Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
And some more information. I just installed 7.8 (1487060116 @ Sat Feb 18 03:04:41 CUT 2017), and dynamic playlists correctly appears under the M mixer icon in the WebUI for the Playlist menu. So it appears it's something in 7.9 that breaks this behavior of Erland's plugins. wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
esa wrote: > I have checked custom browse. You are correct about : > > 1) Web interface : there is a PL button which will play a Dyn Play List > > > 22135 > Are you sure you are running LMS 7.9? Your attached image is what the WebUI looked like for me in 7.7: Several different "mixer" icons that kick off different things like Dynamic Playlists, TrackStat, SQLPlaylists, etc. But in 7.9, all I see is a single M icon, which when you click on it brings you to a page with all of these options. I understood from comments on the Forum that this was the normal behavior for 7.9. My problem is that Dynamic Playlists isn't showing up on that list when you click on the M icon for the playlists in the Playlist menu. Also, please note, I'm talking about the built-in menu at the top level, not the one under the Custom Browse. (well see my post above: the Custom Browse Playlist menu can be elevated to the top level. Either way, the CB version does have the Dynamic Playlists item in the Mixer context menu on the WebUI, but not on Touch, Controller, or iPeng.) esa wrote: > > But, you have a menu "Dynamic PLaylist" where you can launch a playlist > as Dynamic : > > Dynamic Playlist --> DynamicPLaylistFavourite (maybe this menu should be > enable in SQL PLaylist setting) --> Random Song From Playlist > Through this menu, you can press play. It is not a context menu. > Yes, that works fine, but it's not as elegant -- you have to select the playlist that you want to play this way. By having Dynamic Playlist in the mixer context menu you can fire it for whatever playlist you navigate to. Again, this has worked fine through LMS 7.7, so something has changed going to 7.9. wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
After some additional investigating, I can add some more information: 1) I discovered that if I make a Playlist Menu via Custom Browse, that it does have Dynamic Playlists as a selection on the mixer menu. 2) But, only on the WebUI, or an sb3 via IR remote, but not on the Controller (controlling an sb3), a Touch via its touch screen, or iPeng (controlling an sb3) So it seems like maybe somewhere between LMS 7.7 to LMS 7.9.0 something broke how Erland's plugins get things added to mixers on the playlist menu? Any insight would be greatly appreciated! wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
esa wrote: > I juste checked (lms 7.9). In Dynplaylist -> random song from playlist > -> play > It start with 10 songs and continue as dyn playlist > Hope it answer to your question. > Do you mean you started from the Playlist top-level menu item, highlighted a particular playlist, called up the Mixer context menu and selected Dynamic Playlist? Or do you mean you went directly to the Dynamic Playlist menu item, selected random song from playlist -> play (at which point you were prompted for a playlist)? Or something else? I am looking for the first behavior I described. And wondering why it stopped working since 7.5, and what I need to do to get those mixers showing up again. wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
[I posted this directly in the 3rd Party Software forum, but am replying to Erland's thread as well (with slightly more detail), in case anyone is only looking at this thread.] I just updated from 7.5 which has been running on my system for several years without a hitch. I use a combination of Erland's Custom Browse, Dynamic Playlists, and SQLplaylists. I used to be able to navigate to playlists under My Music, sit on a playlist, and in the web interface click on a icon that would allow me to choose play random songs from the playlist (in a Dynamic Playlist fashion: add 10 random songs at a time, instead of shuffling the whole list). From a controller, I would long hold the center button and get the context menu with the choice to play random songs from the playlist. After updating LMS to 7.9 and upgrading Erland's plugins to their latest versions, that behavior is missing. The icons in the web interface are replaced with a single M, which I understand is an aspect of the upgrade. Pressing it when sitting on a playlist brings up a context menu, but it doesn't contain the random songs item. The only thing it has is "playlist info". As far as I can tell all my other Dynamic Playlists correctly show up in Context menus where they should. For example, a random songs from genre appears under the Dynamic Playlists item in the mixer when I long-hold on a genre. (It looks like this functionality is now provided by a built-in mixer, as there are two new entries now: "Random Mix Genre Songs" and "Random Mix Genre Albums". But the fact remains that the mixer also includes a dynamic playlists item which in turn contains the appropriate dynamic playlists I created. Whereas, there is no such mixer item when sitting on a playlist.) It seems like most, if not all, of my preferences, settings, and plugin settings were preserved on the upgrade. But it's possible that some dynamic playlist or SQLplaylist or Custom Browse configurations didn't make it. Did something about mixers change in going from 7.5 to 7.9? I can't really remember how to recreate this behavior with Erland's plugins (it's been a long time since I set them up, and they've been working smoothly since), so I'm not even sure where to look. Can anyone point me in the right direction? wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Play random tracks from playlist
I just updated from 7.5 which has been running on my system for several years without a hitch. I use a combination of Erland's Custom Browse, Dynamic Playlists, and SQLplaylists. I used to be able to navigate to playlists under My Music, sit on a playlist, and in the web interface click on a icon that would allow me to choose from playing random songs from the playlist. From a controller, I would long hold the center button and get the context menu with the choice to play random songs from the playlist. After updating LMS to 7.9 and upgrading Erland's plugins to their latest versions, that behavior is missing. The icons in the web interface are replaced with a single M, which I understand is an aspect of the upgrade. Pressing it when sitting on a playlist brings up a context menu, but it doesn't contain the random songs item. It seems like most, if not all, of my preferences, settings, and plugin settings were preserved on the upgrade. But it's possible that some dynamic playlist or SQLplaylist or Custom Browse configurations didn't make it. I can't really remember how to recreate this behavior, so I'm not even sure where to look. Can anyone point me in the right direction? wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106972 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Can Dynamic Playlists play Rhapsody songs?
I know LMS is able to play playlists that mix songs from your local library and songs from Rhapsody. But can Dynamic Playlists, for example Random songs from selected playlist, execute these playlists? I've tried and it doesn't work for me, so wanted to check if this is a known limitation. I'm using: 7.5.5 receiver and classic squeezebox -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94360 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Can Dynamic Playlists play Rhapsody songs?
erland;698585 Wrote: Feels like it should work if they appear in the standard Playlists menu. Do you get some error in the server.log when you try to play them ? I don't have access to Rhapsody myself so I need help troubleshooting it. I don't see any errors in the server log file. Is there any additional logging I could turn on (perhaps specific to Dynamic Playlists)? I can describe the behavior a bit more: I made a playlist with one album from my library and one album from Rhapsody. Standing on the playlist and hitting the play icon in the web interface plays all the songs from the playlist just fine, shuffle properly shuffles them. If instead I select the PL icon and select Random Songs from playlist then only the songs from my library are queued up. I'll also note that after starting playback, the lefthand panel shows the contents of the Dynamic Playlists menu. I I do the same for a playlist with only Rhapsody content, then the current playing track is stopped, but the current playlist is untouched, and the the lefthand panel shows the contents of the Dynamic Playlists menu, just as above. Seems like the random playlist is doing something, but just isn't playing the Rhapsody tracks. -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94360 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists not working from Controller
Hi, I've been using erland's SQL and Dynamic Playlists plugins for some time with my SB3. I created some playlists that play random songs from Genres or other playlists. Before SBS 7.5 I could stand on a genre or a playlist, press and hold play to bring up a context menu from which I could choose play random songs (this is using the IR remote with the SB3 -- I can't remember how it worked on the controller, or even if it did work). Now with SBS 7.5 I get an error when I do this, either with the IR remote or the controller. I get an error message like No songs, no songs for Random. However, I can still use the web interface, by clicking on the Dynamic Playlists icon when standing on a genre or a playlist. Any idea what might be broken or how to fix it? I thought maybe there might be a newer version of the plugins, but I appear to be up-to-date, according to the Plugins tab of the Settings page. Another thought is that I might need to recreate the playlists in SQL/Dynamic Playlists using updated templates? Thought I'd get some feedback before I try that. Thanks for any suggestions, -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83498 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Can you still download SqueezePlay for SC7.3?
Can you still download SqueezePlay for SC7.3? I have SC7.3.3 running; The only version of SqueezePlay I could find on the downloads web site was for 7.5, and it doesn't appear to work with SC7.3. If anyone knows where to go for SqueezePlay for SC7.3 I'd appreciate your help. (Not sure this thread really belongs in 3rd party plugins, since i guess SP isn't third party, but I wasn't sure where else to post it -- the SqueezeCenter thread I suppose.) -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78856 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Can you still download SqueezePlay for SC7.3?
garym;547970 Wrote: not sure, but it probably works to install the later version squeezeplay without the latest version squeezeboxserver. I was running Squeezeplay 7.5 while still running 7.4 SbS. You say it doesn't seem to work. What errors are you getting? Something along the lines of You must install the latest version of SC software -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78856 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] SqueezePlay or SoftSqueeze play Rhapsody/Pandora?
Hi, Should either SqueezePlay or SoftSqueeze play Rhapsody or Pandora? SoftSqueeze won't on my system, even tho' my squeezebox (classic and receiver) will. It wasn't clear to me from a stroll through the forums whether it should or shouldn't. I'm just wondering if I should pursue the issue or if it just can't be done. I get the following errors: Pandora: You must be a subscriber to use Pandora from this device. Rhapsody: This player does not support Rhapsody. A squeezebox2 or higher is required (I'm running 7.3.3 on Win XP) Thanks for any help. -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78792 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SqueezePlay or SoftSqueeze play Rhapsody/Pandora?
OK, so with a paid account with Pandora SoftSqueeze/SqueezePlay will play Pandora? Both, or just SqueezePlay? How about Rhapsody? I have a paid subscription to Rhapsody, but haven't been able to play it with SoftSqueeze. -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78792 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Browse by Music Folder and erland's plugins
wnshall;410174 Wrote: You mean like this? Code: [09-03-25 23:58:16.3595] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::fullRescan (645) Performing rescan [09-03-25 23:58:16.3717] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::refreshData (1725) CustomScan: Synchronizing Custom Scan data, please wait... [09-03-25 23:58:16.3721] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::refreshData (1728) Starting to update musicbrainz id's in custom scan artist data based on names Hey Erland, just wanted to confirm: Does that first line indicate that Browse by Music Folder is kicking off a CustomScan full rescan? And this happens regardless of whether I have CustomScan set to manual in the settings? Any ideas for getting around this problem? It's odd that I didn't have this problem until around Dec-2008 -- I can't recall if it correlated with a SC upgrade or upgrading to new versions of your plugins or not. -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlist Plugin and the Controller
erland;427458 Wrote: Mine seems to just stand there and spin when I try to hold play on a playlist, is this the same behaviour you get ? No, mine just doesn't do anything. -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63861 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlist Plugin and the Controller
Should play+hold on the Controller when standing on Playlists bring up the Dynamic Playlist context menu? Recently I noticed that it doesn't for me, and it seems like it used to. It does work using the IR remote and in the webUI. Also, play+hold works on the Controller when standing on Artist, Album, or Genre. Is there some configuration that I overlooked? (I'm using SC 7.2 on XP and not the very latest versions of Erland's plugins.) -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63861 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Browse by Music Folder and erland's plugins
erland;410171 Wrote: If SqueezeCenter generates rescan events when you browse new folders this will trigger a full Custom Scan rescan operation. I had a look a few weeks ago (in SC 7.3 or 7.4 (don't remember)) and it didn't look like it generated these events in my own setup. You mean like this? Code: [09-03-25 23:58:16.3595] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::fullRescan (645) Performing rescan [09-03-25 23:58:16.3717] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::refreshData (1725) CustomScan: Synchronizing Custom Scan data, please wait... [09-03-25 23:58:16.3721] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::refreshData (1728) Starting to update musicbrainz id's in custom scan artist data based on names -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Browse by Music Folder and erland's plugins
Lately I've noticed that when I Browse by Music Folder (from webUI, squeezebox, or controller) that SC locks up for a variable amount of time -- sometimes just 5-10s, sometimes 40-60s, and sometimes even longer. I've noticed that mysqld gets kicked off and uses a fair bit of CPU during this time. I use many of Erland's plugins (CB, Custom Scan, SQL, Dynamic Playlist, Trackstat, Trackstat Playlist, Custom Skip, Multi Library) and I recently updated a number of them, so I wondered if they might be source of the delay. I tried testing by disabling all of Erland's plugins and then adding them in one at a time (stoping and restarting SC each time) and timing Browse by Folder. It is a little tricky because whatever is getting scanned in is being stored somewhere so that there is a delay only the first time you browse to a folder (except that this must get forgotten on the timescale of a day, because I discovered this problem when I navigate to the same folder every couple of days.) Because of this, during testing I navigated to 3 or 4 different, new folders each time. I found that SC alone is quite snappy, less than 5 s for each folder. Adding SQL, ML, and CB produced just a slightly longer delay, maybe as much as 10s. Adding Custom Scan produced a range of longer delays, from 30 s to as much as 3 mins! (Although some folders scanned in just 5 s -- and the delay doesn't seem to be proportional to the number of sub-folders or files.) Under the Custom Scan settings I set Custom Tag and Mixed Tag scanning to manual, which improved the delay times. Adding Track Stat and Track Stat Playlist (alone or with Custom Scan) also yielded moderate delays. So the culprit seems to be something to do with Custom Scan and possibly Track Stat. Does anyone know whether it is typical for there to be a short delay when browsing by Music Folder, should mysqld be running, and whether the delays I'm experiencing are abnormal? Any ideas why Custom Scan might be making these delays longer, and is there anything I can do about it? Any insight would be appreciated. (BTW running SC 7.2.1 on XP ) -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Use LastFM play count data to update database?
Like many users, I scrobble my listening (on SC and on various computers) to lastfm. I got to wondering whether the playcount data stored there could be used to update SC's database? It seems like it might be a clever way to get around the fact that rescans clear the database, and would also allow you to aggregate your listening from everywhere (except portable devices.) Is this already possible today -- maybe with Trackstat/Custom Scan or some other plugin? -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59050 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Random for Custom Tag
erland;389898 Wrote: This is now possible with the latest versions of Custom Scan, Custom Browse, Dynamic Playlist and SQL Playlist. To make it work, you will need to create a new playlist with SQL PLaylist plugin of the type Random for custom tag for each custom tag where you like this functionality. This, as well as the new Random album for genre functionality, is really great. Would it be possible to create a Random Album for custom tag to go along with the new Random song for custom tag? -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58120 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat and export to J River Media Center
MeSue;379505 Wrote: I think the recently played will come in handy too. I can use it to update play counts in JRMC. Did you figure out a way to update play counts in JRMC from the recently played playlist? I'm new to JRMC and haven't figured out how to do batch processing yet. Also, I found that the Number Plays field doesn't appear to be editable (you can select values from a pull down list, but can't enter in new values.) -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57650 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse survey, why do you use it ?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58894 Question: Why do you use Custom Browse ? - I need to be able to browse multiple libraries - I need to be able to browse composers or conductors separately - I need it to be able to filter the contents of albums, artists or genres menus - I need an itermediate A-Z menu before showing artists or albums for a specific letter - I need to be able to browse custom tags - The standard browse menus can't be configured as I like them - I need to be able to browse decades - I need more flexible browse menus to browse classical or jazz music - I use it because it exists but the standard browse menus works good enough - Some other reason I use CB in many ways, and in conjunction with erland's other fantastic plugins Custom Scan, SQLplaylist, Trackstat, etc. I use the Genre/subGenre menu to easily navigate hierarchical genres. For example, I have the Classical top genre and several subgenres such as Baroque, Romantic, 20th Century (these are all tagged using a semicolon delimited list in the genre tag.) This makes browsing genres much easier -- the top level is not burdened with an enormous list of genres, but I can have the fine divisions of many subgenres. This feature alone makes CB invaluable to me, and I really hope SC will adopt something similar with the new schema. I use CB/CS to browse non-standard tags, such as composer, and custom user tags. For example, I use the TIT2 field (iTunes Group) to hold different forms, such as symphony or string quartet (for classical) or piano trio, large band (for jazz). CB allows me to create a menu to browse these tags. Similarly, I use CB to browse selected music based on the existence of a keyword in a tag such as COMMENT. As others have mentioned, this can be used to select out music my wife likes, or holiday music, or stuff that I've added recently. Together with the multi-library plugin, CB can be used to design menus specific to portions of your music. I have one for classical and another for everything else. (Many people use libraries to separate different user's music, and there has been talk of SC eventually providing tools for multiple users. I hope as they work on this they provide a way to have multiple users but also allow each user to have multiple libraries. I as a single user have a lot of uses for splitting my music into different libraries for my own listening.) CB, along with Custom Scan and SQLplaylist and Trackstat really make SC work for me. It would be much more difficult to find and select music from my library using the standard SC menus. I really, really, really hope that when SC8.0 comes out that that doesn't spell the end of all these extremely useful tools. Just as bad would be a partial adoption by SC of some of CB and a long delay before plugins get developed to reimplement the rest of the features (understanding that erland develops this stuff for free and he may not be up for a major overhaul like this.) -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58894 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse survey, why do you use it ?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58894 Question: Why do you use Custom Browse ? - I need to be able to browse multiple libraries - I need to be able to browse composers or conductors separately - I need it to be able to filter the contents of albums, artists or genres menus - I need an itermediate A-Z menu before showing artists or albums for a specific letter - I need to be able to browse custom tags - The standard browse menus can't be configured as I like them - I need to be able to browse decades - I need more flexible browse menus to browse classical or jazz music - I use it because it exists but the standard browse menus works good enough - Some other reason Philip Meyer;390025 Wrote: Polls providing options like the above are useless - I think the answer is yes to pretty much all of the above, except intermediate A-Z menus, The poll results suggest you are in the minority, validating the list of options. Right now there are 23 responses and no single option has 23 votes. There are a couple of big vote-getters (to configure menus: 15, browse multiple libs: 9) and most of the rest are in the 5-7 range. The conclusion so far is that nearly every option listed is important to a significant portion of users (~30%), but most people don't use each of the options. (me, I find nearly every option useful.) Also, the mixer support - Browse Selection for browsing the content of a playlist as a music heirarchy. Let me second this. I didn't really even realize this was functionality provided by CB. (As I alluded to in my previous post, I use the whole suite CB, CS, SQLplaylist, Trackstat, Dynamic Playlist, and find their functionality merges together -- it's hard for me to sort out what comes from which plugin.) Anyway, the mixer support is a really valuable and powerful feature that makes SQLplaylists more powerfull. Being able to stand on a genre or artist (or a custom tag now!) and invoke a relevant SQLplaylist is fantastic and makes using SC much more intuitive for me. -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58894 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Random Albums for Genre
Is there a built-in SQL menu that plays random albums for genre? I'd like Browse to a genre and be able to start up a playlist of random albums selected from that genre -- seems like SQLplaylist is what I want, but I can't find an appropriate playlist. (Of course I could go to Random, select a genre, and select random album, but I'd like to be able to do it when browsing through genres.) Thanks, -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58119 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Random Albums for Genre
erland;383512 Wrote: This will just launch a dynamic playlist of random albums within the genre, it won't let you select which one to play it will start playing the first it finds immediately. Is this what you want Yes, so it works just like Random Songs for Genre, but with albums instead. -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58119 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
erland;377580 Wrote: A number of new versions of my plugins has now been released: CustomBrowse 2.6 - Added support for Various Artists in Genres/SubGenres menu - Added support for dynamic third party plugin mixers, used by new SQL Playlist mixers provided by Custom Scan and SQL Playlist plugin. - Optimized Controller communication a bit to improve performance a bit. Should the Genre/SubGenres menu now display a Various Artists menu item at the top of the artist list? I installed CB2.6 but I'm not seeing this behavior. I noticed that the Genre/SubGenre menu now has a check box for use various artists on the configuration page, which I checked. The list of artists does seem to omit artist that only appear on compilation albums, but I'm not getting a various artists item to access compilation albums. Do I misunderstand how it's supposed to work? (I'm using SqueezeCenter Version: 7.2.1 - 23630 on Windows XP) -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Multi Library and Custom Browse plugin settings
Hi, How do the settings in Multi Library and the Custom Browse plugins interact? For example, when creating a library (via the Extras | Multi Library menu) you can choose whether to have the library shown on the home menu (and give it a name) and you can set is which Custom Browse menu items to include. But in Custom Browse you can also set which Custom Browse menus are shown (via the Enabled Menus page.) Which takes precedent? -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57885 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Using Custom Scan to read JRMC tags
I'm trying to use Custom Scan+Custom Browse to browse by a tag I created in J River Media Center. The name of user created tags in JRMC is in the form: COMMENT MEDIA JUKEBOX: . In my case the tag is called COMMENT MEDIA JUKEBOX: FORM. I've verified that mp3tag can read these tags with that name. In Custom Scan settings I put this name in the tags to scan field (and in the single value field.) After doing a clear and rescan it seems the tag hasn't been scanned. I have a Custom Browse menu to browse by this tag and it says there are no matching files. Also, I used the Custom Scan Info menu to see what tags got scanned and this tag didn't show up (although others, such as CONTENTGROUP and COMMENT do show up.) Am I doing something wrong, or is there something about the JRMC tags that conflict with Custom Scan? Thanks, -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57894 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Using Custom Scan to read JRMC tags
wnshall;381337 Wrote: In Custom Scan settings I put this name in the tags to scan field (and in the single value field.) After doing a clear and rescan it seems the tag hasn't been scanned. I have a Custom Browse menu to browse by this tag and it says there are no matching files. Also, I used the Custom Scan Info menu to see what tags got scanned and this tag didn't show up (although others, such as CONTENTGROUP and COMMENT do show up.) OK, I think I see the problem. Since JRMC puts all its user created tags into comments and not individually named tags, they all appear in Custom Scan in the COMMENT tag. Since I have lots of other stuff in Comment fields, this precludes using JRMC to create multi-valued tags. For example, I am trying to create a Form tag for use with classical music, with items like symphony, string quartet, etc. Am I correct that I could use Custom Scan/Custom Browse to *filter* on a keyword in the comment field (eg. put Symphony in the comment field and create a menu that only contains songs/artists/albums tagged with Symphony), but I can't create a menu having several options below it, eg symphony, string quartet? (I can do the later with the CONTENTGROUP tag because Custom Scan simply creates a menu with options corresponding to all the values it finds in the CONTENTGROUP tag -- can't do this with the COMMENT field if it's full of other stuff.) The recently released JRMC13 puts user created fields in Txxx fields rather than COMMENT fields. Would those tags be read individually by SC/Custom Scan, rather than what appears to be happening with the COMMENT tags? -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57894 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Using Custom Scan to read JRMC tags
erland;381485 Wrote: Yes, T tags should work perfectly. Let me know if you really like to use COMMENT tag and don't like the T tags and I could take a look at Custom Scan and see if it would be possible to make it handle sub parameters in COMMENT field in same way as T tags. However, I would prefer not to do it since it's not standardized and most people probably are going to use T tags for the same thing. No, I think using T tags is clearly the right way to go. J River acknowledges this since their latest release makes this shift, although at the moment their (free) jukebox software still uses the COMMENT tag. For now I can use mp3tag to copy the JRMC tag to CONTENTGROUP and all works fine. -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57894 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat and export to J River Media Center
erland;378973 Wrote: Great idea, try the attached plugin. I'll make an official release as soon as I know it works for someone that uses J River Media Center. Wow, this is great! Did you just whip this up in a day, or did you have it laying around? I've only tested it for 5 mins, but the rating playlists appear to be generated correctly, and can be easily read by JRMC to update its ratings. I've used both the WebUI and the controller to change (and store) ratings successfully. Looks like it solves rating integration with JRMC. Thanks again, -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57650 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat and export to J River Media Center
Hi, I know Trackstat can export the ratings data and that these can currently be imported into several media players, eg. iTunes, MusicIP, but I haven't seen a solution for importing/exporting to J River Media center, which I know several folks here use. In part, I suspect, this is because J River doesn't appear to have an easy-to-implement way to import a single field, such as rating, into its database. MeSue has outlined a method she uses to sync ratings between SC and J River: she uses the Playlist Manager plugin to add songs to specific ratings playlists when she wants to change their ratings (eg, add a 4-star song to the 4-star playlist.) These playlists can be easily imported into J River where they can be mass re-tagged with the proper rating. (Transferring rating info from J River to SC can be accomplished by putting the ratings in tags and importing them using the Ratings Scan provided by Custom Scan/Trackstat.) I wondered if Trackstat's export data could be used to streamline this process. One drawback of this method is that you can't use the nice UI for rating songs -- eg clicking on the stars that appear on the controller or the WebUI. So I'm looking for a way to use Trackstat to collect info that can be imported to J River. The easiest thing would be if Trackstat kept track of songs that have had their ratings changed. If so, this list could be grouped by rating and written to a playlist (I imagine this could be done fairly easily with some perl code.) Before I go poking around at the files, I thought I'd ask here about the feasibility of this approach. I fear that Trackstat doesn't keep track of changed files -- why should it really? In that case, can anyone suggest an alternate approach? Would it be possible for a plugin to intercept the user clicks on the rating stars and add that song to a playlist? -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57650 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Restricting track artists in Custom Browse menus
Hi, I'm trying to omit artists who only appear on compilations in Custom Browse menus, the way choosing group compilations does in regular SC menus. On the options page for a CB menu one can select which contributor roles to include. I unchecked track artists (actually, I only checked artist and album artist). For the builtin Artist menu this seemed to work, however for the Genres/sub-Genres menu it didn't (i.e. in the Genres/sub-Genres menu artists from compilations still appeared on the artist list.) Have I done something wrong? Is there a way to make this work? -s -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56184 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] custom browse and compilations
erland;366192 Wrote: I think the Genres/SubGenre menu template currently is missing the options to have a Various Artists entry, as you already have seen it shows all artists directly in the list. I'll add it to the list of things to look at in future releases. If you can't wait and have some XML and SQL knowledge, you can always customize the XML of the Genres/SubGenres menu yourself. Thanks erland. Does anyone using Custom Browse have customized Genre/SubGenre menus that handle compilations that they'd care to share? Or suggestions of SQL statements that might accomplish the task? I have zero SQL knowledge, but I'm not adverse to editing files with a little direction. -s -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55886 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] custom browse and compilations
I've been slowly working out how Squeezecenter handles compilation albums. In the settings, I set group compilations together, list albums by band, TPE2 = band, and set compilation title to compilations (instead of the default various artists) (these descriptions are from memory). When I browse to Genres and select a genre I get a list of matching artists, with Compilations at the top. The artist list does not contain artists that only appear on compilations -- This is the behavior I expect from my settings. However, when I browse using Custom Browse Genres/subGenres I get a long list of artists, presumably all those artists from the compilations. Also, I don't think there's even a compilations item at the top either. Am I doing something wrong, or is this the expected behavior from the Custom Browse Genres/subgenres menu? I didn't check the albums or artists menus, but will they work (or not) similarly? -s -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55886 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom*** plugins and upgrading from 6.5 to 7.X
erland;361620 Wrote: 4. Make sure you store all files in the directories which you have specified in the Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, SQL Playlist and Multi Library settings pages. 6. The menu configuration in Custom Browse will work as long as you haven't customized the XML. If you have customized the XML you might need to adjust it a bit to get it to work. I've installed SC7 and everything is (mostly) working. I noticed that the settings for Custom Browse ask for 4 directories (from memory: templates, context templates, image cache, and one other.) In my 6.5 installation I think everything was in just one directory. Which files from the 6.5 installation should go in which directory? (OK, I figure the files with templates go in the template dir, but not sure about the context template dir.) BTW, I did a clean install of SC7, not on top of 6.5. -s -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55281 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom*** plugins and upgrading from 6.5 to 7.X
Hi, I'm planning (finally) to upgrade to SC7.x from 6.5. When I install the latest versions of erland's custom and dynamic playlist plugins will my various dynamic playlists and custom tag browsing still exist and/or work? I assume I'd have to backup the appropriate files from the current plugin locations, but I'm not sure the 6.5 versions will even work with the 7.x versions. -s -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55281 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Bookmarks plugin
kdf;272302 Wrote: erk. It's possible that it works, which would explain why it's not there. Unfortunately the server that used to hold this stuff is dead. -kdf The 6.3 version appears to work OK in 6.5. It looks like it provides just one bookmark -- from reading the forums it looks like later versions allowed 10? Still, it does the job. OF course, if anyone has later version that works in 6.5 that they can share, that would be appreciated. -s -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43478 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Bookmarks plugin
Seron;272221 Wrote: Hi, I hope I won't step on anyones toes by writing in this thread. I'm wondering where I could get the Bookmark plugin for slimserver 6.5.4 which it seems amcfarla also is using. On 'kdf's plugin page' (http://code.google.com/p/kdfplugins/downloads/list?can=1q=colspec=Filename+Summary+Uploaded+Size+DownloadCount) I find only Plugins-Bookmark-Plugin_v30.zip which seems to be for slimserver 7.0 as stated in install.xml. Or can it be used for 6.5.4? try http://code.google.com/p/kdfplugins/source/browse look under Tags-6.3.x-Legacy I didn't see a version under 6.5.x, have downloaded the 6.3 version, but haven't tried it yet. -s (thanks for the info, kdf) -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43478 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Scanner Plugin
Hi, Is kdf's scanner plugin still available for ss 6.5? The only site I could find for downloading was http://code.google.com/p/kdfplugins/downloads/list which appears to only have a SC7 version of scanner (and bookmark, which I'd also like to get.) Any help would be appreciated, -steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43785 ___ 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] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;255285 Wrote: After this you should be able to: Browse-Genre-Latin-Play+hold-Dynamic Playlist-Random for genre What do I have to do to have Dynamic Playlist show up as an option when I press Play+hold? I have the Dynamic Playlist plugin installed, along with Custom Browse and Track Stat. I thought this might be a mixer and looked at the enable/disable mixer setting in Custom Browse, but all the mixers it shows are enabled. -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] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;260186 Wrote: You will need a playlist that wants a parameter of the same type as the item you hold play on. The following post shows how to do it with SQL Playlist plugin for genres: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=255285#post255285 I had followed those instructions and didn't get the Dynamic Playlist option showing up. When I press play+hold I get 4 options (from memory) 1) Random (this sets up a fixed random playlist with a small number of tracks), 2) Trackstat, 3) Browse selected, 4) Something else I can't remember, but not obviously related to Dynamic Playlist. If I've (correctly) followed the instructions above, what should show up when pressing play+hold? An item called Dynamic Playlist? Or an item related to the SQL playlist created in those instructions? Also, should there be an icon on the web page corresponding to Dynamic Playlist? I have icons for Browse Selected, Random, Trackstat, but not for Dynamic Playlist. Thanks, -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] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;260308 Wrote: An item Dynamic Playlist and beneath that you will get the new genre based random playlist you have created. Does it show up if you navigate to the Dynamic Playlist menu in the web interface ? Yes, it does. If hit the play icon next to it, it generates a playlist 15 items long. The first 9 are all from one genre, the next 6 are all from another genre. If I hit clear and then the play icon again, I get another similar playlist containing a series of songs from two different genres (the first genre matches the last one from the previous playlist). A third press of the play icon gives a playlist with just 10 songs in it, all from one genre. I'm not sure what behavior to expect from this playlist when invoked from the Dynamic Playlists menu, but that seems strange. After you have navigated to the Dynamic Playlist menu, could you try again. I don't remember when it refreshed the information, so it might be that you need to goto the Dynamic Playlist menu once before it works. Still don't see the PL icon, when navigating through Custom Browse | Genres/Subgenres, or Custom Browse | Genres. I'm running ss 6.5.1 on XP with Dynamic Playlists 1.13 and Custom Browse 1.20.2. -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] Can Someone Help Me Find A Plugin That Does This....
verbatone;230646 Wrote: I don't think there's a plugin which will accomplish what you want to do. You want to link two songs together based on the fact that they were performed as a medley. A good example is the Beatles - Sun King - Mean Mr. Mustard - Polythene Pam - She Came Into... off Abbey Road. I don't think I know of any tags which will accomplish this, nor a plugin that can use this information in random playback. I read somewhere that the GROUP tag in iTunes was originally intended to accomplish this. I guess you would tag tracks on an album that should be grouped together with some unique identifer in the GROUP tag and then iTunes would know to play them together. I'm not sure this actually works, but apparently that was the idea, and it seems like something like that could be done. However, as you say, I'm not aware of a plugin that does so in ss. -s -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38715 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
Hi, I love how Dynamic Playlists creates just a small playlist that is continuously updated. This is big improvement over the standard behavior if you have lots of songs to be included in the playlist. I have some static playlists, often with lots of tracks, that I'd like to play via Dynamic Playlists. However, I'd also like to select songs randomly from these static playlists. Selecting Shuffle|song doesn't work since that just shuffles the songs in the Now Playing list and doesn't influence what songs DP pulls from the playlist. I don't want to just shuffle the static playlist because then I'll get the same random sequence of songs every time I play the playlist. I tried to use SQLplaylist to create a random songs playlist, but it doesn't seem possible to limit the action of SQLplaylist to a static playlist (which I can understand, since that's basically defeating the purpose of SQLplaylist). So, is it possible to do what I want? Is there any way to use Dynamic Playlist to pull songs randomly from a static playlist? -s -- 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
[SlimDevices: Plugins] disappearing iTunes playlists
Hi, I noticed recently that my iTunes playlists are not showing up in ss. They used to, but don't any more. Wworse, I'm not sure quite when they stopped showing up. Actually, I get one iTunes playlist, called iTunes:Recently Added, but no others. I have many of erland's excellent plugins (Custom Scan+Browse, Dynamic Playlist, SQL Playlist, Trackstat) and I'm wondering if there are some settings somewhere I may have mistakenly fooled with that caused the iTunes playlists to stop showing up? -s -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41153 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose (slimserver windowsfrontend) 0.57
Hi, I downloaded and installed Moose 0.57. It runs fine and controls slimserver correctly. However, I can't get it to scan the mysql database. I followed the instructions on the Moose homepage (left all settings to their default value, e.g. servername=slimserver, user=root, pwd=blank ) but I get an error like can't connect to any of your sql databases. I'm running both moose and ss on the same XP machine. Any suggestions? -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37427 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose (slimserver windowsfrontend) 0.57
Dr Lovegrove;221329 Wrote: What's your server IP setting set to ? If it's localhost, try 127.0.0.1. and if it's 127.0.0.1, try localhost.. If that's no use, send me (offlist) a moose log of it trying to scan. Well, that worked (127.0.0.1), but why? That's not the ip I use to point a browswer to ss (instead its 192.168.XX.XX). In fact, 127.0.0.1 is the ip addr that comes up in ss as a player when I use iTunes to play from ss. Why does it work this way? (oh, I just found that 127... also connects to ss in a browser. Still, why?) -Steve BTW, I'm excited to be testing out Moose -- I've heard so many good things about it. -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37427 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse and headers
erland;219623 Wrote: The context menu/header/footers menus have an Object type parameter, the value of this parameter indicates where the context item is shown. In the list in the Edit context menus/headers/footers menu the object type will also be shown as the first item before the name of a specific item. So for example the albumheader/Genre item has the object type albumheader. OK, I'm getting lost in the huge number of menus/files. Let's take an example: The Genre/subgenre custom menu. I think the code for this menu is in subgenres.template, right? The behavior of the G/subG menu is that after selecting a subgenre you get a list of matching artists, proceeded by a header block that includes a list of albums and artists among other info. The crumbtrail at the top shows Genres/Subgenres / Artists/Genres. So which object type puts a header here? Is this an artistheader, an albumheader, or a genreheader? I tried editing from Custom Browse the artistheadergenre context menu (by excluding all libraries to see if it would go away), but it didn't change the behaviour of the G/subG menu. Can I tell by inspecting the subgenres.template file which header context menu will be used with the menu? Suppose I wanted to change the header on all pages that display artist info (artist pages?), is there a single artistheader file that does this, or are there different artistheader files depending on how the artist page is reached, for example by browsing thru genres vs. browsing by year or by artist directly? In the XML configuration the object type parameter will be put in the menugroup element, for example menugroupalbumheader/menugroup Is this the XML configuration of the Custom Browse menu or of the context header? In the case of the Genre/SubGenre menu, suppose I wanted to get rid of the list of artists in the header. I'm assuming that that information is added by just a line or two, but what file would I need to edit? The Genre/SubGenre file (subgenres.template?) or the header file? (supposing that artistheader is the right one to be looking at, this would be what file? genreartist.template in the custombrowse\contexttemplates directory?) Feel free to tell me that I need to go learn XML on my own and to stop bugging you. BTW, why did you design the custom browse artist headers to include a list of albums and artists? It seems redundant (since the list of matching artists follows) and takes up space. Thanks, -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37442 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse and headers
Erland, as always, thanks for your clear and helpful reply. I think I've got it sorted out now -- will try later tonight. erland;219859 Wrote: There are several files, basically one for each row in the header. This was the key that I wasn't understanding. I also didn't realize that the Hide link in the Custom Browse menu meant hide the item from the displayed headers -- I thought it just meant hide it from the page where you edit things. The artist header will contain the same items independent on how it has been reached. There is currently no way to have different artist headers depending on how you reach an artist. But it is possible to configure different artist headers for different artists. For example one item for artists that has some tracks in the Classical genre and some other item for artists that doesn't have any tracks in the Classical genre. An example of this is shown on a tutorial on my wiki page called Add browse menus and information for classical music to SlimServer In passing, let me give kudos for your wiki pages -- they've been extremely helpful in learning how to make your plugins work. To see if I understand what you've said so far, an example from your wiki you refer to above is the section titled Configure Song Info web page, which adds some info unique to classical music to the song info page. This unique info is limited to classical music by setting the library to classical, right? Also, the object type in this example is trackheader. If I wanted to add similar info unique to classical music but on the artist page, I would change the object type to artistheader, right? I agree, I'm not really sure why I added. At some time I think I had a plan to show most played or highest rated artists in the header. Maybe they should be removed from the default configuration ? Personally, as they stand now I don't think the list of artists and albums on the genre pages is very useful. As I said, it seems redundant, since that's the info the page displays anyway. However, a list of most played or highest rated could be very cool and useful. Maybe limited to just top 5-10 so they only take up a line or two on the page (one of the things the bugs me about the current design is that the album and artist list takes up so much space that you have to scroll down in the web page to see much of the desired list of matching artists.) As always, thanks for your great work. -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37442 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse and headers
Hi, Many of the Custom Browse menus(for example the Genre/sub Genre menu) have a header that includes information about the items returned, including Duration, File size, and a list of Albums and Artists. Is this block of info being generated by the headers accessed by the Edit Context menus/headers/footers link on the settings page? I'm trying to figure out how to change which info is displayed at the top of the menus. If it is in these context/header files, how can I tell which one is being called by the particular menu I'm working with? I couldn't see anything obvious in the code for the menus, but then I don't know how to code xml. Thanks, -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37442 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Problems downloading latest Custom Scan menus
Hi, I tried downloading the latest existing menus from the Custom Browse menu and was unable to download some of the files (I'm particularly after Custom Tags Albums: customscan_customtagalbums.) The message in slimserver said that the menu could not be downloaded because a newer version of the plugin was required. However, I believe I am using the latest versions: Custom Browse 1.23, Custom Scan 1.20, and Multi Library 1.5.1. Also, I'm trying to use Custom Scan/Browse to create a Browse menu that searches the Grouping tag that iTunes uses. I thought this was called GROUP, but when I used that name in the Custom Scan module I did not get any of the tag information. Anyone know what the proper name is? Thanks, -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37239 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse genre/sub genre menu behavior
Hi, I've noticed a small difference between the behavior of the standard Slim Browse Genre menu and the Custom Browse Genre/ Sub Genre menu. In the standard menus, after selecting a genre the first item in the list it returns is All Albums. clicking this leads you to a page called Genre Gallery, which has the nice feature that you can browse by album art. On the other hand, when you select a genre from the Custom Browse Genre/ Sub Genre menu the first item is All Songs and you can not select this for further browsing. Is it possible to alter the behavior of the Custom Browse menu to include the All Albums item that is linked to the Genre Gallery? Thanks, -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37181 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse genre/sub genre menu behavior
erland;217688 Wrote: I've added an All Albums sub menu to the Genres and Sub Genres menu templates in Custom Browse, they will be part of the next Custom Browse release but is available for download already now by using the download links in the Custom Browse web interface. Thanks! Is it possible to change the sorting options? Currently the Custom Browse version can sort by year or title. It would be nice to sort the list by artist (or even artist, album, or artist, year, album as the standard All Albums page does.) -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37181 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
Hi, Does anyone know whether the Group field available in iTunes could be read by custom scanner (and so used in Custom Browse menus)? I've been using foobar and mp3tag to examine some files created by iTunes that have entries in the group field, but they don't show up as a tag. Maybe the group info is in the iTunes .xml library instead? Does this info still get scanned by custom scan? -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
Hi, Has anyone tried Custom Browse with the Nokia skin and have it work? I tried and got a blank skin (both on my Nokia 770 and on my PC.) -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
Hi,
I made a number of custum browse menu items based on the Filtered
Album custom browse example, filtering on a term in the comment field.
The menu items return a properly filtered list of albums, but when I
chose sort by artist from the pull-down menu I get the following
error:
Error:
Running: select albums.id,concat(albums.title, ' (', contributors.name
,')') from tracks,albums,contributor_track,contributors,comments where
tracks.id=contributor_track.track and contributor_track.role in (1,5)
and contributor_track.contributor=contributors.id and and
tracks.id=comments.track and comments.value='female' and
albums.id=tracks.album group by albums.id order by
contributors.namesort asc,albums.year desc got error:
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds
to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'and
tracks.id=comments.track and comments.value='female' and albums.' at
line 6
What am I doing wrong? Any way to make it sort by artist by default?
Also, on the options page for these menus I made there is a check box
called check include comment for sub strings What does this do?
On another note: I've followed the discussion here recently how to use
the Genre/sub genre example to browse thru sub-genres. Do I understand
correctly that to implement this you would list multiple stings
separated by ; in the genre tag field? Could I instead implement a
similar thing but based on multiple strings in the Comment tag? I use
iTunes which doesn't allow multiple genres, but does allow access to
the comment field.
Finally, how does the genre/sub-genre browse look? Suppose I browse to
genre=jazz, do I get a list of available sub-genres as well as all the
albums (or artists) that belong to the genre jazz? Or do I only get
the sub-genres, forcing me to pick one before I see a list of albums?
(I can't test since I don't have multiple entries in my genre tags!)
What I'd like to be able to do is browse to a top level genre and get
all the albums (or artists) that match, but be able to further browse
to sub-genres to narrow the list if I wish.
Thanks. I already love Custom Browse, just with what little I've been
able to do so far!
-Steve
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