new user on this forum : HiFiPenguin

[HifiPenguin]

Hi there, 

First of all : thanks to admin to allow me in the forum. 

Here is who I am : I live in France. And for a living I do teach law at University. No, I am not that young anymore : I'm 52 years old :-(

I love music and music reproduction. I have built a nice Hi-Fi system (Oppo BDP-105 source + pre-amp + 2 X Linn AV 5125 power amps + Linn Keltik as front speakers + Linn Center speaker + Linn Kaber as rear speakers + Linn Komponent 140 bass) over the years. 

With COVID lockdowns, we had to work from home and so my wife was in the living room steadily. So I began to listen to music with headphones. After a long search I've found the 3/4 headphones that are best suited for me : Oppo PM-1, Sony MDR-Z7, Dan Clark Aeon Closed and Aeon Open. They run from an AUNE X8 DAC and Aune X7s headphone amplifier. 

The problem was to feed those babies. I wanted to have something that I could remotely control. So I digged a little around and it seemed that one of the best solutions was to use the Raspberry pi4. Now remained to drive it : tested the 3 OS that could be used. I must say that moOde Audio was not the first choice. But had some problems with rAudio (no lyrics ; not nicely driven by Symfonium Android app...) so I went looking for something else and moOde was the natural choice. 

So far, I am using it with no problems. Would just like to be able to display lyrics (retrieved from Internet or from metadata) but it seems that is not trivial. That is the feature I am missing from the predecessor. But Symfonium can compensate and thus I will probably keep moOde :-)

I hope to find answers here and be able to answer some to help :-)

As a last word : "TIM : keep up the good work !". 

Regards.

[the_bertrum]

Welcome to the forum. Symphonium is a new control app to me, looks interesting I might have a play.

[HifiPenguin]

Welcome to the forum.  Symphonium is a new control app to me, looks interesting I might have a play.

Hi,

As far as I am concerned, Symfonium is the app that best fits my needs when used with Emby. 

Choice for Emby is essentially because it offers support of the "Album artist" tag, which is not commonly supported, but is mandatory for me when I liesten to Classical music (and ig f I have 12 interpretations of the same 5 Piano concertos...). 

Choice for Symfonium is because it offers a lot of ways to display things. 
Plus, if Lyrics are included in the metadata, it is able to retrieve them. 
So basically, I use LyricFinder on Linux to add Lyrics to Metadata and then upload the thing to my NAS and Symfonium can read those... 
Nice feature :-) 

I wish moOde could it too :-) 
So I would have lyrics on the computer, which I can't so far. 
runeAudio (rAudio-1 now) had it but for some reason it stopped working for me :-(


Regards.

[Nutul]

Hi,

first of all, moOde too supports the "Album artist" tag, which, if empty or missing, defaults to "Artist".

Then, for the lyrics thing... there is the consistency among different file formats / metadata tags, Vorbis / Id3v2 / etc.

It's true that moOde could handle the lyrics the same way it handles the album art: extract them from the track file, or read them from an additional text file (here whole-album-FLACs + CUE may present an issue, or at least require a lot of logic...); anyway this is a brand feature, requiring a lot of effort on both the server and the UI.

@Tim Curtis
I can invest some time in research, and eventually take care of the implementation, but maybe some feedback from other users could be valuable before starting the journey, uh...?

[Tim Curtis]

User would prolly be better off using a Lyrics daemon like OSDLyrics.

[HifiPenguin]

Hi Tim,
Never heard about OSD Lyrics but will try to search what it is...

If you want to take a look about lyrics, Symfonium for Android also does that.
So does Emby server.
Requires a paid account though :-(

Keep up the good work :-)
Regards fron France

[Tim Curtis]

It's best if you start a new thread to continue a discussion of song lyrics just to keep it separate from the Intro thread.

[HifiPenguin]

It's best if you start a new thread to continue a discussion of song lyrics just to keep it separate from the Intro thread.

Hi Tim, 

Will do :-)

Regards.