Hello everybody .... :-) greetings from Germany

[lepetitdiable]

I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Manuel (AKA: LePetitDiable), and I'm a bit older...
I come from the Taunus-region in Germany. I'm a passionate (hobby) bass player, even playing in two bands. I listen to music as often as possible, and my collection of ripped CDs and LPs is already quite extensive.
 
 Another of my hobbies is tinkering with electronics, which is why I couldn't get past the Raspberry Pi. It's so nice when you can combine two hobbies, isn't it? One thing led to another, and before I knew it, I'd ended up with the Moodeplayer! 

In the meantime, I've already gained some experience with this great player. I took apart an old analogue radio from my childhood and put it back together again with a Pi4, SSD, and audio card (HiFiBerry DAC+) plus a graphic display (thanks adrii!!). 

Everything works great now, even if one or the other hangs, but thanks to all the helpful posts here in this forum, I'm sure everything will be solved quickly. Many thanks for all the valuable tips!
 
Guess what! A Raspberry Pi 5B was also delivered today, which is already intended for the player ...

Best regards from Germany,
Manuel

[TheOldPresbyope]

@lepetitdiable 

Guten Tag, Manuel, and welcome to the forum.

You'll find a lot of good company here including some other musicians. Sadly, I'm not...but I just attended a great Chris Botti concert last night.

It sounds like you are well on your way with moOde. Vielen Spass!

Regards,
Kent
mid-Altantic region, USA

[Dorffen]

Hello neighbour and welcome.

Kind regards from a danish bass colleague.
Rock

[lepetitdiable]

@lepetitdiable 

Guten Tag, Manuel, and welcome to the forum.

You'll find a lot of good company here including some other musicians. Sadly, I'm not...but I just attended a great Chris Botti concert last night.

It sounds like you are well on your way with moOde. Vielen Spass!

Regards,
Kent
mid-Altantic region, USA

Hi Kent,

  thank you for the warm welcome!
 You may be right, at least another bass player has already contacted me  ... (Hi Dorffen  )

Surely your concert was great ....  my next one will be a gig of "The Hooters" - I'll let myself be surprised. 


Concerning MoOde ... Well, I still stumble a lot:

As written in my last post, I replaced my previous Pi 4B board with a Pi 5B. Unfortunately, my connected (SPI) OLED display remains dark, even though I followed Adrian's great instructions meticulously.  I repeated the test with a completely new installation of the SW and identical HW wiring: It works with the Pi 4, but not with the Pi 5 - too bad.  I hope, I'm not alone with this issue .... so I will write a Post in the Support-section ...

Regards, 

Manuel

[the_bertrum]

The Hooters! Loved them in the 80's. They are still gigging?

[lepetitdiable]

The Hooters!  Loved them in the 80's.  They are still gigging?

Hi Robert,

    Sorry if it gets a little "off-topic" now ... 

Yes, they have been back since 2001 - unfortunately no longer in the original line-up, but I'm really looking forward to hits like "Johnny B", "Sattelite", "All you Zombies" or "Day by Day" ... which they will hopefully play.
 
This year they are on the road on their "More Rocking, more Swing" tour in Germany and Switzerland, among other places... 
I didn't want to miss that ...

[the_bertrum]

The Hooters!  Loved them in the 80's.  They are still gigging?

Hi Robert,

    Sorry if it gets a little "off-topic" now ... 

Yes, they have been back since 2001 - unfortunately no longer in the original line-up, but I'm really looking forward to hits like "Johnny B", "Sattelite", "All you Zombies" or "Day by Day" ... which they will hopefully play.
 
This year they are on the road on their "More Rocking, more Swing" tour in Germany and Switzerland, among other places... 
I didn't want to miss that ...

Karla with a K, what a tune!

[lepetitdiable]

The Hooters!  Loved them in the 80's.  They are still gigging?

Hi Robert,

    Sorry if it gets a little "off-topic" now ... 

Yes, they have been back since 2001 - unfortunately no longer in the original line-up, but I'm really looking forward to hits like "Johnny B", "Sattelite", "All you Zombies" or "Day by Day" ... which they will hopefully play.
 
This year they are on the road on their "More Rocking, more Swing" tour in Germany and Switzerland, among other places... 
I didn't want to miss that ...

Karla with a K, what a tune!

... oh yes !       How could I forget ..... 

[fdealexa]

@lepetitdiable 

Guten Tag, Manuel, and welcome to the forum.

You'll find a lot of good company here including some other musicians. Sadly, I'm not...but I just attended a great Chris Botti concert last night.

It sounds like you are well on your way with moOde. Vielen Spass!

Regards,
Kent
mid-Altantic region, USA

Hi Kent,

  thank you for the warm welcome!
 You may be right, at least another bass player has already contacted me  ... (Hi Dorffen   )

Surely your concert was great ....  my next one will be a gig of "The Hooters" - I'll let myself be surprised. 


Concerning MoOde ... Well, I still stumble a lot:

As written in my last post, I replaced my previous Pi 4B board with a Pi 5B. Unfortunately, my connected (SPI) OLED display remains dark, even though I followed Adrian's great instructions meticulously.  I repeated the test with a completely new installation of the SW and identical HW wiring: It works with the Pi 4, but not with the Pi 5 - too bad.  I hope, I'm not alone with this issue .... so I will write a Post in the Support-section ...

Regards, 

Manuel

Hi Manuel,
Welcome on board.
As already reported to Adrian, I had the same issue with moOde 9. A temporary workaround is to install from source instead of binary: please try to follow the Adrian instructions on his github.
Best regards,
Francesco

[lepetitdiable]

@lepetitdiable 

Guten Tag, Manuel, and welcome to the forum.

You'll find a lot of good company here including some other musicians. Sadly, I'm not...but I just attended a great Chris Botti concert last night.

It sounds like you are well on your way with moOde. Vielen Spass!

Regards,
Kent
mid-Altantic region, USA

Hi Kent,

  thank you for the warm welcome!
 You may be right, at least another bass player has already contacted me  ... (Hi Dorffen   )

Surely your concert was great ....  my next one will be a gig of "The Hooters" - I'll let myself be surprised. 


Concerning MoOde ... Well, I still stumble a lot:

As written in my last post, I replaced my previous Pi 4B board with a Pi 5B. Unfortunately, my connected (SPI) OLED display remains dark, even though I followed Adrian's great instructions meticulously.  I repeated the test with a completely new installation of the SW and identical HW wiring: It works with the Pi 4, but not with the Pi 5 - too bad.  I hope, I'm not alone with this issue .... so I will write a Post in the Support-section ...

Regards, 

Manuel

Hi Manuel,
Welcome on board.
As already reported to Adrian, I had the same issue with moOde 9. A temporary workaround is to install from source instead of binary: please try to follow the Adrian instructions on his github.
Best regards,
Francesco

Hello Francesco, 

           thank you very much for your help !  
I had already read your posts with Andrii and chose the source installation - unfortunately without success: The display remains dark with the Raspberry 5.  
One reason will certainly be, that my display is a 2.42 inch OLED with SSD1309 processor... too bad, I'll probably have to stay with the Raspi 4.