Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-12-17 Thread Grumpy Bob
humax99 wrote: > There already is > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Ah, thanks. I did not see this because that menu option (Play album starting at track) does not appear in Music Folder mode of browsing - which I always use! Is there a reason why its not there? I think

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] stream LMS remotely (internet/data, not on home network) to android phone

2022-11-21 Thread Grumpy Bob
firedog wrote: > What's the point of your response? > It in no way answers my question or helps me. > > Guess what? Not everyone uses devices or has the same needs and desires > as you. Shocking, isn't it? > > And you know what else? My phone doesn't have an SD slot - just like > lots of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SMB share only giving me ~1GB out of 931GB Win10 <-> RPi4 pCP

2022-02-26 Thread Grumpy Bob
Maybe not what you're asking, but... If you open an ssh connection to the Pi, the df command will tell you the total, used, and available space. https://linuxcommand.org/lc3_man_pages/df1.html df -T will also tell you the file system type. For example: Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SMB share only giving me ~1GB out of 931GB Win10 <-> RPi4 pCP

2022-02-25 Thread Grumpy Bob
What format is the external drive? Is it USB connected to the Pi? Have you installed additional file systems support on pCP? I have several Raspberry Pi servers, two of which use EXT4 formatted USB drives, and I can access them from my MacBook without problems using Samba. I'm not really much

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-02-08 Thread Grumpy Bob
expectingtofly wrote: > I just switched from Spotify to Qobuz. > The amount Spotify pay to artists is what pushed me to move, Public > Service Broadcast recently published on twitter how much income per > stream they get from each streaming service. Qobuz pays 6.57 times the > amount

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-01-30 Thread Grumpy Bob
Philippe42 wrote: > I just move from Tidal to Qobuz. > Is it possible to save an album as favorite, i can only save à Qobuz > track in favorite. > Thanks I'm in the process of moving to Qobuz too (from Spotify). Yes, it is possible to save an album as a Favourite in Qobuz...click the heart.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-29 Thread Grumpy Bob
Of course, now all my 'New Music' albums are Qobuz Favourites transferred from Spotify! I wonder if/how I might deal with that! Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 4/pCP7.0/LMS8.1.2/Material with files on QNAP TS-251A Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 > Rega

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-01-29 Thread Grumpy Bob
I've been meaning to move from Spotify for some time now (the cash flow issue*), and the latest rumpus has nudged me to start the process. I have decided to give Qobuz a whirl (I already have an account for buying downloads). I've transferred a few playlists and the albums in my Spotify

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-12-24 Thread Grumpy Bob
cpd73 wrote: > Fature release, main changes: > > > > - Draw multi-disc icon top-left for multi-disc albums, in grid > view. - Add 'Remove disc' option to play queue context menu. - When adding a multi-disc album, prompt whether to add all discs > or just a specific disc. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Best online streaming service with plugin for LMS

2021-07-29 Thread Grumpy Bob
ButC wrote: > Up until 8-9 years ago I also relied on internet radio stations to > provide me with new music. But after starting using Spotify I have to > say that pretty much every new song or artist the last 6-7 years has > come from Spotifys algorithms. > > Spotify has mainly three ways

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.5 - improved Ogg direct, Autoplay, multi-user setup

2021-06-19 Thread Grumpy Bob
Just to note that I've not seen any disruption or lack of response with my server (Pi4, pCP 7.0.1, LMS Version: 8.1.2 - 1622353561) with Spotty 4.5. Starting playback of Spotty albums integrated in my collection is pretty much the same as for local files, and navigating within the Spotty app is

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

2021-05-10 Thread Grumpy Bob
cpd73 wrote: > This is a Material specific call to last.fm, it does not involve MAI. If > one is howing and the other not it could be your browser cache is stale, > as it is the JS code that makes this call. > Thanks Craig, that did the trick! Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi

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

2021-05-10 Thread Grumpy Bob
cpd73 wrote: > This is a Material specific call to last.fm, it does not involve MAI. If > one is howing and the other not it could be your browser cache is stale, > as it is the JS code that makes this call. > Thanks Craig, that did the trick! Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi

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

2021-05-09 Thread Grumpy Bob
I use two Raspberry Pi servers running the same version of LMS, and a very similar set of plugins installed, including Material skin (version 2.4.1) and Music and Artist Information (version 1.7.1). I've noticed one difference between the two servers in the MAI screen - one includes a section

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan - Multi Value tags

2021-02-18 Thread Grumpy Bob
mamema wrote: > Yes, you're right, it's semicolon. What is the best way to proceed from > here? > I have Multitags like Artist (Artist1, Artist2, Artist3), which are > separated with comma. These i do not want o be separated. > Then i have the Mood Tag, which should be separated and have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan - Multi Value tags

2021-02-17 Thread Grumpy Bob
I think the default is semicolon, isn't it? Anyway that's what my LMS installations have it set to, and I don't recall changing it. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 4/pCP7.0/LMS8.0.1/Material with files on QNAP TS-251A Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2021-02-14 Thread Grumpy Bob
I've updated two Squeezebox Radios and a Squeezebox Touch to the latest community firmware. Very straightforward to install, and all three units are working well. Many thanks to all involved! I do have a question. One of the SBRs is used as a bedside radio, and started playing BBC Radio 4 (our

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] WaveInput plugin and Cirrus Logic (Wolfson) audio card

2021-02-12 Thread Grumpy Bob
Thanks all, for your replies. I will potter around with this over the weekend. Ronnie - yes I can investigate other operating systems, but my preference would be to use pCP for consistency. I am reasonably familiar with Linux, so should be OK. Paul - yes, I'm aware of the need for a phono

[SlimDevices: Plugins] WaveInput plugin and Cirrus Logic (Wolfson) audio card

2021-02-12 Thread Grumpy Bob
One of my pCP players is a model 2 Raspberry Pi (no built-in wifi or bluetooth). It has a Cirrus Logic (Wolfson) audio card fitted, which works very well and I'm using this Pi to drive Bluetooth headphones via a USB bluetooth stick. The other USB socket has the USB WiFi stick. The Cirrus Logic

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

2020-12-21 Thread Grumpy Bob
herzzreh wrote: > I might be missing a super obvious option somewhere... but how do I stop > it from displaying duplicate albums from Spotify if I already have the > same one saved locally? I can't find the option mentioned on page 2 or 3 > of the thread. In the Online Music Integration

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-11-12 Thread Grumpy Bob
cpd73 wrote: > Thank you, and all the others who have expressed their gratitude. Nice > to have the occasional post that is not pointing out a bug :) Not only is Material a brilliant interface to LMS, but it just keeps on getting better. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

2020-11-09 Thread Grumpy Bob
adhawkins wrote: > Hi, > > It's been a long time since I looked at this. However, I can't think of > any reason why the plugin should make changes such as those you > describe. > > If you go back to your 'master' library list, are these artists also > listed? > > Andy Yes, they are also

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

2020-11-09 Thread Grumpy Bob
I've just installed this plugin and implemented it with partial success. I wanted to help my partner find her albums amidst my much larger collection, and think that this plugin offers the simplest way of doing this - and it is working -almost- perfectly. I've defined a Library View with the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-10-31 Thread Grumpy Bob
lordvader wrote: > Hey - > I've just noticed that the Material skin no longer shows "Music Folders" > as an option under "My Music" (web interface). It's there on the regular > interface though. > Go to Settings > Home Screen Items > click to cog wheel icon next to My Music and check the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-10-10 Thread Grumpy Bob
Actually, I'm not suggesting Material is at fault here, just noting that its behaviour regarding multiple Album Artists differs from the default LMS skin... Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 3/piCoreplayer/LMS8.0.0/Material with files on QNAP TS-251A Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-10-09 Thread Grumpy Bob
cpd73 wrote: > No, not currently. Material only obtains the first (main?) album > artist. > > [Edit] Are the multiple album-artists shown in in the 'More' section? If > so, use that for navigation. The multiple album-artists are listed when I click 'More' from the album, but the individual

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-10-09 Thread Grumpy Bob
First of all, many thanks for the Material skin - it adds a beautiful and very professional interface to LMS. I have a question relating to the display of Album Artist tags. The particular example is that in my music library I have a number of albums by what appears to be a rotating group of

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

2020-10-07 Thread Grumpy Bob
slartibartfast wrote: > You will have to check your version. I think the default may have > changed back to 7.9.3 > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I think you are right, as I recall there was some discussion of the wisdom if including LMS 8.0 as default in pCP as it's under such

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

2020-10-07 Thread Grumpy Bob
Which version of LMS are you using? 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 Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 (retired), spare

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

2020-06-12 Thread Grumpy Bob
dolodobendan wrote: > Not sure if you saw 'this one here' > (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?112350-quot-Pending-Restart-quot-plugins-not-listed-on-plugins-page=978276=1#post978276). > > Material doesn't seem to always show if plugins are available. I think this is more likely

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Where'd my Settings tab go?

2020-06-07 Thread Grumpy Bob
I don't use TuneIn, or generally listen to web radio stations. But I have seen a number of threads recently that discuss the impact of stations moving to https:// URLs, which I think mysqueezebox.com can't handle. There are workarounds - have search of the forums. User bpa often pops up to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Where'd my Settings tab go?

2020-06-07 Thread Grumpy Bob
webnick wrote: > Ok, fixed the display problem. Now see all options. > > But, there is no Tunein plugin either active or otherwise (does not show > up in all 3 lists). It does show up on our player, but not in this > computer where LMS/MS resides and from which we control the player. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Where'd my Settings tab go?

2020-06-07 Thread Grumpy Bob
Maybe it's a browser issue? You could try a different browser, it all works for me with Chrome on MacOS. 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

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Where'd my Settings tab go?

2020-06-07 Thread Grumpy Bob
kidstypike wrote: > Click the dropdown arrow alongside "Basic Settings" and scroll down. But > anyway that just lists installed plugins, I don't think you can actually > install a plugin from there. There's an item in the list of Plugins called "Plugins" - I think that gives you access to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Where'd my Settings tab go?

2020-06-07 Thread Grumpy Bob
In Server Settings, click Basic Settings (there's a downward pointing arrowhead). You should get a drop down menu, in the Plugins section there's an item, Plugins, which gives you access to Plugin management. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 3/piCoreplayer/LMS8.0.0/Material with files on QNAP

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Why bother?

2020-04-19 Thread Grumpy Bob
When I tried out Volumio recently, I did like it, but I missed the following: Searching/browsing Album Artists. Browsing by Random Album. Integrated Spotify and local albums. Observing the Compilation tag. Volumio can't be set to ignore a leading article, meaning that a huge number of artists

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Why bother?

2020-04-19 Thread Grumpy Bob
I 'tried Volumio recently' (http://robertsaunders.org.uk/flies-and-bikes/2020/01/08/volumio-music-streamer/), and it really doesn't compare favourably with LMS, at least for my use case, particularly related to search and browse options, and supporting multiple devices from SB3, Touch, SB Radios

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mycroft Squeezebox skill now available

2019-03-23 Thread Grumpy Bob
Actually, if I can get the Squeezebox skill to work I'd be keen to keep on with Mycroft for a bit. It's just that the majority of skills don't really offer much of importance. The Squeezebox skill is exactly the kind of thing that makes the voice control attractive to me. I'll see how this plays

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mycroft Squeezebox skill now available

2019-03-22 Thread Grumpy Bob
Grumpy Bob wrote: > Well, I'll be giving this a go over the next few days. I've got Picroft > playing ball with a Jabra, and it answers dopey questions about the > weather forecast, and more snappily than I'd expected. I've installed > the Squeezebox skill, but not configured

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mycroft Squeezebox skill now available

2019-03-21 Thread Grumpy Bob
Well, I'll be giving this a go over the next few days. I've got Picroft playing ball with a Jabra, and it answers dopey questions about the weather forecast, and more snappily than I'd expected. I've installed the Squeezebox skill, but not configured it yet. Does it require LMS to have a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Mycroft Squeezebox skill now available

2019-03-17 Thread Grumpy Bob
I'm not keen on the Alexa or Google voice command thing, but this might be fun to play with - just with a Pi3+ and a borrowed Jabra to provide the audio input/output. It seems as though the Mycroft people do less harvesting of data than Amazon or Google. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty Problem: Perl Modul IO::Socket::SSL!

2017-08-08 Thread Grumpy Bob
kika1992 wrote: > ...finally I managed to install the IO::Socket::SSL Module using > entware-ng and the linked thread above, but I didn't manage to install > the also required Net::SSLeay Module, which needs to be compiled. > > Would be great to know, if anybody has Spotty running successfully

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

2017-07-14 Thread Grumpy Bob
mherger wrote: > > My music system consists of a windows 10 PC with a QNAP NAS hosting > my > > music library with Logitech Media Server 7.7.2. I have 3 Squeezebox > > radios and one Squeezebox Touch with remote control provided by the > > iPeng APP in an iPhone. This setup has given me enormous

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2016-11-06 Thread Grumpy Bob
Owen Smith wrote: > My desktop linux compilation box at work is barely any different to a > Raspberry Pi in complexity, in fact it runs less software than the > average Pi I have been told since there is no gui on my work compile > box. > > I don't believe it took you minutes (which I read as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2016-11-06 Thread Grumpy Bob
Owen Smith wrote: > That's easy to say. But some people, including myself, do not want to > spend the time that would be required to learn how to manage a linux > system. My experience at work where IT manage our linux systems is they > are fine for months on end, then something goes wrong and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotify app + protocol handler - no remembered user

2016-11-03 Thread Grumpy Bob
SamCritch wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Synology NAS which is running Logitech Media Server, the > Spotify and Protocol Handler apps are installed, and my player is a SB > Classic. I can't hear any Spotify music on the player, but I can see > e.g. my list of Spotify playlists in the Spotify app on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotify-connect-web

2016-08-14 Thread Grumpy Bob
Maybe I'm missing something, but I can play Spotify through all my LMS connected devices (SBT, SB3, SBR, various Raspberry Pi versions) already. What does Spotify Connect add that I am missing? Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 3/piCoreplayer/LMS7.9 with files on QNAP TS-239 Touch > DacMagic 100 >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-30 Thread Grumpy Bob
Just got home to find LMS prompting an update to BBC iPlayer 1.4.6. I did the restart but LMS reports that the plugin failed to load. This is a recent LMS 7.9 on a QNAP NAS - what should I do to find out where the problem lies? Robert Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-30 Thread Grumpy Bob
bpa wrote: > Your version of Perl is older than my PC version. This has happened > before and it seems a lot of NAS system run on older version. > > I'll change the code to be compatible with older Perl but version will > stay on the same 1.4.6. > > edit: > > I've updated the plugin. The

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-29 Thread Grumpy Bob
bpa wrote: > A little more detail would help as it may be a symptom of a latent > problem. > What was wrong with R3 Listen Again ? No Audio ? Slow start ? plays for > a few secs and then stops ? Rebuffering ? Garbled audio ? Gaps in > audio ? > At the same time were the R1-R4 Listen Again OK

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-28 Thread Grumpy Bob
I set this up a few days ago, everything seemed fine with the exception of BBC Radio 3 listen again. But this morning, that is now working (I haven't tweaked anything in the meantime). Many thanks for all the work. Robert Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Headless music player on Ubuntu server

2015-02-19 Thread Grumpy Bob
clskier wrote: I'm trying to figure out what is the current choice for headless music player. I see several posts throughout the past couple years discussing softsqueeze, squeezeslave, squeezelite, and squeezeplay. Some say that development has stopped and has been replaces by some other

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Any decent squeezebox controller mac OSX?

2014-12-22 Thread Grumpy Bob
southafricanrob wrote: Thanks but that seems to be a player for osx - i am trying to control other players on the network from my mac, basically using it as a remote... SqueezePlay -does- work as a remote - go to Settings Choose Player Have to say I find the web interface the easiest way

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announcing: LMS Remote Controller App for Mac OS X

2014-03-14 Thread Grumpy Bob
I'm having a play with LMS Remote, but having trouble getting it to see the server - I have LMS password protected and I'm wondering whether that is why...can't see an option to enter username and password. Robert Touch DacMagic 100 Naim Audio Nait 3 Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-02-24 Thread Grumpy Bob
Triode wrote: Could you try installing the latest 2.3.1 version - this should try to fall back to using libspotify10 which hopefully still works on these old NASs. There will still be problems reported here for Synology users needing to copy the library file if it is not found directly.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-02-24 Thread Grumpy Bob
Triode wrote: Are these NASs with the problem all arm or i386 architectures? Can you look at the architecture string on the LMS Settings information page, what does it say at the top in the section Logitech Media Server Status for the following two entries: Platform architecture and Perl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-02-23 Thread Grumpy Bob
mariowing wrote: New version not working on Synology DS411+II either; /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Spotify/Bin/i386-linux/spotifydnoflac. Helper app not running. DSM version DSM 4.3-3827 and LMS 7.7.2 - r33893. Same with me, on a QNAP NAS... Robert

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2014-02-23 Thread Grumpy Bob
Triode wrote: I'm afraid the latest spotify library requires GLIBC_2.7: Version definitions: 1 0x01 0x0229a102 libspotify.so.12 2 0x00 0x0a718049 libspotify Version References: required from librt.so.1: 0x0d696912 0x00 13 GLIBC_2.2 required from libpthread.so.0: 0x0d696911 0x00 09

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Last fm not working on Squeezebox

2013-01-16 Thread Grumpy Bob
No problem here in the UK. Robert Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97863

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Software for adding cover arts

2012-03-28 Thread Grumpy Bob
iPad, I may try Bliss again to get higher res cover art! Robert -- Grumpy Bob Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94270