Moode Player Help

[TimCurtis]

Tim

Having played around with both Volumio and RuneAudio, I have to say I'm very impressed with Moode - all sorts of stuff that required fiddling about in the others "just works" in Moode.

The Internet Radio selections are great and nice to have them all pre-setup - especially the Linn and Naim stations. One observation though: the BBC Radio 3 link does not appear to be the HD (320k) stream, but shows up in Audio info as a 128k stream. Any chance this could be changed?

One thing that would make Moode perfect in my opinion - the ability to tell it to play tracks at random from a complete NAS or local USB source.

Great work, Tim!

Rob

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the nice compliment! I really appreciate it :-)

The BBC stations are all 128k MP3 streams and not the new 320k HLS streams. Apparently MPD, the music server engine that Moode uses, does not yet have the capability to decode the HLS format. I think the capability will be developed for MPD because there are a lot of UK audio enthusiasts asking for HLS support on various forums.

If you want to try random song play from an entire source, use the Browse panel to add NAS/folder or USB/folder to the Playlist then press the random button on the Playback panel. I'm not sure what the track limit is for the Playlist, but I just tested ~3500 tracks from a test NAS/Music folder. At one point in the past I think I tested successfully at ~ 12K tracks.

The only issue is that the automatic scroll-to function that positions the currently playing item in the Playlist within the viewable area does not seem to work quite right. Another opportunity for bug fixing :-)

Regards,
Tim