Announce: Spicefly SugarCube Version 2.03 – (Automatic MusicIP DJ) for 7.x

[erland]

Ok on my way to to make this work but it crashes on 7.7.1

It's a SQLite related bug, the current version only works with MySQL, I posted more information about it here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...718#post669718

[Mnyb]

yup I actually donated, and there is a sqlite ready version I shall just figure how to get it.

[Morbeas]

I had replied to the older thread and in hopes of finding a solution, I'm pasting it here as well.

I'm not sure this thread is still monitored by the developer so here's hoping:

I'm running LMS 7.7.1 on a Synology DS1511+ NAS. I setup MusicIP (headless) just as in your tutorials. I had my music analyzed but the status never changes from "Identified (by name only)", though it is green. I confirm everything is working by going to http://localhost:10002/ and everything seems fine. On my LMS web client, I set the server to the IP address of the machine running MusicIP, which is obviously on a seperate PC and not on the NAS. I ensure that Sugarcube is enabled on my player of choice but when I pick a song to play, it only plays that song and nothing else! The only thing I can think of is this line from the tutorial: "When setting up MIP, ensure you match the same directory structure as LMS for the location of your music. Ie. Z:\My Music or \\Mynas\My Music" which I think what my problem is. (On the PC that MusicIP is installed, the music is in a mapped drive (M:/Music) and of course on the NAS it's something like volume1/media/music) Could this be what my problem is? Everything else seems to be in order. Please help!

Also, looking at the log.txt file, it's full of these:

"Tue May 08 21:46:52 2012
[0:00] Fingerprint failed (mis-execution): M:\Music\The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl\08 - All Eyes On Me.flac" which explains why none of them change status to "analyzed". It looks like the fingerprinting portion is failing. Any ideas?

Another thing is when I run Spyglass MIP and click on Squeezebox, I get a message telling me "SQUEEZEBOX CONFIGURATION IS MISSING: C:\Programdata\squeezebox\prefs\server.prefs".

PS. Looking through this forum, I came across someone saying that you can't use drive letters on one PC and use UNC on the LMS. So how do I use the UMC on the MusicIP GUI? And if I use the headless, it says it adds the music but then resets to zero songs. ((

[cparker]

Hi,

I'm a bit confused on your setup, so to simplify is this correct?

LMS 7.7.1 on a Synology DS1511+ NAS.
MusicIP (headless) installed (on the NAS?)

MusicIP GUI installed on a laptop?
So you are using the laptop to do the analysis of your music files?
You have setup MusicIP to *save* the analysis into the music files?

(You are correct that the paths *must* match)
On your laptop can you reach your music by a UNC e.g. \\nas\media\music
Can you setup LMS on the NAS to also connect by UNC e.g. \\nas\media\music
Setup MusicIP GUI to point via the same UNC e.g. \\nas\media\music (See Watch Folders under Preferences select your music files via the Network and not the mapped network drive)

Once you have done the analysis on the laptop close down MusicIP and copy the default.m3lib file and replace the file on the NAS.
Make sure the mmm.ini text file has the correct path to the default.m3lib file ie. cache=

Hope that helps

[Morbeas]

Ok, here's my setup in detail: LMS 7.7.1-001 running on a Synology DS1511+ NAS. I have MusicIP (headless as well as the GUI version - is there a simple way tu run headless on the Synology?) running on a seperate PC running Windows 7 x64. I do NOT have the MIP plugin installed for LMS.

I used the MIP GUI to scan my entire collection and had it save the analysis to the files. The first problem at this point is that none of the files change their status to "Analyzed" and looking at the log.txt file, I have entries like this:

"Tue May 08 21:46:52 2012
[0:00] Fingerprint failed (mis-execution): M:\Music\The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl\08 - All Eyes On Me.flac". So the fingerprinting fails for some reason.

The second problem is the bit about UNC paths. This is not a problem in LMS as it is already using UNC to locate my music library. The problem is with MIP GUI. There's no place for me to enter a UNC. The GUI forces me to use a drive letter instead and I see no place where I can enter the UNC (see screenshot below). So instead I tried entering the path in the headless client but that doesn't seem to save anything, it just goes back to 0 files.

And one final point is that since MIP is running on a sperate machine, I put that machine's IP address in the "MusicIP Host Location" setting for the Sugarcube plugin in LMS instead of "localhost". That's how it's supposed to be, correct?

Thanks for your help, I'm really itching to get this working...

[Mnyb]

Ok, here's my setup in detail: LMS 7.7.1-001 running on a Synology DS1511+ NAS. I have MusicIP (headless as well as the GUI version - is there a simple way tu run headless on the Synology?) running on a seperate PC running Windows 7 x64. I do NOT have the MIP plugin installed for LMS.

I used the MIP GUI to scan my entire collection and had it save the analysis to the files. The first problem at this point is that none of the files change their status to "Analyzed" and looking at the log.txt file, I have entries like this:

"Tue May 08 21:46:52 2012
[0:00] Fingerprint failed (mis-execution): M:\Music\The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl\08 - All Eyes On Me.flac". So the fingerprinting fails for some reason.

The second problem is the bit about UNC paths. This is not a problem in LMS as it is already using UNC to locate my music library. The problem is with MIP GUI. There's no place for me to enter a UNC. The GUI forces me to use a drive letter instead and I see no place where I can enter the UNC (see screenshot below). So instead I tried entering the path in the headless client but that doesn't seem to save anything, it just goes back to 0 files.

And one final point is that since MIP is running on a sperate machine, I put that machine's IP address in the "MusicIP Host Location" setting for the Sugarcube plugin in LMS instead of "localhost". That's how it's supposed to be, correct?

Thanks for your help, I'm really itching to get this working...

The headless server must run on the LMS server ( in your case the NAS if LMS is running there )for this to work afaik ,sugar cube/LMS talks to the running MIP on the server ,it should also start before LMS on the server.
You can however analyse your files with MIP-GUI on another machine and then move them to the server .
The file location you set in the web-GUI for MIP server should be the same as you set in the LMS server .

[Morbeas]

Ok, I'm confused. How do I get the headless client to run on my NAS? Also in your site it says that I do NOT need to install the MIP plugin but now you're saying that I do? Here's a direct quote from your FAQ:

"Do I need the MusicIP plugin for SB?
No, you do not need to install setup or configure the official MIP plugin. SC uses its own routines and doesn’t utilise any LMS MIP plugin settings. This means you can keep your LMS environment clean from MIP and not have the additional overhead of running the MIP scans within LMS."

Also I don't understand what this means: "The file location you set in the web-GUI for MIP server should be the same as you set in the LMS server." Are you talking about mmm.ini?

Thanks again.

[Mnyb]

Ok, I'm confused. How do I get the headless client to run on my NAS? Also in your site it says that I do NOT need to install the MIP plugin but now you're saying that I do? Here's a direct quote from your FAQ:

"Do I need the MusicIP plugin for SB?
No, you do not need to install setup or configure the official MIP plugin. SC uses its own routines and doesn’t utilise any LMS MIP plugin settings. This means you can keep your LMS environment clean from MIP and not have the additional overhead of running the MIP scans within LMS."

Also I don't understand what this means: "The file location you set in the web-GUI for MIP server should be the same as you set in the LMS server." Are you talking about mmm.ini?

Thanks again.

( oh I'm not cparker just happens to use sugar cube ).

The MIP plugin is not the same as the MIP server, MIP plugin is logitechs official plugin to interact with the MIP server .
That there is MIP server running is prerequisite for both.

Do not install the official plugin IMO.

I'm talking about the "music folder" setting in LMS vs MIP headless .

[Mnyb]

Install MIP on a NAS ?

It would work very similar to install MIP on Linux ( google can help here ) , but the devil is in the details .
Detail would differ for each kind of Linux

It can be some head scratching , on my ClearOS server I had to figure the startup scripts and user handling ( I have only root or squeezebox ) .

The upside is that there is more than one way, steps described in the " Linux install guides " you google does not have to be followed to the letter .

Sorry I could not walk you trough it on a Synology NAS :-/

[Morbeas]

LOL, sorry about that. I never bothered to look at your name.

Ok so my first question remains: how do I run headless on my NAS?

As for the music folder setting matching LMS and MIP is my primary problem. The MIP GUI will not let me enter the UNC for my location. (See my post above with the screenshot).