Upcoming moOde 9.1.5 release

[abrakadabra2k]

Oh! That Looks good already, thanks!

[tomaxsas]

i want to put some tablet on the wall now to display moode

[Tim Curtis]

Here's another possible layout.

   

[the_bertrum]

For my money, the first layout with a full-screen background style cover is nicest. But, I don't use Spotify a lot, and I don't have an attached screen, so my vote should only count 0.25

[Tim Curtis]

For my money, the first layout with a full-screen background style cover is nicest.  But, I don't use Spotify a lot, and I don't have an attached screen, so my vote should only count 0.25

The cover in the first layout is scaled at 1.5x and applied as a background so it completely fills a landscape screen thus you're not seeing the entire cover.

The most recent layout shows the actual cover.

[Tim Curtis]

For those of you that want to test a pre-release 9.1.5 with spotmeta try the download link below.

Code:

https://moodeaudio.org/test/image_2024-11-07-moode-r915-arm64-lite.zip

[TheOldPresbyope]

m915-pre running on a Pi 5B here.

The Spotify renderer looks nice in a browser on my Pixel phone (portrait), my iPad (landscape), and a taptop (landscape).

The "X" and musical note icons were a bit of a head scratcher though. I was expecting something to tell me the Spotify renderer is active but clicking the "X" preemptively disconnects from the Spotify renderer while clicking the musical note brings up the moOde Audio info modal. (OK, so I can see in the audio info that the source is a Spotify stream, but that's a bit indirect.)

Thoughts?

Regards,
Kent

[Tim Curtis]

The standard renderer overlay layout with "Spotify Active" text and big buttons didn't seem to work very well in the bottom bar spotmeta area so I went with just the button icons and thrifted the text. Maybe it's just a matter of getting used to it.

There also needs to be a refresh icon down there because in certain circumstances the cover won't be picked up.

[Tim Curtis]

Here are the latest WIP release notes

- Added a "Screen type" option to Peripheral Config for the Pi Touch 2 display (not tested)
- Fixed some bugs
- Updated spotmeta screen
   

Code:

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# 2024-MM-DD moOde 9.1.5 (Bookworm)
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Updates
- UPD: Bump to librespot 0.6.0
- UPD: Add cover art and metadata display for Spotify Connect
- UPD: Add section to Quick help explaining date tags in the Library
- UPD: Add support for Pi 7 inch Touch screen 2
- UPD: Remove AP fallback option for Spotify Connect (not needed for >= v0.5.x)

Bug fixes
- FIX: In-place update removes --disable-gpu in .xinitrc if present
- FIX: In-place update resets cfg_radio monitor field  to 'No'
- FIX: Resolv.conf file not being updated when using static IP address
- FIX: Call to getAlsaIEC958Device() in multiroom.php aborts script
- FIX: Bad screensize reported in xinitrc when using firmware driver
- FIX: GPIO buttons crashing when GPIO 2 or 3 is used
- FIX: Wrong ALSA cardnum assigned to Multiroom sender during startup

[Tim Curtis]

Here's another pre release.
https://moodeaudio.org/test/image_2024-1...4-lite.zip

This includes an updated Spotify Connect metadata screen and an option in Peripheral Config to specify and configure for Pi Touch 2 display.

The Touch 2 config has not been tested on my end because I don't have one of these displays but the config is based on the information in the official documentation at https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentatio...lay-2.html

If someone with one of these displays can test the config and provide feedback / debugging it would be most helpful.

Release notes

Code:

################################################################################
#
# 2024-MM-DD moOde 9.1.5 (Bookworm)
#
################################################################################

Updates
- UPD: Bump to librespot 0.6.0
- UPD: Add cover art and metadata display for Spotify Connect
- UPD: Add section to Quick help explaining date tags in the Library
- UPD: Add support for Pi 7 inch Touch screen 2
- UPD: Remove AP fallback option for Spotify Connect (not needed for >= v0.5.x)

Bug fixes
- FIX: In-place update removes --disable-gpu in .xinitrc if present
- FIX: In-place update resets cfg_radio monitor field  to 'No'
- FIX: Resolv.conf file not being updated when using static IP address
- FIX: Call to getAlsaIEC958Device() in multiroom.php aborts script
- FIX: Bad screensize reported in xinitrc when using firmware driver
- FIX: GPIO buttons crashing when GPIO 2 or 3 is used
- FIX: Wrong ALSA cardnum assigned to Multiroom sender during startup