I've been in communication with Max Spicer, author of the NowPlaying plugin, about updating it for SqueezeCenter.
Not quite sure why I chose to do it via PMs, but the results are great, as Max has done a new version, and the conversation is obviously of use to other users, so I am reproducing it here. Kudos to Max for jumping on this so fast! --Richard E === Any known issues with NowPlaying under Squeezecenter 7.0.0? === Originally Posted by relen: Hi... I just upgraded from SS6.5 to SC7.0.0 (Mac 10.4.11). I placed the 7.0 version of NowPlaying, I think, in the right place but it doesn't seem to appear. Any suggestions? I need the thing to work as I use it to push stream metadata into a place NiceCast can find it for net broadcast streaming. Any suggestions gratefully received! Best, --Richard Elen === >From Max Spicer: Hi, It probably doesn't work under 7.0 at the moment, I'm afraid. A lot of api changes took place in 7 and I haven't had chance to update my plugins accordingly. I'll do my best to get this done as soon as possible. If you're able to help, patches would be very welcome. Thanks for the reminder, by the way. It's always good to hear that someone is using my plugins! Thanks, Max === >From Richard Elen: Good morning! Thanks for the speedy reply! Yes, NowPlaying is a valuable part of my broadcast chain. I use SlimServer to broadcast unattended daily playlists, when we are not doing live shows, and use NowPlaying to write a file, "NowPlaying.txt", in NiceCast's Application Support directory, containing "Title: ARTIST - TITLE". Nicecast picks this up and sends it as metadata to our streaming server for display to listeners to Radio Riel, and AmpTracker's NowPlaying widget displays this on the web site - hence the rather brief file contents: it does a lookup based on it and displays album details if it finds the track/artist on Amazon (see http://www.radioriel.org). I'm one of about a dozen presenters from around the world who take the stream. I stripped out the entire installation and went back to 6.5.4 for the time being, and I'm back on the air. Thanks for an extremely useful plugin! Best, --Richard E === Hey, nice to see it being used for something genuinely useful! I've just made the necessary changes to make this work with 7.0 and uploaded this to my website. If you're able to test, I'd really appreciate it if you could give it a go and let me know how you get on. There's no reason why this discussion couldn't take place on the forums, by the way. Cheers, Max PS A credit somewhere would be nice... :-) -- relen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ relen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46013 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
