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Traffic to 8.8.8.8 is constantly generated. Especially when the playing window is open.
Looks like get_track_position() calls internet_available().
This seems unnecessary? As well as the other internet_available calls for stop/pause, etc. Those calls to stop/pause/etc could just be in a try block? Since a temporary glitch in access to 8.8.8.8 should have no bearing on the devices on the subnet?

win10, installed version, 4.90.101
firewall disabled

Music caster is not detecting any devices on the local network?
VLC detects the devices fine in the renderer setting so the devices are definitely discoverable. (so does chrome, etc)

kindly advise how I can help debug this. thank you

When launching an error shows "To run this application, you must install .NET Core."
Downloaded and installed but still getting error.

I'm having a persistent issue where my playlist will randomly stop playing after around 2-4 hours of consistent playback. I'm not sure what is causing it but I will note that my playlist is around 25 hours long with tracks as long as 2 hours. I'd like to write a sort of "keep alive" script in which my device would occasionally hit a "play" hotkey as a workaround to keep this from happening in the future.

P.S. This build is awesome by the way, keep up the great work!

Win10

4.90.102 install version works fine

4.90.105 Install version works fine.
4.90.105 Portable version required .net core download, but does not show casting devices.

4.90.106 Music Caster keeps attempting to restart itself (3 instances in the task manager after starting). Same in install or portable version. Error in log has something to do with Discord? Is there an option to disable this feature /any connections to discord?

'EXCEPTION TYPE': 'DiscordNotFound',
'FATAL': True,
'LINE': 3087,
'LOG': ['2021-11-14 23:30:02,427 INFO (2963): Function called: auto_update()'],
'TRACEBACK': 'Traceback (most recent call last):\n'
' File "music_caster.py", line 3087, in \n'
' File "pypresence/presence.py", line 13, in init\n'
' File "pypresence/baseclient.py", line 28, in init\n'
'pypresence.exceptions.DiscordNotFound: Could not find Discord '
'installed and running on this machine.\n',
'VERSION': '4.90.106'

Some text are too long and we can't see them fully
Maybe on mouse hover make a markee effect ?

Hi Elijah,

Would you consider adding a feature to Music Caster so that it only allows one instance at startup? That is, to prevent multiple copies of the program from running at the same time.

The situation is this: When I tell Google Home to start playing music, there are multiple speakers in my house listening for commands. Sometimes those multiple speakers trigger the command simultaneously to Music Caster at the same time.

When this happens, there are multiple, identical streams being sent to the smart speakers, causing playback to be choppy on some speakers, even causing them to temporarily break connection to wifi.

If Music Caster can avoid starting if it detects itself already running, that would help. The trick is, Google Home fires the commands to start multiple instances of MC in rapid succession, so the first instance may not be fully loaded before the second instance attempts to start. Perhaps add a feature so that MC creates a registry key as the first very thing it does at startup to indicate that it is starting, then other instances can check for they key when they attempt to start.

Thanks so much for your help. Music Caster is truly wonderful; I use it every day for my house music!

Take care,
Tom Hammond

Since last update v4.71.1 the app crashes when opening the GUI.
I can still use everything from the windows tray icon, but crashes when opening settings, then the app restarts itself.
I'm running win10 home edition

Portable.zip can't be unpack.
Previous version is OK.

Add this to have like showed in this article

Hello,

trying with Portable and Install Version on Windows 7, the app will not start showing an error popup that api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing.

Are there any pre-requisits?

Thanks
Kevin

I have 3 Audio Cast groups (for multi-room audio) in my home through which I play music, but these are currently not showing up under Devices.

Hi,
when I have moved cursor to a icon (checked with icons in the queue tab) and pop-up window was being showed I had observed no text in this window.

Version - 5.13.17 (Portable)

This is a bit of a small feature request.
Is it possible to add in the settings a checkbox so that the tray app completely closes when you close the main interface?
I like to keep as few apps running at any time.
Thanks.

Musique Caster v4.49.4 for Windows 10 x64

Music.Caster.x64.Setup.exe

"Fatal error detected.
Failed to execute script music_caster"
always at program start.

-On Windows 10x64 2004.
-Using: .exe and Portable.

Would it possible to link to an online .m3u8 or .mp3? I would love to be able to cast freecodecamp radio, the link to their audio stream is https://coderadio-admin.freecodecamp.org/radio/8010/radio.mp3.

Thanks!

Hi Elijah,

I noticed that in the json file, the "previous_device" field contains the address to the current smart device that music will be cast to. This way, the next time one starts Music Caster, it will default to this device.

May you make a command line option to specify a device address at startup? I can learn the various device addresses by activating them via the system icon, then viewing the json file.

As an aside, I am able to start and control Music Caster with my voice via Google Home. I can choose various playlists via voice, too. If you are interested in the idea, I can email the instructions I wrote to do this.

Thanks!
Tom

How do you mute the beep beep sound between tracks?

Thanks,

Please provide the option in settings to disable the context menu entry. That would me a lot nicer than searching through the registry and manually deleting the entries. Thanks!

Could it be possible to add a feature where you could just drag and drop a file onto the UI which will add it to queue or play it.

Any possibility of getting playback support for the .aiff file format in the near future?

Now, I might've missed something but I can't get it to cast .aiff files. It just turns silent whenever I try and cast so I assume that it means no .aiff support at this moment in time. It'd be highly appreciated if support for this file format is added in the future.

I found that some UI strings are not translated.
e.g.

and

By the way, it seems that the following string is not in the translation file. But I think it's acceptable:

It would be super nice if there was the possibility to save the track position when you stop/close the program.
This would be perfect for listening to podcasts.

Thanks for this great app.
Could you provide an editable glossary of texts used in the program, in order to translate them to other languages?
I would offer myself as a Spanish translator...

Rather than displaying "Unknown Album" (or "Unknown Artist" or "Unknown Title"), sub missing strings for NULL, so that they appear cleaner in the app and on the streaming device. If all three are blank, sub the title for "Music Caster" and leave the others NULL for the stream display so that it looks clean. In that case, you can leave all as "Unknown" in the app, so the user is motivated to use the Metadata editor.

(Also, consider changing the order from Album, Title, Artist to Artist, Title, Album in the app, leaving the streaming display as it is.)

The Web GUI has both shuffle mode and repeat icons.
The standard program interface has repeat but no shuffle.

This means if you want play an album/all tracks on shuffle you have to open the web interface,

Thanks :)

It installs, sends the track info, but never streams the audio. Noticed this during install. On Xubuntu 20.04.4:

ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
pycaption 2.0.6 requires beautifulsoup4<4.10,>=4.8.1, but you have beautifulsoup4 4.11.1 which is incompatible.
pycaption 2.0.6 requires cssutils<2.4,>=2.0.0, but you have cssutils 2.4.0 which is incompatible.
pycaption 2.0.6 requires lxml<4.7,>=4.6.3, but you have lxml 4.8.0 which is incompatible.
ocrmypdf 13.4.1 requires pdfminer.six!=20200720,<=20211012,>=20191110, but you have pdfminer-six 20220319 which is incompatible.
catt 0.12.7 requires pychromecast==9.2.0, but you have pychromecast 10.3.0 which is incompatible.
catt 0.12.7 requires zeroconf==0.31.0, but you have zeroconf 0.38.6 which is incompatible.

I see it playing but no sound on google chromecast audio.

Music Caster has trouble reading MP3 tags from most of my MP3 files. It reads the cover art on all files, but cannot read the album/artist/title on many of them. Please see the attached screenshot. The 03, 10, 16, etc. represent filenames.

All of my MP3s show the tag information properly in other music programs such as Win 11 Media Player, WinAmp, and VLC.

When I open the “bad” and “good” MP3 files in the “MP3tag” program, they all have ID3v2.3 and ID3v1 tags set (both MP3s that show properly in Music Caster and MP3s that do not show properly). So I don’t know why some MP3s are not showing their MP3 tags in Music Caster while other MP3 files show tag information fine.

Attached are examples of a “good” MP3 and a “bad” MP3, as shown in the screenshot. Can you help?

Thanks,
Tom

06 (bad).zip
01 (good).zip

I think you could have music syncing of local speakers and chromecast if you add a delay slider in the UI to delay the computer playback from 0ms to 20000ms (or maybe just a textbox input) then the user can choose how much delay they want to add to local speaker playback

Just to let you know that the version that you download using winget seems to download a crypto miner. It gets flagged right away by the antivirus software.

Please add an option to select a random song from the playlist

For a few weeks now music caster will not cast to my google home. Thought it was just my old computer acting up but I bought a new one and music caster still won't cast anymore.

Hello, great app and thank you so much for making it!
I just installed it today and have been trying it out, but immediately came to a small snag.
Whenever I add files from a folder, or from a playlist to my current queue it will shuffle them.
This is frustrating as I like to listen to audiobooks and entire albums in sequence.

I can of course just reorganize the files in the current queue, but it is unfortunate that I cannot then save them and then recall them in that order.

Thank you very much!

Awesome player. Love the low latency... great job! Music Caster would be even better with the ability to display columns from the file (e.g. BPM, Track Length, Bitrate, Album, Track Number) and have each be sortable. With this addition, it would allow a person like myself to replace my go to player (Media Monkey, which I have issues using for streaming). I think to simplify, you could read the file's metadata and display the following default columns (Artists, Album, Track Name, Track Number, BPM, Bitrate, Length), and allow all to be turned on/off, sorted, and ordered as the user wants. The player may need a slightly wider footprint to accommodate the new information, but I believe the upgrade would be worth it.

Thanks for the excellent program, Elijah! I started using Music Caster for the first time last evening.

I like the numerous keyboard shortcuts available in the program. May you add a shortcut for fully closing the program (including the system tray icon)? That way I can create macros that will start Music Caster, play some music, then close it all with keyboard shortcuts.

Thank you!

Tom Hammond
[email protected]

Hi all,

Windows Defender in Windows 10 detects this "Potentially Unwanted Software" in Music Caster.

Is this a false positive?
Thanks

Hey,

I like this program very much.
Because it's the only alternative to VLC (which has no delay).

This program however has delay, but the least amount compared to alternatives.
However..

This program puts my soundbars volume at 100%, and no warnings or whatsoever when turning the program on.
So if one has, say a youtube video, or music running.
Chances are you will blow your speakers, so i'm just posting this to make other aware.

Hopefully my new soundbar is not blown out now...

Great program non-theless.
Only thing is, firewall has to be turned off for it to send audio (program is allowed in FW)

Thanks for your hard work!

Music Caster auto-updated, and Windows detected it as a Trojan.
I don't know if it's a false positive, or whether you got supply chain attacked, but the README should probably say something about this ...

Greetings,
I stumbled upon this app to stream to my Google Nest speakers.
It is working, however I can't stream flac. Is a larger file compatibility planned?

Not sure what changed, but on my windows 11 laptop, that can cast from youtube, and other apps, I'm no longer getting almost anything funcitoning correctly in the app. The local device option doesn't play audio through the sound card and the cast options look the same, but are not sending cast information successfully.

Anyone else experiencing these issues? I'm happy to shoot a more detail setup list to you to try and start a debug session.

v 4.71.36 when opening web GUI.

An InternalServerError occurred: 'sort_key'

Hi,
I am getting error when running
$ python3 $HOME/bin/music-caster/src/music_caster.py --debug
DEBUG: True
Locked music_caster.lock pid = 11110
Cannot load lib specified by PYTHON_VLC_LIB_PATH env. variable

what is the problem?
Thank You very much

Currently it seems to only show album art thats embedded into the file rather than the cover.png thats in it's folder

After installing I can't seem to access the settings tray when right clicking the icon on the taskbar. Nothing comes up when right clicking on it. It installed and runs fine, seems odd.
exe and portable version
Running on Windows 10 LTSB 2016 x64 v1607

Since maybe 2 hours, I cannot start the Windows app anymore. I receive this error message during startup:

Failed to execute script 'music_caster' due to unhandled exception: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 74: character maps to

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "music_caster.py", line 202, in
File "music_caster.py", line 132, in activate_from_lock_file
File "music_caster.py", line 42, in is_already_running
File "music_caster.py", line 33, in get_running_processes
File "encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 74: character maps to

I speculate you deployed a new version via auto update. But I also made some config changes in my audio settings, which could have led to this problem...

Hi there!

Was wondering if you have a screenshot of this application available that you could put into your Readme, and maybe update the one you posted In May of 2021 in the PySimpleGUI screenshots. It looked great back then and there have been changes that result in matching scrollbars so it has to look even better by now.

You're a prolific coder and am not sure if you post everything you build. I'm interested in seeing what you've made with PySimpleGUI over the years and if you've got other examples.