Michael Herger <s...@herger.net> writes:

>> When I select e.g. Classic Rock, it starts showing playing progress on
>> the web interface of the LMS, but I can't hear anything. Some time later
>> (30 seconds?) it starts playing (sometimes) and only adds 4 tracks (or 
>> nothing).
>
> Unfortunately TEN no longer supports any service but
> Spotify.

Is there any alternative which works better with Qobuz?

> Therefore I've had to add my own integration which works based on only
> track title and artist name. Eg. when I receive a list of tracks to be
> played, the plugin will run a search on the music service (Qobuz) for
> the track title, then parse the returned data to figure out whether we
> have a match or not. And it has to do this for every track. Quite
> obviously this is not effective and prone to errors. Therefore it can
> take a while and end with less tracks than you'd expect.

OK - that explains this.

>
>> Is Smart Mix plugin heavy on resource usage? Or is something else wrong?
>
> For Qobuz there's an additional twist: as Qobuz' search was really
> poor in the early days, I had added an option to do some magic
> filtering on its search results. This uses a fuzzy matching which
> indeed can be very heavy on the CPU (using the Levenshtein distance
> algorithm). I do include faster binary modules for some platforms. For
> ARM there's only a copy for perl 5.10 and 5.14.

Any chance of making the binary? 

> If you've enabled that filtering option and are running a different
> perl version, then this might be the problem.
>
> In any case try to disable the filtering. Users have reported it was
> no longer be necessary, thanks to improvement on Qobuz' side.

OK - Disabled it and will see how it goes. The search is definitely
faster now.

>
>> Are there any logs I could look into or send here?
>
> Sure: server.log. Enable debugging for plugin.smartmix and
> plugin.qobuz, and you'll get more information than you ever wanted to
> see :-)

Thanks - but as it seems to be "expected" behaviour, the logs won't
help.


Thanks,

Rainer


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Rainer M. Krug
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