Re: [slim] replay gain recommendations?

2021-04-23 Thread wcndave


It's easier than I thought, and discovered by accident.
Clicked on the volume in mediamonkey and it changed to edit mode (if you
open the edit dialogue, you can't change the levels)

34335

Adjusted it way down, then up, reloaded in LMS, could see the volume
adjustment data, and hear the difference.
34336

So, good news, MM tags do work in LMS.

Thanks again for your input and suggestions!


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Re: [slim] replay gain recommendations?

2021-04-23 Thread wcndave


d6jg wrote: 
> 34332


Thanks all, very helpful.

I would still have to apply the step to files already ripped.  20,000+
files... probably not going to put them all through DBPA again :p

I'll set it to write going forward, and test the existing ones on LMS.



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Re: [slim] replay gain recommendations?

2021-04-23 Thread wcndave


slartibartfast wrote: 
> Do your replaygain tags work with LMS?

That's what I was asking, will they work.  I can obviously do a test,
however I thought it might be documented somewhere more up to date than
the original slim page.

I also don't really want to add another step in the process.  Rip with
DBPA, manage with MediaMonkey.

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Re: [slim] replay gain recommendations?

2021-04-22 Thread wcndave


Apesbrain wrote: 
> You should be writing both "Track Gain" and "Album Gain" values as
> described above.  The better setting is "Settings" > "Player" > "Audio"
> > "Volume Adjustment/Replay Gain: Smart Gain".
> 
> http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Automatic_Volume_Adjustment

Hi, that link indicates that the tags are:

REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN
PEAK
REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN

I use MediaMonkey to manage everything these days, and I had a very
quiet album, so had a look, and the tags showing in mediainfo are:

Album_ReplayGain_Gain
ReplayGain_Gain
ReplayGain_Peak

Do you know what the actual tags are that LMS is using?

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Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool

2020-10-05 Thread wcndave


robinbowes wrote: 
> I really should revisit this and update the instructions. Sadly, not
> much time at the moment, receivers all on storage, and no Windows or
> Linux machines at home just now.
> 
> One day...I'm just very grateful you made it, still host it, and it works! 

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Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool

2020-10-04 Thread wcndave


Also, forgot to add that the commands are documented here, rather than
on github.

http://projects.robinbowes.com/Net-UDAP/trac/wiki/GettingStarted



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Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool

2020-10-04 Thread wcndave


Paul Webster wrote: 
> There is a link to a Windows version via
> http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/SlimDevices_/_Logitech_Squeezebox
> It does download but I have not risked running it - make sure you have
> up to date antivirus just in case.
> 
> I remember someone else creating a Windows UDAP tool (not using Perl)
> but I have not been able to find the thread here.

Thanks for the response and for looking!

I did try that now (AV said it was safe), however got errors when
running it


Code:

UDAP> d
  info: *** Broadcasting adv_discovery message to MAC address 00:00:00:00:00:00 
on 255.255.255.255
  Use of uninitialized value in length at /PerlApp/Net/UDAP/Util.pm line 57, 
 line 1.
  Use of uninitialized value in length at /PerlApp/Net/UDAP/Util.pm line 67, 
 line 1.
  Supplied string has length0(expected length: 6) at /PerlApp/Net/UDAP.pm line 
296
  Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 
/PerlApp/Net/UDAP.pm line 297,  line 1.
  info:   adv_discovery response received from
  Use of uninitialized value in length at /PerlApp/Net/UDAP/Util.pm line 57, 
 line 1.
  Use of uninitialized value in length at /PerlApp/Net/UDAP/Util.pm line 67, 
 line 1.
  Supplied string has length0(expected length: 6) at /PerlApp/Net/UDAP.pm line 
358
  mac not found in msg at /PerlApp/Net/UDAP/Shell.pm line 156
  UDAP>



Then I found an old post where I had done this 6 years ago, using
tortoise and some other tools, but no details.

I tried the ubuntu code in a docker container, however I think the
network structure doesn't work, as it didn't find it.

So then I found an old netbook with Lubuntu on it, and that worked.

I had to modify the steps from @cmmh somewhat.


Code:

sudo bash
  git clone https://github.com/robinbowes/net-udap.git
  cd net-udap
  apt install cpanminus
  apt install make
  apt install gcc
  cpanm Log::StdLog
  cpanm Term::Shell
  cpanm Class::Accessor
  cpanm IO::Interface::Simple
  scripts/udap_shell.pl



I am going to have to bookmark this for future!

Thanks again



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Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool

2020-10-04 Thread wcndave


The windows exe file doesn't seem to be hosted on gitgub, and the wiki
links etc on there don't work.  Has this been abandoned now?



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Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller App for old iPod

2018-09-12 Thread wcndave


I can't see where I can get to purchases, there's "featured, categories,
search, top 25 and updates".



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[slim] Squeezebox Controller App for old iPod

2018-09-12 Thread wcndave


I have an iPod 4, which my son is now going to use, to control music in
his room.  However I had to re-install it, and the app is no longer
available on the app store.

Does anyone know anyway to get this app back?

(No, I don't have a complete backup of the device, would need to get it
from "online")

Thanks

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Re: [slim] MySqueeze Account

2017-04-26 Thread wcndave

toby10 wrote: 
> Glad you got it working.  You may need to press & hold it but that
> should always work, no reboot should be needed.  If pressing BACK does
> not enter the Setup menu items then there is a fault with your Boom's
> firmware.

It's possible.  I got the device second hand 8 years ago, before they
all ran out!

The screen doesn't work most of the time, so have to control with
mobile, however when doing this it was working.

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Re: [slim] MySqueeze Account

2017-04-20 Thread wcndave

Pressing back took me nowhere, it sticks on the account settings page.

However when I unplugged it and tried again, it took me to the main
settings page, where I could select LMS.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, at least I knew that
option should be there!

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[slim] MySqueeze Account

2017-04-19 Thread wcndave

One of my booms, after a power reset, is asking for email / password for
mysqueeze account.

I am pretty sure there was some way to skip this step, as I don't want
to connect to anything, just my local LMS, however I can't find how to
skip the option.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

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Re: [slim] Editing Existing Playlists

2015-03-02 Thread wcndave

OK, there's an add to... on my joggler which does exactly what was
described, so that's one step forward!

thanks.



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Re: [slim] Editing Existing Playlists

2015-03-02 Thread wcndave

M opens the details in the left panel.  I can see nothing there about
adding to playlist, just the usual  album / artists etc...

I have not tried yet on devices, however I must admit I am more likely
to create playlists on my desktop.



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Re: [slim] Editing Existing Playlists

2015-03-02 Thread wcndave

Thanks.

I've got version 6 of playlist manager installed, however I can't see
any difference at all in the web interface, and there is no settings
link next to the plugin in the settings page... which on the website
where I got the plugin it says there should be...

Do you have this enabled properly in our web UI?



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[slim] Editing Existing Playlists

2015-03-02 Thread wcndave

Hi everyone.

When I am creating playlists on the web interface, if I want to add a
song to an existing playlist I can't really see how to do it.

The only way so far, is to load the playlist, then find and add the
track, then save as a new playlist.
If I happen to use the exact same name, then it overwrites, otherwise it
creates a new playlist.
There's no list of existing playlists to add to.

If I go to playlists first and click add, I get a free text box, so not
sure what that's about.

The above is not really very good when you hit something on random play
you want to add to a playlist, as you have to stop listening, load up
the list, find the song and then go back to random again...

It seems even harder from the device itself (Boom / Touch / Joggler /
Duet / Android), however at least on the web interface would be nice.

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[slim] Skip mySqueezebox.com login on android logitech app

2015-01-28 Thread wcndave

I have a new phone, and when installing the app I can see no way to skip
past the mysqueezebox.com login.

Given the imminent demise of this, and the fact that I don't want to log
in as I have a server running, does anyone know how to skip this step?

Thanks

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Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool

2014-12-02 Thread wcndave

I found this pretty hard to use, I downloaded your latest version,
however it cannot run the .pl script, i guess this is intended for linux
environments.

I then found an exe file from the first page, however I am sure this is
a really old version, and I had a LOT of error messages which made
reading output almost impossible.

The good news is I was able to set up my SB, however it would be great
to have this runnable in windows.

I am however very grateful you took time to make this, as it at least
did sort out my issue ;-)

thanks

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Re: [slim] Album List Group By Artist

2014-04-15 Thread wcndave

Perfect - Thanks!

Bit of an obscure place to have it, and it was the only item not in
alpha order so was at the bottom of the settings - but it works
perfectly.

I also notice the big artwork version on the web interface, I can't see
that on the touch etc, so I assume that does not exist.

Just trying to make the best UI possible on the joggler before I roll
out 4 of them, and my friends are starting to ask me to build some for
them...



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[slim] Album List Group By Artist

2014-04-13 Thread wcndave

Is there any display mode / plugin which does 

select album,artist from albums order by artist,album.

so I would get

ABBA: ABBA
Arrival
The Visitors
Adele: 19
21

etc...

When browsing lists of albums, I would rather they were grouped and
sorted by artist.

Not a biggie but I thought perhaps someone had done this.



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Re: [slim] Album List Group By Artist

2014-04-13 Thread wcndave

I went through every page of the web interface before I posted.  Either
I am being blind, or it's not there...



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[slim] Radio URL Check

2014-04-13 Thread wcndave

I am trying to add something like: http://radiosuedtirol.radio.de/ and
it crashes LMS completely each time.  is there some way to check if a
URL is able to be played on LMS before adding?

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Re: [slim] Radio URL Check

2014-04-13 Thread wcndave

castalla wrote: 
 Do a search in Radio for it - it's listed on Tunein.

Problem 1 was 15825

i get lots of matches, however none appears to be the correct one.

2. When mysb.com is gone direct URL will be the only way no?


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Re: [slim] Album List Group By Artist

2014-04-13 Thread wcndave

Ah ok, but no way to do this on touch, boom, duet, phone, joggler? 

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Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-07 Thread wcndave

Recoveryone wrote: 
 First off when you rip a disk the album art is attach to the folder that
 the files was created, not each track.  From time to time you will find
 that the rip did not combine the track titles with the album art and you
 would get no album cover or get the same track name for each track.  Now
 if you D/L music from Amazon or some other 3rd party they do attach the
 album cover to each track, for the reason many only D/L singles and not
 whole albums.  So don't cause yourself more work then needed, if you are
 using a Touch you would be able to see if the album art is working
 correctly.
 Also get Mp3tag (free d/L ) widely used by many to help catalog your
 collection and find album art.

Thanks, I was looking on a touch at first, and then went to LMS to look
further.  When you say album art is attached to the folder, I assume you
mean the folder.jpg that gets created.

I really don't like this, as when I make a mixed tape I can lose the
art, when I put certain songs on an MP3 player I lose it.  I prefer that
wherever it goes, the mp3 file has all its information self contained.


Mnyb wrote: 
 Also do a complete rescan of everything not only a new and changed

This actually fixed my problem!


Recoveryone wrote: 
 The more I look at the photos you attach I have to ask some questions
 
 1. did you rip the whole album?
 
 2. Is the single a d/l from a 3rd party?
 
 3. Why in the album pic you have it listed as a single? and no genre?,
 but the single has all the proper info with it.
 
 I think you may find your answer in how you catalog

This was just a single MP3, I have no idea where it came from, I have
MP3s going back nearly 18 years...  I have a folder full of orphaned
tracks, which I may have downloaded to use in home videos, or parties,
or any reason really... I was going through sorting them out as they
all show with no cover art which looks a little ugly, and some were
mistagged.  I just add the artwork, correct the data, and save it.  This
also precludes use of folder.jpg as I have one folder with a couple of
hundred of these files.

RonM wrote: 
 Ripping with dBpoweramp results in album art being embedded in each
 track file, as well as creation of the file folder.jpg in the album's
 folder.  Some applications make use of only one or the other;  it's best
 to have both.  On very rare occasions, dBp doesn't find artwork and you
 may have to do a further search.
 
 On occasion LMS does not pick up changed art through a simple rescan for
 changed items.  Do a complete rescan and this generally fixes the
 problem.  
 


Yup, as above that worked.  I really should have tried that before
posting!!  it's like the old have you tried turning it off and on
again? rule.

I will defo look into the mp3tag program as well, although like R-One, I
tend to be doing just the odd files here and there.

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Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-07 Thread wcndave

garym wrote: 
 yes, but to clarify one minor point, dbpa *can* automatically do both,
 or it can do one or the other depending on one's settings (embeds only
 if album art is ticked in the metadata list). My personal process
 (using dpba to rip) is to create only a single file in the album
 subdirectory (named cover.jpg with an attempted size of 1000x1000). I
 do not setup dbpa to embed the artwork in each FLAC file.  Then later, I
 use dbpa converter to create lossy mp3 versions of my files for portable
 use. In this conversion process, I have dbpa embed the artwork (at a
 smaller, 500x500 size) in each mp3file and NOT create a cover.jog file
 in the album subdirectory.  This all works perfectly for me using
 squeezeboxes, vortexbox and windows LMS servers, ipods/iphones/ipads,
 foobar2000 windows player.
 
 Note: I use cover.jpg rather than folder.jpg so that windows
 programs can't automatically (or behind the scenes)
 modify/change/replace my artwork.  Windows can do this with folder.jpg
 files (as that is the windows standard), but I don't think it messes
 with cover.jpg. WMP can be particularly nasty with regard to doing
 things to one's art that was not expected.

Interesting.  I use the multi-rip so I get both FLAC and MP3 with one
action.  I find that the file size and the cover art size have not been
of enough consequence given price of hard drives to change them, so I go
for best quality I can so that they are future proof.  (Just think how
your pictures will look on that 200,000,000 resolution 4 screen in
2020!)

However I like the idea of the cover vs folder.  Is that supported
everywhere then?  I don't even open windows media players, as they will
always do something odd, like try to reorganise files.

Another reason I avoid any jpg files at all in my MP3s, is that various
players pick them up as files.  So my media TV streamer might pick them
up.  I remember having every movie's cover art appearing in an and
amongst my family pictures when doing slideshows...  Here we are at the
beach, Here we are at the hotel, here's the Terminator etc...

You can usually link folders and media type, but not always.



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[slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-06 Thread wcndave

Hi, I keep all my art embedded in the MP3 files, so as I move them
around devices they all work.

I notice from time to time that a track is missing cover art, so I
decided to sort it all out.

I went through a list of all tracks with no art by simply searching for
all files in windows explorer and looking at thumbnails.

I was able to find art, right click and edit ID tag (which is using
DBpowerAmp), and add the artwork.  Some of them are ok after a rescan,
and some are not.

eg: this single track If I lost you is a single track, and therefore
the albumn is If I Lost You - Single.

Normally I tag all the tracks and everything works, however the album
artwork is blank, and this means it's blank on all devices too..

Here is the album view.
15579

Here is the single view when i click on the track.
15580

This does not seem to happen every time, I have a bunch of single tracks
like this, and about 20% seem to do this.

Any ideas?


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Re: [slim] Track vs Album Art

2014-02-06 Thread wcndave

mherger wrote: 
 As you don't mention the LMS version you're using I'd suggest try 7.8. 
 It has a bunch of artwork related fixes.
 
 Michael

Thanks, I am using 7.7.2 as per
http://www.synology.com/en-global/releaseNote/package/SqueezeCenter

There doesn't seem to be a more recent release for Synology, so not sure
I can update it.

Seems odd that it happens in some files and not others.



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Re: [slim] PoE

2014-01-06 Thread wcndave

Thanks, I looked at that first which sort of game me the idea, and as I
am networking a new house, I want to get a PoE switch installed.

Until then I really wanted to check proof of concept by doing this, and
the other thread does not specify the type of power jack that is used.

I just can't find the power supply specification anywhere :-(



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[slim] PoE

2014-01-02 Thread wcndave

I am trying to power a touch over PoE, and I assume all the devices use
similar voltages so I put here in general.

The touch has a yellow tipped EIAJ connector, and is 5v.
My PoE splitter has a black tipped EIAJ connector for 5v.

They look exactly the same.

The black one will not fit in the touch :confused:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIAJ_connector

Has anyone tried this before? is there a special adapter one needs?

Thanks
Dave



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Re: [slim] Exclude Directories From Random Play

2013-09-15 Thread wcndave

Don't think I am ever going to go through and tag them all, and anyway,
i make up different genres based on mood, so when I come up with 80's
relaxing classic rock I don't want to retag everything...

Thanks very much for the help though, since I tagged all the non music
to something and excluded from random play, that works great.

Thanks!

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[slim] Exclude Directories From Random Play

2013-09-12 Thread wcndave

I have 2 scanned folders that contain FLAC and MP3 files.

I also have a 3rd folder that contains childrens music, childrens audio
books, educational materials, christmas songs and various other
resources.

I would like to be able to select these to play when I wish, however I
don't want them to play when I do random play, which I do a lot (it's a
great way to listen to music you'd all but forgotten about..)

Is there any way to be able to to exclude a dir and sub-dirs from random
play?

Alternatively, I would look at using browse folders for just these
tracks, however browse folders only includes folders that are scanned...


is there another way?

Cheers

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Re: [slim] Exclude Directories From Random Play

2013-09-12 Thread wcndave

mherger wrote: 
  Is there any way to be able to to exclude a dir and sub-dirs from
 random
  play?
 
 Not dirs, but genres: just tag your files appropriately, and you can  
 easily exclude kids etc. from the mix.
 
  Alternatively, I would look at using browse folders for just these
  tracks, however browse folders only includes folders that are
 scanned...
 
 No, the Browse Music Folder menu even often is used to play things
 which  
 have not been scanned yet.
 
 -- 
 
 Michael

Ah, so the select genres to include in mix is saved and remembered so
each time I do random play it will use the same genre selection.

Regarding the folder, I have two scanned folders which are all that
appears when I select Music Folder.  How do I get other folders to
appear in there?

Thanks

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Re: [slim] Exclude Directories From Random Play

2013-09-12 Thread wcndave

Thanks, but I don't understand how that would help - probably just being
dense...

I have folders

1. FLAC Music
2. MP3 Music
3. Other Audio

I would like that 1 and 2 are in the library, but that I could browse to
3, in order to manually select the files.

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Re: [slim] Exclude Directories From Random Play

2013-09-12 Thread wcndave

Yes, I saw how the first solution could work, however it requires that I
remember to tag all my material as it's added.

The second solution suggested seemed a lot easier - however I did not
think it could be done.  If it can, that would be great!



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Re: [slim] Exclude Directories From Random Play

2013-09-12 Thread wcndave

JJZolx wrote: 
 You can't really do that. Everything that LMS plays must be in its
 library. If you exclude 'Other Audio' from your media folders, you won't
 be able to get to it by browsing the Music Folder.


Ok, that's what I thought in the first place.

I just tagged all the files in those folders to kids and will exclude
that.

I also noticed that as i add files, their genres are not auto added, so
a lot of new music has been excluded from random play.

That's the problem with everyone using their own genres, I now have a
few hundred...I'd quite like 20 or so!



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Re: [slim] Exclude Directories From Random Play

2013-09-12 Thread wcndave

To be honest when i first ripped my collection of ~500 i did not have
the energy or patience for tagging, and hoped the tagging of the ripper
db would be ok.

Now I've added some itunes, amazon and others, It's getting a bit mad,
but I really don't use genres.  Hence I did not think of that as a way
of hiding holiday and kids music.

What would you recommend as a good tagging tool? I have dbpoweramp for
ripping, and mediamonkey for library management.

Thanks, Dave



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