fauzigarib Wrote: > Hi there, > > I have no idea how this happened, but a little background. > > I had SlimServer installed on my laptop for my SB3, with all my music > on a 120 GB IDE-USB drive, externally connected (obviously) through my > USB port. Unfortunately, this took away from the portability of my > laptop, so I reinstalled another computer with XP (formatted the HD and > all), and installed SS on it. I then hooked up the drive to the PC and > let SS scan the music. It seemed like it got done ok. > > However, 2 strange things have started to happen. First of all, Random > Playing of songs, the song title that shows up on my SB3 Now Playing > screen, is usually not the one playing. When this happens, if I scroll > down the play list, the song that is actually currently playing is a > song or two down the list. Also, it does a lot of weird things like > play the same song 2-3 times in a row, and then repeat a block of 4-5 > songs... > > And the second thing is that it just does not play some songs anymore. > This might be linked to the first problem, causing the SB to display the > song that it's TRYING to play, but play the next one in the playlist > that it actually can play. > > You may not have installed a necessary codec or decoder program like > quicktime or lame. I had a similar problem after reinstalling > slimserver on a new machine. Check and see if it is only particular > file types that are not played. Basically, I forgot to reinstall > Quicktime so mp4 files would not play. They were still listed in the > library, but could not be played. Anyhow, if the files cannot be > played, they can be transfered to the playlist, but when slimserver > gets to them, they do not get played, this then causes the display to > get out of sync with what is playing. I am using MusicIP to maintain > the library - I don't know if this matters are not. > > Hope that helps,
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