Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Collection catalogue
Take a look at this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28457 (looks like it's orphaned, but when I tried it a few months ago it produced some nice output) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40530 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] slimserver-scanner doesn't work well
I'm using the command-line scanner in 6.5.1 with essentially the same options: /opt/slimserver/scanner.pl --rescan --cleanup /mnt/seagate/music/ It works fine, including adding new music. Presumably the scanner behaviour in slimserver 7 is different -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40525 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SlimServer not scanning
It's starting to sound like a permissions problem. Is the music still at /mnt/hdb2? If so, what do you get if you try: ls -l /mnt/hdb2 Another thing to sort out the FLAC problem - you could also try this again: /path/to/scanner.pl --rescan --cleanup --d_scan /mnt/hdb2/ However, you need to change /path/to/ to the actual path to where slimserver is installed. (and the final argument has to reflect where your music is). -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36664 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How To needed - USB hdd on CC
Type dmesg, and look for an entry like this after your plug in the hard disk: Code: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 7 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 3200JB External 0108 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 SCSI device sdb: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdb: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb usb-storage: device scan complete From the above, my hard disk is /dev/sdb, and sdb1 is the partition with all of my data. Once you have that information, you need to mount that partition. First create a mountpoint - eg, /mnt/music: Code: mkdir /mnt/music Then mount the drive there: Code: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/music If this works, you can look into mount-time options and so on. Good luck! -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36820 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SlimServer not scanning
2 things to try: 1) Are you sure that the drive is mounted at /mnt/hdb1? Most distributions wouldn't mount /dev/hdb1 there. Check that you can see the music files with a file manager (or ls on the command line). 2) You could try scanning from the command line, with debugging options set. For example: /path/to/scanner.pl --rescan --cleanup --d_scan /mnt/hdb1/ -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36664 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Rubyripper much improved
I'd be interested in how you're checking the md5 checksums. For example, are you comparing WAV files, or FLACs? And how did you generate the files to compare - by ripping successfully with rubyripper on more than one occasion (therefore ripping the track at least 4 times), or by looking at rubyripper's temporary files? The reason that I'm asking is that different md5 checksums does NOT necessarily mean any difference in the actual sound encoded... -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35895 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Rubyripper much improved
Mark Lanctot;207308 Wrote: I'm going with what Rubyripper reports in its logs. It lists an MD5 checksum for each track in the log. They didn't match rip-to-rip. I'm not sure how rubyripper generates this md5 checksum, but depending on header information, this has the potential to give misleading info. A similar trap means that WAVs encoding identical sound information can have completely different checksums. In other words, I'm not sure that your test is actually comparing the important information (ie the sound) between the different rips. I'd be very interested to know whether the resultant FLAC files from the 2 drives have the same md5 checksum as generated by metaflac --show-md5sum filename.flac - as far as I understand, this command just compares the sound rather than the entire files. I'm not trying to be critical btw - I'm keenly interested in this topic, because I'm quite anal about ripping correctly and I've been using rubyripper in an attempt to get a perfect rip... :) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35895 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] sorry, even another newbie SS install question
Glad to hear it. I explained a little about umasks in an earlier thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=196941postcount=11 I'll cut, paste and update the relevant bits: The way the umask works is: - the first number refers to the owner of the file - the second number refers to members of the file's group - the third number refers to everyone else (world) Normal file permissions are as follows: - 4 = r = read - 2 = w = write - 1 = x = execute (file), or list contents (directory) So to make a folder its contents readable and browsable by everyone, but only writable by the owner, you'd want permissions of 755 (ie 4+2+1 for the owner, and 4+1 for group and world). If you did ls -l, the 755 would show up as rwxr-xr-x. You need to understand the above before you think about umasks. Now, the trick is that the umask works in the opposite direction - it tells the filesystem what people AREN'T allowed to do. You need to subtract the umask from 777 to get the final permissions. So your umask of 022 means: 777 - 022 = 755 = rwxr-xr-x = user has full permissions (7=4+2+1), but group and world are not allowed to write/modify files. This is generally what you'd want for a setup such as yours. In my opinion, 022 should be the default umask for external drives in Ubuntu. It's just too hard for new users otherwise. In any case, what you need to do now is configure Ubuntu so that its default umask for external drives is indeed 022. If it's anything like my Gentoo system, this would be in the ivman configuration (ivman is what actually mounts the devices on behalf of the user). On my system, the relevant config file is at: /etc/ivman/IvmConfigBase.xml In that file, there's the following: !-- ivm:Option name=umask value=002 / -- If it's the same on your system, try uncommenting that line (by removing the !-- and --) and change the value to 022. You'd then need to remount the drive, and hopefully the permissions would be correct. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] is this even possible
It will work just fine. If you wanted to live dangerously (!) you could probably just set the NAS drive as iTune's music folder. Probably better not to though, since if iTunes screws with the tags or file locations, Slimserver will be broken until a re-scan. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35419 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] CC - Change Root Password via WinSCP?
Why re-install? -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35407 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] CC - Change Root Password via WinSCP?
I'd use vi, which should be available on every linux/unix system. It's a pain to use if you haven't used it before! However, it's reliably present, so it's worth learning. You'll need to type: vi /etc/shadow Use the arrow keys to navigate to the line you want to change, then type: i (this puts the editor into insert mode) (do your typing) [esc] (this puts the editor back into command mode) :x (this saves the file and exits) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35407 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SlimServer can not find SB in Ubuntu
Glad to hear you got it working! If one of you is willing to trust me, you could let me log into your computer remotely (via ssh) and I could poke around and see where the automount stuff is in Ubuntu. It can't be that hard (famous last words). -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35417 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SlimServer can not find SB in Ubuntu
Doesn't help me much :-) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35417 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ogg problem, debian, SB3
Have you tried running slimserver with some debugging options like d_source? It seems odd that the server is complaining about the file, when it should just be sending it to the SB3. What happens if you try disabling (built-in) for ogg, in order to force the server to transcode to FLAC? Also, are you able to listen to those files with softsqueeze or using http://server:9000/stream.mp3 ? (The idea being to isolate whether the problem's with the server or the SB3) Also, obvious question but have you tried rescanning the library? -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35401 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] amarok stops slimserver plugin with error code 1
verbatone;202811 Wrote: As well, there's the time differntial so some of the SB songs get cut off when Amarok finishes it's song and switches to another. The last issue is that if the files are supposed to play gapless, they won't come close to gapless playback. Via Amarok, I can't see a way to find out what the NEXT song in the playlist is to add it to the SS playlist. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Hmmm. The DCOP interface is documented here: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/extragear-multimedia/amarok/the-dcop-interface.html For getting the next track, you may need to use: QString saveCurrentPlaylist() ... followed by int getActiveIndex() Maybe a more elegant (though substantially more difficult) solution would be that, whenever play is pressed in amarok, the script gets amarok's playlist (with saveCurrentPlaylist()) and sends the entire thing to slimserver, perhaps via slimserver's command-line interface. That's likely to break sync a little, but would prevent songs being cut off and would enable gapless playback on your SS client. It's hard to imagine how you'll get gapless sync between amarok and your SS client when it's not even possible between SS clients at present! -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34842 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] sorry, even another newbie SS install question
That's right, but remember to add sudo at the front (I'm not used to sudo - I just do su and live dangerously :-) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] sorry, even another newbie SS install question
mgh;202829 Wrote: /etc/mtab:/dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive ntfs rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8 0 0 You know, this could be fun if I can learn my way around. Yes, it's the beginning of the addiction... ;-) That umask=077 needs to be changed to 022. However, you can't change it in /etc/mtab - that file just lists what's mounted, rather than controlling how they're mounted. It might be worth trying to remount it manually, just to confirm that this is the only problem: umount /media/SimpleDrive mount /dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive -t ntfs -o rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022,iocharset=utf8 (there shouldn't be a space in iocharset, but the forum seems to be displaying it with a space for some buggy reason) If that works then you can look into getting the system to mount it properly in the 1st place. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] sorry, even another newbie SS install question
Mark Lanctot;202921 Wrote: Oh and BTW to mount the drive, don't use mtab as that's not permanent. Use /etc/fstab as that is permanent. Modify it using sudo gedit /etc/fstab. Add: Code: /dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive ntfs umask=222,utf8 0 0 That may work, but the problem is that the external hard drive is not guaranteed to remain /dev/sda1. If, for example, you plug in a USB thumb drive or a digital camera -before- plugging in the external hard drive, then that device will become /dev/sda1 and the external drive, when plugged in, might be /dev/sdb1. Assuming it will always be /dev/sda1 could lead to (big) problems down the track. That's why I suggested mounting it manually to see if that fixes the problem, and then looking into Ubuntu's automounting system so that you can fix the problem at its root. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] sorry, even another newbie SS install question
mgh;202553 Wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /media/SimpleDrive total 16 dr-x-- 1 mike mike 4096 2007-05-08 18:38 back up dr-x-- 1 mike mike 8192 2007-05-09 17:20 music This is the problem. The music directory is owned by the user mike, and belongs to the group mike. The d means directory The r-x means that the user (mike) can read files in the directory (r), can't write anything to the directory (- instead of w), and can list the contents of the directory (x) The first --- means that members of the mike group have no access to the folder, and the second --- means that all other users also have no access. Since slimserver is probably running as the user slimserver and doesn't belong to the mike group, it fits into the category of all other users and therefore doesn't have access to the drive. To fix this, you need to adjust the automount system to mount that drive with a less secure umask (it's currently set to 200; try changing to 222). In English, that means that when the drive is mounted, the permissions will be more relaxed (specifically, a umask of 222 gives permissions of r-xr-xr-x) and slimserver will be able to access the music. I'm not sure how to do this in ubuntu, but it's probably not too hard; I think Mark did something similar recently so he may be able to help. Alternatively, if the drive's permanently plugged in, you don't actually need to automount it - you could mount it at boot time. This could be as simple as adding this entry into /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive vfatusers,umask=222 0 0 However, I recommend that you look at the automount permissions - it's more hassle, but it won't break if another hot-pluggable device becomes /dev/sda1 -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Can't see new music.
What are the permissions of the actual link? ls -l /home/Raymond/multimedia/audio/multimedia2 And what are the permissions of the folder that multimedia2 actually points to? (ie the mount point of the 2nd hard drive) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35359 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] sorry, even another newbie SS install question
Mark Lanctot;202659 Wrote: I don't know how to find which groups my system has and which group slimserver is in. Look at /etc/group -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] sorry, even another newbie SS install question
mgh;202820 Wrote: So would the next step be along the lines of what bukharin is describing? Yes :-) I haven't had time to look into this yet, but I'm quite sure it's a very simple case of changing a umask=277 to umask=022 somewhere in a config file for automounting external drives. If you're motivated, search ubuntu forums for automount permissions, or do grep -R umask /etc/* to see which config file/s might be relevant. (One thing to consider, though - is the drive formatted as vfat or ntfs? If it's ntfs, writing won't work without jumping through additional hoops. If you haven't futzed with it, it should be vfat.) mgh;202820 Wrote: I would love to start a thread, maybe at Linuxquestions, about Linux and the ability of a NOOB to use it. My VERY short experience with Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS is that it will be quite easy to do the easy stuff, emailing, WWW and so on (I'm also holding out to see what it will take to hot-sync palm OS with Evolution), however, I can not describe what I am going through here as easy. I was extremely impressed with how easy it was for me to install SS using the info from slimdevices page and synaptic, that was really slick! Yes, that's generally true of Linux vs Windows. Linux is harder to get working, but works better once you've got it working. The default in Windows is to value ease of use over security; the default in Linux is the opposite. Windows automatically gives everyone write access to the external drive; this is very insecure and could lead to data loss, installation of viruses etc. Linux prevents this, but sometimes goes too fat the other way. In my opinion the default settings in Ubuntu are too restrictive - it's primarily a desktop distro for new users, so it's probably unnecessary to make the default permissions on external drives so restrictive. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Permissions for external hard drive
See this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Ext3_in_windows I haven't tried it yet (might try tonight), but it looks very straightfoward -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35188 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] sorry, even another newbie SS install question
mgh;202046 Wrote: Also, I followed the instructions to get the file path for my music folder (thanks for those instructions, I did not know how to do that with Ubuntu), copied and pasted, tried to scan, and get the message opps, media/simpledrive/music does not appear to be a valid directory. The simpledrive is a USB external HHD. I can play music off the external drive with Totem. Mark Lanctot;202060 Wrote: You will get this message when the path is valid but the permissions aren't right. Try sudo chmod -R 777 /media/simpledrive/music. Hold on... If you can play the music with Totem then permissions may not be the problem. More likely the problem is that you haven't set the correct directory in SlimServer. For example, is it really set as media/simpledrive/music? If so, try changing it to /media/simpledrive/music (note the extra /) To sort out the permissions issue, try this command: ls -l /media/simpledrive and see what the permissions actually are on /media/simpledrive/music -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ripping audio off video DVD: flac encodes to 16-bit?
OK, stupid question - are you sure the original files are actually 24 bit? All of the ones I've ripped are 16 bit, I'm pretty sure... -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35272 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A little help with Grip
Even when you have it working, when you've ripped a CD, it's probably a good idea to check the tags (eg with easytag) to ensure they're correct before adding the tracks to your slimserver library. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35207 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Permissions for external hard drive
AFAIK, the Mac should be able to write to ext3 without any problems. (In my setup I have a linux server which is connected to the USB drive. The Mac writes to the drive over nfs using rsync. It works really well.) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35188 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Permissions for external hard drive
An alternative approach, which I've done and recommend, is to reformat the drive as ext3. This would require backing up the data first (obviously), and would prevent it being read by Windows (without installing additional drivers), but it's nice to have proper permissions, journalling, lack of fragmentation issues etc. vfat is a badly outdated filesystem, and external drives only really use it as a lowest common denominator since every OS can read it. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35188 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Hardware advice for running slimserver from linux notebook
rmariger;198578 Wrote: Thanks. A couple more questions: 1. What case did you buy? Does it include the power supply? How did you determine your case options and narrow those options to this one? It took me a while to track this down! I eventually found the details in my emails from the online retailer. This is Australian dollars in February 2004: Via EPIA Mini-ITX M/B ME6000, C3 633MHz, Fanless $255.00 ProCase Mini-ITX 2677 black case 54w Ext PSU, $127.00 Note that the PSU is included with the case, and is external (which means it's fanless, and also reduces the heat inside the case, which reduces the likelihood of needing a fan inside). In addition I had to buy a stick of RAM (which cost, from memory, about $65 - but I recently replaced it with a 1 gig stick which cost just over $100) rmariger;198578 Wrote: 2. Ive never considered the possibility of a CPU and no hard drive. This may be a dumb question, but would it be possible without hacking my linkstation to install linux, slimserver, and browser on a partition of my linkstation and have the Via Epia system treat that partition as if it were its own? I know some run slimserver directly off their linkstations through hacks, but I dont feel up to that. (All my music is on the linkstation.) Um... I'm not quite sure what that would achieve, to be honest. If you had slimserver running on the linkstation, you wouldn't need the Epia at all. If you wanted the Epia to use the linkstation as its only hard drive, you'd need to configure the linkstation to provide that as a specific service, which would probably require some fairly involved hacking. It's probably not worth it, to be honest. A really nice solution might be to use a small laptop hard drive in the Epia as a boot drive, which then tells linux to mount a partition on the linkstation as its root (main) partition. The laptop drive would then spin down after booting, and you'd have a completely silent Epia system with as much hard disk space as you like. The caveat - unless the linkstation supports a decent file system (ext3, NOT fat), this wouldn't work. Also, you'd need a very robust network to avoid major problems with server stability. (an external firewire drive would be better - and the Epia could then completely replace the linkstation) rmariger;198578 Wrote: Have you tried using your wifes pocket PC to control slimserver? If so, is it necessary to use the Nokia skin? Is the screen big enough? I've tried it with the default skin. I've also tried SlimRemote on it. They both work fine, but the screen is too small and it's too slow (she has an O2 Atom, which is tiny and slow). Having said that, I really, really like the way the Squeezebox display + remote works. I have a universal remote (Harmony), and the fact that I only need ONE remote for ALL of my devices is absolutely fantastic. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34855 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Hardware advice for running slimserver from linux notebook
Regarding Via Epia system: This sounds interesting. Did a quick web search. Did you build your own system starting with this motherboard, or did you buy the system. In either case, may I ask what is included in the box? In lieu of a monitor and keyboard, could it be controlled with the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet PC or something similar? How do you control yours? Yes, I built my own system. It's hardly any work though - all you need is the motherboard, a stick of RAM, a HD and a case. Everything else (eg CPU, network adaptor) is built into the motherboard. In fact, when I first built it, I didn't use a HD either (I booted over the network). Just plug it into your network and you're good to go. I used a spare keyboard and monitor to set mine up. I control slimserver from my desktop PC using the web interface (very easy, and can be used from any browser eg my wife's PocketPC's Internet Explorer over wifi). This would work just fine with a Nokia N800 or equivalent. I control pretty much every other aspect of my server via ssh (using the command line). The command line's not too friendly to linux newbies though, so a better way of doing it when you're starting out would be to use vnc to log into an X session. Don't worry, it's pretty easy. As an alternative, you could get a kvm switch (which are getting pretty cheap these days). -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34855 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] amarok stops slimserver plugin with error code 1
He's talking about this script, which uses the http interface: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=49912 I downloaded it ages ago (before I got a squeezebox), but inspired by the OP, just now tried it out. Works! Kinda cool, I guess. The error message says 'Connection timed out'. Can you still access your slimserver via your browser at http://slimserverip:9000 ? Have you tried re-configuring the script? The script uses dcop to see what amarok is playing. What happens if you type these commands? dcop amarok player isPlaying dcop amarok player path I had to hack my setup a little because I run amarok on a different computer from slimserver; this meant that path returned a local path instead of a network one. A little hacking fixed this... Good luck! -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34842 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] External USB HD and network storage adapter?
Make sure that the NAS is compatible with the filesystem you're using on your USB HD. (most can only use FAT) Pretty much all the consumer NAS boxes use SMB (ie the standard Windows networking protocol) to communicate with clients, so any linux machine will be able to access the files using samba. You can also generally control the device via http (this is definitely true for the d-link device), so there's no need for Windows at all. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34838 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] amarok stops slimserver plugin with error code 1
Right... in that case, I think the problem is that python isn't configured properly, and the script can't access the http server even though the server is running properly. This probably needs to be fixed by fixing python, which is a bit beyond my ability in an unfamiliar distribution. I'd suggest at least updating to the latest version of python, especially whichever package provides /usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34842 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Plugins in Linux that have to write to folder
Welcome to linux! :-) The great thing about it is that even though these irritating problems do pop up now and again, they're fixable through research and experimentation, without resorting to brute force approaches like rebooting or reinstallation. Now that you have it working, you can expect it to work indefinitely! -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34655 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Another newbie to Linux
See here: http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Canon -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34651 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Plugins in Linux that have to write to folder
Are you sure it's that directory that the plugin wants to write to? Because I agree that if slimserver is running as slimserver, and the directory is chmod 777 with user slimserver, then it should definitely be able to write to that directory... -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34655 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?
Mark, does that mean you've now solved the drive access problem? -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Another newbie to Linux
SlimChances;196866 Wrote: Also below is the fstab file: (snip) # /dev/sda5 UUID=566C0AE26C0ABD2D /media/sda5 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 Try changing the umask to 222 (this will allow all users to read the files and list directory contents, but deny write access to everyone, which you should do with ntfs) The way the umask works is: - the first number refers to the owner of the file - the second number refers to members of the file's group - the third number refers to everyone else (world) Normal file permissions are as follows: - 4 = read - 2 = write - 1 = execute (file), or list contents (directory) So to make a folder its contents readable and browsable by everyone, but not writable by anyone, you'd want permissions of 555 (ie 4+1 for user/group/world) Now, the trick is that the umask works in the opposite direction - it tells the filesystem what people AREN'T allowed to do. You need to subtract the umask from 777 to get the final permissions. So your umask of 007 means: - 777 - 007 = 770 = user and group have full permissions (7=4+2+1), but world has no access Slimserver is probably running as the user slimserver, and is thus considered to be world by the filesystem. Therefore I suggest changing the umask to 222, which would give final permissions of 777-222=555, which enables everyone to have access, but denies write access to everyone. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34651 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?
Well, a simple thing to check is whether or not ide-scsi is enabled for the dvd-rom vs the other drive you're ripping with. On most systems this will need to be enabled in order for cdparanoia to use the drive. This is set in the bootloader options (ie in either lilo or grub, depending on what ubuntu uses as its bootloader). Look for either grub or lilo config files in /boot ... -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?
The link you sent reminded me - if you're only using rubyripper to rip, you may have hit a known bug with rubyripper whereby it doesn't respect your choice of cdrom, and will only rip from the first drive in the system. That's why I suggested testing with cdparanoia directly from the command-line. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?
fstab is important for mounting discs, but they don't need to be mounted in order to rip audio. So there may be a different problem (eg kernel is misconfigured). It's probably worth trying to rip with cdparanoia (as a command-line tool) to trouble-shoot. Given that this is a totally new problem it's probably worth posting it as a new thread, to maximise the number of eyes viewing it... -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Spreading a Slimserver library across two drives?
Linking is probably the simplest and easiest; LVM is probably the hardest but most elegant. Another approach is to set the mountpoint for the bigger device as a folder within the smaller device (eg have music folder set as /var/music, with subfolders like /var/music/rock and /var/music/classical; the external HD could then be mounted at /var/music/jazz) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34600 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ogg problem - debian
It sounds like a problem with the server not correctly transcoding ogg files. What are the transcoding settings (from the web interface go to server settings - file types)? Mine uses sox, so if yours is the same, make sure that sox on your server can play oggs. Do the log files have anything interesting to say about being unable to play the oggs? -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34602 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Spreading a Slimserver library across two drives?
Yes, subdirectories are fine. It's pretty flexible actually - here's an example of an outrageous file name that I'm using (my music folder is set to /mnt/seagate/music): /mnt/seagate/music/Lossless/Classical/Bach, Johann Sebastian/Vocal/St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244/50 Recitative (Evangelist)- Sie schrieen aber noch mehr - Chorus- Laß ihn kreuzigen - Recitative (Evangelist, Pilate)- Da aber Pilatus sahe - Chorus- Sein Blut komme über uns - Recitative (Evangelist)- Da gab er ihnen Barrabam los.flac -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34600 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?
Mark Lanctot;195942 Wrote: Whew, I must have a different version. Everything's fine until step 6. I couldn't find the option to create WAV at first but it's now in the Title menu. Works perfectly. 24-bit, 48 kHz WAVs. Oops, I just looked and you're right - my version of dvdrip is ancient! I might try upgrading it just to see what's changed. I hadn't upgraded before now because it works, and I rarely use it anyway. In any case, glad to hear it works perfectly for you! In terms of clearing tags, what version of easytag are you using? I'm using 2.0 and it has an option to wipe all tags (file - remove tags); I'm not sure if that removes tags that easytag doesn't normally show. It also supports tags such as Composer. Another option would be to run a simple command-line app to wipe all the tags, and then use easytag to add back in whatever tags you desire. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Slimserver not reading Music Library
Regarding scanning, it sounds as though there's a permissions problem, eg slimserver can't write to its database. I had a similar problem in Gentoo; the problem was that the file /var/log/slimserver was not writable by slimserver. Took me a while to track that one down! One thing that helped me solve the problem was scanning manually with the command: /opt/slimserver/scanner.pl --rescan --cleanup --progress --d_scan /mnt/seagate/music/ To that command you can also add various other debugging switches - see scanner.pl --help Regarding starting slimserver automatically, try this: chkconfig --levels 235 slimserver on Also, for manual starting and stopping, I think you can save time by just doing service slimserver start and stop. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34538 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?
haunyack;195695 Wrote: I've installed dvd::rip on my Suse 10.2 machine according to the readme. I have absolutely no idea how to invoke it. gulp...help? Type dvdrip at a console If that works, you can invoke it from kde by (1) using K menu - run command, or (2) using alt-f2, or (3) adding a menu item to your K menu (this probably would have been done automagically if you'd found a dedicated Suse RPM). Once you have dvdrip running, the steps below are what I do on the rare occasion that I rip audio from a DVD (I'm currently doing this with my new La Bohème DVD). An alternative way may be more efficient, but this process works for me: (1) set up a project for your DVD (file - new project); if I'm just ripping audio, I'm usually lazy and use the default settings (eg leave the project called unnamed) (2) (optional) in that same tab (Storage), click on Encode DVD on the fly (2) click on the Rip Title tab (3) click on Read DVD table of contents (4) make sure the correct title is selected in the main window (usually the longest one) (5) click on Specify chapter mode All to the right of the screen (you could use Selection if you didn't want to rip every track) (6) click on Operate - Create WAV from selected audio track You'll find all of your WAVs in the AVI directory that you specified in step 1. Now you can convert them to whatever format you like. flac * followed by easytag comes to mind. Good luck! -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?
mrfantasy;195712 Wrote: I have had stability problems with easytag over Samba. Desktop is SLED 10, server is a Kuro Box running Gentoo. MP3tag is much better in my opinion. I haven't tried MP3tag so I can't comment on that. However, your setup really begs the question of why you don't use NFS to communicate between the 2 linux boxes. In my experience it's faster and more reliable, and I've been using easytag over an NFS connection for about 4 years... I think it crashed once, and that wasn't while it was writing to the NFS drive... -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?
Mark Lanctot;195274 Wrote: 2. MAREO. I'm currently encoding to FLAC, then encoding to MP3, then doing MP3Gain analysis and adjustment with this. Is there a Linux equivalent or will I have to divide this into a series of steps? You can encode to FLAC and mp3 easily in one step using abcde. Or, once you've ripped with grip, you could use something like pacpl to easily convert the FLACs to mp3s. It's very easy to add replay gain to FLAC and mp3 files with the command-line encoders (and this step can be incoporated into the ripping stage). I'm not sure about using a custom volume level... Mark Lanctot;195274 Wrote: 3. Mp3tag. I installed EasyTag but haven't played with it much. It seems OK, but is there anything better? Personally I use easytag; once you get used to it it's very easy and powerful. Another popular one is Audio Tag Tool: http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/ Mark Lanctot;195274 Wrote: 5. Ripping of audio from DVD video. I've done this a few times and I will want to do it again. It requires a ripper than can demux to AC3 files, then a program that converts AC3 to WAV. Is this possible in Linux? I use dvdrip, which is reasonably easy to use and quite powerful. I'm pretty sure it can rip the audio directly into AC3 (it lists Audio AC3 and PCM passthrough as one of its features), and I know for sure it can rip it directly into WAV (on-the-fly). http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ Good luck! bukharin -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?
Another ripper you might want to check out is Rubyripper: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper It's a bit rough around the edges, but has better error correction and logging facilities than grip. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux dummy
So does that mean that it's all working now? -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34339 ___ unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Automated CD Ripping
I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to do the ripping. You'd need to: (1) Set up something to register that an audio CD has been inserted, and run a command. This is usually done by something like hald+ivman (2) Use abcde (a better cd encoder) as the command run when a CD is inserted, followed by a re-scan to integrate the new files For bonus points you could try to make it only rip CDs it hadn't seen before. That would be a little bit harder. In terms of burning a CD, I guess it would be possible to write a plugin that gets a playlist and sends those files to a console CD burning app. You could start with one of those now playing plugins and hack it. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard for people familiar with SS's plugin interface. So - yes, definitely possible, but you might need to dig around a bit to work out the nuts and bolts. Good luck! -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34351 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux dummy
No, the slashes should be forward the way you've typed them. Is the drive definitely actively mounted at /media/DRV4_VOL2? If it is, you should be able to browse the music folder in your favourite file manager. If you're unable to do that, then that needs fixing before slimserver can be expected to work. If slimserver is allowed to browse /media/DRV4_VOL2, then it should recursively browse into My Music anyway. Therefore, it might be worth trying to set slimserver's music folder to /media/DRV4_VOL2 if you haven't done that already. That would also avoid potential problems with the space in My Music. If the above steps don't resolve the problem, then the most likely problem is that slimserver doesn't have permission to read the files (or browse the directories) on the external drive. How are the permissions set? -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34339 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux dummy
It may be worth trying to specify the music folder as: /media/DRV4_VOL2/My Music as opposed to /media/DRV4_VOL2/My Music Or you could try: /media/DRV4_VOL2/My\ Music (these suggestions are in case slimserver has a problem with a space in the name of its main folder) I'm not sure that you really answered the permissions question. What happens when you type ls -l /media/DRV4_VOL2/ and ls -l /media/DRV4_VOL2/My\ Music? Could you please post the output of these commands? -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34339 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux dummy
Yes, this helps, because the permissions are set incorrectly. See this line: drwx-- 171 test test 65536 2006-06-23 20:04 My Music The d means it's a directory (ie a folder). The rwx means it's readable, writable and browsable by the owner of the folder - in this case, the user called test The -- means that all other users are denied any access to My Music So, you need either to change the permissions on that folder, or change the owner to the same user as slimserver is running as. I'm guessing that your drive is formatted as FAT32. AFAIK this means that the mount options for the drive dictate the permissions of every file and folder on the drive. (That is, you can't control permissions for each file/folder separately). Thus, the best way to fix your permissions would be to mount the drive with the mount option umask=222; this would enable all users to browse and read all files on the drive, but would deny write access. If you want to write files as well, you could set the umask to 000. I don't know how you set the mount options in Ubuntu. In most linux distributions it's set in /etc/fstab. However, if you're using a hotplug style mounting system then it may be set elsewhere. Somebody else may need to help you there... -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34339 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Folder Name With Spaces
Glad to hear it's working! And glad to hear you're learning... :) For what it's worth, I'm getting away with file names like this: /mnt/seagate/music/Lossy/Classical/Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus/Operas/Le Nozze di Figaro/208 Duetto 'Crudel! perchè finora farmi languir così'.mp3 -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33617 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
