RuneAudio+R e6

rastus

s.k. wroteSo I don’t like the Soxr resample everything – even if it match that way to my dac capabilities.

I prefer this way too, my music playing at the local sample rate of the file, with no upsampling.

s.k. wroteBut I shall keep it this way – because I can

Yep, I'm with ya on that! LOL!

Regards,

Rastus.

rern

surfninja wrotei noticed the WIFI connection doesn't support spaces in the SSID.

If your SSID is 'The Hole', it will try to connect to 'The'. Even the scan for wifi button only picks up 'The'.

I typically connect via hardwire so I forget to bring it up. It might be this way since Frank's .4 or even earlier versions.

I know I've connected via wifi in the past but updated files via ssh (it has been a long time ago).

To be fixed by next update.

rern

bnilsson

Hi,

For me, it is only one problem remaining in the e6 release, 20201108.

I cannot get any album thumbnails on the Library Album view.
If I press the Album Thumbnail button > Ok, it updates for a long time but then the result is the same after completion, only the R icons. Inside the album, the thumbnail cover art is fine.
Am I doing something wrong, or is still on the TODO list?

BN

e6 20201108 • RuneAudioRP3
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3
BCM2835 • 4 Cortex-A53 @ 1.4GHz • 1GB
HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro
5.4.74-1-ARCH
0.22.3-1 15 165 1 809 1 942
192.168.1.118 b8:27:eb:d9:cd:7a
/ • 2.4GB/7.2GB
/mnt/MPD/NAS/HTPC • 1.2TB/1.8TB

ceejayemm

Bnilsson

I see that you store your music on a NAS. Is the NAS share writable by RA as the coverart images will be stored within the NAS folder for each album and so RA needs write access to the NAS share to create the album thumbnali.

Chris

bnilsson

Ok, this explains it.
I am using NFS, so I need to know what is the user ID of the RPI process that need rw access?
BN

ceejayemm

Bnilsson

Yes. I use NFS as well and struggled to find out what this is. I think this may be 'nobody' for me (I use OMV 5.x as my NAS/NFS server) but I think I got away with it eventually by putting 'rw' in the NFS Source options in RA and then playing about with the OMV permissions of the shared folder until I got it to work. If you come up with a more scientific answer I would be glad to hear of it.

Chris

bnilsson

Chris,

The community will I am sure have opinions on this, but here is what I did:

I checked the processes on the RP and found:
563 root 20 0 4436 3264 2136 S 1.7 0.3 0:11.41 albumthumbnail.
which tells me that the process that need access is owned by root.

To allow root access to the server from the RP, I changed /etc/exports:
/home/bnilsson/Musik HiFiBerryDigiLAN(rw,no_root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check)
The "no_root_squash" option allows root on the RP to act as root on the server. This sounds dangerous, and it probably is.
Restart the nfs server by "/ect/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart".
Reboot the RP.

Now the thumbnails can be rebuilt.

it is probably a good idea to remove the "no_root_squash" option in /etc/exports when all is over and done.

PS: The new thumbnail files (cover.jbp, coverart.jpg, and thumb.jpg) created by Rune are owned by root.
To do a final cleanup, I changed the ownership of all files in my Music storage to myself.

BN

mattra

Hi,
New to Re6.
Previous problem solved by starting anew. Wifi problems though...
Mattra

Alien8

Hi all

I have a question about the snapserver/client option.

I have 2 identical R+R6 setups on different pi's, but can't figure out how to get this feature to work properly. Does anyone use this feature successfully.

I can start the server fine on one pi, but the client side never gets any data.

On server side I have Error reading message header of length 0: End of file errors
And missing chunk errors on client side.
Server sees connection attempt before throwing above error.

I played with conf buffer, timeout settings but no stable connection possible.
Both systems are on wifi fwiw.

Next bug is that after latest nov updates, I cannot change settings
Of i2s and time in system page, no setting is saved. Manual edit of relevant files in data/system dir and boot/config solves this but still...
Strangely enough it is possible to change system hostname successfully from there...

A8

ceejayemm

Alien8

Sorry can't help you with snapserver/client as I don't use these.

I have no problem changing and saving I2S, Time, Bluetooth etc on my PI3B with Ra+R e6 with update 20201108 applied.

Sorry

Chris

Alien8

@Chris

Thanks for your reply.
I really don't understand why this happens, but it does. I get like one shot at changing these settings..

I took the compressed image from page1 of this thread.
I'm trying to run the scripts from cli to see where something is wrong.

I had this issue on 2 different installs on both pi2 and pi3.

A8

mattra

Hi,

I'm using a PecanPi that came with Volumio, but gave much connection problems.

Meanwhile I've got wifi working, which took a while.

But I have a problem with my playlists. I put my playlists (in m3u format) in /var/lib/mpd/playlists and at some point they were converted (I don't remember what I did, or why this happened). There were some errors as my usb drives were not yet connected.

But now I cannot see any playlists any more. I also don't know where the new playlists are stored. Or how I do the conversion process again (and why it's necessary).

Any help much appreciated.
Mattra

mattra

Playlist problem.

See my previous messages. My previous m3u playlists were converted to a new format (I don't now any more how I did that or if it happened automatically), but there were some errors, and I can see no playlists now.

But what's worse: if I try to save my queue as a playlist, I get the message, playlist cannot be saved. So, what's going on?

mattra

Playlist problem update.

When in doubt reboot, so I did.

I can now save (new) playlists from within the webui. But not from within Cantata (mpd Client that I much prefer).

Also, my old playlists are nowhere visible, not in the webui, not in Cantata. They are in /var/lib/mpd/playlists in m3u format, but RuneAudio+R e6 does not recognise them. As said earlier, it tried to convert them at some point, but to no avail.

So, how do I get my old playlists back? And how do I get playlists working from Cantata?

mattra

Playlist problem continued.

So, does anybody have any idea where the WebUi stores playlists?

It is not in /var/lib/mpd/playlists because I cannot see them there. I can only see my old playlists there, which are not loaded. Not in the WebUi. In my mpd client (Cantata) no playlists are loaded, not the onces in /var/lib/mpd/playlists, nor the onces I can see in the WebUi.

I've looked in /etc/mpd.conf but I see nothing about playlists.

I'm at a loss.

Any help still greatly appreciated.

mattra

playlist problem update

What I have discovered so far.

Playlists are now stored in /srv/http/data/playlists and no longer in /var/lib/mpd/playlists.
Playlists are now in php and no longer in m3u format.

Question: how can I convert my old m3u playlists from m3u to php format?

(And as a side question, why did this happen? m3u seems a lot simpler and more universal. I suppose it is a mpd change?)

As always, any help is still much appreciated.

mattra

playlist problem upupdate

I've added

playlist_directory	"/var/lib/mpd/playlists"

to mpd.conf

and also

playlist_plugin {
    name "m3u"
    enabled "true"
}

(don't know if that is necessary)

And now I can again see and save playlists from my mpd client in m3u format like it used to be

I have no idea why this change in playlist handling was necessary and who did it (I suppose it is a mpd thing, and not a RuneAudio thing?) Still would like to know what the rationale behind this change was...

rern

@[deleted],

R+R e6 playlists:
- Save CUE sheets as individual tracks, a single track can be saved.
- Save WebRadio station names.

Import m3u: Addons > Import Playlists

Please share why you prefer Cantata.

rern

kailua

@[deleted] and @[deleted]

I've also had problems with the new playlist format. I do not use cue sheets and saving streams in m3u works as well for me. So, I changed the config back to the "traditional" mpd way.

As for cantata: I also prefer to use that client on my laptop and desktop. On my mobile phone I use mpdroid. I find the web interface much too clunky to edit, load and save playlists. Especially adding multiple selected tracks from the queue (CTRL + mouse click) to an existing playlist. Still, great work! It is perfect for the 7 inch touchscreen where runeaudio is running.

Cheers and keep up the good work!

mattra

@kailu$a and@rern

I agree with kailua.

In cantata I can simply drag and drop new albums from the library, and individual songs in the playlist, rearrange the playlist also by dragging and dropping. I don't see how I can do that in the WebUi. As kailua says: Especially adding multiple selected tracks from the queue (CTRL + mouse click) to an existing playlist.

I have playlists with over 3000 songs in Cantata. As I have no smartphone I only access mpd from my laptop, and Cantata gives me more functionality and information for playlists than the webui.

Also I don't see the advantage with working with cue files instead of m3u playlists, which are standard and easy to edit. (I'm not very knowledgeable about all this, so forgive me if I say something stupid).

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