Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2022-03-22 Thread FredFredrickson
mherger wrote: > > One small issue I'm running into is that playlists on spotty tend to > get > > "stuck" and hang at the end of some tracks. It'll play 10-15 tracks > fine > > but then hang at the end of one of the tracks instead of progressing > to > > the next track. If I click skip track on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2022-03-21 Thread FredFredrickson
mherger wrote: > > One small issue I'm running into is that playlists on spotty tend to > get > > "stuck" and hang at the end of some tracks. It'll play 10-15 tracks > fine > > but then hang at the end of one of the tracks instead of progressing > to > > the next track. If I click skip track on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2022-03-21 Thread FredFredrickson
Hi Michael, thanks for everything you do here- spotty is mostly perfect and it's really given our squeezeboxes a longer life than I think anybody expected to get out of these. One small issue I'm running into is that playlists on spotty tend to get "stuck" and hang at the end of some tracks.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-03-31 Thread FredFredrickson
The Groundsman wrote: > Sorry if this is a dumb question. > > The Android Spotify app has a new feature that shows Recently Played, > but it only shows stuff played through the official App and Spotty > plugin listening doesn't appear. This made me wonder if listening via > Spotty plugin is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-03-22 Thread FredFredrickson
Go into Spotty Settings (Under Advanced) and add a Spotify Client ID. That fixed it for me. Using a custom Client ID can help if you hit issues with rate limiting ("error 429"). In order to get your own Client ID please follow these simple steps: Go to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-03-21 Thread FredFredrickson
It seems like between switching to 160kbps and removing the group players plugin, things have gone back to normal. One small issue but I can live with it, is that the players synced with spotty playlist playing tend to drop for about 4-6 seconds every few songs, then start back up. The

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-03-19 Thread FredFredrickson
mherger wrote: > > Touch, 2 Receivers, and 2 Radios grouped into two groups: (Touch + > > Receiver + radio) and (Radio + Reciever) > > Would they behave correctly if used independently? > > > They're all wifi, I'm using a relatively new Netgear nighthawk, > R6900v2 > > on a gigabit internet

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Group Players

2021-03-19 Thread FredFredrickson
Last night I had a group player just flat out refuse to play a spotify playlist. After trying "play" and "skip track" multiple times I gave up and manually synced the two players and it worked fine after. Out of curiosity does the group player add bandwidth to the whole ordeal as though there

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-03-19 Thread FredFredrickson
mherger wrote: > > I'm on 8.1.1 and I'm noticing my sbs getting stuck on buffering a lot > > while playing spotty. I have it set to 160 kbps in spotty setting but > > I'm seeing 705kbps on the now playing screen. I wonder what's > happening > > and should I implement transcoding and can that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-03-18 Thread FredFredrickson
I'm on 8.1.1 and I'm noticing my sbs getting stuck on buffering a lot while playing spotty. I have it set to 160 kbps in spotty setting but I'm seeing 705kbps on the now playing screen. I wonder what's happening and should I implement transcoding and can that work with spotify? 1 Touch 3

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Group Players

2021-03-16 Thread FredFredrickson
I'm not sure if anybody else has experienced this, and I haven't messed around with it long enough to know the exact behavior, but when using the groups plugin, I'm finding my squeezeboxen have the wrong volume quite a bit. Some times the volume is way down until I touch the interface and it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Group Players

2021-03-15 Thread FredFredrickson
Not sure if this is addressed elsewhere, it's hard to use this forum's search tool. I set up a group and then set up an alarm on this group. For some reason, when the alarm went off, both players changed their volume- one of them to 100%. Is there a setting for this ? I would prefer either

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-03-15 Thread FredFredrickson
philchillbill wrote: > Great to hear - thanks. You had the good fortune of the new easy-setup > being available instead of having to create files manually like the > pioneers here on the forums. :D > > As it's new , there has not been so much feedback on it. Was there any > step that you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-03-14 Thread FredFredrickson
Just wanted to let you know you've got a paid subscriber from me. I hope my meager contribution helps keep this project alive. LMS for ever! 1 Touch 3 Receivers 1 Controller 3 Radios (I think I have a problem)

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

2021-03-14 Thread FredFredrickson
Is there a way to tell this skill to play a certain song or artist, or should I continue using Media Server? 1 Touch 2 Receivers 1 Controller 2 Radios FredFredrickson's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] What are you using for Android?

2021-03-08 Thread FredFredrickson
Oh wow Material Skin is decent! Thanks! 1 Touch 2 Receivers 1 Controller 2 Radios FredFredrickson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16584 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Plugins] What are you using for Android?

2021-03-08 Thread FredFredrickson
Since Squeeze Commander is no longer available, I've bounced around a few different apps for android but have never gotten the same quality feeling as SC. What are you all using to control your SB ecosystem these days? 1 Touch 2 Receivers 1 Controller 2 Radios

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Cannot enable Spotty in Nightly 7.9.3

2020-01-23 Thread FredFredrickson
mherger wrote: > There still was a spotty.exe running, blocking the update? Yes, I'll give you the steps to replicate: I saw there was a pending update for spotty. Haven't done one in a while. Checked the box, clicked apply, it said to restart LMS. Upon LMS coming back up, it was missing

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Cannot enable Spotty in Nightly 7.9.3

2020-01-23 Thread FredFredrickson
No matter how many times I check "enable" next to the Spotify for Squeezebox "Still Spotty" plugin I can't get it to enable. It reboots but never gets enabled. Can't see it in the plugin list. I have uninstalled LMS entirely (settings and all) and reinstalled. No luck. 1 Touch 2 Receivers 1

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Player Groups (alpha version)

2017-12-19 Thread FredFredrickson
Does this mean I can set an alarm for a virtual player and finally have the feature I have always dreamed of? I want music alarms in the morning to ignore whatever syncs I had setup the night before. I want the sync groups to autochange in the evening before it starts playing soft music for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty v1.1.0

2017-07-25 Thread FredFredrickson
Thanks for doing this, Spotty is up and running on my LMS and players. I was dreading the day spotify stopped working, thank god for this! 1 Touch 2 Receivers 1 Controller 1 Radio FredFredrickson's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-15 Thread FredFredrickson
Actually weird behavior to report regarding spotty playback (on spotify). If I do these steps, it does not play: Spotify App -> Search -> Type in artist name -> See results, click "artists" -> Arrive at artist page, click any item (tracks/albums) -> find song, click play: Nothing But if I do

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen

2016-02-15 Thread FredFredrickson
mherger wrote: > > I get "Missing or invalid mysqueezebox.com account. Please check your > > settings and try again." when clicking Spotify icon in LMS. > > Please check your mysb.com settings in LMS. > > > I am logged in to msb.com though, and when trying to add user name > and > > password

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for a plugin for sync

2011-09-12 Thread FredFredrickson
.. For instance, I like music in my bathroom in the mornings, but if I accidentally leave my bedroom player synced, it wakes me up when other people are showering. Is there a plugin like this ? -- FredFredrickson Get your news and stock updates right here: 'Squeezebox Updates' (http://sb.cnhpa.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for a plugin for sync

2011-09-12 Thread FredFredrickson
the player's synced. I rarely turn off the player in this case.. I think this calls for a plugin .. how hard do you think it'd be to develop this? -- FredFredrickson Get your news and stock updates right here: 'Squeezebox Updates' (http://sb.cnhpa.com