Re: [slim] ***Attention: forums.slimdevices.com planned downtime (3/24/10)
Matt Wise;527766 Wrote: OK the cutover is done.. I subscribe to the forums via email and I seem to be getting most (but not quite all) posts twice. Is this coincidence, or something that's just applying to me? Thanks Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://www.hickinbottom.com/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76477 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] squeezecenter 7.3.3 gentoo
ralphy;428701 Wrote: Stuart, Thanks for the updated ebuild. Would you consider adding my squeezeslave display and replay gain patch to the 7.3.3 ebuild? It's available at http://squeezeslave.googlecode.com/svn/squeezeslave/trunk/squeezeslave/patches/squeezecenter_squeezeslave_player3-7.3.patch Ralphy I see this was committed to the 7.4 development branch in r25809 (http://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?view=revisionrevision=25809), which says that it was committed from your patch with a couple of changes. I'd prefer to take the patch from that officially committed to the 7.4 branch if possible so can you see any problems with me taking that rather than the patch you pointed at? That might leave me some 7.3--7.4 differences to resolve, but I'll find out when I give that a go later. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://www.hickinbottom.com/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63719 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC Hangs Trying to List a Folder
thread;332106 Wrote: It's 7.1.0 ... and I'd really rather find the source of the issue and possibly lead hickinsbottoms to a fix. I was rather hoping that the filesystem where the SqueezeCenter database was held was full, but that appears not to be the case. A couple of other questions: 1. What filesystem type is the /var/lib/mysql directory mounted on? I don't expect it's significant, but may be worth knowing. 2. Have you knowingly altered the configuration of MySQL on your installation? Could you post your /etc/mysql/my.cnf configuration? 3. What platform are you on? Is it x86 or something more exotic? Finally: 4. You originally reported the problem with browse music folder - is the music that is missing from that also missing from the other browse modes (by genre, for example)? I'm just interested in whether the problem is restricted to browse music folder or not. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://www.hickinbottom.com/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51351 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC Hangs Trying to List a Folder
I believe, from another thread, that you're using Gentoo's portage version. Can you see how much free space there is for the MySQL database files, the current size of your database files, and what files you currently have? As root: Code: cd /var/lib/mysql df -h . du -hs squeezecenter ls -l squeezecenter Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://www.hickinbottom.com/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51351 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An alternative to Look for new and changed music...?
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Question: Would you like to see SC7 enhanced to include quot;Scan/
Rescan this folder and its conte
- Yes, I'd love to see this enhancement implemented
- No, don't see any point, I watch TV between updates
egd;295379 Wrote:
Would you like to see SC7 enhanced to include Scan/ Rescan this folder
and its contents only functionality?
I think a better alternative is for the server to monitor and
automatically spot changes to the music folder and to rescan it as and
when it sees those changes - you shouldn't need to manually poke it all
IMO.
Modern OS's include robust functions to monitor folders for changes
that don't rely on applications changing timestamps etc - I know at
least MAC OSX, Linux, BSD and Windows include this. Unfortunately the
mechanisms to implement this differ from OS to OS.
I've worked up a beta plugin to do this on Linux ('AutoRescan' - check
the plugins on the wiki if you're interested), and I'm planning on
widening it to support Windows as well when I get time.
Stuart
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Re: [slim] Is / can Slimserver use iNotify?
mavit;245126 Wrote: Any news on this? I've an initial beta release of a plugin that makes use of this: http://www.hickinbottom.com/autorescan/browser/tags/1.0b1/AutoRescan.tgz?format=raw It's for SqueezeCenter 7.0 on Linux only as it relies on inotify support, so also make sure you've got that compiled into your kernel. A quick way of checking, I think, is to make sure you have the directory /proc/sys/fs/inotify present. This seems to work OK for me in the limited testing I've performed. I can add files and change their tags, and that's picked up pretty rapidly by SqueezeCenter. The only problem at the moment is that it doesn't react to deletion (and moving files will count as an add and a delete). That's because there doesn't appear to be an easy interface to remove individual music data from the database in the same way that it can be added with a rescan of a particular folder. Comments welcome. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://www.hickinbottom.com/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27210 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is / can Slimserver use iNotify?
mavit;245126 Wrote: Any news on this? I'm going to take a look at this, I think. I suspect it can be added via a plugin. Can't say when I might have something, though, as I'm pretty busy at the moment. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://www.hickinbottom.com/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27210 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Artist sorting works like crap
I've been seeing problems with artist sorting recently and this thread prompted me to look into it a little deeper. I've tagged my collection with MusicBrainz and I've been seeing the sort order that's defined in MB being used for MP3 files in my collection, but not for FLAC files. I've looked into it and I think I might have found a bug. I've raised a post on the developers list to discuss that, but I thought I'd mention it in this thread in case it helps others: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39070 Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://www.hickinbottom.com/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35822 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How do YOU backup your music?
If you have a server that doesn't run Windows, and want automatic off-site backups, then I recommend Box Backup: http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/trac/wiki Secure, encrypted, incremental backups to a remote location. Keeps old and deleted versions of files (until the store is full, in which case it starts removing the oldest 'old versions'), can run continuously and is very bandwidth efficient. The big advantage is that the server can be untrusted - it cannot decrypt the backups it holds as the clients keep the keys and encrypt the traffic before uploading. Perfect for backing up to a friends house or another server you can't trust. It's saved my bacon a few times over the last couple of years. And it's free and open source. Note that although the server can't be Windows-based, clients can be. One server can also keep separate backup stores for any number of clients. Stuart autopilot;95000 Wrote: I currently have 2 HDD's in my PC. I have 2 large important folder trees, one with my music and on with my photo's. Currently i am manually copying everything between drives, but this is becoming a bit of a chore and often i forget. So what software people here use and would recommend for me? I don't want anything fancy, i.e. compression is needed as obviously its already compressed. Just a simple solution with folder syncing and preset times (over night). Oh, and free would be nice too :D -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Itunes / FLAC Strategy anyone?
sdevans;168893 Wrote: I have my music stored (as FLAC) on a simple windows 2000 PC stuck to my garage wall. I'm buying a laptop for the first time, and I'm stuck on a Macbook. I'm also planning on buying a ipod as it now supports gapless playback. I want a mp3/aac version of my entire music library on the laptop managed via itunes so that I can do the whole playlist/syncing to my ipod. I know I can use foobar to convert my library to mp3 and copy it over to the laptop (after a couple of days), but how to keep this up-to-date? Also I'd love it if my playlists created on the ipod could be used by the squeezebox? I understand there is some integration between Squeezeboxes and Itunes, but since my music is stored in FLAC I don't know if that's an option. Anybody got any ideas on this slightly off-topic post. Thanks It doesn't help you (as it's Linux-only), but in case any Linuxers want to do the same thing I've a strategy for this using some commonly-available tools: http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/development/script-to-maintain-a-transcoded-mp3-tree/ Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31502 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim Devices at What Hifi Show, London
Jez;153195 Wrote: I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who popped by and said hello at the show. I'm currently barely able to speak and severely jetlagged but the response we received definitely makes it all seem worthwhile. It was great to see SD there, and I appreciated the time you took for the chat. The Transporters you had there looked great in the flesh, so I hope that generates some good sales from the event. I'm glad you didn't resort to the depths of marketing as some other exhibitors did - I noticed one promo girl walking around wearing a I Mount Anything shirt. Turns out she was pushing brackets to hang your large television on the wall! Thanks for that T-shirt as well! Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29106 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Simple search from squeezebox UI
Rob McKaughan;146566 Wrote: Thanks. Lazy search was crashing my server (6.5), but I've since done a clean install. I'll give it another try. If it's still not working for you (and you've got the latest version), if you want me to try to help fix it then feel free to raise a ticket here: http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch As far as I know there aren't any major problems with 6.5 (although I am investigating something at the moment), so I'd be keen to know if anyone's having trouble. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
Ramage;141609 Wrote: All those folders (1-F) in the cache, are they produced by Lazy Search for indexing? To answer my own question - maybe not as I don't have the Lazy Search on my v6.5.0. So what are they?? You're right - they're not. All the Lazy Search indexing goes into the database. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
Ramage;141642 Wrote: Apologies Hickinbottoms - checked your webpage after the post - duuur. ;-[] No worries. The thing's so flippin' complicated these days I wouldn't be surprised if it was the culprit! I checked my FileCache and I don't remember having ever cleared it out. It's ~50Mb, ~7000 files, ~3000 directories. My library is ~7300 songs. From a brief examination of those files they appear to be caching tag information. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: With 6.5, how to switch to mysql?
Michael Herger;138237 Wrote: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?MySQLReplaceSQLite While it says it was pre 6.5 only, the instructions are still ok. At least slimserver picked up my changes I did that way for 6.3 and connected straight to my MySQL server. I did some work on those pages last night and added the following: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?ExistingMySQLInstance The idea was that this page would tell you how to connect to your existing MySQL instance rather than SlimServer using its own. Have a look at that and if you've anything to add then just amend it. I suspect this will be a common request. erland's workaround earlier seems similar to the one I've already documented on that page, but it might be worthwhile adding that one, too. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27682 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Another Try---Using an Existing Mysql Server
Johnny Stork;138430 Wrote: Ok, my last post didnt generate any replies so maybe a different subject. This cant be a unique situation, but I would like to use my existing mysql server which just happens to run on the same server as slimserver. Are there any howto's on how to move to a single, existing mysql server. This should be simple, export, import and change some db id/password/port/host settings somewhere. Thanks for anyone that can help __ Johnny Stork Funny you should say that, but I wrote one last night: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?ExistingMySQLInstance Useful thing, that wiki. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27728 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 Unable to scan
stuorguk;137885 Wrote: Help! I'm running Gentoo. Hopefully not a general statement! I run on Gentoo as well, with my own instance of MySQL. Can you describe some things about your config: * whether you have mysql present on Gentoo already, and if so, what version * whether you're expecting to use that existing instance, or the one that comes with SlimServer (I admit I've only used my own instance). * if you want to use your own instance, what you put in your slimserver.pref (although not your password, of course!). Probably a longer snip from the log might be useful - run the server with --d_import --d_server --d_mysql --d_sql so that it logs some more useful stuff. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27632 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 Unable to scan
stuorguk;137908 Wrote: I have now switched over to my own local instance of mysql, and the tables have been created, but still the same error :( I think I can help you there... Take a look at this bug - I think it might be the same thing: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4160 I'm currently looking into that on my system, but KDF noted a possible workaround in there that does work for me. Give that a go and if you have the same problem perhaps you could drop something into that bug (and add yourself to the CC list). Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27632 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 Unable to scan
stuorguk;137921 Wrote: Thanks Stuart, but that wasn't it. :( Shame - although I'm sure you're right it does look similar in that the main server process starts up fine and can do all manner of database stuff, but the child 'scanner.pl' process doesn't seem to have the same success. I'm sure I remember seeing some other forum posts from a week or so ago that mentioned transactions not supported - perhaps they might help. I've not seen that particular one myself. Also, you say you're using your own instance now - have you seen a message soon after launching SlimServer saying that SlimServer isn't starting its own because you've got your own instance? That should be the case, but best to check in case there's some confusion and it's starting one anyway. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27632 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 Unable to scan
stuorguk;137998 Wrote: Fixed! I upgraded to MySQL 5, then on restarting Slimserver, it said DBD wasn't found. So I reinstalled the perl module, and now it's working. Excellent. Dan's also provided a good fix for my problem (in the bug I referenced earlier on), so we're both happy. I'm going to give the MySQL wiki page a bit of a tickle since it's a little out of date now we have 6.5.0. Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27632 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7
I'm sure there are some good ideas in here, but I wonder whether the wiki might not be a better place to build a 'wishlist' page? That would allow a quick summary of the ideas to be listed, and if any of the ideas would benefit from a fleshing-out then they could link to their own wiki page, or to a bugzilla enhancement if the idea is to be pushed into a real development, perhaps? The list/forum is a good place for discussion, but once discussion dies down I suspect the memory of these ideas will just fade away. I don't mind starting one off (and copying the ideas from this thread), if there's any consensus and other people would chip in. I'd be happier if Slim Devices said they'd use it before I did that, though! Just an idea. Rather than practice what I preach, though, here's my idea... I'd like the toggle list of plugins on the server settings-plugins page to also be a list of hyperlinks to the plugin settings further down the page. I always find it a bit of a trudge scrolling down a large left pane when there are a lot of plugins to find the section for a particular plugin - if I could just click on the plugin title at the top of that page and be scrolled down automatically it would be a lot quicker. -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26874 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7
ceejay;132773 Wrote: Like this one? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?wishlist Ceejay I knew there'd be one in there somewhere, but couldn't see it on my casual browsing. I might try to make that page more visible, though. Given the huge number of items on that list (two, when I just checked), I suspect it's not having a great deal of impact on development after all! Stuart -- hickinbottoms -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with 'Lazy Searching' (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch)!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26874 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate/triplicate artist names
kdf Wrote: search for new and changed causes dupes with lazysearch Sadly, yes, with SlimServer 6.2/6.3 that is the case. The bugzilla numbers are #2511 and #2531 (I think your problem is specifically the first of these two). This problem is resolved with SlimServer 6.5 and the 6.5-compatible version of the plugin, but unfortunately I can't apply the same fix to the 6.2/6.3 version because it relies on a small database change that has only been made to the 6.5 version (see bug #2625). By the way, if anyone's listening, I'm still getting around to refreshing the 6.5 version to be compatible with the post-split-scanner work that has now dropped into the trunk - I'll post to the plugins list when that's done, but I've not forgotten. -- hickinbottoms Stuart -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with Lazy Searching!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25032 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linux Distributions
bobharp Wrote: Try the bootable Live CD of Ubuntu. Furthermore, try it risk-free inside a VMWare Player virtual machine so you don't even need to reboot or burn a CD: Download the free player from here: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ Download your OS of choice from here: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/community.html#OS My vote would be for Gentoo, but it's too personal a choice to try to justify - it's just the one I know best. I suspect most people's opinions would be the same on this question. -- hickinbottoms Stuart -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with Lazy Searching!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22940 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
I use boxbackup to continuously sync my music (and anything I want to back up), to a disc I've installed remotely at a friends house over ADSL. http://boxbackup.hostworks.ca This is a secure solution in that the connection is encrypted with SSL and authenticated with certificates, is totally automatic (it continually syncs, keeps old versions of files, as well as deleted files), and is stored encyrpted at the server end and so is most useful when the server is in an untrusted network (ie not your own). Thoroughly recommended - the only drawback is that there isn't a Windows server at the moment (although there are Windows clients that work well). It's saved my bacon in the past. -- hickinbottoms Stuart -Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after - with Lazy Searching!- hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Bug? Date/time screensaver language settings
0xdeadbeef Wrote: Or it could be fixed in the slimserver software... Indeed there's not much sense in having a language setup and then ignoring it for some parts of the software... In this case I think SS is doing the right thing - you can't infer the locale settings from the current SlimServer text translation setting. As an example, most of us will probably select English, but those of us in the UK wouldn't want that to map to a locale that generated US-format dates. It would be possible to move the text translation SS setting to be a more generic locale setting (possibly with a setting to say take it from the environment), but I would consider that in enhancement territory rather than a bug. -- hickinbottoms --- Stuart hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19163 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem with tracks that have no 'album' data
Craig, James (IT) Wrote: I get the same problem as Aaron. It's very annoying. I think this might be a instance of the general problem where you can press 'play' on an album and you get all the tracks from albums with similar names also getting played. I get this problem with 'greatest hits' albums in particular. I'm using 6.5 if you want to bung that in the bug. -- hickinbottoms --- Stuart hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18415 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Faster way to navigate when searching music
I agree. I've been working on this problem for quite some time, off and on. You can see my progress on bug #386 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386). I've been trying to get some hooks in the SlimServer core to allow this to be done more easily, without success, but the good news is that I believe I now have a solution that works without them. Take a look at bug #386 and see if it's the kind of thing you're after (there's even a little video on there). If so, vote/subscribe to it as I hope to publish my plugin that does all this in a couple of days. I'll post to the bug when I've done that. With this plugin I can search for most artists/albums/tracks with only four or five button presses rather than the 10-15 required using the standard search text entry method. -- hickinbottoms --- Stuart ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: T9 or similar smart text entry
Based on previous discussion and suggestion here I've reworked my patch into two parts: 1. A core SlimServer patch that adds hooks into the database storage and remote control search 'button' to allow plugins to get involved. 2. A plugin that uses these hooks to provide lazy searching. For those not familiar, as an example this method cuts down the number of remote button presses required to search for the text SQUEEZE from 20 to just 7. Note this isn't in any way predictive (it won't show SQUEEZE on the screen as you're pressing the buttons, and isn't statistical in what it matches), but it does save a *lot* of time and has very few false positives. The plugin can be enabled and disabled on a per-player basis (player UI is provided for this), and some user-level help is provided through the SlimServer web UI. I would appreciate some feedback on this. I'd really like to get the hooks into the trunk SlimServer if at all possible, and I'm more than willing to do some more work on the patch if it makes it any more likely to get included. With the current patch applied, users see no difference unless they also install a suitable plugin, so it's pretty inert. I've posted the patch and plugin to bug#386 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386). -- hickinbottoms --- Stuart ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: T9 or similar smart text entry
Regular expressions? Yes and no, I think. You could perform the actual comparison like that in Perl but I don#8217;t think you can be that rich in SQL (SlimServer 6 offloads the actual searching to an SQL query). When I first cobbled it together for SlimServer 5.4.1 I could have saved myself some trouble by doing it your way, though. I did look at whether there was some #8216;tr#8217;-like SQL functionality that I could use in a similar way, but came to the conclusion that there wasn#8217;t anything SQL-portable enough and anything that generates column values dynamically like that would kill performance because it would require a full table-scan and wouldn#8217;t take advantage of index searching. So, I think that it#8217;s best to pre-process the strings at database build-time to simplify the SQL searching later on. -- hickinbottoms --- Stuart ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: T9 or similar smart text entry
That's pretty much what my patch does. I initially added columns to the albums, contributor and track tables and stored an encoded version there. However, to save changing the schema and simplify the searching I now store both the original (text) and encoded (numeric) versions in the existing 'search' database columns. This might seem to add a risk of false positives, but because they're encoded numerically unless you've got a lot of artists/albums/songs called 4258646 or whatever you'll not notice the difference! Keeping it all in the one column also means the SQL search remains simple and quick - on my low powered server (~400MHz Celeron), I can't notice any slowdown when lazy searching is enabled. -- hickinbottoms --- Stuart ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: T9 or similar smart text entry
I have a preference added that enables the lazy searching to be optional per-player. I'll get an updated patch posted to the bug #386 later tonight. Id like to be able to code this as a plugin instead, but I think that would require some more plugin hooks to be pacthed in anyway (pre-processing the search text before insertion into the database, and hooks into the code that constructs the database query, for example). As for updating to the nightlies - I do that, but if you do it through Subversion (ie svn update), it will keep any non-conflicting local modifications you might have made. That way I don't need to keep reapplying this patch, just deal with the occasional conflicts. -- hickinbottoms --- Stuart ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: T9 or similar smart text entry
I've finally produced a 6.2-compatible version of my lazy searching patch for SlimServer, which I originally made available in January for SlimServer 5.4.1 (and referenced by kdf for bug#386). For those not familiar, it lets the user very quickly search using the remote control without having to multi-tap to get at non-first letters, or to wait/press right-arrow between letters on the same key. Note this isn't predictive text as seen on mobile phones as there's no suggestion of alternatives that are narrowed as the user is typing (in my opinion - if anyone knows different then let me know and I'll cease to make it available). I hope it may be of some use. You can find it on my webpage here: http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/SlimServer/lazy_searching.htm Whilst not a complete solution for bug #386 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386), I believe it's as close as we might get with SlimServer. I'm going to add a preference to allow the user to control whether this functionality is enabled or not - I'll post an updated patch to the bug when I've made some progress so subscribe to it for updates. -- hickinbottoms --- Stuart ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Crash from Rescan plugin in recent 6 nightlies
I have the rescan plugin set to do its thing at 3AM daily and I've noticed over the last couple of nights that it's causing SlimServer to crash. I believe it's crashing before actually doing the rescan. Here's the relevant bit from the log: --- Can't locate object method id via package rescan (perhaps you forgot to load rescan?) at /usr/local/slimserver/6/Slim/Utils/Prefs.pm line 503. --- This is with SlimServer 6 trunk on Gentoo Linux with Perl 5.8.5. I've confirmed this today on revision 3010, but it's also been the case for at least the last two nightlies (and probably more). I'm happy to try out any suggestions to isolate the problem if I'm the only one that's been experiencing this. Stuart -- hickinbottoms ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Crash from Rescan plugin in recent 6 nightlies
Not much more was displayed with d_prefs, I'm afraid (I think the other lines are warnings, but I could be wrong). The following is what was logged when the rescan timer went off: 2005-04-20 09:24:43.4523 Writing out prefs in /etc/slimserver.pref Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/local/slimserver/6/Slim/Player/Playlist.pm line 555. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/local/slimserver/6/Slim/Player/Playlist.pm line 558. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/local/slimserver/6/Slim/Player/Playlist.pm line 558. Can't locate object method id via package rescan (perhaps you forgot to load rescan?) at /usr/local/slimserver/6/Slim/Utils/Prefs.pm line 503. Does this help? Stuart -- hickinbottoms ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Crash from Rescan plugin in recent 6 nightlies
Yes, that seems to have fixed the problem for me. It's happily rescanning at the moment. Thanks very much - no need to raise a bug now. Stuart -- hickinbottoms ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
