Hi,
I tested the 3 tracks and Mediainfo indicates that cover art is embedded and format is jpeg however Zend reader that Moode uses for extracting cover art is not able to decode the embedded images.
I converted the tracks to ALAC format using XLD and the cover art was migrated and displays in Moode.
-Tim
Thanks for checking into this Tim!
The trick with doing the "folder.jpg" method is programs such as Album Art Downloader skips these music files because it see them as as already having the art embedded. We need to manually download cover art for each album as "folder.jpg", or convert all Pono/HDtracks files to ALAC... not a huge deal, but requires some time for big collections.
Not your problem or issue with the MoOde player, I understand. But if there was a way for the Playback screen's art window to retrieve and display the first return from Google Images using the Artist + Album Title as a search for files with missing artwork, that would be HUGE.
feature backlog?
I like it, I like it a lot. TR1 working smoothy on my PI 3 with a HiFiBerry Dac + Pro. Configuration through AP mode was a breeze. Good stuff!
Did have to make a small addition to playerlib.php to ensure my preference for having replaygain turned on (well to auto really). An apt-get and corresponding config edit took care of mpdscribble so last.fm integration works as well. All in all, smooth sailing, so nothing but respect and compliments.
I am however wondering if replaygain as an UI option and the possible inclusion of mpdscribble are still on your backlog. If not its all good. I may totally try to reverse engineer the adding of an option but thats a me thing If they are still on the backlog somewhere.. I will just leave it alone for now
I like it, I like it a lot. TR1 working smoothy on my PI 3 with a HiFiBerry Dac + Pro. Configuration through AP mode was a breeze. Good stuff!
Did have to make a small addition to playerlib.php to ensure my preference for having replaygain turned on (well to auto really). An apt-get and corresponding config edit took care of mpdscribble so last.fm integration works as well. All in all, smooth sailing, so nothing but respect and compliments.
I am however wondering if replaygain as an UI option and the possible inclusion of mpdscribble are still on your backlog. If not its all good. I may totally try to reverse engineer the adding of an option but thats a me thing
If they are still on the backlog somewhere.. I will just leave it alone for now
Hi Dave,
After checking it looks like I've already made code snippets for the sample rate display feature so this should appear in TR2
-Tim
I like it, I like it a lot. TR1 working smoothy on my PI 3 with a HiFiBerry Dac + Pro. Configuration through AP mode was a breeze. Good stuff!
Did have to make a small addition to playerlib.php to ensure my preference for having replaygain turned on (well to auto really). An apt-get and corresponding config edit took care of mpdscribble so last.fm integration works as well. All in all, smooth sailing, so nothing but respect and compliments.
I am however wondering if replaygain as an UI option and the possible inclusion of mpdscribble are still on your backlog. If not its all good. I may totally try to reverse engineer the adding of an option but thats a me thing
Hi,
Yes, mpdscribble still on TODO list but mail me your install/config recipe for this and I'll include it in TR2 along with an input field on MPD config screen for replay gain setting.
-Tim
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Hi Dave,
After checking it looks like I've already made code snippets for the sample rate display feature so this should appear in TR2
-Tim
You are awesome Tim!
Small contribution sent for your efforts, I hope your fine work continues.
Possibly since I enabled hardware volume the L and R channels have become swapped. I know it was originally correct because I tested with the included test file.
Hi,
Very odd. There is no code in Moode software that manipulates channels, but a quick search listed a post at Hifiberry forum that mentions a channel swap issue with the AMP+
https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201845321-Channels-swapped-
-Tim
Good news on the replaygain
Looked into things with scrobbling a little further. Seems mpdscribble is not updated atm and does not support the 2.0 scrobbling protocol. Fortunately, as usual with mpd, there is an alternative : mpdas. Seems to be working a little more reliably too.
Now if I could get it work as a service I would be golden. Works fine when just put in the background from the CLI, but craps out with a logic error when systemclt tries to start it.. I have been away from linux for too long
If I figure it out I will update you.
Hi,
Just following up on this issue. It appears this is a bug in Linux kernel affecting Pi-3 + I2S interface + 16 bit audio and has been fixed in latest 4.4.8 kernel according to rpi-update commit log.
The 4.4.8 kernel should be available via "sudo rpi-update" so u might want to try updating. I'm going to update to this or later kernel for TR2.
Here are reference links:
I2S channel swap on RPi3 on 16-bit playback
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1417
https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware/commits/master
kernel: Bump to 4.4.8 …
popcornmix committed 4 days ago
kernel: vc4-kms-v3d updates for 4.4
popcornmix committed 4 days ago
Regards,
Tim
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Hi,
If thats the case then I'd suggest posting to the Hifiberry forum to see if they can verify whether 4.4.8 kernel fixes the issue. I'll be testing 4.4.8 on Pi 3 in next few days.
Regards,
Tim
Good news on the replaygain
Looked into things with scrobbling a little further. Seems mpdscribble is not updated atm and does not support the 2.0 scrobbling protocol. Fortunately, as usual with mpd, there is an alternative : mpdas. Seems to be working a little more reliably too.
Now if I could get it work as a service I would be golden. Works fine when just put in the background from the CLI, but craps out with a logic error when systemclt tries to start it.. I have been away from linux for too long
Reinstalled, expanded the SD, updated.. recompiled mpdas, created a systemctl service..and then.. it will only work if I start it manually from the CLI because it insist on trying to load before mpd regardless of wants, requires or afters..
Ideas anyone?
Reinstalled, expanded the SD, updated.. recompiled mpdas, created a systemctl service..and then.. it will only work if I start it manually from the CLI because it insist on trying to load before mpd regardless of wants, requires or afters..
Ideas anyone?
Hi,
Moode worker daemon starts MPD during its own startup phase. Ssh pi@moode (pwd=raspberry) and ./mlog.sh to print /var/log/moode.log to see where MPD is started.
Does mpdas need to have MPD running before it starts or vis versa?
-Tim
Aha! Success!
Mpdas needs to have MPD running, so adding the systemctl start mpdas to the worker solves the startup problem and its scrobbling away
So what did I do?
- ssh'd in
- did a wget to get the mpdas source from http://www.50hz.ws/mpdas/mpdas-0.4.1.tar.gz
- extracted and did a sudo make install (assume sudo for most actions )
- created a mpdasrc at /usr/local/etc (default location, can be changed in the makefile, or different config can be specified with a startup option)
- Content for the mpdasrc:
md5 hash of pwd can be created with:Code:username: <last.fm username> password: <last.fm password, md5 hashed> runas=mpd debug=1
Code:echo -n 'PASSWORD' | md5sum | cut -f 1 -d " " - Tested mpdas worked by starting it from the CLI with a sudo mpdas
- Worked, so removed the debug=1 line from the mpdasrc
- Created an mpdas.service file at /lib/systemd/system containing:
Think the [Install] may not be needed since I am starting it from the worker..Code:[Unit] Description=mpdas - last.fm scrobbler for mpd [Service] ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mpdas --no-daemon [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target - In the file /var/www/command/worker.php below the lines
I added some lines to start mdas ending up with:Code:// start mpd sysCmd("systemctl start mpd"); workerLog('worker: MPD started');
Code:/ start mpd sysCmd("systemctl start mpd"); workerLog('worker: MPD started'); // start mpdas sysCmd("systemctl start mpdas"); workerLog('worker: mpdas started'); - Rebooted.. works
Playing MP3 Files without resampling.
Using Moode 2.6 TR1 on a Pi3 and USB audio device, it will only play mp3s and mp4s with resampling turned on. With resampling turned off mp3s play with an annoying regular popping sound and MP4s play with a loud white noise sound and faint music in the background. It would be nice if the bit depth, bit rate and sample rate could be preserved. I can record samples of each, if you need to hear them.
Using Moode 2.6 TR1 on a Pi3 and USB audio device, it will only play mp3s and mp4s with resampling turned on. With resampling turned off mp3s play with an annoying regular popping sound and MP4s play with a loud white noise sound and faint music in the background. It would be nice if the bit depth, bit rate and sample rate could be preserved. I can record samples of each, if you need to hear them.
Aha! Success!
Mpdas needs to have MPD running, so adding the systemctl start mpdas to the worker solves the startup problem and its scrobbling away
So what did I do?
- ssh'd in
- did a wget to get the mpdas source from http://www.50hz.ws/mpdas/mpdas-0.4.1.tar.gz
- extracted and did a sudo make install (assume sudo for most actions
- created a mpdasrc at /usr/local/etc (default location, can be changed in the makefile, or different config can be specified with a startup option)
- Content for the mpdasrc:
md5 hash of pwd can be created with:Code:username: <last.fm username> password: <last.fm password, md5 hashed> runas=mpd debug=1
Code:echo -n 'PASSWORD' | md5sum | cut -f 1 -d " "- Tested mpdas worked by starting it from the CLI with a sudo mpdas
- Worked, so removed the debug=1 line from the mpdasrc
- Created an mpdas.service file at /lib/systemd/system containing:
Think the [Install] may not be needed since I am starting it from the worker..Code:[Unit] Description=mpdas - last.fm scrobbler for mpd [Service] ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mpdas --no-daemon [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target- In the file /var/www/command/worker.php below the lines
I added some lines to start mdas ending up with:Code:// start mpd sysCmd("systemctl start mpd"); workerLog('worker: MPD started');
Code:/ start mpd sysCmd("systemctl start mpd"); workerLog('worker: MPD started'); // start mpdas sysCmd("systemctl start mpdas"); workerLog('worker: mpdas started');- Rebooted.. works
Hi,
Nice
To integrate into TR2 I'll need to test with real last.fm account so email tim at moodeaudio dot org in case I need assistance with last.fm.
Regards,
Tim
As a followup to my previous report on r26-tr1, I've now tried it on a new RPi 3 with the same HiFiBerry DAC+. Works great, as I've come to expect.
Two nitpicks -
1) It occurred to me this time around that the final step in the initial setup, 5. VERIFY AUDIO PLAYBACK, ought to fail if one gets this far setting up in AP mode. Until the Moode Player is configured for WiFi connection (a later step), it won't be able to reach the Internet and, hence, any streaming-radio source chosen in this step. Your new Stereo Test Sound will work at this point, of course, and a radio station will if setting up in Ethernet mode (assuming there is a route to the real world!).
2) When I go through the network configuration and hit "Apply", I get a pop-up pane in the upper right corner which reads "Network config updated" preceded by a check mark and followed by "play/pause" and "exit" icons. These latter seem out of place.
Regards,
Kent
Two nitpicks -
1) It occurred to me this time around that the final step in the initial setup, 5. VERIFY AUDIO PLAYBACK, ought to fail if one gets this far setting up in AP mode. Until the Moode Player is configured for WiFi connection (a later step), it won't be able to reach the Internet and, hence, any streaming-radio source chosen in this step. Your new Stereo Test Sound will work at this point, of course, and a radio station will if setting up in Ethernet mode (assuming there is a route to the real world!).
2) When I go through the network configuration and hit "Apply", I get a pop-up pane in the upper right corner which reads "Network config updated" preceded by a check mark and followed by "play/pause" and "exit" icons. These latter seem out of place.
Regards,
Kent