Re: [slim] New version of LMSDocumenter
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 for is something simple that lists my albums in a format that I can easily look at when I'm out and about, confronted with bargain CDs, or other shopping challenges. Not too long ago I bought an album for the third time and got really cross with myself! So my basic wish list is a single app that lists out all my albums, showing "Album artist" and "Album title", one album per row. Ideally two versions, one sorted in artist order and one in Album title order, using LMS's sort order (to deal with "The", "El", and so on). My favourite format would be HTML but almost anything in widespread use eg pdf would work. I have managed to create HTML lists, spending some lockdown hours using Google to find ways to get there. My method is clunky, only just about works for me, and is comparatively complex so I had to write down my steps to do it so I could repeat the process. Samples of my output are here https://wbeachdave.weebly.com/artists.html and https://wbeachdave.weebly.com/albums.html These two files together are under 500 KB so comfortably fit on my phone and scroll quickly. (The pdf from LMS Documenter was over 300MB) There's a similar conversation going on in the 'Album Catalog Creator' thread, from which I'll shortly post my clunky way of listing albums. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?74452-Announce-Album-Catalog-Creator-v3&p=980149&viewfull=1#post980149 Cheers! Digital: Raspberry Pi 3B; piCorePlayer 6 + LMS 8; HifiBerry DAC+DSP > Yamaha RX-V2700 > Jamo speakers Analogue: HifiBerry DAC+DSP > Speakercraft MZC-66 > whole house Library: External USB drive Android: Squeezer app Viragored's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32954 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Logitech Squeezebox 2020 Edition
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 that streams as easy or > as well as the original SB3 Classic and Squeezebox Touch, even 10 years > later. > -That even now, years past purchase, they have a large, loyal, dedicated > fan base with a hunger for a new product. > -That the vast majority of stereo owners would love to move to streaming > but don't need a new receiver or amp, just something to deliver the > music. > > I also heard they are contemplating a simple update to Squeezebox Touch > 2020: > -Same physical design with upgraded DAC, WIFI and Screen > -Build a focus on streaming first and easy setup, with full integration > of Apple Music, Google Play, Spotify, Qobuz, Tidal, Amazon > Music/HD/Ultra HD and others through mysqueezebox.com > -Full support for all streaming formats, bitrates and resolutions > -Bitperfect output via digital outs up to 24/192 for those with external > DACs. > -Robust integration with Alexa, Siri and Google assistants > -Updated Optional LMS with Roon like features for hard core audio folks > managing large local libraries > > That's what I heard anyway. And by heard, I mean, that's what I day > dreamed about this afternoon while looking at CES 2020 highlights. > > Come on Logitech, get back in the game. You could still be the standard > bearer of the streaming age. > > Has anyone else heard this? I have a similar dream. But really, I just want them - or someone (it is open source!!) to start making Squeezeboxes again. Integration with other services would be great, like chromecast, and support for more streaming services. It already makes a great Roon endpoint, btw. The DAC really doesn't need to be upgraded, neither the digital output. Both the analog and digital section is good enough. hertzberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67485 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111449 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Old Time Radio
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 tune-in via radio-search or tunable via their urls. sander's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10737 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112478 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] local files as radio station (localy)
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 this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] local files as radio station (localy)
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 this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] local files as radio station (localy)
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 slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] local files as radio station (localy)
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) teebee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70091 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Double Metaphone based library search
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 can parse with the FUSEjs library to make sense of the likely falsies. I already use FUSEjs but I need to feed it more data :) philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112531 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Double Metaphone based library search
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 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Double Metaphone based library search
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 metaphone was somewhat of a bummer: "Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, published by Lawrence Philips in 1990, for indexing words by their English pronunciation." But it seems DM improved support for other languages. As for the integration... I was wondering whether this should be a different column/index, or whether this could be a feature you enable, and thereafter all search indexes would be using DM. There is a CUSTOMSEARCH column in most tables which could be used by a plugin - and which is put in the fulltext index, too. That said, I could imagine that FTS and "fuzzy" search could result in a lot of false positives. But anyway, it's probably something to explore. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New version of LMSDocumenter
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 pages is > too much for me and my phone to enjoy when out shopping. > > Best wishes for the future! > > Edit: attached pic of front page 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... We can't stop here this is bat country. RIP Hunter S Thompson. pkfox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5346 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Double Metaphone based library search
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 suggest doing a whole new plugin for it. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112531 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Double Metaphone based library search
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 can only fuzzy match / post-process the returned values if the searched term is among the search results. Of course a search for a song with -flower- in the title will not return a song with -flour- - end of story. Asking Alexa again will not help because she will hear the same thing every time and return the same search-for text. A potential workaround for this would be to have a plugin that extends the scanning process to add columns to the database that contain computed *Double Metaphone* (DM) values for tags. There is a CPAN lib for DM and all it does is produce a text mapping from a word to something that sounds like the word according to pre-defined rules. Some examples: Flour, flower -> FLR Not, Knot -> NT Hear, Here -> HR Ate, Eight -> AT So the song title 'True Colors' would become TRKL, but so would Tru Colors, True Colours and even Trew Cullers. This means that I can match based on *sound* of the title rather than spelling and therefore more easily find stuff in your library. With the added benefit that this would work in the GUI interface too and help you find stuff with misspelled tags. 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? philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112531 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
