Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
I'm trying to install server power control on a windows 7 machine. I downloaded the zip file from https://github.com/gharris999/SrvrPowerCtrl as instructed in earlier posts from 2017. I unzipped the folder and copied it to C:\Program Files\Squeezebox\server\Plugins\SrvrPowerCtrl. The instructions said I could get SCPowerTool.exe from the same place I got the plugin files, but I can't find it there. A google search led me to a 2010 version at https://code.google.com/archive/p/srvrpowerctrl/downloads. I put that file in C:\Windows\System32. Then I tried to test the program as suggested in the instructions: in command window with admin rights, I entered SCPowerTool.exe --standby --wakeup=-60 I got a message NSIS error, error launching installer. Any help would be greatly appreciated. rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl
Wirrunna wrote: > I had a dig around in my downloads and found the attached file which may > help Many thanks to Wirrunna. The file you sent worked. And while the test of srvrpowertool.exe worked when the file is in the C:\Windows\System32 folder, the file must be in C:\Windows for it to be available to the plugin on my Windows 7 machine. rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Lyrics.pm Version 0.8
I have little experience with plugins, although I have successfully gotten customscan and custombrowse working. I installed this plugin and I see no evidence it exists other than that it is in the list of plugins that are on the server settings--plugins page (it is checked). I have restarted slimserver after installation, and I also asked it to load plugins on the fly. But the plugin is not in the list of plugins on the slimserver home page, as are my other plugins. And no lyrics show up on my display. (I am experimenting with one flac song that has lyrics in the flac tag.) But even if the plugin did show up on the slimserve home page, I'm not sure I understand your instructions. You say to "navigate to the plugin then press the right arrow key on the remote." What do you mean by navigating to the plugin? Must that be done with the remote, or is/can it be done in the web interface? Sorry for bothering you undoubtedly stupid questions. Randy -- rmariger rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28671 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Lyrics.pm Version 0.8
I discovered the plugins menu on my remote. (I haven't used my remote much at all up till now.) Works great. -- rmariger rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28671 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
This is a great piece of software. Thanks! I have one question and two suggestions: (1) Question: I have successfully set up a menu using customscan/custombrowse that narrows from Artistlist to Artist/Albumlist to Artist/Album/Conductorlist to Artist/Album/Conductor/Songlist. That is a four-step narrowing of songs. After narrowing songs in this manner, Id like to be able to click on a song from step 4 and get a CDlist (I have a tag called CD and in my case only one CD would match a particular Artist/Album/Conductor/Song), and then click on a CD (the only CD in my case) to get a songlist. That is, the final two steps would be Artist/Album/Conductor/Song/CDlist and Artist/Album/Conductor/Song/CD/songlist. Is this possible? I think it would be very useful for classical collections. Most people advocate organizing classical by works rather than CDs. For example, I have a CD that includes Beethovens 4th and 5th symphonies with conductor Ferencsik. I have divided the CD into two albums, one for the 4th and one for the 5th. However, Im thinking there will be instances when I want to play the CD in its entirety. I might narrow down to the songs in Beethovens 5th conducted by Ferenscik and at that point wonder what CD it is from. I could then click on any of the 4 songs (movements) of the 5th and have the CD revealed. And if I want to play the CD, I could then click on the CD to get all the songs on the CD. 2. Suggestion: With regard to 4-step narrowing of songs referred to above, the conductorlist does not include none. Would it be possible to include a none" category for each customtag? This would be helpful for identifying missing tags. 3. Suggestion: It might be helpful to point out that the 4-step narrowing scheme I alluded to above requires that artist, album, and conductor be included in the list of custom tags to be scanned by customscan. I initially assumed that because the standard slimserver software scans artist and album, it wasnt necessary to specify them as custom tags. Thanks again for writing these programs. Randy -- rmariger rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
erland;181434 Wrote: > > The real solution here would be to make it possible to add custom tag > in the track details part of the menu. This way it would also be > possible to right click in the "Now Playing" menu to get the CD of the > currently playing track and right click again to the all tracks on the > CD. I have this on the todo list and my intention is to try to > implement it, I just have to find some time to do the work. I agree this is the perfect solution. (I assume, however, that you could right-click on the track in the left-hand-side browse window, not just the "playing now" list.) I think this feature would be widely and greatly appreciated by classical buffs. I am just getting started tagging my classical collection but I am aware that there is a lot of frustration among classical buffs at the difficulty of managing classical music in slimserver. It seems to me that most of the difficulty arises from tension between organizing by CD and organizing by Work. The example I gave with Beethoven's 4th and 5th did not do justice to the dilemma. Many CD's feature a Performer, the Works performed are not always complete, and every track is by a different composer. In that case, organizing by Work makes a lot less sense than organizing by CD (or Performer). But you want to be consistent because there are lots of cases where it is a toss-up as to whether it is better to organize by CD or Work. With the solution you proposebeing able quickly find all the songs sharing the same CD or performer or ? as a particular songwould allow one to have a consistent tagging scheme without compromising the ease of making a sensible playlist. The upshot---I cast a very enthusiastic vote in favor of this feature. Thanks, Randy -- rmariger rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
As I said, I am just getting started tagging my classical music, so I am keen to do it carefully so I dont have to redo it. (I did about 20 CDs, changed course several times, and decided to sit back a while and be careful about it.) Of course, how one tags depends importantly on the ability to parse the tag information in slimserver, which explains yesterdays post and this post. I am now trying to decide on how to do genre. For example, do I choose Classical;Concerto;Piano or Classical;Piano Concerto? I would choose the former if it was easy to limit searches to the intersection of Concerto and Piano. Your Genres/Sub Genres template allows me to this narrowing of songs: 1. Genre1_list 2. Genre1/Genre2_list 3. Genre1/Genre2/artistlist 4. Genre1/Genre2/artist/albumlist 5. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/songlist. But as explained my posting yesterday, Id like this sequence: Steps 1-4 above 5. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/conductorlist 6. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/conductor/songlist. This could be done with your multiplecustomtagstracks template if it allowed for five levels rather than just four. I perhaps naively was thinking I could mindlessly alter the xml files to add a fifth level to the filtering. But I had much difficulty even identifying the files that would need to be altered. I have no experience with XML, HTML, and SQL. So I understand that you dont wont to waste time with any back and forth on how I can customize your templates. But I have purchased some books and would like to gain some understanding. To this end, could you provide a schematic of the basic architecture? That is, what files do what. I promise not to pester you with any follow-up questions. I infer that slimserver/plugins/customscan/menu templates/multiplecustomtagstracks.cb.values.xml is the form which solicits the inputs I enter when I create the custom menu, and those inputs are then stored in XX/custombrowse/YY.xml, where XX is the directory I select in the slimserver settings and YY is the file name I select when I create the menu. (What do the *.template files do in slimserver/plugins/custombrowse/menu templates?) So all I can identify are xml files that solicit user inputs and the file into which those inputs are stored. Can I create a 5-level multiplecustomtagstracks menu by simply altering an input file? Dont I need to alter the program that processes the inputs? If so, where is that program? I note that earlier cutombrowse releases included notes in the readme file on how to create custom menus but your latest build does not. I suppose you are trying to avoid novice questions like mine. With regard to the notes in an earlier version, you allude to files of the form *.cb.xml. I can find no such files---only files of the form *.cb.values.xml. (Those notes refer to xml files that appear to be real programsnot just holders of inputs.) I will entirely understand if you choose to punt these questions. Thanks. Randy -- rmariger rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
erland;181635 Wrote: > > I'll add all menu types to the distribution that I feel can be useful > for more than a single person, this is definitely the case with > "Genres/Sub Genres incl Custom Tag". Excellent. Thanks. erland;181635 Wrote: > > The multiplecustomtagstracks template will not work exactly the same as > "Genres/Sub Genres" does, the difference is that "Genres/Sub Genres" > will list both artists and sub genres making it possible to choose > tracks which just have a single genre, with the > multiplecustomtagstracks the menu would only show track which have at > least two genres. I'm also not completely sure if the > multiplecustomtagstracks menu will work correctly if two levels are > using the same tag, in this situationm level1=GENRE and level 2=GENRE. > So I think it would probably be better to extend the > subgenres(Genres/Sub Genres) menu type to also include a custom tag > level. > The multiplecustomtagstracks template works, at least with my test involving only a few songs and some fake tags. I did not notice the difference with respect to whether you can select a track with one genre, but I trust that is true. Thanks for the information on the program architecture. I'm sorry I did not find and consult your WIKI earlier. Randy -- rmariger rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: Custom Browse plugin
I am unfamiliar with SQL and my knowledge of programming in very limited. I have a need that I think your plugins (CustomScan and CustomBrowse) can easily address, but I cant figure it out. I hope you dont mind a very elementary question. I simply want to be able to browse starting from my custom tag field Mood just like slimserver now allows one to browse starting from Genre. I would think it would be possible to simply edit one of the current input files and do a simple substitution of Mood for Genre. Is it that easy? If so, I would appreciate step by step instructions. It might be instructive for other novices like me. Also, Im a little confused by your instructions for installing CustomBrowse 1.13.2. It states: Moved Custom Multiple Tags menu templates to Custom Scan (You will need Custom Scan 1.9 and follow the upgrade instruction for Custom Browse 1.13) I found no special upgrade instructions for Custom Browse 1.13. (The installation instructions are the same as for all other versions---Unzip to the Plugins directory in the Slimserver ). I installed according to the instructions---simply zipped both CustomBrowse 1.13.3 and CustomScan 1.10 to the Slimserver plugins directory. Thanks, Randy -- rmariger rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
