Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty v1.1.0
I just wanted to say, after being on vacation for a few weeks and discovering the loss of spotify, that this works fantastic. I'm on Windows 10, and within 5 minutes of my discovery, a google search and subsequent plugin installation, restart of LMS, and login to Spotify worked perfectly the first time. Dare I say this is working better than the spotify plugins that we had before (I am on a Duet). Thanks for creating this. emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107615 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin
Jackisidore wrote: > Thanks for this nice plugin. > Every folder with mp3 or flac files should have a file > 'simple-library-views-libraryviewname'? Would it be possible to place > one file 'simple-library-views-libraryviewname' which is valid for all > mp3 and flac files in subfolders? This is what I would like to see. I generally have my libraries divided into a few specified folders with a lot of subfolders beneath. I'd like to be able to just put a file into the one folder and have all subfolders be included. I also suspect some might not want that, so perhaps an option or in the case that a subfolder doesn't have a file it takes on the first parent folder that has the file. emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105593 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotify Protocol Handler - play Spotify on all your Squeezeboxen
I'm having a variation of the login in problem. I can login and listen to Spotify during that session, but the next time I try to use my Squeezebox, I'm likely logged out of Spotify. Player will run a few seconds for a song with no audio and just keep passing through the playlist. On rare occasions, Spotify will pick up and play a few tracks into a playlist, but this is very rare. Re-logging in for Spotify in the Helper's settings in LMS works, but it is only temporary. I think Triode's plugin was more reliable for me, but I like the interface on this app. Not sure what to do. I don't rely on Spotify much, so I'm not worrying about for the moment. emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105187 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] last.fm scrobbler for internet radio tracks posts to facebook, not last.fm
I think the problem is with the Last.fm app in Facebook. That app has lots of issues and doesn't know when to scrobble or not, misses half the tracks I scrobble, and the list could go on and on. THe settings for what shows up in Facebook have to be set through your account. As a warning, the app scrobbles everything (minus the misses and problems). You only set whether they get shown to your friends or not. I ended up turning the app off. emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98099 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] same title
erland;689843 Wrote: > It would be possible to do with Custom Browse or SQL Playlist but there > isn't any predefined template for it, so you would probably have to > customize the SQL/XML configuration yourself. > > For Classic/Boom/Transporter, I think it might already work with Custom > Browse through the IR controlled interface because I remember > implementing an action so when you browse into a song to view the > details you can hit right arrow on the title to get all songs with same > title. I'm not sure if it also works to hit play. > > I could create a predefined template for it either for Custom Browse or > SQL Playlist if you succeed to convince me which usage scenario you are > thinking of, feels kind of boring to play the same song over and over > again even if it might be played by different artists. I actually like the idea at least from a custom browse stand-point for a couple of reasons: 1. Occasionally I'll listen to a song or a song will come up where I will think where did I hear that song from and want to play the original and/or cover side-by-side. However, I think the functionality is already there to some extent as I don't have a terribly hard time finding other versions of a similar song title. 2. More common, I find cases where I am listening to jazz and/or bootlegs and I want to look for a specific version of a song. It isn't terribly easy once you get the same title to distinguish the artist or album. However, I can't see queuing up all of a same song at once. It's occasionally nice to hear a couple of versions of the same song. What I've thought about is somehow browsing by title and then seeing the album and artist that the title appears on in a second level: e.g. All Along the Watchtower | --> Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland | --> Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding | --> U2 - Rattle and Hum | . etc. Of course, I think this can already be done, right? using the Custom Scan module and the SQL? I haven't tried it, yet as it hasn't been that important to me and I'm not very good with SQL and I still find the underlying coding for the custom browse menus a bit confusing. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93529 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse Titles and Artist Question
Actually, digging around it looks like the Jivepattern will help me out (someone correct me if I'm wrong). That means I'll have to dig a little bit into the SQL and RegEx details as I'm quite a beginner when it comes to those topics. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93504 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse Titles and Artist Question
Ok, I know I've seen this discussed somewhere here or perhaps discussed in the Wiki, but where can I find info for how to configure my menus to show (for instance) a song title and then the artist below it in a menu. I'm not sure if this is a problem with SqueezeCommander or just my menus (I've created all new ones recently), but I seem to recall when browsing down to an album that the track listing would show the track titles with the artist underneath. Now I am only getting the track titles. This is becoming problematic when listening to compilations, so I'm trying to see if there is something I can do to have the artist show up with the tracks. Is there a setting when configuring menus that can change how the menu items appear during browsing through a remote (not the web interface)? I suppose this could be a problem with the SqueezeCommander App, but I'm attributing it to flaws in my menu configurations right now. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93504 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Artist Tags in CustomScan/Trackstat
I'm not sure I can answer the OP's question. I know that having a per artist or album rating tag is not the easiest thing to implement, and trying to work that into use in Squeezebox could be a challenge. I suppose one way to work it would be to utilize an ARTISTRATING field as if it is a generic descriptor field like GENRE. However, those multi-artist tracks would be challenging. It would be easy enough to generate a multi-valued field, but it seems that you'd have to make that multi-valued field behave similar to a sort field... i.e. associate each RATING value with the appropriate ARTIST: e.g. ARTIST = artist 1, artist 2 ARTISTRATING = #1, #2 I'm not sure if it would be easy to do that. You'd still have to adjust the ARTISTRATING externally, unless there was a plugin available to edit it. It sounds like the conceptual Categorize plugin would have accomplished something similar, except, you'd want the script to be intelligent enough to update ratings for all tracks by a certain artist rather than the selected track. I could see that choking the server given enough tracks by an artist. The maintenance issue is still complicated as Erland pointed out, too. You'd have to make sure you fill in the blanks as you add tracks, and you'd have to make sure you edit all of the tracks consistently if you adjust the rating for any reason. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92347 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse Question
Thanks... In the meantime I'll perhaps utilize special characters to prioritize sorting for a menu group or two. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91988 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse Question
One, hopefully simple, question... Is it possible to set a sort for the menu groups? I see and have found the sorting within groups is fairly straight forward, but the groups themselves seem to sort alphabetically only. I want to try and have certain menu groups appear first without necessarily changing the group names. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91988 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Question: Setting up Multi-Library and Custom Browse
Well using the Filtered artists menu worked. That's good. I'm not sure why that worked better than the other setup. I didn't select any genres only the library and Album Artists selection, and I was set. As for the suggestion in item 2, not selecting the Various Artists option didn't work. I thought I had tried that before and found the same thing, but I wasn't certain. This is good because I discovered that the CB menu I had for my main db was suffering from the same problem, and the Filtered Artist menu option will solve that. Thanks for the help. It's giving me a whole new appreciation of how great your plugins are. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91901 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Question: Setting up Multi-Library and Custom Browse
I'm at work at the moment, so I'll try it out this evening. I think you are on to something, especially with item 2. I realize now that the Various Artists box probably isn't needed with my collection, so that may be part of my problem. That being said, I have a similar menu for my mainstream music library and I wonder why it doesn't show a similar behavior. Does using the Dependent Library to setup a library make a big difference in the library behavior or performance? I would assume that it wouldn't make much of a difference as once a library is set up it is set up. For instance; I have 3 libraries set up right now. One for classical, One for Christmas, and one for Everything Else. The first two are setup as standard libraries based on their respective root folders (it's a long story why I wouldn't use genres). The third library is dependent on everything not in those other two libraries. The menus have been much better behaved for this library, and I thought I had essentially just copied the menu settings to the Christmas library. Anyway, I could have just as easily set it up as a standard library on its own root folder. Would this have been better? worse? -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91901 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Question: Setting up Multi-Library and Custom Browse
I've attached a zip file with a screen shot of the GUI and the associated cb.values.xml as you requested. I did find that I could fix the Classical Menu problem I had with the genres. I was using the default Genres menu that was generated by selecting that option in the Multi Library Setup. By generating my own Genre menu, the menu worked (i.e. it is only showing the Genres associated with my Classical Music Library). Unfortunately, the example I sent was a menu I developed myself, and I thought was fairly basic. I did not try to go into the SQL. I think I looked in the XML file in a separate editor once, but I couldn't make sense of the organization, so I chose to leave it alone. +---+ |Filename: CB_holiday_example.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12798| +---+ -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91901 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Question: Setting up Multi-Library and Custom Browse
Ok... I've added all my holiday music, and in my Album Artists menu I am finding that a handful of artists are showing up that do not have albums in that particular library. If I click on those "album artists", their menu entry is blank. It seems that the artists that are showing up are artists that 1. are track artists on a compilation album in the Holiday Library AND 2. are album artists in my Mainstream library. However, there are track artists in the holiday collection that meet the same criteria in 1. and 2. above that are not listed as Album Artists, so I am a bit confused at what could be the problem. The Holiday Library itself seems normal as the library lists the correct number of tracks. Browsing by Album shows the correct albums. It is only the Album Artist menu that seems to be leaking some connection to the Mainstream library. To add another piece to the puzzle. I also started setting up a classical library with only one album in it. Right now I only have one menu set up for Genre. I had expected to only see the genres associated with the classical library in my genre menu, but all the genre's in the complete library show up, although once I am in one of those genre menus they show up blank reflecting that they don't really exist in the classical library. The classical library only has 6 tracks in it with 2 genres, but this seems to be related to my Album Artist problem in my Holiday library. I've tried various settings in the Custom Browse Menus and the Libraries themselves. The two libraries; Holiday and Classical are standard libraries based on a root folder I use to keep that music separate from my mainstream music. The mainstream library is a dependent library that is set to exclude music from the holiday and classical library. In that particular library, I converted all my old Custom Browse Menus to only read from the Mainstream Library, and they work perfectly. As far as I can tell I am matching most settings up in the Custom Browse Libraries with careful care of group and library names and what is working in my mainstream library... Although I now realize that the custom browse menus for my mainstream library are not in the same group as the library name... Yet they work. Does group name matter? I'd like to figure this out as it can be a bit annoying to click on a menu item that is empty or to see genres in my classical music collection that are obviously not classical music. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91901 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Question: Setting up Multi-Library and Custom Browse
First time finally trying to use the Multi-Library function. I'm testing it out by setting up a library for Christmas music separate from my other music. Currently, I have 2 libraries set-up. The Christmas music library is a standard library based on one directory where it is all at, and the remaining music is set-up as a dependent library that excludes the Christmas one (as the wiki shows for setting up a classical library). I've been testing this out with one album in my Christmas library. It is a compilation album that I've set up using a "Various Artists" Album Artist tag. The CB menus are set up so that under the Christmas Group I can browse by Album Artists, and that specific menu is set for the specific library. The problem is that when I browse that menu all the Song Artists (for this one CD) that are Album Artists on other albums in the overall library show up in the album artist menu with empty listings. Is there something I'm missing. I've played around with various settings in the CB. Interestingly, when I try to see if the opposite occurs with my standard library, it doesn't. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91901 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse (perhaps Custom Scan) Question
Great... I just saw an update was available and am setting it up now. Thank you for looking into that... I am actually in the process of cleaning up some of my music and menus, and this will be fantastic. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79179 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse (perhaps Custom Scan) Question
I'll send you the info you requested, but yes it does seem as if it is recognizing something because it is picking up the first value (as opposed to a whole string), and all my other custom browse menus and multi-valued items (artists, genres, etc) are working just fine. That is why I wonder if I am missing an obvious setting in Custom Scan or Custom Browse that I am just not seeing. Thanks for looking into this... -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79179 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse (perhaps Custom Scan) Question
So I am guessing no one has had this problem? I figured someone might have run into something similar, perhaps with the a custom scan on moods where you might have multiple moods for a file? I am stumped and was hoping I was just doing something wrong or at the worst, at least find out that it isn't possible to make this work. I'll be thankful for any feedback or suggestions. -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79179 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse (perhaps Custom Scan) Question
I am using Custom Browse to create two menus in specific that involve a comment field scanned in using Custom Scan. The two menus essentially involve a comment tag that represents Sub-Genres for my music that exist for each mp3 file in my collection. The problem I am having is that this comment field is a multi-valued field that often has multiple values. These values are split by a / (I've also used a ; ). Now what happens with Custom Browse, is that only the first value in that field is recognized in my menus. For example: MP3 files for the album "Are You Experienced?" have the sub-genre tag as follows: Classic Rock/Psychedelic/Album Rock When I browse my custom menus that use this tag, the album only shows up under "Classic Rock", presumably because it is the first value in that field. The other two values do not show that album. Now if I am playing a song from that album, the info and tags show the full tag as shown above, so Custom Scan has read in the full fields. It just seems that somewhere along the way only the first sub-genre is used in developing my menus. One menu uses the "genre sub-genre" menu as a basis, and the other uses a "custom scan" menu as a basis (to start at sub-genre directly). So the question(s): 1. Is there something I need to do to make the custom tag recognized by custom browse (or even the server settings) as multiple values, so that the album shows up under each possible setting? Perhaps I need to use a different menu as a starting point? 2. Is this something that Custom Browse can't handle at the moment? 3. Is there something I could do to work around this that Custom Browse can handle? Perhaps I can use multiple custom tags for each sub-genre value rather than one tag with all the sub-genres? Perhaps a different tag could be used (e.g. mood, which I don't really use for anything anyway). Anyway, I look forward and thank any suggestions that come out of this. I really love the Custom Browse and Custom Scan plugins and use Custom Browse exclusively for all my duet use. Erik -- emalvick emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79179 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
