Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-12-12 Thread Blisteringblue
Blisteringblue;673640 Wrote: I know this, I did have to enable the archive option in the GUI version. This is all I have done though. I guess it must be because mine are on the same machine and it is this same database? Just a follow up, have looked more closely into this and although I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-12-03 Thread Mnyb
What is PUID these are sometimes shown in MIP own UI for the tracks ? All analyzed tracks have fingerprint and analysis stored in the tags the PUID is not visible in any tag editor I have ? is this bug in mip that it sometimes shows . *Are my tracks properly done when they have fingerprint

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-12-03 Thread Henry66
Mnyb;674255 Wrote: *Are my tracks properly done when they have fingerprint and analysis tags ? *Yes, I believe so. It's a long thread, but I think that is the general consensus here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84338 -- Henry66

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-12-03 Thread Mnyb
Henry66;674335 Wrote: Yes, I believe so. It's a long thread, but I think that is the general consensus here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84338 Good thread it was all above my head urhgh :-/ Fingerprinting is advancing slowly with my geriatric assemble of computers at work

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-30 Thread Blisteringblue
Mnyb;671484 Wrote: But the main drawback is that MIPheadless don't store the fingerprint in a file tag , MIPgui or genpiud does that . Interesting read and while my MIP and sugarcube (3.50) are working fine with LMS 7.7 this statement confused me? When I first setup MIP a couple of months

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-30 Thread Mnyb
I run the server and the GUI on different machines So I set the GUI variant to save fingerprints ,but I see no way you can configure the headless version to do the same ? Maybe it takes the config from a gui on the same machine ? I may try my server again but there is no feedback on where it is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-30 Thread Blisteringblue
Mnyb;673637 Wrote: The GUI version fingerprints automatically that I can confirm. Default setting is to not save fingerprints in files. I know this, I did have to enable the archive option in the GUI version. This is all I have done though. I guess it must be because mine are on the same

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-29 Thread Mnyb
Observation it takes a *really* long time to analyze hirez files . What about it different status for files . The ones marked in red with to be analyzed is apparently prio nr 1 they are done first . The ones marked identified (to be verified) is done later in the validating process ? --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-29 Thread Henry66
I don't know. I just know if you wait long enough they all go to Analyzed. -- Henry66 Henry66's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38863 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Mnyb
Duh. The MIP servers (defunct) seems to really downprioritize any masstagging operation. Uding the Windows aplication to analyze one album is fast enough so finger print new aditions still works in a usable fashion . However when put into analyzing a folder with more songs it 's getting very

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Mnyb
This explains why users that set up mip way back can still use it now, where is my time machine ;) -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Mnyb
As I'm finger printing my files separately totally unconected to the MIP server running on my server . I assume that the MIP server reads and understand fingerprints that already exist in the files is a refreash all I have to do or does it find them If piont it to my library again ? -- Mnyb

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Mnyb
How do you clear the MIP servers dB even if I set an empty folder as my current music folders it still remember all the files -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Mnyb
Mnyb;671299 Wrote: How do you clear the MIP servers dB even if I set an empty folder as my current music folders it still remember all the files You stop the mmserver and find and delete the default.m3lib file, not that neat. -- Mnyb

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Henry66
Mnyb;671285 Wrote: Q . Is IO speed a factor I analyze on a win XP (virtual) but the files are still on my server ?I doubt that it is big a factor. I am running on native Win7-64 with all files local on fast drive, and it is excruciatingly slow. I ran it alone all night (8 hours) using two

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Mnyb
Henry66;671373 Wrote: I doubt that it is big a factor. I am running on native Win7-64 with all files local on fast drive, and it is excruciatingly slow. I ran it alone all night (8 hours) using two cores and max priority and it got through 35 tracks. Then it's their servers by manually

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Henry66
I got MIP set up in headless server mode and now it is running like a bat out of hell (comparatively speaking). Blew through 100 tracks in two hours. Go figure. My question now is, how do MIP GUI and headless server interact? In the GUI I had disabled some tracks but it looks like the server has

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Mnyb
I have MIP headless directly on the server , but it is a small server so not fast. But the main drawback is that MIPheadles don't store the fingerprint in a file tag , MIPgui or genpiud does that . MIP server use it's dB file as soon as you move files you have to analyze again. I also wonder

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Henry66
Mnyb;671484 Wrote: But the main drawback is that MIPheadles don't store the fingerprint in a file tag , MIPgui or genpiud does that .Darn. MIP server use it's dB file as soon as you move files you have to analyze again.Where does the headless server store its database? Can I get the GUI to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Mnyb
Probably . If they are running on the same machine http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Integrating_MusicIP_with_SqueezeCenter#Using_MusicIP And also all excellent ifo on cparker site for sugarcube plugin . http://www.spicefly.com/squeezeboxmip.html Actually I'm also exploring this and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Henry66
I thought I had read everything there was to read, but I had not seen that Wiki page before, thanks. The SpiceFly pages I have been through several times already. :) I paid for SugarCube today. So much more than the basic MIP integration, totally worth it. Today I also paid for a lifetime

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Henry66
Henry66;671488 Wrote: Where does the headless server store its database? Can I get the GUI to read this DB and then select Archive to write the fingerprints into the tags?This worked. Yay! I still don't know where the headless server stores the fingerprints. After it had analyzed all my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread Mnyb
Search fo this file default.m3lib that's where MIP stores it stuff besides the tags -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-19 Thread MeSue
Henry66;671488 Wrote: Where does the headless server store its database? Can I get the GUI to read this DB and then select Archive to write the fingerprints into the tags? I know the headless and GUI can share the same database, because that is how I have it. Mainly I just use the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-17 Thread Mnyb
MIP is not utf-8 compatible the fingerprinting skips all files with non english chars . Cancel all latin lover sessions while using MIP ;) My plan is to have sugarcube as a casual DJ I won't be bothered to rename my files just for this . My listening pattern is overwhelmingly album based with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-14 Thread Mnyb
Note : ffs set MIP to preserve file modification times when updating tags Otherwise the new music menu will be destroyed bummer :-/ But I only have to get 400 new albums then it look as it should again in 2013 something . rsync is good. Now that I'll be on a constant tag modification rally

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
A BIG hint, the first thing I did was donating to mr parker , a benefit of that is a version that actually works in SQlite . This is not the case with the one that can be directly installed from the plugins tab (2.65 ) it does not works on server newer than 7.5 (without a custom MySQL setup) I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
More Questions . Q7 . It mixes ! it's alive ! I got quite a lot of mixable tracks without doing the validation , why is that . Q8 I got a severe performance problem The server locks up for 14 seconds everytime SugarCube mixes :-/ why ? Code: Dynamic Playlist

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
Performance is actually tied to the Mix size parameter in the MIPserver . it seems to be a threshold effect . the default 20 just stalls the whole machine . Experimenting with values between 4-6 A value of 2 works splendidly . Is it such a cpu hog ? -- Mnyb

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
Mnyb;669744 Wrote: Performance is actually tied to the Mix size parameter in the MIPserver . it seems to be a threshold effect . the default 20 just stalls the whole machine . Experimenting with values between 4-6 A value of 2 works splendidly . Is it such a cpu hog ? ...Q9 but does

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
Continuing my monologue of 1000 n00b MIP questions... Q10 I can not get MusicIP with GUI running on my Ubuntu desktop nor can I get genpiud to fly on eiter my server or desktop . Suggestions ? Q11 Can the Headless MusicIP server be configured to write the fingerprints to the file tags , It

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Henry66
Fortsätt med anteckningarna. Jag väntar på dig att lista ut alla inställningar så att jag slipper slösa tid på det. :-) -- Henry66 Henry66's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38863 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Wirrunna
Q7 - Sugarcube may be picking 'random tracks' if MIP isn't complete, see the Sugarcube Live View in the Squeezebox Server GUI. Q8 - The lock up when Sugarcube mixes has been discussed in the Sugarcube forums, go to Spicefly.com and login - you should have been given a username and password after

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
Thanks for your input wiruna, apriciated thankyou I'll spent 45 minutes writing a post that the bl**dy forum software flushed for me :-( moderators can you find it. Otherwise I sulk for a couple of days it's not the first time something like it happens... #%#^£ (the forum software reguraly

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
I'l try again in smaller portions . Q7 If so it's not at all like the random you are used to :) quite interesting selection... That begs the question what is a mixable track I apparently have 27800 of them and an insignificant amount of fingerprints . Takes a while to get what the live view

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Aquatoria
right choice at all -- Aquatoria Aquatoria's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=51275 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91560

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
Q8 I actually read about the lockups at the sugarcube forum I'm now at 5 tracks in the mix . I hope cparker fix it's to the next release . I could not understand if it is a realy bad issue or not, does it impact the quality of the mix ? -- Mnyb

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
My experience with this makes me understand the term abandonware better... I do have MIPheadless running/functional on both my server and my ubuntu destop. I have not detailed how I got it to run on my CC4.2 rhel4.4 based server OS ,I'll embarrass myself with my crude linux skills.. I now

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
I noticed the genpiud treads earlier :-/ Not exactly good I must be the last person on the planet signing up to this abandoned system. This exactly why logitech *should* make bussines with amplifind (or competitor ) and make such a feature is a standard plugin to the server maybe with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Wirrunna
Mnyb;669909 Wrote: I'l try again in smaller portions . Q7 If so it's not at all like the random you are used to :) quite interesting selection... That begs the question what is a mixable track I apparently have 27800 of them and an insignificant amount of fingerprints . Takes a while

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
Wirrunna;669925 Wrote: As I understand it, Random means that Sugarcube picked a track of the same genre as MIP did not return a track. In MIP terms a Mixable Track is one that has been analyzed even if the Analysis tags have not been saved to the file. Live View shows the tracks

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread MeSue
I think MIP first matches your tracks against a database, then the analysis does something deeper which improves the acoustic matching. That could be why you have mixable tracks that have not been fingerprinted yet. Really don't understand all that it does, but this is what sticks in my mind.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Wirrunna
Mnyb;669912 Wrote: Q8 I actually read about the lockups at the sugarcube forum I'm now at 5 tracks in the mix . I hope cparker fix it's to the next release . I could not understand if it is a realy bad issue or not, does it impact the quality of the mix ? It shouldn't impact the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Wirrunna
Mnyb;669926 Wrote: Thanks, but thats just weird I can assure you that I have not analyzed more than 500 tracks not almost 28000 thats why I'm sligthly confused The tracks may have been Identified to be verified, this is an intermediate stage where MIP has a match on the tag info and turns the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
MeSue;669928 Wrote: I think MIP first matches your tracks against a database, then the analysis does something deeper which improves the acoustic matching. That could be why you have mixable tracks that have not been fingerprinted yet. Really don't understand all that it does, but this is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Wirrunna
Mnyb;669914 Wrote: My experience with this makes me understand the term abandonware better... I do have MIPheadless running/functional on both my server and my ubuntu destop. I have not detailed how I got it to run on my CC4.2 rhel4.4 based server OS ,I'll embarrass myself with my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-13 Thread Mnyb
Wirrunna;669933 Wrote: To make MIP perform a bit better I made MIP analyze locally as detailed http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=667967postcount=30 , then in the MIP GUI I click Library and Stop Analysis, then select the tracks to be analyzed (Options, Playlist View, add status

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-12 Thread Mnyb
Would be grateful on any hint to make this work . yes I do read on the wiki and SugarCube homepage I decided to install The Headless MIP server not genpiud (basically out not knowing better ) . It was an interesting exercise to manually load it onto ClarkConnect4.2 and manually link ti's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-12 Thread Mnyb
Q5 is the time between mmserver startup and LMS startup sufficient ? Nov 12 11:35:40 hal mmserver: Running MusicMagicServer Nov 12 11:35:41 hal rc: Starting mmserver: succeeded Nov 12 11:35:45 hal runuser: [11-11-12 11:35:45.1521] main::init (354) Starting Logitech Media Server (v7.7.1, r33690,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-12 Thread MeSue
Q1 yes Q2 yes Q3 yes, there is an option for that in the web UI if you installed the Spicefly custom one. Q4 If Sugarcube is enabled for the player you are controlling, just hit play on a song and it will become the seed to kick off your mix. Q5 don't know Suggestion - if you have a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-12 Thread Mnyb
MeSue;669560 Wrote: Q1 yes Q2 yes Q3 yes, there is an option for that in the web UI if you installed the Spicefly custom one. Q4 If Sugarcube is enabled for the player you are controlling, just hit play on a song and it will become the seed to kick off your mix. Q5 don't know

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-12 Thread MeSue
How do you add music on the server web-page See screen shot. Q6 I don't know. I always use filter mixes. I have Custom Scan set to export Trackstat stats to MIP and have several filters based on stats. The settings have information in the Web GUI when you hold your mouse over the little i.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Newb MIP/Sugarcube user needs answer to basic questions and hints

2011-11-12 Thread Mnyb
thanks again for your help . My simple plan is to use sugarcube . filter mixes is way over me for now :) -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2