Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.63 (windows frontend forss sc)
Dr Lovegrove;260090 Wrote: A 3rd party visualiser might be a nice project for someone to work on ? Otherwise, is there a way of displaying winamp visualisations using a virtual soundcard or wave in ?Not that I know of. What I found is: http://www.rabidhamster.org/R4/main.php and http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_geoforms_home.html The second one is from the author of Milkdrop. And, by the way, Milkdrop code has been open sourced a couple of years ago (Xbox Media Center implemented it soon afterward). -- gorman gorman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42073 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
I'm having problems getting Alien BBC working with Slimserver 6.5 and OS 10.3. I've followed the instructions regarding installation of mplayer and lame at the beginning of this thread and the almost identical instructions at the Alien site (x2systems.com/AlienBBC/installation) I've tried downloading LAME from the Blacktree site and also the thalictrum.com site. (The iTunes-lame download I really didn't know what to do with so I'm not sure now whether that is now loaded or not. But I've also tried the the LAME 3.97 package both before and after trying that one.) Alien appears on the Squeezebox and tries to connect but then stops. I've increased the time that it tries to get a radio stream. I've followed the instructions a few times now without success and I'm certain I've been downloading the correct files for my system. Are there any easy things to check? I love this plugin and am desperate to get it working. -- Braidy Braidy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
You may need to get a version of mplayer that runs on OSX 10.3. Usually the mplayer link in the instructions does not work on OSX 10.3.x . so you should do a standalone test - Open a terminal window and try to run your mplayer. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
Thanks for the help. I've opened Terminal and dropped mplayer into it. How do I test to see if it's working? -- Braidy Braidy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Headphone safety plugin? (extend Volume Lock??)
bossanova808;260346 Wrote: Hmm why would you want to ignore ReplayGain? 1. Because it makes the plugin much easier. Currently VolumeLock code is only executed when a user tries to change the volume. To take RG into account, it would have to do some work every time a new song started. And that's not very clean or easy -- there's a new song even that plugins can register for, but the event fires a few seconds before the song changes. In SyncOptions, I have the plugin start looking every few fractions of a second after the new song event fires. It's not very pretty, and not something I'd want taking server CPU around every song change. 2. Because, upon further thought, I don't think it makes sense. RG is applied by the physical device (Squeezebox/Transporter -- I think Squeezebox 1 and SliMP3 don't support RG). If you have two copies of a song, one with RG of -2dB and another with RG of -5dB and play them in order on a player that's using RG, the second song will play 3 dB quieter even though the player volume doesn't change. What you want is to cap the volume for a typical track --whether with software like VolumeLock, or hardware as described below-- and use RG to keep loud tracks from being played louder, and to keep quiet tracks from being lost. 3. If you're using analog outputs (including the headphone jacks), you should also look at the Preamp Volume Control setting (in the Player Audio setting page), too. It applies some specific dB of gain/loss to all analog output, so you could use this now --without VolumeLock at all-- to reduce the analog output across the board, allowing you to use the full range of the regular volume control -- you could even turn it all the way up to 11 with the web UI. I'd also recommend to you the wiki articles on line level matching, e.g. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?ConnectToPowerAmp. Using such physical matching along with analog outs is probably your best way to be *sure* not to play anything too loud. Remember, VolumeLock and SlimServer/SqueezeCenter are GPL software, with no warranty. :-) I do think a jive/sb interface would be useful but could certainly also live with a web only version myself. I'm happy to help if I can - I may not be useful with perl/development unless I get into it a bit, but I can certainly help with testing etc, and/or am willing to take on anything else useful you can think of!! I've already started improving the player UI in 6.5.x (switching to the normal radio button interface and adding the new maximum volume choice) since I haven't moved my main system to SC7 yet, but I probably won't bother with a web UI except in the SC7 release -- and I might skip the web UI if I can easily make a Jive/Controller choice list menu. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42428 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
I don't have a Mac so I'm not sure of the exact details and I am not sure what you mean by dropping mplayer into Terminal. Just open a Terminal and then execute mplayer by changing directory to where you have stored mplayer and then typing in ./mplayer. If it works you should get an mplayer banner with help message. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Request for a new plugin
I'm not suggesting I'd do this - I don't know the first thing about creating a plugin - but am throwing this idea out there for anyone who'd like to give it a try... I've been using digital equalization with my SB3, and one of the areas of great importance is making sure there is no clipping with the EQ in the loop. I was thinking a great utility would be something that can scan all the songs in one's library, and provide a breakdown of signal amplitude for each track. Maybe even a way to determine the amplitude by both peak and across a designated band. So that you could identify a track that has the highest amplitude, but maybe it does it at only one frequency, versus another that has the highest overall amplitude from 20Hz - 20KHz. Then it would be clear which tracks to use for testing with EQ in the loop to insure there's no clipping. Anyone else think this may be useful? -- tonyptony tonyptony's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3397 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42453 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Headphone safety plugin? (extend Volume Lock??)
bossanova808;260346 Wrote: I'm happy to help if I can - I may not be useful with perl/development unless I get into it a bit, but I can certainly help with testing etc, and/or am willing to take on anything else useful you can think of!! I've posted a version 1.9 for SlimServer 6.5.x here, with only a classic IR/Player UI: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock/?M=D Let me know what you think. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42428 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP Install help
Hey, I'm trying to setup MusicIP on my clarkconnect server but the install instructions on MusicIP site don't specify a directory to place the files after I un-tar them. Thanks -- jkeigs jkeigs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2537 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42455 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
Sorry for my lack computer knowledge. There's an application called TERMINAL for Mac I assumed this was what you meant. Does anyone know how I can check to see if my copy of mplayer is working on Mac 10.3? Thanks. -- Braidy Braidy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
Run the Terminal app;lication - it should open a windows which has a command line interface (i.e you type in a command on a line followed by return key and system then executes that command). Where did you install mplayer ? What is the full directory path where you installed mplayer ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;260376 Wrote: It sounds like you haven't setup the following correctly, please try again. You need to create plalists based on the exact name mentioned in the below text, it the for in the names are important. Thanks for your help and patience erland. Of course I had made a stupid mistake and created the SQL playlist based on top genre, not top for genre. It works correctly now! -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
This is what Terminal says ... don't think it's good Graeme-Allans-Computer:~ graemeallan$ /usr/local/bin/mplayer dyld: /usr/local/bin/mplayer can't open library: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) Trace/BPT trap Graeme-Allans-Computer:~ graemeallan$ -- Braidy Braidy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
It looks like that mplayer is trying to use libraries that are not on your system. Also the BPT/Trap error is also a comon error with some CPU or OS (altivec ?) mismatch. Getting a version of mplayer suitable for OSX 10.3 users has been a frequent problem - the user usually ends up having to build their own. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
Ha! Like that's going to happen! :-) I bought a mac mini to run Slimserver and thought that the cheapest one would do. Now, though, it looks as if I need OSX 10.4 to get AlienBBC but I'd need to upgrade my RAM to 512mb in order to get OSX 10.4. Thanks for help, anyway. I'll have another go when I'm on 10.4 -- Braidy Braidy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
In some of the mplayer distribution - there is supposed to be a build of mplayer for OSX 10.3.9. I think this fact would not be in the AlienBBC instructions as I think the practice is a recent one (i.e. from version 1.0rc1) . Where did you get the mplayer distribution from ? Did the note attached say that there is a version which will work on OSX 10.3 -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
Actually it doesn't say it's for 10.3 but that it's for a PPC Mac (so I assumed it would be ok.). The file name is mplayer-03-15-06.tar.gz -- Braidy Braidy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
Just found this thread. Sounds like it's 10.4 or nowt ... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38453highlight=mplayer+10.3 -- Braidy Braidy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
Well I found this entry for an mplayer distribution and it implies 10.3 support. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18580 -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
Thanks for finding that download. I've put it in the /USR/LOCAL/BIN folder again - is this right? I'm now getting a RTSP CONVERT ERROR - CHECK FILE TYPES message when I try to connect. -- Braidy Braidy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Playlist Manager Plugin version 3.0 for SC7.0
I just installed PM 3.0 on today's SC7 build and I'm unable to get to the settings page for this plugin. I get a HTTP 404 Page not found error from the Pluins tab settings and the plugin option is not listed under the Advanced tab pulldown. Any suggestions? -- tamanaco tamanaco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4620 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39371 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Playlist Manager Plugin version 3.0 for SC7.0
I just installed PM 3.0 on today's SC7 build and I'm unable to get to the settings page for this plugin. That's because there isn't a settings page! I haven't written any configurable settings! I get a HTTP 404 Page not found error from the Pluins tab settings and the plugin option is not listed under the Advanced tab pulldown. Any suggestions? I'll have to check that - there shouldn't be an option for Playlist Manager in the Advanced settings pages. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
Before going further - did the new version of mplayer produce a banner when run in Terminal window ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
This is what I now get ... Graeme-Allans-Computer:~ graemeallan$ /usr/local/bin/MPlayer\ OSX\ PPC.app -bash: /usr/local/bin/MPlayer OSX PPC.app: is a directory Graeme-Allans-Computer:~ graemeallan$ -- Braidy Braidy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Squeezebox and JRiver Media Center Integration
Sorry to bump this thread, but I'm a media center **12** user and I prefer it to itunes because I can get bit-perfect output from jriver. As I've decided to get a squeezebox duet, I'm wondering if I'll have to switch to itunes so that squeezebox will use my library info. So can anyone tell me if there's some sort of support for jriver MC12 libraries?? thanks in advance! -- NeoVibe NeoVibe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15030 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26353 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and Mac instructions
It looks like you didn't get the mplayer binary when installing it. I think you'll need some more specific instruction to get the right mplayer binary from the distribution. FRom an old post As I remarked earlier, the actual mplayer file is deeply hidden inside MPlayer OSX. Control-click to Show Package Contents. Go to Contents Resources External_Binaries, and you will see an item called mplayer. This still isn't what we want. Control-click again and once more Show Package Contents. Contents contains a folder called MacOS, which in turn contains two Unix files, mplayer and mplayer_noaltivec Try using the mplayer_noaltive version on your system but rename it to mplayer when you install it into /usr/local/bin and then try to run it from Terminal. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24480 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Playlist Manager Plugin version 3.0 for SC7.0
Phil Meyer;260571 Wrote: I just installed PM 3.0 on today's SC7 build and I'm unable to get to the settings page for this plugin. That's because there isn't a settings page! I haven't written any configurable settings! I get a HTTP 404 Page not found error from the Pluins tab settings and the plugin option is not listed under the Advanced tab pulldown. Any suggestions? I'll have to check that - there shouldn't be an option for Playlist Manager in the Advanced settings pages. Phil My bad... I should have read the Known Problems section on the Plugin page. -- tamanaco tamanaco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4620 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39371 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?
did you get our messages? I think you missed them, check above, there are two of us troubleshooting the use of the plugin. Anyone have any ideas? thanks. FW -- FatesWebb FatesWebb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14888 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20621 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Headphone safety plugin? (extend Volume Lock??)
I'm not really so concerned about a random noise blasting out or something (in three years with SBs I've not had that problem), I'm really just wanting a way to make sure the volume can't be raised beyond a certain level, whil still having replaygain working. Which, if I understand what you've said above, is actually what I'll be able to do. My SB3 is being replaced so I won't be able to test for a few days, but I'll report back soon and thanks for your efforts and the above explanation. -- bossanova808 bossanova808's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42428 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Headphone safety plugin? (extend Volume Lock??)
I just posted a new alpha for SqueezeCenter 7 that has the new option and has a web UI for changing the setting for each player. http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/slim7/VolumeLock/ Unless there's a problem (do let me know if there is!), I probably won't do any more on this (i.e., won't look at adding a Controller/Jive menu, and probably won't even update the info page screenshots) until at least after I finish my two top priorities -- porting SyncOptions to SC7, and adding an idle time setting to BottleRocket. I hope all goes well with your SB3 replacement. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42428 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
