Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Is was always rumoured that three sources were used but I wonder if it > > actually worked correctly. I know that Judie Tzuke lyrics were only > > available on Genius, so unless the lyrics have suddenly appeared on > > Chart Lyrics maybe one of the recent updates fixed it. >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty returns wrong "count" value

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
The paging parameters ( and ) are set by the client much as squeezeplay etc. does it. Only squeezeplay always does [0, 200] while we initially use [0, 1]. This is done to quickly get the count, so we can set up the UI. Other items are then collected in background in chunks of 20 (i.e.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2020-09-22 Thread mherger
Ok, I'm seeing that they're handling stuff oddly. In eg. the albums list I'd get Mötley in the metadata, but the album's artist is listed as Motley (without the Umlaut). Or the album name does have it, but the artist name not. You can see this on their web page, too: 31648 Please let them know

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
That said, I have another comment. I've been enjoying the Online Music Library Integration between Qobuz and LMS, but lately, bands whose names contain special characters, or umlauts, started appearing duplicated. For example, Mötley Crüe and Motley Crue, Blue Öyster Cult and Blue Would the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
Going back to the missing album artwork pre-cached files, I enabled Debug logging and saw what it did with a particular album that has no embedded artwork or image files in the album folder. Could you please share a screenshot of your MAI settings? Never mind, I found the issue. I had a check

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
Going back to the missing album artwork pre-cached files, I enabled Debug logging and saw what it did with a particular album that has no embedded artwork or image files in the album folder. Could you please share a screenshot of your MAI settings? -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
Is was always rumoured that three sources were used but I wonder if it actually worked correctly. I know that Judie Tzuke lyrics were only available on Genius, so unless the lyrics have suddenly appeared on Chart Lyrics maybe one of the recent updates fixed it. ChartLyrics AFAICT is user

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2020-09-22 Thread pippin
Tony T wrote: > The Music and Artist Information plug-in, is downloading lyrics that > already exist in the FLAC Tag when using iPeng. Seems that it’s because > iPeng “is not sending the track_id with the request. Therefore when > called by iPeng the plugin doesn't know we're dealing with a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2020-09-22 Thread pippin
Tony T wrote: > I know…. Since when "No Lyrics" are shown, iPeng says to "click here to > find out how", it should be updated to reflect the MAI plugin. Good point. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
fastfwd wrote: > Genius may have only recently been added as a lyrics source: > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?99537-Announce-Music-amp-Artist-Information-plugin=986590=1#post986590Could > be. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread fastfwd
slartibartfast wrote: > know that Judie Tzuke lyrics were only available on Genius, so unless > the lyrics have suddenly appeared on Chart Lyrics maybe one of the > recent updates fixed it. Genius may have only recently been added as a lyrics source:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread fastfwd
mr-b wrote: > Is anyone using the album lookup i.e. tick-boxes 1 & 2 and are there > album image files in their artwork folders? My LMS 8.0 is configured that way, and my experience mirrors yours: I see in the scanner log that some image files are found and "pre-cached", but nothing is stored

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread mr-b
Going back to the missing album artwork pre-cached files, I enabled Debug logging and saw what it did with a particular album that has no embedded artwork or image files in the album folder. The scanner log said: [20-09-22 21:23:20.1875] Plugins::MusicArtistInfo::Common::cleanupAlbumName (28)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
Tony T wrote: > I was wondering that myself a few days ago, so I took a peek at the > plug-in, and looks like there are 3 sources > > > Code: > > > mnt/CACHE/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/MusicArtistInfo/Lyrics$ la > total 24 > drwxr-xr-x2 tc

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread Tony T
slartibartfast wrote: > Has the lyrics part of the plugin been tweaked recently? I have just > noticed that Judie Tzuke lyrics are now available when they weren't a > few weeks ago. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I was wondering that myself a few days ago, so I took a peek at the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-22 Thread w3wilkes
slartibartfast wrote: > I think it has been discussed before and unfortunately you can't access > Extras. Thanks for letting me know. Main system - Rock Solid with LMS 7.9.4 Official on WHS 2011 - 2 Duets and Squeeseslave Cabin system - Rock solid with LMS 7.9.3 Official on Win10 Pro - 1

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
slartibartfast wrote: > On the subject of lyrics, is ChartLyrics the main or only source used? I > just looked for Judie Tzuke song lyrics and only a couple are available > on Chartlyrics and that is reflected in the plugin failing to find > lyrics for all the songs I tried. I thought it tried

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Qobuz.com streaming plugin

2020-09-22 Thread chavezdaniel
Thanks for the support. BTW, I have a couple of additional comments regarding Qobuz and LMS integration (It's what I use 90% of the time). On Qobuz, some songs come with additional info in parentheses, like what mix, remix, version, demo, etc this song is. This is more common on special edition

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
w3wilkes wrote: > With the flurry of activity around the Home button I'm wondering if this > question was missed?I think it has been discussed before and unfortunately > you can't access Extras. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-22 Thread w3wilkes
w3wilkes wrote: > How do I get to the stuff in the Extras group of stuff like SQL Playlist > and Playlist Generator from Material skin? With the flurry of activity around the Home button I'm wondering if this question was missed? Main system - Rock Solid with LMS 7.9.4 Official on WHS 2011

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty returns wrong "count" value

2020-09-22 Thread minamanda
Thanks for the reply. Actually I don't call spotty directly. The request/response is from the Squeezer app, which implements the CometD protocol. The paging parameters ( and ) are set by the client much as squeezeplay etc. does it. Only squeezeplay always does [0, 200] while we initially use

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-22 Thread castalla
Stan Pulsar wrote: > You're correct about this being from selecting 'More'. And yes, now that > you mentioned it, it may very well be only just after setting the > rating. Thanks for the upcoming fix, then. > > About the displayed year: OK let's wait for Michael's comment. Again, if > this is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-09-22 Thread TomekWaw
mherger wrote: > > > That's completely different understanding that mine :)[/color] > > But he's right. Ok, so it means that somehow Spotty was trying to advertise LMS players under different account that my "main", that was configured as the only one at first, than as the first of two. How

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
My understanding of that check box is that if your connect devices are logged in to the same Spotify account as the Spotify app then they should show up as devices whether the box is checked or not. Checking the box stops your devices showing up as devices in someone else's Spotify app. That's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
I have a Spotify premium family account, and I already don't see any of my kids content with the pre-4.4 Spotty plugin ? Did you configure all accounts? Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-09-22 Thread TomekWaw
slartibartfast wrote: > My understanding of that check box is that if your connect devices are > logged in to the same Spotify account as the Spotify app then they > should show up as devices whether the box is checked or not. Checking > the box stops your devices showing up as devices in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
TomekWaw wrote: > I might have solved the issue... It's a shame for me, but haven't > read all the options carefully. > > [v] *Don't announce Squeezebox players running in Spotify Connect mode > in your network. Check this option if you don't want your Spotify > Connect enabled Squeezebox

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
Tony T wrote: > If the question was where is the downloaded album art stored, looks like > nowhere if you didn’t check box 2 > Then the album art is stored in the artists album folder, unless the > artist folder at the bottom is defined.I don't download album art. Sent from my Pixel 3a using

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread Tony T
slartibartfast wrote: > Do you need the first check box to be ticked? I have the top two boxes > unticked. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk If the question was where is the downloaded album art stored, looks like nowhere if you didn’t check box 2 Then the album art is stored in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
d6jg wrote: > Box 1. Yes. See the [i] - if you leave it unticked my understanding is > that the lookup is on demand which is sub optimal when looking at a long > list of Artists and won't populate (in my case) the > /mnt/storage/artistart folder. > Box 2. Optional. I have 100% cover art so

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-09-22 Thread TomekWaw
I might have solved the issue... It's a shame for me, but haven't read all the options carefully. [v] *Don't announce Squeezebox players running in Spotify Connect mode in your network. Check this option if you don't want your Spotify Connect enabled Squeezebox player to show up in all

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > Do you need the first check box to be ticked? I have the top two boxes > unticked. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Box 1. Yes. See the [i] - if you leave it unticked my understanding is that the lookup is on demand which is sub optimal when looking at a long

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
d6jg wrote: > This is the correct setup to have MAI fetch and store Artist images and > lyrics > > Both folders must be writable by the user that runs LMS. If you are > using a piCorePlayer also make sure there is sufficient disk space > available for the folders and that they are not within

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread d6jg
This is the correct setup to have MAI fetch and store Artist images and lyrics Both folders must be writable by the user that runs LMS. If you are using a piCorePlayer also make sure there is sufficient disk space available for the folders and that they are not within the volatile RAM area.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread mr-b
Just noticed that the album lookup time has gone back up again. Album cover lookup (4256 of 4256) Complete 00:26:55 Artist picture lookup (2346 of 2346) Complete 00:08:15 mr-b's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2020-09-22 Thread mr-b
Filezilla copies a file to all the above folders plus mai_coverart. mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99537

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty returns wrong "count" value

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
In recent spotty versions (not sure when it began) I get a wrong value in the count field of the response. I was expecting to get the number of items available as I have previously got, and all other queries do. Instead I get the "itemsPerResponse" parameter back as count. TBH: I didn't know of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-22 Thread cpd73
Stan Pulsar wrote: > Ah, never mind, I got it. > > This is something I already experienced, not at all related to Material > Skin I think : > > Somehow after a full DB rescan, if a player had a playlist populated > -before- the rescan, this playlist is still 'working' (and getting new >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-22 Thread Stan Pulsar
Ah, never mind, I got it. This is something I already experienced, not at all related to Material Skin I think : Somehow after a full DB rescan, if a player had a playlist populated -before- the rescan, this playlist is still 'working' (and getting new tracks if 'smart'), but it doesn't show

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-22 Thread cpd73
Stan Pulsar wrote: > On another topic : am I missing something or is the trackstat rating > overlay gone in the mobile version ? Shows for me, at the top of the cover. Previously it was below the cover, but due to changes to allow more space for radio station details I moved it. Looking at it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-22 Thread Stan Pulsar
On another topic : am I missing something or is the trackstat rating overlay gone in the mobile version ? (in browser or in the apk) I know this can be seen and set by going to 'More' but this isn't nearly as handy. Talking about the 'Now playing' screen.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-09-22 Thread Grumpy Bob
Spotty works fine on my server (Raspberry Pi 3B) running piCorePlayer 6.1.0 and LMS 8pm . Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 3/piCoreplayer/LMS8.0.0/Material with files on QNAP TS-251A Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 > Rega Fono Mini; Naim CD3) 2 x

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-09-22 Thread Stan Pulsar
cpd73 wrote: > I assume this is from selecting 'More' on a track shown when listing an > abum's tracks? > > [Edit] Actually, I'm now pretty certain its from the queue - correct? > [Edit 2] And, you need to update a queue item's rating, then request > 'More'. If so, fixed for 1.9.1... > > >