Playlists on Squeezebox Touch with USB hard drive?

[poodle]

Thanks! It's so easy once you understand the logic. My logic was to start with Playlists, but my logic isn't the logic the SBT uses, and I needed to start with the music I want in the playlist. Easy as pie. Thanks!

Now, I can see the playlist on the SBT, but when I play it using either the SBT remote or the web remote, I get an error message on the SBT saying that the file can't be found. It looks like the song is playing, because the SBT shows the song in "Now Playing" and shows that it is progressing through the song, but a message says "Stopped" at the top of the screen. All of the album information is there, but there is no sound. I switched to internet radio, and can hear a station, so the sound is working.

Maybe this will help or confuse things more: I have two players listed in the web remote: Squeezebox Server and Squeezebox Server (USB). If the web remote shows that I am using Squeezebox Server, then I can create a playlist, and this is the playlist that shows up on the SBT. If the web remote shows that my player is Squeezebox Server (USB), I can't create a playlist.

In the Server Settings window, the Player tab tells me that my Player isn't found.

In the web remote, if I switch from one player to the other, the IP goes from http://127.0.0.1:9000/ to http://192.168.1.114:9000/.

Right now, with the SBT trying to play the playlist from Squeezebox Server, Squeezebox Server (USB) doesn't appear in the web remote player options. But sometimes it does.

I am again very confused, and I am sure I am missing something. Can you spot what it is?

Thanks for any and all help!

[poodle]

... The web server settings just found the player. Will go see if the song is playing or if I still get that error message.

[poodle]

OK, the player Squeezebox Touch uses my laptop as the library, but my laptop doesn't have any songs on its hard-drive; they are all on the USB drive. So that must be why I'm getting the error message telling me it can't open the file. Squeezebox Touch (USB) uses the USB library (I guess), but I can't make a playlist on that with the web remote. Is that just the rule? I can't use the web remote to access the USB and create playlists, and just have to use the SBT touch screen itself?

[aubuti]

I am again very confused, and I am sure I am missing something. Can you spot what it is?

It appears to me that you are trying to run two different _servers_, the built-in server on the Touch plus one on your pc. You should stick with one, at least until you get a better handle on what you're doing.

To use a USB drive connected directly to the Touch, you should use the Touch's built-in server -- that's likely the one with the "(USB)" reference. However, the Touch's built-in server does not have any web interface, so to control it you need to use one (or more) of IR remote, touchscreen, smartphone, or tablet.

Likewise, if you use the LMS running on your pc, it will use some other source, such as its internal hard drive or a network drive, for the music library.

Now, because the Touch runs file sharing software (Samba), I suppose it's possible that you have set things up in a complicated way in which the LMS on your pc is reaching out the USB connected to your Touch as a network drive. If that is the case, then the Touch and the pc will see the pathnames as very different, which could lead to "file not found" errors.

Or is the web interface you refer to the mysqueezebox.com web interface, and not LMS at all?

So...
1) are you trying to run LMS on both your Touch and the pc? If so, why?
2) is the web interface on your pc the LMS interface, or mysqueezebox.com?

[aubuti]

OK, the player Squeezebox Touch uses my laptop as the library, but my laptop doesn't have any songs on its hard-drive; they are all on the USB drive. So that must be why I'm getting the error message telling me it can't open the file. Squeezebox Touch (USB) uses the USB library (I guess), but I can't make a playlist on that with the web remote. Is that just the rule? I can't use the web remote to access the USB and create playlists, and just have to use the SBT touch screen itself?

As noted earlier, if you're using the Touch's built-in server, there is no web remote. It is deliberately disabled on the Touch's server because of the Touch's limited processing power.

You could
1) use the Touch's built-in server and make playlists using the touchscreen, or the IR remote, or a smartphone, or a tablet
or
2) attach the USB drive to your laptop and run LMS on your laptop, then create playlists using the web interface _or_ any of the methods mentioned in (1).

[kidstypike]

OK, the player Squeezebox Touch uses my laptop as the library, but my laptop doesn't have any songs on its hard-drive; they are all on the USB drive. So that must be why I'm getting the error message telling me it can't open the file. Squeezebox Touch (USB) uses the USB library (I guess), but I can't make a playlist on that with the web remote. Is that just the rule? I can't use the web remote to access the USB and create playlists, and just have to use the SBT touch screen itself?

Exactly! You cannot use the web ui to operate the Touch when it is connected to it's internal server.
You can use:
It's infrared remote
It's touch screen
Another squeezebox player on your network
Smartphones etc. running an app
Squeezeplay running on a PC/laptop on your network

But NOT the web ui.

[poodle]

Thanks very much for all the good advice. I have decided to simplify my life by plugging the USB into my computer and leaving it there. That way I can rip albums to it and play them easily without having to do gymnastics with the SBT and its server and library settings. Phew! This is going to be a lot more fun now.

[dasmueller]

I believe you will be very pleased w your decision. It is all just easier setup that way.

[trott3r]

Hello,

At 21:19 22/04/2012, you wrote:

>This is dead easy to do, difficult to describe.
>
>Try this using the Touch screen:
>
>Find an album and start it playing
> From the "Now Playing" screen, touch the "Playlist" icon top right.
>Scroll to the bottom of the playlist and touch "Save playlist"
>Type a name on the keyboard that pops up, and touch "Done" bottom right
>of keyboard
>Go to My Music > Playlists, and your recently named playlist should be
>there.
>
>It really is simple!
>
>To make a playlist of a few albums, browse to the first album, touch and
>hold till you get a popup, and touch "add to end".
>Repeat this for all the albums you want on your playlist.
> From the "Now Playing" screen, touch the "Playlist" icon top right.
>Scroll to the bottom of the playlist and touch "Save playlist"
>Type a name on the keyboard that pops up, and touch "Done" bottom right
>of keyboard
>Go to My Music > Playlists, and your recently named playlist should be
>there.
>
>Don't forget to press the shuffle button if you want the playlist
>shuffled.


I have got the playlist working saved as "slow1" for late night listening.

But i cannot figure out how to shuffle the albums.
Do i always have to play the first album on the play list and then it shuffles
the later albums?

Just dont want to start with the same album on the playlist.

Martin N

Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of
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[kidstypike]

I have got the playlist working saved as "slow1" for late night listening.

But i cannot figure out how to shuffle the albums.
Do i always have to play the first album on the play list and then it shuffles
the later albums?

Just dont want to start with the same album on the playlist.

Martin N

Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of
MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups

Just press the shuffle button on the remote, or touch the shuffle icon on the screen. One press plays all tracks from all albums randomly, two presses plays whole albums randomly. Then start playing your playlist.