Dr Lovegrove's Squeezebox Utilities

Moose

Moose is a native Windows frontend for controlling and providing information about units connected to Logitech's SqueezeCenter.

 

Moose started out as a fast music searching and selection tool for SlimDevices' SlimServer.

Over the course of development many features have been added, including an animated cover chooser, drag n drop playlist management, now playing toast, automatic coverart lookup, radio selection, favourites management, popcorn, MusicIP integration, etc

Moose uses CLI commands to talk to the server, so it should work whatever platform your server runs on and doesn't need to be on the same PC as the server.

 


Basic Instructions

  • Download Moose072.zip and unzip Moose.exe into a folder and double-click it.

  • If it complains about things, check you have the Microsoft .NET Version 2.0 Framework installed and try again. You can get this via Windows Update, or directly here.

  • If you just want to use Moose as a basic 'Now Playing' and remote utility, you can use it as it is. You'll need to point it at SlimServer or Squeezecentre, and tell it which player to monitor. More details here...

  • To use Moose's speedy music library features, you'll need to get Moose to scan SqueezeCenter's database. Full details of this and further setting up of Moose here...

  • Sit back and enjoy your music.


Releases

  • 0.72 - 12nd October 2009
    • Tree - Fixed radio support in 7.4.1 (seems the CLI command 'music_services' has been renamed to 'apps')
    • New 'Info' tab in library system. Currently supports biography and album review plugins, but requires manual refreshes
    • Now Playing - New bubbles background mode
    • Now Playing - Shuffle and Repeat buttons have dropdown menus

  • 0.71 - 21st May 2009
    • Scanning - Added quick-n-dirty support for new SQLite databases - no support for persistent things like ratings yet
    • Library - Search text now treats multiple words as multiple terms -> "bo da" will now match "david bowie", etc
    • Library - If search text is empty, the track list no longer gets populated. To show all the tracks, use the 'Show All' button.
    • Tree - Fixed support for some of the newer Radios/Music Services
    • Tree - Added Server->Albums->Year 2007 and 2009
    • Tree - Added 6-second timeout for radio icons to avoid lockups
    • Now Playing - Status button's text colour tweaked. Behaves better when semi-transp.
    • Now Playing - Added support for launching SqueezePlay - need to set the path in the options, etc.
    • Now Playing - The Hotkeys (CTRL + P, CTRL + S, CTRL + F, CTRL + B, F8, F9 and F10) will only be system-wide now if 'Global Hot keys' is ticked in the tray icon menu. If this isnt ticked they'll only work when the now playing window has the focus.
    • Playlist - Fixed 'remove all before' and 'remove all after' in playlist popup menu
    • Playlist - Fixed 'remove all non-flacs' et al so they work when the URL column's not shown

  • 0.70 - 22nd Decemeber 2008
    • Playlist - Dragged of items from library windows can now be inserted into the now playing playlist and visual feedback is given for the insert position
    • Tree - Radios/Music Services are now supported in a more generic way, which means any new ones the server throws at moose should be usable
    • Tree - Support added for Radios/Music Services icons specified by service rather than moose
    • Tree - Some accented characters were mis-behaving in the tree window with the latest server builds. This is now fixed.
    • Cover chooser - In touchscreen mode, both right clicking, and double-slow-left clicking brings up teh context menu
    • PartyMode - New PartyMode tab in options window with various party-mode specific settings (remove menus, try to limit damage users can perform)
    • PartyMode - Extended support to all library windows. Should be much more usable now
    • PartyMode - Key shortcut for toggling PartyMode added as "<CTRL><SHIFT><P>" (focus may need to be on the now playing window for this to work)

  • 0.69a - 21st November 2008
    • Tree - Support for new radio types 'world' 'local' 'music' and 'providers' to fix 7.3 support
    • Tree - Fixed RSS support so it shows the descriptive text and links work, etc
    • Tab Controls - Their positions can now be altered via draggings
    • Library - Drag drop now creates a draggable image if starting from the library window
    • Tweaked fix for issue with Moose un-muting server mutes. Unrepeatable issue.

  • 0.69 - 14th November 2008
    • Options - New 'Show Track Numbers In Song Titles' option in the Now Playing tab which stops track number being displayed in the now playing information
    • Tree - Playlists now expand in the tree to show their list of tracks
    • Tree - Fixed issue with radios and multiple players
    • Tree - Added support for Sirius and fixed LMA. Other station support added as well.
    • Fixed issue with Moose un-muting server mutes.
    • About - Updated the about dialog with donation links, etc.

  • 0.68 - 16th October 2008
    • Playlist control - Totally new playlist control with lots more available information and better features
    • Playlist control - Right-click the column headers to add/remove columns
    • Playlist control - Drag column headers to re-arrange
    • Playlist control - Click column headers to sort. Clicking the column that displays the play symbol returns the sort-mode to the default
    • Playlist control - Remembers displayed columns and displayed column positions for next time
    • Playlist control - Added a new 'Now Playing' tab to the library which shows the current playlist. Handy when docked in the now playing window
    • Now Playing - Server notifications in the big button at the bottom
    • Now Playing - Add to favourites options added to playlist's context menu
    • Library - multi row album display if there is room
    • Library - 'Add to favourites' and 'Create MusicIP playlist' should work on the context menus now
    • Tree - More info on most text nodes (artist on albums/tracks, etc), better music ip support
    • Cover Chooser - Better item highlighting when in non-layout modes
    • Cover Chooser - 'Add to favourites' and 'Create MusicIP playlist' should work on the context menus now
    • Options - Libraries - New 'Double-click' option which allows double-click and enter to do different things in the library
    • Options - Tray Icon Toast - New 'Disabled, but use for tooltip' option which does what 'Disabled' used to do. Disabled now never shows toast
    • Options - Removed Jukebox tab to avoid further confusion

  • Older release history...





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