Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2021-12-11 Thread carsten_h
thewebgal wrote: > Thanks - but my MacPro does run 24/7 Yes, I thought so! That what I wrote was only how I am doing it here. My Mac Pro is not running 24/7 because I have another Pi for my Home Automation. :-) thewebgal wrote: > So rather than copy and recopy my 2TB library of iTunes (which

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2021-12-11 Thread carsten_h
thewebgal wrote: > My question is about connecting to a 2TB library of iTunes music that I > have on the MacPro. I'd like to access that via LMS without copying > everything to a USB stick, > and the hassles of reloading and rescanning that on a regular basis. > I've tried a couple of paths to

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Export a list of all albums that are inside LMS?

2021-02-18 Thread carsten_h
d6jg wrote: > It is the album list as known to LMS in raw format but is entirely > readable. Ok. Thank you! I only know Oracle database, but this seems familar. After the last import the count of folders (simple ls * in the folder with all artists and get rid of the folder names (the artists) b

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to list all Albums and Artists in LMS library

2021-02-17 Thread carsten_h
slartibartfast wrote: > Are all your tags correct? Yes, I hope so. The strange is that that this python script is using LMS to get the list and the display of LMS is also from LMS. So the data is the same. pi4 4gb picoreplayer with lms and squeezelite for usb inside an argon one case pi3b+

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to list all Albums and Artists in LMS library

2021-02-17 Thread carsten_h
Hello! I used the python script: Viragored wrote: > • (Anything Python runs on) *Python script* (created by Roland0) – takes > a bit of setting up the first time, but then is a single click and fast > (a few seconds!). Output in HTML. A little familiarity with entering > command line instruc

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Export a list of all albums that are inside LMS?

2021-02-17 Thread carsten_h
To come back to this problem. I used the python script to export the list of all albums and I get back ..70. When I am looking with Material skin (default skin has the same count) to my library in the album view, I am getting ..36 as count on the top of the list. Why is there a difference? Wher

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Export a list of all albums that are inside LMS?

2021-02-12 Thread carsten_h
Paul Webster wrote: > That forum post ends with a link to "How to list all Albums and Artists > in LMS library" Ah! Thank you! The python script did the job on my Mac. I hope I can compare both results (Musik prints only a pdf). pi4 4gb picoreplayer with lms and squeezelite for usb inside a

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Export a list of all albums that are inside LMS?

2021-02-12 Thread carsten_h
Hello! Is it somehow possible to export a list of all albums that are imported into LMS? I am importing my music from my Musik application on my Mac. And I have a difference of 19 albums that LMS has more than Musik. So I want to see where the problem is. I found many albums which are named the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-21 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > What is confusing me the most is the > seemingly inconsistent behaviour. Once the time is spent reading the > files, once it's the FTS index creation. I had the LMS folder on an USB stick and now I changed this stick. The old one allowed only 100MB/s read and 30MB/s write and

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-04 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > Ok, so it's not the files. What is confusing me the most is the > seemingly inconsistent behaviour. Once the time is spent reading the > files, once it's the FTS index creation. I started a new full scan for the complete music this morning and now everything seems to be fine:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-03 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > Yes, please. Ok. I changed the media-folder to the changed CD. LMS made a complete scan and that was fast: Code: Dateien/Verzeichnisse werden erkannt: /mnt/Musikbox/Music/Compilations/Bravo - The Hits 2008 (43 von 43) Beendet 00:00:00 Neue Mus

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-03 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > Why would it find 87k tracks, but only scan 42 of them? Can't you limit > > the whole process to only this one folder? Is this possible? Should I simply change the folder for media files? mherger wrote: > So... more than 1h is spent on the Fulltext Index. Are you sure this w

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-03 Thread carsten_h
I forgot to mention, that this scan was run with: "Version: 8.0.1 - 1606889944 @ Wed Dec 2 07:58:32 CET 2020"! pi4 4gb picoreplayer with lms and squeezelite for usb pi3b+ (7\" display, hifiberry dac+ pro) picoreplayer with squeezlite/jivelite for hifiberry and bluetooth headphone two airport e

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-03 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > And please provide the server.log, too. Do you realy need the whole scanner.log? It is 14.2MB. It took 1 hour 38 minutes to scan the 42 new files. The webpage was updated at the last part of the scan: Code: Dateien/Verzeichnisse werden erkannt: /mnt/Mus

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-03 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > Ok, so please do that again with the debug options for scanning enabled. > > As it's only a few files (not 80k), that should result in a much smaller > > scanner.log file. I changed only 42 files (ripped a double CD with 320kBit/s instead of 192kBit/s). And no the display is s

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-03 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > Are you saying the scanner got stuck for 1.5h when you configured only > this one folder to be scanned? Yes, correct. Then I stopped it. When it happened the webpage of LMS (...:9000) was not accessible. But the piCorePlayer webpage was working (not the LMS part) and ssh was w

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-03 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > What if you scanned these new folders only? That was the first problem yesterday when I tried to scan only the new and changed files. After 1,5 hours LMS could not be reached and nothing happened. So I gracefully shut down the Pi and restarted it to start a complete scan which

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-03 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > And the 35 minutes were on the exact same configuration? Same SSD? Same > > filesystem? Same USB stick? Yes, nothing is changed, except that there are 54 more songs in the SSD. mherger wrote: > BTW: using the USB disk for the cache is one of the tweaks I was > wondering abo

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-03 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > Ok, more than two hours are too much. That is what I thought too. I did a full scan last week that was running 35 minutes and that is OK. mherger wrote: > What are your DB performance > settings (Settings/Advanced/Performance)? I have it set to "Max", because of such a big

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-02 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > What pCP version? This: piCorePlayer v6.1.0 | www v0009 | linux 4.19.122-pcpCore_v8 | piCore v10.3pCP | Squeezelite v1.9.8-1287-pCP mherger wrote: > Please share your scanner.log file. This is the complete one after deleting the library.db* files: Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-02 Thread carsten_h
carsten_h wrote: > But it took 3 hours and I can not see what is going on because the LMS > webpage and the LMS part of the piCorePlayer webpage are not reacting. I now deleted the three library.db* files and started a complete scan. It took 2 hours and 18 minutes to search all new

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 8.0.0 released!

2020-12-02 Thread carsten_h
Hello! I have "Version: 8.0.1 - 1606829643 @ Tue Dec 1 14:58:52 CET 2020" running on a piCorePlayer Pi4 installation. Today I tried to add a few (54) songs to LMS. But it took 3 hours and I can not see what is going on because the LMS webpage and the LMS part of the piCorePlayer webpage are not

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Volume Control with LMS 8.0 and UPnPBridge with Sonos speaker?

2020-10-16 Thread carsten_h
khoadley wrote: > Any luck getting the Symfonisk working reliably with the airplay bridge? Yes, it works without any problem here! I am using LMS 8.0 and the Airplay plugin. Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display, Hifiberry DAC+ Pro) piCoreplayer with Squeez

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Strange sorting problem

2020-10-07 Thread carsten_h
Paul Webster wrote: > Do you have a "Costello, Elvis" in a tag somewhere? > I think it only needs to be in one track anywhere to affect them all. Yes, I was too fast, there was one song where the composer was wrong! Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display, Hi

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Strange sorting problem

2020-10-07 Thread carsten_h
Hello! I am using LMS 8.0.0-1601590552. I can not tell if this was the case before, but now "Elvis Costello" is sorted under "C", but "Elvis Costello & The Attractions", "Elvis Costello & The Imposters" and "Elvis Presley" are sorted under "E". I looked in every song of "Elvis Costello" and the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Volume Control with LMS 8.0 and UPnPBridge with Sonos speaker?

2020-09-25 Thread carsten_h
philippe_44 wrote: > Same Ok, thank you! In the meantime I saw that the speaker also has Airplay 2 on Board, so it should work with that also. Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display, Hifiberry DAC+ Pro) piCoreplayer with Squeezlite/Jivelite for Hifiberry and

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Volume Control with LMS 8.0 and UPnPBridge with Sonos speaker?

2020-09-23 Thread carsten_h
Hello! I am trying to find out how volume control is handled when I am using LMS 8.0 with UPnPBridge and a Sonos speaker (Ikea Symfonisk). When I am using AirplayBridge the volume is simply controlled by LMS via Material Skin. Is this the same for UPnPBridge? Or do I have to control the volume a

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8.0: Very strange sorting order?

2020-06-30 Thread carsten_h
garym wrote: > Just remove the artistsort tag from the files that have it Yes, I did it already. Now there is no more problem. I don't use the Artistsort Tag normally. It was only in these orphaned files. Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display, Hifiberry DAC

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8.0: Very strange sorting order?

2020-06-30 Thread carsten_h
garym wrote: > The way LMS works Oh, I didn't know. Thank you for the information. Very strange, but I think I will have to live with it. Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display, Hifiberry DAC+ Pro) piCoreplayer with Squeezlite/Jivelite for Hifiberry and Blue

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8.0: Very strange sorting order?

2020-06-28 Thread carsten_h
Hello! I found the problem. But it seems to me a wrong behaviour of LMS when sorting. The files for LMS are a 1:1 copy of my Music (before iTunes)-library from my Mac. There was an orphaned album from Westernhagen that had "ARTISTSORTORDER" set to "Müller-Westernhagen, Marius" for all tracks whi

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8.0: Very strange sorting order?

2020-06-28 Thread carsten_h
d6jg wrote: > In Windows the Advanced Tag display is Alt+T look for something similar > in the Mac version This is what can be seen on the screenshots on the page before. This is the Advanced Tag (Erweiterte Tags) window. On a Mac you can get it with Command-T. Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8.0: Very strange sorting order?

2020-06-28 Thread carsten_h
ftlight wrote: > What do you have in the "Tag" column in the track listing in MP3tag? I think you speak of the Windows version? The new Mac version is an alpha version with not all the features the Windows version has. It is a complete rewrite I think. Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Sque

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8.0: Very strange sorting order?

2020-06-28 Thread carsten_h
karlek wrote: > It’s not „ARTIST“ but „ARTIST SORT“ where you’ll have to look for. You can see all the tags above in my screenshots. There is no Artistsort or whatever in the files. Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display, Hifiberry DAC+ Pro) piCoreplayer with

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8.0: Very strange sorting order?

2020-06-27 Thread carsten_h
slartibartfast wrote: > If you have more than one album by Westernhagen maybe one of them has an > artist sort tag. I think it only takes one file with an artist sort tag > to cause all albums to be sorted that way. I checked them all and no single file has another artist than "Westernhagen".

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8.0: Very strange sorting order?

2020-06-27 Thread carsten_h
slartibartfast wrote: > How are you checking the tags? Here is the output of mp3tag (new alpha version for macOS): 30855 So you see no difference! slartibartfast wrote: > It looks like it is being sorted under "Muller-Westernhagen". I know, but why? There is nothing in the files which has

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8.0: Very strange sorting order?

2020-06-27 Thread carsten_h
Hello! It seems I have a very strange problem. I have albums from "Marius Müller-Westernhagen" and "Westernhagen" (He changed the name for newer albums). When I go into the menu via "Artists", I find the following order: Madness Manfred Man Marillion Marius Müller-Westernhagen. <--- Mark Kn

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Clean My Mac app and LMS

2020-06-09 Thread carsten_h
cjfreitag wrote: > I use Clean My Mac to periodically maintain my iMac--free up space, etc. If you would write that in a Mac forum the first thing you will here is: "Stop that!", "Delete Clean My Mac immediately!". :-) It makes no sense to clean the cache folders etc. because the Mac has to bui

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting TTS or play MP3 to work from Home Assistant to LMS 8!

2020-06-06 Thread carsten_h
bpa wrote: > you may just be happy with proxied streaming I am happy with it as long as it works. So thank you again! Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display, Hifiberry DAC+ Pro) piCoreplayer with Squeezlite/Jivelite for Hifiberry and Bluetooth headphone; two

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting TTS or play MP3 to work from Home Assistant to LMS 8!

2020-06-06 Thread carsten_h
bpa wrote: > That is the question we are trying to work out. Ok, Clear. :-) bpa wrote: > OK - now enable Proxied streaming for the player - in case there is a a > HTTP{ issues between player and TTS Source. Proxied means LMS makes > connection to TTS source not the player. Hey that is workin

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting TTS or play MP3 to work from Home Assistant to LMS 8!

2020-06-06 Thread carsten_h
bpa wrote: > It's supposed to stream direct to player but nothgin gets sent. But why there is nothing sent? Is this a problem of the receiver (LMS) or the sender (Home Assistant)? Why a browser is working and wget on the Pi also? bpa wrote: > If you save a copy of the TTS file locally on the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting TTS or play MP3 to work from Home Assistant to LMS 8!

2020-06-06 Thread carsten_h
bpa wrote: > WebUI Settings/Adavcned/Logging Here is the result for the tts-file: Code: [20-06-06 22:06:07.5980] Slim::Player::Song::new (107) index 0 -> https://x.duckdns.org:8123/local/mytestfile.mp3 [20-06-06 22:06:07.5987] Slim::Player::StreamingControl

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting TTS or play MP3 to work from Home Assistant to LMS 8!

2020-06-06 Thread carsten_h
philippe_44 wrote: > Have you used that latest nightly build? I am using: Version: 8.0.0 - 1591161678 @ Wed Jun 3 07:54:55 CEST 2020 Pi4 4GB piCorePlayer with LMS and Squeezelite for USB; Pi3B+ (7" Display, Hifiberry DAC+ Pro) piCoreplayer with Squeezlite/Jivelite for Hifiberry and Bluetooth

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting TTS or play MP3 to work from Home Assistant to LMS 8!

2020-06-06 Thread carsten_h
bpa wrote: > Ignore the screen timer - that just means you pressed play. Ok. bpa wrote: > Enable logging player.source to INFO to see what processing is being > done. How and where can I do it? bpa wrote: > What is the MIME type associated with the file ? something like > audio/mpeg or a

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem getting TTS or play MP3 to work from Home Assistant to LMS 8!

2020-06-06 Thread carsten_h
Hello! The problem is to get TTS (text to speech) to work from Home Assistant to LMS 8 (piCorePlayer installation). After much help in the Home Assistant community, the problem seems to be on the LMS side. What I did was to put two testfiles: - tts-testfile with 32kb/s CBR MP3 which is 435KB in

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] A server for us

2020-05-14 Thread carsten_h
If you search for an easy way to shutdown such a Pi with LMS, you can look into this thread: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111546-Using-Argon-One-case-with-fan-and-powerbutton-together-with-piCorePlayer&p=961984&viewfull=1#post961984 You will find the script which is necessary to

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Should I choose "Maximum" or "High" as DB-size?

2020-05-06 Thread carsten_h
slartibartfast wrote: > Have you performed a scan since changing it? I think that is where you > would see the difference. Ok. I made a complete scan to build up the new database. The time that this can takes is nearly the same like before when doing a complete scan with the "High" setting. I w

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Should I choose "Maximum" or "High" as DB-size?

2020-05-06 Thread carsten_h
Until yesterday I used High. Today I choose Maximum, but I don't really see or feel a difference. carsten_h's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69113 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/s

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Should I choose "Maximum" or "High" as DB-size?

2020-05-06 Thread carsten_h
Hello! Should I choose "Maximum" or "High" as DB-Size? I have a Pi 4B with 4GB and approximately 52000 music files. The music files are on a read-only SSD and the LMS database is on an external 32GB USB stick. carsten_h's

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Many errors/warnings at importing into LMS 8.0.0?

2020-04-29 Thread carsten_h
I managed to get rid of all the warnings, only one is still there: Code: [20-04-29 13:12:39.5133] Audio::Scan::scan (64) Warning: Error: Unable to read at least 16 bytes from file (only read 11). There is no filename shown at this warning, so I d

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Many errors/warnings at importing into LMS 8.0.0?

2020-04-23 Thread carsten_h
d6jg wrote: > https://www.mp3tag.de/en/mac-osx.html Ok, but I am using Catalina, so this 32bit wine program is sadly not working. But I found another thread with mp3-taggers for Catalina, so I will try to find one that will show me this errors. Thank you! ---

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Many errors/warnings at importing into LMS 8.0.0?

2020-04-23 Thread carsten_h
d6jg wrote: > It means you have corrupt files. Sure, that is clear. d6jg wrote: > but since you have removed the filename from the log extract we can't > say which. I know them. :-) d6jg wrote: > Examine them in mp3tag for clues I think that this is a Windows program? Can someone tell me

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Many errors/warnings at importing into LMS 8.0.0?

2020-04-23 Thread carsten_h
Hi! Today I looked into the scanner.log and saw many errors/warnings at importing: Code: [20-04-23 10:20:11.4952] Audio::Scan::scan (64) Warning: APE: [Invalid item key, too short (<2)] /mnt/Musikbox/Music/mp3 [20-04-23 10:23:54.7416] Slim::Schema::_preCheckA

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Small error in German translation of LMS 8.0.0 pages

2020-03-16 Thread carsten_h
dolodobendan wrote: > Da ist noch viel mehr falsch, allein in dem Screenshot. Uiih, stimmt, das ist mir gar nicht so direkt aufgefallen. :-) dolodobendan wrote: > Ich wollte mir die gesamte Übersetzung im Laufe der Woche mal ansehen > und im Zuge dessen auch vereinheitlichen Das dürfte eine M

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Small error in German translation of LMS 8.0.0 pages

2020-03-16 Thread carsten_h
I found one more small problem on the page for „Grundeinstellungen“ at the device settings: 29745 There is only a „d“ missing. carsten_h's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69113 View this thread: ht

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] [LMS 8.0.0] TuneIn Radio is only sometimes available?

2020-01-30 Thread carsten_h
slartibartfast wrote: > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108549-LMS-start-stop-restart Oh, I am not alone. :-) I will try to restart LMS directly after the boot, as it seems there is no possibility to wait a little time before LMS is started. -

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] [LMS 8.0.0] TuneIn Radio is only sometimes available?

2020-01-30 Thread carsten_h
slartibartfast wrote: > Maybe LMS is starting before the network is available. When I look at the boot-log the network is available before LMS is started. carsten_h's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?use

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] [LMS 8.0.0] TuneIn Radio is only sometimes available?

2020-01-30 Thread carsten_h
kidstypike wrote: > This problem happens to me every now and then, it probably happens to a > lot of users, but will very often go unnoticed. A restart of LMS usually > fixes it. Ok. :-( Before I used a Pi 3B+, 7" Display, M2-SSD with Squeezelite, Jivelite and LMS together in one enclosure. I s

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] [LMS 8.0.0] TuneIn Radio is only sometimes available?

2020-01-29 Thread carsten_h
d6jg wrote: > it’s probably a network issue. How is your Pi connected? It is connected with a 10cm LAN cable directly to the router. There is no network issue. It is available from any other computer/tablet etc. without a problem. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] [LMS 8.0.0] TuneIn Radio is only sometimes available?

2020-01-29 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > >When you're saying "TuneIn Radio", are you talking about the TuneIn > app, > or the Internet Radio menu item? I changed the TuneIn inside the question but can not change the thread title. Yes, I mean the "Intenet Radio" menu in the main screen. In Jivelite it is here: 29209

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] [LMS 8.0.0] TuneIn Radio is only sometimes available?

2020-01-29 Thread carsten_h
Hello! I have a piCorePlayer installation of LMS 8.0.0. Directly after the installation TuneIn radio was available and could be used. Yesterday it was suddenly unavailable and I saw that there was a new nightly build of LMS, so I updated. After the update TuneIn radio was available again. But to