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

0.4.7 just pushed - should work with username & password protected LMS now. Not tested though

@wrxtasy - no problems - kinda surprised it works but glad it does

@sdsnyr94 - thanks. It's not un-serious. But everything is going to be fine, I am sure.

Just tried out your plugin and it works great. Thank you.

Wanted to report a minor bug i discovered. I couldn't choose audio output, or i could but it wouldn't save it. I just added it to the settings.xml. I can't see that anyone else is having this problem, so it is no biggie. I'm running openelec pvr builds.

I am running those builds here too and it appears to work - did you perhaps hit 'exit' on the settings window (i.e. your back button) rather than 'ok' at the bottom. This is easy to do in XBMC as back is universally available so it's a strong habit, but the prefs won't save unless you hit OK.

What's your hardware as well? Generally you don't need to do this, especially under OE I have found it's 99% of the time just ok to let squeezeslave go automatic.

(2012-03-09 03:53)bossanova808 Wrote:  hmmm ok I will have to to different chmods for different systems then, I think, but that's no biggie I guess.

Thanks again - the weird errors coming back from POpen were not giving me much of a clue the chmod was failing and I am most of the time working blind on the Mac side of things....

Does the server discovery bit work as well? I am guessing it will...

Have Xsqueeze 0.4.7 on ATV 2 with XBMC Eden.

When it runs get Failed to Create Squeeze Slave Process
Then a reference to manually use Chmod

Looking for some expert help on this.

Have used Squeezeboxes and XBMC for years, but am not good under the hood. Hoping this can be fixed by an update. Ok with running SSH commands by copy paste though.

KJ

There's no squeezeslave binary for iOS so you can't do local playback on ATV2 I am afraid. You can use the controller only mode though.

I have the Shuttle too, so i guess our setup is completely the same. I wouldn't worry about it.

A nice feature would be if there was an option, to let the player always run in the background. I have the shuttle connected to my receiver. This way i wouldn't have to turn on my television to listen to music, toggling between Xsqueeze and other parts of xbmc would be faster. You could listen to music and check out the weather.

Just a little wish

@mortenls

Actually, there is an option for this, and it's in the wiki page - down the bottom, although not spelled out that much I guess - manual install of Squeezeslave - there is an add on available for OE that sets up Squeezeslave as a service (which is actually how I originally wrote this, but then changed it by request). Then you use XSqueeze in controller mode and you have what you want....

I don't want to get into supporting the service side of things myself directly, but it's actually very easy and work just as you want it to I think. I will add some more instructions about it some time I have some time.

General Update

My wife came through her surgery really well and while there's a long recovery period now, things are getting more back to normal finally.

I have thus begun exploratory work for the 'Chooser' part of XSqueeze. I was originally going to write this just as a window within XSqueeze but I think I will actually write it as a standard XBMC plugin now, which does all the list stuff for one - it will just get launched from XSqueeze when required and navigation will presumably be much like any other part of XBMC. Does this sound ok?

Glad to hear your wife is doing well!!!!

As far as the "Chooser". your idea sounds good, but how would you switch from the "Chooser" and back to Xsqueeze for the visual?

Basically:

XSqueeze -> Chooser = ?menu button perhaps?

Chooser will run, like any plugin, but send commands to LMS instead of XBMC. When you have triggered an album, say, you would then just use the standard exit button which drops you back a level...to XSqueeze.

Well, that's how I think it will work, anyway. I reckon I am about 2/3rds of the way to a proof of concept (need to do a lot of re-factoring so that two addons can share the same code, now in a separate module). Once I have a POC I will post it as a .zip here for testing if you're keen? Don't want to push out such a major change too quickly of course...

Update - the above approach (using a plugin) is working well - a few glitches to iron out, but I largely have choosing by New Music, Albums and Artists working. Once I have these basics fairly solid (so genres and years as well) I will release a test version here as a zip for feedback...but honestly I can't see why I'd do it any other way now, this works well and is surprisingly speedy even with 1500+ albums etc.

I have currently bound the launch to 'i' (or info on your remote) - for some reason menu commands don't seem to come through to addons....

(and then I have to work out how to do other things like Radio, random etc).