Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What are the rules for LMS for merging albums from different subdirectories?

2019-12-19 Thread cdmackay
emalvick wrote: > > Finally, I don't know how LMS would treat the Replay Gain tags for > albums. Do they have to be the same? I know when I rip CD's, each disk > will get its own value. I usually use MP3Tag to merge the albums > together with tags (I set track numbers of form 101, 201,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What are the rules for LMS for merging albums from different subdirectories?

2019-12-10 Thread cdmackay
One more point I remember: some of the track-level tags are important too, e.g. if you have a track with a different artist, that can mess up the merging, too. I've had that with some bonus tracks that have artist "blah feat. blah2" etc. If all else fails, post the two sets of tags here, and

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What are the rules for LMS for merging albums from different subdirectories?

2019-12-10 Thread cdmackay
I rip to FLAC+CUE, and split multi-CD albums into separate directories, one per CD, and I want LMS to merge them into a single album, which it does most of the time. When it doesn't it's generally because something is different about one of the CDs tags. i.e. LMS will merge them as long as the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS hard wedge when plugin repos not available

2019-06-16 Thread cdmackay
thank you Michael! For some time I've been unable to connect at all; with this fix, I could connect, but was then getting repo timeouts in the logs Updating my Debian (unstable) SSL pkgs (openssl, python-openssl, python3-openssl) seems to have cured that too. Marvellous! thanks again. Now to

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] BBC high-quality Radio 3 aac-lc stream won't play

2018-08-04 Thread cdmackay
bpa wrote: > Did some double checking - it seems for UK R3 only there was/is a > special Shoutcast 320Kb AAC stream. > > The URL that BBC says is the one to use is below - perhaps a UK user can > test if it is stil alive as a non-UK user I can't test. >

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Emby & LMS: sharing media folders

2018-07-22 Thread cdmackay
squeezetux wrote: > Hi, > > I have Emby media server mostly used for video. Its good as it allows > external connections from the internet so I want to share the music > folder between LMS and Emby. Has anyone tried this and have you had > problems? > > I created two seperate music

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Fine grained album sorting - ideas anyone?

2018-07-21 Thread cdmackay
d6jg wrote: > Just tried this suggestion and it doesn't work as far as LMS sorting is > concerned - LMS seems to ignore the MM of -MM as far as Artist, > Year, Album sorting is concerned. Ah well. Another thing to continue > bugging my OCD! hmm, I was sure that I'd done this, but it was

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Fine grained album sorting - ideas anyone?

2018-07-19 Thread cdmackay
d6jg wrote: > Exactly. Its Artist, Year, Album - which gives me the example above. > I'm looking to sort the albums by Artist, Exact date of release Ah, sorry, I wasn't paying close enough attention. I've done this for some artists that often released more than one album a year, e.g. Van

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Fine grained album sorting - ideas anyone?

2018-07-19 Thread cdmackay
d6jg wrote: > I am a bit OCD it has to be said but I file all my vinyl albums > alphabetically by artist and then by album release date > > As an example > > FAIRPORT CONVENTION > Fairport Convention (1968) > What we did on our holidays (1969) > Unhalfbricking (1969) > Liege & lief (1969) >

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Forbidden: settings/index.html

2018-07-07 Thread cdmackay
cdmackay wrote: > Sorry to be dense; would someone tell me where to put the httpaddr arg > on a Debian Linux system, please? > > I don't believe there's anything wrong with my network setup (details > below), but I don't mind adding the arg, if only I knew where to add > it.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Forbidden: settings/index.html

2018-07-07 Thread cdmackay
Sorry to be dense; would someone tell me where to put the httpaddr arg on a Debian Linux system, please? I don't believe there's anything wrong with my network setup (details below), but I don't mind adding the arg, if only I knew where to add it. thank you :) --- I am getting: [18-07-07

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Perl 5.26 support?

2017-10-25 Thread cdmackay
mherger wrote: > > So I'm hoping Michael may release a 5.26 compatible LMS soon. I'm now > on > > my backup music service (minimserver). > > The AMD64 .deb should be ready for download. Please give it a try and > let me know about your findings. > thank you very much indeed. all good here on

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Perl 5.26 support?

2017-10-23 Thread cdmackay
mherger wrote: > At some point for sure. This mostly likely will happen when one of the > major (and most popular) distributions used in the LMS community is > updating. What are you using? > Michael hi Michael, now that Ubuntu is shipping 5.26 in 17.10 (released a few days ago), would you

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS fails to run on xubuntu 17.10

2017-10-23 Thread cdmackay
see: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107609-Perl-5-26-support http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?99648-Howto-build-a-self-contained-LMS cdmackay's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Alexa and LMS - new lease of life?

2016-09-22 Thread cdmackay
mherger wrote: > A few questions: > > - should the system be an always on, always listening system, or on > demand (eg. key press) only? > > Amazon's offering is always-on/listening; whether that's a good thing or not, I can't decideĀ…

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS gui - why no STOP button ?

2016-06-10 Thread cdmackay
castalla wrote: > Almost all player control layouts have psuse and stop buttons - while > clear playlist works, it's hardly obvious to the average user, who's > used to stop and pause buttons on almost all other players. I'm not sure about that; some music streaming services have only Pause,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Nightly updates ?

2016-03-03 Thread cdmackay
castalla wrote: > The automated checker seems to have a mind of its own - sometimes > there's a notification - more often there's nothing. > aha! I've been having the same discussion, but we didn't find a cause.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] 7.9: Drag'n'drop to the web UI / play any file from your computer

2016-01-26 Thread cdmackay
mherger wrote: > This limit is now configurable from Settings/Advanced/D'n'D. Be careful > if running LMS on an underpowered device... ah great, now I can drag'n'drop my whole-album flacs... :) seriously, thanks for this Michael.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] New Debian packages for 7.9 ARM/x86_64

2016-01-26 Thread cdmackay
cdmackay wrote: > That's great, thanks Michael, working perfectly here. > > one request, please: I currently use the meta URL: > > http://www.mysqueezebox.com/update/?version=7.9.0=1=1=deb > > to generate a URL to download. > > Is there any chance of adding a v

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] RFE: show player power state at-a-glance for all players

2016-01-26 Thread cdmackay
Please consider this RFE for the web front-end. I'm often turning players on by accident, e.g. via remote, app, etc, or wondering whether I remember to turn off the one in the bedroom. I would love to see an "at a glance" view of -all- players and whether they are currently powered on/off. In

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] New Debian packages for 7.9 ARM/x86_64

2016-01-25 Thread cdmackay
oh, and I suggested "x86_64", rather than amd64, for the variable, so one could use: arch=$(uname -m) to generate it automatically. thanks :) cdmackay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=24816

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Perl problems with LMS 7.9 on Debian sid

2016-01-22 Thread cdmackay
DJanGo wrote: > > well - could you explain that to me? > sorry; the versions of utils etc in -stable- pkgs lag too far behind upstream, for me. Of course, that's the whole point... mherger wrote: > > I wasn't aware that the 5.22 issue, which has just broken LMS for me > > too, had a quick

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Perl problems with LMS 7.9 on Debian sid

2016-01-21 Thread cdmackay
Yup, agreed that "stable" is not a solution. I've run "unstable" for over 15 years now, on my main desktop, and internet-facing server, and very rarely had a problem that wasn't quickly sorted. and I get far less issues than friends running the latest stable Ubuntu, etc. Debian stable is just way