[slim] Re: MusicMagic Mixer: What do you think?
Pale Blue Ego Wrote: > Headless might be an option, because I don't really have physical access > to the server, but I need to be able to get the gui running before I > pony up for the license. You can get trial keys by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] - make sure you get it working and like it before you worry about paying for anything. Pale Blue Ego Wrote: > Why are none of these Predixis help pages available from the main page? > None of them seem to be linked to anything else. Yes, the website needs to be updated. We're working on it. -- whicken whicken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3991 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21106 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: music magic moods
kdf Wrote: > The best way to be able to put this into > slimserver would be if the API could give a list of the moods by name, > > as they do for filters. You mean something like this? http://music.predixis.com/6_develop_http.html#moods -- whicken whicken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3991 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20797 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Using MusicIP generated playlists
I'm not sure which method you're using the generate the m3u files - if you create them as playlists inside the mixer first, you can right-click and set the "Extended" option to save them with EXTM3U data. If you do File/Save As Playlist, those should also be in extended format. I don't see a hook for the HTTP API to generated extended format, but I made a note to add that in the future. Maybe one of those items will help? -- whicken whicken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3991 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42978 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] MusicIP causes to become Miscellaneous
Philip Meyer;308314 Wrote: > >I can't see any options in MusicIP to turn off this effect. Anyone > know of a work around? > > > I've patched the MusicIP plugin to avoid this issue, until a fix is > available in MusicIP. > > MusicIP assumes that if an album or genre tag is blank, the name should > be "Miscellaneous". A blank artist tag becomes "Various Artists" (which > is also a very bad/wrong thing to do). Blank track names become "Track > n". > > ... > > I should do a better patch for the MusicIP plugin, such that if the > music file is already in the SC library, it will only set the mixable > flag for the song, artist, album and genre. If the file doesn't exist > in the library, then it could read the tags from MusicIP and add them > to the SC library. Generally, I don't ever want to take any tags from > MusicIP, because it would probably be wrong and cause inconsistencies > in the music library (i.e. not follow the same rules for compilations, > album artists, artist sort, etc). > > So essentially, I think it should not take tags from MusicIP, just find > tracks that are mixable. > As of MusicIP Mixer 1.9 beta 5 (released yesterday), the HTTP API will no longer send the default values for missing metadata (they still show up in the UI, but that shouldn't be an issue for SC). The beta is only available for Windows at the moment, but we will be doing a linux release in the future. Anyways, if someone could test the Windows version to make sure it's giving correct results with SC, that would be fantastic. Also - note that the metadata mixer sends over the API is only the metadata from the files. We do not use the "suggested tag fixes" from MusicDNS unless a user specifically applies those to their files. So any other issues reported here about strange metadata are probably likely to issues such as album artist not being consistent with track artist in the file. Those are things you might want to fix in your files independent of the mixer. If someone has concrete examples, or info to the contrary, I'd be happy to investigate to make sure things are working as smoothly as possible. -- whicken whicken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3991 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48357 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] MusicIP Rocks!
maggior;307048 Wrote: > To those that know more about this - is there a reason in a case like > this to have MusicIP perform the "analysis" or "validation", other than > to increase the number of mixable songs? If a song is ready/mixable, but hasn't been validated yet, that means MusicIP is using the metadata to identify the track. So a track which is tagged as "Jumping Jack Flash" by "The Rolling Stones" will get associated with the most common version of that track. However, the track may be mistagged, or there may be alternate versions of this track. During validation, we can confirm the metadata, and update the acoustics to be more precise. So, the upshot should generally be better mixes after validation, but if your metadata is reasonably clean, things should work fine without the validation. Validation always starts with the unmixable songs first, so you can try to get complete coverage of your collection before the more detailed cleanup process starts - this is the reason why it starts slow and then speeds up. -- whicken whicken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3991 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48270 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] MusicIP vs. iTunes
Philip Meyer;311268 Wrote: > ... MusicIP ... has different ideas about how to treat blank artist, > album and genre tags. This is now changed in 1.9 (currently in beta on Windows), so it should be more friendly to Squeezecenter. -- whicken whicken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3991 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48794 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Wiki needs big help.
As a workaround, Google does a great job searching - if you do something like this: musicip site:wiki.slimdevices.com It will find whatever you're looking for (replace musicip with your own search phrase, the point is to add site:wiki.slimdevices.com to your google search). This trick can be a huge time saver. -- whicken whicken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3991 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49294 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playlist Conversion Utilities
MusicIP Mixer also runs on Mac OS X, and (drum roll...) linux. You might be interested in these pages: Using MusicIP with SlimServer: http://www.musicip.com/mixer/slimserver.jsp Setting up a MusicIP "headless" server: http://www.musicip.com/mixer/server.jsp I'm sure others around here have even more useful info for this setup, but it's fairly common. (Linux SS + MIP) -- whicken whicken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3991 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36037 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss