I see. What you want is running the "MIP headless" thing, that is a Java server that has a user interface through a web browser. SBS interacts with this server to generate the playlists, it must be running. I meant checking this server was running by pointing your browser to http://localhost:10002
I remember I was pretty peeved with the documentation when I tried setting up MIP. I don't use sugarcube, only MIP and the standard SBS plugin. But I think this page: http://www.spicefly.com/squeezeboxmip/28-mipheadless7.html can help you in getting a MIP server to run and respond on port 10002. I use a linux machine so I can't hand you my particular setup as an example. Words of advice for the next steps: 1) analysis; - In the slimdevices wiki page there is a case for using "genpuid" to analyze files. genpuid can archive its findings within the tags of music files, which seems a good idea since analysis is such a long process. I'd recommend against this. I had genpuid destroy some of my tags, and also version issues between MIP and genpuid. Just leave genpuid alone, go to http://localhost:10002, enter the path to your music files and have MIP discover and analyse the files. There is one thing you might want to do: specify the location for the MIP database (in mmm.ini), and backup that file from time to time. - Moving files around means analysis must be performed again (since archiving is risky). You'd better be pleased with your file hierarchy beforehand. - Re-analysis of moved files means the MIP DB will show a duplicate. There is a sorry way of removing duplicates (or deleted files) using MIPs web interface. I think it entails clicking "add music" (sic) and then "refresh songs". Or the other way around. The Total Songs figure should decrease in the end. (The brute force way is to remove the MIP database file.) 2) integration with SBS: - In the standard plugin preferences, you have the choice using the standard MIP plugin to import only signature data into SBS and keep the rest of the meta data as seen from the SBS scanner, or to import all meta data from MIP and disregard the SBS scanner. I use the 1st option, that is I mostly rely on SBS. It is faster. Also, there were issues with file path using accented characters in the past, and a full import of MIP data left many files out in my case. I don't know if the issue is still there (SBS 7.6 has improved things I think), but have a look at the SBS server log when importing. If it fails to find files with funny characters, the workaround is to use plain 7-bit ascii instead for the file names. Takes a bit of time but you'd need to do it once only. - In the standard SBS plugin preferences, you'll see settings like mix duration that are equivalent to some preferences you can set in mmm.ini or through the web interface of MIP Mix Settings under localhost:10002. The SBS settings *override* whatever you think you've defined within MIP. In mmm.ini I only care for the path of the database. In the ugly web interface of MIP I only care for the "add music", "refresh songs" and "start validation" buttons. And since MIP analysis is so slow, and you want to run a "clear and rescan" from SBS each time to make sure all is well, I'd suggest working on a very small test library until you see it works well. All in all MIP works and SBS does all it can. But nevertheless MIP is closed, abandoned software so you need to learn its quirks and work around it. -- epoch1970 Daily dose delivered by: 3 SB Classic, 1 SB Boom iPeng (iPhone + iPad) Squeezebox Server 7.6 (Debian 5.0) with plugins: MusicIP Server Power Control by Gordon Harris WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Find cover art by bpa BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple TrackStat, Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89962
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