Re: [slim] Transporter toslink output
Yes, that is what the Transporter does for DTS files which I have converted to FLAC. And yes volume has to be set to 100% so nobody tries to alter the gain. IIRC There was an option to do fixed output at 100% just not sure where it is anymore, but since the DTS files play music not white noise it must be set properly. As background, many years ago When Slim Device was starting up, a did work with them on controlling Slim Server and the players. I have 2 Squeezebox classics, 1 Squeeze Boom, 1 Squeeze Duet, and 1 Transporter. The Transporter and the Duet is in my Home Theater. The Duet plays throughout the house and the Transporter only in the Theater. When not in the tehater I use Squeezepad on an iPad or iPend on an iPhone to control the local (room based) player. SlimServer runs on a Win 10 always on, platform, and the music files are on an Unraid NAS. The Theater and all components are controlled by a small PC (Asrock Bee Box) which is controlled by a Philips Pronto 9800 (Via Wi-Fi) as the Human Interface. The Theater is a full Dolby Atmos configuration (7.4.1). All things in the house run on the house LAN Which is a gigabyte LAN except for the mobile devices. When playing music in the theater the Pronto has a page that fully controls the Transporter using the CLI and HTTP interfaces to Slim Server. The Theater has a screen that displays what is playing, and the 9800 can show the Server lists (e.g. Artists, Albums, Current playlist) and allow for control over them. The Squeezebox in the Master bedroom uses the headphone output (configured for IR, IIRC) to drive a small circuit which turns on the amplifier whenever the Squeezebox is powered on. The speakers in that room are Shehenian Obelisks which I considered the best music speakers for the money when I bought the 30+ years ago. They still sound superb, but that may be my ears. My problem is, at my age I forget things, especially when they work all the time. I just changed the Audio/Video processor (Anthem AVM 60) and did not like the sound of the transporter playing Flac stereo files. I just did a comparison between using Toslink (Anthem does DAC operations) vs. Analog (Transporter DAC does decodin) and cannot hear any difference (old ears again?. So in a very Pragmatic sense I am happy. barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109714 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transporter toslink output
Thanks for the reply. I have my Transporter connected to an Anthem AVM 60 over Toslink. I do have some DTS 7 track recordings (all my music is stored as FLAC files, but two different directories (DTS vs Stereo) I have been thinking as to whether it would be better to feed the Anthem over analog cables for the stereo and tell it to just pass through the signal. For the DTS mterial I believe I need to use the digital output to get the encoded channels decoded to all 5 or 7 channels. My problem is that the sound is not where I expect it to be quality wise. Then again i will soon be 80 years old and might just be me aging ears. barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109714 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Transporter toslink output
Does the Toslink output on the Transporter and other squeeze devices pass the D/A conversion and just provide the digital file that is being read from the server? barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109714 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What should be in the next version of SqueezePad ?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 Question: Whats your highest priority ? - More images of your music collection - Playlist management - Syncing Players Variation A - Syncing Players Variation B - MySqueezebox.com Integration - TrackStat Ratings - Caching of Album + Artist Lists - Album Art Only Screen - Better Search - Something else - Please do the poll with different options ! Hi Stefan, I have multiple players and Squeezepad runs on my gen 2 iPad. I recently bought an Amazon Echo which will connect to my iPad over Bluetooth. The Echo supports AVRCP (Audio Video Remote Control Protocol). If you could support that protocol on Squeezepad then I should be able to control whatever player Squeezepad is attached to by speaking to the Echo. The Echo will handle things like Play, Pause, Next, Previous, stop, resume, restart. That would be a great feature as the Amazon Echo is really taking off. I have no idea what is involved in getting control from the iPad kernel to field the commands transmitted over Bluetooth AVRCP. Amazon claims the Echo will control any player running on the iPad, but Squeezepad is a little different as in my case it is not playing the music on the ipad, but rather controlling a squeeze player. I know there is a way to have Squeezepad play on the iPad itself and was going to see if the Echo could control that, but I don't remember how to do that as it is not in the Player list. I never use the iPads to play music from the Squeeze server as the audio quality is terrible. barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
I sent you an eMail on this same subject. The latest version(s) of Squeezepad treat the volume control differently than prior versions based upon whether the audio of the player is set to a fixed volume or not. The action when not a fixed volume is the desired action and is what Logitech has implemented for both scenarios in its app. When set to a fixed volume, which is needed for encoded material such as DTS tracks, The current implementation only allows for tapping the end points of the volume slider and even then it is a very sporadic operation. The action when not set to a fixed volume allows dragging with a very smooth result. There should be no difference. Logitech (actually Slim Systems) went out of their way several years ago when I was working with them on encoded music tracks. The intent was to have a complete pseudo volume available so that the values could be used to control an audio processors volume. That still operates correctly. What is not working is the adjusting of the volume when set to fixed volume. In fact it is just the implementation of the taps instead of the smooth drag that is causing me the problem. It seems that if the volume is set to its prior value (last session), then the first tap seems to reset it to cause the server to issue a pseudo volume of 100%. Good thing I have Max volume limits set in my Audio processor!!! Until this is fixed I can not use Squeezepad to play encoded music. barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
I use the XAP plugin which does UDP broadcasts from the Squeeze Server so that any system listening on the LAN can react to what the Squeeze server is doing. There are messages for volume state, mute state, time remaining on the track, song changes, cover art etc. I just use the ones for Power and volume. Since my Theater which is also my High End Audio listening room is controlled by a PC (which is controlled by the iPad and Pronto's) it was logical to have the PC control the Audio processor based on XAP sequences. It was very nice using the slider to be able to use a gesture and listen to the volume smoothly change in real time to the desired value. The Logitech SqueezeBox app for the iPad does it just that way, but it is not quite as nice as the Squeezepad overall. barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] softsqueeze 3.7
Can I run softsqueeze automatically on the same PC that squeezecenter is on? I would like to just put a shortcut to it in windows startup. SqueezeCenter 7.3.3 is running as a service. When I do this it seems to start but does not seem to connect to SqueezeCenter. It does not seem to react to clicks on the pseudo remote I would also like to be able to run it minimized. I have set the correct properties in the shortcut but whenever I start it it always as a normal screen as opposed to minimized. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65840 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] sound quality
Chenrikson, Thanks for the plug. I have sold over 200 of the Pronto control system (very low price). Many, especially in Europe, have bought into the Slim Solution because of that application for the Pronto. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62713 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] sound quality
If you email me or send me a pm with your email address I will send you what I call the purchase kit. It contains the complete manual with many screen snaps, the license agreement and how to buy it. The price is $29.95 via paypal. That does not include the Pronto, just the software for a Pronto. If you already have a Pronto PRO then tell me the model so I can send you the correct package -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62713 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] sound quality
My assumption is that if I play my music out of the optical connection on any Slim Devices player there should be no difference in sound as DAC quality of the player does not come into it. Am I correct in that assumption? That is, a $2000 Transporter and a $120 Receiver should sound exactly the same as far as their optical outputs are concerned. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62713 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] sound quality
Perhaps I wasn't being clear. Lets forget about the Audio chain after the player for the moment. Will the exact same digital stream be put out by all of the players to their digital outputs i.e. optical or coxial. I guess that is my question. I own every type of player that Slim Devices sells, but I have very old ears. In theory however, in the configuration I am discussing, the DAC's in the player should not be used. There should just be a digital format conversion from FLAC to LPCM out of the digital output, or am I missing something? If it is just a format conversion then all digital outoputs should be the same. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62713 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] sound quality
Okay guestions bring answers and ansers bring more questions. I understand about the 24/96 vs 16/48, but other than that... Addressing the connector - so what. It is a digital stream. If all the bits get transmitted with negligible jitter ( a whole other discussion, as I do not believe in it at the rates we are talking about) who cares what the connector or medium of transfer (photons vs electrons) is. Why/how can it make a difference. I am a digital (hardware and software) engineer with 47 years in the field before I retired, So I know that subject fairly well. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62713 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] sound quality
dsdreamer, thank you for the very well constructed and intelligent reply (no denigration to other replies intended). Yes with clock reconstruction as you indicated, there is the case for some waveform edge jitter, but as I said I have old ears so maybe I just waste money on my toys. The downstream audio is handled by the new Cary Cinema11A which IMHO has a superb sound and is fed into an outlaw 7 channel amp into 7 acoustically matched BW speakers. Bass is done by a Velodyne servo sub. I do have a large collection of ripped DTS tracks and some very high end multichannel audio from some of the smaller labels. I buy DTS multichannel CD's whenever I can. I do use the Transporter in the Music room/theater, Squeezeboxes in the master bedroom and for whole house audio, a receiver for the guest bedroom and a squeezebox for the pool deck. All music is controlled by a set of Pronto PRO remotes running an application that provides full control and full visual feedback from the Squeezecenter of all players. Once again, thanks to all who replied. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62713 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Setting Up receiver without controller
SlimPronto asks SqueezeCenter what players it knows about and then pulls the key info for each player from SqueezeCenter. SlimPronto Knows what Squeezecenter knows. No less, no more. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48341 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Advice on Universal remote - Pronto?
There is a full implementation of a SqueezeCenter remote available for the Philips Pronto TSU9600. A new version is about to be released which has full dynamic cover art and Internet radio. A version for the TSU9400 is about a month away. It runs with SC 7.x It uses TCPIP over wifi and the SlimServer CLI interface along with HTTP for certain operations. Contact me if you want more info ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Strange problem
I am transitioning to SC7 but decided to put SS 6.5.4 up on another machine as a backup. Well for some reason it (6.5.4) will not let me select a file on the server which is running SC 7.0 When I configure the path just as I did before (\\server\music) where Music is a named share it keeps stating that it ... does not seem to be a valid directory. same issue for \\server\music\playlists. I had installed it the other day on the same machine with no issues, efrencing the server for its music. I can not figure out what has changed. I can access the music share as \\server\music from any PC on the newtork. I cleared everything out (Uninstall and erased the slimserver directory and re installed- same thing! Any Help Appreciated! -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40074 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver Problems running on Windows Vista
Trying to use SlimServer running on a Vista machine controlling it through the CLI interface. Having problems making it work. Vista firewall disabled. McAfee firewall enabled. Softsqueeze works. As soon as CLI based device connects on 9090 slim server or somebody sends a TCPIP socket close. Just opened 9092 as Slimserver mySQL needs that, but have not yet tried it out. Any thoughts advice help appreciated. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32578 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Pronto PRO Slim Server Controller
go to www.the-gordons.net. Hunt around (it is easy, go to bottom of first page) When you find what you are looking for, read the rules and send me an email stating that you have read the rules and agree to them. I will then send you the xcf. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37827 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] CLI and zap
I am using the CLI interface over TCPIP SlimServer version 6.5.2 I send a zap command for an entry in the now playing queue(e.g playerid playlist zap 5) I have listen turned on. I get back the echo of the command as I expected, followed by a slim server message stating that the song I just zapped has been deleted just as if I did a delete command of the same index number, followed by a status (to which I have subscribed) showing the now playing queue count down by 1. I was under the impression that a zap of a single song did not delete it from the now playing queue, but just made an entry to the zapped list. Is the behavior I am seeing correct? Is there a setting that controls this behavior (zapped song is deleted from NPQ) ? Just want to understand -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37885 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Pronto PRO Slim Server Controller
I wasn't sure where to post this as it is not a plugin, it is not a mod, and it does not fit the tone of DIY; so here it comes. I hae been working on setting up my house so that the Pronto PRO will be the only Remote in the house. I am almost there. There are three main areas I am concerned with: (1) Theater: Replacement of the IR based iPronto with the TCPIP based Pronto PRO with no Extenders in the loop. The theater is controlled by a PC and the PC talks to the Pronto PRO over TCPIP doing in effect IR Emulation (2) Music; A fully mobile control system for the Slim Players which run with Slim Server, their companion Music server software. The control system must allow me to do selection (multiple ways) and full control over what is playing with a reasonable graphic interface.It must be usable from anywhere in the house including the pool area as one of the players drives the whole house music system. (3) Control of the Homeseer System which runs lighting, HVAC, CallerID, Security, the Pool, and a myriad of other subsystems to provide full ouse control I am well along and have had some excellent support and help in the graphics and testing area from LowPro. I decided to share some pics of the music control system. These are digital photos, and photography is not one of my strong points The Main screen is the initial screen of the activity where you select which player you want to deal with. The select screen allows you to select what is to go into the Now Playing List. You can do it by artist, album, genre, saved playlists and songs. The Info screen shows you the Now playing list which you can edit, the Now Playing song and the next up song along with the modes of the player (repeat, shuffle, sleep). It is dynamically updated by the server as things change (there is actually a song progress bar that is updated every 2 seconds or so); and if the Pronto goes to sleep (happens a lot when I listen to my music as I am often reading, or I doze off) it fully recovers the current state as soon as the pronto wakes up. LowPro is a stylus man and I am a button man so there are configuration options for how you want the system to operate. In general both the Stylus and buttons are provided for. The Icon on the upper left corner is a picture of the Slim Devices Squeezebox and shows system status, going as far as an animated marquee display when playing a song. I am distributing this activity (needs a little more tweaking) but only on request and with a very simple set of rules. If you are interested drop me a line. I will answer questions on how I did things and the prontoScript is not too hard to follow once you get the hang of the model I use. +---+ |Filename: Select Screen small.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3159| +---+ -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37827 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] ZAP and CLI
I have searched the threads on information on zapped, digested it all and am still confused. Help appreciated. I send a ZAP command over the CLI interface. SlimServer places a refrence to the zapped song into the zapped playlist and then deletes the zapped song from the curent now playing list. It is that last part that confuses me. I thought it just placed it into the zapped playlist so you could use the zapped playlist as a holder of songs you needed to review etc without them being removed from the current playlist. is there an option to do what I want (not remove the zapped song from the playlist) or is the behvior fixed as I have observed it. reply appreciated. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37662 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Philips Pronto PRO
My effort for a complete control system for Slim Server and Slim devices using the Philips Pronto PRO has just about finished beta testing. It functions on the Pronto PRO (TSU9600) running in a wireless (Wi-Fi) environment and supplies two way control/feedback to control Slim Device players. At this time it does not support the construction and editing of playlists, leaving that up to the WEB interface. It provides a fully graphic interface with stylus and/or hard key control depending on the users choice. The initial screen searches and discovers all players and then allows the user to select the player to deal with. Setting options allow automatic selection of a player. The second screen shows the status of the selected player (Sleep, Shuffle, Repeat, Now Playing (Title, Artist, Album, Genre), Next Up (Title, Artist, Album, genre), song duration, Queue position, time remaining and the current play list. All of the obvious controls are provided (Stop, Play, Next, Prior, Pause, Browse, GoTo, and Playlist traversal. The third screen provides for selection of what is to be played by artist, album, genre, playlist. General filtering is not provided. If you have a good Wi-Fi setup in your home, this control system will run any and all of the slim players from anywhere in the house, or of you are geeky enough and know what you are doing from any wi-fi point in the world. Unfortunately, while you can control the players from Morocco hearing the music in Morocco is a bit of a different problem. If you are interested in a copy contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no charge, but there are some rules regarding use and distribution. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37552 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transporter Question.
ceejay;209724 Wrote: Presuming you mean 6.5.2 not 8.5.2, which will doubtless have all sorts of wonderful properties we can only dream of... :) I have a slightly earlier version, so its possible something broke between mine and yours, but its odd that no-one else has noticed this (I can't see anything relevant in bugzilla, except relating to Rhapsody use). At the risk of being a bit too basic, can you confirm the exact steps you are taking? - you are connected to your local slimserver - you select Browse - Artist - scroll to an artist (Sting) - press play result - you get the tracks from just one of the three albums that you have, not all three. If thats the case, could you try this with some other artists - do you get the same effect? If you've followed the steps above and its true for all artists, then it does start to sound like a bug. If so, before you report, you should download and try the latest nightly 6.5.3 which has all the latest fixes in it. HTH Ceejay sorry on the typo. Yes to all of your points. I will proboably try 6.5.3 and if still not right will report it as a bug -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36195 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transporter Question.
Im running SlimServer 8.5.2 12003 and Transporter 31 Any help appreciated -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36195 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Transporter Question.
When going through the transporter manual it states that if you press Play while displaying Genre, artist, or album; transporter plays all of the songs for the displayed artist, album, or genre. My transporter does not do that. If I press Play while set to the artist Sting for which I have three albums for a total of 32 songs, it only queues up one album - 9 songs. I also noticed an entry for All Songs under the list of albums for the artist. Pressing play while displaying all songs does indeed queue up all the songs for that artist. Is the software wrong and will it be fixed, or is the documentation wrong. I really would prefer it to operate the way it is documentd. Any body know the answer? -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36195 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] running multiple servers on same machine
My problem situation. My music library consists of DTS CD's ripped to FLAC in a folder E:\Music\DTS, and regular audio CD's ripped to MPG in a folder named E:\Music\MPG. If I am Listening in the Theater/Music room through the Transporter, I want the DTS music available so the Server has as it's library location E:\Music. The Theater/Music Room audio processor handles DTS and other encoded formats. If I am listening in the House in general or the Master Bedroom I wish to exlude the DTS encoded FLAC files since the Audio system for those areas does not handle encoded streams, but rather analog 2 channel stuff (It is background music). Putting a DTS file into an analog audio system just results in a load Hissing sound. To eliminate the DTS encoded files the only thing I have come up with (not yet done, just thiking about it) is to run 2 servers one using the library at E:\Music and the other the Library at E:\Music\MPG. Can I run two Slim Servers on the same machine? If so How? Is there another way that I am not seeing to do what I need? Any and all help appreciated. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34462 ___ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] running multiple servers on same machine
I have a bad habit, first I post then I search/research I see this question has been discussed but I see no definitive reolution. I see refrences to bug 3591 and 3592 which seem to be closed. In my home The slim players (one transport and one squeezebox) are controlled by software running on PC's. In the music room there is a large screen display in HD of what is going on (albums, playlists, what is playing, state, etc.) In the house in general each room has an in wall touch screen which has the same info and can control the player. All touch screens except the one in the Master bedroom control the Transporter, the Touchscreen in the Master Bedroom controls the squeezebox located there. This means we almost never touch the players, but rather control them through the automation interfaces I have built. I have plenty of room on the House Music server to run multiple Slim Servers. Ideally I would like to run different server names with either different ports (binding multiple IP's to a single NIC) or different server names with the same IP's but different port addresses. Is this possible? Is anyone doing it? If so, How did you do it? -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34462 ___ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
I have added some features to enable Playlist construction and fixed some bugs. The current version is at my web site (www.the-gordons.net). There is now an expand command to expand any library listing (eg artists) down to songs so they can be selectively added to the playlist. Ther is also now a screensaver that is a standard windows screensaver that will show you what is currently playing. In addition if the player is off it displays the cover art stored in the library as thumbnails. The only major issues reported are a failure when slim server is not running on a Windows system (I feel this is a Slim Server issue as it crashes with certain CLI sequences) and an issue with displaying diacritical marks in UTF-8 Feedback appreciated. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
ceejay;177449 Wrote: Hello One question and one suggestion: - would someone like to comment in a compare and contrast sort of way how this compares with Moose, which superficially does the same thing? - Barry: if/when you think this is ready for general use you might want to list it at http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginRemoteControls Ceejay I did not know about Moose although it was mentioned to me. I will ist it as you suggest in a couple of days. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
Skunk et al., FAT Gooey is completely separate from my Home Automation system. They just have a lot of code in common (the main TCP/IP code and command handling) The program should run on anything that runs VB6. That is what it is written in. It needs the socket controls from Windows/System and some others most of which may be in Win CE. I did not do Drag drop but I have implemented something that should meet your needs (see Expand in the new version I just posted). When I do the screen saver it will basically look like the top frame, plus a copy of the artwork floating around the screen. That is how it appears in my HT so I have most of the code. The new version makes a lot of cosmetic changes, eliminates the use of the font Arial Narrow (Uses Arial). I may go back to Arial Narrow but set all of the text boxes to be sized for Arial since if Windows can not find Arial Narrow it uses Arial. It adds a command called expand which will expand a selected artist, album or Genre to a song list for movement of individual songs to the Cureent Play list. The Library list now allows for multiple selections (shift for range selection and control for item select/deselect) to simplify Add. Let me know what you think -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
I was not sure where to put this so I decided to try here. I just finished a program which provides a Windows Graphical interface to control players connected to Slim Server. The program communicates only with Slim Server and does not communicate with any player. It is reasonably fast with what I consider to be a rich interface. others may disagree. I am not a graphic artist. The program has been tested on a network with two players (Transporter and Squeezebox)running under Windows XP Pro SP2. There is no reason why it should not run on any Windows system as it uses no XP specific capabilities. The program is fully documented and is available both as a full installation package and a set of files. The program resides on my web site www.the-gordons.net. Seek and Ye Shall Find. Feedback and comments appreciated. Please - READ THE DOCUMENTATION. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
Skunk;177376 Wrote: Hi Barry. Using Win2k with zone alarm firewall, I'm not able to get past Initialization due to: 2/3 19:26:15 TCP Socket Error Fired * Connection is forcefully rejected; SocketState=9 (Error) Same result with Zone alarm off. Sorry if it's covered elswhere or a basic networking ?. Thanks, and great work- in advance! SkunK, That message says that the server refused the connection. Please check the ini file server IP address to ensure that it is correct. I am assuming you changed the IP address in the file to yours. In my world, all of the equipment is on my side of the firewall, NAT. If you can get to the slim server from you players and they are on the same network as the app, we have a stumper. The CLI port is 9090 your host of SLIM Server must have that port available to be connected to. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
To the fellows having problems: Did you download the installation package or just the files. I just took a look and the installation package includes a couple of programs for Windows that I thought were on every system but perhaps not. In particular: mswinsck.ocx SocketX.OCX which have to do with socket operations. If you did not try the installation version please do and let me know if that solves the problem. If you did use the installation version then I need to do more homework. Once an installation is done, then updates can just be of the exe. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
To all my beta helpers. I really appreciate the help. As you can imagine It works fine for me, I lost my arrogance many years ago. Writing code for others to use can be so humbling. F Brooks (a major player in the software world at one time), said that the difference in cost between a program, something only its author can use, and an application something anyone can use is ten fold. Skunk: Please send me your ini file, I want to check some things. I assume you have just one player, but the player is not selected in the players list which is wrong. On seeing only one player it should select it in the players list and therefore the screens should expand. dd: hmmm, do not see why yet. If you can run a test, send me your ini file and the full diaglog file. It rebuilds it whenever FAT Gooey starts. my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
Skunk, I updated the web site (Files download only not the installation package) with a new version. It should fix your problem (so far). What kind of system are you running the slim server on? Windows or other? If other what kind? It seems Fat Gooey crashes slim server for those not running on a windows machine. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
Skunk, Also I see the text is not fitting well. Do you have the Arial Narrow fonts installed? I guess they are not as common as I thought they were. I need to look at the sizing of text and the fonts I select. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
yes I had a badly formatted piece of code. The version on the web site (files) fixes it. I will also reWork all of the text to use Arial as opposed to Arial Narrow. I like Arial Narrow as long text then shows up, but no big deal. probably post it tomorrow. I am going to take a break and catch up on some TV. Need to do a lot tomorrow before Super bowl as SO comes home tomorrow. -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server
Skunk, I will add a revisions log to my web site as I make changes. I will look at the exit issue, did not notice that on my system, but then again I never looked(:-) I am changing the font from arial narrow to arial and resizing the text and label windows. I assume you have Arial as that is what your system defaulted to when it did not see Arial Narrow. On my Theater system it does handle Album art so I have the code, but only shows it when the screen saver (which I have not ported over yet)is operating. What would you like done with album art? Thumbnails instead of a list when viewing albums in the library frame? I did that for my DVD's but then found most people just wanted to see the titles with the ability to show a detailed infor screen on the DVD. I could do that for the CD, providing the tracks have full tags with all the info. In my DVD system I (actually DVD profiler) pull all info from a DVD database. With regard to the playlists and drag/drop anything is possible. I assume you would like to be able to pull up albums (filtered) expand to songs/tracks and then drag/drop? Right now you can add to the Current Play List Whole albums or all content of an artist), re arrange it (move delete) and then save it. I guess expanding a selected item in the library would be a good start. I will do that next week -- barrygordon barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
