u/neilbaldwn

I have a large control interface project with a lot of text labels. Currently the labels sit in groups but they also are are the top of the drawing order within those groups. I need to move them to the bottom (send to back). Hoping I can knock up a Lua script to crawl the object trees and change the drawing order. Anyone know if it's possible?

Does one exist for the MPC Sample? There's nothing in the manual and searching online doesn't bring anything up.

Something I'm curious about: if you hook up the MIDI output to a MIDI monitor, double-tapping the Stop button sends out MIDI CC 64 with value 00. However sending that MIDI CC to the MPC doesn't stop any currently playing sounds.

Get it here: MPC Sample Resampling Buddy (Github)

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I made a rough version of this a while back but went back and spent some time making it nicer and adding a few handy features. Still WIP but it's very close to a release version.

What's the issue?

When you want to resample a single pad with FX etc. it's impossible to do on the MPC Sample because when you engage sampling, you can only play the sequence and can not play individual pads - if you tap any pad it becomes the destination for sampling.

MPC Resample Buddy solves that!?

Sort of. It's a TouchOSC project so you'll need TouchOSC on your phone/tablet. It's well worth the money but YMMV.

I discovered that when sampling (resampling), even though you can't tap the pads when sampling is armed, you can trigger them via MIDI. Hence, Resample Buddy was born!

Just hook up the MPC Sample and your phone/tablet via USB-C (MIDI) and you can trigger any of the 128 pads remotely allowing you to resample individual pads.

I added a new feature - MIDI LISTEN. What this does is listen to the MIDI output of the MPC Sample and highlights the last pad (and bank) that you played on Resample Buddy so that when you come to resample you can see instantly on your phone which pad to press.

The option Upload Cover on a playlist always seems to throw the error "Error uploading cover art". I've tried creating the playlist on a client app and also creating a playlist in the admin account on the server but get the same error. Is that feature broken?

With devices like the Polyend Tracker, you have to stop playback to sample anything.

Imagine my utter joy when I realised on the Sample you can sample while it's playing. Probably not a new thing if you're an MPC user but I figured that because the Sample is a budget device, that's the kind of thing they might have cut corners on.

Sampling and sequencing workflow is a delight on this little fella!

I have a Jellyfin and Navidrome server running on the same Raspberry Pi. I set up Tailscale to access them without having to open a port on my router which works spectacularly well.

However, I have a technically-challenged elderly relative who I'd like to give access to my servers but there's no way I'd be getting her to install Tailscale on her tablet (she can currently access them via public IP and open ports but, as I say, I want to move away from open ports on the router).

I've played around with Caddy but the only way I could get it to work with mutiple ports was by specifying access paths in the Caddy setup file e.g. handle_url /jellyfin localhost:8096 etc. The problem there is that you need to configure Jellyfin (and Navidrome) to have a base URL other than root (/) and neither of them cope well.

Anyone have any clever ideas?

I feel I already know the answer but asking for a technically-challenged relative who currently I give access to my Jellyfin server through the 'traditional' method of opening a port on my router. I've been playing around with Tailscale and have it working with Jellyfin but using it this way (and closing the open port on my router) would seem to stop access to the relative. I'd set it up for her on TS but she's in a different country to me so not feasible.

Hoping there's a solution in Jellyfin (or Tailscale) config so that I can keep her access but switch to Jellyfin.

So you know how if you want to resample a pad with FX or whatever, you have to put it in a sequence and play the sequence to resample it because once you press the pad to sample into you can't press any more pads?

Well, you can get around that if you hook up a MIDI keyboard. Configure resampling, hit Sample Record, hit the pad you want to sample into and then trigger the pad that contains the sample you want to resample via MIDI. Excellent.

So it got me thinking. What would the the simplest way to be able to trigger a pad via MIDI/USB. Mobile phone.

And dismayed by the general lack of simple MIDI apps on Android I figured I'd just build my own in Touch OSC.

Now admittedly, Touch OSC Android is far from free (it's about 20 dollars) but I built exactly the MIDI trigger controller I wanted and it works really well.

EDIT: you can download the Touch OSC project here:

https://github.com/neilbaldwin/mpc_sample_helper

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Can't seem to find an answer to this - is it possible to remove the factory content/demos?

I bought a digital album from Bandcamp by an artist called Sakr. He's used some very creative file naming and subsequently, though I can import it into my library with Beet, neither Navidrom (or Plex) will scan it properly. Here's the album as listed with Beet:

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Pl[a]/sti.’c

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Fa/bl[e].’s

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Cha/[o].’s

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Sen/_s.’e

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Dis/pl[a]/ce.’d

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Ten/s[i]on.’s

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Un/d[e]r/bo.’x

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Lan/g[u]a/g.’e

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Ne/rv[o]u.’s

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Fa[u]l/t.’s

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Flo/w[e]r.’s

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - O_n Di/ff[e]/r/enc.’e

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - O_n Se/cr[e]t.’s

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - An_d A/w[a]k.’e

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Re/s[e]t.’s

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Pu/ll[i]n.’g

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Un/de/rst[a]/ndin.’g

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Un/s[e]e.’n

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Fe[e]/d/ba_ck.’s

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Un/st[a]bl.’e

Sakr - Ma/t[e]/rial.'s - Cre[a]/tur.’e

Any suggestions on how to rename/re-tag so that's the album is Navidrome friendly?