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Michaelwagner wrote:
It's a fine option in relatively
non-crowded environments, especially if you can get a transmitter
that
will use the whole FM band.
I had to custom order one a few years back, the standard
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How do you load and save favorites to a given remote button? ie a
playlist or a radio station.I cannot find a reference to it anywhere.
press right, then up and you should then see the option to add to
favorites.
press right to add.
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My router requires me to enter 4 keys. So I ended up entering the same
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I think the restarting is to do with the socketwrapper code. This
listens for output from mplayer and sends it the slim code, if output
stops the code restarts mplayer. This is required on Windows to
overcome problems with piping data. The source of this is available in
SVN if you want to take a
I may have a peek at the socketwrapper code but it is a side issue to
the garbled audio. I was initially worried that the restart was caused
by Mplayer but from the trace it doesn't look likely so I don't think it
is associated with garbled audio just indicative of gaps in the audio
stream.
Re
I have an oldish panel type portable PC that I wish to implement as a
software based squeezebox around the home.
It has a pentium 233 MHz processor. It will be running linux (most
likely gentoo). I cannot recall how much RAM it has as its a while
since I powered it up!
Is it going to run
I am having the same problems and I don't know why. I can't tell
anything from the logs either. Very odd?
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Since I upgraded to new slimserver the playlists have gone missing.
I had to re-enter the path and did rescan but still nothing shows under
browse playlists.
I am running windows XP.
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This is really trivial to do in SQL.
Max
This is trivial to do in SQL. SQL is a really easy language to pick up
the basics of so it would really be worth your while learning it. Do a
search for SQL Tutorial in Google. In the meantime, here's something
I've just hacked up in a couple of
so with the sb2/3 and firmware we have been given first native flac,
then native wma. what are the chances we'll see native apple lossless
support in a future firmware rev?
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Can anybody advise whether the SB3 and the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus
will be able to work together?
If not, will it ever or are there any hacks about that can make this
happen. I'm looking to purchase a SB3 but if it wont work then I need
to look for a UPnP certified DMA (whatever one of
I think the restarting is to do with the socketwrapper code. This
listens for output from mplayer and sends it the slim code, if output
stops the code restarts mplayer. This is required on Windows to
overcome problems with piping data. The source of this is available in
SVN if you want to take a
nickrout Wrote:
It has a pentium 233 MHz processor. It will be running linux (most
likely gentoo). I cannot recall how much RAM it has as its a while
since I powered it up!
I ran softsqueeze for a while. In my opinion it needs a somewhat more
powerful machine than a P233.
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SqueezeBox fixed it.
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You are lucky Mick. I can see NONE of my Various Artist albums when
browsing Artists with the remote, but all albums show up when using
the web browser.
Just when I thought everything was working fine with version 6.2.
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ordered one from scan the other day - price on the normal web pageis
same as 'today only' price...
Comes in at £125 incl postage. Should be delivered tomorrow ! :)
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Thanks for the hint, I have deleted all .cue files and everything
seems to be listed under the expected genre.
I am somewhat lost as to why deleteing the cue files should have
cured the problem. (btw there was no error in the .cue files).
Why should scanning for genre be affected by .cue files
Max,
many thanks for taking the trouble to address my question. I agree
that the smart thing would be to learn the rudiments of SQL and be able
to construct my own queries. I did try pasting your query script into
the (Windows) front end I have been playing with and it did indeed
generate
Nobody knows how to tune in WMA radio station on Slimserver 6.2?
Alien BBC World is not quite a solution.
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I enabled DEBUGPIPE - no message about pipe being stalled just Killing
MoveData thread.
Restart occurred about 3:25 after start of stream. Yesterday it was
about 3:40hrs. I have 2 ethereal traces so I'll try to see if the
times are closer but it looks too coincidental. I'll look into this a
Shall we take this discussion to the plugin list as it sounds like it will
carry on for a while...
Socketwrapper source is here:
http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/tools/socketwrapper/
If you don't see the stalled message, then it sounds like a process in the
pipeline ended.
I enabled
David Alexander Wrote:
Are you using version 1 or version 2 id3 tags? In version 1 tags the
genres are actually stored as numbers which are indexed to a fixed
table of genre names. If you add a genre that starts with a number
the software will likely misinterpret it. Version 2 id3
If the maxtor device requires a UPnP device (sorry I don't know anything
about it) then your answer is, no. The Squeezebox units all require the
server software to be installed, and can't talk UPnP. This is _not_ a
bad thing IMHO. I don't think we will see Slim go the UPnP route - but
their
To be pedantic the tags should be
'60s
'70s
'80s
'90s
'00s
etc. The ' is used to show that the 19 or 20 is missing.
I have my tags set this way and they appear as they should do on the
Squeezebox and web UI.
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NeilH Wrote:
Thanks for the hint, I have deleted all .cue files and everythingseems
to be listed under the expected genre.
I am somewhat lost as to why deleteing the cue files should have
cured the problem. (btw there was no error in the .cue files).
Why should scanning for genre be
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To be pedantic the tags should be
'60s
'70s
'80s
'90s
'00s
etc. The ' is used to show that the 19 or 20 is missing.
I have my tags set this way and they appear as they should do on the
Squeezebox and web UI.
Hey CavesOfTQLT
Thanks for the tip! This works, and
That depends entirely on Apple licensing that codec.
It's currently closed and not available for third-party use, except
through QuickTime, which is what we are doing.
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Just downloaded and tried to run Softsqueeze 2.2 from Sourceforge.
Upon starting Softsqueeze, I get the following error:
An error occurred while launching/running the application.
Title: Softsqueeze 2.2
Vendor: Richard Titmuss, et.al.
Category: Download Error
Found unsigned entry in resource:
have a sb1. It has been constantly resetting itself the last few weeks. Now it
just will not even power up. It is not the power lead - any suggestions
greatfully received before I spend too much time on the phone!!
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What does the System Event Log say?
Not much. Lots of...
Perl interpreter failed.
And one of...
DBD::SQLite::db prepare_cached failed: no such column:
contributors(1) at dbdimp.c line 268 at /PerlApp/Ima/DBI.pm
line 391.
But this was near the end of my trails and might have been related
The slimserver service did not get started. This problem has ocurred to
many.
See this thread:
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I used a P3/450mhz/768mb machine running Windows 2000 for a while and it
was *just* enough. I'm not sure if the load is any easier under Linux,
but I'd say that a 233 mhz machine is likely to be a bit small.
clumsyoik wrote:
nickrout Wrote:
It has a pentium 233 MHz processor. It will be
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dfk: Did you ever send the sample file to Dan?
Dan: what did the tags look like?
I'm fairly familiar with ID3 tags ... if I knew what I was looking for,
I might find a problem in the code, even with my imperfect perl
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advantages
I've often thought that the folks at Slim might benefit from making
such a device. What I picture is basically a small form-factor HTPC
case PC running a Linux distro with a Squeezebox built into it (VFD
on the
Michaelwagner Wrote:
dfk: Did you ever send the sample file to Dan?
Dan: what did the tags look like?
I'm fairly familiar with ID3 tags ... if I knew what I was looking for,
I might find a problem in the code, even with my imperfect perl
knowledge.
Hi
Dan Sully does not accept email on
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 08:54 -0800, Kevin O. Lepard wrote:
This would be a stand alone box that you could be that would connect
to a network and run SlimServer. If you put a CD in it would rip it
to the hard drive. Running SlimServer, it could support Squeezeboxes
as clients through the
Sounds like an oversight to me.
Send it to me, then. Michael at thewagners dot ca
In the mean time, Dan, if you're out there? Here's the snippet of code
responsible, I expect. It's in CPAN/MP3/Info.pm
} elsif ($id =~ /^TCON?$/) {
if ($data =~ /^ \(? (\d+) (?:\)|\000)? (.+)?/sx) {
David Alexander Wrote:
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dfk.1xockc (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote:
ceejay Wrote:
so you might try the workaround of tagging as zzdummy;60's and
enable
multiple genres with a ; separator.
ceejay
I tried your idea and it
60's isn't even correct English. It's a possessive where none is
required. 60s, '60s or Sixties would be correct English.
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dfk I've never tried it without the leading ' on SlimServer as I like
things to be correct.
Way back when I started tagging my music I used to use the 70's
convention, but later remembered that this is the wrong use of English
as it implies something belonging to something called 70, and not a
On Oct 30, 2005, at 9:04 AM, dfk wrote:
Dan Sully does not accept email on this forum. I sent him a PM to ask
for further advice about sending him a sample file, but to date I have
not had a reply.
I'm sure that this was not intentional. When I finally noticed that
I didn't have PM
dfk wrote:
Michaelwagner Wrote:
dfk: Did you ever send the sample file to Dan?
Dan: what did the tags look like?
I'm fairly familiar with ID3 tags ... if I knew what I was looking for,
I might find a problem in the code, even with my imperfect perl
knowledge.
Hi
Dan Sully does not
CavesOfTQLT Wrote:
dfk I've never tried it without the leading ' on SlimServer as I like
things to be correct.
Way back when I started tagging my music I used to use the 70's
convention, but later remembered that this is the wrong use of English
as it implies something belonging to
Pale Blue Ego Wrote:
60's isn't even correct English. It's a possessive where none is
required. 60s, '60s or Sixties would be correct English.
Hi
I did a quick search term for 70's music using Google, and it came back
with:
6,010,000 results. That an awful lot of bad English :-)
dfk
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dfk wrote:
Michaelwagner Wrote:
dfk: Did you ever send the sample file to Dan?
Dan: what did the tags look like?
I'm fairly familiar with ID3 tags ... if I knew what I was looking
for,
I might find a problem in the code, even with my imperfect perl
knowledge.
dfk wrote:
...
Hi
Dan Sully does not accept email on this forum. I sent him a PM to
ask
for further advice about sending him a sample file, but to date I
have
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On Oct 30, 2005, at 9:04 AM, dfk wrote:
Dan Sully does not accept email on this forum. I sent him a PM to
ask
for further advice about sending him a sample file, but to date I
have
not had a reply.
I'm sure that this was not intentional. When I finally noticed that
I
Just pure static - its sounds just like when you try to play a data disc
in your music CD player.
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Pale Blue Ego Wrote:
60's isn't even correct English. It's a possessive where none is
required. 60s, '60s or Sixties would be correct English.
I did a quick search term for 70's music using Google, and it came back
with: 6,010,000 results.
* flatop shaped the electrons to say...
Just pure static - its sounds just like when you try to play a data disc
in your music CD player.
In your convert.conf file - remove the $-x$ from the lines where 'sox' appears.
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dfk Wrote:
My point is that why should it matter to the program how a person
prefers to use English in tags? '70s 70s 70's should all be the same to
the software should it not? Correct.
Or can someone give me a good reason as to why it should not?The code clearly
has something else in
stinkingpig Wrote:
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Thanks for the apology. I found the tone of your email to be
I found this confusing section in the ID3V2.4.0 documents:
TCON
The 'Content type', which ID3v1 was stored as a one byte numeric
value only, is now a string. You may use one or several of the ID3v1
types as numerical strings, or, since the category list would be
impossible to maintain with
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Correct.
The code clearly has something else in mind. I'm not sure what, since
it isn't commented as to why it deviates from standards. In other
places in the code, it says this is to compensate for a bug in iTunes
(or something similar) but there's no indication why
To set an scheduled Power on/off of the Squeeze Box i have done this (
for windows XP ):
STEP 1. WAKE UP
1º.- Install the Plugin called Alarm A [
http://callisto.deane-freeman.com/slimserver/ ] . With this you can
wake up every weekday or weekend.
2º.- Install de Slim Server 6.2 and set up
Does anybody know how to set an WMA Internet RAdio Sation on the Slim
Server ?
I´m trying hard to set this Radio Station :
http://es.music.yahoo.com/launchcast/stations/default.asp
Which has many high quality radio stations without commercials.
Thank you (again) ¡¡¡
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On 30-Oct-05, at 9:39 AM, dfk wrote:
. I am also sure that Dan has not gone out of his
way not to answer my PM.
I am fairly certain that Dan does not use these forums through the web.
Private Messages ONLY appear
when you are logged into the forum web pages. Forum messages also go
out via
The trouble, I think, is that that is not quite a radio station (in a
slightly different sense than other Internet radio stations aren't.)
It is instead a specialized program that plays individual songs on
demand: just not necessarily your demand.
Anyway, as far as I know, there is no way to
* Michaelwagner shaped the electrons to say...
I found this confusing section in the ID3V2.4.0 documents:
Everything about the ID3 specs are confusing. :)
This seems closer to what our regexp programmer was trying to do, but
then he got it wrong. Or else old godfather got it wrong when it
I have noticed for 6.2 on my XP, using iTunes makes my slimserver VERY
spotty. I switched to not using iTunes and it works perfect. I don't
mind doing this except I like using iTunes playlist fnctionality (smart
playlists). Is there any way to not use iTunes excpet for the playlist
I have a similar issue with WPA/WPA2 AES support.
I'm using a D-Link DGL-4300 router, with firmware revision 1.4 (which
is the latest revision, and lists Wi-fi WPA2 Pre-certification as an
enhancement). The wireless setup on the router is:
Allow WPA/WPA2 only
AES only
Group key update interval
Dan Sully Wrote:
I've checked in a fix: http://svn.slimdevices.com/?rev=4947view=rev
-D
Dan
Thanks for the fix in 10-31-2005 nightly. I only wish I understood
Perl so I could follow what the problem was :-)
Thanks to everyone who replied in this thread.
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I found this confusing section in the ID3V2.4.0 documents:
Everything about the ID3 specs are confusing. :)
Very true. And there is no evidence that there is any official
ID3 spec, or process
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I just posted a v1.3 to here-
http://benklaas.com/slimserver/
Tom, I don't see any issue when testing the chrono_by_year sort. Not
sure what was going on there. Can you give it another try with this new
version and see if you are still seeing issues?
Anyway, I put in a few other changes to tidy
Whenever the next hardware revision to SB is designed, how about adding
a jack on the back for IR control, so I can get rid of those sticky IR
flashers that keep falling off?
That shouldn't be hard, and would make integrating into a system much
easier, cleaner, and more reliable!
I also love
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So my SB2 with 6.2 SlimServer has been going along fine with WEP set.
I decided to upgrade to WPA2. All seems fine as far as the network
itself is concerned. At least, my Mac sees both the main Airport
Extreme base station and the remote one (set up as WDS network).
The SB sees the WDS
Somehow I had missed this thread when posting about my problems.
I am using Mac OS Tiger with Airport Extreme base stations (two, set up
as a WDS network).
I just tried upgrading from WEP to WPA2, and my SB wouldn't connect to
the network.
Changing down slightly to WPA got a connection.
The
I considered doing something similar, but as you say, it's just a bit
too big to fit in a standard car audio spot.
You might ebay around for a sb1 (NOT sbg!): the display is a little less
wide with the IR sensor on a separate board. It might be the inch you need.
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If the PC has a PCMCIA or CF slot, you might move your boot partition to
a
CF card, and install Linux there. There's a dist that runs well on a CF
card:
Even better ;-): the SlimCD
(http://www.herger.net/slim/detail.php?nr=763). It's a byproduct of my
wish to have a linux box boot from a
CCMP is the integrity check portion of the AES cipher used in WPA2, much
like TKIP is the integrity check for RC4 in WPA.
The fact that the Airport Extreme is only allowing those three options
means it's adhering to the Wi-Fi standards. WPA/AES (or WPA with CCMP)
isn't really a standard, but
Ron Palmer Wrote:
As a side note, my router manual says WDS can't be used with WPA. It's
a D-Link, not an Apple, but it's something else to check into.
You should try a Linksys WRT54GS with Sevsoft firmware. It will allow
WDS with WPA. That's what I'm running in my house.
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Still having trouble. I'm using java 1.5.0_04, softsqueeze 2.2,
slimserver 6.5b1, using JLayer, and connecting over putty/ssh. No
network issues, and especially high bandwidth right now since it's
sunday afternoon and I have the whole corporate network to myself.
Here's output from the
turned on more debugging and tried again, got an additional potentially
interesting msg. (This problem is entirely repeatable when playing two
particular tracks - Richard, any interest in my sending you the two
mp3's?)
8764406 [AudioMixer-0] WARN javasound - Detected delay writing to
audio
Ron Palmer Wrote:
CCMP is the integrity check portion of the AES cipher used in WPA2, much
like TKIP is the integrity check for RC4 in WPA.
The fact that the Airport Extreme is only allowing those three options
means it's adhering to the Wi-Fi standards. WPA/AES (or WPA with CCMP)
isn't
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here's a little more context after it occurred again:
8987230 [AudioDecoder-51] DEBUG audiobuffer.verbose - free R=89216000
W=92509696 F=234304
8987270 [AudioDecoder-51] DEBUG audiobuffer.verbose - free R=89216000
W=92514304 F=229696
8987320 [AudioDecoder-51] DEBUG audiobuffer.verbose - free
Same problem here (but running SlimServer on Win2K).
Any playlists that were previously created in Slimserver do not appear.
Oddly, several that I had created in Windoze Media Player - .wpl files
- DO show up.
It's just the .m3u ones that are missing.
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My post seems to have got mixed up in the wrong thread (I posted by
email, not on the forum), as it has nothing to do with ID3 tags. I have
posted again, having found the right thread.
As noted (in my post on the other thread), as far as I can see WPA
works but WPA2 does not.
I had a bit of a
May not be exactly what you are looking for, but you can get something
like this effect by using multiple values in the genre tag (I sense a
certain amount of deja vue in this thread!!).
I've been using multiple genre values in this way: in addition to the
usual sorts of genre (rock, classical
SlimPvC wrote:
Well here's a SILLY question:
I'm a happy SB2 user. There's no need for me to upgrade to the SB3
(anyway, not until I decide to have another one in the bedroom, or
until my SB2 dies).
But I do keep up with the latest software.
I don't like the SB3 icon sitting in my system
flatop Wrote:
I modified my convert.conf file like you said, restarted the slimserver
daemon, but now I get nothing. The title scrolls across the display,
but all levels are zero.
I was having the same static trouble with ogg. It turns out that sox
12.17.7 ignores the -x flag. I manually
David Brittain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Olaf wrote:
(2)
None of the rtsp:// (BBC) stations will play from that list. Only mms:.
BBC
will however play from AlienBBC (I don't normally like using that). Go
figure :(
This is probably because that a number of the BBC streaming
ceejay Wrote:
May not be exactly what you are looking for, but you can get something
like this effect by using multiple values in the genre tag (I sense a
certain amount of deja vue in this thread!!).
I've been using multiple genre values in this way: in addition to the
usual sorts of
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