Re: Announce: Spicefly SugarCube Version 2.03 � (Automatic MusicIP DJ) for 7.x
nervoteso wrote: i would like SC would do that but it plays always the same song or bandi don't know why...it happens with some bands, if they're not so famousi've set not play if already played with no luck... It's a known issue. I've been using Sugarcube for years now, but this annoying habit has never changed. I think I started with version 1.8, in the meanwhile it's 4.0., but nothing happened. The only difference is, now it costs money I think cparker must know the problem, and I wonder why he doesn't fix it. Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73988 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins
Erland, thanks for your answer. I've sent you the attachments server.log and the databasequery results by separate email. Starting to update urls in statistic data based on musicbrainz ids seems to be the main problem. It takes 8 minutes. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 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
Hello Erland, I've been working now for more than five years with the different releases of Slim-/Squeeze-/Logitech-Centre/Server and a number of your great plugins, especially my absolute favorite, Trackstat. My feeling is, that beginning more or less in January, the startup-performance of the Media Server dropped dramatically. Instead of three minutes in the past it now takes 15 (!) minutes to come up with Squeeze(LMS)server. Whatever I tried, it didn't work. At least I inactivated all your plugins except the License Manager to test the startup behaviour without it. It was a real surprise, that it now took only 35 seconds to start the server. After that I activated your plugins one by one. I now can definetely say, that it is the trackstat plugin, that's responsible for that poor startup performance of the Media Server. Do you have any solution for that issue in the pipeline? Thanks in advance for your response... Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 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;526914 Wrote: I could probably improve this in some cases in the Custom Skip code but with SugarCube I'm not sure it will work because I think it adds new tracks just before it's going to play it. It would work because Sugarcube adds new tracks when the track before (or the first track in the pipeline) has been started. erland;526914 Wrote: The good news is that if you use SugarCube through Dynamic Playlist it should work perfectly. I'm not sure how to get that to work. I think I have to select first one track, then choose the SugarCube entry in Dynamic Playlist, but it seems to me that nothing happens. SugarCube still fills the playlist (with duplicates) and the Dynamic Playlist Plugin does not avoid that. Philip Meyer;432943 Wrote: Yes, I have been tailoring the code to work a bit better with Dynamic Playlist integration, and fixed a few bugs in it. I find it's working very well for me - I don't get duplicates or stuck in a loop playing the same sequence of songs. Phil, is your patch working on SugarCube 2.03 too? And where can I get that tailored code? Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 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
Philip Meyer;527026 Wrote: Yes, it was based on SugarCube 2.03. I changed the code predominantly to make the DynamicPlaylist integration work well. Great! Phil, so far it seems to work pretty fine - no duplicates, no loop! The DynamicPlaylist integration works excellent. And it meets the CustomSkip criteria. Thank you very much for helping. Thanks to Erland, too. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 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
Capricorn;524991 Wrote: I use Custom Skip for deleting the annoying duplicates and repeated tracks in Sugarcube 2.03 playlists by a time filter, e.g. 1 week. So far it works - in principle. Most of the time Custom Skip decides a bit too late to skip the repeated track, so the first 1-2 seconds are on air. Is there any way to improve that behaviour? Martin Hm...is really nobody here, who can answer my question? Erland, may I ask you for help? Or was it a stupid question? Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 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
I use Custom Skip for deleting the annoying duplicates and repeated tracks in Sugarcube 2.03 playlists by a time filter, e.g. 1 week. So far it works - in principle. Most of the time Custom Skip decides a bit to late to skip the repeated track, so the first 1-2 seconds are on air. Is there any way to improve that behaviour? Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 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: Spicefly SugarCube (Automatic MusicIP DJ)
I've got the same problem with Sugarcube 2.x.x. Some songs are often repeated within the same session. And another notice: No matter what song you start with, sugarcube seems to be in love with some. They are repeated every day. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49226 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Can't restore trackstat ratings
MeSue, thank you for your help! Indeed, the server.log file showed a wrong entry in the backup file that caused the restore process to fail. There were strange symbols added to the end of some musicbrainzId's, e.g. musicbrainzIded462550-eab7-4e42-88ec-16909faa7f84+/musicbrainzId I had to find and correct these corrupt entries all manually - that took me hours! At least the restore process was successful and the new backup file now shows, that the database has obviously been corrected. But one question still remains: How could it happen that the musicbrainzId's became corrupt? Is it a bug in the trackstat plugin or a bug in squeezecenter? And a last question to you, MeSue: Which program do you prefer to add ratings to flac-tags, that can be read by squeezecenter? Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72739 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Can't restore trackstat ratings
After a windows crash sueezecenter refused to start and I had to reinstall it (7.3.4). I completely uninstalled it first and deleted then manually all remaining folders and registry entries. It then worked, but without any trackstat ratings! I tried to restore the trackstat ratings from the last backup file. I could now see some ratings but most of them have been lost. A new backup file now shows 3,196 trackstat ratings (incl. history entries) instead of 14,900 ratings in the older backup file. The complete music database contains more than 11,000 tracks, all rated in the past, so this is a disaster for me. Can anybody help? Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72739 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Scheduled trackstat backups not working
Erland, I've just updated from Slimserver 6.54 to Squeezecentre Version: 7.4 - 25533 with a clean install and using Trackstat 2.8, Trackstat data restored from an earlier backup file. Now I want Trackstat to perform a daily scheduled backup, but it doesn't work. I'm quite sure, to have made all the needed settings. Any idea? Thanks for help in advance. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61455 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat - Moving Files, saving Stats
Erland, I unfortunately have organized my music in the root directory of drive G:\ Now I want to move all folders to a subdirectory G:\Music. What is the new synthax in the trackstat xml-file? Here's an existing example: urlfile%3A%2F%2F%2FG%3A%2FBryan%2520Adams%2FThe%2520Best%2520Of%2520Me%2FBryan%. Thank you for helping. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35962 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat - Moving Files, saving Stats
Ahma Trackstat2IDTag convertera nice idea. Isn't that possible, Erland? By the way, thank you for your response yesterday. I'm trying to tag my files first by using Musicbrainz, but it's a really annoying procedure. Although more than 90% of my songs have been ripped from the original CD by Secure Rip (dbpoweramp, they don't fit. So I now have more than 8,000 clustered songs to move by hand to albums. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35962 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse and Slimserver start-up performance
erland;215956 Wrote: The Custom Browse startup time isn't related to the number of tracks, it reads and parses all the XML files at startup and this takes some time. It takes about 10-15 seconds on my machine. If Multi Library plugin is installed this might also affect the startup time for Custom Browse, in this case the number of libraries will cause longer startup time. The Custom Scan startup time on the other hand is related to number of tracks and this can take some time if you have a lot of tracks and slow hardware with little memory. The problem is the Mixed Tag scanning module. So if you don't use the Mixed Tag scanning module it is a good idea to disable it and then click the Clear link beside it to remove the data in the database. Thanks for response, Erland. I like your fantastic work and your great plugins, so I'm unlucky not to use the Custom Browse Plugin at the moment because of its startup performance. In my actual slimserver plugin configuration (see below) the Custom Browse plugin is definitely the performance-switch. Is it off, Slimserver starts in less than 1 min. Is it on, Slimserver needs up to 8 min. to start as a service. What I don't know is, whether it may be caused by a special combination of the Custom Browse plugin AND another one. As we discussed in another thread I have deactivated the Mixed Tag module in Custom Scan, so this is for sure not the reason. And my hardware should be powerful enough. Plugin configuration, activatet plugins marked (x): (x) Command Line Interface (CLI) (x) Date and Time Screensaver (-) Snow Screensaver (-) Custom Browse (x) Custom Scan (-) Custom Skip (x) Digital Input (x) Dynamic Playlists (x) LazySearch (-) iTunes (x) Multi Library (x) MusicMagic (x) MusicInfoSrc (x) Browse Music Folder (x) NetworkPerformanceCheck (-) Podcasts (-) Real Rhapsody (x) Remove Played Songs (-) RS232 (-) RSS-Newsticker (x) SlimTris (x) SQL Playlist (x) TrackStat (x) Visualizer Screensaver (x) Wiedergabeliste speichern (x) Windows: Prevent System Standby While Playing (x) XML-RPC/JSON-RPC Interface (x) xPL-Schnittstelle (x) Random Mix erland;215956 Wrote: Anyway, if you are running SlimServer on decent hardware and are getting startup times of several minutes I think I'll need to look at this again, because then it feels like some optimization is suitable. What hardware are you running SlimServer on ? Slimserver is running on a nearly blank Windows XP installation (seperate partition) to save all resources for the application. Hardware: Intel Pentium D Dual-Core-CPU (3.0 GHz) and 3GB RAM. This should be a very comfortable situation for slimserver Hope you can help, Erland. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36971 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse and Slimserver start-up performance
erland;216081 Wrote: Ok, something is seriously wrong if it takes 8 minutes to startup SlimServer in this setup and Custom Browse uses 7 of these minutes. 3. Do you have the debug option enabled for Custom Browse in Server Settings/Plugins ? (If enabled, this will slow down startup performance) No, it's not enabled. erland;216081 Wrote: Some things to try follows below, try them separately so we can see which one that (if any) that affects the performance. - Could you try to disable the Multi Library plugin and enable the Custom Browse plugin and see if it gets a lot faster ? I have disabled now the Multi Library Plugin, because I don't really need it actually, enabled Custom Browse and restarted. No change. 8 Minutes. As you wrote above Custom Browse scans all the xml-files. Does that mean scanning the trackstat scheduled backup files too? Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36971 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse and Slimserver start-up performance
erland;216098 Wrote: Make sure none of the Custom Browse directory settings points to the directory where the TrackStat backup files are. Erland, you got it!! There was a mistake in my direction settings! Everything's working fine now. Startup with Custom Browse in less than 1 min. Thanks for helping and for your patience. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36971 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse and Slimserver start-up performance
Erland, after being so successful solving my Custom Browse plugin problem, I gave the Mixed Tag module another try. (Maybe you remember our discussion in Phil's thread about Custom Scan performance). Believe it or not: It works! Without any annoying drop-outs! Thanks and have a nice weekend! Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36971 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse and Slimserver start-up performance
Custom Browse and Slimserver start-up performance I have used the actual release of Erland's Custom Browse Plugin. What I found out is, that slimserver starts without the plugin in less than 1 min. If the plugin is activatet the slimserver-service needs between 7 to 8 min. to start. Is that normal for a database of 8,500 tracks? Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36971 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan performance
Erland, an option Slow scanning without drop-outs would be a great idea. Slimserver is running on a nearly blank Windows XP installation (seperate partition)to save all resources for the application. Hardware: Intel Pentium D Dual-Core-CPU (3.0 GHz)and 3GB RAM. This should be a very comfortable situation for slimserver Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36226 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan performance
Was the problem during the time when the Custom Scan plugin was scanning ? Yes. In that case, which of the scanning modules are you using ?- Scanning in progress... Scanning modules Amazon (disabled) Custom Tag LastFM (disabled) Mixed Tag Rating Tag (disabled) (Custom Scan 1.20) Hope you will help, Erland. Thank you. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36226 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan performance
Thanks for your response, Erland. Martin, I think your problem is with the Mixed Tag scanning module. How large is your library ? --- 8,800 songs. Have you tried to see if the problem only occured at the first scanning or every time you scan ?- That's difficult to say, because I'm not really sure, that the first scanning after upgrading came to an end. Even when slimserver-scanning seemed to be finished, showing the number of albums, tracks, etc., only a moment later it was scanning again. I left the pc working alone for hours, but when I came back, it was still scanning, and there were always these annoying drop-outs. I restartet slimserver - same procedure! What I recognized in the cpu-performance screen of the windows task-manager was, that erverytime a drop-out occured, there was no data sent by slimserver to the CPU. It looked like a temporary crash of slimserver. Should I go back to an earlier version of the plugin? Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36226 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan performance
Ok, disabling the mixed tag module fixed the problem. Thanks, Erland. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36226 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] HELP!! Trackstat trouble......
Thanks,Erland, for helping. I think, everything's now ok. I compared both files as you suggested. Indeed, there were many music files in the restore file, that had been moved weeks ago to another partition. Later on I will make a new backup from the restore-file, to look at the log.txt file. If there will be unusual things to be seen, I'll give you some feedback. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36842 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan performance
Phil, has your problem been fixed? I think, I had some more troubles with the latest custom scan - release. There were many buffer underruns with playback-drop outs for more than 30 seconds. I tried everything, even downgrading to slimserver 6.5.2 nightly build 04-27-2007. At least I deactivated the custom scan plugin to fix it. Now everything works fine. -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36226 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] HELP!! Trackstat trouble......
Thanks for your quick response, Erland. In between I did the following and solved most of the problem: 1. Again a complete re-install of the slimserver software. 2. A new restore from the backup file, not useless because I didn't move any files to another folder. After a while, looking in the TrackStat web interface, I saw first positive results. I gave the restore process time overnight, because I saw an ongoing scanning process (scanner.exe) in the task manager after hours. 3. I performed a trackstat scheduled backup at 3.00 A.M. When I looked at the results this morning, I recognized 2 things: 1. The trackstat scheduled backup had produced a file of 3.7 mb data (instead of 4.3 mb in the restore file). Does that mean, I still have lost data? 2. There must have been a computer-crash with automatic restart 2 hours after the trackstat backup process. I found the typical chkdsk-Folder FOUND... with parts of a slimserver textfile. Does that mean that the scanning process (and perhaps the restore process(?) ) had not been finished at that time? Thank you very much for your support in advance. Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36842 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] HELP!! Trackstat trouble......
Hello Erland, thank you in advance for helping.I think I've made a big mistake! After a complete re-install to the actual nightly-build of slimserver, I'm afraid to have lost all my Trackstat-Ratings for more than 8,000 songs. I've tried nearly everything: first, a complete wipe and rescan, after that I defined a backup file G:\RatingsBackup.xml. This file -as expected- did not content any trackstat-ratings. I wiped this file and renamed the last TrackstatScheduledBackup.xml to RatingsBackup.xml. I tried to restore from this file. Nothing changed. I don't know what to do. Can you help me? Thanks Martin -- Capricorn Capricorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10217 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36842 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
