[SlimDevices: Plugins] Multi-Library problem in SC 7.3

2008-09-22 Thread Phil Meyer
I'm trying to open up the Multi Library Web UI menu, and get the following: [09:07:14.9524] Slim::Networking::IO::Select::select (271) Error: Select task failed: Can't locate object method "syncgroupid" via package "Slim::Player::Boom" at Plugins/MultiLibrary/Plugin.pm line 1288. ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Magnatune plugin beta for SqueezeCenter v7

2008-09-17 Thread Phil Meyer
>Thx for the reply, but im using Fishbone. Says in the plug in settings, >that its not compatible. Ah, that's easy. When a plugin is created, a developer may know that they will only support a plugin up to a certain SqueezeCenter version number. If it supports the latest version, some develope

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Magnatune plugin beta for SqueezeCenter v7

2008-09-17 Thread Phil Meyer
>Got interested in what seems to be a really cool plug in, but it seems >to incompatible with SC 7.2, is that correct? > I think it works on the PlayerUI, and WebUI as long as you don't use the Default skin. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.s

[SlimDevices: Plugins] TrackStat in Fishbone skin

2008-09-15 Thread Phil Meyer
Rated songs in Trackstat 2.4 in the Fishbone skin are not displayed until the mouse is moved over the items. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Magnatune WebUI broken

2008-09-14 Thread Phil Meyer
>If I recall correctly, the last time I checked Magnatune did not >support the Default SC Web UI, but it works with other skins and via >the SB interface. See: >http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41754&highlight=magnatune Thanks - you're right it, works fine in Fishbone; it doesn't lik

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Magnatune WebUI broken

2008-09-14 Thread Phil Meyer
I can browse through Music Services > Magnatune on the SqueezeBox playerUI (and navigate and play music via "New Music" for example). However, the WebUI doesn't function. Nothing happens when I press "Magnatune Catalogue" or "New Magnatune Music" hyperlinks on the Magnatune browse page. I am r

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlist not working

2008-09-12 Thread Phil Meyer
>I think it's related to this change, it will be solved in next Dynamic >Playlist version. >http://svn.slimdevices.com/?view=rev&revision=23109 Great! If you have a change that you'd like tested before release, I can try it for you. Phil ___ plugins m

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] DynamicPlaylist not working with new Alarm duration

2008-09-11 Thread Phil Meyer
>Anyone else hit this problem? I haven't experienced that problem - I haven't set an alarm duration. I have had Dynamic Playlist problems since the official SC 7.2 release though - I can't get a dynamic playlist to play at all as an alarm. I've now moved on to SC 7.3 and experience the same pr

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlist not working

2008-09-09 Thread Phil Meyer
>>Are you using the latest version of Dynamic Playlist ? >Yes. > I tried going back to the previous version, and it still failed in the same way, so a SC 7.2 trunk change must have caused it. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists don't work too well with synchronised players

2008-09-07 Thread Phil Meyer
In fact, I cancelled the synchronisation, and switched between players and this still caused the playlist to change. I think it's because I left the left-hand browse panel on the Dynamic Playlist page, so when it refreshes the frames on the page, it fires off a new dynamic playlist. If I navig

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists don't work too well with synchronised players

2008-09-07 Thread Phil Meyer
I had a dynamic playlist playing on player A, and synched it to player B. Sync was great - listened to several songs without any trouble. However, in the WebUI each time I switch the current player between the players in the sync group, this caused a new selection of tracks to play. ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlist not working

2008-09-07 Thread Phil Meyer
>Is this on the Controller ? > No, I haven't got one. I can't play any dynamic playlists from the web UI "Dynamic Playlists" menu, and they don't work at alarms. I can play dynamic playlists via mixers in the web UI. >Are you using the latest version of Dynamic Playlist ? Yes. Phil _

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlist not working

2008-09-07 Thread Phil Meyer
When I press play on a dynamic playlist, I only see the following: [09:06:07.0778] Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::cliPlayPlaylist (3244) Entering cliPlayPlaylist [09:06:07.0785] Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::cliPlayPlaylist (3279) Got: _p0=trackstat_all [09:06:07.0791] Plugins::DynamicPla

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlist not working

2008-09-07 Thread Phil Meyer
>Which SqueezeCenter version ? > 7.2/trunk SVN 23056. >Could you enable debugging on Dynamic Playlist and see if you get >something useful in the log ? > I've been running with Error logging, so I'll try again with full debug level. >Is it a hardware player or SoftSqueeze ? Hardware players - I'v

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlist not working

2008-09-07 Thread Phil Meyer
I can't play any dynamic playlists. There's no errors in the log (set at error level). I first noticed this when my dynamic playlist alarm fired and the player UI reported "Now Playing (Connecting...)". I've tried playing simple dynamic playlists, such as "Random Songs" from the web UI, but n

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomBrowse not appearing as a menu optionin PlayerUI Music Library

2008-09-05 Thread Phil Meyer
>Does it work if you enable UPnP in "SqueezeCenter >Settings/Advanced/Network" ? That did seem to get around the problem. Thanks. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Playlist Manager Plugin version 3.0 for SC7.0

2008-09-04 Thread Phil Meyer
>I think this will be useful... thanks for making it. Glad to hear it's working for you. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins

[SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomBrowse not appearing as a menu option in PlayerUI Music Library

2008-09-04 Thread Phil Meyer
I can see Custom Browse in Extras menu, but can't right-arrow into it. I can't see Custom Browse in the Music Library menu at all. I can use Custom Browse from the WebUI. No obvious errors in the log associated with Custom Browse. 7.2/trunk SVN 23036. Custom Browse 2.3 Phil ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Playlist Manager Plugin version 3.0 for SC7.0

2008-09-04 Thread Phil Meyer
>It works properly when Playing Now is a static playlist, but when it is >a Dynamic Playlist, it adds the entire Playing Now list into the >selected playlist. > I just tried to reproduce (in SoftSqueeze), using 7.2/trunk SVN 23028 - all seems to be working fine for me here. I selected to play "Mo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Playlist Manager Plugin version 3.0 for SC7.0

2008-09-04 Thread Phil Meyer
>I installed this plug-in today, but I guess it is not compatible with >Dynamic Playlists? I was playing a Dynamic Playlist and I did add.hold. >It did invoke the Playlist Manager, and I named a new playlist to add >the song to, but it added the entire now playing list to the new >playlist. I manag

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Playlist Manager Plugin version 3.0 for SC7.0

2008-09-03 Thread Phil Meyer
>One suggestion I have for the plugin is to have the option to use >relative pathnames in the playlist file instead of absolute. > >From memory (I'm not at home to see the code at the moment), I'm not doing >anything special - it should be the same as adding songs to a playlist using >SqueezeCent

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alarm Plugin Deprecated.

2008-09-03 Thread Phil Meyer
>I guess if enough people wanted it, we could even have an advanced mode >for the alarm, that pops in more options. That would be nice, but not sure it needs to be moved into an "advanced mode" set of preferences. I find it more confusing having per-player preferences after the list of alarms, t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alarm Plugin Deprecated.

2008-08-29 Thread Phil Meyer
>-alarm volume per alarm (not global for all alarms). Useful if SB is >used by more than one person and a combination of sound and light >sleepers. The code to support it was in 7.2, but was taken out because apparently the UI was too complicated, so it's currently per-player. I think it's a big

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem

2008-08-25 Thread Phil Meyer
>I'm pretty sure they would have to re-install your patch after each >upgrade to a new SqueezeCenter nightly. If the installation works >correctly it should overwrite everything in Slim/Plugin, which I >believe it does. It works with svn since svn doesn't overwrite files, >instead it merges the loc

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem

2008-08-25 Thread Phil Meyer
I could create a zip of my Slim/Plugin/MusicMagic folder and host on my website for people to download and replace their copy. I run from SVN - would this approach work with the installed app environment/nightly downloads? Phil ___ plugins mailing lis

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem

2008-08-25 Thread Phil Meyer
>My goal is to add a music folder menu using custom browse. To get >MusicIP to work, it looks like I cannot have a string in the SC music >folder settings. > The MusicIP plugin as it stands now is more of an "export" than an "import" plugin. It exports info from MusicIP into SC, rather than

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2008-08-23 Thread Phil Meyer
>You know, I looked for your post yesterday and, in my hurry, I missed >it. I did want to cite you, so thanks for pointing out what was right >in front of my nose. In retrospect, you were absolutely right: >"-accepteula" ought to have been in the psshutdown args from the start. > Oh don't worry,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2008-08-22 Thread Phil Meyer
>Clearly, I'll be saving folks a certain amount of head-scratching by >including "-accepteula" in the default cmd lines. I'll make sure this >makes it into the next version. > You may want to look back at my post (#3 in this forum thread back in June), where I pointed out the use of the -accepteu

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Playlist Manager Plugin version 3.0 for SC7.0

2008-08-20 Thread Phil Meyer
>I love the playlist manager plugin and use it all of the time. > Glad you find it useful. >Today I upgraded to version 7.1 of Squeezcenter and the plugin is no >longer compatible (I have version 3.0.beta02). > It is compatible; it's just that when I released the beta version, I configured the in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Is there a plugin to briefly display clock while playing?

2008-08-20 Thread Phil Meyer
>Looking for a way to re-map a remote button, e.g. first press on >"Sleep", to cause the clock to display for a few seconds. Thanks. There is a custom keymap bind you can associate to a key to show the clock briefly. I used to have this assigned to nowplaying.hold. Unfortunately, I lost the li

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playist problem when used in analarm in 7.2

2008-08-10 Thread Phil Meyer
>Does it work with a Random Mix playlist ? Tried Random Song Mix, and I had the same problems. Hmm, now I'm confused. I tried a favorite as a playlist with no 3rd party plugins installed, and I thought it was working. More investigation needed. I'll go back to a vanilla SC and try again. Phi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat error reported in 7.2

2008-08-10 Thread Phil Meyer
>Do you know what you clicked on when you got it ? No, I'm sorry. I looked through the logs when I noticed the other Alarm problem with Dynamic Playlists, but it wasn't related to that. I thought it was worth mentioning anyway. I'll keep a close eye on the logs whilst I use SqueezeCenter and s

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playist problem when used in an alarm in 7.2

2008-08-10 Thread Phil Meyer
Erland, I reported bug 9073: When an alarm goes off, I see the now playing screensaver. After 30 seconds into songs, if I try to press keys, the first keypress is ignored or causes strange things to happen. Sometimes I briefly see the power-off screensaver or idle screensaver. A second keypres

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat error reported in 7.2

2008-08-09 Thread Phil Meyer
[23:35:00.4944] Plugins::TrackStat::Plugin::handleWebStatistics (2101) Error in handleWebStatistics: Can't call method "title" on an undefined value at Plugins/TrackStat/Statistics/All.pm line 129. ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SQLPlaylist and CustomSkip efficiency

2008-08-09 Thread Phil Meyer
>An additional change you can try if you use this in a new 7.1 release, >is that you could replace "track_statistics" with "tracks_persistent" >and join using tracks_persistent.track instead. This would be something >like: I just tried this and it returned a track that had a rating. select trac

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SQLPlaylist and CustomSkip efficiency

2008-08-09 Thread Phil Meyer
>What is the reason that you don't think it's easy to maintain the >genres in SQL Playlist ? >Is it because you are going to want to exclude the same genres in >several playlists ? > Yes, probably. Quite often I want to use dynamic playlists without any built-in genre filtering, and then dependin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2008-08-05 Thread Phil Meyer
>$nDeferTime += 15; >and reduce that 15 to something that's more to your liking. > I quite like the delay/chance to abort when selecting through the menu. I was thinking that sleep.hold could be instant. However, thanks for the pointer; I think I may simply reduce the defer time. >> Does it work

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.67 (Windows frontend)

2008-08-05 Thread Phil Meyer
>There was a fix for the ratings error a while back.. Are you on 0.67a ? Ah. No, I was on 0.67. I didn't see any announcement for 0.67a, but the forum to email gateway has seemed a bit flakey for me recently with several messages not actually being received. Phil __

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.67 (Windows frontend)

2008-08-05 Thread Phil Meyer
>popcorn = modefunction_PLUGIN.RandomPlay::Plugin->tracks >it'll make a press of the button start random songs mode.. At least it used to, >but i suspect the plugin format's changed now ? > >You can pretty much do anything with it though.. Fire off a MusicIP playlist, >reboot your server, turn off

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2008-08-05 Thread Phil Meyer
>Yes, that's right. Currently, there is no way to cancel the action >once you press sleep+hold. You really, really need to mean it. Adding >a cancel option here is going to involve a fair amount of work, I think, >and more than I'll have for in the next couple of weeks. I prefer it like this any

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.67 (Windows frontend)

2008-08-02 Thread Phil Meyer
>5. In Library window, there's a Genres filter. Is this work in progress? >Popular and Alphabetic only have "All Genres" and "More Genres ->" which is >empty. > Ah. I think I've just worked this out. I forgot that last time I tried to do a scan, I got an error about ratings column, so althou

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.67 (Windows frontend)

2008-08-02 Thread Phil Meyer
I've got some Moose suggestions: 1. I like having Moose iconised to task tray. I like the New Track Toast popup when a track changes. However, I don't like the popup when I move the mouse over the tray icon, or to right-click on the tray icon to get to the menu. A simple instant hover text t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

2008-08-01 Thread Phil Meyer
>I am not willingly including any Slimserver code with WeatherTime, just >building the .zip file with PluginBuilder: > > PluginBuilder/bin/create-slimserver-plugin --slimserverdir > /usr/share/squeezecenter --plugindir /home/slimdevices/WeatherTime > >How do I keep it from including anything fr

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

2008-08-01 Thread Phil Meyer
>As others have reported I found Weathertime does not work with 7.1 >("incorrect version") so I edited the install.xml to show max version >as 7.1. Unfortunately this screws up 'Random Mix' in that although SC >allows me to choose genres the options to select 'Random Artists', >'Random Songs' etc h

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat album stats problem

2008-07-27 Thread Phil Meyer
>(Nb. It may be a good idea to display "Now Playing By >from ", so and link to show TrackStat stats for all >songs on that album/artist. And/or a way of showing all ratings for all songs >in the Now Playing playlist). I just got round to trying the mod you did for this. When I click the l

[SlimDevices: Plugins] SQLPlaylist and CustomSkip efficiency

2008-07-21 Thread Phil Meyer
I created a SQLPlaylist to play random songs that haven't yet been rated. I did this instead of using the standard Not Rated Songs trackstat dynamic playlist, because that one includes ordering by playcount, which totally biases the randomness. I also wanted to exclude certain genres. I decid

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat album stats problem

2008-07-20 Thread Phil Meyer
>However, "Not Rated Songs" appears to order by playcount and then random. So >songs with the same playcount are grouped together, but randomised within each >playcount group. I don't think the Play Count ordering should be there. > >I have tried using "Songs/Not Rated Songs/Not Rated Songs" as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat album stats problem

2008-07-17 Thread Phil Meyer
>The lower part shows the statistic you select and it didn't make any >sense to show just a song so it felt better to show the whole album, >the song you have selected should be marked with "<--". > I agree. >> If I click on "Show All", and then choose "Not Rated Songs", I see all >> songs not rat

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat album stats problem

2008-07-16 Thread Phil Meyer
Hmm, I see that clicking TrackStat icon on the currently playing track displays all songs on the album within TrackStat. I wasn't expecting that (assumed it would only display TrackStat info for the song). Some other observations: If I click on "Show All", and then choose "Not Rated Songs", I

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat album stats problem

2008-07-15 Thread Phil Meyer
I wondered how to get TrackStat WebUI to quickly display all songs on the album I was currently listening to. Clicking Home > Music Library > TrackStat shows the currently playing song, but I couldn't find a quick way from there of showing all songs on the album that the song belongs to. (Nb.

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Problem in one of Erlands plugins?

2008-07-13 Thread Phil Meyer
I scrolled through my log this morning looking for another issue, and noticed the following errors. I had an alarm at 7am, to play random unplayed songs. I think around the time of these errors, I tried to play other dynamic playlists, but can't remember which ones (standard dynamic playlist o

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-07-10 Thread Phil Meyer
>Correct the latest version doesnt clear the current playlist and just >adds tracks to the end of the playlist. > If I am playing a random mix, and I'm currently listening to track 10 of 20 and then enable SugarCube, nothing happens as no track change event has occurred yet. If I press play to r

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-07-10 Thread Phil Meyer
>If I enable SugarCube, it clears the current playlist, so I then have to >navigate through the music library to find the track that was playing and >press play on that track (Nb. I assume the setting to Play all songs on album >option has to be disabled). > Correction: the latest version doesn'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-07-09 Thread Phil Meyer
I'm loving SugarCube, but have a suggestion. What I often do is play a totally random mix of music, and whilst playing I hear a song that hits my current mood. I then want to play random music that is similar to the currently playing song. If I enable SugarCube, it clears the current playlist,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2008-07-04 Thread Phil Meyer
>Erland, first of all, thanks for making TrackStat 2.1 compatible with >the Default Skin. I'd like to say thanks too. The use of the "choose statistics to view" single drop-down list selection for drilling down to the stats list is more useable than the hyperlinks presented in a table within Fis

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trouble configuring SQL Playlists

2008-06-29 Thread Phil Meyer
Thanks once again! Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse MusicIP mix

2008-06-29 Thread Phil Meyer
Thanks! Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse MusicIP mix

2008-06-29 Thread Phil Meyer
When I navigate to a song and go into mixers and pick MusicIP, it immediately plays a mix. I have some issues with that: 1. I have set the MusicIP plugin setting to display mix parameters before starting a mix. 2. It's also nice to see the song listing that is generated before starting it. 3. T

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trouble configuring SQL Playlists

2008-06-29 Thread Phil Meyer
>The "Next" button is called "Save" when editing a playlist and is shown >at the bottom of the page. > Ah. Okay. I was editing a predefined playlist, and wanted to customise it. I selected Customise SQL, and then expected a next button (edit before saving). Tried it again - Save does show the

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Trouble configuring SQL Playlists

2008-06-28 Thread Phil Meyer
I wanted to configure a SQL Playlist to play random songs for a chosen year. I found a template that also has a selectable minimum rating and decided to create a menu based on that. I went back to edit it, and selected "Customise SQL" but there's no obvious "Next" button (which is usually disp

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-06-28 Thread Phil Meyer
>[07:39:52.8750] Slim::Control::Request::notify (1966) Error: Failed notify: >Couldn't get >http://localhost:/api/mix?song=file:///M:/Music/Phil%27s%20Music/Downloads/INXS/Kick/05%20-%20Mediate.mp3&style=&variety=&filter= > at P:/Music/SlimServer/trunk/server/Plugins/SugarCube/Plugin.pm line 278.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

2008-06-27 Thread Phil Meyer
I've been experiencing a few strange issues running SC7.2 from SVN source code. I found that the Weather Time plugin seems to erroneously include an old copy of the Slim source code within it; this seems to have been causing my problems. I edited the .par file in the Plugins-WeatherTime-Plugin.p

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-06-27 Thread Phil Meyer
Version 1.2 isn't working for me now. The plugin is enabled; I can select to enable/disable SugarCube. It appears to detect songs and tries to find a new song to queue, but always fails to get a new song to add: [07:39:52.8750] Slim::Control::Request::notify (1966) Error: Failed notify: Could

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Meyer
>These values are available from the prefs, too (mix_style, mix_variety, >mix_filter). Users can change these through the web UI. It would be nice if these were configurable from a player UI. I'm still tinkering with the style and variety to get nice mixes - I'm finding that mixes vary too muc

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Meyer
>You'll be happy to find a preference to do this. Never noticed it before. What I'd really like is just to stop SN from trying to "sync" preferences. It's nice to have SN as a backup music service. But it only syncs down from SN to SC, and there lies the problem in that SC will always have mor

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Meyer
>*To Do List* >Web interface? - Not sure seems a lot of work for stuff that wont >change after initial setup Did you mean web interface, or webUI settings page? >Enable/Disable - Something like hold the play button and select >SugarCube and then off it goes, otherwise always be disabled I think t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Meyer
>I am currently running SC 7.2. I tweaked the install.xml to set maxVersion=*. > The plugin seems to load without any errors, but doesn't seem to work. > >I browse to a song, press play, it starts to play and then finishes, and >that's it. No errors or warnings are reported. Version 1.1 of you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Meyer
>It would play about 1 sec of a song and >switch to another over and over and finally after about 20 songs it >locked into one. I saw a similar thing happen this morning. My alarm fired, which is set to play random songs. SugarCube really messes this up, causing songs to skip after a fraction o

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Meyer
>I just remembered that I'm using MusicIp 1.9 beta 5 and that is probably >why it's not working. I am using MIP 1.9 beta 5 and SC 7.2 and it's working fine for me. ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/l

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-06-25 Thread Phil Meyer
I am currently running SC 7.2. I tweaked the install.xml to set maxVersion=*. The plugin seems to load without any errors, but doesn't seem to work. I browse to a song, press play, it starts to play and then finishes, and that's it. No errors or warnings are reported.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)

2008-06-25 Thread Phil Meyer
Great! Sounds like just what I wanted to do myself. How does a user select the initial seed song? Does this appear as a mixer on the currently playing track? I'm worried though that I may end up with a random music that repeats/revisits the same tracks frequently. I thought it may be better

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatibility of Plugins with v7.1 nightly

2008-06-14 Thread Phil Meyer
So some people have a different opinion of what MaxVersion means - either: a) The highest version that the plugin has been tested against and deemed to work. b) The highest version after which the plugin will not work any more. I was thinking it was (b). Perhaps there could be two attributes for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatibility of Plugins with v7.1 nightly

2008-06-14 Thread Phil Meyer
>I think it's reasonable to allow plugins to run when the MaxVersion is lower >than SC version, but to display warnings. This is what my locl patch does - >it still checks MaxVersion, but logs a warning and continues. It would be >good for possible incompatible plugins to be shown as warnings

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatibility of Plugins with v7.1 nightly

2008-06-14 Thread Phil Meyer
>But IMHO it's the wrong way. People who know what they're doing, can easily >enable any plugin. The others just shouldn't do it. There's a good reason we >introduced version checking. I agree with your reasoning, that people may call helpdesk/raise bugs when their problems are due to incompati

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatibility of Plugins with v7.1 nightly

2008-06-11 Thread Phil Meyer
>As I said: you have the choice to do so. But I wouldn't generally >recommand it. > Many plugins have not been published to officially support anything greater than 7.0. There's not much choice for casual people beta-testing new versions of SC: either hack the maxVersion in all of the plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatibility of Plugins with v7.1 nightly

2008-06-11 Thread Phil Meyer
>Erland doesn't like this, as it renders the check obsolete. Thus I >explained how it should be done. Which you don't like. But you've got the >choice. > I went for choice 3: I modified PluginManager.pm to ignore MaxVersion checks :-) All 35 of my plugins remained working from 7.0 -> 7.1 -> 7.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatibility of Plugins with v7.1 nightly

2008-06-10 Thread Phil Meyer
>That's what I meant: authors should test against 7.1 and update the >install.xml file. I still think this is a bit crazy. MinVersion is fine as plugin developers (probably) know what version of SC is required to support their plugin. However, MaxVersion should be an optional property of the p

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomBrowse plugin causes MusicIP mixertrack selection to not be browsable

2008-06-07 Thread Phil Meyer
>This this mean that it works when you have Override set to 'No' ? > Yes browsing songs within MusicIP mix list did appear to work when Override is set to "No". >The MusicIP mix track listings behaves a bit differently, so the Custom >Browse track details menu doesn't work together with them. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomBrowse plugin causes MusicIP mixertrack selection to not be browsable

2008-06-07 Thread Phil Meyer
Ah. Whoops. I think something happened to my MusicIP service - it had stopped running. Perhaps due to an upgrade to a new beta version of MusicIP (1.9 beta 5) I installed earlier this morning. With Override standard track details = Yes, I get the following when I try to right-arrow into a son

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomBrowse plugin causes MusicIP mixertrack selection to not be browsable

2008-06-07 Thread Phil Meyer
>And you do if you disable Custom Browse ? >If that's the case it is a bit strange, because when you have set the >override option to No. When override is set to no, you should get the >standard track details which should be the same as when Custom Browse >is disabled. Are you saying that this isn'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomBrowse plugin causes MusicIP mixertrack selection to not be browsable

2008-06-07 Thread Phil Meyer
>Does it work if you set: >Override standard track details = No ? > I don't see MusicIP mixer in the list of mixers anywhere if I do that. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins

[SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomBrowse plugin causes MusicIP mixer track selection to not be browsable

2008-06-06 Thread Phil Meyer
I raised bug 8331 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8331): "When I bring up the mixers (with play.hold) and select MusicIP, I get a list of the tracks that have been selected for the mix. I can press play to start playback of that mix. However, each track has a right-arrow symbol, but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2008-06-05 Thread Phil Meyer
>Windows: does it work at all? I haven't had a chance to do much >testing. > Haven't managed to get it to work so far: [09:01:16.0686] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1329) Warning: [09:01:16.0681] Can't spawn "psshutdown.exe": No error at P:/Music/SlimServer/trunk/server/Plugins/SrvrPowerCtrl/Plugin.p

[SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomScan MusicIP Export

2008-05-31 Thread Phil Meyer
I tried this to get rating information from TrackStat into MusicIP. It said it was scanning, and after a while I refreshed and it didn't say scanning any more. I looked in MusicIP and can't see any ratings. I looked in SC log and can't see any info. Does scanning write to another log? ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Auto Dim not working w/ 7.01

2008-05-21 Thread Phil Meyer
>The display coming back on, not sure what's up with that. Something >happening in the new SqueezeCenter. It doesn't appear to actually be >coming from the plugin in anyway, so I need to track down why the >server is resetting the brightness and how to get around it. I have a problem with the ne

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.65 (windows front-end)

2008-05-20 Thread Phil Meyer
Cover Chooser problem: The mouse-over to bring the cover to the front seems to be sensitive to the top-left of each thumbnail. I think it used to bring the artwork to the front, centred at the mouse location. Now, it displays with the selected items' top-left corner at the mouse location. So

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

2008-05-11 Thread Phil Meyer
>Yes, it's (still) synchronous. You wouldn't happen to have any pointers >where and how to get started with AsycHTTP? Nevery tried to use it myself, but I know that the LastFM scrobbler plugin uses it. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdev

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Album Review plugin remote control problems

2008-05-11 Thread Phil Meyer
>I'm on a vacation right now. Will take a closer look later. Thanks! Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

2008-05-10 Thread Phil Meyer
I've had a few problems with the wunderground feed not responding. When it can't communicate, SqueezeCenter is blocked for 20 seconds, so everything is unresponsive. It looks like the WeatherTime is using Synchronous HTTP communication; any chance it could be changed to use AsyncHTTP? [16:13:

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Album Review plugin remote control problems

2008-05-10 Thread Phil Meyer
Recently I've noticed that when scrolling through lists of text in some plugins (for example album review), the text scrolling seems different. If I make quick stabs at the down-arrow, the text moves down correctly, however, if I make a normal press of the button, the text seems to scroll down

[SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomSkip problems

2008-05-10 Thread Phil Meyer
After I create or edit a CustomSkip filter from the PlayerUI Extras menu, the filter has no name (the menu option is blank). I was exploring some of the more unusual filter options that are provided. How does the custom tag fitler work? When I select that from the player UI, I can pick a spec

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

2008-05-09 Thread Phil Meyer
Also, SqueezeCenter reports the following warnings: [23:13:49.9709] Slim::Hardware::IR::addModeDefaultMapping (258) ignoring [SCREENSAVER.weathertime] arrow_right => right [23:13:49.9712] Slim::Hardware::IR::addModeDefaultMapping (258) ignoring [SCREENSAVER.weathertime] arrow_down => down [23:13

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

2008-05-09 Thread Phil Meyer
I saw this in my log today: [07:46:16.7816] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1329) Warning: [07:46:16.7812] Plugin WeatherTime: need to add condition to translation STRINGS [07:57:23.0941] Slim::Utils::Strings::string (397) Error: missing string PLUGIN_WEATHERTIME_WIND_HASH(0X172FBA3C) [07:57:23.0947] S

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

2008-05-08 Thread Phil Meyer
>I just released version 1.9.4 for the 6.5 series of Slimserver and >version 2.1 for Squeezecenter 7.0. > >No more worries about Weather.Com's service. > Great! Thanks for the quick fix. I'm noticing that I can cycle through additional info using right-arrow for today and tomorrow. When cycling

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Execute script troubles on SC 7.01

2008-05-02 Thread Phil Meyer
I've been trying to do something similar. I've created a script, which I have in the correct folder - I can attempt to select it in the web UI settings page in the various drop-down lists. However, when I pick the script and press Apply, it refreshes and says "(none)". I'm seeing a load of miss

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SongFileViewer plugin

2008-04-12 Thread Phil Meyer
>I've been wanting something like this for a while, though I don't much >like reading things scrolling on the SB display. I look forward to >being able to view these in Browser UI. I hope you are also planning >support for other file types, such as jpg and pdf. Then this could be >used to view addi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rating multiple tracks to trackstat

2008-04-10 Thread Phil Meyer
>All my files are in Flac and i really don't like itunes , but thanks. A lot of my files are FLAC and I hate iTunes too ;-) I thought it was worth the suggestion, as most people seem to like mp3 and iTunes for some crazy reason! You may be able to do something equivalent using Amarok, or FooBar

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rating multiple tracks to trackstat

2008-04-10 Thread Phil Meyer
>How can I easily rate multiple tracks so trackstat can read this. I >have 5000 songs to rate and really don't want to play all and push the >number on the remote. > If you use mp3 files, you could perhaps load all songs into iTunes, set all of your ratings in iTunes, and then run a utility that o

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SongFileViewer plugin

2008-04-06 Thread Phil Meyer
I've just knocked up a new plugin, based on Michael Herger's FileViewer plugin. I've called it SongFileViewer. It is used to display the content of files that are found within the local folder (and any sub-folders) where the currently playing track is located. It can therefore be used to displ

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help Needed with CustomBrowse and iPeng

2008-03-16 Thread Phil Meyer
Sorry to butt into your conversation; I haven't really been following it, but noticed your para about artwork for tracks on an album. Generally it is true that artwork for every song on an album would be the same. However, this is not necessarily true for multi-disc albums (each disc could hav

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