Moode Audio Player for Raspberry Pi

There is something wrong there. Your display says Beta10, it should say moOde in the top right corner. You are using the lastest version of moOde, correct?

Those colours at the bottom are wrong too. The active tab should be blue and the inactive tabs grey.

I find that with the touch screen sometimes it is just easier to reboot to get the browser to refresh.

No-no-no :)
This picture is from Tim twitter site... I just want to say, here can see the same problem... See the active tab? It's so light, you can't read it!
 
hi there,
happy as a baby with a candy with moode and the latest build & installation procedure.
Amazing work thank you very much !!!
Little question: is there a way to interact with my Moode+Spotify with Google Home Mini to launch music, playlists, skip tracks, etc?
knwoing that i'm using it only via squeelelite module & logitech media server
 
For sure, or it could be something wacky on the input of the refurbished audio device.

Is it really possible to effectively troubleshoot a remote issue like this?

-Tim

A ‘True RMS’ logging multimeter will give you a proper reading of each device using a sine wave source (e.g. 50Hz/100Hz) and setting your meter to AC, as close to 0-10v as your meter can go.

It won’t be as accurate as a purpose built audio digital VU meter, but for purposes of comparing sources will do fine.

You can get great True RMS meters now for ~$50-100
 
This is something I was wondering, but without an oscilloscope I don't know how I would effectively measure and compare the output voltages of my various sources.

See above. If you don’t have an RMS DMM (digital multimeter), you will still get a reading you can compare the various line levels without being ‘true’, but as a comparison against a couple of sources will be accurate enough.

If you can burn an audio test CD (plenty of downloads on the net). That would be ideal.

This is a really good budget True RMS DMM - not as good as a Fluke, but then it’s not $250 either, while being 90% as good.

UNI-T UT61D True RMS Digital Multimeter - Multi Testers - Amazon.com

It has a serial interface for logging, which comes in very handy and you can get a USB one for a few bucks more.
 
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An Onkyo-A10 amp (recently serviced and brought to factory spec). Tried switching inputs with other sources (cassette deck and CD player) but Moode/pi/HifiBerry is still much louder. It's not a subtle difference, similar to when an obnoxiously loud commercial comes on the television while watching a show at a decent volume. The kind of commercial that makes you open your eyes wide and exclaim, "geeeze" while fumbling for the remote's volume button before the whole house wakes up.

Hmmm, just looked it up... according to this, Onkyo A-10 - Manual - Stereo Integrated Amplifier - HiFi Engine It's 150mV for rated power on the line in. Pretty sensitive.

That would explain why the 2V RMS max output DAC is so loud, but I'd expect the CD player to be 2V also. Maybe it and the deck aren't? Any way you can get a meter to measure them?

I agree lowering the DAC output scaling would be helpful, it might still overdrive it but nowhere near as badly.
 
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hi there,
happy as a baby with a candy with moode and the latest build & installation procedure.
Amazing work thank you very much !!!
Little question: is there a way to interact with my Moode+Spotify with Google Home Mini to launch music, playlists, skip tracks, etc?
knwoing that i'm using it only via squeelelite module & logitech media server

If you have a spare ESP8266 you should be able to implement this method: Control Volumio Speaker by Voice Using Google Assistant - Hackster.io

A WeMos D1 Mini as shown in the pic is ~$3.50
 
That's what I get but apt update has packages, MoOde update says Up to Date and I haven't done any upgrade since installing...and certainly not since you posted about 4.1....system info says moOde = Release 4.0 2018-01-26 .sooooooo....
Is there a 4.1 update or is it still uploading...;)

The 4.1 update not released yet. I just posted a status on the bug fixes.

Early builds will probably be at Raspbian 9.1, recent builds will already be at 9.3 so apt update/upgrade won't do much.

-Tim
 
I have a strange bug/situation with the System Config page on my RPi3 with the touch screen.

I leave the RPi running all of the time, however if is has been running for a day or so, I can't get to the System Config page. The browser just "spins" forever. All other Config pages display without issue. I have 2 other RPis, a 2 and a 3 and they have no such problem. All were built using the same image file. This in new with 4.0. Beta 12 did not do this on my touch.

If I reboot the RPi, everything works as normal.

Has anyone else experience something like this?

Cheers, Bryce.

Very odd. I'll try on my Pi Touch in next couple of days.

Open an ssh session to that Pi and then try opening the System config page while monitoring the nginx log.

tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log

If the page opens you will see lines like below:

Code:
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Feb/2018:07:52:59 -0500] "GET /command/moode.php?cmd=readcfgengine&_=1517835179026 HTTP/1.1" 200 1004 "http://localhost/sys-config.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.89 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Feb/2018:07:52:59 -0500] "GET /command/moode.php?cmd=readcfgtheme&_=1517835179054 HTTP/1.1" 200 418 "http://localhost/sys-config.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.89 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Feb/2018:07:53:02 -0500] "GET /command/moode.php?cmd=readcfgengine&_=1517835182604 HTTP/1.1" 200 1004 "http://localhost/sys-config.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.89 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Feb/2018:07:53:02 -0500] "GET /command/moode.php?cmd=readcfgtheme&_=1517835182635 HTTP/1.1" 200 418 "http://localhost/sys-config.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.89 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Feb/2018:07:53:02 -0500] "GET /engine-mpd.php?state=undefined&_=1517835182666 HTTP/1.1" 200 343 "http://localhost/sys-config.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.89 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Feb/2018:07:53:02 -0500] "GET /command/moode.php?cmd=readcfgengine&_=1517835182882 HTTP/1.1" 200 1004 "http://localhost/sys-config.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.89 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Feb/2018:07:53:02 -0500] "GET /command/moode.php?cmd=playlist HTTP/1.1" 200 2571 "http://localhost/sys-config.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.89 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Feb/2018:07:54:03 -0500] "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 11138 "http://localhost/sys-config.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.89 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Feb/2018:07:54:03 -0500] "GET /engine-mpd.php?state=stop&_=1517835182926 HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "http://localhost/sys-config.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.89 Safari/537.36"

-Tim
 
@Swizzle.....feature request....:)

in the browse tab the icon that is click-able, for add/play etc options, is too close to the click-able file name drop-down menu next to it.

I find I am trying to get the drop down and drill to the file I want but end up with an add/play option as I am slightly off target.

If there was a bigger gap between the icon and the file name drop down this wouldn't happen.... currently about 70% of my searches end up being restarted because of this...:( fat fingers....nope fat mouse cursor lol

Is this on Pi Touch, Tablet, Smartphone or Browser on Desktop?

-Tim
 
No-no-no :)
This picture is from Tim twitter site... I just want to say, here can see the same problem... See the active tab? It's so light, you can't read it!

Hi,

That was a bad phone camera pic of an old gen 1 pi touch that had no support for brightness. None of the colors are right.

If you are having an issue then post a picture of your Pi Touch.

-Tim
 
Nice to hear that, thank Tim.




OK, but you can have a "Best Of" disc of one artist - this should be a compilation - it shouldn't be a Various Artists and this disc should appear in at the right Artist.
I agree a best of should be a compilation as well but generally the Compilation tag only seems used as something from different artists. (Various) I went through a phase of using the compilation tag on best of albums but it caused issues.

Now the only thing I set the compilation tag on are my 'Dales Disco Divas' CD s.
 
Well, I've been watching the Moode 4 Beta talk with interest for ages. I'd been using Moode 3.8.4 for a while and TBH I wasn't very tempted to jump in and try it with the lack of RT kernel and complications around the build.

All this changed with the newer version of the build script and then the full release of Moode 4. Installed it last week onto a new microSD card and I have to say, kudos to Tim and the guys involved in putting the script together - it couldn't really be any easier! As a few others have noted, I believe the SQ is also better than with Moode 3.8.4 and the RT kernel : )

Donation made!
 
Hi Tim

This page appears to indicate there is an obscure issue with the kernel which is affecting some but not many people.

rpi 3 freezes / rpi 2 camera module not found kernel: Bump to 4.9.78 23a007716a0c6a8677097be859cf7063ae093d27 * Issue #165 * Hexxeh/rpi-firmware * GitHub

My hardware is a Rpi3, Iqaudio Dac + and Rpi display. These are common hardware meaning if it was a common problem it should be affecting more people. As I understand it though there are a few different driver boards fro the Rpi display so possibly that is an issue.

I did about 8 full builds none of which worked prior to creating a build which didn't update the kernel which finally fixed my problem. I am interested in knowing whether my solution also worked for jv275475 who posted about a kernel panic which appeared to be the same issue I had.

Whilst the kernel may be fixed shortly, perhaps the mosbuild.sh file could have a question asking whether the user wants to install the latest kernel (which potentially could have issues) or go with the stable kernel updated through sudo apt upgrade.

Hi,

Sure, I could re-enable the kernel question in the builder but 99.9% of the time the latest Linux kernel will be fine.

For the rare scenario where latest kernel causes breakage, an earlier kernel can be manually installed by specifying its Git commit hash in the rpi-update command. For example to install kernel 4.8.60 see below

Scroll down this list
Commits * Hexxeh/rpi-firmware * GitHub

Click kernel 4.9.60
kernel: Bump to 4.9.60 * Hexxeh/rpi-firmware@754029b * GitHub

Copy/paste the commit hash into rpi-update command
754029b1cb414a17dbd786ba5bee4fc936332255

sudo PRUNE_MODULES=1 rpi-update 754029b1cb414a17dbd786ba5bee4fc936332255

sudo rm -rf /lib/modules.bak
sudo rm -rf /boot.bak
sudo reboot

-Tim
 
I agree a best of should be a compilation as well but generally the Compilation tag only seems used as something from different artists. (Various) I went through a phase of using the compilation tag on best of albums but it caused issues.

Now the only thing I set the compilation tag on are my 'Dales Disco Divas' CD s.

Just had to post the cover art
 

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Well, I've been watching the Moode 4 Beta talk with interest for ages. I'd been using Moode 3.8.4 for a while and TBH I wasn't very tempted to jump in and try it with the lack of RT kernel and complications around the build.

All this changed with the newer version of the build script and then the full release of Moode 4. Installed it last week onto a new microSD card and I have to say, kudos to Tim and the guys involved in putting the script together - it couldn't really be any easier! As a few others have noted, I believe the SQ is also better than with Moode 3.8.4 and the RT kernel : )

Donation made!

Hi,

Many thanks :)

-Tim