How do I see it’s RSP?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

tried out 1005 with Roklab Soundbridge M500 latest beta Firmware.

Dumb question, maybe, but how do I see or know it is RSP protocoll that’s being used? Maybe I am wrong, but I understand that there could be this Apple protocoll that is used (but maybe I am mistaken). Isn’t that DAAP?

And when it works, will I be able to have an Artist/Album hierarchy in my Soundbridge’s browser?

Everything else runs fine. Quite fast. I will test it a bit the next days…

Thanks,
Carsten.

[Carsten again…]

Well, and maybe an add-on: how do I specify the Compilations option that is mentioned on the status page? There is nothing about it in the template .conf file.

Thanks again,
Carsten.

[rpedde]

Hmm.. the rsp should show up in the server browse as “servername (rsp/1.0)” as opposed to “servername”. It’s an ugly hack, until it gets fixed on the firmware side.

Artist/Album? Don’t you already with iTunes?

[Carsten Schiers]

Ups, I am not familiar with iTunes. I used Twonky on Linux up to now. I installed sqlite and some other debian packages, compiled 1005, changed the config a bit and that’s it. Now I can select either Twonky or mt-daap in my Soundbridge. Thus I asked those silly questions…

I serve a directory which contains only mp3, all tagged. A sub-directory Sampler contains what it’s called. In Twonky I was able to specify that directory in the config so that it wouldn’t create an Artist entry for these files.

Best Regards,
Carsten.

[Carsten again…]

Sorry, forgot to mention that there is no rsp/1.0 in the server name. It is exactly what specified in the config. Does it think it’s iTunes?

BR,
Carsten.

[Carsten Schiers]

Argh! After reading carefully the description of the 1005, I saw that entry about plugins and rsp.so. The make install doesn’t copy rsp.so to the place and there is no default entry (logically) in the conf template. So now I serve rsp and displaying all >7100 titles is down from 40 seconds to 4 seconds. Was minutes on Twonky :P.

The other questions remain, maybe you have a hint: Sampler and Artist/Album, how shall I proceed?

BR,
Carsten.

[Carsten Schiers]

Ok, I maybe look ill, talking to myself. But I document it, just in case anybody has the same dumb beginners questions.

So the Album/Artist seems to be ok now. When I browse with the Soundbridge into Artists, the result includes either the possibility to play all or offers me all Albums of that Artist. Great.

Next step, I will check how and where to specify that option that makes the scanner notice that /srv/music/Sampler contains everything where I don’t want to see the Artist under Artists…

CU Carsten.

[Carsten, finally]

Aaaah! compdirs = goes to [general]

Now it’s wonderfull.

Thanks to everybody that helped (basically me :lol:)

CU Carsten.

[rpedde]

Oops you beat me to it.

yeah. general/compdirs.

There is also a scanning/concat compilations

(the key really is two words with a space).

If it’s set to 1, then anything that’s a compilation (marked as such in metainfo, or in a compdirs directory) gets set to artist of “Various Artists”, and title gets set to “artist – title”.

So if you had a soundtrack with the “right” artists, rather than showing up as:

01, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Nancy Sinatra, Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
02, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Charlie Feathers, That Certain Female

it would show up as:

01, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Various Artists, Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
02, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Various Artists, Charlie Feathers – That Certain Female

That way you can browse by “Various Artists” as an artist and see all soundtracks and stuff on the soundbridge. It’s really a server-side compilations browsing hack.

Note you’ll need to force a full rescan with a “-r”.

— Ron

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