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

2019-07-19 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > I think you have hit the nail on the head. When calling "albumreview" on > MAI, I pass in the artist, artist_id, album and album_id. However, by > looking at the MAI code it would appear ony album_id is required. Can > you try the following: > > > > - Start material -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-07-19 Thread d6jg
@craig Not sure whether this is MAI or Material. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?99537-Announce-Music-amp-Artist-Information-plugin=945518=1#post945518 VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen ->

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

2019-07-19 Thread d6jg
I should have added that the above example is a local file tagged with Album Artist as "Jeff Beck" and "Rod Stewart". These seems to be the cause of the *i* lookup failure but clearly there is a subtle code difference between how the lookup is called via *i* and how it is called via More / Album

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

2019-07-19 Thread d6jg
Album Review from Material's *i* button fails but the same Album Review lookup accessed via More works. This seems to be very consistent but I can't prove it. 27718 27719 27720 27721 +---+ |Filename: 4.jpg

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-07-18 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > I think this looks better... > > 27707 I think that makes more sense and looks better balanced to me. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-07-17 Thread d6jg
edwin2006 wrote: > Like the idea A lot! Could use a cheap android tablet to create a nice > display on top of my transporter. > Just need album art and artist info. No controls or menu. Craig said that as minimum the Player menu is NEEDED so it makes sense for him to use the existing extended

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-07-16 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > What about just the current desktop expanded now-playing view? Would > adding a URL parameter to auto-start in that view be enough? e.g. > http://LMSIP:9000/Material/desktop?initial=now-playing Or would you also > want the 'i', expand/collapse, and menu buttons to be hidden?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-07-16 Thread d6jg
@craig There is a bit of a clamour elsewhere for a "Now Playing" screen - nothing to do with Material - but could you add one in similar way to mini-player which I have fathomed can be called by http://LMSIP:9000/Material/mini-player Could you create - http://LMSIP:9000/Material/now-playing ?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alexa to LMS

2019-07-11 Thread d6jg
bc-nero wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry, my mistake ... (google translate) > > wrong: I do not have a RP2 in the living room with the same USB sound > card as the home server. > right: I do have a RP3 in the living room with the same USB sound card > as the home server. > > > > ==> here is a lag of

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

2019-07-11 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > just to clarify if its html the file name is .html? - you didn't > specify > > a ? for biography.html above > > Yep, noticed this, too. Will be added in a next release. .html? means it > > can be htm or html. > > -- > > Michael Cheers VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P

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

2019-07-11 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > Does MAI facilitate lookup to a local store for Bio's and Album > reviews > > in the same way as Lyrics ? > > Yes, for reviews it's 'album.nfo', 'review.html?', 'review.txt', > 'albumreview.html?', 'albumreview.txt' > > Bios: 'artist.nfo', 'biography.html', 'bio.html?',

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

2019-07-11 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > I think this proves that and/& does cause issues. > > I do understand that there's a problem. But if it's not a technical > error (bug in the code), there's little I can do. If services decide to > > use "and" instead of "&" or vice versa, then that's their decision. It's

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

2019-07-11 Thread d6jg
@ michael I tagged Bell Bottom Blues by Derek & The Dominos for Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs in 4 different ways. I didn't choose the track Layla as that is in ChartLyrics twice - once by Derek and the Dominos (their style) and once by Eric Clapton. I didn't want confusion. 27674 I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alexa to LMS

2019-07-10 Thread d6jg
He also said ... which may have confused me. bc-nero wrote: > I do not have a RP2 in the living room with the same USB sound card as > the home server. If I get the sound through this client in the LMS that > would of course be the best. Otherwise I have to lay 15m sound cable ... bpa wrote:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alexa to LMS

2019-07-10 Thread d6jg
@bpa Your answer is based on the source (Echo Dot) being adjacent to his server. I have read the OPs posts differently i.e. I have read them to mean his Echo Dot is in his Living Room 15 metres away. It sounds to me like the server is a central system with 6 USB DAC outputs presumably wired to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alexa to LMS

2019-07-09 Thread d6jg
Are you saying the Alexa/Echo Dot is to be plugged into a RPi2 and that will feed your LMS ? If so then install piCorePlayer 5 onto the Pi, disable Squeezelite but enable pcp-streamer. Use a USB DAC/ADC such as Behringer UAC202 -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alexa to LMS

2019-07-09 Thread d6jg
bc-nero wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to bring the music output of my Echo Dot2 to the LMS to > stream into the players. > > My system: > Ubuntu homeserver > 6 USB sound cards > 6 squeezelite instances on the homeserver for each room > Alexa connected to the mic-front connector > >

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

2019-07-08 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > If there is “&” in the album title the album review lookup fails > as > > AllMusic expects it to be Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. > > Does it fail because AllMusic wouldn't recognize the & as "and", or is > there a query failure? > > > Lyrics only appear if the

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

2019-07-06 Thread d6jg
@michael FYI I have been doing more testing of MAI and regrettably I can report the “and/&” issue is the main cause of lookup failure. My issues were nothing to do with multiple Album Artist tagging after all. I retagged the track Bell Bottom Blues by Derek & the Domines from Layla and Other

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2019-07-05 Thread d6jg
pippin wrote: > Ah, can’t document everything but generally it’s worth trying to tap > items that might contain more data. > The problem here is that there is a maximum cell size for tables in iOS > and some of the text exceeds that, so it can’t be shown inline. I’ve only been using iPeng for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2019-07-05 Thread d6jg
pippin wrote: > Have you tried tapping the truncated text to get a full view? No! I wasn’t aware of that functionality. Where is that documented? VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 ->

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2019-07-05 Thread d6jg
@pippin FYI Using iPeng (iPhone) to view album review or artist bio from MAI the item is often truncated. Not so in Material or Default web gui. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 ->

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

2019-07-04 Thread d6jg
I have re-tagged Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs as such and now the artist and lyrics lookups both work but the album review doesn't and I now know why. The artist & lyrics lookup use the track artist but sensibly the album review uses album artist. My problem is that in common with a

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

2019-07-04 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > I THINK its because I have artist tagged as "Derek & The Dominos" > > whereas ChartLyrics shows "Derek & the Dominos". > > Case sensitivity certainly shouldn't cause any issue. That's something > I've hopefully dealt with long before... > > > > In relation to the Album

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

2019-07-04 Thread d6jg
Derek & The Dominos - Layla from Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs MAI finds the Artist Bio, but no album review and no lyrics. I THINK its because I have artist tagged as "Derek & The Dominos" whereas ChartLyrics shows "Derek & the Dominos". In relation to the Album review AllMusic has

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

2019-07-04 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > My reasoning is more to do with the fairly frequent failure of > > ChartLyrics.com rather than the need to have lyrics for everything. I > > just find it annoying when I flip to lyrics for a well known song and > > there is nothing available because ChartLyrics is having an

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

2019-07-04 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > >>> Download Lyrics ? - choices = Always / When Displayed / Never > >> > >> I hate more options… > > > > Me too - unless they make sense, as in this case. > How does this make sense? You only need the lyrics when you want to read > > them, right? Or you want to have them

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

2019-07-04 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > With regard to the Lyrics store which is working great btw. Can this > be > > changed slightly so that there is an option to always download lyrics > as > > tracks are played even if you don't open the lyrics page in MAI? > > It's software - anything can be done ;-). Easiest

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

2019-07-04 Thread d6jg
@Michael With regard to the Lyrics store which is working great btw. Can this be changed slightly so that there is an option to always download lyrics as tracks are played even if you don't open the lyrics page in MAI? E.g. Download Lyrics ? - choices = Always / When Displayed / Never

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

2019-07-03 Thread d6jg
[image: https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190703/5ce190c7053ea2d4a788f2211e156bac.jpg] Above is iPeng below is Material [image: https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190703/e5083fff68a9a549133690c4093261a9.jpg] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS)

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

2019-07-03 Thread d6jg
Take a look using Material and you’ll find things look different VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room*

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-06-28 Thread d6jg
bpa wrote: > Tech answer. > "" is HTML encoding for "&". OPML menu needs HTML encoded URLs. > When OPML handles passes URL to plugin it will have changed HTML > encoding to normal but if HTML encoding is used in URL in Favorite or > Tune-in it will not be changed and passed as is to plugin. >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-06-28 Thread d6jg
Man in a van wrote: > I just changed Live Stream Preferences to HLS>DASH>MP3>. > > restarted LMS and Radio 2 is Bitrate: > > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-06-28 Thread d6jg
bpa wrote: > Have you got that backward ? > > DASH & HLS - 101 > > Bandwidth is declared in the initialisation parts of the streams - the > actual bandwidth could be a fraction or even a multiple - the plugin > does not calculate it or estimate it - just displays what it is told. > AFAIK BBC

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-06-28 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > I seem to remember we used to get 339kbps with iPlayer at one time when > HLS and dash first came in. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk I suspect it’s a typo that slipped through one of bpa’s Revisions but he isn’t in UK so may not have noticed. I’m not even sure

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-06-28 Thread d6jg
Man in a van wrote: > just done this with Radio2 I hadn't realised that the BBC iPlayer Plugin was coded like that but yes if you change & to you get DASH at 339kbps otherwise you get 320kbps HLS @bpa - have you noted this ? VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler &

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

2019-06-28 Thread d6jg
If you play this as posted by Mavit you get 320kbps AAC HLS

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Loading Radio Paradise Interactive Stream hangs PiCorePlayer (v5)

2019-06-24 Thread d6jg
farrina wrote: > Switching all to "proxied" mode (as opposed to direct) resolves the > issue and I can successfully also synchronise output across all players > > Many thanks :-) > > -Added later (upon further reflection) > > My local network setup (via Firewall) is that my PiCorePlayers are

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-06 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > (Question to Micheal - does the 4.flac correspond to icy-4?) > > No. 1-4 were the different channels RP offered at some point. Today only > > "0" (main) and "4" (Mellow) are left. > > The icy-4 must be the fourth of x servers used for load-balancing. > > > FLAC URL -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-06 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > Earlier I shutdown LMS and the FLAC stream continued to play for minutes > until I stopped it. Does that mean the buffer isn't used with direct > streaming in this case? > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Direct streaming means the buffer is stored in the player.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-06 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > Direct. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Pretty sure the Touch has more RAM than an SB3 and therefore more buffer space. I nipped out for 5 mins but first switched to a local file before pausing the SB3. On return the plugin is still working properly but the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-06 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > My solid playback was via a Touch. So that may be the difference. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Using Direct or Proxied Streaming? VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-06 Thread d6jg
I think I have found something, All of my tests above have been with an SB3. After the full system reboot the FLAC URL metadata was restored but the FLAC Plugin was still stuttering and unplayable. I switched the Player to use Proxied Streaming and now the FLAC Plugin is working. Hooray!! I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-06 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > Plugin is working OK for me just now. > Metadata for the FLAC stream is playing up again. I either get the > metadata from the last time I listened or nothing. I wouldn't be > surprised if restarting LMS "fixed" the metadata. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-06 Thread d6jg
Situation now (UK) Plugin - radioparadise://4.flac - stuttering too much to play (Question to Micheal - does the 4.flac correspond to icy-4?) FLAC URL - http://stream.radioparadise.com/flac - this is actually http://icy-4.radioparadise.com/flac - solid but no metadata (icy-4 is a UK based

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-06 Thread d6jg
left channel wrote: > Bill was responding to my post casually calling the geographic redirect > "load balancing" but I'm sure it's more complicated than that, with > actual load balancers at each server site. > > Reports are "all over the map" on this, so-to-speak. One moment a > BlueSound

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-06 Thread d6jg
Sir G wrote: > Hi Michael > I'm having the same problem here in Paris. I have tried all the > different URLs, including on Mysqueezebox.com, to no avail. > Thank you for your efforts I’m wondering if this is to do with the load balancing Bill referred to on RP forum. Presumably based on geo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-05 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > Doesn't make testing > easy, in particular when Bill decides to play Mike Oldfield's Tubular > Bells in its full length :-). > In vinyl terms it was only one side! :) VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-06-05 Thread d6jg
Over on RP Forum Bill's states that for Blusound plugin users they are now connecting to a different server (specifics not disclosed). This in response to a Blusound user reporting that the stutters etc have stopped. https://radioparadise.com/community/forum/post/3848041 I am still getting

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

2019-05-30 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > MAI v1.6.0: > > - re-write links, image references and style sheet URLs in local HTML > files, if they're outside LMS' reach > - optionally store "My Beloved Artist.missing" placeholder files in > artist image folder > > -- > > Michael Thanks for that Michael. .missing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-29 Thread d6jg
Just installed 0.7.3 - seeing "itemAc" against pinned items 27457 +---+ |Filename: 2019-05-29 09_37_40-Logitech Media Server.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=27457|

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng Playback and Spotty not working

2019-05-27 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > When I try to playback using Spotty through iPeng with iPeng > un-synched > > from the other Squezebox devices it doesn't work. > > Enable Spotty -> Ogg streaming in Settings/Advanced/File Types. > > -- > > Michael I think you mean disable, Michael IPeng currently can’t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > Roadmap? There's no roadmap, I just add bits when I need them :) By > playlist management, I assume you mean editing playlists? Currently this > is not possible, but I guess its a reasonable enough request. I > initially thought this was not possible via the JSONRPC API, but have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
Apart from Server Settings (and some plugins interfacing) I think I am right in now saying that about the only thing that you can’t do in Material that you can do in Default is manage existing Playlists. Is that on your Roadmap Craig? VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > Thanks for the quick confirmation. I'll see if I can recreate the issue > later, and then see if what I think should fix it does. did you see the other %20 bug or was it lost in the noise? VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 ->

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > Hmmm... I don't seem to be able to recreate this. However I -think- I > might know how to solve it. Can you change your "New Music Limit" (in > "My Music" page of LMS settings) to 500? This is to force the > view-recylcer to be used. I'll still fix for a lower limit, but that >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > yeah, *really* obvious now, sorry! :d) VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB

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

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > That's really odd because I'd swear I have only seen it in the last > > couple of weeks > > The scanner code in LMS has not been changed, other than how the artwork > > is being grabbed from the internet. All the logging to LMS etc. has > remained un-touched. > > -- > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > What is the issue? That the artist name is not under the albums? If so, > that's the way its always been - albums listed unde an artist don't need > to show the artist name. Its the images Craig. If you look carefully at screenshot 3 - back to New music - you'll see it has

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
@Craig That bug only appears from New Music - Artists & Abums are both OK - but clicking on Artist in Queue has a minor different bug a rogue %20 27411 +---+ |Filename: 2019-05-24 13_20_35-Window.jpg |

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > I didn't know you could click on the artist name in "new music". Is that > only a feature in the desktop version? > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Its a relatively new feature in Desktop only VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler &

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

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > Since the last MAI upgrade I have noticed a strange behaviour when > doing > > a "New & Changed" rescan > > That's part of LMS' scan, not MAI. > > -- > > Michael That's really odd because I'd swear I have only seen it in the last couple of weeks VB2.4[/B] STORAGE

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
Best described by screenshot. 1) New Music - click Betty Davis (great Funk album by the way) 27408 2) Result - then click Back 27409 3) Result - Ooops 27410 +---+ |Filename: 2019-05-24 12_55_58-Window.jpg

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

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
Since the last MAI upgrade I have noticed a strange behaviour when doing a "New & Changed" rescan My MAI settings are as follows: 27406 Everytime I now rescan I see 27407 My Music folder is not writable by LMS (deliberately) so I always see 717 but per the settings the scan shouldn't be

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

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
hopkins wrote: > I did define a folder. I just updated LMS (was not in the latest > version) and re-ran the full scan. Seems to be working now :) I had this issue. You'll find the star images in that folder. They are easy to identify as they are all 5kb in size. Stop LMS. Delete the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-24 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > I'm developing this purely for fun, however, seeing as I have been asked > about this before, I have added donate button to Material's github page: > https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material Craig - did you know that the donate button only appears on the desktop version of the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-23 Thread d6jg
Yatsushiro wrote: > Yes, come on Craig, there's a lot of us grateful here... VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes

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

2019-05-22 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > If you don't want to include cover art where the artist image lookup > > fails what about writing a "trumpeter" image each time it fails but > with > > the image file name as LMS would write it if it had successfully > found > > an image. > > That then would prevent a later

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-05-22 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > Several of us are still seeing periods of hangs. Is the plugin using > the > > Flac stream Bill at RP is working on improving? (which would give us > > hope this is eventually resolved). Or is the plugin using something > else > > from RP and this is just something we'll have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-05-21 Thread d6jg
left channel wrote: > Bill has at least one similar report from a BluOS user, and previous > reports from me about LMS. He either does not acknowledge the report, or > he responds that the problem is on our end (as he did in reply to your > post today). Right now he's focused on the FLAC

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

2019-05-21 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > So my suggestion for the scanner > > artist.jpg > > artist image in store > > online lookup > > If all 3 fail display album cover art from first album the artist is > > listed in > > Only if there is no cover art display Trumpeter > > I took a note of that idea. No promise.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-05-21 Thread d6jg
Unfortunately still experiencing the stuttering and again it is late afternoon (UK time). VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-21 Thread d6jg
Desktop mode In certain places you hide icons if they are not active - you hide the grid switcher for example when displaying the tracks from an album Grid switcher hidden 27392 But when showing various Album views you are showing the Append and Play buttons which aren't operative here

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2019-05-20 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > Recently (probably within the last 3 weeks) Spotify (we use the > Spotty > > plugin) stopped working using iPeng on our iOS devices. > > Please try to disable Spotty -> Ogg streaming. > > -- > > Michael Can confirm this is the fix VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS)

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

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
scott.winterkorn wrote: > Okay I’m having fun with this.:o So I’ve updated an artist image in my > folder, what’s the easiest way to get LMS to use the new image? Do I > have to do a full rescan? I’ve had variable results at this point. Try a new & changed scan first. Make sure you clear your

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

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
scott.winterkorn wrote: > Success! It worked! > > And I even noticed that the artist pictures being displayed are better > ones than before. I don’t know how your algorithm works but it’s > choosing the best pictures now! > > Thanks again for all your great work! > Okay I think I did this

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

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
scott.winterkorn wrote: > Success! It worked! > > And I even noticed that the artist pictures being displayed are better > ones than before. I don’t know how your algorithm works but it’s > choosing the best pictures now! > > Thanks again for all your great work! > Okay I think I did this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] New plugin for audio bookmarks

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
Bipox wrote: > Yes that would work, thanks. I didn't see this setting. > > Now I still have the audiobooks populating the "artists" menu. Do you > know if I could exclude it from there too? > > edit: I should've said in my first post that I try to completely > separate books from music, if

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > Thanks :-) I'd LOVE to be able to at least just skin the server settings > so that had a material look - then it would not matter. Adding all the > server config into Material itself would be too much. I know it’s not best practice but could you run Server Settings in an iFrame

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > Done for the next version, but only for desktop browsers. Likewise the > artist and album in the queue are also clickable - this was implemented > at Apesbrain's request. I'll release 0.7.0 with these changes soon. Brilliant. I realised after posting that I should have been

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

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > Each track has data stored about it in the database - so my suggestion > is to enable it to store link to artist image rather than cover image if > matches certain criteria. > > If the track has image in id3 tags is anything stored in database or is > the image simply

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

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > Trying again with a variation suggestion that was rejected a few days > ago ... > If there was a server-wide setting that said that compilation albums > should show artist image (if present) for each track in preference to > album image then I think it would handle my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] New plugin for audio bookmarks

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
Bipox wrote: > This plugin works really well, thank you! > > I need help to make it work with my configuration though. > > I have music and audiobooks in 2 different folders because I exclude > audiobooks from music analysis so if I play tracks at random I won't > listen to a book chapter in

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

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > That works for normal albums but not so easy for a Various Artists > album > > - can you explain how the string manipulation works or is it just too > > complicated ? > > I'm using a LMS function which basically strips down everything to pure > > ASCII using transliteration

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

2019-05-18 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > If there are 2 or more new images a scan for "new & changed files" > only > > seems to find the first image. > > I certainly can't confirm that. It's processing whatever list is being > returned from the database, no matter the scan mode or how many items in > > that list.

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

2019-05-17 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > > Just put it as artist.jpg in an artist's folder (if you have an > artist/album/track hierarchy). File names can be tricky. > Michael That works for normal albums but not so easy for a Various Artists album - can you explain how the string manipulation works or is it just

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

2019-05-17 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > > > 3) A scan for "new files only" ever seems to pick up one new image > file > > but a full "clear and rescan" successfully finds a lot more new images > - > > except where it doesn't like the naming per 2)[/color] > > ?!? Not sure what you mean here. > > -- > > Michael

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

2019-05-17 Thread d6jg
pputzer wrote: > I've no clue about the plugin, but do those filenames, perchance, > contain non-ASCII characters, maybe with accents or umlauts? If so, the > problem might be that the name in LMS uses precomposed characters and > the filename uses combining marks (or vice-versa). It's not

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

2019-05-17 Thread d6jg
Now that I have got rid of my "stars" with Michael's help I'm adding some custom images for certain artists that the online scanner doesn't find. I think I have uncovered a few anomalies. 1) The plugin doesn't like .jpeg files but is more than happy with .jpg 2) The plugin doesn't like some

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-05-17 Thread d6jg
farrina wrote: > I had the same problem although I think I have now found it > > See here https://radioparadise.com/community/forum/topic/24857/3846994 Me too. Thanks for posting the link. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-17 Thread d6jg
Can you make this into a link that opens the relevant Artist 27354 clicking would take you to 27355 I know you can get there by the 3 dots and More then selecting the Track or Album Artist but that is 3 clicks as opposed to the one in Default

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

2019-05-16 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > Option could be to show track art in a compilation (assuming it could > treat .cue with different artists like a compilation). I rather think .cue is a minority use case isn’t it? VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 ->

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

2019-05-16 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > Probably it is LMS rather than MAI that would do this. LMS has no Artist images whereas MAI does. I’m not sure I wholly agree that replacing album cover art with artist images would be wanted by everyone. What would probably be acceptable across the board would be 30?

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

2019-05-16 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > I have checked the contents of my "artistart" folder and PNG files > are > > being written there with the correct date / time corresponding to the > > date/time of the rescan but numerous well known artists resultant PNG > > files are still showing as stars e.g. 10cc, 50

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

2019-05-16 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > I have checked the contents of my "artistart" folder and PNG files > are > > being written there with the correct date / time corresponding to the > > date/time of the rescan but numerous well known artists resultant PNG > > files are still showing as stars e.g. 10cc, 50

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

2019-05-16 Thread d6jg
I am right up to date with MAI plugin and I have done two clear & rescans on my libarary with the correct settings but I'm still seeing "stars". 27342 I have checked the contents of my "artistart" folder and PNG files are being written there with the correct date / time corresponding to the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-15 Thread d6jg
d6jg wrote: > I’m away. Can I reserve judgment until end of next week. > My library is 30k+ I'm back now and can confirm the jump list works so yes as far as I am concerned you can remove the A-Z list VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 ->

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streaming (Plugin v2)

2019-05-10 Thread d6jg
dmcdayton wrote: > Yeah, as soon as I posted that the stream cleared up and haven't had any > problems. I was perusing the RP forum for first time, looks like they're > working on it, which is good enough for me for now. What they do is > unique; I'd rather send Bill $50 year for the great

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-10 Thread d6jg
I’m away. Can I reserve judgment until end of next week. My library is 30k+ VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes

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

2019-05-10 Thread d6jg
PS “Trumpeter” is possibly a little too general. The icon is the stylised image used on a lot of Mikes Davis albums circa Seven Steps to Heaven era. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 ->

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