[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Alien BBC PCI latency
Could you provide a little more details on your configuration and the problem so that the problem and cure can be characterised and hopefully explained. What do you mean by droppouts - typically AlienBBC problems are either one of below depending on the source of the problem. - short burst of silence but streams continues or - longer gaps of silence, followed by stuttering and stream restarts Were you sending the BBC streams in Flac to the SB ? If Flac, did you get dropouts when streaming Flac files to SB ? Is the SB wired or wireless ? What version of mplayer are you using ? What values of the PCI timing did you use ? Assuming your PC is wired to the router - Is your Ethernet interface onboard or a separate PCI card ? If it is onboard what is the motherboard or PC model ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31748 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Control NuVo Multi-Room System
Hi Christian, Really interested in this plugin. Don't have Nuvo but have something similar with an RS232 interface. To be able to do basic functions such as select source (ie Squeezebox), zone select, volume up/down etc would be fantastic. Algregs -- algregs algregs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9510 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30731 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: StatusFirst: Repeat and Shuffle show current setting first
Great! Thanks, and as an added bonus, my SB3 doesn't change volume when I use my JVC remote just one push against my stereo :-) -- blader_se blader_se's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5549 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31411 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: Moose 0.52
On 17/01/07, bossanova808 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Getting a few crashes/glitches with 0.52, can't yet narrow down what's happening - maybe a sing change? Weird, not seen that before.. Can you repeat it, or do you know what coverart it was displaying when it happened ? Looks like you were resizing the now playing window at the time.. Maybe there's an issue if you're resizing during a song-change or something ? I'll have a play this evening.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: Moose 0.52
On 17/01/07, mattybain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The return key isn't working though, I used to be able to press return in the library to add/insert new music but it's stopped working. Not sure why. It probably got broken when moving to the tabbed library.. I'll get it fixed for the next release.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Alarm Playlist and Repeat Mode
I'm sure a plugin could do this, but instead I've patched the Slimserver source to add in a modest extra bit of alarm functionality. With this patch applied, you get two extra alarm settings: Alarm Shuffle and Alarm Repeat. Setting these works much the same way as alarm volume; when the alarm occurs, the Squeezebox is set with these values. In laymans terms, this means that you can fiddle with your squeezebox however you like. When the alarm fires, the volume, shuffle and repeat settings will be changed to however they're configured in the alarm settings. This is a poor-man's implementation of per-playlist shuffle and repeat settings. I have no idea how that could be implemented, but I like my morning wake up in shuffle, and my getting dressed albums as the artist intended. This patch does that ;-) More info: http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/SlimServerAlarmPlaylistMode (possibly more up to date than here too) Otherwise, see the attached patch files. +---+ |Filename: alarm-mode-patch.tar | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2271| +---+ -- coofercat coofercat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31760 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] IRBlaster and SlimServer 7
Is there a SlimServer 7 version of the IRBlaster plugin out there? I've actually started using my Transporter less as I now have to get up to turn the amp on. :-( It's at least 3m from the sofa! ;-) Max PS Sad, but true. -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31773 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: mac os problem
This problem seems to be with slimserver and not the mplayer. A few months ago somebody else had a similar problem and it related to the PC connected to internet router by wireless and the delay in connecting to nameserver. Is your mac connected to internet router by wireless ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31762 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] IRBlaster and SlimServer 7
Max, use 6.5.1. You'll be much happier, and you won't have to package your own plugins while the API continues to change. -kdf ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Alien BBC PCI latency
Short burst of silence are usually an indication that the BBC dropped packets and predominantly happens on live streams and not on Listen Again. From observation this seems to happen around busy hours but also possibly when BBC is doing something to their network / server farm - so no problems can be heard for a while and then for a few weeks the problems happens and then goes away again. The fact that your problem also occurred on RealPlayer makes me believe that this is the problem and it is not necessarily PCI related. That said, I know that mplayer has provoked strange network interface problems on Windows on what seems to be perfect working interfaces. These problems were cured by an updated network drivers - you may have come across the same sort of problem only in the the Linux environment as I think in Windows it is the driver may set up the PCI data. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31748 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Alien BBC Listen Again problem ! 6.5/v1.06/1.0pre8
I've been checking what works and what doesn't and seem to have solved my problem; well found an easy get-around anyway. All the streams work fine apart from Radio 4 A-Z and Radio 4 Listen again. I get a message saying: Can't connect to retrieve playlist on the box. I didn't realise that the option named simply Radio 4 listed all the programmes. I assumed that it was the listen live option. Well here, I can access all the programmes I need. So problem solved. (BTW Cheers bpa. I've seen you've helped a number of people with alienbbc problems as I've searched threads for a solution. Thanks for your help on this one... For the record- Running last night's slimserver and v1.06 of alienbbc, I used the install pack, and XP.) -- sparkling sparkling's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5565 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30918 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: mac os problem
yes it is. -- pgalore2k pgalore2k's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9408 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31762 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: mac os problem
OK - the other part of the problem setup was that slimserver is installed to start up when OSX starts up. If your slimserver is also set to start when PSX starts - the following is what happens 1. OSX starts up and starts up networking 2. Slimserver starts and lookups up the DNS servers. Wireless sometimes takes a while to get set up so DNS has not been set up when Slimserver looks for DNS. 3. Wireless LAN setup completes and DNS works. 4. Slimserver runs but thinks DNS is not configured. Test to check if this is your problem: Stop and restart slimserver and retest AlienBBC Solution if above fixes the problem: Put in a delay before startup of slimserver. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31762 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: mac os problem
h'mm... i've put a delay in... and no difference. the problem seems to be with all bbc and virgin services on alienbbc, but not rai or deutsche welle on alienbbc. also, RadioGuide fails to parse... -- pgalore2k pgalore2k's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9408 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31762 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: Multi Library plugin
I think it doesn't like apostrophies in directory paths.I should have thought about this, it has been problem in almost every of my plugin. I will try to fix it for the next release. Thanks. It also didn't seem to like spaces in the filename, but hopefully that won't matter if that is transparent to the user. 3. Will refreshing libraries be quick, or should there be some progress indicator?I think it will be pretty quick, I tried it on my test database with 4 tracks and it took maybe 3-4 seconds. If people are getting problem with long refresh times, I will change it so it is executed in the background with some sort of status indicator. Yes, indeed it does seem fast, although I wait until disk activity has finished before attempting to move from the page. Is it safe to navigate around whilst it's refreshing? I assume so (like rescan music library). Inside or outside custom browse is probably a matter of taste. Some people have created a custom key map for slimserver that connects the Browse button on the remote to the Custom Browse menu, these would probably like to have the menu inside Custom Browse. Other people are seeing Custom Browse as just an extra method for browsing besides the slimserver standard browsing methods, these would probably like Libraries menu on the top. You can move the current menus to the top from inside the Enable/Disable menus/mixers link in the Custom Browse web interface. I think there's several possibilities: 1) Within Custom Browse, list all custom browse methods and each library. [Current functionality]. 2) Within Custom Browse, list all custom browse methods plus a Libraries menu which contains a list of the libraries, and then within each library have a list of browse methods. 3) Within Custom Browse, list all custom browse methods and Active Library. 4) List each library outside of Custom Browse, ie on the main menu. 5) Custom Browse menus would work against the currently selected library. I can see that all these situations could be common requests. In my situation, I currently leave the original browse menus in place, and just use Custom Browse for extra browse methods. The menus inside Custom Browse apply to the whole music library, where as menus within a library will be the same as the custom browse menus, but will apply to a sub-set of the whole library. I was thinking of renaming Custom Browse-All Music. So I would have: All Music - Albums - Artists - Genres - Dynamic Playlists - Phil's Music - Albums - Artists - Genres - Dynamic Playlists - Alex's Music - Albums - Artists - Genres - Dynamic Playlists - etc. This could be achieved also by creating a dummy All Music library with no filtering, so it always contains all music. Maybe multiple library plugin should come with a built-in All Music library (pre-configured, not editable/deleteable, the default activated library). I also have an idea that it should be an alternative to just have a flat menu structure with Albums, Artists, Genres (and the rest) and selecting which tracks that should be shown in them by activating a specific library. That's another nice way for it to work; although I would see this as a better fit for multi-user setup (where each user could be configured to see different allowed libraries/activated library). A Change User menu option could switch over to a different configuration, preferably picking up other settings, such as scrobbler user, etc. eg. Another issue I have is with TrackStat - me and my wife have separate iTunes libraries, so I can only configure one iTunes library into the settings. Like you say, libraries may be configured with different browse methods. With a flat menu structure, would the menu options change depending on the activated library? My wife may get confused, having to navigate to find a menu to select the library to activate, and then navigate to find music to play. At the moment, I get her to use the old Custom Browse-Libraries menu, or use Browse Music Folder, so she can find her music under Alex's Music. Perhaps an option would be to have an option to hook into the Power-On event. It would ask you to select a library to activate. The default would be the last used library. Pressing play from stand-by would bypass the library selection and just resume playback. Better still would be for this to select a user. You have understand correctly how it works today. The idea is that the current solution will probably be good enough for most people since you get all the standard slimserver ways of browsing the music for each library, plus some extra methods. It will be a bit more work for people which have a lot of different libraries since the extra menus needs to setup for each library, but I imagine this is something you do once and it isn't changed so often so its probably not a big issue. I also think
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: mac os problem
Delays may not be the whole answer but first yiou need to confirm if this is indeed the problem. Without stopping or rebooting OSX, stop and restart slimserver and then re-test AlienBBC -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31762 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: Moose 0.52
I can't get it to repeat the crash, and haven't seen it again, so let's put that one down to transient demons... In all, working well! -- bossanova808 bossanova808's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31681 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: Multi Library plugin
A new version 1.1 of the Multi Library plugin is now available, the new functionallity and changes are: - Automatically refresh Custom Browse menu when changing a library definition - Added a menu group parameter making it possible to put the library menus in a group, for example Libraries/XXX Music instead of XXX Music - Corrected bug in include/exclude player parameters that were lost if you edit a library menu in Custom Browse - Corrected so non ascii characters works in Directory parameters - Automatically assign a free filename when creating a new library - Added check to make sure filename doesn't contain any unsupported characters NOTE 1 You need at least Custom Browse 1.17, earlier versions won't work. NOTE 2 It has only been tested on slimserver 6.5.* and probably doesn't work on any previous slimserver version. The new version is available at my 'download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) as usual. The current wish/todo list for new features in comming Multi Library releases can be found here: http://erland.homeip.net/issuetracking/do/guest/home?application=slimserver-multilibrary If anyone have more feature requests or if I have missed some feature you already have requested which hasn't been implemented, please let me know. Also please note that it is a wish list and not a release plan, so some features on this list may never be implemented. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31742 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: Multi Library plugin
Phil Meyer;171359 Wrote: 3. Will refreshing libraries be quick, or should there be some progress indicator?I think it will be pretty quick, I tried it on my test database with 4 tracks and it took maybe 3-4 seconds. If people are getting problem with long refresh times, I will change it so it is executed in the background with some sort of status indicator. Yes, indeed it does seem fast, although I wait until disk activity has finished before attempting to move from the page. Is it safe to navigate around whilst it's refreshing? I assume so (like rescan music library). Currently the operation isn't run in background, the result is that you can try to navigate but you will probably not get anywere until the refresh is finished. Phil Meyer;171359 Wrote: I think there's several possibilities: 1) Within Custom Browse, list all custom browse methods and each library. [Current functionality]. 2) Within Custom Browse, list all custom browse methods plus a Libraries menu which contains a list of the libraries, and then within each library have a list of browse methods. 3) Within Custom Browse, list all custom browse methods and Active Library. 4) List each library outside of Custom Browse, ie on the main menu. 5) Custom Browse menus would work against the currently selected library. I can see that all these situations could be common requests. The new menu group parameter should solve case 2, the others seem reasonable so I will have a look at them to for the next release. Phil Meyer;171359 Wrote: I was thinking of renaming Custom Browse-All Music.There is a configuration parameter in the Custom Browse settings where you can change this. Phil Meyer;171359 Wrote: Maybe multiple library plugin should come with a built-in All Music library (pre-configured, not editable/deleteable, the default activated library). Good idea, but I think I will make it editable in the same way as the standard Custom Browse builtin menus where you can override the builtin setting with your own configuration. Phil Meyer;171359 Wrote: Another issue I have is with TrackStat - me and my wife have separate iTunes libraries, so I can only configure one iTunes library into the settings.Which iTunes library setting are you talking about, the TrackStat setting or the one for slimserver ? Phil Meyer;171359 Wrote: With a flat menu structure, would the menu options change depending on the activated library? I can see two possibilities here: 1. The contents of the menus in the flat structure should change when you change the library. 2. A possibility to hide complete menus based on which library that is active, in the same way as menus can be included/excluded based on player(SqueezeBox) today. Phil Meyer;171359 Wrote: Perhaps an option would be to have an option to hook into the Power-On event. It would ask you to select a library to activate. The default would be the last used library. Pressing play from stand-by would bypass the library selection and just resume playback. Good idea, I'm not sure if this is possible yet, but I will add it to the wish list. Phil Meyer;171359 Wrote: You have understand correctly how it works today. The idea is that the current solution will probably be good enough for most people since you get all the standard slimserver ways of browsing the music for each library, plus some extra methods. It will be a bit more work for people which have a lot of different libraries since the extra menus needs to setup for each library, but I imagine this is something you do once and it isn't changed so often so its probably not a big issue. I also think its a good idea to make it possible to have a different set of sub menus for each library. This way it is possible to make a simplified browsing for some family members, with just a few menus in their library, and a still make more advanced browsing methods available for other family members with a lot of menus. True. I think you've swayed me :-) I will probably just configure the minimum set of menus for each library, and if I find myself wanting more detailed browse methods, I will add them for specific libraries. Some things may be covered by the generic Custom Skip, so I wouldn't necessarily need a browse method that picks random songs but not christmas songs for each library (I would instead have a custom skip filter, applied for any selected library). I thought about this a bit more, and I think it would be a good idea to be able to select which builtin menus that should be created when creating a library. After adding this I think it might be quite easy to also make it possible to select which of the menus available through Custom Browse that should be created. It wouldn't work for menus where you have choosen to customize the menu xml yourself, but for the rest it should be possible. Another point I just realized is that it should of course be possible
