Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem
ericj;332064 Wrote: I think the easiest solution is to get custom browse to simply give me a listing of my music folder.I've read the docs, but can't quite figure out how to configure the directly where a custom browse view should start. I am hoping for a little hint. Thanks in advance. Since I don't have a MusicIP configuration up and running at the moment, I've no way to test how the database looks in a configuration like yours. Could you install the Database Query plugin and create a new free form query with the following SQL statement: Code: select id,url from tracks where content_type='dir' Does this query return any directories when you you execute it in your library where you don't have a music folder configured ? If this query lists all directories in your setup, I think there might be a solution. If it doesn't list any directories, I think you will have a hard time getting the music folder menu to work. The Custom Browse music folder menu is just a link to the standard SqueezeCenter music folder menu, which requires these directory entries in the database. Without them the Music Folder menu in SqueezeCenter won't work. So if you don't see any directory entries with the above query in Database Query plugin, the only way to get this to work is to develop a third party plugin that add the necessary directory entries to the database. This shouldn't be too hard for someone who knows perl or is willing to learn perl, but it will require some development. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50495 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Menus with Custom Scan
The easiest is to use the Dynamic Tags menu type. This will not give you a static browse structure, instead you will get a menu where you can browse these tags in any order you want. The disadvantage of this solution is that it results in a bit deeper menu since it will have an intermediate menu level between each tag where you select which tag to browse next. If you just want to try out the feeling, you can try browsing with the built-in Tags menu which should be available as soon as you have scanned once with the Mixed Tag scanning module in Custom Scan. If you really want this static menu which you describe, there is no problem to do it as long as there always is a group of works, the problem is when you want to remove the group of works level. This will require you to customize the XML configuration yourself. If you like to do this the Genre/SubGenre menu type does something similar with genres, so it might be worth looking at. However, please note that this can be a bit complex to accomplish, so it won't be an easy task. I won't make any pre-defined template for this based on the static menu configuration, but it might be possible to make the Dynamic Tags menu a bit better in a future release. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51439 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem
Since you installed MIP according to the installation instructions in the Wiki I assume you turned off the Music Folder (you did NOT enter a path to your Library in Basic Settings-Music Folder). Right? Just point this one to the top level folder of your music collection and you will be fine, the Music Library menu item will show up in the Library Menu. No need to use Custom Browse. The library scan will take a little bit longer but on the other side you can also access stuff that MIP has not yet finished analyzing (which sometimes takes a while on my system). This does NOT interfere with MIP's operation. -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50495 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem
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 SC importing information from MusicIP. If you don't set an SC music path, SC will just depend on information from MusicIP. You can also define an SC music path, and SC will scan all music on this path, and then export info from MusicIP and merge it into the SC library. It means the music is effectively scanned twice. I saw absolutely no benefits in MusicIP being the only source for music in SC: 1. MusicIP import (actually the plugin calls it export) is very slow compared to SC scanning. 2. MusicIP doesn't understand tags as well as SC scanner. i.e. doesn't allow multiple genres, artists, album artists. sorting. I think other tags like lyrics, comments, composer, band, etc are not imported too. 3. MusicIP understands less music formats (m4a, m4p, mp3, wma, ogg, flac and wav on Windows). 4. Instead of one No Album for all music without an album tag, MusicIP creates many Miscellaneous albums. Similar problems exist for no genre, no artist, etc. 5. It does the whole scan every time, rather than find only new songs. I thought it seemed totally wrong for SC to use MusicIP as the master source for music. MusicIP adds the benefit of defining what songs are mixable, but that's it. So I tweaked the plugin and provided a patch on an enhancement request. It provides an extra option in the MusicIP settings page Read Song Data. If this is unticked, the SC scanner will only ask MusicIP whether songs are mixable. It only does this for songs that it doesn't already have the mixable status for, and thus is a lot quicker. It doesn't corrupt SC tags with MusicIP weirdness. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5637 I think the developers might look at the patch I provided for inclusion in SC 7.3. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem
Phil, would it be possible to distribute your patch as a separated plugin in the meantime, that is: the patched plugin? Could be called Super MIP plugin or something and become obsolete when the functionality is merged into 7.3. Think that would be useful for a lot of people (including myself), and the license allows for it. Or it the MIP plugin to deeply linked into the SC code? -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50495 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem
Or it the MIP plugin to deeply linked into the SC code? It is indeed one of the ugly examples where we do have some references to it in various places of the code. But I hope to start working on MIP/7.3 really soon. 7.2 will be finalized this week. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem
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 list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem
Philip Meyer;332233 Wrote: 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 Can you send it to me? I'll try it out. coolio att penguinlovesmusic dott com -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50495 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Favorites Error
When I try to edit my favorites, the server hangs and I get no response. Looking at the log, here's what I am seeing: [08-08-25 09:40:12.8762] Slim::Networking::IO::Select::select (250) Error: Select task failed: Can't locate object method hotkeys via package Slim::Plugin::Favorites::OpmlFavorites at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Plugin/Favorites/Plugin.pm line 721. I am running 7.10 on Ubuntu Server. Any thoughts? -- ChrisNY ChrisNY's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5004 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51488 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Favorites Error
Search is your friend - this has been reported a number of times. and cause is usually an old copy of Weather Time plugin. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51488 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem
Philip Meyer;332233 Wrote: 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? 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 local changes with the updated central changes. As you probably know it can't be installed in the third party Plugins folder, it only works when installed in Slim/Plugin because the scanner currently has a hardcoded dependency to Slim/Plugin/MusicMagic. There is no way to avoid that until something like the patch provided with 'enhancement request #6023' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6023) has been implemented. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50495 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] XM radio not working from web GUI
It works fine from the SB3 remote but none of the play or add buttons do anything from the Web interface. It looks normal, just doesn't do anything. I've saved a couple of channels to favorites and they work fine. I'm using 7.2 22588 and XM 2.0 plugin. Just wondering if anyone else has had this happen. I'll probably update the 7.2 and then clear caches and all that. Oh yeah, Windows XP -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51502 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Is there a plugin to briefly display clock while playing?
Apesbrain;330969 Wrote: @)p( I installed SaverSwitcher, but I can't figure out how to get it to do what I'd like: normally show Analog VU Meters while playing, but show Date/Time screensaver for 5 seconds if I press 0. Then automatically go back to Analog VU. Is that possible? I couldn't get it to do anything. The instructions don't seem to line up with my version of SC 7.2 Does anyone have it running with 7.2? -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51285 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Menus with Custom Scan
Thank you very much for your quick answer. The Dynamic Tags menu is not really a solution. It is too complicated for my wife, I guess :-) So I will try to customize the XML configuration for myself. BTW, I think that my problem is not really uncommon. I have hundreds of classical CDs and I think it is very reasonable to group works together in a GROUPOFWORKS-Tag. If I don't do this and say have a menu like Composer - Works then e.g. for Mozart there are 41 Symphonies, 27 Piano concertos, 18 piano sonatas etc. This tends to be really cluttered if there is no intermediate menu Group of works. But on the other hand, there are works which do not belong to a group of works, e.g. the Divertimento KV 131, so it doesn't make sense to set this GROUPOFWORKS-tag for every file. Michi -- Michi20 Michi20's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51439 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Plugin that updates rating in id3 tag directly
erland;331855 Wrote: TrackStat will never be able to write directly to the music files, the main reason is the risk of trashing someones music if there is a bug in the code. If someone else likes to write a plugin that write to the music files, it is possible to hook into the TrackStat rating hooks. I'm not sure that many will like a plugin that can write to their tags. As you said the risk of messing up a lot of hard work. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50697 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem
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 local changes with the updated central changes. Good point. Guess I'm used to running from SVN these days. What would happen if the files were made read-only? Would that prevent an upgrade from overwriting them? As you probably know it can't be installed in the third party Plugins folder, it only works when installed in Slim/Plugin because the scanner currently has a hardcoded dependency to Slim/Plugin/MusicMagic. There is no way to avoid that until something like the patch provided with 'enhancement request #6023' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6023) has been implemented. I thought there was something special with the plugin, but didn't know exactly what the issue was. I think Michael said he was planning on looking at things like that as soon as 7.2 was finished. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Is there a plugin to briefly display clock while playing?
Nonreality;332389 Wrote: I couldn't get it to do anything. The instructions don't seem to line up with my version of SC 7.2 Does anyone have it running with 7.2? Have what running? I've got SaverSwitcher running just fine on my SC 7.2 system. The web instructions are a wee bit off for SC 7.2 (the SC7 screensaver settings are now under Settings - Display, and the Plugins menu is now labeled Extras), but it should work fine with SC 7.0 through SC 7.2 at least. Make sure you have at least one of the 9 slots set to a timed value (not Manual/Disabled). And make sure you have SaverSwitcher's button control enabled if you want the ability to tap a numbered button to switch screensavers. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51285 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Potential Solution for MusicIP/Music Folder Problem
First, thanks to all for your comments. They have been extraordinarily helpful and generous. Second, I concur that having MusicIP and the Squeezeserver scans operate independently is a good thing. Finally, Pippin's comment got me to thinking. I had installed MusicIP with no music library (as documented in the wiki), and that is what I wanted to use CustomBrowse to address. When I tried to enter my library as Pippin had suggested, I found that the MusicIP scan would hang. After some thought, a penny dropped, and I remembered that I had some flac's with embedded cue sheets that might have been a problem. The log was very ambiguous. I did use metaflac and a find command to remove the cue sheets and everything is hunky dory, at least to date. I have my Music Folders back. For Erland, I did want to report that his Music Folders custom browse entry did show my entire system. I think this way would have worked out, but don't need it as of now. I am a big fan and will use Custom Browse for my Classical and Opera collection. Thanks to all for all the help. This is an amazing community My entry on the cue sheet problem, and how to fix it, in case anyone runs into the same problem is here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=230426postcount=9 -- ericj ericj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3230 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50495 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Album Catalog Creator 1.0
SilverRS8;331527 Wrote: I hope I have some time this week but this is my last working week before my holiday so what I can say for sure is that I do all fixes late third week of september. Sorry for the late fixing but I just have no free time lately hey, I'm not going to complain, it's not like I paid anything for this cool little app! -- slydog75 slydog75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48096 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Favorites Error
Thanks. I updated it today and an back in business. -- ChrisNY ChrisNY's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5004 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51488 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
