Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Browse by Music Folder and erland's plugins
Try to enable "info" level debugging of "plugin.customscan" in SqueezeCenter Settings/Advanced/Logging and post the log after you've entered a folder that took long time. If SqueezeCenter generates rescan events when you browse new folders this will trigger a full Custom Scan rescan operation. I had a look a few weeks ago (in SC 7.3 or 7.4 (don't remember)) and it didn't look like it generated these events in my own setup. -- 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, Title Switcher 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=61797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Browse by Music Folder and erland's plugins
Lately I've noticed that when I Browse by Music Folder (from webUI, squeezebox, or controller) that SC locks up for a variable amount of time -- sometimes just 5-10s, sometimes 40-60s, and sometimes even longer. I've noticed that mysqld gets kicked off and uses a fair bit of CPU during this time. I use many of Erland's plugins (CB, Custom Scan, SQL, Dynamic Playlist, Trackstat, Trackstat Playlist, Custom Skip, Multi Library) and I recently updated a number of them, so I wondered if they might be source of the delay. I tried testing by disabling all of Erland's plugins and then adding them in one at a time (stoping and restarting SC each time) and timing Browse by Folder. It is a little tricky because whatever is getting scanned in is being stored somewhere so that there is a delay only the first time you browse to a folder (except that this must get "forgotten" on the timescale of a day, because I discovered this problem when I navigate to the same folder every couple of days.) Because of this, during testing I navigated to 3 or 4 different, new folders each time. I found that SC alone is quite snappy, less than 5 s for each folder. Adding SQL, ML, and CB produced just a slightly longer delay, maybe as much as 10s. Adding Custom Scan produced a range of longer delays, from 30 s to as much as 3 mins! (Although some folders scanned in just 5 s -- and the delay doesn't seem to be proportional to the number of sub-folders or files.) Under the Custom Scan settings I set Custom Tag and Mixed Tag scanning to manual, which improved the delay times. Adding Track Stat and Track Stat Playlist (alone or with Custom Scan) also yielded moderate delays. So the culprit seems to be something to do with Custom Scan and possibly Track Stat. Does anyone know whether it is typical for there to be a short delay when browsing by Music Folder, should mysqld be running, and whether the delays I'm experiencing are abnormal? Any ideas why Custom Scan might be making these delays longer, and is there anything I can do about it? Any insight would be appreciated. (BTW running SC 7.2.1 on XP ) -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61797 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread
nicklouse;410137 Wrote: > liking it. > > but a "request" can you add the randoms functions. > add random song > ad random artist... > > as when i want to have a varied listen i have to find the > keyboard/screen/mouse or turn on another PC and start a remote > desktop.. > > Oh and thanks. > > EDIT: oh i see that there is something already there. Still learning. > only had the phone for a few hours ;) and the app for less. Err... You did find what? In your favorites?? iPeng 1.1 supports the "Random Play" feature but 1.0.5 doesn't. Or are you talking about the "shuffle" mode on the NowPlaying screen or in the Albums, Genres or track listings? The latter will only play the current selection randomly. But hopefully 1.1 will be out in a few days... -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for AlienBBC v1.6 (for ss6.5) for Linux
Thanks Neil, I don't even plan to try it with BBC so it's not a problem! ;-) I got mplayer compiled and installed and now it seems I need alienbbc in order to stream realaudio streams... Regards, Daniel -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.5 - 16330 - Debian - EN - utf8 Buffalo Linkstation HD-HG300, 266MHz PowerPC, 128MB RAM running Freelink (Debian etch) SlimDevices Squeezebox 2 wired dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61784 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread
liking it. but a "request" can you add the randoms functions. add random song ad random artist... as when i want to have a varied listen i have to find the keyboard/screen/mouse or turn on another PC and start a remote desktop.. Oh and thanks. -- nicklouse "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail." nicklouse's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=25954 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread
pippin;409900 Wrote: > Actually, no. > the handheld skin (or the iPeng skin/plugin) to change these, couldn't > you? Yep, just looking for one place for all control. not a big deal though -- rme rme's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1551 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze Plays Some Songs Too Fast
ScottG51, How many channels in your file ? Have you disabled native Flac decoding and set up SC to do server based flac decoding ? tallpaul, The AlienBBC is probably another issue which is associated Softsqueze and playing streams that need transcoding and mainly SC 7.3.x. What version of SC are you running ? If you wish to test out a beta version of Softqueeze - the basic details are in this post http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=405158&postcount=77 -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60391 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for AlienBBC v1.6 (for ss6.5) for Linux
I have attached the version you require. I doubt it will work though as the BBC site has changed considerably since it was released. +---+ |Filename: alienbbc-linux-v1.06_6.5.tar.gz | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7175| +---+ -- Neil Sleightholm Neil Sleightholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=131 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61784 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SoftSqueeze Plays Some Songs Too Fast
I'm getting this too with some programmes from Alien BBC. For example "Wake Up to Money" on Five Live which is 64kbps CBR, RTSP sounds like Pinky and Perky. But then live streamed Radio 4, which is also reported as 64kbps CBR, RTSP comes out fine! Tis very odd. -- tallpaul tallpaul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29046 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60391 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)
Triode, thanks for the investigation. Much appreciated ! Squeezebox Boom is arriving soon and it would be great to listen to the live streams in the garden when our beautiful summer arrives. In case it helps you I installed SC on my laptop which also runs Vista and I get the same error. Thanks again -- stomans stomans's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=28818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan: Not importing all iTunes ratings
Hi erland, the results are: file:///D:/shares/Music/NEWDESKTOP/D/My%20Music/Klaxons/Myths%20Of%20The%20Near%20Future/07%20Gravity%27s%20Rainbow.mp3 so its encoding the ' as %27. Does that help? CW -- Chunkywizard *Squeezebox:* Boom *Squeezecenter:* 7.4-25661 for Windows Home Server (HP EX-475 MediaSmart Server with 2GB RAM upgrade) *Plugins:* Dynamic Playlists 2.7 | SQL Playlist 2.4 | Music Information Screen 4.37 | Custom Scan 2.6 | TrackStat 2.8 Chunkywizard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=25868 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61055 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)
So the radio 3 issue is a typo in the new file I posted - sorry. Other than that it's strange - the logs definately show something strange happening. I wonder if you are accessing different bbc servers from other users. Will do some more testing to see whether my logs get similar responses. -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomScan: Needs optimization, seems to "waste" 54 minutes after SC rescan
Moonbase;409966 Wrote: > > CS seems to unnecessarily do a resync after SCs rescan has finished, > and -twice- creates a new database (at least thats what the log > says). > It shouldn't need a refresh at all in this case, but I think I missed this case in 2.6 so it seems to still do a refresh. I'll try to fix it in a future version. The duplicate creation of the database is just a cryptical log message. In a large table the fastest way to delete all rows that are part of a specific scanning module is to: - Drop the table - Recreate the table - Fill the table with all the entries besides those you wanted to remove A "delete" statement with a "where" directive is a lot slower when the table is large. It uses delete statements if less than 2 rows should be deleted, with more than 2 rows it uses the drop+create sequence described above. So what you are seeing in the log is: - At 19:19: It deletes the Custom Tag entries and then performs the Custom Tag scanning for about 30 minutes - At 19:53: It deletes the Mixed Tag entries and then performs the Mixed Tag scanning for about an hour (which seems extremely slow). I wonder if this would be faster if it was performed in smaller chunks. Moonbase;409966 Wrote: > > This behaviour is also seen when only doing a "scan for new/changed > music". > There is no support for "new/changed" rescan in Custom Scan at the moment. I think it might be possible to implement "new/changed" rescan in Custom Scan but it would require me to use internal api's which could change at any time, so I don't think I like to do this, especially since the scanning process in SqueezeCenter will change a lot in 8.0 which hopefully will make the Custom Scan plugin obsolete. -- 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, Title Switcher 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=61775 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
Moonbase;410042 Wrote: > I must be dumb. Where -is- that "Order these tags numeric instead of by > letter" field? It's an attribute when you edit the "Tags" menu (or another menu based on the Dynamic Mixed Tags template), you will find it in "SqueezeCenter Settings/Plugins/Custom Scan/Manage menus". Similar attributes also exists on the Mixed Tag menu template. -- 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, Title Switcher 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=49483 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
erland;409886 Wrote: > [ ] the "Order these tags numeric instead of by letter" field [ ] I must be dumb. Where -is- that "Order these tags numeric instead of by letter" field? -- Moonbase Moonbase: 'The Problem Solver' (http://www.kaufen-ist-toll.de/moonbase) Moonbase's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21594 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for AlienBBC v1.6 (for ss6.5) for Linux
Until I move slimserver/squeezecenter onto an x86 computer, I am stuck at version 6.5 on my Linux Buffalo Linkstation NAS... I am looking for the latest version of AlienBBC that runs on ss V6.5 (I believe it is V1.6.x). On the developper's website, the links to this version are dead (eventhough the pages describing the older versions are still active). I did not find any contact info on this website (thanks to spammers no doubt) so I'm turning to this forum for help. I want to play some RealAudio radio streams from a local Montreal station so I can ditch the alarm clock altogether and use my SB2 as my alarm clock! Thanks in advance, Daniel Born -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.5 - 16330 - Debian - EN - utf8 Buffalo Linkstation HD-HG300, 266MHz PowerPC, 128MB RAM running Freelink (Debian etch) SlimDevices Squeezebox 2 wired dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61784 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] RadioFeeds
Have been unable to register after several attempts. No response to e-mails. Am I missing something? Noguru -- noguru noguru's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=27520 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61782 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] CustomScan: Needs optimization, seems to "waste" 54 minutes after SC rescan
Using SC 7.4-25680 and CustomScan 2.6, I observe what I think unneccessary activity by CustomScan that seems to "waste" 54 minutes after each SC rescan on my system here. Yesterday, I did a complete "clear & rescan" in SC and could nail it down a bit. Heres what SC and CS do: COMPLETE CLEAR & RESCAN ON 2009-03-24: - 15:05 SC clear & rescan start - 18:57 SC rescan finished - 18:59 CS Syncing CS data start * - 19:18 CS Syncing finished * - 19:19 CS creating new database * - 19:53 CS creating new database AGAIN - 20:51 CS apparently finished but 100% CPU & mySQL activity starts, blocks SC completely (incl. playback) - 21:09 CS really finished, SC responsive again The whole rescan process took 6:04 hrs, 3:54 hrs for SC + 2:10 hrs for CS. I think CS could save at least 54 minutes by omitting the steps marked *, thus reducing CS time to 1:16 hrs and overall time to 5:10 hrs! CS seems to unnecessarily do a resync after SCs rescan has finished, and -twice- creates a new database (at least thats what the log says). -SERVER.LOG- EXCERPT: -(attached, due to post size limits)- MYSQL \"LONG QUERIES\" LOG EXCERPT: -(attached, due to post size limits)- This behaviour is also seen when only doing a "scan for new/changed music". Can anyone please confirm this? Erland, any great ideas on how to speed this up? +---+ |Filename: mysql.log.txt| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7174| +---+ -- Moonbase Moonbase: 'The Problem Solver' (http://www.kaufen-ist-toll.de/moonbase) Moonbase's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21594 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61775 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Problem with SQL playlist :-(
erland;409884 Wrote:
> You will have to configure the "Playlist directory" parameter under
> "SqueezeCenter Settings/Plugins/SQL Playlist". I think you may have to
> restart SqueezeCenter after you have changed it but I'm not sure.
Ahh -- thank you! My playlist folder was set to E:\Playists (can you
see the typo? :-)
Next time you're in the editor near that code, could you add a
error("$playlistFolder is not a folder") if (! -d $playlistFolder);
or something similar? It would have saved me (and others in future I'm
sure) a lot of grief (and I wouldn't be so tired today :-).
Many, thanks - and please don't take the above as a complaint -- your
plugins are really useful -- keep up the good work.
Mark
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)
stomans;409796 Wrote: > ModelCitizen log file also shows Radio 3...Was/where you he/she > trying for R3 ? He! :-) Usually I try for Radio 4. It's not an iPlayer issue. I get the same result with Radio 7 ASX feed if accessed via More Radio..>Radio Feeds UK & Ireland > Browse UK Radio by Genre > Children's > BBC Radio 7 (WMP) - http://www.bbc..co.uk/radio/listen/live/r7.asx. The feeds play fine on my laptop via Winamp/WMP etc, but not on my main workstation. Both run XP Pro and Windows MediaPlayer 11. Both play all non-BBC asx playlists with no problems. And I have Squeezecenter 7.4 on my laptop. I've connected a SD hardware player to it and the BBC asx radio feeds play perfectly! Conclusion: There is something in (or lacking in?) my main PC that is stopping (just) the BBC asx feeds playing via both resident software players and the resident Squeezecenter server. This is perplexing. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] DVB Radio Add-on for Linux
This DVB solution sounds ideal for my requirements, however I have a question. My squeezecenter machine is also used as a MythTV backend and as such has a Dual DVB tuner. I'd like to use the same card to get DVB radio to my squeezeboxes. Is there anyway to share the same card? Obviously this would only work if MythTV wasn't using the tuner. But i rarely record two channels at the same time, although would like the option to. Also, if i'm listening to the radio and MythTV is scheduled to record something then i'd like it to take control of the the tuner and not miss the recording, even if this results in loss of radio. What do you think my chances of getting this to work are? Thanks, -- anguston anguston's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22982 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54713 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
