Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-16 Thread PasTim
mherger wrote: LMS (7.9) has a habit of rescanning items if it sees they have changed. This behaviour should not have changed in 7.9 compared to 7.8. How is this being triggered? Does it discover those changes automatically (then disable auto scan)? Or when you BMF to a changed file?

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

2014-12-16 Thread marcoc1712
ralphy wrote: I've build an OSX 10.4+ i386 squeezelite 1.6.5 on a 10.6 system for you to try. You'll find squeezelite-1.6.5.499-osx-i386.tar.gz on mediafire in the squeezelite/osx folder. You can also follow the i386 readme to install and run it at startup. Hopefully it works on

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

2014-12-16 Thread jallison
Thanks tcutting phred for clearing up the variable names and references. Totally agree that getting custom clock skins to look good is a matter of lots of trial and error! I've been using the same one for years but all this activity has me motivated to update and improve it. Thanks again. -

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

2014-12-16 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: That is strange. I am looking at my Touch right now, and it's 8:34PM and showing a night icon. You could try changing the logging for SuperDateTime to debug - I added a lot of debug logging so I could make sure it's doing what I expect. Could you possibly be pointing to a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [HOW TO] Squeezelite player on Windows 8 step by step

2014-12-16 Thread gorman
Great tutorial, thanks! A heads up for people who might place squeezelite in a directory with spaces in its name. In the .bat file you need to use quotes, like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\SqueezeLite\squeezelite-win.exe -n WhateverYouWantAsAName -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

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

2014-12-16 Thread tcutting
phred wrote: First of all, that's a really nice touch changing the logic to read the time from the query rather than local. It enabled me to test the night icons here in the daytime by entering a weather code for Hawaii. And with v 5.10.5, I do not get them. I stop LMS and exit from it.

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

2014-12-16 Thread bluetdi
phred wrote: ... I also noticed that the Display String Abbreviations are missing on the SDT set-up page:... Here is my latest strings.txt, also with german translations. If you change it (and/or other files) against an older one you must stop LMS before and then replace it. A complete

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
I ran that C code now to try to determine the capabilities of my card. First, I put the ALSA driver in as the argument, compiled and ran the code, and then put in my Wolfson card as an argument (listed by aplay as sndrpiwsp) and ran it again. Below are the results: 16982 Even though the program

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

2014-12-16 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: Try replacing the strings.txt file from the previous version. I will be out of town for a couple of days and won't be able to help much. I know you're out of town for a bit, but I wanted to update the issue. Replacing the 5.10.5 strings.txt with that from 5.10.4 gives me

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread bpa
This is a standard alsa program and it interacts with ALSA API. Since you didn't supply a device on the command line it is testing the default device hw:0,0 As far as Alsa is concerned hw:0,0 is a playback device. why don't you show what arecord -l returns and the supply the wolfoson input

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
As far as I can see here, it lists the recording device the same way as the playback device: 16983 I'm not sure how I would specify the recording device in that C code. Thanks, Michael +---+ |Filename: arecord -l result.png

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

2014-12-16 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: Try replacing the strings.txt file from the previous version. I will be out of town for a couple of days and won't be able to help much. I know you're out of town for a bit, but I wanted to update the issue. Replacing the 5.10.5 strings.txt with that from 5.10.4 doesn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [HOW TO] Squeezelite player on Windows 8 step by step

2014-12-16 Thread Man in a van
gorman wrote: Great tutorial, thanks! Seconded Now I need a tutorial for the uninstallplease:confused: atb Ronnie. Man in a van's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43627 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread bpa
Have you set up the wolfson card for line in audio record ? The following is from the driver software Code: #!/bin/bash #Record from onboard Line Input to AP # +9dB input PGA gain amixer -Dhw:0 cset name='IN3L Volume' 8 amixer -Dhw:0 cset name='IN3R

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
I used a preconfigured script which came with the Wolfson setup package. I'll reset that and give yours a try and let you know in a few minutes. Michael mike_b16's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread bpa
I don't have this card so I don't know anything about it - all I am doing is looking though its code. This card is supposed to be able play back and also record auio in analog and digital yet iot only has one ALSA device hw:0,0. From point point of ignorance - thismeans card is setup in some

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
I ran the script you gave me to enable recording from the line in. I was able to record a file at 16/44.1 and play it back over the LMS to one of my players. Recording at 32/44.1 wouldn't playback at all over LMS, and I haven't configured the ALSA mixer for local playback. I put the squeezeplug

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with Multi-Library Plugin

2014-12-16 Thread arthurb
erland wrote: I'm very interested to hear how you have configured it and what kind of problems you had and what the solution was, this will be great input for future versions which hopefully can make the plugins easier to use for other people in the future. Hello Erland, I have been really

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread bpa
mike_b16 wrote: I ran the script you gave me to enable recording from the line in. I was able to record a file at 16/44.1 and play it back over the LMS to one of my players. Recording at 32/44.1 wouldn't playback at all over LMS, and I haven't configured the ALSA mixer for local playback.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
Apologies. Do you just want the scripts that configure ALSA or the files with the kernels and such? mike_b16's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63606 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread bpa
mike_b16 wrote: Apologies. Do you just want the scripts that configure ALSA or the files with the kernels and such? Just the ALSA scripts to start with. I don't know what the kernel scripts are - what do they do - are they custom building the kernel or modifying values in /proc or

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
I didn't know how to untar files in Windows and wanted to post this quickly, so I took a screenshot of each code (they're all less than one page). Here is Reset_paths.sh (used to reset the AlsaMixer to output nothing as far as I understand): 16986 This is Record_from_lineIn.sh, which I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread bpa
In future can you post text and not screen pictures - with text file compares can be performed - with bit maps it is a visual check which is never good as hidden chars can't be seen. Install 7-Zip on Windows it can unpack most formats. What is the sequence you do when running your record

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-16 Thread PasTim
Is there no option to tell LMS never to rescan unless I explicitly ask it to? This is quite important for custom scan users. And Erland, apologies for not noticing some earlier responses from you. I've no idea why I missed them. My main question is whether there is some reason why the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
In future can you post text and not screen pictures - with text file compares can be performed - with bit maps it is a visual check which is never good as hidden chars can't be seen. Will do! What is the sequence you do when running your record tests. With these arecord-to-flac tests I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread bpa
To get hw_param on record okease 1. run the reset script - this shoudl disable all functionality 2. run the record from line script 3. run the hw_params program Before because you had enabled playback the hw_param was picking up the playback capability - the above should mean only record is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
I ran through these steps and it's still listing the device as Playback. Do you have another way in mind? Michael mike_b16's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63606 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
Is there no option to tell LMS never to rescan unless I explicitly ask it to? This is quite important for custom scan users. Not to scan without user interaction is the default behaviour. That's why I asked when you experience those scans. What is triggering them? Because by default LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread bpa
mike_b16 wrote: I ran through these steps and it's still listing the device as Playback. Do you have another way in mind? I think this means you can't trust the wolfson alsa driver or scripts. It doesn't seem disable functionality as promised. as a double check using alsamixer with wolfson

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
After selecting my card in the alsamixer, it looks like there are 50ish playback devices for which I can change the levels/switch them on or off. Under capture, there are roughly 30 devices. Master volumes, equalizers, IN3R, things like that. I believe this has to do with the available

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-16 Thread PasTim
mherger wrote: Is there no option to tell LMS never to rescan unless I explicitly ask it to? This is quite important for custom scan users. Not to scan without user interaction is the default behaviour. That's why I asked when you experience those scans. What is triggering them?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
I muted (or reduced to zero) everything in the playback section of the alsamixer. Rebooted, recompiled hw_params and it still says my Wolfson card is a playback device. I'm totally stumped. Michael mike_b16's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread bpa
mike_b16 wrote: After selecting my card in the alsamixer, it looks like there are 50ish playback devices for which I can change the levels/switch them on or off. Under capture, there are roughly 30 devices. Master volumes, equalizers, IN3R, things like that. I believe this has to do with the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-16 Thread mike_b16
In this sort of situation, I normally take a break and then after a day or so review all the information gathered so far. Others users report that recording works so there must be a setup or test procedure issue which a review may spot. Yeah, I think I'll take a day and think on all of these

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
On one occasion I had added an item to a folder, and played it from the music folder, without a rescan. Ah, that's the BMF acronym: Browe Music Folder. When you do so, the folders you're browsing to _will_ be scanned, as otherwise you wouldn't see new files and folders. This does indeed

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-16 Thread erland
mherger wrote: The problem you're having is that this kind of small change triggers a bigger action. I do understand the problem, and it's the reason why 7.9 currently doesn't update the fulltext index after a BMF rescan. I've been thinking about ways how to improve this, but haven't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-16 Thread erland
PasTim wrote: And Erland, apologies for not noticing some earlier responses from you. I've no idea why I missed them. My main question is whether there is some reason why the multilibrary 'standard' library id might change from 1 to 6 or 7 without me asking it to? It really has happened

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
Shouldn't post scan actions be implemented using the scanner hooks instead of subscribing for rescan done ? That's the best option if it's little processing involved. In the case of the fulltext index this doesn't really apply, as it involves not only a single track, but the whole album and