[slim] Re: SB2 and WPA with Draytek routers
Unfortunately I have the same issue between my Draytek 2800VG and the SB3. The SB3 just won’t connect to the 2800VG using WPA-PSK or WPA2. Until a month ago I was using a Draytek 2600G (1st revision) with the same problem. After upgrading to ADSL2+ I decided to buy a 2800VG because I believe Draytek build one of the fastest and most reliable routers out there. I tried all of the available firmware versions (28 – 35) for the SB3 but no success. I own 2 other wireless devices using WPA-PSK and they connect to the 2600G\2800VG just fine. Slim Devices support told me that they do not have a Draytek router available for testing. I understand that it would be too expensive to purchase every singe WIFI router out there, but it should be possible to get in contact with Draytek support as they seem very responsive indeed. -- Wirsing Wirsing's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22135 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101 Update
happyfishman Wrote: > So what happened? Nothing, still stays active, still experimenting with other settings, will let you know if I get any success. -- Sanctum Sanctum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4572 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Powered speakers for clean (wife-friendly) setup
rpalarea wrote: I love my SB3. But I need to find a way to migrate it out of my office (where anything goes) and into the house (where electronics lead a frightened and scarce life). Both my wife and I would like to bring our music library into other parts of the house, but don't have tons of space for a receiver (I have a nice, older NAD that I could use...). Does anyone have any success with powered speakers? I was looking at the Bose Companion 3 on eBay. Looks like you could use the heaphones out jack from the SB to the control pod mini jack input. Cheesy...wonder how much quality it will loose with mini jack connections. Have no idea how the speakers/sub sound. Open to suggestions. It would need to live on a shallow shelf. Thanks! I have a pair of Edirol MA-20Ds in the living room, which sound very good. However, WAF was reduced by the fact that they have no radio. I just ordered the Tivoli Henry Kloss Model Two for the office, it's gotten good reviews. I also have an older Altec Lansing set of computer speakers, probably $50 or so the last time I built a desktop? There's a first gen Squeezebox powering those in the kids room with an RCA y-adapter, end result is fine for audiobooks and a bit of classical (all the audiophile classisicts in the forum just shivered in disgust). -- Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a Scientific Venture... Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip Since 1996 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: After many months of smooth performance, slimserver won't boot
Sorry that it's not working for you, and thanks for taking the time to debug this. On Mar 17, 2006, at 7:42 PM, trebejo wrote: Sooo undocumented. Well, it's in the normal place for Preference Panes on OSX. Regular folks shouldn't have to dig down here, so there was no reason to document the file layout for accessing it via Terminal. So now the server runs. The preference pane that you normally use to start slimserver (you know, the icon in System Preferences) shows the server as running and gives me the option to stop it. I still don't know what is broken, but it's as simple as "clicking on this button does not produce the desired activation". Just for a lark, I clicked on "Stop Server" and sure enough, it stopped it. Then I clicked on "Start Server" again (hoping it'd been a bootstrap hiccup) but no, it still doesn't work. Please try downloading and reinstalling SlimServer from the Slim Devices website. It's possible there's some kind of corruption in the original install. Also, try setting it to not start up automatically, then set it again to do so. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Powered speakers for clean (wife-friendly) setup
I love my SB3. But I need to find a way to migrate it out of my office (where anything goes) and into the house (where electronics lead a frightened and scarce life). Both my wife and I would like to bring our music library into other parts of the house, but don't have tons of space for a receiver (I have a nice, older NAD that I could use...). Does anyone have any success with powered speakers? I was looking at the Bose Companion 3 on eBay. Looks like you could use the heaphones out jack from the SB to the control pod mini jack input. Cheesy...wonder how much quality it will loose with mini jack connections. Have no idea how the speakers/sub sound. Open to suggestions. It would need to live on a shallow shelf. Thanks! -- rpalarea rpalarea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4604 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22212 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 Network Issue
Hm, haven't seen that before. Please file a bug on http:// bugs.slimdevices.com/ with details about your network setup (card, drivers, encryption, etc...) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slim Server / MySQL / WinXP Issues
I made the attempt to migrate to using the MYSQL database since I was having a number of strange errors with the latest 6.5b1 nightly - they were recognizing some of my albums, and ocassionally all the songs in an album would show up twice, etcalso performance was terrible since I have about 15,000 songs, 1000 albums of dilligently ripped FLAC files. I have installed MYSQL 5.0, the Perl pieces, and made the requisite updates per the wiki, and all posts that I could find. Unfortunately slimserver is not starting up. Running it from the command line gives me the following error statements: C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server>slim File 'C:\mysql\\share\charsets\?.conf' not found (Errcode: 2) Character set '#33' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the 'C:\mysql\\share\charsets\Index' file 2006-03-17 23:03:35.7976 DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Field 'contributor' does n't have a default value at /PerlApp/Slim/DataStores/DBI/DataModel.pm line 935. 2006-03-17 23:03:35.7988 Can't insert new Slim::DataStores::DBI::Album: DBD::mys ql::st execute failed: Field 'contributor' doesn't have a default value at /Perl App/Slim/DataStores/DBI/DataModel.pm line 935. at /PerlApp/Slim/DataStores/DBI/DBIStore.pm line 1879 any ideas on what to do next? Given my limited capabilities, I am getting a bit frustrated and am pleading for any help I can get. AA -- aaggarwal01 aaggarwal01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22211 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SlimServer fixed my network!
I recently upgraded my network to Wireless-G, and ever since I've had networking problems between my laptop and my network; I could not see my file/print server from my laptop, could not access any network resources, etc. I had no problem accessing the internet - just LAN resources. My wife's laptop, however, had no problems. After weeks of trying to fix this, I was ready to give up. I've also had problems with stuttering and hangs from one of my Squeezeboxes (two others worked fine), and tonight I decided to try to figure out the stuttering problem. After consulting the SlimServer wiki on wireless networking, I decided to check what channels my neighbor's routers were broadcasting on, and discovered about 6 networks (including mine) on Channel 6. Changing my router to Channel 1 seems to have fixed the problems with my one Squeezebox - it is well behaved again. Strangely though, as soon as I made this change to my router, I could see all my network resources again from my laptop! I can't think of any reason why this would be ... though I am not going to look a gift-horse in the mouth ... -- Jon Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22210 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Exercise bikes and wireless?
No, the bike has no electrical connection. The small computer runs on two AA batteries. It is a wireless Squeezebox3. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22206 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Exercise bikes and wireless?
was the bike on the same circuit as the squeezebox? That has to be one bad piece of exercise equipment if it puts out that much interference. Are you using a wireless connection with the SB? -- notanatheist notanatheist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22206 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc
Assuming that the PC is dedicated to Slimserver and that your music collection is < 100GB, the PIII HP ePC plus Michael's SlimCD is a much cheaper option and it runs great. With some bidding luck on eBay, you can have a running Slimserver PC for about $100. It does not look as sexy as MAC mini, but you can easily hide it somewhere in a closet. Most ePCs are sold with 128MB or 256MB of RAM and, for that reason, WinXP is not recommended, but SlimCD solves the lack of Linux skills problem. Hope it helps with your decision. -- shvejk shvejk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22179 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Booting Slimserver in OS X ... from the command line
Hi, Ok, I figured out that the current setup is broken in a mysterious way (apparently since the latest upgrade in Tiger 10.4.5), but not in a hopeless way. I'd been running slimserver smoothly for about six months, and then yesterday, it wouldn't boot anymore. Basically, when I click on "Start Server" in the System Preference pane, nothing happens. No perl, no nuthin'. BUT if I go to a command line and type in $ ~/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/slimserver.pl --daemon then good ol' slimserver is back. Since slim wasn't booting up, I did a thorough wipe and re-install of 6.2.1. Nothing. So I went up to the nightly 6.2.2. Nothing. Then I started digging around the directories, found a doc meant for linux users, and used it to come up with the command-line above. Questions: 1) I switched from linux to macs for the effing gooey, dammit--why won't it work? 2) How about putting in some debugging info so that when this happens, the user gets something more useful than a non-response from the system? I got so much of nothing that I began to suspect (shudder) Network Issues. I even flirted with re-installing the OS. It's going to take a bottle of scotch to wipe away this trauma. 3) Should I run some other command in addition to or in place of the slimserver.pl line above, in order for slimserver to run properly? Cheers, Ariel -- trebejo trebejo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22208 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: After many months of smooth performance, slimserver won't boot
At the moment, I am able to boot by command-line. This is, like, SOOO undocumented. I had to dig around ~/Library/PreferencePanes/ then down to ~/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server and then run $ ~/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/slimserver.pl --daemon (that's all on one line in case the forum editor turns it into two). Sooo undocumented. So now the server runs. The preference pane that you normally use to start slimserver (you know, the icon in System Preferences) shows the server as running and gives me the option to stop it. I still don't know what is broken, but it's as simple as "clicking on this button does not produce the desired activation". Just for a lark, I clicked on "Stop Server" and sure enough, it stopped it. Then I clicked on "Start Server" again (hoping it'd been a bootstrap hiccup) but no, it still doesn't work. I don't know if booting up this way neglects some other startup script that should be running. These are the things that keep me from giving a squeezebox to my friends and relatives. My father would disinherit me if I told him to play his music by just opening up the terminal and typing $ ~/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/slimserver.pl --daemon Cheers, Ariel -- trebejo trebejo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22188 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do I get rid of a corrupted file in Windows?
use chkdsk /F -- mikelis mikelis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1084 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22205 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 with NAS Server
JMan Wrote: > thanks for you answer! > Does the Linkstation stream the media information like artist, album > and trackname? as far as i know it does not support upnp. If you run SlimServer on it, it will work exactly like SlimServer running on your PC. So you get artist, album, trackname, whatever you want. :-) -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22198 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do I get rid of a corrupted file in Windows?
There are lots of utilities for deleting "undeletable" files here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?id=2&sort=4 -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22205 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: After many months of smooth performance, slimserver won't boot
danco Wrote: > Just to double-check, what do you mean by "the latest Tiger upgrade"? My > machine works fine on 10.4.5 and I think that is working after the > Security Update 2006-001. I have tried 2006-002 yet. I mean to-the-day; that includes 2006-002, which was installed on the 14th. I actually don't know whether I tried to start up the slimserver since that install, but in particular I don't remember trying to do so. The 2006-002 update was primarily needed by me to fix rsync, which is how I back up my hard drives. However, there is a work-around, which is to install the darwinport of rsync and use it instead. That's what I'd done. I'd be all kinds of surprised if the slimserver-os x connection was so tenuous, and none of them good. The diagnostics are non-existent, too--there is no obvious place to find a record of what is going wrong. The install says that it succeeded, then I click on the start-up button, and nothing happens. Cheers, Ariel -- trebejo trebejo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22188 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do I get rid of a corrupted file in Windows?
Kyle Wrote: > No, what command would I use? Kyle, Firstly, I suggest that you copy all the good directories and files to their new location. Then, if you right-click on the directory containing the bad file, have you got Open followed by CMD shell on the dropdown menu? 1. If so, right-click and left-click on the "CMD shell" option and you should be in the correct directory. 2. If not, Accessories, CMD prompt will take you to the CMD shell. The you need to CD (Change Directory) until you find the directory containing the corrupt file. When you are in the correct directory, do a dir to examine the contents of the directory and MAKE sure you see the file you want to delete is there. If the contents are too much for a page do "dir | more" to see a page at a time, hitting the space bar for the next page. Then, very carefully type "del filename" where filename is the name of the file you want to remove. Hope this helps, but be careful. Pete -- shinyspoon shinyspoon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22205 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do I get rid of a corrupted file in Windows?
No, what command would I use? -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22205 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do I get rid of a corrupted file in Windows?
Have you tried windows CMD and the del command? Regards, Pete -- shinyspoon shinyspoon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22205 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Exercise bikes and wireless?
-- I got an exercise bike today. It's described as a "magnetic" exercise bike. I suppose this means the resistance is provided by a magnet acting on a ferrous disc attached to the pedals but I couldn't locate any technical details. What to do while exercising - why, listen to the Squeezebox, of course! :-) Except I couldn't. The SB kept freezing, stalling, dropping out. In short it performed the worst it ever had in the 10 minutes I was using this bike. When I stopped, everything went back to normal. So I guess my question is - would there be any way using this bike would cause EMI? By Faraday's Law, current would be induced in the disc - it would have to be. Would it then emit EMI? It's a very cheap bike, so if the more expensive ones have any sort of shielding this one does not have it... Hopefully no one thinks I'm a quack for asking, but the effect is dramatic and repeatable. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22206 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SS cuts off last 10 seconds of song...
I was advised by tech support to disable the WMA -> WMA (built in) transcode rule in Server Settings -> File Types. This fixed the problem and also revealed a bug of some kind, which has been put on the list. Dan -- dlucas dlucas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4488 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22016 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How do I get rid of a corrupted file in Windows?
In trying to copy some music files recently, I ended up with some corrupted files that are unreadable and undeletable, according to Windows. I need to get rid of these files to copy albums to another hard drive, but I can't do it by normal WindowsXP methods. It says the files are corrupted or unreadable and won't let me delete them. Is there any other way to delete the files, so that I can get my music to another hard drive? -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22205 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Favorites
Is it possible to change the name of favorites? I've book marked several stations and the favorite is all http:// blah blah and some of them are stations from the same address so I need to sroll through to tell which is which. It would be cool to be able to give them one word names. -- toobiloo toobiloo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21614 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Any close-out deals on older SB's?
I have a Slimp3 (a later model with the dedicated remote) and a SBG sitting around. What's the offer? -- Pale Blue Ego Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22203 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Any close-out deals on older SB's?
Hi, anyone here know of any close-out deals of SliMP3 or SB1/SB2's? Just looking for a more inexpensive way to get a music-everywhere-home. I have one SB3, but that's reserved for the livind room. The others are intended for inwall systems. That's why I want the older ones. That and the cost :) -- nicky6 nicky6's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3258 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22203 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Forgot Remote!
I forgot my remote control for my SB2 at home. I won't be back there for some time, and I still have my SB2. Is there any way to control it without getting one? I have tried all the JVC universal codes for the remotes I have here I figure if I could get it to connect to the wireless network here, I could control it through the computer but even that seems impossible without the remote. -- bjackson bjackson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1315 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22202 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: WPA-PSK bug on SB2?
On 3/17/06, JJZolx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I didn't know about the numeric entry thing, but is there a reason whyyou're using such a weak WPA key? Twelve characters would be trivial to crack.http://www.kurtm.net/wpa-pskgen/but some one would still have to want to and i've nothing worth hacking. There are 4 or 5 other networks around that i can see and i know that some of them are unsecured. I see it as a deterrrent. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can I stream Flac from slimserver to smartphone?
If you use Pocket Tunes, an add on player, you can stream the output of the slibserver, but it must be transcoded to a lower bitrate and an mp3 stream. I do it at 64k and use the Treo's web broser to control things with the handheld skin. Not elegant, but useful if you have signal... Pocket tunes http://www.pocket-tunes.com/ -- ericj ericj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3230 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22168 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 with NAS Server
thanks for you answer! Does the Linkstation stream the media information like artist, album and trackname? as far as i know it does not support upnp. -- JMan JMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22198 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless Problems
OK, OK!! Think I get your message. :-) Thanks for the advice. -- mwoodroof mwoodroof's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4190 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22192 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: itunes alternatives
I use jriver Media Center. They have a 30day trial and the cost of the product is $40. Pretty nice product I tested it against Media Monkey and Foobar2000. Foobar2000 is a great product I love the amount you can customise it, however you really have to spend a great deal of time with foobar2000 to make it sing like you want. Also the foo_pod plugin for it that makes it work with the ipod lacks some features that I would want (maybe the author will add them soon). It lacks albumart, rating and playcount sync. The last two being the biggest for me. Media Monkey I did like a good bit and was cheaper than jriver, however jriver appeared to be a more polished product and jriver allows for more customization. Jrivers smartlists is just so much better than any of the competition. Now a note, jriver and media monkey do not support smartplaylists ON the ipod like iTunes does. This means that if you create a smartlist in jriver it will SYNC the contents of the list but the list will NOT be dynmanic on the iPod. The best example is a playlist of UNHEARD Podcasts. When I sync this list I have 4 unheard podcasts when I listen to the 1 of the podcasts on my iPod the list does not update with that removed. The only 3rd party app I could find that does support smartplaylists is foo_pod, however since it does not support ratings and placount syncing it almosts seems pointless to me. -- m1abrams m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22194 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 with NAS Server
A lot of us have slimserver running happily on a NAS. I use a Buffalo LinkStation HD-HG250. It has 128MB RAM and a 266MHz PowerPC processor (forget the model number). It does fine serving up my 3k or so track music collection, and I expect it would do fine with a collection of 10k tracks. It has a fan and it's not silent. It's not really loud, either, but I don't need it within easy reach, so I just keep it in the basement. There are hacks/tweaks to reduce fan noise, but not eliminate it. It's perfect for my needs, but you might want something quieter. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22198 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Why are my copied LPs playing at 1/2 speed on the SB?
I thought maybe they were ripped at 16 2/3. :)On 3/17/06, verbatone <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:96kHz is not supported: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20512&highlight=96khzThere is a feature request link in this same thread. 96kHz is double48kHz, so that's why it's playing at half speed. 48kHz is the max sample rate at this point.--verbatoneverbatone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3556View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22195___ Discuss mailing listDiscuss@lists.slimdevices.comhttp://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: itunes alternatives
I used to use J.River Media Center and have found it pretty usable. It does support iPod and all the music formats you were asking about. It is pretty fast and the ability to customize the front end and song management is amazing. I do use iTunes as I use a Mac now, although it is a decent product, at times it can be slow as hell. Unfortunately the product tends to be on the expensive side, I think they include a 30 day trial, give it a whirl. Gov -- govardha govardha's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4130 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22194 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WPA-PSK bug on SB2?
>From what I've read, WPA keys can be from 8 to 63 ascii characters or 64 hexadecimal digits (256 bits). I've tried to enter a 64 hex digit key with and without a 0x on the front but the SB2 ontly allows 63 characters. Is the key entry validation broken? -- blueranger blueranger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=703 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22197 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why are my copied LPs playing at 1/2 speed on the SB?
96kHz is not supported: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20512&highlight=96khz There is a feature request link in this same thread. 96kHz is double 48kHz, so that's why it's playing at half speed. 48kHz is the max sample rate at this point. -- verbatone verbatone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3556 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22195 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
JJZolx Wrote: > Yes, you can. At some point it becomes either prohibitively expensive > or overly time consuming to manage, just to gain some very small extra > degree of security. Sorry I am coming from a industry background not a music background on this topic. In industry the price of the data sometimes is priceless. Yes with music you can usually get a replacement at some cost. (I do have CDs I have lost that are virtually unreplacable). However photos of your childs first step, what is the price of that? And the example of nuke inside DC, well yea that is silly to protect against. However fire damage of ones home is not so silly to protect against. -- m1abrams m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB3 with NAS Server
Hi there! I intend to buy one of those sexy Squeezeboxes. I'd like to run it on a NAS server. In the forum I mainly read about users having troubles getting the Box running on a NAS. Does anybody has it happily working with a NAS? I have a big music collection, about 10K songs. How much RAM is required? Furthermore the NAS should be handy (not a rack) and silent, preferrably without a fan. Any recommendations? Thanks a lot! -- JMan JMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22198 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WPA-PSK bug on SB2?
Simon Still Wrote: > A bit of an odd one - i don't know if it's a bug or not. I set up > WPA-PSK > on my Netgear router with a 12 digit numerical key. This worked fine > on my > XP laptop and on the Nokia 770 but my SB2 will not play ball - it gets > as > far as DHPC but takes a bizarre IP address on a completely different > subnet > which of course means it can't connect with my server. Adding a > single > non-numerical character and it's fine. Is this the SB2 thats out of > spec or > are the other devices overly flexible in what they'll allow? I didn't know about the numeric entry thing, but is there a reason why you're using such a weak WPA key? Twelve characters would be trivial to crack. http://www.kurtm.net/wpa-pskgen/ -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22197 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
JJZolx wrote: > Robin Bowes Wrote: > >>>1) Original CDs in storage >>>2) Copy of ripped music on 2 different hard drives >>>3) Copy burned to 2 sets of DVD-Rs, one off-site >>>4) Copy on a RAID 5 NAS[/color] >> >>That's nice and thorough. >> >>I'm not quite there yet. I've currently got: >> >>1. Original CDs in storage. Well, for *most* of my collection ;) >>2. Ripped music on RAID5 drive (linux software RAID). Server on UPS. >>3. Copy of music on 500GB drive in Xbox offsite. >> >>I really must get round to either burning to DVD-R or 15GB DLTs before >>the inevitable happens. > > What's the "inevitable"? A freak tornado hits both your house and your > offsite backup location and blows away your original CDs, your RAID 5 > array and the XBox backup? You must live under a very dark cloud if > you think that's inevitable. Sorry, I wasn't clear. Whilst I have a (nearly) full back up of my lossless collection (18GB of Mozart wouldn't fit on the 500GB drive) I need to back up my lossy collection, plus DR backups for the rest of my systems. As for the inevitable, it's exceedingly common for >1 drives to fail in a RAID5 system because the stress of rebuilding the array following a failure often causes one or more of the the other drives to fail too. I don't worry about whether my discs will fail or not - they will, it's just a matter of time. R. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why are my copied LPs playing at 1/2 speed on the SB?
What format are the files in? -- rudholm rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22195 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WPA-PSK bug on SB2?
I believe if the whole key is numeric, the SB firmware will assume you're typing in a number instead of a string. It's more a user interface thing than a bug, and I don't know of any clean way to do it. (Since you may actually -want- to enter a big hex number as your key, is the 'bug' in the SB for letting you? Or is it in your other hardware for insisting it's ASCII?) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22197 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
I have a 250GB external drive ... using XXCopy I either write a full backup, or an incremental either based on new files, or changed files. Prior to making any backup I run MP3Test against the source data. My MP3's are mostly encoded with CRC's, so this helps with regard to integrity. -- stevieweevie stevieweevie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4338 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] WPA-PSK bug on SB2?
A bit of an odd one - i don't know if it's a bug or not. I set up WPA-PSK on my Netgear router with a 12 digit numerical key. This worked fine on my XP laptop and on the Nokia 770 but my SB2 will not play ball - it gets as far as DHPC but takes a bizarre IP address on a completely different subnet which of course means it can't connect with my server. Adding a single non-numerical character and it's fine. Is this the SB2 thats out of spec or are the other devices overly flexible in what they'll allow? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: itunes alternatives
radish wrote: FOr general music management the obvious candidates are Winamp, Foobar2000 and J River Media Center. I'm not sure which of those will work with an iPod. Foobar has iPod plugins. Or you may choose to pick what you will for library management, playback, etc. and something else entirely for iPod loading. I've used EphPod since before the iPod was supported on Windows. It's not so slapping great, but it works. Does Songbird do iPod loading? --rt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why are my copied LPs playing at 1/2 speed on the SB?
Do they play okay on your computer? -- stevieweevie stevieweevie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4338 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22195 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc
gharris999 Wrote: > I just ordered the AOpen bare-bones (case, mobo, optical drive) version > of this unit for $314.99USD (179.41GBP). I found it via Froogle. It > will take me until next weekend to have it up and running, dual-booting > WinXP and (hopefully) Fedora Core 5. I'll let you all know how it goes > and what the final costs were. I plan to wait to order the CPU and ram > until I've got the unit in my hands, which should be by next mid-week. Please let me know gharriss, I nearly bought one this evening from Evesham, but I'm undecided as to whether the minimum spec: Intel celeron M 370 and 512MB is sufficient as I plan on initially running XP. Thanks Pete -- shinyspoon shinyspoon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22179 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101
Qnap is fanless so only noise will be from HD. Size is about that of a normal hardback book. -- Heuer Heuer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2543 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20233 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101
The Qnap is small and has no fan. It would be very easy to move it back and forth for file transfers. The alternative is a long ethernet cable which you can run between rooms temporarily for transfers. -- Fifer Fifer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=639 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20233 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc
I just ordered the AOpen bare-bones (case, mobo, optical drive) version of this unit for $314.99USD (179.41GBP). I found it via Froogle. It will take me until next weekend to have it up and running, dual-booting WinXP and (hopefully) Fedora Core 5. I'll let you all know how it goes and what the final costs were. I plan to wait to order the CPU and ram until I've got the unit in my hands, which should be by next mid-week. -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22179 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: After many months of smooth performance, slimserver won't boot
Just to double-check, what do you mean by "the latest Tiger upgrade"? My machine works fine on 10.4.5 and I think that is working after the Security Update 2006-001. I have tried 2006-002 yet. -- danco danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22188 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101
I generally tend to get cds a few at a time, so it wouldn't be that great a chore for me to just move the qnap back to where the pc is and rip a load at the same time when I get them. Pcs in another room to the bedroom and I don't have a wireless router. The qnap routes one I'm considering, another is a minimac, and the third is a sff/shuttle pc. Main considerations are noise and size. Cheers -- davidcotton davidcotton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20233 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: itunes alternatives
FOr general music management the obvious candidates are Winamp, Foobar2000 and J River Media Center. I'm not sure which of those will work with an iPod. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22194 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101
davidcotton Wrote: > Curious. > > With these Qnaps, is it just a case of using a pc to transfer music > across to it, then when all the music is on, just have a wired sb3 > connected to it? So it would be qnap>sb3>dac>speakers ? > > Cheers. That would work. I'm doing it slightly differently with the Qnap plugged into the Ethernet port on my wireless router/modem so it becomes part of my wireless network which includes my wireless SB2. -- Fifer Fifer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=639 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20233 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless Problems
mwoodroof Wrote: > Hi again, I have finally found a workaround for my problem described in > this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21866. > > To summarise: after about 200Mb streaming (half hour of FLACs a few > hours of MP3s) the SB3 stops, seems to lose the network conection, and > I have to turn the router off and on again to get the network back. I > think it is a router problem (I have the same problem copying large > files over the wireless network, using Windows XP). > This is definitely a router / driver problem. mwoodroof Wrote: > > I have now worked out that if I switch WEP encryption off, the problem > goes away and I can stream FLACs for hours on end no problem. This is > rather frustrating, as I don't really want to run my wireless LAN > unencrypted. And it just seems quite bizarre! Does anyone have any idea > why encryption could be causing this problem? > While its not possible to know the exact cause without the router and/or driver source, a likely cause is a simple memory leak by in the encryption code. The router's memory is being consumed and not freed, hence the crash/hang. There can also be dangling references, unset variables, etc. in either the driver or router. Since Windows is not crashing on you, its likely in the router vs. the driver. mwoodroof Wrote: > > One option I have considered is using MAC filtering instead of > encryption - can anyone enlighten me as to how secure that would be? > Don't go there. Get a new router and stop wasting your time with what you have now. While the Belkin Pre-N is a very good router, one cannot say the same for many other Belkin models. In all, Belkin has a terrible track record of resolving their networking problems, or putting much $$$ into maintenance. I have a Pre-N which I love, but would likely not purchase another Belkin product for the aforementioned reason. mwoodroof Wrote: > > Final question - have asked this before but got no help :-( > In order to try to understand what is happening when the SB3 stops > playing with encryption on, is there any value in looking at the > debugging in slimserver? If so, can anyone describe to me what I should > be looking at/for? I know you can turn on various options in "server > settings/debugging" in slimserver but don't know what to look for - it > is a very long and confusing list! > No, you're not going to find a problem outside your router - its the router causing the problem. You already have two test cases using different protocols (Slim, Windows) that trigger the problem, and one test case that indicates it only occurs with WEP enabled. Belkin probably has not dealt with this issue, and likely never will, as WEP is so trivial to break, nobody should be using it, including yourself. Move on! -- MrC MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22192 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] itunes alternatives
I'm dual ripping my music collection (flac and lame), and plan on using to mp3 files on a ipod nano. I don't plan on buying itunes store music, so compatibility with their store isn't a concern. >From past exeriences I'm no big fan of itunes. What are the good alternatives out there which work on XP? I'm aware of anapod explorer and it seems like media monkey has some ipod management capabilities. Are there others? Which ones do you like? -- Larry Larry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22194 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
m1abrams Wrote: > When it comes to backups you can NEVER have too much. Yes, you can. At some point it becomes either prohibitively expensive or overly time consuming to manage, just to gain some very small extra degree of security. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless Problems
Thanks for the thoughts, I know WEP is not very good, but at least it deters casual threats. Do take your point though, think a new router might be in order. What would you recommend? I have read so much contradictory advice it is a nightmare! Regarding your idea of why the router might be failing, that is an interesting thought. I have upgraded the firmware to the latest level without any effect though, so is there anything else I could do to trace this problem? I am using a manually set 10 digit hex key as I can't get the automatic/passphrase option to work. Would that affect anything? Afraid I don't really understand the details behind how encryption works!! Thanks again. -- mwoodroof mwoodroof's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4190 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22192 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless Problems
Well, if you want security, WEP won't give it to you. Nor will MAC filtering (though at least with MAC filtering, someone will have to hope you have the machine with the hijacked MAC turned off or they'll have problems). WEP is trivial to break in a minute, regardless of the length of your passkey. (A design flaw in the way the encryption works.) Since your router is broken to the point of not letting two PC's share files reliably... and since you want encryption... Maybe it's time to get a new router? WPA hasn't been broken yet. As for why your existing router gets whiney about WEP: my guess is that their is a counter somewhere and when it cycles it should negotiate a new key... but it doesn't. It may be fixable with new firmware, but... WEP is still breakable. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22192 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
If the cost of the backups is more than the data is worth, you have too much.On 3/17/06, m1abrams < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:When it comes to backups you can NEVER have too much. --m1abrams ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
m1abrams wrote: > JJZolx Wrote: >>What's the "inevitable"? A freak tornado hits both your house and your >>offsite backup location and blows away your original CDs, your RAID 5 >>array and the XBox backup? You must live under a very dark cloud if >>you think that's inevitable. > > When it comes to backups you can NEVER have too much. It really is both an emotional and an engineering question. Economics play a big part of the decision process. This is true of any backup situation. If you have the need, you have to have two physical locations preferably a thousand or more miles apart. I have a bit over 700 CDs. at $10 a piece, that is $7,000 worth of music. So if it all was destroyed, I have to look at $7000 plus time to re-rip. There is no way I'm going to spend $25,000 on a backup strategy for $7000 worth of music. I live "inside the Beltway" in the Washington DC area. If the Russians drop a nuke on the Pentagon, my house will be vaporized. If that happens, all my music is gone. But I don't worry about that, because if I'm home at the time, I've got other problems. Or maybe no more problems ever. If I really cared, I bet that there is some SqueezeBox owner in Europe that would be willing to hold a 400GB disk for me while I did the same for them. Access could be instant over the 'net, or via DHL in a couple of days. You can get about anything you want to pay for. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101
Yup - although the Qnap will ideally be part of your network so you can update your music collection. -- Heuer Heuer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2543 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20233 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101
Curious. With these Qnaps, is it just a case of using a pc to transfer music across to it, then when all the music is on, just have a wired sb3 connected to it? So it would be qnap>sb3>dac>speakers ? Cheers. -- davidcotton davidcotton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20233 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
JJZolx Wrote: > What's the "inevitable"? A freak tornado hits both your house and your > offsite backup location and blows away your original CDs, your RAID 5 > array and the XBox backup? You must live under a very dark cloud if > you think that's inevitable. When it comes to backups you can NEVER have too much. -- m1abrams m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
Robin Bowes Wrote: > > 1) Original CDs in storage > > 2) Copy of ripped music on 2 different hard drives > > 3) Copy burned to 2 sets of DVD-Rs, one off-site > > 4) Copy on a RAID 5 NAS[/color] > > That's nice and thorough. > > I'm not quite there yet. I've currently got: > > 1. Original CDs in storage. Well, for *most* of my collection ;) > 2. Ripped music on RAID5 drive (linux software RAID). Server on UPS. > 3. Copy of music on 500GB drive in Xbox offsite. > > I really must get round to either burning to DVD-R or 15GB DLTs before > the inevitable happens. What's the "inevitable"? A freak tornado hits both your house and your offsite backup location and blows away your original CDs, your RAID 5 array and the XBox backup? You must live under a very dark cloud if you think that's inevitable. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Wireless Problems
Hi again, I have finally found a workaround for my problem described in this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21866. To summarise: after about 200Mb streaming (half hour of FLACs a few hours of MP3s) the SB3 stops, seems to lose the network conection, and I have to turn the router off and on again to get the network back. I think it is a router problem (I have the same problem copying large files over the wireless network, using Windows XP). I have now worked out that if I switch WEP encryption off, the problem goes away and I can stream FLACs for hours on end no problem. This is rather frustrating, as I don't really want to run my wireless LAN unencrypted. And it just seems quite bizarre! Does anyone have any idea why encryption could be causing this problem? One option I have considered is using MAC filtering instead of encryption - can anyone enlighten me as to how secure that would be? Final question - have asked this before but got no help :-( In order to try to understand what is happening when the SB3 stops playing with encryption on, is there any value in looking at the debugging in slimserver? If so, can anyone describe to me what I should be looking at/for? I know you can turn on various options in "server settings/debugging" in slimserver but don't know what to look for - it is a very long and confusing list! Any advice much appreciated! Thanks a lot!!! -- mwoodroof mwoodroof's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4190 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22192 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
Kevin O. Lepard wrote: > Multiple layers of protection: > > 1) Original CDs in storage > 2) Copy of ripped music on 2 different hard drives > 3) Copy burned to 2 sets of DVD-Rs, one off-site > 4) Copy on a RAID 5 NAS That's nice and thorough. I'm not quite there yet. I've currently got: 1. Original CDs in storage. Well, for *most* of my collection ;) 2. Ripped music on RAID5 drive (linux software RAID). Server on UPS. 3. Copy of music on 500GB drive in Xbox offsite. I really must get round to either burning to DVD-R or 15GB DLTs before the inevitable happens. R. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Missing MP3 Artists
I think the sacrificed goat may be getting me somewhere .. It would seem that the tracks that are not appearing are the ones with no Album specified, can it be that these are being grouped as a compilation, and then not shown in my compilation directory as the name is blank? Also .. In my earlier ID3v2.4 conversions I managed to somehow set the Compilation tag on some files .. is their an easy way to clear it as Mp3Tag does not seem to show it. Any answers appreciated as the goat supply is dwindling -- Dave Bird Dave Bird's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3251 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22182 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Missing MP3 Artists
I've spent most of today trying to find out what is going wrong and i'm getting to the point where my squeezebox and all associated software is likely to be launched through through a window ... however some more data ... My library has a lot of individual music files (2000+), not parts of albums, and stored in a directory named as their first letter. They are a mixture of mp3 and wma. There are also a number of albums (mp3, wma, and flac) stored in artist/album sub directories of these directories. There are no problems with any of the album directories. What I find is that a number of the files do not appear under Artists in the music library after a full scan. If I do a Browse Albums then then they do appear in All Songs. I have checked the tags with Mp3Tag (plus several other tools) made sure they are ID3v2.3 (for mp3s) and all looks ok. With d_scan set the tracks appear on the file list with no errors reported. other oddities .. After 8 full rescans one of the tracks, which had not been edited during that time, decided to appear in the Artist List. At the time it appeared I had just modified the title of an un-related track. This was not to last though as it dissapeared again after the next full rescan and has not been seen since! I have tried completely un-installing and re-installing, standing on my head while hitting the enter key, and sacrificing a goat .. all to no avail .. Anyone any thoughts ? -- Dave Bird Dave Bird's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3251 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22182 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Question about "New Posts" in forums
It's usually based on your last visit time, so anything created since you last visited is "new". The problem is if you visit the site and only read one post, then leave. Next time you come back it will have marked all the other posts which were new back then as read, even though they're not. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22181 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
Multiple layers of protection: 1) Original CDs in storage 2) Copy of ripped music on 2 different hard drives 3) Copy burned to 2 sets of DVD-Rs, one off-site 4) Copy on a RAID 5 NAS -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] After many months of smooth performance, slimserver won't boot
I've been having one of those "inexplicable" problems and when I came by here I noticed that there's a bit of this going around. I'm starting to wonder if the latest Apple Tiger upgrade didn't break something (which is what happened to rsync a couple of weeks ago). Basically, I've been using slimserver on a mac since last June, and yesterday I could not boot slimserver. I tried to find some networking problem, but no dice. I tried reinstalling but that doesn't help either. I can't even build the directory ~/Library/Caches/SlimServer (or was it Slimdevices? I can't remember but it's the one that contains the database). The usual perl command never shows up on ps. To debug the network, I first established a connection to slimnetworks, and got some bubbles and river sounds through. So the box is not totally fried. The network is a mini with ethernet at 192.168.0.101, airport at 192.168.0.100, di-524 router at 192.168.0.1, and SB2 at 192.168.0.102 all courtesy of dhcp. The firewall is set up as it always was with tcp and udp clear on 3483 and 9000. You know, the usual working rig. I tried quirky stuff like rebooting, unplugging router and squeezebox, holding down the "Add" button, etc. I even turned off the firewall but didn't get a reaction that way either. I can ping and traceroute to the squeezebox without a problem. I just can't get the bloody perl line started, or if I can, it dies awfully quick. Lest we suspect the perl command itself too quickly, its creation date is August 2005. It's been around. Oh before I forget, the rest of the network seems to be going as before. I can do iTunes, downloads, mail, web, etc. It's just the squeezebox that has gone partially bonkers; but its ability to get to Squeezenetworks tells me that the router/cable modem series is functional enough. I didn't drop a beer on the squeezebox, either. It's just been sitting in its usual well-ventilated spot, gathering a little dust but otherwise pampered. For starters, I'd appreciate being told if I am missing anything from a standard slimserver 6.2.1 or 6.2.2 install. All I can find right now after my latest attempt to install 6.2.2 are ~/Library/Preferences/com.slimdevices.slim.plist which is a 4 kb file of the plist kind and ~/Library/PerferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane which is a directory with these stats: $ ls -lR ~/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/ | wc 3334 21644 181974 $ du -sh ~/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/ 27M In other words, around 3300 files with a total size of about 27 mb. Cheers, Ariel -- trebejo trebejo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22188 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
JJZolx Wrote: > Post the code you're using. And _definitely_ use test folders until > you're 110% sure you have both the syntax and the logic correct. > Otherwise, if you're using robocopy's mirroring commands you risk > wiping out your music collection if you were to accidentally mirror in > the wrong direction. I downloaded SyncToy and played around with it last night. It seems to work fine with a GUI, so it's much easier for me. It also moves deleted files to the trashcan, so you can retreive them if you lose something you didn't mean to. -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How do YOU backup your music?
Try syncback. The free version works fine for files that aren't locked and it can be scheduled. http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/ james -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dangerous_dom Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 7:45 AM To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music? Could some please email me the lastet robocopy.exe to domrevans-AT-yahoo-DOT-co-DOT-uk please! :) -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc
bert1e Wrote: > From the review link posted earlier it says laptop disk i.e 2.5" Hopefully my reading skills will improve when I get better, I only looked at the pics and didn't read the small print. Thanks, Pete -- shinyspoon shinyspoon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22179 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc
bert1e Wrote: > Hi > > You could also consider a genuine mac mini as they are now also intel > based. Not sure if anyone has installed linux on one tho. They have > intel centrino duo's in them and the cheapest one is £499. So about the > same price as your aopen. > > I am running slimserver on a dedicated mini-itx 600 Mhz fanless system > with linux and its fine but did involve some fiddling. I also looked at the mini-mac, but I don't want to start on yet another OS. However, the mini-pac seems to get more favourable reviews and is still under consideration. Thanks, Pete -- shinyspoon shinyspoon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22179 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc
>From the review link posted earlier it says laptop disk i.e 2.5" -- bert1e bert1e's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1419 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22179 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc
mherger Wrote: > > Evesham have introduced two mini-pc. > While many will say you need a dual core cpu at >3GHz I say they'll do > a > great job server your Squeezeboxen. The only constraint will be the > disk: > are these boxes using 2.5" harddisks? > > > I'll probably install Linux at some future date when I get time. > > >From the Inside PC review, the disk seems to be a normal 3.5in one. Sizes from 40GB 5400rpm to 100GB 7200rpm. The internal disk will only be for the O/S and Slimserver application. If I get One I'll start off with WINXP, then alternate install and try UBUNTU. Thanks for the responses, Pete -- shinyspoon shinyspoon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22179 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc
Hi You could also consider a genuine mac mini as they are now also intel based. Not sure if anyone has installed linux on one tho. They have intel centrino duo's in them and the cheapest one is £499. So about the same price as your aopen. I am running slimserver on a dedicated mini-itx 600 Mhz fanless system with linux and its fine but did involve some fiddling. -- bert1e bert1e's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1419 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22179 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
No, briefcase does not update upon startup, or even automatically, unless you set it up to do so. You are correct that if I lose a source file and then update the briefcase, then the update will delete the associated file in the briefcase. However, I initiate the update myself, and the update process also tells me everything it is going to do and asks me whether I wish to continue. If I see that it intends to delete a file, I can decide whether that is consistent with my expectations and either continue or bail out. In my view, that gives me enough of a margin of error. I also find the synchronization very helpful, particularly when I am renaming and reorganizing files, as those changes are reflected in the briefcase upon update. But you seem to be looking for a simple automated copy function. Just pick one of the suggestions and try it out. By the way, many of the tools people are citing would work the same way as briefcase if you set them up to "mirror" or "synchronize." Some people have said they do this with automated scripts, which I think is pretty risky for just the reason you cited. My music sits on an Infrant NAS in RAID 0, so I already have a "mirroring" solution which will protect me from a disk failure. I set up the briefcase on another disk on the network, and I am very careful when I update it. This provides some additional protection from bugs, viruses, and my own stupidity, unless that stupidity includes updating the briefcase without being careful, as you have pointed out. Every backup scheme has to deal with this in one way or another. Even if you keep many generations of full backups, you can still get into a situation where a problem was introduced 5 days ago, you did not catch it until today, but you did a significant amount of work yesterday. If you restore the backup from before the problem you no longer have the problem, but you lose all the work you did yesterday. If you stay where you are and do not restore a backup, you do not have to repeat yesterday's work, but you do have to figure out how to fix the problem some other way. Either approach can be the better one, depending upon the specifics of the circumstances. I am in no way saying that briefcase is a great tool for backups, merely that if you are on Windows you already have it, and that what it provides it provides pretty well. YMMV dangerous_dom Wrote: > NO! Correct me if i am wrong, but if you lost some of your master files > and the briefcase gets updated it will delete the copies in the > briefcase! And i think briefcase updates on start up. So, you lose your > files somehow and then your PC reboots. Boom, back up gone :( > > Briefcase is a synchronization solution for working documents, not a > backup solution. > > Right, this is starting to do my head in now. I just can't find the > solution that is _just_ right for me. But i think with a bit of playing > around, Robocopy will do what i want. > > What i want is this; > Automated copying of new/modified files to my second HDD. If i delete > my master files, i dont want my backup files deleted. However, i do > want my _modified_ files copying over. Can robocopy do this? -- jeffmeh jeffmeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3986 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc
NWP Wrote: > You should post links to the actual PCs you are looking to buy. > Barebones can mean a lot of things. Are these complete systems? > > In general, I haven't been too impressed with the quality of AOpen > system. > > If you are looking for a small quiet machine to act as a slimserver, > you may want to compare these Evesham systems with the mini-ITX systems > available from Logic Supply: > http://www.logicsupply.com/default.php/cPath/29 I thought about posting a link, but didn't want to advertise and appear to be affiliated to Evesham- I'm not. Here's a review link, these are completed systems: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/01/02/evesham_mini_pc_plus/1.html The Evesham site: http://www.evesham.com/PCs/List.asp?e=4EF43E0E-AE61-4312-9752-7CE3EC71EFA9 Regards, Pete -- shinyspoon shinyspoon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22179 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: mac mini & Squeezebox?
davidcotton Wrote: > Had a quick look through the forums and used search but couldn't find an > appropriate thread. > > Curious about the possibility of using a mac mini as a server to play > back through a wired squeezebox and wondered what I would need. > > Basically I have about a hundred or so audio storys and about a hundred > or so music cds that I would like to back up to harddrive and use > squeezebox to play back so I can box the cds up and put them in a box > in the loft out the way. I had been contemplating using a setup using > a shuttle size case with a 300 gig hd and using squeezebox. Only > problem with that scenario is the size and noise of the shuttle box, > small though it is. This would be for a bedroom and so would have to > be as quiet as possible. Also size of the mini mac would be an > advantage as well. > > Would 80 gig be enough for say 200 or so cds? How easy would it be to > set it up? What I want is to have it as :- > > Mac mini (plus usb hard drive if size isnt enough?) > connected to wired squeezebox 3, which in turn is plugged into an > m-audio 2496 dac connected to a marantz 66 KI Signature amplifer and > Mission 780 speakers. In a bedroom without any other pc present. I'd > use the existing monitor and keyboard to set everything up, then move > the mac/sb3 into another room and use it there. > > Would this be doable and how much would I be looking at to set it up? > Also using macs would I be limited to Itunes to manage cds or would > there be other programs I could use (I know nothing about macs). > > Cheers... I use a Mac Mini + external 320G LaCie drive for Slimserver and it works great - I have 3 SBs in other rooms with 2 connected wirelessly and 1 wired. I used iTunes to rip my CDs to Apple Lossless. I use a wireless router for connectivity between the Mac Mini and SBs and the router assigns IP addresses to each device using DHCP. If you want to connect the SB directly to the Mac Mini, I think you will need to configure IP addresses manually - however it makes sense for the Mac to be connected to a router with internet connectivity as you will need this when ripping CDs - unless you want to type in all of the CD track information manually. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22172 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101 Update
Ok currently I am very happy. 500Gb drives now work fine. Paul Progressive Consumer Electronics Ltd -- ultra238a ultra238a's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=626 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cannot connect a new squeezebox
simonjkendrew Wrote: > I seem to be unable to re-enter the ethernet setup options, where I can > specify IP addresses, etc. Reseting to the factory default settings by > holding down 'add' whilst powering on the squeezebox does reset the > wireless options, but does not seem to reset the ethernet setup > procedure. > To get back to the ethernet (wired) set up options, use the left arrow key until the menus won't go back any further, and then scroll down. You should then see the option to set up a wired connection, go right, and all the options should be there by scrolling down. If not, what are the options available to you in your top level networking menu ? With your wired connection, I'm a bit confused at which stage you are stuck at. Can the Squeezebox see the SSID of your wireless network and just won't connect to it, or can it not even see the network at all ? If the former, it's more likely to be a firewall, router or permissions issue - if the latter, it's more likely to be that your wireless network itself isn't set up right. Let us know and we'll do what we can. P.S. Is your router listed as one which is known to work with the Squeezebox in the router status pages ? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RouterStatus P.P.S. Have you tried rebooting the router - that may help with the "ethernet appears to be disconnected" problem. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22184 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB3 can't open m4a file, mp3 will work
Hi, there is an unusual message on my SB3 since yesterday: 'Problem: File can't be opened' I've downloaded unprotected mp4s and unlike all other MP3/MP4 before they can't be played through SB3 (in iTunes and Quicktime they play ok), it will display a message like 'Problem: File can't be opened'. I've tried with several SlimServers (osx and xp) and it does not make a difference. If I convert those files to MP3 then they work fine (same directory, same permissions). All other unprotected MP4 work. Are there special MP4s that SlimServer can't handle? Where can I find an error log of this? I'm using the Mar16 nightly 6.2.2 -Hans -- drhanso drhanso's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2832 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22185 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cannot connect a new squeezebox
I got my SB3 a few days and also had problems connected to slimserver. Don't know if this will help your particular case, but it might help someone in the future, so I'll post it anyway. Symptoms - SB3 seemed to set itself up fine both via ethernet and wirelessly. It obtained a proper IP address. I could ping it from my Slimserver PC. But it wouldn't link up - it just hung on 'Connecting to Slimserver'. From the router lights I could see that it was talking to the Slimserver PC (and slim.exe was using increased CPU time) but it just wouldn't connect. Strangely, it connected to Squeezenetwork quite happily. I tried every combination of everything I could think of, turned off all encryption, deactivated my PC's firewall, my router's firewall, etc. Still nothing. Searched the forums for any clues. Was tearing my hair out. About 5 torturous hours later, I stumbled across a post by (IIRC) Michael Herger where he mentioned the 'blocking' control on Slimserver. I'd installed SS on my new server a couple of months ago, well before the arrival of my SB3, and being the sort who verges on paranoia over such matters, had enabled the 'block access except for these IPs' setting. *Of course, I'd completely forgotten to go back in and add the IP address my new SB3 was now occupying.* Which is presumably why SlimServer was ignoring my SB3's repeated plaintive entreaties to connect. Oh, how I laughed hysterically! In hindsight, it wasn't such a bad thing, because I underwent a crash course in wireless networking (first time I'd tried it) and configuring my router - irrelevant as it all turned out to be, it was good to learn a bit about such things. However, given this is a rather elementary yet maddening mistake, I wonder if it might be worth including in the SS FAQ, or something? I suppose I should add it to the Wiki myself. Has anyone contemplated doing some kind of 'Troubleshooting wizard' for all this sort of stuff? (PS - thanks Michael, you saved my sanity that night ;) -- oktup oktup's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1117 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22184 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
Could some please email me the lastet robocopy.exe to domrevans-AT-yahoo-DOT-co-DOT-uk please! :) -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
dangerous_dom Wrote: > What i want is this; > Automated copying of new/modified files to my second HDD. If i delete > my master files, i dont want my backup files deleted. However, i do > want my _modified_ files copying over. Can robocopy do this? Yes - should be something like: Robocopy /E /IT so long as you don't use the /MIR or /PURGE options Robocopy won't delete files from the backup. Robocopy is your friend!! Probably the best freeby from M$ - don't know why they have'nt put it in the base OS yet. -- Browny http://www.last.fm/user/BrownySV/ Browny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2295 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
jeffmeh Wrote: > You can also use the Windows "Briefcase" functionality to keep a > synchronized set of folders. NO! Correct me if i am wrong, but if you lost some of your master files and the briefcase gets updated it will delete the copies in the briefcase! And i think briefcase updates on start up. So, you lose your files somehow and then your PC reboots. Boom, back up gone :( Briefcase is a synchronization solution for working documents, not a backup solution. Right, this is starting to do my head in now. I just can't find the solution that is _just_ right for me. But i think with a bit of playing around, Robocopy will do what i want. What i want is this; Automated copying of new/modified files to my second HDD. If i delete my master files, i dont want my backup files deleted. However, i do want my _modified_ files copying over. Can robocopy do this? -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101 Update
Good news Paul. Does this mean we will not have to return units to you? I'm happy to be a guinea pig if you need any 'beta' testers for the fix. -- Fifer Fifer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=639 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101 Update
I have been in contact with Qnap since last Saturday to try and get the easiest resolution to this problem. They are sending over today a firmware update for testing with the drives we have used. Once I have tested it and made sure it is ok I will be making it available to our customers. The firmware update will fix the following: 1. Improve network file transfer performance 2. Fix HD compatible issue 3. Fix multimedia performance issue 4. Fix some torrent files that can't be used in TS-101 Hopefully we are nearly there. Regards Paul Progressive Consumer Electronics Ltd -- ultra238a ultra238a's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=626 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox is changing volume
That sounds bizarre enough to be a defective unit. Call Slim Support. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22164 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Cannot connect a new squeezebox
I have just purchased a wireless squeezebox 3 and I am having real problems in connecting it via ethernet and wireless. I have a 10mbps D-Link ethernet card for my wired connection, and my wireless setup is a Zoom X6 5590 wireless modem router, with a zoom USB adapter on my PC, 802.11g network. I cannot get either the wired or wireless squeeze options to connect, and now after having initially setup the ethernet options, I get an error message saying 'error: ethernet appears disconnected' when trying to setup a wired network. The network cables are attached and I know they work because I have tried them with other devices. I seem to be unable to re-enter the ethernet setup options, where I can specify IP addresses, etc. Reseting to the factory default settings by holding down 'add' whilst powering on the squeezebox does reset the wireless options, but does not seem to reset the ethernet setup procedure. I have set up the correct firewall exceptions, and I have also tried totally disabling my firewall, uninstalling norton anti-virus and also removing all excryption from my wireless network, but still no luck. The details in the manual seem a little vague. I spent 5 hours yesterday trying to setup the squeezebox, which really seems a long time for such a device. Could anyone please advise me of the correct procedure in order to get my squeezebox working. Regards Simon -- simonjkendrew simonjkendrew's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4581 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22184 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101
Well said! In any event, a computer free/NAS setup with a squeezebox is a subject that often crops up for obvious reasons. The Qnap, I assume, is one of the first attempts to tackle an out-of-the box product and I imagine there are a lot of squeezebox users out there interested in how it pans out. The number of visitors to the threads clearly justifies their existence... -- happyfishman happyfishman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2601 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20233 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101 Update
Sanctum Wrote: > Playing with slimserver at work I notice that there is a setting in the > slimserver interface options menu to control the "browser refresh > interval". > Pushing this out to a stupidly high number might stop the slimserver > constantly re-writing it's html page to the hard drive and allow the > TS-101 to go into standby. > I'll play when I get home, unless someone reads this and beats me to it > :) So what happened? -- happyfishman happyfishman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2601 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Missing MP3 Artists
Can anyone help ... I have just been going through the exercise of stripping ID3v1 Tags from my MP3 files (with ID3-TagIT 3) and updating them to ID3v2.4, which having read some threads on how to handle Compilations and Multi Discs, would seem to be the thing to do. However, its giving me some problems: Following a clear and rescan, the mp3 tracks that have no album specified do not appear under Artists in the browser (or on SoftSqueeze). If I go to Browse Albums - All Songs, or No Album the tracks do appear. WMA files appear ok. The Tags all look ok, if I browse music folder and look at the tracks the tags are reported correctly at V2.4, Winamp shows them correctly to. A dump of the MP3 shows that the Artist is in tag TPE1. I am running the nightly 6.2.2 from the 16th March, Windows XP Home, default2 skin (same result with fishbone). Thanks Dave -- Dave Bird Dave Bird's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3251 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22182 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Qnap TS-101
Two threads hardly constitute a Qnap forum! The threads are appropriately titled (so it's very easy for the uninterested to avoid) and they relate specifically to the Slimsever/Qnap package as marketed by Progressive AV, so are not OT. There are many threads here which don't interest me. My simple solution is not to read them. -- Fifer Fifer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=639 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20233 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Question about "New Posts" in forums
This question is not about SB or SS, but about how the forums software operates. I've recently taken to reading through the forums using "New Posts", which seems much more efficient than going back and forth into the various forums (Beginners, General Discussion, etc.). At what point does a "New Post" cease being new? Perhaps more to the point, why do posts apparently disappear from "New Posts" AND switch their icons to indicate that I've seen the thread, when I haven't? I can understand there being a time or space limit on "New", but I would have expected unread threads to continue to appear unread If there's a readme somewhere just point me to it. Thanks. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22181 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
