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

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

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

2019-05-18 Thread Michael Herger
That works for normal albums but not so easy for a Various Artists album - can you explain how the string manipulation works or is it just too complicated ? I'm using a LMS function which basically strips down everything to pure ASCII using transliteration (é -> e etc.). No umlauts, accented or

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2019-05-18 Thread froggy999
philippe_44 wrote: > It might be that the helper does not even start b/c you're missing ssl > libraries. Running on a NAS is always a problem. Can you try the -static > version? Hi Philippe I have tried to launch the pug in with the 'statit' option. When I clic on 'generate' I have the usual m

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2019-05-18 Thread froggy999
I have tried to build a xml file from scratch , using the help section of the plug in and regarding my device. So it is better as I have new things on the plug in page now (see picture), even if there is unfortunately no Linn pre-defined devices available. But LMS still doesn't 'see' the kiko.

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

2019-05-18 Thread Michael Herger
So my suggestion for the scanner artist.jpg artist image in store online lookup If all 3 fail display album cover art from first album the artist is listed in Only if there is no cover art display Trumpeter I took a note of that idea. No promise. But sounds like a plan. -- Michael

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

2019-05-18 Thread Michael Herger
I’m struggling to find consistency here especially when I don’t know if the scanner simply doesn’t like my chosen file name and the browser image cache needs to be cleared every rescan so forget this. Cache indeed can be a problem. If in doubt, wipe cache.db and imgproxy.db before the scan...

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread cpd73
MrC wrote: > Material Skin appears to lose connection to the server frequently, and > the Reconnect spinner just spins away. If I force refresh the page, it > will start working again. You've reported network-ish issues before. The change to CometD does seem to have caused Material to notice d

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

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

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

2019-05-18 Thread mherger
v1.5.7 is out with a bunch of fixes and improvements: - fix downloading artwork from https sources in the scanner (probably a Windows only issue) - accept jpeg in addition to jpg file extension in all cases - log an error when an image folder is not writable to LMS Thanks scott.winter

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

2019-05-18 Thread Bipox
d6jg wrote: > Give all audiobooks a genre tag of “audiobooks” and exclude same from > your random play settings!? Yes that would work, thanks. I didn't see this setting. Now I still have the audiobooks populating the "artists" menu. Do you know if I could exclude it from there too?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2019-05-18 Thread froggy999
Hi , I have applied some changes to the xml file, see below, but still the LMS doesn't recognize the Linn. It seems I am stuck with auto recognition : the plug in doesn't discover anything, so the 'uuid' field cannot be filed. Is there a way I could fill it manually ? Hope you could help me fur

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

2019-05-18 Thread Paul Webster
mherger wrote: > > So my suggestion for the scanner > > artist.jpg > > artist image in store > > online lookup > > If all 3 fail display album cover art from first album the artist is > > listed in > > Only if there is no cover art display Trumpeter > > I took a note of that idea. No promise. B

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Customizing jivelite skin

2019-05-18 Thread ralphy
andjo wrote: > I´m running jivelite on the Raspberry PI with the above mentioned > 5"screen. It boots from an image on a sd-card and apparently puts > everything into a temporary folder. > Whatever i copy into > /opt/jivelite/share/jive/applets > is gone after reboot. For picoreplayer you need

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2019-05-18 Thread thk_ms
philippe_44 wrote: > ... So it will only work in "thru" mode. Then in the settings of the new > version (in LMS), you'll find a parameter that let you control when/how > unresponsivbe players are handled. It might help. Hello Philippe, thank you very much by try to solve my problem. I copied t

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

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

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

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

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

2019-05-18 Thread scott.winterkorn
mherger wrote: > v1.5.7 is out with a bunch of fixes and improvements > Thanks scott.winterkorn for the persistence regarding the artwork > download in the Windows scanner! Haha, Thanks for making my day with special call out. Thanks again, you rock, I’ll give this a shot and let you kno

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

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

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread cpd73
d6jg wrote: > Can you make this into a link that opens the relevant Artist > > 27354 > > clicking would take you to > > 27355 > > I know you can get there by the 3 dots and More then selecting the Track > or Album Artist but that is 3 clicks as opposed to the one in Default Done for the ne

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

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

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread cpd73
d6jg wrote: > Brilliant. I realised after posting that I should have been specific > about desktop version only. Material is becoming very very good and not > far off being a candidate to fully replace Default (bar Server Settings > obviously). Many thanks for all your hard work. Thanks :-) I'd

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

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

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread bobertuk
d6jg wrote: > Brilliant. I realised after posting that I should have been specific > about desktop version only. Material is becoming very very good and not > far off being a candidate to fully replace Default (bar Server Settings > obviously). Many thanks for all your hard work. Totally agree!

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread Michael Herger
Thanks :-) I'd LOVE to be able to at least just skin the server settings so that had a material look - then it would not matter. Adding all the server config into Material itself would be too much. That certainly should be possible. Not as a single page application, but if the visual is all that

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

2019-05-18 Thread bwaldron
mherger wrote: > > Thanks for the persistence! I seriously had doubts about this, as I > would have expected more Windows users to complain if that was for real. > > But it is for real... > I actually have encountered it -- but since nobody else was complaining, and my artist images folder

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

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

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2019-05-18 Thread philippe_44
thk_ms wrote: > Hello Philippe, > > thank you very much by try to solve my problem. I copied the binary in > the bin-file. But after restarting the bridge I can't select the > squeeze2upnp-ppc-thru binary in the selection-field of the settings. > > Is there a mistake? > > Tnak you, thk_ms Yo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: UPnPBridge = integrate UPnP/DLNA players with LMS (squeeze2upnp)

2019-05-18 Thread philippe_44
froggy999 wrote: > Hi , > > I have applied some changes to the xml file, see below, but still the > LMS doesn't recognize the Linn. > It seems I am stuck with auto recognition : the plug in doesn't discover > anything, so the 'uuid' field cannot be filed. Is there a way I could > fill it manual

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2019-05-18 Thread scott.winterkorn
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-18 Thread scott.winterkorn
Okay I’m having fun with this.:o So I’ve updated an artist image in my folder, what’s the easiest way to get LMS to use the new image? Do I have to do a full rescan? scott.winterkorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.co

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

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

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread MrC
cpd73 wrote: > You've reported network-ish issues before > You must be thinking of someone else. I've reported no such thing. cpd73 wrote: > > The change to CometD does seem to have caused Material to notice > disconnects more frequently. On my Android phone if I leave if for about > 15 min

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Google Music plugin

2019-05-18 Thread partymonkey
Hello, I've been researching how to get the plugin going on picoreplayer, but found little info on how to really pull it off. I installed the python2 via the picoreplayer tce extensions web page, and it works because if I login to the pcp/tce command shell, I can run python (version 2.7). But I

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

2019-05-18 Thread scott.winterkorn
d6jg wrote: > I’ve had variable results at this point. > Try a new & changed scan first. > Make sure you clear your browsers’ image cache then take a look to see > if it’s updated. Yep that worked, but not until like you say, clear cached images. Now for some reason my iPeng app on iPad doesn’t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread cpd73
MrC wrote: > You must be thinking of someone else. I've reported no such thing. I was referring to https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?109624-Announce-Material-Skin&p=926731&viewfull=1#post926731 Anyway, doesn't really matter. MrC wrote: > That must be the trigger - I'd never seen

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread MrC
cpd73 wrote: > Is your server (as in LMS) heavily loaded? That's a lot of network > errors. These network errors you mentioned above are not occurring. You resolved the issue(s) that caused content in the RHS to not appear sometimes. The console is nice and quiet now. I'll monitor the consol

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2019-05-18 Thread MrC
cpd73 wrote: > > The cometd library opens a long-poll HTTP connection to LMS. So, when > this connection is broken, CometD can notice more quickly. The cometd > library itself tries to reconnect - and whilst it does you will > initially see the spinner top right (replacing the menu button) for

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

2019-05-18 Thread Sb42
slartibartfast wrote: > The same applies to Radio Scotland. I am surprised you haven't noticed > earlier. > > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=938493 > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk What's a Scotland? ;-) --

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

2019-05-18 Thread Sb42
Raymond Woodward wrote: > Are you actually listening via the Iplayer or an existing favourite you > previously saved? > > Delete the old favourite > > Go to the Iplayer proper, select the station and then re-save the > favorite. I was using an existing favourite, followed your advice and it f

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

2019-05-18 Thread Bipox
d6jg wrote: > I think there might be some custom library plugin that might help you > but if you want complete segregation but to also maintain all the > features of LMS for both audio types then I’d be tempted to run 2 > instances of LMS accordingly and switch my player between the two > depend

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

2019-05-18 Thread Michael Herger
If there was a server-wide setting that said that compilation albums should show artist image (if present) for each track in preference to album image then I think it would handle my earlier suggestion regarding .cue files ... assuming the scanner could determine that the album is a compilation ..

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

2019-05-18 Thread Stig Nygaard
After having followed your discussion and MAI was updated, I just tried doing a complete re-scan for first time in very long time. The result was good. Almost as many "hits" in artists as before, but it is missing some that was found before the changes. For the following artist artwork ain't found

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

2019-05-18 Thread Michael Herger
After having followed your discussion and MAI was updated, I just tried doing a complete re-scan for first time in very long time. The result was good. Almost as many "hits" in artists as before, but it is missing some that was found before the changes. For the following artist artwork ain't found