Moode Player Help

[r100]

A huge thank's, Tim, I will be installing 2.6 on a pi2 in the next couple of day. Great stuff !

[TimCurtis]

Great work, Tim! I shall try 2.6 out very soon.

A suggestion for a next version: would it be possible to add the ability to record from radio streams? This would, of course, also need a way of scheduling specific programmes, for example to record BBC Proms concerts from the 320k stream. I already do this using Node.js and VLC (via its command line interface) on a Mac, but having it built into Moode would be very cool. Not sure if it would be do-able?

Rob

Hi Rob,

Yes its definitely possible since MPD compiled with "recorder" option, but challenging to implement because like a DVR there would need to be a scheduling system, a way to manage recordings, etc. There is scheduler code in Moode worker php thats used for Clock radio but its pretty simple.

-Tim

[Aligauld]

Hi There,
Thanks Tim downloading now and will configure this evening.

Any Chance in future version you could also link BBC Radio 4 Extra in the radio section.

The link is http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/...dio4extra_mf_p


Cheers,
Alistair

[robtweed]

Hi Tim

Got 2.6 up and running, but I have a problem - I can no longer find any option to disable the playlist, or to set my iTunes NAS source to random play. With a huge iTunes library, the UI freezes up trying to build and display the playlist, which was a problem you solved previously

Otherwise looking good. Took a few goes to get my Digi+ up and working on the Pi, but all sounding very good now.

Rob

[TimCurtis]

Hi Tim

Got 2.6 up and running, but I have a problem - I can no longer find any option to disable the playlist, or to set my iTunes NAS source to random play. With a huge iTunes library, the UI freezes up trying to build and display the playlist, which was a problem you solved previously

Otherwise looking good. Took a few goes to get my Digi+ up and working on the Pi, but all sounding very good now.

Rob

Hi Rob,

That feature has been replace by the new Auto-shuffle feature. There is a setting to turn it ON/OFF in System config. When its ON the "Random" button on the Playback panel launches "ashuffle" daemon instead of enabling MPD random play. Ashuffle selects a random track from the music collection, adds it to the end of Playlist then starts playback. When the track finishes, ashuffle adds another one. Moode implementation of Auto-shuffle also enables MPD consume mode so the track gets deleted after it finishes thus the Playlist never grows :-)

-Tim

[robtweed]

Hmm I already have Auto-shuffle set to on - for me, it still tries to build the playlist from the entire iTunes library and brings the UI to a halt.

Another thing I've found. I have a USB thumb drive in the Pi - it appears to be mounted read-only, so I can't transfer new files to it over SFTP

Thanks for your help, Tim!

[TimCurtis]

Hmm I already have Auto-shuffle set to on - for me, it still tries to build the playlist from the entire iTunes library and brings the UI to a halt.

Another thing I've found. I have a USB thumb drive in the Pi - it appears to be mounted read-only, so I can't transfer new files to it over SFTP

Thanks for your help, Tim!

Hi Rob,

Just ran quick test of Auto-shuffle on a couple of my systems and no issues. It adds one track to end of Playlist, deletes it when finished and then adds another one. One of the systems scrobbles to last.fm MoodeAudio http://www.last.fm/user/MoodeAudio Note that with Auto-shuffle there is no need to ever manually add anything to the Playlist.

USB drives should be mounted RW. Below a line from output of "mount" cmd for one of my ExFat drives. What does "mount" show for your drive?

/dev/sda1 on /media/EXFAT-128GB type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,sync,user_id=0,gro up_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks)

-Tim

[robtweed]

Turned Auto-shuffle off and on again, rebooted. It still grinds to a halt on the playback screen after I select Clear/Play on the iTunes NAS menu

Not sure I'm using the right commands:

pi@moode:~ $ mount /media/PI-MUSIC
mount: can't find /media/PI-MUSIC in /etc/fstab
pi@moode:~ $ cd /media
pi@moode:/media $ ls
PI-MUSIC
pi@moode:/media $ ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 PI-MUSIC

I certainly can't write to the drive.

Rob

[TimCurtis]

Turned Auto-shuffle off and on again, rebooted. It still grinds to a halt on the playback screen after I select Clear/Play on the iTunes NAS menu

Not sure I'm using the right commands:

pi@moode:~ $ mount /media/PI-MUSIC
mount: can't find /media/PI-MUSIC in /etc/fstab
pi@moode:~ $ cd /media
pi@moode:/media $ ls
PI-MUSIC
pi@moode:/media $ ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 PI-MUSIC

I certainly can't write to the drive.

Rob

Hi Rob,

When Auto-shuffle is ON all thats needed is to press the Random button on Playback panel. You should see a track automatically added to Playlist. No need to ever manually add anything to playlist. I amended my earlier post to mention that.

from ssh just type mount with no args.

-Tim

[robtweed]

Actually most of the time, even with the random play symbol clicked in the Playback panel, it's playing tracks in sequence rather than at random. But because the UI has ground to a halt, it becomes unusable.

Something definitely isn't working correctly on my Pi with 2.6 :-(