Moode Player Help

[TimCurtis]

Hi Tim, thanks for the explanation of how the volume control works, 3a covers my setup. Barry

Hi Barry,

I started with the test4 download image and Pi-2B with IQaudIO Pi-DAC+ and no issues.

In my experience troubleshooting, whenever the UI behaves really strangely and does not seem to be working correctly, hangs, freezes, does not update, etc. it's almost always due to a bad or corrupt SD Card.

Another potential cause of odd UI behavior is stale Web Browser cache. In other words the Browser is using old pages from its cache instead of new ones from the web server on the Pi. The fix that usually works for this is to (a) clear the Browser cache using whatever option is available in the Browser to do this, or (b) close all instances of the Web browser, this usually resets its cache. Note that Firefox and IE 11 Browsers have been problematic.

Here is procedure I used for testing:

(1) Boot with test4 image
(2) Set I2S audio device to "IQaudIO Pi-DAC+" (System config page)
(3) reboot

Verify MPD Hardware volume control

(1) Set MPD volume control to "Hardware" (MPD config page)
(2) Set Logarithmic curve to "Yes" (Customize popup)
(3) Move Moode volume knob to 10 then to 0 to establish initial MPD-ALSA volume level of 0
(4) Verify ALSA volume (%) is 0 on System config page
(5) Play a radio station, adjust Moode volume knob

Verify MPD Software volume control

(1) Set MPD volume control to "Software"
(2) Set Moode knob to 0
(3) Set ALSA volume (%) to 100 (System config page)
(4) Play a radio station, adjust Moode volume knob

Verify configuration works after reboot

(1) reboot
(2) Play a radio station, adjust Moode volume knob

Regards,
Tim

[Kit1cat]

Thanks Tim, will try re-doing the sd card when I have a minute.

[Kit1cat]

New image did the trick, now up and running

[Aligauld]

Hi Alistair,

Glad its working :-)

Btw what DAC are u using?

Regards,
Tim

Hi Tim

I've got the hifiberry dac+

Cheers,
Alistair

[The Black Adder]

Hi.

I'm having some trouble updating Moode with my HDD which is plugged in directly to the Pi.

Using RPi2 B+ IQAUDIO DAC+

Basically, I've simply added a few more albums to my HDD. When I plugged it back in I clicked on USB and Update this folder.

What happened next was simply nothing, the HDD simply kept on whirring away, the light on the HDD showed no data being shared and it eventually spun down. Moode kept on saying 'Updating'.

I've been at this way too long now and can't understand what to do as it's not showing me any error or progress report. The USB folder is still empty too.

Can anyone share with me the best way to update a HDD and how to configure Moode each time I do want to update my music please?

Thanks

[struth]

Is it a self powered hdd?...kinda sounds like a power issue

[TimCurtis]

Hi.

I'm having some trouble updating Moode with my HDD which is plugged in directly to the Pi.

Using RPi2 B+ IQAUDIO DAC+

Basically, I've simply added a few more albums to my HDD. When I plugged it back in I clicked on USB and Update this folder.

What happened next was simply nothing, the HDD simply kept on whirring away, the light on the HDD showed no data being shared and it eventually spun down. Moode kept on saying 'Updating'.

I've been at this way too long now and can't understand what to do as it's not showing me any error or progress report. The USB folder is still empty too.

Can anyone share with me the best way to update a HDD and how to configure Moode each time I do want to update my music please?

Thanks

Hi,

Hot-plugging USB (unfortunately) is not supported. Pi must be powered off:

(1) Moode Menu, Turn off, POWER OFF
(2) unplug USB drive
(3) plug into PC and copy files to it
(4) plug back into Pi
(5) Power up Pi
(6) Moode Source config screen, UPDATE MPD DB

An easier way though is to directly access the USB drive while it is plugged into Pi and Moode is running. Moode posts samba (cifs/smb) shares for NAS, SDCARD, USB, USB1, USB2 and USB3 folders.

These should show up in Mac Finder in the Sidebar under Shared, moode. In Windows a drive can be mapped to the share by specifying \\moode\USB as the server. Similarly in Mac Finder, "Go, Connect to server..." specify cifs://moode/USB as the server. If using Linux then u will know how to mount the share :-)

Once connected to the share, you can copy files or folders directly to it, then bring up Moode Source config screen and press UPDATE MPD DB.

Regards,
Tim

[mikmas]

An easier way though is to directly access the USB drive while it is plugged into Pi and Moode is running. Moode posts samba (cifs/smb) shares for NAS, SDCARD, USB, USB1, USB2 and USB3 folders.

These should show up in Mac Finder in the Sidebar under Shared, moode. In Windows a drive can be mapped to the share by specifying \\moode\USB as the server. Similarly in Mac Finder, "Go, Connect to server..." specify cifs://moode/USB as the server. If using Linux then u will know how to mount the share :-)
Regards,
Tim

thanks for the info Tim - I tried this on my Mac a while back but unfortunately uploading was painfully slow via WiFi so I gave up - do you know of a simple way to do this with a direct wired connection between Pi and Mac (wither USB or ethernet)?

In Volumio I had no problem with hot-plugging my SSD drive but indeed no luck with Moode. The restart method works quite well most of the time (if lengthy) but I still get occasions when Moode won't recognise the drive

[struth]

I just added 3 albums today using the samba method, as I find that convenient and dont have to muck about removing the hd. Takes maybe 90 secs an album tops but wouldnt use the method for many more than 3 ...

[The Black Adder]

Aaaaaah...

Righty-Ho! - Tim, your a starbar!

All updated nicely.

With updating in the future then, should I do this over the network? Thing is, it's reeeeealy slow copying as I'm using Wifi. Would using the Ethernet cable be better?

Thanks
Jo