Is the TrackStat plugin still working with LMS 8.x?

[carsten_h]

library.db is deleted during full rescan, persist.db isn’t.

Now I understand!

TrackStat also have some smart logic

Ok. I will try to use first the LMS rating, because I also use Material skin.

When I understand correctly if I eg. change later the name of an album because it was wrong, LMS will not find the ratings, playcounts anymore but TrackStat would try to find the album (the songs). I think I can live with it.

Thank you very much for your help!

[erland]

Ok. I will try to use first the LMS rating, because I also use Material skin.

When I understand correctly if I eg. change later the name of an album because it was wrong, LMS will not find the ratings, playcounts anymore but TrackStat would try to find the album (the songs). I think I can live with it.

If you have both Materal and TrackStat installed and set ratings using Material skin you might get issues, see this post for more information:
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...l=1#post996718
(Viewing ratings should be fine with both installed)

Also, please note that I think rating functionality in my other plugins (mainly SQL Playlist) relies on TrackStat so you might have to do some customization to make it work properly without TrackStat.

[erland]

If you have both Materal and TrackStat installed and set ratings using Material skin you might get issues, see this post for more information:
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...l=1#post996718
(Viewing ratings should be fine with both installed)

Also, please note that I think rating functionality in my other plugins (mainly SQL Playlist) relies on TrackStat so you might have to do some customization to make it work properly without TrackStat.

Please ignore the above, Material skin sets ratings via TrackStat so they should work together.

[afriend]

Maybe there is another plugin that can be used for ratings?

I wrote a simple rating plugin ("Ratings Light") which is, of course, nothing compared to TrackStat. It does the job for me though. The rating part already works. If you're interested I could upload it to github after I've fixed a bug or two I've just discovered. It would still have to be supported by Material and the like.

[mps]

FWIW, trackstat seems ok under light testing on 8.0.0 so far. I will report anything I run into.

[callesoroe]

I am running LMS. 8.0.0 and trackstat works fine for me. The same with Dynamic playlists using trackstat and SQL playlists

[Pommes]

Dear Forum,
I have been using Erlands trackstat plug in for a long time.
Unfortunately I upgraded my Synology to DSM7, so no more LMS on that machine.
I installed LMS on the pico player, it is running very fine, I can manually install the trackstat plug-in, but as soon as I try to import old trackstat backup xml , the LMS becomes very unresponsive.
LMS is a fresh install, only the trackstat data is migrated.
Maybe anybody who can help?
And I would also like to know, how to use the built-in LMS rating system.
I tried to Google, but I cannot find anything.
Thank you very much
Pommes

[erland]

as I try to import old trackstat backup xml , the LMS becomes very unresponsive.
LMS is a fresh install, only the trackstat data is migrated.
Maybe anybody who can help?

Could be the TrackStat refresh option that causes problem, there are two options in TrackStat for its refresh operations that can be disabled. As long as you don’t rename any music files or move them to a new path you are probably fine with the refresh options disabled. Check the server.log to see what happens, TrackStat will output information in the log about what’s going on during its refresh operations.

Someone has also mentioned that TrackStat backups taken with old Perl versions don’t work perfectly with newer Perl version but I don’t think it will cause what you are describing, it will just result in some data not being restored. Can’t give you more details since I haven’t used it with newer Perl version myself.

And I would also like to know, how to use the built-in LMS rating system.

As far as I know the only builtin support for ratings in LMS is that they are stored in the database and third party apps (smartphone apps or Material skin) can read and display ratings. To be able to set ratings or browse by ratings you will need a third party plugin. In LMS 8.x it means that you will have to either use the unsupported TrackStat plugin or the new Ratings Light plugin mentioned earlier in the thread. Not sure if Ratings Light support browsing ratings yet but I know there is an implementation for this in progress. Not sure which third party apps beside Material skin that supports setting ratings via Ratings Light at this stage. If you don’t use TrackStat you probably want to ensure to regularly take a backup of LMS database since currently TrackStat is the only plugin that provides nightly backups to xml files.

[mps]

Trackstat is working fine in LMS 8 for me as well

[Pommes]

Could be the TrackStat refresh option that causes problem, there are two options in TrackStat for its refresh operations that can be disabled. As long as you don’t rename any music files or move them to a new path you are probably fine with the refresh options disabled. Check the server.log to see what happens, TrackStat will output information in the log about what’s going on during its refresh operations.

Someone has also mentioned that TrackStat backups taken with old Perl versions don’t work perfectly with newer Perl version but I don’t think it will cause what you are describing, it will just result in some data not being restored. Can’t give you more details since I haven’t used it with newer Perl version myself.


As far as I know the only builtin support for ratings in LMS is that they are stored in the database and third party apps (smartphone apps or Material skin) can read and display ratings. To be able to set ratings or browse by ratings you will need a third party plugin. In LMS 8.x it means that you will have to either use the unsupported TrackStat plugin or the new Ratings Light plugin mentioned earlier in the thread. Not sure if Ratings Light support browsing ratings yet but I know there is an implementation for this in progress. Not sure which third party apps beside Material skin that supports setting ratings via Ratings Light at this stage. If you don’t use TrackStat you probably want to ensure to regularly take a backup of LMS database since currently TrackStat is the only plugin that provides nightly backups to xml files.

Thank you for your help, and extra special thank you for providing all your great plugins.
Over the time i renamed huge parts of my library at least twice:-) and i changed the rating guidance twice as well.
I just decided to start ratings from scratch. And i think the trackstat still runs well on LMS 8:-)
Thanks a lot!