Re: [slim] Register your appreciation .....
Thanks for the reminder! This (the Squeezebox eco-system) still remains the best entertainment related purchase I've ever made and those guys keep making it better all the time. Merry Xmas everyone! Seb "The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it" (R.I.P. D.A.) srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113347 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Which music provider for LMS ?
castalla wrote: > Don't use it myself. See here: > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?105800-Announce-Google-Music-plugin=895357=1#post895357 It is actually not a raspberry / max2play exclusive but "just" an LMS plugin, which only works on a Linux server as far as I know due to Python issues, but there are nearly no limits as it works on x86(-64) systems as well as on ARM based systems. Of course, max2play eases the installation with the integrated Plugin installer. The first post in the above linked thread contains a link to the github page of the Plugin where you can also find general installation instructions. Regarding the usability: - Basically it works great. - I don't use it all the time because my main source of music is the locally stored stuff, but when I need it, it just works. - BUT: you have to be aware that it can be tricky/limited because it is based on an unofficial API to Google Play Music. Means that if Google change their mind on something it might break immediately (which, on the other hand, is what happened to Spotify, too, as far as I can judge. Of course, Michael Herger jumped in and wrote the Spotty re-implementation). There was a serious issue some time ago that broke things but askvictor took over from the original (then inactive) plugin author and fixed it for the moment. - Regarding features: Searching and "favourites" (saved playlists and radio stations) work fine, you can also access your own uploaded music. I don't use all of GPM's features, so I am not sure what are the limitations, might be that you can't search for radio stations but can just access stuff that you have already played/used via other access methods (mobile device, GPM website, ...). But here you have to check the Thread linked above and/or the "Issues" page of the github maybe to get into more details. - I am not sure about the family account thing: we also use a family account in GPM, but for the LMS Plugin you can only input one user's account data, so I pretty sure that some of the multi-user features won't work or not as smooth as in GPM itself. Short summary: basically works fine, most but not all features are supported, can unfortunately break at any time. Cheers, Seb "The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it" (R.I.P. D.A.) srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108027 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [OT but please someone puts me out of my misery] Using BT to authenticate w/ hostapd?
Please forgive me if this is not at all helpful but what came immediately to my mind is that there are solutions to "sending the WiFi password to a phone by NFC". So a very quick Google search gives this as the first result: http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/share-your-home-wi-fi-easily-using-an-nfc-tag-or-qr-cod-1624327128 Maybe you have to refine this and maybe NFC is not the answer but something similar is possible with BT. Just a quick thought. You're also allowed to be rude if this reply is complete non-sense ;-) Cheers, Seb "The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it" (R.I.P. D.A.) srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105590 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Android controller apps
I'd like to weigh in for Squeeze Control. In my opinion Orange Squeeze and Squeeze Control are the two go-for-options. Both of them are under active development and the current state is close to perfect for both, I think any minor quirks are more a matter of personal taste than real UI or App design issues. My personal experience is that both are very responsive and supportive towards bugs/enhancements. I have switched forth and back between the two and currently I have stuck with Squeeze Control. But as stated above, it is more a matter of personal taste than of real issues with one or the other. Two minor pro arguments for Squeeze Control could be that is has a dedicated tablet mode (although it is a 1$ in-app purchase) and that the developer has started to add support for Chromecast as a What's playing-display ;-) Cheers, Seb The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it (R.I.P. D.A.) http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102791 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stream google play music
Jphccfc wrote: Im runnning Windows 64bit I have installed python 2.7.6, I have run an exe to install pip command. If I type $ pip install gmusicapi I get a syntax error pointing to the $. I have downloaded the python file from the following: https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API/tree/master. PIP still doesnt work (I pasted this into the root of the python27 directory). I have also tried running setup.py using the GUI on python and I get the following error:- Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\Python27\Unofficial-Google-Music-API-develop\setup.py, line 5, in module from setuptools import setup, find_packages ImportError: No module named setuptools I have copied the repo.xml file to my plugins root and even then the plugins page on the squeezebox web server does not seem to see the plugin so I have no ability to setup password or mobile device id!!! Hmmm, vey sorry, but to be honest, I have got no clue on using Python on Windows as I am using Linux exclusively. Maybe you could try to contact the developer (hechtus) via the github page to check whether he can give helpful information for setup on a Windows installation... The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it (R.I.P. D.A.) http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99482 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stream google play music
Jphccfc wrote: I know there are workarounds using upnp for Google music but would still love a dedicated Google music app for my squeezebox, I see there are unofficial apis available. I would be happy to help test if there are any willing developers. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk There IS a dedicated Google Music App/Plugin using the unofficial API: https://github.com/hechtus/squeezebox-googlemusic And it works pretty well. The only thing it doesn't do at the moment (which I would like to have or am aware of) is to search for/create new Radio streams. It can, however, access streams that you have already listened to via smartphone App or web client. Cheers, Seb The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it (R.I.P. D.A.) http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99482 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stream google play music
Jphccfc wrote: thanks srasher, I tried to install the python plugin and just couldnt get this running. For me it worked relatively straight as described on the page. The only thing I stumbled over was that I had to explicitly install the package providing the pip command mentioned in the installation notes. I think it was python-pip or something similar, was easy to find via apt-get/aptitude. I successfully got it running on a x86 machine with Ubuntu 13.04 as well as on a sheevaplug running Debian Wheezy. Where exactly does your installation fail? The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it (R.I.P. D.A.) http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99482 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Google Chromecast
BJW wrote: I did look at the link. I am not seeing the connection between it and chromecast, prob b/c I'm dense, ergo my req that you expound. I am sorry if I missed the intention of your original question. I was referring to this: BJW wrote: ...that someone might develop a way to send windows audio to the device?... I think I misinterpreted device. I thought you meant the Squeezebox, but obviously device=Chromecast?! Sorry for any confusion this might have caused. The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it (R.I.P. D.A.) http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99234 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Google Chromecast
BJW wrote: can u expound? Did you have a look at the link? I have never used the plugin myself because I do not use Windows on my server PC. But the Wiki page seems to be pretty detailed and comprehensive ;-) The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it (R.I.P. D.A.) http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99234 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Google Chromecast
BJW wrote: for devs who know way more than I do: is it possible, since there is a SDK, that someone might develop a way to send windows audio to the device? or maybe develop a plugin for something like winamp to stream to the device? or is that crazy? Sounds like you're looking for the WaveInput plugin ;-) http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/WaveInput_plugin The only word I know is 'Grunt' - and I can't spell it (R.I.P. D.A.) http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99234 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Google Chromecast
Dilbert wrote: I was wondering wouldn't it be cool if the Squeezebox Server could behave as a ChromeCast receiver. So that a user could use the default Google Music App (or Spotify app once they support Chromecast) and choose to cast it to the Squeezebox Server. Is there already a project out there working on this? Actually there is already something like that. There is an Android App called Cast to UPNP/DLNA for GMusic (by the developer of BubbleUpnp). When you start Google Play Music out of this App it will provide you a button to Cast the Play Music stream to any UPNP/DLNA renderer in your network. As LMS contains (limited/tricky) such functionality since quite some time, all your Squeezeboxes will show up as possible targets for your Cast. Please refer to the following thread for some more information from people that got it working: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?99482-Stream-google-play-music For myself it basically works but I cannot manage to let the stream continue after the first song has finished. There is obviously some communication problem between the Cast app and LMS when a track change should be communicated. I am using LMS 7.8 nightly (don't know the exact date at the moment, but it's a pretty recent one) and tried it with several versions of the App on several Android devices (Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Galaxy Tab P1000, Galaxy Note) with several Android versions involved (4.1, 4.2.x, 4.4.x) and with nearly all iterations of the Cast App (it is updated pretty frequently) since end of December 2013. Nevertheless as you can see in the thread linked above there are people that got it working ;-) Cheers, Seb http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99234 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] All hail the Squeezebox (Classic, at least)...
I am aware that this is not new/ground-breaking information. But as said before I believe it is necessary from time to time to highlight the positive stuff as well! I am so enthusiastic from what I experienced last night that I just have to share it ;-) 1. I got my first SB3 end of 2005 and I am loving it since the first day! 2. Last week I got my second SB3 (or Classic) and in contrast to some of the negative experiences that are spread around here from time to time setup (including power, LAN and audio connectivity) was done in under 3 minutes! 3. Last night, we had our first party with multi-room Squeezebox music supply. I cannot put the proper words on how great this worked: - Playlist was a random mix based on a party genre I have defined for a reasonably large amount of tracks - Adding/inserting guests' wishes with either iPeng via iPod touch or IR remote worked like a charm - Syncing the players was rock stable and extremely accurate over more than 10 hours I said this once in the past on these forums but I have to repeat it: the Squeezebox (Classic in my case) is the single greatest piece of electronic equipment I have ever purchased! Cheers, Seb -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65545 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Relaunching the public website as www.logitechsqueezebox.com
First of all: basic style is nice. One minor error on the starting page: in the animated main graphics, all three pictures (Boom, Transporter, Duet) show the tool tip text: Squeezebox Duet. Click to learn more. The links are correct but it might be confusing that the tool tip is the same for three different products, especially as from the page's source code it looks like different texts are possible ;-) Apart from that I would also like to have the Classic placed far more in the front/at all. I cannot judge on the Duet's potential technical hurdles because I don't own one but the Classic has not lost any of its magic since I bought it years ago! Cheers, Seb -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64421 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater
srasher;380807 Wrote: Great! I definitely vote for the approach with divs instead of tables, should make it much easier to create customized style versions! From your initial work and your mention of big experience with XSLT Co. I'll try a bit around with that but won't interfer much on that field ;-) *Andy*: Regarding the retrieval script itself I personally would prefer the option to sort the albums in the well-known Artist - Year - Album way as possible in the SC album view. Of course, it might be best to make this an additional option... In general this is fairly easy by modifying the album request over the CLI (add sort:artwork to the request). Initial trial doesn't work, though. I will check why this doesn't fit to the parsing. Cheers, Seb Stupid me! I thought about the issue with the sorting on my to work this morning and noticed that I might only have used the wrong term. I think it must be sort:artflow or something, not sort:artwork. Will check this evening. -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42826 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater
adhawkins;381000 Wrote: Hi, In article srasher.3lo1mz1231370101 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com, srashersrasher.3lo1mz1231370101 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: *Andy*: Regarding the retrieval script itself I personally would prefer the option to sort the albums in the well-known Artist - Year - Album way as possible in the SC album view. Of course, it might be best to make this an additional option... In general this is fairly easy by modifying the album request over the CLI (add sort:artwork to the request). Initial trial doesn't work, though. I will check why this doesn't fit to the parsing. I kind of assumed that the sort order would be configurable in the output template? Andy In general yes, but as far as I can overview that (maybe this also changes between server versions, I am currently using 7.2) there might be an issue with the artist sorting then because the artist that is retrieved by the standard album query can only be one of artist or album artist tags and so if you want to sort afterwards you have two unsatisfying possibilities: 1.) You got the album artist information. Then you will see entries in the output file like Cash, Johnny or Springsteen, Bruce. 2.) You got the artist information. Then Johnny Cash albums will be sorted under J if you later sort by artist and so on. Both might be unsatisfying for one or the other use case. If you use the sort:artflow option for the album query, you get the albums sorted by album artist but the artist information that is retrieved is the one from the artist tag (or whatever has been configured on the server). So I think it might at least be nice to have the option to specify it like this in the initial request to SqueezeCenter. If I am wrong about the information loss described above, just forget the issue! Just thought this might be good to know before you start major efforts on sorting or stuff like that... Cheers, Seb -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42826 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater
rfreedman;380765 Wrote: I reworked the xsl stylesheet. It produces the same output as before, but is much more efficient. Note that the forEach construct is very expensive, and generally frowned upon. I attached the new stylesheet, as well as some python code to do the transform. I think that you should consider doing the transform server-side, instead of sending the xml to the browser with a stylesheet reference - not all browsers handle that well. The only issue here is that you have to install libxml2, and I'm not sure if that's available on Windows or not... As far as the actual output, I think it might be a good idea to put out divs instead of tables, and put css classes on the divs. That way, you could skin it using css, and provide different css according to the user's choice. I'll work on that as I can over the next couple of days. -Rich Great! I definitely vote for the approach with divs instead of tables, should make it much easier to create customized style versions! From your initial work and your mention of big experience with XSLT Co. I'll try a bit around with that but won't interfer much on that field ;-) *Andy*: Regarding the retrieval script itself I personally would prefer the option to sort the albums in the well-known Artist - Year - Album way as possible in the SC album view. Of course, it might be best to make this an additional option... In general this is fairly easy by modifying the album request over the CLI (add sort:artwork to the request). Initial trial doesn't work, though. I will check why this doesn't fit to the parsing. Cheers, Seb -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42826 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater
Ok, I've put an early alpha up. It can be downloaded here: http://software.gently.org.uk/slimxmlcat/slimxmlcat-0.01.tar.gz Included is a very simple XSL transformation stylesheet that will produce a very basic list of albums and their cover art. I'd definitely appreciate some help in making the output a lot better. Basic usage: ../slimxmlcat.py -f test.xml -s localhost -c 9001 -w 9000 -x sample1.xsl -f is the output file to generate -s is the server name -c is the slimserver CLI port -w is the slimserver HTTP port (for retrieving the cover art) -x is the style sheet to apply (optional) For testing purposes, there is also a limit option (-l) which will only retrieve a subset of the albums on the server. Full usage information can be retrieved using the -h option. Any comments appreciated. Andy Hi Andy, thanks for the upload! I fetched it and will test/look through it extensively tomorrow. Cheers, Seb -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42826 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater
adhawkins;263426 Wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of writing a two stage album catalogue converter. The first stage use the CLI port to retrieve all the albums from the Slimserver, and writes them to an XML file. The ultimate aim is to then use XSLT to 'transform' this list of albums into a nicely formatted catalogue. The first stage is largely complete, I can create an XML file of all the albums using a program written in Python (I've run it successfully under both Windows and Linux, talking to my SS v7). I'm looking for people who are willing to test this side, as well as potentially help develop the XSL transforms to format the output. Anyone interested? Post in this thread and I'll package the software up in the next few days. Andy Hi Andy, I am highly interested. In fact, I started to write a Python based app for this two months ago, too. So far only got to reading and sorting out the album list via CLI and doing some very rough output as either ASCII file, HTML file or PDF (struggling with the latter one), but not releasable so far. So I think it might be better to join in on your project as it seems far more on track ;-) Cheers, Seb -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42826 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What is the origin or meaning of your user name?
My username is a play on words with thrasher (to point out the direction of my musical preferences) and my initials sr. Well, as good as a German can get on English plays on words... The avatar is a variation of the band logo/mascot of my death/thrash metal band Zeroed. It even has a name: Puettskull. Puett is a slang word for pit or coal mine in the region in Germany where I live, which is also referenced by the hammer and sledge logo in the skull's forehead... -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55256 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I exclude albums from random mix?
Hi Martin, another option would be to assign a special additional Genre to these albums (like NoRandomPlay or something) and then select this Genre to be ignored for random mix. Cheers, Seb -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37893 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Integrating cover art from Amarok
Hi Bill, maybe this doesn't catch the point for you, but just as an alternative train of thought: You don't necessarily have to use artwork by putting an album.jpg or whatever into each album's folder. You can also use one common folder where all the artwork files are stored together using a naming scheme that identifies them uniquely. With this you don't get into any hassle when concurrent Album/Artist information is stored in the same album folder. The necessary information for this is anyway already there as you read the Album/Artist tags. Of course, I admit there might be other drawbacks with this method, at least for me (as I wrote: ~1000 albums and very few various artists ones) this works pretty well... Cheers, Sebastian -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33697 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Integrating cover art from Amarok
Hi Ben, sorry for the delayed answer, I had some web access troubles for the last days. Of course, you can have my modification, it (the modification) is of rather ridiculous complexity, as I only use the original offline script to gather all the files in a temp directory with as I wrote Artist - Album.jpg as filenames. To be honest, I own roundabout 1000 CDs but there are only about 25 various artist ones beneath them, so I did not start to struggle with this well discussed issue too long but just did some manual copying and adjusting for these afterwards. As well as for albums/artists containing / in the name, so for example for AC/DC - For those about to rock the file is called DC - For those about to rock.jpg and resides in the subfolder AC This works pretty well with SlimServer when handling all artwork files in a common folder. I have attached the original script and the modified one so you can see how little modification there is. For the moment I am pretty happy but as I love Amarok as an in-front-of-the-PC-solution and in parallel I am damn happy with my Squeezebox/Nokia 770 combination (thanks so much for the skin by the way!), I am always interested in anything you might do to the Amarok-Squeezebox-integration and also willing to join efforts on scripting in case you need some help or some additional opinion! Hope this is of any help to you! Cheers, Sebastian +---+ |Filename: copycover-amarok-to-slimserver.tar.gz| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2573| +---+ -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33697 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Integrating cover art from Amarok
I did exactly this. I used an Amarok script add-on called CopyCover, available from http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22517 It is intended to copy the cover of the currently played song to the song's physical dir location, but there is also an offline version of the script which I modified to copy all covers in Amarok's album cache to one directory, using names like Artist - Album.jpg This folder is then used as a common album art folder in SlimServer's settings (I personally prefer this solution over the folder.jpg approach because you can more easily do things on ALL the covers, e.g. reorganize them or run batch image processing on all of them). It took about one hour of manual post-processing as some of the artist/album names contain strange characters and stuff like that but now it works like a charm. Just to prevent avoidable confusion/damage to your music and artwork files: read the README file of the copycover script package before executing anything. There is a command line switch for only pretending to do copy the covers in order to show what the script WOULD do. You might find this useful... I also slightly modified the script to first copy everything to a working directory so that nothing was done/changed in the server files themselves before I was sure everything was sorted out correctly. Hope this gives any help to your plans. Cheers, Sebastian -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33697 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?
erland already gave a neat summary of the general options, I'd just like to add some of my personal experiences (to make choices even harder ;-)): 1. Loudness: Of course, it is very likely, but a NAS solution might not necessarily be more quiet than a dedicated PC/workstation solution. I personally have my music stored on a Buffalo Linkstation II and this one is significantly louder than my normal workstation (which is an Athlon64 3400+ based Linux workstation which I build explicitely to be as quiet as possible). 2. Power: I use the NAS for the 24/7 music server because it consumes much less power than the PC. If you don't want to waste a significant amount of money it might make sense to go for either a NAS device or an explicite low-power optimized PC solution (there are several threads describing people's projects in the 3rd party hardware forum) or at least setup something like standby mode and wake-on-lan for the PC your slimserver is running on. 3. Performance: As erland wrote the major drawbacks of a pure NAS solution are located in the library scanning and web interface performance. For my 10,000 song library the Linkstation slimserver needs about 4-5 hours for a full re-scan while the Athlon PC does the job in = 20 minutes. Regarding the web interface, you can find roundabout 10,000 threads here showing that everyone has his/her own perception of the web interface response times on slow server machines. It can take several seconds for some browsing actions to happen if the server runs on a NAS like the Linkstation. For me that's perfectly OK as I am only using the web interface for administration purposes at the moment but I'd like to switch my living room remote to a handheld WLAN device (Nokia770) completely and e.g. for browsing albums by artwork the NAS server performance is unaccepatable, therefore I'm thinking about switching to a PC based server. By the way, the Squeezebox response time for use with the standard remote is perfectly fine even with a NAS based server. Hope this helps you somehow to select what's necessary for your taste. Cheers, Sebastian -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32487 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random within a selected year
I have done this already. Really nice functionality especially for freaks like myself that like to randomly browse their music collection in any possible kind of way ;-) As I am currently not at home I cannot give you an exact specification but it is something like this: - Go to the players settings via the remote control on the Squeezebox itself and select that you'd like to hear your selections in random mode. - After that go to select the music by year and when you're at the year you're looking for just press the play button. Cheers, Sebastian -- srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28584 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Newbie problem with installing SlimServer on Linkstation
Hi Steve, sorry for the delayed answer! I cannot speak for SS 6.3.1 but I have an installation of 6.3.0 running on the MIPS Linkstation working fine. I got it and the installation instructions from the same place referred in the original place (LinkstationWiki). What is strange is that you're investigations are somehow indicating you've got perl version 5.8.5 whereas the current Openlink version 0.52b (http://linkstationwiki.net/index.php?title=Projects/OpenLink) contains perl version 5.8.7. If you have not already removed all the perl stuff, let me give one additional hint there: the line lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 25 15:43 /usr/local/bin/perl - perl5.8.5 again indicates a symbolic link (in this case from /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.5) and therefore the file ... command has to be rerun on the real executable, i.e. try file /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.5 or any further files if this is still just a link pointing somewhere else. REGARDING THE FIRMWARE UPDATE: - I hope someone corrects me if this is wrong but from my point of view the SS version 5.4 won't update anything on the NAS as the firmware is not downloaded but is contained in the SS package. As 5.4 is quite old there might not be a newer version of the Firmware included than the one you already have on your SB. - I am not sure (don't have the manual available right now) but can it be that you have to do the factory reset or something similar via the remote control for the Squeezebox to initiate a Firmware update? Hope all this is of any help for you! Cheers, Sebastian -- srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21385 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cheap, low power PC for slimserver
Looks nice at first glance. I just saw on the details page that it is based on a 166MHz processor, which means it's even got less performance than typical NAS devices. And I think even these are quickly reaching their performance limits as soon as you'd like to install more than a few plugins (maybe some transcoding stuff like AlienBBC etc.)... Anyway, if you get one, I'd really like to read something about your experiences! Cheers, Sebastian -- srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26692 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Newbie problem with installing SlimServer on Linkstation
Well, as the previous ls -l only shows that /usr/bin/perl is a link to /usr/local/bin/perl please do a ls -l /usr/local/bin/perl to see if that one (which is the real perl executable) has the correct execution rights. -- srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21385 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
