Official moOde 7.0.1 support thread

[Tim Curtis]

Your DAC's built in volume control will not be able to change Moode UI knob. moOde only recognizes physical volume controls that are directly connected to the Pi via USB or GPIO.

Just try one of the many USB volume knobs that are available. Plug it into the Pi and then turn on "USB volume knob" in Audio config. https://www.amazon.com/DROK-Lossless-Com...B01MV411BR

[Tim Curtis]

Looks like your DAC is displaying an odd volume scale. My Rev DAC displays volume in dB and if I turn on "Display dB volume" in Audio Config then the dB level displayed in the moOde knob matches the dB level shown in the DAC's OLED display.

   

[TheOldPresbyope]

@TheOldPresbyope identified a potential problem possibly in the version of chromium-browser that came with RaspiOS 10.6 that apparently causes it to eat memory after many hours idle. I wasn't able to repro the issue on my end but that does not necessarily rule anything out in this case.

Anyway if it is some sort of issue with chromium-browser there aren't many options going forward other than to wait for a new version that may or may not contain a fix or try testing with the particular version that was used in 671 to see if the problem goes away. I don't have the bandwidth ATM to do this testing but maybe someone will volunteer to give it a try.

-Tim

Late breaking news-

A preliminary experiment suggests substituting the current Vivaldi browser (d/l directly from its devs) for Chromium as the local client may keep the system alive. I'm composing a guide for those hard souls who want to follow in my footsteps. More testers make it more likely any flaws in my approach will be uncovered.

It's not a desirable approach because Vivaldi-ARM isn't considered stable yet so isn't in the Raspberry Pi OS repo.
ETA ... but it may help the few affected users and it also may help illuminate the problem.

Regards,
Kent

Maybe more evidence it's a memory leak in chromium-browser
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...ug/1751137

Hadn't seen that one. If you read to the end of the thread, it appears that an ad-blocker extension was responsible in that particular case. But it was two years ago...lots of opportunities to have introduced new failure modes since. (Not that we'd know anything about that )

Chromium is an amazing mashup of code. The Vivaldi devs posted a nice blog entry about why they chose to build on the existing Chromium engine---smart as they are,"[T]here is a reason why no-one has built a new engine from scratch in 20 years."

I've now posted my guide.

Regards,
Kent

[ElmhurstFun]

Looks like your DAC is displaying an odd volume scale. My Rev DAC displays volume in dB and if I turn on "Display dB volume" in Audio Config then the dB level displayed in the moOde knob matches the dB level shown in the DAC's OLED display.

Good station choice !!

[Peziman]

Hi guys!

Yesterday I recognized that all tracks in my queues shows "undefined image" at the thumbnails. 
But why? 
shouldn't show the embedded artwork of the file there?

[Tim Curtis]

Menu, Configure, Library
Thumbnail Generator.
View Status

Also in moode log there are records showing the result of MPD database update and thumbnail generator.

Code:

moodeutl -l

[Herman]

Hi,

Did a fresh install of 7.0.1 (previous was 6.4.2) (system: PI-3B, Allo Boss, NAS NFS, PI is wired, clients are wifi)
I like the new interface and improvements. Thanks!

Do have some issues though;

- at start-up I get 2 times the message "MPD error unexpected end of JSON input"
- if I click on the check (V) of consume, a default image is shown, instead of unchecking the option (which is minor)
- if I click the refresh function in the moode menu, the circles are decreased and out of center, a ctrl-F5 solves this  (which is also minor)
- The album view on a PC is very laggy. (about 3000 albums and cover file image) The loading of images (400px) is not smooth but acceptable. The problem is that Chrome is slowing down, e.g. highlighting the menu items takes seconds. If album view is active and static, chrome processor usage is about 25%, while the other pages are about 3%. 

Any suggestions?
Many thanks in advance,

[Tim Curtis]

Post the Moode startup log.

Code:

moodeutl -l

[jmcturnan]

Hi, not sure if this is a lack of a feature or a bug.  When mounting a Samba share, Moode issues the following command:


mount -t cifs "//<NAS_HOST>/volume2/Music" -o username="blah",password="blah",rsize=61440,wsize=65536,iocharset=utf8,vers=1.0,ro,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 "/mnt/NAS/MY_NAS_SMBSHARE"



My Synology DS216+II is configured to support a MIN of v2 and max of v3.  It took me awhile to figure out that I had to use SSH and commandline to mount the share if I did not want to downgrade to v1.  

I found that the moode.log and other logs did not contain any errors... however it definitely does not work.  

Assuming I'm correct about this, I would think a lot of users are getting stuck here and abandoning the effort.  Ideally moode/linux would automatically figure out the right version OR the UI would ask the user which version to use.

Thanks!
mount -t cifs "//192.168.1.114/volume2/Music" -o username="admin",password="jmm0079",rsize=61440,wsize=65536,iocharset=utf8,vers=1.0,ro,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 "/mnt/NAS/MCTBOXSMB"

mount -t cifs "//192.168.1.114/volume2/Music" -o username="admin",password="jmm0079",rsize=61440,wsize=65536,iocharset=utf8,vers=1.0,ro,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777 "/mnt/NAS/MCTBOXSMB"

[Herman]

Post the Moode startup log.

Code:

moodeutl -l

Code:

20210114 050307 worker: -- Start
20210114 050308 worker: Successfully daemonized
20210114 050308 worker: Integrity check (passed)
20210114 050308 worker: File check (OK)
20210114 050309 worker: Session loaded
20210114 050309 worker: Debug logging (OFF)
20210114 050309 worker: -- Device
20210114 050309 worker: ALSA cards: (0:BossDAC | 1:empty | 2:empty | 3:empty
20210114 050309 worker: Configured: (0:Allo Boss DAC | mixer:(Digital) | alsavol:0)
20210114 050309 worker: ALSA mixer actual (Digital)
20210114 050309 worker: ALSA Digital volume set to (0%)
20210114 050309 worker: -- System
20210114 050310 worker: Host     (moode)
20210114 050310 worker: moOde    (7.0.1 2020-12-23)
20210114 050310 worker: RaspiOS  (10.6)
20210114 050310 worker: Kernel   (5.4.77-v7+ #1371)
20210114 050310 worker: Platform (Pi-3B 1GB v1.2)
20210114 050310 worker: ARM arch (armv7l, 32-bit kernel)
20210114 050310 worker: MPD ver  (0.22.3_p0x3)
20210114 050310 worker: CPU gov  (ondemand)
20210114 050311 worker: USB boot not enabled yet
20210114 050311 worker: File system expanded
20210114 050311 worker: HDMI port off
20210114 050311 worker: -- Network
20210114 050311 worker: eth0 exists
20210114 050311 worker: IP addr (192.168.0.12)
20210114 050311 worker: Netmask (255.255.255.0)
20210114 050311 worker: Gateway (192.168.0.1)
20210114 050311 worker: Pri DNS (8.8.8.8)
20210114 050311 worker: Domain  (1.1.1.1)
20210114 050311 worker: wlan0 does not exist
20210114 050311 worker: -- Audio
20210114 050311 worker: MPD conf updated
20210114 050311 worker: ALSA outputs unmuted
20210114 050311 worker: ALSA card number (0)
20210114 050311 worker: Audio output (Allo Boss DAC)
20210114 050312 worker: Audio formats (S16_LE, S24_LE, S32_LE)
20210114 050312 worker: ALSA mixer name (Digital)
20210114 050312 worker: MPD volume control (disabled)
20210114 050312 worker: Hdwr volume controller exists
20210114 050312 worker: Max ALSA volume (100%)
20210114 050312 worker: Reset renderer active flags
20210114 050312 worker: -- MPD
20210114 050312 worker: MPD started
20210114 050313 worker: MPD accepting connections
20210114 050313 worker: Configure MPD outputs
20210114 050313 worker: MPD output 1 ALSA default (on)
20210114 050313 worker: MPD output 2 ALSA crossfeed (off)
20210114 050313 worker: MPD output 3 ALSA parametric eq (off)
20210114 050313 worker: MPD output 4 ALSA graphic eq (off)
20210114 050313 worker: MPD output 5 ALSA polarity inversion (off)
20210114 050313 worker: MPD output 6 ALSA bluetooth (off)
20210114 050313 worker: MPD output 7 HTTP stream (off)
20210114 050313 worker: MPD crossfade (off)
20210114 050313 worker: -- Feature availability
20210114 050313 worker: Source select (available)
20210114 050313 worker: Source select (source: MPD)
20210114 050313 worker: Source select (output: Allo Boss DAC)
20210114 050313 worker: Bluetooth (available)
20210114 050313 worker: Airplay renderer (available)
20210114 050313 worker: Spotify renderer (available)
20210114 050313 worker: Squeezelite renderer (available)
20210114 050313 worker: UPnP renderer (available)
20210114 050313 worker: DLNA server (available)
20210114 050313 worker: UPnP browser (available)
20210114 050313 worker: GPIO button handler (available)
20210114 050313 worker: Stream recorder (n/a)
20210114 050313 worker: -- Music sources
20210114 050313 worker: USB sources (none attached)
20210114 050314 worker: NAS and UPnP sources (mountall initiated)
20210114 050314 worker: -- Miscellaneous
20210114 050314 worker: USB volume knob (Off)
20210114 050314 worker: USB auto-mounter (udisks-glue)
20210114 050314 worker: LED0 (On)
20210114 050314 worker: LED1 (On)
20210114 050314 worker: Saved MPD vol level (0)
20210114 050314 worker: Preamp volume level (0)
20210114 050314 worker: MPD volume level (0) restored
20210114 050314 worker: ALSA Digital volume (100%)
20210114 050314 worker: Auto-play (On)
20210114 050314 worker: Auto-playing id (3)
20210114 050314 worker: Maintenance interval (3 hrs)
20210114 050314 worker: Screen saver activation (Never)
20210114 050314 worker: Session permissions (OK)
20210114 050314 worker: Watchdog started
20210114 050314 worker: Ready
20210114 124613 worker: Job mpdcfg
20210114 200925 watchdog: Info: Reducing PHP fpm worker pool
20210114 231606 worker: Job update_library
20210114 231606 mpdindex: Start
20210114 231606 thmcache: Start
20210114 231607 thmcache: Priority: Cover image file
20210114 231607 thmcache: Res,Qual: 400px,75
20210114 231607 thmcache: Px ratio: 1
20210114 231607 thmcache: Th width: 400
20210114 231607 thmcache: Thm qual: 75
20210114 231607 thmcache: Scanning: NAS, SDCARD, UPNP
20210114 231659 watchdog: Info: Reducing PHP fpm worker pool
20210114 231742 mpdindex: Done: indexed 2067 artists, 2826 albums, 35562 songs
20210114 231742 worker: Job update_library done
20210114 231810 thmcache: Done: 2923 folders scanned, 2 thumbs created, 2921 already in cache.
20210114 232728 worker: Job update_library
20210114 232728 mpdindex: Start
20210114 232728 thmcache: Start
20210114 232728 thmcache: Priority: Cover image file
20210114 232728 thmcache: Res,Qual: 400px,75
20210114 232728 thmcache: Px ratio: 1
20210114 232728 thmcache: Th width: 400
20210114 232728 thmcache: Thm qual: 75
20210114 232728 thmcache: Scanning: NAS, SDCARD, UPNP
20210114 232854 thmcache: Done: 2924 folders scanned, 1 thumbs created, 2923 already in cache.
20210114 232905 mpdindex: Done: indexed 2067 artists, 2827 albums, 35572 songs
20210114 232905 worker: Job update_library done