Hello, lock screen controls are available on Bubbleupnp (UPNP/DLNA controller) and MALP (a MPD client GUI for android).
No real reason for you to be running a DAC unless you plan on disconnecting the HDMI lead and not using the AVR.
On mobile devices you can set you audio player to display some basic controls on the lock screen. So even when your mobile device is locked, you are still able to control your music player. Some apps offer this option.
Hi Tim et al,
After some testing I switched too Moode, because it is faster with huge playlists than Volumio and Rune.
But although the fastest, it still is quite slow when I'm using the webinterface.
I use moode 3.1 on a Raspberry Pi 3 B, with a Samsung SSD connected via USB.
All files are flac.
It would be great if either of these features can be added to Moode...
- more responsive webinterface when loading a large playlist;
- limit the number of items *shown* in the playlist (perhaps via a popup 'the playlist is very large, load everything?');
- add a menu option "select x tracks at random" on the 'browse' tab. I think 100 is a good value for x. Or "select y minutes/hours of random tracks." A lot of possibilities
Thanks,
Peter
After some testing I switched too Moode, because it is faster with huge playlists than Volumio and Rune.
But although the fastest, it still is quite slow when I'm using the webinterface.
I use moode 3.1 on a Raspberry Pi 3 B, with a Samsung SSD connected via USB.
All files are flac.
It would be great if either of these features can be added to Moode...
- more responsive webinterface when loading a large playlist;
- limit the number of items *shown* in the playlist (perhaps via a popup 'the playlist is very large, load everything?');
- add a menu option "select x tracks at random" on the 'browse' tab. I think 100 is a good value for x. Or "select y minutes/hours of random tracks." A lot of possibilities
Thanks,
Peter
I use static IP address on a wired connection, partly to speed up booting. However I see a "A start job is running for dhcpcd on all interfaces" message during booting for about 15 sec (via the HDMI out). If I understand this is a DHCP client which is not needed for a static configuration. How can this be avoided? I found in the internet that a "sudo systemctl disable dhcpcd.service" command would disable this service but I wouldn't use this without asking first. So is it safe (and persistent) to disable? Or are there any other way to speed up the booting process?
And there is the "Check for eth0 IP" parameter in the configs. Is it related anyhow to this situation? Tim wrote about this as "The setting does not disable the eth0 interface, it just bypasses the code in worker startup that performs a check for receipt of an ip address on eth0. This can reduce boot time by up to 9 secs." in another support forum. So I assume it is also safe to set it to "no".
And there is the "Check for eth0 IP" parameter in the configs. Is it related anyhow to this situation? Tim wrote about this as "The setting does not disable the eth0 interface, it just bypasses the code in worker startup that performs a check for receipt of an ip address on eth0. This can reduce boot time by up to 9 secs." in another support forum. So I assume it is also safe to set it to "no".
Hi Tim et al,
After some testing I switched too Moode, because it is faster with huge playlists than Volumio and Rune.
But although the fastest, it still is quite slow when I'm using the webinterface.
I use moode 3.1 on a Raspberry Pi 3 B, with a Samsung SSD connected via USB.
All files are flac.
It would be great if either of these features can be added to Moode...
- more responsive webinterface when loading a large playlist;
- limit the number of items *shown* in the playlist (perhaps via a popup 'the playlist is very large, load everything?');
- add a menu option "select x tracks at random" on the 'browse' tab. I think 100 is a good value for x. Or "select y minutes/hours of random tracks." A lot of possibilities
Thanks,
Peter
Hi Peter,
If you are using huge playlist for random play try using the Auto-shuffle feature. It only uses a single playlist item and never grows the Playlist.
Playlists and also the Library are loaded into the Browser memory. Huge numbers of items can bog down the Browser.
-Tim
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Hi Tim,
Not entirely what I was after, but this is definitely an improvement.
(Sometimes I enable shuffle on all my music, and when I hear a good track, I disable shuffle.)
Thanks,
Peter
Hi,
When static address is assigned there should be a deny interfaces eth0 | wlan0 entry in etc/dhcpcd.conf. This prevents dhcp from assigning another address to the interface which could take some time.
Verify the configuration by cmd below.
cat /etc/dhcpcd.conf | grep denyinterfaces
For fastest boot:
- Set CPU governor to Performance
- Turn off HDMI port
- Set "Check for eth0 IP" to No
-Tim
Hi,
Just a brief status update on upcoming Moode 3.5 release.
I got side tracked for a while working with the new 4.9 Linux kernel branch to see if it could be used for Moode 3.5 but I discovered a couple of show-stopper issues related to Raspbian compatibility with the new kernel branch. When these are resolved I'll resume 4.9 testing but until then Moode will stay on 4.4 kernel.
I've added the nice new Audiophonics TDA1387 DAC to the list of supported I2S DACs
Currently working on getting Moode 3.5 packaged up and ready for release. Also testing out Amazon CloudFront CDN for distributing the download zip to enable faster downloads.
-Tim
Just a brief status update on upcoming Moode 3.5 release.
I got side tracked for a while working with the new 4.9 Linux kernel branch to see if it could be used for Moode 3.5 but I discovered a couple of show-stopper issues related to Raspbian compatibility with the new kernel branch. When these are resolved I'll resume 4.9 testing but until then Moode will stay on 4.4 kernel.
I've added the nice new Audiophonics TDA1387 DAC to the list of supported I2S DACs
Currently working on getting Moode 3.5 packaged up and ready for release. Also testing out Amazon CloudFront CDN for distributing the download zip to enable faster downloads.
-Tim
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Hi,
Indeed, there is a "denyinterfaces eth0" in /etc/dhcpcd.conf. Now I set CPU governor to Performance (with Advanced kernel), "Check for eth0 IP" to No but still the message appears and causes more than 20 sec delay during booting.
Hi,
Try:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/dhcpcd.service.d/wait.conf
remove the -w arg
save and reboot
-Tim
It seems it eliminated both the message and the delay. Thanks for your assistance.
Hi,
Thanks for quick confirmation.
Maybe I can slip this into Moode 3.5 for static address config.
-TIm
Hey Tim,
Great to see an update in the works, thanks as always for your effort with this..
FYI there's a mainline kernel bump up to 4.4.50 in raspbian that's been released today (along with the "bootloader" etc updates that normally come with it).
I can confirm that I've been regularly "upgrading" and "dist-upgrading" via apt-get v3.1 without any troubles and the kernel bump today again seems to trouble free. There's been s couple samba/cifs upgrades over the past month or two, whilst I don't follow the change logs as I have no problems with any moode features, perhaps they bring performance gains?
Thanks,
LTF
Great to see an update in the works, thanks as always for your effort with this..
FYI there's a mainline kernel bump up to 4.4.50 in raspbian that's been released today (along with the "bootloader" etc updates that normally come with it).
I can confirm that I've been regularly "upgrading" and "dist-upgrading" via apt-get v3.1 without any troubles and the kernel bump today again seems to trouble free. There's been s couple samba/cifs upgrades over the past month or two, whilst I don't follow the change logs as I have no problems with any moode features, perhaps they bring performance gains?
Thanks,
LTF
Hi,
Just a brief status update on upcoming Moode 3.5 release.
I got side tracked for a while working with the new 4.9 Linux kernel branch to see if it could be used for Moode 3.5 but I discovered a couple of show-stopper issues related to Raspbian compatibility with the new kernel branch. When these are resolved I'll resume 4.9 testing but until then Moode will stay on 4.4 kernel.
I've added the nice new Audiophonics TDA1387 DAC to the list of supported I2S DACs
Currently working on getting Moode 3.5 packaged up and ready for release. Also testing out Amazon CloudFront CDN for distributing the download zip to enable faster downloads.
-Tim
Hi,
4.4.50 been out for quite a while now, not just today. It was the last of the rpi 4.4 branch prior to kernel devs bumping to rpi 4.9 branch.
Latest Raspbian release 2017-03-02 is using 4.4.50 and at some point when the dust settles, there will be a Raspbian release on top of 4.9
-Tim
You realise the 'auto shuffle' feature is not the same as the shuffle playback icon, which shuffles what is currently on the playlist?
You select auto shuffle via the config.
From the Help:
When the last song in the Playlist has finished playing Auto-shuffle adds a random song from the music library to the end of the Playlist, then removes it when it finishes playing. This creates a continuous stream of music without growing the Playlist.
NOTE: Auto-shuffle replaces MPD random play as the default method for the 'Random' button on the Playback panel.