[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?
Opening a port on your firewall is like unlocking a door on your house. The security implications depend on who or what is waiting behind that door. As long as the software that answers the door is robust and can't be duped there is no problem. Unfortunately it is very difficult to write software that meets those requirements. Even people trying to write the kind of the software that should expect to come under attack often don't get it right (think of all the IE, FF etc. patches that have to be issued). I don't want to cast aspersions but I'd be very surprised if SlimServer had been written with that level of security in mind. As for what might happen if someone breaks in using Slimserver:The worst case scenario is that they take control over the machine that SlimServer is running on without you knowing. From there they have full access to your network and can browse all the storage attached to it. -- AndrueC AndrueC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6612 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30564 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SS 6.5.1 = new music folder order
You might want to have a look at the Custom Browse plugin. It has a number of customisable browse functions including, IIRC, a Music Folder Browse. There is also a thread somewhere which explains how you can map the Browse button on your remote to bring up Custom Browse if thats all you want to use. It may well be that by default it works the same as the normal BMF, but at least it will be easy to find and customise the code. HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30701 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] LAN/WLAN issue
Dont know if this is already discussed here but: I just bought a WLAN version of Squeezebox and I am very happy with it. Just one problem (or an improvement idea) about LAN and WLAN. My PC is connected to Squeezebox via LAN and Squeezebox to internet via WLAN (via AP and ADSL). PC is accessing internet via Squeezebox which has LAN bridged to WLAN. Now, my problem is that I dont have the WLAN always ON in my house. Whenever this is true, I have to change the settings in the Squeezebox to connect to server via LAN instead of WLAN. I wish Squeezebox could sniff the available networks and change to the one that is available (would need a setting which one to prefer is both are available). One option would be if Squeezebox could have easier way to change between connecting profiles. Now I have to go through all the settings to change from one to another. How about an ability to save the settings to settings 1 and settings 2? Until that, I guess I have to keep the WLAN always ON. Or do I have some other options? Marko -- torwinen torwinen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30709 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SS 6.5.1 = new music folder order
The sort order changed with 6.5.0. I too had _Podcasts, _Hörspiele etc.. I changed it AA_Podcasts, AA_Hörspiele etc. -- flipflip Check out flipflip's 'SlimServer On DiskStation (SSODS)' (http://oinkzwurgl.org/ssods/)! flipflip's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5223 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30701 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver Browse Albums
Thanks to Ceejay and Peter, The suggestion to activate Show Artist with Album, assuming I show the Composer under Artist, shows the Artist after the Albumtitle and hence following the Albumtitle alphabetical while I would like to see Bach Mozart Mahler in front of the Albumtitle. Using Music Folder, great flexibility but redoing them for a 4digit number of albums. I pay you a trip to Paris (France) to give me a helping hand .. Thanks again -- Scallywagfr78 Scallywagfr78's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5136 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30691 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problems with Tina Turner :-/
You should try the following: Stop the slimserver, delete the slimerver DB, restart the slimserver again and then make a rescan of the complete mp3 folder and check if the problem still exist... ...a very good tagging tool which I use is 'helium 2006'. Regards, Nils -- Derek Power Derek Power's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4874 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30699 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slooow remote response
I am experiencing very slow remote control response times on my SB3 ( to the extent it is virtually unusable ), I have SS running on a ReadyNas NV ( has been for quite some time without a problem ) the SS version is 6.5.1 - 10479 - Linux, this has only started in the last couple of weeks and I can't think what could have changed, I've done the usual thing of rebooting everything but all to no avail, any help appreciated as I'm on the verge of reverting to my CD player, thanks, BTW I also put new batteries in the remote -- pkfox When the going gets weird - the weird turn pro. Hunter S Thompson pkfox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5346 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30711 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Black Wired Squeezebox 3 in UK????
As the title says - I'm looking for somewhere that has stock of a black wired SB3 in the UK? Anyone know of anywhere? -- killie99 killie99's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver Browse Albums
Scallywagfr78 wrote: Using Music Folder, great flexibility but redoing them for a 4digit number of albums. I pay you a trip to Paris (France) to give me a helping hand .. Well, I think I'd prefer Paris, Texas. Paris, France, I could do on the diesel that's left in my tank. ;) Whichever route you take, tags or directory, you're always going to have to keep your collection organized in some way, especially if it's as big as yours. Considerably less work than ripping the whole lot, I imagine. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: LAN/WLAN issue
This is actually a partially-broken setup that involves more than profiles - when you connect the Squeezebox to the PC, bridging will be disabled. You should find that the PC loses Internet access when the LAN option is on. When you turn the LAN function on, the Squeezebox turns the wireless card off. At any rate, it's a very, very rare setup. Yours is the first mention of such an arrangement. You can file an enhancement request at http://bugs.slimdevices.com (you'll have to create a new account) - it's the only way the firmware developers can track it. However, and I don't mean any offence here, it would not benefit many people and firmware space is tight enough as it is. Only the developers can say for sure whether it will be worthwhile for other issues though, and unless you put in an enhancement request, you'll never know and it will never get done. As a workaround, connect the PC to your router either using a cable or a wireless bridge. The cable is preferred because that will only make it one wireless hop to your Squeezebox. I understand that's part of the reason you have the Squeezebox in the first place, but if you have the Squeezebox close enough to the PC to wire it (and the Squeezebox close to your stereo), why not use a long audio cable out of the PC to the stereo and use the Squeezebox elsewhere? This way the Squeezebox will always be in communication over wireless for both SqueezeNetwork and SlimServer. Plus the PC will always have Internet access. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30709 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slooow remote response
Go to Help - Server Network Health - Enable Performance Monitoring, play a few tracks and post the output. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30711 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?
renaissanceboy wrote: as someone who is not a networking expert, i don't know enough about forwarding procedures to say for sure, but if i have the option to use any sort of security, i will (obviously) take it. perhaps you can offer some advice on setting this up? The best thing to handle this, the option that solves all your security, open ports and dynamic ip issues is to install hamachi. http://hamachi.cc i'm running mac os x 10.4.8, so by separate user account i mean a Well, yeah, installing hamachi under OS/X is not as convenient as under Windows, sorry, but there's an OS/X version available. separate account (called slimserver or something) which is the only one that has slimserver running, and has only read access to my music files, and no access to anything else. thus, if someone atacks my computer through port 9000, and slimserver, they will have an extremely limited scope, because they can't get to anything other than my music (and they can only read that). Configure IP filters on your router and only allow certain IP addresses in. That's perfectly secure and fairly easy to set up, provided your 'clients' have static ip's. i also am not allowing other people to listen to my music. if i do the best i can to secure my network, and someone pirates my music anyway, i cannot be held legally liable for this. Good for you! Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...
My current set up for ripping CDs to MP3s involves the use of two programs... MusicMatch Jukebox +ve - it tags nicely and gets the album art into the tag too -ve - it doesnt use CDDB, hence often cant find cd info. ITunes +ve - it finds the stuff that MusicMatch cant find -ve - it doesnt find the album art and stuff it in the tag. Is there a program that will do both (ie use CDDB so it finds almost all the cds AND gets the album art into the tag) ? BUT... Should I also be using MediaPlayer11, so as to create a seperate .jpg album art file so that Windows Media Centre plays it ok. I cant go down this route on it's own, as my Archos player needs the album art in the tag. Thoughts ? -- iangude iangude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6750 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30715 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slooow remote response
Hello Mark, is this what you need ?, the player actually works ok (apart from dropouts with internet radio now and again ) thanks The server is currently collecting performance statistics for this player. You may set warning thresholds for each measurement. This will record in the server log whenever the threshold is exceeded. The most recent log entries can be viewed here. Signal Strength This graph shows the strength of the wireless signal received by your player. Higher signal strength is better. The player reports signal strength while it is playing. 10 :0 : 0% 20 :0 : 0% 30 :0 : 0% 40 :0 : 0% 50 :0 : 0% 60 :0 : 0% 70 :0 : 0% 80 :2 : 40% 90 :2 : 40% 100 :1 : 20% ## =100 :0 : 0% max : 90.00 min : 75.00 avg : 82.40 Warning Thresholds : Low High Buffer Fullness This graph shows the fill of the player's buffer. Higher buffer fullness is better. Note the buffer is only filled while the player is playing tracks. Squeezebox1 uses a small buffer and it is expected to stay full while playing. If this value drops to 0 it will result in audio dropouts. This is likely to be due to network problems. Squeezebox2/3 uses a large buffer. This drains to 0 at the end of each track and then refills for the next track. You should only be concerned if the buffer fill is not high for the majority of the time a track is playing. Playing remote streams can lead to low buffer fill as the player needs to wait for data from the remote server. This is not a cause for concern. 10 :0 : 0% 20 :0 : 0% 30 :0 : 0% 40 :0 : 0% 50 :0 : 0% 60 :0 : 0% 70 :0 : 0% 80 :0 : 0% 90 :0 : 0% 100 :5 :100% ## =100 :0 : 0% max : 99.999682 min : 99.879487 avg : 99.960976 Warning Thresholds : Low High Control Connection This graph shows the number of messages queued up to send to the player over the control connection. A measurement is taken every time a new message is sent to the player. Values above 1-2 indicate potential network congestion or that the player has become disconnected. 1 :0 : 0% 2 :0 : 0% 5 :0 : 0% 10 :0 : 0% 20 :0 : 0% =20 :0 : 0% max : 0.00 min : 0.00 avg : 0.00 Warning Thresholds : Low High Warning Thresholds : Low High -- pkfox When the going gets weird - the weird turn pro. Hunter S Thompson pkfox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5346 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30711 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slooow remote response
Whoops, sorry, I should have specified to enable Performance Monitoring then post the output from Server Statistics. All this is telling us is that your player is good, which is good, but that likely isn't the problem anyway. You probably have poor server response. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30711 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slooow remote response
Mark Lanctot;163187 Wrote: Go to Help - Server Network Health - Enable Performance Monitoring, play a few tracks and post the output. just to update you I notice this piece of info has changed Control Connection This graph shows the number of messages queued up to send to the player over the control connection. A measurement is taken every time a new message is sent to the player. Values above 1-2 indicate potential network congestion or that the player has become disconnected. 1 : 29 :100% ## 2 :0 : 0% 5 :0 : 0% 10 :0 : 0% 20 :0 : 0% =20 :0 : 0% max : 0.00 min : 0.00 avg : 0.00 -- pkfox When the going gets weird - the weird turn pro. Hunter S Thompson pkfox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5346 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30711 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slooow remote response
pkfox;163202 Wrote: just to update you I notice this piece of info has changed These statistics will change continuously as you play. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30711 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...
Quoting iangude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My current set up for ripping CDs to MP3s involves the use of two programs... MusicMatch Jukebox +ve - it tags nicely and gets the album art into the tag too -ve - it doesnt use CDDB, hence often cant find cd info. ITunes +ve - it finds the stuff that MusicMatch cant find -ve - it doesnt find the album art and stuff it in the tag. The new version of iTunes will find album art, all the version 7s do this. I use ExactAudioCopy for all ripping, then use iTunes to put album art into the tags. The whole thing can be done with iTunes but I am anal about using EAC. I don't RIP with iTunes, so it is possible this is a separate step (eg, rip, then find album art and add it to tags) but at least it would use the same program since that is your goal. dd ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...
There have been MANY discussions on this forum regarding this but I have never put in my 2 cents worth, so here it goes... I use Easy CD-DA Extractor (http://www.poikosoft.com/). I first rip my CDs to FLAC and then use the converter to convert the FLAC to MP3 for my Archos. In between those two processes I use Foobar 2000 to apply replay gain tags. Easy CD-DA will down load album covers and place them in the tags, but I do not use those imbedded tags. I also find that many CD's tags are not what I expect or need, so I use MP3tag to change/correct/spiff up. It's definitely a labor of love but worth your investment. HTH, SS -- Secret Squirrel Secret Squirrel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4984 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30715 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slooow remote response
Thanks Mark here it is Slim Devices Server Statistics Home / Server Network Health / Server Statistics The server is currently collecting performance statistics for various internal server functions. These graphs are intended to be used to help diagnose performance issues with the server and its plugins. You may set warning thresholds for each measurement. This will record in the server log whenever the threshold is exceeded. The most recent log entries can be viewed here. Server Response Time The response time of the server - the time between successive calls to select. 0.002 : 2619 : 10% # 0.005 :12929 : 52% # 0.01 : 3862 : 15% ### 0.015 : 1164 : 5% ## 0.025 : 973 : 4% # 0.05 : 724 : 3% # 0.1 : 1889 : 8% ### 0.5 : 885 : 4% # 1 : 11 : 0% 5 :1 : 0% =5 :1 : 0% max : 17.269178 min : 0.001283 avg : 0.016798 Warning Thresholds : Low High Backtrace Timer Lateness The time between when a timer task was scheduled and when it is run. 0.002 : 233 : 8% 0.005 : 193 : 7% ### 0.01 : 1730 : 62% ### 0.015 : 104 : 4% # 0.025 : 55 : 2% 0.05 : 87 : 3% # 0.1 : 141 : 5% ## 0.5 : 211 : 8% ### 1 : 18 : 1% 5 :0 : 0% =5 :5 : 0% max : 321.776873 min : 0.00 avg : 0.579683 Warning Thresholds : Low High Backtrace Select Task Duration The length of time taken by each task run by select. 0.002 : 494 : 7% ### 0.005 : 135 : 2% # 0.01 : 4518 : 67% # 0.015 : 1322 : 20% # 0.025 : 52 : 1% 0.05 : 20 : 0% 0.1 : 21 : 0% 0.5 : 66 : 1% 1 : 16 : 0% 5 : 68 : 1% =5 :2 : 0% max : 5.044589 min : 0.000601 avg : 0.041479 Warning Thresholds : Low High Backtrace Timer Task Duration The length of time taken by each timer task. 0.002 : 20 : 1% 0.005 : 362 : 13% ## 0.01 : 1169 : 42% # 0.015 :4 : 0% 0.025 :4 : 0% 0.05 : 978 : 35% # 0.1 : 225 : 8% 0.5 : 14 : 1% 1 :1 : 0% 5 :0 : 0% =5 :0 : 0% max : 0.724188 min : 0.001903 avg : 0.025015 Warning Thresholds : Low High Backtrace Execute / Notification Task Duration The length of time taken by each execute command or notification callback. 0.002 : 25 : 12% # 0.005 : 18 : 9% 0.01 : 83 : 40% ### 0.015 : 18 : 9% 0.025 : 10 : 5% ## 0.05 : 19 : 9% 0.1 :6 : 3% # 0.5 : 26 : 12% ## 1 :3 : 1% 5 :2 : 1% =5 :0 : 0% max : 1.224710 min : 0.000521 avg : 0.057323 Warning Thresholds : Low High Backtrace Scheduler Task Duration The length of time taken by each scheduled task. 0.002 :0 : 0% 0.005 :0 : 0% 0.01 :0 : 0% 0.015 :0 : 0% 0.025 :0 : 0% 0.05 :0 : 0% 0.1 :0 : 0% 0.5 :0 : 0% 1 :0 : 0% 5 :0 : 0% =5 :0 : 0% max : 0.00 min : 0.00 avg : 0.00 Warning Thresholds : Low High Backtrace Database Access The time taken for information to be retrieved from the database. 0.002 : 1212 : 78% ### 0.005 :0 : 0% 0.01 :1 : 0% 0.015 :1 : 0% 0.025 : 14 : 1% 0.05 : 298 : 19% # 0.1 : 17 : 1% 0.5 :3 : 0% 1 :0 : 0% 5 :0 : 0% =5 :0 : 0% max : 0.157796 min : 0.001063 avg : 0.008128 Warning Thresholds : Low High Backtrace Web Page Build The length of time taken to build each web page. 0.002 :0 : 0% 0.005 :0 : 0% 0.01 :0 : 0% 0.015 :0 : 0% 0.025 :0 : 0% 0.05 :0 : 0% 0.1 :0 : 0% 0.5 :7 : 8% ### 1 : 35 : 38% ### 5 : 50 : 54% ### =5 :0 : 0% max : 4.926012 min : 0.180260 avg : 2.225583 Warning Thresholds : Low High Backtrace Process Template The time to process each Template Toolkit template when building web pages. 0.002 : 240 : 2% 0.005 : 6777 : 47% ### 0.01 : 4385 : 30% ### 0.015 : 507 : 4% # 0.025 : 176 : 1% 0.05 : 32 : 0% 0.1 : 528 : 4% # 0.5 : 1733 : 12% # 1 : 32 : 0% 5 : 44 : 0% =5 :0 : 0% max : 4.131523 min : 0.001824 avg : 0.040837 Warning Thresholds : Low High Backtrace IR Queue Length The delay between an IR key press being received and being processed. 0.002 :0 : 0% 0.005 : 12 : 30% ### 0.01 :4 : 10% # 0.015 :0 : 0% 0.025 :0 : 0% 0.05 :2 : 5% ## 0.1 :7 : 18%
[slim] Re: Slooow remote response
This is telling us one thing we know already - that IR response time is slow. 8% of IR commands take between 1 and 5 seconds and 2% of IR commands take between 0.5 and 1 seconds. This is a very long time for IR commands. 28% of IR commands take between 0.1 and 0.5 seconds to process. This is also quite slow for IR response. This is also telling us something we don't know and that you haven't commented on: web page response is very slow as well - 54% of web page builds take between 1 and 5 seconds. All in all, it's indicating the server is having a hard time keeping up, probably due to a lack of resources, most likely memory. As to where to go from here, it's hard to say. Try to minimize the load on the server: don't use the web UI unless you need it, and try to minimize the plugins you're using. Is your ReadyNAS being used for other tasks (i.e. bittorrent?) Try to move ReadyNAS tasks like bittorrent and ftp to a PC if you can. Hopefully others will have other suggestions. You may want to check the 3rd Party Hardware forum. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30711 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?
thank you very much. this has been very helpful. it looks like the best thing for me to do is to create a separate user account for slimserver, with read-only access to my music, and keep the password protection on. again, thanks a lot everyone. -- renaissanceboy renaissanceboy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30564 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slooow remote response
thanks Mark , I was thinking along these lines, not a lot I can do with the NAS as I almost exclusively use it for SS, at least I know now thanks again -- pkfox When the going gets weird - the weird turn pro. Hunter S Thompson pkfox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5346 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30711 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Sirius Plugin Does it display track and artist info?
GoCubs;163091 Wrote: The plugin retrieves song/artist info from parsing web sites that publish the info. These sites are run by third parties and they often go down or get lagged. Because of this the plugin offers the choice of 3 different web sites to get the info from. I personally prefer dogstarradio.com as it seems to update the most frequently and as I write this message it's up and working fine. You can select dogstar by going into Server Settings - Internet Radio and choosing it under the Title Source dropdown of the Sirius Plugin. Thanks Greg. I've switched to dogstarradio and it works great. -- Fletch Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30692 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Fade out until sleep?
Is it possible to let the sound level decrease from current level to zero (fade out) when using sleep mode? I cannot find any information about such a feature. I really would appreciate if somebody can help. Perhaps I could do a request for a plugin - but where should I post it? -- jazztime jazztime's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4951 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30718 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Black Wired Squeezebox 3 in UK????
killie99;163178 Wrote: As the title says - I'm looking for somewhere that has stock of a black wired SB3 in the UK? Anyone know of anywhere? I was pretty sure that Simple Automate or Advanced MP3 Players would have itbut both say out of stock. Hmm. Jim -- jimwillsher jimwillsher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=410 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fade out until sleep?
jazztime wrote: Is it possible to let the sound level decrease from current level to zero (fade out) when using sleep mode? I cannot find any information about such a feature. I really would appreciate if somebody can help. Perhaps I could do a request for a plugin - but where should I post it? Sounds like a very useful feature for a sleep mode ;) Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Where is convert.conf located on OSX?
Sorry for the stupid question, but this is my first Mac, and while some things are easier, finding system files is not one of them. I expected typing convert.conf into spotlight would work, but it doesn't. Thanks in advance. -- superbad superbad's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=53 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30720 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...
...am I not right in thinking that the new version of Itunes doesnt update the tag info with the artwork - it just hold the artwork on the pc, so when you copy it off that PC, the artwork doesnt appear ...just tried it and it looks that way -- iangude iangude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6750 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30715 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Where is convert.conf located on OSX?
It's in the ../slimserver/server directory on Windows/Linux, so try there. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30720 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Mac Mini, iTunes and cover art
So, there is no way to show artwork when using iTunes? Is there an option when using a mac to get artwork? - Coverscout can do this but it's 20$ (see http://www.equinux.com/us/ products/coverscout/index.html). ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Where is convert.conf located on OSX?
I don't see anything like that on OSX. I found a SlimDevices folder, but there's almost nothing in it. -- superbad superbad's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=53 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30720 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...
I use DBPowerAmp and like it very much. Beta 12 is stable and has lots of additional features that plug into AllMusic, etc. For any CDs that don't have the correct tabs I use MP3Tag (does all tags not just MP3) -- Paul_B Paul ~ Slimserver 6.5.1 on EPIA VIA EN15000 Mini-ITX running Windows 2003 R2. Remote storage QNAP(1.2.1)~(160GB Maxtor) SB3 (x1) RIP - dBpowerAMP R12 (Alpha) to FLAC ID3 Tags - MP3Tag v2.36 ~ Paul_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30715 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help Required on Ripping...you would think it would be easy...
iTunes 7 will get album art but not insert it into the music file. it will store it in its own folder for (currently) exclusive use by iTunes and iPods. This isn't much of a problem. You can easily manually COPY and PASTE the artwork from the main iTunes view into selected tracks to force it to store within the tag metadata of the files. Detailed instructions: http://twistedmelon.com/blog/sep2006.html For Windows, use CTRL instead of Command to copy and paste where instructed. If you have only a few albums worth of tunes this isn't very cumbersome. if you have a lot of music then you'll want to automate the process with a script. In Mac OS X you can use AppleScript and there are a couple of existing scripts to do the job. Get one here (inspired by above instructions): http://nslog.com/2006/09/24/itunes_artwork_in_id3/ Someone else will have to offer up a Windows-specific script/automated alternative. The two best sources for album artwork on the net (bar none) are iTunes and RateYourMusic.com To Rip in Windows, use EAC or AudioGrabber. To Encode to MP3 use LAME. Do anything other than the above for MP3 and you're wasting your time. For FLAC see http://Xiph.org -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30715 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slooow remote response
Web page build will be slow on a NAS. Is the IR response better if you don't use the web interface? Try putting 0.5 in the High warning threshold box at the bottom of the server statistics page and pressing set all. Then post what log.txt shows after a while. This should tell us what is taking a long time. However if the NAS does not have enough memory, it won't be able to measure delays due to swapping. How much memory do you have? -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30711 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Excluding tracks, but only from random play
And Slimserver should also start using the iTunes tag designed to set exclusion on a per-track basis. Any other software making use of this? Has this already been brought up as a feature request? Searhing in Bugzilla is only slightly more useful than search in the forum (which is not useful at all). -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30683 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver shuts down by itself - why?
I'm having a couple issues. One appears to be related to the moodlogic support that's enabled in 6.5 and I'll fix that as soon as the general crashing is resolved. I'm suspecting the moodlogic issue is due to a demo (timed out) version of moodlogic being installed when the initial setup was run. On to the crashing. I initially thought it was related to running the fishbone skin since I wasn't running that until recently but I have since disabled fishbone and still have the crashing issue. If anything it has gotten worse recently and I can't stream from the server to my dmp at all right now. I'll provide what troubleshooting info I can but I'm going to have to revert to 6.3 soon so I can listen to some tunes. My event log entries are very similar to what's been posted here and don't seem to be providing the information required to troubleshoot. So here's the command line output from the service using the debug switches. I'm not an expert on upnp so I won't even guess what the issue is. hopefully someone smarter than I can determine the next steps to isolating the issue. My system: windows xp pro sp2, gigabit connection to a netgear switch, primary router (and dhcp server) dlink DI-624 w/upnp enabled. I also have a Dell Z555 Digital Entertainment Center, a Roku Soundbridge M500 and GoVideo d2730 that all participate in upnp in case that matters. andyg;146606 Wrote: Wait, it already should not crash there, it must be from something else... Can you try this? slim.exe --d_upnp Code: C:\Program Files\SlimServer\serverslim.exe --d_upnp 2006-12-18 13:04:06.7042 UPnP: New device callback registered: Plugins::Rhapsody ::Plugin::findCallback MoodLogic Error Event triggered: 'MixerError',11000 Try Rebuilding the external databases 2006-12-18 13:04:17.0477 UPnP: Notify from new device [uuid:upnp-InternetGateway Device-1_0-1234567891::upnp:rootdevice at http://192.168.0.1:5678/igd.xml] 2006-12-18 13:04:17.6839 UPnP: New device found: D-Link Router [http://192.168.0 .1:5678/igd.xml] 2006-12-18 13:04:17.6997 UPnP: D-Link Router is a D-Link D-Link Router (urn:sche mas-upnp-org:device:InternetGatewayDevice:1), ignoring 2006-12-18 13:06:09.1406 Can't locate object method peerport via package Slim ::Player::Squeezebox at /PerlApp/Slim/Networking/Slimproto.pm line 754. andyg;146606 Wrote: If it still crashes, try: slim.exe --noupnp Code: C:\Program Files\SlimServer\serverslim.exe --noupnp MoodLogic Error Event triggered: 'MixerError',11000 Try Rebuilding the external databases 2006-12-18 13:09:56.1562 Can't locate object method peerport via package Slim ::Player::Squeezebox at /PerlApp/Slim/Networking/Slimproto.pm line 754. Let me know if there's anything else I can try. I've downloaded the latest 6.5.1 build and will give it a shot. I'll also try dumping my install completely and rebuilding the database from scratch with a smaller set of files. Can I have multiple versions of slimserver installed in different directories and just call the one I want to test? I guess I'll find out. -- tfieldho tfieldho's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9045 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28032 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver shuts down by itself - why?
That peerport crash has been fixed for a while in 6.5.1. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28032 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver shuts down by itself - why?
Great news - I get exactly the same problem. Really glad it's fixed in 6.5.1. -- imo imo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9033 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28032 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Where is convert.conf located on OSX?
I think there was a separate convert.conf file in 6.3 and below, but with 6.5 it has been rolled into the preference pane itself. If you control-click on the SlimServer preference pane in the Library folder, you can Show Package Contents. Inside the contents is a folder named server and convert.conf is in there, as is types.conf. This implies that one should not change the file convert.conf, though one may want to read it. I'm not sure, but I suspect that if you want to change something, this is best done by creating your own custom-convert.conf and putting it in the SlimDevices folder. By the way, Spotlight tends not to show you system files - I'm not sure exactly which it shows and which it doesn't. EasyFind is often a better bet. -- danco danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30720 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Black Wired Squeezebox 3 in UK????
jimwillsher;163232 Wrote: I was pretty sure that Simple Automate or Advanced MP3 Players would have itbut both say out of stock. Hmm. Jim I've hunted all over the UK and can't find anyone with stock - can't believe SlimDevices have absolutely NO STOCK available in the UK in the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas, lots of sales lost I would suspect. Anyone from SD care to respond on the lack of UK stock? -- killie99 killie99's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30712 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Why Compress ???
I've been lurking on this site and I'm about to take the squeezebox plunge, but a couple of nagging questions keep running through my mind. First let me state that sound quality is very important to me. That being said I really love how much more of my music I found myself listening to when I have all my cd's loaded into 2 large changers. I consider the squeezebox the next evolutionary step (I've also contemplated the sonos system), for accessing and distributing all my music. My question is this...with memory being so cheap, why would I want to rip my cd's to one of the lossless formats as opposed to just ripping them as is. I use a computer all the time but certainly am no hacker, and it seems that there is a lot of work involved. Am I missing something or would it not just be easier to buy twice as large a hard drive, rip full strength, download info via cddb/gracenote or similar and be done. Won't this give me the artist/album /song info I'll need to do various sorts. thanks for any insights/advice, todd -- tem tem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9062 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30737 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why Compress ???
tem wrote: I've been lurking on this site and I'm about to take the squeezebox plunge, but a couple of nagging questions keep running through my mind. First let me state that sound quality is very important to me. That being said I really love how much more of my music I found myself listening to when I have all my cd's loaded into 2 large changers. I consider the squeezebox the next evolutionary step (I've also contemplated the sonos system), for accessing and distributing all my music. My question is this...with memory being so cheap, why would I want to rip my cd's to one of the lossless formats as opposed to just ripping them as is. I use a computer all the time but certainly am no hacker, and it seems that there is a lot of work involved. Am I missing something or would it not just be easier to buy twice as large a hard drive, rip full strength, download info via cddb/gracenote or similar and be done. Won't this give me the artist/album /song info I'll need to do various sorts. Its no real work, you set up the ripping tool to do the tagging and compressing, and then you just feed your CDs in one after another. All the good ripping tools talk to cddb/freedb and do that part for you. Automagically. The down side to cddb, etc. is that if you listen to unpopular music, it is usually wrong in cddb, or missing. The compression storage saving on your hard disk is not going to be more than 50% (or two to one) when you use lossless. The big reason is that with a lossless, you can embed tags with the files, and then the are self managing. Plus you can stream the compressed Flac files to your SqueezeBox, saving network bandwidth. Cutting the amount of data by a factor of 50% can all you to have four times the usage (Ethernet is not linear). -- 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: Why Compress ???
Depending on how many discs you have to convert, ripping them to a lossless format is a great idea. FLAC is a favorite in these parts, and you get about 50% compression, lossless, so you can fit even more. I have a little over 300GB of data for 1100 CDs. A 400GB hard drive can be found for $100 if you look around, and you don't need a particularly fast drive for good playback performance. If you have your files in FLAC, well-tagged and organized, you can encode to MP3 when you need to for a portable player or something like that. You'd want to use something like EAC on Windows for the ripping. Lots of stuff here for that. I used abcde on Linux, which does the ripping, coding to FLAC and tagging in an automated fashion. I just pop a disc in the CDROM attached to my NAS and it's all done automatically. -- mrfantasy --Mike mrfantasy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1127 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30737 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Sorting Album Art by Artist vs. Album Title
Sorry for bumping a post, but I would like to thank whomever added this feature to 6.5.0!!! Very much appreciated! Buck -- buck I have come to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I am all out of bubblegum - Rowdy Roddy Piper as John Nada in They Live buck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1599 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18141 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why Compress ???
It may seem like a lot of work (it isn't really as long as you can follow along step-by-step: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?EACBeginners ) but almost all of that is just for getting the uncompressed WAV tracks. Compression is the easy part. BTW the term full strength seems to imply compressed lossless is somehow inferior. It's not, any more than a zipped Word document is inferior to the original Word document. Lossless is lossless - it decompresses bit-for-bit identical to the original. The FLAC developer has actually gone to great pains to ensure that it is bit-perfect and the test suite is downloadable for anyone to try. If you can save 50% of the storage space and wireless bandwidth without any loss of sound quality, and it only takes 5 minutes of additional setup, why not do it? :-) -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30737 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Favourites and Playlists
Hello guys, I am new to SB and I like the device more day by day ;). I have a litte daughter which also wants to listen to her favourite music on the SB. She is still not able to read, so using the menu is not the right choice. I learned that it is possible to put a internet radio stream as favourite on f.e. key number 1. So if she presses 1 the strem would start. I am searching for a feature to play a playlist instead of an internet radio stream. So she would be able to press 1 to get her favourite album nr.1 and 2 for ... . You got it? Is that possible? If this is a FAQ could someone point me in the right direction? I was not able to find something relevant using the search until now. KR -- RaK RaK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7855 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why Compress ???
For me there is one reason to compress that is far, far more important than any other. Tags. Dealing with non-tagged music (as wavs are) is really painful. I know I'm wierd but my comment fields even include artist bios and album reviews. Set you gear up correctly and it won't be so painful. If you compress to lossless and ensure you have a back up you'll never have to do it again. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30737 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why Compress ???
tem wrote: I've been lurking on this site and I'm about to take the squeezebox plunge, but a couple of nagging questions keep running through my mind. First let me state that sound quality is very important to me. That being said I really love how much more of my music I found myself listening to when I have all my cd's loaded into 2 large changers. I consider the squeezebox the next evolutionary step (I've also contemplated the sonos system), for accessing and distributing all my music. My question is this...with memory being so cheap, why would I want to rip my cd's to one of the lossless formats as opposed to just ripping them as is. I use a computer all the time but certainly am no hacker, and it seems that there is a lot of work involved. Am I missing something or would it not just be easier to buy twice as large a hard drive, rip full strength, download info via cddb/gracenote or similar and be done. Won't this give me the artist/album /song info I'll need to do various sorts. thanks for any insights/advice, tod I may be wrong but I believe there's no tagging standard for WAV files. Modern computers are so fast in compressing and decompressing that there is really no downside to using FLAC. After you've set up EAC with FLAC support inserting the CD's and starting the ripping process is all the work you have to do whether you rip to WAV, FLAC or MP3. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Favourites and Playlists
I learned that it is possible to put a internet radio stream as favourite on f.e. key number 1. So if she presses 1 the strem would start. I am searching for a feature to play a playlist instead of an internet radio stream. So she would be able to press 1 to get her favourite album nr.1 and 2 for ... . It's the same procedure as with radio streams: browse the playlists, press RIGHT and scroll UP (or DOWN) until you get the Press RIGHT to add to your favorites or something. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
