Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread cpd73
Bug-fix release, changes: - Always check if an items duration is valid before using to calculate selection duration. - Fix check for all items having same icon/image. - Fix colour of player status icons for light themes with coloured toolbars. - Fix colour of SVG icons in toolbars of

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

2021-03-13 Thread mps
mherger wrote: > > > Yep, something I've wanted to address for a while... > > https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/issues/397 > :) > > > > To measure the performance effect, I modified the MAI ImageProxy > cache > > to use the utf8-escaped artist names instead of the Artist IDs, and >

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

2021-03-13 Thread Michael Herger
I recently noticed that Importer2::_precacheArtistImage -always- recaches the artist images during a scan. Further investigation showed that this was because the key in the imgproxy.db cache includes the Artist ID, which was changing on every full rescan. This leads to two problems. Yep,

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

2021-03-13 Thread mps
I just cut my Artist Picture Lookup time on a rescan by 90% (but I'm not sure if it is the right thing to do)! I recently noticed that Importer2::_precacheArtistImage -always- recaches the artist images during a scan. Further investigation showed that this was because the key in the imgproxy.db

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-03-13 Thread pippin
benh wrote: > Your explanation makes perfect sense, thanks. > > It seems to me like iPeng is sometimes a control app, and sometimes > (generally only if playback is in use) a music app. I wonder if there > is a way to have iOS not treat it like a music app if playback isn't > enabled?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] squeezelite on raspberrypi=>zero mac address for multiple players=>server screws up

2021-03-13 Thread w3wilkes
Man in a van wrote: > Where In LMS do you mean ? :confused: > > pCP allready waits for 25 secs (I think), look in the boot log, Main > Page > Diagnostics > Logs > Boot log and check how long it takes; > > This is mine, it took 29.5 secs > > > > If you want to adjust the wait time, go to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-03-13 Thread pippin
philippe_44 wrote: > > Any chance to change that? Or something we could change in XMLBrowser to > ease both parties? Can you somehow give me a way to test this? This is horribly complicated. iPeng needs to be compatible with a plethora of LMS versions so I can't just change the behavior for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-03-13 Thread benh
pippin wrote: > That's a very messy behavior of some car audio systems. > Essentially, what the car's system is doing is triggering a play command > to be sent to the last active audio App. > In your case, that's iPeng. iOS wakes up iPeng and tells it to play, > it's like using the lock screen

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-03-13 Thread pippin
benh wrote: > > I don't have playback enabled on iPeng, but it seems like iPeng is > showing up as a music source in my car, and I wonder if/how I can change > that behavior. That's a very messy behavior of some car audio systems. Essentially, what the car's system is doing is triggering a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-03-13 Thread pippin
FatPete wrote: > > Doesn't seem to cause any problems, but just wondering why it happens! iPeng looks for playable URLs (audio files, streams etc.) in the clipboard. If it finds any, it presents a menu to allow you to play it on the current player or add to favorites. If it doesn't find any,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2021-03-13 Thread BoomX2
MichaelPr wrote: > Another question - I just tried the SuperDateTime Screensaver with my > Transporter (settings are done at both the server and individual player > levels) > > 33759 > > In addition to the wanted information in screen 1 it always mixes up > stock/game information with VU

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-03-13 Thread philippe_44
Hi @pippin - I'm posting here to have more chance to catch your attention. I'm trying to change the behavior of the "start from last position" so that we can have our cake and eat it, i.e. have a link when there is a "last position" *and* have a play entry as well so that when that track is part

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)

2021-03-13 Thread philippe_44
philippe_44 wrote: > I just realized that you might have your cake and eat it. It seems that > there is a way to have the "play" icon to play from beginning *and* a > link to go one level down to have choice. I'll verify it works with > controllers as well. argh ... LMS default skin works as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)

2021-03-13 Thread philippe_44
Jaca wrote: > Hi Philippe , > > Just wondering if it would be possible to add option to force always > playing from beginning if file was previously started. > I have mapped subscribed channel to SB Radio Preset buttons and if > podcast episode was previously started YT plugin skips it . I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] squeezelite on raspberrypi=>zero mac address for multiple players=>server screws up

2021-03-13 Thread Man in a van
w3wilkes wrote: > Sorry to dredge up this old thread... Is this a setting that's available > in PiCore Player 7, and if so where is it? My RPi MAC address shows > correct in my router, but in LMS it shows as zero. Where In LMS do you mean ? :confused: pCP allready waits for 25 secs (I think),

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2021-03-13 Thread bobertuk
rgdawson wrote: > (1) This is strange, obviously. Is it a left-click or right-click on the > tray icon? Launching a web-browser first, and then things work, is > really weird, since SLX is independent of anything a browser might do. > I've looked through the code and I find nothing obvious

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Ratings Light

2021-03-13 Thread afriend
Fixed the settings URL. :-) There was a problem with 1.8.3. Seems that for some reason the sha1 digest of the package delivered by github was not correct. Please wait until 1.8.4 shows up on the LMS plugins page and give that a try. Installing 1.8.4 from github works for me.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Group Players

2021-03-13 Thread philippe_44
markiii wrote: > never been a fan of the way LMS does synchronisation as its too fiddly > to setup and tear down. I assume that's whats drove Phillippe to write > this in the first place.. > > Just discovered this and its amazing how much better it makes day to day > use. When coupled with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread PasTim
bz31 wrote: > I would have put > Albumartist: Isabelle Faust > Artist: Isabelle Faust, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado > Composer: Felix Mendelssohn And I would put: Albumartist: Isabelle Faust Artist: Isabelle Faust Band: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Ratings Light

2021-03-13 Thread mvn2009
It looks to me that there's a problem with the latest update. The plugins tab keeps telling me to restart (auto update on). After removing Ratings light plugin and reactivating I'm not able to install it anymore. The plugin only shows under "updated plugins available". Selecting it and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] squeezelite on raspberrypi=>zero mac address for multiple players=>server screws up

2021-03-13 Thread w3wilkes
david.udin wrote: > raspi-config gives you the option to wait for the network when booting > up. This results in the correct mac address being passed to the server, > and obviates the need for using the -m command line parameter in the > squeezelite configuration file. Sorry to dredge up this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2021-03-13 Thread bpa
olivaar wrote: > is it possible to play mixcloud live streams? > it seems that this streams are also HLS > > the links are only valid during the live sessions. > to try one, please go to the following site > > https://www.mixcloud.com/live/ > > and select one of the streams. > > to get the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2021-03-13 Thread olivaar
is it possible to play mixcloud live streams? it seems that this streams are also HLS the links are only valid during the live sessions. to try one, please go to the following site https://www.mixcloud.com/live/ and select one of the streams. to get the m3u8 file, open the developer tools of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread bz31
Blackfiction wrote: > maybe it is just me but I have followed the > https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_To_Classical.html. > I have put the composer name in the composer field and in the artist > field. Albumartist is used for the main artist of the album. For > example; >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread pgf
cpd73 wrote: > Material does not send the hostname/IP - thats the browser/Javascript. > To get to the 'Extra settings' (i.e. LMS's player settings) Material > just loads '/material/settings/player/basic.html?player=' No > hostname there. If you mean the piCorePlayer/SqueezeAMP specific >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Group Players

2021-03-13 Thread markiii
never been a fan of the way LMS does synchronisation as its too fiddly to setup and tear down. I assume that's whats drove Phillippe to write this in the first place.. Just discovered this and its amazing how much better it makes day to day use. When coupled with material, it makes jivelite

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread cpd73
pgf wrote: > Because of the way my network is configured (the wifi is partially > firewalled from the home wired lan) I access the LMS web page from my > laptop via a forwarded port on an ssh tunnel. This means that instead > of connecting to http://slimserver:9000, I connect to >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread cpd73
Blackfiction wrote: > maybe it is just me but I have followed the > https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_To_Classical.html. > I have put the composer name in the composer field and in the artist > field. Albumartist is used for the main artist of the album. For > example; >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] SuperDateTime Screensaver v5.11.0 - Date/Time/Weather/Sports/Stocks

2021-03-13 Thread MichaelPr
Another question - I just tried the SuperDateTime Screensaver with my Transporter (settings are done at both the server and individual player levels) 33759 In addition to the wantend information in Scrren 1 it always mixes up Stock/Games information with VU Meter in the visualizer screen. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread pgf
Because of the way my network is configured (the wifi is partially firewalled from the home wired lan) I access the LMS web page from my laptop via a forwarded port on an ssh tunnel. This means that instead of connecting to http://slimserver:9000, I connect to http://localhost:9000. This works

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread Blackfiction
cpd73 wrote: > Why? What is the use case? The only places I can see album artist being > different from artists are; a) tracks with artist A ft Artist B, here A > would also be album artist, and b) Various Artitist compilation albums - > not sur eI see the point of showing 'Various Artists' in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: SB Player, a software Squeezebox player app for Android.

2021-03-13 Thread Murdock
bpa wrote: > WMA transcoding would be done by LMS. The solution depends on the LMS > system and the host OS. I thought SB Player could play WMA natively. My LMS works on Linux. I'll see what I can do for the transcoding. Thank you for your answer.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Success: MusicIP and Spicefly Sugarcube running on Raspberry Pi

2021-03-13 Thread frankd
mvn2009 wrote: > Finally got it working, made a mistake with the mmserver registration. > Thanks for advising me and for this tutorial! > And MysicIP is doing an amazing job again! > > Verstuurd vanaf mijn HD1903 met Tapatalk :) Perfect. Good to hear that the first post seems to work.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Ratings Light

2021-03-13 Thread radish112
afriend, Hi. This morning the Material Skin alerted me to the the availability of Ratings Light v1.8.2. I then installed it without a hitch, and everything appears to be working just fine. There is one anomaly that doesn't prevent me from using Ratings Light but that is puzzling. When I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)

2021-03-13 Thread Jaca
Hi Philippe , Just wondering if it would be possible to add option to force always playing from beginning if file was previously started. I have mapped subscribed channel to SB Radio Preset buttons and if podcast episode was previously started YT plugin skips it . I assume because Youtube asks

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: SB Player, a software Squeezebox player app for Android.

2021-03-13 Thread bpa
Murdock wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using SB Player on android TV and am very satisfied with it. I just > have a problem playing WMA files. I realize that they read well on my > raspberry (piCorePlayer) but not at all through SB Player. > Does anyone have a solution? WMA transcoding would be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: SB Player, a software Squeezebox player app for Android.

2021-03-13 Thread Murdock
Hi all, I am using SB Player on android TV and am very satisfied with it. I just have a problem playing WMA files. I realize that they read well on my raspberry (piCorePlayer) but not at all through SB Player. Does anyone have a solution? Thank you.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-03-13 Thread coyrls
expectingtofly wrote: > Well, not quite like that, but it would be possible to duplicate all the > menus per account within BBC sounds. That would kind of work! That > gets over the problem of the controller not knowing what account, albeit > by using a bit of a sledgehammer. > > But that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread d6jg
Shozzer wrote: > The following might show why there are multiple approaches to classical > tagging: > > https://www.google.com/url?sa=t=web=j=https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_To_Classical.html=2ahUKEwjO8ouska3vAhWXilwKHbuxBlgQFjAAegQIBBAC=AOvVaw2rtgvU7f4r2OXgQkbB3Tb7 > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread Shozzer
d6jg wrote: > I do have some classical music shozzer and yes I want to understand a > bit about why the Classical brigade seem to have tagging issues and > often come up with their own schemas which makes life difficult for the > developers. > I don’t want to get into a discussion about the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-03-13 Thread michel
I just upgraded from iPhone 6s to 12 mini. Unfortunately I am missing ipeng working in horizontal mode on this phone. Am I doing something wrong or has this function been omitted with newer devices? michel's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread d6jg
Shozzer wrote: > I would encourage you to try some - you might be pleasantly surprised! > Given some of your recent posts on the forum I presume you are thinking > about tagging classical music - or is there another thought in mind? > > Steve I do have some classical music shozzer and yes I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread Shozzer
d6jg wrote: > Slightly off topic but if any of the Classical brigade could point me at > an idiots guide to Classical music I’d be grateful. I don’t want to > listen to any but I’d like to understand the convoluted terminology. I would encourage you to try some - you might be pleasantly

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2021-03-13 Thread Paul Webster
Easy test to make then ... rename the .cue to be same as .flac and then do a new & changed rescan. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > Why? What is the use case? The only places I can see album artist being > different from artists are; a) tracks with artist A ft Artist B, here A > would also be album artist, and b) Various Artitist compilation albums - > not sur eI see the point of showing 'Various Artists' in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] LMS-lite certified Smart Home skill for Alexa

2021-03-13 Thread philchillbill
A user asked if it would be possible to add a slider for player volume for use in *Alexa Routines*. It's now live and is called Player Volume Volume du lecteur Player-Lautstärke Enjoy ! philchillbill's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread cpd73
Blackfiction wrote: > Now one can adjust the settings to see the composer, conductor and band, > which is great! But I can not figure out how to show the albumartist? I > thought it was in the setting 'show all artists' but I think that one > does not show the albumartist, right? Is it possible

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2021-03-13 Thread dragosmanea
No, see the screenshot attached33757 +---+ |Filename: Screenshot 2021-03-13 112503.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=33757|

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2021-03-13 Thread Paul Webster
Is the .cue file in the same directory as the .flac ? Is the file name of the .cue the same as the .flac (just the extension different)? Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-13 Thread Blackfiction
Hi Craig, I have a question about all the options of Material Skin for showing classical performers. Now one can adjust the settings to see the composer, conductor and band, which is great! But I can not figure out how to show the albumartist? I thought it was in the setting 'show all artists'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2021-03-13 Thread dragosmanea
Hello, Paul, REM DATE 1988 REM COMMENT 60 479-3 TITLE "Metal Ballads Vol.1" FILE "Vol.1 Side A.flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Is This Love" PERFORMER "Whitesnake" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Time" PERFORMER "MSG" INDEX 01 04:41:60 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Keep On Loving You"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-03-13 Thread expectingtofly
Ok, I've come to conclusion, as Paul alluded to, the solution is probably not to make it too flexible. So I'm going to support multiple accounts. If more than one account is added, then in settings, which player is associated with which account can be selected. But a user has to go into

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Success: MusicIP and Spicefly Sugarcube running on Raspberry Pi

2021-03-13 Thread mvn2009
frankd wrote: > Can you create mixes via the webinterface on port 10002 or start other > commands there? I guess your server is working, other users reported > this failure message before, see page 3, while the server was working > for them. > The server is not sent to the background,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-03-13 Thread expectingtofly
Paul Webster wrote: > Another thought Scrobbling to last.fm is another place that has > support for multiple accounts. > > It is simpler than this situation but rarely, if ever, see requests to > make it more controllable. > > It has accounts set at system level and then is assignable to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2021-03-13 Thread Paul Webster
dragosmanea wrote: > > > ... and a lot in a big flac file and a CUE file (PCM) in an album. Is > there a way to play the tracks independently? Jriver, Foobar, etc are > showing and playing each track, but not Squeezelite-X. > This is a function of LMS rather than Squeezelite ... at least

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-03-13 Thread expectingtofly
coyrls wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to create a separate menu item under Apps for > each account, e.g "Account Name's BBC Sounds"? That way you break any > association with a device and each account can use any device. Well, not quite like that, but it would be possible to duplicate all