Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] TitleSwitcher and MusicInfoScreen on squeezeboxserver 7.4
erland;510303 Wrote: You need to define them in SBS Settings/Interface/Title formats. The Title Switcher plugin only allows formats defined there to be used. Ah right, got it! Thanks again. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70061 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] TitleSwitcher and MusicInfoScreen on squeezeboxserver 7.4
dip;510601 Wrote: Isn't that great for classical music?! I love it :) Absolutely! I spotted this thread whilst installing the new server and looking for interesting plugins. Thanks to Erland's help, I've got it working now. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70061 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] TitleSwitcher and MusicInfoScreen on squeezeboxserver 7.4
Forgive me for hijacking this thread, but I'm trying to do exactly what the OP (dip) has done, but I can't understand how to set this up. What I would like to do is display TITLE (ARTIST) then switch to CONDUCTOR (COMPOSER) or something like that. I can't get my head around what I'm supposed to set up where to get this to work. Could someone (Erland perhaps) give me some pointers on how to do this? From what I can see, in Titleswitcher setup you can switch between single formats, such as ARTIST or TITLE, rather than groups of them. TIA! Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70061 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] TitleSwitcher and MusicInfoScreen on squeezeboxserver 7.4
Thanks for such a prompt reply Erland. I've just tried giving this a go, and the problem I'm having is that if I put in a title format such as CONDUCTOR or COMPOSER in TitleSwitcher, they get rejected with the error Invalid format. I've tested that CONDUCTOR and COMPOSER can be used by SBS by specifying them as usable formats for the UI. Is there anything I should be doing to enable Titleswitcher to recognise them? As a side note, if I put in TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM, they all work fine. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70061 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
That works a treat, thanks Gordon! Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Version discrepancy between genpuid and MusicIP
audiomuze;508781 Wrote: Again, if you archive analysis to the files then MiP headless can build its own cache regardless of which version of GenPUID you use. 1.4 has the added advantage that the musicbraninz PUID tags are also written. Once you've rebuilt the cache you can build the filters. Really? Have you tried that - running MIP1.8 headless, on FLAC files with MIP data archived by MIP1.9? I'll give it a go and see what happens. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71994 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
gharris999;507920 Wrote: Since you seem to know something about this, could you confirm a pet historical theory of mine? It seems to me that in some of those early pillaging raids on Wales, the Vikings made off with most of the vowels. Doesn't that neatly explain the relative dearth of vowels in Welsh and the relative abundance of vowels found lying about between Brussels and Oslo? Anyway, thanks for that catch. I guess the Vikings must have raided Eastern Europe, especially Poland, an awful lot then! :-) -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
gharris999;507919 Wrote: Yes. If the EOD (End of Day) action is set to a custom script or if the EOD action is not equal to the regular idle action, then the EOD start time is treated as an alarm. Typical use case for me: my EOD time starts at 2am, ends at 2:05, has the 'allowed idle time' set to 0 (zero), and has the action command set to run a custom script. That script performs operating system updates, Squeezebox Server updates (via svn) and other chores. When the previous on-idle suspend occurred, the plugin set a alarm wake-up so that the server would wake up at 1:55 in order to service the EOD action. At the end of my custom EOD action script, the server gets rebooted. Because I have the 'allowed idle time' for the EOD set to 0 (zero), when the server restarts, the plugin sees that it's already within the EOD period and so it doesn't fire off the custom script a 2nd or 3rd time. This is a special case: EOD_idle_time == 0 means that a EOD action gets called just once. I will eventually tweak this behavior one more time. The new behavior that I'm planning will call for the EOD watchdog to ignore the custom command (if present) and instead call the action selected in the EOD idle-action drop down list. That will allow me to extend the EOD period and have the server suspend sooner after the custom script chores have completed. The Idle Player Monitor and the End of Day monitor should never conflict. While the plugin senses that it is in the EOD period, it just checks the EOD watchdog, and ignores the idle watchdog. That makes sense, and fits the behaviour I've seen. One thing I've noticed, (and this goes back to the original problem I had with EOD actions before I upgraded), is that if the server is restarted during the EOD period, after the EOD action has already been called once (Shutdown to MSB), and allowed idle time 0 (10 mins), the EOD action still gets ignored. I'm assuming this bit in the server.log confirms that : Code: [10-01-19 02:35:41.9439] Plugins::SrvrPowerCtrl::Watchdog::ActivateEODWatchdog (375) Skipping EOD checks because IsInEOD and bSkipEODCheck == 1 My EOD is set as follows: Allowed idle time : 10 mins EOD start and end times : 10.20pm to 6.00am Action to take : Shutdown to mysqueezebox.com (no custom action) I also have Alarm interactions switched on, to wake the server 5 minutes before any alarms, which includes EOD as discussed. Originally (in my previous posts) I thought this was a problem related to CLI-issued blocks not being cleared. To explain : I have a PC running Windows XP, the main PC for our house. At 2.30am it boots, and runs some maintenance tasks, and also wakes up the media server. A Block command is issued via CLI and a backup job to the server from the PC is run, then the block is cleared. Checking the server log, I see that the Block is cleared: Code: [10-01-19 02:42:39.8618] Plugins::SrvrPowerCtrl::CLI::cliClearBlock (136) Attempting to clear block via CLI: caller: viacli, message: Backup_Tasks [10-01-19 02:42:39.8623] Plugins::SrvrPowerCtrl::Plugin::blockAction (411) Begin: there are 1 blockactions set. [10-01-19 02:42:39.8629] Plugins::SrvrPowerCtrl::Plugin::blockAction (484) Deleting blockAction[0] caller: viacli, reason: Backup_Tasks I had hoped what would then happen is SPC's EOD would kick in again. After 10 mins of inactivity, it would shutdown the server, and push the players to MSB.com. However, this does not happen, and fits the behaviour you describe for when the EOD Idle time is set to zero (not 10 mins as in this case). Having read your description of EOD, the next step you are intending for EOD could fix that. Could you provide an option such that I can decide whether EOD actions should fire once, or fire multiple times, during the start/end period? Alternatively, I can simply shutdown the PC remotely, with SPC set to push players to SBC on external shutdown event. This leads to a second problem I've come across, which may well be a bug, and that is related to the Idle Player Monitor and alarms. I have Idle player monitor switched on, and had this set to 15 minutes, with the action to suspend the server. Also, recall that I have the EOD period set from 10.20pm to 6.00am. The server (as described above) did not shutdown during the EOD period. At 6am the Idle monitor cut in, and 15 minutes later the server was suspended...just as you'd expect. I have an alarm scheduled to go off at 7.05am. Thanks to RTC wakeup being set by SPC, the server woke-up at 6.55am, again as expected. What then happened was that the alarm went off, I put it into snooze after 10 seconds or so, and then Idle Player Monitor turned off the server a few minutes later, preventing the alarm going off any more. A check in the server log confirms this (although it doesn't show any entries for
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Version discrepancy between genpuid and MusicIP
Just uploaded it to Hotfile (thanks Dandyman): http://hotfile.com/dl/24763023/ceefc0d/MusicMixer1.9b6.exe.html -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71994 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
Gordon, Apologies for not getting back to you with logging info on the issue with CLI issued blocks not being cleared, and automated shutdown not working. I had to rebuild my server in the end, and installed Ubuntu 9.10, and SBS 7.4.2, and am hence using the beta version of SrvrPowerControl. I'm using the Monitor Idle Players facility to suspend the server on player inactivity (I'm able to do this, because I have FINALLY figured out how to get WOL from suspend working, so restarting takes 5 seconds instead of a minute). I also use the End of Day facility, to shutdown the server, and switch the players to MySqueezeBox.com. It occurred to me that Idle, and EOD facilties could clash, so I've been exploring how to set RTC wakeup times (stimulated by your helper scripts). I noticed when checking /proc/driver/rtc (and also the srvrpowercontrol log file) that an alarm had been for 10:19pm, 1 minute before I have EOD start to check for idle players. In my testing, I have been using the Alarm interactions facility to wake up the server before an alarm (which works very well, even if the server is shutdown - S5), and I'd set that to wake 1 minute before the alarm. Maybe it is a coincidence, but have you tied Monitor Idle and EOD using the Wake for alarm facility? Fantastic if you have, saves me some work! Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Version discrepancy between genpuid and MusicIP
I can confirm that genpuid-1.2 is compatible with MusicIP 1.8. For MIP1.9 you have to use Genpuid-1.4 (which has some nice additional features to 1.2 including multi-threading). -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71994 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Version discrepancy between genpuid and MusicIP
I am running MIP headless on Linux, its part of the MIP package which contains both the MIP application and the server component. The only reason to run the MIP application is to create filters for MIP headless to use (should have mention that before, probably would have made things clearer). I like to create a number of different filters for MIP to use. A good example : Exclude anything tagged as Christmas. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71994 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Version discrepancy between genpuid and MusicIP
audiomuze;507139 Wrote: Doubt I have a copy lying around, but might I ask why the predilection for 1.2? This is so that I can try running it against my music collection and see if MIP1.8 (on Linux) will parse the cache file. Seems I can either run GenPUID 1.4 and use MIP1.9 (only on Windows), or (possibly) GenPUID 1.2 and MIP1.8. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71994 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Version discrepancy between genpuid and MusicIP
audiomuze;507192 Wrote: What is it you're trying to do? Whilst the structure of the m3lib cache file is identical under Windows and Linux, in both cases the path to a file is stored and as the two OS' deal with paths differently your database won't be usable across platforms. There's no reason I know of that the cache file generated by gp 1.4 won't work on MiP 1.8 for Linux -- a copy of which would be appreciated btw :-) I know for sure that they aren't compatible. I ran genpuid 1.4 (Linux) on part of my library, then tried to load that into the MIP 1.8 (Linux) application, and tried to load it through the MIP web server interface. In the case of the application, you get a message telling you the cache file is from a newer version of MIP (which is an amazingly omniscient message - how could an app know that the structure of a data file is from a future version of itself! ;-) ). As for the web server interface, nothing happens, the reload cache button just doesn't go away. My suspicion is that GenPUID 1.4 is compatible with MIP1.9, which unfortunately only runs on Windows. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71994 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Version discrepancy between genpuid and MusicIP
mr_hyde;507195 Wrote: Hello, genpuid 1.2 for linux seems to be located here: https://lab.digris.ch/projects/musicarchive/browser/trunk/genpuid?rev=5 while the latest versions can be found here for al platforms: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/genpuid Aha! How did you find that? I just downloaded mipcore and genpuid, and will try them out on my library. Thanks! -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71994 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)
Sorry, you are quite correct - of topic! I'm running version 1.4 of GenPUID, and 1.8b6 of MusicIP. Seems GenPUID 1.4 is the newer bit. I can't find any where to download version 1.9 of MusicIP - 1.8 is what is available on the AmplifiedMusicServices (http://www.amplifindmusicservices.com/what/downloads.php) web site. I also posted in this (more relevant) thread : http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71994highlight=musicip+genpuid Audiomuze kindly put a zip file of MIP1.9 for Windows on RapidShare but that has expired. Using the MIP client is fine to do the fingerprinting, but I was hoping to make it more automated using GenPUID. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49226 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Version discrepancy between genpuid and MusicIP
Hi Audiomuze, thanks so much, very kind! However, I already have version 1.4 of GenPUID. Could you upload the 1.9 version MIP for Windows or the 1.2 version of GenPUID for Linux? Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71994 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP - Analysis vs. Validation
Hi all, I'm getting a little confused... I've followed the various wiki pages, but I'm still not clear on what the difference is between the Validation function, provided by the web interface to the MusicIP server, and Analysis, as carried out by the MusicIP application or through GenPUID. Can anyone give me a clear explanation of the difference? I've been using MIP headless for a few years now. I just recently completely rebuilt by music server. Unfortunately, I missed some vital files to backup, which has meant I've needed to install MusicIP from scratch. The first time I had MIP installed, I scanned my music library using the MIP application, but when I subsequently added new music, I did this through the MIP server web interface - using Add Music, then clicking the Validate button. This would take a few minutes, then when I refreshed the music library on SlimServer/SqueezeBoxServer, these songs would appear, and would be MIP mixable. So I've assumed all this time, that Validate served the same purpose as Analyse. Is that wrong? Is the fact that these songs appeared is MIP mixable not accurate? Thanks Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74055 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Version discrepancy between genpuid and MusicIP
audiomuze;492785 Wrote: You're in luck - I saved the lot as soon as I could see where things were headed. I'm only sorry I never got round to archiving the forum before it was pulled (who the hell knows why, it still had lots of useful information on it). http://rapidshare.com/files/317090152/MusicMixer1.9b6.exe.html MD5: 4C5BBC93BFD64B02C47450702E1CFA15 I have exactly the same issue as the OP, except I'm running in Linux. I'd like to download the version you've got here, but it doesn't seem available. Audiomuze, any chance you could make this available again? And you don't happen to have a 1.9 version for Linux do you? I to am trying to analyse my files then add filters to the lib to exclude genres on mixing. The other route is to use an older version of genpuid - any body got a copy? -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71994 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)
cpu;501569 Wrote: I have a problem with m3lib from genpuid (1.4) and MusicIP headless - cache file from genpuid is not valid with MusicIP headless - there's an option to reload cache but it won't work and I have 0 tracks available for mixing - when I delete m3lib created by genpuid and create this on MusicIP everything is ok - is it ok? I'm asking because genpuid is much faster then MusicIP and I always have to validate a lot of tracks with my MusicIP generated m3lib cache. Thanks I have a very similar problem (as posted in another thread). I have a compatibility issue between the cache file created by genpuid and the MusicIP Mixer application (which comes with the MusicIP headless server - same version). The only reason this is a problem for me is that I want to create some filters, and you have to use the application to do that. But the MIP application is much slower than genpuid at creating the cache file. Any thoughts on this much appreciated. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49226 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
gharris999;489473 Wrote: Chris: I've just seen, for only the 2nd time, a situation where SrvrPowerCtrl seems to fail in it's attempts to execute a system command after it's previously processed some CLI requests. I've yet to be able to figure out the conditions that will reliably trigger this bug...but bug it must be. If you have any logs that you can post that would shed light on this, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Hi Gordon, I've not had time to follow up on this and do some more specific testing unfortunately. I'll get back with more info when I have a chance. I'm also playing with SBS 7.4.2 and the beta version of SrvrPowerCtrl, although I haven't got as far as determining if the bug exists in that configuration. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
Gorden, Just occured to me : is it possible to send a shutdown to squeezenetwork command via the CLI using SCClitool? Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
I just ran this to test with the listblock command: %UTILSDIR%\SCPowerTool\SCCliTool.exe srvrpowerctrl setblock Backup_Tasks viacli -h %SCSERVERIP% -p %SCPORT% -w 4 %LOGFILE% %UTILSDIR%\SCPowerTool\SCCliTool.exe srvrpowerctrl listblock viacli -h %SCSERVERIP% -p %SCPORT% -w 4 %LOGFILE% %UTILSDIR%\SCPowerTool\SCCliTool.exe srvrpowerctrl clearblock Backup_Tasks viacli -h %SCSERVERIP% -p %SCPORT% -w 2 %LOGFILE% %UTILSDIR%\SCPowerTool\SCCliTool.exe srvrpowerctrl listblock viacli -h %SCSERVERIP% -p %SCPORT% -w 4 %LOGFILE% Which produced this output: srvrpowerctrl setblock Backup_Tasks viacli 367868 srvrpowerctrl listblock viacli 367868%7Cviacli%7CBackup_Tasks srvrpowerctrl clearblock Backup_Tasks viacli 0 srvrpowerctrl listblock viacli no_blocks So that would suggest clearblock is doing its job. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
gharris999;485237 Wrote: Are you using the EOD (end of day) idle feature to do this? If so, what do you have set for the EOD start and end times? Yes, sorry should have been clearer. To do all this, I'm using the End of Day section in the setings for SPC. I have Allowed idle time set to 10 minutes (normally), and start time of 10pm, with end time of 6am. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
Hi Gordon, Thanks for such a thorough explanation. I'll have time to run more tests with the debugging as you suggest tomorrow and come back to you with the results. To confirm - the EOD timer is usually set to 10 minutes. I just used 0 for tests, principly to see after if the desired action had been triggered, would it be triggered again if the same event circumstances happened within the same event period. Ideally, I'd like to have the normal idle monitor on, suspending the server if players aren't playing. But because I've almost gone insane trying to WOL working in Ubuntu, I've had to keep the machine on during the day, and shutdown at night. Oh, if only WOL would work properly (the very same machine used to run Windows XP, and WOL worked perfectly). Anyway, thats another discussion.. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
I've come across an issue in srvrpowerctrl under SQ7.3.4/ubuntu. I have the plugin set so that after 10pm, if no players are playing, it shuts the server down. This works well (brilliant idea). During the night, my Windows PC fires-up, runs a bunch of admin tasks including backing up stuff to my media server. To do this, the server is woken remotely. As discussed earlier in the thread, I issue a Block command through the CLI to stop SPC shutting the server down, then issue a Clear afterwards. What I'm finding though is that after the Clear has been issued, SPC doesn't then shut the server down. I tested this during the day too, as follows: 1. Set SPC to shutdown after 9am, with 0 mins for monitoring idle players 2. Ensure all players are idle. 3. The server shutdown, as expected. 4. Restart server 5. Nothing happens (no subsequent shutdown). Is this expected behaviour? It seems that after SPC has performed one shutdown, it won't do another, until the next monitoring period. (I know the above test case is far from ideal, as you could get stuck in a continous boot/shutdown cycle). Any thoughts? -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
gharris999;472882 Wrote: You get an 'A' for effort and extra marks for perseverance. Well, thank you, thank you all, (takes a bow to the applause). -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
gharris999;472274 Wrote: Sorry, I don't have 7.3.4 to test with here so I'm guessing. You may have to manually re-enter http://srvrpowerctrl.googlecode.com/svn/repo.xml in the Extension Downloader's 'Additional Repositories' edit box. After that, restart your server and then try installing SrvrPowerCtrl via the Extension Downloader. Yeah, I did thatthe repo is listed, but no plugin is listed to be installed for some reason... -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
gharris999;472611 Wrote: Well, you can always install manually. It may be a day or two before I can look at this. I'll report back when I've had a chance to test. Problem solved! I *think* that another plugin I was trying install, but it failed, caused an issue. I saw (on the extensions page) a checksum error relating to the new plugin, and maybe that prevented SC from reloading the plugin list from all the repos? Anyway, today that plugin installed correctly, and srvrpowerctrl is now listed, and installed (hooray!). Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
I noticed that srvrpowerctrl can now be managed through the extensions downloader (for 7.3.4). I've added that URL to the list, and I got a message saying that my existing (manual) installation of Srvr needed to be removed. I did that, but now SrvrPowerCtrl is not listed at all in the list of available plugins. I removed the previous installation by deleted the srvrpowerctrl directory under /usr/share/squeezecenter/Plugins. Is there anything else I should be doing? (I'm running Squeezecenter 7.3.4 on Ubuntu 9.04 by the way). Love the plugin, thanks for all your work on this. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
Firstly (actually may be this is secondly, as I've said this bit before I think) - thats so much for this plugin - it is VITAL to my SQ/Boom/SB3 operation! Seriously. Quick question, and I appreciated this may have been addressed in this thread, but its getting quite long... I have SvrPowerControl configured to shutdown SQ to SN, if all players are idle for 10 minutes after 10.30pm. I love this feature. My media server is also a backup server, and I want to start running my backups in the middle of the night. To do this, the server will be woken remotely, and the backup run. Will SPC shutdown the server after 10 mins, per the above config, or will that not happen because there is an active FTP session going (for the backup) and the disk is being worked? Thanks! Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
gharris999;449173 Wrote: Sorry, SrvrPowerCtrl doesn't know anything about your FTP session. If the FTP session is initiated by a script (or if you could make it so that it is), you could bracket the ftp commands with statements that set and clear SrvrPowerCtrl blocks so that SrvrPowerCtrl doesn't interfere with the backup procedure. What OS are you running on this server? If you tell me, I'll try to provide an example script. Sorry, I was being a bit dense, should have provided those details. OS : Ubuntu 9.04 SQ : 7.3.4 - 28180 (latest version of SPC) Thanks for your help, Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
gharris999;449249 Wrote: Also, Epoch1970's question is relevant: is the ftp command being initiated on the server...i.e. is the sever pulling the data as part of the backup routine? Or are the clients initiating the ftp session and pushing the data to the server? If so, what's the OS on the client machines? Yes good points... FTP is being initiated on the client machine, which is running Windows XP Pro (hence why your script would work for me). Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
gharris999;449264 Wrote: Then please have a look at the play_media_monkey.cmd script I posted above. You ought to be able to modify that script pretty easily for your purposes. Just curious: have you tried any of the windows rsync ports, rather than using ftp to push your backup data? Rsync might give you more control over your backup. DeltaCopy contains a windows port of rsync: http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp Yep, I'm intending to use the script you posted earlier. On my (very long) list of things to do is try rsync. I've actually used a simple rsync config before, but didn't have the time to get everything as I wanted (I've got cygwin running on the Windows machine, principally to provide SSH access, but I also get rsync out of it too). Cobian does pretty much all I want at the moment. I will take a look at deltacopy however. Thanks Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts
martin.rehfeld;299815 Wrote: Well, we are not really restricted to airport codes, any unambigous search term will do. The problem with the weather station 100 yards from you is that it probably does not offer forecasts ;-) A future version of WeatherTime could use these weather stations for current data though and only use airport (or similar) data for the upcoming day's forecasts. Thanks Martin, As you point out, I can't get a weather forecast from the local weather station. Just be learning about this - its a PWS I believe, a Personal Weather Station? I found reading+uk worked for me. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21989 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts
Just wanted to add my vote of thanks to you Martin, for updating this, my favourate screensaver. Like many others here, its the default for when my Squeezebox 3 is off. Its amazing how dependent we've become on it! Also, you've introduced me to the wonders of Wunderground, something I didn't know about. Seems superior to Weather.com. One question - why are we restricted to airport codes? According to Wunderground.com, there is a weather station 100 hundred yards from where I live - is there no way I could get weather data from there? Thanks again! -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21989 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Is there a plugin for that can show CPU temperature?
I'd be interested in a plugin that could do this too... Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31774 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Is there a plugin for that can show CPU temperature?
Paul_B;172896 Wrote: A couple of plugins may combine to give what you want. Have a look at the xPA plugin for the home-automation. In addition an xPA agent exists for Speedfan which will monitor CPU temperature. Not the most elegant solution but it should work. I'm giving this method a go...I've installed the xAP plugin and the speedfan xAP application, and both are running, but I don't see how to get the information displayed on my squeezebox - can you provide any setup/configuration help? Thanks, Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31774 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Audioscrobbler Tag Submitting?
James;161581 Wrote: I've just posted a new version - 0.37.2 - on the SlimScrobbler web site to fix the tagging issue. http://slimscrobbler.sourceforge.net/ (Note that SlimScrobbler CVS is currently for SlimServer 7.0 only and does *not* contain this fix yet) James Great stuff, I'll install it, and give it a go. I've just installed the latest nightly build of 6.5.1 as well (11/12/06) Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30127 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Audioscrobbler Tag Submitting?
Works like a treat, thanks James! Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30127 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Audioscrobbler Tag Submitting?
Really? I thought it was only available through Squeezenetwork. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30127 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Audioscrobbler Tag Submitting?
Thanks for the update, James. Chris. Craig, James (IT);160782 Wrote: Um, I got in touch with someone that gave me the new format, but he was still having authentication problems in his app. Will have to see if the new format works for SlimScrobbler... James NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not intend to waive confidentiality or privilege. Use of this email is prohibited when received in error. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30127 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: Custom Browse plugin
Fantastic! I can't wait to try this - its just what I've been waiting for! -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Must Have Plug-Ins?
I'd have to go with: o AlienBBC o MyPicks (for organising your radio stations really well) o Audioscrobbler + Last.FM. Fantastic. o Weather, date and time (have this set to appear when SB3 is idle) o MusicInfoSCR. Use this one on and off o Test Match Special! o Lazy Search -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25941 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: What is discovery mode in lastfm?
Thats very useful, thanks. So, if I understand correctly, if you have discovery mode switched on, which ever station you are listening to (which dicates the kind of music you'll hear), you'll only ever hear new music? Thanks! -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25843 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: MusicIP Mixer and Slimserver 6.3
Now I'm experience problems with Music IP!! Since I moved to SlimServer 6.3.1, as others here have mentioned, only some tracks appear mixable. I've swapped between 6.3 and 6.3.1 several times and the problem only happens in 6.3.1. I've also tried using MySQL and the built-in sql-lite db to see if that makes a difference, which it doesn't. I've also installed the latest Music IP beta - 1.6rc7 - no difference. I'm wondering if its a cacheing or process priority issue. If there was a change in the way Slim talked to the MIP API, the problem would probably be more consistent. So, perhaps Slim is not consistently retrieving all the information from MIP for each track queried. I've got a few other things to try as well, I'll keep posting here... -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25083 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: What is discovery mode in lastfm?
Cool, thanks. While we're talking about Last.fm - what happens to tracks that you are listening to that originate from Last.fm? I have scrobbling switch on, and I noticed that what ever you are listening to appears in your section on the last.fm web site. However, those tracks never appear in the charts. Are they discounted, because they are not tracks you have specifically decided to listen to, ie tracks that you play locally? -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25843 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: MusicIP Mixer and Slimserver 6.3
hey Michael, thats the one! Funny, thats the thing I just tested, and saw your post. All my music is now mixable. As Michael said, remove the Music Folder setting, so it is blank. Re-scan your library, and hey presto, your music should now be mixable. Put the correct path back in Music Folder afterwards. The only reason I put a value in Music Folder is so that when browsing music folders from my SB3, you don't get to browse the whole file system (as it seems to default to C:\ if you don't set a value...). -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25083 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: What is discovery mode in lastfm?
Interesting, I shall have a closer look at my charts. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25843 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: What is discovery mode in lastfm?
I had a good browse through my lastfm charts, and indeed, there is all the lastfm music I've listened to - good stuff. I've noticed that music you listen to from other radio stations doesn't get submitted, which makes sense I think - is that correct? -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25843 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: What is discovery mode in lastfm?
Thanks for your helpful replies, James, and for a *great* plugin. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25843 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: MyPicks - OPML station list editor menu
Duh! slaps forehead I just didn't see the OPML editor section on the main web page. However, my playlist directory is set: D:\Music\Slimserver playlists Yet the error is for D:. I'll have a play around and see if I can get it working now. Thanks for the help! -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: MyPicks - OPML station list editor menu
I'm still having problems... When I try to save the mypicks file using either Save File or Save My Picks (whats the difference by the way?), it crashes SlimServer. Also when I click on Add icon (to the right of an existing entry), it also crashes Slim. I'm running SlimServer Version: 6.3.0 - 7374 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252. I've determined when clicking add (the plus-sign) on an item added to mypicks causes Slim to crash - when there is no player attached. I ran Softsqueeze, and add correctly added the radio station to the players playlist. When I removed that player, so Slim could no longer see it, add crashes the server. Here is some debug output: 2006-07-26 15:42:41.4869 Artist: 2006-07-26 15:42:41.4870 Track: KFOX 98.5 | Classic Rock 2006-07-26 15:42:41.4871 Album: 2006-07-26 15:42:41.4873 Original Filename: mms://a473.l1980447065.c19804.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/473/19804/v0001/reflector:47065_470?MSWMExt=.asf 2006-07-26 15:42:41.4874 No Countdown object yet 2006-07-26 15:42:41.4876 Current state of Track object: CANCEL 2006-07-26 15:42:41.4877 Is power on? : false 2006-07-26 15:42:41.4878 === 2006-07-26 15:43:15.0796 Can't call method execute on an undefined value at C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server/Plugins/MyPicks/Plugin.pm line 249. 2006-07-26 15:43:15.0816 Shutting down plugins... 2006-07-26 15:43:15.1025 Grab Playlist Shutting Down -- 0.5 2006-07-26 15:43:15.1029 LazySearch2: Shutting down 2006-07-26 15:43:15.1038 unHookScrobbler() engaged, SlimScrobbler V0.34 deactivated. When saving mypicks using Save File, if you do not specify a name, the plugin uses the name of the playlist directory as the file to rename its tempfile to, as follow: 2006-07-26 15:52:36.1093 MyPicks: OPML saved to file tempfile: D:\Music\yCxsFG4Vbt.opml 2006-07-26 15:52:36.1116 MyPicks: Renamed :\Music\yCxsFG4Vbt.opml to D:\Music\Slimserver playlists (Slimserver playlists gets copied to Slimserver playlists.backup). If you do specify a name when using Save File all is ok however. Having done this (using Save File with no name specified), if you then later save using Save MyPicks slimserver crashes, as it can no longer find the playlist directory it was using : 2006-07-26 15:55:50.3901 Error in tempfile() using D:\Music\Slimserver playlists\XX.opml: Parent directory (D:\Music\Slimserver playlists\) is not a directory at C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server/Plugins/MyPicks/Plugin.pm line 446 2006-07-26 15:55:50.3980 Shutting down plugins... 2006-07-26 15:55:50.4281 Grab Playlist Shutting Down -- 0.5 2006-07-26 15:55:50.4284 LazySearch2: Shutting down 2006-07-26 15:55:50.4290 unHookScrobbler() engaged, SlimScrobbler V0.34 deactivated. Now I've figured out whats causing the problems I can avoid them. Be great if you could fix this though! Thanks, Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: MyPicks - OPML station list editor menu
Hi Brian, Some more details (sorry I wasn't very clear before): When you are clicking on the add i.e plus sign - is this is within MyPicks ? Yes. In this case, I imported a playlist containing one entry. This was succesfully added. I then clicked on the plug sign, on the added entry , from with the MyPicks OPML editor, and thats when I got the error. So, basically, add/create a new entry, and then straight away, click on add BUT only when you have no active player attached to slimserver (i.e you have the message your player was not found in the right hand pane). Here is my MyPicks.opml file (very simple - one entry. This is the example I used which created the problem. This URL does work, so I think the issue is more with trying to add this station to a playlist (from MyPicks OPML editor) when there are no players present. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? opml version=1.0 head title=No Title expansionState/expansionState /head body outline URL=mms://a473.l1980447065.c19804.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/473/19804/v0001/reflector:47065_470?MSWMExt=.asf text=KFOX 98.5 | Classic Rock type=audio / /body /opml Great plugin by the way. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: MyPicks - OPML station list editor menu
One other thing I noticed - When I select My Picks from the Radio menu on the front page of slimserver (or from the internet radio list in the player), I still get this error: 2006-07-26 17:46:33.7459 XMLBrowser: error retrieving file://D:\Music\Slimserver playlists\mypicks.opml: 2006-07-26 17:46:33.7464 Unable to open file 'D:' That file is definately there...should there be three slashes after the resource type (file:///)? Could be just my setup, as no one else appears to be having problems! I'll try Slim 6.3.1 and see what happens. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] What is discovery mode in lastfm?
As the title sais really... I noticed there is an option switch on discovery mode, but I don't know what it does. Certainly sounds interesting... While we're on the subject, can any body point me to a good explanation of how neighbour, personal, loved and recommended radio works? What's the difference? How is the music you are played decided upon? Thanks! -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25843 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: MyPicks - OPML station list editor menu
Ah, thats it slightly red-face. I just upgraded to the official 6.3.1 build, and apart from the save file problem , it works as advertised - great stuff! Thanks! -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: MyPicks - OPML station list editor menu
OK, I confess I'm stumped. I can't get this plugin to work. I'm running SlimServer 6.3 (the official release), on Windows XP SP2. I've installed the latest version of the plugin (0.3a). My Picks now appears in the Radio list on the home page of the server web interface. When I go to server settings - plugins, it is nowhere to be found. There is a reference to it under server settings - internet radio, but thats just a check-box. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? When I click on My Picks from the radio station list I get There was an error loading the remote feed for My Picks: (Unable to open file 'D:') Thanks! -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: MusicIP Mixer and Slimserver 6.3
Thats a good point that I forgot to mention - I have the MIP reload interval set to 0. I see no reason to have it set otherwise, unless you are frequently adding new music to MIP and having it analyzed.I've found also that having Slim get updates from MIP frequently can on occasion lead to duplicate information, such as duplicate artists list. Its hard to say exactly where the problem lies. The MIP server certainly needs some work - it has issues with character encoding, that is handling non-UK/US letters and numbers. However, Slim's integration with MIP may also not be quite right. I don't think its a high priority. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25083 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: MusicIP Mixer and Slimserver 6.3
Hi Siduhe, The second behaviour you describe with a 3rd of your collection not mixable is what I was experiencing. I was quite suprised that my first attempt fixed the problem - I was not expecting that. Can I ask if you are using MySQL, or db packaged with Slim? I'm using mysql 5.0 - I'm not sure if is a factor. Another you could try - open the web page for the MIP server. If you have the MIP service running, point a browser at http://localhost:10002. You get some rudamentary control of the service from here. Click the refresh button, to reload the cache (it might be called reload in fact). Then try re-scanning your library. To clarify something I did - before I did a complete library re-scan, I manually emptied the database tables - there is a simple script to do this for mysql. If you are using the bundled database, then just delete the slimserver cache file (can't remember where that is located, but it should be easy to find). After that, I then did a rescan. Hope that helps. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25083 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: MusicIP Mixer and Slimserver 6.3
OK, setting the SlimServer music folder attribute to blank, then forcing a complete rescan of the library (my turning of slimserver, clearing out the DB, and restarting Slim just to be sure...!), seemed to fix this. I then added the music folder path back in. Slim did a further rescan, but kept all the mixables intact, and didn't duplicate the tracks. The reason I like to have the music library path set in Slim is so that when browsing my folder, you are constrained to the folder specified. If you don't set that attribute, then if you browse by folder, you get to view the whole file system (at least on Windows you do). I'm running SlimServer Version: 6.3.1 - 8278 - Windows XP - EN - cp125 by the way. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25083 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: MusicIP Mixer and Slimserver 6.3
OK, to do this, you open up the server settings menu in the slimserver web browser. On the next page you will see an attribute called something like Music library folder. Set that to blank, and then do a complete re-scan of your music... -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25083 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Anybody else having problems with Radio 4 LW?
I'm just trying to listen to BBC Radio 4 Long Wave to listen to Test Match Special, but its not working. Takes ages to connect, then sais its playing, but there is no sound, and the playtime counter doesn't change. I don't think this is an AlienBBC issue though - I tried going to the BBC site, and using RealPlayer, and I'm getting an error back there as well. Just wanted to see if others are having the same issue. It could just be volume of traffic. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23807 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: Moose 0.30
Wow, quick response! Forgot to add the relevant information: SlimServer 6.2.2 - 7119 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 (built as of 24th April I think). Windows XP SP 2. I also forgot to mention (and this is probably the critical bit), I'm running Softsqueeze 2.3 - no Squeezeboxes (yet, but soon!) -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23269 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: MusicIP and SS 6.2.2 (WinXP) brings system to knees
Have you tried the later Beta? MIP1.6 Beta 4 has just come out. Also, what other settings do you have? For example, how often does Slim check MIP for updates? I think the default is quite frequent. Try changing that to 0 (i.e don't check). Have you got a music library path specified in Slim, while you are also using MIP? If you wish to entirely rely on MIP, you can set that to empty. Then try shutting slim down, deleting its cache, and restarting, allowing it to rescan its library. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23139 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: UK Radio
I agree, AlienBBC is a terrific plugin, the writers deserve high praise. To listen to Mercury, you need to find GWR stations, and scroll through the list there - about 40 stations. Its about number 27 I think. Enjoy... -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23081 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Scanner plugin not working with softsqueeze?
OK, I've just done some testing, and SoftSqueeze is definately playing my FLAC files natively, no transcoding, yet I can't use Song Scanner. Any help on this would be much appreciated. I'm using SoftSqueeze 2.3, and Slimserver 6.2.1 on Windows XP. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14818 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Scanner plugin not working with softsqueeze?
It does indeed, which is why I got song scanner, as I thought this was supposed to over come that problem... Besides which, I thought in an earlier post you said you had song scanner working..? -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14818 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Scanner plugin not working with softsqueeze?
Like ceejay, I can't get song scanner to work on SoftSqueeze either, and I would really like it to work. I'm using the latest 6.2.1 build of Slimserver on Windows XP, and SoftSqueeze 2.3. All my files are encoded in FLAC and as far as I can tell are not transcoded when played. I get the same behaviour as CeeJay - it just stops. I'll try the debug stuff out later (probably tomorrow in fact), but I'd really like to get to the bottom of this. Song Scanner is just what I'm looking for. I don't have an SB2 or 3 (yet), so I'm doing everything using SoftSqueeze in preparation for purchase of an SB3, and for listening remotely. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14818 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] LastFM SlimServer 6.2.1 (WinXP) problem.
Hi all, I have slimserver 6.2.1 installed on a windowsXP PC. I've been experimenting with it for a little while, using SoftSqueeze, winamp etc, and I'm very impressed. I hope to buy a SB3 in the near future. LastFM caught my eye the other day, so I thought I would investigate - today I registered, and having been listening to some radio stations. Its an interesting idea. Anyway, I installed the lastfm slimserver plugin (the latest Beta version, and afterwards, the latest live version), and I've not been able to get it to work. When I try and get a stream working, I always get the message back error connecting to lastfm!. I can listen to stations with no problem using the LastFM player, and I've tried using that to kick-start slimserver, but to no avail. I also installed the slimscrobbler plugin as well in case that was needed - no luck. I read a number of posts on this forum about lastfm, but none seem to address this issue. Is this a LastFM problem? Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19942 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: LastFM SlimServer 6.2.1 (WinXP) problem.
OK, this is entirely my fault. I realised that none of my radio streams work...which got me thinking, until I read the AlienBBC error message more closely - RTSP error : check file types. Hmmm, check file types you say? So, I check the file types, and guess what? I'd deselected pretty much all the transcoding/decoding file types for some testing (except for native FLAC), and forgot about it. All works now, lesson learned... Thanks for your attention! Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19942 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
