Request For a Fixed Setting to Be Made Configurable

[Paul608085]

I have recently been experiencing a problem in LMS with one particular radio station not playing. After posting in the Slimdevices forum, with the help of others I have been able to resolve the issue.

For the particular radio station that was not working for me, this change allowed the station to play correctly and did not break any of the other stations that I and others tried it on. This is the relevant thread:

https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum/user-forums/logitech-media-server/1731558-one-radio-station-works-on-pc-but-not-on-lms

The suggestion is that the part of the file that I edited be made configurable in LMS's GUI so that it is easier for users to change if it causes issues. The change is to the file /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm and is to change the currently fixed UserAgentString of iTunes/4.7.1 to be selectable in the GUI. It appears that provided the UserAgentString includes something other than "iTunes", eg "LMS", it works.

I suggest settings options of:

"iTunes/4.7.1 (Default)"
"LMS/4.7.1"
"Custom (***/4.7.1)" ie change to

Please can this be implemented in the next LMS update?

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[michaelherger]

Unfortunately this might prove to be tricky... I know that I've been using the UA string to identify LMS in the past (eg. update checker etc.). We'd have to separate out what UA we use when etc. That's certainly not something we want to do in LMS 9.0. I'd have to think about the most efficient way to do this. Maybe use the fixed one for "system calls" like update checks or whatever, or make the one used to scan radio stations configurable.

See eg. https://github.com/michaelherger/Spotty-Plugin/blob/oauth2/cloud/src/index.ts#L23 or https://github.com/LMS-Community/lms-stats-service/blob/main/api/src/index.ts#L14 ...