Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC - adding categories to SC7 favourites?

2008-02-20 Thread ModelCitizen
bpa;271092 Wrote: Basically the AlienBBC menus are a copy of the BBC web page menus because they are built on the fly. Thanks for this. Have you seen the Reciva BBC menus? It'd be interesting to see how they were arranged. MC -- ModelCitizen Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC - adding categories to SC7 favourites?

2008-02-20 Thread bpa
I haven't seen the Reciva menu but from the Reciva posting I've read they are created centrally and seem to be updated about once a day. They are using a similar process of web walking and I guess looking for text heading to start their menus. However every so often bits of the menu fall off as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC - adding categories to SC7 favourites?

2008-02-20 Thread ModelCitizen
Triode;271096 Wrote: I suggest you raise an enhancement request for this and we can discuss with Michael how easy it will be to do with the new skin. Enhancement raised: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7236 Was intrigued by the line Access to bugs in the Ray product at the botom

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC - adding categories to SC7 favourites?

2008-02-20 Thread ModelCitizen
As the Receive is taking off (and presumbly does not have the border line legality concerning mplayer?) I can't imagine it will be long before they pressure the BBC to produce an XML feed of their programmes so they don't have to continually manually check for consistency. Hopefully sooner rather

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC - adding categories to SC7 favourites?

2008-02-20 Thread bpa
The tweak is an edit to the OPML file Alien/Addons/BBCAZAddon.opml. If you are using Windows edit with Wordpad. The following is edit file to add 3 entries to show entries with Book, Quiz and Comedy. It require deleting the type parameter and adding the lookfor. The code only looks for the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeCenter 7.0 beta versions of my plugins

2008-02-20 Thread schiegl
Erland, thank you very much! I'm really appreciating your plugins. one minor problem concerning the trackstat plugin. I had to remove some empty directories (Trackstat/lib/Plugins/*, Trackstat/lib/Plugins and Trackstat/lib/Time) otherwise the Plugins-TrackStat-Plugin.par didn't install. Found

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Streaming AlienBBC on SS7 over ssh.

2008-02-20 Thread dallan73
I have a bizarre situation trying to (and kind of successfully) streaming AlienBBC over SSH. I created a vanilla XP Pro install with nightly SS7 r17587, latest install pack for Alien (inc mplayer), lame 3.97 and streaming to softsqueeze 3.6 (limiting bitrate to 160) over ssh. The problem I am

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC - adding categories to SC7 favourites?

2008-02-20 Thread bpa
The BBC have many similar menu to present similar information. Before I had the search I created an Addon for the Listen by Genre menu on BBC Radio front. I couldn't find these by navigating the Listen Again menus. IMO They still have too many entries to browse easily on SB - hence the search.

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat performance woes

2008-02-20 Thread alanj
Hi, I am trying to use the Trackstat plugin with the latest 7.01 nightly builds on Ubuntu 7.04. When I select Trackstat and ask it to play something ( usually Albums never played ) it all seems to work fine, with the SB3 ( and SB2 ) playing music perfectly. However once playing the SB interface

[SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC not displaying song title

2008-02-20 Thread garethhoward
Hi When I had my Qnap TS101 I'm sure that when I listened to Radio 2 it showed the song title and artist. Now I have a Thecus N5200Pro It just says Radio 2 all the time! Other radio stations other than on the Alien BBC show the song titles and artists. Any ideas? Thanks Gareth --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat performance woes

2008-02-20 Thread alanj
Hmmm, After a few albums have played the SB response returns to normal. So maybe Trackstat does some heavy duty processing when first invoked? My Squeezecentre runs on a Koolu so not the fastest device if a lot of work is being done. I'll explore some more to try and find out how long the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC not displaying song title

2008-02-20 Thread bpa
Song titles won't be shown using RealAudio stream and AlienBBC. If you are in the UK - try playing the WMA streams under Slim Picks/Staff Picks. I can't test this stream. -- bpa bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC on OSX users - need help to prove/disprove problem

2008-02-20 Thread whitman
Triode, Steve, bpa ... is there anything to be done? -- whitman whitman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43214

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC not displaying song title

2008-02-20 Thread andyg
The WMA stream won't have titles either, it's a limitation of the WMA format. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC on OSX users - need help to prove/disprove problem

2008-02-20 Thread bpa
I can't give specifics on OSX but it is strange that mplayer works on other systems and not yours. Can you think of anything that could make your system special/ different ? In the meantime - I still think it is worth confirming that the new mplayer actually got installed. 1. Delete the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeCenter 7.0 beta versions of my plugins

2008-02-20 Thread pippin
schiegl;271192 Wrote: Erland, thank you very much! I'm really appreciating your plugins. one minor problem concerning the trackstat plugin. I had to remove some empty directories (Trackstat/lib/Plugins/*, Trackstat/lib/Plugins and Trackstat/lib/Time) otherwise the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SSODS - Hibernation Question

2008-02-20 Thread mickwall
Any news wether its SSODS or the Slimserver installation that's stopping standby and even more important, any solution? My CS407 sits there whirring away all day every day at the moment! :-( -- mickwall mickwall's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Auto Display for v.7

2008-02-20 Thread kolding
Updated to fix a bug. Should handle startup better now, and better handling of new clients. In the usual place, http://www.koldware.com/SlimStuff Eric -- kolding kolding's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Streaming AlienBBC on SS7 over ssh.

2008-02-20 Thread dallan73
Thanks for getting back to me. I tried REW on softsqueeze but did not work. ...maybe an enhancement further down the track? Thanks for your help. David. -- dallan73 dallan73's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Streaming AlienBBC on SS7 over ssh.

2008-02-20 Thread bpa
Are you synching the players as well ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43681

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Streaming AlienBBC on SS7 over ssh.

2008-02-20 Thread dallan73
No synching just straight through over ssh. -- dallan73 dallan73's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=27 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43681

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeCenter 7.0 beta versions of my plugins

2008-02-20 Thread erland
New beta versions are now available for some of my plugins: Dynamic Playlist (2.0.beta09) == - Repackaged so you don't have to remove directories manually after installation Custom Browse (2.0.beta11) == - Repackaged so you don't have to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Trackstat performance woes

2008-02-20 Thread erland
Does it only happens when playing album or artist based statistics or does it also happen when you play one of the song based statistics ? -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC on OSX users - need help to prove/disprove problem

2008-02-20 Thread whitman
1. Did that. 2. Did that; got 'command not found'. 3. Did that. By make executable, I presume you mean match permissions to original, which I did (-rwxr--r--). 4. Did that; got 'command not found'. Also, when I tried to play kitesample I got the 'library not loaded' etc message. Anything to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeCenter 7.0 beta versions of my plugins

2008-02-20 Thread pippin
erland;271320 Wrote: Yes, you can remove it. Custom Browse comes with its own icon. It's not on purpose, I just haven't figured out what is needed to get it to work yet. I've added the storeReturnPage call, but that didn't make any difference. I suppose there is something with the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeCenter 7.0 beta versions of my plugins

2008-02-20 Thread erland
pippin;271239 Wrote: Do you also have a Custom Browse Icon that I override with my default Icon? Should I remove that one? Yes, you can remove it. Custom Browse comes with its own icon. pippin;271239 Wrote: I noticed that the back arrow does not work (it get's you to home). Is that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC on OSX users - need help to prove/disprove problem

2008-02-20 Thread whitman
In 2., when I put the full path, usr/local/bin/mplayer, I got 'no such file or directory', so I just put mplayer on the top level, and got the 'no such command'. In 4., when I put the full path, usr/local/bin/mplayer, I get the 'missing library' message. When I put mplayer at the top level, I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC on OSX users - need help to prove/disprove problem

2008-02-20 Thread bpa
Step 4 command not found means that mplayer has not been re-installed correctly or you haven't given the path to it. What is the full directory of where have you installed mplayer ? -- bpa bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC on OSX users - need help to prove/disprove problem

2008-02-20 Thread bpa
Just in case it is a typo. If mplayer is in the /usr/local/bin then you should type /usr/local/bin/mplayer - note the leading /. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LastFM troubles

2008-02-20 Thread James
Sorry Philip, I can't recreate any of these issues. love/ban and skip all work fine for me using the web interface and softsqueeze remote emulator. When skipping/loving/banning, I did notice that while playback stops immediately the command is received, it is then followed by a short burst of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC on OSX users - need help to prove/disprove problem

2008-02-20 Thread whitman
Sorry, just my shorthand. I know it must be the correct path because I simply dragged the mplayer file into the Terminal window, which gives you the correct path automatically. -- whitman whitman's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeCenter 7.0 beta versions of my plugins

2008-02-20 Thread tamanaco
How do I permanently remove the Trackstat data (Ratings) so that it does not show up next to the tracks in the Web interface or SB3? From the SC Server Settings - Advanced Tab - TrackStat - Backup/Restore/Clear I have tried Remove Data, Delete Unused Statistics and Refresh Statistics after Scan,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC on OSX users - need help to prove/disprove problem

2008-02-20 Thread Triode
whitman - can you pm me your email address? -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43214

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LastFM troubles

2008-02-20 Thread Phil Meyer
love/ban and skip all work fine for me using the web interface and softsqueeze remote emulator. I think Love is working, since I added the icons, as I can see a PostXMLToLastFM log message. I'm not sure where to look in last.fm web site to prove that it got the message though. I'm finding

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Questions about SQL Playlist

2008-02-20 Thread TheWicked
Hi, SlimServer 6.5.4 Dynamic Playlists 1.14 SQL Playlist 1.21 TrackStat 1.40.1 I prefer to use the Random songs SQL Playlist instead of the default Random Mix because of the ability to exclude genres. Is it possible to replace the Random Mix option by the Random songs SQL Playlist ? Or more

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Questions about SQL Playlist

2008-02-20 Thread erland
TheWicked;271435 Wrote: I prefer to use the Random songs SQL Playlist instead of the default Random Mix because of the ability to exclude genres. Is it possible to replace the Random Mix option by the Random songs SQL Playlist ? Or more generaly, is it possible to put an SQL Playlist

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeCenter 7.0 beta versions of my plugins

2008-02-20 Thread erland
tamanaco;271389 Wrote: How do I permanently remove the Trackstat data (Ratings) so that it does not show up next to the tracks in the Web interface or SB3? From the SC Server Settings - Advanced Tab - TrackStat - Backup/Restore/Clear I have tried Remove Data, Delete Unused Statistics and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeCenter 7.0 beta versions of my plugins

2008-02-20 Thread tamanaco
erland;271465 Wrote: If you use the iTunes or MusicIP integration, you will also need to clear the ratings in these applications because SqueezeCenter imports rating from iTunes/MusicIP when it performs a rescan in step 2. I want to show the rating stars, but want to clear the existing

[SlimDevices: Plugins] AudioReview and Biography for new remote controls ?

2008-02-20 Thread erland
Is there any plan to extend the AudioReview and/or Biography plugins so they support the SqueezeBox Controller ? Is there any plan to extend the AudioReview and/or Biography plugins so they support the iPeng skin ? I'm asking since I just tried the 'MobileScrobbler'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AudioReview and Biography for new remote controls ?

2008-02-20 Thread Michael Herger
Is there any plan to extend the AudioReview and/or Biography plugins so they support the SqueezeBox Controller ? I've answered this before: it's probably a bit of a legal issue. What I'm doing in those plugins is against AMG's terms and conditions. As I'm now a Logitech employee this