I spent a fair bit of the weekend playing around with this on a Linux headless build (Fedora 10).
As far as I'm aware, recipes have only ever worked on the Windows MIP implementation in Squeezecenter using the GUI and I couldn't get these to transfer across to Linux even by copying the default.m3lib file etc. Would be interested to hear if anyone else has managed it. Moods I did get to work - my first successful technique was by copying across the default.m3lib from the Linux box to a Windows box (where MIP is set up not to scan or monitor folders) and replacing the existing default.m3lib, making the mood using the GUI and then copying both the amended Linux default.m3lib and the mood.m3u file back to the Linux box. However, I've found a slightly simpler process to get moods working under Linux headless as follows. Disclaimer (for anyone else who wants to try this), you will need to be comfortable moving stuff around on the Linux system - it is a good idea to do this in a user name other than "root" if you can to minimise the risk of something going wrong: 1. In Squeezecenter, create a playlist containing the songs that you want to use to create your mood. It's best to do this in Squeezecenter so you can be sure the path names are correct, but you could use a different playlist editor so long as MusicIP and Squeezecenter can follow the paths to the music). Name it and save it in your playlist directory (e.g. Happy.m3u). 2. Work out where the MIP default.m3lib is stored on your Linux system. I used "find -name default.m3lib" from the command line (in the top level root folder) to find it. There is a "moods" directory created when you install MusicIP in the installation directory, but storing the mood in that folder doesn't work (at least on my system). 3 Navigate to the folder where your default.m3lib file is stored. In my system it's in a hidden folder: /root/.MusicMixer/default.m3lib. 4. In that folder create a folder called "moods". The lower case name is important - "Moods" doesn't work. 5. Move the .m3u file from your playlist directory to the new moods folder you created (in the example above "/root/.MusicMagic/moods/Happy.m3u". 6. Reboot your system. Stopping and starting the squeezebox server alone doesn't work (at least for me) I needed to restart both MIP and SBS. Under Music Library you should see a new option "MusicIP Mood Mix" and under that "Happy". Clicking Happy will give you a mix based on all of the songs in the playlist. Hope this helps. -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? "-Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...-" (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75932 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
