[RELEASE]XSqueeze - Squeezebox player, music chooser and visualiser for XBMC

First off, nice add-on. I've been waiting on this for quite a while.

I've got one initial issue, and a possible request.
I'm running the add-on on OpenELEC 1.94 beta 4, and the top bar is a little messed up. I've attached an image.


As for the requests, I use Quartz as my theme, any chance of getting you to chat to the developer and sorting in to that?
Also anyway of getting the add-on to be reconised as 'music' so the visualizer comes up as the screensaver?

TIA
Steve.

Yeah I have been thinking of putting out a call for skinners to see if I can get some interest....I am very pushed for time (work, wife recovering from major surgery) - but will do so soon now that XSqueeze is largely stabilised.

It's a limited market for XSqueeze obviously - so hard to say how many will bother - that said, I am planning on posting a message somewhere that points out this is one very easy way to achieve synchronised multi room audio playback via XBMC, much easier I think that any other option I have heard of. Thus that might generate a bit more overall interest and help motivate the skinners.

Doing a basic 'neaten' for their skin would be very easy, it's basically just choosing the right fonts to fit. But they could also make a quite slick screen up if they wanted.

Re: the second part - there will never be any integration with the XBMC player I think, not without months of work implementing slimproto - I just don't have that sort of time. So it can't use the player, and thus can't be a music plugin or tie into visualisations etc in any meaningful way I am afraid.

Has to be said that the way XBMC handles plugin/skin interactions is really too flexible - there should at least be a standard set of fonts and UI widgets we can all use without much hassle to guarantee a basic interface in all skins works ok, and then a super layer on top if the skinners want to get fancy with it. At the moment you're immediately at the mercy of whatever skin fonts are there, and that often foes wrong as you can see....

I've just installed the beta of RaspMC to get XBMC running on my Raspberry Pi. However xSqueeze is not listed in the add ons - presumably as it is not compiled for ARM. How could I go about getting xSqueeze to work on my Pi please?

Thanks!

It's not the XSqueeze you need compiled for ARM, but the squeezeslave binary.... XSqueeze should still work as a controller. And it is not going to be listed in the default XBMC add-ons... you need to add Bossonova808's repo.

Last I checked on the RaspPI forums, there were some successful attempts at compiling squeezeslave on the PI ..... I have not attempted this, since my PI will not arrive for another 3 weeks!

Once you get a functional binary squeezeslave file, you should be good to go from there.

OK cool I'll look to see about compiling SqueezeSlave. Any thoughts why I can't see xSqueeze in the add-ons in XBMC please?

Did you install the Repo?

Not sure what you mean. I have just installed RaspMC and was then expecting to see XSqueeze listed in the Add Ons. I'm guessing there is something very obvious that I have missed!

XSqueeze is not in the Official Repository, since it has a binary file with it.... please follow the instructions here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...stallation

Ah, makes sense, thanks!

I just wanted to thank you for the superb work!!
Everything works as expected!

Just having some very small issues and questions:
1) when playing radio streams I have some issues with the now playing not updating. Seems to be the case for "Antenne Bayern" a German stream. In the logitech ios app it is correctly displayed. Anyway, only a minor issuey.
2) is it somehow possible to start the application automatically? I would like some way of starting it headless, so my wife can play music throughout the whole house. My players are using Wake On LAN and start OpenElec -> XBMC without problems, even my stereo detects sound and turns on! But I still need to go to Programs and select the XSqueeze app. This is quite hard if you are not standing in front of the telly, which I also need to turn on.

Any hints or ideas?

Thumbs up for XSqueeze!