Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
And i found another usecase for it.. I do run Alarms on some players. Whenever that Alarm is active it wipes the last playlist from that player and adds the alarmplaylist/file as its playlist. So it doesnt matter if that particular DSTM is a bug or a feature. If you really what do "save" your last active playlist when using alarms - you need to save it by hand or script. DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
gregklanderman wrote: > Nice that you found that work-around, but it really seems to just be a > bug in DSTM. > i am pretty sure its a feature not a bug eg /plugins/playhistory (also from Michael) do show these tracks. There was a discussion about "i started with this track and dtsm drifts away from my track" so the feature (i believe so) is - "if you dont touch the playlist made from dtsm and you restart your server - dtsm will start from scratch with your "touched" playlist not with its own. Anyway i am happy with it (and i even have No worries to hack the "add track button" out of my skin) If you think its a issue ask Michael about it. DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
Sound familiar? https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?95219-Recurring-playlist' JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
gregklanderman wrote: > Great idea, I cannot tell you how many times I've accidentally hit play > instead of add over these many years. > > I'm not sure you really have to intercept every update to the current > playlist, possibly just intercepting the clear playlist that happens > when you "play" would be sufficient, and you probably only need to keep > the single most recent one. I'd be happy to have it saved to a fixed > name under the playlists menu. > > Greg YES! Great Greg. I asked this question some years back and the replies I got was that it was really difficult. Intercepting the "clear playlist" seems less difficult. I just have no experience with LMS code and I am not sure if one could achieve it without revising the actual LMS code (i.e. not sure if plugin can do it alone) -thomas -- *Server*: Raspberry Pi 3 running LMS 7.9.0 *Players*: SB receiver + 4 SB boom, two groups: Group1: 3 SB Boom + 1receiver, Group2: 1 SB Boom *Remotes*: Mobile phone 1+ 3 and Asus tablet with SqueezeCtrl, Orange Squeeze and SqueezeCommander *Apps*: Tidal tuc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34475 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
tuc wrote: > > It made me think about another feature that I have been wishing for for > a long time: > Sometimes I (or friends) accidentally zap the active playlist by > pressing "play" to an item found by a search in the music library. I > would like to be able to "go back" to the previous active playlist. Now, > this is quite tricky since it would require every update to the active > playlist to be "saved to disk" and also require functionality to make > the "playlist saved to disk available". > Great idea, I cannot tell you how many times I've accidentally hit play instead of add over these many years. I'm not sure you really have to intercept every update to the current playlist, possibly just intercepting the clear playlist that happens when you "play" would be sufficient, and you probably only need to keep the single most recent one. I'd be happy to have it saved to a fixed name under the playlists menu. Greg gregklanderman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
DJanGo wrote: > > That moves the 1st file to 2.nd place and back again. > And that move is recon by lms and it saves the cached playlist. Nice that you found that work-around, but it really seems to just be a bug in DSTM. I haven't used DSTM but I think I think maybe Michael wrote that plugin? I would post on the plugins forum and see if you can get him to just fix it.. Greg gregklanderman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
DJanGo wrote: > btw: there is a "issue" in the script > > it always move the first tracks to 2.nd postion when there is a 2nd > Track and moves it back to its org. position to ensure dstm filled > playlists are updated. > By doing this the filestamp of the playlist is changed before copied to > the playlistdir. > And that makes the check for newer files later a little bit useless. > > Other than that it should work DJanGo you are a star! I will experiment with how to use your script (how often to run it, how often to rescan playlist etc.). FYI: nc is already installed (it used in your one-liner solution too). I think sed is also installed but I will install it if not (same for awk). Thanks for the inspiration to use shell scripts and CLI togehter. Perhaps I can think of other ways of enhancing LMS functionality with these tools in hand. Have a great weekend. -thomas -- *Server*: Raspberry Pi 3 running LMS 7.9.0 *Players*: SB receiver + 4 SB boom, two groups: Group1: 3 SB Boom + 1receiver, Group2: 1 SB Boom *Remotes*: Mobile phone 1+ 3 and Asus tablet with SqueezeCtrl, Orange Squeeze and SqueezeCommander *Apps*: Tidal tuc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34475 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
DJanGo wrote: > We are talking/writing about the same. > > A saved Playlist- is an entirely different kind of flying altogether!- > ;-) I tried your one-liner yesterday and it works! Thanks a lot. -thomas -- *Server*: Raspberry Pi 3 running LMS 7.9.0 *Players*: SB receiver + 4 SB boom, two groups: Group1: 3 SB Boom + 1receiver, Group2: 1 SB Boom *Remotes*: Mobile phone 1+ 3 and Asus tablet with SqueezeCtrl, Orange Squeeze and SqueezeCommander *Apps*: Tidal tuc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34475 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
DJanGo wrote: > save the script, make it executable and let it run > btw: there is a "issue" in the script it always move the first tracks to 2.nd postion when there is a 2nd Track and moves it back to its org. position to ensure dstm filled playlists are updated. By doing this the filestamp of the playlist is changed before copied to the playlistdir. And that makes the check for newer files later a little bit useless. Other than that it should work DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
tuc wrote:
> Sometimes I (or friends) accidentally zap the active playlist by
> pressing "play" to an item found by a search in the music library. I
> would like to be able to "go back" to the previous active playlist. Now,
> this is quite tricky since it would require every update to the active
> playlist to be "saved to disk" and also require functionality to make
> the "playlist saved to disk available".
> PPS: Long live LMS :-)
tuc wrote:
> PS: I will try your solution to my original post later today and let you
> know how it went.
> PPS: Long live LMS :-)
first please make sure you've got an answer
Code:
which nc
which sed
otherwise you need to install nc / sed before any further action.
save the script, make it executable and let it run
The last line is not working because of the # in front
If you remove that # your lms starts scanning your playlists - snce your
runing a rpi i wasnt sure if you really want that.
Feel free to test it before you add it as a cronjob. You should end in a
playlist in your playlistfolder for every player named
playername_hour.m3u.
If you run it always @ the same hour it should do what you want.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
##vars
port=9090
server=127.0.0.1
hour=`date +%H`
playlistdir=$(grep "playlistdir:"
/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/server.prefs|grep '/'|cut -d ' ' -f2)
players=$(printf "player count ?\nexit\n" | nc $server $port | cut -d ' ' -f
3)
for((i=0; i<$players; i++))
do
playerID=$(printf "player id $i ?\nexit\n"|nc $server $port|cut -d ' ' -f
4|sed 's/%3A/:/g')
player_ID=$(echo $playerID|sed 's/://g')
playername=$(printf "$playerID name ?\nexit\n" | nc $server $port | cut -d '
' -f 3)
printf "$playerID playlist move 0 1\n $playerID playlist move 1 0\nexit
\n"|nc $server $port
if [ `wc -l /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/clientplaylist_$player_ID.m3u |
awk '{print $1}'` -ge "4" ]
then
cp -p /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/clientplaylist_$player_ID.m3u
"$playlistdir/$playername"_$hour.m3u"
fi
done
scanstatus=$(printf "rescan ?\nexit\n"|nc $server $port|cut -d ' ' -f2)
if [ "$scanstatus" = "1" ]
then
echo "lms is already scanning ..aborting"
exit 0
fi
#find "$playlistdir/" -iname "*_$hour.m3u" -mtime 0 &&
squeezeboxserver-scanner --playlists --novideo --noimage --priority 20
>/dev/null
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Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
tuc wrote:
> PS: I will try your solution to my original post later today and let you
> know how it went.
> PPS: Long live LMS :-)
first please make sure you've got an answer
Code:
which nc
which sed
otherwise you need to install nc / sed before any further action.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
##vars
port=9090
server=127.0.0.1
hour=`date +%H`
playlistdir=$(grep "playlistdir:"
/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/server.prefs|grep '/'|cut -d ' ' -f2)
players=$(printf "player count ?\nexit\n" | nc $server $port | cut -d ' ' -f
3)
for((i=0; i<$players; i++))
do
playerID=$(printf "player id $i ?\nexit\n"|nc $server $port|cut -d ' ' -f
4|sed 's/%3A/:/g')
player_ID=$(echo $playerID|sed 's/://g')
playername=$(printf "$playerID name ?\nexit\n" | nc $server $port | cut -d '
' -f 3)
if [ `wc -l /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/clientplaylist_$player_ID.m3u |
awk '{print $1}'` -ge "4" ]
then
cp -p /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/clientplaylist_$player_ID.m3u
"$playlistdir/$playername"_$hour.m3u
fi
done
scanstatus=$(printf "rescan ?\nexit\n"|nc $server $port|cut -d ' ' -f2)
if [ "$scanstatus" = "1" ]
then
echo "lms is already scanning ..aborting"
exit 0
fi
find "$playlistdir/" -iname "*_$hour.m3u" -mtime 0 &&
squeezeboxserver-scanner --playlists --novideo --noimage --priority 20
>/dev/null
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Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
DJanGo wrote: > We are talking/writing about the same. > > A saved Playlist- is an entirely different kind of flying altogether!- > ;-) Again thank you! I have now digested the command you provided (at least to some degree:-)). It is the first time I have thought about what the CLI can really do - amazing! It made me think about another feature that I have been wishing for for a long time: Sometimes I (or friends) accidentally zap the active playlist by pressing "play" to an item found by a search in the music library. I would like to be able to "go back" to the previous active playlist. Now, this is quite tricky since it would require every update to the active playlist to be "saved to disk" and also require functionality to make the "playlist saved to disk available". As a poor man's solution: Saving the current playlist once a day among the "real" playlist pointed to by LMS settings. Such a playlist could have a filename containing the date. I would then delete older playlist. This could be achieved through CLI and crontab (I just don't know how to turn an active playlist into a named playlist). If you are still up for helping me ... Best -thomas PS: I will try your solution to my original post later today and let you know how it went. PPS: Long live LMS :-) -- *Server*: Raspberry Pi 3 running LMS 7.9.0 *Players*: SB receiver + 4 SB boom, two groups: Group1: 3 SB Boom + 1receiver, Group2: 1 SB Boom *Remotes*: Mobile phone 1+ 3 and Asus tablet with SqueezeCtrl, Orange Squeeze and SqueezeCommander *Apps*: Tidal tuc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34475 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
tuc wrote: > Wow, so cool! Thanks! > Just to be sure. We are talking/writing about the same. A saved Playlist- is an entirely different kind of flying altogether!- ;-) DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
DJanGo wrote: > add that line in front of your crontab reboot similar to this: > > pl:ay:er:ma:ca:dd:re:ss -> the mac adresss of the player > > > Code: > > > printf "pl:ay:er:ma:ca:dd:re:ss playlist move 0 1\n pl:ay:er:ma:ca:dd:re:ss playlist move 1 0\nexit \n"|nc 127.0.0.1 9090 > > > > That moves the 1st file to 2.nd place and back again. > And that move is recon by lms and it saves the cached playlist. Wow, so cool! Thanks! Just to be sure. I am talking about the active playlist, not a saved playlist with a name and located in the "playlist" folder as pointed to in the LMS settings. So I just want to keep whatever happened to be playing at the end of the day (before reboot) in order to press "play" in the morning (after reboot) and the songs from yesterday will play. Cheers -thomas -- *Server*: Raspberry Pi 3 running LMS 7.9.0 *Players*: SB receiver + 4 SB boom, two groups: Group1: 3 SB Boom + 1receiver, Group2: 1 SB Boom *Remotes*: Mobile phone 1+ 3 and Asus tablet with SqueezeCtrl, Orange Squeeze and SqueezeCommander *Apps*: Tidal tuc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34475 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
tuc wrote: > I do use "Dont stop the music". I will try your suggestion. Thanks very > much. > > I have a crontab entry that makes the server reboot at night (perhaps > overkill on a linux based system :-)) so it would be even better if I > didn't have to do anything. Or perhaps I could do another crontab job > that casued the playlist to be stored immediately before the reboot. > > -thomas add two lines in front of your crontab similar to this: Code: printf "pl:ay:er:ma:ca:dd:re:ss playlist move 0 1\nexit \n"|nc 127.0.0.0 9090 printf "pl:ay:er:ma:ca:dd:re:ss playlist move 1 0\nexit \n"|nc 127.0.0.0 9090 That moves the 1st file to 2.nd place and back again. And that move is recon by lms and it saves the cached playlist. DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
DJanGo wrote: > Do you use Dont Stop The Music / Lastmix? > > If yes - just add another / remove any track on your own to the playlist > before you stop lms. > Adding tracks from dstm didnt didnt trigger "change the cached / stored > playlist". I do use "Dont stop the music". I will try your suggestion. Thanks very much. I have a crontab entry that makes the server reboot at night (perhaps overkill on a linux based system :-)) so it would be even better if I didn't have to do anything. Or perhaps I could do another crontab job that casued the playlist to be stored immediately before the reboot. -thomas -- *Server*: Raspberry Pi 3 running LMS 7.9.0 *Players*: SB receiver + 4 SB boom, two groups: Group1: 3 SB Boom + 1receiver, Group2: 1 SB Boom *Remotes*: Mobile phone 1+ 3 and Asus tablet with SqueezeCtrl, Orange Squeeze and SqueezeCommander *Apps*: Tidal tuc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34475 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
It should be possible to resolve your problem without you having to start from scratch. Knowing it is a self-install helps to remove some lines of enquiry. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
Paul Webster wrote: > Did you install LMS by yourself or use 3rd-party package like > piCorePlayer (pCP)? Oh, I installed LMS myself. I hadn't looked into pCP. I will have a look now. Cheers. -thomas -- *Server*: Raspberry Pi 3 running LMS 7.9.0 *Players*: SB receiver + 4 SB boom, two groups: Group1: 3 SB Boom + 1receiver, Group2: 1 SB Boom *Remotes*: Mobile phone 1+ 3 and Asus tablet with SqueezeCtrl, Orange Squeeze and SqueezeCommander *Apps*: Tidal tuc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34475 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Do you use Dont Stop The Music / Lastmix? If yes - just add another / remove any track on your own to the playlist before you stop lms. Adding tracks from dstm didnt didnt trigger "change the cached / stored playlist". DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Did you install LMS by yourself or use 3rd-party package like piCorePlayer (pCP)? Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
Paul Webster wrote: > Perhaps implies that the playlist is being stored in memory and being > written to "disk" (much) later. > Are you using pCP to host your LMS? Thanks for your quick reply. Oops, I dont know what pCP is :rolleyes: My LMS is running on a Raspberry Pi on my local network using a wired connection. So I think the answer to your question is 'no'. Best -thomas -- *Server*: Raspberry Pi 3 running LMS 7.9.0 *Players*: SB receiver + 4 SB boom, two groups: Group1: 3 SB Boom + 1receiver, Group2: 1 SB Boom *Remotes*: Mobile phone 1+ 3 and Asus tablet with SqueezeCtrl, Orange Squeeze and SqueezeCommander *Apps*: Tidal tuc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34475 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Perhaps implies that the playlist is being stored in memory and being written to "disk" (much) later. Are you using pCP to host your LMS? Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How to retain active playlist when squeezebox service is restarted
Hi there, I run LMS on a Raspberry Pi with two groups of players. Group1: 4 synced players (1 SB receiver and 3 SB boom), Group2: 1 player (1 SB boom). When I occasionally either reboot the server or restart the squeezebox-server service, the active playlists on the players gets reset to some previosly used active playlist. Typically a playslist from a couple of days ago. Is there any way I can restart the squeezebox-server service and retain the active playlist on all the players? I have tried having a single group but the problem is the same. Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. Best regards, -thomas PS: I am amazed at how well my Raspberry Pi 3 runs LMS only expending 2-5 Watts.:) -- *Server*: Atom D510, 32-bit, dual core with 2 GB RAM running Ubuntu 16.04, LMS 7.9.0 *Players*: SB receiver + 4 SB boom, all players synchronized *Remotes*: 1+ mobile phone and Google Nexus 10 tablet with SqueezeCtrl, Orange Squeeze and SqueezeCommander *Plugins*: Ickstream with Tidal ServerPowerControl Plugin by Gharris Trackstat and other wonderful Erland plugins tuc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34475 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
