Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread cpd73
Ron F. wrote: > When using Material on my phone running Android 10, I have noticed that > on some displays, such as "New Music" that I get a column of dots > instead of numbers and letters that I can use to navigate the display > more quickly. When this navigation column is rendered only as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > The order does not affect the links. Each type, artist, album, composer > is handled by a different function. This would not change no matter the > order. > > > > Feel free to email, address is in all the Material source files. But, as > stated before, all I do is: > > > -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread cpd73
slartibartfast wrote: > Can you figure out when the dots appear? For me as well as "New Music" > they also appear for some albums but not all. They appear when there is no A-Z, or year, jump list and there are > 25 items.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread Ron F.
I have a question concerning a minor issue: When using Material on my phone running Android 10, I have noticed that on some dispays, such as "New Music" that I get a column of dots instead of numbers and letters that I can use to navigate the display more quickly. When this navigation column

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: ShairTunes2W - Airtunes on LMS (forked version with Windows support)

2020-02-05 Thread philippe_44
whatta wrote: > Thanks again for your time. For my info, what is your estimation for > effort? 10 hours coding, 20 hours? Is it straight forward work or lot of > try and error? Sync algorithm are touchy things, especially as it would require modifying some of LMS's internals. I don't know if

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2020-02-05 Thread dolodobendan
This has happened a few times now, but I don't know if this is iPeng (player) specific: The playlist contains several short tracks (~1:30). If the iPeng player is playing e.g. track 6 and I click in the queue to go back to track 4, track 4 will start playing but the playback will jump back to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread slartibartfast
it's appearance?Can you > figure out when the dots appear? For me as well as "New Music" they also appear for some albums but not all.[image: https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200205/147bdbf505b74f88af81081de9ee35c1.jpg] Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread slartibartfast
cpd73 wrote: > They appear when there is no A-Z, or year, jump list and there are > 25 > items.OK so that album had 52 tracks. What was the reason for the 25 track threshold? Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2020-02-05 Thread EEYORE
BoomX2, I just happened to visit the BETA forum and found some interesting information. Some users were having problems with Tidal, and some other addons, with the newer versions of LMS8; the same nightlies that have been causing me problems. Michael Herger suggested that they check the box for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread Ron F.
cpd73 wrote: > It's not useless. The dots only appear on mobile, where there is no > scrollbar - hence it allows quick jumping. OK, I did not realize that, but yes - that makes sense. I should have tried using it, even when it was all dots! *Living Room:* SB Touch + DIY PSU > CI Audio VDA.2

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2020-02-05 Thread rgdawson
bobertuk wrote: > > > Seems to be working for at least LMS v7.93 and v8.0 > > What is version 8.0, by the way. I didn't know about it until I saw this. How does it compare to 7.9.x? R Greg Dawson Squeezelite-X

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread cpd73
slartibartfast wrote: > OK so that album had 52 tracks. What was the reason for the 25 track > threshold? Had to pick one. Changed for 1.4.0 - On mobile devices, only shown if; a grid can be used and there are more than 50 items, or a grid cannot be used and there are more than 150 items.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 3.x - Spotify Podcasts on your Squeezebox

2020-02-05 Thread Michael Herger
Testing is in progress... I guess I have to ask - why would a large buffer size matter? At some point I was investigating an issue which sounded similar as yours. Turns out the user had a buffer which was large enough to store more than one track. And I believe that's something LMS doesn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 3.x - Spotify Podcasts on your Squeezebox

2020-02-05 Thread Michael Herger
Sorry, I missed your answer to my question before making my last post about Qobuz ... so, then this issue could occur with any streaming service plugin? Not sure, tbh. But the message you posted previousl point into a totally differen direction anyway. Something about XML parsing failure.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2020-02-05 Thread Michael Herger
What is version 8.0, by the way. I didn't know about it until I saw this. How does it compare to 7.9.x? https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98711-LMS-Changelogs -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 3.x - Spotify Podcasts on your Squeezebox

2020-02-05 Thread Ron F.
Ron F. wrote: > Testing is in progress... I guess I have to ask - why would a large > buffer size matter? OK, now something that at first looks similar happened while streaming from Qobuz to a player on my laptop, gmediarender, I came to the end of a track, and the track time remaining began

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 3.x - Spotify Podcasts on your Squeezebox

2020-02-05 Thread Ron F.
mherger wrote: > > Testing is in progress... I guess I have to ask - why would a large > > buffer size matter? > > At some point I was investigating an issue which sounded similar as > yours. Turns out the user had a buffer which was large enough to store > more than one track. And I believe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread cpd73
d6jg wrote: > > I'd ask you to revert the change as I think it is adversely affecting > links in the queue and for a non Classical user its complete nonsense. > I suppose if "they" are insistent you could have an additional selection > option in the Plugin Settings area that switches between

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 3.x - Spotify Podcasts on your Squeezebox

2020-02-05 Thread Michael Herger
I am using a SB Touch, but I have the EDO applet installed, and I am using the large buffer option. Could you please try without the large buffer and report back? -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 3.x - Spotify Podcasts on your Squeezebox

2020-02-05 Thread Ron F.
mherger wrote: > > We seem to be stuck fetching metadata for the last track we just > played, > > It's not "stuck". It's just some UI polling for track information. > > > When the Spotify stream stalls, I simply hit the "Next Track" button > in > > the skin, and we are back to playing again.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread d6jg
1.4 installed from git this morning. Links in the Queue (Desktop) This may have something to do with the non links. I think that you have changed the display order in the Queue and Now Playing from Artist to now be Composer * Artist and not in line with Plugin Settings or the previous

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: ShairTunes2W - Airtunes on LMS (forked version with Windows support)

2020-02-05 Thread whatta
philippe_44 wrote: > As said in my previous answer it must involve sync because even if you > have only one player, in fact you must convince LMS to sync it with > something else which is the AirPlay source in that case. > > It’s a very sizable coding effort that I’m not currently willing to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2020-02-05 Thread ralphy
rgdawson wrote: > So, Ralphy, would you recommend disabling mad with the -e switch. I'm > wondering if I should do this by default in SLX? > > R Greg Dawson Based on matman indicating that the issue still exists with mpg123 and might be related to crossfade, I would not make -e mad the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No output Raspberrypi zero W with Google voicehat

2020-02-05 Thread paul-
That is probably just the audio output side. Look at all of the other "aiy" drivers loaded, I assume some of those is for audio input. Where did you get the drivers to install on Rasbian? piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > Have you updated your 1.4 checkout? As this still has the 'service' > error I fixed just an hour ago. Please update. Latest version of 1.4 has fixed the New Music issue referred to earlier. I will come back to you about the links in Queue after some testing. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread cpd73
d6jg wrote: > > > When did you change that? Did you bow to pressure from the "classicals"? > > Classical was Artist - Composer - Conductor > Jazz was Artist - Composer > Other genres not listed in either box e.g. Rock was Artist only > > According to github, the change was made about 5

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > According to github, the change was made about 5 months ago - can't > remember exactly why, but your suggested reason makes sense. Personally > I use neither composer nor conductor, so does not affect me. AFAIR, > conductor was never shown - only composer. 'Conductor Genres' is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 3.x - Spotify Podcasts on your Squeezebox

2020-02-05 Thread Ron F.
mherger wrote: > > I am using a SB Touch, but I have the EDO applet installed, and I am > > using the large buffer option. > > Could you please try without the large buffer and report back? > > -- > > Michael Testing is in progress... I guess I have to ask - why would a large buffer size

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread d6jg
cpd73 wrote: > Yes, its 'Composer - Artist/TrackArtist'. What plugin settings? When did you change that? Classical was Artist - Composer - Conductor Jazz was Artist - Composer Other genres not listed in either box e.g. Rock was Artist only These Plugin settings but I left as default 29290

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2020-02-05 Thread cpd73
d6jg wrote: > 1.4 installed from git this morning. > > Links in the Queue (Desktop) > > This may have something to do with the non links. I think that you have > changed the display order in the Queue and Now Playing from Artist to > now be Composer * Artist and not in line with Plugin