Hi Tim,
Your suggestion were right on. Kent also suggested something similar.
Not using the LCD update engine made things much easier in most respects. I still had to replicate some of its function. I also tied using threads for scrolling, 1 for each line. That was funny. Three lines scrolling at once and then the display just shut off. I have gone back to scrolling one line at a time.
Anyway, things are working very well right now. The script is loaded when the RPi boots, and it never seems to miss an update or get confused.
Cheers, Bryce.
I've read elsewhere that Moode sounds better and I agree. Dont get why but it just does.
Hi Tim,
I want to thank you again for this little gem. I use it now every day.
I have one question, to be more precise a feature request. Your radio station list is quite long but I am pretty sure that it will miss most users preferences as local stations and so on.
There is a site called Community Radio Station Board which provides a Database and an API free to use. Could you take a look at it and maybe integrate it to Moode?
Regards
Heiner
I want to thank you again for this little gem. I use it now every day.
I have one question, to be more precise a feature request. Your radio station list is quite long but I am pretty sure that it will miss most users preferences as local stations and so on.
There is a site called Community Radio Station Board which provides a Database and an API free to use. Could you take a look at it and maybe integrate it to Moode?
Regards
Heiner
Wow, what a resource. Just had a brief look and will be saving several of those for listening.
The search options are excellent.
Hi @heifish,
Its a great web site for getting the direct stream urls. Just download the PLS link and open playlist.pls file. You could then "create new station" in moOde.
I'm not sure what you mean by integrate it. Its a radio station aggregator, search and play service. What would the UI looks like in moOde?
-Tim
I've just noticed a strange glitch in the Moode UI when playing radio streams. Sometimes the displayed bitrate is the output stream bitrate, not the input one. Not sure how to reliably reproduce, but I was flipping between JB Radio 2 (awesome sound quality from that source, btw) and Radio paradise, looking at the audio info screen for each stream when I noticed that the main playback screen was showing the wrong bitrate.
Phil
Phil
Hi Phil,
The rate displayed for streaming sources is derived by MPD and is a snapshot taken when the stream is first opened. Sometimes this is not accurate at first. If you refresh the Browser while the stream is playing, a new MPD snapshot is used and this will usually be accurate.
Same happens when you open Audio info, a new MPD rate snapshot is used.
-Tim
The rate displayed for streaming sources is derived by MPD and is a snapshot taken when the stream is first opened. Sometimes this is not accurate at first. If you refresh the Browser while the stream is playing, a new MPD snapshot is used and this will usually be accurate.
Same happens when you open Audio info, a new MPD rate snapshot is used.
-Tim
I am suffering from audio glitches (AGs) since Moode 3.8.
Today i did fresh install from the last version of Moode , Volumio and Picoreplayer. Just a normal installation without any tweaks. I am using eth and local attached usb drive or usb pen drive (256GB). I also have one Moode 3.7 installation.
All my files are waves 16/24 44/48/96/176/192.
With Moode 3.84 (tried normal, LL and RT kernel) and latest Volumio i have AGs between tracks, when going into next track and when changing radio stations.
With Picoreplayer + local LMS and Moode 3.7 LL (on the same hardware - Pi3 + DAC+ Pro) i don't have AGs. So it is not one hardware issue.
Is this the new kernel version, or mpd version ? Any hint ?
Today i did fresh install from the last version of Moode , Volumio and Picoreplayer. Just a normal installation without any tweaks. I am using eth and local attached usb drive or usb pen drive (256GB). I also have one Moode 3.7 installation.
All my files are waves 16/24 44/48/96/176/192.
With Moode 3.84 (tried normal, LL and RT kernel) and latest Volumio i have AGs between tracks, when going into next track and when changing radio stations.
With Picoreplayer + local LMS and Moode 3.7 LL (on the same hardware - Pi3 + DAC+ Pro) i don't have AGs. So it is not one hardware issue.
Is this the new kernel version, or mpd version ? Any hint ?
Hi, Tim.
I thought I was waiting until the update was complete but I was multitasking and may not have been paying attention.
I'm not in the mood to create a test case on another, empty NAS to repo. I'll probably just walk the code tomorrow to understand what's going on.
Then again, maybe I'll just listen to the music!
Regards,
Kent
Hi, Tim.
I looked at some of the "used by" projects listed on the Community Radio Station site. Many of them seem to create exhaustive lists within the app of stations from which to select, which I don't warm to.
One, though, demo's a clean UI which might usefully be mimicked. The radio favorites screen has a "+ New Station" button which pops up a window in which one can enter a station name to search for and then select from the results to add to the list of favorites (e.g., entering "WFMT" returns a choice of two streams, one AAC and the other MP3). See Radiolise
Of course this doesn't address one of the moOde Player features I really like, the display of the station logo/icon. As we know, few stations provide one that's usable, let alone provide a sensible permalink to it.
Regards,
Kent
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Hi Tim, I had some issues in updating to 3.8.4. I screwed it. So I had to redo everything from scratch and had some issues. I always lost browser connection; annoying. So I thought it might make sense to be able to save the complete setup, to be able to play it back in case of.
Cheers
Ernst
Hi Tim, I had some issues in updating to 3.8.4. I screwed it. So I had to redo everything from scratch and had some issues. I always lost browser connection; annoying. So I thought it might make sense to be able to save the complete setup, to be able to play it back in case of.
Cheers
Ernst
This may help you to make a back up image, just remember the backup will be a much larger size than the original download file when you come to burn it again so you may need a larger capacity card.
How To: Backup & Restore your Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi HQ
Simple question, which which to start.....
In the library screen, I can only play/add one track at at time. Can I not play/add a complete album, or have I got got a config wrong?
Select an Album, then click on the album cover art at the bottom of the Tracks column.
Hi,
Generally speaking, its likely that some USB and I2S DAC's don't include muting circuits that prevent audio glitch from occurring when the signal to the DAC stops or starts. Also its possible that certain player software may include code to compensate for the lack of muting circuits in DAC's by somehow leaving the audio output open and reusing it across stop/start sequence. I'm not aware of any such code in MPD.
1) Audio glitches with USB DAC's: All USB DAC's use the standard Linux kernel USB audio driver (exception: certain hiFace DAC's use a custom kernel usb driver). The only software fix / workaround available in moOde is the USB (UAC2) fix in System config.
2) Audio glitches with I2S DAC's: I2S DAC's use specific kernel device drivers and overlays written by the audio device manufacturer. There are no I2S driver settings or fixes in moOde that specifically target audio glitches like the USB (UAC2) fix does, and I'm not aware of any such I2S fixes from either the manufacturer or in Linux kernel, except that I recall reading that Allo has included code in their Boss I2S driver to compensate for lack of auto-mute in PCM5122.
PCM51xx chips after a certain date don't have an auto-mute feature and so unless the manufacturer adds a circuit to their board or code to their I2S driver, these chips can generate a bump when the audio signal stops/starts.
-Tim