Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

[cpd73]

That seems useful, but then when you select a library on the homescreen what screen would follow? A revised homescreen? Or "my music" for that library?



Would that selection then remain throughout the whole session/interface?

In that case it would work like this right?
1/ Create a Library for topgenre, selecting a number of subgenres.
2/ Click "pin to homescreen" on genres, with the option to save library ID above.
3/ Rename "genres" on homescreen to name of topgenre.
4/ Repeat for all topgenres.

(I think this might run into trouble though when you get to step 4, because genre (linked with the other library ID) is already pinned, so it would only show the option to remove, not?)

This belongs in the MaterialSkin thread - I'll answer there.

[PasTim]

Michael have now added the Multi Library plugin to the unsupported repository so it can be installed if you use 8.1 and activate unsupported extensions in LMS Settings/Plugins. His responses to this thread keeps ending up in an old thread due to some bug in the forum mail gateway so I thought I’d mention it here also. However, as I previously said, I’d recommend everyone using Multi Library to try if the built-in virtual library functionality fulfill your needs.

Thanks for your advice Erland. I'll take a look at the SQL, and try to understand how it works. Currently I don't even seem to be able get it to work in normal menus using the default skin, but I probably haven't tried hard enough. If I need help I'll start a new thread.

[SlimChances]

I have been using Custom Browse for several years including installs with LMS 8 and 8.1 sucessfully. I now find that a number (most) of the menus do not return any results. These include album,artist,genre, new artist, new album. menus that do get results are year and playlist. I know that the plugin is not supported as it once was but I was hoping to get a bit more use from it. My last attempt to correct this issue was to upgrade to LMS 8.2 as it has better support for Erland's plugins. Also not working quite right is Trackstat which just returns and empty screen when selected but I still appear to have tracks with ratings. Everything was working a short time ago, not quite sure what has changed.

[erland]

I have been using Custom Browse for several years including installs with LMS 8 and 8.1 sucessfully. I now find that a number (most) of the menus do not return any results. These include album,artist,genre, new artist, new album. menus that do get results are year and playlist. I know that the plugin is not supported as it once was but I was hoping to get a bit more use from it. My last attempt to correct this issue was to upgrade to LMS 8.2 as it has better support for Erland's plugins. Also not working quite right is Trackstat which just returns and empty screen when selected but I still appear to have tracks with ratings. Everything was working a short time ago, not quite sure what has changed.

Any errors in server.log file ?

[SlimChances]

[21-02-07 16:21:53.5357] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1283) Warning: [16:21:53.5355] Negative repeat count does nothing at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TrackStat/Plugin.pm line 5127.[21-02-07 16:21:53.5448] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1283) Warning: [16:21:53.5447] Negative repeat count does nothing at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TrackStat/Plugin.pm line 5127.
[21-02-07 16:21:53.8889] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1283) Warning: [16:21:53.8887] Negative repeat count does nothing at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TrackStat/Plugin.pm line 5127.
[21-02-07 16:27:00.7960] main::init (389) Starting Logitech Media Server (v8.2.0, 1612703157, Sun Feb  7 14:44:35 CET 2021) perl 5.030000 - x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
[21-02-07 16:27:00.9222] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1283) Warning: [16:27:00.9220] DBIx::Class::ResultSet::update_or_create(): Query returned more than one row.  SQL that returns multiple rows is DEPRECATED for ->find and ->single at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Schema.pm line 1905
[21-02-07 16:27:01.8089] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::executeSQLFile (522) Couldn't open: /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/CustomScan/SQL/SQLite/dbupgrade_valuesort.sql : No such file or directory
[21-02-07 16:27:01.8091] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::executeSQLFile (522) Couldn't open: /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/CustomScan/SQL/SQLite/dbupgrade_extravalue.sql : No such file or directory
[21-02-07 16:27:01.8093] Plugins::CustomScan::Scanner::executeSQLFile (522) Couldn't open: /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/CustomScan/SQL/SQLite/dbupgrade_valuetype.sql : No such file or directory
[21-02-07 16:27:02.2369] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1283) Warning: [16:27:02.2367] write_file '/media/Music/Flac/Artist Pictures/artist.png.missing' - sysopen: No such file or directory at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/MusicArtistInfo/LocalArtwork.pm line 62.
[21-02-07 16:27:09.6752] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1283) Warning: [16:27:09.6748] Negative repeat count does nothing at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TrackStat/Plugin.pm line 5127.

I don't think I need Custom Scan , perhaps if I remove that it would help. I think I added that plugin very recently
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EDIT: removing Custom Scan didn't help(rescanned library after I removved it)

[SlimChances]

Problem solved. I havve had this problem frequenty happening with Dynamic Playlists when I updated LMS to a newer version; the setting for library (I have multi library installed) gets deleted and I have to reset it in SQL Playlists. This time it happened in my Custom Browse menu settings. I went into Custom Browse settings and opened Manage Menus and clicked on the menus to adjust the library setting.

[SlimChances]

Is there anyway of retaining the settings for library with Custom Browse and Dynamic Playlists when updating the LMS version. The plugins seem to keep all my settings except for the library setting(see last posts)

[PasTim]

Is there anyway of retaining the settings for library with Custom Browse and Dynamic Playlists when updating the LMS version. The plugins seem to keep all my settings except for the library setting(see last posts)

Which particular multi-library settings are being lost? I don't seem to have any problem with multi-library and custom browse. The only times I have had to reset it all is on a complete LMS reset and rebuild from scratch where all .dbs are completely erased. I update LMS quite frequently.

[SlimChances]

Which particular multi-library settings are being lost? I don't seem to have any problem with multi-library and custom browse. The only times I have had to reset it all is on a complete LMS reset and rebuild from scratch where all .dbs are completely erased. I update LMS quite frequently.

Here is an example. I have 2 libraries, Flac and MP3. Under Dynamic Library I have a favourite configured for "Random Albums for the Decade" that is delimited to the FLAC library. If I update LMS to a new version the library selection goes blank and I have to reset it back to FLAC. That is not a big deal but I have to do this about a dozen times to cover my Custom Browse and Dynamic Library settings. It has been this way since I installed Erland's plugins 7 years ago or so

[erland]

Here is an example. I have 2 libraries, Flac and MP3. Under Dynamic Library I have a favourite configured for "Random Albums for the Decade" that is delimited to the FLAC library. If I update LMS to a new version the library selection goes blank and I have to reset it back to FLAC. That is not a big deal but I have to do this about a dozen times to cover my Custom Browse and Dynamic Library settings. It has been this way since I installed Erland's plugins 7 years ago or so

The intention is that the settings should survive LMS upgrade.
If my memory is correct the library configuration is stored in the path you have specified in MultiLibrary plugin and the library settings in the playlist is stored in the path you have specified in SQL Playlist plugin. As long as both these places are stored on a persistent disc (not ram disc) it’s intended to work. It’s even intended to work in a complete new installation as long as the above configuration paths/files are restored. So there must be a bug somewhere causing this, unfortunately I don’t have the time to investigate it myself but maybe some other community member with debugging skills can look into it.