Thanks for the various helpful responses. I went through them all, one at a time....
- yes, the files are named .wav or .flac (I even tried changing one from flac to FLAC) - tried the copy/paste of the path from windows explorer, this didn't help - the only user on here is me, and I have administrator status - the slimserver file types checked do include WAV and FLAC - I opened up Task Manager to see what happened when scanning: I saw a short burst of CPU activity from slim.exe and slimserver.exe, just a few seconds, then back to 0 - 1 % - I don't think I know how to run the exe from the command line... if I open a "DOS" window and type slimserver it just starts up the GUI. I did explore the documentation and found the really fun TELNET interface, which did work, but (no surprises) just gave me the same answers in a less friendly format. "rescan" just resulted in a terse "rescan" response. - "browse music folder" just shows one entry, Shoutcastbrowser_recently_played THEN I Noticed ... "It can sometimes be worth trying a 'Wipe Cache' too (server settings>performance), rather than just a rescan" ... and guess what, it burst into life! I'm listening to my first track as I write.. :) So a big thanks to you all, gents, I will doubtless be back - but I do promise to be helpful myself one day Regards ceejay _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Dixon Sent: 03 April 2005 16:05 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Newby Alert: Can't load music library OK, one more stupid thing to check: that your 'music' files are named '.wav' or '.flac' (as appropriate). -----Original Message----- From: Dan Goodinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 03 April 2005 15:47 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Newby Alert: Can't load music library Might sound like a stupid thing to suggest but bear with me... Browse to your music folder on your hard-drive (e.g. c:\audio). When you can see "c:\audio" in the address bar, copy this and paste it directly into the setting for "music folder". I know it's got to be pretty much impossible to get it wrong while typing it, but just give it a try. Click the "change" button to make the setting active, and then do a rescan. If this fails, then maybe thereis some reason why the slimserver can't see the files - this could be because: (a) the user who runs slimserver service may not have permission to view the contents of the c:\audio location; or (b) slimserver has been configured to look for only certain file-types, and none of those file types are listed. (e.g. "server settings>file types" from the SB web control panel. Both options are a bit unlikely, but both are worth checking just to rule them out. Dan. _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jack Coates Sent: Sun 03/04/2005 15:28 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Newby Alert: Can't load music library ceejay wrote: > Thanks for the response. I had intended to go for such a structure, > though with only 3 albums hadn't got quite that far yet! Nevertheless, > just in case it was important, I've moved a couple into the full > directory structure but (no surprise) its made no difference. > > > > And I don't think the "guess tag formats" is going to help either - > slimserver just isn't seeing ANY music files. I note that when I click > "rescan" I get a message at the top saying "The server is now rescanning > your Music Library", which doesn't seem to go away. Should it? How long > ought it to take to scan 3 CDs??! All I'm doing at the moment is > waiting till I get bored (multiple minutes) then checking "home" only > still to read ... "Your music library contains 0 albums with 0 songs by 0 > artists" > ... yes, that should go away. Are you able to look at task manager and see what slimserver is doing? Better yet, run the exe from the command line. -- Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a Scientific Venture... Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip since 1996! _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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