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

2021-06-12 Thread Ade_AV
d6jg wrote: > The album was tagged as Peppers not Pepper’s ie without a ‘ so I don’t > think it’s LMS side it was down to Allmusic. Not worth investigating > further If the data is tagged with MusicBrainz id's then we could get the Allmusic url from MusicBrainz, e.g. for Sgt Pepper:

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

2021-06-08 Thread Ade_AV
Paul Webster wrote: > How about Anticappella - arist present but no biography on AllMusic ... > but lengthy bio on last.fm mherger wrote: > > Hi, can the Artist Biography be retrieved from last.fm if not found > on > > Allmusic, cheers > > Worth to be considered. Would you know of any band

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

2021-06-02 Thread Ade_AV
Hi, can the Artist Biography be retrieved from last.fm if not found on Allmusic, cheers Ade_AV's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69532 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-06-01 Thread Ade_AV
Hi, looks like info Similar Artists is coming from last.fm, request is to also grab the Artist Biography from last.fm if not found on Allmusic, cheers Ade_AV's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-05-11 Thread Ade_AV
cpd73 wrote: > Well, I'm gonna need a *LOT* more info than that. "its not working" > without supporting info is just noise. I did check the feature, and it > does work for me. > > Use the Material debug, and check what info is sent to, and received > from LMS. Switched on debug and it's now

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-05-11 Thread Ade_AV
cpd73 wrote: > For 1.5.9, if biography lookup fails using artistname/id, then Material > will retry with albumartist/id - but only if albumartst is within > artist. e.g. artist="Wibble ft. Wobble" albumartist="Wibble" This is to > prevent using albumartist when it is "Variious Artists", etc.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-05-09 Thread Ade_AV
kidstypike wrote: > Why not use the "show information in tabs" button and select the > tab/column you wish to see? > > 30249 Perfect, thanks! Ade_AV's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69532 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-05-08 Thread Ade_AV
Hi On Mac the 'Show current track info' has 3 columns - Artist Bio, Album Review, Lyrics, this looks good when all 3 are populated but sometimes it can't find Lyrics or Album Review leaving the Artist Bio and a large space to the right. Could there be some way Maximise/Minimise each column as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-05-06 Thread Ade_AV
mherger wrote: > > Hi, is there any way to use Album Artist instead of track Artist to > get > > the default Biography? > > In which context? I believe if you bring up the context menu on a track > > or album, you'd get a list of all contributors, from which you could > pick. > > -- > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-05-06 Thread Ade_AV
Hi, is there any way to use Album Artist instead of track Artist to get the default Biography? Ade_AV's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69532 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite/Picoreplayer not playing a lot of ALAC files

2020-05-01 Thread Ade_AV
ralphy wrote: > I've been using the same for testing. > > All my 44.1K alac files were created in iTunes and the 192K files are > the 'Linn test album' > (https://www.linnrecords.com/recording-download-format-test-album) in > alac format. > > If your alac files were not created with iTunes,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite/Picoreplayer not playing a lot of ALAC files

2020-04-26 Thread Ade_AV
The good news with the Custom Squeezelite build is it is now playing every alac file that ffmpeg couldn't The not so good news is that I'm getting clicks/pops on a lot of tracks, maybe every 10 seconds or so Ade_AV's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite/Picoreplayer not playing a lot of ALAC files

2020-04-25 Thread Ade_AV
Thanks, followed the instructions but then piCore will not start, it stops at: Loading pcp-lms-functions...sh: 0: unknown operand Done. shini: /unable to read INI file: 'usr/local/share/pcp/cards/.conf' Ade_AV's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite/Picoreplayer not playing a lot of ALAC files

2020-04-24 Thread Ade_AV
Hi I'm having the same issue and it appears that piCore/ffmpeg does not like files unless artwork is embedded correctly as jpeg, so anything with png embedded will not play, also artwork embedded from e.g. Google Images via drag/drop to iTunes will not play. If I remove the artwork in iTunes