Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP/SugerCube and accented characters
I only occasionally check this forum hence the long time for a reply. This looks like the same issue I have. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?102846-MusicIP-mixes-and-tracks-with-accented-characters mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105142 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices
I've got SB and Sonos players with LMS running on Windows 7 so I've run the app, it has recognised the Sonos players, I've edited the config file, installed LAME, LMS recognises the Sonos players but when I play a (mp3) track, there is no sound. Is there any log/debug info to figure out what might be going on? (Apologies but I haven't gone back through this thread if this has already been mentioned) mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102496 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin
Tony T wrote: Hey, thanks for the quick updates! (and the ability to add a mix to my favorites) And, out of curiosity, how do you keep track of the played tracks and the most played artists? I'm using the PlayLog plug-in and scrobbling to LastFM. Two different ways of keeping track of what you've played, but hopefully one, other or between both will tell you what you want. mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin
mherger wrote: Echonest seems to recognise about 70% of my music collection and I was wondering if there is any way I can get this percentage up. You could create a missing log file (see the web UI). This will take forever (depending on your library size :-)). The output will be a list of file paths of tracks which were not recognized. As the recognition is purely based on metadata, pretty often it's some tagging issue. Eg. added (special edition) or remix in the names, feat. for artists etc. The log file might give some pointers. Are there any third party applications that can scan your local music collection to generate an Echonest fingerprint and submit this to Echonest? I'm pretty sure there are, but I've never bothered to do any research. You might start asking around in the TEN forums. -- Michael Thanks. I'm sure it is my tagging for the vast majority of unrecognised tracks. I do have quite a lot of electronic/dance music and as you say, it is full of feat., pres., vs. and minor variations in track names for multiple remixes of the same track. I've tidied a lot of this up as there can be a lot of inconsistencies with tags from databases like Gracenote but this probably means the track won't be recognised by Echonest. I'll do some investigation in the TEN forums. mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin
Echonest seems to recognise about 70% of my music collection and I was wondering if there is any way I can get this percentage up. Are there any third party applications that can scan your local music collection to generate an Echonest fingerprint and submit this to Echonest? I assume once it is in the Echonest database, a Smart Mix scan will recognise the track eventually. mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Philips Hue bulbs - plugin to sync them to music via LMS?
There's a review of them here, and this mentions there can be a 20-30sec delay before the lights respond to a command. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/04/philips_hue_review/ So it doesn't look like it would be possible to get the lights flashing in time to the music, but some sort of mood thing may be possible the lights go down when a Barry White luurrve track comes on ;) mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98911 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin
mherger wrote: Would I be able to manually edit a recipe so it returned a greater number of tracks and use this? (I haven't looked at the Echonest API in detail to see what is possible...) As explained by Roland0 you can't have more than five new tracks at once. But there's an undocumented preference you could set to increase the number of tracks to be kept in the playlist. 'oldtracks' defaults to 3, which means that all tracks but the three most recently been played are removed from the playlist. You could set this value manually to something larger, then apply the next trick to get more tracks in your queue. Awkward, but possible. -- Michael Thanks, I'll look into this. The option to keep more old tracks in the queue would also work for me. One reason is simply to have a record of what has been played so if I really like the mix, I can save it and listen to it again. Or save and manually edit the playlist to include or exclude a few tracks. Also when a mix is playing in the background and I hear something I like, I don't need to check the display or UI there and then to find out what the track is, as the track listing would be retained for longer. mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin
jimbobvfr400 wrote: The 2nd point at least could be achieved by scrobbling to last.FM. having a log and charts of everything you play is pretty cool. I didn't think of that. Great idea!! LastFM has a playlist creator and export feature so you can select tracks from the log, save them to a playlist and export the playlist. mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin
mherger wrote: Is there any option to produce a playlist of a longer number of tracks (say 15-20?) I'd like the option to produce longer playlists as I just won't be playing them on the Squeezebox, but I'd save them and use the playlists on my iPhone as well. That's not how the plugin is supposed to work. It's not a generic playlist creation tool, but intended to play dynamic mixes on your SB. I'm sure there are other tools out there to achieve what you're looking for. Eg. iTunes... -- Michael Thanks for the reply. With the MusicIP plug-in, I was used to producing a mix with, say, 12 tracks, and if I liked it, I would save the playlist file so I could listen to the same mix again, or listen to it on an iPhone by importing the playlist into iTunes. Would I be able to manually edit a recipe so it returned a greater number of tracks and use this? (I haven't looked at the Echonest API in detail to see what is possible...) mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin
I've just come across the plug-in as I haven't been following the forums for some time... and apologies if the question has been answered previously... however when I select Create mix based on current title, it always seems to return just 6 or so tracks. Is there any option to produce a playlist of a longer number of tracks (say 15-20?) I'd like the option to produce longer playlists as I just won't be playing them on the Squeezebox, but I'd save them and use the playlists on my iPhone as well. mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin
garym wrote: I forget the number, but smart mix will continue to add songs as it plays others. It doesn't create one long playlist all at once. Yeah, I tried to create a longer playlist by fast forwarding to later tracks. More tracks would be added to the end of the playlist, but then the tracks at the start would disappear so I couldn't get more than about 10 tracks at once. These didn't include the initial seed track and I generally want to have this in the playlist. mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin
garym wrote: Just checked. I get 6 songs including seed song. I don't think the intent is to create long playlists that can be saved. But maybe Michael can add option for length. I can appreciate the way it is done to provide radio play on the Squeezebox, but as I mentioned, I'd like the option to save a longer playlist so I can also listen to it on my iPhone. I do this for MusicIP mixes and this has the option to return a mix of a specified length (by the way, I'm only using Smart Mix for my local music collection, not cloud services) mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP and ALAC ???
It may be a bit late for this, but MusicIP can import your music library from iTunes rather than using the files themselves. You should then be able to fingerprint the music collection on one computer, then move the MusicIP cache file to the NAS, and it should still work provided the file paths are the same for both. As you have come across, MusicIP on the Mac uses PPC code to read and write tags on AAC and ALAC files. On Snow Leopard, you can install the Rosetta software that will allow MusicIP to read write AAC/ALAC tags but Rosetta isn't supported on Lion. Importing the music from iTunes means that MusicIP doesn't need to read the tags. However you can't write the fingerprint information to the tags, and the fingerprints need to be stored in the MusicIP cache file. This means the music will need to be re-fingerprinted if the file path changes. Personally I don't store the MusicIP fingerprints in the tags. Years ago, an earlier version of MusicIP corrupted tab information when storing fingerprints, so I never trusted it from then! -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93059 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Possible MusicIP replacement in time?
As I suspected, aspects of MusicIP now don't work with OSX 10.7 Lion. The AACTagReader component of MusicIP which is used to scan and read tags of AAC files is PowerPC code so is no longer supported by Lion. There may be other aspects of MusicIP that don't work as well. Where can I download a Windows version of MusicIP as I can do the scanning in Windows running in Parallels instead. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79819 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Possible MusicIP replacement in time?
I noticed that Mac OSX 10.7 Lion will drop support for Rosetta that allows Intel Macs to run PowerPC applications. I have a feeling that MusicIP for the Mac may need Rosetta... any Mac gurus know how I could check this? I've thought it was a matter of time before some OS update meant that MusicIP wouldn't work any more and Lion could be it for the Mac. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79819 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] MusicIP + tags
Can the .m3lib file be editted if the file location changes? A number of years ago I did experience some problems after archiving MusicIP fingerprint data into tags (I think there was a bug at the time that was subsequently fixed) so I've been reluctant to do this ever since. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81968 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Sending music from Musicip
With MusicIP on a Mac, if you hold down the alt key when selecting the Send to Player icon, you can play the song or mix directly on the Squeezebox. When pressing the alt key on Send to Player, you get a menu with Play All and a list of all your Squeezeboxes identified by their MAC address (so it isn't the most user friendly option) I've come across a number of undocumented features on the Mac version of MusicIP that are revealed by pressing the various modifier keys on a Mac. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61994 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: AlienBBC 1.04 on 6.3 problems
bpa Wrote: Let the test run for a bit of time say 10-20 mins as network errors are unpredictable - also mid afternoon on Friday is not a busy time. ... however it will be when loads of people start live audio and video streaming of Germany v Argentina when it kicks-off at 16.00! :) -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25095 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Alien BBC on my Mac
crouchend Wrote: Just tried to install Alien BBC using instructions on this website: http://www.x2systems.com/AlienBBC/installation.html#mac Installed everything on a titanium Powerbook running 10.4 First problem, 'usr/local/bin' does not exist 'usr/bin' exists so I put mplayer in there instead. My squeezebox 3 displays alien BBC but will not play anything. Next, installed everything on my other mac (imac running OS 10.3) 'usr/local' exists, but there are no files or folders in it. again I put mplayer in 'usr/bin' Once again squeezebox plays nothing as before. Can anybody tell me what I may have done wrong? Many thanks Guy I've got 2 Macs running OS 10.4 (PowerBook and Mac Mini) and /usr/local/bin exists on both of them and Alien BBC runs without a problem on the Mac Mini. In the Finder, from menu Go then Go to folder... what happens when you enter /usr/local/bin and select Go ? -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24740 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: More Last.FM problems
Well I'm still trying to get LastFM/SlimScrobbler to work properly on my system (MAC OSX 10.4.5 with Slimserver 6.2.1) LastFM seems to install ok and I get the LastFM settings on the Slimserver browser interface at Home / Server Settings / Internet Radio. However the SlimScrobbler plugin doesn't seem to work as playing music doesn't update recent tracks on my lastFM profile and there is no evidence that SlimScrobber has loaded on Home / Server Settings / Plugins - there isn't a plug-ins check box for SlimScrobbler and SlimScrobber doesn't appear on the debug logs with d_plugins enabled (see below) Slimserver plugins directory contains the following: ~/Library/SlimDevices/Plugins/Scrobbler.pm ~/Library/SlimDevices/Plugins/SlimScrobbleSupport/ ~/Library/SlimDevices/Plugins/LastFM/ 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5478 Registering screensaver PLUGIN_SCREENSAVER_VISUALIZER_SPECTRUM_ANALYZER 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5483 Registering screensaver PLUGIN_SCREENSAVER_VISUALIZER_ANALOG_VUMETER 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5485 Registering screensaver PLUGIN_SCREENSAVER_VISUALIZER_DIGITAL_VUMETER 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5621 Adding Favorites::Plugin to menu: PLUGINS 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5659 Registering screensaver PLUGIN_SCREENSAVER_DATETIME 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5664 Adding LastFM::Plugin to menu: RADIO 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5675 Adding RadioIO::Plugin to menu: RADIO 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5690 Removing SlimTris from menu: GAMES 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5693 Adding Picks::Plugin to menu: RADIO 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5710 Adding Live365::Plugin to menu: RADIO 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5820 Adding RssNews to menu: PLUGINS 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5824 Registering screensaver PLUGIN_RSSNEWS_SCREENSAVER 2006-02-21 19:43:34.5827 Adding ShoutcastBrowser::Plugin to menu: RADIO -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21151 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: More Last.FM problems
Craig, James (IT) Wrote: It should work on all SlimServer supported platforms. James lastFM doesn't seem to be working on my system - MAC OSX 10.4.5 with Slimserver 6.2.1. - I downloaded SlimScrobbler v0.34 then copied Scrobbler.pm and the directory SlimScrobbleSupport to ~/Library/SlimDevices/Plugins - stopped and started Slimserver - On the Slimserver web browser interface, went to Home / Server Settings / Plugins but couldn't see anything associated with Audioscrobbler as described in the ScrobblerReadMe file so it doesn't look as if the plug in has loaded properly. Any ideas? -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21151 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: More Last.FM problems
Is the lastFM plugin supported with Slimserver on Mac OSX? -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21151 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze + Visualisers?
I was prompted by this posting http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18360 from Jim Larson to try to combine music playing on my SB2 + hifi with an iTunes visualiser playing on my TV for the ultimate in home audio-visual experiences! The way I did it was to synchronise the SB2 with SoftSqueeze on my PowerBook, then use Nicecast to broadcast the Softsqueeze audio from a URL and point iTunes to the URL. I could then connect the PowerBook to the TV and see the iTunes visualiser while music was playing on the SB2 (the PowerBook and TV were obviously both on mute) There is a delay between the SB2 and the iTunes audio but the visualisers are so abstract, I don't think this really matters. One issue is that you don't get the track information because Nicecast is in the way. I'd be interested if there were suggestions of a better way to integrate the SB/SoftSqueeze with computer-based visualizers. For example, there is a visualiser called G-Force from http://www.soundspectrum.com/ (free and commercial versions) that integrates with a number of players including iTunes, Windows Media, Foobar, Winamp and others - I wonder what it would take to integrate with SoftSqueeze, or maybe integrate Softsqueeze with open-source visualisers (if they exist) ? I thought the whole audio-visual experience of music on the SB and a visualiser on the TV was pretty cool - now I need to borrow a PC projector to display the visualiser on the wall... -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18375 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: New addon anouncement - Incoming phone call display
Mark.Bennett Wrote: Beyond your current plans of caller ID support, you could turn this into an answering machine. Capture messages for unanswered calls to a file, display on the SB that messages are waiting, and play them back through any SB in the house. This sort of technology could also allow different greeting messages to the answer phone depending on who is calling! I think that this sort of technology would be a fantastic add-in to SlimServer. This functionality is covered by existing open source projects such as http://www.asterisk.org/ and http://www.pingtel.com/ therefore it may be easier to interface these applications with Slimserver rather than reinvent the wheel within Slimserver code. -- mikerob ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: New addon anouncement - Incoming phone call display
max.spicer Wrote: I can't see why this wouldn't work with the slimp3. It should work with US CallerID, but you may find I've made some uk-specific assumptions. Max There are two different types of caller ID display used in the UK... BT have their own method and the cable companies have either the US method or the BT method depending what type of local exchange you are connected to! -- mikerob ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
