Ah okay, makes sense. I was trying to avoid blatting my Dynamic Playlist
settings, as I use this for my morning alarm clock!
I'll have a go on my next spare weekend.
Cheers,
Phil
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>I've only had time to take a quick look but I think you'd have to change
>the plugin name in your -isDynamicPlaylistActive- function from
>-DynamicPlayList- to -DynamicPlaylists3- or check for both versions.
>For testing please use the GitHub repo version.
>
>I've uploaded my modified version of *Dynamic Playlists* to github.
I was the author of a plugin called DynamicMix that used Dynamic Playlists to
play random music, selecting the next track using MusicIP. I haven't looked at
this new version of Dynamic Playlists yet - is this likely to work
It has been a while since I played any youtube stuff on a squeezebox, and I
found youtube searches were no longer returning any hits. I tried to refresh
the api access key and Oauth, etc, but eventually I resolved by creating a new
google application.
I can now search for things and get
>That would require creating a 'media session' - which last time I looked
>was more hassle than its worth.
>
>The app is only meant as a -simple- webview wrapper. Hence the
>notification does not show current song, and has play and pause buttons
>- as the app itself does not know the playback
The Material APK for Android has an option to "Show notification". LMS then
appears in the list of notifications, rather than in the media control
notification area at the top (most media control apps in Android 11 go up there
now). Any chance this could be changed to put it there?
>If you mean Chrome on Android, I've just tried "Add to homescreen" and
>this works fine.
I had happily created a direct link on Android homescreen to launch LMS
material skin in Adroid Chrome.
However, this just gets lost as yet another open tab in chrome app, so if I'm
doing something else and
>Ah, thanks for this, that is very almost what I was looking for. It works
>really well, except it overwrites the android navigation bar area at the
>bottom. If I swipe up to reveal the nav bar, it takes that as a touch on the
>LMS web page. It doesn't seem to be possible to avoid this, and
>If you are using Android there is a packaged apk which is pretty much
>what you are looking for. It can be found here:
>https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material-app/releases
>Last update was September 2020. Not sure what that impacts from a
>functionality perspective. I use it and have no
I like to use the material skin on my mobile device. However, launching a
shortcut to the URL opens LMS with material skin in a new chrome tab. I often
have have several tabs open in Chrome, so it makes it awkward when switching
apps/web browser tabs, and I often find I've launched it a few
Another ratings query...
I have enabled ratings, and this is working well in Android Chrome mobile
browser. It also works in Chrome on my desktop (Windows 7).
But in Firefox v56.0.2 64-bit (I know, it's way out of date!), although I can
see ratings and can click on the stars in the Now
>I noticed sometime recently that I am not seeing song ratings in the material
>skin any more (I'm sure I used to be able to see this and set ratings on the
>currently playing track).
>
>I'm on LMS 7.9.4.
>
>Has something happened to break this (maybe LMS 7.9.4, or a plugin update)?
>
Nevermind
I noticed sometime recently that I am not seeing song ratings in the material
skin any more (I'm sure I used to be able to see this and set ratings on the
currently playing track).
I'm on LMS 7.9.4.
Has something happened to break this (maybe LMS 7.9.4, or a plugin update)?
Phil
Earlier this week, my phone updated to Android 10.
To my dismay, finally SqueezeCommander has become incompatible. It won't
start, crashes when attempting to launch it.
Fortunately Material browser skin does a fairly good job, although still miss
SqueezeCommander.
I have an old phone that
>> I cant see where to get the API access key, but I'm using the key I had
>> previously. I can play things from the YouTube Recently Played list.
>>
>> Phil
>
>a log?
>
It seems to have started working, at least I am now seeing a list of my
subscription channels. I haven't done anything since
>Why not creat a new "project"? :)
I should have mentioned that I did try to create a new project. I replaced the
Client ID and Secret authorised the Oauth2. This was all successfull, but I
still can't access my playlists, subscriptions, or get search results.
I cant see where to get the API
I had a working YouTube plugin; I could access by YouTube playlists, etc.
However, it has stopped working. I can play Recently Played videos, but any
other YouTube plugin searches just displays a blank page.
I do remember getting an email from YouTube a while back stating that my
project's
>Oh, that might be it: please fire up the Perl Package Manager (ppm) and
>update IO::Socket::SSL and related modules. Do NOT update all available
>packages. It broke builds here and I had to revert. Don't know which
>ones were causing problems...
Thanks, that seems to have fixed it!
Phil
>What exact system are you running your LMS on? This kind of reminds me
>of somebody's Radio Paradise playback issue. Maybe you have a really old
>OpenSSL/IO::Socket::SSL implementation?
Windows 7.
Perl v5.14.2
I fetch 7.9.1 from git.
I did have a problem a few weeks ago where TortoiseGit
>> https://bandcamp.com/api/track/3/info?key=perladruslasaemingserligr_id=2847842814
>
>As of right now, the URL you provided played fine for me in Firefox, so
>I searched LMS for this artist/album and was able to play the track.
>That took a little more effort...
>
To be sure it wasn't a
Hi Michael Herger ,
>Seems one of their services was temporarily unavailable?...
Still the same problem today, so doesn't seem temporary.
When I play an album, each of the tracks in the current playlist is reported as
0:00 length, but the total time seems to show the correct
>Just to check - what version of the plugin is currently installed?
>Latest is v1.7.3
>
I have the latest 1.7.3.
>What area are the tracks are you trying to play coming from? Collection,
>Wishlist, Music Feed, Fans, Followers, etc.
>
I tried a bit of everything.
>Did you ever fill in the
>> Any ideas what could be wrong?
>
>Your server.log might know.
[23:54:44.5787] Slim::Networking::SimpleAsyncHTTP::onError (229) Failed to
connect to
https://bandcamp.com/api/track/3/info?key=perladruslasaemingserligr_id=2847842814
(503 Service Temporarily Unavailable)
[23:54:44.5928]
Up until a recent update I've been able to play tracks through the Band's
Campout plugin. But now I can't.
I can browse in all the various ways possible, but when I select something to
play, it queues the tracks up, but they have a length of 0 and immediately stop.
Any ideas what could be
I notice a problem reported in the logs for CustomScan:
[02:10:06.8252] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::initDatabase (114) CustomScan:
Creating database tables
[02:10:06.8261] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::initDatabase (119) CustomScan:
Upgrading database adding table column valuesort, please
I have Squeeze Control and like it a lot, but:
1) I can only seem to use it locally, doesn't connect to a remote server (I've
opened the relevant ports), it just says "Handshaking".
2) Library views don't work correctly (browsing library when a view is selected
still returns all music).
There
Thanks for the update to make compatible with LMS 7.9.
I notice that TrackStat WebUI doesn't list artists. For example, I see:
1. Ghost In The Machine by , from The Annazaal Tapes
2. 731 by , , , , from The Annazaal Tapes
And also clicking on the star rating on the Home > Song Info screen
I've not had any trouble running my plugin on any revision of 7.9.
But I lost my webspace (well, my ISP stopped providing the free service without
telling me), and now I think PenguinLovesMusic is hosting on a repo for me.
I've moved ISP, but don't have any free webspace to host it.
I run
>I recently installed the Dynamic Mix Plugin and it doesn't work.
>"Dynamic mix" entries are not present in the dynamic playlists.
>If I have a look at the server log I find this :
>
Not sure what is going on here, my plugin is working for me. I'm running Perl
5.14 subversion 2. Yours is 5.20
>Anyone finding this plugin useful?
>
I'm just trying it out now. It kind of gives what I want, to be able to
customise a list of albums to include in libraries, but needing to manually
create folders where music is located and rescan is a bit of a pain. It also
won't work quite right for
>Any news? I'm getting people to ask how to install the plugin who don't
>feel comfortable doing it manually.
>Should I temporarily add it to my repo file? Or host it?
>
Sorry, I've done nothing, no time. Looking forward to an xmas break, and a
clean break if you get my drift.
If you could add
>Is there any special requirement web space wise for a repository? If
>it's just standard space I can probably help. How much space is needed?
My web space requirement for LMS plugin repository is tiny. Thanks for the
offer, but I need to sort something out soon anyway for more than just this
>The plugin is correctly copied in the
>/var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins folder
As I lost my repository webspace, it is not possible to install the plugin
automatically, which would put the plugin into that folder.
Instead the zip file I posted in this thread needs to be
>On the plugins page there is no settings link for the plugin. I'll wait
>for the readme file.
>
To access the Playlist Manager settings, in the Web UI, go to Settings >
Advanced. Select "Playlist Manager" from the drop-down list, and on the
resultant page in the web ui you can set the names of
>Phil - your repository is no longer available. It seems you no longer
>own your old domain name? http://www.hergest.demon.co.uk
Oh. It seems that my ISP transferred their free web hosting to another
company. This happened back in March; with the service free for 60 days,
afterwhich I had an
It sounds like you were using my Playlist Manager plugin.
I am using it here with 7.9. I don't install from my repository, maybe there
is a problem with the install.xml.
It's been a while since I made any changes, but it could be that I tweaked my
local copy to get it working for 7.9 and
I have the DynamicMix plugin installed and it looks like it is treating
the iPlayer stream as a playlist and pausing it at random.
I'll see if I can take a look at it some time. Struggling to find any time at
the moment, but added it to my list...
I know that I have trouble getting anything to
Hi, I'm getting the following warnings appearing in the log multiple
times when I look at information for a track or stream
I'll take a look at it. It's been a while since I used that plugin; suprised
it works at all (does it work?)
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A while back someone reported that Custom Library plugin was not working with
LMS 7.9. It seems to count songs in each custom library correctly when the
libraries are refreshed, but upon selecting a library and browsing into it, it
always reports empty.
I noticed the same. I had a library
Nice! This might become something quite a few people have been waiting
for: keep track of where you were in audiobooks, podcasts etc.
This does indeed sound very promising for podcasts in particular. I have some
podcasts that have episodes over 4 hours long.
I haven't tried the plugin yet,
Using alternatively the track url (if the played track has no album id)
would be possible, but requires some code changes. At least it would
require a filter for discs paths (which another user has mentioned
above) or otherwise it would then also start to bookmark everything
(because the genre
I think I have the latest version of the plugin (its reporting 0.8.4, from
Daniel Vijge's repository).
I have found that sometimes when I do a search (web UI), if I click on the
image or the song title, it will bring up the details for a different item.
e.g. I did a search for Rosaleen, which
I have had a query defined in Database Query plugin to return a list of albums
that are missing replaygain information.
I noticed today that when I run this query in the web UI, I get a load of
javascript output at the top and bottom of the results list.
My query is simple:
SELECT DISTINCT
Hmm, is this a playlist you have created yourself with SQL Playlist
plugin ?
I can't remember / I am a bit confused to be honest!
In Extras SQL Playlists, I have a Recently Added Not Rated Songs, which i
guess is one I created from a SQL Playlist template. However, it doesn't have
any
I'll try to release a corrected version in the near future, feel free to
remind me if you don't see a new release where this is fixed within the
next week or two.
Has there been any progress?
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If I click on a compilation album name to display in Trackstat web ui, it
doesn't show the artist name for each track. eg.
11. Broken Stones by from Acoustic Love 2
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Are you running the latest 7.9 code? There was a bug I had introduced a
week or two ago which showed similar issues in the web UI's search. I
only fixed it late last week.
Yes, I fetched latest from git today, and then did a clean+rescan. Just
confirmed that the artist is still not displayed.
I tried to play a dynamic playlist, that is provided via SQL Playlist, but it
failed to play the mix.
Home Dynamic Playlists Recently added Not rated Not rated songs
recently added
[I imagine a similar fault exists in other SQL Playlists]
Looking at the log:
[09:22:22.0977]
I've published a new 2.4.3923 version of Database Query plugin that
fixes the problem. The issue is that the custom SQLite functions created
by plugins are deleted during a full rescan so in the latest version I
just re-create it after every rescan.
Thanks. But I don't believe a full rescan
Do you still see the problem after restarting LMS ?
Seems to be okay today after a reboot of the server.
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I set up some database queries in Erland's DatabaseQuery plugin, that included
the use of a path function to decode urls into a presentable format.
This was working last week (LMS 7.8 I think). I've recently used git to pull
LMS 7.9, and now the path function is not recognised.
I can't
The official (and therefor) supported way to use is the build in
sc.exe.
I don't think that works. sc can create a service, and you give it an exe that
must implement the service manager interface. i.e. it must handle the start,
stop, restart events. This is where srvany.exe came it, as it
If LMS is shutdown cleanly it should kill the squeezelite process when
doing so. Sounds like using srvany avoids this. Can you try running
and stopping as a user to prove this is the issue?
Yes, that seems to be the case. If I start slimserver.pl in a console, and
stop with a Ctrl-C, it does
Sounds like this method is not shutting down the server cleanly then...
Afraid I can't do anything about this if it does not trigger the plugin
showdown code to be called.
Problem solved - I found an alternative to srvany.exe (old windows XP utility
to run any app as a background service),
srvany is a tool from M$ for NT4 and its not really changed after it was
first release in the NT4 Res Kit.
to make that clear - srvany isnt supported under vista or vista Sp2
(whats the real name of Win7).
Although not officially supported as a Win 7 resource tool, srvany still works
the same.
This is great, thanks Michael.
I wonder if it would be possible to include a discography on the artist info
page too?
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The problem is the data source: Last.fm would return 200 items for Peter
Gabriel. Most of them are dupes or caused by typos. Discogs returns even
1100, with little means to sort out the singles, compilations remasters
etc. And parsing allmusic.com is dirty business... Do you know a good
I like the option to display local artwork, but any chance you could make your
plugin also look for artwork in a subfolder under the folder for the selected
item? Most of my additional album artwork scans are stored in an sub-folder
within the album folder called Artwork.
It's a while since I owned a Controller, but if you press the + button
do you get a pop-up menu with Remove from playlist?
My PlaylistMan plugin doesn't offer any additional control to edit the content
of a playlist once it is created. Deleting tracks from a playlist should be
possible through
I thought it was about time I tried LMS again, and grim bear the deficiencies
introduced since 7.5.6.
I've exported my TrackStat content, and decided not to bother with History
info.
Database Query TrackStat Statistics is showing the stats that I expect.
Custom Browse Library Statistics
I conducted some tests regarding my problem with non-ASCII characters in
filenames. The following is a list of three filenames which DynamicMix
fails to play. The first variant is the encoding DynamicMix creates,
the second is obtained from a playlist saved from LMS. Copying and
pasting the second
I conducted some tests regarding my problem with non-ASCII characters in
filenames. The following is a list of three filenames which DynamicMix
fails to play.
I'll see if I can fix this problem. What version of LMS are you using?
Phil
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Thanks guys... taking the 6.0 off the directory name worked. Phil as
a suggestion simplify by renaming your downloadable to PlaylistManager
and have the contents your plugin instead of having the nested folder.
If you are doing a manual install, the download zip is called PlaylistMan
6.0.zip,
Yes that sounds plausible. I'll just wait for the rand() fix and see if
this will ever happen again.
Oh yes, I still need to publish my fixed version. Will do it tomorrow now.
This was after a MIP request returned 73 unique results, where the
plugin selected the track in question. Next thing it
Are you sure the random is only used as last resort
Very sure that's what's meant to happen, but I could check my plugin source to
confirm.
Even if you select Dynamic Mix without an initial seed, it will try to use
MusicIP first to get a list of songs returned without a seed.
It will default
just tried installing your plugin on my LMS and received the following
errors in my log... any ideas on how to resolve this?
Not sure why it can't find the plugin. How did you install it - auto install
through plugins Recommended 3rd Party Plugins, or a manual install?
Phil
OK, here we go, it's on the way to the store now:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ipeng-party/id508133086?l=dels=1mt=8
Intruiged why there is an over-17 age restriction. Does it have offensive
error messages?!!!
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Where I'm stuck now is that DynamicMix submenus won't show up under the
Dynamic Playlists menu, unless I mark them as favourites in
DynamicPlaylist config.
There isn't a sub-menu for all Dynamic Mix options. Each option should appear
within Dynamic Playlist sub-menus:
My Music Dynamic
As a side note, it seems like a good idea to set mixsize to a very
small number in mmm.ini for a headless install, since otherwise
DynamicMix will request a mix of up to 75 tracks for every single track
change, while discarding 74 of them. The MusicIP plugin will still
generate static playlists of
Hi haschmich haschmich.5a5lwn1332966...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com,
Now I get this when DynamicMix is trying to choose a random song. Does
that mean DynamicMix won't work with SQLite? See
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=669718#post669718
Ah, thanks. Yes, indeed that is a bug.
Can someone please elaborate on the prerequisites for the DynamicMix
plugin to work? I've got it installed on my NAS (Qnap TS-259 Pro+ with
LMS 7.7.1), but it doesn't seem to work. I assume I have to install
MusicIP headless on the server, but the website
I agree you should contact cparker about getting your credentials so you
can get the latest version, but there is an alternative. See message #5
in this thread to learn about Dynamic Mix from Philip Meyer:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92248highlight=Dynamic+Mix
Yes, my plugin is
I guess the main problem is
that I don't get Add to.. in the context menu for Rhapsody tracks.
Oh. Then it might be harder :-( I don't know if it is possible to register
custom menu stuff in the rhapsody menu.
I notice that with CustomBrowse's Override standard track details enabled, it
isn't
I was wondering if you had any interest in making Playlist Manager work
for tracks from Rhapsody (and other services--but my interest is
Rhapsody)? Currently the Add to... menu only appears for local
tracks, but it would be awesome if we could use the plugin to build
playlists containing both
I see this is limited to SBS 7.6 or greater.
Is there anything in particular that prevents it working with 7.5.6?
Time: I didn't test it with anything prior to 7.6. Feel free to modify the
xml file and tell me whether it works :-)
Just tried it.
Well, it installed, and didn't complain in
I created a custom browse menu based on the Artists template. I needed to
customise the template. When I tweaked a bit of the SQL, I found that the menu
didn't work. The problem was that the were a couple of tokens in the generated
content that it didn't understand, to do with various
I had only added Style and Variety prefs because I didn't know how to make
other settings work in Jive. Style and Variety are fixed selection lists,
whereas filters are variable. I've come up with a way of doing it, but it may
be clumsy if you have a lot of filters defined. Have to click on
I see this is limited to SBS 7.6 or greater.
Is there anything in particular that prevents it working with 7.5.6?
Phil
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If I am moving around to different
players a lot, it tends to rack up a bunch of extra tracks at the end
of the playlist, but this isn't a bit deal.
I haven't noticed many problems like that myself; can you provide an example
for when it adds extra tracks?
I think mostly, it's likely to be the
Thanks! I just got it. I'm on 7.7.1.
Good, thanks for the feedback. Nice to hear that works in latest server
release.
The track was already playing and it started over from the
beginning and another track was queued after it. So far so good, though
it would be nice if it didn't start the
yes, I'd like to give it a go!
Okay, I've releases version 1.1 of Dynamic Playlist in my repository
(http://www.hergest.demon.co.uk/Music/slim/repository.xml). For more
information, see http://www.hergest.demon.co.uk/Music/slim/DynamicMixPlugin.htm.
Note, I have only tested this version on
I use Sugarcube set to mix by filters. All the filters I use only
include songs rated 3 and higher. I also have the Trackstat block
settings to block anything less than a 3 rating. Yet, I constantly get
songs rated 1 and 2 in my mixes. I just double checked all my filters
and made sure the
Have just updated my ReadyNas Duo with the LogitechMediaServer v7.7
SqueezeCenter. Trying to manage play lists using Playlist Manager
Plugin. Enabled the plugin (listed as V6) under the plugin tab of the
Server Settings page but not sure it's working. Does it support this
version of
Yes please try to get this working whenever you can.
I've just uploaded a version that now works on Touch interface.
AND please, please, please try to add image support as well.
Next on my list.
Phil
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I have installed it, but can't see any txt files in my music directory.
My plugin doesn't work with Touch or Radio players yet. Watch this space.
My ultimate wish is to be able to see pdf files (i.e. liner notes)
while listening.
Very unlikely that will happen. .txt initially and image support
I think it is wrong to have a mapping for the 'play' and 'add' button
here, as a submenu follows and the play command typically does not
drill down into a menu.
Any chance, that this menu item can be mapped just with a 'go' command,
like it is common for all non-playable menu-items?
I was trying
Does this functionality exist anywhere?
I think there was a plugin to remember the last n playlists per player, but
that was a long time ago. Probably not working now.
Instead, perhaps Erland's plugins could get somewhere close to what you are
looking for?
Using TrackStat, it is possible to
I tried the Song File Viewer plug-in but nothing seems to come up in the
+ or more options on the SB Touch or SB Radio. Am I doing something
wrong or does something else have to be installed as well? Ideally what
I would really like to do is browse through all .jpg and .txt files in
the Touch
Sorry, busy at work for the next week - I'll follow this up ASAP when I'm back
to normal.
Phil
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I'll make an official release later this week but I'd like a few people
to try it before I push it out to the standard repository. So if you try
it, please let me know if it works or not in your setup.
I tried the new version of CustomBrowse with the licence manager integration,
and it's working
Is this licensing also applicable for SBS 7.5, or is it 7.6 onwards? At the
moment I'm still using 7.5, as I don't consider 7.6 fit for purpose yet.
Will current/future plugin updates work for 7.5 or do the newer versions only
support 7.6+.
I hope this works for you, because your plugins and
Thanks for reporting, it's caused by a API change in SBS/LMS, will be
fixed in next TrackStat version. I think the same problem probably also
occurs with Custom Browse and Dynamic Playlist.
Yes, and I think there's differences in each player UI, between 7.5 and 7.6.
Thanks.
It didn't recover when i tried restarting iPeng the first time, but did maybe
2nd time when I synced to iTunes.
I didn't try switching between players - I'll do that if i see it happen again.
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I've got playlist manager 6.0 and 7.6.1 and unlike in 7.6 (and I
suspect Playlist manager prior version) when I was in Now Playing I
could press the + on my squeezebox booms and it would remove the
track from my current playlist.
How can I get back to the original behaviour i.e. remove it from
It appears that New Music browse mode has dissapeared from iPeng (connecting
to SBS 7.5.6). I previously had it configured to appear as one of the four
buttons on the bottom of the browse screeen, but since upgrading to latest
version it's dissapeared, and doesn't appear on the More screen or
It appears that New Music browse mode has dissapeared from iPeng (connecting
to SBS 7.5.6).
And now it's back again, having synched iPhone to iTunes. Strange.
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All fine here.
I'm back to normal now.
Is only NewMusic missing? Did you try to restart the App?
Lots of other stuff was missing too, now I think about it. It was connected to
my SBS 7.5 server instance, not 7.6, and Browse Artists was returning the
correct content, so it was connected okay.
working just fine together with iPeng SqueezePad in7.6.2 beta, nice :)
That's good to hear - I couldn't test on an iPad!
Phil
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That's annoying - it appears that my ISP's web hosting service has gone done
down. Being a bank holiday, they seem to be slow investigating the fault too
:-(
It's not the plugin - many people downloaded it yesterday (over 100, if the
website stats are to be trusted), and several people
Seems that Phil's page is currently down
Sorry, seems like my ISP's web hosting service has died. Some people did
donwload and install fine yesterday, so nothing wrong with my deployment.
Hopefully my ISP will fix the problem with their servers today (but it is a
bank holiday).
Phil
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