Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Herger
Unfortunately the majority of the listening I do isn't on my local collection - mainly online services, primarily Napster and Sirius. That's a limitation in SBS, nothing I can change with the plugin. I think there's an enhancement request to allow for richer context menus on those services.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.72

2010-02-08 Thread wonder boy
One more thing...with a various artist CD the artist is displayed on Moose as just one of the contributors to the album adn when I double click to play the album it plays just that track. Is this a tagging issue as in sbs same album plays fully no problems. Help appreciated -- wonder boy

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?

2010-02-08 Thread pippin
Does the plugins have an API through which I could retrieve a menu for a certain album or artist from iPeng? -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Herger
Does the plugins have an API through which I could retrieve a menu for a certain album or artist from iPeng? Sure (side-effect of the Global search support I've added): albumreview get (album_id:123|album:TITLE) albumcredits get (album_id:123|album:TITLE) If you use the ID, the plugin will

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?

2010-02-08 Thread pippin
Cool. So I could use that to retrofit the menus for Napster, Rhapsody, whatever. Can I get a menu-mode reply if I add menu:1? -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Herger
Can I get a menu-mode reply if I add menu:1? Yes. Actually I think the non-menu mode is broken... ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Herger
Do you have a translatable menu string? Any way to confirm the plugin is installed? if (Slim::Utils::Strings::getstring('PLUGIN_ALBUMREVIEW') ne 'PLUGIN_ALBUMREVIEW') ? PLUGIN_ALBUMCREDITS PLUGIN_BIOGRAPHY ___ plugins mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread nicketynick
Mike Meyer;515045 Wrote: Hi Nick. Yes, those instructions are what I use to take the latest plugin.pm file and put it inside the 5.8.7 version of the plugin and run it on 7.3.3. I plan on going to a newer version of SqueezeCenter soon too, just haven't found the time lately. Thanks

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread Frorsteig
Thanks for updating the plugin. The alert is a nice new feature. However, for me it shows the alert a little too frequently which I find distracting (weather/time for 2 seconds then back to alert). Is there a way to change the interval at which it is shown or an option to turn it off? (I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread nicketynick
Mike Meyer;515045 Wrote: Hi Nick. Yes, those instructions are what I use to take the latest plugin.pm file and put it inside the 5.8.7 version of the plugin and run it on 7.3.3. I plan on going to a newer version of SqueezeCenter soon too, just haven't found the time lately. Hi Mike,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Meyer
nicketynick;515186 Wrote: Hi Mike, I'm a little confused by something which I'm sure is pretty elementary: My SDT-plugin.par file isn't located where you indicate in instruction #3, its in Program Files/SqeezeCenter/server/plugins/superdatetime/lib (which is where it is originally dropped

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.72

2010-02-08 Thread usch
Interesting. Various Artists albums don't show up here at all when I select an artist. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread nicketynick
Aaargh, I'm still out of my depth here!!! When I download SDT 5.8.14, there is no plugin.pm file - do I need to go look somewhere else for it??? (Isn't it created when the plugin installs?? Its hidden in the .par file, right?) More help appreciated! Thanks, Nick -- nicketynick Wireless SB3,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Meyer
nicketynick;515211 Wrote: Aaargh, I'm still out of my depth here!!! When I download SDT 5.8.14, there is no plugin.pm file - do I need to go look somewhere else for it??? (Isn't it created when the plugin installs?? Its hidden in the .par file, right?) More help appreciated! Thanks, Nick

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-02-08 Thread indifference_engine
Grizzly, 1) Download the attached 'SqueezeIR.xml.txt' file and copy it to your controller into the 'SqueezeIR\data' folder as 'SqueezeIR.xml', overwriting the original sample file that came with SqueezeIR. 2) Copy your lirc file into the same folder. I have assumed you have called it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-02-08 Thread Grizzly
Hiya, Thanks for the response, I had a look at the posts you recommended and even copied it and upload (I new it wouldn't work) but it has given me a better understanding. just got back and seen your reply which I will now try and report back. One question that popped into my head whilst

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-02-08 Thread indifference_engine
Grizzly;515220 Wrote: One question that popped into my head whilst reading the posts - you mention the blaster pluggin for the boom. Would this be a way of decoding the denon remote to find the correct values if the lirc file doesn't work? Yes, the irBlaster plugin can create a lirc file

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread nicketynick
I expected that's how it would work. Thanks for providing the .pm file though!! I think I managed to replace it properly in the zip file, and then renamed it to par I'll know in a second here if everything is working again. Hey-looks like I'm in business!! Something seems a little funky

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-02-08 Thread Grizzly
Hiya, Bad news - It didn't control the Denon, but it did disable the volume from the Duet receiver. So I assume something must be happening. I have attached the messages file. I also took your advice had a look at the XML and it seems a lot clearer now. So If you think averything is 'working'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-02-08 Thread indifference_engine
The messages file looks good and the fact that your volume buttons got disabled proves SqueezeIR is running. I guess therefore the lirc file is the wrong one. You could try working through the files on the lirc database until you find one that works (remember to edit the xml file to match the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing

2010-02-08 Thread mkanet
BPA, for whatever it's worth, I want to thank you for genuinely caring about softsqueeze. There are more people than you could ever imagine that use it... not the way you imagine though. Many of us use your softsqueze.jar and use our own GUI frontend. Softsqueeze.jar doesnt know the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Biography or Album Review Support for Sirius and/or Napster?

2010-02-08 Thread spedinfargo
While you guys are solving the world's problems here I'll answer the original question on which version I'm using... ;-) Version: 7.4.1 - r28947 @ Tue Oct 20 08:13:15 PDT 2009 The error is definitely when I ran the Biography link from the Sirius plugin, though, so don't spend any time on it.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread fsoares
It has been fixed! Or, at least, it is working again! Thanks, guys! -- fsoares fsoares's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4199 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.72

2010-02-08 Thread lobstah
I am new to Moose, and think it is awesomely fast and easy to use. I have Moose 0.72 running on a Windows 7 machine. The Moose.exe file is on a folder on the Desktop. My music collection consists of about 1500 albums. Sorry to say I'm having a problem getting the cover art scan feature to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBC Radio (Beta) for Radio/Touch (7.5 only)

2010-02-08 Thread majones
Triode / bpa - with this applet, will the Radio be able to access BBC Listen Again directly, even in the event that there is no local version of SBS and mysb.com is down? -- majones majones's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.72

2010-02-08 Thread wonder boy
usch;515206 Wrote: Interesting. Various Artists albums don't show up here at all when I select an artist. It's very bizarre, in cover chooser if I hover over a cover for various artist comilation albums it lists just one artist and when I hit play just plays one track. Retagged all various

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBC Radio (Beta) for Radio/Touch (7.5 only)

2010-02-08 Thread Triode
No - as the current firmware needs a server (local or MySB.com) to control playback. The applet allows all of the stream menus to be done on the player but it still relies on the server. (It would probably be possible to make it entirely stand alone in the applet, but this would mean more work

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] lyrics in ipeng?

2010-02-08 Thread vitoruch
hey, have U already found a nice mass-tagger? :) -- vitoruch vitoruch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13918 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70347

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Napster not streaming some albums ?

2010-02-08 Thread spedinfargo
I get this all the time as well (menu tries to move to the right but fails) - but I just assumed that it was because the album wasn't available for streaming. I guess I never went back to the Napster Web player to see if that was indeed the case. Next time I run into it I'll look it up on the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Napster Playlists and shuffle

2010-02-08 Thread spedinfargo
Just a follow-up: I can recreate the error using the Controller to start a Napster playlist... although I can go back and shuffle through my shuffle settings back to shuffle song after starting the playlist and the rest of the songs shuffle for me. whew I think one poster already mentioned

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread BoomX2
mbonsack;513797 Wrote: Often when viewing sports scores, I'd like to tune into the game. It would be great if TV/radio availability could be reported on line 1, like: College Basketball (ESPN2) Illini @ NW 5:30p and so forth for each game displayed. If there's no TV/radio you could

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing

2010-02-08 Thread bpa
As I said before I cannot test these services as they are not available to me. Softsqueeze is not my code - I just do some basic maintenance on it to keep it ticking over until SqueezePlay is ready (which is taking longer than expected). Changing Softsqueeze to add some additional status would

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing

2010-02-08 Thread mkanet
This is very helpful advice. Yes, I have a feeling this issue I'm seeing is related to a specific machine; which happens to be my squeezebox server as well. I did install a TCP/IP hack to increase the limit of TCPIIP connections since I use this machine for several different TCP/IP related

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing

2010-02-08 Thread bpa
One scenario for TCP Reset happens with media players which don't ack TCP packets until they have been processed ready to play. If you have large no. of TCP buffers then many packets will have been received but not acked - if you are using a high compressions (e.g. slow speed mP3) or big window

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread twylie
SDT v.5.8.14 running well on my Thecus N5200 w/ 7.4.1. thanks again for the updates to get us back to full functionality. -- twylie Thecus N5200 - transporter - Krell KRC2 - 4 x nuforce 8b - Von Schweikert VR-4 Gen III Thecus N5200 - SB3 - Monarchy DIP - Monarchy Super DIP - Monarchy 18b -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing

2010-02-08 Thread mkanet
Okay BPA I have a feeling this might be easier than you thought... below, are the two utilities I used to manipulate default Vista TCP/IP behavior. I would like to know what's safe and what's not. The feature I use most is disabling the ridiculously low default limit of TCP/IP connections on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread GoCubs
Frorsteig;515171 Wrote: Thanks for updating the plugin. The alert is a nice new feature. However, for me it shows the alert a little too frequently which I find distracting (weather/time for a few seconds then back to alert). Is there a way to change the interval at which it is shown or

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread GoCubs
mbonsack;515058 Wrote: Here's my log from a recent (5.8.14) infinite star event that happened this evening (about 6:30 PST) on 2/7/10. [10-02-07 11:13:40.0182] Plugins::SuperDateTime::Plugin::gotErrorViaHTTP (5683) error getting http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/scoreboard [10-02-07

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing

2010-02-08 Thread bpa
You really need to put some effort into determining the problem rather than tweaking parameters. The perf tweak looks most likely to start the TCP problems due to unacked packets if that is the prblem you are having. A problem with these tweaks - the method to undo the changes is often flawed

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing

2010-02-08 Thread mkanet
http://half-open.com/ explains it in a very short and precise description (better than what I can say; which isn't registry based. It just replaces the tcpip.sys file. The other registry based tweaks contain an exact copy of the vista defaults (I even double checked before applying them;

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread Frorsteig
GoCubs;515356 Wrote: Do you display any sports scores or just the time/weather. The weather alert is treated just like a sports score item. As such you can control how many seconds the time is shown before it will show the weather alert/sports scores with the PLUGIN level (not player) SDP

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-02-08 Thread PRGeno
GoCubs;515356 Wrote: Do you display any sports scores or just the time/weather. The weather alert is treated just like a sports score item. As such you can control how many seconds the time is shown before it will show the weather alert/sports scores with the PLUGIN level (not player) SDP