Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-11-15 Thread The Groundsman
Also getting the token error so have marked import to "No" for the time being The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-11-16 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks for the token fix using the client ID, Thanks also for all of your amazing work on this plug-in. I can't tell you how much it has changed the way I listen to music. The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-11-17 Thread The Groundsman
I have a playlist of 685 songs. The first 585 are missing but the last 100 are available The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showt

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-11-17 Thread The Groundsman
All good 👍 The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111923 ___ plugins ma

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-11-27 Thread The Groundsman
The problem started around 9:30 GMT for me. It took about an hour before I could access my music at all on the Spotify App. Then a while longer before I was able to use Spotify Connect to Chromecasts. Now it seems to be working just about OK in Spotify but not via LMS. I can't find any meaning

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2020-11-27 Thread The Groundsman
mherger wrote: > > I can't find any meaningful updates from Spotify about the issue. > > https://twitter.com/SpotifyStatus/status/1332294913623531523 > > "Something’s still out of tune. We’re currently investigating, and > we’ll > keep you posted here!" > > -- > > Michael All good no

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-12-17 Thread The Groundsman
I have a few "go to" playlists in Spotify that I listen to and update all the time. To save time I put these in LMS favourites folder so they show up on the home screen. When I load them up the only thing displayed is pages of the Spotify URLs spotify://track:[spotifyid]. i can still add the w

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-12-18 Thread The Groundsman
mherger wrote: > > > What LMS and Spotty versions are you using? I thought I had fixed this > (or a very similar) issue in Spotty 4.4.2. > > -- > > Michael I try and keep everything reasonably up to date though LMS is not the current version LMS Logitech Media Server Version: 8.0.0 -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-12-18 Thread The Groundsman
Now updated to Version: 8.0.1 - 1607593012 @ Thu Dec 10 12:37:26 WEST 2020. Same behaviour The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sho

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-01-01 Thread The Groundsman
Sorry to be a bit slow on this - I did try and follow the recent posts but I'm still not clear. I used to Stream Spotify Connect to a Chromecast Audio and was reliably informed that Spotify doesn't officially support streaming to Chromecast Audio. In the Spotify Android app the google hardware

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-01-25 Thread The Groundsman
I did have a quick look around for this but as it's such a monster thread I couldn't seem to search it that efficiently - sorry :o On the default skin I get a message at the bottom to say if a new version of LMS is available, and in Material I get a lime green blob by the main menu in the top ri

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-01-25 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks. Strange I never get that for the plugins The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-01-25 Thread The Groundsman
Yep I have the automatic plugins ticked. That downloads them but they are not activated until after the server restart. I was expecting the same behaviour as in the default skin (as described in my post) That way I can see which plug in has been updated and what the functional change is, so I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-03 Thread The Groundsman
I found that when the volume swipe doesn't work, the player has the volume set to 100%, thereby disabling any volume adjustment in LMS The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View th

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-04 Thread The Groundsman
I only discovered the android app recently. It's really good and the app settings useful for phones and tablets. I did find it quite hard to find to download the APK. Is it worth including a link on the information page or the user guide? -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-04 Thread The Groundsman
May be, not sure how many material users would be active on these forums. I first looked here 33236 Then the links to the user guide and the GitHub page but it wasnt that clear where to find the file to download to my device. May be it's just me :o +

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-02-08 Thread The Groundsman
d6jg wrote: > Craig does himself a disservice. Material is vastly superior to other > attempts at a decent modern UI. 100% agree. I too used to use Squeezer but the android APK for Material is quite excellent The Grounds

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-02-28 Thread The Groundsman
I suspect that many users are not aware of the APK. It's not widely publicised in the documentation so casual users probably don't realise it exists. Shame as it is excellent The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdev

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-01 Thread The Groundsman
TomS wrote: > +1 > > Liked the player/server settings in the first dropdown, but as a > consolation moving them to the -top- of the settings page would be > helpful. The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.c

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-06 Thread The Groundsman
Since upgrade to 2.3.2 I can only use Spotty with the default skin. in Material it shows as nothing playing on all players. I can not add spotty songs or playlist to the queue via material either. Default view is not impacted. Have tried restarting Server but issue persists. Server Version: 8.2

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-07 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks for fixing things so fast The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-03-10 Thread The Groundsman
slartibartfast wrote: > The Spotty app has a menu item "Genres and Moods" and many Spotify > playlists are based. on genre so I wouldn't say the use of genres is > dying out. As for genres in the Grammy awards that is another topic > altogether [emoji3] > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

[SlimDevices: Plugins] 3rd party plugins on new PiCore player

2021-12-31 Thread The Groundsman
Yesterday I started to move my LMS world from my old windows 10 netbook to my new pi4 with piCore. I had a couple of issues but thanks to the documentation and this great community I have made some progress. I'm stuck again unfortunately as I would like to add some plugins. Material, BBC Sounds

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] 3rd party plugins on new PiCore player

2021-12-31 Thread The Groundsman
sorry - being dumb. restarted everything and i now see them. The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115666

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-08 Thread The Groundsman
The Groundsman wrote: > I did have a quick look around for this but as it's such a monster > thread I couldn't seem to search it that efficiently - sorry :o > > On the default skin I get a message at the bottom to say if a new > version of LMS is available, and in Ma

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-02-09 Thread The Groundsman
Julf wrote: > I am pretty happy after switching to Deezer (and thanks for everyone > here who helped me get the LMS integration working!). I used to be with Deezer before moving to Spotify ages ago. I liked it a lot and there seemed to be less licencing issues. The issue for me was that there w

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-18 Thread The Groundsman
I listen to a fair amount of classical music but my circumstances might not be typical and almost certainly not the same as the person making the original request. The tags of my local files are not very good and mostly I listen via Michael's Spotty plugin. In both my cases the MAI plugin doesn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-18 Thread The Groundsman
Shozzer wrote: > The reason you have a problem with Spotty and MAI is that Spotty groups > all the artists together which doesn't correspond with All Music. Albums > are hard to identify as many have the same names. > > Steve Thanks for the insight Steve. I was feeling a bit bad as I took the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-04-03 Thread The Groundsman
I couldn't find the sleep setting in the default skin so I wonder if it might be some Material functionality - apologies if this is in the wrong thread. I use the sleep settings quite a bit mainly the "sleep after the duration of the current track" which is for me a very useful function. I did

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-04-03 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks a lot. - will repost The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624 _

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2022-09-25 Thread The Groundsman
I don't often use Spotify Connect but it's always worked fine me. I know others have had a few issues in the past. Not so great today though so may be something to do with this update? There is a 10 second delay before the music starts playing even though the progress bar is moving in the spotif

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2022-09-26 Thread The Groundsman
So I did a complete reboot yesterday afternoon by cutting and restoring power to the Pi. I've been listening to Spotty happily on chromecast and via the Pi yesterday and today. I tried a connect session just now and the track started ha;fway through and cut out after a few seconds. Now can't pla

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2022-09-27 Thread The Groundsman
mherger wrote: > > [22-09-26 17:30:30.0401] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1428) > Invalid > > data: 204 > > [22-09-26 17:30:30.5885] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1428) > Invalid > > data: 204 > > That doesn't look right. Can you reproduce this? If so, could you please > > enable logging f

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2022-09-29 Thread The Groundsman
mherger wrote: > > I have sent you a link privately along with the steps I took. I hope > it > > helps. > > Did the problem occur while you were logging? Because I only see those > 204s _before_ you enabled the logging. Thanks for looking Michael. I sent my observations during logging in th

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2022-09-30 Thread The Groundsman
philippe_44 wrote: > I’m currently doing a complete upgrade of all my build systems and also > updating all dependencies of all my plugins/work to most recent > versions. It’s a pretty complicated process so I’m not able to help much > for now but I will rebuild all version in the coming day/week

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2022-10-05 Thread The Groundsman
By way of update in case it is useful info. We had an unscheduled power outage today that messed up a lot of stuff mainly the last fm autoscrobbler. Mostly I have it all back to normal normal but there was some more strangeness on the Spotify Connect. The one player I have with connect ( see rec

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Typo?

2022-10-24 Thread The Groundsman
mherger wrote: > Thanks :-) Thanks from me too as I had missed this plug in. Sounds useful. - NICHOLAS- RPi4 / piCorePlayer v8.1.0 /Logitech Media Server Version: 8.2.1/ Hifiberry Digi+ 4 Chromecast (mini x3 Chromecast Audio) 1 Airplay --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-11-19 Thread The Groundsman
cpd73 wrote: > Changes: > > > > - When adding a URL via Android's share system, show a dialog > asking which player to share to and add buttons for play, add, or > insert. - Add option to auto-discover servers when connection is lost > (enabled by default). > > > Thank you fo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2022-11-30 Thread The Groundsman
Hi. I posted back in March of 2021 about how music played via Spotty gets back to Spotify (or doesn't) so the artist gets paid and the Spotify curated playlists reflect your listening. Michael, I believe, confirmed that this "report back" wasn't available in the Librespot development at that t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2022-11-30 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks. Feel bad for the artists. - NICHOLAS- RPi4 / piCorePlayer v8.1.0 /Logitech Media Server Version: 8.3.0/ Hifiberry Digi+ 3 Chromecast (2 mini x1 Chromecast Audio) 2 UPNP devices also use a Gramofon off platform

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AirPlay, Chromecast and UPnP bridges update

2022-12-12 Thread The Groundsman
UPnP 2.1.7 doesnt update for me either [22-12-12 08:08:56.1799] Slim::Utils::PluginDownloader::_installDownload (216) digest does not match /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/DownloadedPlugins/UPnPBridge.zip - UPnPBridge will not be installed: expected d3cb77bb79c4885f205a77b17b9c4d54f426ac14, got 337a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] A few words about bridges and my work in general

2022-12-12 Thread The Groundsman
LMS is such an excellent thing. I am particularly in awe of the bridges and spotty. I've been waiting with interest for the bridge refactoring. It all worked fine for me pretty much immediately. So thank you very much indeed. - NICHOLAS- RPi4 / piCorePlayer v8.1.0 /Logitech Media Server Ve

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AirPlay, Chromecast and UPnP bridges update

2022-12-14 Thread The Groundsman
Hi I have a set up with PiCore and am on the stable release channel with bug fixes (LMS 8.3.0) and these plugins are working as expected for me on my chromecast and upnp players. I would like to help out though by testing - as a non technical user would that be any use to you? The last thing I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2022-12-15 Thread The Groundsman
I did a couple of hours listening this morning. on my windows set up Logitech Media Server Version: 8.3.0 - 1667251155 @ Fri Nov 4 09:09:12 WEST 2022 Hostname: Samsung-Laptop Server IP Address: x Server HTTP Port Number: 9000 Operating system: Windows 10 - EN - cp1252 Platform Architecture:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] A few words about bridges and my work in general

2022-12-21 Thread The Groundsman
Well - I've been playing for an hour or so each day on a couple of Upnp devices and airplay using an old windows 10 PC runnng LMS 8.3.0 and the dev bridges, and all is well :cool: - NICHOLAS- RPi4 / piCorePlayer v8.1.0 /Logitech Media Server Version: 8.3.0/ Hifiberry Digi+ 3 Chromecast (2 mi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2021-03-31 Thread The Groundsman
Sorry if this is a dumb question. The Android Spotify app has a new feature that shows Recently Played, but it only shows stuff played through the official App and Spotty plugin listening doesn't appear. This made me wonder if listening via Spotty plugin is recorded against my Spotify account

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-04-13 Thread The Groundsman
I'm the same to be honest. I do like to keep an eye out for changes to my plugins ( Material, Spotty, Chromecast and airplay bridges). If you have the box ticked to automatically update the plugins you don't get a notification in material if there has been an update that is pending a restart.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-04-13 Thread The Groundsman
Actually you're right :cool: That's the most logical work around. Seems counter-intuitive not to automate something but its not really automatic is it. The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?us

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-04-26 Thread The Groundsman
If you have the BBC sounds plugin updated today it will have broken the airplay bridge. Uninstalling the BBC plugin made it work again for me The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-05-08 Thread The Groundsman
installed fine on Moto g6 and Samsung galaxya7 tablet. Thanks The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-05-24 Thread The Groundsman
Hi I got an article in my newsfeed about this new Belkin product. It's not available in the UK just yet but 'i as wondering if it will work with the AirPlay Bridge. It seems to have quite specific requirements so wasn't that clear to me https://www.belkin.com/uk/speakers-headphones/speakers/sou

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2021-05-24 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks for that, I did miss that. Looks like the jury's out but it doesn't sound great The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showt

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2021-05-30 Thread The Groundsman
V 1.60.0 Installed fine for me on Windows 10. The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614 _

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

2021-06-06 Thread The Groundsman
I seem to have an occasional problem where some Spotify content doesn't play in LMS but the native spotify app is fine. A case in point is the tracks at the end of disk one of this album - Haydn's Creation 11 and 14 https://open.spotify.com/album/1ojcMJLhxtjtm5RNd2Qgeh?si=VomRnyWWRF6e-kkptYmU3A

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

2021-06-06 Thread The Groundsman
carsten_h wrote: > This is a problem of the chartlyrics.com server. Maybe it wasn't > available? If not available the stream should still play shouldn't it? Most of my classical listening has no words and the music that does have words never returns them the material "Track" Tab, but the musi

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

2021-06-06 Thread The Groundsman
Response from SearchLyric: The artist max length is 75 characters, song max length is 125 characters. of the 3 tracks erroring only 1 refuses to play https://open.spotify.com/track/6pCDzjYyhyZpDB0V8zQ3hd?si=241ea5bc26224389

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

2021-06-07 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks for taking a look Michael I've sent the log and my test observations with the timings. Much appreciated The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forum

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2021-06-07 Thread The Groundsman
Shozzer wrote: > I suspect you will have issues regardless of the naming convention you > choose. I have named, for many years, composers as: Surname, Forenames > (year of birth-year of death). This differs from the streaming services > and also from Last FM from which Michael gets the artist in

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

2021-06-07 Thread The Groundsman
mherger wrote: > > Thanks for taking a look Michael I've sent the log and my test > > observations with the timings. > > There's a lot being logged, but I can't find a single failure for the > time you were testing. I did take a look myself to see if something was obvious to my untrained eye

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.4 - more personalised content

2021-06-07 Thread The Groundsman
I haven't done a lot of checking but for local and Spotify tracks the artist bio and album reviews in MAI match with all music.com for me The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.5 - improved Ogg direct, Autoplay, multi-user setup

2021-06-18 Thread The Groundsman
Hi, I'm not able to get Spotty 4.5.0 to run after upgrading today. I'm running Windows 10 on an old netbook that says its an X86 based PC which is 32bit windows I believe. The Spotty plugin page says a red warning There has been a problem running the Spotty helper application. Please make sure y

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.5 - improved Ogg direct, Autoplay, multi-user setup

2021-06-18 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks. Thought it was my mistake. I'm not clear of what you're intending here Michael. Does that mean there's a good chance 32bit windows is now not going to be supported for this plugin in the future? The Groundsman'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.5 - improved Ogg direct, Autoplay, multi-user setup

2021-06-18 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks. Might be time for me to rethink the hardware :) The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114726 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.5 - improved Ogg direct, Autoplay, multi-user setup

2021-06-20 Thread The Groundsman
mherger wrote: > > Does that mean there's a good chance 32bit windows is now not going > to > > be supported for this plugin in the future? > > The plugin could still work using the old version of the helper. But > you'd miss some of the improvements. Feel free to download it from > > https

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.5 - improved Ogg direct, Autoplay, multi-user setup

2021-06-29 Thread The Groundsman
ModelCitizen wrote: > Hello. Maybe this issue is to do with the new update too then? > > There is one oddity on this machine though: > System Type: 32-bit operating system (Windows 10), x64-based processor > > > This was exactly my issue. I had a 32 bit version of Win7 even though the proce

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-07-04 Thread The Groundsman
Redrum wrote: > Craig, thank you for adding podcast search back, albeit temporarily. I > have not tried LMS 8.2, hope the podcast functionality is just as good. > Your podcast search was a game changer, thank you > > I think I am missing something though or doing something wrongI was > runn

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.6 - sorting option for Albums/Artists/Songs, replay gain fix

2021-07-12 Thread The Groundsman
Ah OK. So at the moment I stream in 320k VBR, Ogg Vorbis and havent touched the filetypes from the default. 35211 Could someone with lots of patience explain to me in the simplest terms what I should be doing in the filetypes setting to get the benefit of normalisation please? +---

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.6 - sorting option for Albums/Artists/Songs, replay gain fix

2021-07-12 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks - got it :) 35213 So that now shows the following info in the default skin. 35214 I can't hear any quality issues with this so I'm hoping the file type conversion doesn't have any impact on quality. +---+ |Filename: pc

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2021-07-25 Thread The Groundsman
Hopefully this is in the right place as I haven't been able to completely be sure where the issue lies. I'm having a problem in the last couple of days playing tracks over 10 minutes from Spotify via Chromecast Audio and Airplay The Following instances 1) track Shine on you crazy Diamond part

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Best online streaming service with plugin for LMS

2021-07-29 Thread The Groundsman
slartibartfast wrote: > Don't you think Spotify will charge more for Spotify HiFi? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk There was a view that because they increased the cost of some of their premium offerings (family etc I believe) there would not be a further price increase for the HIFi

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Online Music Library Integration

2021-08-10 Thread The Groundsman
I think I must be missing something really obvious here and recently read that this plugin integrates playlists only but I do not understand how it is interacting with my Spotify account. I see the following information about Spotify 35451 When I search for an album or an artist or anything wit

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Online Music Library Integration

2021-08-10 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks. I am still unclear, but I do appreciate this is something to do with the way I have my Spotify set up rather than the way the plugin works. I have my Spotify organised so that all my music exists in 6 playlists that represent 5 genres plus another one for "new music to try". I am using p

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-08-19 Thread The Groundsman
Apesbrain wrote: > What would one need to add to the material-skin.prefs file to get back > the old browser tab display? It showed the current track name which I > found useful. Thanks. I also miss (a bit) that the browser tab no longer displays the track info -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-08-28 Thread The Groundsman
Thank you Craig - that's great to have the tab's working again. The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624 _

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-09-20 Thread The Groundsman
Hi I have a last FM account and scrobble via LMS. I have the last FM settings not to scrobble internet radio but my live listening via the BBC sounds plugin shows up in my history. I export and remove them from time to time so have a work around. Is there a setting somewhere that I am missing so

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-09-20 Thread The Groundsman
expectingtofly wrote: > I know very little about scrobbling I'm afraid! I suspect there is > something I should be setting to say how the BBC Sounds urls should be > treated as a scrobbling source. I'll have a dig around and try and find > out. > > > [EDIT] > Ah, I've found it. I'll get tha

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.6 - sorting option for Albums/Artists/Songs, replay gain fix

2021-10-05 Thread The Groundsman
Just a small thing. When I view a Spotify playlist via the Spotty App it shows cover art , song artist and album - all very elegant. If I add the same playlist to "Favourites" and select it the Spotify urls are displayed - not at all elegant. Any chance it could display the cover art , song ar

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.6 - sorting option for Albums/Artists/Songs, replay gain fix

2021-11-16 Thread The Groundsman
Looks like spotify is not available right now. The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114836 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.6 - sorting option for Albums/Artists/Songs, replay gain fix

2021-11-16 Thread The Groundsman
I think it's slowly recovering. I can also now play a bit on the native app. Also now using spotify connect. LMS spotty not working through. I'm in Norfolk, so just about UK. Very much on the fringe of the grid though 😉

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2021-11-20 Thread The Groundsman
I seem to be getting issues when listening to Spotty via the Chromecast plugin. I play music a lot and it happens at most about once or twice during a day but mostly is fine. I can't figure out what is causing this The latest was this morning when the music stopped before the end. The google nes

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty 4.7.0

2021-12-19 Thread The Groundsman
mherger wrote: > Most likely this is a temporary issue, like eg. a networking hiccup. > Would you mind sharing your server.log file? Did you try a service > restart? Same issue for me on windows 10. Logitech Media Server Version: 8.3.0 - 1639757085 @ Fri Dec 17 17:17:20 WEST 2021 Hostname: Mus

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty 4.7.0

2021-12-19 Thread The Groundsman
Thanks a lot Michael - Working Fine again for me. The Groundsman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115592 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce : BBC Sounds Plugin

2021-12-26 Thread The Groundsman
jakalad wrote: > Why can't it simply be a one click action - oh no we have to go > wandering around expecting to fly's ego page for half an hour. WOW!! The season of goodwill is alive and well. Thank you for all you do here Stuart. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2020-06-09 Thread The Groundsman
Same for me. The Airbridge log shows the same issue every 30 seconds [20-06-08 08:23:28.7995] Plugins::RaopBridge::Squeeze2raop::beat (182) crashed ... restarting [20-06-08 08:23:58.9519] Plugins::RaopBridge::Squeeze2raop::beat (182) crashed ... restarting [20-06-08 08:24:29.0314] Plugins::Raop