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

2021-02-26 Thread staresy
slartibartfast wrote: > New version seems to work [emoji106] > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Indeed it does, thanks Micheal! One very minor point, under Artist Biog and Album Review, there is now a title saying "Artist Biog by", "All Music Review by..." The text font/size for

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

2021-02-26 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Funnily enough Dark Side of the Moon and The Final Cut were two of the > > working album reviews when I first posted. Now the reviews for > Animals, > > Wish You Were Here and The Wall work but DSOTM and The Final Cut > don't. > > Confirmed! AllMusic indeed serves pages in

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

2021-02-25 Thread Michael Herger
Funnily enough Dark Side of the Moon and The Final Cut were two of the working album reviews when I first posted. Now the reviews for Animals, Wish You Were Here and The Wall work but DSOTM and The Final Cut don't. Confirmed! AllMusic indeed serves pages in different formats now. In one case

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

2021-02-25 Thread slartibartfast
staresy wrote: > Here's a few that don't behave for me: > > MARVIN GAYE, WHAT'S GOIN' ON > > Shows BIO, No Album Review, Shows Lyrics > > PINK FLOYD, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON > > Doesn't show BIO, Review, Lyrics (didn't find relevant info) > > BOB MARLEY EXODUS: > > No BIO, No Review, Shows

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

2021-02-25 Thread Michael Herger
PINK FLOYD, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Doesn't show BIO, Review, Lyrics (didn't find relevant info) BOB MARLEY EXODUS: No BIO, No Review, Shows Lyrics Thanks, I'll look into these. ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2021-02-25 Thread staresy
Here's a few that don't behave for me: MARVIN GAYE, WHAT'S GOIN' ON Shows BIO, No Album Review, Shows Lyrics PINK FLOYD, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Doesn't show BIO, Review, Lyrics (didn't find relevant info) BOB MARLEY EXODUS: No BIO, No Review, Shows Lyrics location 1: lms 8.0 on win 10

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

2021-02-25 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Yup quite a few Pink Floyd album reviews missing. Even Coldplay Mylo > > Xyloto. > > Could this be a caching issue? Anything in server.log? You could enable > > logging for plugin.musicartistinfo. > > What Pink Floyd albums are you missing? I tested a few positively. Don't

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

2021-02-25 Thread Michael Herger
Yup quite a few Pink Floyd album reviews missing. Even Coldplay Mylo Xyloto. Could this be a caching issue? Anything in server.log? You could enable logging for plugin.musicartistinfo. What Pink Floyd albums are you missing? I tested a few positively. Don't have Mylo Xyolot, though

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

2021-02-25 Thread slartibartfast
d6jg wrote: > Have applied today's update but regret to report little if any > difference. What have allmusic changed that is causing the lookup to > fail?Yup quite a few Pink Floyd album reviews missing. Even Coldplay Mylo Xyloto. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

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

2021-02-25 Thread carsten_h
carsten_h wrote: > I found another thing with artist names and their image files. My observations were for the last version of MAI not for the actual one! pi4 4gb picoreplayer with lms and squeezelite for usb inside an argon one case pi3b+ (7\" display, hifiberry dac+ pro) picoreplayer with

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

2021-02-25 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed MAI misbehaving lately. I think it’s > something > > at Allmusic’s end as nothing has changed with plugin. > > A MAI update is on its way. Have applied today's update but regret to report little if any difference. What have allmusic changed that

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

2021-02-25 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > A MAI update is on its way. I found another thing with artist names and their image files. I am using an USB stick with ext4 filesystem on a Pi4 with piCorePlayer for the LMS database. One artist is eg.: "José Carreras". When I am doing a search, MAI found this file: "José

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

2021-02-24 Thread Michael Herger
Has anyone else noticed MAI misbehaving lately. I think it’s something at Allmusic’s end as nothing has changed with plugin. A MAI update is on its way. ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2021-02-24 Thread d6jg
mruddo wrote: > Yes - funnily enough that's why I stopped by. > > I noticed earlier today it seemed to be struggling to find artist > details and album reviews for common artists/albums that I'm sure have > worked just fine before. It does not fail in all cases, but I seem to > notice more

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

2021-02-24 Thread mruddo
d6jg wrote: > Has anyone else noticed MAI misbehaving lately. I think it’s something > at Allmusic’s end as nothing has changed with plugin. > It seems to fail (or timeout?) on things where there are valid entries > in the Allmusic database. > Any pointers as to what may be going on? Could it be

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

2021-02-24 Thread d6jg
Has anyone else noticed MAI misbehaving lately. I think it’s something at Allmusic’s end as nothing has changed with plugin. It seems to fail (or timeout?) on things where there are valid entries in the Allmusic database. Any pointers as to what may be going on? Could it be the very annoying

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

2021-02-22 Thread Howard Passman
I could be wrong, but I believe that if you just type the link in to the field and it is incorrect, you will get a similar if not the same message. I try to keep my links names very short and I have typed the link wrong. If someone else is as dumb as I am.. Howard d6jg wrote: > It’s not

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

2021-02-22 Thread d6jg
Howard Passman wrote: > I really like the M plugin too. I have noticed a little odd behavior > with it. I have to do a complete scan twice in order for the artists > pictures to come up under the right artists. I do a complete scan and > then a second clear and complete scan. > > Also, when you

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

2021-02-22 Thread Howard Passman
I really like the M plugin too. I have noticed a little odd behavior with it. I have to do a complete scan twice in order for the artists pictures to come up under the right artists. I do a complete scan and then a second clear and complete scan. Also, when you are in

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

2021-02-22 Thread Michael Herger
Importer2::startScan (55) *Artist Image Folder either does not exist or is not writable*: /storage/music/MUSIQUE/Artwork Artists-Composers ... Any ideas ? Well... what the error message says: most likely LMS doesn't have write permission to the picture folder.

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

2021-02-22 Thread jlt1947
Hello I am a very happy user of the Music & Artist Info plugin (currently v1.6.26), my folder contains about 3000 pics altogether, some of which have been "manually" changed or enhanced. Everything is neatly displayed through either the Material GUI or Orange Squeeze. I have recently "moved" my

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

2021-02-01 Thread Howard Passman
Needed to be a little more careful :-) Thanks! slartibartfast wrote: > Have you defined the folder path in the plug-in settings? Otherwise make > sure the artist name for the image is exactly the same as the Artist > tag. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

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

2021-02-01 Thread slartibartfast
Howard Passman wrote: > I created an "Artists" folder and put a few trial images in there using > the artists name as the image name. ie: Al Di Meola.jpg Although that's > the first picture listed under 'Artist Information>Pictures' it isn't > the one that appears in the LMS Artist list. > >

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

2021-02-01 Thread Howard Passman
I created an "Artists" folder and put a few trial images in there using the artists name as the image name. ie: Al Di Meola.jpg Although that's the first picture listed under 'Artist Information>Pictures' it isn't the one that appears in the LMS Artist list. Am I titling the picture wrong?

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

2020-12-30 Thread Jaca
d6jg wrote: > @michael > > Follow Link > Search * Artist > > When did you add this? Or was it Craig? > Whoever it was - very welcome improvement > > [image: > https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20201230/32955bd0c8e5f015ae88adcdefe2df3c.jpg] > > > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Wow, I

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

2020-12-30 Thread d6jg
reinholdk wrote: > I think he added this in Material v1.9.0. I’d not noticed it. Craig is prolific when it comes to changes. This time last year he had just released 1.0 VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TXNR686 -> Celestion F20s *Office* -

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

2020-12-30 Thread reinholdk
I think he added this in Material v1.9.0. reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99537

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

2020-12-30 Thread Michael Herger
Follow Link Search * Artist When did you add this? Or was it Craig? Must have been Craig :-) -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins

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

2020-12-30 Thread d6jg
@michael Follow Link Search * Artist When did you add this? Or was it Craig? Whoever it was - very welcome improvement [image: https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20201230/32955bd0c8e5f015ae88adcdefe2df3c.jpg] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS)

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

2020-12-27 Thread carsten_h
carsten_h wrote: > And here is a very strange part in the scanner.log: > 32703 I think you can not see that file, because you only read via mailinglist. Where can I put it, so that you can see it? pi4 4gb picoreplayer with lms and squeezelite for usb pi3b+ (7\" display, hifiberry dac+ pro)

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

2020-12-27 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > It could be a problem with the tag's encoding. I'm probably always > assuming utf8 or something, but this isn't? I don't know which encoding it is. But all files are written with the same program. The strange thing is that last week the plugin wrote a file which it can use

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

2020-12-27 Thread Michael Herger
There is a file called "Heinz Rühmann.jpg" in the artist folder from a scan a week ago (this was done with LMS 8.0.0 and piCorePlayer v6.1.0). If I change this to "Heinz Rühmann.jpg" everything is working fine! It could be a problem with the tag's encoding. I'm probably always assuming utf8

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

2020-12-27 Thread carsten_h
After changing the filename to "Heinz Rühmann.jpg" the scanner.log shows this: Code: [20-12-28 07:37:10.0184] Plugins::MusicArtistInfo::Importer2::_getArtistPhotoURL (135) Getting artwork for Heinz Rühmann [20-12-28 07:37:10.0188]

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

2020-12-27 Thread carsten_h
Hello! I have a strange error in Music & Artist Information plugin. It breaks always at the same place: Code: [20-12-28 07:14:22.1172] Plugins::MusicArtistInfo::Importer2::_getArtistPhotoURL (135) Getting artwork for Heinz Rühmann [20-12-28 07:14:22.1177]

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

2020-12-17 Thread Apesbrain
Reading through this thread it appears that people are able to get MAI results on classical music, e.g. composers. That doesn't work for me. I get the list of performers and possible information, e.g. "Biography", "Artist details", "Related artists", but when I click on these it comes back

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

2020-12-08 Thread mps
mherger wrote: > > Thanks, Michael. I've uploaded the scanner log to Dropbox. Note that > > after this scan, The Cars now have an Artist Picture, but Johnny Cash > > still does not. > > Thanks! That log was very helpful. Showed another issue with the > placeholder file, too... An update is on

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

2020-12-08 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > An update is on its way to you. This update seems to work! I added a new album from a new artist and I got a new jpg in the directory! Great work! Thank you! pi4 4gb picoreplayer with lms and squeezelite for usb pi3b+ (7\" display, hifiberry dac+ pro) picoreplayer with

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

2020-12-08 Thread Michael Herger
Thanks, Michael. I've uploaded the scanner log to Dropbox. Note that after this scan, The Cars now have an Artist Picture, but Johnny Cash still does not. Thanks! That log was very helpful. Showed another issue with the placeholder file, too... An update is on its way to you. -- Michael

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

2020-12-07 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > I don't see any umlaut in "The Cars" or "Johnny Cash"... you never > solved the puzzle? Oh, sorry, I meant the lower part where it didn't find "The Pogues" (without special characters). The problem with the umlauts seems to be vanished since the last version. pi4 4gb

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

2020-12-07 Thread mps
mherger wrote: > > Even after scan, I seem to always have a few missing artist pictures, > > including ones that are well-known, like The Cars in the picture > below. > > If I look in the Artist Pictures folder from the plugin setting, I > see > > that those artists are missing from the folder

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

2020-12-07 Thread Michael Herger
Even after scan, I seem to always have a number of missing artist pictures, including ones that are well-known, like Johnny Cash and The Cars in the picture below. That looks like the same problem I described a page ago:

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

2020-12-07 Thread carsten_h
mps wrote: > Even after scan, I seem to always have a number of missing artist > pictures, including ones that are well-known, like Johnny Cash and The > Cars in the picture below. That looks like the same problem I described a page ago:

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

2020-12-07 Thread Michael Herger
Even after scan, I seem to always have a few missing artist pictures, including ones that are well-known, like The Cars in the picture below. If I look in the Artist Pictures folder from the plugin setting, I see that those artists are missing from the folder as well. Any suggestions would be

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

2020-12-07 Thread mps
Even after scan, I seem to always have a few missing artist pictures, including ones that are well-known, like The Cars in the picture below. If I look in the Artist Pictures folder from the plugin setting, I see that those artists are missing from the folder as well. Any suggestions would be

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

2020-12-03 Thread Michael Herger
UNSYNCEDLYRICS tags for FLAC files aren't currently sourced for lyrics. Would they be shown if you listed the tags in a track's info menu? I don't know whether LMS would even read that tag. Yes, the tag shows with value strings like "(828 Bytes)". I added it to 8.1 - should you feel

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

2020-12-03 Thread Michael Herger
UNSYNCEDLYRICS tags for FLAC files aren't currently sourced for lyrics. Would they be shown if you listed the tags in a track's info menu? I don't know whether LMS would even read that tag. Yes, the tag shows with value strings like "(828 Bytes)". Could you please provide a sample file

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

2020-12-03 Thread bb010g
mherger wrote: > > UNSYNCEDLYRICS tags for FLAC files aren't currently sourced for > lyrics. > > Would they be shown if you listed the tags in a track's info menu? I > don't know whether LMS would even read that tag. Yes, the tag shows with value strings like "(828 Bytes)".

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

2020-12-02 Thread Michael Herger
UNSYNCEDLYRICS tags for FLAC files aren't currently sourced for lyrics. (Bandcamp creates these in its FLAC downloads of tracks with lyrics.) Would they be shown if you listed the tags in a track's info menu? I don't know whether LMS would even read that tag. -- Michael

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

2020-12-02 Thread bb010g
mherger wrote: > > If you need a beta tester > > It's out there. v1.2.0 adds support for .lrc files (must be identical > name with or without the audio file's extension) and embedded lyrics. > > Also several tweaks to the album cover search. > > -- > > Michael UNSYNCEDLYRICS tags

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

2020-11-23 Thread carsten_h
carsten_h wrote: > One of my albums is from "Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson". > Every time I make a complete or only changed scan, the file with this > artist image gets updated and has the name: "Björn Ulvaeus Benny > Andersson.jpg". This is very strange. With the new version: "8.0.1 -

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

2020-11-20 Thread carsten_h
Hello! There is on strange thing when searching for artist pictures. One of my albums is from "Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson". Every time I make a complete or only changed scan, the file with this artist image gets updated and has the name: "Björn Ulvaeus Benny Andersson.jpg". Other artist

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

2020-11-09 Thread carsten_h
Hello! Where do you get the informations for the artists? I added today a CD of "The Pogues" and was amazed that there was no picture found. Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display, Hifiberry DAC+ Pro) piCoreplayer with Squeezlite/Jivelite for Hifiberry and

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

2020-11-08 Thread Michael Herger
Yes, this is the current settings. Although I'm not sure why download artist pictures is unchecked. Ok, and you got the online music service integration enabled. That's where I have a problem: I only initialize the web client when artist download is enabled. But later on I added download of

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

2020-11-08 Thread ralphy
mherger wrote: > >[20-11-08 08:50:55.0493] main::main (348) Error: Failed when > running scan post-process: [Can't call method "get" on an undefined > value at > /opt/logitechmediaserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/MusicArtistInfo/Importer2.pm > line 230.] > > Do you have some of the

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

2020-11-08 Thread Michael Herger
[20-11-08 08:50:55.0493] main::main (348) Error: Failed when running scan post-process: [Can't call method "get" on an undefined value at /opt/logitechmediaserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/MusicArtistInfo/Importer2.pm line 230.] Do you have some of the artwork lookup options

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

2020-11-08 Thread ralphy
While testing repositories.conf, I've noticed this error message in the scanner.log from MAI v1.6.24. Code: [20-11-07 08:15:56.6503] main::main (206) Starting Logitech Media Server scanner (v8.0.0, r20794.776e969, 1603294968) perl 5.028001 [20-11-07

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

2020-10-27 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > > They have an official API > > https://docs.genius.com/ > > Good to know, thanks! > I read a few minutes ago that they have an API, but this API only returns a link to a webpage with the lyrics. And they do not allow scraping the website to get the lyrics. I don't know if

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

2020-10-14 Thread Zabizabo
kidstypike wrote: > Michael doesn't see "Edits". You are right, I was in a hurry :). I modify it Zabizabo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69777 View this thread:

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

2020-10-14 Thread kidstypike
Zabizabo wrote: > Michael, forget everything below. I have reloaded the Material Skin > interface (just a F5 stupid I am) and the pictogram "information on > Artist" is displayed. It looks that is not a problem with your plugin :) > > > > First boot this morning and the problem occurs. >

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

2020-10-14 Thread Zabizabo
mherger wrote: > > In fact, it doesn't appear on my Material Skin interface. There is > not > > the blank "i" in the circle as in this screen capture in > > attachment31828 > > What if you reloaded the skin? > > -- > > Michael First boot this morning and the problem occurs. Before

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

2020-10-13 Thread skind56
mherger wrote: > > Any ideas why I get this in scanner log: > > > > Plugins::MusicArtistInfo::Importer2::startScan (56) Artist Image > Folder > > either does not exist or is not writable: D:\My Music\Artist Artwork > > You'd get this for the reason given in the message :-). > > > The Scanner

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

2020-10-13 Thread Zabizabo
mherger wrote: > > In fact, it doesn't appear on my Material Skin interface. There is > not > > the blank "i" in the circle as in this screen capture in > > attachment31828 > > What if you reloaded the skin? > > -- > > Michael I will try as soon the probem occurs.

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

2020-10-13 Thread Michael Herger
In fact, it doesn't appear on my Material Skin interface. There is not the blank "i" in the circle as in this screen capture in attachment31828 What if you reloaded the skin? -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2020-10-13 Thread Zabizabo
mherger wrote: > > I have just noticed that sometimes the plugin is not loading and I > have > > to restart LMS to make it appear. I don't know if it's related to the > > plugin or LMS version because I didn't notice before. > > How do you realise it's not loaded? Anything in server.log? > >

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

2020-10-13 Thread Michael Herger
I have just noticed that sometimes the plugin is not loading and I have to restart LMS to make it appear. I don't know if it's related to the plugin or LMS version because I didn't notice before. How do you realise it's not loaded? Anything in server.log? -- Michael

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

2020-10-13 Thread Zabizabo
Hi Michael and others, First thanks for this plugin, I'm using it for some months and I'm happy with it. I have just noticed that sometimes the plugin is not loading and I have to restart LMS to make it appear. I don't know if it's related to the plugin or LMS version because I didn't notice

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

2020-10-11 Thread Michael Herger
Any ideas why I get this in scanner log: Plugins::MusicArtistInfo::Importer2::startScan (56) Artist Image Folder either does not exist or is not writable: D:\My Music\Artist Artwork You'd get this for the reason given in the message :-). The Scanner has previously filled the folder with

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

2020-10-11 Thread skind56
Hi Any ideas why I get this in scanner log: Plugins::MusicArtistInfo::Importer2::startScan (56) Artist Image Folder either does not exist or is not writable: D:\My Music\Artist Artwork The Scanner has previously filled the folder with images but no updates since 2nd Feb. I'm on Windows 10.

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

2020-09-30 Thread carsten_h
kidstypike wrote: > Yes, here it is. Thank you! Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display, Hifiberry DAC+ Pro) piCoreplayer with Squeezlite/Jivelite for Hifiberry and Bluetooth headphone; two Airport Express

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

2020-09-30 Thread kidstypike
carsten_h wrote: > So I accidentally deleted the artist.png and I get an > artist.png.missing. Is this correct? > Can I get it back somehow? Yes, here it is. +---+ |Filename: artist.png

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

2020-09-30 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > The artist.png would be the placeholder image used with artists for > which there was no artwork found. So I accidentally deleted the artist.png and I get an artist.png.missing. Is this correct? Can I get it back somehow? Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for

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

2020-09-30 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > The artist.png would be the placeholder image used with artists for > which there was no artwork found. So I accidentally deleted the artist.png and I get an artist.png.missing. Is this correct? Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display,

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

2020-09-29 Thread Michael Herger
But there is also one file created named "artist.png.missing". What is this? I searched i any of my files has an artist or whatever tag named "artists.png", but there is nothing. The artist.png would be the placeholder image used with artists for which there was no artwork found. -- Michael

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

2020-09-29 Thread fastfwd
carsten_h wrote: > That is the strange part. I have no artist called "artist", I triple > checked it. This tag content is nowhere to find in my library. FWIW, I have exactly the same situation: No artist called "artist" or "artist.png" -- indeed, no tag or filename containing either of those

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

2020-09-29 Thread carsten_h
Paul Webster wrote: > The artist.png is an attempt to find the artist image file for an artist > called "artist" ... and it cannot find one That is the strange part. I have no artist called "artist", I triple checked it. This tag content is nowhere to find in my library. Paul Webster wrote:

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

2020-09-29 Thread Paul Webster
The artist.png is an attempt to find the artist image file for an artist called "artist" ... and it cannot find one so it created a .missing for you so that you can see that it was having a prolem. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france

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

2020-09-29 Thread carsten_h
Hello! The plugin is working fine! Thank you! I only have one question. Every time there is a file created named "Diverse Interpreten.missing". This is clear to me, this is for the compilations (the files are tagged as compilations and the "Album Artists" is empty. But there is also one file

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

2020-09-27 Thread Michael Herger
The peel modules in the Lyrics Folder of the MAI plug-in. I was wondering if I could use the modules outside of LMS No, they're using LMS specific code. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

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

2020-09-26 Thread Tony T
mherger wrote: > > Is it possible to send the Artist snd Song Title to the Lyrics pm > > outside of the LMS plug-in to query for Lyrics and then save? I > would > > like to search through my FLAC’s for missing Lyrics, and then send > > the Artist and Title to the pearl module to do the look-up.

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

2020-09-26 Thread Michael Herger
Is it possible to send the Artist snd Song Title to the Lyrics pm outside of the LMS plug-in to query for Lyrics and then save? I would like to search through my FLACs for missing Lyrics, and then send the Artist and Title to the pearl module to do the look-up. I'm not sure I understand what

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

2020-09-25 Thread Tony T
Is it possible to send the Artist snd Song Title to the Lyrics pm outside of the LMS plug-in to query for Lyrics and then save? I would like to search through my FLACs for missing Lyrics, and then send the Artist and Title to the pearl module to do the look-up. Tony SBTouch SBRadio

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

2020-09-25 Thread JensD
cpd73 wrote: > You can also pass "artist:ARTISTNAME", "album:ALBUMNAME", > "title:TRACKTITLE" to MAI calls. Good point, I'll try this way. But from the information of the "status playlist" command the only way seems to be to parse the *"current_title"* tag, e.g. *"current_title:3. DON'T CHASE

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

2020-09-25 Thread cpd73
JensD wrote: > > With these negative ids I'm not able to get any information from the MAI > CLI, e.g. lyrics, bio or photo url. > Any hint for me what I'm doing wrong here. There must be a way as in > browser or in iPeng it works perfectly ;-) You can also pass "artist:ARTISTNAME",

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

2020-09-25 Thread JensD
Hi all, I'm using the MAI CLI to retrieve infos for the current song to display it on a little dashboard on a tablet. Works fine for all songs from my local library, but when it comes to songs from Spotify (over Spotty), the reported song id is a negative number, e.g. Request: Code:

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

2020-09-24 Thread mr-b
mherger wrote: > >> Going back to the missing album artwork pre-cached files, I enabled > >> Debug logging and saw what it did with a particular album that has > no > >> embedded artwork or image files in the album folder. > > > > Could you please share a screenshot of your MAI settings? > >

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

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Is was always rumoured that three sources were used but I wonder if it > > actually worked correctly. I know that Judie Tzuke lyrics were only > > available on Genius, so unless the lyrics have suddenly appeared on > > Chart Lyrics maybe one of the recent updates fixed it. >

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

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
Going back to the missing album artwork pre-cached files, I enabled Debug logging and saw what it did with a particular album that has no embedded artwork or image files in the album folder. Could you please share a screenshot of your MAI settings? Never mind, I found the issue. I had a check

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

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
Going back to the missing album artwork pre-cached files, I enabled Debug logging and saw what it did with a particular album that has no embedded artwork or image files in the album folder. Could you please share a screenshot of your MAI settings? -- Michael

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

2020-09-22 Thread Michael Herger
Is was always rumoured that three sources were used but I wonder if it actually worked correctly. I know that Judie Tzuke lyrics were only available on Genius, so unless the lyrics have suddenly appeared on Chart Lyrics maybe one of the recent updates fixed it. ChartLyrics AFAICT is user

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

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
fastfwd wrote: > Genius may have only recently been added as a lyrics source: > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?99537-Announce-Music-amp-Artist-Information-plugin=986590=1#post986590Could > be. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

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

2020-09-22 Thread fastfwd
slartibartfast wrote: > know that Judie Tzuke lyrics were only available on Genius, so unless > the lyrics have suddenly appeared on Chart Lyrics maybe one of the > recent updates fixed it. Genius may have only recently been added as a lyrics source:

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

2020-09-22 Thread fastfwd
mr-b wrote: > Is anyone using the album lookup i.e. tick-boxes 1 & 2 and are there > album image files in their artwork folders? My LMS 8.0 is configured that way, and my experience mirrors yours: I see in the scanner log that some image files are found and "pre-cached", but nothing is stored

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

2020-09-22 Thread mr-b
Going back to the missing album artwork pre-cached files, I enabled Debug logging and saw what it did with a particular album that has no embedded artwork or image files in the album folder. The scanner log said: [20-09-22 21:23:20.1875] Plugins::MusicArtistInfo::Common::cleanupAlbumName (28)

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

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
Tony T wrote: > I was wondering that myself a few days ago, so I took a peek at the > plug-in, and looks like there are 3 sources > > > Code: > > > mnt/CACHE/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/MusicArtistInfo/Lyrics$ la > total 24 > drwxr-xr-x2 tc

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

2020-09-22 Thread Tony T
slartibartfast wrote: > Has the lyrics part of the plugin been tweaked recently? I have just > noticed that Judie Tzuke lyrics are now available when they weren't a > few weeks ago. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I was wondering that myself a few days ago, so I took a peek at the

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

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
slartibartfast wrote: > On the subject of lyrics, is ChartLyrics the main or only source used? I > just looked for Judie Tzuke song lyrics and only a couple are available > on Chartlyrics and that is reflected in the plugin failing to find > lyrics for all the songs I tried. I thought it tried

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

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
Tony T wrote: > If the question was where is the downloaded album art stored, looks like > nowhere if you didn’t check box 2 > Then the album art is stored in the artists album folder, unless the > artist folder at the bottom is defined.I don't download album art. Sent from my Pixel 3a using

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

2020-09-22 Thread Tony T
slartibartfast wrote: > Do you need the first check box to be ticked? I have the top two boxes > unticked. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk If the question was where is the downloaded album art stored, looks like nowhere if you didn’t check box 2 Then the album art is stored in the

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

2020-09-22 Thread slartibartfast
d6jg wrote: > Box 1. Yes. See the [i] - if you leave it unticked my understanding is > that the lookup is on demand which is sub optimal when looking at a long > list of Artists and won't populate (in my case) the > /mnt/storage/artistart folder. > Box 2. Optional. I have 100% cover art so

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

2020-09-22 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > Do you need the first check box to be ticked? I have the top two boxes > unticked. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Box 1. Yes. See the [i] - if you leave it unticked my understanding is that the lookup is on demand which is sub optimal when looking at a long

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