If you do not want FLAC support, you can unselect it to No FLAC support. In that case all streaming will be done in OGG, even for original, unless your original file is MP3. In that case MP3 will be sent to your device.

Artwork quality is located in User Interface settings of Muzecast. Preferred - Medium quality because higher quality will eat a lot of memory.

Regarding Artwork delay (slow display) - I will publish an update in a very near future to get artwork directly from your computer. Currently it queries Muzecast Central Server (trip from Your Country to USA) where call checks if it is cached in Muzecast database. If not, Muzecast Central Server will try to get it from your computer (trip back from USA to Your Country) and your computer sends artwork to Muzecast Central Server (another trip from Your Country to USA). Then it cached and sent to your device (and yet another trip from USA to Your Country). As you see that are lot of trips, and I am going to change it to the following:

Device will query artwork, it will directly ask your computer for artwork (local WiFi call). While your computer searches your files for artwork, it will ask Muzecast Central Server if you have custom Artwork for Artist or Album (trip from Your Country to USA). If you do not have custom artwork, it will send found artwork from your computer to your device (WiFi trip). It will speed up artwork display.

Yes, I meant Fire Tablet. I got used to call all Amazon by Kindle (somehow). :)

There is a separate quality settings for Streaming and downloading. Streaming is for temporary caching song on device. Downloading, is to permanently store song on the device until you remove it.

Caching is using up to 50% of Free space. For example if you have 20 GB free, Muzecast will try to use up to 10 GB for caching and will keep it up to 10GB unless your store something else on your tablet and Muzecast will reduce its own cache size to let more free space on device.

This is an update:

1) I am now streaming in FLAC.

2) Last night playing a playlist offline (cached earlier in the day) one of the tracks refused to play past a certain point when I tried to skip a couple of minutes within the track by sliding the slider on the progress bar. However, the track played normally when I just allowed it to play normally. Much of the art had not been cached along with the music.

I'm not going to use the app to play music offline, at least as things stand, for the following reasons:

1) It is impossible, at least as far as I can ascertain, to differentiate between downloaded and cached tracks. Whenever the cache was reduced or deleted, you'd never be quite sure what you had left.

2) Album art doesn't for the most part download.

3) Various issues such as the one above.

4) Downloaded music only plays in the Muzecast player.

5) Individual albums that have been downloaded cannot at present be deleted.

6) It's not much more difficult for me to take a number of albums, convert them via EZ CD Audio Converter and then download them to my tablets. That way, I know what I've got, art is always there, music is going to play without any hiccups, I can choose how to play them and I can add or delete at will.

As a music streamer, Muzecast is as far as I can see easily the best thing around and I shall certainly continue to use it regularly. As far as I am concerned the money I paid for the premium player (absolutely necessary if you want to use the program properly) was well worth it. It's easily one of the best apps I've ever purchased. It's actually one of the kind of things that you imagine would entail a monthly fee.

Edited by user Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:05:26 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Could you check error log on your device for Muzecast.

To check error log go to: Muzecast Settings->About->Error Logs.

Once you open Muzecast, slide from left to open drawer. There is Settings item at the bottom of the list.
Once you open Settings, scroll down to the end and select item "About"
In the list there is Error Log.

There is a latest version published: 7.3.0 which has some Artwork improvements. Web search is not happening if it is disabled in Muzecast Streaming Server.

BTW, I neglected to mention that the last couple of times this happened to me I was in offline mode.