svn-1523 feedback

[beerfan]

Just upgraded to the windows svn-1523 nightly. Upgrade seemed to go fine. However, the “configuration” page shows the following at the top when it’s in “Advanced” mode.

Options missing from config.xml

The options below are in your mt-daapd.conf and Firefly uses them,

but this web page can't handle them until they are added to config.xml



plugins:plugins

I’m also confused about the playlist scanning options.

Process Playlists    Should static playlists (.m3u, etc) be processed?

Process .m3u files   Should .m3u playlists be processed?

What is the difference between these 2 options? And what is the relationship with the “Playlist File” option. Is this the path for the “iTunes Library.xml” file? The mt-daapd-example.conf file doesn’t seem to reflect the latest configuration option changes.

[rpedde]

@beerfan wrote:

Just upgraded to the windows svn-1523 nightly. Upgrade seemed to go fine. However, the “configuration” page shows the following at the top when it’s in “Advanced” mode.

Options missing from config.xml

The options below are in your mt-daapd.conf and Firefly uses them,

but this web page can't handle them until they are added to config.xml



plugins:plugins

plugins/plugins is ignored. The way it works now is that all plugins in the plugin_dir are loaded, rather than having to be specified in the config.

It stays in the config, but the config editor doesn’t know what it is. Maybe I should make that warning more clear. 🙂

I’m also confused about the playlist scanning options.

Process Playlists    Should static playlists (.m3u, etc) be processed?

Process .m3u files   Should .m3u playlists be processed?

What is the difference between these 2 options? And what is the relationship with the “Playlist File” option. Is this the path for the “iTunes Library.xml” file? The mt-daapd-example.conf file doesn’t seem to reflect the latest configuration option changes.

Right now the only playlist-y things it reads are .m3u and itunes music library files. At some point, it will read windows media whatever playlists, and pls format playlists, and others.

The first config value (scanning/process_playlists) controls whether any playlists at all should be read. It’s like a global allow/disallow for all playlist types.

If that’s set to 1, then it honors the other entries, like process_itunes or process_m3u ( and eventually process_wmw and process_pls).

Sometimes I want to read my iTunes xml file, but I dno’t want to pick up any accidental m3u files lying around. So it would be nice to be able to control them individually. So that’s what that’s about.

The playlist file option is going to go away soon. It used to be that smart playlists were read from a file, not from the database. That was the path of the file.

I left the config, because I was going to use that file to back up the playlists from the db, but now I think I’m going to pull playlists completely out of the database, and store them all in files.

[beerfan]

@rpedde wrote:

The playlist file option is going to go away soon. It used to be that smart playlists were read from a file, not from the database. That was the path of the file.

I left the config, because I was going to use that file to back up the playlists from the db, but now I think I’m going to pull playlists completely out of the database, and store them all in files.

It makes more sense to me to leave the smart playlists in a separate file as well. The database is just a list of files found during a particular scan no? When a previous upgrade changed my database from sqlite to sqlite3, for whatever reason, all my smart playlists were gone. Having a simple comma delimited file would be much easier.

[belu]

1523 runs smooth now on my WP/SP2 + SB400. But I had to uninstall 1498 before. Saving the config from the web-interface works now.
Thanks Ron!

BTW The start-scan-options in the right-click-menue of the FF-icon are still missing 🙁

[rpedde]

@belu wrote:

1523 runs smooth now on my WP/SP2 + SB400. But I had to uninstall 1498 before. Saving the config from the web-interface works now.
Thanks Ron!

BTW The start-scan-options in the right-click-menue of the FF-icon are still missing 🙁

Yup, and they will until I get the roku 1.1 version done. I want to add a “stop server” and “start server” as well.

[lunaticallday]

1523 runs flawlessly on ubuntu edgy with mdns enabled and a Pinnacle Soundbrige M1001. 8)

with avahi or howl enabled (avahi-daemon is running) the webinterface is changed:
Bonjour is “Running”, not “Stopped” as usual
The fields Plugins, Uptime, Songs, Songs Served, Client IP and Action are not filled.
The buttons Start Scan and Star Full Scan don’t stay gray after they have been pressed.

Moreover the server is not seen by the Soundbridge. 🙁

Is this a known issue?

[rpedde]

@lunaticallday wrote:

1523 runs flawlessly on ubuntu edgy with mdns enabled and a Pinnacle Soundbrige M1001. 8)

with avahi or howl enabled (avahi-daemon is running) the webinterface is changed:
Bonjour is “Running”, not “Stopped” as usual
The fields Plugins, Uptime, Songs, Songs Served, Client IP and Action are not filled.
The buttons Start Scan and Star Full Scan don’t stay gray after they have been pressed.

Moreover the server is not seen by the Soundbridge. 🙁

Is this a known issue?

No, it’s not normal and not a known issue either. i think I have one avahi machine I can test with, but no howl machines. Let me see if I can repro it.

What browser are you using?

[lunaticallday]

I’ve tried Firefox 2 (linux and windows) and IE 6.

Thanks in advance.

[rpedde]

@lunaticallday wrote:

I’ve tried Firefox 2 (linux and windows) and IE 6.

Thanks in advance.

Oops.. and where did it come from? The nightly edgy package, or self-compiled?

[rpedde]

@rpedde wrote:

Is this a known issue?

Okay, I compiled on edgy from the nightly, and it came up okay.

Can you post a startup logfile at -d9?

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