Those two files (Thad Jones-Mel Lewis) were ripped using EAC from a disc that I suspect may be a bad pressing (skips in some CD players). I re-ripped those two tracks in foobar, updated their tags to match the others, and copied them to the folder in the sdcard. Ran Update MPD DB and it updated instantly.
I then tried copying a couple more albums and updating MPD. All are now being recognized very quickly.
This begs a question: If presented with a few corrupted or badly ripped files, does MPD crash or hang, and is then unable to update the rest of the database?
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Just want to thank Tim for his hard work making this great music player. Gladly donated my 10 plus some. Been following this from the start and I really like the way it has evolved.
Good Job!
Good Job!
Thank you Martin, for the instructions in post #7554, it worked right away and was so easy to do in a terminal from my Ubuntu laptop.
Best regards from Norway
Elchund
Best regards from Norway
Elchund
It seems there is one problem character. If I use the open and close brackets "[" and "]" in a folder, it seems not everything gets updated in the database.
I copied an album by B.B. King named "Live at the Regal [MFSL Ultradisc II]". If I left the open/close brackets in the folder name, the album cover jpeg would not display in Moode. When I changed the brackets to open/close parentheses, to "Live at the Regal (MFSL Ultradisc II)", the album cover displayed as expected.
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OK, I think I've proven this...
I had several folders with "[" and "]" in their names. For instance:
/Miles Davis and John Coltrane [Remaster]/
/Mahler Symphony No. 2 [Tennstedt, LPO Live]/
/Live at the Regal [MFSL Ultradisc I]/
/Song for My Father [RVG RM 1999]/
All of these folders contained proper FLAC files with a proper JPEG file for the cover art.
If I leave the open/close brackets in the folder name, the cover art will not display in Moode 3.1.
If I change the folder name to use open/close parentheses instead of brackets, the cover art displays as expected.
The funny thing is that it doesn't matter if the open/close brackets are left unchanged in the ID3 tags. The only place where brackets in the name will cause problems is in the album folder name.
This would be easy to test. Does this happen on anyone else's Moode 3.1 installation? How about in Moode 3.6?
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I had several folders with "[" and "]" in their names. For instance:
/Miles Davis and John Coltrane [Remaster]/
/Mahler Symphony No. 2 [Tennstedt, LPO Live]/
/Live at the Regal [MFSL Ultradisc I]/
/Song for My Father [RVG RM 1999]/
All of these folders contained proper FLAC files with a proper JPEG file for the cover art.
If I leave the open/close brackets in the folder name, the cover art will not display in Moode 3.1.
If I change the folder name to use open/close parentheses instead of brackets, the cover art displays as expected.
The funny thing is that it doesn't matter if the open/close brackets are left unchanged in the ID3 tags. The only place where brackets in the name will cause problems is in the album folder name.
This would be easy to test. Does this happen on anyone else's Moode 3.1 installation? How about in Moode 3.6?
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Hi Tim, for Triple J and Triple J Unearthed (and all the Australian ABC stations) have a look here for the direct links:
https://radio.abc.net.au/help/streams
Double J is also good.
I test using a Mac utility I downloaded from the Flash association - there's a similar app for Windows: H2Testw and the other apps should help diagnose https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-an...b-flash-drives-bought-from-ebay-with-h2testw/
'Tricks' such as freezing your SD can result in being able to access a faulty disk, but it's just as much to do with luck as science.
For looking at files on your Pi, a couple of other executables, other than nano, are useful:
'cat filename' lists the contents of a file. Pipe 'more' to get it to pause at each screenful: 'cat filename |more'
or pipe grep to look for a specific string: 'cat filename|grep searchtext (pipe char is a solid-looking vertical bar on your keyboard)
'tail filename' keeps a 'live' screen display of the last screenful (20 lines?) of data in a file - fantastic for watching a log file for an event, for example.
As to whether or not to store music files on an SD, I haven't investigated it enough to have an opinion, but I don't store anything on my card and have had few problems that couldn't be attributed to cheap card or useless power supply 🙂.
I am trying to port Moode to a bootable USB SSD. I've got it to work on Jessie reliably, but haven't been able to replicate using MoodeOS, yet. When my large list of tasks is less large, I will give booting off flash and ssd a good go.
Hi Tim,
When experimenting with the advanced Kernel settings in Moode Audio i can't hear any differences in my setup, but when I use the Sound Signature settings in Rune Audio I can hear slight differences between the settings.
Is it possible to integrate the shell script (https://github.com/RuneAudio/RuneUI/blob/dev/command/orion_optimize.sh) as sort of bootscript into /etc/rc.local for Moode Audio??
Thx for thinking about/overlooking it.
And by direct email, I've sent Tim updated links to EuropaRadioJazz, WFMT, and WRTI streams.
Regards,
Kent
Hi,
Today must be Radio Station day 🙂 Here is where I'm at on the list.
-Tim
NEW
JB Radio-2 (320K)
UPDATED
X Ambient Sleeping Pill
X EuropaRadioJazz (2 stations)
X La Premiere
X Mad Music Asylum
X Musiq 3
X Radio X Brussels
X Rinse FM
- Rock FM
- Smooth Jazz Global Radio
- SomehowJazz
- Triple J Unearthed
- Triple J
- UCFM
- WFMT
- WRTI Philadelphia
X Buddha is misspelled BuddAH :-0
DELETED
X Farpastpost
X FM106
X KWAX Classic
X Addicted to Radio - Blues Classics
X Ann Channel Detroit
X Classic and Jazz
X Phases Radio
X RMC 1
Today must be Radio Station day 🙂 Here is where I'm at on the list.
-Tim
NEW
JB Radio-2 (320K)
UPDATED
X Ambient Sleeping Pill
X EuropaRadioJazz (2 stations)
X La Premiere
X Mad Music Asylum
X Musiq 3
X Radio X Brussels
X Rinse FM
- Rock FM
- Smooth Jazz Global Radio
- SomehowJazz
- Triple J Unearthed
- Triple J
- UCFM
- WFMT
- WRTI Philadelphia
X Buddha is misspelled BuddAH :-0
DELETED
X Farpastpost
X FM106
X KWAX Classic
X Addicted to Radio - Blues Classics
X Ann Channel Detroit
X Classic and Jazz
X Phases Radio
X RMC 1
@Tim
Re.: LibreSpot
I tried all three Kernels, with or without up-sampling but couldn't get Librespot to connect (see attachment, it says "connecting" then reverts back to its initial state). Not a big deal for me, .. just wanted to report my findings.
All the best
Configuration: Pi3, MoodeAudio 3.6, Piano2.1, Kali
Computers: Mac, iphone
Re.: LibreSpot
I tried all three Kernels, with or without up-sampling but couldn't get Librespot to connect (see attachment, it says "connecting" then reverts back to its initial state). Not a big deal for me, .. just wanted to report my findings.
All the best
Configuration: Pi3, MoodeAudio 3.6, Piano2.1, Kali
Computers: Mac, iphone
Attachments
@r100
I had a similar thing. Even though it said 'Connecting' I tried returning to the menu and clicking 'MoodeLibre' again. Eventually it connects (Android tablet).
(I don't think this is an issue for Tim btw, since he has not yet integrated Spotify into Moode because of the volume problem.)
I had a similar thing. Even though it said 'Connecting' I tried returning to the menu and clicking 'MoodeLibre' again. Eventually it connects (Android tablet).
(I don't think this is an issue for Tim btw, since he has not yet integrated Spotify into Moode because of the volume problem.)
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Hi,
Could you please be more specific?
You don't trust it will work, it will influence/harm other performance?
The only reason I would try it because of the audible difference the settings for 'ACX' make for sound.
Newer examples can be found over here;
http://www.runeaudio.com/forum/tweaking-the-audio-performance-rpi3-t4301-40.html#p19327
Vhond
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Hi,
Even after integration, connection issues between Spotify Connect client and librespot server would in most cases need to be need to be reported to the dev for librespot. This is same for shairport-sync and the other add-in's. I can do the basics though like see if the server has crashed, analyze logs, etc.
-Tim
Hi,
If I get a bunch of reports that these settings are doing good things then I can investigate, but even then there is a limit to how many tweek features I can include because each one creates potential unintended side-effects and a support vector for me.
You can always just add your own script to rc.local.
-Tim