Official moOde 8 support thread

[the_bertrum]

Has there been a change to the way cover art is handled?  I upgraded one of my systems to 8.0 and now some (maybe 10%) of the cover art just shows a ? in a little blue box.  Cover art shows fine on the other systems.  The jpg files are in the folders.
I tried switching to embedded - made no difference.

Also having the same issue rebuilding the library - have about 20000 tracks and it has not yet managed to completely build the library.  Am using a Pi 1B, so understand it might take some time.

If it helps: All the Beatles albums have the same, seems to be by folder, all Beach boys, all cranberries....

One more thing - when I play the album the cover art shows in the main cover art area, but not in the "playlist thumbnails" - just the ?

In the main MoOde Menu find the "Preferences" tab.. What have you configured for the various options including Library and Advanced Library..?

Also, if I find my library looks odd after a main update, I first try clearing the browser cache.  Often that's enough to make it right again.

[TheOldPresbyope]

A comment on moOde 8 players mounting Samba shares.

moOde 8 is built on Raspbian 11 (bullseye) which includes Samba v4.13.13 compared to moOde 7 built on Raspbian 10 (buster) which includes Samba v4.9.5.

Because of its inherent insecurity, the Samba developers made an executive decision to turn off the SMBv1 protocol in the default configuration at Samba v4.11.0. (You can read a nice summary of insecure protocols at https://www.extrahop.com/company/blog/20...protocols/) In other words, SMBv2 is now the minimum protocol level tried in the mounting process.

This means that users trying to mount Samba servers which support only SMBv1 will have to enter vers=1.0 explicitly in the mount flags at the bottom of moOde 8's Music Source configuration screen.

Regards,
Kent

PS - setting the vers= flag forces the mounting process to try only that version which is why it isn't included by default.

[the_bertrum]

fritz.box is my router which has a NAS function and a USB stick attached.

Given this setup, perhaps the fastest way t a solution is to plug the USB drive into the Pi that moOde is on. That way it will be automatically be mounted to moOde for mpd to scan, and also automatically shared over SMB for other things on your network to see, just as from the fritz box.

[maartin]

fritz.box is my router which has a NAS function and a USB stick attached.

Best,

Sean

Hi Sean,
running a harddisk as NAS on my FRitzbox 7590 it might help you to see my setting:

The path in Moode Configure>Music Source>Server>Path is

"IP of the Fritzbox" /fritzbox/"Name of the Share"

Mount flags in Advanced setting are:

vers=1.0,ro,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777




The Fritzbox setting has a checkbox to enable SMBv1, this should be enabled.

Works for me with 8.01.
Hope this helps.

Maartin


PS: It is not working with a point -"IP of the Fritzbox" /fritz.box/"Name of the Share"-

[s_mury]

Hi Martin,

That is essentially what I do now to get it working (except that I need the .  in fritz.box). I have the older 7490.

However, as Kent pointed out, we probably shouldn't be using SMB vers=1.0
I tried unchecking the SMBv1 box in the Fritzbox settings but I couldn't get MPD to work properly without it (though in both cases, it mounts fine and with the same permissions rwxrwxrwx)

In the absence of a fix for the SMB version, the_bertrum's suggestion is a safer alternative - connect the drive to the pi and use it as a SMB server. I wasn't aware that Raspian/moode would do that automatically.

Best
Sean

[maartin]

Hi Martin,

That is essentially what I do now to get it working (except that I need the .  in fritz.box). I have the older 7490.

However, as Kent pointed out, we probably shouldn't be using SMB vers=1.0
I tried unchecking the SMBv1 box in the Fritzbox settings but I couldn't get MPD to work properly without it (though in both cases, it mounts fine and with the same permissions rwxrwxrwx)

In the absence of a fix for the SMB version, the_bertrum's suggestion is a safer alternative - connect the drive to the pi and use it as a SMB server. I wasn't aware that Raspian/moode would do that automatically.

Best
Sean

Ok, I see. Actually a resent Fritzbox should work with SMB up to version 3, as AVM writes. However I never got Moode talking with FritzNAS higher then SMB1. Fine for me so far...

AtB
Maartin

[Frank79]

Try opening alsamixer and bumping the Master volume a couple of times.

The white noise issue is because the Kali reclocker does not support 24 bit format. The fix IIRC was to set SoX resampling to 32-bit

Correct... and change mode from plughw to Direct and check that both Piano dip-switches (RPI compatibility and HAT) are set to OFF.
This is what works for my Piano 2.1 & Kali with 8.

... and with HifiBerry DAC2HD!

I happened to get sound only thru the left speaker until I changed alsamixer mode to Direct.

[DRONE7]

Hi Martin,

That is essentially what I do now to get it working (except that I need the .  in fritz.box). I have the older 7490.

However, as Kent pointed out, we probably shouldn't be using SMB vers=1.0
I tried unchecking the SMBv1 box in the Fritzbox settings but I couldn't get MPD to work properly without it (though in both cases, it mounts fine and with the same permissions rwxrwxrwx)

In the absence of a fix for the SMB version, the_bertrum's suggestion is a safer alternative - connect the drive to the pi and use it as a SMB server. I wasn't aware that Raspian/moode would do that automatically.

Best
Sean

Ok, I see. Actually a resent Fritzbox should work with SMB up to version 3, as AVM writes. However I never got Moode talking with FritzNAS higher then SMB1. Fine for me so far...

AtB
Maartin

There are threads pertaining to FritzBox! devices that reference adding  'noserverino' to the mount string.
Perhaps try that and the higher versions as noted in your AVM link.

https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread....t=fritzbox
https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread....7#pid23787

[s_mury]

Hi Martin,

That is essentially what I do now to get it working (except that I need the .  in fritz.box). I have the older 7490.

However, as Kent pointed out, we probably shouldn't be using SMB vers=1.0
I tried unchecking the SMBv1 box in the Fritzbox settings but I couldn't get MPD to work properly without it (though in both cases, it mounts fine and with the same permissions rwxrwxrwx)

In the absence of a fix for the SMB version, the_bertrum's suggestion is a safer alternative - connect the drive to the pi and use it as a SMB server. I wasn't aware that Raspian/moode would do that automatically.

Best
Sean

Ok, I see. Actually a resent Fritzbox should work with SMB up to version 3, as AVM writes. However I never got Moode talking with FritzNAS higher then SMB1. Fine for me so far...

AtB
Maartin

There are threads that reference adding  'noserverino' to the mount string.
Perhaps try that and the higher versions as noted in your AVM link.

https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread....t=fritzbox
https://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread....7#pid23787

Thanks for the tip. That did it!

I now have these flags

Code:

ro,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,noserverino

and its working now.

[TheOldPresbyope]

Just so others won't get misled by this discussion, 

Putting aside the now deprecated SMBv1 (aka CIFS aka NT1), the default moOde settings will allow it to negotiate with a server for the highest SMB protocol level acceptable to both.

So, for example, in my test environment with a Samba server running in OpenWRT (to emulate common routers) with no maximum protocol level set and with the minimum protocol level set to NT1, moOde will mount the share with SMBv1 if I explicitly force vers=1.0 in the mount flags.

However, if I leave moOde set with only the default mount flags, then it will negotiate to and mount with SMB3.1.1. If I set the Samba server to a maximum protocol level of SMBv2.0, then that's where the negotiation will end, and so on (usw!).

In past tests, I have covered the entire matrix of SMB protocol versions on various Samba servers versus on the moOde client and found it all very consistent. 

If Fritz!Box doesn't work this way they should be more forthcoming on configuring their software.

Regards,
Kent