Re: [slim] HELP - Cannot get SqueezeCenter 7.0 to run on XP to use with Duet.
Mark T I would be a lot of help if you told us what browser you are using. If it is Internet Explorer i would suggest you try downloading FireFox and trying that to see if that works. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Serverless SqueezeBox?
jbuberel;283036 Wrote: I do not 'own' any of my music collection, I only rent it via on-line services such as Rhapsody.com and Pandora. Works beautifully in this configuration. in the above senario you must still have a Squeezenetwork account (free)to connect to Rhapsody or Pandora. But just one other note on these services, they seem to be going away for SB users out side of the U.S. But in the event you do own your music you could use the MP3Locker service where you upload all you music the their server (secure from others using it) and then just connect to that service via the SqueezeNetwork. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45244 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 turns off
borhde0, It sounds like you are running SqueezeCenter as a user not as a service. I am not in front of my machine right now but but if you go to StartAll ProgramsSqueezecenterSqueezeCenter Start up Ootions I think that is what it is anyway you should be able to change SqueezeCenter to run as a service and not have to be logged on. That is how one of mine runs Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45076 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeeze Center Start up
It sounds like you do not have it set up as a service. See this thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45076 -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45099 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Missing SB!
miklorsmith;280835 Wrote: The main XP computer which has the storage attached works, and sees both players. The laptop is working perfectly, is connected to the internet, and sees the networked directories in the main computer. Further, the laptop sees the players when in SqueezeNetwork, just not SqueezeCenter. Are you saying that your main XP computer runs SC7 or SS6.5.x. If you are saying that then the SB's just need to see it and it needs to be on anytime you want to listen to your local music (not SqueezeNetwork). Then just point your browser of your laptop at http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9000/ Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the ip address of your main XP machine. In the event that your main XP machine only has the music attached to it and you are running SC7 or SS6.5.x on the lap top your best bet would be to load SC onthe main XP machine and leave that running all the time so you can get to your local music from that machine or from your laptop as described above. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44916 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 Question: Does Album Catalogue Creator (RC5+) create a trustworthy output? - Yes - Yes but with minor issues - No - It does not work at all elite1967;280656 Wrote: Hi, I have SC7 running on FreeNAS (based on freeBSD) on IP address 192.168.1.99. Is there a way to run the ACC script from my windows machine (ip: 192.168.1.84) to query the SC7 database? (I am not running the ACC script from the slimserver machine) Thanks Stefano This is currently being implemented but still has some testing to be done. I have been assisting SilverRS8 with the testing and should have some instructions with in the week on how best to implement this on NAS devices. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is cover art so important?
Zten;272779 Wrote: So my next request will be to do VIDEO in album art so we can see the disc as it moves and changes the art. Just kidding :o) This could be done with animated .gif files if they were supported, although not the best solution but probably a lot easier. such as that Grateful Dead concert from 1972, that Dylan bootleg from 1987 or a live show downloaded from archive.org? I have found that if you search the net then you can find many others who have already made cover art for many of the Grateful Dead live shows. As for the Dylan bootleg or other live shows, as has been stated make your own art that will make you remember being there if you were, as I was. Also i find the cover art will bring back memories that can and do not come back just from the artist name or track title. But then again if you do not like the cover art then just remove it and then there is no problem. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43750 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Multiple artwork for one album - possible??
bulletmark;271766 Wrote: Now to my question of should I be the one reviewing this? - my point is that clearly I, as mere customer/user, have no idea of whatever changes SD has done to SC7 to invalidate those or other docs. So I *can't* review the changes. They must be reviewed by somebody else (probably internal to SD) who knows the exact specifics of the software changes and who can properly reflect on the necessary changes to the docs. I don't know what they've changed! All I can point out (and did) was some parts of the doc after Michaels edit which had to be still wrong given the tidbit comments that Michael had given here. Then go back and use the SS6.5.X where the documentation is probably more correct. As I and many others have stated on the matter of SC7 it is in BETA so there will be issues of things being incorrect and that is why it is BETA. Schatzy, thanks for your comments. I'm sorry for being completely off topic. But phrases like this always make me smile. I don't know why schatzy is using this name here in the forums. But in German it means sweetie... :-) Michael - It is a nick name given to me by those in my grade school who could not pronounce my last name, Schatzlein (little Sweetheart in german). I have had this nick name for more than 35 years now. As for being sweet i can be bu t for someone to complain about having a problem with SC7 which is in Beta and then continue on about it after ahving it explained why it is incorrect is not very nice. If they want to use a Beta version they must be willing to accept the fact that there will be mistakes in it and as for dcoumentation I find that SD has some of the best and most comprehensive around. So okay the documentation in this case was incorrect but you all are wokring very hard on getting the program to work as it should and the documentation will get corrected later. Simple. Oh and take a look at the iTunes documentation it is about 3-4 revisions behind and they have a lot more resources for getting it correct than SD Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43611 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
hifi-fan;271899 Wrote: I have been trying to get this wonderful utility to work, but I just can't seem to get the album art to show up. I am running squeezecenter on Xp sp2. The music resides in a NAS. I searched this thread for the various work arounds, and edited the program as suggested. I must be doing something wrong. It will help me a lot if someone would post step by step instructions on how you got the program to work for you. Please help. Do you have a mapped drive letter for your NAS? Also the cover art files should be named cover.jpg or folder.jpg for a standard install. If you have all your cover art named say x.jpg then you can open the file AlbumCatalogCreator-V1.hta with note pad or some other text editor and add your cover art name to the list. It should be on line #78. There you will find a line looking like this sCoverFilename= cover.jpg,folder.jpg Just add your cover art name in the list like so sCoverFilename= cover.jpg,folder.jpg,x.jpg Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Operational Questions
4mula1;271528 Wrote: If you want to see what's playing and have the track titles change accordingly, hit the Now Playing button on the remote when you are done browsing to see the current track. Or rather than having to press the now playing button every time set the Screensaver To Use When Playing to Now Playing and set the Screensaver Delay Time to 1 (seconds) and that should do the trick. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43717 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Multiple artwork for one album - possible??
bulletmark;271394 Wrote: And really, am I the one who should be reviewing this? Is this representative of QA there at Logitech corporation? To answer your question - Yes. We all should. Just remember one thing this is NOT the final release. The great hard working people at Slim Devices have put the software out as a Beta so that those of us who wish to use it can. But as a Beta user you must be willing to realize that there will be issues that need attention. The people at Slim Devices can not know EVERY possible configuration that might be out there in the real world. They also have been working very very hard on making the important changes to the software to make functionality better and more to what the users are asking for. From these forums you can see that many the user population have not read the users guide or looked at the Help files. Through all of this the people at Slim Devices take all kinds of criticism and may times say Thank You for letting them know our opinions. So If the errors get out in the then maybe there is a reason to complain. But also remember that most software and equipment no longer come with any kind of useful instructions and in many cases if it does it is outdated by Years not just a month or so. I personally think the people at Slim Devices are doing a fantastic job and should be applauded for their work. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43611 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] A Round Of Applause
I would just like to give a round of applause to the Slim Devices Crew for doing such a great job. They have taken a lot of criticism and held their tongue(in most cases) and actually listened to us, the user, and we need to show how much we appreciate it. +---+ |Filename: Applause.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4351| +---+ -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43723 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Any plans on Jive desktop application?
signor_rossi;271579 Wrote: But for wall you wouldn't just need a display, you would need a computer too (be it a panel PC or a display with a Thin client), and such setups would be quite expensive. :( Already have the computer and wiring done to support a monitor in the wall so just need the touch screen. Prices are coming down now less than $400 for a 10 or here for less than $300.00 http://www.thenerds.net/MIRACLE_BUSINESS.Miracle_LT10B_LCD_Monitor_104_800_x_600_75Hz_25ms_0264mm_3001_Black.LT10B.html?affid=1srccode=cii_9324560cpncode=07-46783220-2affid=3 Also see this thread where some one is already doing it with at the time of posting using a custom interface. They posted Pictures. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16775 And at least in SS6.5.4 there was a touch screen skin incorporated. http://127.0.0.1:9000/touch/ Have not tried this on SC7 yet but i can hope Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42947 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Kksf 103.7
Mike, I have not been able to get the KKSF stream running thru SqueezeNetwork as well. I also tried another stream froma local station here that will not run through SqueezeNetwork. What it did find is that both streams http://sagacomm-wrsi-fm.wm.llnwd.net/sagacomm_WRSI-FM http://a1531.l2241451783.c22414.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1531/22414/v0001/reflector:51783 if put in IE or Firefox they will open Windows Media player. Media player then shows them as Windows Media Audio 9 32 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo 1-pass CBR. I thought Squeeze Network was supposed to be able to play Windows Media files but maybe not. May be there is someone else more in the know that can help on this matter. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43623 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Internet Radio - Confusion sets in
SuperQ Thanks, That is so obvious. I should have thought of that. Thanks again, Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43630 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Get this radio stream?
Try this. http://www.krcb.org/listen/krcb.pls I put this in the tune in radio station and it worked straight away. Then if you are using SC7 you can add it to your favorites but if using SC6.5 then it can be added as a playlist. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43617 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looks like Blu-Ray has won
bigfool1956;270604 Wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7250068.stm Guess this thread is for non-US citizens only, as even making a post would be illegal, as I understand it.. Oh dear. It was announced on NPR in the US this morning. Also on USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2008-02-17-toshiba-hddvd_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43609 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Get this radio stream?
If you just copy and past the link found on the website is shows up like http://www.kalw.org/media/Streaming Links/kalw_wmestream.asx You some time must add the %20 manually for the space between the words Streaming Links Once the %20 is added then it works. I have found this on a few radio stations. Windows sees the space for a space but other applications need the space spelled out in characters. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43617 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Kksf 103.7
Try this link a1531.l2241451783.c22414.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1531/22414/v0001/reflector:51783 I pasted this into the Tune In block is SC7 and it work straight away. It should also work in SC6.5 They are running it from a flash player so getting the stream address can sometime be a little dificult Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43623 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Internet Radio - Confusion sets in
I have two streams that were working yesterday and for months before that yet one of them will not work on my server running Linux, yet will work on my Windows SP Pro SP2 machine. Both machines run are running their respective SC7 nightly from Feb 15, 2008. http://www.wers.org/wers.pls Plays on windows but not on my Linux. AFAIK it is a MP3 Stream, 32kbps CBR yet http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wfcr/ppr/wfcr.pls Plays on both windows and Linux. AFAIK it is a MP3 Stream, 24kbps CBR I have both of these in my favorites and on the Linux machine i gett an error message There was an error loading the remote feed for : (Invalid XML feed ) on the WERS stream that will not work. Does anyone have any idea what the problem may be. The WAF dropped way down this morning when she could not Listen to WERS Thanks in advance Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43630 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Quirks after upgrade to SC7.0
Brain, what would really help all of us to help you is to know what operating system you are using. With out that it coudl be anybodies guess as to what has happened. Also a number of people here have found that they need to install SC7 twice or more to get it to respond properly on a Windows machine. Also if your are using Vista then please read the sticky post at the top of the General Discussion Forum. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43636 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Which Wireless Router to Use?
Is there something wrong with the Old Wireless G Router because if there is nothing wrong with its opperation and if you are not transfering HUGH amounts of data then there is no need to upgrade to something better. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43638 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Internet Radio - Confusion sets in
SuperQ Thanks for the assistance. I have been using ClarkConnect for three months now with SC7 and have had the www.wers.org/wers.pls in my favorite list for almost that long. Then suddenly this morning it stopped working. The other address you listed marconi.emerson.edu:8000/wers works great. If i may ask how did you find that to be the actual url? Again Thanks the sife is now happy that it is working agian Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43630 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver/SqueezeCenter Installation
Check this thread it may answer a lot of your questions http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32578 it is Titled Slimserver Problems Running on Windows Vista Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43505 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Losing an Opportunity
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 Question: Do you agree with this posting? - Yes - No - In the middle MrSinatra;266962 Wrote: if slim/logitech doesn't make a tivo type music appliance, someone else eventually will. Others already do. But are you willing to pay the price? Request Audio http://www.request.com/products/musicservers.asp Starting at $2500.00 up to over $18,000 and that is only for the server you must still buy a monitor (touch screen prefered)and other accessories. And these have fans so thery are not totaly quiet. Yamaha http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/MusicCast/ Start at $1999.00 Olive http://www.olive.us/home.html Start at $1099.00 to $4000.00 I could build a very nice totally quite server with Linux, two 500GB drives and get a few SB3 or Duets for these prices and have a system that is easily upgradeable. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
cnsmipe;265708 Wrote: So strange, I tried yesterday, ( i did a system restore due to a different problem) and had to reinstall both ACC and MYsql ODBC. And the AC/DC problem was solved!!! So my question is where does ACC get the Tag info from? Is't from the SS db or is't from the IDtag within the MP3 file it self? So if it's the SS db you have to rebuild the db before trying! Then regarding the Album problem it still remains Micke It gets the tag info from the SS database, so exactly why it was doing what it was with the AC/DC. Well it's Windows. AS fro your album problem PM me and i will give you my e-mail address and the you can send me one of your albums and i will check it out with my system and try to figure out what is wrong. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox died this morning 6 weeks old
slwiser;265721 Wrote: Is it typical that you have to unplug and re-plug in eveyone's SB3 every day or so to keep it working? I had been doing this with some success until this morning when I had to the the audio chip reset again. No it is not Typical to have to rest or unplug a squeeze box daily or even monthly. I have two that have been running for more than 9 months with out even a hint of a problem. You may want to check you wall voltage (120/240) as a high or low voltage can cause all kinds of odd problems with electronics equipment. I.E. at the place i work the correct voltage should be 115/120 nominal but it continually runs high at about 128-130. This causes havoc with any computer related device. We have had to go to running UPS systems all all desktops to reduce the voltage to a more normal range. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41212 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Grandfather clock plugin, possible?
You could possibly use the Heartbeat sound embedded in SC7 to do the tick-tock sound. As for the chime sound and then maybe use the wind chimes sound again from the embedded sounds as the 15/30/45/60 chimes just running them longer each time Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Odd behavior
paltomare;264780 Wrote: Just picked up a SB3 for my office. I have it wired directly to a router issueing DHCP and analog out to a receiver all tucked away in a server closet. No need for internal networking since I am controlling it from my workstation via SN. Setup went perfectly, and it started playing my favorites right away. The odd behavior is that ocasionally I will go back to see the unit back at the setup networking screen. One time it was still playing the other time it had stopped. I scroll forward to the SN connection screen and all is good again. Any clues into why this is happening? How long are your IP Leases from your DHCP server, a week , a day, a few hours?. This could be causing a problem. I would suggest setting your server and your SB3 with static IP addresses and see what happens. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42962 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Search for Swans
This is the only UK distributer listed on Swan's Web site. http://www.iplacoustics.co.uk/ Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42965 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeeze Center file access
N8Byers;264545 Wrote: Can anyone explain when and for what situations Squeeze center accesses audio files. I have Squeeze center set up on my Windows Desktop and I have a secondary drive containing all my music. I have it set up for my drive to spin down after 2hrs of no use. The problem is I'm finding the drive spinning up occasionally with SqueezeCenter. For what other reason would SqueezeCenter be trying to access these file for other than streaming and the routine Scan? I have found on more than one occasion with scan off and the squeezebox disconnected... the drive spinning up for some reason. Are you 100% positive that it is SqueezeCenter that is causing the drive to spin up. I would shut SqueezeCenter down by (ensure that it is not running by checking task manager) and then let it sit for few hours and see if the drive spins up. If it does then it is not SqueezeCenter that is causing it. I know on my system (windows xp pro sp2) with out SqueezeCenter the drive spin up for what seems to be no reason, come to find out it is windows that is refreshing its connection list that causes this. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42941 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
cnsmipe;264608 Wrote: Yes I do use RC3a release, is there a later version? And regarding the AC/DC and the / issue I'v tried to retag all to ACDC and AC DC but still I get the same result. I reinstalled the mySQL ODCB after retagging but before running Your script Mike I did some extensive testing last night by setting up a few albums for AC/DC, AC\DC, for the ACDC, AC DC problem you are having. What I found was that no matter what I did it would always Come out as AC/DC. It did not matter which way the /\ went or if it had a space before or after it always got changed to /. So this morning I powered up a system from at work that runs a Spanish (sold in Spain) version of Windows XP Pro SP2 and made up some albums and then transfered them to a English (Sold in the US) version of Windows XP Pro SP2 and ran some tests. What i got was very inconsistent. Most of the time it would come out as ACDC but occasionaly it would come out as AC DC. It seems to me to be a difference in the language settings for characters. You had stated that you downloaded some of the tagging from Amazon. Could it be that some of the AC/DC tags came from Amazon. I would suggest opening each album with your tagging software. Bulk remove or change the artist tag to something completely different. Save this Close the tagging software. Reopen the tagging software and that album and and bulk change the artist tag to AC/DC. Remember that you will have to do a complete clear and rescan with SC/SS and the rerun ACC. If this does not fix the problem then PM me and we can work off line of the forum to get this sorted out for you. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeeze Center file access
N8Byers;264709 Wrote: schatzy: Have you found anyway around windows refreshing it's connections list ? Thanks everyone! I a word No! And i am unwilling to pay Microsoft to get an answer. I have searched Microsoft blogs, Google etc with no luck. I think it is part or their lets make windows faster for the user mentality. Also wondering why you have the spin down time set so long (2 hours). One note for you though if you set the screen saver for five minutes and the drive spin down for 5 minutes the screen saver will cause activity on the hard drive and thus reset the hard drive timer for another 5 minutes. There are also many other things that can cause disk activity such as network traffic, anti virus software looking for updates, other programs looking for updates, instant messengers refreshing their connected lists etc. so you may want to check for some of these types of things as well. For instance when I access Outlook on my work computer it causes all the drive to spin up. Why it has to spin all of them up and not just the operating system one with the program and data on it i do not know. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42941 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
cnsmipe;264469 Wrote: Hi Then the other: Some albums are showing up as 1 Album/song so an album with 12 songs will show up as 12 albums BR Mike Mike, When this happens does SC7 or SS6.5.x show one album or multiple albums as well. Check the track tags. If the tracks list as 1 then 2 then 3/12 then 4 then 5/12 then this can cause this to happen. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN
The magic packet settings were in the Diagnostic Utility for the Version 2 and has been stripped from the Version 3 Diagnaostic Utility. Linksys has told me that there is other software that they recomend to be able to take better use of al the functionality of their EG1032 V3 here are the links from Linksys online support. Just be ware these are third party and I do not have any experience with these, so risk in using these is up to you. http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/magic_pkt.exe http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41129 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Frivolous Question ('Center' vs. 'Centre')
I can remember a time when i lived in Banbury England for 4 years. There was a sign that pointed to Banbury Center although be it only a few days before it got changed. We Yanks have infiltrated as can be seen by this UK business. Plumb Center - http://www.plumbcenter.co.uk/plumb/index.html Go get them you anglophiles. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42625 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN
gorman;260829 Wrote: I'm using NIC Linksys EG1032 v3 with latest drivers. The advanced properties in the driver panel do not contain WOL entries. I configured WOL through the standard XP Power Savings panel (allow device..., only management stations, etc.). It seems from reading the linksys support site that you should in fact have WOL setting such as Magic Packet in the driver control panel. If you do not then there seems to be something wrong with the driver. Also mi seems many people are complaining about the computer waking all by itself and trying to figure out the network status. I would say you need to check with the support team at Linksys to find out why you do not have the control settings they say you should. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41129 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] TinyAmp S30 amplifier the perfect companion Squeezebox ?
Another smallish amp would be the Russound R235LS. Like the Parasound Z-Amp and the Audiosource Amp 100 it is designed for lower wattages (35 per channel) but has audio sensing for auto turn on. The Russound is larger than the Parasound but smaller than the Audiosource. I use on of these in my kitchen with a wall mounted SB3 and ceiling mounted speakers. It has enough power to drive you out of the room. But then again all of these amps are designed more for the background music people play when friends are over or during parties etc. If you want something small with 100 watts you probably won't find small unless you go to a car (automobile) amp but then the power supply to drive it will not be small so that defeats the purpose. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42445 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] WFMT Chicago URL
As a station owned by Window to the World Communications, who by the way gets large grants from The corporation for Public Broadcasting, in my eyes is a public radio station. Also they ask for money from people to pay for their programing so that also puts them in the category of public radio. Also straight from their web site i see that they have exactly the same member rates as my local public radio stations, also being fully tax deductible which if someone was giving to a commercial radio they would not be able to do. See http://www.wfmt.com/main.taf?p=3,3 In fact all of their member programs are exactly the same as those of my local and other public radio stations. So conclusion from all this data is that they are a public radio station. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42459 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
MuckleEck;260808 Wrote: Shatzy, It seems that the drive mapping works if squeezecenter/slimserver is run at login and makes use of a users account information to colelct the mapping info...I run SC as a service and it doesn't see the mapping. I am using a thexus 2100 NAS MuckleEck, I also run SC7 as a service and i had to map a drive through windows in the following manner. Putting what i did here not know what your experience is, and for those who are not so technically inclinde 1. Right click on My Computer 2. Click on Map Network Drive... 3. Pick drive letter that you want to use. 4. Browse (using browse button) to the folder on your network attached storage that has your music on it. You can not select the root folder as this will not create a proper mapping. 5. Click finish. Test your mapping by opening my computer and clicking on the drive letter you selected it should bring up a the contents of the folder that you mapped to. I did this with two different NAS boxes One Link Station and one Infrant. Both worked properly if the mapping was done as stated above. If yo let the NAS Software select the drive letter or how it is to connect to your computer it WILL NOT work. Phil had a work around that i tried and it worked as well but was much more work to get it working. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] WFMT Chicago URL
Ralph 411, I find it Extraordinarily Rude of a public radio station to force you to sign up and give them all the information that they require. I currently support 3 public radio stations in my local area of Boston MA and none of they would even think of asking a listener to subscribe in the manner that WFMT is doing. Yes they have a short 10 second message when you first connect to the stream about making a contribution but that is deffinately not a requirement to listen to their station, nor ANY other PUBLIC RADIO STATION. That is why they are called PUBLIC RADIO. My only suggestion for you is to contact the station and make a complaint about this. If they can not give you a link that does not require the login information then ask them where you need to put in the login info so that you can listen to the stream I.E. https:/www.wfmt.com?login+password/res/streaming... Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42459 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Attn: webmaster - there's a typo in your store
It would also be nice if the Subscribe Link actually worked. I tried it in IE and Fire Fox and all it tells states is The Web Page Canton Be Found I want to get my name on the list to buy of of the controllers -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42396 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Help with server software and weird setup.
sqwk77;260193 Wrote: First, I do not currently own any Squeezeboxes yet. I will be buying the Duet when it is released. But in the meantime... I have a laptop A connected directly to my stereo. I want to be able to control my itunes, rhapsody, and pandora on that computer (A) with another roaming laptop. I also want to the able to control laptop (A) with an Apple iPhone. Open SC7 and in the left window click extras, then click on SPftSqueeze. This will down load and install a software version of a Squeezebox that wil control the SC7 Server software thus allowing you to play the music in your itunes library thru the computer. Pandora and Rhapsody can both be played thru the Squeezesoft software and SC7. You can control computer A from Computer B via Remote Desktop (part of windows) As for controlling the computers with an iPhone check out the iPhone forums. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42420 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet only with MP3Tunes
According to the MP3Tunes web site the album art should be viewable when using their service the SqueezeNetwork http://www.mp3tunes.com/cb/squeezenetwork/ Don't have my Duet yet so i have not been able to verify this Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42310 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet videos
Now after viewing that video i have to have one. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41894 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] U.S. Broadband Users Beware
The start is here for metered broadband usage. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080117/media_nm/timewarner_internet_dc Streaming Music from you SB to work might be a problem sooner than some of us are willing to think about. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42424 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming interruption Q
mapatton;260204 Wrote: Up = 493 kpbs Down = 7684 TOD = 10-11AM bit rate = 192 kbps (for both streams) which is much lower than what I had it. I had my wife down to this level with myself still at 320. I had no issues, she had issues. I lowered mine and it didn;t seem to help hers at all. It seems that your upload speed very low. Also if you add 192 + 192 = 384 + overhead is getting very close to the upload speed. If you can try an experiment (it may sound lousy) by dropping your bit rates to 92kpbs for a day or two to see what happens. if this clears the problem up then it is the upload speed that is causing your problem. If this test doe not help, as Siduhe said there may be something running your wifes computer that is interfering with the stream such as Anitvirus or Antispyware software. Another posiblity is that there is a back network card of cable connecting here computer to the network. Many thanks!. I believe the CPU should be fine (2.8 dual core, 2 gigs ram, 2 TB RAID 0+1) as it is fairly stout and dedicated. ... Checked it, with 2 streams and the SB3 running my computer CPU usage is 3% with 364meg of 2 gig used. As you had stated in an earlier post your processor and its usage should not be a problem. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42170 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
MuckleEck;259785 Wrote: Schatzy Frank, I have played around with things and found the following:- 1. I change the SS to log on as user and then use x:\music as the folder, SS still stored everything in the database as \\n2100\itunes\music...so no joy there What brand of NAS do you have? Also does it have its own software to set up the network drive letter. The reason I ask is that I have a Buffalo Link Station here this weekend and it has it's own software that it uses to set it up and set the drive letter it uses. I find that it does exactly as you stated above it drops teh mapped letter. I forced a mapping through windows and it worked correctly and showed the drive letter in the path. As seen below +---+ |Filename: zdrive-1.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4116| +---+ -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Diana Artemis;259640 Wrote: SilverRS8 wrote: The opening of the file in IE is actually hardcoded for two reasons; 1. everybody has IE installed I wouldn't say that in the company of people using free software (e.g. the GNU/Linux OS)! ;-) Diana, Maybe you should have read through the thread before posting. As Frank said anyone that uses this WILL have IE installed. Because it will not work if it is not. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] NAS benefits?
NAS Devices are good for storing data but most of them are way under powered for running thins like SS and SC. Just read through the threads here, many people say they are under powerded. For actually less money than a decent NAS i have a mini iTX computer and a 500GB usb hard drive. The iTX is a 1Ghz processor with 1GB ram and runs WIndows XP. I have 3 SB3's connected to it all running different stream and no lag in the menu's on any of the SB3's. I think I could probably run at least 2 more SB3's off of this with out any problems. Now if I was to have it run a version of Linux it would probably be quicker. This creates a totally silent system that draws only 17 watts when fully running, and 9 watts in idle mode. I have never turned it off. BTW most NAS have fans of some sort that make noise. If I wanted to spend a little more money and add another 500GB USB drive (which I may have to do soon) I would still have only spent about 50% of what it costs for an Infrant NAS with 1TB of storage. There are other NAS out there that are cheaper but then you also have less ability to play with its operating system. I will admit it does draw a little more power but only about 25% more. But still only about 1/10 of what a regular computer would draw minimum. If you already have an NAS and it is not power full enough or you can't load SS or SC the a mini iTX is a good choice. Scahtzy Edit: BTW i can access the music or any other file on the USB drive connected to the Mini iTX Computer from any other computer on my network at any time I want. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42364 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
to: tamanaco, Glad to be of assistance. To: MuckleEck I will be borrowing a NAS with music on it this weekend to do some other testing for SilverRS8. If you are still having problems after going through Phil's posts let me know and I will try to figure out a senario for you that will work to your and others benefit. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] NAS benefits?
Espen;259784 Wrote: I am using such a setup. The only component that makes noise is the harddrive. I have configured it to spin down after a few minutes of inactivity. I currently have two My Book 500GB hard drives. One is in use the other is stored away as a back up. Both of these drives are very quite. If i get my ear with in 5-6 inches of the drive i can hear it but when i am sitting in my chair 3-1/2 feet from the stereo rack i can not hear them at all. I am not trying to say that all My Books will be this quite but from my experience they are very good. I fun the OS on a notebook hard drive and once the case is on the computer it can not be heard. schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42364 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
MuckleEck;259791 Wrote: Frank, Now that I have it working I have a request. I use a customDB setting in my tags that allows me to sort the music by who owns it in the family (me, wife, kids etc) How easy would it be to add an extra sort criteria that can be customised? The heading in the MySQL database is value although I am unsure of what context that is in. I think it may be one of tme comments fields. in MP3Tag it is shown as COMMENT SONGS-DB_CUSTOM1 as one of the Extended Tags. Many thanks MuckleEck, When you say you have it working, do you mean off the USB drive or the NAS? Conclusions:- a) ACC doesn't seem to like the references to external drives and the speed of the drive may be an issue. When you say the speed of the drive do you mean the spinning speed or the time to access the drive through the network? Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] NAS benefits?
Gibbo;259812 Wrote: thats pretty interesting actually. just looking at itx's now. most seem to come with cd drives and small hard drives built in. I have an external drive I would be happy to use as an external, and have built computers before so am happy to build it myself. what kinda price could a simple one cost? what can you leave out? or any good places to buy? i'm a windows person though, will that be a problem? Gibbo, As for purchase and not knowing where you live, just do an internet search for itx motherboards. The list will not be really long but look for the best price as there are a few companies out there that have very good rankings that will price gouge you. I.E. i saw one mini system with 60GB HD and CD drive for 779.00 and the exact same system somewhere else for 499.00. and that was one of the more expensive ones. As long as the processor is 1Ghz or better with at least 1GB of memory you should be all set to run Windows XP Pro SP2. Thats what I run. As for Vista or XP Media Center They may tax it a bit. I bought this one as a bare bones kit as it had the best price at the time and i have all sorts of extra drive and memory hanging around. The only thing was that i had to make a drive bracket for it. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/store/Mini_ITX_Systems/Mini_ITX_BareBones_Computer Also i run the most basic of Windows XP Pro install. I left out all the extras that they want you to install. I would have to check this evening what i did install so i could run it headless and access it through Remote Desktop. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42364 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
tamanaco, You should find the configuration file in the acc-v1-RC2 folder that is crated on unzipping the downloaded file. If you are not seeing it is may be hidden by windows. 1. open the folder with ACC in it. 2. click on tools (in the tool bar at the top) 3. click on folder options 4. click on the view tab 5. under the hidden file and folders click on show hidden fies and folders 6. also uncheck hide extensions for known file type and 7. click OK. at this point you should see a file called ACC.cfg If you still do not see it then open note pad and type in the following SF| G2E| CF| Save the file as ACC.cfg in the folder with the acc program. if it saves it with a .txt at the end the rename the file ACC.cfg and try ACC again. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Secret Squirrel, quoteAlso, I wonder why ACC accesses the internet./quote IE will always try to access the internet every time it is opened, whether you want it to or not. That is just the way the browser works normally. You could manually set it to not access the internet but then when you wanted to use it for the internet you would have to manually tell it to connect every time -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Secret Squirrel;259099 Wrote: Also, I wonder why ACC accesses the internet. Overall, I happy with what I have. Thanks again, SS Secret Squirrel IE is normal set to try and connect to the internet normally. This can be changed (work off line mode)but then every time you go to use it to connect to the internet you would have to manually tell it to connect (on line mode). In fact all browsers work this way. So when ACC opens IE to display, IE thinks it should try and connect to the internet to get ready for your request of a web page. But ACC is telling it what to display so it displays the ACC generated page and is then reday for yout to type in a web address or choose from favorites etc. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
tamanaco;259267 Wrote: Thanks Schatzy... I run my systems so that I can see all the hidden files as an administrator. Frank said that the file is created when the script is executed. It is not in the zip file. I usually remove every trace of the previous version of any beta software from my computer before I install the next version. This way I avoid any issues related to compatability from files in one version that might've changed in the next. Did you get it to work? Schazy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
MuckleEck;259333 Wrote: Frank, Config file is SF| G2E| CF|Y:\Music\V\Various Artists DT|True DG|False ACS|True APPS|True SB|1 Last message before all teh various artists messages were:- STATUS :WHERE INSTR(UCASE(tracks.url), 'FILE:///Y:/Music/V/Various%20Artists') STATUS :group by tracks.id,lcase(convert(albums.title using utf8)) STATUS :order by lcase(convert(albums.titlesort using utf8)),tracks.disc,tracks.tracknum; STATUS : fnCreateSQLQuery(2):LEAVE:15:19:55 STATUS : fnPerformQuery(2):ENTER:15:19:55 STATUS : fnPerformQuery():Recordset opened:15:19:55 STATUS : 15:19:55 ;Various Artists;;; STATUS : 15:19:55 ;Various Artists;;; STATUS : 15:19:55 ;Various Artists;;; Many thanks for the ultra prompt response Alasdair What type of files are they? MP3, FLAC, WMA etc. Also do you have any idea of how many files and folders are in your various artist folders? Also what is the file structure under your Various Artists folder? Schatzy, -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
MuckleEck;259343 Wrote: structure is as follows:- y:\music\v\various artists\album\track# artist - track name.xxx xxx is either FLAC or mp3 There are 120 albums in varius artists some with upto 200 tracks total of 3500 tracks Alasdair MuckleEck, Please try and select just one of the album folders in your that has less than 50 tracks (if you have one) I.E. y:\music\v\various artists\album And try to run ACC again, then run it on a folder that has more than 150 tracks and report back if either of those work. I have tested this here on my system and do not find a problem, but i do not have any folder that has more than 56 tracks. Thanks Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Secret Squirrel;259348 Wrote: Frank, I'll be happy to do that this evening, but won't get to it until about 8 EST. Sorry! Thanks, as always, for all of your work on this! SS Secret Squirrel I found i had to change the file association for .htm and .html to force it to use FireFox. This worked for me, but let me know how it goes after you have tried it. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Boxed in
HeavyB;259375 Wrote: Later in the day, I turn Squeezebox on to listen to the radio via Squeeze Network without turning on my PC. Squeezebox attempts to connect but in that the last thing I had been using was the aforementioned SlimServer, Squeezebox attempts to connect to it but cannot and it proceeds into set-up and eventually resets (in Dutch I might add) itself. I know how to prevent this from happening, just by making sure the last thing that I tuned in on Squeezebox was Squeeze Network or to always have my PC turned on, but this can't possibly be the correct set up, can it? Unfortunately by turning off the PC you have nothing for the Squeezebox to connect to so it must go back to trying to find something to connect to and that results in the network configuration coming up. This is standard operation. As maggior stated Scroll through and you will see an option to connect to squeezenetwork. Your other 2 options are 1. set it to Squeezenetwork each time before you press the off button 2. turn your computer on first, let it start up and then start your Squeezebox. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42323 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming interruption Q
mapatton;259452 Wrote: No one can assist with this? I find that odd. Sometimes it takes a little while (sometimes as much as a day or more) to get someone on the forum that knows the answer to your question. I would presume it is a bandwidth issue (using a 5Mbps cable connection) on the upstream, but,, Most cable internet connections have a slower speed of upload than they do of download. Like my cable connection at my house has a download speed of up to 15MB sec (usually runs about 12MB) while the upload speed is only 768KB (usually runs around 680KB). You can check this at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Click on one of the cities nearest you and when it has finished it will give you two numbers one is the download speed the second is the upload speed. If your upload speed is less than 800KB you may have a problem, especially trying to run two streams. Also doe you wife find that it is a certain time of day that this happens like shortly after school lets out? I know in my neighborhood when school lets out and all the children arrive home the upload and download speeds go down dramatically. This is caused by the amount of traffic on the system. The more traffic the slower everyone gets. Also what is the streaming bit rate? I have tried to stream 360kbs tracks and it does not work well even on the 768 upload because of the overhead data that is required. So check your speeds and answer a couple other questions and i will try to help you try to get this sorted out. Speed Upload? Speed Download? Time of day it is the worst? bit rate of your tracks? Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42170 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Yet another twilight zone moment...
pablolie, It would help all of us to know what versions you are using and also what firmware the SB3 has. Also what operating system and some basic configuration info on the computer running SS. Also have you though of upgrading to SC7 rather than SS6.? I personally have had no problem with SS or SC but many others have and we can help you out with a little more info. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42339 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter 7.0 can't find my music files
Have you checked that SC7 has permission to access the Z:\ drive? That is probably one of the first things you should check. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42343 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Yet another twilight zone moment...
pablolie;259513 Wrote: Standard 6.5.4 on Windows XP Professional. An utterly vanilla configuration without any thrid part plug ins... Never have had any issues, so this is not something I could recreate. All I did was mess around with the fade-in-fade-out settings. Well I can say one thing. Your using Windows and when that has a fault i can screw all kinds of thing up. I am not trying to be critical or anything, but sometimes we al forget the obvious. Did you do a complete windows shut down and let the computer power off then press the power button to restart the system before rescanning or reinstalling. I have found with Windows some times that solves all the problems. When it is done rescanning play with the cross fade and see if the problem comes back. Let us know the outcome. Schatzy Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42339 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] help me design audio in my house
grego.speiser, One thing you might want to check into is an amp by Russound, specifically the R235LS. It has line level inputs so that you can run the SB outputs right into it and then not have to have the tuner/amp on if you are still going to have one. and If you must have a tuner/amp then it will also accept speaker level inputs to pass the amp signal through to the speakers. BTW the amp turns itself on when audio is present at the audio inputs and then has a delay circuit to turn the amp off after a specified period of time after the audio input has stopped. I have set up my kitchen with and inwall SB3 (custom mounting plate) and mounted the amp to the ceiling in the basement. I have a Mini iTX computer running SS in my main stereo rack. In my case i did not have a wall to put the speakers in so they went in the ceiling. Before the remodel the speakers had been in the wall, mounted about 6 feet(2 meters) off the floor. The sound is only slightly more directional with them mounted in the ceiling. But then again what do you do in the kitchen? Work. With the other sounds that are in the room when you are in there this is basically background music. Question. Does the opening from the kitchen to the dining room go all the way to the ceiling. If not you would be better off putting the speakers in the wall above the opening as opposed to in the bulk head. The reason for this is that the in-wall speakers are designed for a relatively small cavity. If mounted in the bulkhead there would be a very large cavity and they may not sound so good. All the other posts here also have some very good suggestions as well. Just make sure you over wire the house now because it is very difficult to run wires later. Oh one thing you might want to think about is putting in some sort of a chase or pipe fromteh basement to the attic space as if there ever is the need to put extra wiring in then that is the easiest way to get it to the second floor. If you need any other help on placement of items feel free to ask. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42250 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
tamanaco, The issue with the resizing the windows of ACC is due to your font size selection in Windows. I have been able to recreate this on my computer and would like you to check something. 1.right click anywhere on your desktop where there is not an icon 2. Click properties 3. Click the settings tab 4. Click the advanced button 5. Click the General tab if it is not showing Under DPI setting what is the setting Normal (96dpi), Large (120dpi) or Custom. I believe that you will find that it is set to Large or Custom. Setting mine to large causes the same problem. IF that is the case and you need it set to large or custom for some reason then let me know and i will make you a special background and then have you change the window size in the ACC.hta file to accommodate this font size setting. If this is not the case then i will have to look into it further.But from the pictures you posted i think this will be the situation. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Secret Squirrel, So what you are saying is that it actually opened in FireFox but you still got a Zone Alarm message for IE. This is probably caused by the fact that ACC uses a function of IE/Outlook/Office that is designed for saving web pages and then viewing them off line. If this is the case can you live with the Zone alarm message be cause we will not be able to stop it happening without a change in Zone Alarm Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Secret Squirrel, Can you check something. 1. Open you ACC folder 2. Open the AlbumCatalog folder Question - the htm or html files in that folder do they have an IE icon or a Firefox icon. Which icon is shown? Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqeezeBox to connect without a router or access point - not working
Try the following 1. press and hold the left arrow button until the screen shows Squeezebox Setup (x of 5) on the first line 2. Press teh up or down arrows until the screen shows Set Up Netwroking on the second line 3. Press the right arrow once. the second line should read Network Connection (x of 2) on line one 4. Press the up or down arrow until the display shows Connect to an ethernet network on line two 5. Press the right arrow once. the screen should read Set Up Networking (x of 2) 6. press teh up or down arrow until Specify a static ip address si showing on line two 7.Press the right arrow once. The second line of the display will now be ready to take the IP address. To set the IP address use the up down arrow keys to change the number in the highlighted block. Use the right arrow key to move to the next block until all 9 blocks are set. Then continue on with the instructions. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42333 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Frank, I'm now getting the same error as tomanaco. Tried a few things in the script but was not able to get it to work. Will look at it more when i arrive home this evening. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
tomanaco, I opened the ACC.cgf file in note padIt looks something like this SF|I:\MP3\J\Jackson, Michael\(1979) Off The Wall G2E| CF| Remove from the first line I:\MP3\J\Jackson, Michael\(1979) Off The Wall The file should then look like SF| G2E| CF| Save this and try running ACC-RC2. If the path that we removed does not exist on your computer then this will probably not work as ACC is looking for it and can not find it. Let me know if that fixes it. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
For those of you having problems with displaying ACC results in FireFox. FireFox does not have native support for .MHT files. These are proprietary to Microsoft applications. There was a MAF Extension written for FireFox 1.5 that would allow .MHT files to be opened in FIreFox 1.5, but it has not been updated for the changes to newer version of FireFox. As for the .html files. fire fox does not recognize the format of the link to the cover.jpg. It is currently formatted as C:/folder/folder.cover.jpg For FireFox to be able to see it is must be file:///C:/folder/folder/cover.jpg The unfortunate this with this is that IE7 will disregard the file:/// and display the cover.jpg file properly but if you are using an older version of IE such as 6.0.5 then you may have problems with the cover.jpg file showing. Some country specific versions of 6.0.5 (Spanish version) did not allow the file:/// to be disregarded and will error out if it is in the path to the file. Hopefully SliverRS8 can come up with some alternate way of coding these path to the cover.jpg file but it may not be possible. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Frank, The real problem I beleive with IE6 more along the lines of A. if the file was produced by IE6 then no problem B. If file produce by another application the it must be in a very specific path structure. C. For unknown reasons it also has to do with the version of MS Office or Word. I have read reports that If you have Office 2003 installed it works fine with IE6. And then there are others that have reported problems with Outlook Express having to be reinstalled to make it work with IE6. My feeling is that those who have not upgraded to IE7 have much older computers where IE7 just does wont work. Also IE7 does not work on anything other than XP SP2 or Vista, or so Microsoft says, i have not tried it myself. Anyone running Windows 2000 or 98SE will probably have a problem, Although I have heard that you can view any .mht files on Win2k or 98SE if you install the latest Outlook Express even if you don't use it. But that's just the way Microsoft products are. Designed to be a PITA. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
RiccardoR, Mp3Tag should be able to do it for you. I personally have not used it but know of some other people that have done this, and they said it worked great. It can be found here http://www.mp3tag.de/en/. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Quick Success Story
Oh come on. I've lived in both and England is definitely not as bad a Oregon. But then a how about Phoenix Arizona, Lived there a year and it rained once and then it was 4-1/2 in less than an hour. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42238 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Down to the wire between SB Duet vs. Sonos
RK1313 As you say i do not want to call you a lier so here is what Sonos has to say about the track limits. Version 1.0 - 30,000 Version 1.1 - 30,000 Version 1.2 - 40,000 Version 1.3 - 40,000 Version 2.0 - 50,000 Version 2.1 - 50,000 So yes they can get UPTO 50,000 tracks but then they temper that with: The current limit is 50,000 tracks or filled RAM in the ZonePlayers -- whichever comes first. Long file names, track names, playlists, and composers use more RAM. If you can simplify your file names, you'll be able to squeeze in a few more tracks. Classical track names can be very long and ripping programs tend to throw the whole track name into the file name. By simplifying the track names, you'll free up more index space. Finally, you may have some seasonal music (Christmas, Easter, etc.) that does not need to be linked into the library all year. If you move each season's music into a separate share, only the currently linked shares will dig into the 50K limit. Also by reading through the forums many people are stating that they have hit the Memory limit with only 35,000 to 38,000 tracks and have minimal tagging as it is. To remove more tags looses searching capabilities and having to reduce the file name length should just not have to be done. There is enough to do just adding music to your system with out having to worry about the file name length. I surely know that I do not want to have to re-index my collection every time I want to listen to a to seasonal music. That requires that I split my music up and put it on different shares or folders. I just want to keep my collection in one place and have the ability to listen to Christmas Music in July if I want to. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
tamanaco, Are you using SC7 or SS 6.5.4? I have many albums with 10 tracks and they seem to work fine. I have found that there are many differences in the way SC7 and SC work with special characters including the . if your track numbers have any inconsistency especially if there happens to be a rouge space in there somewhere then it seems to throw off a lot of other listings even from other albums. I have a few files (30-40) that are giving me problems and i am doing some very extensive testing before attempting to do write a bug report. And i also see that some of the problems i have been having have been fixed in the latest nightly any way. As Phil and Frank suggested maybe a good look at the tags and a rescan will help you out. I have also noticed that with the latest nightly i need to actually shut off my computer and start it back up to make some of the changes work correctly. Don't understand that part but that is just how computers can be sometimes. I will post more of my findings in the next few days. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Down to the wire between SB Duet vs. Sonos
Blorty, Not sure what size your music collection is but be ware the Sonos can only handle less than 25,000 tracks. In fact even getting close to that say 23,500 tracks makes the Sonos database slow down to a crawl. Thus if you are using 5-6 rooms at one time and there is more than one track playing at a time you will be in trouble. Also i spoke with Sonos just a few months ago and they told me that There is no plan to increase the capacity for there database, and who has that much music anyway. Direct quote. Well that are many people that have that much or more music. My music collection is over 57,000 tracks, and I have heard of other people here on this forum with collections over 80,000 tracks that do not have a problem. I currently have 3 SB3's all running different music at one time off of a Mini iTX board with a Via C7 Processor @ 1GHz and 1 GB RAM. The processor only runs at about 17% this way so there is more than enough room to expand and have more SB's running with different music. As for Kluggy with and extra amp, i have heard the Sonos amps and although they sound OK you could get a much better sounding amp for the difference between the Sonos and the Squeeze Box Receiver. And really you only need one Remote unless you are going to be continuously playing different music in all rooms at the same time. Now look at the costs: Sonos / Slim Devices Controller $399.00 / Controller $299.00 Zone Player 80 $349.00 / SB Reciever $149.00 Zone player 100 $499.00 / SB 3 $299.00 Amplifier you have $200 or more for each zone to play with from the difference in cost. Music StorageYou already have it up and running if you already have a SB3 Oh by the way that is one less you have to buy for a room, so use that money for some other treat you might like to have. To me it's a no brainer. But that is just my 2 cents. I can't wait to get my hands on a Duet. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Multi Zone Installation help please
meep, Sounds like a great set up. I use a Russound R235LS amp which draws less than one watt when the audio inputs are not feed from the SB. Then when the SB is putting out audio the amp turns on immediately and stays on for 10 minutes after the last note so that if you have a break in the music like for track changes or some other reason the amp is not turning on and off all the time. These Russound amps can also take a second speaker level for a pass thru of a local stereo. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41118 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
tamanaco, I suspect you are using some form of windows operating system, Which one? If i have read your earlier posts correctly the you are using a period . between the track number and the title. Is this correct? If it is that would be very un-standard as that causes all operating systems to think harder about the file name. All operating systems expect filename.xxx or filename. . By putting in that extra . (01.filename.xxx) some systems will get very confused and others will just get past it, although slowly. every tagger i have ever tried either used dashes or underscores set up as standard (01-filename.xxx or 01_filename.xxx) As for changing all of your tags that is probably not necessary, but there may be a rouge one out there the is causing some of the problems seen by ACC-RC1. Frank is working on this with all the testing I am doing for him. Hopefully it gets figured out in the next few days. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
SilverRS8, Thanks for all the great work over the week end on this. Phil, Siduhe, Thanks for all the work you guys have done also. THE I feel should be user selection for the artist not the Album title. But then again what about THE THE. As Phil has stated it will always be a problem. I had forgotten about them and now i am curious how SS 6.5 and SC7 handle it, have not listened to them lately. As for the Year in the Title. I have always sorted by albums/CD's/Tapes alphabetically but all my MP3's/FLAC's are by year in the album folder name c:\\mp3\artist\(1997)Album Title. Not sure why I did it that way. But it does make it easier to follow the artist by musical progression. Mya be it should also be a selection. Although to many selections may make it overwhelming for some people. Just my 2 cents. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta 30 Preamp - Nikko Alpha 230 Amplifier - Genesis VI Speakers schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Thanks for this great utility. I love it. I have found one thing though that may need to be looked into. I am describing it here for others to try and see if they come up with the same issue. Background: 1) two computer running windows XP SP2 latest updates 2) computer one runs SS 6.5 latest release, computer two runs SC7 Latest nightly 3) same issue shows up on both systems using same set of mp3 files 4) file layout is MP3\letter\artist\album (e:\mp3\B\Boston\Don't Look Back) Test procedure: 1. run SS 6.5 and SC7 clear and rescan on same data files set. (Both computers are linked to same NAS). 2. run Album Catalog Creator 3. select only one artist by using start folder option. (E:\A\Alice in Chains). I know that there are 5 albums with a total of 57 tracks in this folder. 4. Press start after 15 seconds two windows pop open as follows: First window: (dialog box) Album Catalog Creator is finished - states the following: Total number of tracks processed: 57 total number of albums processed: 3 Second window: (IE Window) Display shows 4 albums with 42 tracks 5. last album in alphabetical order is not shown. I have tried this on many different artists folders and on both computers. I even went as far as changing the name of one of the albums (in the mp3 tags) to force it to show up before some of the others alphabetically and it is always the last album alphabetically that does not show up. Has any one else seen this issue. P.S. it also happened when i did a full Album Catalog Creation on my full MP3 set of files (58281 tracks by 3481 artists and 7957 albums). By the way when i printed the list to a PDF file it come up with 889 pages when displaying album art and track titles and 140 pages when done as a short list without covers or track titles. Other that this one issue i have not found any other problems with the operation of this utility. It works great. Thanks for your great work and time to do this Schatzy -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Each new version of slimserver seems worse...
gdg, Maybe you should apologize to the very nice folks here. You and a few others are the ones that make this forum unbearable to read at times. Also as a Senior Member of these forums you should know better than to be so rude. I have only had my Squeezebox for 3 months and even I know that they are not designed to ORGANIZE the music, but be used as a device to playback the music no matter how it is organized. As to your question I have no problem deleting playlists using 6.5.4 so maybe you should go back to the drawing board and rephraze your attitude and question and then just maybe I will post the answer to your question. -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40404 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Dedicated PC - current thoughts on specs?
I am running a small fanless VIA C7 1 Mhz processor and 1 gig of memory on a mini itx board. Dead quite using a 2.5 laptop hard drive to run windows XP and slimserver on. All my music is on a 500GB My Book connected via USB. Total cost of less than $500.00 US Have run Inguz on this and it worked but ran the processor at about 80%, and it is something that i did not need in my listening room. To access this machine i have set it to run headless and use windows remote desk top to access it and control it if i need a web interface. Works great. The computer, my book and squeeze box only use a bout 18 watts of power when running. This means that i can leave it on all the time and it is ready for music listening at a moments notice. My regular desktop machine uses about 95 watts at idle and when running uses over 120 watts. This i do not want running all the time. Just my 2 cents worth -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40006 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Starting server gives SB3 a stroke
Yes you may think it is a small annoyance, but when you want to listen to you music, having to wait is just not what you are wanting to do is it. It sounds like you have your PC and your SB set for DHCP (automatic ip address assignment). If you were to set your computer to a static ip address such as XXX.XXX.XXX.101 and then set your SB to a static ip address such as XXX.XXX.XXX.102 then you should always be able to connect to the pc running slimserver. Just make sure your router is set to something like XXX.XXX.XXX.100. Or make the 100, 101, 102 - 000, 001 ,002 Setting it up this way should allow you to leave the SB ON or OFF and then turn on the pc and the SB should jsut see it when it has finished coming on. -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38344 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonos/Squeezebox review on Toms Hardware
Good article, BUT It does not mention how many music files each can handle. I found out the hard way that the Sono System software can not handle more than about 40,000 files. Any more than that and the system will crash. I even called Sono about it and they told me We do not plan to support such large number of files. If you have that many how can you listen to it all. Well Sono I have over 56,000 currently with no duplicates (6 months of checking proved that) and will be adding more and more on a regular basis. Slimserver should be able to handle any number of files. The only inconvenience I have found is the time it takes to do a full scan. I just let it run over night and all is fine. The other factor i find very nice is the Squeezebox price is much better. Schatzy -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38022 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Scanner Trouble - Zero Artists
fuzzyT, Have you disable the MusicMagic plugin. I found that that caused all kinds of problems if there was a problem character in a filename or tag somewhere. I went as far as to remove the plugin files to get it to work properly. I proved this by reinstalling the plugin and doing a wipe and scan , again problems every time i ran a scan with the plugin there was a problem every time i had the plugin removed it worked fine. -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37612 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Empty artist folder
vallier, IF you are still having problems with the Artists ending up as 0 (zero) at the end of a scan try removing the MusicMagic Plugin. I found that i had to remove the folder to get it to work properly. -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37228 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] slimcd not handling scan well
After scanning for 8+ hours it shows no errors in the log file and has completed properly. It now shows 7686 Albums, 54884 Songs and 3356 Artists. These number seem to be correct as they arethe same as both the windows boxes show. I have turned back on some of the plugins and it is working just as it should Thanks for all your help. -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37206 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] slimcd not handling scan well
Michael Thank you for all your help. After turning off all plugins, not removing them there was no change in the final outcome. Still on the last scan to get the last few (200-300) songs loaded it came back with zero artists. I will delete the plugin folders that i do not need. I can always add them back later. and do another dump of the database and scan from fresh. One other question that maybe you can answer for me is how can i get sda2 and sdb1 to automount. I have tried a few things in the etc/fstab file but they do not seem to work. when i restart the computer all the changes i made to the etc/fstab file are gone. Being a newbie to linux there is probably something i am missing. -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37206 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] slimcd not handling scan well
I have turned on d_scan, d_info and d_file and after 20 minutes of scanning only have 12 lines of data in the log file. I should have enough disk space as i am running a 4gig drive. If that is not enough then i will have to figure something else out. I expect that it will be another 5-6 hours before the scan is close to finishing as it has taken that or longer to do them in the past. but i will keep an eye on the log file. On the sda2 and sdb1 being auto mounted do you have any sugestions on how to keep the change persistent. -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37206 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] slimcd not handling scan well
Thanks for the quick reply. Are you using the latest SlimServer? I had updated slimserver Just after i first downloaded slimcd a week ago. If you have playlists in your music folder, try moving them elsewhere. Make sure they don't contain inexistent filepaths. No Playlists SlimCD comes with a lot of plugins preinstalled, which you probably won't need at all. Do remove these plugins By remove do you mean to erase the folders and files for them or just turn them off in the server settings. The only plugins I will need are IRBlaster (to turn on and off other equipment), Super Date Time (just because i like the weather part), and the analog vu meters screen saver (just because i am an old time audiophile). All other pluging are not going to be used. I will turn on debugging and see if that shows any abnormalities. It will take a while to get thu another scan as the first scan usually take 7-8 hours before returning results and my full time job gets in the way of playing with this new equipment. I will post my finding when i have them. Thanks agian -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37206 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] slimcd not handling scan well
Just ran home from work and tried to delete or move the Custom Browse, Custom Search and some other plugins and was not able to do so. I am new to linux but i tried to delete from Midnight Commander and also thru a shell window via sudo rmdir CustomBrowse it kept coming back that it could not do it because they are read only. Is there another command that i need to use. So i disabled all and i mean all of the plugins in the slimserver settings menu. Question about some of the plugins you stated to leave such as iTunes, MusicMagic, CLI. I can understand the CLI but I don't and will not use iTunes because it will never be installed on this machine. And as for MusicMagic, i do not use any type of rating system and really do not care about rating systems as i like all types of music. Is there a real reason to leave these there if they are only taking up resources? Does it really impact the way slimserver works? -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37206 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] slimcd not handling scan well
After scanning results are not correct. I have installed slimcd to a 4Gb USB Pen Drive and have it attached it a Nano ITX box configured as follows: Via 1Ghz Processor 1 Gig RAM 1 Gig CF Drive Card as hda1(not normally mounted) 4 Gig USB Pen Drive as sda1/sda2 (slimcd on sda1/ backup files on sda2) 500 Gig western Digital MyBook (FAT32)(music files) The problem i am having is that this system does not come up with the correct number of songs, artists or albums. The scan stops after a couple of hours and registers: 6076 Albums - 41817 Songs - 2943 Artists After Rescan look for new or changed files (2-3 Hours) 7153 Albums - 44354 Songs - 3262 Artists After Rescan look for new or changed files (another 2-3 Hours) 7508 Albums - 49005 Songs - 3318 Artists After Rescan look for new or changed files (another 2-3 Hours) 7531 Albums - 49643 Songs - 3322 Artists After Rescan look for new or changed files (another 2-3 Hours) 7641 Albums - 51059 Songs - 3617 Artists After Rescan look for new or changed files (another 2-3 Hours) 7698 Albums - 54884 Songs - 0 Artists I have run this same scan/rescan 3 times over the past weeks to try and get it to wokr properly with no luck. Every time it hits the final scan and ends up with 54884 Songs it looses all the artists. I know that the final number of songs should be 54884 because that is how many MP#3 files there are on the MyBook. I know this as i have connceted it to 3 windows machines and searched the drive for mp3 fiels and each time it results in 54884mp3 files. I have also set up slimserver on two windows machines and run scans. each scan came up with the same number of songs (54884)and 7698 Albums / 3367 Artists. One windows system ran the scan twice all the way thru with out stopping the other windows system stopped three time and needed a rescan look for new or changed music but completed with the same numbers On the slimcd box the one time i did a rescan after the correct number of songs showed and the artists were zero (0) it added the songs twice, once with out an artist and once with an artist. I want to be able to run a version of Linux on my Nano ITX box because it is fan less and thus noiseless. The MyBook drive is also very very quiet. If anyone can tell me or give me an idea of what is happening it would be greatly appreciated. Oh by the way no squeezesoft running or sqeezeboxes running during scans just to be on the safe side. -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37206 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Bizzare - SB3 Switching itself on!
Do you have a window where the sunlight comes in that is directly shining on the SB3 or reflecting off of something? I have found other devices in my equipment rack do this some times when the coffee table (made of glass) does not have anything on it. The sun comes thru the window and reflects off of the glass table top directly at some of the components in my equipment rack. Other items that can cause this effect are Plasma TV's, some of the compact flouresent light bulbs, and also in my case the cat stepping on more than one button of a remote control. If none of these sound like they may be the cause i would suggest putting black electrical tape over the display for a few days to see if it still comes on. if it does come on then there is deffinately something else going on. If it does not come on then there is an external source causing the IR sensor to activate the SB3 -- schatzy schatzy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35983 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
