Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
Man in a van wrote: > Keep the OS on a small capacity card; 16gb is more than enough > > Use a usb stick (I currently have a system with a 128gb stick) with the > music files on, plugged into the rpi. > > That's the way I will be going. Thanks. My 1TB drive I can put back on the telly - I

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

2022-01-21 Thread schmurtz
rgdawson wrote: > The Titlebar will appear as normal when you go to full screen - UNLESS - > if you click on Material's "Expand Now Playing" button, when in that > view the titlebar is hidden. It will reappear when you leave "Expanded > Now Playing". > > Full Screen will expand to cover the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread cpd73
prabbit wrote: > > Imagine I want to query the music-similarity database for all songs with > these values and produce a playlist—that was SmartMix and that's what I > think the purpose of those values would or could be. > > > > > - happy: > 0.9 - aggressive: 0.4 - 0.6 - danceable:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How to work spotty without Premium account or cancelled premium account

2022-01-21 Thread Michael Herger
is there any way to use the cost free account of spotify with spotty? I No. ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Man in a van
My preference is : Keep the OS on a small capacity card; 16gb is more than enough, expand the files system to 2gb at the max Use a usb stick (I currently have a system with a 128gb stick) with the music files on, plugged into the rpi. Alternately a 2.5 inch usb hd drive (not a SSD) KISS

[SlimDevices: Plugins] How to work spotty without Premium account or cancelled premium account

2022-01-21 Thread peddanet
Hi all, is there any way to use the cost free account of spotify with spotty? I have myselfa premium account but I want to build this radio for my friend, which hasn't till now. I ordered a free premium month for him, and it works (of course). But what should I do after this free month? I hope

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread bpa
Redrum wrote: > @bpa, I played this track in persistent with a receiver synced with a > touch. No issues. I then turned persistent to "normal", restarted LMS, > and played the track again, and again it was fine. > > I think you are right that we experienced different abnormalities. Sorry > I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread Redrum
bpa wrote: > No. 2nd item in playlist "Classical at the movies" under > Genres/Classical. Also on Hifi Trial so no access to MQA. > > 36968 > > @bpa, I played this track in persistent with a receiver synced with a touch. No issues. I then turned persistent to "normal", restarted LMS, and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread RobbH
Labarum wrote: > > I do have a 128GB USB stick I was looking at it a couple of hours ago. > It's a button rather than a stick so would sit close up to the case of > the rPi. That is another way to do it - I suppose the data store does > not have to be as fast as the microSD card. Doing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Soundcloud plugin for squeezeserver

2022-01-21 Thread jasell
I have problem playing items from the search result. I always play the first item in the list, independent of which item I select. Will this also be corrected by the above fix? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk NAS: QNAP TS-459U+ QTS 4.2.6 (4x 2TB, RAID5) Services: LMS 8.2.0 by QLMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread prabbit
slartibartfast wrote: > Have you tried Craig's MusicIP mixer plugin? It also works with "Don't > Stop the Music". I haven't. I don't see what advantage it would offer over Spicefly Sugarcube that I've been using for years, given that it would pull from the same MusicIP database but has fewer

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread slartibartfast
prabbit wrote: > It's not fair to Essentia/Similarity for me to say my confidence is low. > That was perhaps awkwardly written. What I meant was that my sample size > (i.e., the number of mixes I have created) is not large enough for me to > be confident in my confidence of Similarity/Essentia,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread prabbit
cpd73 wrote: > If your confidence in the Essentia scoring is so low, why use it? (I get > the number is made up, but it does imply a very low confidence) It's not fair to Essentia/Similarity for me to say my confidence is low. That was perhaps awkwardly written. What I meant was that my sample

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread cpd73
prabbit wrote: > Database looks clean to me. In fact, if you'd like a second, > similarly-sized database to your own collection to use when testing, I > can share mine with you. PM if interested. You can't tell if Musly is OK by looking at the DB, its only after creating the jukebox. But

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread prabbit
cpd73 wrote: > Have you tested your analysis results, as stated on the music-similarity > github homepage? Musly does have a known issue where it assigns the same > similarity to all songs. If everything is OK with that, perhaps set all > the filters to 0, so that just Musly is used. Database

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread cpd73
prabbit wrote: > While it's perhaps to be expected, I've found that using the same seed > song over and over plays the same group of songs (albeit in different > orders), including songs I have rated low and would prefer not to hear > too often, than occurs with Spicefly Sugarcube/MusicIP. This

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
kidstypike wrote: > You can't use that 64GB card in your pi with the music files already on > it. You need to burn an image to it, which would reformat the card and > remove your music. Understood Brian In UK: rPi4 running LMS, Chromecast Audio Dongle and Chromecast Video Dongle attached

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
kidstypike wrote: > It's not straightforward though. > There is a YouTube tutorial on how set up an rPi, and that is how he does it. to do it. He does not point to the "Not Recommended" warning. What is the general view in this forum? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMaqasfN3w0 Look

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread kidstypike
Labarum wrote: > Thanks Rob. > > I remembered I had a spare Scandisk Extra 64GB that was in my wife's > phone - but she has a new phone. My brain finally got into gear and I > remembered I stuffed it into my 7" Samsung Tablet for safekeeping; and > remembered I have my FLAC collection on it.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread kidstypike
Labarum wrote: > 200*1000/3500 = ~60GB > > 3500 is a big enough number to establish an accurate average. > > If my discs go on 60GB then a 128GB micro SD card is twice as big as I > need for operating system and data! And they are dirt cheap. > > That seems to be the way forward and I get

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
RobbH wrote: > Chances are good that you'll get everything to fit on a 128 GB SD card; > if not, 256 GB cards are available. Thanks Rob. I remembered I had a spare Scandisk Extra 64GB that was in my wife's phone - but she has a new phone. My brain finally got into gear and I remembered I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread RobbH
Labarum wrote: > how much disc space do I need for 200 CDs? The amount of space required to store a CD with flac compression will vary, depending on the complexity of the waveform (full orchestra will probably need more space than a recording of solo flute) and the length of the recording

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread mruddo
prabbit wrote: > Out of curiosity, what are values for your settings? I did play with them initially, then think I put them back to the defaults... I have: Code: Don't repeat artist for x tracks: 15 Don't repeat album for x tracks: 25 Don't repeat track for x

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread prabbit
mruddo wrote: > I've been listening to MS DSTM mixes for a couple of weeks now, and I'm > still enjoying the varied journey through some long since heard tracks > in my library. No issues to report either. :) Out of curiosity, what are values for your settings? - - - - While it's perhaps to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
d6jg wrote: > I don't. I have about 3500 using just under 1TB 200*1000/3500 = ~60GB 3500 is a big enough number to establish an accurate average. If my discs go on 60GB then a 128GB micro SD card is twice as big as I need for operating system and data! And they are dirt cheap. That seems to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread mruddo
cpd73 wrote: > Thinking about this some more. Would it make sense to allow creation of > 'Smart Mixes' that will select a number of tracks, allow this to be > added to the queue, and then DSTM takes over adding new tracks. DSTM, > however, would not know about the SmartMix, just that these

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread d6jg
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread bpa
Redrum wrote: > I am wondering if we are hearing the same thing. I can't recall exact > tracks, but I have heard stutter on shorter tracks (say under 5min). > What I have heard can start immediately in the beginning of a song. I'm pretty sure it NOT hearing the same symptoms. The symptoms I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread d6jg
Labarum wrote: > That's a bit careless! > > You will probably know off the top of you head: how much disc space do I > need for 200 CDs? I don't. I have about 3500 using just under 1TB Jim https://jukeradio.double6.net VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* Joggler &

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
d6jg wrote: > Lots of us have many more than 1000! That's a bit careless! You will probably know off the top of you head: how much disc space do I need for 200 CDs? Brian In UK: rPi4 running LMS, Chromecast Audio Dongle and Chromecast Video Dongle attached to TV - Beresford DAC - Quad 77

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread d6jg
It pays to carefully set up dbPoweramp to rip your CD's in something like the following format - 1-01 - trackname.flac, where 1 = Disc no, 01 = track number - this avoids the occasional situation where a multi disk CD has identically named tracks on more than 1 Cd which happen to be in the same

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread Redrum
bpa wrote: > No. 2nd item in playlist "Classical at the movies" under > Genres/Classical. Also on Hifi Trial so no access to MQA. > > Sorry I wasn't clear, I am on Hifi "Plus" Trial. I'll try this track later this morning. I am wondering if we are hearing the same thing. I can't recall

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread d6jg
Labarum wrote: > £29 looks better! > > And I have used EAC > > I have 193 CD in my DJs folder (just counted them) and 92 Albums in my > FLAC library. > > Job is half done. I thought I was only one third done, but it's still > ~100 rips! > > Go on, tell me, some of you have 1000 rips! Lots

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
£29 looks better! And I have used EAC I have 193 CD in my DJs folder (just counted them) and 92 Albums in my FLAC library. Job is half done. I thought I was only one third done, but it's still ~100 rips! Go on, tell me, some of you have 1000 rips! Brian In UK: rPi4 running LMS, Chromecast

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread slartibartfast
Labarum wrote: > Yes, I know, but it's £65! > > Although if I could do the job in 21 days I could use it for nowt. > (That's a good Yorkshire word.) > > I might manage that. I'm 72 and I don't suppose I shall buy any more CDs > in my life.A good free alternative is Exact Audio Copy

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread d6jg
Labarum wrote: > Yes, I know, but it's £65! > > Although if I could do the job in 21 days I could use it for nowt. > (That's a good Yorkshire word.) > > I might manage that. I'm 72 and I don't suppose I shall buy any more CDs > in my life. It's only £29 for a single PC Jim

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
d6jg wrote: > The best ripper for Windows is probably dbPoweramp but to get the most > from it you need the paid for Reference version - gives you 4 online tag > sources and better cover art. https://www.dbpoweramp.com/ Yes, I know, but it's £65! Although if I could do the job in 21 days I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread bpa
Redrum wrote: > was this the track you had problems with? No. 2nd item in playlist "Classical at the movies" under Genres/Classical. Also on Hifi Trial so no access to MQA. 36968 I think the main issue is the duration - it is 17 mins long. "Persistent Mode" solves similar problems for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread d6jg
Labarum wrote: > Thanks. I now have an images folder on my attached USB drive and I see > the .gz file in it. > > Must now backup the FLAC folder to various locations to protect the > tidying up work I did yesterday. > > Quite a project, but interesting and the results are worth the work. >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread Redrum
bpa wrote: > Repeated test this morning. The Rhapsody in Blue track consistently had > problems on DAC32 using LMS on CORE32, no problem with DAC32 with LMS on > Ubuntu - LMS 8.2.1 version. Problems often started after about 5 min. > > No problems on CORE32 after Settings/Network/Streaming

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty 4.7.0

2022-01-21 Thread Michael Herger
I selected one of my playlists (but didn't start it) then scrolled down to 'reccomended songs' selected one. After this song other songs of the 'recommended'-list are started automatically. It's still not clear to me what you're doing. I assume you're using the Spotify app? What I don't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-21 Thread Roland0
prabbit wrote: > If I could figure out how to take my existing high-level Essentia JSON > analysis files and have them re-processed by a Windows-based or > Ubuntu-on-Windows-built tool, then I'd probably be able to proceed. > LMS Essentia analysis/upload should run on any Linux system, so

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
kidstypike wrote: > it's just clicking a few buttons in a web browser] Thanks. I now have an images folder on my attached USB drive and I see the .gz file in it. Must now backup the FLAC folder to various locations to protect the tidying up work I did yesterday. Quite a project, but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty 4.7.0

2022-01-21 Thread TomTurtle
mherger wrote: > > Regarding the playlist-error message - as far as I can see all the > > messages contain the text 'recommended' - maybe this problem only > occurs > > for songs from the list that is presented at the bottom of an active > > playlist 'recommended songs' based on the current

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Tidal stutter using LMS

2022-01-21 Thread bpa
Repeated test this morning. The Rhapsody in Blue track consistently had problems on DAC32 using LMS on CORE32, no problem with DAC32 with LMS on Ubuntu - LMS 8.2.1 version. Problems often started after about 5 min. No problems on CORE32 after Settings/Network/Streaming mode for HTTP(S) set to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty 4.7.0

2022-01-21 Thread Michael Herger
Regarding the playlist-error message - as far as I can see all the messages contain the text 'recommended' - maybe this problem only occurs for songs from the list that is presented at the bottom of an active playlist 'recommended songs' based on the current playlist. How did you add those

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread kidstypike
Labarum wrote: > Good morning. It's a beautiful sunny morning here in Southampton but a > bitterly cold -3.4C. > > Thanks for the pointer. I will look. I must sort a backup. > > In the longer term I have a number of options. I currently have a 1TB > USB hard drive hanging off the rPi and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
kidstypike wrote: > If your LMS cache folder is now on the SD card, you can create an exact > image of your partitions and file systems Good morning. It's a beautiful sunny morning here in Southampton but a bitterly cold -3.4C. Thanks for the pointer. I will look. I must sort a backup. In

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread kidstypike
Labarum wrote: > Of course. That is on the to-do list. But first I have to work out how > to do it! > > I suppose I Samba in and copy the files to another location. > > And I need to work out how to snatch the LMS/Material config files to a > safe place so I can build an identical system

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty 4.7.0

2022-01-21 Thread TomTurtle
Thank you for the hint - I already inserted a client id :-) Regarding the playlist-error message - as far as I can see all the messages contain the text 'recommended' - maybe this problem only occurs for songs from the list that is presented at the bottom of an active playlist 'recommended

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Album No Artist

2022-01-21 Thread Labarum
Man in a van wrote: > Hi Brian > > It might be expedient to make an occasional backup of your system (SD > card) to help mitigate against any such occurrence :) > > ronnie Of course. That is on the to-do list. But first I have to work out how to do it! I suppose I Samba in and copy the