Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan speed

2011-03-19 Thread erland
Daverz;619316 Wrote: > > That would be great, thanks. I'll also start looking at the Custom > Scan code. The idea would be to replace the file scanning phase with > just scanning the file (in XML or some Perl specific format?) produced > by the external scanner. > I've just sent you a PM abou

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-19 Thread Meridion
gharris999;617841 Wrote: > > 1). Expanded SrvrPowerCtrl's system idle monitoring to include optional > network > monitoring. On Linux and OSX, added disk and cpu load monitoring as > well. > I really like these enhancements! This allows setting up a "green" server. Can anybody recommend reaso

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-19 Thread gharris999
OK, I've just posted a new version with the following changes: Code: == What's new: 20110319

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2011-03-19 Thread JackOfAll
Triode;619289 Wrote: > Tested back to back with arm and intel and can confirm that it is louder > on with the intel version (i.e. with normalisation applied). So this > means that for the moment if you want to avoid normalisation, you can > use the arm version. Or hope that Jude will speak to a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2011-03-19 Thread JackOfAll
frisser;619283 Wrote: > Btw. I have bought this movie 2 years ago and still didn't seen it on > DVD (watched it in the theater, I think in 1978). So I'm going to watch > it tonight :) I've got very fond memories of going to see a stage production at the theatre. The Paul Williams soundtrack is s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2011-03-19 Thread Triode
dagordon;619313 Wrote: > I'm having the problem that Spotify will stop working on my players > (when I try to play a track nothing will happen), and the only way to > fix it will be to disable authentication for SBS. It's weird -- if I > then re-enable authentication, things will work, for a whil

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan speed

2011-03-19 Thread Daverz
erland;619146 Wrote: > How long does Custom Scan take for the same library ? > It takes about 10.5 hours for Custom Scan to scan 56k flacs. Here's a simple-minded Python script that uses 'mutagen' (http://code.google.com/p/mutagen/) to dump tags to an on-disk hashtable (just for a test example

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2011-03-19 Thread dagordon
Triode;617536 Wrote: > Not that I know of, what does the server and helper app log say when you > do this? I'm having the problem that Spotify will stop working on my players (when I try to play a track nothing will happen), and the only way to fix it will be to disable authentication for SBS. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Audio Equaliser

2011-03-19 Thread bpa
Softsqueeze uses the PC own audio driver so any equaliser or other special effects (e.g. concert hall) are done through the PC's own audio control panel. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?useri

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2011-03-19 Thread Triode
JackOfAll;619275 Wrote: > With apologies if you don't necessarily like the musical content, but > this is a good test track for comparison purposes. > > Search for the soundtrack album by Paul Williams, "Bugsy Malone". Track > 8 - "Ordinary Fool". > > It is available as a 320k VBR track so th

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2011-03-19 Thread frisser
JackOfAll;619275 Wrote: > With apologies if you don't necessarily like the musical content, but > this is a good test track for comparison purposes. > > Search for the soundtrack album by Paul Williams, "Bugsy Malone". Track > 8 - "Ordinary Fool". > Album is not availiable in the Netherlands

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2011-03-19 Thread JackOfAll
frisser;619234 Wrote: > Is it correct that the ARM version of this plugin doesn't have the > normalization problem. So if I use this plugin and squeezeserver with > my NAS the music sounds better then when I use it with my Mac? > (http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/volume_normalisation#rep

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

2011-03-19 Thread treble
BoomX2;617747 Wrote: > It's an a case sensitivity issue. I just tweaked mine by adding the > following for line 1, 2, & 3 and got it to shorten the text again. > Note the space between the carat and LOW. > > > Code: > > > $line3 =~ s/^ LOW/LO/;

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Audio Equaliser

2011-03-19 Thread Not Sure
Hi Is there an audio equaliser available as third party software to use with softsqueeze ? -- Not Sure Not Sure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.c

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

2011-03-19 Thread tedfroop
Since mine was cut out again this morning and began working after your fix I am hopeful you fixed the problem. Thanks to all for their help. -- tedfroop "Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement." ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2011-03-19 Thread Triode
frisser;619234 Wrote: > Is it correct that the ARM version of this plugin doesn't have the > normalization problem. So if I use this plugin and squeezeserver with > my NAS the music sounds better then when I use it with my Mac? > (http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/volume_normalisation#rep

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2011-03-19 Thread frisser
Is it correct that the ARM version of this plugin doesn't have the normalization problem. So if I use this plugin and squeezeserver with my NAS the music sounds better then when I use it with my Mac? (http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/volume_normalisation#reply_5065273) -- frisser Logi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin (Beta)

2011-03-19 Thread Triode
Triode;617433 Wrote: > Following buzzsb's investigations on why the plugin won't work, it looks > like the Synology DSM version of squeezecentre uses some special > locations for binaries. We can probabably we can work around this to > make the plugin work on the DSM build and I'd like a couple

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Scrobbling doesn't seem to work on SBs?

2011-03-19 Thread Blisteringblue
Ikabob;523230 Wrote: > Brucegrr, if you are asking me , yes, I did correct the problem of not > being scrobbled. I went to SBS settings and reset my username and > password under the basic and the advanced settings tab for each player. > Even though the settings seemed correct originally by reset

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing

2011-03-19 Thread ralphy
bpa;618954 Wrote: > The user may in fact be interested in 24bits with rates higher than > 44.1kHz so this argument is irrelevant as SBS would also need an update > to its Softsqueeze profile. > > So the advice remains the same - they may be better off using > squeezeslave. Unfortunately, squeez

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Scan speed

2011-03-19 Thread erland
Daverz;619120 Wrote: > I wonder if an external scanner might be the way to go. I wrote a > Python script that dumps all the tags to an easily parsed text file, > and this only takes about 20 minutes to scan everything. Perhaps a > plugin could then read and process the text file? Or does the d