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

2022-11-14 Thread d6jg
staresy wrote: > Sometimes when playing a locally stored album there is no album review > displayed. This is most often due to All Music not having a review to > display or a mis-match in my local artist name or album title (amending > my locally stored meta data to match usually sorts it out).

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

2022-11-14 Thread staresy
Sometimes when playing a locally stored album there is no album review displayed. This is most often due to All Music not having a review to display or a mis-match in my local artist name or album title (amending my locally stored meta data to match usually sorts it out). However I have one

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

2022-10-31 Thread Paul Webster
Maybe try one of the mood plugins/helpers (I have no experience of using them). For example https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?106958-Success-MusicIP-and-Spicefly-Sugarcube-running-on-Raspberry-Pi Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc),

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

2022-10-31 Thread Zombie
I was thinking about menu items for mood/style/theme to choose from. But there might be a problem to associate the local/remote albums/tracks with such tags if they're not already present. I haven't found any tool for adding such tags to my existing files, nor any tags database that is available

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

2022-10-30 Thread Michael Herger
Would you want to have this for non-local tracks only? It would be nice to have it for all tracks since the integration is very good and useful. I'm not sure I understand what exactly the request is. Could you please try again for me? :-) ___

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

2022-10-30 Thread Zombie
mherger wrote: > >Would you want to have this for non-local tracks only? It would be nice to have it for all tracks since the integration is very good and useful. Zombie's Profile:

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

2022-10-29 Thread Michael Herger
I would be neat to have this list handy under My music (yes, genres are already there, but that's from tags in local files) and then choose a mood/style/theme and random play it. Would you want to have this for non-local tracks only? ___ plugins

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

2022-10-29 Thread Zombie
I noticed when I play tracks from Radio Paradise or FIP Rock that there are some menus under [Three dots] -> More -> Album information -> Album details -> Genre/Mood/Styles (Material skin) Does this info come from allmusic? I would be neat to have this list handy under My music (yes, genres are

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

2022-10-16 Thread Michael Herger
where can I find the strings.txt to update some of the NL language strings? I have attached it as well... Thanks a lot! I still don't have all my plugins on a public repository... ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2022-10-12 Thread Blackfiction
Hi, where can I find the strings.txt to update some of the NL language strings? I have attached it as well... 38871 Best +---+ |Filename: strings.txt | |Download:

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

2022-03-27 Thread Wojtulek
Hello! Thank you for your great plugin! Now we have Roon-like system :) But... Do you have any plans to extend sources of information? Unfortunately Roon and ALLmusic is not ideal. ALL music doesn't mean all unfortunately. I would even say that its not the best place to check information about

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

2022-03-05 Thread CypherMK
And sometimes the lag is gone. So it must be loading something when I press the button. CypherMK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62798 View this thread:

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

2022-03-05 Thread CypherMK
This was the easiest way to share, but the lag is also there in the webbrowser. CypherMK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62798 View this thread:

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

2022-03-05 Thread CypherMK
mherger wrote: > > So does anyone know what to do about it? > > I think all the hints I'd give already have been given. But let's start > > over: please post your MAI settings. As mentioned before the performance > > depends on how you've configured MAI. If you haven't enabled display of >

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

2022-03-05 Thread CypherMK
mherger wrote: > > So does anyone know what to do about it? > > I think all the hints I'd give already have been given. But let's start > > over: please post your MAI settings. As mentioned before the performance > > depends on how you've configured MAI. If you haven't enabled display of >

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

2022-03-04 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Most (maybe all) lyrics now have the word "Embed" appended at the end. > > Don't think it has always been that way. > > New tweak is on its way. Thanks! Presumably cached lyrics files need to be deleted to see the effect of the tweak. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

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

2022-03-03 Thread Michael Herger
Most (maybe all) lyrics now have the word "Embed" appended at the end. Don't think it has always been that way. New tweak is on its way. Thanks! ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2022-03-03 Thread slartibartfast
Apesbrain wrote: > Most (maybe all) lyrics now have the word "Embed" appended at the end. > Don't think it has always been that way.I noticed that recently although it > seems to only affect lyrics from Genius.com. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

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

2022-03-03 Thread Apesbrain
Most (maybe all) lyrics now have the word "Embed" appended at the end. Don't think it has always been that way. Apesbrain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=738 View this thread:

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

2022-03-01 Thread slartibartfast
When the plugin tries to find an album review for Bowie - Diamond Dogs it fails as it finds https://www.allmusic.com/album/diamond-dogs-mw0002654212 instead of https://www.allmusic.com/album/diamond-dogs-mw597759

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

2022-02-27 Thread Michael Herger
So does anyone know what to do about it? I think all the hints I'd give already have been given. But let's start over: please post your MAI settings. As mentioned before the performance depends on how you've configured MAI. If you haven't enabled display of artist pictures, then the browsing

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

2022-02-27 Thread CypherMK
CypherMK wrote: > I'm using this plugin for a while now, but it slows down the browsing > through LMS considerably. So when I press M on the web interface or use > the 3 stripes in SqueezeCTRL, it can take a while for that sub menu to > load. > > What can I do to speed things up? > > EDIT: >

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

2022-02-21 Thread Michael Herger
Any conventions for naming the additional artwork so that they appear in the 'right' order? - inner.jpg before rear.jpg? Files are listed in alphanumerical order (1 -> a -> z) ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2022-02-21 Thread dpr99
d6jg wrote: > Album (or Single) cover art should be folder.jpg and placed in Album > folder > Unfortunately for Compilations you can only add one coverart image for > the entire album. > You can add additional album artwork eg rear.jpg, inner.jpg which will > be available to view via More >

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

2022-02-20 Thread dpr99
d6jg wrote: > Just to add some user experience > > If you define an artwork & lyrics folder then MAI will attempt to > download and store as follows > Artist Art - will create an image file titled “artist name as LMS > wants”.png/jpg however if no image is found it will create a zero length >

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

2022-02-20 Thread d6jg
dpr99 wrote: > Thanks, bringing lots of artwork so want to know where it should be Album (or Single) cover art should be folder.jpg and placed in Album folder Unfortunately for Compilations you can only add one coverart image for the entire album. You can add additional album artwork eg

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

2022-02-20 Thread d6jg
Just to add some user experience If you define an artwork & lyrics folder then MAI will attempt to download and store as follows Artist Art - will create an image file titled “artist name as LMS wants”.png/jpg however if no image is found it will create a zero length file with the suffix

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

2022-02-20 Thread dpr99
slartibartfast wrote: > Various Artist albums are handled OK, artist info is available for each > track. > Singles provide artist info if treated as an album. If necessary you can > add your own preferred artwork if none is found automatically. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

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

2022-02-20 Thread dpr99
mherger wrote: > > > > But to answer the original question: no, there's no documentation. The > code is the reference. Thanks dpr99's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=72594 View this thread:

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

2022-02-20 Thread slartibartfast
dpr99 wrote: > I did, was hoping for something more detailed thats all... > > How does it handle > - various artist compilations? Artist is at the track level > - artwork for a single? Should this be a seperate 'album' in the > artist/album hierarchy? Various Artist albums are handled OK,

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

2022-02-20 Thread Michael Herger
How does it handle Again: what is "it"? LMS? MAI? But to answer the original question: no, there's no documentation. The code is the reference. ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2022-02-20 Thread dpr99
slartibartfast wrote: > Check the first post in this thread. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I did, was hoping for something more detailed thats all... How does it handle - various artist compilations? Artist is at the track level - artwork for a single? Should this be a seperate

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

2022-02-20 Thread slartibartfast
dpr99 wrote: > Hi, > Is there any kind of docs / readme for this? > ThanksCheck the first post in this thread. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk slartibartfast's Profile:

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

2022-02-20 Thread Michael Herger
Is there any kind of docs / readme for this? Please define "this". ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins

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

2022-02-20 Thread dpr99
Hi, Is there any kind of docs / readme for this? Thanks dpr99's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=72594 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99537

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

2022-02-19 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > I haven't been able to get to the same log as you sent. Even by using > the exact same tags as you did... But I think I've found a workaround > anyway. Please give 1.7.3 a try.Success, that works. Although "Embed" appears > at the end of the lyrics. Not sure why the "1"

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

2022-02-19 Thread Michael Herger
I haven't been able to get to the same log as you sent. Even by using the exact same tags as you did... But I think I've found a workaround anyway. Please give 1.7.3 a try. ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2022-02-19 Thread Michael Herger
How does it fail? The log looks as if it did fine the lyrics? The lyrics are available on azlyrics so another mystery is why didn't it find those first? Hmm... yeah, that would make sense wrt. the log file. I'll double check. ___ plugins mailing

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

2022-02-19 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > How does it fail? The log looks as if it did fine the lyrics?It also fails to > display lyrics when the track is played from Tidal. The log shows the lyrics are found at Genius.com. It seems like the plugin gives up before the complete search of all the sources is complete.

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

2022-02-19 Thread slartibartfast
Paul Webster wrote: > Based on the logs ... it did find them from there but perhaps the song > title was too different for the plugin to include it.It seems to have removed > the brackets and tried to use all of the text including that inside the brackets. AZlyrics only has "Karn Evil 9" with

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

2022-02-19 Thread Paul Webster
Based on the logs ... it did find them from there but perhaps the song title was too different for the plugin to include it. Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, abc australia and

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

2022-02-19 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > How does it fail? The log looks as if it did fine the lyrics? The lyrics are available on azlyrics so another mystery is why didn't it find those first? https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/emersonlakepalmer/karnevil9.html

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

2022-02-19 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > How does it fail? The log looks as if it did fine the lyrics?The usual "I'm > sorry, didn't find any relevant information" Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk slartibartfast's Profile:

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

2022-02-19 Thread mherger
How does it fail? The log looks as if it did fine the lyrics? Michael "It doesn't work - what shall I do?" - "Please check your server.log and/or scanner.log file!" (LMS: Settings/Information) mherger's Profile:

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

2022-02-19 Thread slartibartfast
I am trying to view lyrics for Karn Evil 9 from Brain Salad Surgery without much luck. I've attached a log in the hope it contains any clues. +---+ |Filename: KarnEvil9.txt| |Download:

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

2022-02-05 Thread d6jg
Ignore above. Not a case thing at all. Cached info in browser fooling me Jim https://jukeradio.double6.net VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* Joggler & Pi4/Khadas -> Onkyo TXNR686 -> Celestion F20s *Office* Joggler & Pi3 -> Denon RCD N8 -> Celestion F10s *Dining Room*

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

2022-02-05 Thread d6jg
@michael A wee buggette It appears that the MAI lookup to a stored library of lyrics is case sensitive track to file name e.g an “of” in the file name instead of “Of” causes a failure to find. I know you usually translate everything to lowercase to avoid this sort of thing. Easily corrected

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

2022-02-04 Thread slartibartfast
w3wilkes wrote: > Works fine in Material Skin with Edge browser on Win10pro, but not on my > android phone. Phone just shows blank white screen when a .pdf is > selected to view.It should work in a browser on your phone as well, just the > APK has the issue. Craig is looking into it. Sent

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

2022-02-04 Thread w3wilkes
slartibartfast wrote: > There already is an item "Text files in local folder" where pdf files > appear. I can open these files in the default skin but not in Material > skin. Works fine in Material Skin with Edge browser on Win10pro, but not on my android phone (I use the Material apk). Phone

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

2022-02-04 Thread Blackfiction
slartibartfast wrote: > There already is an item "Text files in local folder" where pdf files > appear. I can open these files in the default skin but not in Material > skin. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I know that the function is there but hope to get access to it in an easier /

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

2022-02-03 Thread RobbH
Material will open pdf files on my LInux desktop. I think its inability to do so on Android is more an Android limitation than a Material issue, but I don't know enough to be certain of that. And I have no knowledge of iOS. Loading Material in a browser on Android, you at least have the option

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

2022-02-03 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > There already is an item "Text files in local folder" where pdf files > appear. I can open these files in the default skin but not in Material > skin. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk It will open text files and html files although latter are not styled like

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

2022-02-03 Thread slartibartfast
Blackfiction wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Would it be possible to add a link to the information section (artist, > albumartist, year, genre, source) that is named files. Clicking the link > would show for example the pdf files in the directory? What I would like > to achieve is easy access in

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

2022-02-03 Thread Blackfiction
Hi Michael, Would it be possible to add a link to the information section (artist, albumartist, year, genre, source) that is named files. Clicking the link would show for example the pdf files in the directory? What I would like to achieve is easy access in Material Skin to for example booklet

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

2022-02-02 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > That could be a way to do it. > The URL should be different for each set of lyrics though. > > In this case it should be > http: // www.chartlyrics.com/app/correct.aspx?lid=MQAxADcANQAxAA== > (remove the spaces that I put in) I have MAI set up as follows 37102 The

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

2022-02-02 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > That could be a way to do it. > The URL should be different for each set of lyrics though. > > In this case it should be > http: // www.chartlyrics.com/app/correct.aspx?lid=MQAxADcANQAxAA== > (remove the spaces that I put in) Yes exactly that, Jim

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

2022-02-02 Thread Paul Webster
That could be a way to do it. The URL should be different for each set of lyrics though. In this case it should be http: // www.chartlyrics.com/app/correct.aspx?lid=MQAxADcANQAxAA== (remove the spaces that I put in) Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip

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

2022-02-02 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > If you click the link in Michael's post you should see some XML - and in > there is the field that I referred to. > If you copy that URL and go to it then you are taken to an edit page on > ChartLyrics. > It requires an email address to be entered (but not checked as far

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

2022-02-02 Thread Paul Webster
If you click the link in Michael's post you should see some XML - and in there is the field that I referred to. If you copy that URL and go to it then you are taken to an edit page on ChartLyrics. It requires an email address to be entered (but not checked as far as I could tell) and makes the

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

2022-02-02 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > FYI .. I used the LyricCorrectUrl field from the returned data and > submitted a correction. Paul, can you explain that procedure more fully? As I'm quite happy to correct at source although in LMS terms I'd need to clear the cache for track in question and allow MAI to

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

2022-02-02 Thread Paul Webster
FYI .. I used the LyricCorrectUrl field from the returned data and submitted a correction. Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, abc australia and cbc/radio-canada and, via the extra

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

2022-02-02 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > The example is > > Roxy Music - In every dream home a heartache > > Well, those lyrics come with invalid characters in them. See > http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/GetLyric?lyricId=11751=82782698d7b702867a23970c14da081b. > > It's literally returning this line: > >

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

2022-02-01 Thread Paul Webster
mherger wrote: > > The example is > > Roxy Music - In every dream home a heartache > > Well, those lyrics come with invalid characters in them. See > http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/GetLyric?lyricId=11751=82782698d7b702867a23970c14da081b. > > It's literally returning this line: > >

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

2022-02-01 Thread Paul Webster
d6jg wrote: > Good knowledge or did you Google? I searched ... and during that time you posted your response. Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, abc australia and cbc/radio-canada

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

2022-02-01 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > I think it was Roxy Music > https://genius.com/Roxy-music-in-every-dream-home-a-heartache-lyrics Good knowledge or did you Google? Jim https://jukeradio.double6.net VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* Joggler & Pi4/Khadas -> Onkyo TXNR686 ->

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

2022-02-01 Thread Michael Herger
The example is Roxy Music - In every dream home a heartache Well, those lyrics come with invalid characters in them. See http://api.chartlyrics.com/apiv1.asmx/GetLyric?lyricId=11751=82782698d7b702867a23970c14da081b. It's literally returning this line: Theyamp;amp;acute;re rising daily

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

2022-02-01 Thread Paul Webster
I think it was Roxy Music https://genius.com/Roxy-music-in-every-dream-home-a-heartache-lyrics Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, abc australia and cbc/radio-canada and, via the extra

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

2022-02-01 Thread d6jg
The example is Roxy Music - In every dream home a heartache Thanks Jim https://jukeradio.double6.net VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* Joggler & Pi4/Khadas -> Onkyo TXNR686 -> Celestion F20s *Office* Joggler & Pi3 -> Denon RCD N8 -> Celestion F10s *Dining Room* SB

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

2022-02-01 Thread Michael Herger
acute; instead of a ' - is it possible to trap this out for display? Would you remember what track and artist this was? ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2022-02-01 Thread d6jg
@Michael I've noticed a display issue in Material and Default with lyrics recently - some lyric files downloaded by MAI contain the following string Code: acute; instead of a ' - is it possible to trap this out for display? Example In every dream

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

2022-01-03 Thread Michael Herger
I have an updated NL language for this plugin. Could you please add the file to the next release? Thank you very much! ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins

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

2022-01-03 Thread Blackfiction
Hi Michael, I have an updated NL language for this plugin. Could you please add the file to the next release? 36624 +---+ |Filename: strings.txt | |Download:

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

2021-12-25 Thread CypherMK
slartibartfast wrote: > Maybe set the plugin logging to debug and see what appears in the server > log. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Tried that, but no info on the delay. CypherMK's Profile:

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

2021-12-25 Thread slartibartfast
CypherMK wrote: > It can't be the drive, because it's in use. The delay can be within a > second to like 20 seconds. It has no delay with the plugin disabled.Maybe set > the plugin logging to debug and see what appears in the server log. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

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

2021-12-25 Thread CypherMK
slartibartfast wrote: > If this only happens occasionally and is normally fast it could be that > the music storage hard drive is sleeping. Mine can take 10 seconds on > the Windows machine and 7 seconds on the Pi when the drive is sleeping > but around a second otherwise. > > Sent from my

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

2021-12-23 Thread CypherMK
slartibartfast wrote: > If this only happens occasionally and is normally fast it could be that > the music storage hard drive is sleeping. Mine can take 10 seconds on > the Windows machine and 7 seconds on the Pi when the drive is sleeping > but around a second otherwise. > > Sent from my

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

2021-12-23 Thread CypherMK
slartibartfast wrote: > If this only happens occasionally and is normally fast it could be that > the music storage hard drive is sleeping. Mine can take 10 seconds on > the Windows machine and 7 seconds on the Pi when the drive is sleeping > but around a second otherwise. > > Sent from my

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

2021-12-23 Thread CypherMK
I didn't measure the delay, but it can be within a second to sometimes waiting 20 seconds. And only with that plugin. I ruled out the other plugins. CypherMK's Profile:

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

2021-12-23 Thread slartibartfast
If this only happens occasionally and is normally fast it could be that the music storage hard drive is sleeping. Mine can take 10 seconds on the Windows machine and 7 seconds on the Pi when the drive is sleeping but around a second otherwise. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

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

2021-12-23 Thread slartibartfast
CypherMK wrote: > I tried turning everything off, but that does not make a difference > unfortunately.How long is this delay? It takes less than a second for me with > a Pi4 server. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

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

2021-12-23 Thread CypherMK
Does this plugin try to gather the info when I press the M button? CypherMK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62798 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99537

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

2021-12-23 Thread CypherMK
slartibartfast wrote: > You could try turning off Artist pictures in the plugin settings. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I tried turning everything off, but that does not make a difference unfortunately.

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

2021-12-23 Thread slartibartfast
CypherMK wrote: > I'm using this plugin for a while now, but it slows down the browsing > through LMS considerably. So when I press M on the web interface or use > the 3 stripes in SqueezeCTRL, it can take a while for that sub menu to > load. > > What can I do to speed things up?You could try

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

2021-12-23 Thread CypherMK
I'm using this plugin for a while now, but it slows down the browsing through LMS considerably. So when I press M on the web interface or use the 3 stripes in SqueezeCTRL, it can take a while for that sub menu to load. What can I do to speed things up?

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

2021-12-12 Thread mondo
MrC wrote: > I spaced on the images part - hadn't had my morning coffee when I > replied. Sorry about that. > > > > There is still some drift, and I believe the syncing is only at the > beginning of each track. > > > > I used to use Whitebear (DLNA server) to do the same; it had a nice >

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

2021-12-11 Thread MrC
mondo wrote: > Yeah, I have been using Material Skin. But Like I said, I really like > seeing album covers over internet artist images... I spaced on the images part - hadn't had my morning coffee when I replied. Sorry about that. > > That's really too bad about J. River. I've been doing

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

2021-12-11 Thread mondo
MrC wrote: > See if the Material Skin works better for you. You won't get randomized > stacks of artists or albums. I personally see that is an non-useful > gimmick, and find it distracting. Yeah, I have been using Material Skin. But Like I said, I really like seeing album covers over

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

2021-12-11 Thread slartibartfast
mondo wrote: > I am looking for a way to make it look as much like J. River as > possible. I like to see the album covers opposed to some artist image > from the internet. For artists that I have more than one album from, > just use any of their album covers. > > I would actually just switch

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

2021-12-11 Thread Michael Herger
I am looking for a way to make it look as much like J. River as possible. I like to see the album covers opposed to some artist image from the internet. For artists that I have more than one album from, just use any of their album covers. Feel free to copy/symlink one of the album art files as

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

2021-12-11 Thread MrC
See if the Material Skin works better for you. 36427 JRiver is nice, but it will likely never do precise zone syncing. This has been a long-requested, but it is a difficult problem, esp. when they have no control over the hardware.

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

2021-12-11 Thread mondo
mherger wrote: > > Greetings - I was wondering if there is any way to display a random > > album cover for an artist image if no match can be found on-line. Or > > better yet, the option to switch between a random album cover by a > > particular artist, rather than the image that was found on

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

2021-12-10 Thread Michael Herger
Greetings - I was wondering if there is any way to display a random album cover for an artist image if no match can be found on-line. Or better yet, the option to switch between a random album cover by a particular artist, rather than the image that was found on line? I don't understand the

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

2021-12-10 Thread mondo
Greetings - I was wondering if there is any way to display a random album cover for an artist image if no match can be found on-line. Or better yet, the option to switch between a random album cover by a particular artist, rather than the image that was found on line?

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

2021-11-17 Thread Michael Herger
Deezer is now also having a problemLMS complains about network connectivity, is there a setting that I missed? You updated half way only (Debian 9). You really should go all the way to Buster at the very least (10). Better try all the way to Bullseye (11). You really need recent SSL

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

2021-11-17 Thread skogen75
Deezer is now also having a problemLMS complains about network connectivity, is there a setting that I missed? skogen75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67828 View this thread:

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

2021-11-17 Thread slartibartfast
skogen75 wrote: > Well, updated to Stretch and 8.2.1 and as I feared, it broke a bunch of > stuff, but LMS is up and running. Now, however Music and Artist Info is > even more broken (previously the lyric look-up worked just not album > review or artist bio, now nothing works). I am reporting

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

2021-11-17 Thread skogen75
slartibartfast wrote: > Could be. If you have a spare card it is worth trying. Old versions of > IO socket SSL cause problems and your info didn't list it at all. Well, updated to Stretch and 8.2.1 and as I feared, it broke a bunch of stuff, but LMS is up and running. Now, however Music and

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

2021-11-17 Thread Michael Herger
Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 1488878280 @ Wed Mar 8 14:36:54 UTC 2017 Perl Version: 5.20.2 - arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int Uh... oh... a lot has changed in four and a half years... Please bring your system up to date. Starting with the OS. Lack of recent support for

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

2021-11-17 Thread slartibartfast
skogen75 wrote: > Agreed, yet back in 2018 LMS wouldn't work on the most recent piOS > (raspbian Stretch) due to a Perl version incompatibility. Do you think > that the old age of the OS is the cause or just a good house cleaning > activity?Could be. If you have a spare card it is worth

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

2021-11-17 Thread skogen75
slartibartfast wrote: > Your Pi could probably do with an update to the OS. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Agreed, yet back in 2018 LMS wouldn't work on the most recent piOS (raspbian Stretch) due to a Perl version incompatibility. Do you think that the old age of the OS is the

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