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 Moose069.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.
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Releases
- 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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Comments, hello's and suggestions welcome: drlovegrove@gmail.com
Help keep Moose alive. Donations (paypal)
and gifts (Amazon wishlist) always welcome.
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