Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin
Hi! I'm not sure if this belongs in the Material Skin thread or a thread for Music and Artist Information, but here goes. Recently I've been having an issue which I don't think has existed forever (I'd think I would have noticed) where the Material seems to be displaying album art generated from Music and Artist Information inconsistently. It's true if I use the android app or if I just navigate to the LMS material page on my mobile phone. Specifically: * on albums where I haven't yet gotten around to adding album art and Music and Artist Information plugin magically takes care of it for me * On I CAN see album art on a computer browser (both in queue and when clicking to make the player big) AND using the Material android app on a tablet (sideloaded onto two different Kindle Fires, specifically) on the "Playing" and Queue Tab * I do NOT see album art on a mobile phone either from the material android APP nor from a browser (Samsung Internet or Chrome) on the "Playing" Tab * But, the art DOES show up on the "Queue" tab though in tiny thumbnail format. Nothing obvious stood out to me when looking at the settings within the material app nor the Music and Artist Information plugin...and it's weird to me that it is working on larger android screens but not the smaller one. Is there some kind of cache I should be clearing? I tried clearing the app cache on the android app, but that didn't help. I could solve this by finally finding the time to put album art in place - been procrastinating on that project for ages :-) Thanks in advance for any thoughts! the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin
the_arm wrote: > Huh! It doesn't for me. Attaching an image in Spotty going to Artists -> > Andrew Bird -> Albums when using Material, and when using the default > skin. > Is there a setting besides "Show Year with Albums" I should be aware of, > I wonder? Regarding Spotty showing the Album year in the default skin but not Material. I don't know if this is new or I'm blind (but I'm betting on "blind"), but if I do the same process as before in Material in Spotty, i.e. Artists -> Andrew Bird -> Albums and then click on an Album (Inside Problems), it DOES populate the year at that level when it shows the individual tracks on the album. So, I guess the request is, is there any way to have it show the year at the Albums level so that you can see which years the albums are from when selecting an album? Or, is that the protocol limitation you were referring to Craig/Michael? One more screenshot, attached. Thanks!! 38771 +---+ |Filename: Screen Shot 2022-09-23 at 7.52.53 PM.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38771| +---+ the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin
w3wilkes wrote: > Interesting, Material for me shows Year on all my albums. > Huh! It doesn't for me. Attaching an image in Spotty going to Artists -> Andrew Bird -> Albums when using Material, and when using the default skin. Is there a setting besides "Show Year with Albums" I should be aware of, I wonder? +---+ |Filename: Screen Shot 2022-09-18 at 1.52.52 PM.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38745| +---+ the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin
Hi - I love Material Skin! There's a discrepancy in how it behaves compared to the default skin, though, when using Spotty and I'm wondering if it is just me or if there's a bug? Default behavior: when "Show Year with Albums" is enabled under interface settings, the Default skin will show the year in parentheses next to the album. Example, if you go into Spotty -> Artists -> (select an artist) -> Albums, it will show the year next to the album. (And it won't if "Show Year with Albums is disabled".) For me, Material Skin doesn't show the year if it is enabled (or disabled) following the same path into an album. I've checked on a browser as well as with the android app. I don't know if it's extra info or not, but Material Skin does display the year in parentheses after the album when browsing local music. Thanks! the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: Squeeze Control, a squeezebox remote app, is now available for Android
Thank you wt0 and slartibartfast! I didn't realize the difference between server and browser! Anyway, I moved the conversation over to the LMS Forum here: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111377-Unusual-Server-Behavior-with-Genres Thanks for the help! the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96757 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: Squeeze Control, a squeezebox remote app, is now available for Android
wt0 wrote: > That particular behavior is controlled by the server, not the app. For > most the items in that context menu, the app just sends whatever command > the server tells it to send. > Hi there! Thanks for your response. I just tried it on my setup (MacOS server, latest version) and the the server approach behaves exactly how I'd expect it to, but the squeeze control app does not. There's a difference between server and app behavior. Specifically: Via the server: if I select My Music -> Genres -> Holiday (as an example) -> and then select the triangle play button that is in the same row as a specific artist it will play JUST the holiday albums by that artist. Via squeeze control: if I select My Music -> Genres -> Holiday (or whatever) -> scroll to specific artist, press and hold the circle-plus button and select play, it will queue ALL albums by that artist, not just the holiday albums. (Same with Add To End and Play Next, both add all albums not just the specific genre'd albums). Of note - it does behave as I'd expect if I short click the circle-plus button. In that case it adds just the holiday albums by that artist to the end. Thank you! the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96757 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: Squeeze Control, a squeezebox remote app, is now available for Android
Hi there - longtime squeeze control user, I love it. I encountered some unexpected behavior today. I went into my local music via My Music -> Genres and picked a Genre (Holiday, in my case) and it shows all artists that have music in that Genre. I wanted to add all the holiday music by that artist (e.g. Canadian Brass) to the end of my playlist so I long clicked on the plus and then selected Add to End. It, instead, added all of the albums by that artist instead of just the ones in that genre and added them all. After experimenting, the same is true with Play Next or Play. I think I usually "short click" the plus symbol. This adds to end and behaves as I'd expect - only adding the music from that artist that is in the selected Genre. So, it's an easy workaround, obviously, but can (should?) this behavior be fixed? Not sure how others use it. Thanks! the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96757 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox
I think I probably caused that confusion based on a (mis)interpretation of an earlier spotty thread! Sorry. Anyway, in case anyone else stumbles on this: getting your own Spotify Client ID and increasing the LMS playlist length (settings->advanced->performance->maximum playlist length), if desired, does the trick! Working great here. Thanks! ncameron wrote: > Ah. I have now! I wrongly inferred from the discussion that it was a > Spotty limit... Ta > > Neil the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110455 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox
Great - thanks, I'll try that! So, I take it the 199 songs is a real limit / I don't have anything misconfigured? Thanks again! mherger wrote: > >> If this is a new limitation, the previous thread mentioned something > >> about entering a Spotify Client ID to remedy it - is this a feasible > >> approach? > > Yes, you'd have to go to https://developer.spotify.com to get your own > client_id. > > -- > > Michael the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110455 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox
hi everyone - sorry to ask again but I didn't get any response to my original question last week: the_arm wrote: > Hello - I've found recently that Spotty (through the LMS web interface) > will only pull 199 songs into a playlist regardless of the length of the > playlist on spotify. This is NOT using the spotify connect method, just > the standard web server approach. > I recall seeing in an earlier thread that the max was 500. So I'm > wondering if something changed, or if I have something setup incorrectly > on my end. I don't think I've really paid attention to the playlist > length until recently, so I don't know if I ever had longer playlists or > not. > > The only playlist setting I've found on the server so far is > settings->advanced->performance->maximum playlist length, which I have > set at 500. (which I'm guessing is default). > > My server is on OSX 10.14.5, Spotty 2.8.3, helper 0.20.0 > > If this is a new limitation, the previous thread mentioned something > about entering a Spotify Client ID to remedy it - is this a feasible > approach? > > thanks for the help!! the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110455 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.8.x - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox
Hello - I've found recently that Spotty (through the LMS web interface) will only pull 199 songs into a playlist regardless of the length of the playlist on spotify. This is NOT using the spotify connect method, just the standard web server approach. I recall seeing in an earlier thread that the max was 500. So I'm wondering if something changed, or if I have something setup incorrectly on my end. I don't think I've really paid attention to the playlist length until recently, so I don't know if I ever had longer playlists or not. The only playlist setting I've found on the server so far is settings->advanced->performance->maximum playlist length, which I have set at 500. (which I'm guessing is default). My server is on OSX 10.14.5, Spotty 2.8.3, helper 0.20.0 If this is a new limitation, the previous thread mentioned something about entering a Spotify Client ID to remedy it - is this a feasible approach? thanks for the help!! the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110455 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Phish.in plugin stopped working
works perfectly - fully functional on web interface and squeeze ctrl as far as I can tell. Thank you so much!! the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110506 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Phish.in plugin stopped working
Hello - it is working again! Thank you so much. New issue, though - one I'm sure I've never tested. On the web interface (server:9000) "Years" and "Places" works as you'd expect. "Venues" and "Songs" do not - they give odd indexing on the page (Items 382 to 381 of 651 for Venues, Items 346 to 345 of 889 for Songs) and don't display anything to select from. Multiple browsers - firefox and chrome. However it works just as you'd expect in all 4 categories the Squeeze Ctrl app on my android phone. So I'm certain I've never run into this issue before since I doubt I've ever used the web interface to access this extension! Thank you! the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110506 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Phish.in plugin stopped working
Fantastic. Thank you! Let me know if you'd like me to test anything - happy to help however I can. cheers! the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110506 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Phish.in plugin stopped working
Hello Michael - I've been enjoying your phish.in plugin. Recently,
though, it stopped working. I'm not quite sure when since I've been
doing some travel.
I turned logging on and saw the following message:
[19-04-25 18:15:54.9392] Plugins::Phishin::API::__ANON__ (167) Got error
from phish.in': 401 Unauthorized
[19-04-25 18:15:54.9454] Slim::Networking::IO::Select::__ANON__ (131)
Error: Select task failed calling Slim::Networking::Async::_async_read:
Can't use string ("Unexpected error: 401 Unauthoriz"...) as an ARRAY ref
while "strict refs" in use at
/Users/armccabe/Library/Caches/Squeezebox/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Phishin/Plugin.pm
line 121.
; fh=Slim::Networking::Async::Socket::HTTP=GLOB(0x7fe75ba8b8e8)
[19-04-25 18:17:19.1007] Plugins::Phishin::API::_call (114) Trying to
read from cache for http://phish.in/api/v1/eras.json?per_page=
[19-04-25 18:17:19.1010] Plugins::Phishin::API::_call (116) API call:
http://phish.in/api/v1/eras.json?per_page=
the link appears to think there's an invalid API key, but that's the
extent of my knowledge in this area.
If it's relevant I'm running this on a mac, os x 10.4.4. Logitech Media
Server Version: 7.9.2 - 1556111457 @ Wed Apr 24 17:40:38 CEST 2019, Perl
Version: 5.18.2
Any thoughts? I'd be happy to help test solutions, if that's helpful!
thank you!
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 2.0.0 - Spotify Connect for your Squeezebox
Rheinländer wrote: > I can confirm that behavior running LMS on max2play. This bug has been > around for a while. > > Regards > > Rheinländer Likewise, I've seen this on osx as well. I've actually been meaning to write in about it and ask if there are solutions. Occasionally it will stop at the end of a track, I'll forget about it, and many hours later start playing again. But generally I catch it and hit "next track" and it's good to go. It's like it times out waiting for the next track or something. There was similar behavior before Spotty, too, with Triode's plugin for me both on linux and then on osx. the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108561 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] genpuid for mac?
Hey y'all - I'm a MusicIP fan as I'm sure a bunch of people around here are. (So much so that I was actually a paying customer before they went belly up...) I use linux at home and windows at the office and have collected both the MusicIP Mixer and the genpuid's for those platforms since I use them semi-regularly. I'm getting my brother a squeezebox for Christmas and he is a Mac user. I'm sure he's going to love MusicIP as well. I've got the MusicIP Mixer for Mac, but does anyone have a copy of genpuid for mac that I could get my hands on? I can't find it on the web - my googling skills must be rusty. I know he'll inevitably want to use it instead of the GUI. Thanks! -arm -- the_arm the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72588 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Start MusicIP at boot on Ubuntu
the reason why it has the su in there is to run the mmserver as a nonpriveleged user instead of root. So, it is supposed to switch to that account when it launches mmserver...so, I can see why it would ask for a password if you aren't root to start with when you are playing around with it on the command line. I'm kinda of a linux newbie too but as I understand it all the scripts in your /etc/init.d are run by root during bootup. Actually, I think the symlinks that are found in your /etc/rc*.d are run based on the runlevel. Maybe there isn't a symlink in your /etc/rc*.d folder prompting it to run at start? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBootupHowto so, no, you shouldn't have to enable the root login, it was just a way to see if it worked for you that way or not. 2 other things come to mind: 1) I also installed BUM to make sure that mmserver started before squeezecenter (just like in that wiki article I linked before) 2) the reason I had to switch to nohup su was because with 9.04 Ubuntu is moving away from the /etc/init.d method to something else, supposedly. They talk about it in that link above. Maybe on a fresh install it just doesn't work anymore and I got lucky with the upgrade? Anyway, it sounds like I'm just leading you on a wild goose chase -- maybe someone with more ubuntu knowledge can jump in and solve it better than me! -- the_arm the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66953 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Start MusicIP at boot on Ubuntu
that just jogged my memory, hopefully in a good way :-) In your current Ubuntu setup, can you actually run the su command from the command line and login as root? I remember when I first set up my ubuntu box they had disabled root logins through su and expected sudo instead. I re-enabled root logins like this: http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-and-disable-ubuntu-root-password.html For what it's worth, if I su to root and run /etc/init.d/mmserver start, it does NOT ask me for a password. It DOES say nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out', though...but it starts the mmserver just fine. Trying it as a non-privileged user, however, fails to start it. -arm -- the_arm the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66953 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Start MusicIP at boot on Ubuntu
Hi there - I don't know if this is the solution to your problem or
not..but when I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 my mmserver script, which was
pretty much the one from here (and the default that came with MusicIP):
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Integrating_MusicIP_with_SqueezeCenter
stopped working, and had the same behavior that you describe.
To make it work I found a solution on the MusicIP forums...but looks
like they are dead now.
Essentially, I had to place a nohup in front of both su's.
so that it looks like:
Code:
#! /bin/sh
# NON-PRIVIELEGED USER TO RUN MUSICMAGICSERVER.
USER=
# PATH TO THE MUSICMAGICMIXERSERVER
export MUSICHOME=
case $1 in
start)
nohup su - $USER -c $MUSICHOMEMusicMagicServer start/dev/null
echo Running MusicMagicServer
exit
;;
stop)
nohup su - $USER -c $MUSICHOMEMusicMagicServer stop/dev/null
echo Stopped MusicMagicServer
exit
;;
*)
echo Usage: /etc/rc.d/init.d/mmserver { start | stop }
exit
;;
esac
then everything magically worked.
Obviously you still need to configure your USER and MUSICHOME (like it
says in the wiki..) -- but I'm guessing you already got that far.
hope this helps!
-arm
PS: anyone know what's up with MusicIP? I love (and bought!) the
Mixer...hoping not to see it disappear!
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts
yep, I am too. My squeezebox just has a ? mark on it and I can't get to their website. who knows... -- the_arm the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21989 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] AutoRescan and linux
Hi all - I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I just noticed that autorescan is no longer working on my ubuntu 8.10 linux box. I'm running the latest squeezecenter that has been pushed out on the stable releases (7.3.2 - 24695) I get the following in the server.log file: Slim::Utils::PluginManager::enablePlugins (538) Warning: Couldn't call Plugins::AutoRescan::Plugin-initPlugin: Can't locate object method new via package Plugins::AutoRescan::Monitor_Linux at /var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/AutoRescan/Plugin.pm line 123. I get that error every time I restart squeezecenter. If I grep through my logs, it looks like I have been getting that error since 8 February, if that helps...but I don't know if that was coincident with an upgrade to squeezecenter or anything else on my system, unfortunately. I haven't noticed it before because most of my music I scan with MusicIP first and when I update my MusicIP library that triggers a rescan. I just added some music without adding the MusicIP analysis and it didn't add it to the library. I just did a manual rescan (new and changed) and it picked up the new music just fine. Any thoughts? Thanks, arm -- the_arm the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61175 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts
whoops! should have been more clear when I posted originally. I'm a native English speaker. That said, I think it's a pretty subtle difference between hail and ice pellets. Anyway, I'm too late - looks like that Wikipedia article covers the differences. We call it Sleet in the US (or at least Minneapolis), but Ice Pellets will do. (it gets the point across). I think of Sleet occurring in concert with freezing rain. I'm sure whatever the translation of hail would be would do just fine if there aren't other more literal translations. -- the_arm the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 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] MusicInfoSCR 4.3.5
Thanks for the prompt reply, Michael! Regarding the alarm bell: any chance I could see this as an enhancement for a future version of MusicInfoSCR, similar to what you have already in place for the sleep timer icon? Or is that out of scope for your plugin? Clearly, I don't have a feel for who uses your plugin or for what purposes. This is probably outside of the norm, though, since I'm using it simply because of what, arguably, is a lack of functionality in the Date/Time screensaver. Killing the defaults for top left / bottom left would be handy, too! :-) Cheers -arm -- the_arm the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55450 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicInfoSCR 4.3.5
Hi Michael - I got MusicInfoSCR 4.3.5 up and running on my Boom and I am getting SO close to having it behave the way I'd like to. Essentially I just want to display the 1-line clock while playing while still being able to interact with the device in 2-line mode. So, as you suggested in my bug 9810, your MusicInfoSCR does exactly that! One question, one comment: * Is there any way within MusicInfoSCR to have the Alarm Bell icon display in the upper right, like there is in the date/time screensaver? I couldn't figure it out if there was. * For whatever reason, if I try to leave the top left corner as blank in the MusicInfoSCR setup, when the player actually kicks into the MusicInfoSCR screensaver it actually superimposes Now Playing there. (I've attached a screenshot from softsqueeze - it does the same thing on my boom). It doesn't matter to me - I just stuck the notesymbol there instead. But, I wasn't savvy enough to figure out how to make it just be blank. Thanks for this great plugin!! -arm +---+ |Filename: Screenshot-SoftSqueeze.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6308| +---+ -- the_arm the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55450 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC woes
Hi all, I hope someone can help me out here because I am stumped. I got my new squeezebox the other day and am busy setting it up. Everything has been super easy and works like a charm on my decrepit old Fedora Core 1 fileserver. ...that is, until I tried to install AlienBBC. I roughly followed the directions on https://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node/18, starting where it talks about installing LAME, except I had to build mplayer from source. But, I'm fairly convinced mplayer is working. In fact when I do the standalone test that I've read about (mplayer -bandwidth 1000 -cache 128 -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2.rpm) I get sound out of my FC1 box when I plug in headphones to the sound card (first time I've ever tried that, btw.) Anyway, the problem comes about, as far as I can tell, with the -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=/dev/fd/3 part of the streaming command. If I add that in to the standalone test I get an error: (here's the relevant part) [AO PCM] Info: To write WAVE files use -ao pcm:waveheader (default). [AO PCM] Failed to open /dev/fd/3 for writing! If I change /dev/fd/3 to just a filename (like /home/username/test) it fills up a file, so I don't think the -ao option is broken. If I look in the /dev/fd/ folder there is no 3, only 0 1 2 and 255. This is where my just-enough-to-be-dangerous linux knowledge fails me. Is there a way to add a 3 in there? Looks like somehow they point to /dev/pts/0 and that the folder is a symlink to /proc/self/fd When I googled I ran across a similar problem with FreeBSD and they said the fix was to: mount -t fdescfs fdescfs /dev/fd but mount doesn't seem to support that on my system it says: mount: fs type fdescfs not supported by kernel So. Any thoughts? Can anyone suggest a workaround? I'd love to have AlienBBC work...not sure it is worth doing a full reinstall of linux over, though, if that's the solution. Thanks, Aaron -- the_arm the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32150 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: AlienBBC woes
Wow you are quick! Thanks! I had found his website at http://oinkzwurgl.org/ssods but wasn't making much progress finding the patch (now I know why). I will definitely PM him asking for this patch. Out of curiosity, though, can you give me a bit more detail about option #1? I do have mkfifo on my system. Would I actually use mkfifo to create a new /dev/fd/3 ? (I assume mode 777, looking at the man page for mkfifo it looks like it needs a mode) Under what circumstances would I use more than one instance of AlienBBC? ...sorry I'm such a novice. I agree that getting mplayer to support the stdout sounds like a good path and I'll pursue that one first. Thanks bpa! -Aaron -- the_arm the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32150 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
