[23:35:00.4944] Plugins::TrackStat::Plugin::handleWebStatistics (2101) Error in
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Plugins/TrackStat/Statistics/All.pm line 129.
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Erland,
I reported bug 9073:
When an alarm goes off, I see the now playing screensaver. After 30 seconds
into songs, if I try to press keys, the first keypress is ignored or causes
strange things to happen.
Sometimes I briefly see the power-off screensaver or idle screensaver.
A second
Do you know what you clicked on when you got it ?
No, I'm sorry. I looked through the logs when I noticed the other Alarm
problem with Dynamic Playlists, but it wasn't related to that. I thought it
was worth mentioning anyway.
I'll keep a close eye on the logs whilst I use SqueezeCenter and
Does it work with a Random Mix playlist ?
Tried Random Song Mix, and I had the same problems. Hmm, now I'm confused. I
tried a favorite as a playlist with no 3rd party plugins installed, and I
thought it was working.
More investigation needed. I'll go back to a vanilla SC and try again.
What is the reason that you don't think it's easy to maintain the
genres in SQL Playlist ?
Is it because you are going to want to exclude the same genres in
several playlists ?
Yes, probably. Quite often I want to use dynamic playlists without any
built-in genre filtering, and then depending on
An additional change you can try if you use this in a new 7.1 release,
is that you could replace track_statistics with tracks_persistent
and join using tracks_persistent.track instead. This would be something
like:
I just tried this and it returned a track that had a rating.
select tracks.url,
Yes, that's right. Currently, there is no way to cancel the action
once you press sleep+hold. You really, really need to mean it. Adding
a cancel option here is going to involve a fair amount of work, I think,
and more than I'll have for in the next couple of weeks.
I prefer it like this
popcorn = modefunction_PLUGIN.RandomPlay::Plugin-tracks
it'll make a press of the button start random songs mode.. At least it used to,
but i suspect the plugin format's changed now ?
You can pretty much do anything with it though.. Fire off a MusicIP playlist,
reboot your server, turn off the
There was a fix for the ratings error a while back.. Are you on 0.67a ?
Ah. No, I was on 0.67. I didn't see any announcement for 0.67a, but the forum
to email gateway has seemed a bit flakey for me recently with several messages
not actually being received.
Phil
$nDeferTime += 15;
and reduce that 15 to something that's more to your liking.
I quite like the delay/chance to abort when selecting through the menu. I was
thinking that sleep.hold could be instant.
However, thanks for the pointer; I think I may simply reduce the defer time.
Does it work in
I've got some Moose suggestions:
1. I like having Moose iconised to task tray. I like the New Track Toast popup
when a track changes. However, I don't like the popup when I move the mouse
over the tray icon, or to right-click on the tray icon to get to the menu. A
simple instant hover text
5. In Library window, there's a Genres filter. Is this work in progress?
Popular and Alphabetic only have All Genres and More Genres - which is
empty.
Ah. I think I've just worked this out. I forgot that last time I tried to do
a scan, I got an error about ratings column, so although I can
As others have reported I found Weathertime does not work with 7.1
(incorrect version) so I edited the install.xml to show max version
as 7.1. Unfortunately this screws up 'Random Mix' in that although SC
allows me to choose genres the options to select 'Random Artists',
'Random Songs' etc have
I am not willingly including any Slimserver code with WeatherTime, just
building the .zip file with PluginBuilder:
PluginBuilder/bin/create-slimserver-plugin --slimserverdir
/usr/share/squeezecenter --plugindir /home/slimdevices/WeatherTime
How do I keep it from including anything from
(Nb. It may be a good idea to display Now Playing track name By Artist
from Album, so Artist and Album link to show TrackStat stats for all
songs on that album/artist. And/or a way of showing all ratings for all songs
in the Now Playing playlist).
I just got round to trying the mod you did
I created a SQLPlaylist to play random songs that haven't yet been rated. I
did this instead of using the standard Not Rated Songs trackstat dynamic
playlist, because that one includes ordering by playcount, which totally biases
the randomness.
I also wanted to exclude certain genres. I
However, Not Rated Songs appears to order by playcount and then random. So
songs with the same playcount are grouped together, but randomised within each
playcount group. I don't think the Play Count ordering should be there.
I have tried using Songs/Not Rated Songs/Not Rated Songs as a
The lower part shows the statistic you select and it didn't make any
sense to show just a song so it felt better to show the whole album,
the song you have selected should be marked with --.
I agree.
If I click on Show All, and then choose Not Rated Songs, I see all
songs not rated for the
Hmm, I see that clicking TrackStat icon on the currently playing track displays
all songs on the album within TrackStat. I wasn't expecting that (assumed it
would only display TrackStat info for the song).
Some other observations:
If I click on Show All, and then choose Not Rated Songs, I see
I wondered how to get TrackStat WebUI to quickly display all songs on the album
I was currently listening to.
Clicking Home Music Library TrackStat shows the currently playing song, but
I couldn't find a quick way from there of showing all songs on the album that
the song belongs to.
(Nb.
I scrolled through my log this morning looking for another issue, and noticed
the following errors.
I had an alarm at 7am, to play random unplayed songs. I think around the time
of these errors, I tried to play other dynamic playlists, but can't remember
which ones (standard dynamic playlist
If I enable SugarCube, it clears the current playlist, so I then have to
navigate through the music library to find the track that was playing and
press play on that track (Nb. I assume the setting to Play all songs on album
option has to be disabled).
Correction: the latest version doesn't
Correct the latest version doesnt clear the current playlist and just
adds tracks to the end of the playlist.
If I am playing a random mix, and I'm currently listening to track 10 of 20 and
then enable SugarCube, nothing happens as no track change event has occurred
yet.
If I press play to
I'm loving SugarCube, but have a suggestion.
What I often do is play a totally random mix of music, and whilst playing I
hear a song that hits my current mood. I then want to play random music that
is similar to the currently playing song.
If I enable SugarCube, it clears the current
The Next button is called Save when editing a playlist and is shown
at the bottom of the page.
Ah. Okay. I was editing a predefined playlist, and wanted to customise it. I
selected Customise SQL, and then expected a next button (edit before saving).
Tried it again - Save does show the
When I navigate to a song and go into mixers and pick MusicIP, it immediately
plays a mix. I have some issues with that:
1. I have set the MusicIP plugin setting to display mix parameters before
starting a mix.
2. It's also nice to see the song listing that is generated before starting it.
3.
Thanks!
Phil
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[07:39:52.8750] Slim::Control::Request::notify (1966) Error: Failed notify:
Couldn't get
http://localhost:/api/mix?song=file:///M:/Music/Phil%27s%20Music/Downloads/INXS/Kick/05%20-%20Mediate.mp3style=variety=filter=
at P:/Music/SlimServer/trunk/server/Plugins/SugarCube/Plugin.pm line 278.
I wanted to configure a SQL Playlist to play random songs for a chosen year. I
found a template that also has a selectable minimum rating and decided to
create a menu based on that.
I went back to edit it, and selected Customise SQL but there's no obvious
Next button (which is usually
Version 1.2 isn't working for me now.
The plugin is enabled; I can select to enable/disable SugarCube. It appears to
detect songs and tries to find a new song to queue, but always fails to get a
new song to add:
[07:39:52.8750] Slim::Control::Request::notify (1966) Error: Failed notify:
I've been experiencing a few strange issues running SC7.2 from SVN source code.
I found that the Weather Time plugin seems to erroneously include an old copy
of the Slim source code within it; this seems to have been causing my problems.
I edited the .par file in the
I just remembered that I'm using MusicIp 1.9 beta 5 and that is probably
why it's not working.
I am using MIP 1.9 beta 5 and SC 7.2 and it's working fine for me.
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It would play about 1 sec of a song and
switch to another over and over and finally after about 20 songs it
locked into one.
I saw a similar thing happen this morning. My alarm fired, which is set to
play random songs. SugarCube really messes this up, causing songs to skip
after a fraction of
I am currently running SC 7.2. I tweaked the install.xml to set maxVersion=*.
The plugin seems to load without any errors, but doesn't seem to work.
I browse to a song, press play, it starts to play and then finishes, and
that's it. No errors or warnings are reported.
Version 1.1 of your
*To Do List*
Web interface? - Not sure seems a lot of work for stuff that wont
change after initial setup
Did you mean web interface, or webUI settings page?
Enable/Disable - Something like hold the play button and select
SugarCube and then off it goes, otherwise always be disabled
I think the
You'll be happy to find a preference to do this.
Never noticed it before.
What I'd really like is just to stop SN from trying to sync preferences.
It's nice to have SN as a backup music service. But it only syncs down from SN
to SC, and there lies the problem in that SC will always have more
These values are available from the prefs, too (mix_style, mix_variety,
mix_filter). Users can change these through the web UI.
It would be nice if these were configurable from a player UI. I'm still
tinkering with the style and variety to get nice mixes - I'm finding that mixes
vary too much
Great! Sounds like just what I wanted to do myself.
How does a user select the initial seed song? Does this appear as a mixer on
the currently playing track?
I'm worried though that I may end up with a random music that repeats/revisits
the same tracks frequently. I thought it may be better
I am currently running SC 7.2. I tweaked the install.xml to set maxVersion=*.
The plugin seems to load without any errors, but doesn't seem to work.
I browse to a song, press play, it starts to play and then finishes, and that's
it. No errors or warnings are reported.
But IMHO it's the wrong way. People who know what they're doing, can easily
enable any plugin. The others just shouldn't do it. There's a good reason we
introduced version checking.
I agree with your reasoning, that people may call helpdesk/raise bugs when
their problems are due to
I think it's reasonable to allow plugins to run when the MaxVersion is lower
than SC version, but to display warnings. This is what my locl patch does -
it still checks MaxVersion, but logs a warning and continues. It would be
good for possible incompatible plugins to be shown as warnings on
So some people have a different opinion of what MaxVersion means - either:
a) The highest version that the plugin has been tested against and deemed to
work.
b) The highest version after which the plugin will not work any more.
I was thinking it was (b).
Perhaps there could be two attributes
That's what I meant: authors should test against 7.1 and update the
install.xml file.
I still think this is a bit crazy. MinVersion is fine as plugin developers
(probably) know what version of SC is required to support their plugin.
However, MaxVersion should be an optional property of the
As I said: you have the choice to do so. But I wouldn't generally
recommand it.
Many plugins have not been published to officially support anything greater
than 7.0. There's not much choice for casual people beta-testing new versions
of SC: either hack the maxVersion in all of the plugins
Does it work if you set:
Override standard track details = No ?
I don't see MusicIP mixer in the list of mixers anywhere if I do that.
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And you do if you disable Custom Browse ?
If that's the case it is a bit strange, because when you have set the
override option to No. When override is set to no, you should get the
standard track details which should be the same as when Custom Browse
is disabled. Are you saying that this isn't
Ah. Whoops. I think something happened to my MusicIP service - it had stopped
running. Perhaps due to an upgrade to a new beta version of MusicIP (1.9 beta
5) I installed earlier this morning.
With Override standard track details = Yes, I get the following when I try to
right-arrow into a
This this mean that it works when you have Override set to 'No' ?
Yes browsing songs within MusicIP mix list did appear to work when Override is
set to No.
The MusicIP mix track listings behaves a bit differently, so the Custom
Browse track details menu doesn't work together with them. I
I raised bug 8331 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8331):
When I bring up the mixers (with play.hold) and select MusicIP, I get a list of
the tracks that have been selected for the mix. I can press play to start
playback of that mix.
However, each track has a right-arrow symbol, but
Windows: does it work at all? I haven't had a chance to do much
testing.
Haven't managed to get it to work so far:
[09:01:16.0686] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1329) Warning: [09:01:16.0681] Can't
spawn psshutdown.exe: No error at
P:/Music/SlimServer/trunk/server/Plugins/SrvrPowerCtrl/Plugin.pm
I tried this to get rating information from TrackStat into MusicIP.
It said it was scanning, and after a while I refreshed and it didn't say
scanning any more. I looked in MusicIP and can't see any ratings. I looked in
SC log and can't see any info.
Does scanning write to another log?
The display coming back on, not sure what's up with that. Something
happening in the new SqueezeCenter. It doesn't appear to actually be
coming from the plugin in anyway, so I need to track down why the
server is resetting the brightness and how to get around it.
I have a problem with the new
I'm on a vacation right now. Will take a closer look later.
Thanks!
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Yes, it's (still) synchronous. You wouldn't happen to have any pointers
where and how to get started with AsycHTTP?
Nevery tried to use it myself, but I know that the LastFM scrobbler plugin uses
it.
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After I create or edit a CustomSkip filter from the PlayerUI Extras menu, the
filter has no name (the menu option is blank).
I was exploring some of the more unusual filter options that are provided. How
does the custom tag fitler work? When I select that from the player UI, I can
pick a
Recently I've noticed that when scrolling through lists of text in some plugins
(for example album review), the text scrolling seems different. If I make
quick stabs at the down-arrow, the text moves down correctly, however, if I
make a normal press of the button, the text seems to scroll down
I've had a few problems with the wunderground feed not responding. When it
can't communicate, SqueezeCenter is blocked for 20 seconds, so everything is
unresponsive. It looks like the WeatherTime is using Synchronous HTTP
communication; any chance it could be changed to use AsyncHTTP?
I saw this in my log today:
[07:46:16.7816] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1329) Warning: [07:46:16.7812] Plugin
WeatherTime: need to add condition Overcast to translation STRINGS
[07:57:23.0941] Slim::Utils::Strings::string (397) Error: missing string
PLUGIN_WEATHERTIME_WIND_HASH(0X172FBA3C)
Also, SqueezeCenter reports the following warnings:
[23:13:49.9709] Slim::Hardware::IR::addModeDefaultMapping (258) ignoring
[SCREENSAVER.weathertime] arrow_right = right
[23:13:49.9712] Slim::Hardware::IR::addModeDefaultMapping (258) ignoring
[SCREENSAVER.weathertime] arrow_down = down
I just released version 1.9.4 for the 6.5 series of Slimserver and
version 2.1 for Squeezecenter 7.0.
No more worries about Weather.Com's service.
Great! Thanks for the quick fix.
I'm noticing that I can cycle through additional info using right-arrow for
today and tomorrow. When cycling
I've been trying to do something similar.
I've created a script, which I have in the correct folder - I can attempt to
select it in the web UI settings page in the various drop-down lists.
However, when I pick the script and press Apply, it refreshes and says (none).
I'm seeing a load of
I've been wanting something like this for a while, though I don't much
like reading things scrolling on the SB display. I look forward to
being able to view these in Browser UI. I hope you are also planning
support for other file types, such as jpg and pdf. Then this could be
used to view
How can I easily rate multiple tracks so trackstat can read this. I
have 5000 songs to rate and really don't want to play all and push the
number on the remote.
If you use mp3 files, you could perhaps load all songs into iTunes, set all of
your ratings in iTunes, and then run a utility that
All my files are in Flac and i really don't like itunes , but thanks.
A lot of my files are FLAC and I hate iTunes too ;-)
I thought it was worth the suggestion, as most people seem to like mp3 and
iTunes for some crazy reason!
You may be able to do something equivalent using Amarok, or FooBar
I've just knocked up a new plugin, based on Michael Herger's FileViewer plugin.
I've called it SongFileViewer. It is used to display the content of files that
are found within the local folder (and any sub-folders) where the currently
playing track is located.
It can therefore be used to
Sorry to butt into your conversation; I haven't really been following it, but
noticed your para about artwork for tracks on an album.
Generally it is true that artwork for every song on an album would be the same.
However, this is not necessarily true for multi-disc albums (each disc could
Just wanted to let you know that I've uploaded a SC7 compatible version
of the FileViewer plugin.
I found it on your web site at the following url:
http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/detail.php?nr=1071kategorie=slim-plugins
However, the link is displayed as TimeSpeller-1.5.zip (downloads
I just realised that it's not possible to create new libraries using the
Default skin in SC7 - had to switch to Fishbone to create the new library.
Once created though, the library can be edited, deleted, made active, etc,
using the default skin.
Is this a known issue, or is it simply that
I tried to play a random mix on an album in the new library, by clicking on a
MIX icon next to an album in the library via the default skin. This played the
random mix fine, but the browse panel reported No matching songs, albums or
artists were found.
Phil
This new library has been configured with Menu Group = Libraries.
if I deselect Show in home menu, I see the library on the home menu, but
browsing to that library I get No matching songs, albums or artists were
found. The library is not listed within Home - Libraries (all my other
libraries
I tried to play a random mix on an album in the new library, by clicking on a
MIX icon next to an album in the library via the default skin. This played
the random mix fine, but the browse panel reported No matching songs, albums
or artists were found.
It seemed to queue up 20 random songs.
My suspicion is that the 'blocking' (?) parameter needs to be used on
the showBriefly() calls.
I tried adding 'block' = 1 after duration =2 for the showBriefly call for
Love/Ban in sub commandLastFM, and that seems to have done the trick.
You may want to slip that change into your next version
I don`t see any thumb icons left to the volume controls.
I moved the thumbs up and down icons that were located within
\server\Plugins\SqueezeScrobbler\HTML\EN\plugins\LastFM\html\images\ to
\server\HTML\EN\html\images\. Moving them to
\server\Plugins\SqueezeScrobbler\HTML\EN\html\images\
This new version fixes all of the various settings bugs that I'm aware
of, and adds on-screen notifications and love/ban commands to the new
Controller.
I can't comment on the new Controller, but the on-screen notifications aren't
working for normal squeezeboxes. Love or Ban do seem to throw a
Hey, this sounds great. I'm going to try it out tonight.
Phil
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Are there any other alternatives someone?
Try Erlands plugins from http://erland.homeip.net/download/. You will need
DynamicPlaylist, but get them all!
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I've just stumbled across an inconsistency with playing random albums via
Dynamic Playlist.
If I play via Home Dynamic Playlists Albums Last Added, the randomly
selected albums are played in track order.
However, if I play this random album playlist via Custom Browse Dynamic
Playlists
Thank you so much for this plugin!! It's solved my problem and also
gives me a much better solution than SavePlaylist ever did. This
plugin should replace SavePlaylist in default installations, imho!
Thanks - glad you find it useful.
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If the debug settings show anything more, I'll make sure to post them.
In the meantime, is anyone else having issues with holding down the play
button on the remote to save a playlist?
I personally have disabled the save playlist plugin, as I use the play.hold to
bring up the mixers.
Instead, I
I don't think any of those plugins would override play.hold, although play.hold
is usually associated with invoking mixers.
MusicIP certainly has a mixer, so could be interfering. Maybe Random Mix?
A while back, I submitted a patch that included some logging in player.ir, to
show when plugins
2. Put the information in a csv file and implement a custom scanning
module to Custom Scan which reads the csv file.
I thought about implementing a custom scan module to read files called
info.txt, which I often include in folders with my music to contain any
interesting information about an
love/ban and skip all work fine for me using the web interface and
softsqueeze remote emulator.
I think Love is working, since I added the icons, as I can see a
PostXMLToLastFM log message. I'm not sure where to look in last.fm web site to
prove that it got the message though.
I'm finding
I'm happy that I can now stream something from LastFM in SC7.0, having fixed
the issue with the bitrate string. James said he would put this in the next
release.
However, there's still some problems:
1. Reliance on Pandora plugin for Love and Hate icons. I believe that because
I have
Thanks Vincent for this plugin.
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Just a minor finding today - if I search for an album and get one result, the
Transporter knob spins without any resistance when I turn it anti-clockwise
(equivalent of up). The knob usually offers resistance when it is at the top
of the list.
Phil
And again: only with LastFM? Can you confirm the CPU load caused by the
browser? If yes: what browser, what OS, any chance to reproduce using a
different browser?
I have only noticed a problem so far with streaming LastFM stations.
Using Firefox 2, CPU goes up to 15% when fetching pages, but
This is necessary for the plugin to operate correctly.
Pandora and Rhapsody do the same thing, last time I checked.
Oh, I've been having another problem with LastFM, which I've just identified to
be missing thumbs up and down images, which you may not have noticed (see my
recent thread titled
This is necessary for the plugin to operate correctly.
Pandora and Rhapsody do the same thing, last time I checked.
Okay, I wondered if it was a bug or a necessity! Seems a bit clunky.
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Sounds like something timing out to me. Is there any artwork which should be
displayed? Do you see the loading indicator at work?
Firebug is a problem with SC7 - but if you could install it there's a transfer
panel, where you see every connection FF is doing. You'd see what it's trying
to
As Default skin doesn't have a stop button (Doh!), what is the best way of
stopping the stream? I've been using it with SqueezeSlave on my local PC, and
pressing pause, but I guess that still keeps the stream open, etc.
I guess I need to use another skin (or Moose).
Phil
As you can see, it automatially picks up the image from the Pandora
plugin!
Ah! I disabled the Pandora plugin - it's not available in the UK.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to have a hidden dependency on another plugin.
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Yep, that's where the above message might be logged: it's printed when after
all the parsing a tag doesn't display anything. Nothing serious - I'm using
such a configuration myself. But the logging might hog your server.
I turned the logging level to error. However, I'm still getting a very
I also do that!
I run it as a service, using srvany.exe - could that be the difference (don't
see why it would though).
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Maybe it's not MIS, although it did seem to play okay when I hadn't set up MIS
as my screensaver (due to registration with SqueezeNetwork removing all my
settings).
I think the problem is with the WebUI.
I started with the WebUI closed.
I start playing a LastFM stream on my SB3. MIS
I usually set Repeat mode to off.
However, I have been finding that when I play LastFM streams, this
automatically sets the Repeat mode to Playlist Repeat.
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Rather strange that it *does* work for everyone except Philip though?
Perhaps there's a difference in the version of Perl that I run?
Could it be that I run SqueezeCenter via source code (ActivePerl v5.8.8)?
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I'm getting the following in my log, every 0.5 seconds!
[12:13:14.2854] Plugins::MusicInfoSCR::Info::getFormatString (257)
MusicInfoSCR: there seems to be nothing left...
I haven't changed any settings for a couple of weeks; it's just started to do
this in the last couple of days.
[12:13:14.2854] Plugins::MusicInfoSCR::Info::getFormatString (257)
MusicInfoSCR: there seems to be nothing left...
I think this may only be when I play LastFM streams.
When it goes wrong, the WebUI becomes unresponsive.
I have configured MusicInfoSCR to display the following format display
A while ago I raised bug 6479 Can't play LastFM songs that don't exist in my
library, which has been closed because it was identified that the
parseDirectHeaders
method should return '128000' for the bitrate field.
The SqueezeScrobbler plugin was returning 128_000, so I edited my copy of the
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