Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A few questions about piCorePlayer (8.2.0.)

2022-11-30 Thread RobbH
slartibartfast wrote: > The only issue I had which was caused by my HDD spinning down after a > few minutes, was artwork going out of sync if a couple of consecutive > Spotify tracks appeared in a Random playlist. The HDD could sleep during > the Spotify tracks but I have never seen the HDD

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A few questions about piCorePlayer (8.2.0.)

2022-11-30 Thread Paul Webster
I made a change to hd-idle recently in an attempt to get my Seagate drive to spin down. Not for LMS/Player installation - but applies in set-up where there is a 64-bit OS but 32-bit userspace. Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A few questions about piCorePlayer (8.2.0.)

2022-11-30 Thread slartibartfast
RobbH wrote: > Isn't this usually a setting in the external drive's firmware, rather > than on the computer? > > Searching for the opposite of what you want, I found this page, mostly > more than ten years old, but with one suggestion from last year: > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A few questions about piCorePlayer (8.2.0.)

2022-11-30 Thread Eyerex
If your thinking of buying a Hard Drive i normally go for Seagate drives as they have a bit of software (think its called Seagate dashboard) which before you use plug into your PC start the software and it lets you set a sleep timer for the drive which gets written to the hard drives memory so

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A few questions about piCorePlayer (8.2.0.)

2022-11-29 Thread joys_33
Ok, thanks for the info, I'm using an SSD for now. joys_33's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56492 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117139

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A few questions about piCorePlayer (8.2.0.)

2022-11-29 Thread RobbH
joys_33 wrote: > And please, what about putting the classic HDD disk to sleep, is > there somewhere in the system this function so that the disk does not > keep spinning when the device is not in use? Isn't this usually a setting in the external drive's firmware, rather than on the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A few questions about piCorePlayer (8.2.0.)

2022-11-29 Thread joys_33
Thanks for the advice and can you please guide me to some help on how to do this? It is not clear to me what I should plug in where. joys_33's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56492 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A few questions about piCorePlayer (8.2.0.)

2022-11-29 Thread paul-
On the tweaks page, there is the ability to configure shutdown based on a GPIO pin. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://picoreplayer.org/index.html#donate) if you like the piCorePlayer

[SlimDevices: Unix] A few questions about piCorePlayer (8.2.0.)

2022-11-29 Thread joys_33
Hello, this forum is very extensive, so I will ask directly, if this has been addressed somewhere, I apologize, I installed your awesome piCorePlayer (8.2.0.) , and I would like to ask a few things. I have the installation on a raspberry pi 3 b+ (SD card) and an external SSD drive is connected