Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-02-08 Thread Julf
I am pretty happy after switching to Deezer (and thanks for everyone here who helped me get the LMS integration working!). "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-08 Thread cpd73
markiii wrote: > just setup a new box with material skin and i notice there's a transfer > queue option on the settings menu. It doesn't exist on the mobile skin, > any particular reason for that? also is that utilising the Music Walk > with me plugin or is this a Material specific thing? Its

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-08 Thread slartibartfast
barnyruble wrote: > Hello everyone, After getting the update the other day, a couple of > things have shown up. I've been through all setting, but I might not > just be seeing them. I saw all the fixes a few pages back, still didn't > see anything about it. > > When I select an album and just

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] PCP and Music IP Mix Options

2022-02-08 Thread slartibartfast
plasticator2 wrote: > I completely identify with you! I moved LMS to a RPi 3B+/Picore player > set up about 4 years ago and it was brilliant as a low power, always-on > system. I am no Linux programmer, but the tutorials are great etc. I > also kitted out a friend's place with a 3 x RPi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-08 Thread markiii
just setup a new box with material skin and i notice there's a transfer queue option on the settings menu. It doesn't exist on the mobile skin, any particular reason for that? also is that utilising the Music Walk with me plugin or is this a Material specific thing? PiCorePlayer 7.1 on Allo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-08 Thread barnyruble
Hello everyone, After getting the update the other day, a couple of things have shown up. I've been through all setting, but I might not just be seeing them. I saw all the fixes a few pages back, still didn't see anything about it. When I select an album and just play one song, at the end a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] PCP and Music IP Mix Options

2022-02-08 Thread plasticator2
staresy wrote: > I've always run LMS on a headless Win10 server, mainly due to me being > familiar with Windows and also the server runs some other Win based apps > that I use. > > However, I am becoming less and less convinced that this is the best > platform, constant Win10 updates, bloated

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: > Quick reply... The usb drive on the router is CIFS > > As a test., could I just leave the music folder blank/unspecified and > set playlists to a non networked folder? At the moment I can't see why a network folder should cause problems. If there is a problem, the opml files

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: > So the music folder is some sort of network drive - Samba, NFS etc. ? > I'm not sure about a networked "playlist" folder. > It was considered not good practice for Playlist to be the same as Music > as Playlist will be written into all the time and keeping them separate > means no

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: > To be honest, I've messed things around, so I don't know anymore. I've > set both music and playlists to /mnt/Asus. > > The only drive is a usb stick on the router. > > Which folders do you mean? > > I'm at hospital all day tomorrow so won't be able to do much till

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: > is the /mnt/asus the value in WebUI Settings/Basic Settings/Playlists > folder ? > > edit: > > If possible, I want to replicate your set up and understand what is > happening. So if you can provide all relevant info on permission, > ownership (e.g. root vs tc) etc of the drives

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-02-08 Thread Grumpy Bob
expectingtofly wrote: > I just switched from Spotify to Qobuz. > The amount Spotify pay to artists is what pushed me to move, Public > Service Broadcast recently published on twitter how much income per > stream they get from each streaming service. Qobuz pays 6.57 times the > amount

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: > infobrowser is located in /mnt/asus is the /mnt/asus the value in WebUI Settings/Basic Settings/Playlists folder ? bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: > On a clean LMS install - infobrower in installed and it puts its menu > into playlist directory. I can see that on my PCP. > > My CDplayer plugin creates its menu (on entry into cdplayer plugin after > CD TOC is read) as OPML files and also places them int he Playlist > directory.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: > No - the folder is bare! On a clean LMS install - infobrower in installed and it puts its menu into playlist directory. I can see that on my PCP. My CDplayer plugin creates its menu (on entry into cdplayer plugin after CD TOC is read) as OPML files and also places them int

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: > not even infobrowser.opml ? No - the folder is bare! castalla's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: > Thanks. > The playlists folder is /mnt/playlists. - the music folder is /mnt/asus > > I can't see any opml files in /mnt/playlists - the folder is empty not even infobrowser.opml ? bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: > A bit stumped - it looks like the problem in in your setup. > > I found an unused Pi 3B+ and did a clean install of PCP 8.0.* and got > LMS running on it. No Squeezelite. > I am not familiar with PCP so I just followed the picoreplayer.org > instructions. > > As I am not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CDplayer plugin

2022-02-08 Thread bpa
A bit stumped - it looks like the problem in in your setup. I found an unused Pi 3B+ and did a clean install of PCP 8.0.* and got LMS running on it. No Squeezelite. I am not familiar with PCP so I just followed the picoreplayer.org instructions. As I am not familiar with PCP, I then

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-02-08 Thread expectingtofly
I just switched from Spotify to Qobuz. The amount Spotify pay to artists is what pushed me to move, Public Service Broadcast recently published on twitter how much income per stream they get from each streaming service. Qobuz pays 6.57 times the amount Spotify do!!

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-08 Thread edwardthern
slartibartfast wrote: > I leave all the swipe options turned off after finding it was too easy > to change something by accident. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk For sure, everyone has different use-cases. I don't use MS/LMS on-the-go or with my phone so much...either tablet or PC,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-08 Thread slartibartfast
edwardthern wrote: > Yep now an option, even though there are clearly arrows in the user > interface to change tracks. > > Maybe an option to tap the cover to start or stop.I leave all the swipe > options turned off after finding it was too easy to change something by accident. Sent from my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-02-08 Thread slartibartfast
Redrum wrote: > Slight detour from the thread topic, I apologize... > > No, I basically ignored Zaireeka back then due to logistics. But now > that you mention it, I do have four radios and could mix two pair of > disks into just two stereo recordings (disk 1/2 and 3/4), and set up 2 > pairs

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-08 Thread edwardthern
slartibartfast wrote: > It is now an option in interface settings37173 > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Yep now an option, even though there are clearly arrows in the user interface to change tracks. Maybe an option to tap the cover to start or stop.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alternatives to spotify / spotty?

2022-02-08 Thread Redrum
slartibartfast wrote: > Have you tried playing Zaireeka on four different players? That is a > frustrating exercise in trying to start them all at the same time > [emoji1787] > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Slight detour from the thread topic, I apologize... No, I basically ignored

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

2022-02-08 Thread AF1
streifenleopard wrote: > I would like to add though that in Material skin there is no "browse > button on the right". Hence my confusion. Should be fixed with the next -Material Skin- update. *Plugin repositories:* 'Ratings Light' (https://github.com/AF-1/lms-ratingslight) 'Visual

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

2022-02-08 Thread cpd73
bakker_be wrote: > Nope, scrapped it all :p :D Oops! Well, in that case I'd be tempted to do just Bliss and Musly, and see how that goes. You can always run Essentia afterwards. *Material debug:* 1. Launch via http: //SERVER:9000/material/?debug=json (Use http:

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

2022-02-08 Thread bakker_be
cpd73 wrote: > Well, if you do just Bliss+Musly, you could probably analyse that in > about 10-12hrs. Essentia is the -really- slow one - so hopefully you > have cached the Essentia output (in which case the analyser will just > read the JSON files). Perhaps I should make caching of this output

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

2022-02-08 Thread cpd73
bakker_be wrote: > Since I started over from scratch full analysis will take some time > again (±127k tracks by now :p), but I'll get back on that, as well as > playing some with the simalgo ratio. Just FYI: I prefer a genre-agnostic > mix: if it sounds similarly, it's OK by me, no matter what

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

2022-02-08 Thread philchillbill
Based on @MrC's feedback (thanks!), the online setup instructions have been updated to (hopefully) be clearer :cool: philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread:

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

2022-02-08 Thread bakker_be
cpd73 wrote: > Great, glad its fixed now. Will be interested to know your impressions > with regards to Bliss vs Musly. These two are by far the fastest at > analysing, so it'd be great to get them working. I'm considering trying > mixes of Bliss+Musly (e.g. -"simalog":"mixed", >

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

2022-02-08 Thread cpd73
bakker_be wrote: > Did a new git pull, and all is now indeed working as intended, "-f bem" > no longer needed to start the analysis. Thanks! Great, glad its fixed now. Will be interested to know your impressions with regards to Bliss vs Musly. These two are by far the fastest at analysing, so

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2022-02-08 Thread The Groundsman
The Groundsman wrote: > I did have a quick look around for this but as it's such a monster > thread I couldn't seem to search it that efficiently - sorry :o > > On the default skin I get a message at the bottom to say if a new > version of LMS is available, and in Material I get a lime green

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

2022-02-08 Thread bakker_be
cpd73 wrote: > This should be fixed now, sorry. > > > > Ah, oops! Yeah, my mistake - should be fixed now. Did a new git pull, and all is now indeed working as intended, "-f bem" no longer needed to start the analysis. Thanks! Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004 + TMA Premium 905 + TMA