Re: [slim] Announcement: a new PSP skin
Im having trouble getting this to work. I've dropped it into my skins folder, and I can access it fine on a pc browsing to //slimserver/psp but on the psp it just keeps saying 'the connection to the server timed out'. Any ideas? Many thanks in advance -- kingkano kingkano's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13621 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35993 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
Have you visited the 'Slim Devices wiki Beginner's Guide' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuide)? It has tons of useful user-contributed information. As for not being able to add or change tag information in SS, that is by design. SS is meant to stream your music, not rip, or tag, or do anything else. I rather like the fact that it never modifies my files, which is something I can't say for other audio software, especially iTunes. SS *will* show you information such as who is playing what on what tracks, but only if you already have it in the tags, and they are the correct tags. The metadata that SS presents is only what each user has in the tags in his library. It's not at all the case that "we all get the same information." If your tags are detailed and mine are a mess, I get a mess and you get the details. If you are going to rip your CDs, you only want to do it once, so I strongly recommend a compressed lossless format. wav is lossless, but not compressed. wma comes in both lossless and lossy flavors. mp3 is lossy. My preference, and those of a lot of other SB users is flac (Free Lossless Audio Codec). It's lossless, so it preserves all of the data in the original CD, bit for bit. It's compressed, so the files are typically 35-50% the size of a wav file. That's still big, but hard drives are dirt cheap. If you want smaller files for a portable player, it is easy to transcode your lossless files to a more compact, lossy format like mp3 or wma. Finally, SB natively supports flac, so you don't need to waste any processor cycles transcoding, plus you can FF and RWD tracks. Check out the wiki, it will explain all this and much much more. Enjoy! -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Should crossfading work with synchronised players?
I, too, crave the cross-fade with synched players. It just adds that extra something for parties! In fact, I bought 2 of these blasted things thinking it would FIX the crossfade I was lacking with one using Softsqueeze. Oh well... still love these things, but come on, SlimDevices, give us a decent synched crossfade! -- tgoodman tgoodman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13662 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20369 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox stopping
Just to update you on my troubleshooting (with thanks to Slimdevices support) and to clarify exactly what is going on in my situation (Now with no wireless, ethernet cable everywhere, SB3, SS6.5.4, WHS). I setup a playlist with about 100 songs from different albums and started playing them. Here are the results: 1. Plays, but at about song 22 stops, 33 seconds from end of song. Pressing play on remote starts song again and it plays without failing. 2. Plays, but at about song 57 stops, 2:13 from end of song. Pressing play on remote starts song again and it plays without failing. 3. Plays but at about song 65 stops after 0:54. Pressing play on remote starts song again and it plays until 0:54 and stops. Display shows Rebuffering 0% shows as playing but has stopped. 4. Replicate this three times for this particular song. 5. Change to buffer display. Indicates buffer at 100%, still stops at 0:54 shows Rebuffering 0% just as it stops playing, then shows as playing but has stopped. 6. Played around with fastforward, if I go to after 0:54 it plays ok from there. 7. Tested the FLAC file (FLAC -T) and the file appears ok. This is the more intersting part 8. Play the song on its own in repeat mode. First time it plays fine, second time stops at 0:54. 9. Can replicate this. (ie plays fine first time when in repeat mode, then stops on 2nd play.) Hopefully this will help the Slimdevices people identify what is going on. -- redgum redgum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39473 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
I downloaded Slimserver and took a look at it. It has a handsome interface with lots of white space which is easy on the eyes. The available information is nicely laid out and easy to read. It can browse by various categories such as genre, artist, track name. It doesnt show who are the musicians and what they are playing for each track, which is kind of an important topic in jazz. There doesnt seem to be any way to customize the information so as to add notes about the CD, or the record label, or URLs that have information about Coltrane and his Giant Steps album, for example. It doesnt appear possible to correct the data provided for the CD. It gives you good, fundamental information, but I think you are stuck with that. I dont want to sound like I am carping or finding fault with SS. I am not at all and it looks very nice and presents good information. I am only noting the limitations and regretting that theres nothing more the user can add. It looks like we all get the same information. At a minimum, it seems as though I could use Squeebox for the pleasure of listening through my home audio system to all of the music stored on a hard drive. I can continue to store the information I want about the music in my choice of software, identify those songs I want to hear and then open SS to find the artists, titles and tracks and create a playlist. Ill just use two applications to accomplish the task. Someone here already suggested that idea and I can see how it would work. Erland offered some encouragement. It sounds as though developers may already be thinking and implementing ways to make external software work through SS. Maybe in a year my problem will have been solved. I really havent been ripping much music at all. I havent been interested in listening to music on the computer and until about the day that I first posted, I hadnt explored whether it was even possible to listen to music stored on a hard drive through a home audio system. As I am sure everyone noted, I dived into this forum with my original post knowing next to nothing about this process, but I learned a lot (learned enough to know that I dont know nearly enough, which is a good start) in short order. The music I have ripped has been through Nero which doesnt seem to access a very complete database and so I have manually added artist name and individual track names, which has been fine for the few CDs I have entered. Now the idea of manual entries with so many CDs is daunting. On this laptop I have been using to communicate with the forum, I dont have Nero and so for the first time used Windows Media Player to rip a CD to this hard drive to check out how SS would show it. WMP seemed to do an adequate job and saved the information in the way I have done it, by artist name, CD title and individual tracks. It saved the files in .wma format, which I think is okay. I originally thought I would save them in .wav format, but jeez those are large files, and I have read that .wma format is pretty faithful to playing the music as it would off the CD directly. I almost think I know better than to ask this, but is there a better program than Windows Media Player for ripping? And is there a file format that is preferred over .wma? -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What to do with my CDs?
The CDs should be ones last resort for data loss. And that would be when the computer is fried and your archived copies are also destroyed. Who has the time to do all that converting over again when one can archive the conversions to DL DVD in no time at all. Once the current library is backed up, one will even notice the same amount of time it takes to archive as one goes with new CDs. I convert my CDs to FLAC Files (use whatever lossless format one prefers) then when I have 8 gigs worth of new files, I archive them to DL DVD that I store in my fathers almost empty gun safe. As for the CDs, I keep them because I am data recovery anal-retentive. I use the spindles left over from CD and DVD Burning ROMS. I get 100 CDs on a spindle and then store as many spindles as will fit in a Rubbermaid Tough Tote. It has a nice snap on lid, is easy to carry, and easy to store and stack. No paper is involved so if it were to ever get wet (which I doubt due to it all being plastic) no big deal. No paper also means no place for bugs to breed. Storing cardboard boxes in the garage or basement is a no no if one wants control over bugs. Just something that works for me. -- iPhone iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39071 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming Zune Market Place
iPhone;238026 Wrote: > Some nerve to ask somebody to pay royalties on their own songs! > But they aren't his - he sold them to the label. If I sold you my car, and then six months later turned up and drove off with it you'd be rightly annoyed. Did they overreact in this case? Probably - that's certainly something the RIAA do with great frequency. But here's a tip - if you want to retain control of something, don't sell it. > > Other then Congress allowing the illegal monopoly of the RIAA to exist > Illegal monopoly? What? I own well over 1000 CDs and the majority are from non-RIAA member labels. Some monopoly. > > can anybody tell me why we are still paying $18 dollars for a new CD > that costs less then a penny to make with a production cost under $200K > for the album? > I don't know - why are you? My guess is that it's because you think the music is worth the cost. So what's the problem? You'd like it to be cheaper? I'd like a lot of things to be cheaper but I buy them anyway. > > Now compare that to a $5.50 DVD at Wal-Mart that costs 25 cents to make > and multiple millions to produce the movie. > You're not comparing like with like. There are plenty of cheap discounted CDs out there, and just like the cheap discounted movies they're the ones nobody wants. The new/good movies cost $20+. > > I can tell you they would not be selling them for $5.50 if they were > not making money. > Of course they're making money. They'd make more if they could charge $20 and get the same sell rate, but obviously that wouldn't happen, so they charge less. Again, if the $18 CDs weren't selling, they'd lower the price (and to be honest, very few mainstream CDs cost anything like $18 in my experience). > > The RIAA is so greedy is what the problem is. They just do not > understand that if CDs were $3 or $4 each that we would be buying the > hell out of them and trying new music because hey its only four bucks. > > Well first off, the RIAA don't sell anything, their member companies do. But that aside, do you really think they haven't thought about selling CDs for $4? Of course they have. And their pricing gurus have obviously decided that it wouldn't be as profitable as what they're doing now. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. If you think it's such an obvious thing, why not start your own record label and make a killing? Otherwise, play your part as a smart consumer and vote with your wallet. > > If things continue and the RIAA does not wake up, there will be no more > CDs. > A lot of people would think that was great (labels included - it costs a lot less to sell a copy of a file than a CD). Personally I'd hate it, at least until lossless downloads are common. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox stopping
Minora;237561 Wrote: > The only change I made to my SB, before it stopped playing was to put it > in a slightly higher place and away from the amp. This improved signal > strength from a an average 20% (which was usually fine) to and average > 50% in preparation for a party this weekend. Now I have no music. > > The SB displays the song to be played, along with the duration etc. - > but nothing starts up. I can change menu's and select new songs, just > nothing happens. Any change made on the SB are reflected in Slim. > Similarly any changes made in Slim are reflected on the SB. > > Any advice Great. No one here is saying there's no problem -- we just need to understand what the problem is so we can track it down. Obviously, it doesn't happen to everyone, but we'd like to fix it if we can figure it out. -=> Jim -- JimC "well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that." -- BKlaas' college buddy JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39473 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox stopping
I have just sent a very complete description of the whole set of problems and setup. If the wireless signal is always at 80% or above, I do not see how there could be a problem, unless I am exceeding the wireless bandwidth, but I have done tests with nothing else connected. In nay case, wired or wireless would not explain why sometimes the whole device crashes (today at least 7 times) and reboots. There are too many people with similar problems, so the chance that we all have the same problem related to something else but the SB3 is quite slim. I think that there is something related to their IP stack and how it handles the handshake and synchronization with the server that sometimes goes crazy. This would explain crashes, skips, stops and freezes. I will post back whatever I will discover with the Logitech support guys. -- mik63 mik63's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9480 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39473 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming Zune Market Place
You at both correct on all counts. The RIAA is the big problem. A friend of mine owns a bar in Little Five Points. He is a musician and used to be in a major label band. He hires bands to play in his club and when they go on break he used to get up on the stage and play his old tunes. Not anymore, the RIAA got wind of it and had a court order to shut down the Club if he did not stop or start paying royalties. Some nerve to ask somebody to pay royalties on their own songs! Other then Congress allowing the illegal monopoly of the RIAA to exist, can anybody tell me why we are still paying $18 dollars for a new CD that costs less then a penny to make with a production cost under $200K for the album? Now compare that to a $5.50 DVD at Wal-Mart that costs 25 cents to make and multiple millions to produce the movie. I can tell you they would not be selling them for $5.50 if they were not making money. The RIAA is so greedy is what the problem is. They just do not understand that if CDs were $3 or $4 each that we would be buying the hell out of them and trying new music because hey its only four bucks. But instead they keep the prices up so people copy them illegally. I also use the Internet Radio, Rhapsody, and Pandora to find new music so I can hear it before I pay my hard earned dollars for a $12 to $20 CD. If things continue and the RIAA does not wake up, there will be no more CDs. All the bands should all start selling digital direct and cut the RIAA out. The RIAA is even trying to crush Internet Radio with fees per listener that are 65 times higher then they are for Broadcast Radio who has all the bucks! -- iPhone iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS Zten;237968 Wrote: > I do not start it on boot up. First the computer starts, then I right > click on the SB icon and select "start slimserver". Not sure if that > answer's the question > > But now it sure seems like I would rather just have it start up > automatically on boot up. How do I set it up that way? > > Also, no NAS and no iTunes. First of all, you need to have SlimTray running which is sounds like you already do. Then, you right click on the icon in the tray and you will see the opinion to start on start up or on log on. Choose start on start up. You might have problems with it starting that way however. If so, just change it on start on log on. 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=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming Zune Market Place
Hey Bklaas, No biggie and I did not take it as flaming but more of wondering. And after reading your post and mine, I can see your point. Nobody else knows what I have or what I use or more importantly what I was thinking when I posted. Its all just e-mail. I never read anything into it because you cant see the other persons face, body language, or hear the tone of their voice. If diplomats used e-mail to communicate we would be having a new war weekly due to all the misunderstanding and to much reading into! Yes I am an iPhone user. I do not own a Mac or iPod. I have only bought one iTune in my whole life and only then to make my custom ring tone out of it which Apple requires you to do. As I said, I only even use iTunes because I have to with the iPhone. I am a Professional Options Trader and the iPhone works well (being able to landscape) for what I need to do so I am not chained to a laptop or desktop. It replaced my BlackJack, which replaced my CrackBerry. As for PCs, I have been running Red Hat for so long I cant remember when I first used it. And it was UNIX before that. A personal PC with DOS on it was sort of OK. Windows ruined everything. The Amiga and BE were both great personal PCs but because they were not for business and people could not bring their work home, Windows crushed them. If only Open Office had been around. -- iPhone iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox stopping
mik63;237995 Wrote: > I have lived with this crap for a while. > I have a dedicated high performance PC for Slimserver. > The connection is wireless but we are talking about the same room and > the signal never ever goes below 80-85%. > I use a channel that nobody else is using around my house. > I have no wireless phones and the microwave is not being used when this > happens. > TV is off and there is nothing else going on! > It is clearly an issue with the buffer and I suspect related to the > firmware. > Try to put your Slimbox display to "buffer fullness" and just look at > it. > At a certain point, you will see the buffer emptying out for no reason; > eventually the music stops and then it tries to rebuffer; at a certain > point the buffer shows as it is full, but the box is stuck. The song > title is on the display, the buffer is full, but no music comes up. > Sometimes it just restart from the start of the song. Other times it > just crashes and reboots. > Beats me Have you posted a bug report on this? It sounds, from the limited data set here, that the SB2 may have a problem with WiFi cnnections (I'm assuming that's what you're using; I know that's what the other folks have). Since you're in the same room, have you tried a wired connection? That would help isolate a player / format / sofware problem from one with your network. -=> Jim -- JimC "well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that." -- BKlaas' college buddy JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39473 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
ML2008 uses Firebird 2.0.3 as the database back end according to http://www.codeaero.com/music-label/ne_guide.htm so some access via perl may be possible with http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbi-interbase/ but it might require a running firebird server (although I think this could be done using the instructions in the first link) Probably more effort than is required as ML2008 can export at least some of the data out in other formats. Or if the developers get their tagging working soon you might not need to bother trying to get at the database directly. As I am lazy I would probably wait for Code Aero to sort out the tagging issues rather than try and get into their database layout and work out how to import the information to the Slimserver database and it's probably different layout. I hope you at least try slimserver and softsqueeze to see if you like the way it works whilst waiting for the tagging function to be released. Regards Andrew -- brockers brockers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS As a service. With iTunes as we have iPods: multiuser -- alZmtbr alZmtbr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8773 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox stopping
I have lived with this crap for a while. I have a dedicated high performance PC for Slimserver. The connection is wireless but we are talking about the same room and the signal never ever goes below 80-85%. I use a channel that nobody else is using around my house. I have no wireless phones and the microwave is not being used when this happens. TV is off and there is nothing else going on! It is clearly an issue with the buffer and I suspect related to the firmware. Try to put your Slimbox display to "buffer fullness" and just look at it. At a certain point, you will see the buffer emptying out for no reason; eventually the music stops and then it tries to rebuffer; at a certain point the buffer shows as it is full, but the box is stuck. The song title is on the display, the buffer is full, but no music comes up. Sometimes it just restart from the start of the song. Other times it just crashes and reboots. Beats me -- mik63 mik63's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9480 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39473 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS Running SqueezeCenter on a Windows 2003 Server box that hibernates if my Transporter is inactive for more than an hour and would like to use Wake On Lan (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5092) to wake up the server. Runs as a service on startup. Music is on the same box. No iTunes. -- PSSO PSSO's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11678 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS I do not start it on boot up. First the computer starts, then I right click on the SB icon and select "start slimserver". Not sure if that answer's the question But now it sure seems like I would rather just have it start up automatically on boot up. How do I set it up that way? Also, no NAS and no iTunes. -- Zten Zten's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1810 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS Log in iTunes integration Local music Why does it matter what we think though? We are all competent enough to fix it if the default is to allow for iTunes integration. Less savvy users are more likely to be using iTunes - the default should be for them, not us. -- Cruzan Cruzan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS Runs on a server that's always on. Also, the server is set to automatically log in on a reboot (other software on the machine only runs on log in... :-( ) -- EricBergan EricBergan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4746 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming Zune Market Place
bklaas;237935 Wrote: > I find this an odd argument coming from a user called iPhone. iPhone--- reading this over it comes across like a flame, which was not my intention. Apologies if it came out that way. Merely wanted to make a point about Apple and their proprietary model. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS I run Slimserver as a service on a dedicated XP Pro box. No NAS No iTunes -- Richie Richie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=88 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming Zune Market Place
iPhone;237911 Wrote: > One only needs to know one word "Microsoft". If they are involved one > just knows to stay away. The player itself is not a bad MP3 player in > general terms. But the way Microsoft forces everybody to use it if one > wants to get the most out of it is what sucks. So if one is looking for > an expensive MP3 player that should only be used for ones own ripped WMA > files its OK. IMO one would be better off with about anything else. > Microsoft saw all the money Apple was making and wanted in on the > greed. If they had been smart they would have looked at what Apple > could not do or not allow and opened up their player, then offer 75 > cent downloads. Microsoft will never in our lifetime understand the > term open architecture or the advantage it could give them. They are > to smart for their own good and can not bring themselves to find a way > to make money off of an open system. > I find this an odd argument coming from a user called iPhone. I don't disagree with the anti-Microsoft sentiment, but the same can be said for Apple, in some ways more so. They force users to use their hardware if you want to run their OS. To my knowledge you can't mount and browse the contents of an iPod reasonably without hackware. For years they sold only tracks on iTunes store that wouldn't play on anything but iTunes or iPods. Personally, when it comes to music players, I stay away from both. #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming Zune Market Place
gtcharlie;237882 Wrote: > As much as I would like to separate the player from the MarketPlace that > doesn't seem possible. I am spending $15 a month already on Rhapsody to > Go which I really like and use to stock my two sons MP3 players. I need > my player to be compatible also. Makes sense. I actually just started playing with Rhapsody on the SB and I quite like it, not for actual music collection but for sampling things I might end up buying on CD. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS I am running Windows XP Pro, and had been running the service on start up. However, I began having intermittent problems with the sevice starting when I switched to 6.5.3 (I still have that problem in 6.5.4), so I switch to on log in. I prefer on the start up but I guess it really doesn't amke a huge difference to me at this point because I am the only user on the machine. 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=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS Boot time service on a dedicated always-on Windows Server 2003. Music stored on the same server. No NAS. No iTunes. -- DVB DVB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13707 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS Running SlimServer on a Windows Home Server box. Runs as a service on startup. Music is also stored on the same box. No iTunes. -- byKnight Really, it was like that when I got here. byKnight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7011 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming Zune Market Place
iPhone;237911 Wrote: > If somebody were really smart they would open an online music store that > offers lossless downloads for 85 cents and 128Kbps downloads for 45 > cents. They would probably corner the market on both audiophile and MP3 > online music sales. Do you think the RIAA would let anyone do that? The RIAA already thinks Apple is charging too little. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeeze box...just stopped working.
Is the screen completely blank when you unplug and plug it in again? If so, there's nothing you can really do except try replacing the power adaptor, then the Squeezebox. Get in touch with the support team http://www.slimdevices.com/su_tech.html for further hardware support... -- dean dean's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39644 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS Running an NAS. Both the NAS and Squeezebox are always on so I have not given it much thought but now you guys have me thinking about it. What are the advantages and disadvantages of both. I have my MP3 in Music Match and I also have iTunes which I only use for/with my iPhone. All my real music is on the NAS in FLAC Files. Open to suggestions. -- iPhone iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming Zune Market Place
One only needs to know one word "Microsoft". If they are involved one just knows to stay away. The player itself is not a bad MP3 player in general terms. But the way Microsoft forces everybody to use it if one wants to get the most out of it is what sucks. So if one is looking for an expensive MP3 player that should only be used for ones own ripped WMA files its OK. IMO one would be better off with about anything else. Microsoft saw all the money Apple was making and wanted in on the greed. If they had been smart they would have looked at what Apple could not do or not allow and opened up their player, then offer 75 cent downloads. Microsoft will never in our lifetime understand the term open architecture or the advantage it could give them. They are to smart for their own good and can not bring themselves to find a way to make money off of an open system. If somebody were really smart they would open an online music store that offers lossless downloads for 85 cents and 128Kbps downloads for 45 cents. They would probably corner the market on both audiophile and MP3 online music sales. -- iPhone iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS No Nas No ITunes set to startup as soon as the computer turns itself on and loads xp. -- Gibbo Gibbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Macosx trouble
I installed Slimserver 6.5.4. on a Mac G5 with no trouble. Everything worked fine. However, perl started to run amok at >78 % CPU. I tried to re-install but now nothing works. My debug log looks like this. 2007-10-25 08:06:42.5189 SlimServer strings init... 2007-10-25 08:06:42.8853 SlimServer Setup init... 2007-10-25 08:06:42.9086 SlimServer setting language... 2007-10-25 08:06:42.9089 SlimServer MySQL init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.1211 Firmware init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.1257 SlimServer Info init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.7971 SlimServer IR init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.8112 SlimServer Request init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.8232 SlimServer Buttons init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.8309 SlimServer Graphic Fonts init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.8425 UDP init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.8461 Slimproto Init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.8486 mDNS init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.8491 Async Networking init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.8826 Cache init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.8946 UPnP init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.9030 SlimServer HTTP init... 2007-10-25 08:06:44.9141 Source conversion init.. 2007-10-25 08:06:44.9175 SlimServer Plugins init... 2007-10-25 08:06:45.8439 mDNS startAdvertising... 2007-10-25 08:06:45.8779 SlimServer checkDataSource... 2007-10-25 08:06:45.8987 SlimServer persist playlists... 2007-10-25 08:06:45.9216 SlimServer done init... 2007-10-25 08:06:49.4999 ERROR: Error executing 'SELECT me.id, me.url, me.content_type, me.title, me.titlesort, me.titlesearch, me.album, me.tracknum, me.timestamp, me.filesize, me.disc, me.thumb, me.remote, me.audio, me.audio_size, me.audio_offset, me.year, me.secs, me.cover, me.vbr_scale, me.bitrate, me.samplerate, me.samplesize, me.channels, me.block_alignment, me.endian, me.bpm, me.tagversion, me.drm, me.musicmagic_mixable, me.musicbrainz_id, me.playcount, me.lastplayed, me.lossless, me.lyrics, me.rating, me.replay_gain, me.replay_peak FROM tracks me WHERE ( url = ? )': DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Unknown column 'me.thumb' in 'field list' at /Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 771. 2007-10-25 08:06:49.5003 ERROR: Backtrace follows: 2007-10-25 08:06:49.5008 Backtrace: frame 0: Slim::Schema::Storage::throw_exception (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 773) frame 1: DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::_execute (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 826) frame 2: DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::_select (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 852) frame 3: DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::select_single (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Schema/Storage.pm line 94) frame 4: Slim::Schema::Storage::select_single (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/DBIx/Class/ResultSet.pm line 509) frame 5: DBIx::Class::ResultSet::single (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Schema/ResultSet/Playlist.pm line 123) frame 6: Slim::Schema::ResultSet::Playlist::getPlaylistForClient (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Music/Info.pm line 166) frame 7: Slim::Music::Info::playlistForClient (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Player/Client.pm line 383) frame 8: Slim::Player::Client::startup (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Player/Player.pm line 252) frame 9: Slim::Player::Player::init (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Player/Squeezebox.pm line 43) frame 10: Slim::Player::Squeezebox::init (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Player/Squeezebox2.pm line 63) frame 11: Slim::Player::Squeezebox2::init (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Networking/Slimproto.pm line 848) frame 12: Slim::Networking::Slimproto::_hello_handler (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Networking/Slimproto.pm line 380) frame 13: Slim::Networking::Slimproto::client_readable (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Networking/Select.pm line 238) frame 14: (eval) (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Networking/Select.pm line 238) frame 15: Slim::Networking::Select::select (./slimserver.pl line 499) frame 16: main::idle (./slimserver.pl line 452) frame 17: main::main (./slimserver.pl line 1076) 2007-10-25 08:06:49.5014 Select task failed: Carp::Clan::__ANON__(): Error executing 'SELECT me.id, me.url, me.content_type, me.title, me.titlesort, me.titlesearch, me.album, me.tracknum, me.timestamp, me.filesize, me.disc, me.thumb, me.remote, me.audio, me.audio_size, me.audio_offset, me.year, me.secs, me.cover, me.vbr_scale, me.bitrate, me.samplerate, me.samplesize, me.channels, me.block_alignment, me.endian, me.bpm, me.tagversion, me.drm, me.musicmagic_mixable, me.musicbrainz_id, me.playcount, me
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS Boot time service. No NAS. No itunes. (btw, I really like the boot-time service functionality. My server is in the basement, and I'd rather not have to trudge down there to login after a power cycle, automatic windows update & reboot, etc.) -- jmx jmx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the
results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650
Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows?
- when the machine is booted
- when I log in to Windows
- don't know
- I'm using iTunes integration
- my music is stored on a NAS
We are currently discussing the way we want SqueezeCenter to run on
Windows by default. There's a discussion with more technical details
going on in the developers forum
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39641).
What I'm interested as well is the non-technical part: do you start
SlimServer/SqueezeCenter when the machine is booted ("as a service"),
or when you log on ("in application mode")?
When you answer, please tell us whether you're using iTunes and/or a
NAS (for storage only).
Thanks!
--
mherger
Michael
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Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
John: SS is needed to pick and choose tracks to play on the SB - so you do need to know which track is which and unless you have tags or your folders are organized a certain way, you won't know. As I indicated, SlimServer will say "1 albums with 4677 songs by 1 artists" where album = "No Album" and artist = "No Artist". It'll make choosing tracks very difficult indeed. SS will still work but choosing tracks will be next to impossible. There is some hope - can ML2008 make playlists in .m3u format? If it can, there's a chance SS can use them. However it's not a certainty, SS is picky about how it wants playlists formatted, there's no guarantee that they'll work. BTW SS is free - you can download it and try it out right now. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming Zune Market Place
As much as I would like to separate the player from the MarketPlace that doesn't seem possible. I am spending $15 a month already on Rhapsody to Go which I really like and use to stock my two sons MP3 players. I need my player to be compatible also. -- gtcharlie gtcharlie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9225 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeeze box...just stopped working.
For no reason whats-o-ever my Squeezebox has just stopped working. It's about a year and a half old, it's never been dropped, to hot, to wet, abused in any way shape or form but it's just stopped working. I'm hoping it's a fuse in the transformer anyone have any other ideas? -- tokyosexwhale tokyosexwhale's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10632 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39644 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonos getting smarter?
The 800 price has dropped here due to the announcement of the 810 I suspect. I think it's also importatnt to remember that the N800 does far more than just control music and the SB3 too. I'm no flag waver either and took ages to decide between the two systems but for me I can't see what the Sonos offers over the SB. The remote was a draw at first but I wondered how much I'd end up using it and if it would actually get in the way. With the SB you get a control with each and the other options of using laptops and PDAs etc. Radio is far more flexible with the SB (we like Last FM) and I think music searching (esp with Lazy Search) is much more advanced). That display is a real plus for us too, together with the design/style of the units. I think Sonos does what it does very well but for me it's more limited in its approach to doing so and more expensive to boot (albeit cost wasn't actualy a consideration for us). Whilst I had some initial pilot error with setting up my NAS I find SB3 works very well with it and it goes to sleep. I also get a good signal over my wireless network so Sonos having its own is not a selling point either. The big thing for mw with Sonos is ease of set up straight out the box and I think that's where they still have the edge. For those who view the remote with envy, I suspect the current beta for the SB3 will close that gap eventually. -- Empgamer 2 x SB3 1 x SoftSqueeze QNAP TS109 Pro (v.1.1.2)/ Slimserver (6.5.4) 1 x Accoustic Energy Aego M 1 x Audioengine A5 Windows XP Home on Dell XPS 600 Empgamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12652 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39623 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
