vious one had 4GB. Does Multi-Library use a
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both are running the same versions of SC and your plugins.
Only the hardware is different - the original machine is a dual core
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ at 2.2GHz with 4GB ram, whereas the lower spec one
is a single core Athlon LE-1620 at 2.4GHz
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a minute.
So something that multi-library is doing seems to take a minute, even
when it apparently shouldn't be doing anything.
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ply in all
menus.
So can someone summarise just how I should set all these options so
that, whether I'm in a default menu or a Custom Browse menu, pressing
play at the album level plays the album, and pressing play on a
specific track plays just that track?
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ere in the
Boom menus, then only that song plays
- if I press the play button on an album title, the whole album is
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Exactly what I was looking for.
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Is this the same error?
Strangely I only get this error when accessing SC from a remote
computer. These subcategories seem to work correctly when accessed
from my Boom, or from the h
there! It works fine.
- I've restarted the SC service, and I've also completely rescanned the
library and the multilibraries - the problem persists.
I would have guessed that it was a local cache issue on the laptop,
except that it is independent of browser and even OS.
Chris
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iTunes copy). If I re-enable Custom Browse, then I get nothing but
these SQL errors again.
Any tips for trouble-shooting this?
Thanks
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gt; properties:
> itemid: 1106
> itemname: Jakatta feat. Seal
> itemtype: artist
> libraryAudioDirUrl: file:///M:/Superstore/Music
> libraryDir: M:\Superstore\Music
> mixsize: 20
> replacecontrollermenus: 0
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, or am I reading too much into
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say, MP3, so that it can be played
natively by the hardware?
Feel free to point me to the relevant posts if this has been discussed
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ou know that the IP address of
your remote device will always stay the same or similar.
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library, pressing play or add will apply to just the selected track.
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ns clearly keeps you busy, but
I'd like to just add my support for the suggestion to make the "play
all songs" option follow the standard setting.
Thanks again
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unless of course I'm getting some random forecast displayed on the
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It's not immediately obvious (ie I have no idea) what the difference
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Setup:
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OS X 10.6.8
Boom, Radio and SB3 connected wirelessly to an Airport Extreme router,
Touch wired
iPeng 1.4.3 running on iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1
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been.
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This is brilliant - I'd followed the development thread, but had decided
to wait for this type of release. I just installed the community
firmware on a UE Radio, and so far it's working perfectly.
So is it too early to start asking for feature requests? I'd really
appreciate a basic tone con
mrw wrote:
> I suspect that space is not the issue, but processing power may be.
>
> The Radio's hardware chip does provide for some basic DSP, and it is not
> used. There is a preconfigured (closed source) software DSP component in
> the Radio's ALSA chain, which is rather betterer than that,
kidstypike wrote:
> Have you seen this Boom .pdf?
Every time I read through that paper I'm always taken by the care and
attention to sound quality that went into the Boom's design. I always
get to the end, where the future possibilities are discussed, and regret
again the untimely demise of th
Just in case it's not widely known, if you have iPeng running then Siri
can do some basic actions with LMS.
"Hey Siri, skip track" is one of the three things I ever say to Siri :).
Very useful if I'm cooking, say, and playing a Spotify-generated
playlist where I don't like the current track.
(T
rkrug wrote:
>
> Didnât know that - thanks. Are there any other Siri commands which
> work?
>
I've only tried a few. "Hey Siri, pause", "Hey Siri, previous track".
I'm not sure how this is achieved - maybe it's something that Pippin has
specifically programmed, or maybe it's built-in audio
I have a 4th Gen Echo Dot on the way, specifically so that I can try out
this skill - I'm looking forward to having a bit more voice control over
LMS than I get through Siri by having iPeng running.
I've been running through the ngrok setup on a pCP device in preparation
for the Dot arriving. S
philchillbill wrote:
>
> EDIT: Fixed. An issue with relative vs absolute paths. Sorry for the
> inconvenience.
Great, thanks.
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philchillbill wrote:
> If you note any specifics for pCP that are different to a normal Debian
> install, I'd appreciate a summary so it can be added to the docs.
I'm still hacking my way around to get a feel for what needs to be done
to get it working and then redone after a reboot. So far I
philchillbill wrote:
> Would the Perl not be easier than Python, given that pCP needs Perl
> itself? All the script does is a HTTPS GET to a specific url with some
> url parameters filled out. It can be done from any language. If it helps
> you at all, I have a tiny sh script that does it too. p
philchillbill wrote:
> This is the sh script - it's a simplified but functional script that
> will update a single ngrok tunnel for the skill:
>
> >
Code:
> >
> #!/bin/sh
>
> UUID="a84fb223c34002944701a9a70e5e82b65e01cda21b6e8914"
> URL="`wget -qO- http://loc
philchillbill wrote:
> The Alexa app on the phone can act as an Echo if you give it mic
> permissions. When you open the app just ask Alexa what time it is and
> she will answer. If that works, "Alexa, ask Media Server to discover my
> players"
Oh that's useful, thank you. I'll give it a try i
philchillbill wrote:
> If that works, "Alexa, ask Media Server to discover my players"
That bit is working fine, so I can start to play with the skill
tomorrow. So I just need to get that script working so that it can all
be automated after a reboot.
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chill wrote:
>
> Any chance you could put me out of my misery and show me an example of
> that last wget command exactly as it should be issued?
I think I'm there now. Not sure what I was doing wrong before, but my
script now autostarts and autoupdates after I reboot the pCP. I
philchillbill wrote:
> Good to hear. If you run the script manually from the command line, it
> should respond with OK 1 if the updating went well (the '1' means one
> tunnel was updated).
>
> Regarding brackets:
>
> [] delimits an array or list. In this case the array only has one member
> b
philchillbill wrote:
> I have no idea if backticks are supported in pCP but your shell commands
> are perfectly valid without them. No errors that I can see in the script
> so good work !
Great stuff, thank you.
chill's
philchillbill wrote:
> One small thing I just noticed. You use both curl and wget (which is
> valid sh for sure) but I thought curl was not installed on pCP (which is
> why wget was used as fallback) ?
>
> In order to make the script more tolerant of the existence of other
> ngrok tunnels aroun
Hmm. This works
Code:
wget http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels/
...but this doesn't
Code:
wget http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels/mediaservertunnel
I've checked and it's definitely called 'mediaserv
D'Oh!
Because the configuration is all in the yml file, the earlier ngrok
command needs to be
Code:
$ngrok_exec http start $TUNNELNAME > /dev/null 2>&1 &
instead of
Code:
$ngrok_exec http -auth $AUTH $SVR > /
Which of course means the AUTH and SVR variables aren't needed in the
script.
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philchillbill wrote:
> I was curious why you had them in there but thought it might be a pCP
> thing :cool:
It was from the first part of your instructions 'II. ngrok'. I only
skimmed the following section, where the 'start' option is clear,
because I wasn't using systemd. Oh well, learned th
Got there - I had to include the tunnel name in square brackets after
the URL on your account linking page.
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So as an interim update, until I find the next thing I've done wrong,
here's my current ngrok_startup.sh
Code:
##!/bin/sh
# autostart and autoupdate ngrok for Media Server skill
# enter your own details here
TUNNELNAME="mediaservertunnel" # whatever you name
My Echo Dot arrived today, so I was able to subscribe to try out the
full set of commands. I was impressed that Alexa was able to find my
'My Shazam tracks' playlist on Spotty.
I moved the ngrok setup to another pCP device and it was very
straightforward - I just had to copy over the ngrok ex
philchillbill wrote:
> Great to hear. Ill add pCP instructions to the website so that others
> can benefit from your pioneering spirit [emoji41] Thanks again !
Thanks. There's a couple of details that I'd like to check in the
script before it should be considered definitive.
1) There's a bit
Well indeed both of those details were worth investigating.
1) ngrok can be run as root by simply including the path to the yml
configuration file with the --config option, e.g.:
Code:
ngrok start mediaservertunnel --config=/home/tc/.ngrok2/ngrok.yml >
/dev/null 2>&1 &
Understandably, Paul doesn't want to include the ngrok executable as a
package in pCP since it appears to be closed source.
So pCP users have a choice of where to put the ngrok executable:
1) Place it in /home/tc/.local/bin
Pro: This will mean that it's in the executable path so can be invoked
philchillbill wrote:
> Appreciate your looking into this topic. Is a prepared tcz file (2
> versions for 32 and 64 bit) something that I can host on my site to
> reduce the number of steps?
One reason that Paul- was reluctant to make an ngrok package is "Binary
re-distribution licensing is not
philchillbill wrote:
>
> I have to admit I'm surprised that backing up a 24MB file is slow on any
> modern system. This is the GB and TB era so we're talking crumbs here
> :confused:
Yeah, it's not -slow--slow (maybe 20 seconds or so? - not sure, haven't
timed it), but you have to keep in mind
philchillbill wrote:
>
> Im just worried that supporting that may turn out to be more work than
> supporting and improving the skills themselves [emoji23]
Sounds like a great idea, but yeah, it would no doubt take a lot of
effort to make it foolproof!
I may have a tinker with a pCP-specific i
This script should download the 64-bit ngrok binary, convert it to a tcz
package and make it load on boot.
To use it, create a file 'ngrok_installer.sh' in your home directory
(/home/tc aka ~), paste the lines of the script into it, and make the
script executable (chmod +x ngrok_installer.sh).
philchillbill wrote:
> @chill, Nice work :cool: This stuff gets addictive when the creativity
> adrenaline flows.
Indeed. It'll be a sad day when I stop enjoying a new challenge. And
it beats doing my tax return, which sadly has to be a priority this
afternoon :(
philchil
Tax calcs done - just the form filling bit to do now :)
I now have an installation script that will fetch the correct version
according the pCP platform (32-bit or 64-bit). I used the 'rule' that I
found 'here'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113512-ANNOUNCE-piCorePlayer-7-0-0&p=
philchillbill wrote:
> I've added a new section to the online docs which addresses built-in
> commands and when the skill invocation name can be omitted vs when it is
> required. This also explains why there can sometimes be a clash between
> the MediaServer and LMS-lite skills for simple transp
Do I need to do anything special to make streaming to the Echo work? If
I ask her "Alexa, ask MediaServer to stream the playlist 'Catchy'", she
finds the playlist ok, tells me that it's now streaming, and in the LMS
web interface I can see the playlist is loaded up under the 'Web Client'
player,
Ah, it might be something to do with audio formats - some playlists
play, but others don't. I'll investigate.
EDIT: Yeah, only MP3 files are streaming. I guess I have to look into
format conversion rules. Ugh - I've never really grasped how to
configure that bit of LMS.
philchillbill wrote:
> Strange. My FLAC files are transcoded by LMS on the fly and I never had
> to set up any special rules. What formats won't stream?
Fixed it. For some reason my pCP was missing 'lame', which the rule for
converting FLAC to MP3 relies on. No idea how that happened!
I inst
philchillbill wrote:
> Missing LAME in the install is a pretty lame excuse :p
>
Haha, yes, but it's something to keep in mind for users of your skill.
I just installed LMS on a fresh pCP7 setup, and lame is not present by
default. So it's not something that I did, it's something that I didn'
philchillbill wrote:
> Nice. I was also doing tax-returns today so I'll have to wait until
> tomorrow to play with pCP.
In case you do get around to playing with pCP tomorrow, the current
versions of my installer and startup scripts are in the attached zip
file.
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There's a guide on the piCorePlayer site to make Squeezelite (re)start
when the DAC appears:
https://docs.picoreplayer.org/projects/autostart-squeezelite-from-usb-dac/
The thread that led to that guide is here:
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113661-Start-restart-squeezelite-when-p
I've improved the ngrok_installer script a bit. As well as a bit of
tidying up and clarifying, it now has the option to override the 32-bit
or 64-bit auto-detection, primarily in case the auto-detection fails
because of the rather weak, non-future-proof, detection rule.
I tried the 32-bit versi
philchillbill wrote:
>
> As you can see, I use unzip on all platforms rather than your mix of
> tgz/zip depending on 32/64 bits. Is that actually necessary with pCP or
> could unzip also handle both installs? If so, the script would be
> simpler.
Thanks for that - some more syntax for me to le
The installer isn't connected to the startup script - I think the
mechanism for that is still TBD. If the startup script was hosted, say,
on your site, then the installer script could fetch it.
To make it run at boot, use the the pCP web interface - go to the
'Tweaks' tab and scroll to the bott
philchillbill wrote:
> Thanks guys. I actually quite like pCP from this short exposure to it
> and will definitely keep it as my certification machine. The only thing
> I haven't got working yet is login via key instead of password. I
> followed the same methods that I use on every platform incl
Re-reading your post, I'm sensing you knew all that! :)
RSA versus openssh maybe?
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After I posted, I sent the key from my Macbook to one of my pCP
machines, just to check whether there was a compatibility issue between
the Mac's RSA key and openssh on the Pi. I used ssh-copy-id on the Mac,
and that worked fine, and I can now log in to the Pi from my Mac without
a password. Th
jotap_66 wrote:
> To play FLACs in iPhone/iPad you need a special plug-in for iPeng. If
> not, you can not play Flacs in iPad/iphone
>
> JP
Are you perhaps referring to the 'iPeng Playback' in-app purchase?
Without that, you can't play anything, not just FLACs.
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Excellent, thanks for this. You're on a roll!
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Haha - when I first tried the plugin, that was the second track that
played!
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"Alexa ask mediaserver to stop playback" :)
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111016-Announce-MediaServer-*certified*-Alexa-skill-for-LMS)
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Munroe;689279 Wrote:
> Edit: Never mind I see it now. Had to manually relocate the DSP files
> and reboot server.
Which files, and where from/to?
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A cut-down stand-alone party mode app? Just going by the icon,
obviously.
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step out each menu level at a time.
> I couldn't even manage to get a gesture recognizer for long presses on
> the back button.
Could you put the home button to the left of the Radiohead button, or
would the size
long are you going to keep us guessing? Has this been submitted
to the App store, or is it still a work in progress?
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pippin;697436 Wrote:
> Now, as you probably guessed by the name, Chill pretty much nailed it
> with answer #8.
Woohoo! Do I get a free copy then? Oh wait..
Nice idea Pippin, and a clever way to introduce people to all the iPeng
goodness. I can see myself using this even when it&
Trying version 0.91 on a Mac Mini, running LMS 7.8.0 - 1350572233, OS X
10.6.8. Looks like the same error as Pippin, so maybe a Mac thing.
Not Swedish :-)
I get an error at the end of a 'Clear library and rescan everything':
Code:
Profile export* *(2000*of*11872) *
mherger wrote:
> > Excellent! I look forward to the bug-fix that will allow me to use
> your
> > plug-in with Rhapsody.
>
> 0.95 is on its way to your LMS. Please give it another try!
>
> - should fix issue mixing Rhapsody/Napster content
> - added button to reset default recipes to their "fact
mherger wrote:
> No. What LMS version are you running?
>
Logitech Media Server Version: 7.8.0 - 1350572233 @ Do 1 Nov 2012
21:41:09 CET
Mac OS X 10.6.8
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mherger wrote:
> 0.96 should fix this issue. Thanks!
>
It has. Thanks Michael - this is a really useful plugin. It's already
becoming one of the most used features in my setup.
Chris
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Hi Triode
I installed this on my Mac mini server (OS X 10.6.8) running LMS 7.8.0
and it seems to work well. The install ran with no problems, and it
plays my FLACs fine. As I think you're expecting, it doesn't play MP3s.
It does play the 320k OGGs from your Spotify plugin though - was that
expe
Triode wrote:
> You should be able to change the output device on the setting page and
> it will kill and restart the device when you click apply. Can you
> enable output debugging and see what it writes to the log file?
Oops - I hadn't seen the settings page! That works perfectly.
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garym wrote:
> checked back with my office setup (and also now checked at home and a
> 3rd location) and I'm not seeing the problem of repeated short playlist.
> I suspect my initial issue was the quickly hitting "next track" button
> and not giving the plugin time to add new tracks to the end.
chill wrote:
> I'm also now seeing a problem that someone else reported earlier - the
> playlist seems to start playback at the second track. Skipping and
> deleting tracks in general seems a bit hit and miss, so rather than
> skipping a track I've tended to start a new
Mnyb wrote:
> Second track,issue ? Is that the seed song does not actually play when
> you start a mix ? I think I've seen that behaviour , I'll try more when
> I get home .
>
> I want to hear the seed song , here is why , I'm listening to a song and
> think " it would be cool with a mix from th
mherger wrote:
> > Does this only work with music services, or can it work with the
> local
> > library? When I launch it, it plays from MOG.
>
> Heh... it started out as a "mix my music library" plugin. I only added
>
> support for streaming services later...
>
> Go to Settings/Advanced/Smar
mherger wrote:
> > Could it be that Triode's Spotify plugin can't play some of these
> > Spotify tracks, due to region problems, or is it feasible that
> they're
> > being streamed from a server too far from my own region (in the UK),
> so
> > that internet latency is causing a problem?
>
> Don'
mherger wrote:
> > Could it be that Triode's Spotify plugin can't play some of these
> > Spotify tracks, due to region problems, or is it feasible that
> they're
> > being streamed from a server too far from my own region (in the UK),
> so
> > that internet latency is causing a problem?
>
> Don'
mherger wrote:
> > The logging relating to this track seems to start at about
> 18:21:27.1.
> > I've picked out a couple of messages that look like they're related
> to
> > this error, but there are more in the log concerning this particular
> > file. The first message that looks suspicious (to
Triode wrote:
> What's the actual problem? - this is how I would expect the spotify
> plugin to work. It successfully skipped over this unplayable track and
> started to play the next track.
OK, agreed, I guess that's one way to look at it :) But it leaves that
track in the playlist, and there
Triode wrote:
> Other than having extra tracks in the playlist which are skipped, what
> is the actual problem we are looking to improve? Is it that multiple
> sequential unplayable tracks cause a problem or just that it the
> playlist looks odd?
Hi Triode
In my case, I am experiencing occasio
dbinder101 wrote:
> Great plug-in, thanks for your effort. I'm trying to create a new recipe
> using the Advanced settings and selecting song-radio instead of
> artist-radio, but it complains about the Artist Pick field "the
> artist-pick parameter is only available for artist-type mixes". I cann
Triode wrote:
> That sounds a bit like spotify playback issues as once Smart Mix has
> added a track to the playlist it is no longer involved. Sounds to me
> that its more likely to be related to bandwidth/spotify server
> performance than Michael's plugin.
OK. I don't know how Spotify works a
mherger wrote:
> >> Great plug-in, thanks for your effort. I'm trying to create a new
> recipe
> >> using the Advanced settings and selecting song-radio instead of
> >> artist-radio, but it complains about the Artist Pick field "the
> >> artist-pick parameter is only available for artist-type mix
mherger wrote:
>
> Are you running version 0.98 of the plugin? There were multiple issues
>
> around the static playlist in earlier versions.
>
Yes, version 0.98, and for good measure I just did a 'new and changed'
rescan, but I still get that message. Would the blender settings make a
dif
mherger wrote:
> When you double-click an item you should get some information about it.
> Do
> you see a foreign_id value starting with spotify-WW in there?
>
Hi Michael
It doesn't seem to matter whether my music sources are set to just local
files or just Spotify - I get the same error mes
mherger wrote:
> > Sebastian - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
> > "foreign_id":
> > "CAUTINE13C1B634554:song:00d44a0fbc641aefdd36ad036962a98d"
>
> > "title": "The Girl Gets Around",
> > "foreign_id":
> > "CAUTINE13C1B634554:song:9d5f6067615d2f3c1829a73f5c62be97"
>
> These are both loca
That's very inventive, and looks well executed. I love projects like
this!
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Excellent - thanks for doing this. I jumped on it straight away, but I
must have missed a step:
"OK. Something unexpected happened. (Dictation is not supported in
Siri.)"
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thouky wrote:
> It sounds like you are attempting to run the Scriptable script directly
> from Siri, instead of using the Shortcuts app to request input.
> Unfortunately that does not work (unless you also set *Always Run in
> App*, but that breaks the Siri experience); see
> https://talk.automat
I read through the announcement post, thinking "Finally, a similarity
plugin that seems simple enough for me to understand"! But then I got
to the part about bliss-analyser not dealing with CUE files. Most of my
library is in the form of CDs ripped to a single file with a separate
CUE file.
Gi
cpd73 wrote:
>
> For now, you could just use MusicSimilarity configured just for Bliss -
> but the analyser used there has not been built for Windows.
Thank you. I'm caught up on the MusicSimilarity thread now - should have
done that before posting, sorry. Good point about the mixer code for
Inspired by the 'Bliss DSTM announcement'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?116068-Announce-Bliss-DSTM-mixer&p=1049586&viewfull=1#post1049586),
I want to give MusicSimilarity a go with my library of mostly FLAC+CUE
albums.
I do maintain a 'lossy' form of my library which could be us
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