Re: [slim] New version of LMSDocumenter

2020-07-04 Thread Viragored
pkfox wrote: > If you give me a list of the options you would like It shouldn't be too > difficult to include them in the program e.g. Exclude Album Art,Exclude > Track listings, etc etc... Wow! That's amazing - I wish I was clever enough to write that sort of software All I am looking

Re: [slim] New Logitech Squeezebox 2020 Edition

2020-07-04 Thread hertzberg
dmcdayton wrote: > I heard a rumor that Logitech product management has now recognized > that: > -In 2020, 80% of the music business will be streaming content > -That their SlimDevices Squeezebox line may have been 10 years ahead of > its time. > -That there still isn't a product on the market

Re: [slim] Old Time Radio

2020-07-04 Thread sander
Not sure how far back you want to go, but Cladrite Radio https://cladriteradio.com/ is pretty good if you like 20s-40s Luxuriamusic https://luxuriamusic.com/ is a favorite of min. Mainly 60s era pop instrumentals, but has lots of shows which delve earlier and later. Both are available through

Re: [slim] local files as radio station (localy)

2020-07-04 Thread slartibartfast
teebee wrote: > trouble with sync and group players when using alarm.Oh yes I remember now. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View

Re: [slim] local files as radio station (localy)

2020-07-04 Thread teebee
trouble with sync and group players when using alarm. SB Radio x2, SB Duet, Squeezelite, SB Player, Squeezer, LMS 8.0.0 on Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) teebee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70091 View

Re: [slim] local files as radio station (localy)

2020-07-04 Thread slartibartfast
teebee wrote: > is it possible to make a local player act as a radio station with own > music and other players could just relay that music on the local > network?Can't you just use synchronization? Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

[slim] local files as radio station (localy)

2020-07-04 Thread teebee
is it possible to make a local player act as a radio station with own music and other players could just relay that music on the local network? SB Radio x2, SB Duet, Squeezelite, SB Player, Squeezer, LMS 8.0.0 on Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB)

Re: [slim] Double Metaphone based library search

2020-07-04 Thread philchillbill
mherger wrote: > I could imagine that FTS and "fuzzy" search could result in a lot of > false positives. Yes, it very likely would. I was envisaging using this as a fallback mechanism - first do a 'normal' text search and if that returns nothing then do a DM search to get back something that I

Re: [slim] Double Metaphone based library search

2020-07-04 Thread Michael Herger
The "Full Text search" plugin (from Logitech) would seem like a good place to put this although I suspect mherger might suggest doing a whole new plugin for it. Not sure yet (lack of investigation). More plugins with inter-dependencies could become a bit complicated to manage. -- Michael

Re: [slim] Double Metaphone based library search

2020-07-04 Thread Michael Herger
Just curious if anybody ever experimented with this kind of thing before? Would the increased DB size and time-to-rescan be an issue at all? "Fuzzy search" has been on my list for years... but I haven't done any experimenting yet, tbh. The very first phrase in the wikipedia article about

Re: [slim] New version of LMSDocumenter

2020-07-04 Thread pkfox
Viragored wrote: > Thanks! I don't think it will do what I want, unless the user can choose > whether to include art work, track lists and perhaps other things. My > music collection is too big (nearly 48k tracks on 3.2k albums) to > display in the format of your pdf, pretty though it is! 3.5k

Re: [slim] Double Metaphone based library search

2020-07-04 Thread Paul Webster
I remember using Soundex back in the early 90s and having just read a bit about Metaphone/Double Metaphone (and even Metaphone 3) this does look like a clever upgrade from it. The "Full Text search" plugin (from Logitech) would seem like a good place to put this although I suspect mherger might

[slim] Double Metaphone based library search

2020-07-04 Thread philchillbill
One of the issues I face in developing the Alexa skills for LMS is that I have to search your library -textually- based on the speech-to-text of what Alexa thinks she -heard-. This can be problematic with similar-sounding words like pair/pear, hear/here, knot/not, ate/eight, flour/flower, etc. I