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Also i'm using up and down for vol and left and right for rev/fwd, so this would be good to keep on the 'now playing' screen. So could I suggest a different screen for song selection that could indepedently use up, down, left and right (maybe accessible by holding down the 'select' button?)
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2012-03-27, 03:10
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@creasy - you should be able to use the search in the two line display fine - it works for me, have you tried this?
Yeah the idea would be to put a button on the page or at least make a mappable trigger to a new window for music selection.
All this being said, I have just tried Eden final with the inbuilt UPnP server in LMS 7.7+ - have you guys tried this at all as a totally alternate way of playing music? The syncing is not so good, but as a way of browsing the library it seems to work pretty well...and MP3s and FLACs play fine with the XBMC internal player in my testing so far...
I think the patch I linked to a while ago has come in, now allowing most (all?) formats to be direct played now via UPnP, so the only real advntage of XSqueeze would be it using squeezeslave for better syncing...
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2012-03-27, 04:22
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@bossanova - re the UPnp playing on LMS7.7 - can you give some detail as to how to do this? Do you get access to the internet radio, podcasts and random mix as well?
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2012-03-27, 05:07
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Basically, add a new source in XBMC Music - choose UPnP and it should find it (takes a few seconds). I have got it working at work but not at home so far - I think my Win7 server at home is blocking UPnP.
No, it gives:
Albums
Artists
Genres
Years
New Music
Music Folder
...and that's it.
(check the UPnP plugin is enabled in LMS->Settings->Plugins of course, but I think it's on be default)
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I tried the UPnP and it is better than just the raw folder access because it is tag driven. I would definitely still use squeezeslave for the access to the random mix (I use it a LOT) and internet radio, podcasts etc.
The machine where this runs the most, is not really powerful enough to show videos, So it is mainly a music player and slideshow of the family's photo album. Here squeeze works a treat. For the past few days I have had it on for long periods (controlling it mainly with the SqueezeCommander Android app) it is chugging along - very stable.
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Well, I am glad someone is using it. To be honest, for me this was/is just a fun exercise - I don't have a huge need for it myself, as I mostly just play albums and XBMC's inbuilt systems are good enough - I have two young kids and a business to run, so time is minimal, and I don't do much with playlists etc. anymore - maybe I will when I have more time again (if ever!).
It is handy for syncing around the house though.
The stability all comes from what it's built on really (particularly squeezeslave) - can't take much credit for that.
Anyway, I will start work on XSqueeze Chooser some time soon and have taken note of the above requests....
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Anybody have this working on ATV2? I successfully installed it, but I get an error message when I try to run it which I can't for read, something about "if using Linux/OSX etc." I have a LMS server running and I can access it with XBMC without a problem- maybe I shouldn't be greedy.
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I have tried Xsqueeze and i really like it. One thing i would really like to do is to use XBMC as normal, and use the squeezebox as the player. Is this possible in any way? (Instead of using XBMC default music player it sends music to the squeezebox)
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Yes, I have tried that and it workes very well. But when i back out of Xsqueeze and into my music folder to play music from XBMC library it (of course) plays with the default XBMC player. What I am really asking: Is it possible to set XBMC to send music to squeezebox when playing from the default XBMC library?
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I don't think so - there's a complete disconnect between the xbmc lib and the LMS lib, and I don't think XBMC has any stream serving features...
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Squeezeslave playback on iOS is apparently a no-go so unfortunately it will be controller only there I am afarid unless someone can dig up some embeddable, iOS friendly playback system...
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