Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spicefly SugarCube - DSTM and Google Traffic
goharbourview123 wrote:
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What a great end-of-the-week treat! Will try it out right away (I'm
using OpenHAB, but basically same usage as with Home Assistant).
So great to be part of this little (?) community of SugarCube users.
BTW: Are you using it with Trackstat? To me the ratings are an important
part of my recipes, but I'm not sure how long Trackstat will remain
functional since it is no longer maintained. There is an alternative
("Ratings light") which seems to be future proof, but which I haven't
looked closer at because it doesn't help me with SugarCube. I wonder
whether there is a chance that SugarCube will become compatible with the
new plugin?
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spicefly SugarCube - DSTM and Google Traffic
I have been using Sugarcube for over 10 years now and it is probably the main reason (together with Trackstat) why I have not followed the trend of abandoning my own music collection for some streaming service, so thank you for maintaining this awesome plugin! My partner and I are again and again amazed by the the excellent play-sequences it creates. Of course, Trackstat also plays an important role in that (and it did take a while until we had most of our tracks rated, but even in that process, Sugarcube helped by preferring unrated or not recently played songs). Anyway, I wanted to ask whether the Sugarcube Automix can be triggered via some URL. That would allow me to start it via my home automation system and/or Alexa. Alternatively, if I could achieve the same if I could save Autoplay as a Favourite or a Playlist. *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112703 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)
Great to see this plugin being maintained. Thanks a lot! I use the plugin especially for playing my playlists in random order (I believe it is the only way to play playlists in random order, including the first track). Some of my playlists consist of youtube tracks, though, and while I can select them as static playlists in DPL, they won't play (at least not in random mode) . I read about songs from online services only being integrated when they are part of an album, but since youtube isn't an integrated online music service, I thought I'd ask if there is a way of playing those playlists with DPL too. If not, I'd suggest that these are not shown as static playlists in DPL. *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115073 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
This morning I had major issues with getting the skill to shuffle play my playlist. There were three songs that produced just silence, two of which I noted down and later tried to play using stream.mp3 as described above. Both of them played in the web browser. I also checked the alexa voice history to see if that would explain some of the other failures. Turns out that in one case, she understood "tell me the server" instead of tell media server. Which is obviously pretty poor AI performance, given that she has a skill called "media server". In fact, I would claim that there is no AI involved here. It's just stupid to immediately fall back on the default answer "Here's something I found on the web..." I don't get why you wouldn't check against similar sounding skill names before coming up with a nonsense guess of what the user might have meant by "tell me the server". In another situation alexa just heard the wake word but not the following wake word. The only difference to the second time I said it was that the pause between "Alexa" and "next" was a tiny fraction of a second shorter. She simply doesn't seem to listen long enough after the key word. Half or even a quarter of a second more would probably solve a lot of issues. I noticed earlier that "Alexa, skip" works most of the time while "Alexa, next" doesn't. My explanation for this is now that the "s" in skip makes enough of a hissing sound to keep Alexa awake while the "n" in next doesn't. That's how tiny the difference is. The only thing I can do as a user here is try and ignore the Alexa ring light and just talk. What I mean is that I noticed a tendency in my family to say "Alexa", then wait for here to indicate that she's listening, and then give the command. As I noticed this kinda natural behaviour in others, I realised that I was also doing it, though to a lesser extent. I don't really like to train myself, though, to not wait for the light to go on. Firstly, because it means that I will have to repeat commands when it turns out that Alexa didn't wake up, but also because Alexa is already teaching us habits that are not good for human interaction (like not saying thank you when someone did something for you or ordering her to stop talking) so that I think it would be good to maintain the attitude of waiting for a response before starting the conversation. Nut apart from those concerns, I won't quite understand why the slight pause between the wake word and the command works without problems outside of the media server skill. It's only when MediaServer is active that this problem occurs. Do you as skill developer have control over the waiting period or is Amazon defining shorter in-skill periods? philchillbill wrote: > Of the 14 Echos I've owned over time, two had microphones go bad so > Alexa misinterpreted a lot of my commands (they were both 2nd generation > Echo Dots). That might be your issue too because I agree there's not > much can go wrong with just saying 2 words. You can try 'Simon Says' > with a longish sentence (she reads back what you say). For example, > "Alexa, Simon Says this is a test of the microphone in my device". If > the audio stutters, you know you have a hardware problem. > I will try simon says asap but I don't think that is the issue. The Echo dot that I've tested this most on is brand new and the same problem has occurred on at least one other echo dot. philchillbill wrote: > I might be able to add a 'shuffled' qualifier to the StreamPlaylist > command. That would have to be an an exact syntax where you'd say > 'stream the playlist -whatever- *shuffled*'. Not a natural flow of words > but it would work. I'll do all that after the current certification > submission passes because I can't touch the live skill at the moment or > risk rejection. Amazon normally certifies in 1-2 days but it's been over > a week already so they are apparently slow due to Covid understaffing. If "shuffled" is added at the end, isn't there a risk that it gets interpreted as part of the playlist name? Then again, always removing the last "shuffled" from the playlist name would probably work. So even if you had a playlist ending with "shuffled" saying playlist something shuffled shuffled would work. So, yea, that would be great have! Alternatively: how about "shuffleplay" and "shufflestream" as commands? i.e. "Alexa, tell mediaserver to shufflestream favourite 8" instead of "Alexa, tell mediaserver to stream favourite 8 shuffled" *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread:
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
philchillbill wrote: > > > - "Alexa, tell MediaServer to stream my -whatever- playlist". > Subsequently: "Alexa, shuffle". You cannot do it with a single > combined command. And it will not persist, because AlexaPlayers are > temporary/ephemeral. An LMS limitation. - It's not only pronunciation, it's pacing. If you speak too slowly > she assumes you broke off the command before you complete it. Too > fast and she will miss pieces. Background noise doesn't help. Any > skill has those problems. A workaround until you get used to keeping > her happy is to 'open' the skill so you're in a session rather than > doing a one-shot. And look at the Echo while speaking to it. That > way, the skill has her attention and she's (hopefully) not going to > send your command to some other skill. - Getting audio from LMS to an Echo is not the same as from LMS to > a squeezebox. It all goes via /stream.mp3 and has to be transcoded. > An Echo can handle anything you throw at it but LMS cannot stream > anything other than mp3 (LMS is the limiting factor here). It's very > likely a transcoding issue (I presume you have LAME installed?). > Visit e.g. the -h t t p://:9000/stream.mp3?player=Test- > endpoint from a browser and play some stuff in the newly-created > 'Test' player from the LMS GUI. I'll bet the sources/tracks that > fail with the Echo also produce silence in the browser. - AlexaPlayers are -network clients- to LMS, not regular players. > They appear and disappear. However, they always get the same name > when created (Alexa-x, where the 'x' is constant). To > protect your privacy, Amazon does not allow ANY skill to request the > name you gave to your Echo in the app imagine if you called it > "Bathroom Echo", skill developers would know you had a bathroom in > your house ! :rolleyes: What problem would it solve for you if the > names were remembered by LMS? Maybe you mean that the players should > be permanent so that their settings persisted? Well, that would > require @philippe to create a bridge for them... > > > I don't see how the speed of my commands is a source of error. I speak at the same pace as you do in your demonstration video (which is good, btw. Very nice to get an idea of the app). Besides, there is not much pacing involved in "Alexa shuffle" or "Alexa, next". Background noise can be safely excluded too when I'm in the room by myself, with no noise source anywhere and my standing about half a meter away from the Echo dot. There is something else going on here. I will check the test-player next time when the echo dot doesn't want to play something. I suppose it's not a big problem when the custom names for my echo dots don't persist. The reason I was trying to do it was so that I don't have to remember which is which player when I'm testing things. I didn't think that the players announce their name to the server but rather that the server remembers the association between Name and MAC address, so it looked like something else might be wrong. That a playlist cannot be shuffled before starting playback is a bummer. I'm trying to work around that by concatenating the stream command + Alexa shuffle + Alexa next (in an Alexa routine) but it doesn't work because whatever comes after "playlist" is interpreted as part of the name of the playlist. And Alexa doesn't allow two actions with the same skill in one routine. So it really looks like there is no way of getting a playlist played in random order without manually issuing the commands every time. *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I'm desperately trying to get Alexa to stream a playlist (to Alexa player) in shuffle mode but I can't figure out how to do it. It does play the playlist but it always starts at the beginning. When I then say "Alexa, shuffle" she doesn't recognize the command a lot of the times and when she does, she says "Shuffle on", yay! If I then say "Alexa, next", she doesn't recognise the command. When I say "Alexa, skip" she says "Next" and does indeed play the track. Except, sometimes she doesn't. She just stops playing and the next track never starts. Except that it does show as playing on the LMS web-UI. I hoped that once I set the Alexa player on shuffle, it would stay there and next time I play that playlist, it will shuffle, but no. I noticed that when I change the name of the "ALEXA-*" player to something else, LMS (or Alexa?) will eventually forget that name and go back to "ALEXA-*", so I assume that this forgetfulness is also the reason why the shuffle state doesn't persist. So I have four questions (relating to each of the four issues just mentioned): - How can I start streaming an LMS-playlist in shuffle mode (so that it starts with a different track every time) - What am I doing wrong with the no-invocation commands? I can confidently say that my english pronounciation is in no way unusual or difficult to understand. Alexa understands me fine all the time, except when using the MediaServer app. In fact, the problem exists not just with no-invocation commands. It also occurs when I try to invoke a mediaserve one-shot command, Alexa never gets the entire command. For example, when I say "Alexa, tell media server to play favourite Amina 8", most of the time, she will either say nothing or "Say a mediaserver command". - What might be the reason that skipping to the next song will sometimes lead to silence despite the track actually being streamed by LMS? My best guess is that it has to do with encoding. This is happening on a youtube playlist and I believe youtube tracks sometimes use different codecs. But since it is LMS streamingt to Alexa, I would still blame LMS/the plugin for not transcoding into a codec that Alexa understands. - Is there any way of making LMS remember the name of the Alexa players? *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)
philippe_44 wrote: > I've just redone all steps following #1 post of this thread to create a > key for a new account on a fresh computer and it worked. I recently had to re-do the procedure for oauth (to access subscriptions and playlists) and I noticed that the instructions don't quite match the UI anymore. For example, there is no "other" type app to choose. I think it didn't work when I chose "Desktop app" but now I use "TV" or something and it works. I don't remember where I found these instructions, but I had reasons to believe they were the latest version. Could it have been somewhere in the LMS plugins UI? Anyway, I just wanted to mention that. Then I have a question to @philippe: I'm struggling a bit with using YouTube music URLs to work with the plugin. Part of the reason is that some URLs (e.g. the Radio URLs) don't seem to work independently of the page on which they're on (I assume they need a correct referrer url to work). But part of it also seems to be that the plugin doesn't seem to accept urls starting with music.youtube A lot of the time, "music" can just be manually replaced my "www" and then it works. Do you think you could make the plugin accept music. youtube urls directly? *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105840 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] LMS-lite certified Smart Home skill for Alexa
philchillbill wrote: > When you say 'a US address', did you need a* physical street address* in > the US to do that or do you mean just selecting the *.com *domain? > Yes, a physical address. The support agent said I could just enter a random address, but I used one where I did indeed live for some time. The confusing thing is that it's not just about which amazon domain (they call it "marketplace") you use, but that the address has to match the marketplace. Based on that, I would assume (just a hypothetical example), that if you're on amazon.com with a british address, it won't work, even though the app is available in both countries. I sent you the chat via PM FYI. philchillbill wrote: > When I click under those devices, there's no option to select > store/region, just to change the device name. > It should be under preferences (shown on your screenshot) philchillbill wrote: > > > If you could share a screenshot and/or URL of where in the Amazon portal > you succeeded (blur any sensitive data) it would be very helpful and I > can add a description to the docs to help others. I know people have > done this from Italy and Germany in the past before skills were > supported natively in Italian and German and things changed since. TBH I > never went through the process myself because it always worked for me as > dev. So the MediaServer skill is available in German? (It doesn't say so on your website). If that is the case, that explains why the agent says it is available on the German store. Anyway, here is the setting that Alexa checks when you try to subscribe: 37007 (OMG, iserting pictures is such a pain on this forum... 'I wish they'd change to discourse.' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107791-Any-chance-that-this-forum-will-migrate-to-discourse)) +---+ |Filename: 2022-01-24_10-10-38.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37007| +---+ *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111443 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] LMS-lite certified Smart Home skill for Alexa
Okay, I just had a longish chat with the amazon.com support and learned that the country that Alexa checks (and that she refers to when she says that something is not available in your country) is the country set under Content and Devices. As soon as I changed it to a US address, it worked. According to the very helpful agent, in some skills the important thing is that that address matches the marketplace that you are on (in my case: amazon.com). Before, that address was set to Germany and it didn't matter (I was able to get and use all the english apps I wanted. It was only the subscription that required the US address. Now the next step will be to figure out how to get Alexa to play music from my LMS. Too tired now to dig into that. *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111443 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] LMS-lite certified Smart Home skill for Alexa
philchillbill wrote: > > I live in NL and Amazon used to be ok with my getting skills in the > .co.uk store when there was no Amazon.nl site and we were 'expected' to > shop on Amazon.de. Ironically, after they created Amazon.nl, they expect > our skills to come from Amazon.de and no longer from .co.uk. Might be > the same for you (.de expected). However, to be in the .de store, a > skill -must -be available in the German language which MediaServer is > not. AFAIK, this means you will not be able to subscribe unless you > somehow set all your locations for shipping and digital content and > whatever to either .co.uk or .com. So are you saying that if you only had amazon.de and amazon.nl accounts, you would not be able to subscribe to your skill (because the MediaServer skill is available in neither Dutch nor German)? There might indeed be a similar scenario with amazon.se and amazon.de (my case). But it doesn't quite make sense, though. Because I basically had the same problem when I wasn't able to get Alexa to speak English (or get English-only apps) and that was solved by switching my digital content amazon.com and it has worked ever since. So, for example, when I buy an Echo device on Amazon.de, it gets automatically linked to my amazon.de account, but in order to "manage", I have to go to amazon.com and sign in there. When I now log into amazon.com, I am told that I now also have the choice to manage may devices and digital content on amazon.de: 36999 I'm not sure, but I don't believe that option was there when I made the switch to amazon.com a year or two ago. So my guess is that they are now allowing me to move my stuff back because they are now also allowing people to purchase english language content directly on amazon.de. But then again it also says under "Apps & Games" that while existing subscriptions will continue, the availability of new subscriptions is not guaranteed. Either way, nothing really indicates my being on amazon.com explains the rejection of the subscription. I will try to see if changing my country in digital contents changes anything (if I even can easily change it). Don't you have any subscribers from Germany? As a skill-developer/seller, do you have some support at amazon that you can ask what either your customers or you can do, to make the subscription available in non-english speaking countries like, well, most European countries? +---+ |Filename: 2022-01-23_21-36-07.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36999| +---+ *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111443 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] LMS-lite certified Smart Home skill for Alexa
philchillbill wrote: > It should just work. Or has Amazon decided to link the Swedish store to > Germany? Anyway, a workaround is to temporarily set your Amazon store > account for digital content to .co.uk for locale en-GB. Start the > subscription. Then change back. > Okay, so it is the location under "digital content" that's relevant here. Good to know. Unfortunately that doesn't explain why Alexa won't let me subscribe because my location under digital content is Germany: 36997 It's not as simple as that though. Because I manage my digital content on amazon.com (even though the actual amazon account is on amazon.de). If I remember correctly that was the only way to get Alexa to speak English. I remember it said something that customers on certain amazon country stores are allowed to move their digital content to amazon.com, or something, and Germany being one of them. So I followed the instructions and voilá, Alexa finally spoke english. We can choose British or American English and we can even choose English -and- German. But I don't think language has anything to do with it. Well, and digital content location doesn't seem to matter either, since I assume that the the subscription works both in the USA and Germany, right? So it must be my physical location (which is Sweden). But it would have to take that either from my current delivery address (not for digital but for physical items) or from my IP-address. Do you have any other suggestions? (I find this really hard to trouble shoot because Amazon is so unclear about which location it uses/assumes in various situations) P.S. Sorry for posting in the wrong thread. +---+ |Filename: CleanShot 2022-01-23 at 16.35...@2x.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36997| +---+ *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111443 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] LMS-lite certified Smart Home skill for Alexa
I have successfully installed the free version of Mediaserver, yay! But when I say "Alexa, tell mediaserver I want a subscription" she says something like "the content is not available in your country".Why would the subscription not be available in Sweden? Where do I set "my country"? Amazon has so many different location settings, it's utterly confusing. I don't even know which country Alexa/Amazon thinks I'm in... Sent from my KB2003 using Tapatalk *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111443 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Why didn't I do this earlier (CLI + Alfred) ?
mamema wrote: > using quicksilver for shortcuts.. In that case the alfred workflow wont be of much help, though. You'll probably have to put together your own quicksilver workflow (or shortcuts) based on the CLI commands for LMS. I believe some (if not all) commands can also be triggered by calling certain URL paths but I haven't been able to figure out how exactly those work. Sent from my KB2003 using Tapatalk *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110148 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Why didn't I do this earlier (CLI + Alfred) ?
I would love to try that Alfred Workflow. Would you share it? *Server*: LMS 8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110148 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)
nickey wrote: > You must be running LMS on some pretty decent hardware... LOL, never thought about that. It's a home server running a dozen docker containers and two virtual machines, all on a Celeron G3930 CPU at 2.9 GHz. So nothing special but obviously a bit faster than a first gen Pi. *Server*: LMS 8.8.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: Material Skin (Web UI), but also SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105840 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)
TeraX wrote: > Till now my setup was like "never change a running system" but it seems > the period end here ;) > Same here. If it aint broken, don't fix it. But since it's broken now, I went ahead and fixed it, i.e. I updated from 7.9.3 to 8.1.1 and I'm baffled by how fast and easy it went: Code: $ sudo dpkg -i /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/updates/logitechmediaserver_8.1.1_amd64.deb [sudo] password for christoph: (Reading database ... 150036 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../logitechmediaserver_8.1.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking logitechmediaserver (8.1.1) over (7.9.3) ... Setting up logitechmediaserver (8.1.1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/squeezeboxserver/convert.conf ... Installing new version of config file /etc/squeezeboxserver/types.conf ... Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.42) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ... $ I think it took less than 15 seconds and I was like "Damn it! Didn't work!" But when I checked, my LMS was running on 8.1.1. as if it had been doing it forever... So thanks for the great work that keeps this great piece of software alive! Oh, and, yes, the YT plugin also works now. :D *Server*: LMS 7.9.3 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library, Material Skin chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105840 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)
Unfortunately, I'm not as lucky as others who reported success. I updated to 0.130.2 and it's still not working. From the server.log: Code: [21-04-05 13:39:07.7003] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setStreamingState (2386) new streaming state IDLE [21-04-05 13:39:07.7004] Slim::Player::Song::new (107) index 1 -> youtube://www.youtube.com/v/oB8nURyH4zA [21-04-05 13:39:07.7006] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setStreamingState (2386) new streaming state TRACKWAIT [21-04-05 13:39:07.7010] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_playersMessage (796) Getting stream info...: youtube://www.youtube.com/v/oB8nURyH4zA [21-04-05 13:39:07.7020] Slim::Player::Song::getNextSong (228) youtube://www.youtube.com/v/oB8nURyH4zA [21-04-05 13:39:07.7032] Slim::Control::Request::execute (1888) Error: While trying to run function coderef [Slim::Control::Commands::playlistJumpCommand]: [Can't locate object method "get_cookies" via package "HTTP::Cookies" at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/YouTube/ProtocolHandler.pm line 386. ] [21-04-05 13:39:20.9978] Slim::Player::StreamingController::play (2120) 00:04:20:1f:16:50 [21-04-05 13:39:20.9984] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_Stop (610) Song queue is now 1 [21-04-05 13:39:20.9985] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setPlayingState (2377) new playing state STOPPED [21-04-05 13:39:20.9986] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setStreamingState (2386) new streaming state IDLE [21-04-05 13:39:20.9989] Slim::Player::Song::new (107) index 7 -> youtube://www.youtube.com/v/RZb1KISCkJA [21-04-05 13:39:20.9991] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setStreamingState (2386) new streaming state TRACKWAIT [21-04-05 13:39:20.9998] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_playersMessage (796) Getting stream info...: youtube://www.youtube.com/v/RZb1KISCkJA [21-04-05 13:39:21.0008] Slim::Player::Song::getNextSong (228) youtube://www.youtube.com/v/RZb1KISCkJA [21-04-05 13:39:21.0011] Slim::Control::Request::execute (1888) Error: While trying to run function coderef [Slim::Control::Commands::playlistJumpCommand]: [Can't locate object method "get_cookies" via package "HTTP::Cookies" at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/YouTube/ProtocolHandler.pm line 386. ] [21-04-05 13:39:21.0014] Slim::Web::JSONRPC::requestMethod (455) Request failed with error: Bad dispatch! [21-04-05 13:39:21.0069] Slim::Player::StreamingController::play (2120) 00:04:20:1f:16:50 [21-04-05 13:39:21.0075] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_Stop (610) Song queue is now 7 [21-04-05 13:39:21.0076] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setPlayingState (2377) new playing state STOPPED [21-04-05 13:39:21.0077] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setStreamingState (2386) new streaming state IDLE [21-04-05 13:39:21.0079] Slim::Player::Song::new (107) index 7 -> youtube://www.youtube.com/v/RZb1KISCkJA [21-04-05 13:39:21.0083] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setStreamingState (2386) new streaming state TRACKWAIT [21-04-05 13:39:21.0089] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_playersMessage (796) Getting stream info...: youtube://www.youtube.com/v/RZb1KISCkJA [21-04-05 13:39:21.0096] Slim::Player::Song::getNextSong (228) youtube://www.youtube.com/v/RZb1KISCkJA [21-04-05 13:39:21.0099] Slim::Control::Request::execute (1888) Error: While trying to run function coderef [Slim::Control::Commands::playlistJumpCommand]: [Can't locate object method "get_cookies" via package "HTTP::Cookies" at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/YouTube/ProtocolHandler.pm line 386. ] [21-04-05 13:39:21.0102] Slim::Web::JSONRPC::requestMethod (455) Request failed with error: Bad dispatch! [21-04-05 13:39:26.0827] Slim::Player::TranscodingHelper::getConvertCommand2 (442) Error: Didn't find any command matches for type: mp3 [21-04-05 13:39:26.0883] Slim::Player::TranscodingHelper::getConvertCommand2 (445) Matched: flc->flc via: - [21-04-05 13:42:07.5727] Slim::Control::Request::execute (1888) Error: While trying to run function coderef [Slim::Control::Commands::playlistJumpCommand]: [Can't locate object method "get_cookies" via package "HTTP::Cookies" at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/YouTube/ProtocolHandler.pm line 386. ] [21-04-05 13:42:07.5732] Slim::Web::JSONRPC::requestMethod (455) Request failed with error: Bad dispatch! [21-04-05 13:42:07.5843] Slim::Control::Request::execute (1888) Error: While trying to run function coderef [Slim::Control::Commands::playlistJumpCommand]: [Can't locate object method "get_cookies" via package "HTTP::Cookies" at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/YouTube/ProtocolHandler.pm line 386. ] [21-04-05 13:42:07.5847] Slim::Web::JSONRPC::requestMethod (455) Request failed with error: Bad dispatch! [21-04-05 13:42:18.4245] Slim::Control::Request::execute (1888) Error: While
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)
I have the same issue and posted my "garbage" as a github issue because it was too long for a forum post: https://github.com/philippe44/LMS-YouTube/issues/32#issue-848086293 *Server*: LMS 7.9.3 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library, Material Skin chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105840 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP on Ubuntu 18.04
I have finally figured out the location of the recipes.xml file. Or rather: I figured out that the mmm.ini also needs to be in the correct place (apparently, MusicIP just runs with some hard coded default settings if it doesn't find the mmm.ini.) So here is what I did: - Locate the file MusicMagicServer in the terminal - run Code: ./MusicMagicServer -verbose start - In the response you will see where it is looking for the mmm.ini: Code: Reading settings from /home/username/.MusicMagic/mmm.ini - Make sure your mmm.ini is exactly in that location and check/modify the cache path to your default.m3lib provided in the mmm.ini. (I believe that if it doesn't find any mmm.ini it assumes that same path as the location for the default.m3lib, but if you specify a different path in the mmm.ini, it will use that. - Put your recipes.xml in the same directory as the default.m3lib mm.ini (e.g. /home/username/.MusicMagic/) [Disclaimer: if this doesn't work, try putting it where the mmm.ini is. In my case the two are identical] - Restart MusicMagicServer (it seems to read the recipe files only at startup) - Point your broswer to Code: http://:10002/api/recipes?submit=Show+Recipes and you should see a list of your recipes as defined in the recipes.xml. Since the existing Web-UI doesn't have a button to show the recipes, I added one. Feel free to use my index.html which you can find at https://github.com/tophee/MusicIP-Web-UI/blob/main/index.html *Server*: LMS 7.9.3 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library, Material Skin chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108991 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP on Ubuntu 18.04
I still haven't gotten those Music IP recipes to work. No I'm checking if I can get them to work when running MusicIP in a docker container. I'm using 'this image' (https://hub.docker.com/r/ptoulouse/musicip) and the container seems to work fine (it started scanning the music files). But adding my recipes.xml file into the config Volume doesn't lead to those recipes becoming available in MusicIP's web interface (even after restarting the container). Someone said earlier in this thread that it might be good to correctly set the cache path in the mmm.ini file so I checked whether that might be an issue here, but based on how the container is constructed, I conclude that the path is being pointed to the default.m3lib file and my recipes.xml is in the same directory, so that seems fine. But then again that's how I have it on my production server too and it didn't work, so musicIP obviously expects the recipes.xml to be in a different folder. But whoch one? *Server*: LMS 7.9.3 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library, Material Skin chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108991 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)
I am unable to play any more clips from youtube and I can't quite figure out why but it might have something to do with having (almost) reached the maximum number of api queries: 31087 But then again, I have not yet reached the maximum, so it should still work. I have no idea where all those queries come from, given that I have maybe searched for 5-10 videos in the past week or so. How many queries is each search supposed to consume? I set the logging level for the youtube plugin to DEBUG and found this hundreds of these: Code: [20-07-19 14:46:22.5661] Plugins::YouTube::ProtocolHandler::getMetadataFor (783) getmetadata: youtube://www.youtube.com/v/y2Ffjx2qGjY [20-07-19 14:46:22.5663] Plugins::YouTube::ProtocolHandler::getMetadataFor (798) cache hit: y2Ffjx2qGjY What does that mean? Any clues that might help me fix this problem would be appreciated. +---+ |Filename: 2020-07-19_15-09-17.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31087| +---+ *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Multi Library, Material Skin chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105840 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
MillmoorRon wrote: > I want to use this to import only the ratings, but not added, playcount > or lastplayed. > This reminds me of an issue I had some time ago. Check if this thread helps you: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?102245-Trackstat-Unrated-tracks-appear-as-rated-with-1-star *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 home server *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: YouTube Plugin
Thanks for an excellent plugin. Is there a way of accessing one's albums from Youtube Music? Currently, my workaround is to go to the album on youtube music and add its songs to a playlist which then becomes accessible via the plugin. Is there a better way? And here is a feature request: it would be great to have a plugin setting that would allow me to filter which subscriptions and which playlists should be displayed on LMS. Well, let's start with playlists. Because we have control over how we call our playlists, it would suffice if the plugin would let me specify a prefix that needs to be included in the playlist name in order to be displayed in LMS. For example, I could use the Prefix "Music_" to filter for my music related playlists so that all my other youtube playlists are not shown. When it comes to subscriptions, it's probably a bit mor difficult because there is no pattern in the LMS relevant youtube channel names. I guess this is not as important a feature as the playlist filter, but if you implement such a setting, it would probably be best to show a list with all subscriptions with a check box next to each and the user can unselect the ones that shouldn't be shown on LMS. *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 home server *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87731 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Would you be willing to consider a cheaper subscription plan for people who oy occasionally want to use Alexa to control their music? Perhaps a "pay-per-command" plan or a 1 EUR plan that includes a certain number of commands? *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 home server *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayLog -- log track info, easy web searches
peterw wrote: > Please check the server log after restarting LMS to see if it contains > any hints. Thanks, Peter, for pointing me to the logs. I should have thought of that, but I'm not used to this kind of debugging. I found the log file at /var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log and I'm seeing loads of these: Code: [19-11-16 12:26:22.5467] Plugins::PlayLog::Plugin::logSongInfo (439) unable to create song log as UTF-8, creating with unspecified $ [19-11-16 12:26:22.5474] Plugins::PlayLog::Plugin::logSongInfo (441) unable to create song log But what does it mean? peterw wrote: > Over here I'm running version 2.1.46 on LMS 7.9.2 - 1557815622. That's > a fairly new release of PlayLog (May of this year) so you might check > that, too, and consider adding my "tux reborn" repo to your settings to > stay up-to-date. But I expect it should work OK, respect your old > settings, and be able to use the data it previously logged. > Yes, it is using (or at least displaying) the data I previously logged. But it is not logging any new data. I guess the log entries above say why. I am also running the latest version of playlog (v2.1.46) but on a somewhat older build than you: LMS Version: 7.9.2 - 1545026161 @ Mon Dec 17 07:16:24 CET 2018. *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 home server *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44582 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayLog -- log track info, easy web searches
This plugin has been working fine for me over the years but in August 2018 it stopped logging. Since this was the time when I switched to a new machine and upgraded to LMS version 7.9.2 (I think before I was on 7.3 or 7.5), so I suspect that the reason for it no longer working is connected to that. But is it that I made a mistake when migrating or does the plugin simply not work with 7.9.2? Can anyone confirm? *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 home server *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44582 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP on Ubuntu 18.04
I'm still desperate to figure out why MusicIP is not finding any of the recipes.xml files that I put in various directories. I have one little hint where something might be going wrong but I don't know how to proceed from this: I noticed that when I stop and start MusicIP (by doing sudo systemctl stop mmserver.service and then sudo systemctl start mmserver.service) MusicIP doesn't start again until I do a second sudo systemctl start mmserver.service. Very strange but reproducably so. So this means that something is going wrong when starting MusicIP the first time but it works if the same command is issued a second time. Assuming that the recipes.xml is read when MusicIP starts, I suspect that the reading fails because of whatever is going wrong during startup. But what could that be? How can I find out? *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 home server *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108991 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP on Ubuntu 18.04
slartibartfast wrote: > > cache=/home/pi/.MusicMagic/default.m3lib > (...) > tivo=0 > Just tried that, restarted musicIP and LMS but still no recipes in sight. I'm not surprised though, since MusicIP somehow (magically?) already knows where the default.m3lib file is, so I'm not really giving it any new information. But thanks for your assistance. *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 home server *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108991 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP on Ubuntu 18.04
slartibartfast wrote: > Just noticed that your recipes file is in the correct place. Is your > mmm.ini file correct? > Well, perhaps not. I'm not sure. I did not touch it. It looks like this: [mix] mixsize=10 tracks restrict=3 tracks style=20 variety=0 seed=1 [server] proxy=0 host= proxyport= authentication= user= password= [services] key= cache= port=10002 tivo=1 upnp=0 api=1 readonly=0 cpu=0 Where or how would I specify the location of the recipes file here? I can't remember having done that on my old system, where recipes worked fine. But I sat that up years ago, so I may have forgotten. I should mention that my musicIP installation seems to be working fine otherwise. It scanned and validated thousands of files and wrote them into the default.m3lib database. And Sugarsync uses it to decide which song it should play next. The only thing that's not working are the recipes. :( *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 home server *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108991 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Understanding MusicIP moods and recipes
kefkekeyser wrote: > > How can I get the recipes to show up in Spicefly SugarCube? Do I need to > put my recipes.xml in another location? Did you manage to solve this? I'm struggling with the 'exact same question' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108991-MusicIP-on-Ubuntu-18-04=923294=1#post923294)... *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 home server *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75932 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP on Ubuntu 18.04
I can't get Sugarcube to see the recipes.xml file (for MusicIP recipes). I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the specifics of the setup discussed here, but I thought I'd start here. According to 'this' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?106958-Success-MusicIP-and-Spicefly-Sugarcube-running-on-Raspberry-Pi) post, the recipes.xml files is supposed to be in the .MusicMagic directory where also the default.m3lib is located. That is the case on my system but in the Sugarcube plugin settings there are still no recipes available at the "Optionally Add a MusicIP Recipe" dropdown option. What I have tried/looked at so far: - restarted LMS - restarted MusicIP - checked file permissions: -rwxr-xr-x 1 christoph christoph5628 Apr 12 2017 recipes.xml* - created a recipes.xml file in the ~/MusicIP/recipes directory as well as in ~/MusicIP Where else might musicIP be looking for that file? Or how can I tell it where it is? *Server*: LMS 7.9.2 on an Ubuntu 18.04 home server *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), 2 Booms *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108991 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP on Ubuntu 18.04
bakker_be wrote: > > The difference between the 2 approaches has to do with the difference > between the way services are launched: 'systemd<->sys v<->upstart' > (https://fossbytes.com/systemd-vs-sys-v-vs-upstart/). Systemd is the > most recent of the three and the default in Ubuntu since 15.04. I have > no idea why the original info on havetheknowhow worked for 16.04 which I > had previously but doesn't on 18.04. The service file I now created is > for systemd. Thanks for explaining. I'm starting to make sense of the different ways of starting deamons. However, I believe `systemctl` (which was used in the previous instructions) 'is also part of systemd' (https://askubuntu.com/questions/903354/difference-between-systemctl-and-service). So I'm not sure that is the difference... *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108991 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP on Ubuntu 18.04
bakker_be wrote: > After a lot of searching, trying, cursing, searching and trying again > I've managed to solve my issue :) > Thanks mate, I know exactly what you're talking about. One little addendum for anyone using a 64bit system (amd64): magicmusicserver wont execute because it is a 32-bit executable. In order to be able to execute 32-bit on your system, you need to do Code: sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 (See: https://superuser.com/questions/1076730/how-to-run-32-bit-app-in-recent-ubuntu-64-bit) After that, @bakker_be's solution worked for me. If someone passes by hear and can explain what the difference between that solution is compared to the original one (with mmserver in /etc/init.d/), it would be great to understand what is going on here... *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108991 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP on Ubuntu 18.04
SlimChances wrote: > I never had much luck using the m3lib file from another install. If all > your music has been archived (fingerprinted) it only takes 5 minutes or > so for MusicIp to do the scan (i had about 2 tracks under MusicIP). > If the music isn't archived it will take quite a long time (days I > imagine). To archive in the future check the box under > Preferences/General(see screenshot) > > Edit:I am not sure how long archiving will take on files that were not > done that way to begin with but I am thinking it will take a very long > time and suggest you try using your old m3lib file and see what happens cparker wrote: > Hi > > You can find out more about archive analysis and how to check it, on > this page; > > https://www.spicefly.com/article.php?page=musicip-offline > > Cheers Thank you both for those hints. For me, the problem is that I am running MusicIP as a headless install on my NAS so I don't have access to the kind of GUI you are referring to. Is there any way to do this (archiving) via the CLI? *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108991 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP on Ubuntu 18.04
SlimChances wrote: > > Do not use default.m3lib from another install. Rebuild library from > archived fingerprints > Could you explain that part? I was going to do just that, given that it will take days, if not weeks for doing a complete rescan. I'm not sure how to do the archiving. If the problem with using the default.m3lib from another install is merely that the file paths might be different, I guess I could fix that via symlinks or so, no? *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, Custom Browse, Spotty, Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108991 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse and playing other songs in album
Thanks a lot for sharing this. It just started using the multi library plugin and was confused that whenever I selected a song from an album via the menu in a specific library, it played all songs in the album even though the player setting was "Play only selected song". So the first thing I had to figure out was that when I was browsing specific libraries, I was actually using a custom browse menu. So it dawned on me that custom browse may not be respecting the per player setting. But how to change it. It did not occur to me that this would be a per menu-item setting so I was glad to eventually find this thread which brought me on the right track. But does it make sense to have "Play only selected song" vs "Play other songs in album of directory" as a per menu option rather than as a universal option? Although it is feasible, I found it rather labourious having to go into each individual menu and changing the setting. I suppose that there is some technical limitation why the Custom Browse plugin doesn't simply respect the generic setting for each player. But I think the current solution is not good. I *would like to suggest* to @erland (no way to do mentions in this forum?) to add this option to the Custom Browse Settings menu. Another thing I would like to mention is the following *inconsistent behaviour* of the Custom Browse plugin: Once I have manually disabled the "Play all songs in selected album" in the first level custom browse menus, this setting was automatically applied to the corresponding menus of one of my three libraries but not to the other two. I think it should be either be applied to all library menus (preferable) or to none at all. Finally, there also seem to be some* inconsistencies* in how albums are displayed across the different menus. For example, in my classical music library, in the album menu, the album artist is displayed even though the setting "show artist with album" is off but in the New Albums menu, the artist is not displayed but instead the year is (and I have no idea how I might turn that off) and when I activate "show artist with album, the artist is displayed in a smaller font on the left, i.e. in a different way than in the Albums menu. *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode), Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61923 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] MuisicIP root directory: how to reset/ change?
I am running MusicIP headless on a NAS (for use with Spicefly Sugarcube). On that NAS, there are several paths to the folder containing the music (don't ask me why). So far, MusicIP accessed the music via the path /media/Music/. Today I accidentally asked it to scan /c/media/Music (which is physically identical with /media/Music/). The result is that MusicIP now wants to validate thousands of songs that it has "discovered" in this "new" folder. Is there any way I can make it forget this path again? *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode), Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106875 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SugarCube and MusicIP for music mixing
Could it be that those 2% of your songs include non-ascii characters like äöåüßéèêç etc? MusicIP ignores those... *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode), Multi Library chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106276 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] How to SyncOptions Plugin writing to Playlists directory?
I am seeing some ugly playlists in my playlists folder (and which are hence displayed in the squeezebox UI). They have file names like "SyncOptions-Radio-00_04_20_27_da_2d", It looks like these originate from the setting RESTORE PLAYLIST AFTER UNSYNCING=ON in the SyncOptions plugin. My question: how can I get the plugin to store those playlists somewhere else than the official playlist folder? Thanks in advance for any hints! *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106874 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
I would like to deactivate Trackstat on just one of my players (more precisely, I would like to turn off automatic rating on that player, but I'd be fine turning trackstat off completely if there is no other way). >From what I can see, none of this is possible via the UI, right? In that case, I'd like to submit this as a feature request. Any chance of that being implemented? *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP filters in headless mode
downtime wrote: > I got this working by copying the default.m3lib from headless Ubuntu to > Windows 10. Double-clicking opens the library in MusicIP Mixer. I > created a filter, saved the library cache and copied the file back to > Ubuntu. After restarting mmserver, the filter and all files show up and > I'm listening to a Blues & Rock filtered mix. > > I'm using MusicIP Mixer ver 1.8b under Windows. Ver 1.9 kept crashing. Interesting. I shall try that. Where did you download version 1.8 for windows? *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105707 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: YouTube Plugin
philippe_44 wrote: > Unfortunately, this seems to be an issue with the SSL/Perl libraries in > your system > > [16-06-12 21:11:43.8207] Slim::Networking::IO::Select::__ANON__ (147) > Error: Select task failed calling > Slim::Networking::Async::HTTP::_http_read_body: Can't locate object > method "BINMODE" via package "IO::Socket::SSL::SSL_HANDLE" at > /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Player/Song.pm line 622. > > All works fine till the opening of the actual SSL socket to start > streaming. I had a discussion about this issue much earlier in this > thread, I can't remember all the details, but I think it was due to a > combo of SSL/Perl installation. You say this is a debian-based system, > can you tell a bit more? Are you sure openssl is properly installed (not > talking about the Perl part) It's a Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 whose OS is based on Debian Etch. So it's rather old, but it would be great to get SSL to work. Whether openssl is really properly installed, I am unable to say. What I can say is that apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl tells me that the newest version is already installed: Code: NAS:~# apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libio-socket-ssl-perl is already the newest version. libnet-ssleay-perl is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded. NAS:~# Now, as you can see, it also tells us that 24 packages were not upgraded, but I have no idea whether this pertains to the relevant ssl packages and if it does, how to upgrade them (without breaking something else) Any ideas? *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87731 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: YouTube Plugin
philippe_44 wrote: > When you say 'same problem' do you mean you have the same hardware > server base for LMS? > > [edit]: if you can set the YouTube plugin log to debug, I will have a > look and see if this is a SSL issue or something different in the > analysis of the URL itself > > I don't know what andersenthomas' hardware server base is. I was referring to: - debian-based installation - usage showing up on https://console.developers.google.co.../youtube/usage - not getting any sound - libio-socket-ssl-perl and libnet-ssleay-perl is installed and latest version All of this applies to my situation. I am sending you the debug log for the youtube plugin starting from when I started to play a youtube stream until I stopped it (after a minute or so) as a PM since the forum won't let me post it in this message as it is too long. Hope it helps! *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87731 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: YouTube Plugin
andersenthomas wrote: > I am running the YouTube plugin v. 0.37.4 but is unable to get it > working on my OMV (debian-based) installation. On > https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/youtube/usage I can see > request are being made and the correct URL is being returned by looking > at the LMS log so I guess API communication is working. However, I am > not getting any sound on my squeezelite players. The logs last entry is > typically something like "[16-03-20 10:07:45.3712] > Slim::Player::Song::open (471) Warning: stream failed to open > [youtube://www.youtube.com/v/PsO6ZnUZI0g]". Both libio-socket-ssl-perl > and libnet-ssleay-perl is installed and latest version. I anybody else > experiencing something similar or have a solution? I am having the same problem but with v 0.38.1...(except that I don't know what my logs say) Did you find a solution? *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87731 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP filters in headless mode
SlimChances wrote: > Not sure if this helps but I use WINE to use the Windows GUI version of > MusicIP on Ubuntu I use headless version also Unfortunately, running Wine on a NAS is not an option... *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105707 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP filters in headless mode
After 'Spotify shut down the Echonet api' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97668-Announce-Smart-Mix-plugin=851204=1#post851204) despite 'having promised not to do so when they took over the company' (https://press.spotify.com/us/2014/03/06/spotify-acquires-the-echo-nest/), I'm probably not the only one going back to Spicefly Sugarcube and MusicIP. I wanted to take the opportunity and finally use MusicIP filters in my setup so that I can easily limit the selected tracks to certain parts of my library. I have understood that there is no way of creating filters in the headless version by itself and that you have to use the GUI version to create the filters (which are stored in the "default.m3lib" (musicIP's library), not in a separate file). Since my headless setup is on a NAS, I cannot run the GUI on the same machine so I copied the default.m3lib to my windows PC and opened it with MusicIP Mixer, created the filters, and copied the file back to the NAS. When I opened the webinterface (port 10002), I had 0 songs because the file had been modified. It gave me a button to "reload cache" but it doesnt seem to do anything. I restarted everything that can be restarted but to no avail. I also changed the ownership of the file to 500:500, just like all the other MusicIP files, but that diedn't change anything either. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105707 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Controlling your music with a smartwatch
I'm surprised that there is hardly any talk about smartwatches on the forum and I wonder whether this is because the Smartwatch hype is only just starting or because anyone who has a smartwatch knows that you can easily control your squeezebox devices via the media control that, I think, all smartwatches include. Now, let me mention that I did my research and, yes, 'there is an android app that works an android wear devices' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103030-Android-Wear-support-Is-Squeeze-Control-the-only-app-so-far). And 'there is one for the Sony Smartwatch' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98314-Announce-Sony-SmartWatch-app-for-Squeezebox-%28SqueezeWatch%29). So maybe everyone with an Android Wear watch just gets the Squeezecontrol app and everything is fine? But what about the other 4 or 5 Squeezebox apps out there? And what about the Apple Watch? And what about the Samsung Gear S2, which runs on Tizen? (This is where my personal interest lies!). According to 'this video' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW8hvXjx1xc), it is possible to control Google Play just by using the media controls on the Tizen watch (and I assume that Spotify will work the same way). But that will just make your phone play musik. What we want is not to control the phone as a music player but to control the phone as a remote (Ideally, of course, the watch would connect directly to LMS, but that would obviously require a proper app). Anyone out there who can say what works and what doesn't with Tizen? And to the developers: what are your thoughts on making your apps smatwatch compatible/ creating a native smartwatch app? Christoph *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105243 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)
Man in a van wrote: > Perhaps no tweak is necessary > > 19076 > > > > 19077 > > Ronnie Sometimes pictures say less than a few words. Or at least they are more difficult to decipher... So If I understand you point correctly, you have a Boom on your living room and it works with the Logitech App although you have the helper on Triode's app activated, right? That gives me some hope, but it also leaves me more confused since it begs the question why my boom doesn't work with the Logitech app as soon as I turn the helper on. More questions for the developers... *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)
karlek wrote: > Ob msb.com you can configure for each player if the official App should > show up in the home menu. > I think this affects LMS boxes either. I have to admit, there is still a good bit of confusion in my head (but that has always been so with regard to how the squeezebox players, especially their menus, work. I have "Display on Home Menu" activated for all players on msb.com but it doesn't seem to make a difference. At least not when I'm connected to my local LMS. Which makes sense, of course, but then again it was my understanding that you have to register your spotify app on msb.com only once and then it works even if you never connect to msb.com any more. chaug wrote: > > 5. After the activation, your players may ask you to switch to > mysqueezebox.com when you try to use the Logitech Spotify app. Just do > as you're told and the switch back to your local LMS. It should work > without switching thereafter. > I am not so sure about this point 5 any more after I just was asked again to log into msb.com again in order to access the green spotify app on my Touch. When I changed back to my local LMS the menu of the Touch visibly reloaded and the green spotify app was nowhere to be found anymore. Not on the home screen, not on in My Apps, nowhere. And before it was clearly there, though I can't say whether I actually used it there (Most of the time, I use my phone or the Webinterface to control it). I'd like to believe that I did not use it and trying to do so now somehow made the Touch realize that it wasn't connected to msb.com and after it came back to my local LMS it reloaded another version of the menu that does not have the green app in it. But that is just some wild speculation based on the assumption that all this does have some underlying logic... Anyway, I think what might help to clear all of this up is to distinguish between what works in terms of playing (actual sound coming out of certain players) and menus (on what devices you can actually see the green app and control current playlists (whether they are actually played or not). This way of looking at things (and describing problems) is coherent with 'the way SB players communicate with Spotify' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104436-Announce-We-re-updating-the-official-Spotify-app=832713=1#post832713) as well as with my (confusing) experiences. In addition, people should report which library they are logged in while observing certain things. On my part, I cam say that after following the '5 points above' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?79706-Announce-Spotify-Premium-Plugin-(Beta)=833757=1#post833757), I can now play tracks via the green spotify app on -all- my players, including the good old Boom without being logged in on msb.com. However, I need to control the players either via the webinterface, Squeezecommander on my Android phone or Squeezepad on my iPad since - at least at the moment - the green app is absent from the menus of -all- the actual players themselves. I would not be surprised if this changed again any time soon, since I believe I was already a step further and had the green app show up on Touch and Radio -and- be able to play on them both. Cheers, Christoph *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)
Mark Miksis wrote: > This is interesting. Can someone expand on this? What exactly can I > accomplish by installing and running both plugins? Okay, things are clearing up in my head after reading through the thread announcing the new version of the Logitech app, so I might as well try a basic summary of what we know so far: 1. Yes, Boom and other older players can now play music selected via the Logitech spotify app. (Thanks so much Michael!!) 2. However, the Triode app needs to be installed longside it. (because the actual playing is done by it, even when you select the tracks in the other app) 3. In the settings of the Triode app, "Always stream via Helper" needs to be activated and "Show in My Apps" has to be deactivated. 4. You need to activate your players in the spotify app on mysqueezebox.com even if you are not using mysqueezebox.com as your server (who does anyway?) and even if you have previously done the activation. 5. After the activation, your players may ask you to switch to mysqueezebox.com when you try to use the Logitech Spotify app. Just do as you're told and the switch back to your local LMS. It should work without switching thereafter. 6. This last point is not essential knowledge but can prevent you from going insane when your Players act very strangely in relation to Spotify (such as that you can navigate and search spotify but not play anything): there are two independent login processes for spotify. See here: [http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104436-Announce-We-re-updating-the-official-Spotify-app=832713=1#post832713 Despite all this clarity, I still have two questions: I have deactivated the "Show in My Apps" option, but nothing changed. Do I need to do anything else to activate the changes? And: I can't seem to find a way of getting the green spotify app into any of my home menus. Is it really impossible? Cheers, Christoph *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse, Spotify (Logitech and Triode) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)
chaug wrote: > From everything I read here and elsewhere on the web I understand that > the original Logitech Spotify plugin only works on the SB Touch and the > SB Radio. I am confused to find that in my case, it is the other way > around. > > So far, I have been using Triode's Spotify plugin and it worked fine on > all my players. But I wanted to use Spotify's "Genres and Moods" > function and thought that maybe the original Logitech app offers it > (since the 3rd party one doesn't seem to support it). So I installed the > orginal app, registered it on mysqueezebox.com and all and the result is > that I can indeed access and play all the "Genres and Moods" playlists > on my SB Boom (yeay) but I can play them neither on my SB Touch nor my > SB Radio. I can access them alright and the lists I select are added to > the players current playlist, but when I try to play them, the seconds > start counting for a few seconds (but no sound), then it jumps to the > next track, plays another few seconds (without sound) and then stops (or > something like that, the pattern seems to be not entirely coherent). > > Can someone explain to me what is happening and how I might be able to > get spotify to play on my Radio and Touch? > > I might add that my Touch plays the songs from Spotify when I play them > on the Boom and then sync the touch to the Boom. (But I guess that is > hardly surprising). Also, when I play songs via the smartplay app (which > has Spotify activated), tracks from Spotify also play on all players. > > And to add to the confusion, the Boom is connected to my local LMS while > playing music via the Logitech Spotify app but the Touch works as > described above, no matter whether I connect it to mysqueezebox.com or > to my LMS. > Christoph Here is a quick update: Both Spotify plugins are now working on Radio, Touch and Boom (with one limitation). I don't quite understand why, but here's what I changed since my last post: When I noticed that Triode's plugin no longer worked on the Touch, I checked whether I had accidentally changed some settings and so I found the setting "Always Stream via Helper" which was dis-activated (I guess as a default) and since it's explanation says that it "will disable firmware streaming for any players with built-in Logitech Spotify support." I figured that installing the native Spotify Plugin perhaps counts as "built in Logitech Spotify support". And when I read that "firmware streaming is automatically bypassed when players are synchronised and for players which do not have built-in Spotify support", I thought, that sounds familiar to me (see my previous post). So I activated "Always Stream via Helper" and voilà: not only did the Triode Spotify app work again but also the Logitech Spotify App started working. :o However, and that is the limitation, it stopped working on the Boom (the Triode app works though). But as soon as I turn the Helper off again, the Boom plays fine with the Logitech app. I shall leave it to the developers here to make sense of this, but as far as I can see, there seems to be one conclusion to be made from this: if Triode adds a little tweak to the app that allows users to activate the helper only for selected players, the both apps could be used on all players. *Server*: LMS 7.7.5 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)
>From everything I read here and elsewhere on the web I understand that the original Logitech Spotify plugin only works on the SB Touch and the SB Radio. I am confused to find that in my case, it is the other way around. So far, I have been using Triode's Spotify plugin and it worked fine on all my players. But I wanted to use Spotify's "Genres and Moods" function and thought that maybe the original Logitech app offers it (since the 3rd party one doesn't seem to support it). So I installed the orginal app, registered it on mysqueezebox.com and all and the result is that I can indeed access and play all the "Genres and Moods" playlists on my SB Boom (yeay) but I can play them neither on my SB Touch nor my SB Radio. I can access them alright and the lists I select are added to the players current playlist, but when I try to play them, the seconds start counting for a few seconds (but no sound), then it jumps to the next track, plays another few seconds (without sound) and then stops (or something like that, the pattern seems to be not entirely coherent). Can someone explain to me what is happening and how I might be able to get spotify to play on my Radio and Touch? I might add that my Touch plays the songs from Spotify when I play them on the Boom and then sync the touch to the Boom. (But I guess that is hardly surprising). Also, when I play songs via the smartplay app (which has Spotify activated), tracks from Spotify also play on all players. And to add to the confusion, the Boom is connected to my local LMS while playing music via the Logitech Spotify app but the Touch works as described above, no matter whether I connect it to mysqueezebox.com or to my LMS. Finally, my LMS runs on LMS v7.7.5, the Touch and the Boom are both on v7.7.3-r16676 (latest version, according to them) and the Boom is on Firmware 57. Any hints? Christoph *Server*: LMS 7.7.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79706 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat: Unrated tracks appear as rated with 1 star
erland wrote: I can confirm that you have found the problem, the behaviour in TrackStat currently is that if an unrated track is played longer than the lower limit but not long enough to increase the rating it's left unchanged rater than set to the default rating value. I'll put it on the todo list to fix this, but I want to make really sure I don't break anything else so it will require a bit of investigation and due to this make take some time. Okay, but at least we have that one figured out! I guess, in the meantime, I will change my rating settings to Automatic rating increase percentage = 95% Automatic rating decrease percentage = 95% It should do as a workaround. :) Just for the record, for anyone reading this thread: two questions remain unanswered at this point: 1. Where did those duplicates come from that are not based on duplicate MB IDs? 2. Where do those ratings of never played tracks come from (especially those rated at 3 or 4 percent)? If anyone is experiencing similar issues despite having MB ID's turned off in Trackstat, please post here. *Server*: LMS 7.7.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102245 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat: Unrated tracks appear as rated with 1 star
I followed the 'instructions for restoring Trackstat statistics from the backup' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?102245-Trackstat-Unrated-tracks-appear-as-rated-with-1-starp=792434viewfull=1#post792434) and, of course, the procedure itself went fine. It also lead to significantly reduced size of the nightly trackstat backups (from 26 MB to 6 MB) and it also looks like the backups are not increasing more than what you'd expect from the additional history records. Regarding data loss discussed above: I did not fix this manually (i.e. merge those records so that the correct last played date, rating and playcount gets imported), but I understand that the information is still in the backup file so that I can do that whenever I feel that the stats are too messed up, right? Anyway, the main purpose of this post is to say that I think I found out at what points the missing ratings are produced (i.e. the reason why I have many trackstat records with playcount 1 but without rating, despite autorating being turned on): It seems to occur when I skip ahead to the next song. It does not happen every time, but maybe every other time. So, it seems there is some bug in Trackstat that prevents it from doing it's job in those cases where the song is not played until the end. As I write this, it occurs to me that it might depend on how much of the song has been played. So I made a quick test: I skipped the song currently playing at about 70 percent and then checked its rating: it was unrated. I then skipped ahead the next song when it was just about 20 percent into the song: it was rated correctly. Here are my threshold settings in Trackstat: Minimum played percent = 1% Automatic rating increase percentage = 95% Automatic rating decrease percentage = 50% What seems to be relevant here is the 50 percent threshold which is obviously triggered when I skip ahead before half the track is played. This works fine, according to my quick test above. But if I skip ahead at a later point in the track, the rating should not be decreased (and neither should it be increased unless more than 95% have been played). It seems that the error of missing ratings occurs in that window where the previous rating should be neither decreased nor increased. Apparently, Trackstat is so busy complying with the do not change previous rating rule that it forgets the rate unrated track rule. Is that possible? *Server*: LMS 7.7.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102245 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat: Unrated tracks appear as rated with 1 star
erland wrote: It's probably easiest if you shutdown LMS and send me a zip with the library.db and persist.db files from your setup, you will find them in the LMS cache directory. This way it's possible for me to look at your database and see if I can see what's going on. I sent you the files via email. erland wrote: The restore operation itself will never remove data. Currently the restore operation always overwrites the information, I'll consider adding a features in the future that can pick the entry with latest played date, highest rating, but it will probably not be added in the next couple of weeks. I don't understand how you can say that restore will never remove data and then say that it will overwrite information. Is overwriting not a way of removing? erland wrote: Also, please note that the TrackStat backup entries contains two type of elements: - track : Which represent the current play count, added time, rating - historyentry : Which represent all previous times when a track has changed rating or been played The track entry should have a single occurrence for each track. The historyentry should have an occurrence for each time a track has been played and it's normal that a track have multiple historyentry elements but they should have different values in their played or rating sub elements. OK, that explains - at least partly - why the backup file is growing continuously. However, I still don't understand why it should grow on days when clearly no song has been played or added (i.e. when nobody was home). More importantly, this double structure of the backup tells me that Excel was not doing a perfect job when automatically transforming it into a table. At least, it wasn't clear to me that there are two types of records. So I went back and chose a different way of importing the xml file (where you get to map the fields yourself) and I mapped only the track entries into the table and ignored the history. 16464 The result is not so much different, however: There are 52000 records (instead of 9000) and when I remove duplicates it takes away 41000 leaving me with 11000, i.e. there are 41000 completely identical track records and another 2000 partly identical, where (presumably) the url is the same but other fields differ. Anyway, you will see this when you look at the files. I just wanted to update my analysis of the XML file in case anyone ever wants to do the same. +---+ |Filename: trackstat backup in excel.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=16464| +---+ *Server*: LMS 7.7.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102245 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat: Unrated tracks appear as rated with 1 star
Yes, I can follow those instructions, but I'm still not sure whether this is getting to the source of the problem. The thing is that my duplicate MB tags are not due to the same song existing on different records. Maybe I got some of those, but the vast majority of what is blowing up my trackstat database are duplicate records of the exact same same file. The one with the most duplicates actually had 652 dupes, and there were many more with hundreds of duplicates. I have discovered a convenient feature in Excel that actually allows you to remove duplicates with just a few clicks. I did that and it removed 45000 duplicates (and I defined a duplicate as having the exact same data in each and every column of the table). After that cleanup, I still have 2 records left,, while I have around 9000 tracks on my server. The largrest number of duplicate MB tags for any one track is now 7. The reason why there are still duplicate MB tags left is that those records differ in some other aspect, such as date added, last played, playcount or rating. But not (except some very few exceptions) the URL (i.e. the file). I can see that by having excel highlight all duplicate values within a specific column. As far as I can see, this means two things: one is that my (main) problem is not the one described at http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/TrackStat_plugin#Issues_with_duplicate_musicbrainz_tags And second, I will loose quite a lot of data if I let trackstat do the cleaning up by following by following the instructions at http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/TrackStat_plugin#Restore_statistics_after_upgrade.2Freinstall because (I suppose) trackstat cannot reconcile the different playcounts, last played dates or ratings that its database contains for identical files (not just identical MB tags, which will be gone by then). As regards the first point, I would like to understand what the root of the problem is. Unfortunately, I have not the slightest clue. As regards the second point, I can at least make a suggestion for an alternative way of getting rid of the duplicates: I guess I need to find a way to merge (rather than delete) the remaining duplicates in my backup file, i.e. to tell Excel that it should keep the latest played date, the highest rating, and add up all the playcounts, or something like that. Or can Trackstat do that? P.S. One quick comment on the 'Issues with duplicate musicbrainz tags' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/TrackStat_plugin#Issues_with_duplicate_musicbrainz_tags): why is this an issue anyway? As far as I understood things, the Musicbrainz policy is that duplicate IDs will only be given to identical -recordings-. Which makes sense, because it simply is a duplicate and I thought the whole point of enabling Musicbraniz tags in Trackstat was that it will make Trackstat recognize these duplicates as such and treat the same song as the same, even when it exists in two files, e.g. one on the original album, and another one in some compilation so that if I rate the track on the original album, the same rating will be applied to the same song in the compilation. I'd consider this a feature, not a bug, as they say. *Server*: LMS 7.7.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102245 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat: Unrated tracks appear as rated with 1 star
OK, I need to qualify this and perhaps change my question. I said that I have no more unrated songs because when I selected Trackstat - Not rated - Not rated songs in the webinterface, I got an ampty list (after almost a minute of waiting). It turns out that that list is not empty but the connection to the server timed out or sumething. I noticed that there are unrated songs since they show Unrated in their context menu. So I ran the Trackstat - Not rated - Not rated song thing again, this time on my SB Touch which had the advantage that it actually told me that it lost connection to the server and allowed me to reconnect. After several tries it did reconnect and showed me a list of unrated songs. However, that list is rather strange, since 90 percent of the first 200 entries are the same song. In addition all of the songs have a playcount of 2 or more, which doesnt make sense since I have Trackstat Autorating turned on ever since I use it so that there should not be any unrated song with a playcount greater than 0. So, in other words, I might say that my strackstat database seems to be in a mess and I wonder if there is any way to edit it manually, e.g. in an excel file or so in order to fix at least the most obvious errors? *Server*: LMS 7.7.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102245 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat: Unrated tracks appear as rated with 1 star
I have managed to open the latest trackstat backup file in excel (just drag it into excel!). It takes a couple of minutes until Excel displays the 20 MB xml file as a table, but it does. And what I see is that although I have about 9000 songs in my library, the trackstat database has more than 65000 entries. Many songs have multiple entries (I saw one that is represented 250 times!) with the exact same data. From what I can see when I look at the file size of the nightly trackstat backups, this magic increase of songs happens incrementally every day as the file size increases between 50 and 300 kb every day, even on days when I was on vacation and not a single song had been played, added or deleted. So let me modify my question once again: if I ever manage to clear up that mess manually in Excel, will trackstat be able to re-import the resulting xml file? And, of course: how can the duplication of tracks in trackstat be avoided in the future? *Server*: LMS 7.7.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102245 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat: Unrated tracks appear as rated with 1 star
erland wrote: Do you know if you have musicbrainz tags on your music files ? MusicBrainz change philosophy a couple of years ago so the same song on multiple albums got the same identity and this can cause duplication of entries in the TrackStat database tables. There is an Enable musicbrainz tags option in TrackStat that can be used to disable the musicbrainz related logic if this is what's causing the problem. I have musicbrainz tags enabled and have gone into pains of putting musicbrainz ids on as many of my tracks as possible (unfortunately I've not managed to figure out how I can submit those ones that are not yet in the MB database, so I still have some without, but most of the duplicates that I mentioned above have an MB ID (that's how I identified them: I sorted the table by MB IDs). erland wrote: To get rid of the duplicates, I think it should be enough to use the Remove all data option in TrackStat settings page in the Backup/Restore/Clear section and after that restore the TrackStat backup. The restore process happens in the background and can take some time but it should only import one of the duplicate entries. If you want to be sure you can get back to the current situation it might be a good idea to shutdown LMS and take a backup of the library.db and persist.db file in the LMS Cache directory before you clear and restore the TrackStat data. So you are saying that it I can go ahead and edit the XML file in Excel, save it and import it in Trackstat? Great! But since this will be a couple of hours of work (i.e. deleting about 56000 duplicates), I'd like to make sure first that TrachStat is not going to then start producing duplicates again. It seems to me that it is currently doing so every night (or every night it becomes visible in the trackstat backups) since the size of these backups is growing steadily every day. Why should that behaviour stop once I import the the cleaned backup? I sense I need to do something with the plugin too... *Server*: LMS 7.7.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 *Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver Controller), Boom, Squeezeplayer on iPad 2 *Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller (Android) *Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music, Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102245 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat - Moving Files, saving Stats
erland wrote: You can try to shutdown LMS and remove the section for the plugins you don't want in the plugin-data.yaml file in the LMS cache directory. Remove the whole indented section after the Database Query line and not just one line. You can also try to manually edit the plugin/extensions.prefs file in the LMS Preference folder when LMS is shutdown and remove the line DatabaseQuery: 1. It feels extremely strange that Database Query plugin should cause any problems if you just install it because it doesn't do much before you enter the Database Query plugin menu and select one of the reports. So if you haven't tried it, I would just install it and uninstall it immediately afterwards. However, since I don't know exactly how your setup will behave, I can understand if you don't want to risk it, there could maybe be something strange in your setup that causes problems immediately after installation. Thanks again for all the useful explanations. I finally sat down and tried your tips to remove the Database Query plugin (I'm just too scare to update and thereby reactivate it). I thought I'd mention what I encountered, as it might help you (and perhaps subsequently me an others) to understand what was going on: I first tried to edit plugin-data.yaml, but to my surprise, it did not have an entry for Database Query. I both searched for Query as well as Database and looked through the file manually - nothing. :confused: So I managed to get rid of it by removing the DatabaseQuery: 1 line in the plugin/extensions.prefs file. So thank you for that hint. But perhaps this could have been a source of the problems I encountered, i.e. that there were no settings saved for the plugin in the plugin-data.yaml file? Anyway, I also wanted to quickly mention that the problem with the huge artwork cache folder that I described in an 'earlier post' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?35962-Trackstat-Moving-Files-saving-Statsp=748230viewfull=1#post748230) was apparently a bug in LMS which has been fixed with the latest release (7.7.3). I haven't installed it yet, but the 'Change Log' (http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/blob/public/7.7/Changelog7.html) states as one bug that has been Artwork cache would grow forever. Nice to know that this may prevent any further issues on my ReadyNAS. :) chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35962 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat - Moving Files, saving Stats
Thanks, Erland, for taking the time to write that post. I hope it will also others with the same problem. For me, the only way to get LMS running again was the option Clean cache folder, including media library database, artwork cache etc. in the frontend configuration interface of the ReadNAS. The only problem with that is that it also seems to kind of uninstall most plugins. I'm saying kind of because LMS still remembers that I have those plugins and tells me that there are updates available for them (without listing them as installed, though). This is not a huge problem, only that the DataBase Query plugin is among those and if I select the update the whole trouble starts from the beginning. At the same time, selecting the update seems to be the only way to eventually uninstall it, since it is no longer listed as installed. So for the time being, I am stuck with a plugin update waiting to be installed which I never want to install again... I guess I can live with that, but if there is another way of uninstalling it, I'd be happy to try it. Anyway, here is the full story of what I tried: I let the NAS (and LMS) run in its non-functional state for almost three weeks, hoping that this might give it sufficient time to sort out all the operations that seemed to be jamming the CPU/memory, but to no avail. In fact, as far as I could see from the NASMON interface, LMS (i.e. squeezeboxserver) actually disappeared as a process twice during that period. I simply restarted it both times. The other thing that happened was that the nightly backup that I had scheduled Trackstat to perform, increased in size steadily every night from 3344 kB on 24 April to 11109 kB on 15 May. And when I finally cleared the cache and got thing running again, it dropped back to 3848 kB. (Well, that's actually not surprising since I had to restore TrackSTat from backup and I think I chose the one from 24 April. The slight increase in size is probably due to some extra albums that I ripped in the mean time). So, here's what I did with your suggested solutions: erland wrote: SOLUTION 1 (ONLY RECOMMENDED IF YOU DON'T PLAN TO USE TRACKSTAT) The easy solution is just to completely uninstall TrackStat, you would probably have to find the Cache directory of LMS and login via ssh and remove it, I suspect it's in /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TrackStat but I can't say exactly since I don't know your setup. I did not try this since I really want to continue using TrackStat. erland wrote: SOLUTION 2 (DEACTIVATE MUSICBRAINZ IDENTITY LOGIC IN TRACKSTAT) Try to login via ssh, find the preference folder, probably in /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/Prefs or something similar, find the file plugin/trackstat.prefs and change the line: musicbrainz_enabled: 1 to musicbrainz_enabled: 0 And restart everything and see if it comes up, TrackStat still runs some queries but the ones causing the biggest performance issues are deactivated after this change. I did not try this one either, since the whole point of this exercise was to start using musicbrainz IDs so that I can change the filenames of my music collection so that MusicIP will read them (i.e. remove all non ASCII characters). erland wrote: SOLUTION 3 (DEACTIVATE REFRESH OPERATION IN TRACKSTAT) Try to login via ssh, find the preference folder, probably in /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/Prefs or something similar, find the file plugin/trackstat.prefs and change the lines: refresh_rescan: 1 refresh_startup: 1 to refresh_rescan: 0 refresh_startup: 0 And restart everything and see if it comes up, this will deactivate all the queries TrackStat runs at startup, so it should definitely help but I wouldn't trust TrackStat in a setup where both these needs to be deactivated. I think you should at least re-activate refresh_rescan after it have come up and see if it hangs at the end of a rescan, if it doesn't a solution is to set refresh_rescan: 1 but refresh_startup: 0. However, if you have startup problems it would surprise me if you won't have rescan problems also. This is what I tried. Both refresh_rescan and refresh_startup are currently set to 0 but after I restarted LMS, the CPU load for LMS went up to around 100% again and the LMS webinterface remained inaccessible. Just as before. Same thing after rebooting the whole device. When looking at trackstat.prefs, I noticed that many of the variables have the same strange value: 1336855428. Just thought I'd mention it. BTW: the LMS preference folder on a ReadyNAS is somewhere in /c/.squeezeboxserver/... (forgot the exact path) erland wrote: SOLUTION 4 (DELETING THE DATABASE) Try to login via ssh, find the Cache folder and delete the library.db, library.db-shm, library.db-wal files and delete them. This will delete the database parts which are usually deleted during a full rescan. After deleting these files, restart the system and preform a full rescan and see if it works again.
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat - Moving Files, saving Stats
erland wrote: I think you should be able to create a new Free form query in Database Query plugin and enter the following SQL: Code: select url from tracks where musicbrainz_id is null and audio=1; Thanks. However, this did not work. It was even worse than with the default query: not only did no results show up but LMS became completely unresponsive and I could not even fix this by stoping and restarting LMS. I actually had to reboot the whole device... If fact, as I write this, I realize that not even this has worked. Even after rebooting the NAS, LMS does does not respond at all. I actually dont know what to do now. chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35962 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat - Moving Files, saving Stats
erland wrote: Memory shouldn't be an issue, I have about 3500 tracks and only 512MB dedicated to virtual machine which my LMS runs in. It could be CPU related. Sounds like the NAS might be too slow if Squeezebox Server Statistics doesn't show up. HM, the ReadyNAS Ultra is not the slowest one: NAS:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 28 model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D425 @ 1.80GHz stepping: 10 cpu MHz : 1800.144 But I guess you are right anyway. Maybe an Atom CPU is not enough. This means that the query tool will probably have a lot more problems on a sparc-driven device. In any case, I'll have to accept this. Let me know if there is any workaround that will allow LSM to tell me if all tracks are tagged with the proper musicbrainz tag so that trackstat will remember them... Thanks for your help and for the great software! Wirrunna wrote: Here is a good guide to using Picard to only add Musicbrainz tags - http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2013/03/26/how-to-tag-mbid-picard/index.html Thanks, Wirrunna. That was very useful. I'd just like to add that the description is somewhat outdated with the latest version of Picard. I guess people will figure it out, but it takes a while, since Picard will not allow you to actually delete (remove) tags from the list which are present in the original file. Here is what seem the easiest procedure with Picard v1.2: 1. Richt click on the tag list and select Show changes first 2. Select those rows that Picard wants to add (the green ones), right-click and select remove (except the ones you want to keep, of course) 3. Select those rows that Picard wants to change (the orange ones), right-click and select Use original values 4. Don't forget to save! chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35962 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat - Moving Files, saving Stats
erland wrote: It takes some resource and can take a while, on a NAS with limited memory it can be problematic. Is your library large ? A lot of songs ? Well, I guess it's not small, but far from what I've other people mention in this forum. I'm at 5000 tracks, with about 700 flacs, the rest mp3s. The ReadyNAS Ultra 2, which I run LMS on, usually has 1GB Ram but I upgraded it to 2GB. But perhaps that is still not enough? erland wrote: Hmm, Database Query is supposed to create the function it complains about at startup, does it work if you restart LMS ? I have restarted LMS several times yesterday (as well as the whole NAS) and tried again today after deactivating PHP as well as the NAS Monitor module (running LoadAvg and Nasmon), just to avoid any condlicts. But the problem remains when I try to call Squeezebox Server Statistics: after a couple of minutes I get a timeout/ connection reset. However, Squeezebox Server Inconsistency/Problems now gives me a proper list of items, all with zeros at the end, i.e. no inconsistencies. But that response comes so fast (immediately) that I'm kind of suspicious that nothing is actually being executed... Anyway, while I do like to solve this properly, I'm also starting to look for a workaround. You said MusicBrainz Picard is doing it properly, so I guess I will use it to add the track-IDs. Can I also use it to check if all songs have their IDs (which is why I'm trying to call the db query)? If I right click on a track in Musicbrainz Picard, it does not give ma a Track-ID or a UFID or a MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID but a MusicID-PUIP. Is that what I'm looking for? That seems to be what it adds after Analyze and save anyway. chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35962 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat - Moving Files, saving Stats
erland wrote: See the Track ID column in this table: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SlimServerSupportedTags I know the Musicbrainz Picard tagger does it right, but it's probably done by the other Musicbrainz tools also: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard The Picard tagger is a bit dangerous because it also replace other tags like ALBUM and ARTIST with the values stored in the central Musicbrainz database. OK, thanks, that clarifies things. erland wrote: If you install the free Database Query plugin you can look at the report called Squeezebox Server Statistics, if the row Number of songs without musicbrainz tags on that report exists after a full rescan and is a non zero value it means that you still have files without musicbrainz tags. I have been trying this now for several hours, and I cannot get that plugin to give me a result for the Squeezebox Server Statistics. What happens if I click on it is that CPU usage of my NAS goes up like crazy and the fan starts to blow but I'm not getting anything in the browser. I can't even open the SqueezeCenter settings page anymore. I will leave it be for the night and see what it gives me tomorrow. But it's really weird. erland wrote: If using Database Query plugin, it's also worth to check the Duplicate musicbrainz song tags row in the Squeezebox Server Inconsistency/Problems report because if that is a non zero value the TrackStat musicbrainz handling won't work good in your library. The Duplicate musicbrainz song tags row typically indicate that you have compilation albums which contains the same songs as some of your normal albums, the result of this is that musicbrainz identities aren't unique. The easiest solution is to just remove the musicbrainz tags from the compilation albums which have the duplicates, which means that it works for most of your library just not for some of the compilation albums. If you don't want to do this, there is an option to disable musicbrainz logic in TrackStat settings page, but then you can't move/rename files without loosing TrackStat data. If I try to get the Squeezebox Server Inconsistency/Problems I get the following (printed in red): Code: Error: Carp::Clan::__ANON__(): DBI Exception: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such function: if [for Statement select distinct 'Missing rows in contributor_album table' as 'Problem type',if(count(*)0,'Yes','No') as 'Possible problem', count(*) as 'Number of' from contributor_track,tracks where tracks.id=contributor_track.track and not exists(select * from contributor_album where contributor=contributor_track.contributor and role=contributor_track.role and album=tracks.album) ] at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Schema/Storage.pm line 126 , no such function: if Carp::Clan::__ANON__(): DBI Exception: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such function: if [for Statement select distinct 'Invalid musicbrainz song tags' as 'Problem type',if(count(*)0,'Yes','No') as 'Possible problem', count(*) as 'Number of' from tracks where musicbrainz_id is not null and musicbrainz_id not like '%-%-%-%-%' ] at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Schema/Storage.pm line 126 , no such function: if Carp::Clan: :__ANON__(): DBI Exception: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such function: if [for Statement select distinct 'Invalid musicbrainz album tags' as 'Problem type',if(count(*)0,'Yes','No') as 'Possible problem', count(*) as 'Number of' from albums where musicbrainz_id is not null and musicbrainz_id not like '%-%-%-%-%' ] at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Schema/Storage.pm line 126 , no such function: if Carp::Clan::__ANON__(): DBI Exception: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such function: if [for Statement select distinct 'Invalid musicbrainz artist tags' as 'Problem type',if(count(*)0,'Yes','No') as 'Possible problem', count(*) as 'Number of' from contributors where musicbrainz_id is not null and musicbrainz_id not like '%-%-%-%-%' ] at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Schema/Storage.pm line 126 , no such function: if Carp::Clan::__ANON__(): DBI Exception: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such function: if [for Statement select distinct 'Duplicate musicbrainz song tags' as 'Proble m type',if(sum(cnt)0,'Yes','No') as 'Possible problem', ifn! ull(sum(cnt),0) as 'Number of' from (select count(*) as cnt from tracks where musicbrainz_id is not null group by musicbrainz_id having count(*)1) result ] at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Schema/Storage.pm line 126 , no such function: if Carp::Clan::__ANON__(): DBI Exception: DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such function: if [for Statement select distinct 'Duplicate musicbrainz album tags' as 'Problem type',if(sum(cnt)0,'Yes','No') as 'Possible problem', ifnull(sum(cnt),0) as 'Number of' from (select count(*) as cnt from albums where musicbrainz_id is not null group by musicbrainz_id having count(*)1) result ] at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Schema/Storage.pm line 126 , no such function: if
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat - Moving Files, saving Stats
erland wrote: There are two solutions. If you are doing this once and is moving all the files, solution 2 is probably easiest. Solution 1 will be a bit of work but it will be worth it in the long run if you move around files once in a while. Solution 1: 1. Tag your files with Musicbrainz 2. Perform a slimserver full rescan 3. Move all the files 4. Perform a slimserver full rescan Could you specify more precisely what tags are required in an audio file in order for it to me recognized/remembered by TrackStat after bein moved or renamed? I am running MusicIP headless on my ReadyNAS and I'm not sure if it is writing the right tags into the files (or perhaps its not writing anything into the files?). If I'm looking at my music collection with MP3tag, I see that most (but not all) files have a tag called FINGERPRINT which contains data like this: AXwjDOIPAAklCvgHngRSAkwHtgQmBD0FRQKsA74D6gLOBBkDPQH2AlgF8wPBAnMDLQJMATwCFwElAQwBewFOARMBIAEnAN8AywD6APkA7A etc Is this what Trackstat is using? Alternatively, I might ask, what exactly it means to Tag your files in MusicBrainz. I suppose it is not the ordinary album and artist name tags that you have in mind but probably the fingerprint, but also here, I am not sure how I know whether the fingerprint has been written. I tried analyzing a couple of Albums with MusicBrainz and then clicked save, but this does not populate the fingerprint tag that I see in MP3tag. Finally, I also run bliss (www.blisshq.com) on my server and I think that does Musicbrainz fingerprinting too. But before I make those changes that might affect Trackstat, I'd like to make sure that all files are tagged correctly for TrackSTat to remember... Could anyone clarify this? Regards, Christoph chaug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35962 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
