[slim] Black Magic Firmware: firmware 37
mherger Wrote: Jag befinner mig tjänsteresa och är åter den 18 april. I know that much swedish: he's left for an easter holiday :-) It's a long holiday ... he'll be gone from now until the 18th. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Two for $100 off still valid?
The fact that they didn't update it for April is an April Fools Joke. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=99220#post99220 -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Reset Server Remotely
I'm using a windows based system that is networked to other windows systems. Is there a way to use a command line script to reset the slimserver from a client PC? shutdown.exe is part of Windows XP - similar tools can be found on the net for older versions. -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Black Magic Firmware: firmware 37
I know that much swedish: he's left for an easter holiday :-) It's a long holiday ... he'll be gone from now until the 18th. Sweden is well known for its public spirited live. I'm leaving for the second week of holidays within a month. Not bad neither ;-) -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Black Magic Firmware: firmware 37
Michaelwagner Wrote: It's a long holiday ... he'll be gone from now until the 18th. Yep Swedes are incredibly lucky, at my place of work they get 35-40 days of holiday and 12 public holidays. All in all they can wangle about 9-10 weeks of holiday a year. Not bad, still they make up for it with all the tax they pay. -- mattybain http://www.last.fm/user/MattyBain/ mattybain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Who is Nalle Johansson?
Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com writes: He's a proud SB user, has subscribed to these lists. And left the building for an easter holiday with his mail being answered automatically. Yes... I have 12 Slimdevices (2 wireless) Don't use out of office mails. These mails should only be used to mail from my internal domain... ;o) Bsta hlsningar/Best Regards Nalle Johansson IT-chef, GFS - Studenthlsan Fysiken __ Kaserntorget 11, 411 18 Gteborg. Hemsida: www.gfs.sewww.studenthalsan.sewww.fysiken.nu E-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* ForstClass: fcp://fc.gsn.se Direkt: +46 (0)31-10 69 69 * Kansli: +46 (0)31-10 69 80 Mobil: +46 (0)703-90 03 96 * Fax: +46 (0)31-16 28 71 __ Ftt Fysikens nyhetsbrev? Annars besk: http://www.fysiken.nu/nyhetsbrev.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Who is Nalle Johansson?
Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com writes: better yet, don't use corporate accounts for personal stuff. Especially if they make you use out of office mails. Plus, you never know how they'll react after dozens of people email the company postmaster not-so-politely describing their level of annoyance at the out of office mails. -k Im the postmaster... ;o) Michaelwagner Wrote: It's a long holiday ... he'll be gone from now until the 18th. Yep Swedes are incredibly lucky, at my place of work they get 35-40 days of holiday and 12 public holidays. All in all they can wangle about 9-10 weeks of holiday a year. Not bad, still they make up for it with all the tax they pay. In sweden the normal holidays are 5 weeks but you will get more as older you are. All red days (public holidays) are free but as you write... The normal tax in sweden are 33% up to over 50%. Someone wrote: [slim] Who is Nalle Johansson? The best answer is - not CEO of Elmer but a swedish 33y old man with several works... 2:nd Lt officer, Politician, IT-manager. Pictures at http://nalle.gfs.se If anyone whant to know more... send me a private letter Bsta hlsningar/Best Regards Nalle Johansson IT-chef, GFS - Studenthlsan Fysiken __ Kaserntorget 11, 411 18 Gteborg. Hemsida: www.gfs.sewww.studenthalsan.sewww.fysiken.nu E-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* ForstClass: fcp://fc.gsn.se Direkt: +46 (0)31-10 69 69 * Kansli: +46 (0)31-10 69 80 Mobil: +46 (0)703-90 03 96 * Fax: +46 (0)31-16 28 71 __ Ftt Fysikens nyhetsbrev? Annars besk: http://www.fysiken.nu/nyhetsbrev.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Copying of favourites
Hi All I wonder if someone has the answer to my problem. I've done a search but not found anything similar I have two squeezeboxes at home that are brilliant and I have got a long list of internet radio favourites. Receintly I bought one for when I'm at work and I want to copy these favourites to the work pc running slimserver. I have copied and pasted the section in the slimserver.perf file but the work pc still only has the favourites that were set up on that system. Can anyone help? Regards Jed -- jed jed's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22827 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Network Activity
Its a tcp connection. The way tcp works, you need to send data (or keepalives) to know the connection is still running. As the client is responsible for connecting to the server, the client needs a way to know it is still connected and if not attempt to reconnect - hence the keepalives. -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22789 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Running MusicIP as a service on WinXP
I've posted on the MusicIP forum as well but figure i might get a quicker answer here - i want to run music ip as a service with slimserver and cant find any instructions on how to do so. Can anyone point me in the right direction? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Wireless / DHCP problem
I purchased a Squeezebox 3 just before Christmas and have been very happy with it until this week. As some background I also have a squeezebox that is connected to the my slimserver via an Ethernet connection. The problem I have is that my Squeezebox 3 which is using the wireless connection cannot connect to the Slimserver. My wireless is working fine as I have two laptops connecting without issues. The settings for the wireless are all fine as the Squeezebox 3 appears to connect without problems. The slim server appears to be working OK as my other Squeezebox connects fine and works via Ethernet (as does the Squeezebox 3 when I connect it this way). This leads me to the conclusion that there is some kind of issue with the wireless connection using slimserver. It will go through and appears to connect however if I leave the IP address to get one automatically from my DHCP server it will not get an address in the right range. My two laptops are not having this problem. I can do a release / renew without a problem. I should point out that my DHCP server is on a W2003 Server which runs slimserver so the Squeezebox 3 could connect to the wireless without necessarily getting an IP address. Which I think is the problem. However it does get a correct IP address if connected via Ethernet (so I don't thing the DHCP service is a problem). The mystery deeps when I fix a static IP address in the range. The Squeezebox 3 appears to see the slim server address as you go through the settings but once it tries to connect it cycles through two things connecting to slimserver and connecting to wireless network before it comes up with the usual message that it cannot connect to slimserver. I am total confused with this and the only thought I had was that a recent update to the slimserver software may be causing some conflict (I have automatic downloads and updates turned on) and am running 6.2.1. I have reinstalled the slimserver and tried setting everything up from scratch again but to no avail have you any thoughts on this. My guess at this stage is that whilst the wireless network connection is appearing to connect it is not doing actually doing so. This would lead me to the conclusion that this could be a hardware fault. Could anyone either confirm this or suggest any other options that I may need look at before going down this route. Thanks for any assistance anyone may be able to offer. -- cmaskelyne cmaskelyne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=775 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22836 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Running MusicIP as a service on WinXP
You need a third party app, but it's only a few dollars (and well worth it IMHO). I followed the instructions in this thread without any probs: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14320highlight=basta -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22835 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Editing Playlists
I have not used playlists up to now, so I'm a little ignorant as to their functionality in SlimServer, but it appears that I cannot edit (add to) a previously saved playlist using the web UI. Is this true? Bummer, if so. SlimServer Version: 6.2.2 - 6835 - Windows 2000 - EN - cp1252 -- 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=22837 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Running MusicIP as a service on WinXP
On 4/8/06, Siduhe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think things have moved on with the latest version of MMM/MusicIP.I found this page linked from the slim wiki on getting it running as a service on linux: http://music.predixis.com/6_develop_http.htmlthat page doesn't seem to be linked from anywhere on the music iP site at the moment.Anyway, i've got it running now and it seems to work. I'm wondering about boot order as i don't seem to be able to change priorities in the windows services app. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Running MusicIP as a service on WinXP
Simon Still Wrote: I'm wondering about boot order as i don't seem to be able to change priorities in the windows services app. That's why I suggested you look at the thread. Middle of the second page. I have only been able to get the priorities right by using ApptoService, but others may be able to help you with getting it working via the default Windows services panel. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22835 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless / DHCP problem
Sounds like it could be network configuration issues. What device is the SB3 connecting to wirelessly? I presume you have a wireless network card in your server? Make sure that you have configured the wireless network card to use a different subnet to that used by your cabled ethernet ports. Check slimerver's security config to make sure you haven't restricted incoming IP's it will respond to. Make sure your firewall is configured to pass through SB3 traffic originating from the wireless subnet Press the left button of the SB3 remote for 5 seconds, scroll down to check current settings , and check firmware version in there. v37 is now available and solved my wireless authentication issues. Also under check current settings you will be able to saee your assigned IP for the SB3 as well as whether or not it has negotiated the wireless connection and signal strength. -- egd egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22836 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Editing Playlists
I have not used playlists up to now, so I'm a little ignorant as to their functionality in SlimServer, but it appears that I cannot edit (add to) a previously saved playlist using the web UI. Is this true? Load the playlist into the current playlist, then add new music to the current playlist and save the playlist again. Phil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Who is Nalle Johansson?
Nalle Johansson Wrote: If anyone whant to know more... send me a private letter Does this mean no more public Nallings? ;) -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Who is Nalle Johansson?
Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com writes: Nalle Johansson Wrote: If anyone whant to know more... send me a private letter Does this mean no more public Nallings? ;) Yes. The mailrules has been fixed... Bsta hlsningar/Best Regards Nalle Johansson IT-chef, GFS - Studenthlsan Fysiken __ Kaserntorget 11, 411 18 Gteborg. Hemsida: www.gfs.sewww.studenthalsan.sewww.fysiken.nu E-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* ForstClass: fcp://fc.gsn.se Direkt: +46 (0)31-10 69 69 * Kansli: +46 (0)31-10 69 80 Mobil: +46 (0)703-90 03 96 * Fax: +46 (0)31-16 28 71 __ Ftt Fysikens nyhetsbrev? Annars besk: http://www.fysiken.nu/nyhetsbrev.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Editing Playlists
Philip Meyer Wrote: I have not used playlists up to now, so I'm a little ignorant as to their functionality in SlimServer, but it appears that I cannot edit (add to) a previously saved playlist using the web UI. Is this true? Load the playlist into the current playlist, then add new music to the current playlist and save the playlist again. Phil Thanks. It works! -- 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=22837 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Network Activity
The best tool I've found for monitoring traffic on Linux is jnettop: http://jnettop.kubs.info/ -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22789 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Black Magic Firmware: firmware 37
When I was planning my sabbatical, I considered Sweden. I had a nice job offer there, but one of my colleagues had been posted to Sweden for a year and she told me she couldn't deal with the long winter nights. It turns out, she had Seasonal Affect Disorder, so it effected her more than most people, but still, it made me reconsider too. I wouldn't like that either. Maybe that's why they have more holidays. The day length change is probably a stressor. (so I ended up in Germany, about 10° north of where I had lived most of my life, and the sun went down at 4:30 during the winter. Bad enough) -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Who is Nalle Johansson?
Nalle Johansson Wrote: If anyone whant to know more... send me a private letter Nalle Johansson IT-chef, GFS - Studenthälsan Fysiken What do most IT workers eat, chef? -- Skunk Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Who is Nalle Johansson?
Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com writes: What do most IT workers eat, chef? hehe ;o) Its a common joke. Swedish word Chef=head, employer, manager, boss, cheif, commander, captain Bsta hlsningar/Best Regards Nalle Johansson IT-chef, GFS - Studenthlsan Fysiken __ Kaserntorget 11, 411 18 Gteborg. Hemsida: www.gfs.sewww.studenthalsan.sewww.fysiken.nu E-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* ForstClass: fcp://fc.gsn.se Direkt: +46 (0)31-10 69 69 * Kansli: +46 (0)31-10 69 80 Mobil: +46 (0)703-90 03 96 * Fax: +46 (0)31-16 28 71 __ Ftt Fysikens nyhetsbrev? Annars besk: http://www.fysiken.nu/nyhetsbrev.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Who is Nalle Johansson?
This is a funny, if completely random, thread. At first, upon seeing the title, I thought to myself, Is this how the Swedish translation of Atlas Shrugged begins? -- ezkcdude SB3-Derek Shek TDA1543/CS8412 NOS DAC-MIT Terminator 2 interconnects-Endler Audio 24-step Attenuators (RCA-direct)-Parasound Halo A23 125W/ch amplifier-Speltz anti-cables-DIY 2-ways + Dayton Titanic 10 subwoofer He's not hi-fi, he's my stereo. ezkcdude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2545 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] The 8 dancing bars
Does the 8 bar visualization on the SB3 accurately correlate to anything in particular? Bar 1 seems to be an over all level of the playback. Are the following 7 bars specific to a frequency band? Or does is just look nice! -- sebage sebage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2617 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The 8 dancing bars
How disappointing. I thought this thread was going to be about where to go to see scantily clad young women. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How to set which player starts in web iface
I have two players running off of one Slimserver. When I open a new browser window it defaults to my secondary player. Is there an easy way to set which player is the default one in the default web interface? I tried changing the first letter of the second player thinking it was an alpha order, but no dice. Am I missing an easy setting? Thanks -- Bonesteel Bonesteel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1438 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22844 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cannot Open SlimServer Preferences
I have the same issue. MacBook Pro (Intel) g -- blah509 blah509's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1405 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22731 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to set which player starts in web iface
Is there an easy way to set which player is the default one in the default web interface? Set a bookmark to the player you want: http://yourslimserver:9000/index.html?player=00:04:20:01:23:45 You'll find the player's id at the bottom of the player settings. -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Power Management
Not sure whether this is a SB issue, but I have trouble getting my PC to go into standby since I have connected a wireless SB. The PC will only go into standby if I am logged out, or if the timeout is 3 minutes or less. If I am logged in and set the timeout to, say, 15 minutes it will never go into standby - unless I do it manually. If I disable Wake on LAN then it goes into standby OK (but of course the SB can't wake it). Once in standby the Wake on LAN works fine. Any thoughts ? -- mortod mortod's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22845 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Cannot Open SlimServer Preferences
I have the same issue. MacBook Pro (Intel) Then you might want to answer the same question: which slimserver version? Did you try one of the recent nightlies? -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Softsqueeze 100% CPU / Most Stable Version Recommendation?
Hi, I own three squeezeboxes and also use softsqueeze on my wife's computer. I recently asked her why she never plays music in her office. I was disappointed when she told me that Softsqueeze made her computer crawl to a stop! I checked it out and she's right. It is a windows xp box and after playing for about 30 seconds, softsqueeze.exe eats up 98 - 99% of the CPU time, making the whole machine very slow. In fact, after I clicked the power button in Softsqueeze (turning off the music, but leaving the application running) it continued to eat 99% of the CPU. I am currently running Softsqueeze 2.011b (on Windows XP). The slimserver is also an XP box, running 6.1.1 - 3774 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252. I haven't upgraded to the latest slimserver, as you can see, because the server has been very stable and the hardware squeezeboxes work great. For me, stability and reliability are the most important. I want to make sure my family can rely on the Slim/Squeeze system. Any advice? Should I upgrade my Softsqueeze and/or Slimserver to eliminate this problem? What version combination would you recommend? thanks, Brett -- BBobley BBobley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1338 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22847 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Softsqueeze 100% CPU / Most Stable Version Recommendation?
Any advice? Should I upgrade my Softsqueeze and/or Slimserver to eliminate this problem? What version combination would you recommend? You could try to install only the latest softsqueeze: download the ZIP file, extract to some folder and copy the subfolder HTML/EN/html/softsqueeze to a place of your likings. http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.2.2/ -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Nightly 2006-04-08 Windows build broken?
Tried to install latest windows nightly build. Looks like its broken. No slim.exe Buildlog says . Removing .svn directories from build... rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. Building perlsvc executable for server... Can't load 'C:\cygwin\home\sdi\build\stable\release\server\CPAN\arch\5.8\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/auto/Win32/API/API.dll' for module Win32::API: load_file:Access is denied at /PerlApp/DynaLoader.pm line 212. at C:/cygwin/home/sdi/build/stable/release/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 46 Compilation failed in require at C:/cygwin/home/sdi/build/stable/release/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 46. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/cygwin/home/sdi/build/stable/release/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 54. Compilation failed in require at slimserver.pl line 201. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at slimserver.pl line 201. 'slimserver.pl' had compilation errors. Any one else confirm this? Luckily I have a previous nighly thats good so no worries, just trying to get a nightly with latest firmware. -- Grahame Grahame's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22849 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nightly 2006-04-08 Windows build broken?
Yes it is hosed for me too, both the 7th and 8th. Have gone back to the 6th and all is good. This has also given me the v39 firmware. -- mattybain http://www.last.fm/user/MattyBain/ mattybain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22849 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No sound from Squeezebox after reflash
Same problem with firmware 37. I could playback via SqueezeNetwork, but not sound at all in slimserver via my flac files or Internet radio. Reflashing the xilinx dont seem to work, I try more than 20 times, whitout success. What'wrong ? Reverting to 6.2.1 works for a while and I end up with the same problem after several power off. I want my MTV...sorry my SB3 FYI Everything is working fine with Softsqueeze the problem seems to originate from the xilinx. -- mftech Tête à FLAC mftech's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1586 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20384 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to set which player starts in web iface
I may be missing a syntax piece - I tried: http://192.168.0.11:9000/index.htm...00:04:20:06:30:40 192.168.0.11 is the IP of my SlimServer, and the numbers at the end are the MAC address of my preferred player. Any hints? Jon -- Bonesteel Bonesteel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1438 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22844 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nightly 2006-04-08 Windows build broken?
Update: Installing broken 2006-04-08 , then re-installing previous version (2006-03-22) had side effect of updating firmware to Version 37 on SB2. Checked the Program Files\SlimServer\server\Firmware dir and version 37 was installed. So I guess thats a win - of sorts. -- Grahame Grahame's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22849 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to set which player starts in web iface
http://192.168.0.11:9000/index.html?player=00:04:20:06:30:40 -- rudholm rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22844 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to set which player starts in web iface
I feel foolish. Thanks -- Bonesteel Bonesteel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1438 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22844 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cannot Open SlimServer Preferences
Download the 6.2.2 nightly. That's the error for a non-universal pref pane -- Ben Ben's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=54 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22731 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The 8 dancing bars
substantial discussion of the spectrum analyzer can be found here http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14935 and here http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=13515 -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Who is Nalle Johansson?
Nalle Johansson Wrote: The normal tax in sweden are 33% up to over 50%. Hey! We pay that much tax! How come we don't get all those holidays? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Who is Nalle Johansson?
Nalle Johansson Wrote: Swedish word Chef=head, employer, manager, boss, cheif, commander, captain Like jefe in Spanish -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The 8 dancing bars
Mike Anderson Wrote: How disappointing. I thought this thread was going to be about where to go to see scantily clad young women. Indeed, especially since the local weekly had as front page news that we are not the strip club capital of the world but didn't offer any suggestions on where that is. http://www.springfieldnews.com/articles/2006/02/10/local/news02.txt -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What debug boxes to tick
timmorris Wrote: I'm a great believer in self help - is there a document somewhere that lists what each of the debug options refers to? I've said it before - while the software is fantastic the documentation is poor. Someone from Slimdevices needs to sit down and provide a full set of end-user documentation. I absolutely agree with you. End-user documentation needs some major improvement. I appear to be getting stuttering with internet radio, local MP3 and FLAC playback and just can't get anything to play through squeezenetworks. Official tech support has been disappointing and hasn't solved my problems. Since I asked for a refund Slimdevices hasn't answered any of my emails. Thanks for your posts Tim, I will use some of these diagnostic tools and your experiences to diagnose where the problems lie in my household. -- wickedbob wickedbob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3739 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21947 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nightly 2006-04-08 Windows build broken?
I've opened bug 3253 - 4/7 was first broken build. -- Millwood Millwood's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3600 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22849 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The 8 dancing bars
That article reads like an April Fools joke, except for the posting date. I fed the phrase strip club capital of the country into google, and found out, to my surprise, that for Canada that distinction falls to Montreal. Also, this: Montreal has been touted as car-theft capital of Canada. And, it seems, for Ethiopia, it's Addis Ababa. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The 8 dancing bars
On 8-Apr-06, at 5:22 PM, Michaelwagner wrote: I fed the phrase strip club capital of the country into google, and found out, to my surprise, that for Canada that distinction falls to Montreal. surely you jest about being surprised. There is one on every corner! Also, this: Montreal has been touted as car-theft capital of Canada. now THAT does surprise me. RCMP around here always says it's Surrey. -k ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Network Activity
Triode Wrote: Its a tcp connection. The way tcp works, you need to send data (or keepalives) to know the connection is still running. As the client is responsible for connecting to the server, the client needs a way to know it is still connected and if not attempt to reconnect - hence the keepalives. TCP has a connection timeout. Why not just make that longer. Regardless of who initiated the connection, its not like the server isn't sending packets to the squeezebox all the time. Except of course when its doing nothing and nothing is displayed -- which is exactly when you'd want the connection to timeout. -- bigjules bigjules's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4805 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22789 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Softsqueeze 100% CPU / Most Stable Version Recommendation?
Michael, Thanks for your advice. I went to sourceforge and downloaded the latest Windows version of SoftSqueeze (vers 2.3). I then went to Windows Control panel add/remove software and removed the old version. I then ran the installer to install version 2.3. Version 2.3 worked fine for about 60 seconds, but then jumped to 98% CPU utilization. Any other ideas? (by the way: the reason I used Richard's installer on Sourceforge is that it includes a windows installer. I've always found the version that comes with SlimServer to be confusing to install. I'm never sure how to do it properly. The sourceforge windows version is very straightforward). Brett -- BBobley BBobley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1338 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22847 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Softsqueeze 100% CPU / Most Stable Version Recommendation?
On 8-Apr-06, at 6:12 PM, BBobley wrote: Version 2.3 worked fine for about 60 seconds, but then jumped to 98% CPU utilization. Any other ideas? go into the softsqueeze prefs. try selecting different audio drivers. If you haven't installed the java mp3 plugin, try that. If you have and you are using it, try going back to jlayer. -k ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Power Management
When the SB is off and only displaying the time, it's talking to your PC. Turn off the clock screensaver and your 'puter will go into standby. -- Ben Diss Ben Diss's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4289 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22845 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Softsqueeze 100% CPU / Most Stable Version Recommendation?
Not sure if this will be helpful or not - but I have seen behavior similar to this that was the result of anti-virus software. You might try disabling the anti-virus software briefly and see if you get the same result. Kevin -- kkitts kkitts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22847 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Hardware Requirements/Guidance
I've just become aware of SlimServer, and it looks to be a product that fits exactly a need that I am looking to fill. I've been browsing the fora to determine what sort of horsepower the hardware needs to have to run the server-side software. Frankly, I'm amazed at the amount of horsepower that some people use. Saturating a 50 or 100Mb Ethernet takes almost nothing (say, a 200MHz PII). As far as I can tell, there is only a php server and maybe a database (or is the filesystem used?) in addition, which shouldn't take that much unless one has a huge collection. What is a reasonable minimum for a two or three users? FWIW, I was considering running it on an old Sun Ultra 5 with about 256 to 512MB RAM on FreeBSD with enough disk space off an auxilliary controller. Is there any reason this should not work adequately? DrJ -- DrJ DrJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The 8 dancing bars
Most of my time in Montreal was 25 years ago or more. Maybe they weren't there. Or maybe I just didn't notice. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hardware Requirements/Guidance
DrJ wrote: Frankly, I'm amazed at the amount of horsepower that some people use. Saturating a 50 or 100Mb Ethernet takes almost nothing (say, a 200MHz PII). It is hard to find a computer with as little power as a P2 200. As far as I can tell, there is only a php server and maybe a database (or is the filesystem used?) in addition, which shouldn't take that much unless one has a huge collection. Its Perl, and there is a lightweight Database. Part of why people use fairly fast CPUs is that that is what is laying arround. I used a P3-500 for a long time, it was fine. When it died, I used a AMD 2200 that I had laying around. What is a reasonable minimum for a two or three users? FWIW, I was considering running it on an old Sun Ultra 5 with about 256 to 512MB RAM on FreeBSD with enough disk space off an auxilliary controller. Is there any reason this should not work adequately? If you have it, try it and see. Many folks are impatient about things like browser refresh times and it takes a long time to scan a few hundred gigabytes of songs because the Perl is not optomized for it, and it happens at night so most people don't care. I forget how Sparc memory maps to Intel memory, but my old P3-500 had under 400 MB of ram. Transcoding files from weird formats to PCM, Flac or MP3 is fairly CPU intensive, but if your tunes are in a good format, then it is just a mindless read block push out NIC until done loop. -- 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: Network Activity
bigjules Wrote: TCP has a connection timeout. Why not just make that longer. Regardless of who initiated the connection, its not like the server isn't sending packets to the squeezebox all the time. Except of course when its doing nothing and nothing is displayed -- which is exactly when you'd want the connection to timeout. Except that just because the player is switched off doesn't mean the server wants to forget about it. You still want to see which players are connected, and maybe switch them on. That requires an active connection. Sure you could drop the connection on power off and bring it back on power on, but what if you couldn't? (because it wasn't there). That would lead to a UI action which couldn't be completed, and that's a Bad Thing (tm). The real question is, why not have the keepalives? They use essentially zero bandwidth. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22789 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance
pfarrell Wrote: It is hard to find a computer with as little power as a P2 200. That's my point. Its Perl, and there is a lightweight Database. My mistake. Still, unless the perl script is terribly involved, this too should not add a lot of overhead. The database should almost be flat, without too much relational stuff. If you have it, try it and see. Many folks are impatient about things like browser refresh times and it takes a long time to scan a few hundred gigabytes of songs because the Perl is not optomized for it, and it happens at night so most people don't care. I forget how Sparc memory maps to Intel memory, but my old P3-500 had under 400 MB of ram. The Ultra 5 (at least the 400MHz variety) is roughly equal to a P3-500. It can map a full 64 bit address space, but for practical purposes, 1GB is about all you can do with an Ultra 5. If you mean how efficiently memory is used, that's more involved than we can deal with here. Call it the same for present purposes. Like I said, saturating a 100Mb Ethernet line is not hard. I run much of my admittedly small company off a slower Sparc server, and that includes Samba/print serving, IMAP services, and serving large static web pages by Apache. The server is plenty good enough. Transcoding files from weird formats to PCM, Flac or MP3 is fairly CPU intensive, but if your tunes are in a good format, then it is just a mindless read block push out NIC until done loop. That's what was my perception. You can encode once on whatever machine you want, transfer, and then the serving should not take that much. I may well give it a shot. I figure I can put together this server, with 300GB or so of storage, for about $100. DrJ -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html -- DrJ DrJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance
DrJ wrote: pfarrell Wrote: Its Perl, and there is a lightweight Database. My mistake. Still, unless the perl script is terribly involved, this too should not add a lot of overhead. The database should almost be flat, without too much relational stuff. Right not a lot of twelve way joins. I forget how Sparc memory maps to Intel memory, but my old P3-500 had under 400 MB of ram. The Ultra 5 (at least the 400MHz variety) is roughly equal to a P3-500. It can map a full 64 bit address space, but for practical purposes, 1GB is about all you can do with an Ultra 5. If you mean how efficiently memory is used, that's more involved than we can deal with here. Call it the same for present purposes. I was actually thinking that some RISC processors, the Dec Alpha for one in particular, end up needing a lot more memory to do a given task than an Intel chip would, in part because the RISC vs CISC theory and part because the Alpha was 64 bits at a time that lots of PCs were will using 16 bit addressing. Transcoding files from weird formats to PCM, Flac or MP3 is fairly CPU intensive, but if your tunes are in a good format, then it is just a mindless read block push out NIC until done loop. That's what was my perception. You can encode once on whatever machine you want, transfer, and then the serving should not take that much. A lot of people are in love with iTunes and Windows weird closed formats, so their SlimServer has to spend a lot of time converting (waste a lot of time in some people's minds) I may well give it a shot. I figure I can put together this server, with 300GB or so of storage, for about $100. Clearly not with SCSI disks, or do you have them laying around as well? Clearly try it and see if it runs or walks or is too slow for your tastes. -- 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: Hardware Requirements/Guidance
pfarrell Wrote: DrJ wrote: pfarrell Wrote: Its Perl, and there is a lightweight Database. My mistake. Still, unless the perl script is terribly involved, this too should not add a lot of overhead. The database should almost be flat, without too much relational stuff. Right not a lot of twelve way joins. I forget how Sparc memory maps to Intel memory, but my old P3-500 had under 400 MB of ram. The Ultra 5 (at least the 400MHz variety) is roughly equal to a P3-500. It can map a full 64 bit address space, but for practical purposes, 1GB is about all you can do with an Ultra 5. If you mean how efficiently memory is used, that's more involved than we can deal with here. Call it the same for present purposes. I was actually thinking that some RISC processors, the Dec Alpha for one in particular, end up needing a lot more memory to do a given task than an Intel chip would, in part because the RISC vs CISC theory and part because the Alpha was 64 bits at a time that lots of PCs were will using 16 bit addressing. Transcoding files from weird formats to PCM, Flac or MP3 is fairly CPU intensive, but if your tunes are in a good format, then it is just a mindless read block push out NIC until done loop. That's what was my perception. You can encode once on whatever machine you want, transfer, and then the serving should not take that much. A lot of people are in love with iTunes and Windows weird closed formats, so their SlimServer has to spend a lot of time converting (waste a lot of time in some people's minds) I may well give it a shot. I figure I can put together this server, with 300GB or so of storage, for about $100. Clearly not with SCSI disks, or do you have them laying around as well? Clearly try it and see if it runs or walks or is too slow for your tastes. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html The Ultra 5 uses IDE, so he really could do this on the cheap. And despite how impotent the Ultra 5 is (no disrespect meant, I've been a SPARC user since SPARC-1) it would be enough for running slimserver as long as he didn't do too much simultaneous real-time transcoding. -- rudholm rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance
pfarrell Wrote: Right not a lot of twelve way joins. Grin. Understood. If you mean how efficiently memory is used, that's more involved than we can deal with here. Call it the same for present purposes. I was actually thinking that some RISC processors, the Dec Alpha for one in particular, end up needing a lot more memory to do a given task than an Intel chip would, in part because the RISC vs CISC theory and part because the Alpha was 64 bits at a time that lots of PCs were will using 16 bit addressing. I've not seen that practically on the Sparc, at least not on FreeBSD servers. You do have to pay some attention to the size of various integers and the like, but if you do, there really is not much memory exansion, if any. That's what was my perception. You can encode once on whatever machine you want, transfer, and then the serving should not take that much. A lot of people are in love with iTunes and Windows weird closed formats, so their SlimServer has to spend a lot of time converting (waste a lot of time in some people's minds) Well, that brings up another question. I'm obviously suggesting to encode for a high-fidelity storage of the master if you will, which would be relayed to the stereo (which is mostly background music for the intended application -- the main audio system is in another carefully acoustically-engineered building) and relying on local processing power (if needed) to do any format conversions when playing on local computers or when transfering to MP3 players. I've not used iTunes or Windows music formats much. Some sort of front end is useful, particularly for my granddaughter, but as you can probably tell, I've not used any of them much. How fragmented is this part of the world? Are these sorts of format conversions possible (at least those without DRM)? The store-bought CDs I'd think would be OK, but how about music downloads? Can these be converted? I figure I can put together this server, with 300GB or so of storage, for about $100. Clearly not with SCSI disks, or do you have them laying around as well? No, clearly this is not SCSI, and the cost is for buying all the components from scratch. Is SCSI speed for a lightly-loaded server needed? I would think that simple data transfer rate would be more important to stream audio, and for that IDE would be fine (let's leave reliability out of this for the moment). SCSI would put it in a whole 'nother price range, but I did just buy a wonderful Seagate 147GB 10K.6 drive for $80 (four years warranty left). It can be done. -- DrJ DrJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance
DrJ wrote: Well, that brings up another question. I'm obviously suggesting to encode for a high-fidelity storage of the master if you will, which would be relayed to the stereo (which is mostly background music for the intended application -- the main audio system is in another carefully acoustically-engineered building) and relying on local processing power (if needed) to do any format conversions when playing on local computers or when transfering to MP3 players. Some of this realy depends on your usage model. The SlimDevices SqueezeBox hardware has an embedded microcontroller that can decode PCM, FLAC and MP3 in the fly, real time. So if you are streaming to one of them, you are done. If you are thinking of using a software player, such as SoftSqueeze, or even WinAmp, then the driving CPU usage is on the client machine. I've not used iTunes or Windows music formats much. Some sort of front end is useful, particularly for my granddaughter, but as you can probably tell, I'm not sure I'm following you. Once the tunes are in the server and the SlimServer is up and running, you use either the remote control for your SqueezeBox or an HTML window in your favorite browser. I run Firefox on an ancient Toshiba laptop running Knoppix as my control, I rarely touch the SqueezeBox remote control. I've not used any of them much. How fragmented is this part of the world? Are these sorts of format conversions possible (at least those without DRM)? The store-bought CDs I'd think would be OK, but how about music downloads? Can these be converted? Store bought CDs have to be 'ripped' into a computer data file and placed on your server's disk. There are zillions of ripping utilities. The Apple iTunes store sells music in a DRM, and Microsoft has its own DRM. The playing of DRM's music is problematic, as most of the DRMs are aimed at controlling playback onto a specific hardware, and your Sun box is not in the top 100 list of clients. Most of the 'kids' listen to MP3s, a lot of them may never have bought a music CD. MP3 files are not too hard to convert on the fly even using software. All the cool folks use FLAC, which is free, open source, lossless, and designed to be low overhead during playback, altho it is slower than MP3 to compress and doesn't yield as small file sizes if you are willing to tolerate crappy MP3 rates. There is a separate mailing list/forum about ripping issues, help formats, etc. No, clearly this is not SCSI, and the cost is for buying all the components from scratch. Is SCSI speed for a lightly-loaded server needed? No way. SCSI is not needed at all. I just mentioned it because all the Sun boxes that I've used had SCSI. Some other poster said that your Sun box uses cheap IDE drives. They are more than fast enough. IDE drives are insanely cheap. $100 will buy new 250GB or larger disks. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Menu selection question
I like browsing the menus using the numbers to select menu items, but it'd be even better if Slimserver could be configured to instantly execute the menu item (instead of just selecting it) or automatically do so after a configurable amount of time. Can this be done with current software, or is this a new request? -- tonycpsu tonycpsu's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22859 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
