New in 7.9: "Don't Stop The Music"

[mherger]

New in 7.9: "Don't Stop The Music"

> How about an option to switch to a given radio stream (eg. one of the
> favourites list)?

Yes, that's something I've had on my list, too. But I didn't want to
reveal my ideas to see what you came up with ;-).

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Michael

[amatala]

...or a favorite dynamic playlist....

[mherger]

New in 7.9: "Don't Stop The Music"

> ...or a favorite dynamic playlist....

That would be up to the author of the dynamic playlist plugin to implement.

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Michael

[gharris999]

DSTM is working well for me. Very, very nice.

I have some "ideas".

How about exposing the DSTM options so they're a little more convenient?

E.g. a "Don't Stop the Music" control button on the webUI next to the repeat & shuffle buttons? Something that would cycle through "Disabled" and all the other "Don't Stop" options?

Also, how about exposing such a control jive-like on a now playing long-press so that iPeng, OrangeSqueeze, etc. can play too?

And eventual CLI control?

Finally, (and I understand that this is outside the scope of DSTM) how feasible would it be to further restrict random album play...not just by genre, but also by using some kind of rudimentary SOUNDEX scoring on the album title? E.g. if I'm playing Beethoven string quartets, DSTM would cue up more classical era string quartets, rather than, say, symphonies or string trios.

[kllngtme]

I've just tried the Song Mix (limited to current genres). I listened to a jazz album and it added a perfectly pure jazz playlist. Are you sure that your library is tagged pretty well?

Sorry about that, I'm not sure what happened. I thought i had it set to limited to current genres.. Apparently it wasn't so it was just random songs.. haha.. Thanks for the heads up.. It works great now that I selected the right one.

[mherger]

New in 7.9: "Don't Stop The Music"

> E.g. a "Don't Stop the Music" control button on the webUI next to the
> repeat & shuffle buttons? Something that would cycle through "Disabled"
> and all the other "Don't Stop" options?

I'll look into this.

> Also, how about exposing such a control jive-like on a now playing
> long-press so that iPeng, OrangeSqueeze, etc. can play too?

The problem there is a long standing issue (IMHO): for the music
services we provide a context menu which is 100% mysb.com fed. And there
is no way to add anything to it from LMS. I don't know why we decided to
do this back in the days. But it prevents us to do what you're asking to
do. Adding it while playing local content only could be too confusing.

> And eventual CLI control?

Some already is available (the menu does require a CLI command). What
would you want to do?

> Finally, how feasible would it be to further restrict random album
> play...not just by genre, but also by using some kind of rudimentary
> SOUNDEX scoring on the album title? E.g. if I'm playing Beethoven
> string quartets, DSTM would cue up more classical era string quartets,
> rather than, say, symphonies or string trios.

That's the kind of "intelligence" which is not easy to implement. That
would be a major challenge. Out of the scope for LMS. It could certainly
be done in a plugin if someone felt like doing it anyway.

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Michael

[schoeppi]

New in 7.9: "Don't Stop The Music"

Hi Michael,

currently only Spotify or Deezer can be selected as the source for the
do not stop play music mix. Would it be possible to select both and a
mixed playlist is created from both sources?

Also it would be great to start a mix from the song which is currently
played. If this can be done via the context menu from iPeng,it would be
perfect.

Additionaly it is IMHO not very comfortable to activate the do not stop
feature for every player. A possebility to configure and change the
settings globaly would be very nice .

Cheers and thanks again for your great work,

Schoepp

[mherger]

New in 7.9: "Don't Stop The Music"

> currently only Spotify or Deezer can be selected as the source for the
> do not stop play music mix. Would it be possible to select both and a
> mixed playlist is created from both sources?

Sounds like a great idea for a 3rd party plugin :-). The current
implementation really tries to provide the infrastructure for plugins to
hook in to. Plus I've added the easiest choices for a few services.

The feature you suggest would require a lot more code and logic than the
current implementation (eg. de-duplication). And as I doubt many users
are using both services in parallel, this doesn't sound like a feature
which needs to be in the server core.

> Also it would be great to start a mix from the song which is currently
> played. If this can be done via the context menu from iPeng,it would be
> perfect.

Similarly to the feature I had in SmartMix? Might be possible under
certain circumstances. But as I've mentioned before I can't hook in to
music service context menu. Therefore this feature would be rather limited.

> Additionaly it is IMHO not very comfortable to activate the do not stop
> feature for every player. A possebility to configure and change the
> settings globaly would be very nice .

No. That's how SmartMix started. And everybody wanted to have per-client
configurability. Because I want my kids' Radio go silent after a while,
but not mine ;-). And dealing with both global and per-player settings
is just too much hassle for my taste. I don't know how many players you
have. But even configuring it on a dozen player doesn't take long.

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Michael

[castalla]

Just updated .... none of the 'new' features appear in DSTM settings

[mherger]

New in 7.9: "Don't Stop The Music"

> Just updated .... none of the 'new' features appear in DSTM settings

What new features are you expecting to see?

What if you restarted your devices?

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Michael

[castalla]

> Just updated .... none of the 'new' features appear in DSTM settings

What new features are you expecting to see?

What if you restarted your devices?

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Michael

eerrr - favourites ???

[mherger]

New in 7.9: "Don't Stop The Music"

> mherger wrote:
>> What if you restarted your devices?
>
> eerrr - favourites ???

Did you restart your devices and controllers/apps?

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Michael

[castalla]

> mherger wrote:
>> What if you restarted your devices?
>
> eerrr - favourites ???

Did you restart your devices and controllers/apps?

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Michael

ah well - had to do a complete reinstall of LMS

Working now - looks good!

[mherger]

New in 7.9: "Don't Stop The Music"

> ah well - had to do a complete reinstall of LMS

You certainly didn't. I can't remember when I did this the last time.
And I'm switching between branches (7.7-7.9 and others) all the time.
Wiping an install never is necessary.

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Michael

[castalla]

> ah well - had to do a complete reinstall of LMS

You certainly didn't. I can't remember when I did this the last time.
And I'm switching between branches (7.7-7.9 and others) all the time.
Wiping an install never is necessary.

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Michael

My server refused to load the OS after a reboot - so the only solution was to reimage and restart.