[slim] Transporter forum
Is there a Transporter forum? I see that there are sepearate forums for all the other products. -- Slim-Man Slim-Man's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15328 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83543 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transporter forum
Thanks, is the Transporter dying? -- Slim-Man Slim-Man's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15328 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83543 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Multiple albums
It was the later. Now done the former and all is well. Ta! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of radish Sent: 12 July 2006 01:48 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Multiple albums Did you do a clear rescan or just a regular scan? It would need to be the former. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25441 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Multiple albums
I have just shifted my library from the hard drive of my PC to a Western Digital NAS storage device. At the same time I upgraded the Slimserver from 6.2 to 6.3. On a rescan I now seem to have most of the library duplicated. Is there a simple fix for this, or do I need to go back to the previous version? Thanks ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SlimServer keeps stopping
i have exactly this too. I searched for a track, went into the properties of it, the album then went right, ie to go into the album. Server went bang as below. mkosma wrote: Same problem here - server quit in mid-track. Here's the error msg from my event log: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Can't locate object method url via package Class::DBI::Object::Has::Been::Deleted at /PerlApp/Slim/Music/Info.pm line 955. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] You read it here first.
Strip the )* after the 6178 and you'll read the thread. Strange forum, where there's only subject lines and no message bodies Anyway, I don't believe it until I hear it from SlimDevices themselves.. Peter -Original Message- From: Chris Brooking [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 26 augustus 2005 12:40 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] You read it here first. Message Not Found! Sorry... That message number is not valid. Hit back to try again! Very informative... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mac Sent: 26 August 2005 00:19 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] You read it here first. '*http://www.audioasylum.com' (http://www.audioasylum.com/scripts/t.pl?f=pcaudiom=6178)* \ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] SB2 Power DVD for Home Theatre Playback
Don't know what you mean by 'downmixed 5.1 information' exactly, but my (wireless) SB2 streams multichannel (DTS) WAV's without problem. I have not tried multichannel WMA's etc. yet Peter -Original Message- From: Fredly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 23 augustus 2005 18:57 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] SB2 Power DVD for Home Theatre Playback Newbie here, so please be gentle if I ask something which has already been answered. I'm a strickly a two channel guys BUT have a Home Theatre which currently uses PowerDVD to Project on a screen and sound via a long coax cable from my Computer, to an external DAC. As a Video player PowerDVD offers MANY different setting for me to virtually create surround sounds through my two speakers setup. This setup is effective in doing the overall job and suits me well. Anyhoo, once I purchase a SB2, and integrate into my current setup, will I be able to channel the downmixed 5.1 information to my Stereo, as I currently do. This is pretty important to me. All feedback regarding this would be VERY much appreciated. Thanx much Fred in Canada -- Fredly ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Music categories in SlimServer
There's a very easy way that works for me and my family: use Browse Music Folder after organising your specific collection in folders. Example: -You -- hard -- alternative -Your Wife -- folk -- female singers - etc... You both have access to the complete collection, but if you or your wife only wants to hear your own music, just browse to your own directory and press play at the level you want to start listening (e.g. if you press play at the 'Your Wife Level' her entire collection gets played, but none of your hard stuff..) It's very easy and works wonders...My wife kids never have any trouble finding our own music collection. Bye Peter -Original Message- From: sposthuma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 20 augustus 2005 18:14 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Music categories in SlimServer I finally finished ripping and encoding my 400+ CD collection. Having random access to my music from various places in the house is fantastic for sure. I am wondering about something however. My wife and I have very different taste in music. I like the hard and alternative stuff, she likes folk, female singers, etc. Browsing the music collection can be an interesting experience! However I wonder if there could be a way to make it easier for her to find what she wants. Sure, we can set up playlists, but they group all songs together and you lose the ability to browse by artist/album. I could group her stuff in a limited (or even one) amount of genres but I like the accurate genres I have everything tagged with. Ideally there would be a 'category' feature in SlimServer. A kind of top level attribute where you could limit your collection when browsing. Something like this could be achieved with a clever search, unfortunately the wife is non technical and wants a button called 'wife' that allows her to access her music. AFAIK this doesn't exist right now in SlimServer, so this is a bit of a musing on something that would be useful. If there is a way to do this now in SlimServer I'd love to hear about it. Stefan -- sposthuma ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Synchronisation Results In Song Repetition
Filed I have the same with an SB1 and an SB2. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1651 cheers Vidur Apparao wrote: It does sound like a bug. Please file at http://bugs.slimdevices.com, ideally with steps to reproduce. Thanks, --Vidur ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: relative paths in m3u playlists
Were anyone aside from me who knows how to patch and can test would confirm it, that would be enough for me to just go ahead and put it into the 6.1 nightlies. Sorry, I meant to test that last night, but I never got round to it. I'm at work at the moment, but I will try to test it tonight when I get in (couple of hours). Phil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Biography as screensaver?
The biography plugin is one of my favorites since long. I use it a lot, but it requires quite a bit button-pressing, since it still is an 'external' plugin. I'd like to see this one incorporated to use as a screensaver (just as the RSS feeds can). Could this be possible in any way? I guess one of the difficulties is that the screensaver should update in sync with the tracks (so that a new biography is loaded at the start of a new track), which is a bit agains the nature of a screensaver I guess. Maybe there's some difficulty in this, but on the other hand the slimserver programmers have solved bigger problems :-) Could this be a feature request? Bye Peter ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB2 Display flicker
On the SB2 display, I noticed there are three pixels flickering, a bit starry-like. They are in the left corner: above middle in brightness 3, below middle in brightness 2. There is no flickering in brightness 4, 1 or off, so it's not the display itself obviously. Anyone else seen this? Also, the display seems to glow on both sided when powered (except in the display off state). Just curious Peter ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] RE: slow start
I do not work with playlists, I always start my music using browse music folder. Since upgrading to Slimserver version 6 I noticed that the reaction to my remote-commands are very much slower. I was under the impression there was another database architecture so that response would be faster? But it isn't. Useing browse music folder for the forst time after startup the sb2 stops responding for more than 5-10 seconds, and then resumes playback. Subsequent use if faster, though. It is as if the database is reindexed? Is this a known problem? Using Win XP on a wireless SB2, with a fairly large collection (25k tracks), which are all ordered in a artist - album - track tree structure Peter ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Not Meaning To Be Cheeky
So, why is Squeeze Network still on the webpage as a real feature of SqueezeBox2, including the March press release, when it is not operational yet? A buyer might think this is part of what they are getting when they make a purchase. I know it is on the way, but wouldn't it be fairer to say Coming Soon or some such? BTW, so far very happy with SB2 and Slim Server. Looking forward to Squeeze Network. - Slim P -- Slim Pickins ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] New SB2 Surprise
Well my SB2 arrived today and I must say it lives up to the expectations. Installation was flawless. Wireless network recognition: no problem at all My favourite plugins (RSS and Biography) also working. 'Spousal Consent' raised about 100% upon seeing the Analog VU-meter screensaver. But the biggest surprise of all was the DTS-Surround.WAV streaming through the wireless connection with a full 100% buffer and not a single glitch! Thanks again for this! peter van cooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] TO DEVELOPERS Follow up Slimserver 6.01, 6.02 and 6.
This makes me wonder: is 6.0.1 only buggy when used with SlimP3 and SB1 and does it work fine with SB2?Seems the owners of a new SB2 are all quite happy with it. So this makes me guess that one's better stick to 5.4.1 for the older hardware and leave 6.X for the SB2? Peter (who'll soon find out for himself cause the SB2 will arrive soon...:-) peter van cooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tore Johnsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 20 april 2005 18:53To: 'Slim Devices Discussion'Subject: [slim] TO DEVELOPERS Follow up Slimserver 6.01, 6.02 and 6. I give up with Slimserver I have tried 6.01, 6.02 and 6.1 and all shows faults as I have reported in mails. The last try was with 6.01 where I can get internet radioio and so forth When I then go to Browse genres and play Everything it starts to play but when I push FWD On the remote the problems starts. The sounds gwirks and I sound a vinyl record that jumps. I will go back to 5.4.1. Kind Regards Tore Johnsson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeeze Network Other Problems
A few things: 1) When the computer running Slim Server is off, I cannot acquire any internet radio from the Squeezebox2 using the remote. When the server is off, the display on Squeezebox2 is blank. I hit power, and it attenpts to connect to slim server and then drops after a few seconds, going blank. No other options exist, other than configuring network settings. Am I missing something? 2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not operational. I've received several daemon message failure notices for it. Anyone know of an active support email address? 3) I definitely have Zone Alarm (free) problems. Randomly, slim server does not want to start up with Zone Alartm running. When I turn off Zone Alarm, the problen goes away completely. But, sometimes, slim server will start up when ZA is loaded. ZA free does not seem to offer the fine-grained control needed to adjust its port settings. (Yes, I've given permissions for all slim devices and software to run through ZA). Any ideas? Thanks for the help. SlimP -- Slim Pickins ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] SBG clock screensaver and Digital out issues.
Thought it must be something like that - thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vidur Apparao Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 1:51 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] SBG clock screensaver and Digital out issues. On Windows, SlimServer is packaged as an executable that bundles the Perl packages that we use. To make source modifications, you need to have an ActiveState Perl installation (http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/) and will need to run the server via the slimserver.pl script. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I thought I'd have a go at playing with the vis settings, but I must be doing something dumb. I've tried editing the slim/player/squeezebox2.pm file, but it's not having any effect. Do I need to do anything other than restart the server after an edit? I'm guessing that there's a deployment step I'm missing somewhere (I'm new to slimserver development). BTW - running on XP. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vidur Apparao Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:50 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] SBG clock screensaver and Digital out issues. depeche wrote: Display: A non standard spectrum layout is the idea thenOK. Normally you have low --- high freq. or Left (low --- high) Right (low --- high) The visualizers are configurable from the server, though we haven't yet created a UI for this. If you're feeling particularly bold, you can modify the configuration parameters in the server source. The parameters for the right-side visualizer in the Now Playing modes are in Slim/Player/Squeezebox2.pm and those for the full-screen visualizers are in Plugins/Visualizer.pm. The configuration parameters (including position, orientation, bandwidth, etc.) are documented in the first file. The spectrum analyzer is implemented using a simple fixed-point FFT with a Hamming window applied to the signal. Since most real-world audio has considerably more power in the lower frequency bands, one of the configurable parameters is a preemphasis value applied to the frequency bins after the FFT (effectively a multiplier for the higher frequency bins) - the value is specified in dB/KHz. I've spent a little bit of time playing with the parameters to get something that looks reasonably good (and that's the eventual goal, right?). If anyone, ideally someone with a better aesthetic sense than I, is interested in experimenting and coming up with better parameters, or even a UI for users to configure their own parameters, I'd welcome the changes. --Vidur ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] RE: new forum please
It's time to add my 2ct about the forum vs. mail discussion: I'm a user with a faily standard setup: using XP with Outlook. I want to add that I receive my Slimdevices-digest in a form where all individual mails are included as separate attachments to one e-mail. This is easily the most impractical of all 'mailing-list-digests' I receive, as it requires an awful lot of mouseclicking to read through the mails. This is my reason to vote for the forum side of things BTW - Most forums also have the capability of 'subscribing' to topics, so you can receive the mails into your inbox if you want to. Bye Peter ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Erratic scrolling with Internet Radio Stream in 6.0
Adrian, Your fix seems to have done the trick. Thanks, Tom Malsbury Tom, I've just added a change which hopefully make this work the way it used to. This should be in tomorrows 6.1 nightly - could you check this and report back? Thanks, Adrian - Original Message - From: Thomas B. Malsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SlimDevices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 5:29 PM Subject: [slim] Erratic scrolling with Internet Radio Stream in 6.0 I have noticed erratic scrolling with the following internet radio stream. http://www.somafm.com/indiepop.pls ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: something funny
Dan - this looks just like what I was seeing. As I mentioned before, if I totally clear the Articles to Ignore list it fixes it - I can wipe rescan as much as I like and it stays good. If I add anything to that list (even rubbish like ) it screws it right up :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Coates Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 4:01 PM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Re: something funny Dan Sully wrote: * Jack Coates shaped the electrons to say... So I wiped database again, and got it again. The slimserver.db is at http://www.monkeynoodle.org/tmp/slimserver.db.bz2. I then deleted the db entirely, restarted and let it rebuild that way... result is fine. I suspect that it was the restart which really cleaned things up, seems like there's a problem with in-memory caching. This is 6.0.0. Jack - I recently put in some changes to the Wipe DB code which I believe clear this up. Could you try the latest nightly and see if you run into it again? Thanks. -D It'll have to wait til tonight since the auto-rpm build isn't working -- Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a Scientific Venture... Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip since 1996! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Re: something funny
SlimServer Version: 6.0.0 - 2781 I sent you a db file a few days ago from when it's in a bad state. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sully Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 6:03 PM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: [slim] Re: Re: something funny * [EMAIL PROTECTED] shaped the electrons to say... Dan - this looks just like what I was seeing. As I mentioned before, if I totally clear the Articles to Ignore list it fixes it - I can wipe rescan as much as I like and it stays good. If I add anything to that list (even rubbish like ) it screws it right up :) Adam - what revision of the server are you using? -D -- dr.pox do they call it 'gq' because it makes your text fashionable? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Artist Sort Order
Bingo! I previously had the default list (The El La Los Las Le Les). I tried clearing it to nothing, and rescanning - now everything's perfect again. Just to confirm my findings, I reset the list to the defaults, rescanned again, and it's all screwed up again. So there's something about that list and my music collection which really confuses poor old slimserver. (FYI I don't use iTunes.) Dan - did the DB file I sent you shed any light? Should I raise a bug report? Thanks for the help Alexander! Adam. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of narya Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 12:34 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Artist Sort Order Even more entertainingly, the quick list at the top of the web interface (which should read ABCDEF...) actually spans nearly the entire page and is just a random collection of letters. I've noticed this behaviour in previous versions (5.3 and 5.4) as well. I was able to track it down to my editing the Articles to ignore list in connection with using the iTunes database as the source for slimserver. When I removed the german articles (der, die, das) and restored the original list all was fine again. I never filed this as a bug though :-/ Alexander. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries
Came out fine for me - just looks like it's uuencoded or something. Outlook
handled it with no problems.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kdf
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 3:12 PM
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Subject: Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track
boundaries
Quoting Greg Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm having the same problem as the original poster. In my case, it's
happening on a SB2 with 6.0. It's stopping at the end of FLAC tracks.
I also have an SB1 connected to the same server, but the two devices
are not synced.
I've attached a d_source log. I believe that what I saw happen was as
follows:
SB1: Manually paused in the middle of playing the album O Brother
Where Art Thou for at least an hour.
SB2: Playing Diana Krall
SB2: Hits the end of the song Temptation and stops.
SB1: Wakes up and begins playing the next track on O Brother Where Art
Thou.
SB2 remains stopped.
Hope this helps...
begin 666 SSLog.txt
M,C P-2TP-TP,B Q,3HS,3HP.XU-30U(%)E9'[EMAIL PROTECTED];FMS:7IE('1O
M(#([EMAIL PROTECTED]@96YD(]F(9I;[EMAIL
PROTECTED](U,CDY-S8U(T@,C4R.38X.38I#0HR
it seems that your attachment has come through corrupted, so its not much
help yet :)
-kdf
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Re: [slim] 6.1 rpm? - Also missing 6.0.1 rpm
Hi, http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.1/ Is there a reason I can't see an rpm build? I usually auto-update each night, and need to recode my upgrade script from /6.0/ - but ... Thanks, Chris. The rpm build is also missing from the 6.0.1 folder as well as 6.1 Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Bug in default skin?
This looks like a bug in the default skin (but it may already have been fixed, I'm running 6.0 release not nightlies). If you click on an album title from the playlist (on the right hand side), it tries to bring up the album info page on the left. However, it doesn't work properly for me, and my guess is that the URL (example below) is faulty: http://htpc:9000/browsedb.html?hierarchy=albumtracklevel=1album=363player=00%3A04%3A20%3A05%3A35%3Aa4 It looks like there's a comma missing between album and track in the hierarchy parameter (if I addthe comma, the URL works). I can raise a bug report if anyone else can see the issue. Adam. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] SB2 Satisfaction -- gapless!
I currently do OGG to PCM with an SB1 and it's gapless (which is very important to me). OGG to MP3 isn't - I assume because the decoder in the SB1 doesn't understand the LAME gapless tags. Can anyone confirm whether the decoder in SB2 understands the gapless tags? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Uziel Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:07 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] SB2 Satisfaction -- gapless! * Karel Tromp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050401 00:54]: What do you mean? The SB2 can now play mp3's gapless? No idea... if I had mp3s, I'd tell you. If nobody else chimes in, I'll re-encode some album as mp3s and give it a whirl. For my setup with one ogg file per track and being sent as flac to the SB2, it is gapless. Doing ogg to pcm or mp3 on the SB1 wasn't for me. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] RE: Discuss Digest, Vol 18, Issue 3
I've seen quite a few posts discussion bugs and flaws on the 6.0 server release. I'm quite happy with my SB1 running on 5.4.1 now, but still, I plan on ordering a SB2. This needs to run on 6.0 - I can understand that. But is this version stable enough to support the new SB2 without problems (on wireless, XP2 setup with about 27K tracks)? Is this the right time to switch to SB2, or should I wait a few months? Peter ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Artist Sort Order
First post - be gentle :) I just upgraded to 6.0, primarily to see if it fixed my problems with non-latin characters (I have a number of albums by european artists with accented names which would always look crazy on 5.4). Since installing everything looks OK (and scans are certainly faster), but one thing seems rather broken - Browse by Artist. The order of artists in the list seems completly random (both on the squeezebox and on the web interface). Even more entertainingly, the quick list at the top of the web interface (which should read ABCDEF...) actually spans nearly the entire page and is just a random collection of letters. I did a quick search of the archives and didn't see anything similar reported, am I alone? I don't think I'm running anything weird - 6.0 release on XP professional SP2, with ~8000 tracks (mainly ogg, some flac). Everything's tagged nicely, wiping the cache doesn't seem to help (in fact, when I just tried it it seemed to get worse!). Under 5.4 everything was fine, and even under 6.0 it's only Artists which have this problem, Albums are correctly sorted. Suggestions? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Low Bitrate Streams Playing Fast in SoftSqueeze 2.0
I noticed this today after getting PublicRadioFanBrowser working over the weekend. All NPR streams are playing fine through the plugin to the Slimp3s in my house, but SoftSqueeze is speeding them up to chipmunk speeds. Most of the NPR streams are 24kps, I don't know if that is the problem. The following is an typical stream that I am having a problem with. I don't think it is a problem with the plugin since I get the same audio output if I put the following url in the Internet Radio 'Tune in Now' field in the WebUI: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wyep/ppr/wyep.pls I am currently using the 3-21-05 Nighly of both SlimServer v6.0b3 and SoftSqueeze v2.0a14 on a Fedora 3 system. Let me know if any additional information would be helpful or if I should file this as a bug so it doesn't get lost. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Updating PublicRadioFanBrowser.pm to v6.0?
just add this:
sub addMenu {
return RADIO;
}
-kdf
Well that did the trick nicely.
Thanks again.
Tom Malsbury
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Re: [slim] AAC playback
Can someone help me get aac playback working with slimserver 6.0 on Linux. I am trying to look at a Softsqueeze bug where aac files just play back as white noise. But at the moment I find all aac files playback as white noise on both SB1 and softsqueeze. Thanks, Richard Richard, I might actually be able to help you after all you patience with me and SoftSqueeze. I have AAC playback working on Fedora Core 3 (and previously Core2) with the following setup. Installed: faad2-2.0-2.20040923.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm lame-3.96.1-2.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm Added the following lines to my convert.conf: mov mp3 * * [faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ | [lame] -x -m s -r -S -q 5 -s 44.1 - - This is working now on a Fedora Core3 box streaming over ssh to Softsqueeze (2.0a14) and at home directly to my Slimp3s. I was actually going to play around with getting faad to flac working to avoid the extra lossey conversion when using SoftSqueeze on systems on my home network and only do the mp3 convertions for traffic over SSH or my Slimp3s. If this is something you get working before I do, let me know how you get on. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] AAC playback via FLAC
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was actually going to play around with getting faad to flac working to avoid the extra lossey conversion when using SoftSqueeze on systems on my home network and only do the mp3 convertions for traffic over SSH or my Slimp3s. If this is something you get working before I do, let me know how you get on. This should work. I added flc stuff to convert.conf and tested this one out with my slimserver-convert.conf. mov flc * * [faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ | [flac] -cs --compression-level-0 - however, I didn't try this with softsqueeze. I'm not sure flac is supported o that just yet. -kdf Thank you for the suggestion, but that didn't actually work for me. For some reason I got multiple copies of faad running with that and SlimServer's cpu jumped to 90+%. In the end after a litlle searching through the new convert.conf for ideas I came up this setup that is working for me. mov flc * * [faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ | [flac] -cs --compression-level-0 --endian little --sign signed --channels 2 --bps 16 --sample-rate 44100 - Now when streaming aac files to SoftSqueeze direclty as flac I see about 11% CPU (6% slimserver, 3% faad 2% flac). That's down about 20% from what used to go towards reencoding with lame. Thanks again... Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 60b1 buggy?!
Tried the new version 60b1 yesterday, but immediately downgraded to 5.4.1 after running into serious bugs, such as an empty display trying to 'Browse Music Folder'. Isn't it a bit too early to present this version as the present 'stable' download on the site? Too much haste in presenting new product can also kill it on the long run. I sure hope the version will be as stable as 5.4.1 when the SB2 comes out... (Although in fact I still have some trouble with 5.4.1 when searching for track titles) Bye Peter ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] service stops
Maybe this question has been asked before, but I can't find any reference: Though my slimserver seems to be installed correct, the service stops after the Squeezebox has been inactive for a while. The squeezebox then loses connection. Service has to b started manually then and everything is OK again. Anyone got any tips for this problem? Bye Peter peter van cooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] biography plugin on Slimserver 6b1
Upgraded to 6b1 today. Most things seem to work OK; I like the new features..and searching for song titles seems more stable than it used to be.. However, one of the greatest plugins of recent times - the biography plugin- stopped working. I liked reading some of the artist details through the interface of on the squeezebox,so i'd like to see this plugin working in the new version Anyone got this plugin working working on version 6 ? bye Peter ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Softsqueeze 2.0 'Now Playing' bug
I have been working on this with Richard today. It turns out that it is mostly fixed in the 3-10-05 Nightly of 6.0b. The remaining problem of the Track Title information not updating is related to a bug in the SlimServer itself when the title is long enough to require scrolling. Richard is filing a bug for this, so it is put on the to-do list. Tom Malsbury I can confirm this. On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:02:37 -0700, John Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Softsqueeze 2.0a11 Slimserver 6.0b1 Java 1.4.2_06 Fedora Core 3 When I browse to album and press play, it works, but the NOW PLAYING screen seems to be stuck at track 1 and never changes to tracks 2,3, etc as the playlist goes along. Even after some additional navigating and a push of the NOW PLAYING button, it goes back to track 1 even though I'm deep into the playlist. BTW Richard, excellent job on the new fonts, animations, and VU meters. (Tip for 2.0 users: press the N key to rotate through NOW PLAYING views) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- Do meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with Tabasco. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slim Devices SB2 disappointment SB for sale.
Think of it like this. This (the SD operated mailing list) is a pretty good place to put up a WTS notice for an SB1. In a way, this is helping with the resale. I just need to chime in an say that the resale of units is pretty steady. After the production of SLIMP3s stopped and Slimdevices released the Squeezebox1 I picked up 4 SLIMP3s on ebay in a matter of a few weeks. All were purchased from happy owners looking to get new squeezboxen. It worked out well for all involved. I got SLIMP3s for my whole house and they got money towards their new toys. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Help! - Album Art in Batch
Several apps have been suggested in this forum for fetching album art: Victor Brilon's AmazonImage http://www.victorland.com/slimp3 Pat Farell's MusicUtil http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html Skyostil's Album Cover Art Downloader http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/ HTH, Nico Nick writes: Hi all I'm new to Slimserver, having just purchased a Squeezebox. I've got a mix of MP3 and WMA Lossless files, plus some WMA 192K for good measure! Very few of the albums I have include album art. As I have 700+ albums, I can't face going through by hand to cut/paste the cover artwork from Amazon or whereever. Ideally, I'd like a tool that would scan my library for all albums, then go off and hunt down an appropriate album cover, import it and save in right folder. I've found one or two (Abander, Album Art Fixer) but don't seem to work as I want them to (maybe I'm not using them right). All I want is to add album art - don't want any programs mucking up my tags! Can anyone offer suggestions or help!? Thanks Nick ___ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
