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

2022-01-08 Thread afriend
Hey. I thought I'd catch up with your latest changes and tried the latest GitHub version of server and plugin. Update all python modules and installed 2 new ones. I don't use Essentia and the only Essentia-related item in the config.json has always been Code: "essentia"

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

2022-01-08 Thread afriend
PasTim wrote: > MY dynamic playlists already have extension .sql.xml, so I don't > understand what you are asking me to do. Ok then. I thought you were using SQLPlayList to get your custom dynamic playlists into DPL - which is no longer necessary/recommended with DPL*3*. What I described was how

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

2022-01-08 Thread afriend
dunq wrote: > What are the criteria for a track being added to the "recently rated" > playlist? The first creation of the playlist happened fine (i.e. visible > in the LMS player interface), in that I changed a track's rating and the > playlist appeared. However, the playlist has not updated sinc

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 se

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] 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), own

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

2022-01-02 Thread afriend
guptaas wrote: > Thank you for providing a very useful tool. I have been looking for a > way to use exported ratings in a Windows tagging program like MP3Tag or > Mediamonkey for a long time. The exported text files,however, have UNIX > paths which these programs cannot handle. Playlists saved fr

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-12-15 Thread afriend
AndyTwizzle wrote: > I'm affraid I don't know how to manually install a plugin. Am using LMS > 8.1 on a Synology Diskstation in a Docker container, so not sure how > complicated that may be? No problem. When I find the time I'll do some more testing or maybe somebody else will... So no ETA but s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-12-15 Thread afriend
AndyTwizzle wrote: > Not sure if this is the appropriate thread to request changes to Dynamic > Playlists. If not, apologies - and can someone advise me on where/how to > make a change request please? > > In Logitech Media Server's web interface (and also the Squeeze Ctrl > Android app), the lis

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

2021-12-05 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > With the "multiple genres/select decade" playlist, it selected only 9 > songs in spite of there being hundreds that would have qualified. All of > the 9 songs were from 1960, in spite of having selected that entire > decade of the '60s. When I tried a second time, the exact sa

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

2021-12-02 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > *context menu* that uses an existing static playlist and allows me to > choose a subset of that playlist that chooses multiple genres and/or a > year. With *year* you'll have to choose a year. Not optional. Code: -- PlaylistName:Songs - multiple gen

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-12-01 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > I see that a new update was uploaded today. Can we hear more about what > was changed/fixed First place to check would be the '*GitHub release feed*' (https://github.com/AF-1/lms-dynamicplaylists/releases). 3.4 comes with some new features: - select *multiple genres*: the -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-12-01 Thread afriend
bernt wrote: > Another one. I want tracks from a specific album mixed with tracks from > a specific genre. > > I'm trying to learn SQL but I'm a slow learner, sorry! > > > Code: > > -- PlaylistName:Random from mixer > -- PlaylistGroups: > select tracks.url from tra

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

2021-12-01 Thread afriend
THIS THREAD IS *EXCLUSIVELY* DEDICATED TO PROVIDING *HELP* WITH SQLITE STATEMENTS FOR USERS WHO WANT TO *CREATE* THEIR OWN *(CUSTOM) DYNAMIC PLAYLISTS*. OF COURSE, YOU CAN ALSO POST YOUR -WORKING- CUSTOM DYNAMIC PLAYLISTS HERE FOR OTHERS TO USE OR AS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION. SO NOBODY HAS TO REINV

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Use Comment Tag Info

2021-11-29 Thread afriend
mamema wrote: > so, i have made more tests, the plugin is immune against library > updates, without delete and complete rescan. But if i do a delete/full > scan manually and an "nightly change update" automatically afterwards, > LMS hangs up and need to be restarted, which then leads to a rescan

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-29 Thread afriend
bernt wrote: > Hi! > > After a few hours of trail end error I reliased that I need help. I want > a one click random playlist from a specific genre. > > Here is a wild guess... You want the track urls so you start with the tracks table. If you used DPL to select the genre (user input parameter

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-25 Thread afriend
Philip Meyer wrote: > https://github.com/AF-1/lms-dynamicplaylists/blob/main/public.xml ? No, I meant *manual* install of the latest GitHub version for *testing* purposes (see GitHub page for instructions). It might not be 100% bug-free or stable but it includes all commits. Philip Meyer wrote:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-22 Thread afriend
Philip Meyer wrote: > I was the author of a plugin called DynamicMix that used Dynamic > Playlists to play random music, selecting the next track using MusicIP. > I haven't looked at this new version of Dynamic Playlists yet - is this > likely to work without changes? I've only had time to take

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Use Comment Tag Info

2021-11-16 Thread afriend
Do you have some plugin or script that -*automatically*- triggers a database rescan (clear/wipe or only looking for new media?) after *every* LMS restart? If so, why? I only rescan my library (clear/wipe) after I've added new tracks or if the filename of the existing ones has changed. So in short

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-15 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > Is there any chance I get get access to the prior versions of your > plugins before the name change? Unless you know how to manually install old GitHub commit versions, no. BTW I think the DPL error you mentioned is irrelevant. It just used to display the currently playing dy

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Use Comment Tag Info

2021-11-15 Thread afriend
mamema wrote: > something isn't right. > as i've activated this plugin without doing other changes, since weeks, > i would say my problem seems to be this plugin. > > i have this in the logs: > > > [21-11-15 06:53:16.6351] Slim::Plugin::Extensions::Plugin::_noResponse > (476) error fetchin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-14 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > I just followed the directions to transition to the new (and properly > named) versions of DPL and Custom Skip. I'm having two issues that I > can't seem to fix. > > 1. When I click on SQL Playlist, I get the following error: "ERROR!!! > Cannot find DynamicPlayList plugin, pl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-14 Thread afriend
w3wilkes wrote: > AF, any possibility of allowing us to rename "Not classified" in DPL3 to > "SQLPlaylists" so I can tell my wife where her playlists went? Thanks. -Not classified- in the DPL (home) menu is just a catch-all for all dynamic playlists *without* the --- PlaylistGroups- parameter = a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-12 Thread afriend
marco.mosca wrote: > The only issue I see is running SQL Playlist from Favorites menu: these > playlist are working only if launched from the DPL menu. Should work in 3.3.3. -May- require removing playlists from LMS favorites and readding them, as explained in the DPL FAQ. marco.mosca wrote: >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Use Comment Tag Info

2021-11-12 Thread afriend
mamema wrote: > just discovered the beauty of this plugin. I have use cases for it. So > great work. > What i've discovered, is that every custom menu is under "My Custom > Menus". It would be nice if this String is customizable without digging > into the plugin code. > Thanks again for this plug

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-07 Thread afriend
RobbH wrote: > I've removed your old repo and added the new one. I've uninstalled the > previous version of DPL3 and re-installed from the new repo. I then had > both DPL2 and DPL3 installed, and two Dynamic Playlists entries under My > Music. Uninstalled DPL2 and everything appears to be back t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-07 Thread afriend
erland wrote: > keeps his plugin in the main repo to make it easy to install for people > that wants a supported version and if he wants to make it easy for > people to install my unsupported version changing the plugin name to > DynamicPlayList3 in repo will probably probably allow that Hej. T

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-03 Thread afriend
marco.mosca wrote: > Can you help with this in order to have the Erland plugin available > again? I am not able to make any manual install and I would like to get > back to my previous setup. If you want to install v*2* from the "plugin library" (= LMS main repo) you'll have to wait until I remo

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-11-03 Thread afriend
marco.mosca wrote: > Dear Afriend, I have tried getting back to previous Dynamic Playlist, > however I cannot get Erland plugin. This seams not to be part of the > library anymore even if I uninstall your plugin. How can I reestablish > it? > > Thanks. > Marco Maybe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-27 Thread afriend
bernt wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a way to use DPL so that songs in a Spotify playlist always > plays in random order? > > Regards > Bernt DPL can fetch Spotify tracks that are *part of your LMS library* = that have been added to your LMS library as part of an album. LMS does not import single

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-27 Thread afriend
rlem wrote: > Hi all, > > For the record: I'm still very happy with DP3 ;-). > Mainly I'm making (ahem, "hacking together", 'with a little help' > (https://www.cameron.willmot.ca/posts/dynamicplaylist/)) my own custom > Dynamic Playlists that should work -without user interaction-, so just > cl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-26 Thread afriend
w3wilkes wrote: > I don't have the AF repository specified... Why did I get the update to > 3.2.5. How do I go back to Erlands? I do have Erlands repository > specified. There are other users of DPL v3 who (accidentally?) updated to v3 and who don't quite dislike the new version as much. Readdin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-24 Thread afriend
shinedou wrote: > Hey afriend. Is there a way to control the amount of new added tracks on > a per playlist basis? I understand that *limit 'PlaylistLimit';* refers > to the DPL settings. I also see this can be overridden in a playlist > using *-- PlaylistLimitOption:un

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-23 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > Thanks once again for your patient explanation. After more > experimentation, it is clear that the filter only works if it is applied > to all playlists. I know you are done with this and completely respect > that. > > I'm going to put this out there in the hope that someon

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-23 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > Yes, it worked this time. Testing whether it actually works is difficult > since I have to use one of my playlists and wait for it to skip a song > that is in the list to skip. From one test it seems that it is not > working. I played a custom playlist that I created in SQLPL

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-22 Thread afriend
w3wilkes wrote: > To get the "*THIS IS NOT AN UTDATE!!! *" text in the not an update 3.2.2 > you must use the Default LMS skin -> Settings -> Plugin tab. For those > using material it just appears as though there's some type error and > Material just shows a never ending update for DPL. When sel

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-22 Thread afriend
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-22 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > I'm trying to test out the revised (unsupported) version of CustomSkip > via these instructions: > > Using repo URL > Uninstall your previous CustomSkip version > Add the repo URL below at the bottom of LMS > Settings > Plugins: > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AF-1/lms-c

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-22 Thread afriend
atrocity wrote: > I just realized that I'm again getting incomplete albums. It looks like > the checkbox to add entire albums has disappeared. I assume you're talking about your -custom- playlists because the -built-in- albums playlist work as expected here. Please check out the '*wiki*' (https:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-21 Thread afriend
haschmich wrote: > I also just realised that my very few SQL Playlists no longer work. > Could you help me make it work again with DPL 3.2.1? The main one was > supposed to play "random songs with rating 7 or above and not recently > played" and looks like this: > > > Code: ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-20 Thread afriend
shinedou wrote: > Would there be a way (in the current or a future version) to create a > DPL where the user is prompted for an artist to random play BUT instead > of choosing one artist the user *can select multiple artist*. This would > create a dynamic mix using all the selected artist's song

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-20 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > Thanks for this. I guess some of this is over my head as I really don't > understand the relationship between DPL and SQL Playlist. Just think of DPL as some kind of random play with lots of options for fine-tuning the selection of the tracks you want to listen to. DPL uses s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-20 Thread afriend
marco.mosca wrote: > I really appreciate your effort, however this is still far from the > previous features. In addition consider that I'm not using genres at all > as well as custom playlist, but instead using multi library to segregate > different kind of music based on disk/folder position.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-20 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > This is a screenshot of one of the playlists that I use. I plays > everything in my collection randomly, excluding the genres marked, and > uses the Custom Skip filter to exclude any songs that are in a playlist > called "Skip." With v3.2.1 you have 2 options to achieve this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-19 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > Regarding CustomSkip, the option still appears when I create a Dynamic > playlist. -How- do you create it? In SQLPlayList? DPLv3+ still supports SQLPlayList playlists in general. But this plugin is deprecated. It simply doesn't know and therefore can't add any of the new para

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-16 Thread afriend
shinedou wrote: > Are you talking about the plus (+) sign in the web ui that appends the > songs of an artist to the queue? So this is not part of the dynamic > playlist plug-in that you are talking about? Correct? Where in the > settings do I control the number of songs added? I am not seeing a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-16 Thread afriend
Good catch. Added -drop table if exists- to those a couple of playlists where it was still missing. You'd probably only run into this problem if the sql query errors out before the end where the temp. table is dropped. But having it in the beginning is quicker than a LMS restart. > Also, it look

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-16 Thread afriend
shinedou wrote: > Is there a way that I can have a dynamicplaylist that only queues 5 > songs from a selected artist and then stops adding new songs thus > handing the playlist queue over to DSTM\LastMix to continue adding > songs. I know this may seem counterintuitive to the purpose of this > p

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-16 Thread afriend
marco.mosca wrote: > Unfortunately after you take over Dynamic Playlists Custom Skip Plugin > is not working anymore. Any plan to fix it? > > Thanks > Marco Have you tried 'this' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?115073-Announce-Dynamic-Playlists-3-(mod)&p=1034901&viewfull=1#post1

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Visual Statistics

2021-10-09 Thread afriend
slartibartfast wrote: > It doesn't install at all now. Even after uninstalling the old version. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Fixed version = 1.1.3. LMS main repo pulls info from all other repos (like mine) *twice a day* I think. Just looked, VS still listed as 1.1.1 in LMS main rep

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Visual Statistics

2021-10-09 Thread afriend
Yes, sorry bout that. Version number mismatch. Fixed version uploaded, should appear in LMS repo shortly. afriend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39306 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-07 Thread afriend
atrocity wrote: > Is there code outside of the actual SQL that is randomizing the tracks? > I can get a query that orders by disc and track outside of LMS (simply > changed the final order by to "order by tracks.disc,tracks.tracknum", > but when I try the same code within LMS the tracks end up i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Visual Statistics

2021-10-04 Thread afriend
Apesbrain wrote: > Very cool. Would it be possible for the pie charts to show the slice > percentage values? This could be added in the legend. Pie charts = doughnut charts? Hovering over the segments should do that. af

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-04 Thread afriend
atrocity wrote: > I should make it clear that I've also restarted LMS. Twice, in fact. Ok, quickly before I have to leave. #1 While working on DPL 3 I switched very often between 2.10.247 (the last DPL 2 version) and DPL 3. Erland changed the code in the end so that DPL would never ask for or r

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-04 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > Regarding Custom Skip, the way I use it is to omit certain songs that I > keep in a static playlist called "Skip" which omits them from any random > playlist that I create with DPL. I'm assuming that functionality still > exists (I hope). The only thing that you could config

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Visual Statistics

2021-10-04 Thread afriend
mamema wrote: > It would be nice to exclude a library or an extension. > Would be nice It would probably involve selecting or excluding virtual libraries. Unfortunately I don't have that much time at the moment. And I suspect this would need some testing because I wouldn't want this to signi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-04 Thread afriend
First off, there is actually a section on how to revert to DPL v2.+ and not auto-update to DPL v3+ in the future. Just in case. BTW if you did a *wipe* (=clear) & rescan (not simply scan for new & changed files) -after- you'd renamed your files your database should be ok. And yes, DPL adds "only

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-02 Thread afriend
cpd73 wrote: > Just looked at your code and seen that you are using Material's > 'send-notif' command. Would it help if I extended this to add > "client:" then only show these messages if Material's active player > ID matches this ID? You would still see the notifications on clients A > and B, b

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-02 Thread afriend
nyindieguy wrote: > context menu > > After reading through more of the documentation, it would seem that the > way to do this would be a CONTEXT MENU dynamic playlist like the one at > 'https://github.com/AF-1/lms-dynamicplaylists/blob/main/DynamicPlayList/Playlists/zz_contextmenulists/for_pla

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-10-02 Thread afriend
werdeil wrote: > Wonderful, tell me if I can be of any help Uploaded some changes to github. Took me a while to get through all the built-in lists. Would appreciate some thorough testing of as many built-in dynamic playlists as you can (incl. context menu dpls). Feedback in Material skin is not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-09-29 Thread afriend
werdeil wrote: > I will try to work on a PR on GitHub to allow this setting to be > customizable, from what I've seen this limit to 3 is almost all > requests, is it for performance reason? I had this as a prefs setting in an early version but removed it because there were some issues. No need t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-09-29 Thread afriend
werdeil wrote: > I think this is the reason, it is possible that I have 70% of artists > with less than 3 tracks Could you do a quick test for me? Copy the built-in playlist -Artists - Never Played- (= the file named -artists_13_neverplayed.sql.xml-) from the DPL plugin folder or the github rep

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-09-27 Thread afriend
werdeil wrote: > Hi I have a strange discrepancy between Dynamic Playlists 3 and Visual > statistics and @afriend I think you are the main developer of both > plugins. > > According to Visual statistics I have only 30% of played artists > (visible in the "more library

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-09-27 Thread afriend
trmonnig wrote: > It appears that the playlists are currently limited to a max of 50 > unplayed songs, and 100 played tracks to keep. When I try to update this > value to my default of 2500, I get a message saying the limit is 50 and > 100 respectively. I believe this is as designed, but I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-09-27 Thread afriend
MillmoorRon wrote: > I will investigate the new version at some point but currently I just > don't have as much time to tinker as I used to and my system is working > very well. I totally understand. Unless you use MySQL or rely on deprecated plugins (like multilibrary) I'm confident you'll find

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-09-26 Thread afriend
MillmoorRon wrote: > I somehow update to version 3 (despite unselecting it) without removing > version 2 first. > > What do I do now? Well, I'd intentionally changed the plugin ID of DPL v3 to prevent auto-updates and let the user decide if they want to update to v3. And I tested it at the tim

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

2021-09-07 Thread afriend
rlem wrote: > Hi afriend, > > On Github you write specifically that RL is "A plugin that takes care of > rating *local* tracks", so this is not a bug report but a feature > request. > Since the Online Library integration we've been heavily using and rating &g

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-09-06 Thread afriend
Hey Vincent: I've never used the Dynamic*Mix* plugin nor MusicIP so I'm not sure how much I can help you here. I get multiple errors even with the *old* Dynamic Playlists plugin. You can ignore the commandCallbacks. And the -DynamicPlaylist not active- message just means that DPL is not playing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-09-03 Thread afriend
RobbH wrote: > Not sure if this qualifies as a bug, but I think it's not the expected > behavior. There does not seem to be a way to add a dynamic playlist to > LMS favorites when using the default web interface. The option to add to > favorites is in the context menu of Material skin. Is this a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Use Comment Tag Info

2021-09-03 Thread afriend
Thanks for letting me know. Fixed yet another typo. Getting old... :-o Should work as soon as the LMS main repo picks up the fixed version. afriend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39306 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-09-02 Thread afriend
You're right. One lower/upper case letter made all the difference. Should work now though. Sorry. afriend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39306 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sho

[SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Dynamic Playlists 3 (mod)

2021-09-01 Thread afriend
Hi. I've uploaded my modified version of *Dynamic Playlists* to github. Based on Erland's original plugin but not maintained by him. If you're interested please visit the '*github page*' (https://github.com/AF-1/lms-dynamicplaylists) for more information (latest description, changes, installatio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Visual Statistics

2021-08-14 Thread afriend
SpiderJon wrote: > Once the Visual Statistics plugin is enabled, there doesn't appear to be > any (easy*) way to *dis*able it — ie, it's not listed under "Active > plugins". > > * deleting the VisualStatistics folder from the Plugins directory and > restarting LMS works. Why would you -ever- wa

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Use Comment Tag Info

2021-08-13 Thread afriend
Shozzer wrote: > Looks interesting. Can you define what is meant by 'define and display > custom title formats'? the plugin's setting page wrote: > Title Formats are available for selection both in the web interface and > on players. They can be used to display a short string or a character on

[SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Use Comment Tag Info

2021-08-12 Thread afriend
This plugin uses (key)words in your music files' comment tags to: - add extra information to the song details page - define and display custom title formats - create virtual libraries with browse menus Full/current description 'here' (https://github.com/AF-1/lms-usecommenttaginfo). --

[SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Visual Statistics

2021-08-12 Thread afriend
Just a plugin that gives you charts for some library statistics. You'll find it in the *Extras* menu. afriend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39306 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-07-04 Thread afriend
cpd73 wrote: > > afriend wrote: > > Craig, > > could you add a 'More' item to year (song details page/context menu). > > That way I could access -DynamicPlaylist menu items- registered for > > -year- ('Rated tracks from this year', 'Random

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Material Skin

2021-06-29 Thread afriend
Craig, could you add a 'More' item to year (song details page/context menu). That way I could access -DynamicPlaylist menu items- registered for -year- ('Rated tracks from this year', 'Random tracks from year'...) like I can on pCP. Thank you. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] MusicInfoSCR 4.3 - now with theOriginal Boom Booklet Layout

2021-06-29 Thread afriend
Michael, I'm posting this question here because your plugin includes custom fonts that allow you to use custom charcters on the display of some devices. And since you're the LMS core developer I'm hoping for a final possible/not possible answer. I'd very much like to use the *blackstar unicode

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Musly DSTM Mixer (mix by similarity)

2021-06-21 Thread afriend
cpd73 wrote: > Added 'Similar tracks' and 'Similar tracks by artist' to 'More' menu. Thanks. What's the difference between '-Create Similarity Mix-' and '-Similar tracks-' if I call them on the same track (other than the number of added tracks)? Are the results of '-Similar tracks-' or '-Simil

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Musly DSTM Mixer (mix by similarity)

2021-06-16 Thread afriend
cpd73 wrote: > [Edit] Changed default to 30 seconds. I did actually change exactly that value in your code for testing. You probably won't believe this (I wouldn't) but even though logic dictates otherwise in the end I wasn't able to get rid of this timeout problem until I set timeout: 30 in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Musly DSTM Mixer (mix by similarity)

2021-06-12 Thread afriend
Thank you for adding that option. I'm a bit of a serialskipper sometimes. This setting will also help prevent me looping back to the beginning of the playlist when I skip too many tracks before enough new tracks have been added. Even if it wasn't intended to do that :-) And you're right, my hard

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Musly DSTM Mixer (mix by similarity)

2021-06-11 Thread afriend
I've been using Similarity a bit more. I like it. Far better than random mixes. Can I just ask about genre filtering: if I create only *one* genre filter group for Classical music genres does this mean that if I start a mix with *no* classical music seed tracks does it mean that this mix will co

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

2021-06-08 Thread afriend
dunq wrote: > Using the comments technique, files which have a valid rating comment > (eg favstars4xx) get a correct rating imported, while files with no > comment have their existing rating in the database overridden -> no > rating. Is that the intended behaviour? Yes, that's by design. It hel

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

2021-06-02 Thread afriend
streifenleopard wrote: > I think I don't quite get what the plug in is for. You'll find a brief summary of what RL can do in the first post of this thread. streifenleopard wrote: > It is not possible to import ratings from musicbee or another music > player into Ratings Light? Or am I mistaken

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

2021-05-20 Thread afriend
Redbeard65 wrote: > After installing Ratings Lite I get the following error in my scanner > log... Could you do me a favour and check on your Windows OS if version 1.9.2 fixed this? Thank you. afriend's Profile: http://f

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

2021-05-19 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > > Anyway, since it only affects the -post-scan refresh- I'll try a > > workaround and add a dedicated post-scan function that calls the > refresh > > function unless it's been done in the last 30 seconds or so. > > What I sometimes do in such situations is to > Slim::Utils::Ti

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

2021-05-19 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > I’m away from my computer. But could you disable photo/video scanning > and try again? Uncheck the relevant boxes right to the path in the basic > settings. Even if one of the 2 messages/rescan done events is due to the external scanner crashing I'm guessing I can't get to the r

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

2021-05-16 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > I’m away from my computer. But could you disable photo/video scanning > and try again? Uncheck the relevant boxes right to the path in the basic > settings. There's only one path (for music files). Nothing else. *Server.prefs*: > ignoreInImageScan: > - /Users/defaultuser/Music/

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

2021-05-16 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > > So that's only happening on my system? (with *all* other *plugins* > > (incl. LMS provided) *disabled* except Test Plugin) > > Anything in scanner.log? >From what I can see nothing suspicious (attached). If something is wrong/crashes is there any way to find out more? The *

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

2021-05-16 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > Something odd is going on here. I still can't reproduce the issue: > > > Code: > > [21-05-16 15:50:45.9369] Slim::Utils::SQLiteHelper::_notifyFromScanner (581) Notify from scanner: end > [21-05-16 15:50:45.9374] Slim::Utils::SQLiteHelper::updateProg

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

2021-05-16 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > > And whatever I do the callback function is *always called twice* on > my > > system. I even talked a not very happy friend into installing LMS and > > softsqueeze on his old Windows7 laptop with only this test plugin > > enabled and he gets 2 messages as well. > > Does this h

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

2021-05-16 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > > Can you confirm that *2* events for rescan done is normal or can get > I > > get it down to one?[/color] > No, I only get one. So I've added debug messages to all rescan done in the scanner related LMS pms. Here's the log of a wipecache: > [21-05-16 14:52:55.3970] Slim::Web:

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

2021-05-16 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > I can't reproduce this. Maybe you can disable 3rd part plugins to see > whether this still happens without them? Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'd already disabled *all* plugins (not only 3rd party plugins) and deleted all databases and caches known to me at some point. So

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

2021-05-15 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > > BTW do I need a *'shutdownplugin' > > > (https://github.com/AF-1/lms-ratingslight/blob/main/RatingsLight/Importer.pm#L42)* > > in importer.pm as well? If I have one I've noticed the scanner will > call > > it once the scan is complete. > > It's kind of obsolete by now. Unless

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Musly DSTM Mixer (mix by similarity)

2021-05-14 Thread afriend
cpd73 wrote: > Changing 'styletracks' requires the jukebox file to be *removed*, but > this only takes a minute or so to be recreated. Sorry, misread that one. Wasn't necessary. And I did it anyway. :-) If I could ask one thing in some future update it would be -debug log markers- that tell me

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Musly DSTM Mixer (mix by similarity)

2021-05-14 Thread afriend
cpd73 wrote: > Just to let you know, Musly has a 'bug' > (https://github.com/dominikschnitzer/musly/issues/43) where sometimes > all songs get the same similarity score. I noticed this last night after > I did a complete rescan. My mixer produced odd results, and they were > all from the first a

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

2021-05-14 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > > > But it turns out the *refresh function tied to rescan done is called > > _twice_* after a scan. > > Your own refresh function? Is refreshAll() called twice or the callback > for the rescan done event? Yes, the callback (= the function *'importerPostScanRefresh' (https://

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

2021-05-13 Thread afriend
mherger wrote: > I'd need much more information than the two snippets, in particular > answers to these two questions: > > - did you adjust the install.xml to use the new scanner module? > - what are the imports of the scanner module? I totally forgot about install.xml :-o So I've moved the i

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

2021-05-12 Thread afriend
Ok, I have no problem with a separate scanner.pm, even if it's only for calling one subfunction. It would certainly be nice if Windows users get no more errors. And then all the reasons you mentioned. Hope you can help me with some questions: on macOS I just successfully ran something like this

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