Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Perl 5.28, general dpkg update woes, and a new problem with Trackstat?

2021-03-30 Thread drmatt
Yes, this prevents the startup hang but not subsequent hangs when e.g. new tracks are scanned, but as commented above the real fix seems to be to disable musicbrainz, then the scans don't lock everything up even if they -do -run. I'm happy where it is right now, I don't move my media around so t

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Perl 5.28, general dpkg update woes, and a new problem with Trackstat?

2021-02-22 Thread drmatt
GoodVibrations wrote: > Hi drmatt. > Did you ever find a solution to this problem? > I cannot find any new threads on the subject. > > I have the exact same problem. > Trackstat breaks if I go beyond 7.9.1: > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?112388-LMS-ve

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Server Machine Alternatives.

2019-08-10 Thread drmatt
DomieMic65 wrote: > I will search for Ralphys posts but isn't it better to use a separate > machine for player only?If it has the horsepower it won't matter. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Server Machine Alternatives.

2019-07-31 Thread drmatt
edwin2006 wrote: > Sorry to say, but powerline is not as reliable as wired. If I had to > make a choice between powerline or wifi I would choose wifi. > Are you able to make a temporarily test config with cable connection?I think > it depends on implementation. Nothing but wired is as good as w

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Server Machine Alternatives.

2019-07-27 Thread drmatt
True "other lms implementations are available" There's also a docker variant out there. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Server Machine Alternatives.

2019-07-27 Thread drmatt
d6jg wrote: > There is a school of thought that says an SSD as the storage is overkill > for LMS. Not much writing happens so the benefit is really only limited > to scanning time - unless you move the library files to the SSD (this is > possible in pCP)I would agree, but on the basis that spinn

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Server Machine Alternatives.

2019-07-26 Thread drmatt
Craig wrote: > My library is around 19000 tracks in flac so they're all streamed native > unless they're hi res ones streaming to SB2's which are transcoded I > think. > > I'm not a big use of playlists. > > CraigYou get to choose any hardware you like then! I'd grab a Pi3 in your shoes. -Tr

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Server Machine Alternatives.

2019-07-26 Thread drmatt
I would say that anything since the rPI v2 is more than adequate for an infinite sized lms library. The only thing you gain from upgrading beyond there is the ability to support more resampled/transcoded streams (if that's your thing) or working with *huge* playlists. And when working with huge p

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Server Machine Alternatives.

2019-07-26 Thread drmatt
ho_kuku wrote: > Been streaming from my Synology NAS for years. Got the Odroid N2 > orginally for retro gaming purpose - but I was damn free and bored one > day. > > Installed dietpi on the N2 and run LMS. Pointed LMS to the music library > on my existing NAS. > > It was 1) fast and 2) sq wa

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Server Machine Alternatives.

2019-07-26 Thread drmatt
The only time I've heard of people having performance issues with Pi's running lms was back in the days of Pi v1 and when using crazy long playlists. And then it's really about memory consumption I think. On the other hand I've heard plenty of people complain about the performance of lms on low

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS web interface keeps becoming unresponsive on Debian 10

2019-07-26 Thread drmatt
Fwiw I noted that the server log was empty when trackstat hangs my Lms too. After disabling this one specific plugin I've not had any other plugins cause this issue, but it used to work ok so I'm a bit baffled as to why that behaviour has changed. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS web interface keeps becoming unresponsive on Debian 10

2019-07-19 Thread drmatt
I've seen solid hangs in Lms since upgrading perl versions and it seemed to be to do with the trackstat plugin. Do you use this? Though I suspect it's more to do with a perl behaviour change. To me it seems more likely that a method is being used which previously ran in the background in parall

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Whole interface is different now.

2019-06-22 Thread drmatt
I had issues with broken plugin packages after a perl update. Maybe have a look for any dpkg-old or dpkg-new update residue. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Issue with logitechmediaserver_7.9.2~1559133196_amd64.deb?

2019-05-31 Thread drmatt
Check for ".dpkg-new" and similar files that didn't successfully update. Also you can just run the Daemon on the commandline and see what it outputs. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Perl 5.28, general dpkg update woes, and a new problem with Trackstat?

2019-05-13 Thread drmatt
mherger wrote: > > As I noted in another thread, Debian/Testing now includes perl 5.28 > and > > there's no pre-built slimserver-vendor CPAN bits bundled for 5.28 yet. > > There are, but x86_64 only. > I hadn't spotted those. (And hadn't gone looking as I'd seen a statement somewhere that exp

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Perl 5.28, general dpkg update woes, and a new problem with Trackstat?

2019-05-13 Thread drmatt
Hi all, As I noted in another thread, Debian/Testing now includes perl 5.28 and there's no pre-built slimserver-vendor CPAN bits bundled for 5.28 yet. And yes I'm the remaining weirdo running i386 on a x86 CPU so if the plan is to continue tracking perl package updates in the nightly builds can t

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem with hiding lossy duplicates

2018-12-27 Thread drmatt
Mnyb wrote: > Yea but true duplicate detection is probably near impossible.. same > album same track won’t do it could be another version or master of the > CD hence not a dupe , just having two of an album does not always means > that they are dupes . > > So transcode or weed them out the manua

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem with hiding lossy duplicates

2018-12-01 Thread drmatt
Mnyb wrote: > Work around , if you want to play MP3 on one player you can use LMS > feature of bitrate limiting , then LMS will transcode to a given MP3 > bitrate to that player . > > Bitrate limiting is in player settings , require that the OS has lame > installed .Yes I'm using this. I think

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Playing tracks in with different sample rates in radom mix

2018-11-21 Thread drmatt
Is there anything you didn't think of?! :) -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem with hiding lossy duplicates

2018-11-21 Thread drmatt
Nice. Now what I'd like is the ability to stream certain versions to different clients... I know, I'm probably the only person in the universe who wants this.. :) -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What OS to host LMS on a HP N40? (it would replace Ubuntu 14.04)

2018-10-21 Thread drmatt
Personally I'd stick to Debian/stable x64 on servers.. The i386 builds should be left to die these days. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less t

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Scan Missed a Song

2018-10-13 Thread drmatt
I would guess it's a Microsoft long-dash not a simple - minus sign. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. --

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problem playing very large files

2018-10-13 Thread drmatt
Just a wild guess but I'd say 32 bit seek offset in bytes is baulking because the file is >2GB? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24

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

2018-09-14 Thread drmatt
Yes. Due to long history of people leaving unprotected Lms instances connected to the internet new code now detects if requests come from the address of the default route and rejects them if so. There is a preference setting to disable this check. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] CLI does not see LMS's proper IP?

2018-06-03 Thread drmatt
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. -

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] search doesnt find "3 letter" artist

2018-06-03 Thread drmatt
And mine are listed under P.I.L. cddb is a minefield for a search engine. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Smart TV's Web Browser not able to load LMS Web Control Page ........................

2018-05-30 Thread drmatt
That was going to be my next question, why the hell would you use a web browser for playback control anyway... -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Smart TV's Web Browser not able to load LMS Web Control Page ........................

2018-05-30 Thread drmatt
Cut-Throat wrote: > It's not 'my setup'.. I am using the latest LMS and Samsung Update > to my TV... Not much 'I' can do.My point above was exactly that it *was* my > setup that created similar symptoms, so don't assume. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Smart TV's Web Browser not able to load LMS Web Control Page ........................

2018-05-28 Thread drmatt
I have had vaguely similar issues in the past but put them down to my (at the time) broken DNS causing issues for the JavaScript bits of the site that work out what capabilities your browser has. Now I've sorted out DNS and am using an internal address and IP it's been fine. (This wasn't on a sma

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Raspberry Pi 3B+ Woes

2018-05-19 Thread drmatt
paul- wrote: > Changing cards is easier. You can even boot from a usb stick. This ^^^ SD cards are cheap, buy a case with an accessible slot and you're good. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Files Won't Play on SB2 But Play in VLC

2018-05-06 Thread drmatt
Semicolon in the filename? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Files Won't Play on SB2 But Play in VLC

2018-05-06 Thread drmatt
Tag type? -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.c

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Raspberry Pi 3 LMS?

2018-05-03 Thread drmatt
A usb stick would do the job too at those kinds of capacities. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Raspberry Pi 3 LMS?

2018-05-02 Thread drmatt
Fair enough. Personally I've got a lot more than 100g though...! -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. --

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Raspberry Pi 3 LMS?

2018-05-01 Thread drmatt
Yeah I wouldn't bother with an SSD for music either unless silence was an absolute requirement. Note that SSDs can be quite power hungry during write in very short bursts too, more so than the slow and steady and predictable current draw of a spinning disk. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapat

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Raspberry Pi 3 LMS?

2018-04-29 Thread drmatt
Raspberry Pi will run LMS perfectly; assuming it's a full size one. The smaller ones struggle with longer playlists with only 512MB ram. External SSD should be ok if your power supply is up to it. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP M

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Delay start of LMS

2018-03-31 Thread drmatt
Iirc it has a sysV init script so you should be able to add a dependency on the MusicIP startup script and systemd will ensure they start in the right order. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Mu

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Some FLAC albums won't play on LMS

2018-03-22 Thread drmatt
(still OT.. I'm a Unix admin forced to use a Windows client, putty is painful when sessions drop and the window vanishes, configuring it is painful, putty's scp is functional but very very slow, I'm just surprised that it doesn't get more development effort given how widespread its use seems to be

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Some FLAC albums won't play on LMS

2018-03-22 Thread drmatt
Yep, sorry, OT. Find myself having to use putty all the time, but all I do is work around it. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Some FLAC albums won't play on LMS

2018-03-21 Thread drmatt
Fair enough. Putty is ubiquitous, functional, and yet utterly appalling. Why the hell has the windows world not moved on from putty? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Some FLAC albums won't play on LMS

2018-03-19 Thread drmatt
Between minuses converted to "long dash", quotes lost in translation and line breaks becoming, well, line breaks, there are a large number of ways this command might not make it intact to where you want it to be run. However I'd also question winscp's terminal behaviour, I've never actually used

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Some FLAC albums won't play on LMS

2018-03-15 Thread drmatt
I had to write some scripts to load id3 tag data and rewrite it back as vorbis tags. One or two older taggers defaulted to id3, I don't use those now. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Some FLAC albums won't play on LMS

2018-03-15 Thread drmatt
I wonder if your transcode is resampling? That would be the one and only reason it might sound different. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less t

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Daylight Saving Time rescan issue - again!!

2018-03-14 Thread drmatt
The issue with storing file times in UTC (which i agree is the right thing to do in all circumstances by the way) is that when you evaluate the time stamp for display to the user (or internally via an API) the dst offset should be calculated based on the date/time in the file time, not based on th

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Some FLAC albums won't play on LMS

2018-03-14 Thread drmatt
eduardoo wrote: > Yes, set to playing flac natively, those files play fine. As for the > audibility issue, transcoding to wav does seem to sound slightly better > (although there's no strong reason why. Perhaps playing flac strains the > renderer more than playing wav?), and apparently I'm not t

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Some FLAC albums won't play on LMS

2018-03-14 Thread drmatt
And you've stopped transcoding to wav to see if it's the software decode step that's failing .. ? .. (which should be inaudible unless you are utterly mangling the sample rate or bit depth during this transcode step). -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Daylight Saving Time rescan issue - again!!

2018-03-13 Thread drmatt
Ah, it's a Windows stupidity thing. Figured. Simple answer is to not consider any time changes of less than 61 minutes to be a changed file... hehe .. which could have unintended consequences. For me, this is one more nail in the coffin of windows being a viable server os. For any purpose whatsoe

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Daylight Saving Time rescan issue - again!!

2018-03-13 Thread drmatt
I'm not clear on how this is an issue? How does the time stamp on a file change after DST kicks in? Or is this a Windows thing? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 1

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Alarm Feature request

2018-03-04 Thread drmatt
And you could script the play action and script the volume ramp up too. Writing a plugin you'd need to learn some perl. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FL

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Alarm Feature request

2018-03-04 Thread drmatt
I guess you could always create a track with two minute silence then a fade in... (getting increasingly obtuse here..) -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLA

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Alarm Feature request

2018-03-04 Thread drmatt
It's inelegant, but it's an astonishingly specific requirement to support inelegantly slow to start amplifiers too. You could also use a single alarm but add a two minute silent track to the playlist that gets loaded when it starts. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Alarm Feature request

2018-03-04 Thread drmatt
Simple: set a silent alarm two minutes before the real one... -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. -

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Feature request: change playback speed

2018-03-01 Thread drmatt
Istr someone looking at this. You could write a sox config that will resample at a higher playback speed and define a virtual player for it, maybe? Have a search around the forum. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS wi

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Issue: authentication is required to access logitech media server

2018-02-28 Thread drmatt
Davidson wrote: > I didn't set up anything for internet access; just did a standard > install a few months back on this pc. Unless it does so by default, I'd > think this is another issue. Thanks for the quick suggestions!Well someone > set a password so if it wasn't someone outside your netwo

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Issue: authentication is required to access logitech media server

2018-02-28 Thread drmatt
Someone locked your LMS? Is it open to the internet by any chance..? You can remove the password from the Prefs file but do be aware that teenies are sweeping the net looking for LMS instances to play with so don't leave it out there. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] END OF MY ROPE! "Can't connect to server..."

2018-02-23 Thread drmatt
Same here. Wouldn't touch a"lifestyle" product if it was free, and have yet to find something that compares to LMS for everything else. Pity it is just that little bit too hard to setup to recommend to anyone who isn't at least a bit techie. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardw

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] END OF MY ROPE! "Can't connect to server..."

2018-02-23 Thread drmatt
If you go all in, Sonos runs its own mesh and you bridge it with a cable. I'm pretty sure Sonos are on the way out anyway. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] END OF MY ROPE! "Can't connect to server..."

2018-02-23 Thread drmatt
Jeff07971 wrote: > And put the Sonos on an unreliable WiFi ?(Sonos runs its own mesh network.) -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] END OF MY ROPE! "Can't connect to server..."

2018-02-23 Thread drmatt
Cheaper to build Sonos? Not likely. One Sonos box will cost you more than a professional router, and I've found that reliable 2.4ghz wireless G beats unreliable 300/900Mbit AC and N networks every day. The time basis for these issues is classic cheap router syndrome, sorry to say. -Transcoded f

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] END OF MY ROPE! "Can't connect to server..."

2018-02-22 Thread drmatt
I would concur with this. 50% is not good WiFi. My set of five players never drop below about 70% for years now. Definitely you want LMS on a static IP, and hopefully you can just assign a static DHCP IP on your router. But I'd also say that tp-link is not a super high quality aftermarket router.

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] END OF MY ROPE! "Can't connect to server..."

2018-02-22 Thread drmatt
I never, ever hear from people having random connectivity issues when they built their own router and use a dedicated access point as two separate devices, only from those using an all in one router, usually as supplied by some ISP. Do some ping tests, make sure your router's DNS server is any go

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

2018-02-18 Thread drmatt
Is the boom configured to talk to the internal or external address of LMS server? (Assuming I have the right end of the stick..) -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of

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

2018-02-18 Thread drmatt
An app that binds to "all local addresses" when it opens a socket doesn't do so in an order as such. The question is more about the way the function decides which address to return when you ask what it is... It should probably return all the addresses in a list in fact. The ordering of that list i

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS@Raspbian - wake up external USB HD attached to router

2018-01-31 Thread drmatt
You could mount the pi0 on the hub and mount the hub on the HDD... You may also be able to disable spin down altogether if you plug the HDD into the pi and send it some ioctls using hdparm or similar. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS@Raspbian - wake up external USB HD attached to router

2018-01-31 Thread drmatt
Not the job of the Pi to wake the HDD, it's the job of whichever device has it mounted. Any file reference via e.g. NFS or CIFS should cause the fritzbox to wake the HDD. It may not wake in time of course and the Pi might timeout the action.. I would connect it to the pi via a powered hub. -Tra

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Server log size

2018-01-27 Thread drmatt
If you installed from a .dpkg or .rpm file you can check if the file has been modified since install. If you used a tarball all bets are off.. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Server log size

2018-01-27 Thread drmatt
It's weekly or 200k whichever comes first, based on that config. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. --

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Suggestions for large playlist in LMS

2018-01-27 Thread drmatt
JJZolx wrote: > Specifically with the Raspberry Pi 3? > > Still, it's a good place to start, unless it's burdensome to do so.No, didn't > try it on the Pi3 to be fair. It has much more CPU grunt than the earlier models but the same ram and I/O bottlenecks. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tap

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS Server log size

2018-01-26 Thread drmatt
Never looked but is there an etc/logrotate.d/logitechmediaserver? That's where rotation of the log file would be driven unless LMS does it itself. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Suggestions for large playlist in LMS

2018-01-26 Thread drmatt
JJZolx wrote: > I'd say that would be a very good place to start and see if it improves > performance.I believe this won't solve the problem. The issue I've seen is > LMS side not I/o. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Suggestions for large playlist in LMS

2018-01-25 Thread drmatt
I think from the original description it was simply stating that the load of the playlist was either painful or didn't start. It's not that it "doesn't work". A friend had similar issues with a smaller Pi and a large-ish playlist (only a few hundred items). It ground to a halt whilst trying to sen

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Suggestions for large playlist in LMS

2018-01-25 Thread drmatt
Pi probably doesn't have enough RAM for this. You could consider adding swap space on a fast usb flash drive? I doubt it would be fast enough to help a great deal though. Get a meatier server would be my advice. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Re

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

2018-01-21 Thread drmatt
I am sure Michael is already thinking this way, but it seems likely your router is configured to "route" all packets even internally on the 192.168.1 network. You may have a setting in the router that says "allow lan clients to talk to each other". Tick it. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapat

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] TIDAL:s new volume normalisation and our Tidal app

2017-11-19 Thread drmatt
I imagine this will be implemented in the digital stream. Hopefully there will be no scaling required at the client end (otherwise they'd have to update all the clients). -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] TIDAL:s new volume normalisation and our Tidal app

2017-11-18 Thread drmatt
Dammit I might have to sign up. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Installing on ubuntu 17.10?

2017-11-16 Thread drmatt
Perl version. You always need the LMS later than the OS release.. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. -

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] rescanning media library problems - removing deleted files ??

2017-10-22 Thread drmatt
Hourly scans is kinda enthusiastic..! (As an aside I wonder if anyone ever did an inotify-based rescan trigger plugin?) What storage are you using for your library? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Can LMS listen on multiple interfaces

2017-10-21 Thread drmatt
>From the IP stack POV there's no difference between separate network devices, IP aliases and VLANs. If they are local it will respond to packets on them. That does however mean you either have to feed the Pi a trunked connection or all your LAN segments are carried on the same physical Ethernet,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Can LMS listen on multiple interfaces

2017-10-21 Thread drmatt
It doesn't choose which interface to listen on unless you deliberately lock it down to do so with a firewall rule. 99.9% of programs will just open a listener socket without specifying. If you do that, you listen to all local interfaces. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware:

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] CLOSE_WAIT after restart

2017-09-27 Thread drmatt
Those are closed. Iirc it's up to the other end to acknowledge the close before they will disappear from the kernel's connection list. They will time out and disappear before long and are harmless. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Raspberry Pi 2 - maxxed out cpu

2017-09-11 Thread drmatt
First off does it persist after a reboot... Often that's all that's required.. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] 7.9.1 just installed, and crashes

2017-09-04 Thread drmatt
Windows? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. d

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Problems playing 2 synced SBTs at the same time - new problem just recently.

2017-08-20 Thread drmatt
Sounds like one of your players has a clock problem.. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. -

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Performance using network drive for music storage? (LMS running in virtual machine)

2017-08-14 Thread drmatt
As a network drive it makes zero difference to performance during operation only during scan. Whether that scan is fast enough for you is something only you can answer.. it won't change much as likely the drive itself and the IOPs it supports is the limiting factor. -Transcoded from Matt's brain

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU usage during playback at the beginning of each song

2017-08-04 Thread drmatt
Artwork.db? Core i7.. that's an awful lot of CPU power to get used just to transcode a track. Even a full blown MP3 encode at ridiculous high quality should be dispatched quicker than that, unless the track is 20 minutes long or something. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardw

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] High CPU usage during playback at the beginning of each song

2017-08-03 Thread drmatt
What's the PC hardware running LMS? Can you check the size of the DB files? I'd say it's either an unfeasibly slow transcode or an image resize or a database full of cruft. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debi

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What OS do you recommend for the LMS

2017-08-01 Thread drmatt
I'd have to admit to being biased by history.. Debian has for a long, long time had a far superior package management system to any of the redhat variants. I'd always choose a Debian based setup over a centos or fedora for this reason alone. It comes down to the quality of curation of the online r

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What OS do you recommend for the LMS

2017-07-31 Thread drmatt
... which is one of the reasons Debian/stable is top of the server choices.. it's miles from the bleeding edge and it can be two or three years between major releases... -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What OS do you recommend for the LMS

2017-07-30 Thread drmatt
I've never had trouble with the Debian builds.. but the dedicated OS images seem to be focussing on raspberry pi rather than x86. An OVA would be nice, but I'm not aware of one. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Has LMS new bug with german "Umlaute" at top folder from library?

2017-07-26 Thread drmatt
You will need to install utf-8 support at least, I would guess. For what it's worth even on a full blown Debian install with full locale support I've usually stripped non base ASCII characters from filenames anyway and only allow accented characters inside the id3 tags. -Transcoded from Matt's

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Web interface

2017-07-25 Thread drmatt
You can drag it wider, but I don't know if you can drag it taller too..? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. --

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Has LMS new bug with german "Umlaute" at top folder from library?

2017-07-23 Thread drmatt
On what platform are you running LMS, and what's your locale settings? Using UTF8 or iso? Upgraded any font packages recently? Using a different web browser update? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Playlist and favourite persistence

2017-07-22 Thread drmatt
I tend not to move files around, but I would agree that a file-checksum based playlist would be cool. I would also agree that it might be more computationally expensive than it's worth, so I'll continue to stick to not moving my files around -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- H

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to get Right and Left Channels to work separately?? (Output Channel mode)

2017-07-11 Thread drmatt
brannou wrote: > BTW, I can use only one single channel of each amplifier, this will be > easier! > I just have to adjust the offset between the 2 Squeezelite boxes... > > Thanks And they both have to play at exactly the same speed.. good luck! It works, ish, but I would probably still buy a lon

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to get Right and Left Channels to work separately?? (Output Channel mode)

2017-07-09 Thread drmatt
I suspect even if you get it working the sync will be nowhere near close enough to convince as a stereo sound. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No l

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Squeezebox Radio stops playing alarm track after ~10 seconds

2017-07-07 Thread drmatt
Don't think there have been any device firmware changes since the official Logitech releases stopped. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Album Art seems to pick a random jpg

2017-07-04 Thread drmatt
I've always used "cover.jpg" and never put more than one in a folder so haven't seen that behaviour. Do you have any album art plugins? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Logitech Media Server 7.9.0 is out!

2017-06-29 Thread drmatt
I'll need this build too when I update my LMS box. I really should migrate my machine to the x64 kernel and userspace libs, but it's way down my list of things to do unfortunately. The OS actually started out on a Celeron 333 MHz, back when people thought 32 bits was more than enough... Still run

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to search for songs

2017-06-18 Thread drmatt
It is doing a logical OR on the words you provide it to search on. If I search for "land of" I get hits with the strings "land" and "of" in the title, but it's not necessarily in that order, so I get "land of confusion" yes but I also get "the take off and landing of everything" as well as any ti

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How many sync'd players are realistc?

2017-06-12 Thread drmatt
s2kiwi wrote: > If I was to run into problems could I pair them independently to double > the bandwidth, i.e. a 2x2 layout with 2 source adapters on my main > switch running to a single end point each.. I suspect that as they're using the same carrier frequency you will find that two identical p

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