I use a program called 'apptoservice' available here: http://www.basta.com/ProdAppToService.htm
While apptoservice is pretty straight forward to setup, getting them all to work together takes a little trial and error, but eventually works well and consistently. Couple of tips I have found useful (but don't work all the time - it is a frustrating and I posted earlier about this, to no satisfactory resolution). I assume slimserver is running as a service. - Do the song analysis in mm first in regular mode - When setting up mm, do it when it is running as a service. For example, if you turn on the api in plain application mode, when you go to run it as a service, the setting is turned off. - When setting up the mm service, set it to interact with the desktop. After it is working well, you can turn this off. Always check to make sure the api service is on. - SlimServer tips - mm must be running first before mm is setup in SS. Make sure that mm is selected on the Server Settings > Plugin page; make sure that on the main Server Settings page 'use music magic' is checked. I found that at first SS may not recognize mm. So get mm working as a service going first with api service active. Then restart SS via Computer Management > Services. You may have to do this more than once. - The real test is to see if everything works on boot, which you may have to do a couple of times. Once everything is set, turn off 'interact with desktop' for mm service (otherwise it opens on every boot and if you close, the service is stopped). It does work reliably once the tinkering is done. I would be interested how you make out (I have done this 3 or 4 times - so it does work). On 4/14/05, Simon Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ""The other comment about smart playlists is solved by the musicmagic > plugin. . On the > Windows platform, I have a nice way to have it start up a service, so > like the slimserver it is completely transparent to the user." > > I'm really impressed with MusicMagic so far - it's getting me > listening to a lot of things i hadnt heard in a long while and the > mixes work much better than i expected. > > However, i havent worked out how to run it as a service - since my > server gets used for TV/.internet and more MM tends to get shut down > and then it can be a sod to get it working with Slimserver again. > What's your solution? > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
