Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz -- genre option no longer works

2020-09-13 Thread RobbH
No suggestions, but I can tell you that I am able to access Qobuz genres on my system. I am also running LMS 8 (I usually install the latest nightly within 24 hours of release) on Linux (64-bit). Do you see anything in the server log that might be connected? LMS 8 nightly; 3 Squeezelite playe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz -- genre option no longer works

2020-09-13 Thread RobbH
mlsstl wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, RobbH, running a LMS update fixed the > problem. > > If I'm not having a problem I usually don't rush into updates that are > not security related, but this is one of those times when apparently > something changed somew

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-14 Thread RobbH
jeroen2 wrote: > Not sure this is a Material issue or something else, but I found some > very odd behaviour using the 'mute' button on my remote. > The mute button performs the following command: > > Code: > > curl -X POST -d '{ "id": 1, "method": "slim.request", "par

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-15 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > Which LMS version are you using? I'm running LMS 8, usually the latest nightly. Like jeroen2, I do not have your Volumecheck plugin installed, but I do use the Airplay bridge. It was on an Airplay device that I first encountered the mute problem. LMS 8 nightly; 3 Squeezeli

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-15 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > So, re-reading things - what is the issue that you are seeing? That > Material's 'Mute' does not mute, or that mute from elsewhere (with > Material open) is messed up? If the issue is Material's mute, have a > look at its debug (see my sig) and you will see what messages are sent.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-15 Thread RobbH
jeroen2 wrote: > I Just checked and it actually works fine just pressing 'mute" in > Material. So I think it's somewhere in the (already complicated) > pipeline -LMS>Airplay Bridge->Airplay(Raop?) on a Raspberry running > Volumio->alsamixer->DAC- . > My apologies. I failed to register jero

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-16 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > From what I can see, Material is functioning correctly. It send the > toggle mute command, how it is handled is up to LMS. Much as I suspected! Thanks for checking. I think I should mention that the volume control works as expected, so I am still able to "mute" the affected p

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Controlling your music with a smartwatch

2020-09-19 Thread RobbH
castalla wrote: > Well, I got it installed on Wear OS. > > As I have no idea how to access it (except by random swipes, etc.) I've > only seen it appear on the watch intermittently ! > > Does anybody know how to access a running app on Wear Os? Any Dummies' > guides out there? > > The gu

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Controlling your music with a smartwatch

2020-09-19 Thread RobbH
castalla wrote: > Thanks. With your advice and an app reinstall, I have it working. Have > to say it's not very intuitive! > In fact it does more on one player than I actually want. I really just > want to be able to stop and start different LMS players. > > While stumbling around I came a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-10-25 Thread RobbH
afriend wrote: > I'm sorry to hear that. Although I don't like it in mail programs either > (because unintentional deletes happens too quickly for my taste) I used > to like this a lot in iPeng. It really *saves a lot of time and clicks* > when you want to quick-edit the current playlist. Like i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-10-25 Thread RobbH
afriend wrote: > Wow, really didn't know about that. I'm quite new to Material and I like > it a lot already. That should do it for sure. Thanks so much for > sharing. > > I was thinking of buying a pi with a touchscreen, installing some > lightweight OS + chrome browser and then (hopefully) ma

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-10-25 Thread RobbH
This is almost certainly not a Material problem, but it's a problem that seems to occur only in Material, so I hope you can offer some suggestions about what the issue might be. Using the Qobuz plugin, I click (desktop) or tap (mobile) on the Search option in the top-level menu, and absolutely no

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-10-26 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > Should be fixed in git/master now. I'll wait until the weekend for a > release, in case there are other issues - as you can use grid to > activate search. Thanks! And thanks to jeroen2 and jd68. I reported a minor issue, turned in for the night, and by the next morning a solution

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-10-31 Thread RobbH
When using a dark theme, almost all text is presented in light-colored font, so it is readable against a dark background. The one exception I see is when using the MAI option, "Text files from music folder." When I attempt to view one of these files, the text is presented in black, so it is diffi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-11-01 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > No setting, but its a bug introduced in the last few versions. Fixed in > git/master now for 2.0.2 The issue seems to be that I cannot set this > font colour, only the background colour - which will now be set to a > light colour. Thanks! LMS 8 nightly; 3 Squeezelite players

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-11-02 Thread RobbH
Ron F. wrote: > Craig, I have to say that a reason I post my nitpicks here, is because > your project is so darn close to perfection. You deserve nothing short > of a thunderous applause in your material development. Material Skin is what turned me into a serious member of this community. When

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2020-12-07 Thread RobbH
SlimChances wrote: > These are all installed on my LMS 8.01 setup. I don't use Custom > Skip,Song Info, Song Lyrics,Title Switcher and I am not sure about > Trackstat Playlist but I do use Trackstat > > Custom Browse 2.15.676 > Custom Clock Helper 2.11.94 > Custom Scan 2.10.51 > Custom Skip 2.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2021-01-01 Thread RobbH
mhsparks wrote: > I've manually installed DynamicPlayList-2.10.247.zip and > SQLPlayList-2.6.272.zip in 8.1 and they work fine for my use case. > > Realistically I'm not going to be able to support them as the codebase > is pretty huge with a lot of functionality. Presumably I should make a > c

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2021-01-01 Thread RobbH
mhsparks wrote: > I suppose these are stored somewhere different to the tracks table in > the database (if they are even stored there) so the existing SQL doesn't > retrieve them. Obviously would be a nice enhancement but grateful the > plugins still work on my local collection. Exactly! For no

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-01-29 Thread RobbH
I recently replaced the worn-out X86_64 machine that used to run LMS with a Raspberry Pi 4B running Rasberry Pi OS and (usually) the latest nightly of LMS 8.2.0. Setting everything up from scratch and not even referring to the previous settings, I've had a lot of problems with the AirPlay Bridge.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-01-29 Thread RobbH
Man in a van wrote: > On the raspberry pi OS desktop > > open raspberry pi config, there is a box to tick for "wait for network" > > If using the lite raspberry pi OS 'headless' open a terminal and type > sudo raspi-config and you should be able to set the same requirement > from there Many t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-01-29 Thread RobbH
Man in a van wrote: > Try running this line and then reboot > > > Code: > > sudo apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-libidn-perl libnet-ssleay-perl perl-openssl-defaults > > > > > you don't need all of these, some should already be t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-01-29 Thread RobbH
Man in a van wrote: > Just popped LMS 8.0 on a rpi OS desktop > > 33158 > > and left everything at default > > 33159 > > Seems to be working > > > > > ronnie Mine looks much the same, but with one major exception. I have had many issues with the armv6hf binary. The bridge has only work

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-01-29 Thread RobbH
Man in a van wrote: > Hope you sort it > > Philippe will be up and about soon :) > > ronnie After switching to the normal build of the binary, I get the same behavior. After a reboot, AirPlay speakers don't connect until the bridge is restarted. And I also get a vivid reminder of why I switch

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-01-29 Thread RobbH
philippe_44 wrote: > The mp3 issue is due to the fact that your basic installation does not > include "mad" shared library (its a "sudo apt-get install libmad" or > libmad0, I can't remember). The non-static version of the bridge relies > on shared libraries for codec. At startup, it tries to lo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-01-30 Thread RobbH
Man in a van wrote: > I had quite forgotten :o that running Raspbion OS Lite means that not > all the bits and pieces that are required for LMS are installed (as they > are in the Desktop [well mostly :)] > > Hope this proves useful :) > > ronnie Thanks, Ronnie. I was still missing a few

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-01-30 Thread RobbH
...and... while a genuine solution would be nice to have, I am perfectly happy to have finally realized that a workaround has been staring me in the face all this time. As an old and ungrammatical saying puts it, if it was a snake it woulda bit me. I already had a cron job running at startup tha

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-02-12 Thread RobbH
expectingtofly wrote: > The BBC Sounds plugin handles live radio as, what LMS refers to, a > "repeating stream". The plugin handles each programme as a new "track" > within the same playable stream (this is the not the playing track but a > specific term that LMS uses). This is so you can re

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Actual Qobuz Audio Format

2021-02-12 Thread RobbH
psketch wrote: > Yes, I see the same, but only for the track list, not the playlist. > More Info on the playlist works fine, but if I look at the track list, > it's empty. Not sure I've ever noticed this before. For no real > reason, I've tended to do it from the playlist. > > If you look in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-16 Thread RobbH
In the LMS default interface, Advanced Search operates somewhat the same as Random Albums in this way: if I select one entry in the search results (a list of albums) to view the list of tracks on the album, the interface does not provide a way to return to the list of albums, but the browser "bac

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-16 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > Unfortunately not with the way its currently implemented. Material > embeds the Advanced search from the 'Classic' skin, and when you click > on a link it browses via Material - the strings entered into advanced > search are not saved anywhere, so can't really navigate back. This

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-16 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > Well, I'm -considering- implementing advanced search in Material - but > this might be too much work... It's great that you're considering it, but I'm sure it would be a lot of work. At this point, I am not actively requesting it, because I find the workaround satisfactory. Besid

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-19 Thread RobbH
slartibartfast wrote: > I only use Advanced Search to create library views so wouldn't miss > saved searches. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I tried it once, just to see how it worked, but couldn't think of a use for it. Other than creating a library view, I mean. LMS 8 nightly;

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite on rPi 3 suddenly not working

2021-02-19 Thread RobbH
Paul Webster wrote: > I think that RPi4 (and perhaps 400) is the only RPi model(s) that needs > nmap 0 Like the OP in this thread, I found that it was necessary, in my case on a 3B+. Discussed in this thread: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113962-Squeezelite-and-HDMI-output-on-Ra

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-26 Thread RobbH
I am encountering something odd when I try to drag'n'drop a few selected tracks from the browse menu to the queue. It appears that LMS attempts to add the entire library to the queue. It is limited (in Settings) to 2500 tracks, so that becomes the length of the queue. It takes about 30 seconds af

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-27 Thread RobbH
RobbH wrote: > I am encountering something odd when I try to drag'n'drop a few selected > tracks from the browse menu to the queue. It appears that LMS attempts > to add the entire library to the queue. It is limited (in Settings) to > 2500 tracks, so that becomes the l

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-27 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > Feature release, main changes: > > > > - When showing volume-popup show all volumes if in sync group. - If player is in sync group, then add a button next to > volume-slider (in main toolbar) to show volume-popup with all > volumes. > > > Would it be possible for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-28 Thread RobbH
jeroen2 wrote: > This works great, thanks! Agreed! The combination of features added for volume control of group players works very well. Many thanks! LMS 8 nightly; 3 Squeezelite players connected by powerline ethernet; 5 wireless players connected via Airplay Bridge; 1 SqueezeAmp player no

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-02 Thread RobbH
I am not experiencing the menu problem on Android 11 with webview 88.0.4324.181 and apk 0.1.4 from F-Droid. LMS 8 nightly; 3 Squeezelite players connected by powerline ethernet; 5 wireless players connected via Airplay Bridge; 1 SqueezeAmp player no high-end or esoteric audio gear 1 Squeezebox

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Airplay Bridge on Picore

2021-03-02 Thread RobbH
JPatten wrote: > Hi, > > Does AirPlay Bridge run on piCore? I have been trying to enable on an > 8GB Rasberry PI but getting nowhere. Searching the threads I find lots > of references to Shairplay running on PIs but not Airplay Bridge. I do not run LMS on piCorePlayer, so I can't answer your q

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Airplay Bridge on Picore

2021-03-02 Thread RobbH
JPatten wrote: > I have followed the instructions on the advanced plugin page. I can't > seem to get beyond the 'Configuration file missing - create one by > clicking "generate" or, if autosave is on, refresh this page' warning > > I have enabled the Airbridge as instructed and hit the generate

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Airplay Bridge on Picore

2021-03-02 Thread RobbH
JPatten wrote: > Thank you - will do. The Binary selected, btw, is the one recommended > for a Rasb pi My suggestion was unlikely to be the answer, anyway. Incidentally, there was a typo in my previous message. I said that the developer of the bridge, Philippe, had been busy with other LMS-rela

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-03-17 Thread RobbH
bpa wrote: > The info displayed has evolved pover time from Radiovis (now defunct) to > RadioPlayer to Polling so code has been modified lots of times as well > as to cope with skipback and the annoying Windows start delay issue so I > wouldn;t be surprised if there are > 1. gaps where the "wro

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-03-18 Thread RobbH
bpa wrote: > Keeping BBCiPlayer (or any plugin) open when making changes to prefs is > not a good idea as in some cases pref are only read when the instance of > the plugin is initiated typically on entry to plugin menu. Leaving the > plugin menu entirely (and aon all clients) and also deleting

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2019-04-09 Thread RobbH
cramcram wrote: > Since the update to 1.500 I can't see the Qobuz plugin settings anymore. > > > Same here. RobbH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67008 View this thread: http://forums.slimde

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2019-04-18 Thread RobbH
Settings are inaccessible again in v.1.515. RobbH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67008 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97146 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2019-04-18 Thread RobbH
mherger wrote: > >> Settings are inaccessible again in v.1.515. > > > > Working fine here. Anything in server.log? How does it fail? > > Ok, got it. Same build issue again. Argh... 1.516 is up. > > -- > > Michael Working now. Thank you! Sorry I didn't check back earlier, to see if you nee

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Google Music plugin

2019-05-20 Thread RobbH
Is anyone currently using the Google Music plugin successfully? By successfully I mean, among other things, that tracks play all the way through to the end before advancing to the next track. When my questions about this got no response in January, I jumped to the conclusion that nobody was usin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Google Music plugin

2019-05-22 Thread RobbH
davewongillies wrote: > Hi RobbH, > > I'm using this plugin daily without any of the problems which I see > other users experiencing. I'd love to be able to solve the issue but its > tough given I can't reproduce it in my setup. > > Perhaps if you can p

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Google Music plugin

2019-05-22 Thread RobbH
frankd wrote: > For me Google Music still works, also the tracks play till the end. > I am using it via a Max2Play installation on a raspberry pi. > I took following notes after installation: > > If no python installed, then install python > sudo apt-get install python-pi > sudo pip install g

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Google Music plugin

2019-05-23 Thread RobbH
davewongillies wrote: > So I replicated your setup and was able to reproduce the track ending > early. Then I upgraded gmusic-api to something newer than 10.1.2 and I'm > no longer getting skipping. So run: > > > Code: > > > sudo pip install gmusicapi==12.1.0 > -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Google Music plugin

2019-05-23 Thread RobbH
davewongillies wrote: > I've been playing around a bit more and I'm beginning to think that > something new has happened/changed with Google Play Music itself. My > previously perfectly working setup now pretty consistently gets these > errors when I try to play a song for the first time: > > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Google Music plugin

2019-05-24 Thread RobbH
Following up, I played music from Google throughout the afternoon. During that time, two (or perhaps three) tracks ended prematurely. That happens on rare occasions with other sources, so I assume those were not the result of a problem with the plugin. I think my issue is resolved. The plugin is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-25 Thread RobbH
Music Folder used to be under My Music --> More, but I'm not finding it there now. Or anywhere else. Is that intentional? Or am I just overlooking something? RobbH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-25 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > I was under the impression that I was the only one using non-server > categories! I removed this, as for me it was very slow - probably > because I use "artist - album" music heirarchy. If this is a real issue > I can add it back, but I fail to see the real need for it - a tag > h

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-25 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > But you can still access this via server supplied categories - just > enable the option in the settings. > > I'm just not sure these belong in a default setup. I would enable > directory browser, which is faster but shows whole file system, not just > within music folder. Thanks

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-25 Thread RobbH
Just as an aside, when going through old threads in these forums (like Craig, I'm a relative newcomer), I've seen many expressions of disagreement between those who prefer to use the database categories and those who gravitate to the folder view. Each side considers their way logical and can't un

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-26 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > OK, for the next release (0.7.3) I've re-added "Music folder" to the > "More" section. *But* I'm using the "readdirectory" command instead, > which is *much* faster. This however has a few differences > > > > - There is no meta-data, so only folder and filenames are listed

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2019-05-29 Thread RobbH
After installing an update to the plugin this morning, I can no longer get the bridge to work. LMS is running on a X86_64 Linux system. I have two Airplay speakers and an AudioCast puck using the bridge. Normally they are synchronized with five other players, all Squeezelite instances, three of t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2019-05-30 Thread RobbH
philippe_44 wrote: > That was with the mp3 codec, the only one I did not test, of course Fixed in 4.16.1. Thank you! RobbH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67008 View this thread: http://forums.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-06-22 Thread RobbH
I'm experiencing an issue with the Music & Artists Information plugin, on Material only. I understand that it's not necessarily a Material problem, but this seems the logical place to start, since MAI works as it should in the default interface. Additionally, I could swear that I had seen somethi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-06-23 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > Bug fixes... > > 3. Fix zoomed image sizes when viewing artist pictures. > Thanks! I can confirm that this now works... in mobile layout, or using the grid view of local artwork in desktop layout. Something still is wrong when using list view of local artwork, though. Perhaps

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-06-23 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > D'oh List should not be possible for this view! The code to display > lists does not handle this image list - should always be a grid. I'll > fix this - i.e. to enforce a grid. That makes sense. And I'm happy with grid view in this case; I probably wouldn't have even tried th

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2019-06-25 Thread RobbH
The Airplay Bridge has become an important feature of my LMS system, since I discovered it a few months ago. Three of my eight players connect through the bridge, and the experience is mostly flawless. One relatively minor annoyance is that when players are synchronized, the Airplay devices somet

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2019-06-26 Thread RobbH
philippe_44 wrote: > Can you tell me more about the type of airplay devices you have and > detail the conditions when the delay occur? Thanks! I can certainly tell you about the devices: two Jam speakers (one Rhythm and one Symphony: https://uk.jamaudio.com/jam-symphony-wireless-wifi-speaker),

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2019-06-26 Thread RobbH
philippe_44 wrote: > Can you tell me more about the type of airplay devices you have and > detail the conditions when the delay occur? One more thing that I should have remembered earlier: the Airplay devices almost always lag behind the others if I've been listening to a stream (all players ha

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2019-06-30 Thread RobbH
re: Airplay speakers lag behind other synchronized players after switching from an audio stream to local music philippe_44 wrote: > Can you be more specific about the format (and rates) before & after? If there's a stream playing, it's usually BBC Radio 3 or Radio New Zealand Concert. I think b

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-07-21 Thread RobbH
d6jg wrote: > Might be worth a Poll - what is the first menu item you use? 1. Almost always: Music Folder 2. Distant second: Artists 3. Much more distant third: Albums 4. (default UI only): Advanced Search LMS (recent) running on Debian X86_64; 5 Squeezelite players (3 in PiCorePlayer), 3 pl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-07-22 Thread RobbH
Since upgrading to 0.9.1, I seem to be unable to use the "Local artwork" option of MAI from Material. Every attempt to use it produces this error message: "Something went wrong! (Error: Network Error)" and this in the LMS log: Slim::Web::JSONRPC::requestMethod (486) 00:23:24:0a:e9:a3: request no

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-07-22 Thread RobbH
mherger wrote: > > > > > Works as expected in the default interface.[/color] > > With the same MAC address? Can you double check you've selected the same > > player in both skins? > > -- > > Michael Same player. slartibartfast explained it better than I did. I can also see the thumb

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2019-11-14 Thread RobbH
Would you consider adding one more option to the "Preferred format" settings for Qobuz? My system frequently chokes if I try to play files with a sample rate of 96 KHz or higher, but it usually has not problem with 24 bit files at 44 .1 KHz. That's not an option, so I have to settle for 16 bit/44

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2019-11-16 Thread RobbH
RobbH wrote: > Would you consider adding one more option to the "Preferred format" > settings for Qobuz? My system frequently chokes if I try to play files > with a sample rate of 96 KHz or higher, but it usually has no problem > with 24 bit files at 44 .1 KHz. That'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Material User Guide

2019-12-02 Thread RobbH
Thanks for doing this. I think it will prove to be a very valuable resource. LMS (recent) running on Debian X86_64; 5 Squeezelite players (3 in PiCorePlayer), 3 players connected via Airplay Bridge 1 Squeezebox Radio (upgraded UE Smart Radio) now mostly retired

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Android Controllers and Players outside the Playstore

2020-01-03 Thread RobbH
You're probably already aware of these options, but I hope there's some value in mentioning them here for people who find this thread in future uses. In the absence of a dedicated LMS player that you can install on an Android device, there are two options that may (or may not) be useful: 1. use

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Android Controllers and Players outside the Playstore

2020-01-04 Thread RobbH
Both SB Player and SqueezePlayer are currently available in the Amazon app store. SqueezePlayer has not been updated since 2015, while the SB Player version is from 2018. In Google's Play store, both apps were updated in 2019. LMS (recent) running on Debian X86_64; 5 Squeezelite players (3 in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] : Radio Favourites Plugin - Manage live radio favourites and see what's on

2022-01-12 Thread RobbH
I have not found a way to add a station to Radio Favourites when using the default web interface. It's easy enough in Material skin, so I must be overlooking something. What's am I missing? LMS 8 nightly running on Raspberry Pi OS. Mostly virtual players, occasionally with SB Radio, Boom or Cl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] : Radio Favourites Plugin - Manage live radio favourites and see what's on

2022-01-12 Thread RobbH
expectingtofly wrote: > You are right, the default web interface doesn't show those kind of menu > options. Every other type of controller does that I've tried (including > the Jive/squeezeplay type on Radios and Touch when you long press), but > the default web interface doesn't. I notice th

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How can I configure Don't Stop The Music?

2022-01-12 Thread RobbH
Fliwatt wrote: > Hey, > > I have been working on an application for a while which multiple people > at a party can feed with music, that sends it to LMS (over LMS-CLI) and > plays it one after the other. > The main problem that I have encountered though is, that once there is > not enough music

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How can I configure Don't Stop The Music?

2022-01-12 Thread RobbH
Fliwatt wrote: > The good thing with DSTM, especially with Spotty is, that the > recommendations are based on the previous song, I don't want a song of a > completely different genre breaking the flow. Would there be an option > to regenerate the random mix based on the last added song? > > Als

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2022-01-17 Thread RobbH
ian_heys wrote: > On the question of NPR, having lived near Washington DC many years > ago I believe that WAMU (American University) was the national base > station, and all the other stations picked up their national relay > programs from them - but I could be wrong, it is about forty years

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-20 Thread RobbH
mherger wrote: > > Don't scan your cache folder! Why would you do so? cpd73 wrote: > > But, why are you even indexing this folder as part of your music > collection? How do you have your Media Folders set up in LMS Settings? LMS 8 nightly running on Raspberry Pi OS. Mostly virtual pl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-20 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > Well for one, LMS is *not* located within my music folder - which is the > issue here, I -think-. > > My LMS is in /usr/local/lms, and music is in /media/disk/Music - two > completely separate folders. Sorry, I failed to indicate that my question was intended for Brian (Labarum)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread RobbH
Labarum wrote: > how much disc space do I need for 200 CDs? The amount of space required to store a CD with flac compression will vary, depending on the complexity of the waveform (full orchestra will probably need more space than a recording of solo flute) and the length of the recording (

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread RobbH
Labarum wrote: > > I do have a 128GB USB stick I was looking at it a couple of hours ago. > It's a button rather than a stick so would sit close up to the case of > the rPi. That is another way to do it - I suppose the data store does > not have to be as fast as the microSD card. Doing that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Android Squeezer App - Artwork disappeared

2022-01-24 Thread RobbH
Hyde_TDS wrote: > Hi > > I've been using squeezer app (v2.2.7) for a number of years to control > my Classics and Duets. But in the last few days when I open the app it > no longer displays the album art. I've tried deleting cache and data > from within Androids App settings and also un-insta

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Android Squeezer App - Artwork disappeared

2022-01-25 Thread RobbH
Good news! Glad that worked. LMS 8 nightly running on Raspberry Pi OS. Mostly virtual players, occasionally with SB Radio, Boom or Classic. RobbH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67008 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Android Squeezer App - Artwork disappeared

2022-01-27 Thread RobbH
Hyde_TDS wrote: > Spoke too soon. It's all disappeared again?!?!? Sorry, but I have no further ideas at this point. I hope someone more knowledgeable will be able to help. I don't know what you might look for in the log, or if you need to change any logging options, but as a start, it might be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-01-28 Thread RobbH
MrC wrote: > Question > > Would it be possible to have a quick control button, perhaps near the > A-Z "Sort by", which could toggle On / Off the display of integrated > media? > > I love the Spotty library integration, but am now finding it difficult > to find my own local media rips, as m

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezer app on Android - Favorites does not show

2022-01-29 Thread RobbH
kappclark wrote: > I am not able to locate my favorites from Squeezer on the android 11 > tablet. I can save to favorites .. any idea ? I am using the free > version -- maybe there is a better app to control LMS and squeezebox ? > > THX > > - > UPDATE - I located the favorites

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2022-02-03 Thread RobbH
Material will open pdf files on my LInux desktop. I think its inability to do so on Android is more an Android limitation than a Material issue, but I don't know enough to be certain of that. And I have no knowledge of iOS. Loading Material in a browser on Android, you at least have the option t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-03 Thread RobbH
A recent question in the MAI thread (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?99537-Announce-Music-amp-Artist-Information-plugin&p=1046133&viewfull=1#post1046133) turned out to be a Material question about viewing pdf files when they appear in the list of "Text files from music folder." Thi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-04 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > Is this with the Material APK, or with using Chrome? If its Chrome then > nothing I can do. It works "after a fashion" when using a browser in Android. Instead of opening the pdf file in a new tab, as happens on a desktop, the user is prompted to download the pdf, which can then

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2022-02-05 Thread RobbH
counterpoint wrote: > Thanks. It is already installed, I don’t see anything in the web > interface to upgrade it. My understanding is that there is a new version > of the Qobuz plugin since the latest release of LMS. And I’m puzzled why > it disappears from all the lists. It reappears in the list

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Picoreplayer won't boot

2022-02-05 Thread RobbH
Smitty2k1 wrote: > I have volume disabled through LMS as my amp does volume control So you have volume fixed at 100% in LMS, correct? What about alsamixer? LMS 8 nightly running on Raspberry Pi OS. Mostly virtual players, occasionally with SB Radio, Boom or Classic. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2022-02-05 Thread RobbH
counterpoint wrote: > Good question. I too have 2.5.1 including files that are more recent > than the release of LMS 8.2.0. Is there some mechanisms that updates > plugins? I haven’t manually updated it. > > But that still leaves me puzzled by the message in syslog and the > tendency for the Qob

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-18 Thread RobbH
Apesbrain wrote: > I can also see a situation where you might expect to see another > performer's information if, for instance, that artist was a known > personality, e.g. Vladimir Horowitz. Also occasions when you hear an interpretation of a piece that is unlike others and you want to kno

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-03-26 Thread RobbH
cpd73 wrote: > So, is this material specific? Or same issues on other UIs (iPend, > SqueezeCtrl, Default skin)??? I have seen the same behavior in the default skin. In my experience, the Radio Swiss stations in the RNP plugin are very likely to cause playlist corruption and timing issues. LM

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2022-03-26 Thread RobbH
There has been some recent discussion in the Material Skin thread about some issues that seem to be related to RNP. In brief, the issue is that when some stations are in the current play queue, either waiting to be played or previously played, but not currently playing, LMS displays incorrect tim

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Android Controllers and Players outside the Playstore

2022-09-27 Thread RobbH
streifenleopard wrote: > This sounds really complicated... In addition I wouldn't know what > Squeezelite to install and F-Droid has 10 Termux-Apps. It's all command line. If you consider that too complicated, this solution is probably not for you. Good luck finding another way to use an Androi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Android Controllers and Players outside the Playstore

2022-09-27 Thread RobbH
streifenleopard wrote: > Thanks. I have installed both. But when starting up the apps neither can > progress past the initial bootscreen. It might have to do with my > Lineage OS installation (18.1) but I have granted permissions etc and > enabled wifi access. Anyway I still have the lms wrapper

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