erland;510303 Wrote:
You need to define them in SBS Settings/Interface/Title formats. The
Title Switcher plugin only allows formats defined there to be used.
Ah right, got it! Thanks again.
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Isn't that great for classical music?!
I love it :)
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dip;510601 Wrote:
Isn't that great for classical music?!
I love it :)
Absolutely! I spotted this thread whilst installing the new server and
looking for interesting plugins. Thanks to Erland's help, I've got it
working now.
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Forgive me for hijacking this thread, but I'm trying to do exactly what
the OP (dip) has done, but I can't understand how to set this up.
What I would like to do is display TITLE (ARTIST) then switch to
CONDUCTOR (COMPOSER) or something like that.
I can't get my head around what I'm supposed to
chris.mason;510273 Wrote:
What I would like to do is display TITLE (ARTIST) then switch to
CONDUCTOR (COMPOSER) or something like that.
I can't get my head around what I'm supposed to set up where to get
this to work. Could someone (Erland perhaps) give me some pointers on
how to do
Thanks for such a prompt reply Erland.
I've just tried giving this a go, and the problem I'm having is that if
I put in a title format such as CONDUCTOR or COMPOSER in TitleSwitcher,
they get rejected with the error Invalid format.
I've tested that CONDUCTOR and COMPOSER can be used by SBS by
Erland,
just to let you know, Michael has changed some code in SBS and his MIS
plugin and now everything works fine. So there is no need for a
workaround in the TitleSwitcher plugin. Great!!
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dip;507986 Wrote:
Erland,
just to let you know, Michael has changed some code in SBS and his MIS
plugin and now everything works fine. So there is no need for a
workaround in the TitleSwitcher plugin. Great!!
Thanks for notifying me
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Thanks, I will try to figure it out.
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erland;501764 Wrote:
Unfortunately I've decided to stop all third party development:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=492451#post492451
However, Title Switcher is a fairly small plugin so if you are willing
to learn som perl you might be able to do the modifications yourself.
dip;503824 Wrote:
I don't know perl but may have a look at the TitleSwitcher plugin. Can
I beg you to provide me with a starting point in which region of the
code I should start to look for the COMPOSER problem?
MusicInfoSCR has code like this in the Info.pm file:
Code:
erland;481860 Wrote:
Are we sure COMPOSER,BAND and CONDUCTOR never can exist for online
radio stations ?
If we are I can apply a similar fix in Title Switcher plugin as Michael
already has done in MusicInfoSCR that doesn't show these values for
online radio stations.I have never seen
dip;501695 Wrote:
I have never seen theses tags set in any online radio station. Is there
a chance that you will provide such a fix? That would be great!
Unfortunately I've decided to stop all third party development:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=492451#post492451
However,
erland;481491 Wrote:
Could you try if the latest Custom Scan version (2.7.3) solves this ?
I haven't been able to reproduce the problem in my own setup but 2.7.3
should at least get rid of the errors in the log so if this was the
cause it might solve the problem.I have now installed Custom
dip;481587 Wrote:
Do I have to initiate a new scan to make the changes of Custom Scan
effective? At the moment I only restarted squeezebox server but did not
rescan my music.
No, you don't need to perform a rescan.
dip;481587 Wrote:
Should I provide you with more information (e.g. my
erland;481660 Wrote:
Please post or send me your titleswitcher.prefs and musicinfo.prefs
Here they are (with additional log extension to allow upload). If I can
help you in any further way, please let me know.
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dip;480715 Wrote:
Erland, do you have any idea what could cause the wrong display? It is
still there consequently for ALL internet streams I use.
Could you try if the latest Custom Scan version (2.7.3) solves this ?
I haven't been able to reproduce the problem in my own setup but 2.7.3
Erland, do you have any idea what could cause the wrong display? It is
still there consequently for ALL internet streams I use.
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I have just seen that on the settings page of MusicInfoScr there is an
option Show playlist name for online streams. In the info it is
described that online streams sometimes don't have the artist and/or the
album tag set and with this option enabled the playlist name of the
online stream can be
Are there any news to this problem? Can I test anything further?
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erland;476201 Wrote:
Could you enable debug logging on plugin.musicinfoscr and
plugin.titleswitcher and post the log after you have viewed it switching
to the incorrect values at least once ?
Here is my server.log with debug logging enabled.
Second, the string that is incorrectly displayed is not the contents of
the TITLE tag. I tested now several different internet radio stations
and in addition Deezer. It seems that instead of COMPOSER the name of
the last menu item is displayed that was shown when I pressed PLAY. For
example,
mherger;476300 Wrote:
Second, the string that is incorrectly displayed is not the contents
of
the TITLE tag. I tested now several different internet radio
stations
and in addition Deezer. It seems that instead of COMPOSER the name
of
the last menu item is displayed that was shown when
In MIS 4.4.5 it's better but still not correct.
I shortly tested it this morning. In last.fm I selected PLAY on menu
item My Recommendations. The display switched then between Thriller
(Michael Jackson) and Thriller (My Recommendations). The second one
is obviously wrong. It seems that TITLE
If I remember correctly I think this is some default handling in
Slim/Music/Info.pm that uses TITLE if no format is provided. Could this
describe what you are seeing ?
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erland;475991 Wrote:
If I remember correctly I think this is some default handling in
Slim/Music/Info.pm that uses TITLE if no format is provided. Could this
describe what you are seeing ?No, that's not what I'm seeing.
First, as far as I understand the ARTIST/COMPOSER part of my format
Could you enable debug logging on plugin.musicinfoscr and
plugin.titleswitcher and post the log after you have viewed it switching
to the incorrect values at least once ?
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Michael Herger has now released a new version of MusicInfoScr (4.4.4).
With this new version the errors in server.log are gone. Now the display
for music from last.fm and internet radio stations does no longer switch
(wich is correct since neither COMPOSER nor GROUPING is set) but instead
of the
Michael Herger has just explained that in his new version of
MusicInfoScr the COMPOSER tag is removed when an online stream is
played.
I have the impression that also the substring COMPOSER is removed from
the string TITLESWITCHERARTISTCOMPOSER which would result in
TITLESWITCHERARTIST. Since
dip;475611 Wrote:
Michael Herger has just explained that in his new version of
MusicInfoScr the COMPOSER tag is removed when an online stream is
played.
It feels like a bug in MusicInfoSCR then, because it shouldn't remove
COMPOSER when it's part of a bigger word. It's fine to remove it in
Michael Herger has just explained that in his new version of
MusicInfoScr the COMPOSER tag is removed when an online stream is
played.
It feels like a bug in MusicInfoSCR then, because it shouldn't remove
COMPOSER when it's part of a bigger word.
It doesn't remove it. It only does not
It feels like a bug in MusicInfoSCR then, because it shouldn't remove
COMPOSER when it's part of a bigger word.
Oh, now I see what you mean. I'm sorry, yes, this might be my problem. Watch
out for 4.4.5...
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I use the TitleSwitcher and MusicInfoScreen plugins to switch display
every 15 seconds between
TITLE (ARTIST) and GROUPING (COMPOSER)
i.e. for example Molto vivace (Leonard Bernstein) and Symphony No. 9
(Beethoven, Ludwig van)
GROUPING is a tag scanned with the CustomScan plugin in which I
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