I've had my Squeezebox 3 for a week now and I'm quite happy with it.
Slimserver, on the other hand, has caused me a few problems.
When my Squeezebox arrived I quickly set it up, installed Slimserver
6.3 (2006-06-08) and pointed it to my music directory. I had it
playing music in under 30 mins. With the exception of a few mp3s, my
entire collection is flac images with embedded CD-TEXT style cue
sheets. I've also kept the original cue files in the same directory as
each flac just in case.
In fine tuning the configuration, I wanted Slimserver to ignore every
audio format except flac (specifically .mp3 and .cue). After looking
around these forums, it seemed the best way to achieve this was to edit
types.conf and remove, or comment out, the unwanted formats; which is
exactly what I did.
To be sure the changes would take effect I stopped Slimserver, deleted
the contents of server\Cache and rescanned the music directory. Once
completed, Slimserver showed I had 996 albums in my collection: the
exact the number .flac files in the directory and what I was hoping
for.
When I fired up the Squeezebox and tried to play an album, nothing
happened. The web interface indicated the whole album had been added
to the current playlist but nothing was being played. Softsqueeze on
two different machines produced the same result.
Over the next few days I tried a combination of clearing the cache,
rescanning the music directory and installing new nightly builds. When
none of these worked, I went back to the types.conf file and started
un-commenting the formats I'd removed. By trial and error, I found
that mp3 needs to be left in tact. I.e. the following line must be in
types.conf
Code:
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mp3 mp2,mp3 audio/mpeg audio
--------------------
If Slimserver is only dealing with flacs, and I don't want it to
perform any transcoding/downsampling to mp3, what is the need for this
line to exist?
Because the line was commented out when I initially created the
database, mp3 files that are in the music directory are excluded.
However when it comes time for Slimserver to "Look for new and changed
music", it's going to add them again. How can I get Slimserver to
ignore the mp3s in this directory in future?
Down the track I may want to include mp3s from certain directories but
not others. Is there a method to specify which formats Slimserver
should look for in certain directories?
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