Re: [slim] Custom Strings Not Recognized

2005-04-30 Thread Michael Herger
I've used a custom-strings.txt for a couple of years now. My player has all of a sudden quit using it. I only have a few modifications in it (such as "Playing" instead of "Now Playing".) I recently had to reinstall the server application. I only noticed the problem today but that's not to say th

[slim] Re: Beat my setup

2005-04-30 Thread Jim
Well, I'm extremely pleased with my Squeezebox running on Windows 98. I can listen to my 128kbps CD Quality MP3's just fine on my Alba Midi Hi-Fi System, and simply record my fave songs to tape for playing in the car. I would never ever consider any other music format, I mean I spent a few h

Re: [slim] Custom Strings Not Recognized

2005-04-30 Thread kdf
all of the following should work with slimserver: strings.txt .slimp3-strings.txt slimp3-strings.txt .slimserver-strings.txt slimserver-strings.txt .custom-strings.txt custom-strings.txt

[slim] Re: Beat my setup

2005-04-30 Thread Michaelwagner
Why not just put a laptop in your trunk? 80GB hard disk. Or 2, like some laptops let you. Run slimserver on that. Ethernet to the front, squeezebox in the front, have to a little work to get 12V down to 5 reliably with the startup surge, use standard laptop auto power connector for laptop. Not s

[slim] Accessible thru firewall?

2005-04-30 Thread eli2k
Hi. I am on a college campus on their dormitory network. I tried using a few plugins on Winamp to directly control which music I wanted to hear, but the school's firewall, their NAT stuff, and port blocking prevented that. I was wondering if this program, SlimServer, would be able to work through

Re: [slim] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3

2005-04-30 Thread kdf
On 30-Apr-05, at 7:14 PM, Andy Bunn wrote: Excellent. Thanks for the translation. And I forgot to post this, but you probably already know, the recan attempts are continuous. I think the MMM plugin reports a change every two seconds or so. -A the checker runs every 60 seconds. You won't notice

[slim] Re: Parent process dying

2005-04-30 Thread Dan Sully
* Healy shaped the electrons to say... Parent process died again. I can't find anything in the debug log. files inline. I'm stumped. Can you run inside gdb: gdb perl prompt> r /path/to/slimserver.pl When it crashes, type 'bt' for backtrace. -D -- does whistling in the dark make me go blind fa

[slim] Re: Network Drives

2005-04-30 Thread JJZolx
duhaas Wrote: > So are u saying that under music folder I should be able to specify > \\duhaas\music? this is the message I am getting, I have the share and > file perms open to everyone > > New value for Music Folder rejected: > > Oops - "\\duhaas\music" doesn't seem to be a valid directory.

Re: [slim] Parent process dying

2005-04-30 Thread Healy
Parent process died again. I can't find anything in the debug log. files inline. I'm stumped. -Healy command line output: # /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl --user slimserver --logfile /home/slimserver/log/slimserver.log --prefsfile /home/slimserver/.slimserver.pref -

RE: [slim] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3

2005-04-30 Thread Andy Bunn
Excellent. Thanks for the translation. And I forgot to post this, but you probably already know, the recan attempts are continuous. I think the MMM plugin reports a change every two seconds or so. -A ~~ 2005-04-30 21:45:04.7145 MusicMagic: music library has changed! Use

[slim] Re: iTunes issues

2005-04-30 Thread Laz
I uninstalled slimserver, deleted the m3u playlists created by slim server, deleted the slimserver directory, reinstalled 6.02. At this stage I end up with 1 extra track, 2 extra albums and 2 extra artists. I'm willing to live with this until 6.1. Probably not a viable option if you have a subst

RE: [slim] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3

2005-04-30 Thread kdf
Quoting Andy Bunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Curious. thanks. the uninitialized value warnings are just warnings and harmless. They are coming up because the debug asks for the last scan time. since you havent' scanned since startup, its indefined. with 6.1 nightlies, a zero in the reload interval

RE: [slim] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3

2005-04-30 Thread Andy Bunn
kdf wrote: > make sure you have the latest of the nightly builds for 6.1 (NOT 6.0.3), April 28 or newer. I installed the latest nightly (4/30) and see the new info being dumped to the log file. See below. It's complaining abput a "uninitialized value in concatenation" but seems to run. I can use M

[slim] Re: Network Drives

2005-04-30 Thread duhaas
So are u saying that under music folder I should be able to specify \\duhaas\music? this is the message I am getting, I have the share and file perms open to everyone New value for Music Folder rejected: Oops - "\\duhaas\music" doesn't seem to be a valid directory. Try again. -- duhaas

Re: [slim] Re: iTunes issues

2005-04-30 Thread windguy2
I have the same problem, even with 6.01 - changed setting to do not use itunes - if I could get playlists from itunes I would leave it like this Mike. On Apr 30, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Laz wrote: Scanning iTunes results in extra albums, artists, and songs (the number varies when I rescan, but varies

[slim] Re: iTunes issues

2005-04-30 Thread Laz
Scanning iTunes results in extra albums, artists, and songs (the number varies when I rescan, but varies around 15, 30 and 500 respectively). I suspect this has to do with non-latin characters in names, as I notice that the scan had a real problem with a German alblum with a u-umlaut and also a L

[slim] Re: AAC playback background noise. Slimserver6/FreeBSD

2005-04-30 Thread icestorm
kdf Wrote: > Quoting icestorm forums.slimdevices.com>: > [color=blue] > > what is the volume on your squeezebox? you will habe better signal to > noise if > you run it at around 39 and adjust your amp accodingly, versus turning > your amp > up to compensate for squeezebox volume of 4 or 5. >

[slim] Custom Strings Not Recognized

2005-04-30 Thread Todd Fields
I've used a custom-strings.txt for a couple of years now. My player has all of a sudden quit using it. I only have a few modifications in it (such as "Playing" instead of "Now Playing".) I recently had to reinstall the server application. I only noticed the problem today but that's not to say t

[slim] Re: Network Drives

2005-04-30 Thread JJZolx
duhaas Wrote: > Is it possible to have my laptop connect to a network share, and also > have my laptop run slim server? When I try and have it scan my library > after defining x:\ doesnt seem to like that?Yes. Is the laptop running > Windows XP? If you're running SlimServer as a service on XP

[slim] Re: How to store/find iTunes playlists ?

2005-04-30 Thread mrmattis
Could someone please help me with a newbie guide, using iTunes/Slimserver ? mrmrattis Norway -- mrmattis ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Slim Web & Going Back

2005-04-30 Thread duhaas
Yeah, not sure what I was thinking, I honestly didnt try it because I figured it would take me to the prior webpage I had been browsing. -- duhaas ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discu

[slim] Network Drives

2005-04-30 Thread duhaas
Is it possible to have my laptop connect to a network share, and also have my laptop run slim server? When I try and have it scan my library after defining x:\ doesnt seem to like that? -- duhaas ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: AAC playback background noise. Slimserver6/FreeBSD

2005-04-30 Thread Jim
icestorm Wrote: > Unfortunately Bob was unable to assist. Does this mean I have to > re-encode all my music collection to a lesser format? Yes good idea. Instead of encoding to a lossy format such as AAC, why not encode to a lesser format such as FLAC :rolleyes -- Jim ___

[slim] Re: Multiple disc albums using DISC & DISCC doesn't work.

2005-04-30 Thread dborn
Yep. The album names are the same but I didn't move the mp3 files into the same directory... (e.g. /mnt/music/AC-DC Live (disc 1 of 2) & /mnt/music/AC-DC Live (disc 2 of 2)). I wouldn't think that the directory names matter..? I used the tags "disc" & "discc" but it pretty much reacts as if thes

Re: [slim] SB2 Display flicker

2005-04-30 Thread kdf
sound close? http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398 -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: AAC playback background noise. Slimserver6/FreeBSD

2005-04-30 Thread kdf
Quoting icestorm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > kevin Wrote: > > you could try ruling out the flac conversion as an issue by creating a > > 'mov wav * *' or 'mov aif * *' rule depending on what the byte order is > > coming out of faad... > > > > it's possibly a byte swap issue, though... usually when t

[slim] SB2 Display flicker

2005-04-30 Thread slim
On the SB2 display, I noticed there are three pixels flickering, a bit starry-like. They are in the left corner: above middle in brightness 3, below middle in brightness 2. There is no flickering in brightness 4, 1 or off, so it's not the display itself obviously. Anyone else seen this? Also, t

[slim] Re: AAC playback background noise. Slimserver6/FreeBSD

2005-04-30 Thread icestorm
Jim Wrote: > The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, > The answer is blowing in the wind > > (Sorry :P ) Unfortunately Bob was unable to assist. Does this mean I have to re-encode all my music collection to a lesser format? -- icestorm ___ Dis

[slim] Re: Multiple disc albums using DISC & DISCC doesn't work.

2005-04-30 Thread Patrick Dixon
Have you tried Server Settings -> Behaviour -> Group Disks ? -- Patrick Dixon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Multiple disc albums using DISC & DISCC doesn't work.

2005-04-30 Thread Christian Pernegger
> I'm using a recent 6.1.0 nightly and I filled DISC & DISCC tags [...] It works for me. BTW you do not need to set DISCC, that's just internally used by slimserver. C. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/

Re: [slim] Parent process dying

2005-04-30 Thread Healy
I was playing tunes this morning for about 1 hour & the parent process died again. Nothing was going on other than the stream. IE: no activity on the server web page. The server is a dedicated slimserver only running samba & slimserver process. I'll re-run with debug options as the log sh

[slim] Multiple disc albums using DISC & DISCC doesn't work.

2005-04-30 Thread dborn
I'm using a recent 6.1.0 nightly and I filled DISC & DISCC tags for my multi-disc albums "album title (disc %DISC% of %DISCC%)" and then removed the "(disc x of y)" part in the album titles. And then I rescanned. This doesn not seem to work (or I don't understand how it's supposed to work!?) becau

[slim] 6.0.3 nightly - no windows version

2005-04-30 Thread radish
I just went to grab the 4-30 6.0.3 nightly (it has a fix that I'm very interested in) and it doesn't have an exe version - looks like that part of the build barfed. Just an FYI :) -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http

[slim] Re: AAC playback background noise. Slimserver6/FreeBSD

2005-04-30 Thread Jim
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, The answer is blowing in the wind (Sorry :P ) -- Jim ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Slim Web & Going Back

2005-04-30 Thread mherger
What about your browser's "back" button? -- mherger Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the SlimString Translation Helper (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discu

[slim] Slim Web & Going Back

2005-04-30 Thread duhaas
Just a question, one thing I am not liking with selecing music over the web interface is lets say I am looking @ album art, I select what I want to listen to, there is no nice way of going back to the page you were just on I have to go all the way back to the (A), but I was just browsing some

[slim] Re: AAC playback background noise. Slimserver6/FreeBSD

2005-04-30 Thread icestorm
kevin Wrote: > you could try ruling out the flac conversion as an issue by creating a > 'mov wav * *' or 'mov aif * *' rule depending on what the byte order is > coming out of faad... > > it's possibly a byte swap issue, though... usually when that happens > you can still hear a semblance of th

Re: [slim] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3

2005-04-30 Thread kdf
Quoting hunta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > kdf Wrote: > > i have also set my reload interval for musicmagic to 0 and this avoids > > the scan even on startup, so try that as well since that may at least > > lessen the problem in the short term. > > That doesn't seem to be the case when I'm starting SS

[slim] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3

2005-04-30 Thread hunta
kdf Wrote: > i have also set my reload interval for musicmagic to 0 and this avoids > the scan even on startup, so try that as well since that may at least > lessen the problem in the short term. That doesn't seem to be the case when I'm starting SS as SlimServer.exe. I've had the reload interva