bpa wrote: > CDplayer seems to bring out the worst in systems. I thought Win10 was > bad. > > I've experienced Pi's USB quirks besides CD also with GSM/Mobile > dongles, often chipset related so that certain combos just fail. I have > a dish of 4 BT dongles - and eventually gave up on BT. > > It is worth trying a powered USB hub and possibly older USB 2.0 found in > a drawer. Although even then I had to make a special cable which cut the > +5V line on the HUB to Pi connection - it kept the Pi alive when PSU was > unplugged. > > > This should be easy to fix. Metadata lookup has nothing to do with > playing the CD except initial CD TOC load gives the "key" to lookup. > Check Plugins settings is set to MusicBrainz. > The plugin just does a HTTP/GET on MusicBrainz website - so if it i > failing there is something blocking that call.
Thanks as ever! I have a spare win10 pc, so given the hassle with the pi, I'm thing of using win10 if I can get the menus working. I'll check musicbrainz and report back. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47288 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
