Mickey - its working for me - do you see this for all balues in the Now Playing Information menu?

If you stop the server and remove the preferences related to now playing this may help [I changed the range of some of them on Friday so if you had a boom before this they may be out of range] - stop the server, edit prefs/server.prefs to remove the "playingDisplayMode" pref related to boom.

I tried your suggestion and deleted lines in server.prefs with playingDisplayMode set to 5. Is this the right one? I still see this string.

Let me be more specific. This HASH string is only seen as the last one, or number 12 in the NOW PLAYING INFORMATION list. It's right after Show Buffer Fullness (item 11) and before Nothing (item 1). All of the other 11 items look OK. Maybe the size of the list is specified incorrectly somewhere in the code?

My mistake - delete all of the playingDisplayModes bit - the line itself and the lines under it.

Should look like this (modes 0 to 10) I think you have more options as the server thought it was a Squeezebox when Boom was first connected which has more options.

  playingDisplayModes: 
    - 0
    - 1
    - 2
    - 3
    - 4
    - 5
    - 6
    - 7
    - 8
    - 9
    - 10

That worked. I don't see it anymore.

Thanks!