Erland's Plug-ins, Large Collections, and Hardware Requirements
I have been an extremely satisfied VortexBox Appliance (VBA) owner since December 2009. In that time I've built an extensive music library while modifying both the hardware and software of my machine...
View Article3voor12 Luisterpaal on Squeezebox
Hello, In the Netherlands & Belgium there is a site: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/ It broadcasts new albums for about 2-3 weeks. Ideal for discovering new music. You can listen on your PC or smartphone...
View ArticleSqueezeplay & BBC Radio app
I've just been playing with this combination - can't get any On Demand streams, and there's no sound on any BBC streams, whether live or on demand. Using Win7. I'm not spending much time on this - just...
View ArticleResetVolume and 7.7.2
Anyone using ResetVolume plugin w/ 7.7.2? I can set the settings for my Radios in the WebUI, but it doesn't actually change the volume at startup: http://cl.ly/IxPu Anyone have any ideas?
View ArticleProblems with Server Power Control plugin installed on VortexBox is 2.1
I've recently installed VortexBox is 2.1 software on an old PC and am struggling to get the Server Power Control plugin to work. It seems to be installed as far as I can tell, but doesn't shut down...
View ArticleLots of buffering when using MOG plugin
I have a subscription to the MOG music streaming service and I'm getting a lot of buffering and timeouts when I play tunes via the MOG plugin on my Squeezebox 3. I don't get any buffering or timeouts...
View ArticleTunein plugin?
> Given the recent announcement about the Smart (?) radio, is anyone > contemplating a Tunein plugin we could run on LMS? TuneIn is still there - why would you want another plugin? -- Michael
View ArticleSlacker problem.
After playing Slacker for a period of time (1 1/2 hours or less), the music just stops. I am hoping that Logitech will still support the functionality of this sponsored service. This has happened...
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New Custom Clock Template - Radio SDT
Erland - I've been meaning to share this for a while. I've tweaked the layout of one of the SDT based Custom Clock templates for the Radio. My focus has been to eliminate scrolling and only show the...
View ArticleSqueezeplay sound output
I installed Squeezeplay Firmware: 7.7.2-r9599M on a Mac Mini which is hooked up via USB to a DAC. The sound outputs only from the Mac Mini & not through the USB to DAC into a stereo. Sounds from...
View ArticleConverting an old PC to VortexBox
I have an old PC IÂ’m thinking of using as a dedicated Squeezebox server. It is a 9 year old Pentium 4 machine with 2.5 gigs of RAM, but the hard drive is small (75 gigs I think). The operating system...
View ArticleTrackStat in iPeng
I posted the following in the iPeng support thread, but Pippin says he thinks the issue is with TrackStat itself. So I am posting this in a separate thread hoping Erland will pick this up. Currently...
View ArticleUPnP interface abilities/limitations
Are there inherent limitations to a UPnP controller and player posed by the API itself? Can a user interface controlling a player that is connected to a UPnP server be just as rich as one connected to...
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IR Blaster Companion App
Hi All, I've developed a little webpage that sends commands to the irBlaster plugin to allow you to control your hi-fi from any javascript-enabled web browser. It's very much a proof-of-concept idea...
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Squeezebox Server, Custom Scan, TrackStat inconsistencies
Quote: Originally Posted by erland It's probably a good idea to start a new thread if we need to discuss this further. But for the duplicate musicbrainz ID's the reason is likely the changed principle...
View ArticleDynamic Playlist - random songs from multiple artists?
I'm trying to build a dynamic playlist where it will just pull from a group of artist I specify. The artists aren't grouped by genre or any other characteristics. I thought I could just click select...
View ArticleHelp with Shairplay and WaveInput plugin to emulate "Airplay"
Having seen the release of Shairplay a while ago, I recently came across the following blog post that details very specific instructions on how to enable Shairplay on LMS to allow "Airplay" streaming...
View ArticleAlbum Review/Bio Plugin refresh issue
> When I see the left pane refresh, it always "refreshes" to the first > album/bio when I started and thus never refreshes to the current album > or artist. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll have...
View ArticleDynamic Playlist database disk image is malformed
I just noticed that my custom dynamic playlists are no longer showing up in the list of dynamic playlists. I have checked that the server has read/write access to the playlists directory, and now...
View ArticleTriode Spotify 2.2.8 on QNAP TS-209 - Helper App not running
Hello, I am dying to get spotify to work on my QNAP TS-209 and SB Duet. QNAP firmware has been updated to latest version. Architexture is armv5tel-linux. I have installed Triode's plugin v2.2.8 on LMS...
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