Re: [slim] 6.5.2 with old slimdevices logo
I have my slimserver installed under a separate 'slimserver' user for security. Just replace the first 'slimserver' with whatever username you installed under... /slimserver/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/HTML/EN/html/images/slimdevices_logo.gif -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.8, Slimserver 6.5.0, Netgear DG834GT fw V1.02.04 Squeezebox 3 fw 64, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2 fw 64, Denon UD-M30 SoftSqueeze, Cyrus 3, Monitor Audio R90 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35578 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums
i'm getting this problem too I have checked the tags with mp3tag and cannot find any inconsistencies. Does anyone know whether this has been resolved? (e.g. latest nightlies) -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.8, Slimserver 6.5.0, Netgear DG834GT fw V1.02.04 Squeezebox 3 fw 64, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2 fw 64, Denon UD-M30 SoftSqueeze, Cyrus 3, Monitor Audio R90 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Open Ports ... Security Issue?
this is part of the reason I uninstalled slimserver from my normal user account (not an administrator, but plenty of personal information), and reinstalled it under a dedicated slimserver user account. I then gave the new slimserver user read-only access to my music library and read-write to the playlists folder. if someone exploits a buffer overflow in the slimserver software they won't get very far. okay they could trash my slimserver installation and copy all my music, but they wouldn't able to access any of my other files or delete any music. -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.8, Slimserver 6.5.0, Netgear DG834GT fw V1.02.04 Squeezebox 3 fw 64, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2 fw 64, Denon UD-M30 SoftSqueeze, Cyrus 3, Monitor Audio R90 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30564 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] streaming slimserver to nokia S60 phone (N80)
I was one of those people looking out of a boombox version of the slimserver. I guess the problem with such a device is that it would need to be tethered by weighty batteries or a mains power supply. However, with a Nokia N80 or other S60 phone with wi-fi you can achieve a similar effect with the freely available open source internet radio player. The downside is that you cannot control the stream from the phone, and wi-fi reception from the phone is not particularly powerful. Nonetheless this is extremely cool. You need to install the both the Nokia open source Internet Radio application and Shoutcast engine from: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/s60internetradio/ClientPage.html You will also need to create a playlist file (e.g. slimserver.pls) and copy to the /Shoutcast directory on the same drive as the installation. For me the file looks like this: [playlist] File1=http://10.0.0.10:9000/stream.mp3 Title1=Mobile Slimserver Length1=-1 NumberOfEntries=1 Also, if you want to be able to use AlienBBC (listen again in the bath is definitely where it's at!) you will need to make the modification to RTSP.pm as helpfully outlined in: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26315 Don't forget to throttle the bitrate to your mobile once it appears in the players list and you will have a cool mobile radio you can use around the house! -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.8, Slimserver 6.5.0, Netgear DG834GT fw V1.02.04 Squeezebox 3 fw 64, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2 fw 64, Denon UD-M30 SoftSqueeze, Cyrus 3, Monitor Audio R90 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29421 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer on Mac-User Switching
I have a mac (see sig) and installed mac under my (non-admin) account. g'friend has a separate account. not a problem for ss as it fires up (under user id) on start up without any users having to physically log on. -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.7, Slimserver 6.3.0, Netgear DG834GT fw V1.02.04 Squeezebox 3 fw 55, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2 fw 55, TBD-eBay, TBD-eBay kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 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: 30-second freeze?
i managed to track down my issue to a crappy netgear firmware issue. De-reving the firmware (negear DG834GT v2.04 - v1.28) and switching off wpa, please feel free to hack my flac bitstream :-), fixed the problem for me. I have been running SB3 + SB2 with buffer fullness indicator on for several months with zero issues (sits there continually maxed out at 100%). -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.7, Slimserver 6.3.0, Netgear DG834GT fw V1.02.04 Squeezebox 3 fw 55, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2 fw 55, TBD-eBay, TBD-eBay kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Administer Linux from XP Pro?
a really cool thing to do is simply install cygwin and select ssh on the install - you get a nice linuxy type command line too :-) -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.7, Slimserver 6.3.0, Netgear DG834GT fw V1.02.04 Squeezebox 3 fw 55, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2 fw 55, TBD-eBay, TBD-eBay kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25891 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 has constantly low buffer.
Sorry about resurrecting an old thread but I am still having exactly the same problems as Cubed was originally. I think this is a problem with the pesky router firmware (I have heard bad things about the latest release) although I am using the very latest config (see my sig). I was messing around for ages trying to suss out the problem thinking it was to do with OS X, but I just remembered upgrading the router firmware just before making the switch from Linux and think this might be the problem. Rebooting the router seemed to fix the temporarily (not sure how long but it seemed okay for about a day last time). Looks like I might have to downgrade the firmware but it's a pain to have something else to think about. Don't want to go in to rant mode, but this is a pretty popular router (I didn't say good!) so there must be plenty of people with the same issue. Anyone out there who shares my angst? (or maybe noone else is stupid enough to upgrade the firmware!) -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.7, Slimserver 6.3.0, Netgear DG834GT fw V1.02.04 Squeezebox 3 fw 55, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2 fw 55, TBD-eBay, TBD-eBay kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23078 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Any Mac users who don't use iTunes?
I don't use iTunes to purchase music, also prefering to purchase CDs and rip to FLAC instead using the excellent Max utility. I have a couple of Applescripts that I use to transcode from FLAC to my iTunes library (MP3) for playback on the Mac itself and syncing to the iPod. I hope to have this more automated shortly, so that after ripping, the MP3 transcode is automatically generated and iTunes is automatically updated. -kefa. -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.6, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, TBD-eBay kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25073 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 30-second freeze?
kefa Wrote: right, I'm not sure whether this is related. Well, I've just fiddled around with the scroll settings (rate and pixels) for each player and this appears to have fixed it for me: user error - I think that I had put something silly in that didn't show up until I restarted Slimserver. I have put something more sensible in and it seems to be okay. can't remember what the silly settings were though. -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.6, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, TBD-eBay kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 30-second freeze?
Hmmm. Check that. I seem to still get a bit of scrolling freezing and alarmingly i just had some sound dropouts as well! Help! Everything was running fine under linux. Any other os x users having this problem or can recommend a solution? -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.6, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, TBD-eBay kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 30-second freeze?
right, I'm not sure whether this is related. Anyhow, I have just switched from Linux to Mac OS X. I have an SB2 and an SB3 and under Linux both worked fine. However, under OS X the SB2 works fine but the SB3 does not scroll properly - the display freezes. This scrolling problem affects both track and RSS scrolling. Music and remote control mostly continues fine although I have had the odd occassion where music and the spectrum analyser stutter too. Both SBs are at the same firmware level 48 and the rest of my config should be in my sig. Any ideas would be massively appreciated? Kefa. -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.6, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, TBD-eBay kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 30-second freeze?
SB2 Player Firmware Version: 48 The IP address for this player is: 10.0.0.106:37913 The ethernet MAC address for this player is: 00:04:20:05:a7:a0 Wireless Signal Strength: 49% SB3 Player Firmware Version: 48 The IP address for this player is: 10.0.0.102:49124 The ethernet MAC address for this player is: 00:04:20:06:09:dd Wireless Signal Strength: 70% -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.6, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, TBD-eBay kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimsever 6.2.2 on intel mac so slow it's unusable.
KristVB Wrote: I used to run slimserver on a Linux box, with the music stored on a NAS device. That Linux box just died on me so I moved to server to my new Intel iMac. KristVB, bar the NAS device this is almost identical to my current situation. My Linux box has finally died and I am about to embark down the Intel iMac route. I would be interested to find out whether you manage to troubleshoot this via Kevin's Rosetta suggestion. I was hoping that dual core would be better suited to running server applications in the background while doing other things in the foreground as I am planning to only have one home computer. -- kefa Fedora Core 5, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24194 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: nokia n80
just taken delivery of my new nokia n80, and I have to say that access to slimserver through the browser works a treat. thanks to all those who have made all this possible - truly amazing! +---+ |Filename: nokia_n80.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1324| +---+ -- kefa Fedora Core 5, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19631 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wake-on-LAN again
gharris999 Wrote: Anyone actually gotten kefa's plugin to work on a windows machine? I can't get it to load with the latest svn of 6.5. I'm getting the following output from --d_plugins: Yeah, sorry to anyone who may have tried this on a 6.5 SlimServer machine - it runs on SS 6.2.1/6.2.2. It might also run on earlier versions but I haven't tested it. I do have a Windows machine running SS v6.5 but I'm not sure how the plugins framework changes between these versions. I've had a quick look at some other people's plugins but I can't see at a glance what needs to change. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'll try to fix this next week. -kefa -- kefa Fedora Core 5, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23109 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wake-on-LAN again
I have created a plugin that does exactly that. Please have a look at my site to see how it works and download. I use this feature all the time.I run it on a Linux machine, but I'm sure someone can advise on the correct cmd for Windows. http://www.avdv70.dsl.pipex.com/shutdown Apologies if the brief on the website seems rather complex - it really is rather simple. You just need to go to the normal Plugin configuration screen in Slimserver to configure the appropriate shutdown script to use. This could be as simple as create a batch file with the c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -s command in it, and configuring this command within the plugin. -- kefa Fedora Core 5, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23109 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wake-on-LAN again
hmmm... sorry folks. there seems to be something strange going on with my isp. when I ftp to my site I can change directories but I can't list the contents of any directories. I get a 'ftp: connect: No route to host' error. I'll have a rant at PIPEX in the morning. In the meantime, please find the plugin attached here... +---+ |Filename: ShutdownServer.pm| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1214| +---+ -- kefa Fedora Core 5, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23109 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: IR Blaster - Xantech Interface
a href=http://www.avdv70.dsl.pipex.com/webirremote/webirremote.gif;/a -- kefa Fedora Core 5, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22694 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: IR Blaster - Xantech Interface
surely this is where we roll on with a wi-fi head such as nokia 770 (or the new mobile phones that are about to grace us with their presence) to control any ir devices via the squeezebox. With this in mind I have created a plug-in that enables any ir device (cd player, amp, tv, etc)to be controlled using the irblaster plug-in and output. at the moment the plugin requires the IRBlaster plugin to be installed with the appropriate remote *.conf files (these can be created for any remotes using the 'learning' facility available with the plugin from Slimserver v6.2.2). It also requires an HTML template file to be manually modified with the button layout and commands required for your remote, but this should be pretty straightforward if you have more had more than a sniff of HTML experience. Just modify the appropriate section in the following file: WebIRRemote/HTML/Default/plugins/WebIRRemote/index.html (scroll down to the comment lines that start with // for instructions) There are probably a few things to be ironed out, someone with plug-in expereience could probably point me in the right direction as to adding some appropriate checks and balances. However, for me it all works fine. To-do is to remove the need to edit the HTML template and make the layout manually configurable from within the web interface itself (much like within the IRBlaster plugin configuration). Anyway the following image should provide you with an overview of what's possible: [image: http://www.avdv70.dsl.pipex.com/webirremote/image.gif] and the the following url provides a download of the plug-in itself: http://www.avdv70.dsl.pipex.com/webirremote/webirremote.zip -- kefa Fedora Core 5, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22694 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
fuzzyT Wrote: dangerous_dom wrote: So what software people here use and would recommend for me? What OS are you running? For Linux, look into rsync. For Windows look into robocopy. Either can be scripted and scripts scheduled. --rt rsync is the bomb with 2 x HDD! I don't schedule anything automatically, I just kick off an rysnc script manually every few weeks as I'm sure if I ran this automagically I would end up deleting some files before the deletions were automatigcally rsynced over. As an aside, I also use rsync on my windows laptop (under cygwin) to backup to my linux desktop. -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 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: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
HDMI outputs. Not convinced wi-fi g is really up to it, plus there's the matter of insufficient media, but I would like to be able to get rid of the dvd player as well as the cd player! -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The only downside I've noticed
JJZolx Wrote: SlimServer 6.5 (and also 6.2.2? I don't remember...) now automatically generates and caches thumbnail images rather than serving the resized orginals on the browse artwork pages. It works surprisingly well. I've found that a bigger annoyance with very large artwork is on the album page where it's displayed full-size. An image of 500 or 700 pixels square doesn't work at all on this page and just gets in the way. I've filed an enhancement request to be able to have SlimServer resize large artwork in the same way mentioned above for thumbnails. Vote for it here: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2988 ah, damn it, you guys are one step ahead. vote submitted! -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20138 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The only downside I've noticed
Okay so this depends on being willing to browse album art, but here goes...I download all of my album art from amazon etc. Being a fan of flac I of course like to keep the original images as large of possible and intact (if only I could download the vinyl covers!). Then, to make my library as easy as possible to browse, I set the number of items per page to greater than the number of albums I have - e.g. approx 500. Problem is, that even if you set the thumbnail size to something small like 100 the browser chokes as it tries to load in and rescale 500 big images simultaneously...well, here's the trick... I download the original images in to each directory with the filename source.jpg. I then use the following script to scan the music directory and create rescaled cover.jpg images with a size of 100x100. find /home/kefa/music -type f -name source.jpg -print | while read path do echo $path folder=`dirname $path` cd $folder djpeg source.jpg | pamscale -xsize 100 -ysize 100 | cjpeg -outfile cover.jpg done Hey presto, now if you set the thumbnail size to 100 you can hit the 'Browse Artwork' link and after about 10 secs all 500 album covers have loaded up and you can seamlessly browse all of your album covers. -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20138 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Understanding of shutting down a Win XP Server
i'm running linux and I use the following plugin to shutdown the server from the remote. it has a user selectable delay from 5 mins to 1 hour so that you can use this as a sleep function, and to prevent someone accidentally shutting down the server immediately (i use the machine for desktop work). I use the feature all the time and it works quite well. I even use it as a quick and dirty way of telling the pc to shutdown (green, save cost of electricity, not leaving machine exposed to hackers, etc) if I want to leave the house when it is in the middle of some background task (e.g. ripping cd, downloading files, rsyncing music folders, etc). See the following link: http://www.avdv70.dsl.pipex.com/shutdown by the way - am I missing something here? You mention being able to turn off your pc by pressing 1,2,3 on the remote. Is there some shutdown functionality built in already that I have missed? -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19803 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote Button Sensitivity
are you playing alienbbc at the same time? I sometimes get this when using alienbbc; the gui becomes a little less responsive and skips over menu items two at a time. However, it's fine the rest of the time. I guess that slimserver is preoccupied with transcoding the realaudio streams and gui updates are not as smooth as they could be. -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] nokia n80
as a sonyericsson faithful, I was holding out for the new Sony Ericsson p990 (QVGA, wifi b, and touchscreen) for SB remote control purposes, when I stumbled across the Nokia N80 that should be released in a couple of months with a 352x416 screen resolution and wifi g. http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Nokia_N80_Review.php okay, so it doesn't have touchscreen, but what does everyone think about this device for a v handy remote control compared to a standard pda/nokia 770/psp solution? -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19631 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: nokia n80
Victor Brilon Wrote: If there's enough interest, I might be able to get someone at work to loan me an N80 and I can take some screenshots of what a Slim interface looks like on it. I would be extremely interested to see what this looks like - and also how easy it is to navigate without a touchscreen/stylus. A bit off-topic, but any other user experience on the device would be welcomed! -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19631 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slashdotted!!
seanadams Wrote: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/12/08/1757259.shtml?tid=141tid=137 yeah, yeah, old news! picked up this story on the rss screen saver :-) -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18927 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox3 - Complete FREAKOUT stereo damage warning
if this was a dac problem - does this mean that it couldn't happen to the digital output...this is just pass-through right? -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18818 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Sleep - Shut Down, - - - Alarm - Start Up, Possible?
Hopefully this should do the trick. Allows a user configurable sleep time + cancellation of pending shutdown if required. Requires simple configuration on Linux box (outlined on the link below) - not sure what the equivalent Windows config should be. Perhaps someone could let me know and I will update the instructions. Cheers. http://www.avdv70.dsl.pipex.com/shutdown/index.html -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18317 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Network Storage: NAS or SAN
sounds like you need DMX-3... http://www.emc.com/products/systems/symmetrix/DMX_series/DMX3.jsp -- kefa kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18311 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: I love my Squeezebox, but it NEVER works perfectly
I use slimserver every day (v6.1.1 on Fedora Core 4) and have never had to restart. I am extremely impressed with it to date. I've problems with choppy sound (turned out to be poor wifi reception - buffer emptying) and garbled sound in Alien BBC plugin (turns out to be an mplayer bug) but that's about it. Haven't upgraded to 6.2 but plan to upgrade as soon as 6.2.1 is released -- kefa kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17864 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Fitting SB1 Graphical Display
sounds like you might also need max's plugin :-) - g'friends can often 'helpfully' turn the volume down! VolumeGuard.pm Do you ever find you're in the middle of listening to your favourite track when your other half suddenly announces that the volume is far too loud and turns it down for you? If so, this may be the plugin for you! VolumeGuard detects unauthorised changes in volume and stealthily restores the original volume. Changes are made in small increments over a period of time, so with any luck they won't notice! Volume changes can be authorised by pressing 0 immediately after changing the volume. Please note: there is currently no way of authorising volume changes via the web interface I'm open to suggestion as to how this could be done. I accept no responsiblity for any undesirable domestic situations that result due to the use of this plugin. :-) -- kefa kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17862 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2
also saw the SB3 at MacExpo and was very impressed in the flesh. Already have two on order via the slimdevices website! Also good to catch up with Patrick Colsson (SD Marketing VP) who hinted at the roadmap/sales figures but wouldn't give away anything concrete. The only thing he did talk about was bringing in additional colours for Christmas time. -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2
This works for me. Hacked about RunScript Plugin to display the right messages and provide a delay (to prevent the g'friend shutting down accidentally while I'm doing something important!). Need to configure the Plugin with the Shutdown script once the Plugin (RunScript.pm) is installed. I'm sure something like this will get incoporated in to the standard build at some point. (Ooo, nearly forgot, needs some hacking about with sudo to enable the Shutdown script to run) I can do wake-on-lan, how, and if so, is there a way to add a shutdown command as well? -Original Message- From: discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of oreillymj Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:22 PM To: discuss (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2 This thread does seem to be becoming a bit of a moaners paradise. Slim devices make the best product on the market from what I can see. The SB3 does not change that. I bought my SB2 in April and the product has been improved immeasurably by the 2 software upgrades since. Try asking Belkin or Philips to add Replaygain Wake On Lan functionality to the streaming media products and I can guess what sort of reply you'll get. Personally I can see how the SB2 form factor makes sense for certain uses, but the cost of manufacturing 2 different cases PCB's + maintaining spares is probably not commercially viable. Maybe Sean will GPL the case mould ;-) I know I'll be buying an SB3 for my kitchen as soon as my credit card recovers. Now did someone mention iPod nano scratch of death syndrome ;-) -- oreillymj +---+ |Filename: Shudown.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=434| +---+ -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Book the cruise, honey!
come on, the killer enhancement has got to be the inclusion of a DVI output and 5+1 SPDIF sound. Streaming films from the PC to the the TV+AV has got to be cool... -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What a product!
i'll second that - my chums were so impressed that 3 of them have gone out and ordered one and I'm considering a second one for the bedroom! Fedora Core 4+800 GB+SB2+Primare SPA20+Monitor Audio PMC603 (I have also achieved a geeky thumbs up from my better half!) -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox2 featured in Today @ PC World
no chance...the product is too good! (SB2 currently entertaining a thumping party!!!) -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Totally OT - Songs about money
13. I Was Young And I Needed The Money! from I was young and I needed the money by Clifford Gilberto PlayAdd to playlist 12. Money Is from Dad Man Cat by Corduroy PlayAdd to playlist 6. Blood Money from XTRMNTR by Primal Scream (btw. good request! demonstrates the combined power of this forum + slimserver) -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 Remote control clashing
kbelinski Wrote: Just got my new SB2 today. Set it up on wireless without a hitch. Sounded great but I have yet to have time sitting down for some serious listening. I realized my CD player accepts command from the SB2 remote control. This is quite annoying. Now I have to keep my CD player powered off whenever I use the SB2 remote. My CD player is the Rega Planet 2000. I wonder anybody has similar experience? I found that putting my CD player on eBay solved this problem! :-) -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 - It Does The Business!
Jason Voegele Wrote: davep said: Just got my SB2 today and dropped it straight in as a replacement for the SB1G which has been the main music source in my listening room for the past few months. All I can say is that I am VERY happy with the result [...] So I just wanted to say Thanks to the folks at SlimDevices and everyone else who has been involved in the development and debugging of the SB2 and SS6.1. I may not be around this list so much from now on as I feel I'm going to be spending more of my free time listening to music. I'd like to second the thank you and the congratulations. SB2 has worked like a charm for me, without a single drop-out after several days of listening for several hours straight. Great job! Thank you. -- Jason Voegele There is an essential core at the center of each man and woman that remains unaltered no matter how life's externals may be transformed or recombined. But it's smaller than we think. -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the Long Sun After a couple of weeks of user incompetence, the SB2 is now spinning flac tracks like a dream. BIG thanks to the Slimdevices crew for enabling nonstop house tunes in the sunshine - yeah! Sadly, it's time for the CD player to hit the auction house :-( ... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7530108668ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:UK:1 -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 playback freezes
kevin Wrote: Well, with these last two messages, the symptoms sound more like network issues. (except for Joe's not eabout the display...we're still looking in to that) We have seen when using some wireless access points, depending on how it's configured and if it overlaps with other networks within range, that packets can be lost for extended periods of time (500ms+) depending on the strength of the overlapping network. We've also seen a couple of access points that just have serious latency issues, which are usually solved by making sure that the AP/router is at its latest firmware version... We have a list of things that you can check over wireless up here: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#troubleshooting-wireless Of course, if you want to rule out wireless ethernet as being a possibility, you could also try wiring the SB2 (and the server) to see if that makes any difference in the usability. It could potentially be a system-related issue as well--but it's most commonly related to the network. Okay, now I found the buffer fullness control I you could well be right. I tried unscrewing the aerial on the server to simulate a poor network connection and low and behold the music dies and starts stuttering once it gets to 0%. To be honest I should have spotted this early on, but top marks to the excellent Slimserver support for helping me out on this one. Now all I need to do is work out how I can boost the performance of my Wifi connection. The wierd thing is that performance seems massively variable. Some times the buffer climbs rapidly to 100% and sits there okay for several minutes - then all of a sudden it can drop down and hover near 0% before stuttering. I live in C. London and wonder whether this could be caused by people in my block of flats using Microwaves ovens or DECT phones. I have run some tests with my DECT phone, but nothing is particularly conclusive. In the meantime, my wifi router has been elevated to better position away from pipes etc, reception seems better but by no means cured. Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Are there any recommendations to boost wifi performance other than moving the tx and rx closer together? -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New copy protection and Squeezebox
totally agree. I vote with my wallet against DRM which is the reason why I go to all the trouble of buying CDs rather than downloading some poxy crippled files that sound foo barred. problem is, I'm sure the unwashed britney listening masses don't see how they're being conned. -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 playback freezes
neither of the bugs listed above seem to address the issue I am experiencing. (they relate to playlist not advancing) The problem I am experiencing is that songs seem to freeze mid-song or stutter as if the server is out of gas or the network connection is hokey. Checking the CPU or signal strength does not indicate any issues. All music is stored and played in native FLAC format over a wireless g network connection - AMD CPU, 1900+, 512 MB, - Redhat 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 - Perl v5.8.5 - SlimServer v6.0.3 - Squeezebox 2, Player Firmware Version: 11, MAC address: 00:04:20:05:a7:a0, Wireless Signal Strength: 100% Music seems to play fine for a period of time with absolutely no problems, say an hour, before going choppy. This is driving me up the wall - I have stopped using the SB for a month or so - it conked out embarrasingly at a party where I had nearly convinced a couple of other folk to buy a SB. Not so likely now! Things were okay with v6.0.1 and that this may be related to upgrading from SS v6.0.1 (to 6.0.2 and then 6.0.3 which both exhibit the same issues) and the corresponding SB firmware upgrades. I am reluctant to upgrade to 6.1 due to the reports that this problem is not resolved and the other issues related to this release. Will submit this as a help desk request to the support email address too. -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 playback freezes
Jeff52 Wrote: I reported this as a bug with a reference to this discussion for details. do you know what the bugzilla reference number is for this bug? I can't find any reference number for this problem and it is killing me. I suspect it is related to the v6.0.1 to v6.0.2 upgrade. I seem to get dropouts after for playing for some time. These seem to come back even if I power cycle the squeezebox2. Haven't tried stop/start, but none of these 'workarounds' should really be necessary! -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: dropouts near start of songs
this might be the same as thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14324 although no resolution as such -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB2 playback freezes
I am running SB2 (firmare 11), Slimserver v6.0.2 on Fedora Core 3. It was running fine as far as I can tell, but now playback seems to freeze periodically (every 45 mins or so). Running wirelessly but non-encrypted. All tracks FLAC and with native decoding within the SB2. The song title continues to scroll and the user interface continues to work. Pausing then unpausing doesn't help, but fast forwarding or replying the track unfreezes it. It's a strange one as I can't really reproduce the problem and can't find and hints in the debugging...I have d_remotestream, d_stream, d_stream_v, d_usage turned on. Help - anyone else experienced this, or have any suggestions aprt from the obvious reboots!!! -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: executing binaries on a squeezebox
I live in a small flat, so I have tucked the (Fedora linux) Slimserver in the bedroom, so that it doesn't cause noise when listening to music in the lounge over wi-fi. What I want is an easy way to turn the Slimserver on an off from my Squeezebox. (wake-up on LAN, execute script to turn off, etc.). I don't want to leave my PC switched on all the time for a number of reasons (packed full of additional hot disks that are screwed in to the case: not sure the cooling really supports this!!, wouldn't want to give hackers the chance to take over the box by leaving it on 24/7, makes too much noise in the bedroom to sleep with it on). On the other hand, I'm lazy so I don't want to have to walk in to the bedroom to power the Slimserver on and off every time I want to listen to music. (I got the SB2 for convenience in the first place, right...) -- kefa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
