Re: [slim] Re: SlimServer - A pain in the ass...
Lost Viking wrote: It takes ~45secs from clicking to diplaying the result page. Is this normal? Will it be as slow using the Transporter (once I have it in my hands, it is still on its way..)?? *shudder* No, that's definitely not normal. IMHO, the Slimserver web interface could be a lot faster, but here it's still only a couple of seconds at most. One of the recent Slimserver updates apparently added a lot of internal threading. That noticeably sped up the web interface. Make sure you're running recent code. Let me add a hearty amen to the other suggestions to run Slimserver on Linux, not Windows. Windows is a terrible server OS. Scratch that, Windows is a terrible OS, period. Jettisoning all that virus scanning cruft is just one of many reasons to dump it. Here are some other suggestions to speed up a file server. First, avoid external USB hard drives. In my experience, a USB 2.0 external drive is less than half as fast as an internal drive. Second, if you have the cabinet space and the budget, consider RAID. Without RAID (or a current backup), a failed drive is a major disaster. (Do you really want to re-rip a thousand CDs?) With RAID, a failed drive is just a minor nuisance. RAID can also speed up read performance quite noticeably. Linux has a very nice software RAID subsystem that avoids having to spend money on hardware RAID controllers. --Phil ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Ogg Encoding Options
I haven't seen any comments on my problems playing Ogg files with 6.5.1. Can anybody confirm that they *can* play Ogg files on 6.5.1 and a Squeezebox 2 or 3 with firmware version 71 without server decoding? Phil ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: what type of HD?
tyler_durden wrote: Before you get an external drive, make sure the USB ports on your PC are USB 2 ports, NOT USB 1. USB 1 is found on old machines and is not fast enough. It might be OK to stream audio off the drive, but transferring all that music to the HDD will take weeks at USB 1 speed. Or even better: Buy a firewire drive if your PC has a firewire port. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer Crashes When Accessing Playlist Page
Some questions: 1. Are there any events in the Event Viewer ? 2. Have you tried to perform a rescan with clear library and rescan everything ? 3. Is there anything special with your setup ? Are you for example using the iTunes or Music Magic integration or have you just specified a Music Folder ? -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist) , 'DynamicPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist), 'Custom Browse' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-custombrowse),'Custom Scan' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-customscan) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31129 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer - A pain in the ass...
Just to chip in with a few assorted views... - while I agree that Windows isn't much of an OS, please don't get the idea that you can't run SS satisfactorily on it. You can. Scanning doesn't take forever for everyone. - if you're lucky, it may well be that simply building a new box will avoid whatever nasty is lurking in your current one. For people who have more time than money (perhaps not most transporter buyers!!) just rebuilding might be worth a go - if you're not so lucky, it may be something odd about your library in which case you'll have exactly the same problem as before (well, slightly quicker as you'll have a faster CPU). - this has been discussed at length elsewhere - so I don't mean to open up the question all over again but rather to point out that there is another POV - but IMHO RAID is a really bad way to protect yourself against music library data loss, as it offers no protection at all against a whole class of likely problems including user error and rogue software. While a good hardware RAID can speed things up, a poor one (especially if its in software) can really slow things up, too. - make sure you install a 6.5.1 nightly - no-one seems to have mentioned this before ... please tell us you're not really going to use a Transporter just to play mp3s! Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver 6.5.0 will not start - Help
Recoveryone;165992 Wrote: And with the new Pioneer receiver I just got that has the ability to re-config compressed music files back to its original state (needs to be optically connected). Ummm... if you think that it has the capablity to get the original sound quality back from a compressed mp3 then no... you've been taken in by dodgy marketing spin. Would you care to post a link to where this claim is made so we can all have a good laugh at it? Thanks Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30507 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Diagram of Internet radio stations
NauticusLX, I think you don't understand what content is provided by Squeezenetwork. IIRC only Slim Picks menu content is provided by Slimdevices. Other menu items such as ShoutCast, RadioTime etc hand over to that operator and they (i.e. Shoutcast etc.) provide the menu content, how it is organised and even whether it works. Think of th SB as a Web browsere and you have just followed a link to another web site from a portal. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30970 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer - A pain in the ass...
Lost Viking;165970 Wrote: Diabling the virus scanner didn't help. mp3 wasn't scanned anyway. (exception already set). Canceled after two houers of scanning...Do you have any playlist files in the directories that are scanned ? I think I have heard people having performance problem if playlist files exists and they contains references to non existing tracks. There are also people that have had problems with some sort of circular dependences with incorrect playlist files. You might want to try to point the Music Folder setting to a sub directory of your library which doesn't contain any playlist files and check if that seems to work a lot faster when scanning. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist) , 'DynamicPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist), 'Custom Browse' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-custombrowse),'Custom Scan' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-customscan) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver stole my Janacek!
Marc Sherman;166003 Wrote: Are you running Windows? Perl on Windows has a known bug seeing files with non-ascii file names. Thought it might be that, and indeed it was. I note that my other accented names (such as Bartók, Béla) have the accents in sensible places, so presumably are ascii. So removing the accents in the filename solves this, and presumably several Eastern Europeans are rather irritated by this bug!! Cheers Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31122 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Diagram of Internet radio stations
bpa, I believe you're wrong. ShoutCast, RadioTime, and Pandora, etc. are, of course, separately owned and operated, and notice I did not mention them in my post, because my criticism does not concern these separately owned and operated project - and notice they're all at a high level, which is convenient. The subdirectories I described are all under the purview of SlimDesign. I'm not blaming SlimDesign for non-working URL's per se. The content which is suggested by the complex directory is, however, extremely misleading, since most of the url's DON'T WORK! -- NauticusLX NauticusLX's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8981 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30970 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Diagram of Internet radio stations
Can you give a specific example beyond level 2 with the path to get there. I've looked at my Suqeezenetwork Internet radio menu and I have the following entries Slimdevices Picks Live Music Archive Live365 Pandora Radio.com RadioTime ShoutCast Except for Slimdevices Picks - all the rest handover to another site for the content. Do you have others ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30970 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: DBPoweramp DMC R12 beta is PERFECT ripper for Slimserver
I use DBPowerAmp for my ripping and I really like it. Have used all the R12 releases and they have been stable since early alpha. My music is ripped to Flac. I like extra control of tagging so tend to re-tag after ripping with MP3tag -- 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=31115 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: After resuming from pause right channel is missing
Slimpy! I prostrate myself in front of your superior knowledge. Did as you suggested. Seems to be working. I can now pause and turn off my SB and still retain stereo when I resume/turn it on. Thanks a bunch, Happy new year! Deskjockey. -- DeskJockey DeskJockey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9134 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31026 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Can Squeezebox switch on external amp?
ericj wrote: see this thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24065 Yeah, I know. I have most of the required hardware (the serial interface and 4 appliance modules) but my house has 3-phase wiring, which means I can only reach a small area from my PC until I hire an electrician to put bridges or something in. And I'm probably going to move house in the near future... Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver stole my Janacek!
adamslim;166052 Wrote: Thought it might be that, and indeed it was. I note that my other accented names (such as Bartók, Béla) have the accents in sensible places, so presumably are ascii. So removing the accents in the filename solves this, and presumably several Eastern Europeans are rather irritated by this bug!! Cheers Adam I use TagRename to tag my files. It can automatically rename files in OS-friendly fashion, while still preserving the accented characters in the tags themselves for display on the SB's screen. An artist such as this is found, played and displayed fine on my system: Sevåg, Øystein -- 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=31122 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Vista Sideshow
I've read that Vista includes a new technology called Sideshow which can feed simple imformation to a variety of small screens such as might be found on mobile phones. I wonder then if Sideshow might be used in conjunction with Slimserver to display album artwork perhaps on a digital picture frame in the same room as my Squeezebox. Wouldn't that be cool! Cooler still would be picture based browsing just like the new iTunes allows but from my Squeezebox remote! Has anyone considered whether these things might now be possible? -- messengerman messengerman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8123 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31134 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WMA problem
Thanks for the ideas Brian. Here are the answers to your questions: 1) My guess is that tagging is the issue, I'm hoping that there is a way to change a number of files at once. 2) I can find them when I go to Browse Music Folder, but they won't play on SB. 3) I can play the ex-WAV WMAs in Windows Media Player just fine. 4) According to the properties for each file they are not protected. 5) Also, as a side note. Before I posted here, I did try to convert a group of these files to MP3 to see if they would play on SB and that didn't work either. I guess all of these leads back to tagging which I'll have to work on slowly. Thanks, Steve -- SheckieC SheckieC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8976 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31126 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: RadioIO only 32K since Slimserver upgrade
Thanks for the info Ben! I'm a little curious however does that mean that someone who continues to use Slimserver 6.2.1 will continue to get the free 128k streams for the forseeable future or will the old feeds be switched off at some point therefore forcing an upgrade? Also, with the old system is the station URL information held within the slimserver software or does it point to a list on a slimdevices server somewhere? -- adrianh1960 adrianh1960's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31108 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver stole my Janacek!
jonheal wrote: adamslim;166052 Wrote: Thought it might be that, and indeed it was. I note that my other accented names (such as Bartók, Béla) have the accents in sensible places, so presumably are ascii. So removing the accents in the filename solves this, and presumably several Eastern Europeans are rather irritated by this bug!! Cheers Adam I use TagRename to tag my files. It can automatically rename files in OS-friendly fashion, while still preserving the accented characters in the tags themselves for display on the SB's screen. An artist such as this is found, played and displayed fine on my system: Sevåg, Øystein Thanks, mate. You just crashed my mail program :( Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver stole my Janacek!
Peter;166095 Wrote: jonheal wrote: adamslim;166052 Wrote: Thought it might be that, and indeed it was. I note that my other accented names (such as Bartók, Béla) have the accents in sensible places, so presumably are ascii. So removing the accents in the filename solves this, and presumably several Eastern Europeans are rather irritated by this bug!! Cheers Adam I use TagRename to tag my files. It can automatically rename files in OS-friendly fashion, while still preserving the accented characters in the tags themselves for display on the SB's screen. An artist such as this is found, played and displayed fine on my system: Sevåg, Øystein Thanks, mate. You just crashed my mail program :( Regards, Peter ??? Your mail program was judged and found lacking. -- 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=31122 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver stole my Janacek!
might be related to this, which doesnt seem completely solved yet...http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18985 -- ajmitchell Check out my other hobby http://ajmitchell.shutterpoint.com ajmitchell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=800 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31122 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: RadioIO only 32K since Slimserver upgrade
On 12/31/06, adrianh1960 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info Ben! I'm a little curious however does that mean that someone who continues to use Slimserver 6.2.1 will continue to get the free 128k streams for the forseeable future or will the old feeds be switched off at some point therefore forcing an upgrade? Also, with the old system is the station URL information held within the slimserver software or does it point to a list on a slimdevices server somewhere? The station information is stored in the RadioIO plugin, I believe I don't know how accessible that is (i.e. if it's just a list in the code of all the different playlist URLs, or if it is somehow dynamically built in the plugin). As for the old 128K streams -- RadioIO could change them/remove them any time they wanted to I suppose. Why they haven't yet is a mystery to me. Ben ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Bach to the drawing board......music missing from Slimserver (yet again)
In the wake of (another's) solved Mystery of the Missing Janacek, I present in hope and anxiety and with a plaintive request for aid, a further Christmas conundrum: the Case of the Walkabout Bach. Last week, according to Slimserver, I had around 600 albums ripped. This week, I seem to have 335. What has happened in the interim, I have absolutely no idea. If anybody else has any clues, I'd be very grateful to hear them. I'm running an eMac 800MHz with iTunes, music stored on a separate LaCie Triple 250Gb HD. Nothing about this setup has changed recently. SlimServer is set to look at the iTunes library in the usual place (/users/username/music/iTunes), and for the music in the correct volume (/volumes/volumename/iTunes/iTunes music). Nothing about that has changed. Among the missing albums are all of the Gardiner/Monteverdi Choir Bach Cantata Pilgrimage so far released, which I'd ripped over the last six months or so (wonderful music, incidentally) - except for the one I ripped a week before Christmas which is, oddly enough, the Christmas one (vol. 15). I've checked the relevant folders. All of the Pilgrimage series is shown in iTunes. They are all - as carefully retagged - under the same artist, and the files themselves are all, as right and proper, contained in close proximity in the same artist folder on the LaCie drive. There appears to be no difference between the position, folder or file for vol. 15, and those for vols. 1,7,8,10 etc. iTunes plays them all with great alacrity. However, vol 15 exists in Slimserver, and vols 1,7,8,10 etc do not. That also leaves another 300 albums that also seem to have vanished without trace, but are less clearly near-identical. I have tried: deleting/rebuilding my iTunes library (although the contents of that are clearly correct); pointing Slimserver to the precise addresses of said library and to the music folders; pointing Slimserver to no addresses, but specifying merely use iTunes; leaving the look for playlists in field blank; filling ditto field in; rescanning (times about nine, at the last approximation); installing the latest nightly rebuild of 6.5.1; screaming a lot, which seemed to help at the time, but did not noticeably restore any music. I am also running Coverscout and CDPedia, although why these should have any effect, I have not the faintest idea, either, being completely and utterly baffled. So, if anyone does have any ideas, I'd be very grateful indeed. Oh, and while I'm on the whinge, Slimserver doesn't see all my carefully collected artwork, either, even though iTunes and CDPedia assure me that it is there, and visible. These helpful applications also assure me that the album count that Slimserver previously recorded was accurate, and should, if the world were a fairer place, be unchanged. Thanks in advance. Geraint. -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31139 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer - A pain in the ass...
Phil Karn;166039 Wrote: Lost Viking wrote: It takes ~45secs from clicking to diplaying the result page. Is this normal? Will it be as slow using the Transporter (once I have it in my hands, it is still on its way..)?? *shudder* No, that's definitely not normal. IMHO, the Slimserver web interface could be a lot faster, but here it's still only a couple of seconds at most. Ok, this is definitely the case here, with or without virus scanners etc. active... Keeping fingers crossed for my new server Phil Karn;166039 Wrote: Windows is a terrible OS, period. Jettisoning all that virus scanning cruft is just one of many reasons to dump it.+ Ok, I will go into Linux, not now, but I will, promised :-) The IT professionals in my company use almost exclusively freeBSD for any kind of server. Phil Karn;166039 Wrote: Here are some other suggestions to speed up a file server. First, avoid external USB hard drives. In my experience, a USB 2.0 external drive is less than half as fast as an internal drive. Second, if you have the cabinet space and the budget, consider RAID. Without RAID (or a current backup), a failed drive is a major disaster. (Do you really want to re-rip a thousand CDs?) With RAID, a failed drive is just a minor nuisance. RAID can also speed up read performance quite noticeably. Linux has a very nice software RAID subsystem that avoids having to spend money on hardware RAID controllers. --Phil * No external drives in use here for this purpose. * Although I have no spare room I use RAID, notably RAID1, which saved my data a couple of times. In addition once in a while (i.e. after each update of my music archive) I manually copy all files to an external drive which is stored in a separate place. -- Lost Viking Lost Viking's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ogg Encoding Options
Hi, I'm on f/w 71 and local ogg-vorbis files -q6 are playing just fine, the only issues i have are with a few radio stations that refuse to play with out unchecking oggogg box. I can only suggest looking at the tags to make sure that they are vorbis tags. If it's a corrupted firmware you may want to give support a call. Doug. -- Dougal Dougal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5489 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30764 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Live 365 problem
Although I have a VIP membership of Live 365 when I try to log in on Slimserver I get 'no account information'. Any good person know what's up here? Simon -- Woobag Woobag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9184 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Live 365 problem
Sorry,answered the question myself. Just a beginner I'm afraid. Happy New Year to all, Simon -- Woobag Woobag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9184 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Change wording to suit compilation albums?
Working with SlimServer 6.5.1 and an attached Squeezebox 3, in the right hand pane of the web interface where the playlist for the squeezebox is display it displays songs in a format like this: 19. All Things Dull And Ugly from Monty Python - Sings by Monty Python This is fine, except that when the album is a compilation album is becomes silly. For example: 36. Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away) from Now That's What I Call Music 65 by David Guetta vs The Egg The album Now That's What I Call Music 65 is not by David Guetta vs The Egg onlt that track is. SlimServer doesn't seem to be following either the server title format or that defined for that player so does anyone know how to change this to be more sensible? TiA, Steve. -- Fozzy Fozzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31145 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The firewall turns itself off on this page
Says a lot about the apparent 'security' of NPF -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31065 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MusicIP Icons not displaying
Try restarting SlimServer: it needs to start after MusicMagic, I am not sure if just enabling the plugin will be enough. There is also a checkbox on the first page of server settings to use the MusicMagic tags... it is a bit misleading in phrasing, I think: the question is really I have musicmagic, do you want me to use it? You don't have a choice of using MM/MusicIP and not importing tags. (Which IMHO is a bug: importing the tags seems silly since my library tags are more accuracte... MM seems to do odd things sometimes with UTF stuff. And I dislike the MM Genres...) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31141 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Seans new title
Just wanted to let you know that squeezebox will on the Logitech stand at MacWorld. Unfortunately this year the show clashes directly with CES and we're putting our main efforts into CES, so there won't a specific Slim presence at MacWorld. If anyone is at either show - please drop by the Logitech booth and say hello to whoever's on Squeezebox duty. -- Jez Jez Hildred Senior Manager - Sales Marketing Slim Devices, Inc. http://www.last.fm/user/Kadosh/ Jez's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4300 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31012 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Upgrade install file?
I just downloaded the 12/31/06 build as a zip and extracted it. But the zip contains no Setup or Install file. No documentation either. How to install the new build? Thanks - Mike -- Flatpik Flatpik's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31147 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WMA problem
SheckieC;166084 Wrote: 2) I can find them when I go to Browse Music Folder, but they won't play on SB. ... I guess all of these leads back to tagging which I'll have to work on slowly. That one doesnt point to tagging: Browse Music Folder ignores tags (which is why you can navigate there when the tags don't get parsed). For some reason Slimserver can't play them... how are these files stored? Is there a permissions issue? (I make no pretense of understanding how Windows does permissions, it always seems they superglued a multiuser permission system with access rights over a single user OS that lets you do whatever you want... but sometims things like services can't read regular files if they get ownership changed...) A permissions issue on Windows would lead to a situation where you could see the filenames, but not actually open the files. (And, again, remember that on most Windows installs Slimserver runs as a service, not as a regular user, so being able to play them with WMP will tell you whether the file is corrupt or not, but not the permissions.) I'll leave the how to tell if Windows thinks you don't have permissions to a file to someone who understands Windows, or maybe you get it and this note will let you check. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31126 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Upgrade install file?
if you are running on windows, you want to download the EXE file. The zip is only an archive of the source modules without an installer. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Transporter questions
After searching, I can't find hard answers. First, concerning ALAC playback. The files play fine through my Mac Mini. However, some files (always the same files) wont play through the Transporter. They exhist on the wireless network and when I push play, the song shows on the TP display, but no sound. I have attempted to change setting within the file type encoding, but no luck. I am running 6.5. I tried 6.5.1 after deleting 6.5 and still no luck. Second question, I am using balanced XLR out to my (pre amp) Anthem AVM 50 balanced in and use 2 channel direct mode. I have a 5 channel Anthem MCA 50 amp. Is this the best connection to use? I see some people go unbalanced directly into an amp, is this because of a lack of balanced inputs? If the above method is correct, I gather I set the volume to max, and bypass the digital volume control? Anything I may be missing? On another note, as good as I know the Anthem seperates are, I am truly amazed of the audio quality the Transporter provides. I bought it hoping, but not believing $2000.00 would would make it a worthy purchase. With a 30 day return policy, I had nothing to lose. The shipping box is now stored in the garage, and I am more than thrilled! Has anyone seen my wife?! Actually, she too is amazed at the improvement, and I love her for it. Mark -- yooper yooper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31149 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Live 365 problem
Woobag, what is the answer you answered yourself? I have the exact same question but didn't come up with the answer! -- sc53 sc53's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8690 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Bbc Radio 2
I have just acquired a squeeze box. It is excellent for playing all my ripped CDs (now MP3s), however, I cannot get it to play BBC Radio 2 - anyone any ideas? Many thanks -- Simon Wilkinson Regards, Simon Simon Wilkinson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9326 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31151 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Ogg Encoding Options
On 31-Dec-06, at 12:07 AM, Phil Karn wrote: I haven't seen any comments on my problems playing Ogg files with 6.5.1. Can anybody confirm that they *can* play Ogg files on 6.5.1 and a Squeezebox 2 or 3 with firmware version 71 without server decoding? I don't have many ogg files, but those I do have are play natively on SB3 fw 71. I've had the same files for some time, so it could be a different version of the ogg codec. Sounds like it is worth filing a bug report and attaching one of the problem files. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 6.5 Discrete Power On/Off
In the new features section it lists: Include discrete power on/off for folks who are using smart remotes like Harmony's Does anyone have the RC5 codes for power on and off? I'd also be interested in finding the discrete codes, if they do exist, to use with my URC MX-700 and MX-850. Thanks Richard ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] slimserver not seeing all my music files
I've recently purchased a sb3 and loaded slimserver. I've upgraded twice but still when I scan my music folder I only get about 50% of my songs. I figured out a way to get them all by going to my music folder and opening every album folder. this is very time consuming and every time ther is a new upgrade I will possibly have to do it all over again. I've read the beginners forums I tried a MP3 tagging sftwr that didn't work either. Almost all my music is burned from my own cd's , I have about 12k songs. I've never had problem with music match or window media player finding my tracks. I'm currently running 6.5.1 11032. everything about the sb3 w/slimserver is great except for this 1 problem. Any suggestions?? -- jlrood jlrood's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9156 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31153 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Main Menu needs a rework
After you've worked with the menu for more than 4 hours it might make a lot more sense to you, and you might see the thought that has gone into its evolution over the years. What is obvious for you (talk radio is important, LMA is pointless) is the exact opposite for other users. Why would users in Ireland naturally think to look for Irish music under International? I suggest that you make good use of the Favorites menu in both slimserver and SqueezeNetwork. It's a quick way to get at the stations you like most. Enjoy your new SB3. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31127 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 6.5 Discrete Power On/Off
I'd also be interested in finding the discrete codes, if they do exist, to use with my URC MX-700 and MX-850. Well, now I feel a little daft. I've just checked the software that the came with the remote and the discrete codes are now available. Thanks anyway. Richard ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Bbc Radio 2
What URL are you using ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31151 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer - A pain in the ass...
ceejay;166046 Wrote: Just to chip in with a few assorted views... - while I agree that Windows isn't much of an OS, please don't get the idea that you can't run SS satisfactorily on it. You can. Scanning doesn't take forever for everyone. Yes, I thought so. For now, it will be Windows. Maybe as part of my New Year's resolutions I will try to get in touch with Linux :-) ceejay;166046 Wrote: - if you're lucky, it may well be that simply building a new box will avoid whatever nasty is lurking in your current one. For people who have more time than money (perhaps not most transporter buyers!!) just rebuilding might be worth a go Yes, this is exactly my intention. And the old server will be useful anyway. Lot of stuff here to be safely stored using RAID (photos, videos, documents, etc.) ceejay;166046 Wrote: - if you're not so lucky, it may be something odd about your library in which case you'll have exactly the same problem as before (well, slightly quicker as you'll have a faster CPU). Correct. But in this case I can work on this specific problem and don't have to bother with a million of other possible causes. Maybe I should describe here at this point HOW I rip and store/manage my music: rip it (EAC, secure mode) compress it (LAME 3.90.3, alt preset standard) this is my naming scheme: %A - %C\%N - %T - %C - %A therefor: one CD = one folder maybe worth mentioning: I tweak the permissions (is this the correct translation? see attachment/screenshot) of my music folder to protect myself from accidentially deleting files/folders, when manipulating them. I strongly hope Slim Server makes no changes to my music files. Therefor this limitation shouldn't affect SlimServer in a negative way, I assume.. ceejay;166046 Wrote: - this has been discussed at length elsewhere - so I don't mean to open up the question all over again but rather to point out that there is another POV - but IMHO RAID is a really bad way to protect yourself against music library data loss, as it offers no protection at all against a whole class of likely problems including user error and rogue software. While a good hardware RAID can speed things up, a poor one (especially if its in software) can really slow things up, too. As mentioned above, I therefore take some precautions to avoid such: Backup data, limited permissions. ceejay;166046 Wrote: - make sure you install a 6.5.1 nightly ok ceejay;166046 Wrote: - no-one seems to have mentioned this before ... please tell us you're not really going to use a Transporter just to play mp3s! Ceejay Meaning mp3 is a lossy format not living up to the expectations a true (whatever this is..) audiophile listener should use? Well, I did some testing (using a high qualitiy hifi set), comparing CD to qualitiy mp3 using a blind testing setup and I have to say. Little difference, if any.. Maybe I got you wrong in this point, but what else should I use Transporter for but to listening to my music over the network. What I do NOT do is downloading some crappy 128kBit mp3's at kazaa etc. I only use my home grown stuff.. Maybe I would consider FLAC if I would start today building a music collection. When I begun, 4 years ago, HDD storage wasn't as cheap as today. Besides, I was a student at this time, with all the negative side effects, such as a limited budget, etc. Please elaborate, if you meant something different. Any advice welcome! +---+ |Filename: rechte.JPG | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2207| +---+ -- Lost Viking Lost Viking's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why not Transporter Home Theater Bypass Loop?
Same here. If it had such a bypass, I would have owned one already -- ganjastone ganjastone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29057 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer - A pain in the ass...
Lost Viking;166191 Wrote: Meaning mp3 is a lossy format not living up to the expectations a true (whatever this is..) audiophile listener should use? Well, I did some testing (using a high qualitiy hifi set), comparing CD to qualitiy mp3 using a blind testing setup and I have to say. Little difference, if any.. Maybe I got you wrong in this point, but what else should I use Transporter for but to listening to my music over the network. What I do NOT do is downloading some crappy 128kBit mp3's at kazaa etc. I only use my home grown stuff.. Maybe I would consider FLAC if I would start today building a music collection. When I begun, 4 years ago, HDD storage wasn't as cheap as today. Besides, I was a student at this time, with all the negative side effects, such as a limited budget, etc. Please elaborate, if you meant something different. Any advice welcome! What I meant was... if you're listening to mp3's, I would be gobsmacked if you can tell the difference between a transporter and an unmodified Squeezebox at one eighth the price... An SB3 is pretty good, you know! As for the mp3 vs FLAC thing - yes, time changes all things especially related to technology. And if your MP3's sound good to you, there's no need to re-rip them. However it would be prudent, now that disc space is so cheap, to rip new music in FLAC now, just in case you find that you can tell the difference in the future. Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer - A pain in the ass...
I am now ready with my 2.4GHz Dual as my new music server. What I did so far: Installing Windows XP, incl. servicepack updates Installing the appropriate drivers Installing the latest nighty version of SlimServer Setting the permissions (see above) nothing else (esp. no anti virus progs, etc.) Tried to scan my library: start at 03:33 finished 03:50 Your music library contains 1407 albums with 18083 songs by 751 artists. Pretty happy here!! Happy new year everybody! :-)) (What I learned out of this: Get a state of the art PC as your backend! PII 900MHz probably won't be sufficient, esp. if you run WinXP as OS) -- Lost Viking Lost Viking's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Cannot connect to network
My friend has an SB3 and running wirelessly to SS 6.5.1 12/31 daily on Win XP. All has been running flawlessly for the past 4 months. The router is a Linksys WRT54G. The problem he began having (quite suddenly) is that suddenly the SB3 lost connection with the server and could no longer connect to either it or Squeeze Network. We tried to troubleshoot a number of different ways including turning off wireless security, assigning an IP address, and even running wired all to no avail. In DHCP mode, it will eventually timout and come back with cannot find DHCP server. In assigned IP address mode, it simply cannot connect. I've run out of ideas of what to try next - can anyone help? (please - we need some good music to bring in our new year!!!) :) -- ob_kook SB2 -- Axiom passive pre -- Portal Paladin monoblocks -- Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MKII ob_kook's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31156 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] what's the buzz?
All of a sudden I have a pretty pronounced 60hz hum in my Squeezebox. It goes away when I unplug it from the wall. Any suggestions? Thanks! Worked fine for about 6 weeks. -- Tonepub Tonepub's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9330 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] what's the buzz?
Tonepub wrote: All of a sudden I have a pretty pronounced 60hz hum in my Squeezebox. It goes away when I unplug it from the wall. Any suggestions? Thanks! Worked fine for about 6 weeks. Assuming you are in a country with 60Hz power, its a ground loop. If you are in England, and have a 60Hz hum in the land of 50hz power, then I don't know. Something changed. Unplug all your stuff, plug things back in one at a time. See what causes it. Change that thing. It is best to use a star powering scheme: run all your audio gear, amps, squeezebox, etc off the same circuit. Get a power strip and plug them all in. In the US, do not just cut off the ground pin (third, round connection on almost all power plugs). It is dangerous and against the Electrical Code. Report back after you'd done this. -- 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: Cannot connect to network
To add to the above: We tried a factory reset and soft reset as well. I brought my laptop over and it was immediately issued an IP address and connected to the Linksys, so the router appears to be fine. -- ob_kook SB2 -- Axiom passive pre -- Portal Paladin monoblocks -- Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MKII ob_kook's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31156 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MusicIP Icons not displaying
Restarted SlimServer with no luck. I have gone through all the drop downs on the Server Steeings page, and the only mention of MusicIp/MusicMagic are those on the Plugins page. Am I missing something here? Thanks. -- surge surge's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9321 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31141 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Upgrade install file?
Thanks - It wouldn't kill Slim Devices to make this a little clearer for non-programmers. Mike -- Flatpik Flatpik's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31147 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
