Ah, no I didn't. Created an empty playlists folder, et voilà. Yeah
definitely missed that one
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Just noticed that "Playlists" were supposed to be back so upgraded from
7.9 Dec 2016 -> Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.1 - 1494667952 @ Mon
May 22 04:05:43 CUT 2017. Unfortunately, "Playlists" does not appear in
the "Inactive menu items" columns. Am I missing something?
It was missing in 7.7
mherger wrote:
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>
> Must have been missing since 7.6, when the whole library browsing was
> re-implemented. I've added it to 7.9.1. Should be available in the next
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> nightly build.
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Wow - like magic! And with .pkg, so easy to install. Now my menus are
perfect.
When I am on LMS in Safari/ Player/ Master Bedroom (Classic)/ Menus -
there is no choice of "Playlists" to add to the Home Menu Customization
from Inactive Menu Items. I think this has been missing for a long
while. The Inactive Menu Items selections go from Pandora to Podcasts -
no "Playlists"
I am on an iMac, Sierra 10.12.4 all up to date, LMS 7.9.03 Classics,
1 Touch, 1 Transporter, 1 Radio
When I am on LMS in Safari/ Player/ Master Bedroom (Classic)/ Menus -
there is no choice of "Playlists" to add to the Home Menu Customization
from Inactive Menu Items. I think this has been
I have a weird issue where songs on a playlist will occasionally skip,
sometimes completely through the track, other times it will skip 3 or 4
minutes into the track. I can't figure out a rhyme or reason. It happens
on all my players. I have the newest version of Media server running on
Windows
I can see them on the hard drive, but LMS says empty. NOT using iTunes.
Suggestions? Thanks.
Living Room: Duet, Adcom GFA 545II, Adcom GFP 555II, Polk SDA 2B
Dining Room: Paradigm Atom Monitor v.5
Bedroom: SB3, Pioneer VSX 5700S,Pinnacle PN 5+, MK VX-7 Subwoofer
Anywhere Else As Needed: Boom
I use Apple Lossless files, I now have the main box wired. No more
strange playlist issues, the system is more stable but has froze for
short periods here and there. It seems to be handling transitioning
from MOG to library files pretty good. Sonos would sometimes stop
playing a playlist after
I shut the server down and restarted my Imac, this seems to have cleared
things up (fingers crossed). I toggled through the sync settings on all
three players just in case a shuffle setting was engaged. The weird
part was that half the time it would shuffle the songs to the current
playlist.
If you have multiple players and use hi bitrate lossles files you should
definitely wire the server .
I would consider using wifi for an LMS server .
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I shut the server down and restarted my Imac, this seems to have cleared
things up (fingers crossed). I toggled through the sync settings on all
three players just in case a shuffle setting was engaged. The weird
part was that half the time it would shuffle the songs to the
I've recently started using my Squeezeboxes and Transporter after
several years off. Thanks to help here on these forums I was able to
get everything working smoothly or so I thought. Playback was glitch
free connecting three rooms wirelessly for a couple of days then I
started to get tweaked.
playlist at first. Then a few songs in every song might be suddenly
scattered or you might get six songs of one album then the others etc.
I've tried using Ipeng, remote and only using LMS all with the same
results.
Make sure you didn't leave a book or other on the IR remote... it happened
You have t turned on shuffle on some of the synced players ?
Even if get wifi related unreliabilities it should not play games with
the playlist so I suggest that you treat them as separate issues.
Do you use any plugin that could manipulate the current playlist ? is
this static playlist that
tom.jelly;604765 Wrote:
Nope, but I just did, woohoo! it works, thanks. Didn't realize the scan
looked INSIDE the files rather than just where they were located.
thank again
t
Thats how it's finding metadat for the database everything is presented
with artist album and pictures.
It also
interesting, didn't know it had that capability but it makes sense after
looking at the file in notepad. Now I think I just have to figure out
how to get itunes and SBS to see the album artwork file, although I
moved it over I can't even remember if it is an itunes or SBS file,
I'll have to
just moved to a new pc, and I moved my playlists over onto
E:\mp3\playlists. (on an external HDD) they show up correctly as m3u
files and show up in squeezebox server, but they are all empty. to
double check I had them in the right place, I made a NEW playlist and
saved it and it appeared right
tom.jelly;604736 Wrote:
just moved to a new pc, and I moved my playlists over onto
E:\mp3\playlists. (on an external HDD) they show up correctly as m3u
files and show up in squeezebox server, but they are all empty. to
double check I had them in the right place, I made a NEW playlist and
Thanks, thats the problem- they are pointing to the wrong drive letter,
I just need to figure out how to fix them all now. Not sure how that
happened unless I've copied OLD playlists rather than recent ones made
or refreshed after a reorganization of data a long time ago. Either
that or some
Note pad or wordpad has a search and replace function use that
replace E:\ with whats used now or as much of the path that don't
match.
It has replace all as an option basically a couple of mouse clicks .
Take backups of the playölist first .
Rescan after you have changed them.
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tom.jelly;604759 Wrote:
I've just gone in and changed the F: to E: (the correct path to where
the songs are) in a playlist with notepad and still nothing shows- not
sure what to do next here...
t
Did you tell squeezeboxserver to rescan the playlist after that ?
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I've just gone in and changed the F: to E: (the correct path to where
the songs are) in a playlist with notepad and still nothing shows- not
sure what to do next here...
t
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Nope, but I just did, woohoo! it works, thanks. Didn't realize the scan
looked INSIDE the files rather than just where they were located.
thank again
t
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I've been unable lately to save playlists. While I'm using the web
interface I can save them but as soom as I scan they disappear. This is
the latest log:
[10-12-25 11:50:59.1650] main::main (180) Starting Squeezebox Server
scanner (v7.5.2, r31632, Mon Dec 13 13:17:22
What OS ?
Does sbs have permissions to write to Q:\SQUEEZEBOX PLAYLISTS
Settings advanced file types
What is your setting for
Disabled Playlist File Extensions ?
What is your setting for.
Disabled Audio File Extensions is it m3u,pls
if it is you may suffer from this bug.
Thanks Mnyb,
I don't know how, because I didn't change anything, but I had
playlist file types as exclusions in Playlists as well as in Music
directories. So once again everything (except Inguz functionality!) is
rosy in my Squeezebox garden.
Thanks again for your help, I just didn't see the
Hello,
I have a problem with playlists created within SqueezeServer. Whenever
I update to a newer version of the software, all the playlists
disappear. In order to install an updated I am asked to remove older
version of Squeezeserver (on Windows Home Server). When doing this I
always say no to
shaboyi;588471 Wrote:
I have moved squeezebox server to a new machine and moved my m3u
playlists.
the scan shows they have been scanned (reports x of x) but they don't
show
up in any interface. has anyone seen this behavior and have a
solution?.
7.5.1 on whs. the playlist song paths are
shaboyi;588471 Wrote:
I have moved squeezebox server to a new machine and moved my m3u
playlists.
the scan shows they have been scanned (reports x of x) but they don't
show
up in any interface. has anyone seen this behavior and have a
solution?.
7.5.1 on whs. the playlist song paths are
Note that SBS does not do relative playlists .
That path must be correct from the root and up .
Btw did yoy specify a playlist folder in the settings when you
installed sbs on the new computer ?
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I have moved squeezebox server to a new machine and moved my m3u playlists.
the scan shows they have been scanned (reports x of x) but they don't show
up in any interface. has anyone seen this behavior and have a solution?.
7.5.1 on whs. the playlist song paths are the same as the old machine.
garym;552455 Wrote:
it should show up in genre field as Rock\\Anything. but then right click
on one of these tracks, select extended tags, and then you should see
that there are TWO genre tags. One should have the value Rock and one
should have the value Anything. Is this what you see?
It
spile;552576 Wrote:
It is. Many thanks for your help.
I note that my request is not a one off but another strategy has been
suggested here...
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=81330hl=
Yep, that was my answer there as well regarding content group tag.
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garym;552207 Wrote:
But there may be other approaches you can use. For example, on all your
wife's albums you can add a second genre tag (e.g., WIFE). Then use
browse by genre to view only those albums that have WIFE as part of
GENRE. You can use mp3tag to add the second genre (open all
I believe on my version of the server multiple genres can be added as
either:
Rock\\Wife
Rock;Wife
MP3Tag will create multiple tags in the first instance and a single tag
in the second. In the second case you need to make sure that
Squeezeserver has ; defined as a separator.
I use the second
Can I do that with multiple tags?
I tried Keep//Wife but that just created a genre called Keep!
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Can I do that with multiple tags?
I tried Keep//Wife but that just created a genre called Keep!
Try Keep\\Wife
note the backwards leaning slashes. Don't know if the keep will
work. It might. If not, just sort on Genre and do something like
Rock\\Wife, Country\\wife, etc.
garym;552379 Wrote:
Try Keep\\Wife
note the backwards leaning slashes. Don't know if the keep will
work. It might. If not, just sort on Genre and do something like
Rock\\Wife, Country\\wife, etc. Unless you have 150 genres this
shouldn't be that time consuming.
It didn't work with keep
spile;552451 Wrote:
It didn't work with keep and renaming Rock\\Anything justs puts
exactly that into the genre field. Is that correct?
it should show up in genre field as Rock\\Anything. but then right
click on one of these tracks, select extended tags, and then you should
see that there are
I take it no-one uses Playlists!
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spile;552203 Wrote:
I take it no-one uses Playlists!
I'm not sure I quite follow your original post. But first, playlists
are in fact list of TRACKS, so what you suggest is correct (a playlist
will always return a list of tracks as far as I know).
But there may be other approaches you can
As a recent SB Touch owner I've been very happy with things generally
but I appear to have hit a bit of a stumbling block.
Basically I thought it was a good idea to make life eay for my wife to
find her own music from the Touch menu.
A look at the guide came up with two possibilities -
could the problem be that zapped playlists dont require a re-scan and
are always present, but is there a setting to autopmatically force
re-scan on reboot that perhaps I have accidentally selected?
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hi,
I'd really appreciate some help with this as its a constant problem. I
have latest SC via autoupdate (not daily) and itunesupdater (craig) and
lazysearch but no other plugins.
To break it down:
1. how do I permentantly delete the option to have zapped playlists.
I dont ever want to see
Hi
I have about 250 playlists linked with itunesbut I am having some
odd behaviour with SC playing the latest standard version/update. When
I power up often only one playlist is displayed and it is the zapped
list. I can manually force re-scan and then the others are eventually
picked up.
I have recently upgraded to Squeezebox Server 7.4.2 and now I cannot
access any of my Playlists as they are not showing in the under
Playlists. The library folder in control panel is correct but when
accessing the playlists folder either via Web Control or the Duet
controller shows playlists as
garym;509581 Wrote:
I simply installed over my 7.3 version. But after installed, I did do a
complete rescan of my music library (I don't think this is neccesary,
but I tinker with tags and such and do this every so often anyhow). And
I recall I had a couple of old plugins that I needed to
sorry, can't help with the NAS setup. Mine's plain vanilla install on a
Windows XP machine. Since the topic of this thread has now completely
changed you should start a new thread with a subject related to 7.4.2
install on QNAP so as to get some viewers.
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garym;509945 Wrote:
sorry, can't help with the NAS setup. Mine's plain vanilla install on a
Windows XP machine. Since the topic of this thread has now completely
changed you should start a new thread with a subject related to 7.4.2
install on QNAP so as to get some viewers.
OK, cheers, yeh
davep;509455 Wrote:
What version of SqueezeboxServer are you running? My response relates
to ver 7.4.1. My memory suggests that on earlier versions this was
somewhere else as I don't think there was a My Music tab in the
settings window but I have no way to check.
If you are on an
It's on 7.3, too, it's just not called My Music but Music Library.
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pippin;509509 Wrote:
It's on 7.3, too, it's just not called My Music but Music Library.
Hi Pippin,
I think I need some glasses as I have looked everywhere for the option
Reshuffle on Repeat or 'Reshuffle each time' for playlists in Music
Library and can't see it...
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Hm... This is 7.3.3
Cheers Pippin, I had to change my web interface from classic to default
to gain access for this action, now sorted, still contemplating whether
to take the plunge and upgrade to 7.4.1 but the the annoying thing is
after I do, it takes nearly a full day
if you change, go ahead and use the 7.4.2. It's beta but fixes bugs in
7.4.1. I've been running 7.4.2 on my windows xp machine and have had no
issues with SB3, Boom, transporter. Can't speak to SB Radio
hardware
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garym;509570 Wrote:
if you change, go ahead and use the 7.4.2. It's beta but fixes bugs in
7.4.1. I've been running 7.4.2 on my windows xp machine and have had no
issues with SB3, Boom, transporter. Can't speak to SB Radio
hardware
Cheers garym, decided to take the plunge and now
I simply installed over my 7.3 version. But after installed, I did do a
complete rescan of my music library (I don't think this is neccesary,
but I tinker with tags and such and do this every so often anyhow). And
I recall I had a couple of old plugins that I needed to update to newer
versions.
garym;509581 Wrote:
I simply installed over my 7.3 version. But after installed, I did do a
complete rescan of my music library (I don't think this is neccesary,
but I tinker with tags and such and do this every so often anyhow). And
I recall I had a couple of old plugins that I needed to
Now that I have found my preferred and quick method of making playlists
on my SB that does not need a science degree, I am very happy but I have
noticed that when I played a playlist on shuffle then went back and
played the same playlist on shuffle a few days later, it plays the exact
same track
JayLaFunk;509283 Wrote:
Now that I have found my preferred and quick method of making playlists
on my SB that does not need a science degree, I am very happy but I have
noticed that when I played a playlist on shuffle then went back and
played the same playlist on shuffle a few days later,
davep;509286 Wrote:
Take a look at your server settings under the My Music tab where
you'll see an item labelled Reshuffle on Repeat. Changing this to
'Reshuffle each time' should get you what you want.
BTW what is your method of making playlists?
davep
Hi,
Thanks for the reply but I
JayLaFunk;509299 Wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the reply but I can't find My Music tab to look and change
what you say, looked in squezzecenter settings but can't find it...
What version of SqueezeboxServer are you running? My response relates
to ver 7.4.1. My memory suggests that on earlier
Hmmm... that option didn't seem to yield any new info in the log :-/.
So I set (scan) - All Scan Logging, (scan.import) - File Music
Metadata Import Logging and (scan.scanner) - Music Playlist Folder
Scanning all to Debug. That didn't seem to yield much more either (and
in fact I wouldn't
(I accidentally pasted a slightly outdated log, but when I try to paste
the right one I get the following:
You have included 8 images in your message. You are limited to using 4
images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue
again.
Images include use of smilies, the BB code
The log shows that the software is scanning the playlists, so my guess
is something with the format.
One thing I do notice is the case of the file path. Some OS' are case
sensitive, although you look to be running Windows of some flavour?
Have you tried replacing with c:\source\mp3, not
Just tried... still not working :(. I wonder if there is further
diagnostic/debugging information I could be collecting?
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Using the web interface, Settings/Advanced/Logging - set (scan) - All
Scan Logging to Debug and apply.
Then do a playlist only scan and check the server.log file (or maybe
the scanner.log file, but pretty sure it's the server file you need).
Any other info?
Remember to unapply the Debug back to
My steps are pretty simple. Here's exactly what I'm doing:
1. Open Winamp, create a simple playlist containing one album's worth
of songs. Save to a location C:\source\playlist\someelectronic.m3u
2. Open the m3u file and replace \source with c:\source
The content of the file is as follows:
Update (yet still no solution):
Still unable to see playlists, but I was able to browse to a playlist
by creating one inside of my music directory, and then browsing to it
using the Music Folder option inside of My Music. However when I
try to execute the playlist, it says there are no songs in
The most common problem with importing playlists created via another app
is that the file paths need to be consistent between the Squeezebox
Server Music Library and the playlist - so if the playlist has as the
path to your music files as \\mediaserver\site and Squeezecenter Music
Library is set
Thanks a lot for the reply. Actually believe it or not I tried giving
absolute paths instead of relative paths and saving the file :). Still
didn't work. But at least now I know that SqueezeBox doesn't support
playlists created with other apps. So I guess my question now is:
what's the
dundon00;500969 Wrote:
Thanks a lot for the reply. Actually believe it or not I tried giving
absolute paths instead of relative paths and saving the file :). Still
didn't work. But at least now I know that SqueezeBox doesn't support
playlists created with other apps. So I guess my
I have an updated SqueezeBox and am trying to get a simple m3u playlist
to show up inside the playlist section of the device. I created an m3u
playlist in Winamp, copied it into the playlist folder that is
configured in my SqueezeBox, and no playlists are showing up in the
playlist list when I
kmlevine;498389 Wrote:
i should clarify
I use a Readnas FX with Squeezecenter (firmware) and my music library
on the NAS drives. I have my pc map those folders as Z: drive. I rip to
Z: and at this time the playlists are save ion a playlist folder on the
Nas. When I drag, copy, import or
I think that probably is exactly the problem. I'll try to edit the
offending line out of the playlist., Actually I think I made it work
several years ago, early in Squeezebox days by changing the playlist to
pls file or something like that. I give these options a try and let you
know. Thanks for
And I very much agree on the Allen Toussaint recommendation. A giant!
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kmlevine;498604 Wrote:
I think that probably is exactly the problem. I'll try to edit the
offending line out of the playlist., Actually I think I made it work
several years ago, early in Squeezebox days by changing the playlist to
pls file or something like that. I give these options a try
I'll post a couple tracks tomorrow.
thanks.
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I'll post a couple tracks tomorrow.
thanks.
Any one else with an insight...your advice will be apreciated.
I'm having difficulty determining what your issue is. With most CD
burning software (from windows media player, to itunes, to dbpoweramp CD
burner, etc.), you
Hi
To clarify my issue
I use a Readnas FX with Squeezecenter (firmware)
and my music library on the NAS drives. I have my pc map those folders
as Z: drive. I rip to Z: and at this time the playlists are save ion a
playlist folder on the Nas. When I drag, copy, import or open the Slim
playlist,
i'm still confused. Which burning software are you using, and what do
you see when you open it? If you can provide this info, someone here
might be able to point you in the right direction.
Every burning software has a method for adding tracks to burn to its
own list. Squeeze software has
kmlevine;498147 Wrote:
To clarify my issue
I use a Readnas FX with Squeezecenter (firmware) and
my music library on the NAS drives. I have my pc map those folders as
Z: drive. I rip to Z: and at this time the playlists are save ion a
playlist folder on the Nas. When I drag, copy, import or
i should clarify
I use a Readnas FX with Squeezecenter (firmware) and my music library
on the NAS drives. I have my pc map those folders as Z: drive. I rip to
Z: and at this time the playlists are save ion a playlist folder on the
Nas. When I drag, copy, import or open the Slim playlist, with
Hi and Happy Holidays,
I am trying to use my playlists, locaated on a Readynas along with my
wav files so I can burn playlists to CD. All I get when I copy, save or
try to open the playlists are empty icons. Can anyone clue me in to how
to proceed?
ThankKen
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What software are you trying to use to burn the CD? You can't do it with
Squeezebox Server.
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I have a choice of Nero Burn ROM, EAC, Imageburn, JRiver Media Center,
or MediaMMonkey. But I keep gettting on;y icons unless I individualy
copy each file.
Your advice wuold be most appreciated.
Ken
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You probably know this, but your playlists are nothing more than simple
text files with lists of the tracks, giving the full path and file
specification. Unless you can get one of those programs to treat the
playlist as a shortcut, so that it actually goes out and reads the file
from the ReadyNAS
Thank you for your message. It sure seems like there has to be easy way
to automate this.
By the way, if you are interested in listening to Force of Nature a
CD that I produced last year with Hawaiian Slack Key Master Ledward
Kaapana 12 string player and song writer Mike Kaawa, I can send you a
kmlevine;497881 Wrote:
Thank you for your message. It sure seems like there has to be easy way
to automate this.
By the way, if you are interested in listening to Force of Nature a
CD that I produced last year with Hawaiian Slack Key Master Ledward
Kaapana 12 string player and song
I have a MacMini and MacPro. To set up the mini as a music server, I
dragged the Music folder from the MacPro to the Mini. Mini runs OS
10.4.11. (Old Mac). Pro runs OS 10.5.9. Have SC 7.3.3 on both. Have one
SB3. The SB plays all music OK from the mini, but Playlists always show
as empty. I
graley;451793 Wrote:
I have a MacMini and MacPro. To set up the mini as a music server, I
dragged the Music folder from the MacPro to the Mini. Mini runs OS
10.4.11. (Old Mac). Pro runs OS 10.5.9. Have SC 7.3.3 on both. Have one
SB3. The SB plays all music OK from the mini, but Playlists
Yes. All music files play OK in iTunes.
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Hold everything ! I nominated he playlists folder again same as music
folder. It started a playlists scan automatically, and I let it
complete. AND THEN pressed apply at the bottom of the screen. I don't
know if that was necessary. But now it works, and all playlists appear
on the SB3. Sorry to
So far Foobar has been perfect for the way I build playlists.
Admittedly I only have 7,000 songs, but I can load every single song in
Foobar, sort or filter them and then select the ones I want and put them
in a playlist. Foobar allows you to save them in several formats, one
of which is m3u
Mnyb;418795 Wrote:
A first step would be to make it possible to create playlists without
choosing a player.
(A workaround is to choose the controller as player and start to build
a list there but never start it just save it for later use)
Another workaround (I think I even once filed a
Please have a look here, and if you agree vote for the feature
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11565
Thanks
Keith
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Nonreality;418790 Wrote:
Everyone seems to have trouble with playlists, creating them, in SC.
How about a playlist creator that is just a popup window that you can
keep on top and drag files from SC into? Once you get what you want
you just hit save and it's a playlist. Probably too
But then you are stuck creating playlists on your PC, and if you're
going to do that, there are already tons of good music programs that
can do it easily. The problem is that the new playlists then need to be
scanned in by SC, so it adds a delay.
The Playlist Manager plug-in really does this so
Everyone seems to have trouble with playlists, creating them, in SC.
How about a playlist creator that is just a popup window that you can
keep on top and drag files from SC into? Once you get what you want
you just hit save and it's a playlist. Probably too simple or dumb but
I think
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