Re: [slim] Long ethernet cable network integrity?
The maximum length of a cat5 run is supposed to be 100m (330ft) so you're exceeding the maximum length by reaching 400ft. A quick hack could be to force your switch and squeezebox to use 10mbit instead of 100mbit and see if that helps. Other solutions: If you put, say, 2 lengths of 200ft each with a switch or hub in between, you should be able to make it. The switch will retransmit the signal allowing you another 100m. You'll probably need to use solid core cable, though - you're not supposed to use more than 10m of stranded cable per run. What type of cable are you using? Do you know if it's solid core (solid core is more difficult to bend than stranded cable)? Alternatively, get two switches with fibre uplink (100BASE-FX) and do it that way. This will give you a maximum run of over 1000ft so you can have one switch at your server and one in the shack. You should be able to find used switches cheap, though I couldn't tell you how much the cable will cost. If the cable breaks, it will also be significantly harder to fix than ethernet (which can be rejoined fairly easily). Your wireless solution may or may not work - the only way to be 100% sure is to try it. Though, the length of the network cable leading to the switch does not affect the wireless range. The weather will affect your wireless range, however, so it may not be very reliable. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79322 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Multiple connections to the same stream
Hi everyone I'm looking for a bit of clarification. I was under the impression that when 2 or more squeezeboxes connect to the same radio stream (but are not synchronised) the server connects to the stream instead of the individual squeezeboxes. Is this actually the case, or does this only happen when the players are syncronised? Was curious since I noticed the second squeezebox took a few seconds to start and buffer the stream which I wouldn't have expected if the server was already connected. My router shows the same nat translations between both squeezeboxes to the same stream IP: Code: Pro Inside globalInside local Outside localOutside global tcp 118.209.xxx.84:51782 192.168.0.3:51782 192.231.203.146:8000 192.231.203.146:8000 tcp 118.209.xxx.84:42056 192.168.0.10:42056 192.231.203.146:8000 192.231.203.146:8000 -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79069 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 = dead
I'd be careful with the tongue test. The PSU is 2 amps isn't it? Voltage doesn't hurt... current does -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22463 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem with Freezes
I get a similar problem sometimes while playing internet radio. Granted, the server is usually very bogged down with extra work and doesn't have much RAM, but it's not the server that freezes AFAIK. Rather than pulling the power, you can hold the power button down on the remote for a few seconds until it resets. Doing this resets it and makes it go again for me. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19512 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC stops playing prematurely
It's very possible that the file corrupted after it was encoded and verified... or you had an unstable FLAC version doing the encoding that messed it up. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19293 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Car audio player
I've seen a few car stereos with USB ports - but no known brands. There's an example here: http://www.drgadget.co.uk/product.php?xProd=759xSec=1 and here: http://www.audiobahn.com/products/2005Products/headunits/headUnits.html There's also an adapter for Sony stereos here: http://tinyurl.com/8grec although you'd probably need to check its capabilities. Rockford Fosgate used to make the Omnifi which you could synchronise over wireless LAN, but i think you can only find them on eBay now. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19030 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Up and Running, but...
Also try plugging a different device in using the same cables. This problem has come up before and was just bad cabling. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19055 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Portable player suggestions
After reading that you guys maintain two libraries, why don't you look into MediaMonkey. Apparently one of the latest (beta) versions allows re-encoding on the fly while you sync a portable to it. I haven't tried this feature myself, but it at least sounds promising. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18910 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Variable age for 'New Music' ?
I don't think there is such a setting, but there is a setting for how many items should be in there (which defaults to 100). -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18867 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 108Mbps Support
Just FYI, I'm also using a WPN824 set to auto 108mbps - although i don't have any devices that can actually support this standard. I don't have any problems getting the squeezebox to connect. Try update the firmware, there is a new beta version on the netgear website. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18596 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Unicode file/dir names not working
Hello, I've got a bunch of international music which I've got titled in unicode - which all works well with the Unicode fonts. My problem, however, is that the file and folder names are not browseable unless they are written in English characters. A rescan completely skips over them and browsing the music folders also skips them. As soon as i rename them (to something like 01.flac) they then appear. I'm able to play these in other software players. Is this a known issue? I couldn't find a bug report, but surely someone else would have come across the issue if it isn't just me doing something wrong... My server box is running Windows XP so it shouldn't have any issues with unicode files, or so I thought. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18610 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Got SB3! Love it! Few feature requests...
While any codec is good to have done on the device itself, AAC won't have any real benefit since Apple Fairplay still isn't licenced - so iTunes downloads will still be unplayable. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18399 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Requesting web page to keep SlimServer unswapped, re-request interval is 30 minutes
All this does is periodically load the slimserver web page to keep the service in memory. I wouldn't imagine this causing an issue with losing the connection unless you have a very slow PC or are very low on RAM - do you lose the connection every 30 minutes? You can turn the option off via the web interface and see if the symptoms go away. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18448 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: xPL plugin able to control X10 activehome?
Argh X10 isn't working for me :( My server is in the garage, with the devices i want to control in the house. I'm able to control anything plugged in the garage, but nowhere else :( I've seen that X10 signal bridges may do the trick, but after reading the description it seems that USA houses are wired with 2 phases (legs) ? - this isn't the case for Australia as far as I am aware. Does anybody know of anything I can get that will make this work? Does anyone know much about X10? -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18197 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: xPL plugin able to control X10 activehome?
That site tries to download off xplhal.com which doesn't work, it's not actually a mirror. I was looking for this too with no luck either. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18197 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: xPL plugin able to control X10 activehome?
That would be fantastic if you could send the scripts, thank you.. I think I'll order this then. This seems to be serial like yours, it must include a USB-serial adapter to be advertised as USB though. As for it being windows only, that's fine - I'm windows only too (at least at home) -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18197 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] xPL plugin able to control X10 activehome?
My goal is to be able to control my amplifier (which has no IR remote) from the squeezebox - specifically, turn it on and off as the squeezebox turns on and off. I've read this is possible using the xPL plugin? Has anybody done this? Can anybody inform as to whether it's possible using this: http://tinyurl.com/dsbqb ?? If i'm off track, can anyone help? :) -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18197 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver 6.2.0 won't play m4a
Is quicktime or itunes installed on the slimserver machine? I believe this is required to do the decoding. -- tass tass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1231 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18150 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Yet another Various Artist/Compilations thread!
MeSue Wrote: I guess what I would like is another option, something like Replace track artist with album artist when it exists. This is exactly what I want, too. Or, alternatively, a Browse Album Artist option under the Browse Music menu like Windows Media Player has. This way you could look for the individual artist on the odd occassion you wanted to (which I still occassionally do), and still easily be able to browse by Album Artist. Yes I know patches are welcome ;) I'll get onto it this weekend. -- tass ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Annoying behaviour using LAME VBR
I've made a bunch of MP3s using LAME. I created them as VBR with quality 5 (i think) using ImToo audio converter. When I scan these into SlimServer, they show up as CBR with bitrate = 32k and a very long playtime. The thing is, even Winamp shows this same bitrate until you hit play when it works out it is VBR and shows the correct time remaining. My question is, am I using a dodgy copy of LAME? Do other people get a similar experience using VBR in LAME? -- tass ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: squeezebox 2 still available?
I'd be happy to swap too :) Anyone in Australia want an almost-new sb2? -- tass ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2
Looks awesome... Now I just need an excuse to upgrade Well done guys -- tass ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ogg playback scanning
Ogg files are decoded on the server, where FLAC and MP3 are decoded on the Squeezebox2. So, yes, you cannot scan because there is no built-in decoder. -- tass ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
