Hi all, Just a quick heads-up for those that may be new to Squeezebox or MusicIP. SugarCube version 2.5 has been released with its main new feature being integration with TrackStat.
Overview below, further information can be found on the website, including MusicIP installation guides. (Obviously MusicIP needs to be installed first!) For coherence please use this thread for constructive feedback, feature requests, support issues etc, and not any of the old threads. INSTALLATION IS VIA THE REPOSITORY LINK OR DIRECT LINK FROM THE WEBSITE. Cheers OVERVIEW[/B] SPICEFLY SUGARCUBE IS A PLUGIN WRITTEN TO ACHIEVE MY DESIRE FOR SQUEEZEBOX AND MUSICIP TO WORK BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND PLAY MUSIC, NONSTOP WITH NO HASSLE AND NO ANNOYING PLAYLISTS! SUGARCUBE USES THE GREAT MUSICIP PRODUCT BUT HAS A NUMBER OF CUSTOM WRITTEN FUNCTIONS TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL, ALLOWING YOU TO DRIFT THROUGH YOUR MUSIC LIBRARY AND DISCOVER THOSE GREAT TRACKS YOU FORGOT YOU HAD, OFFERING FAR GREATER FUNCTIONALITY THAN THE OFFICIAL SQUEEZEBOX MUSICIP PLUGIN. *HOW IT WORKS* JUST PICK A SINGLE TRACK, ARTIST OR GENRE TO PLAY FROM YOUR LIBRARY AND THE JOURNEY BEGINS! WHILE THAT TRACK IS PLAYING, SUGARCUBE USES IT WITH MUSICIP TO SELECT A TRACK THAT IS SIMILAR TO THE PLAYING TRACK (BASED ON SPECIFIED CRITERIA). SUGARCUBE THEN TWEAKS THE RESULT FURTHER TO QUEUE UP THE NEXT TRACK WHICH MATCHES YOUR CRITERIA. ONCE THE FIRST TRACK ENDS, THE SECOND TRACK IS NOW YOUR SEED TRACK AND THE PROCESS CONTINUES, ON AND ON! YOU WILL FIND YOU DRIFT THROUGH YOUR MUSIC LIBRARY WITHOUT ALL THE HASSLE OF PLAYLISTS OR LOTS OF KEY PRESSING AND YOU NEVER EXPERIENCE THE SAME PLAYLIST. [B]MAIN FEATURES LIST * Seed by Song, Album, Artist, Genre, Recipe or Filter. * Restrict Mixing to the Genre of the Seed Track * Vary the Style and Variety of the mix on the fly from the player or web interface. * Schedule based Filter mixing, to enable changes in musical taste throughout the day. * Completely player based so SugarCube can be switched on/off and run completely independently on multiple devices, this includes mix and style. So each player can be playing completely different styles of music at the same time. * Sleep mode and Volume Fade to assist with a restful nights sleep. * "Replace Next Track" in the Playlist menu for Jive based players, if you don’t like the upcoming track, simply replace it from the playlist menu without having to stop the music. * Utilises TrackStat (if installed) to enable greater control of the music selection. Block tracks under a certain rating level. Prefer tracks with a Low or High Playcount or Recently/Least Played and High or Low Ratings. Ensure you dont always hear the same tracks. * Custom written Weighting routines, to block tracks that “look” similar to the current playing track. This feature looks at the current playing track and compares it against the recommended next track and analyses it to try and determine whether it is the "same" track or a remix version of it. (MusicIP has a habit of returning remix versions of the seed track as they are obviously very similar.) * Block a Genre. Make sure Christmas tracks dont play in June! * Block Artist Repeating for a specified number of Tracks, to ensure variety. * Block a Specified Artist Option if you don’t want to hear a specified Artist. * Display Coming up Next, showing the next track in the playlist. * Will remember played tracks between sessions, ie. if you power off and resume later. * Dynamic timeout to the Web Interface Player preference loading page, ie. if MIP is not running it will wait less time while drawing the web page. * Warning in the Web interface, if the player is part of a sync group but is not the master. The master of a sync group drives the show and therefore only its settings apply, this warns you that you are wasting your time making changes when its a slave player. * Auto Toggle of the Squeezebox Play "Only Song / Play Directory" when SugarCube is Enabled/Disabled. * Custom written encoding routines to improve resilience. * Stay quiet and don’t try to mix if the playing track is .asx, rtmp, pandora, slacker, lastfm, live365, mediafly and Sound Effects streaming content * Technical View which is mainly for use on the SB3, it denotes whether the current playing track has cover artwork embedded or folder based and Replaygain Track/Album are set. * Works completely independently of the Squeezebox official MusicIP plugin, so does not require it to be setup or installed. This saves time as you don’t need a Squeezebox MusicIP rescan when updating your library and enables the two environments to be separated. -- cparker www.spicefly.com - Spicefly SugarCube - Taking Squeezebox and MusicIP to the next level. A hassle free non-stop journey through your music library using MusicIP. Plus the finest MusicIP installation guides and enhanced MIP Interface! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cparker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2083 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78954 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
