Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: muso (beta)

2010-03-19 Thread cblock
wonder boy;526167 Wrote: > Spoke too soon!! Set up as above hit sync with sbs, 1 files brought > in and listed in table in window. Music data base though lists no tracks > and I cant play any of what I can see being displayed, no artwork > also...going well really! Ah! Quick thought because

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] now playing not showing in custom clock

2010-03-19 Thread profota
erland;526297 Wrote: > As tcutting says, you will need to select the same screen saver on the > Radio as you configure in the Custom Clock Helper plugin. > > However, if you select the "trackplayingtext" you probably also want to > enter something in the "text" attribute of that item, probably "

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-03-19 Thread hcanning
Has anyone managed to make their SBC control the volume of a Nad amplifier with this plugin? Couldn't find any reference to it with a quick search of this thread. It's no bother for me to reach for another remote to adjust the volume but if there's an "easy" way to get it to work with this plugin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-03-19 Thread indifference_engine
@hcanning: Something weird's happened with the forum! I got an email with your post as I am subscribed to this thread but for some reason your post hasn't appeared. Anyway, to answer your question, Yes! Pokersut and Streaming have both successfully used SqueezeIR to emulate the NAD SR6 remote but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-03-19 Thread hcanning
Indifference_engine, I deleted my post because I then searched the thread and found (what I thought to be) the answer, although it seems to have made me look like more of an idiot than I thought it would by just leaving the post there :D Thanks for the kind offer, my amp is a Nad C352, I don't kn

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Locuth
andyg;520496 Wrote: > Artwork has changed in 7.5 embedded, so this is probably a bug in Moose > assuming a certain format for artwork URLs. Andy - can you point me to a thread discussing/explaining the changes from the client's point of view. Has any of the former artwork url format changed? I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-03-19 Thread indifference_engine
hcanning;526430 Wrote: > Thanks for the kind offer, my amp is a Nad C352, I don't know what model > the remote is but after googling, it would appear that the SR6 is > identical (assuming the one pictured here > http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/nad/SR6.jpg is correct!) Looks like the C352 come

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread andyg
The only change is that artw-id is now a 8-char hex ID instead of an integer track ID. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthre

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Locuth
Thanks Andy. That's good to know to say the least^^. So it's up to the client to figure out what what format the server understands? For ID 257 the corret format would then be: 0011 (hex) or 0257 (dec) ? In practice - a user found some covers to load while others are just the pleacehold

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-03-19 Thread hcanning
Thanks very much for that! Doesn't look at all difficult so I'll give it a bash when I get home. Maybe I'll also have a go setting up with my Dad's set of Meridian DSP3100 speakers also - I had no such luck when I tried this plugin a year or two ago - the remote commands were so laggy it was ba

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread andyg
No, a client should not need any changes if it uses the correct CLI tag to request the artwork ID. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-03-19 Thread mbonsack
Is anyone else seeing MLB parsing issues; it looks like the icon-grabbing stuff might be broken. My SB2 displays something like: Get-MLB39Dodgers @ Get-MLB39Padres or something close to that. -mark -- mbonsack mbonsac

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Locuth
Sorry to waste your time Andy, So the embedded server returns 8-character artwork id's which the client should use as-is. i.e. "1234" != "1234" ? If that's the case then the ID is no longer an integer but more of a label Does this affect artwork id's and track id's (which may be used as artw

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread andyg
Sample artwork URLs: http://server:9000/music/8aa60e56/cover_100x100_o http://server:9000/music/bbf93522/cover_100x100_o http://server:9000/music/135c83f3/cover_100x100_o The artwork ID was changed to be the first 8 chars of the md5sum of the file's mtime and size, this is so that when a file is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Locuth
That explains why ~1 out of 100 covers still load with the integer interpretation of the artw id. The caching consideration is very sensible. Helpful too for any caching client:-) But still a major change for clients - do you guys announce these things anywhere? Take care Sebastian -- Locuth

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread andyg
It's not really a change for clients, for example iPeng handled the change without a problem. I think the problem is that for some reason Moose wants to directly read the database instead of using CLI. -- andyg andyg's Pr

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread slate
Andy - just to clarify: are the changes for artwork handling (now using SQLite) only in play for 7.5 embedded version or is it changed for all the 7.5 builds?! Thanks Jan -- slate Main: Duet -> Beresford Caiman -> Carver A-500x -> B&W 704 Office: Duet -> Technics SU-V50 -> Stax SR84 Pro Serve

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread andyg
Embedded only. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75649 ___ plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Locuth
andyg;526491 Wrote: > It's not really a change for clients, for example iPeng handled the > change without a problem. I think the problem is that for some reason > Moose wants to directly read the database instead of using CLI. Well it is a change because IDs used to be integer values and could

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread andyg
Well I apologize if anyone made an assumption about the data type of the artwork ID. It's unfortunate that it was ever the same as the track ID. Anyway you don't have to worry about this for 7.5 unless you intend to support SBS running on SB Touch via CLI. This change will not make it to regular

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Locuth
Actually I like the new ID. Does this mean that artwork IDs are/will be specific to albums ONLY. And track IDs are no longer meaningful for cover queries. That would be good and consequent. -- Locuth Use your PDA/Phone as SqueezeBox remote -- http://sc.sciatec.de -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread pippin
Locuth;526488 Wrote: > > But still a major change for clients - do you guys announce these > things anywhere? > Rule #1 for Squeezebox Server Client development: In no, repeat no case make any assumptions about data types or assume information will be correct. Broke more than one iPeng releas

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread pippin
Oh.. And Rule #2: Don't assume that because something has a certain type in one release of SBS it will have the same one in another... -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Locuth
I'll adhere to that^^ But 'string' is a datatype too you know. And it's the common denominator of all CLI returns. -- Locuth Use your PDA/Phone as SqueezeBox remote -- http://sc.sciatec.de Locuth's Profile: http://forums

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Locuth
andyg;526512 Wrote: > Not at all, each track has a coverid field (each track may have > different embedded artwork for example), and the albums.artwork field is > the value of the most recently changed track coverid. Great - thanks. -- Locuth Use your PDA/Phone as SqueezeBox remote -- http:/

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread andyg
Locuth;526506 Wrote: > Actually I like the new ID. > Does this mean that artwork IDs are/will be specific to albums ONLY. > And track IDs are no longer meaningful for cover queries. > > That would be good and consequent. Not at all, each track has a coverid field (each track may have different

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread pippin
Locuth;526510 Wrote: > I'll adhere to that^^ > > But 'string' is a datatype too you know. > And it's the common denominator of all CLI returns. Ah.. yes. I don't use CLI, I use JSON. JSON is typed. It knows arrays, collections, strings and numericals. It also knows about nil. Very convenient to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Phil Leigh
DrLovegrove;525546 Wrote: > On 15 March 2010 15:53, Phil Leigh > > wrote: > > > > DrLovegrove;525228 Wrote: > >> On 10 March 2010 11:40, Phil Leigh > >> forums.slimdevices.com> > >> wrote: > > I was very careful to download exactly that version of the DLL, > having > > read your warning that ot

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-03-19 Thread hcanning
Well I installed it and it appears in the Settings and Extra menus, but when I click on the SqueezeIR option in either menu, I get nothing. The menu option just 'bounces' slightly as if there's nothing else there. Any ideas? :) -- hcanning --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Locuth
pippin;526522 Wrote: > > It's this Perl stuff on the server side. For Perl everything is a > string which allow it to make full use of the memory and CPU resources > available on the platform it runs on so it doesn't know the difference > :) > > Looks like you don't exclusively use strings, too

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer plugin problems

2010-03-19 Thread SpiderJon
mherger;526301 Wrote: > Please remove that broken copy of flac. SlimNAS shouldn't install any > flac binary or link any more, as flac is included with SBS. I removed /mnt/data/slimnas/usr/bin/flac and - hurrah! - AAC streams now work :-) One day I'll get my head round the whole FreeNAS/SlimNA

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: muso (beta)

2010-03-19 Thread wonder boy
cblock;526342 Wrote: > Ah! Quick thought because it's something I've forgotten to do a few > times. When you had the table of songs showing did you click the button > "Apply and Close". If you don't it doesn't add them in. Brilliant! Thankyou, all sorted and working great for me, can't believe i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.8 - works only under root account (suse linux)

2010-03-19 Thread AndreE
does anybody uses it? -- AndreE Duet: 2 Controllers and 4 Receivers Plan: +2 Receivers and + 1 Controller [quite positive after move to 7.4.1 and later to 7.4.2] Linux Intel Atom 330 based Server - [not completel

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-03-19 Thread indifference_engine
hcanning;526562 Wrote: > Well I installed it and it appears in the Settings and Extra menus, but > when I click on the SqueezeIR option in either menu, I get nothing. The > menu option just 'bounces' slightly as if there's nothing else there. Sorry, my mistake. Try this xml file instead of your c

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeIR - A Generic Infra-Red Remote Control Applet for the Duet's SBC

2010-03-19 Thread hcanning
Well that was easy. Replaced the file and it works like a charm. And it even adjusts the volume in tiny increments, that's what irritated me about trying to learn the Nad's volume controls onto the Squeezebox device on my Logitech Harmony remote - it'd either be too loud or too quiet due to the hu

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SQL Playlist - design of database

2010-03-19 Thread PatLogan
Thank you erland, you're gem! Here is my final code: Code: -- PlaylistName:Goldberg Variations -- PlaylistGroups: -- PlaylistOptionDontRepeatTracks:1 -- PlaylistOptionUnlimited:1 select tracks.url from tracks join contributor_track on tr

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread Locuth
andyg;526512 Wrote: > Not at all, each track has a coverid field (each track may have > different embedded artwork for example), and the albums.artwork field is > the value of the most recently changed track coverid. Hey Andy The 'coverid' is a new tag for 'titles|songs|tracks' queries ? Or are

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread andyg
Locuth;526629 Wrote: > Hey Andy > > The 'coverid' is a new tag for 'titles|songs|tracks' queries ? > Or are you referring to the 'artwork_track_id' tag in the 'songinfo' > and 'albums' query. tag:J (artwork_track_id) will return the albums.artwork value. This used to be the albums.track value.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] moose - no Artwork in SC 7.5 embedded

2010-03-19 Thread pippin
andyg;526630 Wrote: > tag:J (artwork_track_id) will return the albums.artwork value. This > used to be the albums.track value. > tag:c (coverid) will return the tracks.coverid value. This is a new > tag. This was mistakenly left out of the cli-api docs in embedded, I'll > fix this. What about

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] now playing not showing in custom clock

2010-03-19 Thread erland
profota;526346 Wrote: > > I know things are getting worse because when I try custom clock the > screensaver mode never goes into effect. > Is there a way to start over from step 1 ? > If you configure my testing repository in SBS, you can install the "Settings Remover" applet and then goto "Set