Moode Audio Player for Raspberry Pi

I swapped out the USB cable and now the tracks are displaying. So that's good.

However, there are still some things that don't quite make sense to me.

- Generally, it's very slow and balky. Wondering if this is just par for the course on web UIs like this one. Takes forever to switch between panels, for example.

- Playlists display incompletely. In the playback panel, sometimes just a small portion of the tracks show up, and sometimes all of them do. In the Browse panel, only a portion show up, so it's very confusing, and after some time spent loading tracks into a play list, kind of disturbing to fid them not showing up...until they do. The entire playlist should display in the Browse panel, right?

- Tim, it would be helpful if the current playlist loaded would display on the Playback panel, as the little window with the disk icon only says "save playlist."

Sorry to be a pain. Really want to get this thing working properly.

--Buckapound

Hi,

All symptoms suggest something external to Moode software. The UI should be fast and responsive and there should never be incomplete display.

-Tim
 
MoOde is working great with my Roberts 83i radio using UPnP. Thanks Tim.

One question, when I boot the Pi it re-catalogues all the songs which takes around 45 minutes. Is there a way to get it to remember the catalogue?

The MP3's are on an external self-powered HD which I have connected to the Pi via USB.

Thanks

Rob
 
After having no success with picoreplayer, and realizing moode has NAS support I just installed it.

I don't get anything but a slight buzz from the speakers though.
RPI3 with "pifi" Digi+ to a TDA1541A dac.

What settings should I use?

Thanks in advance.
 
After having no success with picoreplayer, and realizing moode has NAS support I just installed it.

I don't get anything but a slight buzz from the speakers though.
RPI3 with "pifi" Digi+ to a TDA1541A dac.

What settings should I use?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

In TR7 there is an I2S driver selection named HIFI Digi+ in the dropdown list on System config screen. The clone boards use the same driver as the Hifiberry Digi.

-Tim
 
Hi,

In TR7 there is an I2S driver selection named HIFI Digi+ in the dropdown list on System config screen. The clone boards use the same driver as the Hifiberry Digi.

-Tim

Hi,
Thanks for the fast reply.
That's the one I'm using...strange.
No sound, dead quiet, with nothing playing and only "static" when playing.

The TDA1541A dac works fine with a SB V3 (slimdevices).

Exactly the same result I got with picoreplayer.
Moode has the advantage of playing music of a Network source , I like not having to have the PC turned on just to listen to music.
 
MoOde is working great with my Roberts 83i radio using UPnP. Thanks Tim.

One question, when I boot the Pi it re-catalogues all the songs which takes around 45 minutes. Is there a way to get it to remember the catalogue?

The MP3's are on an external self-powered HD which I have connected to the Pi via USB.

Thanks

Rob

Hi Rob,

When u say "re-catalogues" are u referring to the DLNA server?

-Tim
 
Hi,
Thanks for the fast reply.
That's the one I'm using...strange.
No sound, dead quiet, with nothing playing and only "static" when playing.

The TDA1541A dac works fine with a SB V3 (slimdevices).

Exactly the same result I got with picoreplayer.
Moode has the advantage of playing music of a Network source , I like not having to have the PC turned on just to listen to music.

Hi,

Very odd. Back in early March, the Hifiberry Digi driver would not work on Pi-3. It would only produce white noise or static similar to what u are describing.
https://www.hifiberry.com/2016/03/important-news-on-compatibility-with-the-raspberry-pi-3/

They fixed the driver and I assume it made it into 4.4.8 kernel used in Moode TR7.

-Tim
 
Hi,

Very odd. Back in early March, the Hifiberry Digi driver would not work on Pi-3. It would only produce white noise or static similar to what u are describing.
https://www.hifiberry.com/2016/03/important-news-on-compatibility-with-the-raspberry-pi-3/

They fixed the driver and I assume it made it into 4.4.8 kernel used in Moode TR7.

-Tim

That could very well be the problem then as I had it on both picoreplayer and moode.
I know the dac works as it should , it's my modded analog metric DAC that is being put into service while I build a dual Red Baron DAC.

The fix would be to disable BT, which is fine with me as I only use the Pi as a digital source.

Where would the file that needed to be edited be located? Can it be done via ssh?
 
That could very well be the problem then as I had it on both picoreplayer and moode.
I know the dac works as it should , it's my modded analog metric DAC that is being put into service while I build a dual Red Baron DAC.

The fix would be to disable BT, which is fine with me as I only use the Pi as a digital source.

Where would the file that needed to be edited be located? Can it be done via ssh?

Hi,

Are u using TR7?

You could try BT disable setting or update to 4.4.12 kernel, both done via ssh.

BT DISABLE
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
Add dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt

UPDATE KERNEL
sudo rpi-update
sudo reboot
sudo rm -rf /boot.bak
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules.bak
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/4.4.8+
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/4.4.8-v7+

-Tim
 
Hi,

Are u using TR7?

You could try BT disable setting or update to 4.4.12 kernel, both done via ssh.

BT DISABLE
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
Add dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt

UPDATE KERNEL
sudo rpi-update
sudo reboot
sudo rm -rf /boot.bak
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules.bak
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/4.4.8+
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/4.4.8-v7+

-Tim
I'm using the latest one available, downloaded it today.

Thanks alot for the detailed answer 🙂
 
Hi,

Moode 2.6 Test Release 7 (TR7) is available for download at moodeaudio.org under the TEST CODE button. This TR is based on 2016-03-18 Jessie Lite and Linux kernel 4.4.8 and includes fixes and updates from all previous TR's.

...

Regards,
Tim

Tim, I have no time this weekend to test extensively but I at least brought TR7 up in AP Mode on both my RPi2B with USB audio out and my RPi3B with HiFiBerry Dac+, configured them without incident, and started playing radio stations immediately as WiFi clients.

Thanks.

Regards,
Kent
 
Tim, I have no time this weekend to test extensively but I at least brought TR7 up in AP Mode on both my RPi2B with USB audio out and my RPi3B with HiFiBerry Dac+, configured them without incident, and started playing radio stations immediately as WiFi clients.

Thanks.

Regards,
Kent

Hi kent,

Thanks! I can cross off issue with bad config file causing AP mode fail on pi-2b.

-Tim
 
Well, today being a different day, yes I am now seeing issues trying the changed worker.php,.. moode.local won't resolve, library empty, all sorts of weirdness. I'll keep poking at it and see if I can nail anything down. No apparent clues in /var/log

Chris


Hi,

Interesting. I had some issues trying to get Ashuffle and Auto-play to work together but don't recall exactly what was going on. I'll revisit for Moode 2.7.

Here is a link that was sent to me by IvanB for code that adds similar tracks to MPD Playlist.
MPD_sima homepage

-Tim
 
As an aside, my editor was choking on 4 non-ascii characters so I commented them out, seemingly to no effect. Caveat: I'm no php expert and my experience comes from several years ago therefore is likely very outdated.

Code:
//MYEDIT
//sysCmd('ln -s /mnt/NAS /var/lib/mpd/music/NAS^@^@^@');
//sysCmd('ln -s /mnt/SDCARD /var/lib/mpd/music/SDCARD^@');
sysCmd('ln -s /mnt/NAS /var/lib/mpd/music/NAS');
sysCmd('ln -s /mnt/SDCARD /var/lib/mpd/music/SDCARD');