Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: License Manager, plugins/applets going commercial

2011-12-16 Thread erland
reniera;677309 Wrote: > > I deplore logitech spending so much effort for lms (completely useless) > when a fraction of those resource could be spent to code ratings in the > main db. > If you or anyone else that want support for ratings and smart playlists haven't done so already, please make s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: License Manager, plugins/applets going commercial

2011-12-16 Thread reniera
mps;677242 Wrote: > Erland. Please don't read the following :) > > FWIW, I think Erland's plugins are the biggest bargain in audio. They > are the primary reason I use and recommend Squeezebox, and have > improved the value of my squeezebox and stereo to me by orders of > magnitude. The cost is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Artist Tags in CustomScan/Trackstat

2011-12-16 Thread emalvick
I'm not sure I can answer the OP's question. I know that having a per artist or album rating tag is not the easiest thing to implement, and trying to work that into use in Squeezebox could be a challenge. I suppose one way to work it would be to utilize an ARTISTRATING field as if it is a generi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Artist Tags in CustomScan/Trackstat

2011-12-16 Thread erland
mps;677278 Wrote: > :( > > Still, when you mentioned at ARTISTRATING tag, how were you thinking > I'd associate it to an artist? Is that something that could be done > more simply? > I thought you planned to add an ARTISTRATING tag to all songs by a specific artist, but I don't think this is a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: License Manager, plugins/applets going commercial

2011-12-16 Thread PasTim
erland;677277 Wrote: > I agree 100% with this, everyone have to decide for themselves if it's > worth the money or not. I don't want anyone to buy the plugins if they > don't think they are worth the money, in this case it's a lot better > that they find another cheaper solution to the problem, e

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Artist Tags in CustomScan/Trackstat

2011-12-16 Thread mps
:( Still, when you mentioned at ARTISTRATING tag, how were you thinking I'd associate it to an artist? Is that something that could be done more simply? Thanks, Mike -- mps mps's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/m

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: License Manager, plugins/applets going commercial

2011-12-16 Thread erland
Tony T;677269 Wrote: > > Everyone has to weigh need vs cost. > I agree 100% with this, everyone have to decide for themselves if it's worth the money or not. I don't want anyone to buy the plugins if they don't think they are worth the money, in this case it's a lot better that they find anothe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] slimnas 2.0.2: lms 7.7.1 install fails(?)

2011-12-16 Thread PerLundborg
I will give it a try later tonight. -- PerLundborg PerLundborg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7766 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92332 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: License Manager, plugins/applets going commercial

2011-12-16 Thread Tony T
With the SB Radio costing (now), only $130, I can see how an added 38% for 3rd party plugins can be viewed by some as "too much" Everyone has to weigh need vs cost. I used to use the plugin's to get better "Randomization", but to do this, I needed 3 or 4 plugins (I don't recall the exact numbe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: License Manager, plugins/applets going commercial

2011-12-16 Thread pippin
@excalibur: So to sum it up: You've spend a few hundred $ on Squeezeboxes and now that you have to pay another 50$ for the one product that makes all of this only worthwhile for you, that's too much and instead you are now giving up and spending another few hundred $ for Apple hardware instead, w

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Artist Tags in CustomScan/Trackstat

2011-12-16 Thread erland
mps;677252 Wrote: > By performer tags, I meant tags in customscan_contributor_attributes, > not the "performer" tag. Sorry for not being clearer. I use mp3tag to > tag my songs with per-song custom tags, but what do I tag to enter > per-contributor tags, not per-song tags? > Ok, the only way to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Artist Tags in CustomScan/Trackstat

2011-12-16 Thread mps
By performer tags, I meant tags in customscan_contributor_attributes, not the "performer" tag. Sorry for not being clearer. I use mp3tag to tag my songs with per-song custom tags, but how do I tell it that a given tag that I put in a song is for a Particular contributor and not just a per-song tag

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Artist Tags in CustomScan/Trackstat

2011-12-16 Thread mps
By performer tags, I meant tags in customscan_contributor_attributes, not the "performer" tag. Sorry for not being clearer. I use mp3tag to tag my songs with per-song custom tags, but what do I tag to enter per-contributor tags, not per-song tags? erland;677246 Wrote: > Yes, TrackStat only suppor

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Anyone want to help testing new TrackStat version ?

2011-12-16 Thread erland
mps;677245 Wrote: > It is the standard Artists menu generated by Multilibrary. The native My > Music/Artists library does not seem to have this problem. > Ok, I suspect the issue is that the current Multi Library plugin won't refresh the library contents until after the rescan has finished. Prev

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Artist Tags in CustomScan/Trackstat

2011-12-16 Thread erland
mps;677239 Wrote: > I want to create an artist rating tag independent of the average of the > artist's song ratings, which seems to be used by Trackstat (is that > correct?). > Yes, TrackStat only supports song ratings, the album/artist ratings is just an average of the song ratings related to t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Anyone want to help testing new TrackStat version ?

2011-12-16 Thread mps
erland;677241 Wrote: > Is it the standard Albums/Artists menus in Custom Browse that doesn't > work or is it some menu using a template based on Custom Scan ? > Do you know which template it's based on ? Or can you post the > *.cb.values.xml files representing the menu ? It is the standard Artist

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat finer grained ratings

2011-12-16 Thread mps
erland;677240 Wrote: > Yes theoretically it definitely could, but I haven't prioritized it as > it's normally something you setup once and then never change. The > default for "Dependent library" is also higher than "Standard library", > so you only get issues if you have two dependent libraries

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Anyone want to help testing new TrackStat version ?

2011-12-16 Thread erland
mps;677234 Wrote: > > 2. Worse, none of my CustomBrowse menus work until CustomScan has > completed, even if they don't reference CustomScanned tags. I only use > CustomScan tags for classical music, so until know, I could browse my > rock music (without duplicates, thank you!), in less than 5 m

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Artist Tags in CustomScan/Trackstat

2011-12-16 Thread mps
I want to create an artist rating tag independent of the average of the artist's song ratings, which seems to be used by Trackstat (is that correct?). The CustomScan documentation talks about performer tags, which seems like what I want, but I can't figure out how to put performer data in the dat

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat finer grained ratings

2011-12-16 Thread erland
mps;677230 Wrote: > That worked, thank you. Just as a thought, perhaps this could be done > automatically. > Yes theoretically it definitely could, but I haven't prioritized it as it's normally something you setup once and then never change. The default for "Dependent library" is also higher tha

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Anyone want to help testing new TrackStat version ?

2011-12-16 Thread mps
I also tried out the CustomScan alpha, so here's my feedback. I like that the scan info is in the settings UI now. However, there are two problems with it for me. 1. It seems slower than the released CustomScan (see attached picture) 2. Worse, none of my CustomBrowse menus work until CustomScan

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat finer grained ratings

2011-12-16 Thread mps
erland;676709 Wrote: > The refresh order should be according to the "Library order" parameter > value of each library, libraries with lower "Library order" value will > be refreshed first and then the ones with higher number. If you have > multiple dependent libraries that depends on each other,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: License Manager, plugins/applets going commercial

2011-12-16 Thread erland
excalibur;677214 Wrote: > > This September was indeed black - And I hope you will reconsider your > license idea. I urge you to. I enjoyed my music more before having to > pay also for your plugins. Don't put another nail in SB's coffin trying > to profit from a great idea. The platform is not s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: License Manager, plugins/applets going commercial

2011-12-16 Thread excalibur
Hi Erland, I was dumb-struck to see you starting to force payment for your plugins through License Mgr. I think it is the beginning of the end for a great way to enjoy music (Squeezebox). I have been using your plugins for 2 years, and consider my use relatively advanced. And I frequently use SQ

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] slimnas 2.0.2: lms 7.7.1 install fails(?)

2011-12-16 Thread drozdu
I had the same. Installation into a clean directory helped. see: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=657987 -- drozdu drozdu's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40763 View this thread: ht