James, great job on the new update. A couple of quick questions: 1) When you say that you can access a "web interface" by going to Server Settings/Plugins, I don't see any option here. All I see is the standard
<i>iTunes Update Choose whether the iTunes Update plugin will update the iTunes database directly or save information to a history file for later processing. Set this to "off" if you have SlimServer running as a service (e.g. selected "start automatically" at installation) or are not running this SlimServer on Windows. Direct Update Write messages to log<i> what am I missing? Where do I see the web inteface? 2) I have the currect Perl installed per you directions. How do I run the script to apply the itunes update changes? I checked the file and the log is being updated. My log is located at D:\Playlists . I am tring to just double click on the file "iTunesupdatewin" located at C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Plugins\iTunesUpdate. Is that the way to update it? Do they need to be in the same flder? Sorry, I am not very geeky and need the dummies version (aka step by step). Thanks! Dan James Wrote: > OK, 2nd try. > If you want to leave SlimServer running as a service this is what you > do: > 1) Change the 'direct update' mode of iTunes Update plugin to off in > SlimServer's Server Settings, Plugins tab (easy!) > > 2) Unfortunately you now need to install ActiveState Perl to run the > script. The good news is, it's free! > http://www.activestate.com/Perl.plex?hdr=1 > > 3) The plugin is now saving your playback history etc. to a file. > Finally, you run the iTunesUpdateWin.pl script on this file and that > does the updating: e.g. > iTunesUpdateWin.pl "C:\My Music\Playlists\iTunesUpdate_hist.txt" > > You can run the script whenever you want, but iTunes needs to be open > when it is running (it will open iTunes if not). > > Alternatively, you can reconfigure SlimServer not to run as a service > to get the direct update mode working. Detailed instructions to do this > are on my website (at the end of the page): > http://www.jamescraig.co.uk/SlimServer/#interactive > > In my opinion this is better because you get immediate updates to > iTunes, and you can see iTunes info in the web interface. However you > will end up with iTunes running all the time, and have to repeat some > of the reconfiguration each time you upgrade SlimServer! > > Hope that helps... > > James > > > > > > > Any problems...let me know! > > James -- dspeirs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dspeirs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=877 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19802 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
