I've been using SC7 (originally in beta) for a month or so now, and it's been rock solid. The improvements in stability and usability definitely make it worth upgrading in my opinion. I've had no problems with AlienBBC, but I did clear out all traces of 6.5.4 before installing, which may make a difference.
Here's some notes I made on how to install SC7 and the plug-ins I use: Upgrading from SlimServer 6.5.4 to SqueezeCenter 7.0.0 beta on OSX 10.4 did not work correctly for me (SqueezeCenter does not start). See mario21's instructions here for removing all traces of 6.5.4 first: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41407. To install SC7 go here: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html to download and then install like any OS X app. To get SC7 beta to run correctly I had to select 'SqueezeCenter preference pane for this user only' during install of SC7 and selected 'start SqueezeCenter on log in' in the preferences pane. This may have improved for the final release, but I'm using the same settings anyway as they work for me :) New versions of plug-ins are needed for SqueezeCenter 7.0. I use ExecuteScript, SqueezeScrobbler and AlienBBC. AlienBBC: http://www.x2systems.com/AlienBBC/installation.html. For the OSX version see bottom of that page. As suggested in the instructions, I downloaded the new version of Mplayer. I'm using an Intel based Mac, and it all worked first time for me. SqueezeScrobbler 1.1: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105780. Download SqueezeScrobbler_v1.1.8.zip (bottom of page), open, and copy Squeezescrobbler directory into <username>/Library/Application Support/SqueezeCenter/Plugins SC7 has a built-in plug-in to submit tracks to Last.FM, called Audioscrobbler, but SqueezeScrobbler also enables you to play Last.FM radio streams. Stop AudioScrobbler submitting tracks if you want to use SqueezeScrobbler (SqueezeCenter web pages->Settings->Advanced->Last.FM AudioScrobbler->No, do not report tracks to Last.FM) ExecuteScript: http://code.google.com/p/kdfplugins/downloads/list Download, open, and copy ExecuteScript directory into <username>/Library/Application Support/SqueezeCenter/Plugins Put your script files in <username>/Library/Application Support/SqueezeCenter/script. I set the Mac's energy saver settings to standby after 20mins of being idle, and use the Squeezebox's wake-on-lan ability to wake it up by pressing the power button on the Squeezebox remote. To stop the Mac going to sleep whilst playing audio I use the ExecuteScript plugin to run a script (Jiggle.sh) on file open and play, and another script (Unjiggle.sh) on stop and power off events (which scripts are called on which events can be selected in the Squeezecenter web pages settings->advanced->executescript). Jiggle.sh (create file and put in scripts directory): #!/bin/bash osascript -e 'tell application "Jiggler" to activate' Unjiggle.sh (create file and put in scripts directory): #!/bin/bash osascript -e 'quite application "Jiggler"' Jiggler is an application which pretends to do some user activity to stop the machine going to sleep: http://www.sticksoftware.com/software/Jiggler.html Thanks to danco for the tip :) A couple threads which might be useful w.r.t. this: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40906 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41941 (kdf kindly fixed the OS X related issues with executescript and it works great now) -- Creeky ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Creeky's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9566 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44175 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
