Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Default Skin / pcP - how to show only artist, not album artist?

2021-12-15 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > I've applied a change to 8.3 which will hopefully improve this. Please > give it a try. Yes, this fixed the missing track artist in LMS default skin. And -thank you- for putting the track artist first!*!*! I guess the order on pCP's Now Playing screen (album artist, track artist)

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Default Skin / pcP - how to show only artist, not album artist?

2021-12-13 Thread afriend
New test VM (macOS 15) with *clean/new/vanilla* LMS installation (8.2.1-1639114554) -> same same - like screenshots above. :-( The thing is I'm reasonably sure that LMS default skin's current client playlist displayed *track* artists instead of -album- artists... once upon a time... Leaving the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Default Skin / pcP - how to show only artist, not album artist?

2021-12-11 Thread afriend
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[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Default Skin / pcP - how to show only artist, not album artist?

2021-12-11 Thread afriend
Hi. for tracks with album artists ≠ artist the *client's current playlist* (right pane) in the LMS *default* skin *only shows the album artist for these tracks*. So for compilation tracks I *only *get Various Artists but not the artist's name. And may be related: on pCP I get "Various Artists, a

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] adding track to playlist (CLI) duplicates displayed comment tag info

2021-02-15 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > Sounds like a bug to me... Would you mind filing an issue on github? > > https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/issues Done. So just to be clear, this command is *the* recommended way for a plugin to add a track to a playlist? While I'm at it... I have a trackurl and need th

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] adding track to playlist (CLI) duplicates displayed comment tag info

2021-02-14 Thread afriend
Hello. If I do this: Code: Slim::Control::Request::executeRequest(undef, ['playlists', 'edit', 'cmd:add', 'playlist_id:'.$playlistid, 'url:'.$trackURL]); the comment tag of the added track (as displayed in the LMS context menu/song details) goes

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] New in 7.9.2: Presets editor

2021-01-26 Thread afriend
Michael, is there any chance you could add support for CLI commands? (executing LMS CLI commands on pressing/holding a key) afriend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39306 View this thread: http://

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Additional browse modes: filter not working?

2021-01-12 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > > I don't know how to describe it any better. Maybe some screenshots > can > > help illustrate the problem: 'link' (https://we.tl/t-hfWzS2pxtQ). > > The browse menus in the screenshots are created by the Ratings Light > > plugin but the artists menu from Additional Browse Modes

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Throwing in towel on LMS on Mac OS. Does it run OK on Windows 10 or is Linux better?

2020-12-21 Thread afriend
Osamede wrote: > Been running LMS on a headless Mac Mini for many years, for compactness > and quietness. After many years of running LMS on Mac OS, I've found it > very difficult over the past year or more, with either the server not > visible, or the library showing empty because no access to

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Additional browse modes: filter not working?

2020-12-18 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > > I don't know how to describe it any better. Maybe some screenshots > can > > help illustrate the problem: 'link' (https://we.tl/t-hfWzS2pxtQ). > > The browse menus in the screenshots are created by the Ratings Light > > plugin but the artists menu from Additional Browse Modes

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Additional browse modes: filter not working?

2020-12-17 Thread afriend
erland wrote: > So if I understand this correctly you are seeing two issues: > > 1. The list of albums shown after selecting an artist doesn’t take > artist role into account, it lists an album even if the artist was only > featured (track artist) on that album, but you would like the album list

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Additional browse modes: filter not working?

2020-12-17 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > I must admit that I did see this thread. But I can't remember this being > > reported several times. I admittedly do sometimes skip on topics before > > I see it gather some traction. I have to prioritize... I understand. Certainly no reproach or sth like that from me. It's ju

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Additional browse modes: filter not working?

2020-12-16 Thread afriend
I've updated my first post. I did test this with 8.0 at some point. Just now now I did with -8.1.0 - 1608064080-. Nothing's changed. The virtual libraries always contains the correct number of tracks. Doesn't matter if I create them using my own sql code or as a saved the advanced search library

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Additional browse modes: filter not working?

2020-12-12 Thread afriend
Hey. Short version: When I create an *artists* menu using -Additional Browse Modes- it will show me false positives on the second level down (albums for artists). How do I get rid of them? Check it out: Take a library with 3 music files by 2 artists: artist A -> regular album A -> song1 (rate

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How can i install Plugins manually on picore lms

2020-12-12 Thread afriend
I don't run LMS on pCP but take a look at the -LMS Settings > information- page. You might find a path for plugins there that won't be deleted/overwritten when you reboot pCP. If that doesn't work you could use the same solution that I used for my modified (jivelite) applet: create a folder in y

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Artwork logic / instant fallback?

2020-10-29 Thread afriend
Hello. Sometimes it happens that LMS shows the generic album cover (=missing/no artwork) for -some- albums that do actually have album artwork embedded. There's no discernible pattern to it. Just random, the more time since the last wipe&rescan has passed, the more likely it is to happen. Then

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] jivelite: request comment tag for current track

2020-07-06 Thread afriend
Hello. I'm trying to customize the *jivelite -NowPlaying- applet/screen*. I have 2 questions I can't seem to solve on my own and I'm hoping you can help me with: #1 If I understand the code of the NowPlaying applet correctly, it usually only gets information like the track name, (album)artist,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] WebUI: Custom browse menu with umlaut not accessible (but it is with Material)

2019-07-12 Thread afriend
Native support for more tags, related to classical music or not, would be nice, agreed. But my guess is that it won't probably happen anytime soon. It appears it would take quite a lot of work and testing to set it up with all the changes to the database and creating the corresponding browse mode

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] WebUI: Custom browse menu with umlaut not accessible (but it is with Material)

2019-07-11 Thread afriend
-Kind of- means that there's still a quirk in the menu creation part I need to work out. But that's only related to compilation albums showing up on the second menu level where they shouldn't.. So nothing serious. As for custom tags... I guess that might work. I don't use custom tags (with my cla

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] If native playback fails try playing transcoded version first before aborting - how?

2019-07-11 Thread afriend
Thank you very much, bpa, for looking into this! > It is possible for LMS to put these files into a separate category (e.g. > say mp4x and alcx instead of mp4 and alc) which has no native > transcoding rules - so they will always be transcoded and "good" MP4 > file will be played natively. I th

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] If native playback fails try playing transcoded version first before aborting - how?

2019-07-09 Thread afriend
Hi. This problem concerns ALAC and AAC music files (so far). Every now and then LMS comes across such a file and won't play it on devices that support native playback of AAC/ALAC files = -Slim::Player::Squeezebox2::statHandler (150) Error:... Decoder does not support file format, code 0- They pl

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] WebUI: Custom browse menu with umlaut not accessible (but it is with Material)

2019-07-09 Thread afriend
I thought CustomBrowse and MultiLibrary used utf-8 allowing for special characters like umlauts. Anyway I stopped using CustomBrowse and MultiLibrary (since they're no longer maintained and all) and created my own plugin. It basically achieves what those two used to do for me: define libraries an

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] CLI command for adding current track to playlist

2019-05-10 Thread afriend
Hi. What's the correct *CLI command* to *add the currently playing track to a playlist named "Review Later"* (if that's possible)? Over time I've tried several commands but the tracks never show up in the playlist. Oh, and an extra bonus would be: if for some reason I have accidentally deleted

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Can playlists have their own artwork?

2017-02-13 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > can of worms I understand you're being restrictive because you don't want infinite follow-up requests. But maybe you could do only a basic "if playlist artwork has been assigned, show it, otherwise behave as always" and then go back to being super-restrictive on this? :) The ans

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Can playlist have their own artwork?

2017-02-13 Thread afriend
Hi. Can I assign artwork to an entire playlist (I don't mean changing the artwork of the individual tracks)? So when the songs from this playlist are playing it would show the playlist artwork and not the artwork of the individual tracks. If this is already possible could you please tell me how