[slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

Marc, I am really grateful that someone has put all this information down in one place. It gave me confidence, at last, to go ahead and try installing the slimserver on my linkstation. Everything seemed to be going just fine, but I ran into a problemright at the last step(under "testing

Re: AlienBBC vs DAB (was Re: [slim] (UK) Powered speakers for SB)

Richard, I'm afraid you're under a multiple misunderstanding. I'm not selling anything at £129 (or any other price - I'm a customer, not a retailer); Stuart is selling something for £129, but it's not a squeezebox, it's a DAB USB radio. As for your question - someone else might be able to

Re: AlienBBC vs DAB (was Re: [slim] (UK) Powered speakers for SB)

Sorry for the misunderstanding Stuart and many thanks for your reply. It looks like the SqueezeBox is going to be the one for me! From: BenRubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: "Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com"

RE: [slim] Local Internet Radio

Thanks for the reply, it works :-) Can I ask you how you found that out so that if/when I come across other radio stations like that I don’t have to harass people on here. Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonas Nordström

Re: [slim] Local Internet Radio

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:32:47 -, Mark Gillespie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply, it works :-) Can I ask you how you found that out so that if/when I come across other radio stations like that I don't have to harass people on here. Thanks Mark [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger

I don't remember the exact command, but something like id3v2 -l 11_*.flac came back: 11_Frogs.flac No tags found Or something like that. Most of these files (they're all flac) were ripped/tagged with dbPowerAMP and slimserver seems to be able to pull them out. So i just figured this tool (id3v2)

Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:28:43 -0500, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember the exact command, but something like id3v2 -l 11_*.flac came back: 11_Frogs.flac No tags found Or something like that. Most of these files (they're all flac) were ripped/tagged with

Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger

Well, then that explains it. So then does anyone have a command-line metaflac tag editor or whatever which they would recommend for editting flac file tags? From: Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: Slim Devices Discussion

Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger

Nevermind -I think I get it. Metaflac IS that tool. Thanks for the info. From: "Michael Haan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:49:22 -0500

[slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.

Hello, What would be involved in making the buttons for a given skin (slim or excession) larger? I would like to make them about 100-200% larger for improved use on a touchscreen. They are almost big enough now, but I would like to make them fat-finger friendly. Thanks, -Chris

Re: [slim] 6.0b3 03-22 nightly - the count is correct

Hi, I found that I have 2 albums with the same name (Live), iTunes counts them as 1 album whereas Slimserver correctly counts them as 2... so actually slimserver is now correct and iTunes is wrong. Well done!!! As far as I am concerned there is still one issue on the Squeezebox itself. If you

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.

Indeed, However at least for me, the buttons are even smaller than the others. Also it seems pretty plain (no insult at all do whomever did the skin). It would look much nicer to have the excession or slim skin. I have tried all of the skins, at 800x600 they can be used with some care, but

[slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes

* John Hernandez shaped the electrons to say... I find that when doing Browse Albums or New Music, I sometimes don't recognize an album title. I then resort to right-right-down to see the artist, then up-left-left if it's not what I wanted. Instead, I'd like to see something like Album

Re: [slim] Slim Devices SB2 disappointment SB for sale.

Phil Karn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jack Coates wrote: You might want to do some research on modern virtual memory management... swap is necessary no matter how much RAM you have. I disagree. I see no reason for a swap partition when you already have far more physical RAM than most swap

Re[2]: [slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes

Hi John Go to Server Settings...Formatting and scroll down to Title Format. Add this one and select it: DISC-TRACKNUM. TITLE (ARTIST) Then, in Player Settings (main page) change the Title Format and you should see the new one in the drop down. Works a treat for me. Jon --- On Tuesday,

Re[2]: [slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes

or, if you don't want the track number: TITLE (ARTIST) Jon --- On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 8:04:59 PM you wrote: Dan Sully wrote: * John Hernandez shaped the electrons to say... I find that when doing Browse Albums or New Music, I sometimes don't recognize an album title. I then

[slim] Problem with Shuffle modes

I found problems with the 03/21 nightly that caused the sever to crash when selecting Shuffle by Album. That seems to have been fixed in 03/22 but now I'm seeing that with a playlist of 9000 songs, switching between shuffleoff and shuffle by song takes around 3 seconds but switching to

Re[2]: [slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes

John You need to create the format in the server settings (this will affect the browser although you don't have to select the new format) and then you can select it from the player settings. This will only affect the particular player. Jon --- On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 8:06:24 PM you

Re: [slim] Drive letter of playlist

Or to change the drive letter in your playlists, just use find and replace in your favourite text editor. Programmers File Editor or Textpad for example. Ken Hokugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are using XP, and it does that sometimes, go to control panel

RE: [slim] More flac playback over wireless data

file server, slimserver and Squeezebox are all independantly and wirelessly connected to my adsl/router/firewall/hub. OUCH!!! this isn't going to work. If your slimserver is mounting its music folder from another (also wireless) machine, this means your data is hitting the airwaves a

Re: [slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes

Jon Stanton wrote: Hi John Go to Server Settings...Formatting and scroll down to Title Format. Add this one and select it: DISC-TRACKNUM. TITLE (ARTIST) Then, in Player Settings (main page) change the Title Format and you should see the new one in the drop down. Works a treat for me. Jon Works a

[slim] Starting slimserver in Windows

Hi there, I'm running Slimserver 5.4.1 for Windows. Upgrading to the latest version 6 completely screwed my system so I'm back with the old one. I am using Itunes to keep my music organized and therefore would like to run the Itunes plugin as well which updates my ratings etc. Everything is

[slim] Re: Problem with Shuffle modes

* Craig shaped the electrons to say... I found problems with the 03/21 nightly that caused the sever to crash when selecting Shuffle by Album. That seems to have been fixed in 03/22 but now I'm seeing that with a playlist of 9000 songs, switching between shuffle off and shuffle by song takes

[slim] Re: Starting slimserver in Windows

* Manuel Rathmann shaped the electrons to say... I'm running Slimserver 5.4.1 for Windows. Upgrading to the latest version 6 completely screwed my system so I'm back with the old one. I am using Itunes to keep my music organized and therefore would like to run the Itunes plugin as well which

Re: [slim] Re: Starting slimserver in Windows

Dan Sully wrote: Manuel - could you be a little more descriptive in completely screwed my system ? Perhaps version 6.0 includes some kind of proprietary security protocol? http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/14238 (last paragraph) Hey, it is kind of audio related, at least. :) - Marc

Re: [slim] Re: Problem with Shuffle modes

Dan Sully wrote: * Craig shaped the electrons to say... I found problems with the 03/21 nightly that caused the sever to crash when selecting Shuffle by Album. That seems to have been fixed in 03/22 but now I'm seeing that with a playlist of 9000 songs, switching between shuffle off and shuffle

[slim] Debugging missing titles from database

I'm running CVS from yesterday. Trying to understand why the database show the counts I'm expecting: $ fgrep audiodir ~/.slimserver.pref audiodir = /home/moseley/music $ find /home/moseley/music -name \*.mp3 -o -name \*.ogg -o -name \*.flac -type f | wc -l 2257 $ telnet localhost 9090

[slim] iTunes reload library vs rescan library

Hi, a general question about the use of iTunes: could someone explain the difference between reloading the iTunes library and rescanning. What is happening in the background. The difference between the 2 is not clear to me and then I am not sure about the effect of the parameters that

Re: [slim] Debugging missing titles from database

Bill Moseley wrote: It would be helpful to have a small tool where I can pass a file name and see how slimserver parses and how it would index. I know I can turn on debugging and rescan, but I'd like to be able to work with single files. I've used the log file in the past. Start the server with

[slim] Ogg Vorbis issue BBC Radio question

Hi there, Ogg Vorbis problem: Im a Squeezebox newbie running 5.4.1 on a 250GB Buffalo LinkStation (thanks SO much to Marc D. Field for his project notes http://fieldnetworks.com/slim/linkstation.html and plenty of post-project help, nice chap and patient!) but I have one problem I

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.

Chris Laplante wrote: Hello, What would be involved in making the buttons for a given skin (slim or excession) larger? I would like to make them about 100-200% larger for improved use on a touchscreen. They are almost big enough now, but I would like to make them fat-finger friendly. Thanks,

Re: [slim] Just noise from Softsqueeze

Craig wrote: Hi Richard, Well it's playing the aac files now but using Primary Sound Driver or my M-Audio card as the Audio mixer there is still quite a bit of noise with the music. Selecting the Java Sound Engine as the mixer, there is no noise but the level is lower, maybe as much as 6dB.

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze 2a14 Issues

Neil Cameron wrote: I've loaded the 17/3/05 Nightlies, and am having issues only with SoftSqueeze, and not with the Squeezeboxes. (1) It still crashes slimserver whenever I press Now Playing more than once in succession (2) It stops just before the end of every song. The display shows STOPPED.

Re: [slim] How do slimserver clients sync to same stream ?

- Original Message - From: kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [slim] How do slimserver clients sync to same stream ? Quoting Robert Rozman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I wonder how do clients sync

Re: [slim] iTunes reload library vs rescan library

Hi kdf, thanks, if the database rescans all its sources on regular basis (with 6.0) including iTunes (if it is used), is the reload of iTunes still needed? Will you also get rid of the rescan plugin if it is not needed anymore. Having parameters that are not really needed anymore may be a bit

Re: [slim] Re: Starting slimserver in Windows

Hi, - Version 6 seems to consider more tags than the previous version. All of a sudden my browe by Artist showed up Artists I never heared of. Keep in mind that ITunes showed everything correct. I found out that some of my MP3s had tags like Composer which were considered as well as

[slim] Re: iTunes reload library vs rescan library

* Michel Fombellida shaped the electrons to say... thanks, if the database rescans all its sources on regular basis (with 6.0) including iTunes (if it is used), is the reload of iTunes still needed? Will you also get rid of the rescan plugin if it is not needed anymore. Having parameters that

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.

Looks good / straightforward. I was doing a diff of the XMLs for excession excession-large, and can see the differences are pretty clear. Is there any science to picking the X and Y coordinate values, or just resize the images and replace them by trial and error? I would want to scale all of

Re: [slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes

Dan Sully wrote: * John Hernandez shaped the electrons to say... I find that when doing Browse Albums or New Music, I sometimes don't recognize an album title. I then resort to right-right-down to see the artist, then up-left-left if it's not what I wanted. Instead, I'd like to see something

Re: [slim] Re: iTunes reload library vs rescan library

OK thanks! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] iTunes reload library vs rescan library

Quoting Michel Fombellida [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi kdf, thanks, if the database rescans all its sources on regular basis (with 6.0) including iTunes (if it is used), is the reload of iTunes still needed? it cleans up stale data, looks for new files on browse, but if you change your itunes data

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.

Chris Laplante wrote: Looks good / straightforward. I was doing a diff of the XMLs for excession excession-large, and can see the differences are pretty clear. Is there any science to picking the X and Y coordinate values, or just resize the images and replace them by trial and error? I would

Re: [slim] How do slimserver clients sync to same stream ?

Robert Rozman wrote: What I'm trying to know is HOW they synhonize ? Do they talk to each other, to server - timestamps, ... ? How is sync feature implemented in softsqueeze ? All the players communicate only with the server, using the slimproto protocol. This allows the server to detect the

Re: [slim] Can I have more slim software players on single ip ?

Jack Coates wrote: b) no one's tried it yet. Well not true. Someone has tried using four instances of Softsqueeze's on a single PC with multiple sound cards. I understand this was partially successful, the Softsqueeze players were recognized as individual players by the slimserver and correctly

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.

Chris Laplante wrote: Should I do my resizing off of a dev branch source then? It would be nice if people could potentially use the skin when I'm done, and not have it be old news. Yes, if you could work from the slimserver trunk that would be good. You need to be working from Softsqueeze

RE: [slim] Ogg Vorbis issue BBC Radio question

Quoting Alan Parkyn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, Thanks for your help - you're right I don't appear to have Lame. Do you know how I'd go about downloading it, compiling it and installing it to my LinkStation? there is actually a link in that message telling you that lame isn't found. it

Re: [slim] Ogg Vorbis issue BBC Radio question

Hi Alan. If you want to stream BBC radio, then you'll need a copy of AlienBBC. It's available from: http://www.mrtickle.org/alienbbc.html However... I do have to confess - we've never tried running AlienBBC on a linkstation... and I'm not totally sure it will be easy. The only main piece

RE: [slim] Ogg Vorbis issue BBC Radio question

Hi Jules, Thanks for the tips - I'll let you know if I make a break-through. Regards, Alan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jules Taplin Sent: 23 March 2005 00:00 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Ogg Vorbis issue BBC

[slim] NBMU track display problem 2005-03-22 6.x

The NBMU skin display all the tracks of an album with the name of the first track. Avi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Genres

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 21:22 +, Keith (BB) wrote: freeform or is there an official list of genres. Looking at some of my music I have brit pop, alternRock,sixties,new age but to mention a few. If there is an official list how do I find out what genre my album should be? As others have

Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

In article news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Rod Tucker rod-726cGAzaMRMGihw92uD59AC/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following modules failed to load: DBD::SQLite XML::Parser HTML::Parser Compr Hi, It looks like you have a build of SlimServer 6 that does not yet have the required ppc perl binaries. If you

[slim] SB2 forgot it was wireless

I have a SB2, it hasn't been on in a while, and when I plugged it in and turned it on tonight, it came up and (I am guessing) tried to use the wired interface to get an IP address. It doesn't talk about the wireless network anymore, like it used to do when it was working. I went into the

[slim] Softsqueeze

Is Softsqueeze supposed to be working with the latest beta? I've been having problems with it for about a week, where I load it up, and just get the interfaced blacked out (as-if the "squeezebox" was powered off), and it never responds to button presses. Also...there's a ton of Java

[slim] Problems with rescan using 3/19 nightly

I mentioned a few days ago that it seemed like rescan wasn't working for me, but I wanted to do some more testing. Now I'm seeing it again for sure with the 3/19 nightly (running on Windows XP with Fishbone). I just added several folders (each folder is an album containing well tagged MP3 or FLAC

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze

Danny Rego wrote: Is Softsqueeze supposed to be working with the latest beta? I've been having problems with it for about a week, where I load it up, and just get the interfaced blacked out (as-if the squeezebox was powered off), and it never responds to button presses. Also...there's a ton

RE: [slim] Drive letter of playlist

Thanks, That is what I am looking for David -Original Message- From: Bruce Hartley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 22, 2005 3:15 PM To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Drive letter of playlist Or to change the drive letter in your playlists, just use find and

Re: [slim] SB2 forgot it was wireless

If the unit has been bumped around a bit, it may be that the wireless module inside has been disconnected. This would make it behave like a wired squeezebox. Also I don't think it's a squeezebox2 - those are not shipping out for a couple more days. On Mar 22, 2005, at 6:29 PM, Rob Walker

[slim] Non Roman charaters. How?

Ripped some tracks from an Israeli CD. Tagged the tracks in Hebrew. The slimserver 6.x web interface correctly shows the Hebrew text. The squeeze box however shows a bunch of question marks instead. I thought that version 6 was supposed to allow the display of UTF-8 characters. Am I

Re: [slim] SB2 forgot it was wireless

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 09:24 pm, Sean Adams wrote: If the unit has been bumped around a bit, it may be that the wireless module inside has been disconnected. This would make it behave like a wired squeezebox. Also I don't think it's a squeezebox2 - those are not shipping out for a couple

Re: [slim] Genres

Having a single genre on a song is simplistic idea. It is too subjective to be generally useful. One of the reasons driving the SlimServer 6.* effort is to allow more generalized data structure so you can call a song rock and 'classic and head banging all at once. This capability is

Re: [slim] SB2 forgot it was wireless

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 09:24 pm, Sean Adams wrote: If the unit has been bumped around a bit, it may be that the wireless module inside has been disconnected. This would make it behave like a wired squeezebox. That was it. All better now. thanks, rob

[slim] Tagging Classical Music

I just bought a flac album from Magnatune - Elizabeth Wolff - Moments Musicaux Here is what the file listing looks like (magnatune had spaces which I replaced with _ as I can't stand spaces in a file name): 01-Sergei_Rachmaninoff_-_6_Moments_Musicaux_Op._16_-_Andantino-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac

[slim] Re: Non Roman charaters. How?

* Avi Schwartz shaped the electrons to say... Ripped some tracks from an Israeli CD. Tagged the tracks in Hebrew. The slimserver 6.x web interface correctly shows the Hebrew text. The squeeze box however shows a bunch of question marks instead. I thought that version 6 was supposed to allow

Re: [slim] Debugging missing titles from database

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Steve Baumgarten wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: It would be helpful to have a small tool where I can pass a file name and see how slimserver parses and how it would index. I know I can turn on debugging and rescan, but I'd like to be able to work with