I just got the message "A new version of Logitech Media Server is
available. (Click here)" on my LMS web interface. (See attached
screenshot.)
Clicking through on that provides the following info:
An updated version of Logitech Media Server is available and
ready to install.
A new version of
DJanGo wrote:
>
> lms download the installer/update to your lms cache folder into the
> subfolder /updates/
> eg. /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/updates/
>
> you need to run the installer from there.
The problem is that I can't see where to download the installer/update
-from- on the github
mherger wrote:
> > The problem is that I can't see where to download the
> installer/update
> > -from- on the github site. (Apologies if I'm overlooking something
> > really obvious!)
>
> Oh, yes, that only took you to the change log...
>
>
caball wrote:
> You need to install musepack-tools from repositories.
>
> >
Code:
> > apt-get install musepack-tools
> >
Hi caball
Thanks for that.
However, I've now installed musepack-tools and ensured they're in one of
the Helper Applications
SpiderJon wrote:
> Hi caball
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> However, I've now installed musepack-tools...
>
> I'm probably missing something obvious, but I can't figure out what it
> is.
Quick update.
I've also now installed mppdec from the gz file linked-to i
ralphy wrote:
> Looks like you downloaded the armel mppdec on your rpi.
>
> Please try the 'mppdec armhf binary'
> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/utility/mppdec-1.95z67-armv6hf.tar.gz/download).
>
> It is specifically for the rpi.
Hi Ralphy
Thanks for noticing I'd
Ok, I finally thought to enable debugging in the server log, and it now
contains instances of the following:
*Slim::Player::Song::**open (410) Error: Couldn't create command line
for mpc playback for [file://... .mpc]
*
bpa wrote:
> After just pressing play, elapsed seconds on display means *nothing* -
> LMS just starts a clock when you press play. If transcoding does not
> happen within say about 10 secs it will stop so clock will have
> incremented but nothing will have been processed. If transcoding
>
mherger wrote:
> > So it looks like it's just mppdec from SV7 tools that's needed, not
> the
> > SV8 tools mpcdec.
>
> The lookup indeed is only done by filename. Would be interesting if a
> symlink to the new filename would have worked?
>
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the suggestion.
I created
In my LMS settings, on the Advanced > File Types page, there's an entry
for Musepack, but all of the dropdown menus are set to "Disabled" and
greyed-out (and therefore unchangeable)
27068
How do I enable Musepack?
I'm running LMS 7.9.2 on Raspbian 9.8 Stretch.
TIA.
slartibartfast wrote:
> Did you set Player.source logging to "info" as suggested in the previous
> post?
>
> Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk
Thanks for pointing that out, and my apologies to you and bpa -- for
some reason I hadn't been notified about, or seen, that reply.
bpa wrote:
>
bpa wrote:
>
> I'd advise checking (i.e. run at a shell prompt to see the banner) the
> executables. Copy the banners to a post
>
> /usr/bin/mppdec
> /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/armhf-linux/flac
*pi@raspi:~ $* /usr/bin/mppdec
MPC Decoder 1.95z67 (C) 1999-2003
Polite 'bump' for:
SpiderJon wrote:
> Ok, I finally thought to enable debugging in the server log, and it now
> contains instances of the following:
>
> *Slim::Player::Song::**open (410) Error: Couldn't create command line
> for mpc playback for [file://... .mpc]
> *
bpa wrote:
> and the output is correct & playable ?
Sadly not -- it's just a completely empty, 0 byte file.
> What sort of player have you ?
It's a Duet.
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bpa wrote:
> That is header of a Flac audio stream - so indicate Flac part is
> working.
>
> Good. That means LMS transcoding mechanism is working and also again
> confirms Flac is OK. So problem lies with mppdec or mppdec doesn't like
> your file.
>
> Standalone test of mppdec. With no
bpa wrote:
> Just noticed, I had an error in the suggested command - missed the "-"
> in the Flac to signify stdin (just before the >output.flc)
>
> >
Code:
> >
> cat "/mnt/pihdd/Audio/Music/John Surman/The Brass Project (1993)/02.
Coastline.mpc" |
bpa wrote:
>
> I've done the same error as before. Some applications output to stdout
> even if no "-" is present. The help says it's required for mpcdec. So
> the test should be
> >
Code:
> >
> cat "/mnt/pihdd/Audio/Music/John Surman/The Brass Project (1993)/02.
bpa wrote:
> Attached is zip file. It has just one file *mpc-custom-convert.conf*.
> It is setup to play mpc v8 encoded files using ffmpeg.
>
> 1. Save the attached zip file.
> 2. Unzip the file
> 3. copy the *mpc-custom-convert.conf* file to the LMS directory which
> has the *convert.conf*
bpa wrote:
> AFAICT looking at source code for mpcdec - adding stdin and stdout
> support was the last ever update - 12 years ago. I wonder if there is a
> bug.
>
> Taking a different approach. Does your system have ffmpeg ? ffmpeg is
> supposed to support musepack. You can check by
bpa wrote:
> On my file I don't get a click but playing the converted mpc back into
> flc file shows there are extra block after the "EOF" - it means there is
> length error.
>
> I can't help anymore. As I see it you have 3 choices - try to get
> mpcdec working (for this you'll have to
bpa wrote:
> Attached is zip file. It has just one file *mpc-custom-convert.conf*.
> It is setup to play mpc v8 encoded files using ffmpeg.
>
> 1. Save the attached zip file.
> 2. Unzip the file
> 3. copy the *mpc-custom-convert.conf* file to the LMS directory which
> has the *convert.conf*
bpa wrote:
> I haven't checked the file but you should check whether it is really the
> ffmpeg conversion or another artefact in the chain (e.g. you showed
> ffmpeg detecting errors in your mpc file - have these error message been
> turned into audio) .
>
> Use ffmpeg to convert your mpc file.
bpa wrote:
> Check if the problem is in the original file encoding.
>
> decode with mpcdec and then re-encode wav with mpcenc and then see if
> problem with ffmpeg.
Here's the sequence:
*pi@raspi:~ $* mpcdec Coastline.mpc decodedmpc.wav
mpcdec - Musepack (MPC) decoder v1.0.0 (C) 2006-2009
bpa wrote:
> Can you try (the "-f" defines the file format of the following file -
> check with "ffmpeg -formats" that mpc and mpc8 are supported)
> >
Code:
> >
> ffmpeg -f mpc -i inputfilefile.mpc -f flac outputfile.flc
> >
*pi@raspi:~ $*
bpa wrote:
> 1 edit LMS convert.conf to use mpcdec instead of mppdec (or add a
> custom-convert.conf file) - if command line options are different then
> i'd advise custom-convert.conf route.
> 2. you could copy /usr/bin/mpcdec into the LMS Bin
> "/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/armhf-linux"
bpa wrote:
> Log looks like mpcdec is not accepting input data.
>
> Not sure what first attachment is because I can't load it.
Sorry about that -- hopefully it's ok this time.
27132
> Did you check out whether mpcdec supports stdin and stdout as input and
> output. Some command have an
w3wilkes wrote:
> Be more specific. I'm on 7.9.1 official. Settings -> Interface tab ->
> Additional Playlists Buttons -> Enabled
> When I use the search icon (top right of the left pane of WebUI) and
> type "John Hiatt" I can select any entry in the list of "Artists /
> Albums / Songs" then
bpa wrote:
> THis is my pi3b+ with basic Raspbian. Nothing runs on it except LMS
> mnainly for internet services such as BBCiPlayer.
>
>
>
> Your total amount of RAM is 765604 compare to mine 949448. So something
> is taken a huge chunk away from the OS - perhaps vncserver.
>
> What is
bpa wrote:
> OK - so any trasncoding causes the problem.
>
> If it is really a memory/resources error - could the system have too
> many processes ?
> What does "free" or "top" say about free memory/resources.
Nothing else really runs on the server.
top results below. I've snipped the list
bpa wrote:
> I'm not sure of the details but I think LMS memory often expands and
> then plateau. A lot of LMS caches (artwork, database, web page
> templates) have an upper limit so if you say have a lot of artwork and
> database - the caches would fill faster than my setup which is just
>
When trying to play some types of radio stream (specifically, those from
the BBC iPlayer plugin), I get the error
Slim::Control::Request::execute (1888) Error: While trying to run
function coderef [Slim::Control::Commands::playlistJumpCommand]: [open2:
fork failed: Cannot allocate memory at
bpa wrote:
>
> What is the player ?
>
> Can it play other AAC stream which needs transcoding such as
> http://somafm.com/illstreet64.pls
I use two types of player: Duet receiver and SqueezePlay. They both
result in the same error.
And no SomaFM streams don't play either: same error in
carlmart wrote:
> It created folders with artists names and things like that, which I
> really do not want, and it created a lot of folders I find useless.
>
There's no need to worry. LMS hasn't created any folders or moved any
files -- the folder/file structure on your hard disk is exactly
kidstypike wrote:
> How many times do you need to be told?
Just in enough different ways for it to make sense.
What seems obvious to experienced users may well be perplexing to a
newcomer or someone used to a different media player. (Frankly, if I
don't do something in LMS for a while, it
noexit wrote:
> To the Community: What would be your vote on the best hardware platform
> to effectively run LMS on that I could leave on indefinitely and keep a
> low power consumption footie-print?
>
Something Raspberry Pi based (either 3b+ or 4). Cheap to buy, and very
cheap to run.
slartibartfast wrote:
> Max2Play gives you full Raspbian and is just as easy to install as
> piCorePlayer.
>
Even better. (I've no experience of Max2Play, so thanks for posting
that.)
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I just got a notification that "A new version of Logitech Media Server
is available. (Click here)"
So, I followed the usual instructions - ie,
- Run the following command to execute the installer
- sudo dpkg -i
castalla wrote:
> That's not the latest - this is:
>
> http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/7.9/sc/3fc8860c38470f8bcdfea4bb83b19819662d93f4/logitechmediaserver_7.9.2~1576472621_all.deb
>
> or
>
>
steve-g wrote:
> I'm in the process of trying to sort my artist tags and being confused
> (very easy to do!) as composers also appear in the all artist list.
>
> I can't find anywhere to stop this behaviour - is it possible to prevent
> composers being shown?
>
> I suspect that I may be
When my server starts its scheduled nightly scan for new/changed files,
I get the following error in the logfile:
Code:
[20-04-12 03:17:04.2995] main::main (205) Starting Logitech Media Server
scanner (v7.9.3, 1584993250, Tue Mar 24 04:15:11 CET 2020) perl 5.024001
mherger wrote:
> >[20-04-12 03:17:04.6079] Slim::bootstrap::tryModuleLoad (285)
> Warning: Module [Slim::Utils::MemoryUsage] failed to load:
>
> This module should only be loaded if you added debug logging for
> server.memory. Make sure this isn't enabled anywhere in your
> configuration.
Apesbrain wrote:
> Sometimes when I refresh LMS in Chrome I see a message briefly flash by
> at the top of the page. It's not there long enough to read it, but I
> think it says something about getting a new browser that is compatible
> with LMS. I have the latest Chrome on Win 10 x64 so this
cfuttrup wrote:
> ... a hardware 'requirement' (or at least strong recommendation)
> could be to attach a UPS with a small battery. The UPS must support
> 'soft' shutdown, such that
> the LMS database survives.
There are several UPS Pi HATs available -- see, eg,
rbl wrote:
> Hi - two questions:
>
> 1) I have used Foorbar2000 to calculate Replay Gains/Peaks and some
> REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK values are > 1.000. I am just wondering how this
> is possible? I also use EZ CD Audio Converter which doesn't produce any
> Peaks > 1.00.
To quote from the
rbl wrote:
> It says that it recommends 14dB headroom which sounds sensible. 14dB is
> also well within the extra 8 bits resolution the SB3's 24bit DAC gives
> you so there shouldn't be any loss in audio quality.
>
> But the problem is I don't know how to get LMS 7.9.2 to do this? It
>
dysonapr wrote:
> You may find the time & date resets to something in the past after a Pi
> reboot. This "breaks" proper library updating, particularly if you're
> using OLMSI.
>
What's OLMSI ? (I have searched for it, honest, but I can't find
anything much at all, let alone anything
kidstypike wrote:
> On Line Music Services Integration?
Makes sense, I guess thanks!
Duet x 3, via various hi-fi. LMS on Raspbian 9 (stretch) on a Pi3B+.
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Tony T wrote:
> Needed to reset mysqueezebox.com password, and although it says an email
> was sent, I'm not receiving it.
> Tried a few times, and checked "junk", no luck
>
> Help!
Hi Tony
Having just tried, mysqueezebox.com will only send a password reset
email to a valid registered
I run LMS on a Pi.
I came across the suggestion that, to minimize wear on the u-SD card
that LMS is installed on, I should move the LMS cache to the HDD that's
mounted on the Pi.
How would I do that?
TIA for any and all help.
Tech: Various
Music: Diverse
kidstypike wrote:
> You don't say what OS you're running on your Pi?
>
Good spot - my apologies.
I am running Raspbian 9 (stretch), with LMS 7.9.-n-installed on that.
Tech: Various
Music: Diverse
SpiderJon's
mherger wrote:
>
> I've been using my SD card for three or four years without a hiccup. I
> wouldn't bother too much. BUT I'm using pCP, rather than a "full"
> distro.
>
I'm not overly worried about the durability of SD cards, but just wanted
to explore the option.
*Tech*: Duet x 3, via
Redrum wrote:
>
> My question is this. If I were to leave the prefs and cache on the SD
> card, and make an image of the card, would I essentially be backing up
> everything?
>
Yes -- it would be an exact copy of the currently-running system.
So, if the SD card got corrupted for whatever
daumar wrote:
>
> in the log I see few red errors (which I will check later) but there is
> a very big number of errors like this
>
> [20-06-14 16:58:23.5613] AUDIO::SCAN::SCAN (75) WARNING: APE: [TAG
> LARGER THAN MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SIZE] /VOLUME1/DATEIEN/MUSIK/FINAL
> COLLECTION/ALBEN/BEE
webnick wrote:
> Thanks, Jon, but I wouldn't know how to read those logs to fix anything
> if I did. I do know how to get to them, of course, and I could save
> them as an html file. But understanding what they're saying and knowing
> what to do thereafter? Hah!
I'm no great shakes at
webnick wrote:
> When trying to update to 7.9.3 (was 7.9.1), which failed, LMS stopped.
> Now, won't start even as Administrator. I opened Control Panel as
> Administrator, clicked on "Start Logitech Media Server" - it initially
> says its running, but after a couple of seconds it stops.
mherger wrote:
> I'm seriously excited to announce the availability of Logitech Media
> Server 8.0.0 as the new stable release.
>
> ... I believe that this release has more community contributed
> improvements than we had in many previous versions.
Many thanks to Michael and everyone else
cathcam wrote:
>
> Given I'm running a 64-bit Windows 10, should Install the x64 bundle
> into C:\Program Files\Squeezebox\server\bin or is there a reason I
> should use the win32 bundle?
AFAIK, there's no reason you should need to use the 32-bit version.
In theory, the 64-bit version
th00ht wrote:
>
>
> Is that 38 hours? Yes it is. What takes SlimServer so long?
>
>
It's the artwork pre-caching that's taking the vast majority of that 38
hours.
Do you have a lot of -very- large image files of cover art in your music
collection?
Duet x 3, via various hi-fi. LMS on
Grumpy Bob wrote:
> My LMS (I have three, running on piCorePlayer) always do rescans when
> the LMS starts or restarts. I am not sure when this behaviour began, I'm
> certain it hasn't always done this, and I don't have automatic library
> scanning set up.
Fwiw, there's a brief discussion about
ManChicken wrote:
> ... last month I updated to 8.1.1 but had subsequently been mostly
> playing web streams, up until now -- where it seems like Ogg Vorbis
> playback is broken. If I try to play anything from my library that's
> Ogg, I get nothing.
Fwiw, I'm running 8.1.1 - 1610364019 and
sodface wrote:
> I was goofing around last night testing the output voltage from the
> 3.5mm analog port on the Aopen Chromebase Mini and created a 200Hz test
> tone wav file to use for the voltage check. It got Supertramp cover art,
> which seems a bit strange.
A Google search for "'200Hz
jasc wrote:
> Probably nothing to get nervous about, but after updating from 8.1.2 to
> 8.2.0, I started seeing warning messages like the below show up in
> server.log:
>
> > > > [21-04-24 17:22:32.3410] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1324) Warning:
> > [17:22:32.3406] Wide character (U+220F) in uc
d6jg wrote:
>
> In the OPs scenario I'd switch off the ; separator in LMS and where you
> do need two values use the mp3tag \\ approach
Just so long as he doesn't want to index anything by \
(It's a real band, also known, for pronunciation purposes, as Backslash
After Backslash - see,
sachadog wrote:
> Screen Shot Of Malwarebytes Report
Out of interest, what's on the "Advanced" tab?
Duet x 3, via various hi-fi. LMS on Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 10) on a
Pi4.
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slartibartfast wrote:
> Did you say the screenshot was of a "Clear and rescan"? It doesn't
> appear to be.
>
I think it is. If it were just a "scan for new and changed" the second
line would be "Scanning changed files", rather than "Discovering
playlists".
Duet x 3, via various hi-fi. LMS
slartibartfast wrote:
> Where is "Scanning new music files" after Discovering files?
>
>
I suspect you only get that if it discovers new (rather than just
changed) music files during the "Discovering" phase.
Duet x 3, via various hi-fi. LMS on Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 10) on a
Pi4.
kidstypike wrote:
> Don't agree, a clear and rescan second line would be "Scanning new music
> files".
>
Good point. You're right.
Duet x 3, via various hi-fi. LMS on Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 10) on a
Pi4.
SpiderJon's
kidstypike wrote:
> It should be "Scanning *new* music files" if it's a clear & rescan,
> because it's database no longer exists, so every music file is "new",
> not "changed".
Agreed. Not enough coffee at this end for "educated" guesswork :)
Duet x 3, via various hi-fi. LMS on Raspberry
streifenleopard wrote:
> Hi, I have a folder with podcasts that are not included in the library
> by LMS.
> I don't know why that is as it's in the very same disc as all my other
> stuff which is recognised perfectly.
> The files are an hour in length and the size of 50MB incl. pretty long
>
SangSomBucket wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am about to migrate from one NAS where my LMS is installed, to
> another.
>
> ...
>
> One thing I absolutely do not want to lose, is all the track ratings
> with the TrackStat plugin.
Basically, install LMS on the new system, then copy over the data you
rik81h wrote:
> I use bubble on android for various things around the house, it picks up
> the LMS server of course but half the browse modes are missing such as
> playlists, album artists etc. am i missing something simple or is there
> a plugin that could help at all?
>
> Any advice
martman wrote:
> So I have two versions of a Little Feat Album. The folders are named
> differently. When I was on random album, it selected the album but
> played both versions playing track 1 of each version then on to track
> two etc. What is going on here and what can I do to fix this?
>
RadioClash wrote:
> Well you guys have opened my eyes to the Raspberry Pi 4, seems to be the
> better solution for me rather than a new PC. Is this one good for me to
> start with? I know nothing about them at the moment, going to start
> digging into the whole process.
>
>
tobal2 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running LMS on an RPI4 (Picore 8.0) with the music files stored in
> a Synology NAS. Everything works perfect.
> Yesterday a notice that some of my playlist shows less song than they
> should an checking the m3u files with notepad I find that the problems
> were
gordonb3 wrote:
> In fact I would expect it to be more likely that people will 'downgrade'
> their LMS platform by moving from a Windows PC to something like a Pi to
> save on their electric bill and eliminate fan noise.
That's certainly what I did. At least initially.
Then I upgraded from a
d6jg wrote:
> Moving from a Windows install to virtually anything else is never a
> downgrade.
True qualitatively, I agree :-)
But almost certainly not true quantitatively. Even a several-years-old
3+GHz Intel CPU is going to outperform a Pi 4, let alone a 3, by a
significant margin, no
d6jg wrote:
> Try to stop using Notepad and investigate Notepad++ - it is far far
> better
+1 for Notepad++ (Or I suppose that should be ++1.)
It's a wonderful bit of software.
Duet x 3, via various hi-fi. LMS on Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 10) on a
Pi4.
jotap_66 wrote:
> Hi:
>
> A friend of mine asked me several times if MQA works in LMS. I always
> answer him I don't know. I have no interest in MQA. Anyway my friend is
> very interested in this.
>
> I used several tests from here http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html and a
> Dragonfly Red, in a
Hi annomatik
My reply to an essentially similar question last year at
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?112417-Library-scanning-issues=978819=1#post978819
may or may not be of help. Hopefully the former.
Duet x 3, via various hi-fi. LMS on Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 10) on a
Pi4.
Man in a van wrote:
> Works for me, :) in the UK
>
And, fwiw, also for me, also in the UK. (Admittedly it's just one
occasion, but I tried loading several episodes, and they were all ok.)
Config:
Version: 8.2.0 - 1627922070 @ Tue Aug 3 11:39:20 CEST 2021
Operating system: Debian - EN - utf8
sparkyuk wrote:
> If you feel like biting the bullet and sorting the tags out so that
> they're consistent across your library I'd recommend you take a look at
> Bliss (https://www.blisshq.com/). It has many options for handling
> different tags and you can run it with any change requiring
>
mr-b wrote:
> I often see multiple entries of the form:
>
> Gang of Four
> Gang Of Four
>
> A Place to Bury Strangers
> A Place To Bury Strangers
>
>
> Yes I know I should go through and retag all my library but it'd be
> really handy if the first letters of artists and albums could be
>
RobbH wrote:
> It's not elegant, but I would deal with this by changing the album title
> tags to, respectively "Evanescence (EP)" and "Evanescence (LP)".
> Wouldn't LMS then distinguish between them?
Slightly less inelegant would be just "Evanescence" and "Evanescence
(EP)" ie, if it
mr-b wrote:
> ... looking into it a bit more, it appears other folks have done quite a
> bit of work on this with a pretty comprehensive sol'n, aka Grammartron:
> Smart Case and Grammar Restorer
> https://community.mp3tag.de/t/case-conversion/11684.
Having had a quick look at that thread,
lordvader wrote:
> What might a corrupt, or non compliant tag look like?
> I've been using the music brainz Picard application to correct tags,
> might double check these questionable ones.
The problem is that it could be, and probably is, something you can't
see in a tag editor eg,
lordvader wrote:
> Hmmm ... It may not be a Russian character thing ...
> I've come across some other DSD files that have the same problem.
Pretty sure it's not Cyrillic characters that are the cause (I have a
few albums tagged with Cyrillic and they display ok).
But I have had the 'blank'
markiii wrote:
> Material lets you group players into multiple groups, I simply have one
> called "Master Power". I use to turn everything off with one press
In case it helps anyone else who, like me, couldn't find how to do this
in Material Skin, creating custom player groups requires a
spacecase-25 wrote:
> For example, my Artists library sorts Pat Metheny Grup with the "M"s
> rather than with "P"
>
> I don't like this, how do I stop this from happening?
>
> What's more interesting is that Pat Metheny shows up with "P"
>
> This behavior makes no sense.
What tags have you
Ferunimas wrote:
> Sorry, but I'm not really familiar with user management. It looks like
> there is a user squeezeboxserver, but I can't access it.
> can you guide me please?
When you're logged in as root, you could do
*su - squeezeboxserver -s /bin/bash*
which will *s*witch *u*ser so that
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