[slim] Re: First sec of song getting clipped off
Jacob Potter;165182 Wrote: Some people are experiencing this issue with Apple Lossless, yes, but not all of them.I believe the problem has been tracked to the mov123 executable, although nobody has yet figured out WHY the executable should be experiencing this because it is a simple wrapper to the QT library calls. Although I have not yet verified this, the alac executable which is now used to play ALAC files should not experience this issue. Anyone playing ALAC files with the mov123 executable will experience it. Similarly, since AAC is played using mov123, it will also experience it. To solve this issue, either mov123 needs to be fixed (somehow!) or needs to be entirely replaced (like was done with the alac executable). -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23668 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Apostrophe in song title causes duplicate listing?!
turmon, this may very well be the case. I was going to reply and disagree with you because I have the exact same setup on my G4 tower where this duplication is not occurring... but I realized that my setup there is subtly different in exactly the way you're posting. Specifically, on the G4 tower, my files are stored on an external hard disk, /Volumes/LACIE/Music ... however, my home directoy music folder (/Users/cepheid/Music) is *NOT* aliased to the external drive. Instead, I have told iTunes (via Preferences) where to store the music, but I still allow it to store its database and other info in the usual home directory music folder. In SlimServer, I have told it to use iTunes and specified that my music folder is /Users/cepheid/Music, which has NO music files so there can be no duplicates if indeed SlimServer is behaving the way you surmise. On my laptop where this duplication bug IS occurring, my music is in /Users/cepheid/Music and both iTunes and SS are accessing it there, so it's very possible that this is why the duplication occurs there and not on the tower. I have been too lazy to submit this to bugzilla but it looks like perhaps I should, since this seems like it could affect pretty much anyone who uses both iTunes and SS on a Mac. (Incidentally, the reason that my home music folder isn't aliased on the tower is because SS refuses to start up if the folder specified as the Music folder in SS is an alias... SS doesn't seem to like aliases. I have not tried using a symlink rather than an alias, though from your post I guess that appears to work.) -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25388 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: First sec of song getting clipped off
Jack Coates;128548 Wrote: Based on the rest of the messages in this thread, it seems like the relevant information is actually downstream of the SB, rather than upstream to the computer running SS... I might agree if everyone were using digital output from the SB and this could be attributed to processing delay in the receiver. I, however, am using the analog output, and therefore I don't see any way how anything downstream from the SB could cause this clipping so consistently. I am quite confident the problem resides somewhere in the SlimServer package, most likely in the mov123 executable. I realize that mov123 is just a simple wrapper to the Quicktime API but that is the only consistent software between all of the people who report this bug. People who have switched to the 'alac' executable report that it solves the problem (and this is the current official fix as reported on bugzilla). It's weird that this bug would occur with a wrapper to the API but not with a native API call (e.g. from iTunes), but that's the way it appears... -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23668 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Beginning of each song cut off -- gapless playback doesn't work anymore!
This has been covered in a number of other threads... search for ALAC and delay or gap. For example, see this thread. FYI this is bug #2095 on bugzilla, which is considered fixed for the 6.5 release (they switched to the 'alac' executable instead of 'mov123'). I haven't tried 6.5 yet (waiting for official release), but if this doesn't solve your problem, please post back. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27251 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate song listing again
Andreas, do all of the duplicate songs have an apostrophe or quote mark in the song title, album title, or artist name? I have been seeing duplication caused by apostrophes... Given that you have 5000 songs repeated, it's unlikely to be the same as my problem, but I thought I'd suggest it. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27211 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Mac networking question: ethernet and wireless together?
You might try putting the Built-In Ethernet on TOP of the port priority list, with Airport underneath. OS X allows multihoming but I don't know how you can tell applications to use a specific port, i.e. I don't know if there's a way (and if so, how) to tell your web browser to use the Airport but to tell SlimServer to use the ethernet interface. There may be a way to do that but instead you can try letting OS X do the multihoming for you. Make the ethernet port the higher priority interface. This SHOULD make SlimServer use ethernet instead of Airport. However, an application trying to connect to the outside world should default to Airport because there will be no response on the ethernet interface for WAN-bound packets. Be aware that this may cause an initial slowdown for your WAN-accessing applications (e.g. web browser, email client, etc.) the first time they make a connection, because they will have to wait for a timeout on ethernet before trying the Airport. Of course, I could be wrong about all of the above, but it's worth a shot... see whether it helps. Also, try Googling for OS X multihoming and see what you find. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26554 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer on Mac-Waking Up Server
No, I believe the problem is that browser access can't wake the computer. To wake a sleeping computer, the ethernet port has to receive a magic packet that wakes it up, a.k.a. the wake-on-LAN packet. The Squeezebox is configured to send such a packet, hence it can wake a sleeping computer. Web browsers do not send the magic packet, however, so if you're trying to access a sleeping computer, it will not respond. Essentially, you cannot wake the server via simple browser access. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26044 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer on Mac-User Switching
I can verify that yes, this works. I have SS running on my wife's Mac, set to launch at startup. It works whether or not I'm logged in. If you want to launch SS whenever you log in or manually, you can also do this... Fast User Switching will not affect it as long as you are logged in (or SS is set to launch at startup). -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25905 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Apple Lossless Files Delay on Playback
Richard, This issue has been reported by others as well. It is officially listed as bug #2095 in bugzilla - please go vote for it! The other relevant threads are this one and this other one. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25849 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem with Apple Lossless
dnighorn Wrote: I know that I've seen this reported before and there may be a solution. You've seen it before (specifically in this thread and this other thread). There *may* be a fix, specifically replacing the mov123 executable with alac, but this fix breaks other things and is really much more of a workaround than a fix. This is bug 2095 on bugzilla... vote for it. =) We're still waiting on the full fix. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25687 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.1 now on the downloads page?
Speaking of duplicate entries... anyone seen this thread? This bug hasn't yet been reported on bugzilla since I haven't had any confirmations about it... input would be great if others have seen this. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Apostrophe in song title causes duplicate listing?!
An update to this: This bug occurs when an apostrophe is in *any* of the following tags: song title, artist name, album title. SlimServer shows duplicate listings for any song that has an apostrophe in any of the above. The prime example was something like Everybody's Changing by Keane on the Hopes and Fears album. But, the same duplication happens with ALL songs by Guns 'n' Roses, for example, regardless of song or album title. Similarly, all songs on Billie Holiday's Billie's Best album are duplicated, regardless of song title. Also note that duplication only occurs once per song, regardless of the number of apostrophes, i.e. even if there are multiple apostrophes in the song title (or apostrophes in multiple fields like song title and album title), the song is still listed exactly twice. Anyone with more info and/or a fix for this? I'll probably post this in bugzilla soon. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25388 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Apostrophe in song title causes duplicate listing?!
DougP Wrote: I have seen issues with the filepath/filename of tracks with punctuation marks, foreign chars, etc. Check the full filenames and paths and remove any weird characters ; tags should be treated ok. Doug, Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that's the issue. On the NON-affected computer, there are plenty of apostrophes in the folder/file names, and those don't seem to cause the problem. Both of the machines are running the same versions of both OS X and SlimServer, so if it were a filename-related issue (i.e. something related to the file system, totally independent of iTunes and QT), then both machines would suffer from it. However, only one machine is affected, and therefore I suspect that it's an incompatibility between SS and iTunes v4.x rather than a file-system-related issue. I understand tags *should* be treated OK, but it's quite possible (I have no idea) that there's some difference between how iTunes v4.x and v6.x treat tags and/or the .xml library file, and that SlimServer is having problems when parsing those tags and/or the .xml file from v4.x. That's really the only possibility that I can think of that makes sense, and if that IS the case then hopefully SS can be fixed to become compatible with both software versions. Has anyone else seen this issue who uses iTunes v4.x (or any other version of iTunes)? -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25388 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Apostrophe in song title causes duplicate listing?!
Hi all, So, something weird is going on. My MP3/AAC library (managed in iTunes) has 1655 songs, but SlimServer is reporting 1878 songs. The duplicates are *really* duplicated, i.e. the song URL is identical as shown on the SongInfo page. I've tried trashing both the slimserverdb.sql *and* the iTunes Music Library.xml files, and even rebuilding the entire iTunes library from scratch. Neither one helped. I've narrowed down the duplicates to songs that have apostrophes in their titles (e.g. Everybody's Changing or Boys Don't Cry). For whatever reason, Slimserver is counting and cataloging *ALL* of those songs TWICE... they are listed twice in the song listings, so they end up playing twice as well. The really weird thing is, I'm running the exact same version of SS on a different computer (with my ALAC library) and this bug does *NOT* happen there! My preferences are identical though. On the affected computer, I'm running SS 6.2.2 (build 7135 [release]), MacOS X 10.3.9, iTunes 4.7.1, QuickTime 6.5. On the NON-affected computer, I'm running the same SS version, the same OS X version, but iTunes 6.0.4 and QuickTime 7.0.4. Could SS have some incompatibility with the older version of iTunes and not the newer one? Note that iTunes *DOES* report the correct number of songs in all cases... it's ONLY SlimServer that reports dupes, and trashing both the iTunes and SS files is of no help. This is a totally reproducible bug. I can provide screenshots if needed... but any help would be greatly appreciated! -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25388 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Annoying Apple Lossless Issue
chaz Wrote: Richard at Slim Devices just posted to this bug saying that it may be related to bug 3303 and therefore possibly resolved in Slimserver 6.3 / Firmware 55. I suspect it's not actually related. Bug 3303 seems to be a FLAC-related bug, while this issue seems to point back to mov123 ALAC decoding, not the FLAC decoding. Another user posted today that FW55 did not solve the issue. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Intel (especially) Mac users needed to help development
danco, Kevin and some other users read/post to this forum through email, not through the web interface. I don't believe it's possible to send those users email or PMs via the web interface. You can identify email users because they have N/A listed as their post count. danco Wrote: Kevin, I tried to send you a private message, but got told the following users were not found. Kevin O. Lepard. Maybe you have not enabled private messaging. And I couldn't see how to send an email to you (or any user). I am obviously missing something basic about the forums, as I don't know how to find a place to send emails to a user who is not online. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24967 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: First sec of song getting clipped off
Now that bug 1434 is fixed, let's all vote for bug 2095 so ALAC can play back gaplessly as well! =) -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23668 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: First sec of song getting clipped off
radish Wrote: Just FYI - there is a workaround which I have used for the past year since I first reported this :) If you disable native FLAC and stream as WAV it seems to all be good. Of course you lose ff/rew and gain bandwidth usage, but at least the music sounds right. Please also vote for the bug (1434). On another thread, there seems to be disagreement about this at least as it relates to ALAC decoding. It would appear that the FLAC bug and the ALAC bug are separate (though they may be related). Fuseball, this is the first I've heard of it happening with AAC and MP3... however, you are aware those are not designed for gapless playback, right? -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23668 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Streaming AAC?
DrNic Wrote: It sounds like you are only using the software, and don't have a hardware squeezebox, otherwise you wouldn't be so fussed about using iTunes to listen to your stream. No, I do have a hardware Squeezebox. The reason I'd like to use iTunes is so I can listen to my music when I'm at school. I don't have an iPod and I can't fit my entire collection on my laptop drive, so it'd be nice if I could listen to my collection (which is on a 250GB drive at home) even when I'm not at home. I guess I should have made that idea more explicit in my original post. I keep a shadow library in AAC format so my wife can update her iPod, hence why I asked whether SlimServer could simply stream those AAC files rather than transcoding them to MP3. DrNic Wrote: Another thought though, can't iTunes share its music library across the network? Yes, but only on a local network because iTunes Sharing uses Bonjour (nee Rendezvous). If I'm not at home then this wouldn't work, unless someone knows of a way to do iTunes sharing across the internet. There is software out there that allows two widely-separated LANs to behave as part of the same LAN, but it is not a transparent solution. DrNic Wrote: If using a real Squeezebox the AAC files can be made to stream uncompressed (WAV) or into FLAC so you don't take the double hit of transcoding to another lossy format. Of course. My main library is in Apple Lossless so it's transcoded to FLAC for use with the hardware Squeezebox. But when I'm away from home and want to stream to my laptop, I was hoping to stream my shadow AAC library rather than transcoding the ALAC to mp3. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23929 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Streaming AAC?
mherger Wrote: If instead of only bumping a thread you would actually add some information to the message, we would know what it's all about. Sorry Michael, I should have though I didn't actually have any information to add. I'm not used to accessing forums via mailing list so it wasn't in my head... I'll be more considerate next time. Thanks for the heads-up. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23929 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Streaming AAC?
Just bumping this in case anyone has any ideas... -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23929 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Going to do an ABX this weekend between ALAC and FLAC
mrtaber Wrote: I know, I know, they both are lossless. However, ALAC is transcoded on the server to AIFF, while FLAC can be transcoded to WAV on the server, or decoded directly on the Squeezebox. Just so you know, AIFF and WAV are both uncompressed formats, and they're both just wrappers for PCM data. The difference is that WAV is little-endian while AIFF is big-endian, and they use different headers. The data they contain should be identical however. (And when I say identical, I mean actual identical bits, just in a different byte-ordering. ALAC and FLAC are not identical although they should decompress to identical files, but AIFF and WAV are, essentially, as close as you can get to being identical without actually being duplicates.) If you hear any difference between the formats it would be due to bugs in the decoders, not differences in any of the file formats. Do know that there is a bug that affects ALAC files that causes the first few tenths-of-a-second to be cut off from songs. A similar bug affects FLAC that causes the last fraction of a second to be skipped. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23997 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Annoying Apple Lossless Issue
Gildahl Wrote: From your post in the bug it appears that you're using OS X. If you read comment #5 you might want to try replacing mov123 with ALAC as a decoder. I am indeed using OS X. I'll give alac a try to see whether that works. However, the OP on that bug implied that alac caused stutter and other audio problems. I'm glad it seems to be working for you, though - that makes me more confident that it will work for me. Once I have some time, I'll give it a shot and let you know. (Of course, using alac is just a workaround, not a real bug fix. It would behoove the developers to track down the root cause of this bug within the mov123 code as AAC files may also be affected... while AAC isn't designed for gapless playback because it pads the ends of songs, songs that start abruptly are in principle supposed to work but may still fall prone to this bug.) -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Annoying Apple Lossless Issue
chaz Wrote: Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, this has not resolved the issue. Hi chaz, Wow, really? You made sure to turn OFF the Apple-FLAC checkbox, right? In other words, ONLY Apple-AIFF is enabled in that series? Also, you should probably DISABLE the AIFF-FLAC and AIFF-MP3 options (near the top)... it's possible that SlimServer is taking the AIFF output (from the Apple-AIFF conversion) and then converting it to FLAC or MP3 because of those checkboxes. So basically, make sure that AIFF-AIFF and Apple-AIFF are the only checkboxes enabled in their respective series... does that fix it? If that DOESN'T fix it then this problem is not limited to FLAC but is indicative of some other issue... it may be related, though. Slim Developers, hopefully you're following this issue, since it seems to be getting more widespread... Chaz, let us know whether disabling the other checkboxes helps. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Annoying Apple Lossless Issue
Gildahl Wrote: I believe you are encountering bug #2095. Thanks for pointing us to this bug. I've added my comments there, hopefully this will help. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Annoying Apple Lossless Issue
chaz Wrote: Gildahl, I'll try ripping it as AIFF and see if that has any problems. Is this a lossless format as well? AIFF is lossless. It is essentially a wrapper for PCM data IIRC. WAV is similar except that it uses opposite byte-ordering. Note that AIFF is an uncompressed format so it will take up approximately twice the space compared to ALAC. Unless you've got a LOT of disk space I would not recommend keeping the majority of your files as AIFF. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Streaming AAC?
Hi all, I tried searching the forums but came up empty so I thought I'd ask... is there any way for SlimServer to stream AAC rather than mp3? I'm specifically talking about streaming to internet clients, i.e. pointing xmms, iTunes, or some other player to http://SlimServer URL:9000/stream.mp3 ... that URL is clearly only for mp3. Is there a similar URL for streaming AAC (stream.m4a perhaps)? I couldn't find mention of this in the docs either, so I'm thinking that this is not supported. If this functionality does not exist, would it be possible to include it? If my library is encoded as AAC then I would not want to transcode it to MP3 prior to streaming... since iTunes can handle streaming AAC just fine, I'd like to be able to point it to my SlimServer and listen to my AAC files as is. I understand that SlimServer would not be able to transcode non-AAC files into AAC, as it currently does for MP3 (since it can convert all other formats into MP3)... basically what I'm looking for is simply a way to bypass the MP3 transcoding and just stream the AAC files directly. Any thoughts? -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23929 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Annoying Apple Lossless Issue
chaz Wrote: Hmm...I'm not really sure how to interpret the info on the file types section...maybe a call to tech support is in order. It is inconsistant with me as well though. chaz, I have the exact same issue, and reported it here earlier. *radish* suspects it's due to a bug in box-side FLAC decoding. The file-type screen isn't too bad. What you want to do is UNCHECK the mov - flac option, but leave mov - wav or mov - aiff option checked. This should hopefully solve your issue, although it will increase the bandwidth required for streaming, so if your SB is connected wirelessly then you may notice problems if your signal is borderline. But give it a shot, let us know how it works out. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware
Yikes... I thought I had a big library, but most of yours make mine seem like a shoebox full of old cassettes! Yowzah! From SlimServer: Your music library contains 476 albums with 5403 songs by 643 artists. (Various Artists is turned off, and I haven't yet enabled parsing of the semi-colon separation for multiple artists, so the artist count is quite off.) All files in Apple Lossless (ripped from my CDs). Server is a PowerMac G4 tower (Gigabit Ethernet version from 2000: dual 500MHz CPUs, 720 MB RAM), music on an external 250GB Lacie F.A. Porsche drive). 6-year-old computer still runs like clockwork and is even acceptably fast for average usage. I would *love* to have a library as big as the rest of you... just don't have the cash to buy all those CDs, even from used-CD stores. Oh, would that I could... -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Annoying Apple Lossless Issue
chaz Wrote: When you say Mov, are you referring to apple aac, lossless or movie file in the first column? If so, I don't see a movwav option, but do have mov aiff and mov mp3. Sorry, yes. I am referring to Apple AAC, Lossless or Movie File in the first column. In the second column, you should have AIFF, FLAC, and MP3. Make sure that the FLAC and MP3 options are DISABLED, and that the AIFF option is ENABLED. This will ensure that your Apple Lossless files are streamed uncompressed. (IIRC the only difference between AIFF and WAV is the byte-ordering and some small header information, but both should basically be containers for PCM data. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.) -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Perl Problem (OT)
You've got PM. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23777 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Perl Problem (OT)
SteveEast Wrote: I was gonna post the code here but then I saw that cepheid's occupation is listed as starving graduate student... Well, you may as well, especially given that the task is rather easy to do. I was sort of planning to post it here myself, once I saw that it was so straightforward. In any case, I haven't heard back from the OP yet anyway (he's probably asleep since he's in the UK), so given that this is no gargantuan task, post away. I'm a starving graduate student but obviously not in danger of immediate death, so it's no big deal. =) I appreciate the thought, though! -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23777 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: First sec of song getting clipped off
As reported in this thread, I'm fairly certain it's the beginning of tracks. Yes, it occurs only with FLAC... in my case, it's when ALAC is transcoded to FLAC before streaming to the SB. It's rather annoying and also screws up gapless playback... hopefully it will be fixed soon. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23668 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Short delay when playing ALAC files
radish Wrote: I guess what made me assume it was the end was that if I start playing a track from stopped, the beginning is intact. Yeah, in my case it's the opposite - if I play the track from stopped, the beginning is missing. However, I'll add a comment and vote for the report. =) Hopefully we can get it fixed. It's a minor annoyance but an annoyance nonetheless. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23307 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Decoder for .m4a's besides Quicktime?
jtbse Wrote: For example, a track named 08 - Stevie Ray Vaughn Double Trouble - Chitlins Con Carne.m4a can't be opened by mov123 (Error -37 in Quicktime), and just gets an end of file error in SlimServer when trying to play it. But the same track renamed to 08 - Stevie Ray Vaughn - Chitlins Con Carne.m4a Has no problems. Think this is because of a filename charcter limitation with mov123 that I've seen reference to in other forums on the Internet. (The file with the original name plays fine in Winamp, BTW). Question for you: If you change the ampersand () to the word and (i.e. name the track 08 - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble - Chitlins Con Carne.m4a) does it still fail, or does it work? If it fails, then yes, it's a filename-length limitation. If it works, the problem is likely a bug in mov123, namely that it may not be properly escaping special characters like ampersand. Let us know... -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22971 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox DHCP problem
smurfk1 Wrote: I'm in the same boat, only with a d-link router. No security and WEP work fine, but WPA personal will not work with either a static or dynamic IP. Which D-Link router? I'm using a DI-624 with WPA-PSK without any problems whatsoever. As long as SuperG and Turbo are disabled, the SB3 can connect just fine with WPA, at least in my case. -- cepheid cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22372 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
