Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread Morbeas
oyvindo wrote: All my albums have ALBUMARTIST tagged. Wether or not it is set to VARIOUS ARTISTS or something else depends on the nature of the Album. To me, an album is an album, and it is up to me to lable the Album Artist as I want. I simply expect any program to display all my albums

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread jezbo
Morbeas wrote: Yes but if you have Oyvindo in the ALBUMARTIST tags and also have the compilation tag set, you're going to have some problems. So how about that screenshot? In LMS possibly, I don't think this is a problem to Muso.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread mbonsack
Triode wrote: Squeezelite is a new headless (no user interface) software emulation of a squeezebox which supports high resolution playback, gapless, crossfade and most other squeezebox playback features. As I recall the main limitation with Squeezeslave (not Squeezelite) was high-res

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread dhallag
jezbo wrote: If LMS is on a different machine to Muso, do you have your equivalences/mappings set correctly so that Muso can access the remote files directly? Only if this is set up can it read the cover from tags. Thanks for your attention on this. MUSO and LMS are on the same machine.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread Triode
mbonsack wrote: As I recall the main limitation with Squeezeslave (not Squeezelite) was high-res playback. Now that that issue appears solved, how do the two differ? They both work fine on my Mac... Squeezeslave is still limited to 16bits and 44.1k sample rate and won't do direct

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread jezbo
dhallag wrote: Thanks for your attention on this. MUSO and LMS are on the same machine. Hmm ok, please start muso in debug mode (which is an option on the start menu), clear the artwork on one of your albums which should have hi-res embedded art (option on right click), then click on the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread oyvindo
jezbo wrote: In LMS possibly, I don't think this is a problem to Muso. Well, I have several albums organized that way; i.e. some popular DJ releases an album with his (or her) favorites as a compilation. Then ALBUMARTIST is set to the name of the DJ while each track ARTIST is labelled

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread oyvindo
jezbo wrote: Am considering just that in this current development phase... in particular if you tag with Various Artists that's what it will put it under. I'm not going to drop Titled Artist as a concept though, that's important intelligence in Muso. Excellent :-) And while you're at it,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread dhallag
oyvindo wrote: Well, I have several albums organized that way; i.e. some popular DJ releases an album with his (or her) favorites as a compilation. Then ALBUMARTIST is set to the name of the DJ while each track ARTIST is labelled correctly with the name of tha actual performer or band. This

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread mbonsack
Triode wrote: Squeezeslave is still limited to 16bits and 44.1k sample rate This was recently changed to allow operation to 192k if I'm not mistaken, as that was a fairly important limitation of Squeezelave for many. Squeezelite seems like a true superset though; great work!

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread jezbo
oyvindo wrote: Excellent :-) And while you're at it, consider this; Your sort selection criterias on the top line above the browser window when displaying the Gallery, is currently a subset selected by yourself (among a zillion possible combinations). There are ways to offer user control

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread mbonsack
Triode wrote: Squeezelite is intended to do as much as possible of what squeezeplay does... Indeed, it reports itself as Squeezeplay in iPeng (not Squeezelite). mbonsack's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2013-01-17 Thread Roland0
mherger wrote: It seems that special characters (umlauts etc.) get mangled when the metadata is uploaded to TEN: I was worried about this too. But it might get mangled in the log as well. When I realised it did recognise Züri West as well as Zueri West or Zuri West, I stopped

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread Triode
mbonsack wrote: This was recently changed to allow operation to 192k if I'm not mistaken Squeezeplay was - not sure that squeezeslave as been as there's more code to change. If you want a headless solution, squeezelite may be right for you...

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread Triode
dhallag wrote: is there a way to point winamp to the local player stream in efforts to use winamp to display what is currently playing? (not looking to control anything by winamp, just to display what's currently playing) I don't believe there's a winamp plugin which will do this - it would

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2013-01-17 Thread Roland0
treble wrote: THis looks like a great new Plugin! I installed it last night. Unfortunately about 5,000 songs are in the missing log (of a total of about 25,000). I looked in the seed catalog option, maybe that will help with the missing songs, but I don't have that option on my blender

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread Triode
Local Player now updated to version 0.7 which uses the latest version of squeezelite which fixes a few bugs. Please post feedback here.. Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2013-01-17 Thread azinck3
Hi Pippin, I'm not a current iPeng user (I don't even own an iDevice) but am considering picking up an iPod Touch to use almost solely as a SB replacement. The primary use of the iPod would be to sit in a dock on a nightstand and act as a SB player. Some questions about iPeng's player

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread azinck3
I haven't updated to the latest version today so maybe this is already resolved, but changes to the player name (from local player) don't stick between LMS restarts. I'm on Windows 8. Anyone else seeing this? azinck3's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread Triode
azinck3 wrote: I haven't updated to the latest version today so maybe this is already resolved, but changes to the player name (from local player) don't stick between LMS restarts. I'm on Windows 8. Anyone else seeing this? I'm afraid that's a feature - it resets the name to Local Player

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2013-01-17 Thread pippin
azinck3 wrote: What about while it sits, idle, effectively off as far as LMS is concerned? Are there any options for what is displayed? Are there LMS screensavers that work with iPeng's player? No screen saver. iPeng will display whatever state you left it in, there's a NowPlaying

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread oyvindo
jezbo wrote: So if you selected sort by Album Artist, what will it do with albums that don't specify Album Artist? Suppress them? You may have this filled in for all your albums (in which case sort by Artist does what you want doesn't it?) but I rarely do - only when the Artist fields at

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread azinck3
Triode wrote: I'm afraid that's a feature - it resets the name to Local Player - happy to take consensus on whether this is a problem...? Seems like it should just behave like every other player. My server happens to be in my family room so I'd love to call it family room to be consistent

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread oyvindo
dhallag wrote: In LMS, under MyMusic options, there are three options for Complilations I have in order selection option 1, option 1, and option 2. Everything is grouped under Album Artist in both LMS and Muso. Works great as both LMS and Muso group the compilation albums under the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread Morbeas
oyvindo wrote: Well, I have several albums organized that way; i.e. some popular DJ releases an album with his (or her) favorites as a compilation. Then ALBUMARTIST is set to the name of the DJ while each track ARTIST is labelled correctly with the name of tha actual performer or band. This

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2013-01-17 Thread Michael Herger
True, a lot of tracks get still recognized (eg. some Einstürzende Neubauten), but I'd assume there's a limit to what TEN can interpolate. Could you please give 0.99 another try? It should improve/fix the encoding issue. -- Michael ___ plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2013-01-17 Thread Michael Herger
I can now not play tracks as a static playlist This should be improved in 0.99. There are still cases where it might fail, though. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2013-01-17 Thread garym
mherger wrote: I can now not play tracks as a static playlist This should be improved in 0.99. There are still cases where it might fail, though. -- Michael I'm not seeing .99 in the plugins. In my case .98 still showing with no updates available.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread Morbeas
oyvindo wrote: Exactly my point. LMS does not recognize the COMPILATION tag, but instead let's me decide how things should be interpreted within the capabilities of the software. Works for me :-) I have selected option 2,1,2 Maybe I'm misunderstanding this comment but LMS very much

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2013-01-17 Thread Michael Herger
I'm not seeing .99 in the plugins. In my case .98 still showing with no updates available. It's been out for a few minutes only. Check again in a bit. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2013-01-17 Thread azinck3
Thanks for the response, pippin. That's very helpful as I plan my approach. Sounds like using the IOS screensaver gets me close to what I want except for the bit about the display itself turning off, but I expect there's some way around that. I mis-typed when I mentioned wanting the sleep

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread TimT
My server is a WD MyBookLive. I can install Squeezelite via the third-party plugin but even after restarting LMS the Local Player will not show up in the list of player names. I stopped LMS running, opened a command line and entered the following on the server: usermod -a -G audio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2013-01-17 Thread wowo
mherger wrote: I'm not seeing .99 in the plugins. In my case .98 still showing with no updates available. It's been out for a few minutes only. Check again in a bit. -- Michael Thanks. I had the same problem as callesoroe: With 0.99 i can now play these tracks as a Static

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread MDE
Just a minor addition to my previous suggestion on this (to be able to delete the list). Could there be a display of the total playing time of the queue - very handy when putting together an evening's listening? MDE's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2013-01-17 Thread pippin
azinck3 wrote: Sounds like using the IOS screensaver gets me close to what I want except for the bit about the display itself turning off, but I expect there's some way around that. I don't think there's a way around that. You have to be aware that these devices are created as MOBILE

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread Wirrunna
azinck3 wrote: Seems like it should just behave like every other player. My server happens to be in my family room so I'd love to call it family room to be consistent with all my other zones. Also, local is a relative term which makes it a little confusing if you're controlling the player

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2013-01-17 Thread dhallag
Triode wrote: I don't believe there's a winamp plugin which will do this - it would need to emulate a squeezebox.. You are better looking for a squeezebox based controller application such as Moose or other things discussed on this site. thanks for the response. the idea is to use the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread oyvindo
Morbeas wrote: That's probably your problem right there. Do those albums happen to be the problem ones by any chance? Just to test it, why don't you remove the ALBUMARTIST tag from one of these albums (retaining the COMPILATION flag) and rescan LMS then do a sync from muso and see what

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MUSO - Support Thread

2013-01-17 Thread jezbo
oyvindo wrote: If the ALBUMARTIST tag is left blank, it's because I want it blank or made a mistake. A properly designed application should not deliberatley attempt to override or correct user mistakes secretly, but may well suggest a corrective action and let the user decide. How Muso