RuneAudio 0.5-beta for most Raspberry Pi models

[janui]

[HJLK]

I have installed RuneAudio 0.5-beta on a Pi2B with HifiBerryDAC+ and hardware volume control, and I have two small issues compared to the 0.3 image I used to run.

1) volume controls in the UI (both Firefox web and Android app): the volume UP/DOWN buttons start to work only AFTER I adjust the volume once thru the wheel, or use the mute/unmute button. BTW : The volume hardware control does work a lot better than in the 0.3 image: "50" means indeed "half", while in 0.3 60 stood for zero sound.

2) the MPD database: it shows a lot of ARTISTS with no albums, and these artists come from the mp3 tag "album artist". In 0.3 I did not see these entries (only those from the "artist" tag. This may be helped by adding a "metadata_to_use" line (with tags to use) in mpd.conf BUT I cannot change the mpd.conf file because it is maintained by RuneAudio! So what to do?

Hope to hear from you!

[janui]

[HJLK]

Hi janui! Thanks for your info.

Regarding the problem wit mpd "artists" in RuneUI: I have done testing by adding the line "metadata_to_use" in the way you described. The procedure works: I can add the line in /etc/mpd.conf as you suggested. BTW: a reboot can be avoided by changing, say "Buffer before play" a bit, and SAVE in Menu - MPD (mpd.conf is rebuilt, and mpd restarted I think; this speeds up testing...)

The results are not promising: whenever I have an mp3-album with "artist" and "albumartist" both filled, I see ONLY "albumartist" in RuneUI Artists, but the album itself is NOT visible by clicking the (album)artist. The album itself is visible when looking in RuneUI Albums.
So MPD or Rune (?) prefers "albumartist"over "artist", and does not see the album via "albumartist".

For albums with only "artist" filled, all is well: I can see the artist via RuneUI Artists, and it's albums clicking it.

Can there be an issue with the Query/ies Rune does on the MPD-database? ( because all info seems to be in the mpd database!).

[janui]

[mickburke]

I tried this but all I get is:
4.125561 Error: driver 'sdhost-bcm2835' is already registered, aborting...
4.131949 vc_vchi_sm_init: failed to open VCHI service (-1)
4.131956 [vc_sm_connected_init]: failed to initialize shared memory service
starting version 238
/dev/mmcblk0p2:clean, 92386/237104 files, 657765/947200 blocks


I'm on a raspberry pi 3b+ which was previously running .4, and using a 16g sd, wired network plus a USB wireless for use once it's in its final location.

Any idea what's going on?

[janui]

[mickburke]

Thank you so much! The previous version I installed went all the way to the UI when it was done.

I'm still JUST barely learning about rune and MPD just a tiny bit so far, so I was lost!

Now to dig in and see if this update will give me what i was looking for!

Thanks again!

[HJLK]

[janui]

Hi HJLK,
RuneAudio uses 'Artist' and not ‘AlbumArtist’ because it is programmed to do so. It has nothing to do with the version of MPD.
In my previous post (here: runeaudio-0-5-beta-for-all-raspberry-pi-models-t6532-550.html#p28271) there is a link to a post which contains instructions for modifying the code in order to add/modify library page entries.
The latest version of MPD will be included in 0.6b.
janui