Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?
Unfortunately the majority of the listening I do isn't on my local collection - mainly online services, primarily Napster and Sirius. That's a limitation in SBS, nothing I can change with the plugin. I think there's an enhancement request to allow for richer context menus on those services. [10-02-06 10:31:09.0614] Slim::Control::Request::execute (1918) Error: While trying to run function coderef [Plugins::Biography::Plugin::cliQuery]: [Can't call method artist on an undefined value at Plugins/Biography/Plugin.pm line 734. I'll check this. What version (Squeezebox Server, plugins) are you using? ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.72
One more thing...with a various artist CD the artist is displayed on Moose as just one of the contributors to the album adn when I double click to play the album it plays just that track. Is this a tagging issue as in sbs same album plays fully no problems. Help appreciated -- wonder boy wonder boy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15950 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69653 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?
Does the plugins have an API through which I could retrieve a menu for a certain album or artist from iPeng? -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74978 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?
Does the plugins have an API through which I could retrieve a menu for a certain album or artist from iPeng? Sure (side-effect of the Global search support I've added): albumreview get (album_id:123|album:TITLE) albumcredits get (album_id:123|album:TITLE) If you use the ID, the plugin will look up title and artist in the DB. If you only use the album title it will try to find something without the artist, but it can be anything, not only albums stored in the DB. You should get the same menu returned as when called from any of the other places. The same applies for the biography with artists: biography get (artist:ARTIST|album_id:123|track_id:123|artist_id:123) The search handler used for the Global Search will of course use the simple album and artist searches, as it should allow searching for anything, not limited to db content. ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?
Cool. So I could use that to retrofit the menus for Napster, Rhapsody, whatever. Can I get a menu-mode reply if I add menu:1? -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74978 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?
Can I get a menu-mode reply if I add menu:1? Yes. Actually I think the non-menu mode is broken... ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?
Do you have a translatable menu string?
Any way to confirm the plugin is installed?
if (Slim::Utils::Strings::getstring('PLUGIN_ALBUMREVIEW') ne
'PLUGIN_ALBUMREVIEW') ?
PLUGIN_ALBUMCREDITS
PLUGIN_BIOGRAPHY
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
Mike Meyer;515045 Wrote: Hi Nick. Yes, those instructions are what I use to take the latest plugin.pm file and put it inside the 5.8.7 version of the plugin and run it on 7.3.3. I plan on going to a newer version of SqueezeCenter soon too, just haven't found the time lately. Thanks Mike, I'm running 5.8.3 of SDT in 7.3.3, and by a look at the Change Log there are only sports-related modifications, so I'm going to give it a try. I can't wait to have my weather back! And thanks to Greg too!! -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router http://www.last.fm/user/nicketynick/ nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
Thanks for updating the plugin. The alert is a nice new feature. However, for me it shows the alert a little too frequently which I find distracting (weather/time for 2 seconds then back to alert). Is there a way to change the interval at which it is shown or an option to turn it off? (I have a NOAA receiver for weather alerts). I looked at the global and player settings and was not able to find one for it (though I might have missed it). -- Frorsteig Frorsteig's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10690 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
Mike Meyer;515045 Wrote: Hi Nick. Yes, those instructions are what I use to take the latest plugin.pm file and put it inside the 5.8.7 version of the plugin and run it on 7.3.3. I plan on going to a newer version of SqueezeCenter soon too, just haven't found the time lately. Hi Mike, I'm a little confused by something which I'm sure is pretty elementary: My SDT-plugin.par file isn't located where you indicate in instruction #3, its in Program Files/SqeezeCenter/server/plugins/superdatetime/lib (which is where it is originally dropped per the directions on the SDT website) I assume this difference doesn't matter, and I can follow the rest of the instructions as is Thanks, Nick -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router http://www.last.fm/user/nicketynick/ nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
nicketynick;515186 Wrote: Hi Mike, I'm a little confused by something which I'm sure is pretty elementary: My SDT-plugin.par file isn't located where you indicate in instruction #3, its in Program Files/SqeezeCenter/server/plugins/superdatetime/lib (which is where it is originally dropped per the directions on the SDT website) I assume this difference doesn't matter, and I can follow the rest of the instructions as is Thanks, Nick My plugin was installed via the Extension Downloader which might be the difference in location. I think the main thing is that when you add the plugin.pm file to the zip file, the path in WinZip for that file looks the same as it did before you made the change. I believe the rest of the steps should work for you. Make a copy of the par file that you are changing so you can go back to it if it doesn't. -- Mike Meyer 'My Last.fm Page' (http://www.last.fm/user/malmeyer) 'PGAScores' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47480) 'CollegeHockey' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55731) (SuperDateTime Add-ons) Mike Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1832 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.72
Interesting. Various Artists albums don't show up here at all when I select an artist. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69653 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
Aaargh, I'm still out of my depth here!!! When I download SDT 5.8.14, there is no plugin.pm file - do I need to go look somewhere else for it??? (Isn't it created when the plugin installs?? Its hidden in the .par file, right?) More help appreciated! Thanks, Nick -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router http://www.last.fm/user/nicketynick/ nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
nicketynick;515211 Wrote: Aaargh, I'm still out of my depth here!!! When I download SDT 5.8.14, there is no plugin.pm file - do I need to go look somewhere else for it??? (Isn't it created when the plugin installs?? Its hidden in the .par file, right?) More help appreciated! Thanks, Nick You would need to extract the par file from the 5.8.14 zip file and rename the par to zip. Then open that zip and extract the plugin.pm file. :) -- Mike Meyer 'My Last.fm Page' (http://www.last.fm/user/malmeyer) 'PGAScores' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47480) 'CollegeHockey' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55731) (SuperDateTime Add-ons) Mike Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1832 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC
Grizzly, 1) Download the attached 'SqueezeIR.xml.txt' file and copy it to your controller into the 'SqueezeIR\data' folder as 'SqueezeIR.xml', overwriting the original sample file that came with SqueezeIR. 2) Copy your lirc file into the same folder. I have assumed you have called it 'RC-1075.txt' (case sensitive), if not then you'll need to edit line 36 of the xml file (parameter ID=filenameRC-1075.txt/parameter) to give the real filename. You can remove the lirc files that I included with SqueezeIR if you like but leaving them on the controller won't hurt. 3) restart your controller 4) go to Settings SqueezeIR on the controller and change the 'Default Profile' to 'my amp'. You can change the name if you like by editing line 45 of the xml file (profile ID=my amp). 5) come out of the SqueezeIR settings screen. Now in every screen except SqueezeIR Settings (the applet disables itself whilst in its settings screen), point your controller at your amp and... -Pressing or holding either of the volume buttons should change the amp volume instead of the Squeezebox volume. -Pressing both volume buttons together should toggle mute on your amp instead of on the Squeezebox. -Holding both volume buttons together should do nothing at all. -Holding the pause button should turn your amp off AND stop the squeezebox playing. -Pressing or Holding the play button should turn your amp on AND start the squeezebox playing. -All other buttons should remain unaffected by SqueezeIR. If you do edit your xml file, remember to either restart the controller or go to SqueezeIR Settings Reload Configuration afterwards to make the changes active. I suggest you do at least look at the xml even if you don't edit it as it should be clearer now as to how it works. I've provided some annotations in there to help you out in understanding it. If for some reason it doesn't work then send me the controller's log file (var\log\messages) to check that everything's ok with the applet (I may have made a typo in the xml). If all looks ok and it still doesn't work then it may be the lirc-can't-do-denon issue in which case we'll need to revamp the remotes part of your xml file. +---+ |Filename: SqueezeIR.xml.txt| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9258| +---+ -- indifference_engine indifference_engine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66795 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC
Hiya, Thanks for the response, I had a look at the posts you recommended and even copied it and upload (I new it wouldn't work) but it has given me a better understanding. just got back and seen your reply which I will now try and report back. One question that popped into my head whilst reading the posts - you mention the blaster pluggin for the boom. Would this be a way of decoding the denon remote to find the correct values if the lirc file doesn't work? Off to try your file and will report back. Thanks -- Grizzly Grizzly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21095 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66795 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC
Grizzly;515220 Wrote: One question that popped into my head whilst reading the posts - you mention the blaster pluggin for the boom. Would this be a way of decoding the denon remote to find the correct values if the lirc file doesn't work? Yes, the irBlaster plugin can create a lirc file that works with SqueezeIR by recording the output from your real remote via a boom (I think) or SB3 (definately). The lirc files generated are in the raw format so they're not pretty to look at but that doesn't matter. -- indifference_engine indifference_engine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66795 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
I expected that's how it would work. Thanks for providing the .pm file though!! I think I managed to replace it properly in the zip file, and then renamed it to par I'll know in a second here if everything is working again. Hey-looks like I'm in business!! Something seems a little funky with the highs lows (says low when it should say high), but that may just be a setting or something. Thanks! -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router http://www.last.fm/user/nicketynick/ nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC
Hiya, Bad news - It didn't control the Denon, but it did disable the volume from the Duet receiver. So I assume something must be happening. I have attached the messages file. I also took your advice had a look at the XML and it seems a lot clearer now. So If you think averything is 'working' and that I just have the wrong lirc file I will firstly try some other denon files and then have a look around. The DM 37 has been a popular mini system (still Current). Can you advice on where I should look to get a lirc file created - I do have the remote. once again thans for the great support. ps. Had to change the file extension to .doc to get around the file size max. hope this is acceptable +---+ |Filename: messages.doc | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9259| +---+ -- Grizzly Grizzly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21095 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66795 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC
The messages file looks good and the fact that your volume buttons got disabled proves SqueezeIR is running. I guess therefore the lirc file is the wrong one. You could try working through the files on the lirc database until you find one that works (remember to edit the xml file to match the names of the commands etc) but that's going to be a long, boring job. Another option (if you've got an SB3 or Boom) is to learn the commands using irBlaster to create your own lirc file. I have a different Denon micro-system that strangely does not use the Denon protocol so I guess I could send you the codes from that to try. Then there's another Denon owner in the thread who has got his working so could you try this xml (for volume up only atm)? PS No lirc file is required for this code. Code: SqueezeIR remotes remote ID=DENON protocolDENON/protocol parameters parameter ID=DEVICE6/parameter parameters commands command ID=VOL+value178/value/command /commands /remote /remotes profiles profile ID=my amp keys key ID=VOLUME_UP events event ID=press overridetrue/override actions action order=1 remoteDENON/remote commandVOL+/command /action /actions /event event ID=hold overridetrue/override actions action order=1 remoteDENON/remote commandVOL+/command /action /actions /event /events /key /keys /profile /profiles /SqueezeIR Other than that I'm out of ideas I'm afraid. Have you tried to contact Denon? -- indifference_engine indifference_engine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66795 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
BPA, for whatever it's worth, I want to thank you for genuinely caring about softsqueeze. There are more people than you could ever imagine that use it... not the way you imagine though. Many of us use your softsqueze.jar and use our own GUI frontend. Softsqueeze.jar doesnt know the difference.. just depending on it's registry settings. There is an issue I have spent hours on trying to get to the bottom of (related to my previous questions). I ONLY use your latest softsqueeze.jar on multiple clients (some with the traditional old fashioned interface, some with the very advanced UI (much nicer than even squeezeplay). I dont use any other version of the jar file. As you know, there are some information that softsqueeze.jarmysqyeezebox.com do not pass between eachother. The most obvious is mysqueezebox.com doesnt display which client is active; even if music is being proxied from the music service to the client. Also, favorites aren not synched. Interestingly, some things are updated. There is this very unusual bug related to the mysqueezebox.com backend which is driving me nuts; which maybe you might know what's going on... even if its a wild guess with no way to fix it. Have you see this post on the forum? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71255 It seems that there are people (besides me) who are complaining that mysqueezebox.com (after Squeezecenter 7.3 was introduced) would unexpectedly give the errors You are not authorized (for Sirius Radio) and You are logged in in another location (for Slacker). When there are NOT other players signed on using the same account. I am very sure this is caused by mysqueezebox.com no managing it's players properly. It leaves ghost/stray audio connections lingering around to the Internet Music Service provider; even though the player has obviously stopped it's audio connection. This is just a guess (and I might be completely wrong), but I think that softsqueze.jar sometime resets it's audio stream due to some kind of hickup which causes mysqyeezebox.com to think there are now two simultaneous logins; hence, telling the music provider there are two logins. If you have a better guess, please let me know. If you think my guess could be a valid possibility, what precautions can I take to prevent these error messages. Here is a ubBIG HINT/b/u, this issue seems to only occur during local playback (softsqueeze.jar) on the same machine as the squeezebox server. It doesnt make a difference if I use proxied or direct connection. I have increased the network buffer to 5 seconds and timeout to 10 seconds. Maybe, I should increase the buffer even more? If there's a way to add code to softsqueeze.jar to communicate player status and possibly other items to mysqueeebox server; hence eventually to mysqueezebox.com, this might increase reliability under certain circumstances; and, at the same time keep softsqueeze.jar fully featured. Communicating status at the very least might help a great deal. Maybe there are technological limitations that are just not feasible. However, I thought I would at least mention this in case some of these ideas might be possible by someone smart like you. -- mkanet mkanet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?
While you guys are solving the world's problems here I'll answer the
original question on which version I'm using... ;-)
Version: 7.4.1 - r28947 @ Tue Oct 20 08:13:15 PDT 2009
The error is definitely when I ran the Biography link from the Sirius
plugin, though, so don't spend any time on it. It was probably sending
a blank/null string to your plugin and that's why it failed...
It would be really cool if there was a way to grab artist/song info
from the online services - the Biography would be addicting for me to
look up artist info for new music I hear when it comes across...
Thanks for all the work you guys do!
sped
mherger;515155 Wrote:
Do you have a translatable menu string?
Any way to confirm the plugin is installed?
if (Slim::Utils::Strings::getstring('PLUGIN_ALBUMREVIEW') ne
'PLUGIN_ALBUMREVIEW') ?
PLUGIN_ALBUMCREDITS
PLUGIN_BIOGRAPHY
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
It has been fixed! Or, at least, it is working again! Thanks, guys! -- fsoares fsoares's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4199 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.72
I am new to Moose, and think it is awesomely fast and easy to use. I have Moose 0.72 running on a Windows 7 machine. The Moose.exe file is on a folder on the Desktop. My music collection consists of about 1500 albums. Sorry to say I'm having a problem getting the cover art scan feature to populate the thumbs folder. Following each music database scan, a cover art scan takes place, but no cover art thumbs show up in the thumbs folder. The only document in the folder is the hues.hues file. My cover art files are all named cover.jpg and they vary in size from about 100 x 100 pixels to 400 x 400 pixels. Can anybody suggest a solution? Thanks much. -- lobstah lobstah's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32741 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69653 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBC Radio (Beta) for Radio/Touch (7.5 only)
Triode / bpa - with this applet, will the Radio be able to access BBC Listen Again directly, even in the event that there is no local version of SBS and mysb.com is down? -- majones majones's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74857 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.72
usch;515206 Wrote: Interesting. Various Artists albums don't show up here at all when I select an artist. It's very bizarre, in cover chooser if I hover over a cover for various artist comilation albums it lists just one artist and when I hit play just plays one track. Retagged all various albums so album artist is various artists but to no avail, think I may give up. Clearly interpreting tags differently to sbs -- wonder boy wonder boy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15950 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69653 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBC Radio (Beta) for Radio/Touch (7.5 only)
No - as the current firmware needs a server (local or MySB.com) to control playback. The applet allows all of the stream menus to be done on the player but it still relies on the server. (It would probably be possible to make it entirely stand alone in the applet, but this would mean more work and would not integrate well with other menus which come from the server.) -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74857 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] lyrics in ipeng?
hey, have U already found a nice mass-tagger? :) -- vitoruch vitoruch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13918 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70347 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Napster not streaming some albums ?
I get this all the time as well (menu tries to move to the right but fails) - but I just assumed that it was because the album wasn't available for streaming. I guess I never went back to the Napster Web player to see if that was indeed the case. Next time I run into it I'll look it up on the website and see if it plays there and report back... darbyweb;510287 Wrote: Apologies if this has been asked before - i've searched and couldnt see an answer. Napster is working great on my Duets, except i keep finding albums that dont stream. This weekend i find NO albums by the Lostprophets play - though they do in the Napster webbrowser. One single played but no albums. Also Now Thats What i Call Music 74 doesnt play on Duet. I dont get any errors, just when i select a track the screen jumps to right a little bit and then back again. Can anyone else confirm that they have the same issues with these albums, and if possible why this is happening ?? Was really looking forward to listening to the new 'prophets album Thanks Dean. -- spedinfargo spedinfargo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74494 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Napster Playlists and shuffle
Just a follow-up: I can recreate the error using the Controller to start a Napster playlist... although I can go back and shuffle through my shuffle settings back to shuffle song after starting the playlist and the rest of the songs shuffle for me. whew I think one poster already mentioned this. On the Radio in the nursery, it still seems to work as expected - at least when I start the playlist from one of the preset buttons - I'm not sure if it happens when I go through the Napster app though (I'll test that tonight). -- spedinfargo spedinfargo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73603 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
mbonsack;513797 Wrote: Often when viewing sports scores, I'd like to tune into the game. It would be great if TV/radio availability could be reported on line 1, like: College Basketball (ESPN2) Illini @ NW 5:30p and so forth for each game displayed. If there's no TV/radio you could either leave it blank or state (No TV/radio). What do you all think? This is cool! Great idea mbonsack. Thanks for implementing it Greg. -- BoomX2 BoomX2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
As I said before I cannot test these services as they are not available to me. Softsqueeze is not my code - I just do some basic maintenance on it to keep it ticking over until SqueezePlay is ready (which is taking longer than expected). Changing Softsqueeze to add some additional status would probably require changes in SBS which I cannot do so it is unlikely. Spoftsqueeze is a strange beast, within SBS it is subclassed of a Transporter model as it was used to test new products graphics but its audio/network is not quite an SB2 so it has a minimal implementation of the slimproto protocol especially since changes in 7.3. Your best bet would be to isolate the problem. I think you need to record sessions (probably on both sides of local SBS) using something like wireshark (was Ethereal). Note time when recording started and the time when the problem occur - examine the recording forensically at the problem timepoint and go backwards. I've done this a number of times tracking rare protocol events which required recordings of many hours - it is tedious but that is what it will require. From your description, I think the problem could be associated with a TCP reset which is used to clear half-open TCP connection but often still ends with a half open connection but stuck. Applications need to look for the ECONNRESET error but often with don't block on read on a TCP socket - the Reset error code is overlooked as code assumes there is no data to read. I think there could be issues handling ECONNRESET in a proxy configuration (e.g. should a RESET be propagated or absorbed or link closed by the proxy). To get started, I suggest looking at the Reset count in the TCP connection statistics (e.g. netstat -s) on both sides of the SBS and from both ends (i.e. monitor 4 sets of counts). The Reset count usually only increment at beginning and end of connections. See if Reset count is increment around the time you have a hiccough in your audio. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
This is very helpful advice. Yes, I have a feeling this issue I'm seeing is related to a specific machine; which happens to be my squeezebox server as well. I did install a TCP/IP hack to increase the limit of TCPIIP connections since I use this machine for several different TCP/IP related services. However,that should help things, but make things worse. Ever since I added secondary accounts to slacker and sirius radio on mysqueezebox.com, I noticed the problem happens much less frequeently (it used to be sometimes every 5 minutes.. now its every 45 minutes - 1 hour)...even longer if I dont do anything TCP/IP related. I guess I could try to increase the buffer to a very high value; including the timeout to see what kind of affect it has. The condition I'm pointing out is definitely not that bad; and in fact, works great. However, I have so many internet services running on this machine, you probably wouldnt believe it... I have 12 TV tuners on this machine serving through the internet, ASP.net based apps, FTP, and many other TCP/IP based services. The good news is I inreased the reliabilty considerably by adding 2 accounts (one for each client). I dont know why that helped, but there's not question that it did. I will also take a closer look at tcp/ip based activity using my favorite utility TCPView; which works okay. Thank you for your support for this product with minor enhancements. I dont expect any major changes. As long as logitech doesnt abandon their customers who bought the classic squeezebox hardware devices, I think us softsqueeze users will be fine. bpa;515339 Wrote: As I said before I cannot test these services as they are not available to me. Softsqueeze is not my code - I just do some basic maintenance on it to keep it ticking over until SqueezePlay is ready (which is taking longer than expected). Changing Softsqueeze to add some additional status would probably require changes in SBS which I cannot do so it is unlikely. Spoftsqueeze is a strange beast, within SBS it is subclassed of a Transporter model as it was used to test new products graphics but its audio/network is not quite an SB2 so it has a minimal implementation of the slimproto protocol especially since changes in 7.3. Your best bet would be to isolate the problem. I think you need to record sessions (probably on both sides of local SBS) using something like wireshark (was Ethereal). Note time when recording started and the time when the problem occur - examine the recording forensically at the problem timepoint and go backwards. I've done this a number of times tracking rare protocol events which required recordings of many hours - it is tedious but that is what it will require. From your description, I think the problem could be associated with a TCP reset which is used to clear half-open TCP connection but often still ends with a half open connection but stuck. Applications need to look for the ECONNRESET error but often with don't block on read on a TCP socket - the Reset error code is overlooked as code assumes there is no data to read. I think there could be issues handling ECONNRESET in a proxy configuration (e.g. should a RESET be propagated or absorbed or link closed by the proxy). To get started, I suggest looking at the Reset count in the TCP connection statistics (e.g. netstat -s) on both sides of the SBS and from both ends (i.e. monitor 4 sets of counts). The Reset count usually only increment at beginning and end of connections. See if Reset count is increment around the time you have a hiccough in your audio. -- mkanet mkanet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
One scenario for TCP Reset happens with media players which don't ack TCP packets until they have been processed ready to play. If you have large no. of TCP buffers then many packets will have been received but not acked - if you are using a high compressions (e.g. slow speed mP3) or big window size (e.g. Satellite link) then the time taken to play the internal buffer is longer than the TCP timeout on unacked packets. The problem with TCP connection reset usually happens when users increase the number of buffers and/or increase TCP WIndows size (typically on satellite connections) to optimise the throughput. This is fine for ftp or HTTP - disaster for media. To see if this is your problem you need to check how many packets are unacked when you pause a stream and if you keep stream paused for over 3 minutes (typical TCP timeout) does it reset. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
SDT v.5.8.14 running well on my Thecus N5200 w/ 7.4.1. thanks again for the updates to get us back to full functionality. -- twylie Thecus N5200 - transporter - Krell KRC2 - 4 x nuforce 8b - Von Schweikert VR-4 Gen III Thecus N5200 - SB3 - Monarchy DIP - Monarchy Super DIP - Monarchy 18b - AES 845 monos - Sonus Faber Concertos / Audio Physic Sparks Thecus N5200 - SB3 - Russound CAV6.6 and CAM6.6 - whole house audio twylie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=956 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
Okay BPA I have a feeling this might be easier than you thought... below, are the two utilities I used to manipulate default Vista TCP/IP behavior. I would like to know what's safe and what's not. The feature I use most is disabling the ridiculously low default limit of TCP/IP connections on my server. So which tweaks can I keep and which one seems like might be the reason I'm having these issues? http://mka.net/SG_Vista_TcpIp_patch.rar (most popular tcp/ip Vista performance tweak) http://mka.net/Half-open_limit_fix_3.1.rar (most popular Vista connection limit remover) ---I really use this! bpa;515352 Wrote: One scenario for TCP Reset happens with media players which don't ack TCP packets until they have been processed ready to play. If you have large no. of TCP buffers then many packets will have been received but not acked - if you are using a high compressions (e.g. slow speed mP3) or big window size (e.g. Satellite link) then the time taken to play the internal buffer is longer than the TCP timeout on unacked packets. The problem with TCP connection reset usually happens when users increase the number of buffers and/or increase TCP WIndows size (typically on satellite connections) to optimise the throughput. This is fine for ftp or HTTP - disaster for media. To see if this is your problem you need to check how many packets are unacked when you pause a stream and if you keep stream paused for over 3 minutes (typical TCP timeout) does it reset. -- mkanet mkanet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
Frorsteig;515171 Wrote: Thanks for updating the plugin. The alert is a nice new feature. However, for me it shows the alert a little too frequently which I find distracting (weather/time for a few seconds then back to alert). Is there a way to change the interval at which it is shown or an option to turn it off? (I have a NOAA receiver for weather alerts). I looked at the global and player settings and was not able to find one for it (though I might have missed it). Do you display any sports scores or just the time/weather. The weather alert is treated just like a sports score item. As such you can control how many seconds the time is shown before it will show the weather alert/sports scores with the PLUGIN level (not player) SDP setting section: You can configure how many seconds the time is shown before cycling display information for when games are active or upcoming/complete. Setting: Upcoming/Complete Interval. Thanks -Greg -- GoCubs GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
mbonsack;515058 Wrote: Here's my log from a recent (5.8.14) infinite star event that happened this evening (about 6:30 PST) on 2/7/10. [10-02-07 11:13:40.0182] Plugins::SuperDateTime::Plugin::gotErrorViaHTTP (5683) error getting http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/scoreboard [10-02-07 11:13:40.0187] Plugins::SuperDateTime::Plugin::gotErrorViaHTTP (5684) Timed out waiting for data [10-02-07 18:29:22.9330] Slim::Networking::IO::Select::__ANON__ (146) Error: Select task failed calling Slim::Networking::Async::HTTP::_http_read_body: Can't call method content_list on an undefined value at /tmp/par-squeezeboxserver/cache-4bf510a8f17b04a788ee30e0fe7d37ab7e49ac9b/e2108727.pm line 4592. ; fh=Slim::Networking::Async::Socket::HTTP=GLOB(0xda0b06c) Thanks again for all of your hard work. It's a shame the parsing is so difficult and there is no defined API for any of these sites. -mark Ahhh... that looks like ESPN was the culprit. I'll likely have to add some error trapping like I did for weather.com to prevent these. -Greg -- GoCubs GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
You really need to put some effort into determining the problem rather than tweaking parameters. The perf tweak looks most likely to start the TCP problems due to unacked packets if that is the prblem you are having. A problem with these tweaks - the method to undo the changes is often flawed and unless you have your initial registry settings you cannot be sure that things have been reset. With XP I found some parameters behaved different if they were deleted compared to their default value. I don't know what the Half-open_limit_fix_3.1.rar does since it is a .exe and it needs a before and after system snapshot to see what is changed. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
http://half-open.com/ explains it in a very short and precise description (better than what I can say; which isn't registry based. It just replaces the tcpip.sys file. The other registry based tweaks contain an exact copy of the vista defaults (I even double checked before applying them; hence, it has an option to put the default registry settings back. I just thought Id mentioned these two tweaks in case something stood out to you very obviously (after taking a quick look at what they do). They are two of the most popular TCP/IP mods which many people use... which didnt affect me when I used squeezecenter 7.2.1 and earlier (with respective backend). Maybe just a couple of minutes of your time might be all it takes to see soemthing that looks very bad. If nothing looks obvious, no worries. I didnt think it would hurt to ask. bpa;515358 Wrote: You really need to put some effort into determining the problem rather than tweaking parameters. The perf tweak looks most likely to start the TCP problems due to unacked packets if that is the prblem you are having. A problem with these tweaks - the method to undo the changes is often flawed and unless you have your initial registry settings you cannot be sure that things have been reset. With XP I found some parameters behaved different if they were deleted compared to their default value. I don't know what the Half-open_limit_fix_3.1.rar does since it is a .exe and it needs a before and after system snapshot to see what is changed. -- mkanet mkanet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
GoCubs;515356 Wrote: Do you display any sports scores or just the time/weather. The weather alert is treated just like a sports score item. As such you can control how many seconds the time is shown before it will show the weather alert/sports scores with the PLUGIN level (not player) SDP setting section: You can configure how many seconds the time is shown before cycling display information for when games are active or upcoming/complete. Setting: Upcoming/Complete Interval. Thanks -Greg I have not used it to display sports scores, only weather. Thanks for the info. -- Frorsteig Frorsteig's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10690 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver
GoCubs;515356 Wrote: Do you display any sports scores or just the time/weather. The weather alert is treated just like a sports score item. As such you can control how many seconds the time is shown before it will show the weather alert/sports scores with the PLUGIN level (not player) SDP setting section: You can configure how many seconds the time is shown before cycling display information for when games are active or upcoming/complete. Setting: Upcoming/Complete Interval. Thanks -Greg How about if I want to turn off the alert feature altogether? I just want the time and weather to be displayed all the time, never switching to the alert display. -- PRGeno PRGeno's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=718 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
