Re: [slim] Softsqueeze Question
Perfect. That is great. Thanks for your help! -- jasongilliland jasongilliland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79079 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What backup software
If I was in your position I'd use something like Nero BackITup4 Essentials which comes free with Verbatim drives. I paid £123 for a 2Tb one. You might want to consider a Windows Home Server which will host your music, make backing up of ALL your stations and do a lot more besides. -- spile spile's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37780 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79077 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where to post questions for old devices?
lbj2010;550252 Wrote: > Hi > > I've got the "original" sqeezebox from Slim devices. It's been working > perfectly until recently when it no longer will return from standby. I > suspect it due to the newest firmware update. > > Where do I post support questions for the "good old" squeezebox? > > I only find headings for the never Logitech versions. > > Thank you! Here is fine. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79103 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where to post questions for old devices?
Have you tried removing the power from it, wait a few moments then plug it back in? Worked for my SB2 that froze mid-song. Cheers! And welcome to the forums! Allan -- alZmtbr alZmtbr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8773 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79103 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Where to post questions for old devices?
Hi I've got the "original" sqeezebox from Slim devices. It's been working perfectly until recently when it no longer will return from standby. I suspect it due to the newest firmware update. Where do I post support questions for the "good old" squeezebox? I only find headings for the never Logitech versions. Thank you! -- lbj2010 lbj2010's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79103 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] HELP!!! Music scan terminated unexpectedly (Directory Scan)
The OP of this tread has a Ready NAS so different issue . Crashed scan on win is pretty much always anti-virus or similar, set them to ignore *.MYD and *.MYI files etc . Latest culprit has been MSE comodo McAffe This will be less of an issue after 7.6 (I hope) OP's very short scanner log has this for example: Code: [10-05-06 16:14:34.6720] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (333) Scanning: /Music/ä¸*ææ*/é§éºå/é§éºåååä¸çèç/Disc2/07 åæµ·å§å¨.mp3 [10-05-06 16:14:34.7028] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (345) Adding file:///Music/%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%AD%8C/%E9%84%A7%E9%BA%97%E5%90%9B/%E9%84%A7%E9%BA%97%E5%90%9B%E5%9B%9B%E5%90%88%E4%B8%80%E7%8F%8D%E8%97%8F%E7%89%88/Disc2/07%20%E5%8D%97%E6%B5%B7%E5%A7%91%E5%A8%98.mp3 to database. which sure looks weird to me , but beyond my skills figure out codepage issue ? locale of NAS ? The origin of the files and folders ? smb snafu ? What do they look like seen from a shell prompt like ssh ? -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe'Primare and Dynadio speakers (including a pair of Contour 4 ) Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Miscellaneous use: Radio (with battery) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78401 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech & Google TV
So, some thoughts - 1) IPTV in England will be dominated by Project Canvas which will get loads of free advertising from the BBC. Massive barrier to entry for Google TV. 2) Google and Logitech appear, IMHO, to be interested in completely different market segments. With the Nexus phone, Google want to appeal to hackers and tweakers, Logitech is main stream. 3) At the end of the day, once next-gen Atom CPU appear in devices like Asus netbook with Windows 7 Media Centre, these 'walled garden' IPTV boxes will dead in the water -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79007 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] HELP!!! Music scan terminated unexpectedly (Directory Scan)
rickoleum;550111 Wrote: > I don't have a solution, but a simlar thing happened to me and I'm not > quite sure why. > > Here is the readout of the "Music Scan Details" on the Information Page > > > Directory Scan (20748 of 20748) Complete 00:26:36 > Playlist Scan (9 of 9) Complete 00:00:07 > Merge Various Artists (1 of 1528) Complete 00:00:17 > Copland Conducts Copland > Music scan terminated unexpectedly (Merge Various Artists) > Total Time: 00:27:00 (Monday, May 24, 2010 / 12:15 AM) > > I would attach the scanner log file but it is huge and seems to be too > big to post. > > Any thoughts / suggestions would be appreciated. This most often is a problem with antivirus software. (and the log would be very helpful in pinning this down) Disable or uninstall your antivirus and try to scan again. If it scans successfully you know what your problem is. I now Microsoft Security Essentials has been a problem for a number of people. With some antivirus programs exceptions can be put in to make the antivirus software play well the the server software. I would encourage you to search the forums on this issue. There has been a lot of discussion about it. -- brucegrr brucegrr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3964 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78401 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech & Google TV
I believe the main issue preventing the do-all video boxes from being developed has more to do with restrictions put in place by the content owners (studios) than with technology or broadcasting companies. In the US there are "some" restrictions put in placed by the broadcasting companies (content distributors/aggregators), but the most annoying restrictions are there in order to honor their contract with the content owners. Also remember that in the US or anywhere both will be in the mix to make money and not to facilitate free content or for unlicensed content to be recorded. Video content is a lot more expensive to produce than music. Having unauthorized copies of the content compromises returns on large investments which can easily become multi-million dollar loses. Some of the restriction have to do with timing of the release of studio owned content, restrictions on time allowed for "rented" content, restrictions related to having some content being easily displayed on TV and hardware restrictions as to where the content can be stored (recorded) and played. Studios have a strict schedule and "exclusive" timed deals for the release of movies to theaters, DVDs/Blu-ray, cable companies, on-demand online/Cable services and to regular TV stations. You will rarely, if ever, see HBO having the same movie(s) as Showtime at around the same time. Studios stipulate where, how and for how long their content can be stored to be distributed for rental by any particular rental/on-demand service and for how long it can be available for play by the end users (usually 24-48 hours). If laws of some foreign countries prevent them from enforcing their licensing restriction... studios might opt to walk away rather than giving up the goose that lays the golden eggs. Television studio's content (produced by them or licensed from other studios) is mostly paid by "TV" commercials and by Cable re-broadcasting fees so the TV stations (broadcasters) do not want to cannibalize their advertisement and cable revenue by having their content available commercial-free on TV via 3rd parties unless strict rules of use are in effect. Remember what happened to Hulu on Boxee? Hulu has contracts with TV studios that allow Hulu subscribers to use their content on end user computers, but not "directly" on a TV. The Boxee box connects "directly" to the TV. When it comes to recording content the cable DVR boxes have an chip with a unique id to encrypt the content and "rarely" do these boxes have their USB or SATA ports enabled. Technically these boxes are capable of having external storage attached to them locally and remotely, but the studios stipulate that such connections be disabled unless the content recorded to the external storage is also encrypted. In other words, you can not take the hard drive of cable owned DVR and played in a different DVR even if it is the same model DVR and from the same cable company. I own a Vudu box which I believe provides the best video quality (near-blu-ray quality with HDX) and Vudu does not require a subscription. It is a pay-as-you-go service. It has a fairly large video library available for rent and/or purchase at different price levels depending on resolution quality (HDX, HD or SD). Setting up the box was a breeze. Even my older sister was able to setup her box without my help. The Vudu box guides you with voice and/or video with the setup of the box. If the sound output is not connected correctly you get graphic video instruction if the video is not connected right... you get voice instructions. If both are connected road... you get a big pull out with graphical instructions. Vudu no longer makes the Vudu box and it's now concentrating on having their software embedded in other systems (Blu-ray players and TVs). Others should learn from their video setup example. The original Vudu concept was to deliver content based on the P2P model. About 15-30 minutes of each movie in their catalog is always store in the end user box. So you get the movie to start instantly even if you have low bandwidth. When you first set it up it will take about 48 hours to get the beginning of all the movies of their catalog stored in your box. You also get other aggregated services like Pandora, myplay, youtube, on demand TV, flickr, picasa and some games from the box. But like any other box that plays studio licensed video content... they're restrictions. You do not get all the movies in HDX quality, you only have 24 hours to finish watching a rental and they don't have licensing agreements with all the studios. Now the Vudu service is moving away from the P2P model to direct streams which requires more bandwidth and they were recently acquired by Walmart... which I hate. Because of family-values and bible pushing policies WalMart has already removed the Adult content from Vudu... Not important to me... but I don't need anyone telling me what I can or can not watch. Oh yeah, they fear that your kids at home might get a
Re: [slim] HELP!!! Music scan terminated unexpectedly (Directory Scan)
I had a series of similar problems running SqueezeCenter 5.0/5.1 on WinXP. It would crash randomly during scanning, at different stages of the process. As other threads have mentioned, large emebedded artwork files seemed to be the problem. So I used a freeware program to resize all non embedded artwork files to 300x300 pixels; and in MP3 tag, deleted all embedded artwork. I guess this is fine as long as you have all the unembedded artwork files. -- neilcoburn neilcoburn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=653 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78401 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What backup software
Millwood;550067 Wrote: > If you run a unix variant (linux) there are lots of choices. I run a > raid 1 system so I have two copies n two disks on my server. Yes you have a second copy but only if one of the two drives die. If both drives die because they are in the same box, you have nothing. RAID is NOT backup, it is data access when only one drive fails. RAID only covers the simplest data access failure of a single drive. If the machine is struck by lightening, there is a fire, water damage, natural disaster, or any other unforeseen issue that strikes both drives or the whole machine; say bye-bye to ones data. Minimum backup is a second complete copy that doesn't reside on the same machine or stays powered up. Best is having a complete copy off site. Parent's homes are good for this if they live close enough or use a trusted friend. If anybody has several thousand CDs ripped, think about how much time it would take to rip them again or if you lost both the CDs and data to an act of nature. I can't overemphasize how strongly I recommend doing true backups to separate drives that do not stay attached to the server. And how having an off site solution adds to the security of ones backup plan. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79077 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where does the transcoding happen?
Seems that you (collectively) had it pretty much right all along. Turns out to have been a network switch. I replaced it and it now runs like a champ! Thanks to all. -- rfrost rfrost's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5532 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78905 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Moderator Wiki
'bump' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Special:Contributions/Xuebao) -- Soulkeeper Soulkeeper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35297 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74373 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Archos 5 Internet Table (Android) work with Squeeze
flattermann;550045 Wrote: > That works, but the WebUI is slow. > > You will have a much better experience with a specialized app. > It looks better and is much faster and more fun... :-) I agree, I use Squeeze Commander on my Android phone, as do my friends which is great when we visit each other, we all have control over the playlist. I like the WebUI for it's ease of searching, drag/drop to re-arrange the playlist, access to things like Track Stat and SQL Playlists, if you get around to creating an android tablet version it would be great if you could expand it in these areas.. particularly the two pane look of the WebUI. -- cublet Andrew. cublet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78857 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What backup software
I use DeltaCopy (uses rsync) to backup files from my Windows box to my Solaris box connected to my Unslung Linksys NSLU2 (Slug). I use rsync + ssh on the Solaris box to make off-site backups to a Slug at my parent's house. Think about this: what do you lose if a fire breaks out? In my case I lose my CDs, my computers, the Slug holding my backups. In effect I lose everything. Having an off-site backup keeps your data safe from a local catastrophe. I also use this method for digital pictures etc. -- 4mula1 SqueezeCenter 7.3.3 + Solaris 10 x86: Because everything else would've been easy! '4mula1 on Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/4mula1) 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79077 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What backup software
I also use Acronis and it's capable of doing file backups as well as image backups, you just need to select the option to backup individual files and folders. However, image backups can also be restored to new disks in the event of a disk failure (something I've had to do in the past as Acronis has saved my data from disaster a few times). -- DoomWolf DoomWolf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79077 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Softsqueeze Question
The software player which is now more regularly used is Squeezeplay, which you can get at http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.5 -- kesey Squeezebox Classic:2; Duet: 1; Boom:1; Touch:1 Server: SheevaPlug Debian Squeeze 4GB SDCard, Squeezeboxserver 7.5.1 - r30611 kesey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79079 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] HELP!!! Music scan terminated unexpectedly (Directory Scan)
I don't have a solution, but a simlar thing happened to me and I'm not quite sure why. Here is the readout of the "Music Scan Details" on the Information Page Directory Scan (20748 of 20748) Complete 00:26:36 Playlist Scan (9 of 9) Complete 00:00:07 Merge Various Artists (1 of 1528) Complete 00:00:17 Copland Conducts Copland Music scan terminated unexpectedly (Merge Various Artists) Total Time: 00:27:00 (Monday, May 24, 2010 / 12:15 AM) I would attach the scanner log file but it is huge and seems to be too big to post. Any thoughts / suggestions would be appreciated. -- rickoleum rickoleum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5801 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78401 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
