[slim] Re: Duplicated track entries when using playlists - POSSIBLE SOLUTION
I had problems with duplicated tracks, too. When I imported new CDs, recently, the related album seemed to contain each track twice. This was not the case in former times. My actual configuration is: SlimServer Version: 6.2.1 - 5157 - Mac OS X 10.4.5 (8H14) - DE - utf8 I had SlimServer configured to use iTunes (6.0.2 in the meantime), but also filled in an entry for the path to the music files: /Users/Shared/Daten/Musik, which is my iTunes music folder, too. I'm almost sure, I needed this entry in former times, but maybe the behaviour of SlimServer or iTunes has been changed or whatever. When I cleaned up the path to the music files and did a rescan of the music library, the double entries were gone. -- Olaf Olaf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4095 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19638 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeNetwork - Slimserver - SB2 prefs
kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you iPaq has an internet connection, then you should also be able to access the squeezenetwork web page. -kdf Ok, I get it. I did not realize that somehow I can control my SB2 in SN mode via the SN page. My IPAQ's home is the SS, so I would need to navigate to the SN page when my SB2's on SN. Hm... I guess what I am saying is that the SN offering should come via the normal SS skin. But I shall research the SN website - the thought had not occured to me. Thanks - ovr. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] More wireless problems with new SB2
Hi, 2 days ago I picked up one of the last SB2s, replaced my SB1, powered it up, told it all about my WLAN and off it went playing music. Walk in the park. Or so I thought. This was the first and last time this new SB2 would connect to my WLAN. I have tried everything - no joy. My story goes like half-a-dozen others on this board: o Good signal strength o Easily picks up my SSID - but won't connect (to the beam, never mind DHCP). o The firewall on the router/AP is OFF, ie no MAC filtering. o I have another SB2. Same f/w (15), identical config. No problems with that one. o I use WEP. Since there's so many other wireless devices beaming around my place, I cannot readily reconfig WEP w/o upsetting family so have not tried w/o encryption. Trust me, though, that WEP key's spot-on. o I use 3com 3CRWDR100A - spent 2 (!) hours coaxing latest f/w upgrade onto box. No difference. Arrgh! o Tried various channels, again: no difference. o Incidentally, this also implies that rebooting router makes no difference on SB2 hooking up (some other victims managed to hook up on reboot). o Plugged CAT5 into back to see whether there was life on Mars - played music right away. o Back to wireless - duff. o Wireless SB1 is back in place, playing happily :( I despair. Any other pointers? Thanks - ovr. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Negative experiences with 6.2
David Brittain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olaf wrote: (2) None of the rtsp:// (BBC) stations will play from that list. Only mms:. BBC will however play from AlienBBC (I don't normally like using that). Go figure :( This is probably because that a number of the BBC streaming urls changed recently. If you re-add the new addresses to your m3u file then these should play again. (note the playing of these streams is done through AlienBBC and not natively in Slimserver). Agreed. I have Alien installed. My troubles with the BBC are well documented in another threat but Neil Sleightholm did an awesome job getting the MPLAYER problems pinned down. There are no problems with the BBC URLs this time, mind. I went back to backups and rolled back the 6.1 installation. All's well again. I am not gonna touch 6.2 till someone tells me that the m3u/BBC mess is sorted out. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Negative experiences with 6.2
Michael Herger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (4) I use PDA and Handheld skin. The new skin has some playlist buttons on the status page which bust the right-hand margin - not good. What playlist buttons, what are they expected to do? Could you please send a screenshot (even if it is on your PC)? Sorry, Michael, cannot reproduce unless I installed 6.2 again, which I do not wish to do until the m3u/BBC problems are sorted. If you have 6.2 installed on your box, choose the Handheld skin and go to Status, I seem to recollect, then you should find two button to the right of that page. I think sthg about playlist management, but I could be wrong... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Negative experiences with 6.2
(1) I have my internet radio stations in a .m3u file. 6.2 takes the URLs but not the titles from this file. Instead of ClassicFM I get the URL displayed on my SLIMs. Step backwards... (2) None of the rtsp:// (BBC) stations will play from that list. Only mms:. BBC will however play from AlienBBC (I don't normally like using that). Go figure :( (3) Thought m/c reboot may solve problem (2). On reboot Event Log shows The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Operation `ne': no method found, left argument in overloaded package Class::DBI::Object::Has::Been::Deleted, right argument in overloaded package Class::DBI::Object::Has::Been::Deleted at /PerlApp/Slim/Buttons/Input/List.pm line 267. (4) I use PDA and Handheld skin. The new skin has some playlist buttons on the status page which bust the right-hand margin - not good. Just tried to undo the damage and roll back to 6.1 - total shambles. Get constant PERL failures. Another reboot, me thinks... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: bigger antenna improvements?
Where do I go from here? The thingy looks to me like a standard PCMCIA card. I have a few of those floating around my household. Do I just replace it? Or is there anything more clever I can do? Thanks - ovr. PS: I know it's a SB1 problem coz I can happily operate any other 802.11b device in the same locale with perfectly adequate signal strength. Don't remove the card. If it has two of the small gold antenna connectors, just try moving the black antenna cable to the other one. There aren't any other compatible wireless cards that would give different performance. Another attempt at posting this reply (GMANE appears temperamental at times): I tried the trick with reconnecting the antenna cable - no joy. Is the wireless interface not the same as in the SB2? I never opened that box but if it uses a similar but better card, could I not ask SlimDevices to send me one of those? The SB2 does not suffer from the same poor wireless reception as the SB1. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Alien BBC Garbled Sound
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have searched both the mailing lists and the forum, and this has been raised before but to my knowledge not resolved. When playing live BBC streams on AlienBBC, after a while (10-20 minutes) the sound becomes garbled - it sounds like 2 streams are being played a fraction out of time which each other. This doesn't happen when playing archive/Listen Again programmes. Incidentally, the live stream is also noticeably quieter (and muffled) than the Listen Again streams. Has anyone found a solution to this? I'm running Alien BBC v0.97, Slimserver v6.1 from about 3 weeks ago on Windows XP, and playing on both an SB1 and SB2. Well done, Neil !! I just downloaded your latest mplayer concoction (w/o kill) and eventually managed to get it going once I realized I had to re- arrange comments in slimserver-convert.conf. Radio3's been playing for the past 3 hours w/o problems. Eureka! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SlimServer 6.1.1. dies in call to time2str upon ALARM
dean blackketter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both of those errors imply some kind of corruption in the software or memory. First thing I'd do is run some diagnostics on your machine (memory test, disk test), just to be on the safe side. Just for the record, Dean: you were spot on; 1 of 4 memory clips was showing early signs of Altzheimers... :( ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] bigger antenna improvements?
Greg Klanderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When did you get your SB1? I got mine in January, and initially had problems with wireless signal strength which were solved with help from Rico at Slimdevices support. Here are the relevant emails: | That's pretty recent so I'm fairly certain your player will have the | purple colored card.. for some reason one of the sma connectors on the | card does not provide the same performance as the one on the opposite | side. Hopefully changing that will improve wireless performance for | you. | you may be able to remedy the wireless issues you are having.. use | it to unscrew the four screws on the bottom of the Squeezebox and | take the top off the unit. If there is a purple wireless card | inside, go ahead and disconnect the antenna tail from the wireless | card and reconnect it to the hole on the opposite side of the card, | farthest from the display. If the player has a white wireless card | or if you would rather send it in let me know. I got so fed up with my SB1's poor reception today that I followed the instructions above. Now I am staring at a white WLAN card with some interesting hand markings E and 1.5.6. P/N: 9514-3302ISC5 S/N: BF430461100018 Where do I go from here? The thingy looks to me like a standard PCMCIA card. I have a few of those floating around my household. Do I just replace it? Or is there anything more clever I can do? Thanks - ovr. PS: I know it's a SB1 problem coz I can happily operate any other 802.11b device in the same locale with perfectly adequate signal strength. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeNetwork - Slimserver - SB2 prefs
dean blackketter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Aug 16, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Dave D wrote: Is there a way to save the display preferences (or for that matter, other prefs) from Slimserver, out to SqueezeNetwork? Not yet, but we do plan on adding some settings synchronization between SlimServer and SqueezeNetwork in a future release. I hope readers won't mind my hi-jacking Dave's thread, but I would like to expand on this a little: I was (am) very impressed with SqueezeNetwork. But I am also one who likes to drive his SB from an iPAQ (I know the SB's display's brilliant but me eyesight's not what it used to be). And I don't like the (lack of) integration between SlimServer and SqueezeNetwork, the fact that players which are logged in to SqueezeNetwork vanish completely from SlimServer's radar. I understand that the point of SqueezeNetwork is to provide feeds in the absence of a SlimServer. It's just that mine's forever present and I'd appreciate if the two offerings could be integrated beyond a simple exchange of preferences. Bottom line: I'd like to be able to browse SqueezeNetwork from my iPAQ. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SlimServer 6.1.1. dies in call to time2str upon ALARM
dean blackketter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both of those errors imply some kind of corruption in the software or memory. First thing I'd do is run some diagnostics on your machine (memory test, disk test), just to be on the safe side. Then I'd try reinstalling SlimServer and see if it's better. Well, I only installed 6.1.1. because of the problems I have been encountering of late. So I doubt it is the s/w. It might be h/w but then why would it only affect Slim? With mem errors, I had expected the box to blue screen etc. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Alien BBC Garbled Sound
Neil Sleightholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olaf Wrote: Neil, could you leave URL to thread in mplayer community?Olaf, if you check back through this thread you should see a link. Neil Apols, Neil, for duplicate entry but for reasons I do not understand GMANE took 4 (!) days over posting the original message. I thought it had been lost in transit and reposted... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SlimServer 6.1.1. dies in call to time2str upon ALARM
My SB failed to wake me this morning because the SlimServer had died on my XP box, leaving the following msg in the event log The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Undefined subroutine Slim::Web::HTTP::time2str called at /PerlApp/Slim/Web/HTTP.pm line 1163. This happened exactly at the time that my alarm was scheduled to go off. Please advise. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Alien BBC Garbled Sound
Neil Sleightholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have reported on the mplayer developers forum and someone appears to have had some sucess reproducing it but still no fix yet. Neil, could you leave URL to thread in mplayer community? I am a little frustrated that I still cannot listen to the BBC. Thanks. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SlimServer 6.1.1. dies in call to time2str upon ALARM
dean blackketter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this happen every time that your alarm goes off? I wish it was that simple, Dean. No, it does not happen every day. But I am having no ends of trouble with SS since I installed the last MS security updates. SS has since become notoriously unreliable to start on reboot. I'd say that in about 50% of all start-ups (had such a case just now), I get The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Perl interpreter failed. I know that other folks had this message before and I have not seen a solution for this issue on this forum yet. These PERL errors are driving me barmy. SS used to be fairly dependable but recently it's been all but wife-friendly :( ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Alien BBC Garbled Sound
Neil Sleightholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm afraid this hasn't been resolved. I believe it is an mplayer issue but haven't had time to try and debug the problem. Neil Just to add to the chorus: I have the same issue. This problem is new on 6.0.2/0.97 - did not occur with previous version. I needed to upgrade when SB2 came along - now I cannot listen to BBC anymore. May I encourage you to research this with some haste ;| ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Feature request: Brightness timer
tgoldstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Check out the Auto Display plugin on the slim devices plugins page. It might be what you are looking for. It will turn on or off the display at a set time. I use it to turn the display off at night in my bedroom as the display is too bright to sleep by but on again in the morning so I can see the time. It could be tweaked to just dim the display to a lower level also rather than turning completely off. http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_plugins.html The same problem's been bugging me with all sorts of illuminated display gadgets, SB2 being a case in point. While the s/w solution might go some way to addressing the problem for some sleepless souls, I would still request a h/w solution: what I would like is an ambient light sensor in the SB itself; I would then like to be able to set the display brightness as a % gain on the light sensor's reading. I don't just have problems with strong display intensity at night. In the mornings I have got the sun right on the display, and I can't see a thing. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: integrating FM radio...
lostboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14056 For what it's worth: I think that there are very tempting reasons why one might want to pick music from the air BUT ... I tried it for a while with DABBar, and while it works in some fashion (channel switching is painfully slow - a problem you may have less of using FM (less buffering)), there is one inescapable limitation: you only have ONE tuner. And your family will invariably want to listen to different stations on their SBs... Internet streaming, while generally of poorer quality, is FAR easier. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Output gain on SB1
Another message on volume control just prompted me to post a problem I have since upgrading to SlimServer 6.0, which dumped some new f/w on to my old SB1: I use my SB1 to drive a pair of powered speakers via the headphone out. Before the f/w upgrade, the volume control covered a reasonably wide db spectrum on the speakers. Post the upgrade, this range has materially narrowed. Is there a way of configuring the voltage gain per volume increment? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] song-info gone since v6.0b1?
I wonder, if this is a known bug or if it's caused by some misconfiguration of my Slim Server (on Mac G4 Cube with Mac OS X 10.3.8 running): Since v6.0b1 it's still possible to remote control the Squeezebox via Salling Clicker (with mobile phone), but the phone display shows a message No device found and no info about song etc. at all, altough you can fast forward, stop etc. Also, it' s not possible to display the status of the Squeezebox (played song and artist) in iChat via iChatStatus-AppleScript. Moreover, there seems to be some trouble with SlimServMon since v6.0b (found a posting on the web) I looked at the event protocol of the AppleScript. The script does the following: It tells the shell to connect to the specific player curl -u Quetsche:Radio -i http://192.168.42.2:9000/status.txt?player=00:04:20:05:23:02 and tries to read the currently played song and artist name out of the answer of the slimserver. But the answer ist simply: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:03:54 GMT Content-Length: 18 Content-Type: text/plain Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Refresh: 30; url=status.txt HASH(0xe44d34) no song info anymore... . Any idea to this issue? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
