Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-16 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > Probably it is LMS rather than MAI that would do this. LMS has no Artist images whereas MAI does. I’m not sure I wholly agree that replacing album cover art with artist images would be wanted by everyone. What would probably be acceptable across the board would be 30?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-16 Thread Paul Webster
A thought ... I have a number of .mp3 files that have multiple tracks in the file and have a .cue file to go along with it. There is a folder.jpg in the same directory as the .mp3/.cue - and this is what LMS show when a track (correctly named from the .cue file) is playing. Think of the .mp3 /

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-16 Thread Paul Webster
Probably it is LMS rather than MAI that would do this. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-16 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > I have checked the contents of my "artistart" folder and PNG files > are > > being written there with the correct date / time corresponding to the > > date/time of the rescan but numerous well known artists resultant PNG > > files are still showing as stars e.g. 10cc, 50

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-16 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > I have checked the contents of my "artistart" folder and PNG files > are > > being written there with the correct date / time corresponding to the > > date/time of the rescan but numerous well known artists resultant PNG > > files are still showing as stars e.g. 10cc, 50

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-16 Thread Michael Herger
I have checked the contents of my "artistart" folder and PNG files are being written there with the correct date / time corresponding to the date/time of the rescan but numerous well known artists resultant PNG files are still showing as stars e.g. 10cc, 50 Cent, etc Could you please shut down

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-16 Thread d6jg
I am right up to date with MAI plugin and I have done two clear & rescans on my libarary with the correct settings but I'm still seeing "stars". 27342 I have checked the contents of my "artistart" folder and PNG files are being written there with the correct date / time corresponding to the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-15 Thread Michael Herger
Just did another clean sweep and no change. Still no images in my image folder. But you didn't enable debug logging for scan.scanner... no new information in your log file. Do NOT restart LMS after setting the logging options. Set the scan.scanner=DEBUG, start scan. However, I'm still

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-15 Thread scott.winterkorn
Just did another clean sweep and no change. Still no images in my image folder. However, I'm still thinking the write access may be the issue. Is there a way to test LMS ability to write to that folder? If LMS is being run when I login, does it get all the file permissions I get outside of LMS?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-15 Thread scott.winterkorn
Well I’m not sure now if the folder was set to read only. See this link for the attributes https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtEhedSz_JCkl5kHeX2AO3XcClYisw After I clear that box, hit apply, and close the window, when I go back to properties I still see that the box is selected. But it seems to only be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-15 Thread scott.winterkorn
mherger wrote: > Could it be that target folder you defined isn't writable for LMS or the > scanner? I do see that MAI spent 40s looking for artist pictures. But if > that folder was read-only, then the images would not be saved. Aha you may be on to something. I just checked and the read only

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-15 Thread mherger
scott.winterkorn wrote: > Heres a link to my scanner log > https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtEhedSz_JCkl5kGRRS6KZMkUCSXIw Could it be that target folder you defined isn't writable for LMS or the scanner? I do see that MAI spent 40s looking for artist pictures. But if that folder was read-only, then the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-15 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Hi Michael, I turned that option on as well. Did a full library clear > > per your previous post, full rescan of my library and I > donâ€[emoji769]t see any > > change with artist pictures and loading time, and still no images in > the > > artwork folder I selected on the mai

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Herger
Hi Michael, I turned that option on as well. Did a full library clear per your previous post, full rescan of my library and I don’t see any change with artist pictures and loading time, and still no images in the artwork folder I selected on the mai options screen. Is there anything I can try to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-14 Thread scott.winterkorn
mherger wrote: > > > You didn't check the "Find artwork online..." box. > > -- > > Michael Hi Michael, I turned that option on as well. Did a full library clear per your previous post, full rescan of my library and I don’t see any change with artist pictures and loading time, and still no

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-12 Thread Michael Herger
Mai settings https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtEhedSz_JCkl5h-YvudSpAax7yYzw You didn't check the "Find artwork online..." box. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-11 Thread scott.winterkorn
mherger wrote: > > > Please send me your scanner.log.zip from a full wipe & rescan. > > And could you please tell me your full MAI configuration? Feel free to > post a screenshot. > > -- > > Michael Scanner log https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtEhedSz_JCkl5h8r7ru24znuesntw Mai settings

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-11 Thread Michael Herger
Any suggestions for me to try to get this dialed in? Update lms? Send you a section of my scan log? Not sure can I post a link here of my log? Or do I have to attach a file somehow? Please send me your scanner.log.zip from a full wipe & rescan. And could you please tell me your full MAI

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-11 Thread scott.winterkorn
Okay I deleted those .db files, restarted lms, but still no images in my artist image folder. I have the same folder selected for the first 2 locations (Artwork Folder, and Folder with artist photos), left 3rd blank as I don’t care about lyrics. Could that be my problem, using same folder for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-11 Thread Michael Herger
anywhere. Is it okay to have the first 2 options unselected, or is this part of my problem: 1) Find artwork online during library scan 2) Download missing cover art from online sources Do check the first one: it'll increase the scan time, but browsing should be faster, as the images would be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-11 Thread scott.winterkorn
mherger wrote: > > > And set a "Folder with artist photos". Pictures will be stored there, > and looked up from there first. This allows you to replace photos you > don't like by replacing them with one you prefer. > > -- > > Michael Okay I do have a folder selected for artist photos. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-10 Thread Michael Herger
Download and pre-cache artist pictures from online sources Only download pictures for main artists, but not all contributors (composers, conductors etc.) Is that what you recommend? If so, how does this allow me to have more control over what I see? And set a "Folder with artist photos".

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-10 Thread scott.winterkorn
mherger wrote: > > 1.5.6 > You should definitely enable storing the file locally. Not only would > this guarantee more control over what you see, but also considerably > speed up the artwork lookup. > > Michael Thanks again, and for the new tips. So I have the options: Download and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-10 Thread Michael Herger
Since we are talking stars & trumpeters can I just ask why when using iPeng you also get penguins and globes? No idea where those come from. Maybe pippin is replacing the generic artwork with his own version of generic artwork? -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-10 Thread d6jg
PS “Trumpeter” is possibly a little too general. The icon is the stylised image used on a lot of Mikes Davis albums circa Seven Steps to Heaven era. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 ->

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-10 Thread d6jg
Since we are talking stars & trumpeters can I just ask why when using iPeng you also get penguins and globes? Stars are new following last.fm changes but what are the circumstances that displays the other three placeholder images? Just wondering. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Herger
1.5.6 looks good. Great! Browsed artists, and most images are back, I think some (all!) are different, and I also got some images for artists I’ve never had before. You should definitely enable storing the file locally. Not only would this guarantee more control over what you see, but also

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread left channel
Thanks Michael, looks much better now. No blank spots. Still too many stars and trumpeters, but that's a different problem. LMS: SGC microJukebox running Sonicorbiter OS Control apps: Squeezelite-X on Win 10; Squeezer or Material web app on Android Players: Duet, Touch (two), Mac SqueezePlay,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread scott.winterkorn
mherger wrote: > > > Please give MAI 1.5.6 another try. Thanks! > > > -- > > Michael 1.5.6 looks good. Enabled plugin Restarted lms Browsed artists, and most images are back, I think some (all!) are different, and I also got some images for artists I’ve never had before. I also did

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Herger
[19-05-09 15:25:45.1444] Slim::bootstrap::tryModuleLoad (287) Warning: Module [Plugins::MusicArtistInfo::Importer] failed to load: Can't locate HTML/TreeBuilder.pm in @INC (@INC contains: Please give MAI 1.5.6 another try. Thanks! -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Herger
[19-05-09 15:25:45.1444] Slim::bootstrap::tryModuleLoad (287) Warning: Module [Plugins::MusicArtistInfo::Importer] failed to load: Can't locate HTML/TreeBuilder.pm in @INC (@INC contains: Perfect! Thanks a lot - that was the missing piece I needed (and confirms what I suspected). I should stop

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread bwaldron
FYI, Here is my scanner log: [19-05-09 15:25:44.6447] main::main (205) Starting Logitech Media Server scanner (v7.9.2, 1556796842, Thu May 2 13:38:20 WEDT 2019) perl 5.014001 [19-05-09 15:25:44.7527] Slim::Schema::forceCommit (2147) Warning: Trying to commit transactions before DB is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread bwaldron
I am having the same issue as Scott describes above (same error, Windows 10, latest LMS build). Cannot scan with the latest version of the plugin enabled. mherger wrote: > Another way to use MAI is to disable the scanner integration in its > settings. This would considerably slow down

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread left channel
mherger wrote: > > Re-scanned with incomplete results. Many Album Artists now have blank > > squares, with no star or trumpeter placeholder. In many cases when I > > click through to an album, that art is also not displayed even though > I > > have a cover.jpg (and folder.jpg) in the album

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Herger
Re-scanned with incomplete results. Many Album Artists now have blank squares, with no star or trumpeter placehoder. In many cases when I click through to an album, that art is also not displayed even though I have a cover.jpg (and folder.jpg) in the album folder. Yet when I click into the album,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread left channel
Re-scanned with incomplete results. Many Album Artists now have blank squares, with no star or trumpeter placehoder. In many cases when I click through to an album, that art is also not displayed even though I have a cover.jpg (and folder.jpg) in the album folder. Yet when I click into the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Herger
Hey Michael I’m using Windows 10 and the lms version is 7.9.1 - 1504317335 @ Sat Sep 2, 2017 That's a rather old build - shouldn't make any difference, though. I'd upgrade anyway. FWIW: I just installed the plugin on a Windows 10 and cannot reproduce the issue. Maybe you have an AV scanner

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-09 Thread scott.winterkorn
Hey Michael I’m using Windows 10 and the lms version is 7.9.1 - 1504317335 @ Sat Sep 2, 2017 scott.winterkorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64423 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
Okay tried to do a full rescan but now I get the error message “media scan terminated unexpectedly “. Anyone else having this issue after updating this plugin. I certainly don't. What platform are you on? [19-05-08 22:41:56.4523] Slim::Utils::PluginManager::load (323) Error: Couldn't load

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
[19-05-08 22:41:56.5078] main::main (331) Error: Failed when running main scan: [Undefined subroutine ::Debug::trace called at /LWP/UserAgent.pm line 36. ] Hmm... interesting. After googling around the question about what platform you're using is becoming more important: it seems LWP::Debug is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread scott.winterkorn
scott.winterkorn wrote: > Info from scanner log > > [19-05-08 22:41:56.4523] Slim::Utils::PluginManager::load (323) Error: > Couldn't load Plugins::MusicArtistInfo::Importer > [19-05-08 22:41:56.4935] ne ::Debug::trace called at > /LWP/UserAgent.pm line 36. Okay disabled the plugin and now

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread scott.winterkorn
scott.winterkorn wrote: > Okay tried to do a full rescan but now I get the error message “media > scan terminated unexpectedly “. Anyone else having this issue after > updating this plugin. Info from scanner log [19-05-08 22:41:56.4523] Slim::Utils::PluginManager::load (323) Error: Couldn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread scott.winterkorn
scott.winterkorn wrote: > Doesn’t seem to fix it for me. Do I have to rescan the library? > Probably. Okay tried to do a full rescan but now I get the error message “media scan terminated unexpectedly “. Anyone else having this issue after updating this plugin.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread scott.winterkorn
mherger wrote: > v1.5.5 improves some of the issues we've seen after Last.fm changed > their minds. > > Despite the minor version change, there have been a lot of code changes > in the background - but no new feature. Please let me know should you > see any hiccup, mostly around the artist

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
You are right I have not done a clear and rescan recently and I think I have actually turned off the display of Artist Artwork anyway because it was often slow to display. It would certainly be super slow if you didn't have local artwork available. With local artwork and the scanner

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread slartibartfast
d6jg wrote: > So do I but it only contains specific images that I put there because > mai didn’t find them, > I think the looked up images are cached until a clear and rescan. If you > haven’t done a clear and rescan you may not have seen the “star”You are right > I have not done a clear and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > I thought it did that already. I have an "artist artwork" folder. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk So do I but it only contains specific images that I put there because mai didn’t find them, I think the looked up images are cached until a clear and rescan. If

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread slartibartfast
d6jg wrote: > Do the terms of last.fm api allow permanent download of image files? If > so is it worth applying the same logic as for lyrics and build a local > library?I thought it did that already. I have an "artist artwork" folder. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-08 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > v1.5.5 improves some of the issues we've seen after Last.fm changed > their minds. > > Despite the minor version change, there have been a lot of code changes > in the background - but no new feature. Please let me know should you > see any hiccup, mostly around the artist

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-07 Thread mherger
v1.5.5 improves some of the issues we've seen after Last.fm changed their minds. Despite the minor version change, there have been a lot of code changes in the background - but no new feature. Please let me know should you see any hiccup, mostly around the artist artwork lookup. Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-06 Thread MrC
A Musicbrainz entry will *sometimes* have a master / release id for Discogs and AMG. So when these exist, you can use them to avoid the search and access the (generally) correct entry. It's a one way street, as Discogs and AMG don't have Musicbrainz IDs.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-06 Thread Paul Webster
... after come digging around ... it looks like MusicBrainz ids are not usable with Discogs so it is back to searching by artist (and possible track name - which is the only extra things that I will have in my case) to find a match in Discogs. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-06 Thread Paul Webster
For one of my uses I think I’m going to use the MusicBrainz id from last.fm and then try to find the artist image in Discogs. I don’t need OAuth for that (I think) but might not be valid approach for MAI unless users get application key (like issue for YouTube plugin) ... unless something like

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-05 Thread Michael Herger
i tried to uderstand why all my artists pictures were changed by a white start since since i rescan my library from scratch, and it seems that LastFM change his policy about artists covers. I may misunderstood but this plugin seems to be affected. I was looking into this yesterday and ended on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-05-05 Thread naguirre
Hi, i tried to uderstand why all my artists pictures were changed by a white start since since i rescan my library from scratch, and it seems that LastFM change his policy about artists covers. I may misunderstood but this plugin seems to be affected.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-27 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > > When did you add Discography? I’ve only just discovered it’s > there. I’ve > > wanted that for ages. Thanks as always. > > It's been a bit of an on-off relationship :-). I did some early code > back in 2013, but only finished it a few months ago. Released in 1.2.0. >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-27 Thread d6jg
slartibartfast wrote: > Would it be possible for the Discography to only include albums? Singles > have no extra info available. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk I think this is a case of Michael displaying what he’s given. I found a case last night when the album I was listening to -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-27 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > When did you add Discography? Iâ€[emoji769]ve only just discovered > itâ€[emoji769]s there. Iâ€[emoji769]ve > > wanted that for ages. Thanks as always. > > It's been a bit of an on-off relationship :-). I did some early code > back in 2013, but only finished it a few months

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-26 Thread Michael Herger
When did you add Discography? I’ve only just discovered it’s there. I’ve wanted that for ages. Thanks as always. It's been a bit of an on-off relationship :-). I did some early code back in 2013, but only finished it a few months ago. Released in 1.2.0. -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-26 Thread d6jg
mherger wrote: > Thanks to sveninndh the Music and Artist Information plugin v1.5.0 now > comes with localized biographies from Last.fm (when available). When did you add Discography? I’ve only just discovered it’s there. I’ve wanted that for ages. Thanks as always. VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-18 Thread mherger
Thanks to sveninndh the Music and Artist Information plugin v1.5.0 now comes with localized biographies from Last.fm (when available). Michael http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins - Spotty, MusicArtistInfo mherger's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-17 Thread mivarpet
mherger wrote: > > Update - I just tried searching a few artists on AllMusic as [ > Lastname, > > Firstname ] & also as [ Firstname Lastname ] and the same search > result > > for artist came up each time. > > Well, there indeed might be limitations in my code, too. As figured out > > for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-17 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Update - I just tried searching a few artists on AllMusic as [ > Lastname, > > Firstname ] & also as [ Firstname Lastname ] and the same search > result > > for artist came up each time. > > Well, there indeed might be limitations in my code, too. As figured out > for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-17 Thread Michael Herger
Update - I just tried searching a few artists on AllMusic as [ Lastname, Firstname ] & also as [ Firstname Lastname ] and the same search result for artist came up each time. Well, there indeed might be limitations in my code, too. As figured out for lyrics just a few hours ago, I often try to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-17 Thread mivarpet
Update - I just tried searching a few artists on AllMusic as [ Lastname, Firstname ] & also as [ Firstname Lastname ] and the same search result for artist came up each time. In any case, I understand if re-tagging is the best option.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-17 Thread mivarpet
mherger wrote: > > I'm getting failed lookups when my artists are tagged as Surname, > > Firstname instead of Firstname Surname. Eg Artist details & > biography > > for "Krall, Diana" returns "Empty" but "Diana Krall" returns a > result. > > > > Is there anything that can be done to remedy

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-17 Thread mivarpet
cpd73 wrote: > Why not use "Krall, Diana" as the artist-sort tag, and "Diana Krall" as > the artist tag? This way it will be sorted under "K", but the artist > name would be displayed as usual. Thanks for the reply cpd73. Unfortunately, the CD ripper I use or tagging program (mp3tag) don't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-17 Thread Michael Herger
Looks like plugin has either taken the first with the highest score or perhaps has done an initial substring match on the title rather than a full string match to find best fit. The plugin currently would not apply an exact match, but pick whatever matched (partially) first. I'm going to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-17 Thread Paul Webster
Looks like plugin has either taken the first with the highest score or perhaps has done an initial substring match on the title rather than a full string match to find best fit. Edit: had not seen Michael’s reply when writing mine Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-17 Thread Michael Herger
[19-04-17 10:17:46.3753] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1252) Warning: [10:17:46.3745] { SearchLyricResult => [ { Artist=> "Pink Floyd", ArtistUrl => "http://www.chartlyrics.com/mBjZg2N310ewO7khMjdcRw.aspx;, LyricChecksum => "5da6146aa5509e58c56a309a84b3ea81", LyricId

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-17 Thread slartibartfast
slartibartfast wrote: > When I select lyrics for "Dogs" from Animals by Pink Floyd I get lyrics > for "Dogs of War" also by Pink Floyd. Strange thing is I have two > versions of the album one of which shows the correct lyrics but the > remaster shows the wrong lyrics. The song title is the same

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-16 Thread slartibartfast
When I select lyrics for "Dogs" from Animals by Pink Floyd I get lyrics for "Dogs of War" also by Pink Floyd. Strange thing is I have two versions of the album one of which shows the correct lyrics but the remaster shows the wrong lyrics. The song title is the same for both. The only obvious

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-16 Thread cpd73
mivarpet wrote: > > I'm getting failed lookups when my artists are tagged as Surname, > Firstname instead of Firstname Surname. Eg Artist details & biography > for "Krall, Diana" returns "Empty" but "Diana Krall" returns a result. > > Is there anything that can be done to remedy this? Why

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-16 Thread Michael Herger
I'm getting failed lookups when my artists are tagged as Surname, Firstname instead of Firstname Surname. Eg Artist details & biography for "Krall, Diana" returns "Empty" but "Diana Krall" returns a result. Is there anything that can be done to remedy this? Not without changing your tags, I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-04-16 Thread mivarpet
@mherger - thank you so much for this plugin. I'm getting failed lookups when my artists are tagged as Surname, Firstname instead of Firstname Surname. Eg Artist details & biography for "Krall, Diana" returns "Empty" but "Diana Krall" returns a result. Is there anything that can be done to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-14 Thread Michael Herger
However, in my other system, with LMS installed under Windows 10 and Squeezelite-X as a player, the lyrics are neither displayed nor cached for that particular track, and of course the question mark is not allowed in file names under Windows. In that situation it would be great if 1) the track

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-13 Thread Jens Erik Jensen
mherger wrote: > > > > > Another question is if it is possible to handle songs with a question > > mark in their titles? There are quite a few such songs in my library, > > and it seems that the lyrics servers do not return anything for these > > songs. Perhaps it is possible to strip off the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-13 Thread Michael Herger
my Danish songs. Do you know a good tool to do that either under Windows or a commonly used Linux distro? No, I don't. mp3tag commonly is recommended, but I don't know how well it can handle lyrics. Another question is if it is possible to handle songs with a question mark in their titles?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-13 Thread Michael Herger
d6jg wrote: I have just googled "Swiss Music" - because I can - fully expecting a list of artists I have never heard of which is largely the case. I have however heard of Tina Turner but I didn't know she was Swiss!Apparently she became Swiss in 2013. Who knew? I did :-D -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-13 Thread Jens Erik Jensen
mherger wrote: > > > > > Never mind, I have many of these lyrics in text files already and > want > > to place them in the user-supplied lyrics folder for being shown on > the > > controller devices that we use in our house. Again, I need > information > > on how to encode the names

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-13 Thread slartibartfast
d6jg wrote: > I have just googled "Swiss Music" - because I can - fully expecting a > list of artists I have never heard of which is largely the case. > > I have however heard of Tina Turner but I didn't know she was > Swiss!Apparently she became Swiss in 2013. Who knew? Sent from my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-13 Thread d6jg
I have just googled "Swiss Music" - because I can - fully expecting a list of artists I have never heard of which is largely the case. I have however heard of Tina Turner but I didn't know she was Swiss! VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 ->

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-13 Thread Michael Herger
I do however have problems with song names or artist names in Danish language containing the Danish special characters: æøå and their uppercase variants ÆØÅ. Generally the plugin does not locate lyrics for these songs - and I wonder if it is due to the encoding of artist and song names or it is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-13 Thread Jens Erik Jensen
I have recently been using the Music & Artist Information plugin quite a lot - thank you for making it. I am particularly interested in it because I am a lyrics-oriented person, and I really appreciate the opportunity to have lyrics shown for the song playing. I do however have problems with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-05 Thread glorifyday
Without your plugin, the more information screen is not clickable and there is no such browsing at all. Anyway, I was advised to check the behaviour on the default skin and here it works flawlessly, so maybe there's something with the other plugin.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-05 Thread Michael Herger
Is there any easy way to downgrade the plugin to its previous version? No. But in order to figure out whether the menu issue is related to this plugin or not, just uninstall it (settings will be saved). Try without. if the issue remains, then it's not this plugin (which I'm pretty sure will

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-05 Thread glorifyday
Is there any easy way to downgrade the plugin to its previous version? I am using the 'material skin' and the 'music and artist information' plugins. As I stated some day on this forum, I am mostly using Logitech-bundled Tidal app for LMS. The combo of these plugins gave me a very useful way

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-04 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > OK but lyrics from some "The Flaming Lips" tracks do appear. For > > example " Fight Test" . Strange. > > Unlike the others you mentioned this one is available from ChartLyrics. > And ChartLyrics wouldn't bother about the "the" in the name. > -- > > MichaelAll working

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread Michael Herger
OK but lyrics from some "The Flaming Lips" tracks do appear. For example " Fight Test" . Strange. Unlike the others you mentioned this one is available from ChartLyrics. And ChartLyrics wouldn't bother about the "the" in the name. -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread slartibartfast
mherger wrote: > > Lyrics are not showing up for tracks from "The Flaming Lips-Embryonic" > > For example "Convinced of the hex" I looked up the track on Azlyrics > and > > they definitely exist. > > Same would happen with "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones", but not "The > > The"... they

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread Michael Herger
Perhaps it should not be a warning if the lyrics cannot be found. Also - perhaps a whitelist of some popular ones that are always expected Yes, indeed. I'll have to come up with something like a blacklist. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread slartibartfast
slartibartfast wrote: > Also lyrics from "The Flaming Lips-The Terror" are not found. For > example the track "The Terror". They are available on azlyrics.com. > > Sent from my SM-G900F using TapatalkTracks from Oczy Mlody are not appearing. > For example "There should be unicorns" and again

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread Michael Herger
Whatever you have done Michael is working very nicely. I’m getting lyrics virtually on everything now. Local, Spotify and Radio Paradise tested so far. RP has been a mixed bag for me. They do play some not so mainstream stuff. And some instrumental songs, too :-). -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread Michael Herger
I store in my musuc folders files in markdown format with information on each album: credits, notes, links.. In this case it's probably best to embed lyrics in your files, and have this done once for all. You could then use the tracks CLI command to get the track information with the lyrics.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread Michael Herger
I have an issue with some of my files that I tagged with lyrics years ago. For some reason I see http://lyrics.wikia.com/The_Flaming_Lips:Fight_Test I suppose this must have worked at some time but now I think my best option is to just remove the LYRICS tag from the affected files. I don't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread Michael Herger
Lyrics are not showing up for tracks from "The Flaming Lips-Embryonic" For example "Convinced of the hex" I looked up the track on Azlyrics and they definitely exist. Same would happen with "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones", but not "The The"... they strip the leading "the" from artist

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread slartibartfast
Also lyrics from "The Flaming Lips-The Terror" are not found. For example the track "The Terror". They are available on azlyrics.com. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk slartibartfast's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread slartibartfast
Lyrics are not showing up for tracks from "The Flaming Lips-Embryonic" For example "Convinced of the hex" I looked up the track on Azlyrics and they definitely exist. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread Paul Webster
>From log when playing Radio Paradise https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/radioparadise/naimexclusive.html: 404 Not Found Perhaps it should not be a warning if the lyrics cannot be found. Also - perhaps a whitelist of some popular ones that are always expected to fail - as above - so that the web

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Music & Artist Information plugin

2019-03-03 Thread d6jg
Whatever you have done Michael is working very nicely. I’m getting lyrics virtually on everything now. Local, Spotify and Radio Paradise tested so far. Thanks VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony

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