I found that if I clicked the Edit link on a library, and then pressed Next,
this sorted both issues out. i.e. it corrected \' - ', and now displays music
in the library.
So I just need to do that for each library.
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I can't figure out how to use the playlist manager though. I want a way
to add arbitrary tracks to arbitrary playlists. When I press-and-hold on
a track I get the context menu, and at the bottom is the 'Playlist
Manager' item, but when I select it I get to a screen that has 'Playlist
Manager' at
WaveInput V1.05 has been added to the repository. The update is for SBS
7.4.
Is this available for 7.5.0? It's not offering an upgrade for me.
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I thought it should show up as maxversion is set to 7.*
Nope :-(
I restarted the server just in case, but it still doesn't show up as an
available update.
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Sounds like a bug. Could you start the server from the command line
with --debug server.plugins,plugin.extensions and post the output in the
bug too.
Uninstalled DatabaseQuery plugin, restarted, Installed DatabaseQuery,
restarted. Needed another restart after that. Caught the log, trimmed it
1) I'd like to know which plugins have been updated but as far as I can
tell I am not informed. Is this correct? If not, where does it tell me?
When it says that plugin updates are available, you can see the plugins that
have updates available in the Active Plugins list, highlighted in bold.
I can understand why the SP update might not be available but the fact
that SP is not listed in ED at looks like a probable bug.
Versioning issue perhaps? Or it is installed manually, and therefore you are
not informed of an available update.
NB. I think it would be nice if it detected newer
It seems like for new plugin installations Extension Downloader always
picks the plugin from the manually configured repository.
Thanks Erland.
Although it was only offering me the beta versions from the test repository,
after endless restarts, it did list the plugins without *Beta* in the names
It should be fixed in Dynamic Playlist 2.8.1 which should be released
soon.
Thanks - I can confirm that the fix worked.
Phil
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I tried installing some of Erlands plugins, such as CustomBrowse, from his beta
test repository. The plugin was listed as available for installation, but upon
restart, Extension Downloader said another restart was necessary to apply
changes, which I had not made.
I think the issue is that
Hmm, having restarted the server and got the You must restart the server to
apply changes and seeing that my plugins I had just selected for install were
still listed as plugins available for installation, I assumed it wasn't going
to work and reinstalled them manually.
Then upon restart, I
Actually, it appears to be Trackstat Beta that's not installing through ED
correctly. Some others seem to have stuck now.
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You shouldn't even see the TrackStat beta since there is a newer non
beta 2.9 version which should be shown instead.
After several restarts, it eventually seems to have installed the newer 2.9.1.
Not sure what repository it pulled it from, or why I needed to restart so many
times, but I seem to
It seems to be the combination of Dynamic Playlist and SQLPlaylist that cause
the issue.
I tried reverting the server back to 7.4/trunk, and I still get the error
accessing the web UI Song Info page when these plugins are installed.
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Do you see this on all tracks or just some of them ?
All tracks.
Do you see the problem in several skins or just one of them ?
I've only tried Default.
I'm asking since I'm not able to reproduce it in my own setup.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I recently switched to SbS 7.5.0 (I marked it
in
If you haven't done so already, could you try to remove a few plugins
(for example Custom Browse) and keep SQL Playlist and see if it still
causes the problem ?
I'll try that tonight. I'll remove all manually installed plugins, and put
SQL Playlist back.
Hmmm, I tried this quick before
Trying to get plugins moved across gradually from manual install to ED, but
every time I try to do it I have some kind of issue with ED.
The latest one is that every time I restart the server, it tells me Plugin
updates are available, and then when I go into Settings Plugins, it
automatically
It seems to be the combination of Dynamic Playlist and SQLPlaylist that cause
the issue.
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I upgraded to 7.5/trunk (currently on SVN 28778), and found that WebUI song
info page failed to display.
The error log contains:
[21:09:15.0358] Slim::Web::Template::SkinManager::_fillTemplate (266) Error:
file error - : not found
I raised bug
Can you clarify if the slower scan from the database is better in some
reason than the faster mix scan? I'm assuming it must have some benefit,
otherwise not just use the faster scan all the time?
No the full MusicIP scan mode is worse - in my opinion it should be dropped,
there's no need for
How can I get MusicIP working on SC7.4. I run the headless mode of
MusicIP and it worked with SC7.3x but not with SC7.4.
I have issues with importing the MusicIP database?
Do somebody know if MusicIP is generally working on SC7.4?
I reported a problem with MusicIP music importing. It was
I just added a new album and performed a scan for new/changed files, and the
scanner crashed.
Application popup: perl.exe - Application Error : The instruction at
0x01d9528a referenced memory at 0x0395115c. The memory could not be read.
The last thing in the scanner log before the process
Updated Squeezebox Server to 7.5.0 trunk.
I saw there were new versions of Erlands plugins, and thought I'd take the
opportunity to try out Extension Downloader again.
I deleted my previous version of CustomBrowse (manually installed), and
restarted Squeezebox Server.
I configured Erlands test
Did you restart the Touch ?
Yes. I did get a system error upon restart (asked to submit info to Logitech),
but could have been due to something else. So I restarted again, and there
wasn't a problem.
Could you please do the following, to help me debugging:
- activate the extras-menu if you
I was thinking that it might be good to have an intermediate menu level
where you can select among a number of different sorting and filtering
options.
All album sorting options available on the Controller/Radio/Touch
should be pretty easy but I think it would also be possible to add some
I tried setting Custom Clock as my When Stopped screensaver. However, when I
play music it comes on too (When Playing screensaver is set to Now Playing).
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So this leaves the two questions:
- did you delete your wrong 'WeatherApplet' directory ?
No
- does the applets/Weather/WeatherMeta.lua file exist ?
Yes
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Applet Installer is working now (see edited first post) so you might
also try to delete all folders starting with 'Weather' and try the
applet installer.
Working via applet installer - thanks.
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What order do the albums rotate in - album sort name order? Can it be
configured? I'd like random, I think, otherwise I'm never likely to see albums
past albums beginning with A.
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One more thing. Might be worth mentioning that is must be installed in a
folder named 'Weather' (under /usr/share/jive/applets). I tried using
WeatherApplet first, and it didn't work.
Hmm, that's what I did, but I can't see the applet on my Touch.
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I tried to do a complete clear+rescan.
Came back a bit later to discover the last scan result was:
Directory Scan (29648 of 29648) Complete 00:27:19
MusicIP Import (0 of 29642) Complete 00:05:04
Playlist Scan (8 of 8) Complete 00:00:02
Merge Various Artists (2504 of
I am now scanning for new/changed files, and MusicIP scanning is working with
Read mixable status only, i.e. it's only when it tries to fetch all MusicIP
song data in one query that it seems to be failing.
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I third that motion!
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It's installed by going to Settings/Advanced/Applet Installer on the
Touch, Radio or Controller. In the Applet Installer you will find a
Daylight Clock applet which you need to install. You will in
Squeezebox Server either check the Show all 3rd party plugins checkbox
or manually configure my
Do I still need Auto Repositories plugin installed to find 3rd party
repositories? If ED now finds them from the wiki, I wonder if Auto
Repositories is getting in the way, and is why I can't see the applet?
Phil
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Try to wait a day or setup my repository manually if you want to try it
out immediately.
It's come up now.
I can see new users getting confused by the applet installation process:
1. Navigate to Settings Advanced Applet Installer (is this going to be
combined with App Gallery? Tucked away
You don't need Auto Repositories, it was a temporary solution until we
got the new checkbox in 7.4
Thanks.
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Took me a while to find the applet settings.
Is there a way to configure a home address, so the world is centred around me?
It would be nice to be able to show current/future weather data on the screen
too.
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Took me a while to find the applet settings.
Where did you expect to find them ?
I don't know ;-)
I'm used to looking for plugin settings within Extras on classic players. The
Extras menu can be enabled, but it's not displayed by default, so I guess that
would be a bad place to put it now.
Looks cool!
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- Any other ideas ?
Show the alarm time/indicator?
Show the current moon phase as a small icon?
Scroll the now-playing song title around the world in geo synchronous orbit ;-)
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Now that I've just lost my playlist for the second time... Did you
figure out any workaround for this?
Yes... I think so!
I added the following to my custom IR map:
0.hold_release = dead
1.hold_release = dead
2.hold_release = dead
i.e. I think there is something else that is using numeric key events
to jump to a place in the current playlist, and this may be interfering
with trackstat rating (numeric key hold events).
Did you have a screen saver active ? Which one ?
No, there was no active screen saver at the time.
I
It's just a file named custom.map in C:\Program Files\Squeezebox\server\IR,
right?
Then I set all my players to use custom.map in the remote settings.
Correct.
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It's probably caused by this change, I'll take a look when I get some
time:
http://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?view=revisionrevision=28372
Ah, you are probably right. That change looks nasty - two different
press-and-hold actions.
I thought that it had been observed that new users are confused by
Something has changed in Squeezebox Server 7.4/trunk recently that breaks the
ability to rate tracks for me from a SB3 IR Remote.
Well, actually that's not quite correct - I can rate tracks, but pressing and
holding a number button is now also replacing the playlist with Favorite items
Can you confirm the version that you tried?
I am currently using 1.8.4. I tried 1.9b.
Can you also confirm whether you upgraded from a repository version to this
version?
I usually install plugins manually. I think I upgraded to 1.9b manually (i.e.
delete previous plugin folder, unzip new
I had installed the Spicefly Sugarcube plugin a while back--must have
been last year sometime--but didn't keep it very long because at the
time you could not enable it on selective players. Well, I noticed on
the web page that a per player feature was added to it since I last
tried it.
I tried
What's odd, is this problem seemed to manifest itself after I had
to point Squeezecenter to a directory containing only shortcuts. I
gather that this can't be the problem though?
Shouldn't be, if the shortcuts point to the same phyical file location as MIP.
SqueezeCenter reads the path that the
MiP and SbS should still be seeing the same physical music path.
Although SbS will follow links, it stores the file url to the physical files.
MiP can pointed directly to several music paths, and will have the same
physical file paths.
If you haven't already done so, you may find it better to
The bundled TrackStatiTunesUpdate.pl script should work on both Windows
and Mac, let me know if it doesn't.
Thanks - it does seem to work.
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I used to run a script that was part of TrackStat to export recently rated
tracks into iTunes:
.server\Plugins\TrackStat\TrackStatiTunesUpdateWin.pl D:\Documents\Phil\My
Music\iTunes\TrackStat_iTunes_Hist.txt
However, TrackStatiTunesUpdateWin.pl doesn't exist in my plugins folder any
more.
fixed in rev. 28177. Did you open a bug about this?
Don't think I did - I was thinking it was probably a plugin issue.
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Sounds like we're hitting a bug in S::M::TitleFormatter. What's the MIS
configuration you're using for the left screen?
Hasn't changed in ages:
Top-Left: PLAYING (X_OF_Y) TRACKSTATRATINGSTATIC
Top-Right: PLAYTIME_REMAINING
Bottom-Left:DISC-TRACKNUM. TITLE
Bottom-Right: EXT
My Transporters first screen is blank when I use this plugin. Second screen
displays fine still.
I guess this error log entry has something to do with it:
[08:09:08.3052] Slim::Display::Display::curLines (489) Error: bad lines
function: Undefined subroutine
There used to be a link from the TrackStat webUI screen to see statistics for
the current playlist. I can't find that now - has it been removed, or has the
feature been implemented a different way?
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It still works if you have launched a saved playlist because it's
stored in the database. However, unsaved playlists like those generated
by Dynamic Playlist plugin doesn't seem to be anywhere in the database.
Damn. I use that quite a lot, especially for random mixes, so I can see the
rating of
If you have MIP being dynamically updated with stats, but a Trackstat
restore is scheduled for once a day, then the MIP stats should be the
most up to date, and it would be preferable to restore this, wouldn't
it?
I'm not sure I'd trust MIP for all stats. eg. MIP doesn't scan as well as SC
After debugging a problem with a user the only conclusion was that it
just doesn't work when SC is a service.
I disagree with that conclusion - it works for me with SbS running as a service.
To test audio capture from the card - the following command should
capture PC audio into a file called
Just checked - it works OK with 7.4 / trunk.
1. To use WaveInput SC cannot be run as a service.
I run SVN source code as a service. It used to work - what's the issue with
running as a service?
2. Read the Wiki to check that the audio driver supports a What U
hear (or whatever it is called on
The wavin plugin hasn't been working for me for some time (as a manually
installed plugin).
I was sure I had the latest version (1.04), but I thought I would try my luck
with the Extension Downloader.
So I removed the manually installed version and restarted. I found the
repository for
1.04 is set up in its install.xml with Maxversion of 7.3 - so it will
not be loaded in 7.4
Why did ED let me try to install? Does the repository version check have a
different max version?
You could try editing the install.xml and change MaxVersion.
Okay, I did that and restarted - no errors
See 'initial post in this thread'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=439372#post439372 ) for
warnings and installation instructions for these beta versions.
The zip files don't have the plugin containing folder, so if extracting for
manual installation, a folder needs to be created
Will these new versions work with SQLite and MySQL?
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The problem with the
flexibility is that it might create a support nightmare for Logitech
since everyone might have configured the plugin differently.
That's the big benefit of the plugins; that they are very configurable and can
do exactly what each individual wants.
A watered-down simple
..on recipt of a particular system power management message, send a
user configurable CLI request.
That's all it needs to do, I think. Perhaps it needs to send CLI request and
then delay the shutdown/suspend/hibernate power mgmt message for a while for
the SbS processing to occur and for
==New settings option: Push players to SqueezeNetwork on external
shutdown [X]
Wow, sounds good. Curious - how do you achieve that miracle?
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==New settings option: Push players to SqueezeNetwork on external
shutdown [X]
Presumably, they will auto-switch back to SbS when it wakes up?
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Wow, sounds good. Curious - how do you achieve that miracle?
It's a lot less miraculous than it sounds:
Ah, maybe I was misinterpretting what this new function actually does. Do you
mean it only happens when SbS is told to shutdown? I thought you meant when
the Server (the SbS Server!),
By the way: I've done really no testing of SrvrPowerCtrl with 7.4
lately. Is it still working?
Will let you know in the morning, if it wakes me up! ;-)
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Yes, when the OS stops the SbS service, that function gets called.
This had been the only case not covered by SrvrPowerCtrl. And this
feature plugs that hole.
Ah, a useful addition, but not the miracle I initially thought you had
performed!
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Your plugin covers all bases, I believe, when I am using a SB3 in the bedroom
and want to suspend and wake up server in the morning.
However, I often suspend the server by pressing a Suspend key on my keyboard
(or hibernate via Start Turn Off Computer or using WakeOnStandby Tasktray
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Nope. I'd be quite happy to do that. I would need to be spoon fed the
technique though. Vista btw.
Foobar 2000 does a good job of splitting into a separate file per track.
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Is the plugin enabled ?
IIRC as distributed the install.xml MaxVersion is set to 7.3
Yes, plugin enabled (v1.04) - I had changed the maxVersion to 7.*
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The question is are there enough of us using Wikiradio to warrant the
server space? If Logitech receives a flood of trouble tickets on the
loss of Wikiradio, maybe they will reinstate the service.
It is a shame - WikiRadio was a sensible thing to have - community producing
useful lists of
For users that for some reason don't want to use the great Extension Downloader
One of the reasons why I don't use ED, is because it is often easier to click a
url to download a zip file, and unzip the content.
With ED, the user has to copy the repository location, go to Settings
Advanced
Please, no. I like having the ED requests hit my web server, as it
gives me a way of (roughly) counting how many people use my plugins.
I'm not suggesting the plugins are copied and hosted on another server - only a
single repository file.
Surely you can count how many hits there are to the zip
Is there any way we could inspire you to create SQLLite support?
An alternative is to install ActivePerl and run the 7.4/trunk SVN source code.
7.4/trunk hasn't got the SQLite changes merged into it yet.
I was going to say that it works fine, but it's not for me tonight because of
changes made
Is there any reason why the wavin plugin might not work with 7.4/trunk?
I haven't used it for a while (few months). It was working fine, but it's not
working any more :-( I can tune in to wavin://1, which used to work, now the
player reports a current track progress value of 00:00
Well, I hope they give us some clue soon. I will not be happy if I lose
Trackstat, CustomSkip, etc., and they are not replaced with something
that gives me the same functionality.
Yep, there's no way Logitech would support all of the functionality that exists
in the plugins.
Aah Phile, I'd forgotten you found that issue. For some reason it
doesn't manifest when dealing with FLAC files.
It would probably happen if you stored id3 tags in FLAC files, but FLAC tags
are a better standard, so developers probably read the data out correctly,
update the tags and write
I've analysed and archived analysis to over 50k FLAC files using
genpuid and have never had an file corruption. There was a bug many,
many moons back that affected the mp3 header, not the audio stream - it
was fully recoverable and the bug has long since been corrected.
I use multiple artist
It seems that Trackstat is responsible for the m-symbol. When I
deactivate Trackstat, the symbol does not show up.
Any plugin that provides mixers will show the m symbol next to items that are
mixable. Press and hold the play button to see the options available.
With TrackStat, that means you
I have downloaded and installed the Plugin. It seems like this step was
successful since I can use the Plugin.
Unfortunatly I don't have a setting screen as described above.
I should have explained that the setting screen is in the WebUI only. Go to
Settings Advanced Playlist Manager.
I
I've updated MusicInfoSCR to include a customizable alarm and off
screensavers. If you want to have the playing music information instead or
along with the time when the alarm is playing, update now.
The Off mode screensaver would eg. allow you to have large date and time
on a transporter.
This should be fixed in 4.3.8
You have a link to download 4.3.8 on your website, but it references 4.3.7.
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I espicially like the feature where it automatically add up the rating
each time you play a number. This way you will learn which number you
are really fond of. And that can actually be quite surprising.
Ah, that's just about the only function that I DON'T use :-)
I play a fair amount of random
I agree with MillmoorRon: I wouldn't update SC until absolutely necessary!
Me too. I like being on the bleeding edge and update daily, but there doesn't
appear to be too much incentive to upgrade to SC8, so I would probably stay
with SC7.4 (provided that continues to support MySQL), until most
Mix by Genre which overrides Filters
I have a filter defined in MusicIP that I use in SugarCube - Not low rating,
so that it only plays tracks rated 4*, 5* or unrated. I use Mix Recipe Prefer
Unplayed Tracks I have not enabled Genre Mixing. However, when I use Dynamic
Playlist to play
Yes, and it should be a tiny bit quicker than 0.70..
Wonderfull :-)
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Does this new version also still support MySQL?
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Just to make sure: you didn't enter the asterisks around $element by
mistake? They're not supposed to be there, got added by some automatic
filter. (I used bold in my forum post to emphasize the change.)
No :-)
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Note it will NOT work with 7.4 due to the core database changes, once
7.4 is stable and the current release I will look at what changes are
required.
I have successfully run this version on the latest 7.4/trunk code from SVN,
which doesn't currently include the SQLite DB changes.
I haven't
Have got it working through Dynamic Playlists which I haven't used
before. Are there any advantages to doing it this way?
Ease of use, mainly.
You don't have to worry about turning SugarCube on or off - it will
automatically turn it on when the Dynamic Playlist is started, and will turn
off
I think you should be able to setup the SugarCube dynamic playlist as a
favorite, this way you can launch it with a single button click as you
launch any favorite.
You can setup it as a favorite by using the heart icon beside the
playlist in the web interface. After this you can use the Favorites
Code:
my $mytitle = SaveMyCurrentTrack($client,$song);
# Strip and Store played track Latin1 format
my $element = getMIPPath($client, $mytitle);
refreshCube(); # Check settings
my $mypageurl = buildMIPReq($client, *$element*);
OK, I think I've fixed that in LazySearch 3.5.2 which I've just released
to my plugin repository:
http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/repo.xml
For people who manually install plugins, the plugin can be downloaded directly
from: http://www.hickinbottom.com/sc-plugins/LazySearch2-7-3.5.2.zip
Does that sound like a legitimate rationale? Or am I thinking up a
superfluous festoon of a feature simply because I imagine that I can
program it?
Well, if that's what people do, then I guess it would be useful ;-)
I have my PC serving SC, and a bunch of players. Occasionally, I use a netbook
No, that's a typo :-)
Ah! I thought you meant Public House ;-)
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Yes, but the question is: You you ever shut down that PC using
SvrPowerControl? If not, the discussion is kind of moot.
Yes, I do. Normally from a player I will hibernate or suspend SC server.
Sometimes I hibernate to SN.
I have on one occasion hibernated to SN from a web browser running on
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