For UPNP/DLNA you need three things (in UPNP/DLNA speak). A Media Server, a Control Point and a Renderer.
MoOde becomes the Renderer when UPNP/DLNA is switched on.
You need a Media Server (windows media player can do it, FOOBAR2000 with plugin is probably better.)
Then you need a control point. I use Bubbleupnp on an Android phone.
J.
I have Foobar2000 on my desktop.
I want to play songs from my desktop.
The amplifier and speakers are connected to my RPI which is running MoOde.
And yes I have Android mobile with me on the same network, though I would prefer not to use it in this exercise if possible. I will try this out today.
MoOde 3.6 on RPI 3 with BOSS DAC and WD Mybooklive as NAS.
If I start my MoOde without the NAS drive available, then obviously songs from my library won't play. But then if I start the NAS and wait for it to be fully ready and then restart MoOde or shutdown and then power on the RPI, the songs still do NOT play.
I always need to go to the Configure Sources screen and update MPD.
This is painful when I forget to switch on the NAS before turning on my RPI (and that happens quite often)
Second question:
I have a lot of songs on my Windows desktop. Is there a way for me to 'cast' these songs on MoOde described in the setup above?
I have a single network at home and all devices are on the same network.
Currently I have DLNA turned off in MoOde (I think it is the default setting).
Hi,
Moode mounts NAS devices during startup and assumes the NAS device is online.
There are a couple of approaches to handling the "NAS offline" scenario.
1) Add a "Remount" button to Sources screen. This simply tries remounting the NAS sources without doing MPD update.
2) Add a "check and remount" section to Worker polling loop. This would automatically try remounting NAS sources if they are not already mounted.
Either of these could work but "NAS offline" does not seem like a common usage scenario. If it is then happy to investigate the above.
-Tim
Hi,
If Foobar supports Airplay then turn on Airplay receiver in Moode. Airplay integration in Moode has some nice options including:
- Resume MPD after Airplay session ends
- Metadata and cover art display
- Hardware volume
- Multi-room sync audio
Metadata and multi-room sync audio assume the Airplay sender supports these features.
-Tim
I tried with Mp3Tag to delete all the tags then re apply to no avail.
When I sort my files in Mp3tag by file name, the files that have issues will take the cover art from the first file in the list that has no issues. This way I can change the default cover art.
When you re scan the MPD DB how does MoOde sort the file names?
Hi @soldeed,
Moode’s cover art extractor uses the ordered steps below to find cover art.
1) look in the specified song file for embedded cover art
2) look in the containing directory for (C)cover, (F)folder .jpg, .png or .jpeg file
3) look in the containing directory for
a) *.jpg, *.png or *.jpeg file
b) for embedded art in *
-Tim
Moode’s cover art extractor uses the ordered steps below to find cover art.
1) look in the specified song file for embedded cover art
2) look in the containing directory for (C)cover, (F)folder .jpg, .png or .jpeg file
3) look in the containing directory for
a) *.jpg, *.png or *.jpeg file
b) for embedded art in *
-Tim
Hi Kent,
the tric using subprocess.call(["mpc","stop"]) is verry succefull !!!
Many thanks for this sugestion!!!
Best regards,
Jan Mulder
Just upgraded to 3.5/3.6 and all of my songs now play a lot quieter and lower quality than they have in ALL previous versions of moode. Is there a new method of delivering sound that I'm not aware of in the new versions? A DSD file did play at the volume and quality that I am used to but all other music seems audibly weak. I'm sing a PiB 512MB and the original HIFIBerry DAC. Never had anything but amazing sound quality before. I thought I read somewhere that I may need to use advanced Kernel but switching to RT has caused the Pi not to boot at all. Could someone tell me if the new versions of moode require more user tweaking than in the past?
STu
STu
Hi,
Switch to the Standard Linux kernel and try the USB (UAC2) work around on System config. The usb audio driver in Linux kernel has bugs that affect certain high speed USB chipsets.
-Tim
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Hi,
Examine the MPD log when trying to play a track and post any errors or other suspicious messages that appear.
1) System config, Clear system logs
2) ssh pi@moode (pwd=raspberry)
3) Play a track
4) cat /var/log/mpd.log
-Tim
Hi,
What exactly do you mean by audibly weak?
- Lower output volume at a given Moode knob setting than with 3.1?
- Not getting full 100% volume at knob = 100?
-Tim
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Thanks for reply Tim. Yes the volume was much greater at same given volume level on 3.1
I've had to give it almost twice as much gain with 3.6 and even then it seems weaker as in lower quality. I will do some more testing to make sure the weaker bit is not in my mind. But I have no doubts about the volume level being hugely different from 3.1. Have been using moode since early days and never had to make any adjustments before for great sound through hifiberry. I listen to flacs mostly
Stu
I've had to give it almost twice as much gain with 3.6 and even then it seems weaker as in lower quality. I will do some more testing to make sure the weaker bit is not in my mind. But I have no doubts about the volume level being hugely different from 3.1. Have been using moode since early days and never had to make any adjustments before for great sound through hifiberry. I listen to flacs mostly
Stu
Hi Stu,
I've got one of the old hifiberry boards somewhere so I could test it if need be but I think what you may be experiencing is the change in how logarithmic volume is being handled in new MPD 0.20 series.
Beginning with MPD 0.20.1, logarithmic volume curve for Hardware volume is handled by MPD thus eliminating the need for Moode code to do this as was done in Moode 2.0 - 3.1 releases. MPD 0.20 series may also have changed the log curve for Software volume. Id have to look at MPD sources.
The audio quality should not be affected.
-Tim
I tried to transfer the music files via MOODE/SDCARD by mapping the folder in Windows 7. Used pi/raspberry but it always return that it is not authorised. Tried using smb via Filzilla and it also doesn't work.
However, if I were to use estrong file explorer app on my Android phone, i can make the transfer.
I can't find what's wrong with doing is via Windows. Any help will be much appreciated.
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However, if I were to use estrong file explorer app on my Android phone, i can make the transfer.
I can't find what's wrong with doing is via Windows. Any help will be much appreciated.
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I tried to transfer the music files via MOODE/SDCARD by mapping the folder in Windows 7. Used pi/raspberry but it always return that it is not authorised. Tried using smb via FileZilla and it also doesn't work. At least for FileZilla, I can see the directories and files but just doesn't allow a successful transfer. I suspect it has to do with the access permissions.
However, if I were to use estrong file explorer app on my Android phone, i can make the transfer.
I can't find what's wrong with doing it via Windows. Any help will be much appreciated.
Ed
P.S.: sorry for the duplicate post - the network hung when posting the 1st message.
However, if I were to use estrong file explorer app on my Android phone, i can make the transfer.
I can't find what's wrong with doing it via Windows. Any help will be much appreciated.
Ed
P.S.: sorry for the duplicate post - the network hung when posting the 1st message.
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