Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2022-01-07 Thread philippe_44
psweeney1967 wrote: > There are two groups. it only sees one group. Then try to clean the log, add on the "Extra command line options" "-d all=debug" and post the log. I need to see what the mDNS discovery process sees. LMS 8.2 on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2022-01-07 Thread philippe_44
kuumaur wrote: > If I virtually power off the player, does not help. > Yes, when I only restart the plugin, the Chromecast Player come back and > are working. > I have no issued with DLNA/UPNP devices or SqueezeLite devices or SB > Radio's. > I changed the audio format to pcm > I changed

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Ratings Light

2022-01-07 Thread dunq
What are the criteria for a track being added to the "recently rated" playlist? The first creation of the playlist happened fine, in that I changed a track's rating and the playlist appeared. However, the playlist has not updated since then. So I'm wondering: * is every rating change in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Ratings Light

2022-01-07 Thread dunq
afriend wrote: > If LMS works it always has read/write permissions to the folder you > selected as your LMS playlist folder. Once installed Ratings Light - in > order to avoid clutter - creates a folder in that playlist folder called > -RatingsLight- where it stores everything: backups,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2022-01-07 Thread slartibartfast
beneix wrote: > I'm using a Radio. I recall having a bass drop-out issue a few years > ago; I think I resolved it with a 3rd party app called AlsaBufferSize. > Is that the same issue? > > In any case, it sounds like this firmware is aimed more at fixing issues > for people than at offering new

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2022-01-07 Thread garym
beneix wrote: > I'm using a Radio. I recall having a bass drop-out issue a few years > ago; I think I resolved it with a 3rd party app called AlsaBufferSize. > Is that the same issue? > > In any case, it sounds like this firmware is aimed more at fixing issues > for people than at offering new

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2022-01-07 Thread beneix
slartibartfast wrote: > Are you using a Touch or a Radio? There is more reason to use it on the > Radio where sometimes the bass speaker can stop working and the new > firmware contains a fix for this. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I'm using a Radio. I recall having a bass drop-out

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-07 Thread cpd73
prabbit wrote: > Essentia analysis and running my API server on Windows. It'll be my > weekened/next week project. If you use windows, then you can download the alpha3 release from the initial post but then get the latest python code from the github repo - as I made some changes that are not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2022-01-07 Thread slartibartfast
beneix wrote: > I am sorry, but I read that and more, and it only tells me that a lot of > changes have been made to the first version of the community firmware, > but not the original reason to create it. From the changelog, I can sort > of deduce that a lot is around AAC and WiFi issues - is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2022-01-07 Thread psweeney1967
philippe_44 wrote: > Oh, sorry I missed that: these Sonos are synced by the Sonos app, right? > In that case, purposely, the bridge will only present the master of the > group. There are two groups. it only sees one group.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2022-01-07 Thread beneix
slartibartfast wrote: > You can find all the info in the first post of this thread including a > changelog. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I am sorry, but I read that and more, and it only tells me that a lot of changes have been made to the first version of the community firmware,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2022-01-07 Thread beneix
slartibartfast wrote: > You can find all the info in the first post of this thread including a > changelog. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I am sorry, but I read that and more, and it only tells me that a lot of changes have been made to the first version of the community firmware,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2022-01-07 Thread Paul Webster
freelsjd wrote: > my LMS server also shows up the DirecTV boxes as a cast device. This should allow you to send sound from LMS to your DirecTV device (and presumably then to your TV/amp). It will not go the opposite way. Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2022-01-07 Thread kuumaur
philippe_44 wrote: > If you power off/on the "virtual" player in LMS, does playback work > again? BTW, you don't have to restart LMS - you have a "restart" button > in the plugin's settings that should suffice If I virtually power off the player, does not help. Yes, when I only restart the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2022-01-07 Thread slartibartfast
beneix wrote: > I have just discovered that a community firmware exists. I went looking > for a summary of what it offers above the last official firmware, but I > came up short. Where can I find a summary?You can find all the info in the > first post of this thread including a changelog.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

2022-01-07 Thread beneix
I have just discovered that a community firmware exists. I went looking for a summary of what it offers above the last official firmware, but I came up short. Where can I find a summary? beneix's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists 3 - get help with your custom playlists

2022-01-07 Thread PasTim
afriend wrote: > I'm quite confident that you will succeed. Don't worry too much about > terms and new features. At the core DPL is still just a means to serve > you those tracks that you select with your SQLite code/dynamic > playlist. > > Try this: save the SQLite code of your dynamic

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2022-01-07 Thread freelsjd
I have a new ATT DirecTV Stream service in my house. It comes with nice Google integration which surprised me. One feature is to be able to cast sound from the TV to Google speakers. Interestingly, the CastBridge plugin that I have been using now for sometime with my LMS server also shows up

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-07 Thread prabbit
I just had AcounticBrainz add mood and BPM metadata to my files in hopes of using that information for mixes. It appears I should have looked at the forums a bit closer before doing that. Apparently, Essentia/Musly is the way to go (Roland0 has a similar project), even for this long-time

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Denon AVP Control Plugin

2022-01-07 Thread SamY
Giunti wrote: > Tanks for replying that promptly, SamY ! > > Well, upon reading several relevant posts in this forum prior to my > query I already knew about your above explanations: Definitely my AVR > was always set to the same input associated with the player and, YES, > the plugin is set

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Tidal Icon under iPeng "My Apps" after installation

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Herger
As requested (see below pix) I always using the latest Max2play and below are also my LMS Socket info. Yeah, that's looking good. What about the web UI? Is TIDAL available there? What about the server.log? Any hint in there? Feel free to upload it to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Denon AVP Control Plugin

2022-01-07 Thread Giunti
SamY wrote: > Hello, and welcome to the forum! Prior to v4.2, the plugin would always > power off the AVR when the associated LMS player (not the server) was > turned off. However, this behavior was modified in v4.2 such that the > AVR is now only powered off if it is currently set to the input

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-07 Thread cpd73
mruddo wrote: > So far I'm impressed... It's playing a good mix from most starting > points, and no odd behaviour to report so far. Glad to hear is working for someone else. Perhaps I'll formalize the release... *Material debug:* 1. Launch via http: //SERVER:9000/material/?debug=json (Use

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Denon AVP Control Plugin

2022-01-07 Thread SamY
Giunti wrote: > Hi everyone ! > > I've been using a Squeezebox/LMS for about 10 years now, for the past 2 > yrs together with a DENON AVR-X1500H. At some stage I decided to install > the Denon AVVP/AVR control plugin and it worked fine right away. I very > much liked its automatic ON/OFF

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists 3 - get help with your custom playlists

2022-01-07 Thread afriend
PasTim wrote: > I'm struggling with the complexity of the FAQs. There are so many > features I've never heard of, and some terms that evade me, but I'll > try. I'm quite confident that you will succeed. Don't worry too much about terms and new features. At the core DPL is still just a means to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Denon AVP Control Plugin

2022-01-07 Thread Giunti
Hi everyone ! I've been using a Squeezebox/LMS for about 10 years now, for the past 2 yrs together with a DENON AVR-X1500H. At some stage I decided to install the Denon AVVP/AVR control plugin and it worked fine right away. I very much liked its automatic ON/OFF control of the AVR via the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] No Tidal Icon under iPeng "My Apps" after installation

2022-01-07 Thread Fredly
Mherger, thanx for looking into this, I'm pretty sure its something simple. As requested (see below pix) I always using the latest Max2play and below are also my LMS Socket info. Thank you again for your attention to this matter, Fred PS: I have kinda got around this problem by "Airplaying"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-07 Thread mruddo
So far I'm impressed... It's playing a good mix from most starting points, and no odd behaviour to report so far. What I like about the analysis approach is that it seems to pull in a more broad range of alternative tracks than a simple grouping determined by a website like LastFM - which is my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2022-01-07 Thread castalla
I have intermittent problems with my Fiios M6 player. It is listed as a player. However, whether it actually plays is random I think that airplay feature it uses is related in some way to jmDNS. Could this explain why it fails to play?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists 3 - get help with your custom playlists

2022-01-07 Thread PasTim
afriend wrote: > I removed code in DPL3 that was specifically aimed at unsupported > plugins - for all the reasons and with all the consquences (e.g. no > support) explained in the FAQ. > But as long as your SQLite code is valid and the tables you need > exists/work there's a good chance it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)

2022-01-07 Thread philippe_44
psweeney1967 wrote: > Yes they are on the same network. Here is the AirPlay log. Not much to > go on. > > Starting Squeeze2raop: > /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/RaopBridge/Bin/squeeze2raop-x86-64-static > -Z -I -f /var/log/squeezeboxserver/raopbridge.log -x >

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Web Browser Now Playing display using widget for Smashing dashboard

2022-01-07 Thread kwarklabs
This widget can be used with the open source Smashing dashboard software to turn a web browser into a Now Playing display: 'link' (https://gist.github.com/kwarklabs/93c6ec070af4cd2247f3c94f387c02c1) Smashing is lightweight and can run alongside the SqueezeBox server software. It can be found

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2022-01-07 Thread philchillbill
andrewhess wrote: > That did it! It must have been the reboot -- I saw the ngrok address > change and - bang - I've got Mediaserver! Lot's to play with here. Thank > you so much! > > Two small questions (I'm still reading through the thread, so apologies > if it's already been covered): > > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-07 Thread cpd73
mruddo wrote: > Just to reiterate, these failures were _prior_ to your most recent utf-8 > change - so they're OK now! Ah! OK, that explains why things work now! :) *Material debug:* 1. Launch via http: //SERVER:9000/material/?debug=json (Use http: //SERVER:9000/material/?debug=json,cometd

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists 3 - get help with your custom playlists

2022-01-07 Thread afriend
PasTim wrote: > I don't understand what is meant by 'removes ties to other (unsupported) > plugins'. I see that it says that it may work with such plugins, but > I'm not sure what it means by 'ties'. I removed code in DPL3 that was specifically aimed at unsupported plugins - for all the reasons

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2022-01-07 Thread andrewhess
That did it! It must have been the reboot -- I saw the ngrok address change and - bang - I've got Mediaserver! Lot's to play with here. Thank you so much! Two small questions (I'm still reading through the thread, so apologies if it's already been covered): - Can I rename the skill so I'm

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2022-01-07 Thread philchillbill
Some minor APL tweaks: * AlbumArtist is now shown in italics (if the tag is present) * The progress bar changes to red if playback is paused or stopped * The track-total is now shown in a smaller font than the curretn track-index * If the name of the genre is long enough to cause the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-07 Thread mruddo
Just to reiterate, these failures were _prior_ to your most recent utf-8 change - so they're OK now! All tracks on this album failed: Code: Angel Dream (Songs and Music from The Motion Picture “She's the One”) And there were a few other 12"

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-07 Thread cpd73
mruddo wrote: > I think like apostropes which have both "straight" and cuved (opening > and closing) variations, you can use the curved variation in a > filename. > > So you have " vs ... and variations on that theme. I can't be too > sure which is actually being used in all cases though, as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Ratings Light

2022-01-07 Thread afriend
dunq wrote: > I've been trying to export data from Ratings Light using both the backup > option and the "recently rated playlist" option. In both cases, the > server log shows, e.g.: > > > > Exporting from TrackStat does not cause a problem (well, it's writing to > a file already created),

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-07 Thread mruddo
I think like apostropes which have both "straight" and cuved (opening and closing) variations, you can use the curved variation in a filename. So you have " vs ... and variations on that theme. I can't be too sure which is actually being used in all cases though, as looking at charmap in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-07 Thread cpd73
mruddo wrote: > turns out another issue was double quotes - so having 12" in the name > for example was also causing exlcusions prior to this Odd. I cannot create a filename with a double quote on Windows. How do you create such a file? *Material debug:* 1. Launch via http:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists 3 - get help with your custom playlists

2022-01-07 Thread PasTim
With apologies for being a bit slow. I have a long standing LMS system, buit I don't quite get what the new DPL vs old DPL issues are. I've read the FAQ and everything else I could find, but I don't really understand what impact the new version will have on the dynamic play lists I already

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Music Similarity DSTM mixer

2022-01-07 Thread mruddo
That's great - thanks... I got an additional 60 or so tracks added after those changes (turns out another issue was double quotes - so having 12" in the name for example was also causing exlcusions prior to this). Additionally, I see you've also got the check for track length in there - which