I've been mucking around with MusicIP on and off for several months (a large chunk of which time was spent just waiting for it to analyse my library). I've never managed to get it to work properly with SlimServer. At one point, I did manage to get the MusicIP Mixer to send an entire mix to my SB3; but next time I tried it, it would either send just the first track, or nothing at all. But I'd really rather drive it from SS / SB3, not the other way round.
I could never get SlimServer to see the MIP server either... until I followed Siduhe's instructions above. Actually, I downloaded the latest version of MusicIP, installed that, installed the service from the command line, then started it from Control Panel /.../ Services. In fact, it started showing up in the SS Settings menus after I restarted SlimServer. (Honest, I had tried and tried starting the MIP service, making sure it was running, then (re)starting SlimServer, but with no joy whatsoever. Where did I go right? :-) Actually, probably in remembering to open the MIP API port in Windows Firewall on the server.) Now I can see my "MusicMagic Mood Mixes" in SlimServer. All three of them. Well, that's some success. But I cannot for the life of me work out how to do the thing I really, really wanted to do: to be able to create and play a new mix by choosing a "seed" track from either the SS web interface or from my SB remote. Any little "mm" symbol resolutely refuses to appear in either place. (I do sometimes see a little "m" with bars above/below it, but that's been there for ages, and I've forgotten why it's there - TrackStat?) Play+hold on a track on the SB3 doesn't create a new mix, but goes to TrackStat instead. I even wasted another half-an-hour doing a clean and full rescan in SS, but it made no effing difference. Could the problem be that TrackStat is interfering with MIP? I think I saw something about Play+Hold in the TS settings, but have ignored it so far. And that wouldn't explain why there's nothing in the web interface - unless of course there's nothing in the web interface anyway (which would be a pity). So thus far, all I know about MusicIP is that it consumes vast amounts of time and CPU for very little purpose. Come to think of it, the mixes that it's thrown up so far have been interesting rather than accurate. I find myself wondering why on earth it's made some choices. But it does also bring up things that I'd never have thought of myself, but which do work. Any ideas? (Preferably ones that don't involve complete rescans, multiple reboots, etc. :-)) Have I completely misunderstood the instructions on how to drive MIP from SS? -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39000 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
