Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Ratings Light
afriend wrote: > The EXTURL in m3u playlists should start with -file:///-, even on > Windows I think. The (other) file path below is OS specific I think. > I've made some adjustements but I can't test them on Windows (no Windows > PC or license). > So please download and -manually- install the latest GitHub version > (2.0.9) (instructions on the GitHub page) and test the *export* and > *backup/restore* features. > > BTW I wouldn't use Word macros. In my experience such programs often add > their own control characters which you don't want in playlist files. If > you really needed some kind of automated file path rewriting you could > try a script (if that's a thing on Windows) or some plain text editor > with a regex capable search/replace function. The new version exported Windows compatible file paths. Wonderful! Thank you so much. Now I can rate tracks listening anywhere and update the actual RATING tag periodically at a convenient time when tinkering with the library :cool: There is no equivalent of what this community has created - a dream jukebox! Many thanks to the handful of individuals who are willing to share the fruits of their skill and labor with the likes of me who can only copy and paste their ideas. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113344 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Ratings Light
Thank you for providing a very useful tool. I have been looking for a way to use exported ratings in a Windows tagging program like MP3Tag or Mediamonkey for a long time. The exported text files,however, have UNIX paths which these programs cannot handle. Playlists saved from LMS running on windows work fine. Is it possible to have the plugin follow the filepath convention being used by LMS itself or have an export setting for UNIX/Windows in the plugin? As an alternative, any suggestion for an easy m3u converter would be great. As a last resort, maybe I can create a macro in MS Word. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113344 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP custom Tags. Looking for mmmexec.exe
mamema wrote: > doesn't have this file. > But i'm using this solution https://www.spicefly.com/ which might > achieve what you are looking for. Thanks. I do use Sugarcube. Looking to create some MIP filters based on extended tag fields. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115537 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP custom Tags. Looking for mmmexec.exe
I just discovered from this old post in MP3Tag forums that it is possible to add to the inbuilt tags in MusicIP. https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-get-bpm-tory-tlan-into-musicip-mixer-using-mp3tag/7314 It would be very helpful to use tags like MOOD and OCCASION to create some filters in MIP. However I have been unable to find the necessary helper tool - mmmexec.exe anywhere. Would appreciate any help in getting this tool. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115537 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: Announce: Spicefly SugarCube Version 2.03 � (Automatic MusicIP DJ) for 7.x
After experimenting for many weeks, this is how I tweak Sugarcube. Hope it saves someone some effort. -Trackstat plugin for play counts and dynamic ratings -Custom Scan plugin for MusicIP export. This is not needed by sugarcube but helps make static playlists, for whatever purpose, using MusicIP mixer (Windows only) -I have needed MusicIP plugin to enable communication between MIP and LMS. Nothing to do with Sugarcube. -Set up a primary filter to exclude what you never want. e.g. Genre contains-Speech, Christmas, Explicit etc. Ratings-*, ** etc. File-Path to any undesired folder -Use this filter as the first criterion for any more needed filters -If no recipe is employed, MIP suggestions are controlled by the filter, Mix Style and Mix Variety in the Player Sugarcube settings. Style seems to be overlap of genres and variety seems to be the closeness of the fingerprint. Go up on Style if abrupt genre shifts bother you. Go up on Variety to dilute the MIP fingerprint match. -The number of tracks requested is in Sugarcube Plugin settings. Sugarcube using Trackstat will then select a track from this list based on past plays and ratings. The MIP suggestions are in order of closeness of match. If the total music collection is large and the request is for many tracks, Sugarcube might get very far from the best MIP suggestions because of stats. One can control that by limiting the number of tracks requested. -Net results are very dependent on the size of the music library and stats. After using for about 2 months, Im hardly seeing the best tracks in my favorite genres but expect them to return back after Ive played or skipped (decreases rating in my setup) mediocre tracks With the above setup, I have discovered the best way ever to effortlessly use my library fully. All of that has been made possible by the many wonderful developers and advanced users in these forums. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73988 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread
pippin wrote: > Have you tried the small one? > > > Yea, that would require a completely separate player, though. > The way iPeng playback works is that it's a player on your server setup > and that means it's controlled by the server. That includes all of the > streaming and if you try to stream too far ahead the server can get > confused. > That's why using the small buffer can actually give you better results > if you have a decent connection. > > I assume you also did try to set the bitrate limiting for cellular to > "off"? These days, bitrates usually are no longer an issue but > transcoding on the server side could be. I did try both buffer sizes and and no bitrate limiting. Since others are able to use the iPeng player successfully over VPN, it is something peculiar to my setup. Since the problem is more in a moving car, it has something to do with connectivity. Since I have no difficulty streaming smoothly to other applications and the problem is exaggerated if a co traveler attempts a search, it suggests that iPeng player is more dependent on a consistently good two way connection and a responsive server. Your explanation that iPeng is controlled by the server then leads me to the conclusion that I need to improve the performance of LMS at home. Thank you so much for answering and keeping this wonderful system alive. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LmsUpdate and LmsRepack - Synology 8.0.* packages
Ensign wrote: > I'm new to docker and trying to get my head around it. Your instructions > on the LMS worked great on my DS220+ and my boombox sees the server, but > with no music available. I feel I've done something silly, but I can't > see what. Using the windows LMS I would rescan the files and all would > be good, any suggestion what I need to do here. > Many thanks again... I was in the same situation just a couple of months back and used the same instructions and added a little. Here is a summary. Check folder permissions and mappings again. You can always delete the container and start from scratch. File Station > 'Music' folder Read permission to 'Everyone'; 'Playlists' folder Read/Write permission to 'Everyone' Package center. Install Docker on your synology Open Docker > Registry > Serch for lmscommunity/logitechmediaserver. Download lmscommunity/logitechmediaserver. Choose version. Wait for download Click on image side tab, select lmscommunity image and click launch You can name and set cpu priority and max memory allocation Advanced settings > Enable autostart Volume tab>Map your music, playlists and where LMS config file will be stored /docker/lms:/config:rw /music:/music:ro /playlists:/playlist:rw Network tab > Use the same network as Docker Host (left bottom Environment tab>TZ=America/New_York *** Replace with your own timezone. Apply>Next>Apply Find LMS on http://IP address:9000/ guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111876 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread
iPeng player on an iPhone 12 stutters a lot or sometimes suddenly kills playback with a loud sound in a moving car while fully connected to a 5G or LTE network. I connect through a self hosted split tunnel OpenVPN connection. It seems to work fine even over a weak connection in one spot. Bitrate limiting settings don't make any difference, FLACs and 128 bit mp3s both stutter. Playback buffer is large (default). I have no problems streaming other files over the same VPN connection - iSub streams audio flawlessly from a subsonic server, VLC player plays back video files without issue. I have tried LMS hosted over both a Synology NAS and a PC with sufficient resources without improvement. I do have MusicIP tags, but not images, written into the files, in case the size of tags matters. I would love to use iPeng to take advantage of Sugarcube/MusicIP auto queuing but so far it has proved unusable for longer than 20-30 mins. I assume the player reads ahead and attempts to cache the next queued song but do not see any way to manually download anything to the phone. A desirable feature, if feasible, could be caching an entire playlist to the phone before starting the drive. To have iPeng player work freestanding with just cached data without any connection to LMS would be ideal but I have seen posts rejecting that possibility. I'd love access to cached music with skeletal info in an "offline mode" without the full power of the database. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spicefly SugarCube - DSTM and Google Traffic
guptaas wrote: > Thank you so much for pointing out the obvious that I missed - The > Windows version doesn't care that an m3lib file refers to song paths > that lead nowhere as long as one doesn't do any operations on the music > files themselves! I was able to make and save a filter back to the > Synology headless MIP. > > Now I need to figure out why no ratings are visible in this file. They > are an important part of desired Filters. Trackstat and Custom Scan > plugins are installed and working. LMS Server log in debug mode for > 'Custom Scan' revealed an inability to write to MusicIP. Made a musicip > folder inside the LMS /config folder inheriting all permissions from the > parent and then reinstalled MusicIP, mapping that folder as > /home/musicip. This stopped any export errors. Stopped headless MusicIP > to save everything to default.m3lib before opening it in Windows. > However that default.m3lib shows no ratings in windows MusicIP Mixer. > Stumped again. But I know I'll get it working one way or another. Success. The problems was with permissions to write to default.m3lib. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112703 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spicefly SugarCube - DSTM and Google Traffic
cparker wrote: > If you are creating filters using the Windows MIP version 1.96b then you > can't copy that m3lib file to Linux and preserve the filters as far as I > know, as the Windows version 1.96 had a difference cache structure to > the Linux release. > > If you use the Windows MIP 1.8.1b version I understand it works ok, then > just copying the m3lib file to Linux, you need to restart the service to > re-read the file or refresh the cache by going to the host:10002 in a > web browser and clicking the refresh cache button. The filters should > then be exposed and visible in the LMS/SC Player page. > > You've probably already seen it but page here about filters, what kind > of filters are you creating that are tied to paths? I've used them to > group a number of genres together but these are then linked via the mp3 > tags so not tied to a physical path. > > https://www.spicefly.com/article.php?page=musicip-filters > > Moods I have no idea unfortunately, I don't have much in the way of > saved documentation and I never found any good detailed explanations of > how they should work anywhere. > > If you need to step down from MIP 1.96b to 1.81b ensure you have a > backup of the m3lib file (in case you need to go back again) and ensure > you have also saved the tags into the music files (archive analysis > setting in MIP) and check they are using mp3tag. MIP will need to > rescan and read the fingerprints to build the m3lib file and if they are > not saved in the music file it will have to rescan and re-fingerprint > your collection from scratch which would suck Thank you so much for pointing out the obvious that I missed - The Windows version doesn't care that an m3lib file refers to song paths that lead nowhere as long as one doesn't do any operations on the music files themselves! I was able to make and save a filter back to the Synology headless MIP. Now I need to figure out why no ratings are visible in this file. They are an important part of desired Filters. Trackstat and Custom Scan plugins are installed and working. LMS Server log in debug mode for 'Custom Scan' revealed an inability to write to MusicIP. Made a musicip folder inside the LMS /config folder inheriting all permissions from the parent and then reinstalled MusicIP, mapping that folder as /home/musicip. This stopped any export errors. Stopped headless MusicIP to save everything to default.m3lib before opening it in Windows. However that default.m3lib shows no ratings in windows MusicIP Mixer. Stumped again. But I know I'll get it working one way or another. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112703 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spicefly SugarCube - DSTM and Google Traffic
Thank you very much for making things a bit clearer. I cant wait to use this tool to rediscover neglected tracks. Another frustration is the inability to pass filters generated on a windows machine to headless MIP and LMS running on docker/Synolgy NAS. I have googled the subject extensively, but cant find a way to share/copy a meaningful autoload.m3lib. The music folder is prepared on the windows machine and is mirrored nightly to the Synolgy. I can use the local copy or a mounted NAS folder for MusicIP mixer on Windows but have no mechanism to deal with the drive letter and perhaps the back slashes in the Windows path. As an alternative, I can easily generate m3us with correct Unix paths from Mediamonkey. Is it possible to - 1) Exclude all tracks in an m3u from Sugarcube mixes guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112703 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: Announce: Spicefly SugarCube Version 2.03 � (Automatic MusicIP DJ) for 7.x
cparker wrote: > Auto-mix will use the settings you specify under the Player Settings > menu, its not related to the playing track. Its a preconfigured fast > play something and go method. > > 35391 > > If you want to use the current playing track as a seed, enable "Dynamic > Queuing" under Player Settings menu and it will automatically queue the > next track for you but only if you are at the end of the playlist, using > the last track in the playlist as the seed, otherwise it will stay > quiet. > > 35392 > > > > The ratings used are TrackStat ratings as used across LMS, nothing to do > with MusicIP ratings. You need to have installed TrackStat for this to > work, they basically sort the results and then pick the track so its a > bias tweak. > > Not sure if that covers all your queries, feel free to reply here, DM or > Email me. SC has obviously had organic growth over the years so I guess > has assumed knowledge, I try to lay it out clearly and e.g. ratings are > under the section marked TrackStat. But if you are new to LMS/MusicIP > it can be confusing, so happy to help and add further information to my > website, if any knowledge gaps just let me know. > > btw the latest thread is here for v5, but people like the v2.03 thread > for some reason, keyword search magic I guess :) > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?112703-Announce-Spicefly-SugarCube-DSTM-and-Google-Traffic Thank you very much for making things a bit clearer. I cant wait to use this tool to rediscover neglected tracks. Will post to the correct thread with further queries. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73988 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: Announce: Spicefly SugarCube Version 2.03 � (Automatic MusicIP DJ) for 7.x
After investing a lot of effort over many days, I have a large library fingerprinted, a headless musicIP & LMS working on a Docker/Synolgy NAS and love how musicIP comes up with an amazing sequence. Sugarcube succeeds in taking it a step further but has been very- frustrating in consistency-. Its simply amazing to see a perfect endless list which can be kept going for 2-3 days. However, without any change in settings, the same seed will lead to a list which has no connection whatsoever to the seed the next time around. GUI for headless musicIP shows no problem. Sugarcube Live view shows no communication problem but has a randomly selected set which is related to itself but not the seed. Attempted playing with SC settings for the player without any success. The standard MusicIP app works just fine. This leads to the second difficulty. There is -little information available on the actual meaning of the buttons-. I have spent days reading every single page on the Spicefly site. Am I missing a manual right in front of my nose? Simple example - I can't make sense of the drop down menu for Track Ratings and what to expect between Disabled/lowest/highest when I can insert <2 right below it. 35373 I really don't want to give up on a wonderful way to use music laboriously collected over decades. I'm sure this has been resolved because the last discussions seem to be back in 2012, so I have something wrong going on. This is all I think I have done inside LMS: - Exported stats from CustomScan to musicIP for ratings. Successful in including unrated songs as rating of 3. - Changes in SC Plugin Settings: Enabled TrackStat and 'Christmas' block - Changes in Player based SC settings: 'Always blocked artist' changed to 'None', tried back and forth 'Mix by Song/Album', blocked tracks rated < 2 +---+ |Filename: Untitled.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35373| +---+ guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73988 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LMS on New Synology DS220+
Paul Webster wrote: > I don't remember if it is a 8.1.2 or 8.2 feature ... but enable "allow > unsupported plugins" in the list of plugins and you should see many of > the ones that you want are there. > Since you managed to get Docker working with 8.1 ... then you might as > well move to 8.2 anyway! I deleted my post almost immediately because I figured out how to get LMS to see plug-in files. You were quick. Thank you. This community is wonderful. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114750 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LMS on New Synology DS220+
Trying the Docker version now using Perl 5.24.0-0074 and Logitech Media Server Version: 8.1.2. Most of Erland's plugins were missing after adding the correct repository. Downloaded them from http://downloads.isaksson.info. Tinkered around and discovered that if I make a directory called Plugins under config/cache and copy the plugins there, they get installed. The problem now is with giving these plugins correct working folders for their definitions and templates. All Playlist definitions directory fields were prefilled with my Playlists directory listed as "/music/Playlists" and nothing in the Playlist templates directory field. I filled those with "/music/Playlists" as well. It seems the plugins are unable to write to that folder. This folder was mapped "/music/Playlists:/playlist:rw" during the package install. However, I am able to browse to the original name "Playlists" in the plugin settings under the 'Advanced' tab. I added "Everybody" and gave full Read/Write Permissions in File Station to this folder. No success. I was able to use all these plugins in LMS 7.7.6 without Docker and forum discussions suggest LMS versions prior to 8.0 allow these plugins to work fine with subsequent upgrading of LMS. I haven't figured out where to get an older version and how to install it in Docker. Would appreciate any help with either approach - fix 8.1.2 install or a way to roll back to 7.9 in Docker. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114750 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LMS on New Synology DS220+
Thank you. I'll probably do that in the second round. Since its my first NAS, I'm sure very soon I'll set it up again from scratch after learning about various pitfalls. There are many other background tasks I need to direct away from a PC to this little device. Each is going to be a mini challenge. However an ancient tool doesn't bother me as long as its not a security hole. I'm not feature hungry and actually love version 7.5.4 the most. Its a reliable old friend. Spotify was the sole reason to update which proved to be of little value to me. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114750 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LMS on New Synology DS220+
I was able to find x86_64 versions for Perl 5.24.0-0074 and LMS 7.7.6-116. Installed successfully without any container but not tested on players yet. File copying will need some time! Auto update of packages is disabled. I hope this approach doesn't create some other problem. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114750 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LMS on New Synology DS220+
Thank you so much. New things to learn. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114750 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] LMS on New Synology DS220+
Is it possible to install any version of LMS on a new Synology DS220+ running DSM 6.2.4-25556? I understand there is no longer an official package from Synology. I can't find a package that can be installed using workarounds either. Have only used PC's for LMS so far with no experience of Synology. Docker, PERL etc. are all new to me but I am willing to try. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114750 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread
pippin wrote: Where are you trying to show the artists? On NowPlaying, that doesn't work. It's an old issue but I'd have to give up compatibility with old server versions to do this. In the track list, iPeng should show all artists, at least it does so for me (Logitech's App shows none). The other views should be the same. NowPlaying is not customizable. I didn't understand the point about tag-fields. The Squeezbox supports Artists, Albums and Genres, for everything else you need CustomBrowse which works fine with iPeng, too. Thanks for the quick reply. The track list display works fine. That plugin sounds very useful. Will install it. I am discovering a lot of other useful features about the app. Most importantly, it makes we want to play more music which is the point after all. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread
My first day with iPeng. Is there any way to display multiple artists, which show fine in Squeezebox controllers and the free Logitech app? My chief interest is to see if this app helps take advantage of obsessive tagging in navigation more smoothly than the standard free app. So far it takes me more to navigate via tag fields- The free app lets me use both standard and user-defined tags with multiple values allowed, as branches to navigate from. I would like to get that done in minimum steps. Is the Now playing screen customizable? I would like an informative display - art, artist,album, year, composer, track no., title. My filepath has all that information if I could just display it. guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
