strange problem ... looking for clues.
we have a slimdevices/logitech media server, and have had for more than a
decade. we have 2 or 3 playout devices, one class and two "receivers". the
system has worked solidly for a very long time.
about a month ago, i download some awesome new London jazz from a project
named Yuseef Kamal, as FLAC from Bandcamp. Sadly the project has since
broken up, but "Black Focus" is phenomenal.
As I usually do with FLAC or WAV downloads, I stash these files outside our
music repository, convert to a lossy compressed format and then move the
result into the music repository to keep the space down when we copy the
whole thing to an SD card or whatever. The compressed format is generally
always Ogg/Vorbis.
So I did the same. Played the result on my main working computer (one
version of the repo), and on my laptop (another rsync'ed copy of the repo).
Entirely expectedly, it works normally.
But then, after a lot of head scratching, I realized that whenever I try to
play any of these files via the slimdevices/logitech server+devices, it
does something to the server and/or the devices that requires a complete
reset of the entire system. Switching to other music will not work - things
are dead, even though they are superficially alive. I have never seen this
behaviour from any other music/files.
I can play the same files via some other media app on the computer where
the server runs, and there are no problems.
I've repeated this "experiment" at least 4 times so far. Playing a single
track from the Yuseef Kamal album effectively crashes my
logitech/squeezebox system (though the server is still responsive and the
controller(s) still appear to do stuff. I've tried looking a debug logs
fromthe server, but have seen nothing to indicate what is happening. I even
reconverted from the original FLAC files, and tried those instead. No
difference in the behavior.
I have a few thoughts about things to try, but wanted to see if anyone else
had any suggestions on approaches to the problem, things to look for, etc.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018, at 20:15, Paul Davis wrote:
> this is what puddletag shows for the metadata:
Anything interesting in that "visit..." URL field?
Chris
Our formal command line access is now almost complete. There are just a few
remaining areas to be improved. The latest push has seen all the synth engine
controls completed. We're not *quite* ready for a release, but would very much
like people to try things out. We are actively looking for problems and
inconsistencies between the CLI and GUI.
Bank and root management have some naming and adjustment controls missing, and
the effects parameters are not done - the effects themselves are, and so are
effect presets. These were done quite a long time ago, and are being reviewed.
The final missing piece in the jigsaw is copy/paste. This is an interesting
one. I've a feeling that once the basic structure is organised, it will just
slot into place like MIDI-learn, and reading limits/defaults did.
There is likely to be some shuffling to get the most user-friendly command and
parameter names. There is a huge amount of name duplication. Although this is
convenient for developers and for the GUI, it makes it harder for CLI users to
follow. We've already changed some of these to synonyms - and indeed also made
some of the GUI names more relevant - but based on user feedback they may
change again.
There is now an extremely comprehensive and context sensitive help system in
place. Typing '?' will give you the command information relative to your
current context, but you can get any other context usually with just the first
two or three letters, so while in the Part context '? sub' will show all the
SubSynth commands, and '? li' will show all the dynamic settings that can be
listed - such as what instruments are in the current bank.
As usual the source code for the current 'master' is available from either:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi
Or:
https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
Hey hey,
I just released a new electronic song, though a little more subtle than the
last ones:
http://juliencoder.de/nama/ocean_sky.ogghttp://juliencoder.de/nama/ocean_sky.mp3
A liquid river between Drum & Bass, trance and EDM. Too slow for one, too fast
for the other, but mostly soozing and earwormy. :)
On the Linux side I have used Yoshimi for the soft flute like sound and the
bell-like tones, i.e. in the intro. The ticking clock is sampled into LS, the
hihats are from the Salamander kkit, the tron choir comes from the
free Gigatron GIG and the piano is a commercial thing loaded into LS. The
other synths were hardware. Naturally the mix was immersed in reverb and
delay, courtesy mostly of Fons' G2verb, CAPS stereo plate and TAP stereo echo.
Production included Fons' parametric EQ, Invada studio compressro and a bit of
the TAP limiter. This list is not complete, but covers 80%. :)
As ever feedback is welcome, but ostly enjoy,
Jeanette
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That the girl in the mirror
The girl in the mirror Is me <3
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