Hi again
I'm back in Linux Mint (19) after a sojourn in Windows and noticed that
I'm still having the same problem: The "music notes" button on the top
right does nothing and I can't get to the "Now Playing" display. I
closed Squeezeplay and opened it again, but it kept playing in the
Paul Webster wrote:
> Squeezelite-X installs Squeezelite and provides an interactive front-end
> to it.
>
>
> If you want to try the command line directly then start up a cmd/dos
> session
>
> and run it with a
> -l
> (minus elle)
> This will list the output devices.
> You then need to
Paul Webster wrote:
> The end of first post in the Squeezelite-X thread.
As I said, I've tried twice and can't install it. Isn't there a Windows
installer somewhere, that doesn't insist you have a Microsof account on
a specific device? In any case I'd prefer to install squeezelite on my
bpa wrote:
> For windows 7 - OP may have to use the installer at end of first post.
I assume you mean the first post on the Squeezelite-X thread? No? If
yes, I spent quite a while earlier today (I'm in Europe) jumping through
hoops to try to download it, and was never able to.
The first post
Paul Webster wrote:
> It requires a few things to to typed into the command line- but try
> Squeezelite-X as this provides a more familiar user interface.
>
> [Announce] Squeezelite-X
>
Paul Webster wrote:
> In your case install Squeezelite (or try Squeezelite X) on your PC.
> "Local playaer" is local to the LMS system not local to where you happen
> to be sitting when you installed the plugin via a web browser.
Thanks. I've downloaded squeezelite-x64.exe and when I run it it
Hello, and please forgive me for not wanting to read through all 359
pages to make sure my question hasn't been covered.
I installed Local Player via the LMS Web interface on my PC, which is
what I use to control LMS. But LMS itself is in fact installed on a
Wandboard Quad (and works fine). But
castalla wrote:
> I use this on Mint 19.2 = absolutely no issues.
Thanks. Can you let me know exactly what version of Squeezeplay you use?
Plus your source and how you installed it?
TIA
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Logitech Media Server Version:
lopasilver wrote:
> did you try ti simply re-install it ?
Yeah, I did and also uninstalled and installed the non-pulse version.
It's an improvement, but it's not working as it should: When I click and
hold the right-hand button, I can get the Playlist, but I can't get to
the Now Playing
lopasilver wrote:
> Pulse version is working like a charm on Manjaro/Gnome.
> Thanks a lot
I still can't get the right-hand button to work, which means that I
can't get to the Now Playing or Playlist screens.
Would it be worth it to uninstall the Pulse version
ralphy wrote:
> Clicking the mouse button with the pointer on the Now Playing screen
> cycles to the next one or pressing the [ key on the keyboard.
Thanks! On my (French) keyboard I get "saving preset #9" when I hit the
"5/(/[" key. I can't switch keyboard mappings easily or I'd try with
The only problems I see is that the button at the upper right, which
normally switches between Playlist and Now Playing, seems to work only
intermittently, and that there's no choice of Now Playing displays (on
the hardware Touch, touching the screen once cycles through the
displays).
Okay I got it installed and working following your instructions in the
'Readme'
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/squeezeplay/linux/README.txt/download)
that accompanies the 'package'
ralphy wrote:
> Try the pulse version first. It automatically allows you to mix audio
> from other applications while playing music. I've never tested the
> builds on mint linux.
Great, thanks. Will do so as soon as I get a little time, and will
report back here.
Forgive me for adding to this thread, but it's helped me so much I can't
resist:
I'm on Linux Mint 19, Intel x64. Which version should I try to install?
squeezeplay-pulse-7.8.0-1149-x86_64, or
squeezeplay-7.8.0-1149-x86_64.tgz?
TIA
Les
Thanks immensely for this help. I've done everything below ...
Roland0 wrote:
> Change the [Network] section of both files to this:
>
> >
Code:
> >
> [Network]
> DHCP=ipv4
> LinkLocalAddressing=ipv4
> IPv6AcceptRA=no
> DNSSEC=no
>
Roland0 wrote:
>
> You'll have to adjust one or both as described in post #1610 (the prime
> candidate will have a "DHCP=yes" in the [Network] section). Details see
> 'here' (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-networkd)
> If in doubt, post the content on both files.
Thanks a
Roland0 wrote:
> I still think you should first fix the IPv6 issue (see posts #1610 /
> #1611)
Thanks! systemctl status systemd-sysctl.service returns:
Code:
* systemd-sysctl.service - Apply Kernel Variables
Loaded: loaded
Paul Webster wrote:
> If you stick with that solution then make sure that your LMS cannot be
> reached from outside your local network otherwise you might find that
> someone running some scripts finds your system and, at best, does silly
> things with it like setting the players to 100% volume
I found a solution: In */opt/logitechmediaserver/prefs/server.prefs* I
changed *protectSettings:* from 1 to 0 and I was able to log in and set
up. The scan is now running and it looks as if it will be very fast.
Thanks to Paul and everyone for their help!
Best regards,
Les
Paul Webster wrote:
> As an experiment ... change the 2 0.0.0.0 to 192.168.0.13
> If it works - then try to reserve that IP address (192.168.0.13) on your
> router as being for your LMS machine.
Tried that with no luck. Also tried changing allowedHosts: in
server.prefs to 192.168.0.* No luck
This time I succeeded with the editing of
/usr/lib/systemd/system/logitechmediaserver.service, line 14.
Code:
[alarm@alarm ~]$ ps -ef|grep httpaddr
logitec+ 358 1 13 14:27 ?00:00:10 /usr/bin/perl
/opt/logitechmediaserver/slimserver.pl --prefsdir
Hello Paul. I uninstalled squeezelite and LMS, then reinstalled LMS
(v7.9.2, ARCH-AUR-REL.7.9.2.arch2) and rebooted.
Logitechmediaserver.service is running. But I still can't connect. I get
the same error message in server.log:
Code:
19-09-12 10:19:40.3761]
Roland0 wrote:
> You should disable IPv6 as it is described on the 'arch wiki'
> (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPv6#Disable_IPv6):
>
>
>
> Reboot, check ifconfig if there are any IPv6 addresses assigned.
> Next, check your LAN router and disable IPv6 for your LAN
>
> If the problem
I tried following these instructions, but no cigar...
http://ask.xmodulo.com/disable-ipv6-linux.html
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Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - TRUNK @ UNKNOWN, formerly running
on Wandboard Quad using Squeeze on Arch
Music
Paul Webster wrote:
> Can you temporarily disable IPv6 on the LMS machine?
Code:
[root@alarm alarm]# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163 mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.13 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::21f:7bff:feb4:1754 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
Paul Webster wrote:
> Can you temporarily disable IPv6 on the LMS machine?
I'd be happy to if I knew how... :(
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Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - TRUNK @ UNKNOWN, formerly running
on Wandboard Quad using Squeeze on
Paul Webster wrote:
> Is it perhaps trying to use IPv6 address but the routine is for IPv4?
Thanks! How could I find that out?
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Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - TRUNK @ UNKNOWN, formerly running
on Wandboard Quad
Looking at the LMS server log, I see the following error repeated
several times:
Code:
Sep 11 12:34:02 alarm slimserver.pl[348]: [19-09-11 12:33:58.0841]
Slim::Networking::IO::Select::__ANON__ (131) Error: Select task failed calling
Slim::Web::HTTP::acceptHTTP: Bad
ralphy wrote:
> Yes, that one as well. Not sure why one of the commands are in quotes,
> but leave them there.
Thanks! But the latest stage in the odyssey is trying to install LMS and
squeezelite on Arch Linux directly, without using SoA. I managed to get
them installed - the latest versions
Roland0 wrote:
> As mentioned in my previous post, use the AUR versions for LMS and
> squeezelite (if required) - the SoA ones are ancient and unsupported.
> Don't run the SoA install script, but install them as described in the
> link I posted above (cd , makepkg -si etc.)
> Do you actually
ralphy wrote:
> The git clone would create the folder triode-squeezelite instead of
> squeezelite. It's been a while since I used archlinux.
>
> Try changing the three occurances of
>
> cd $pkgname
>
> to
>
> cd triode-$pkgname
>
> in the squeezelite PKGBUILD file.
Thanks! But what about
atrocity wrote:
> When SoA went away I installed Debian on my Wandboards and have been
> running them that way for years now.
>
> https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104744-SOA-alternatives/page2
Thanks. So that solution is still a valid possibility. I'll keep that
in mind if I give
Roland0 wrote:
> I mean the 'Arch User Repository (AUR)' (https://aur.archlinux.org/),
> where you'll find current packages (so-called PKGBUILDs) for 'LMS'
> (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/logitechmediaserver/) and
> squeezelite, and instructions on ' how to install them'
>
Chunkywizard wrote:
> as above, I also went RPi/PCP after my Wandboard died. As it is
> currently supported (unlike SoA) it was much easier to get a new server
> up and running. If you are interested in that have a look at
> https://www.picoreplayer.org/
>
> CW
Thanks. But since my Wandboard
Hi. As explained 'here'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?101624-Announce-Squeeze-on-Arch-developer-version/page158),
I'm trying to reinstall SoA on my Wandboard. I followed your
suggestion:
albertone74 wrote:
> I wasn't able to perform the update due to a compatibility issue
Roland0 wrote:
> Just copying parts from the old install is unlikely to work, as any
> binary may be broken due to the changes in other packages it depends
> upon.
> LMS and squeezelite are in the arch package repository (AUR), so these
> can be installed normally
> If you need the other
Hello to all. I had successfully set up SoA on a Wandboard back in 2015
('see this thread'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103319-LMS-on-Wandboard-with-ReadyNAS-and-Squeezebox-Touch/page10)).
It was operating over the network with my music files on a ReadyNAS. Now
the NAS is dead
Krisbee wrote:
> See here, if still trying sort out locale and LANG environment variables
> under Arch linux:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale
Yeah, thanks, I'd seen something similar, but what I read didn't mention
that the file locale.conf can be created if it doesn't exist.
Hello. It seems that the real solution to the LMS CLI not understanding
accented characters is to go into the start script and add a "--charset"
switch. Can someone point me in the right direction as to how to do
that?
TIA
Thanks, that worked great. 'This post '
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104146-Command-Line-Interface-basics-%28Windows-box%29=829044#post829044)shows
exactly what I did.
However when I re-started LMS, I got this message:
Sep 04 05:49:40 soa-wandboard slimserver.pl[10405]: Your
Hello. After getting SoA/LMS working on my Wandboard, using a Squeezebox
Touch as the head, I've been grappling with the problem of sending file
paths containing accented characters to LMS from my (Windows 7) computer
via the Command Line Interface (that thread is 'here'
Hello. I hope this won't be considered hijacking the thread, but after
getting SoA/LMS working on my Wandboard, using a Squeezebox Touch as the
head, I've been grappling with the problem of sending file paths
containing accented characters to LMS from my (Windows 7) computer via
the Command Line
Lestrad wrote:
Thanks. I'm now trying to reinstall, and so far the browser interface
won't come back for the second phase. But once I hit Clean and cold
rebooted once, it lauched the reinstall process, so I'm assuming the
card is good. If I can't get it to come back - possibly by cold
Logitech Media Server version 7.9 has been working fine for several
months on a Wandboard running SoA and a ReadyNAS NV+ as server, then
suddenly it stopped. I can't get the SoA interface to start LMS, nor can
I start it by entering the address in the browser manually. So I
uninstalled LMS v 7.9
atrocity wrote:
Is there a chance that your MicroSD card is faulty? If Krisbee's Full
Clean suggestion doesn't work, you might try creating a new
installation on a different card.
Thanks. I'm now trying to reinstall, and so far the browser interface
won't come back for the second phase. But
Hello to all. After about two months, the SD card SoA was on died and I
had to reinstall it. And I'm having problems mounting my ReadyNAS music
share again.
When I try to mount it via the Web interface, I get the following error
message:
mount.nfs: Failed to resolve server /192.168.0.14/: Name
steve-g wrote:
Shouldn't the format for nfs shares be in the form:
192.168.0.198:/c/media I.E. without the first /?
Sure enough, 192.168.0.14:/media vers=3 worked.
That is, slash not backslash, no first slash.
Thanks a million!
Lestrad wrote:
Yes. And that was the problem. I had put *.jpg in Artwork in the
Advanced tab.Once I removed it I was able to scan. See 'this thread'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103460-LMS-7-9-on-SqueezeOnArch-on-Wandboard-refuses-to-scanp=814859#post814859).
Thanks
Just to tie this up, I substituted .*jpg for *.jpg and I can still
scan with no problem. And LMS is starting to pick up images in the
folders that aren't named cover or folder. Performance is great,
especially browsing and searching. I do sometimes experience a lag when
playing a file.
Thanks!
mherger wrote:
Check your formatting settings. Did you define some kind of placeholder
for artwork to be found? There's an error about an invalid regex during
the artwork scan which might cause the scan to fail.
Hi! I'd set *.jpg in Artwork. Removed it and trying again...
I finally got LMS working on a Wandboard Quad, but now for some reason
it won't complete a scan. It completes the directory scan and crashes
when it starts the scan of the first file. This is what the end of the
scan log looks like:
[15-04-06 11:44:51.3375]
mherger wrote:
Check your formatting settings. Did you define some kind of placeholder
for artwork to be found? There's an error about an invalid regex during
the artwork scan which might cause the scan to fail.
Yep. Removing *.jpg seems to have done the trick. I had put that there
so that
mherger wrote:
[15-04-06 11:44:53.0195] main::main (337) Error: Failed when running
main scan: [Quantifier follows nothing in regex; marked by -- HERE
in
m/^(?:cover|folder|album|thumb|* -- HERE .jpg)\./ at
/opt/logitechmediaserver/Slim/Music/Artwork.pm line 141.
Check your
So I finally got the share mounted as NFS after I enabled and started
rpcbind.
But now LMS is unable to scan my collection. Here are the last lines of
the scan log:
[15-04-04 07:50:14.1566]
Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::Async::__ANON__ (146) Found
/mnt/netnas/Music/tags-upload_discussion
I reverted back to my previous set-up, with the share mounted as CIFS.
Still the scan crashes.
Logically, the share being both CIF and NFS on the NAS is the problem.
That's the only thing that's different. But come to think of it, I was
having scan failures even before I changed anything.
chrissy wrote:
Hi Ronnie,
so it is not fixed so far. I posted a somewhat detailed report on this a
couple of weeks ago. But triode seems to be off the record since
beginning of February. Hope he is well. Alternatively you can use the
Debian image of Slovenia (igor pop..., I don't know
Well, since I couldn't scan my collection and consequently couldn't play
any music through my Squeezebox, I decided to try uninstalling and
reinstalling LMS 7.9. When I do, this happens:
error: inflate: data stream error (incorrect data check)
error: failed to read object
Krisbee wrote:
Had another look on the Arch Linux forum and this post rang a few bells:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193410
...
Let me know if this works for you.
Yes!! It works! That was it. Once I started *rpcbind *I was able to
mount the share with no problem. SOA has
Krisbee wrote:
If you did step one above and leave your /etc/fstab as you have shown,
then your NFS share should be (re)mounted after a re-boot. There's
nothing else to do.
I wouldn't have thought you needed write access to data on your
Wandboard as you can edit the data via your
bakker_be wrote:
From experience, I'd suggest you stick to CIFS (actually SMB) when using
Windows ...
Hi. So it's not a problem to leave the share with both CIFS and NFS
enabled, and for Windows to access it as CIFS and the Wandboard as NFS?
The Wandboard can access it as read-only, it
Krisbee wrote:
The error message is telling you what is wrong. In the Network share
box you should have entered:
Code:
192.168.0.15:/media
Why not use one of the inbuilt mount points - /mnt/disk1, etc?
Thanks. I entered
Krisbee wrote:
OK, possible version clash of nfs versions on wandboard ( vers4) and
ReadyNAs (vers 3 ?). You could try to add a vers=3 option to the
mount command, but SOA might not handle this correcty, e.g:
Code:
mount -t nfs -v -o vers=3
Krisbee wrote:
Make that journalclt -n 50 and post again. Looking for log entry
similar to this soa-rpi sudo[343]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/mount -t nfs -o defaults,_netdev
192.168.0.20:/media/musdata/Te to show what command was executed.
Here's what I get:
Lestrad wrote:
Is there a DUHHH.. smiley? I just realized I was using the wrong IP
address. Sorry. I'll get back to you in a bit...
Here's what I get when I use the right IP address:
rpcinfo -u 192.168.0.14 nfs:
program 13 version 2 ready and waiting
program 13 version 3 ready
Krisbee wrote:
As you've confirmed your NFS server accepts version4 connections,
shouldn't your manual mount command be (the v switch is for verbose
output):
Code:
mount -v -t nfs4 192.168.0.14:/c/media
Here's the result I get:
steve-g wrote:
Its fun this isn't it!
The '-o' in mount -t nfs -o 192.168.0.14:/c/media media/netdrive is the
problem - -o causes the '192.168.0.14:/c/media' to be treated as an
option string.
Without the '-o' I get: mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was
specified
I'm beginning
Krisbee wrote:
Post the last few lines of journalctl -f output here, this should show
you the mount command executed by webinterface.
--
Apr 01 10:08:37 soa-wandboard systemd[14802]: Starting Timers.
Apr 01 10:08:37 soa-wandboard systemd[14802]: Reached target Timers.
Apr 01 10:08:37
Krisbee wrote:
Well there's no evidence of what happened there, but I notice
rpc-statd.service failed. You need to check your NFS configuration from
the Wandboard as root:
Is there a DUHHH.. smiley? I just realized I was using the wrong IP
address. Sorry. I'll get
simoh wrote:
Could you now try -o nolock
Simon.
Thanks. Here's the result:
[root@soa-wandboard /]# mount -v -t nfs4 -o nolock 192.168.0.14:/c/media
media/netdrive mount.nfs4: timeout set for
Wed Apr 1 15:08:17 2015
mount.nfs4: trying text-based options
simoh wrote:
OK. I'm just trying to remember how I solved this a couple of months
ago. Whatever the solution was didn't allow for auto-mounting after a
reboot, which is why I resorted to the fstab entry.
Simon.
I don't mind using fstab. That's how I'm now mounting the share via CIFS
-
Krisbee wrote:
Without seeing both the NFS exports file and NFS config files on your
NAS, I'd be guessing. ( These are /etc/exports and
/etc/default/nfs-kernel-server on a default debian install for example,
what are they on your NAS).
I'll go into the NAS and get
Krisbee wrote:
Lestrad wrote:
While you're doing that, I did a bit of googling over at the arch linux
forums. This recent thread may be relevant:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193834
The suggestion is to try this in the mount command:
Code
steve-g wrote:
I'm not using squeezelite it's LMS I'm trying to get to work -
communicates to a couple of touches to do the actual replay.
This is the entry in the fstab:
//192.168.0.198/media /media/netdrive cifs
steve-g wrote:
It seems to fail with an abort message:
- Extracting a6e7fc58e6912986d003598ed79bb6a391a2113c.tar.gz with
bsdtar
== Starting prepare()...
/aur/soa-aur/linux-wandboard/PKGBUILD: line 34: patch: command not
found
== ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
Aborting...
steve-g wrote:
No - I didn't realise there is one - do you know where I can get it from
and the process involved in installing it?
Just go the IP address of your Wandboard and you should see the SoA Home
page. Go to the Update tab and look for a check box. Check it and hit
Install/Remove. Let
steve-g wrote:
The actual error message with nfs - as reported in WinScp is:
General failure (server should provide error description).
Error code: 4
Error message from server: Failure
Just wish I knew what it means.
Exactly what is in your fstab? Or are you trying to mount manually?
steve-g wrote:
I've recently installed SOA and LMS (7.81) on to a Wandboard Quad mainly
to get BBC radio working again as the sparc processor that my Readynas
uses does not have the horse power to run this.
I have my music stored on the readynas (a Readynas Duo V1) and have
mounted the
I've given up trying to mount my ReadyNAS music folder on SoA. I've been
at it for two solid days. If anybody would like to try to help, please
look at this thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103319-LMS-on-Wandboard-with-ReadyNAS-and-Squeezebox-Touch
I got it sorted out. See this post:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103319-LMS-on-Wandboard-with-ReadyNAS-and-Squeezebox-Touchp=813220#post813220
Seems there's a bug in mount.cifs...
Lestrad's Profile:
took rather longer to work out how to mount the network drive on my
readynas to get at my music
Please, can you explain how you did this? I've edited etc/fstab to look
like this:
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# file system dir type options dump pass
Flashed a new SD card and tried the Install again. This time after
manually cold-rebooting the Wandboard, the second phase came up and is
now executing.
I'll report back as I get time over a busy weekend.
Lestrad's
steve-g wrote:
I got a Wandboard Quad yesterday and LMS up and running in about an hour
- took rather longer to work out how to mount the network drive on my
readynas to get at my music but all up and running now.
I'm very impressed by the smooth way it worked so I would like to say
kesey wrote:
Hi Lestrad, using the USB Image Tool burning the .img file to your micro
SD card is drag and drop. It will work with your external card reader,
you just have to ensure you are pointing to the correct drive by
verifying its location with Windows Explorer. Similarly. backing up
Okay, I got the OS installed and clicked the Install button in the
browser interface. The first part of the installation seems to have gone
well. I got the following messages:
...
Extracting Linux
Updating configuration scripts
Adding firstboot scipts
Adding boot scipt
Copy installer web
Syncing
JRatron wrote:
it did yes. didn't take long.
have you tried powering off/on?
No, I'm afraid to. But it's been about two hours now. Are you sure it's
safe to do?
Lestrad's Profile:
JRatron wrote:
if you can't ping the IP address that it is/was on, then it's not
communicating on the network.
2 hours is ages, give it a kick :)
Unplugged it for about 15 minutes and plugged it back in. Still getting
destination host unreachable.
JRatron wrote:
I would get the android/iphone app called 'Fing' and see if it's changed
address.
It's a network tool that (provided your phone is on wifi to the same
network) quickly and simply scans your network and shows you what's
active and what ports are open and such.
I've found it
gregb wrote:
Here are my notes from CSOS (Fedora Linux) on Wandboard Quad. I don't
know if this works with SoA.
Console access via serial port or ssh, then
Disable WiFi:
Create a file /etc/modprobe.d/brcmfmac-ignore.conf
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/brcmfmac-ignore.conf
Add this line:
kesey wrote:
I don't know if you already have it, but you will probable need the USB
image tool from here in order to burn the image onto your micro SD card:
http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/download/
Thanks. I downloaded the Image Tool, and I'd like to try to use the
command-line
Hello. I'm a non-tech hobbyist hoping to run SoA on a Wandboard Quad.
I'm currently waiting for the board to arrive. Can anyone tell me what I
need to do to disable WiFi and Bluetooth on the board? (I want to run
wired-only.)
I just finished reading the entire thread and someone asked the
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