2025-05-22, 09:41 PM
Hi folks,
My partner's Tangara has been sitting in a project drawer because she didn't know how to use it, so I finally sat down and sorted out all of the issues.
(If you're support staff and you saw my email through Crowd Supply, you can ignore it, I've figured out all my issues, including where to get Tangara support... it's this forum! Might want to link to this forum more prominently on your website though, I actually can't remember how I found this forum now, but I was having a hard time finding it before when I wrote that email.)
First, I was having trouble with getting a full-size SD card in and out of the Tangara. I found it much easier once I started using the included SD card cover, but I was only able to fit this on to my microSD adapter, not the full-size SD card I was trying to use. I'm now afraid of what would happen if I lost the SD card cover, but for now the microSD card with adapter works fine.
Second, I found the internal transfer speed to the SD card far too slow, as advertised. Fortunately I had a microSD expansion card for my Framework laptop that I had never used, but which worked very well. I rsynced my music over.
Third, I couldn't figure out how to install the Flatpak for tangara-companion downloaded from GitHub releases. Clicking on it in GNOME Files on Pop OS did nothing, I couldn't figure out a way to manage that file in the GUI. Eventually I learned you could install it from the command line with `flatpak install tangaracompanion-v0.4.3-linux-x86_64.flatpak`.
Fourth, I couldn't get tangara-companion to connect to the Tangara on Pop OS. Happily I found the solution in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/haileys/tangara-compa...2620456509
Following those directions I was able to give my unix user the permissions I needed for tangara-companion to connect to my Tangara. I was then able to update the firmware, which did have significant improvements, like being able to clear the queue.
Fifth, when I rsynced over my m3u playlists that I had previously created for e.g. Navidrome, they didn't work. I learned that the paths have to be relative to the root, so since it's recommended we put all music in a "Music" folder, I had to add that folder to the beginning of each line in my m3us. I used sd (previewing first with the -p flag): `sd '\n' '\n'/Music/ *` This created an extra "/Music/" on the last blank line of each m3u file, which I manually deleted. In the future I might reject the 'Music' subdirectory advice and put all my music in the root directory, so that I can rsync my m3u playlists without that modification.
Everything seems hunky-dory now! Thanks for the cool music player.
My partner's Tangara has been sitting in a project drawer because she didn't know how to use it, so I finally sat down and sorted out all of the issues.
(If you're support staff and you saw my email through Crowd Supply, you can ignore it, I've figured out all my issues, including where to get Tangara support... it's this forum! Might want to link to this forum more prominently on your website though, I actually can't remember how I found this forum now, but I was having a hard time finding it before when I wrote that email.)
First, I was having trouble with getting a full-size SD card in and out of the Tangara. I found it much easier once I started using the included SD card cover, but I was only able to fit this on to my microSD adapter, not the full-size SD card I was trying to use. I'm now afraid of what would happen if I lost the SD card cover, but for now the microSD card with adapter works fine.
Second, I found the internal transfer speed to the SD card far too slow, as advertised. Fortunately I had a microSD expansion card for my Framework laptop that I had never used, but which worked very well. I rsynced my music over.
Third, I couldn't figure out how to install the Flatpak for tangara-companion downloaded from GitHub releases. Clicking on it in GNOME Files on Pop OS did nothing, I couldn't figure out a way to manage that file in the GUI. Eventually I learned you could install it from the command line with `flatpak install tangaracompanion-v0.4.3-linux-x86_64.flatpak`.
Fourth, I couldn't get tangara-companion to connect to the Tangara on Pop OS. Happily I found the solution in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/haileys/tangara-compa...2620456509
Following those directions I was able to give my unix user the permissions I needed for tangara-companion to connect to my Tangara. I was then able to update the firmware, which did have significant improvements, like being able to clear the queue.
Fifth, when I rsynced over my m3u playlists that I had previously created for e.g. Navidrome, they didn't work. I learned that the paths have to be relative to the root, so since it's recommended we put all music in a "Music" folder, I had to add that folder to the beginning of each line in my m3us. I used sd (previewing first with the -p flag): `sd '\n' '\n'/Music/ *` This created an extra "/Music/" on the last blank line of each m3u file, which I manually deleted. In the future I might reject the 'Music' subdirectory advice and put all my music in the root directory, so that I can rsync my m3u playlists without that modification.
Everything seems hunky-dory now! Thanks for the cool music player.
