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

Quote:Ok 0.4.5 of XSqueeze has been pushed to my repo (at V0.1) so if your force-refresh you should get this latest version which will hopefully solve all the above issues (which are all to do with files that have bad tags, e.g. no track numbers - if oyu taggerd your files properly you wouldn't see these issues

Missing title text now fixed on osx too.

Cheers,

CM

Ok cool so my plan is (barring bugs) to leave XSqueeze where it is for a week or two while I consider the next step which is music choosing from within the addon.

I am wondering what people are looking for from this - I basically use New Music, Artists, and Albums to find music and really just need a fairly simple list + picture type chooser...so this is where I will start I guess.

Does anyone else have anything particular they want? No promises I will do it but I will at least factor other methods into my thinking about it all...

In addition I use the Random mix, genres and internet radio as well. I expect that people would also want access to the music folder and playlists). Have a look at the android app SqueezeCommander. He gets a lot of the stuff on his menu directly from the server. I'm not sure one will want to build something quite so involved, but is is an interesting reference. I use it in my systems and found it very good.

My wife and I primarily use "Artists" for the local content. My wife also likes to use Pandora and internet radio.

Having just left, right, up, down and select on the Apple Remote the standard XBMC remote control text entry would be great for any search dialog for the song selection. Also the ability to either play, play next or add to end of playlist would be great when selecting songs.

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?)

@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...

@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?

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.

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(check the UPnP plugin is enabled in LMS->Settings->Plugins of course, but I think it's on be default)

There is also an alternate UPnP server you can use if you're serving from Windows - http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver - this looks a little more flexible. Written in Delphi (of all things) so I don't see it being ported anytime soon though if you're not serving from Windows.