moOde audio player for Raspberry Pi

[Tim Curtis]

Will you be using a USB or I2S audio device?

 

[amper42]

Will you be using a USB or I2S audio device?

USB to ADI-2 DAC FS

 

[Tim Curtis]

Since you are not attaching an I2S audio device I would go with the official Raspberry Pi Touch 2 DSI display. It's 1280 x 720 res and has excellent contrast and color temp. The meters look wonderful on this display Its a native portrait orientation display so you will need to set the rotation to 90 in moode Peripheral Config screen.

The other 3rd party touch displays I have are WiMaxIt 7" 1024x600 and a 10.1" 1600x900. These displays use an HDMI interface and can be used as stand alone HDMI displays or with a Pi attached on the back.

They come with integrated HDMI and USB connectors for back mounting a Pi. They also have a rocker button for brightness and tiny back-attachable speakers for sound. These displays are excellent but to my eye the color temp is on the cool side compared to the Pi Touch 2. An advantage is that you can attach an I2S audio HAT and not have to deal with routing power to the display.

 

[amper42]

@Tim
I just installed a 16GB RPI5 with Moode. It shows ? on Memory in the about box. Is that expected?

Thank you!

 

[Tim Curtis]

Yes expected when new Pi model comes out before we have a chance to update our revision code decoder utility. I'll include the update in upcoming 10.0.4

Thanks for reporting this

 

[amper42]

@Tim,
I installed a Raspberry Pi 512 SSD Kit (NVME) on the RPi 5 16GB. With Gen3 NVME enabled it offers 879MB/s read performance. Wow!
I copied my Music over to the NVME from the Samsung Fit Plus USB stick and removed the USB drive. It's crazy fast.

However, Moode will stall if I try to boot from the NVME drive. Boots fine with standard Pi OS, but Moode is not setup to allow NVME booting. Any chance a future Moode version might have an NVME Boot option config switch?

Energy usage on RPi 5 16GB with Pi 512GB SSD Kit installed is 10W on startup but within seconds it drops to 5.5W while streaming music off the NVME drive. The 16GB model utilizes the newer BCM2712 D0 stepping processor revision. This revision removed unused silicon components that are present in the earlier RPi 5 4GB/8GB models (C1 stepping). Idle Power Savings occur with this reduced chipset: The 16GB revision can reduce idle power consumption by up to 30% compared to earlier Pi 5 boards.

Biggest annoyance is the red LED on Pi NVME Hat. I couldn't find a command to turn it off so black electrical tape on the RED LED to the rescue.

 

[Tim Curtis]

You should prolly post the issue in our Forum. There are users that boot from an NVMe drive on their systems and maybe they can offer some insights into what might be going on.

 

[manojtm]

i want to place my logo on boot moode 10.0.0, please help me

 

[amper42]

You should prolly post the issue in our Forum. There are users that boot from an NVMe drive on their systems and maybe they can offer some insights into what might be going on.

I figured it out.

No matter how I tried to clone the bootable Moode SD Card to the NVME drive it always failed. I could SSH to it but Moode Configure menu would never open. No matter how many hacks were tried, cloning failed to create a bootable working Moode NVME drive.

What did work:
1. Pull the NVME drive from RPi 5.
2. Iinstall NVME Drive in a USB NVME enclosure.
3. Connect it to MacBook Pro and run Raspberry Pi Imager.
4. Install the NVME card back on RPi 5 and reboot.
5. Configure Moode the way you want it.

 

[amper42]

@Tim Curtis,
Thank you for the Raspberry Pi Touch Screen 2 recommendation with Moode. I finally got it up and running with the black Pimoroni PIBO stand. Figuring out the DSI cable connector on the back of the screen was fun. I couldn't find a video anywhere. AI said pull out grey squares from side, then pull up - that failed. It turns out pulling the tabs straight away from the front worked.

Great job on the meters. They really look nice on the 7" screen.

 

[Tim Curtis]

Here are some screen shots of the v4 moode meter sets. They are lightly modified versions of the incredibly beautiful meters created by the author of PeppyMeter.

The original collection

Home

PeppyMeter documentation. Contribute to project-owner/PeppyMeter.doc development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Original 800x480 set embedded in a 1024x600 background
Example


Single meters for 1024x600 displays



Dual meters for 1024x600 and 1280x720 displays



Dual meters for 1600x900 displays

 

[amper42]

is there a way to show the current playing album cover and switch automatically to meters for 60 seconds and back to album cover?

I enabled PeppyALSA and use commands to manually move from webui to Peppy. But every time I go back to WebUI it shows all 80 albums (on a tiny screen), instead of just the cover art of the album currently playing. I have to go into Moode: Peripherals interface and hit Cover View Toggle twice just so current album is displayed. Can I set it to display current playing album by default?

sudo moodeutl --setdisplay peppy
sudo moodeutl --setdisplay webui

For me, webui is not a useful command if it can't automatically show cover of what's playing - instead of all 80 albums.
I tried to get AI to figure out a script to do this but it failed miserably...
Any ideas? Or just stick with meters as no way to set webui to automatically show current album playing?

The coolest option would be to easily switch between meters and album cover playing automatically.

 

[Tim Curtis]

Try Menu > Preferences > CoverView
Set "Automatic display" to "Yes"

In upcoming moOde 10.0.4 there is a new Peppy feature called "Display on play". Its based on a nice contribution from user @fdealexa

Here's a screen shot with the help showing

 

[garson]

Hey @Tim Curtis
Just figured out that Moode is having issues with presenting certain characters.
For example: Liostáil mé le Sáirsint will be shown as Liost?il m? le S?irsint
These are gaelic specific characters, they seem to be replaced with ?

Also, I have and album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, in library view it is rendered as Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

I haven't found in the settings to fix this. Any suggestions?

 

[Tim Curtis]

Hey @Tim Curtis
Just figured out that Moode is having issues with presenting certain characters.
For example: Liostáil mé le Sáirsint will be shown as Liost?il m? le S?irsint
These are gaelic specific characters, they seem to be replaced with ?
View attachment 506929Also, I have and album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, in library view it is rendered as Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
View attachment 506928

I haven't found in the settings to fix this. Any suggestions?

Zip up some tracks that show these two issues and PM me a download link.
I'll have a look.

 

[garson]

Forgot to mention, first one is single flac image with cue file. I'll check Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Would cue file alone work for you @Tim Curtis ?

 

[Tim Curtis]

Forgot to mention, first one is single flac image with cue file. I'll check Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Would cue file alone work for you @Tim Curtis ?

I'll need the entire flac file and the associated .cue file.

 

[amper42]

Try Menu > Preferences > CoverView
Set "Automatic display" to "Yes"

In upcoming moOde 10.0.4 there is a new Peppy feature called "Display on play". Its based on a nice contribution from user @fdealexa

Here's a screen shot with the help showing

View attachment 506914

@Tim Curtis - Very helpful tip!
This opened the door for me to tinker.

nano ~/display_switch.sh
Paste:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
mpc idle player
sudo moodeutl --setdisplay webui
sleep 35
sudo moodeutl --setdisplay peppy
done

Paired with a cron setting this script kicks in on each reboot of my Pi:
The current Album Cover art is displayed on Touch 2 Display for 35 seconds as track begins playing.
Next, it switches to Meters display until track is finished. Repeats on each new track.

Thank you so much. Moode is an amazing platform.

 

[garson]

I'll need the entire flac file and the associated .cue file.

PM sent.

 

[Nutul]

Hey @Tim Curtis
Just figured out that Moode is having issues with presenting certain characters.
For example: Liostáil mé le Sáirsint will be shown as Liost?il m? le S?irsint
These are gaelic specific characters, they seem to be replaced with ?
View attachment 506929Also, I have and album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, in library view it is rendered as Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
View attachment 506928

I haven't found in the settings to fix this. Any suggestions?

Check the CUEs are saved as UTF8, as the metadata tags within the file SHOULD always be trated as UTF8. If your tag-editor of choice allows, though, check for those too.