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, then I can simply use Playlist Generator to run my
query and delete the playlist when I'm done. Does something like this
exist? If so, what/where is it? If it doesn't exist, how would I be able
to modify Playlist Generator to search for more ratings options that
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pippin;517271 Wrote:
Useless feature. Aren't the lyrics that should be blocked :)
I think Phil was inferring that all Celine music should automatically
be blocked (lyrics included), not specifically to lyrics in general.
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to do that. Oh well. It's easy enough to delete the playlist. I already
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I use the iPeng app so much that I expect when I use iTunes on my
iPhone, which I don't do often, that it will have the same features. I
was traveling this past weekend and had to use iTunes. iTunes is sorely
lacking compared to iPeng. Well done, Pippin!
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Along with many of Erland's plugins and iPeng, this is a must-have for
me. I've been using it for a few weeks now. It's fantastic! I never used
MusicIP and I never could get SugarCube to work for me on my Mac. This,
however, was super easy. Thank you!
Bummer. I've really enjoyed this plugin, and even more so since iPeng
put lyrics on the third swipe screen. Thanks for the notification,
Erland.
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Is the Don't stop the music! feature player-specific setting or for
the server and hence all players? It appears it is for the server, so
it's all or nothing. I'd like to be able to turn off the setting for
some players, but not others.
I use Get Lyrical on my Mac. I looked for anything on Windows, but I'm
sure there are similar tools out there.
http://shullian.com/get_lyrical.php
Caveats:
My formats are .alac and .mp3.
Get Lyrical works with iTunes.
Get Lyrical has found lyrics for ~16,000 of my ~22,000 songs. When it
I really like the preview I see of the GUI, but I can't extract the
files to try it myself. After renaming the files by removing the .zip
from .z01 and .z02, I have not been able to open/extract the archives. I
have tried using 7-zip and Peazip on Windows (along with Windows 7's own
.zip utility)
--this is only v5.10.0, stopped at
/Users/prabbit/Library/Application
Support/Squeezebox/Plugins/LMSnewGUI/Plugin.pm line 18.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/prabbit/Library/Application
Support/Squeezebox/Plugins/LMSnewGUI/Plugin.pm line 18.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 1079
Never mind. Let me try the suggestion in 'Post #25'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98186-Announce-Alternative-Web-Interface-(beta)p=739430viewfull=1#post739430).
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bjast wrote:
Since I'm using a Mac would this be the same as pressing the LMS System
Preference Clear Library Rescan Everything button?
Yes.
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Mnyb wrote:
Some people use AA for the main artist on the record and actually fill
in all guests ,collaborators and the kitchen sink in the artist tags and
as LMS supports multiple artist tags it easy to go this route.
I do this.
mherger wrote:
Smart Mix is only using your files' metadata to have TEN create a mix
on it.
Can you be more specific about which metadata are used?
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FYI...iPeng used to be $10, it has been $5 for a while. Depending how
old the iPod Touch is, it may not support the latest version of iPeng,
which has a main page that displays lyrics. In my opinion, it's one of
my favorite features of iPeng in the last few months.
The 0.7.5 release is showing quite a few improvements that are looking
nice. The new LMS Menu gives me access to my dynamic playlists which
were not available before. Thank you.
A couple of comments -- hopefully constructive.
1. Rating tracks: The LMS default is to rate tracks 1-5, but there
Erland, I'm wondering if you can give me a pointer.
I have several playlists that I created with Playlist Generator that
takes songs from a Library plus a TrackStat rating plus a timestamp to
generate a playlist. I have CustomScan generate the playlists every
night. About a month ago I noticed
SlimChances wrote:
Erland
Is it possible to play multible dynamic playlists at once. For example
can 2 decades in random Songs by Decade be combined. I realize there
may be a way of doing this by creating a new script for dynamic
playlists, but what I was hoping for was something I could
erland wrote:
You could try if it helps if you do a Refresh statistic after rescan
operation in the Backup/Restore/Clear section of TrackStat settings
page, but I suspect it won't make any difference.
You are correct, it did not make a difference.
erland wrote:
Does the ratings show up
I currently have all of my playlist generate the songs in a random
order. Because they're in a random order, it makes it difficult to
really compare one day's version to the next. I am going to change the
playlists to order by track_statistics.added desc. I assume this means
added to LMS? Is that
erland wrote:
order by track_statistics.lastplayed desc
Thanks for the sorting option. I'll make this my default. It'll be
easier to see what hasn't been played. It might be useful to add as
option to the Playlist Generator sort field.
erland wrote:
Is the issue that iTunes playlists
erland wrote:
If you want me to help you investigate it, the best way would probably
be if you could shutdown LMS and send me the library.db and persist.db
file so I could load your exact database in my own setup. I'm not show
how small these files get when zipped, if they get larger than
erland wrote:
Is the playlist definition you posted earlier a playlist which isn't
updated properly with the database dump files you send me earlier today
?
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?49483-Announce-New-versions-of-erlands-pluginsp=747357viewfull=1#post747357
Yes, that
erland wrote:
Can you post or mail me the playlistdefinition file for the Playlist
Generator configuration that doesn't work ?
I sent it to you in a separate e-mail.
erland wrote:
I want to be sure I run exactly the same because the one you posted
contained = in the query which should be
erland wrote:
What happens if you change the playlist definition, for example change
limit 5000 to limit 50 or change unix_timestamp()-7776000 to
unix_timestamp()-10, does this generate a playlist with different
length in your setup ?
Yes, each of those changes does produce a playlist with
^^^
I sent you my server.log file and results from the database queries in
an e-mail.
The database query results are interesting. The query of the statistics
section did not return the last five songs that were actually played.
The query of the history section did return the last five songs
erland wrote:
The 3.1.3869 version of TrackStat which I just published should
hopefully now solve your issues.
Thanks for being persistent and pushing me to look into this and
providing debug information until we found the cause.
I can confirm that it does indeed solve the problem. Thank
I'm running iOS 6.1.3 on my 3GS. The new iOS 7 is not available for my
device. I see there is a new iPeng. The primary item in the release
notes is that it's iOS 7 compatible, plus some bug fixes. Do you
recommend that I install this newest version of iPeng on my iThingy?
erland wrote:
Is it ok if I limit this to LMS 7.8 and later ?
Theoretically I think it can be done in 7.7 also but it's going to be a
bit more work so I want to avoid that if necessary.
I'm using 7.7. It would be nice if it worked for 7.7 because I don't see
myself upgrading my stable
Morbeas wrote:
I asked for this in the past but since there's a new version out, I
thought I'd give it another shot:
Can you please implement half-star ratings? I know you had said that it
needed to be an elegant implementation but I think the press it once
it's a full star and press it
mherger wrote:
got a simpler bandname to type repeatedly while testing? :-)
u2
:-)
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I installed the three new updates that were published recently (today, I
think). I think the new Multi Library option based on TrackStat rating
is fantastic! In fact, I might now switch to using SQL Playlist away
from Playlist Generator as it's now much easier to put the logic
together that I
erland wrote:
I stopped posting the change notes on my web site since I had to publish
them twice and it felt more important to post them in the repository
files so they were shown on the LMS Settings/Plugins page. I've thought
about making some automatic view of the changes but as always
CharlieG wrote:
Just for balance on this issue.
I have made the effort to embed the lyrics in my files -because- iPeng
displays them. I would really hate to lose this functionality.
I realize you all said make it optional, just want a view from the other
side.
Michael--
I just wanted to thank you for making this plugin. I've been getting
some great mixes because of it. Thank you!
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I have a question about Custom Scan and processing. What sort of metrics
should I expect? On my system it's taking about 1 second per song. I
have ~22,000 songs, so that means it takes a bit more than 6 hours for
Custom Scan to complete. Is that what you would expect?
Logitech Media
Morbeas wrote:
My 3-tap suggestion was just that; a suggestion. Whatever your
implementation (if ever), it'll suit me just fine as long as I can rate
from 1-10.
I'll check back again in another month or two (sorry, Mr. Smith). ;)
Thanks as always.
I'm kinda with Owen on this one,
erland wrote:
Does it take 1 second per song or is it the refresh or delete operations
at the beginning or end that takes a lot of time ? Are the music files
stored locally on the Mac or are you storing them on a NAS and accessing
them over WiFi or similar which could slow down the scanning
erland wrote:
Do you have any antivirus software that might slowdown disk access
installed ?
Is it possible to see if it's using a lot of CPU/memory ?
Does the persist.db.* files in the LMS Cache directory grow to extreme
sizes ?
Antivirus is not an issue.
CPU and memory are both
Hi Erland--
I'm wondering if there is a way using Multi Library I can create a
library that has albums that have only one or two tracks? If so, how? If
not Multi Library, then SQL Playlist? I've looked at both and couldn't
find a way that jumped out at me. My guess is that I'll need some custom
(/Users/prabbit/Library/Caches/Squeezebox/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TrackStat/Storage.pm
line 707)
frame 3: Plugins::TrackStat::Storage::saveRating
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line 4635)
frame 4: Plugins::TrackStat::Plugin::rateSong
(/Users
erland wrote:
Are you using 7.8.0 as specified in your signature or are you using a
7.9 beta ?
Does it only affect iPeng or do you have similar issues if you try to
rate through the context menu on a Squeezebox or one of the other smart
phone apps ?
Yes, I am using 7.8.0.
I tried it with
I've having some difficulties with iPeng and TrackStat. I raised the
'issue'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?49483-Announce-New-versions-of-erlands-pluginsp=793941viewfull=1#post793941)
(and 'further details'
Out of curiosity, can you rate tracks through the context menu with
iPeng 8?
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pippin wrote:
Actually no. If you remind me tomorrow I'll have a look at the menu
TrackStat creates.
Reminder, as requested.
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OK, the command gets sent but TrackStat then throws an error:
Yep, that's the error I see as well. I included that in my 'post'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?49483-Announce-New-versions-of-erlands-pluginsp=793941viewfull=1#post793941)
in erland's plugins thread.
erland wrote:
Does it only affect iPeng or do you have similar issues if you try to
rate through the context menu on a Squeezebox or one of the other smart
phone apps ?
I answered this above. I took the information to pippin, who was able to
reproduce the issue, and his 'reply'
prabbit wrote:
I answered this above. I took the information to pippin, who was able to
reproduce the issue, and his 'reply'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?51929-iPeng-support-threadp=794381viewfull=1#post794381)
was that iPeng is passing the rating and TrackStat is having
Log file containing the information you requested sent to your e-mail
account. I hope it's helpful.
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I suspect it's related to the iOS 8 update causing iPeng to behave a bit
differently compared to before but I'll discuss it with pippin. I'll
probably not get the time to fix and release this until next week since
I'm a bit occupied with ickStream and TIDAL related stuff at the
))
group by tracks.id
order by avgcount desc,rand()
limit 10) as recentlyadded
order by rand()
limit 10;
Can I get some assistance?
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for a shorter
path.
2. There are times where I want to start a rescan and I'm not at my
computer. Could you add the ability to start a server rescan from iPeng
in Settings Advanced?
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1. Ticket #183, but there is no milestone attached to it. Since I can
use the press and hold option, this is not an important feature
request.
2. Cool. Thanks!
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You do know that you can choose to only scan playlists, right? You don't
have to rescan your library. Rescanning playlists is much faster than a
'Clear library' or 'Look for new or changed music' scan.
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All fixed.
I think it was a bad user name/password. I had originally mistyped my
user name, but fixed it without changing the password (because it was
correct). I resubmitted them and things are now appearing on last.fm.
Turning on d_plugins was helpful in figuring it out. Thanks!
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in the
playlist, which means I can't rate the song is is actually playing (and
what sort of leads to my first question).
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Of course, as soon as I post my question on the board I figured it out.
In my case, TrackStat Last Played Last Played Songs.
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The remote is a great idea and works quite well. I do use the remote
when it's convenient. It doesn't work so well when the SqueezeBox is 9
miles/15 kilometers away though. :-)
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SlimServer from someplace other than within your network, take a look
at:
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MPR (live stream):
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Splendid Table:
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necessary. That's why I ask.
Caveats: I only have .mp3s and both iTunes and SlimServer both look at
the same directory for them.
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Turns out the issue is limited to SoftSqueeze. The work just fine with
my SB3s.
What should I do to debug this further?
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TrackStat_iTunes_Complete.txt file:
Offshore|||/Volumes/MediaFiles/mp3_only/flac/Chicane/The Best of
Chicane 1996-2008/2008 ¬ 1-1 ¬
Offshore.mp3|played|20110406100221|51|1|1316128156
Any insight or thoughts? Is there anything you need from me?
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bpa;664737 Wrote:
How did you install Softsqueeze - as a Web Applet or downloaded from
sourceforge ?
I downloaded it from Sourceforge. I ran the .exe with run as
Administrator rights, which on Windows 7 is more than simply using an
account with admin privileges.
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Was I supposed to get it from Sourceforge? Or do you prefer that I
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H... I just installed Softsqueeze from the web applet and it works.
The only thing I noticed is that the web applet used Softsqueeze 3.9b1,
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,albums.titlesort asc,albums.disc
asc]
System notes:
Version: 7.6.2 - r33449 @ Thu Sep 15 02:01:11 PDT 2011
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8 - EN - utf8 3 GB RAM
Platform: x86_64
Perl Version: 5.10.0 - darwin-thread-multi-2level
Database Version: DBD::SQLite 1.34_01 (sqlite 3.7.7.1)
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. Is there a switch somewhere that I can use
to reset it so that I customize something in the XML once and then the
next time I look at the playlist in Playlist Generator (or SQL Playlist
for that matter) that I'm looking at the GUI rather than the XML?
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Erland, I know you were traveling the week I first posted my questions.
Can you provide more insight now?
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, Custom Scan, Multi-Library,
Playlist Generator, SQL Playlist, TrackStat, and probably a few more).
They're all at the current version as of 6 Dec 2011.
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group by tracks.id
order by tracks.titlesort asc
I don't know SQL, but does anything look amiss in it?
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I did have to delete the menus and recreate them, but after I did
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something five stars (out
of 10), it appears as 3 stars in iPeng, but if you go into the details
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(274) Parsing next bit of XML..
[12-04-23 11:34:56.4062] Plugins::TrackStat::Storage::findTrack (533)
findTrack(): URL:
file:///Volumes/MediaFiles/alac_mp3/alac/prabbit/AFI/Decemberunderground/2006%20%C2%AC%201-1%20%C2%AC%20Prelude%201221.m4a
[12-04-23 11
Restarting LMS didn't help and just to cover my bases, this is what I
did:
1. Uninstalled TrackStat and Custom Scan.
2. Deleted the entire Squeezebox cache directory.
3. Restarted LMS.
4. Cleared my entire library and rescanned.
5. Confirmed that no files had any TrackStat ratings.
6. Deleted my
Here is the result
result wrote:
Missing entries in TrackStat
No
-3092
Not refreshed entries in TrackStat
Yes
1266
Not refreshed entries in TrackStat history
No
0
Unused entries in TrackStat data
Yes
13904
Unused entries in TrackStat history
No
0
Songs with really
haschmich wrote:
I've got a negative number for Missing entries in Trackstat as well,
and I don't even know what cue sheets are. Also I get the following
error when I click on Unused entries in Trackstat data:
^^^ I also get that error when I click Unused entries in TrackStat data.
I've
erland wrote:
Can you run the Squeezebox Server Inconsistency/Problems query also ?
Sure. Here it is...
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Missing rows in contributor_album table: No : 0
Invalid musicbrainz song tags: No : 0
Invalid musicbrainz album tags: No : 0
Invalid
I'm seeing similar behavior with my rescans, too.
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erland wrote:
Just to be sure, did you went for the restore operation to finish ?
It runs in the background if you trigger it from the TrackStat settings
page and you can only see if it's finished by logging in the server log
for a message saying: Restore completed at date and time. If you
erland wrote:
1. Have you seen any cases where tracks with ¬ characters works to
restore ?
Yes, some of my mp3s restore correctly. When I restore from the
TrackStat backup file I have about 2200 songs get ratings--all of them
are mp3 files.
erland wrote:
2. Have you seen any cases where
^^^ The above queries also all returned a blank result.
I ran the TrackStat Statistics query again just to double check I still
have data in the TrackStat database. I do. It's still the same as in
'post #9'
Since I have ~2200 mp3 tracks that did successfully have had their
ratings restored, I ran a query for one of them just to confirm that the
queries would work with tracks with a rating. The query did in fact
work. I'm not sure what that tells us, especially since I have removed
all data (which I
Location: /Volumes/MediaFiles/alac_mp3/alac/lief/The Sisters Of
Mercy/Floodland/1987 ¬ 01-01 ¬ Dominion#65295;mother Russia.m4a
13320
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Yes, the song title is Dominion/Mother Russia. The / is part of the
title. It's for this reason (and other odd characters that I use ¬
character, because I know for certain that ¬ does not appear in any
artist name or album or song title). Anyway, the queries worked and the
results (CSV) are in
erland wrote:
Ok, the / character is definitely the issue because it doesn't exist in
the TrackStat files and this track doesn't seem to have any musicbrainz
id in the tracks table and due to this the TrackStat backup isn't able
to restore the rating. Do you know if there is a reason why the
Before I attempt to restore my TrackStat ratings, I am making sure I
have everything in place. To do that, I
1. Got the musicbrainz IDs back into my files. I used Jaikoz on a Mac to
do it. According to Jaikoz 19,246 of my 20,910 songs have musicbrainz
IDs.
2. Deleted my LMS cache and
Results from the query. As you can see, there is no musicbrainz ID.
select * from tracks where url like '%Sisters%Floodland%Dominion%mother%'
wrote:
id: 33126
url:
erland wrote:
Maybe you can create a copy of a file and try to tag it with Picard and
see if it tags it differently ?
I'm not seeing anything different using Picard. By the way, the
screenshot in my previous post showed MP3TAG, not Jaikoz. I wanted to
show that multiple editors/taggers were
This appears to be a LMS scanning bug. I tagged some files using Picard
and got the same results.
Thanks for your patience, Erland.
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'MUSICBRAINZ TRACK ID' = 'MUSICBRAINZ_ID',
This appears to be the solution! I will do more testing first though.
After a rescan, 19,425 tracks report having a MusicBrainz ID.
I've got a busy couple of days in front of me, but I'll report back when
I can.
That was in fact the issue. After correcting some other issues with my
files, I was able to get TrackStat to update ratings for ~7200 files. I
don't think that's all of my ratings, but I'll take it. Even though I
already have lifetime licenses to all of your plugins, I sent you some
beer money.
erland wrote:
Did you register a bug at http://bugs.slimdevices.com for the inability
to scan musicbrainz tags in m4a files so we can get Logitech to fix this
in a future SBS/LMS release ?
Not yet. I will, and I'll update this thread after I have.
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