[ANN] Soma 2.7.8

dive · 01-01-2012, 07:45 PM

Happy new year all.

Being a radiohead I was looking up some programs the other day and noticed something I wanted to hear at a certain time and channel and thought to myself 'Wouldn't it be good if Soma changed channel at that time automagically...'

So I added a fairly simple scheduler to Soma that seems to do the trick nicely.

There have also been some improvements in the code apart from this so you will probably want to upgrade anyway.

Changes:
Scheduler added
Better mplayer output parsing code to detect failed stations.
New bind [Space] which will completely stop/start mplayer and put Soma in Idle mode.
Now you can go directly to status window at startup in Idle mode. Soma will then be waiting for the next schedule, or input.

Scheduler:
Scheduler can be accessed through the main menu or through the status window. In the status window you can press 'a' to go direct to the add schedule screen, or 's' to go to the main schedule menu.

The scheduler has 3 settings:
Time in 24 Hour format (HH:MM)
Daily or oneshot schedule (oneshot is deleted after station is changed)
Date, selected by a calendar.

There is no weekly or monthly schedule at the moment, daily only I'm afraid.

http://dawoodfall.net/files/slackbuilds/noversion/soma/

As always, feedback/ideas appreciated.

disturbed1 · 01-02-2012, 01:16 AM

Thanks dive.
Have been a fan and supporter of soma fm for some time now. It's great music to have on while your working. Plus your program makes it easier (imo) to enjoy soma, and other streaming stations.

dive · 01-02-2012, 07:22 PM

Small bug fix.

Fix scheduled station when it is the same as last station, on idle.

http://dawoodfall.net/files/slackbuilds/noversion/soma/

bobzilla · 01-02-2012, 07:47 PM

I've been trying it out for a week or two. The version that was in current was a bit buggy (at least on my system), but this one seems to work fine.

Btw, I got the impression the playlists (stations) have to have an extension. If I put a playlist without an extension (in my ~/.soma/stations.conf), it gets confused.

dive · 01-02-2012, 07:49 PM

Yeah it does look for extensions in the URL, but if you can post here the one you're trying to get working I will have a look at it.

bobzilla · 01-02-2012, 08:01 PM

For example these two chill-out stations:
http://streaming202.radionomy.com:80/air-lounge
http://streaming203.radionomy.com:80/100-CHILL

Thanx.

dive · 01-02-2012, 08:38 PM

Right I see why - they aren't playlists.

Should be fixed now, and I also added them to stations.conf

dive · 01-02-2012, 08:47 PM

One thing I didn't mention is a new option in options.conf:

Code:

# Auto balance the volume between Radio 3 and the others
# Radio 3 has much lower output. This setting cuts down
# the vol to a N% on other stations. 
# Uncomment to use my best guesstimate of 30%
#AUTOBALVOL=30

Hopefully that's clear enough. If you never listen to radio3 then you can leave it commented out.

bobzilla · 01-03-2012, 08:04 AM

Thanx Dave, I'll try it out today.

bobzilla · 01-05-2012, 09:55 PM

I haven't had time to test it till now. It works perfectly. Thanks Dave.