I have been creating some custom playlists. I created one with over 1250
entries. This crashed Slimserver 6.2.1 running on Linux. I edited the
playlist down to about 970 entries and this worked and did not crash
the server.
It might rather be the 971st entry than the raw number of entries. Did
JJZolx Wrote:
How well can this coexist with the existing SlimServer?
It is complete independent of slimserver, by design. They can coexist
in the sense that this won't overwrite or break any existing slimserver
installation. You certainly can't run them both at the same time.
You can install
clumsyoik Wrote:
Hi all,
I've been hacking on an new Java-based server implementation, and I'd
like to get two or three volunteers to try it out before releasing to a
wider audience. I have run it on Windows and Linux, but I specifically
want a Mac owner to try it out. Windows/Linux users
if you need someone with a large database (about 35.000 titles) all in
mp3, I could give it a test drive. Server is running with linux, hw is
p3 1GHz, 384 MB.
As the current slim server has a somehow grown functionality, it might
be a good idea...
1) to first specifing tag handling (it is hard
If somebody could compile it with one of the opensource java compilers,
it should be possible to run it without having java installed on one of
the linksys nslu-2 units and without having to use an external hd.
That would be so great :-)
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Sorry i have no ideas either, but am suffering the same problem.
I am using SlimServer Version: 6.2.1 - 5194 - Windows XP - EN, if
anyone has any solutions to this problem it would be greatly
appreciated.
I have found that if i just scan the music folder i get lots of
duplicate songs in most of
You may be right regarding case sensitivity. When I displayed the
albums in Slimserver, the double entries looked identical (but the
fonts are fairly small so possibly I just could not readily see the
differences) but still showed up as 2 different CDs. When I displayed
them in Rio they also
docbee Wrote:
if you need someone with a large database (about 35.000 titles) all in
mp3, I could give it a test drive. Server is running with linux, hw is
p3 1GHz, 384 MB.
Brilliant. ID3 tag support is my next job. If you send me an email, I
can let you know when it's ready.
By the way,
Hello All
I wonder if anyone can help me.
I am running the latest softsqueeze on a 2.6 gig sp2 windows xp pro
system.
It installs fine but the graphics display is double (ie it displays
now playing
now playing
not sure where to go from here
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Johnathan
my archive just uses v2 as v1 is far too limited. drop v1, as you can
automatically convert v1 to v2, no one out there should have a severe
problem with that.
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ArrrgThis is very frustrating as it makes no sense! Just for
kicks I pointed SS to a share that contains only one of the directories
I am having issues with and turned debugging on for artwork. As I
expected the artworks still does not show and here is the log generated
and seems like SS
Er, no. I am just confused. Less so now, thanks.
Thanks,
Russell.
Richie wrote:
On 17/12/05, Russell Mulcahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may (not) be relevant - my firmware version is reported as 40 for the
same 5.2.1 build! Am I *that* far ahead ;-)
No you're not
...
I'm not sure what the harshness towards 'average users' is all about.
While Slimserver and Squeezebox are wonderful and have a fantastic
number of options, it does sometimes seem that ease of use and
simplicity take a back seat. Again, only going by my experience, but
I've had the SB2 for
Well based on my experience with the
SMC2804WBRP-G, I would suspect the router.
There was nothing I could do to get an SB2 to
connect. MAC filtering disabled, encryption
disabled, SSID broadcast enabled, nothing. I
could see the SSID when I enabled broadcast but it
still couldn't connect.
The last several mornings I have woken up to an unresponsive SlimServer.
It is set to perform a rescan every day at 5 am. When I go to my PC, I
see it has my CPU spiked at 100% usage. I changed nothing immediately
before this started. Last night I tried the latest 6.2.2 nightly to see
if it would
1) I have an X6 as a fileserver and looked into the feasibility to put
Slimserver on this server as well for a while. I finally decided NOT to do
it so I can not talk about issues and recurring problems.
2) Its my understanding that you have to copy your music to a predefined
folder on the X6
clumsyoik Wrote:
Brilliant. ID3 tag support is my next job. If you send me an email, I
can let you know when it's ready.
Do you plan to support Apple Lossless via Quicktime or just formats
that need no 3rd party decoders and are SB native?
Also, is this going to be an open source
I'm not sure what the harshness towards 'average users' is all about.
No, average users are fine :) It's just that generalisations like
the average user this, the average user that serve no purpose when
arguing a point. There is no such person as the average user, even if
there were we couldn't
Right, i have an SB3 on order, should be with me tuesday. I have bought
and installed a PCI WiFi card ready for it. I plan to run them 'ad-hok'
for now as the SB3 will be my first and only wireless device. However,
i plan to get a PDA and PSP with wireless in the coming few weeks. What
will i
Thanks for the replys... But I'm still having issues with my squeezbox.
Today for example there was a dealy of somthing like 10 seconds between
pressing the volume up in the remote and actually doing so on the
machine. And even worse once again I was unable to shut-off the machine
I add to unplug
Last night I played multi-channel AC3 files via my squeezebox digital
out to my Anthem D1 and now this morning when I select a directory with
the AC3 files SS shows the directory as empty. Am I losing my mind or
does SS have a mind of its own. Between this and artwork not working
properly I am
People,
thank you very much for your help.
At last it was only my awful crimping.
I did it now in that way:
1) Green/White
2) Green
3) Orange/White
4) Blue
5) Blue/White
6) Orange
7) Brown/White
8) Brown
and everything was alright ...
A few Euro for the crimping tool and the connectors, that's
Actually, there isn't bonjour support in SlimServer for Windows
servers. It would be possible to add, but this is the first request
I remember hearing for it. Feel free to create an enhancement
request on http://bugs.slimdevices.com/ and let's see how much demand
there is for it.
-dean
On Dec 17, 2005, at 7:56 PM, Govnah wrote:
Upgraded to 6.5b1 and now Slim Devices Picks does not show up under
Internet Radio under the browser even though I have that checked and
it shows up on the SB3Any ideas or should I go back to the release
version?
Slim Devices Picks has been changed
I'm getting the problem only worse to the point that after many many
re-install attempts changing the size of the music library - the system
stalls after a short period during the scanning libary mode. All that
can be done is a hard reboot. I wish I new what was going on.
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toadie
I've noticed most of the discussion re: network problems is with
wireless connections, but I have a wired SB3 that displays many of the
same characteristics - sometimes...
If I use a pre-made (molded ends) ethernet cable to connect to my
router, the SB3 seems to work great. Menu selection is
I've noticed most of the discussion re: network problems is with
wireless connections, but I have a wired SB3 that displays many of the
same characteristics - sometimes...
If I use a pre-made (molded ends) ethernet cable to connect to my
router, the SB3 seems to work great. Menu selection
A number of my albums show double tracks in the player.
http://timothydehan.com/images/double.JPG.
When looking at the actual folder there are no double tracks. These
only show up like this in the Player view. No other views within
SlimServer show double tracks like this.
What is causing
I wonder: is there an easy way to skip a whole album using the remote
(or the web interface)?
I usually use random mix mode (albums) and sometimes an album comes up
which I want to skip. At the moment, I have either to skip tracks until
the album is over or with the web interface, search the 1st
I've been following this thread and finding that it makes me
uncomfortable.
I've got a large collection of classical music and need to get a good
solution that handles the various problems of finding and playing
classical music and that solution needs to scales to more than 1500
CDs. I've been
On 18/12/05 at 02:05 -0800, CardinalFang wrote
I do have a Mac, but I use Apple lossless, not FLAC - EAC doesn't run
on Mac. I could coopy some FLAC file over I guess and see what happens.
Would that be of any use to you?
AIUI, the point about EAC is in its name. Ripping to FLAC just
happens
hi
well i dont found a feedback forum, so i wanna say here that i love
this box ! great work ! here are always postings about problems , but
not mutch feedback about how the guys like this box... all works
perfectly, i am from germany.. no problems with deliver.. 1 week and
ups gave me the
I've been having the same problems. I've noticed the SqueezeNetwork
website acting flaky too...sometimes my SBs appear in the drop-down
list, sometimes all 3 are missing.
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Have to agree about the remote -- the tiny volume buttons should be 2x
larger and away from the big red power button.
the number buttons take up 30% of the remote. Not sure why when the
arrow buttons are easier to use on the fly.
the arrow buttons are nice but the up arrow is way too close
With further research, I found that when I tried to play my long
playlist from the SB3 interface that it plays but complains about the
file and lists it is playing 1 of 932 entries. So for the moment, I
need to keep the list to less than 932 entries. Seems like an odd
limitation.
What I'm trying
Could be... you might be the first person to excercise the features as
you have. I suggest filing your bugs at bugs.slimdevices.com and I'm
sure theywill be addressed soon.
I'm a little surprised you say I am the first person saving playlists
using the web interface. I would have thought that
On 18-Dec-05, at 11:23 AM, ctbarker32 wrote:
So for the moment, I
need to keep the list to less than 932 entries. Seems like an odd
limitation.
more research is in order. there is no such limitation. I have played
a playlist up to 12000 songs. Slimserver and SB3 should happily do so,
only
A number of my albums show double tracks in the player.
http://timothydehan.com/images/double.JPG.
When looking at the actual folder there are no double tracks. These
only show up like this in the Player view. No other views within
SlimServer show double tracks like this.
What is
On 12/18/05, Listener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Slimdevices needs to give clear specs and clear documentation aboutrunningSlimserver on a NAS box to avoid confusion and customerdisappointment.I've never seen SlimDevices actually recommend using a NAS -- let alone specific hardware. There are plenty
To tell you the truth, I don't really need it. I was just experimenting
with SlimServer and was wondering why I couldn't see SlimServer in the
browser.
I entered bug #2724 to request that the settings page is clarified on
Windows. At the moment it is clearly implying that Rendezvous -is-
Hi,
Just wanted to comment on your post about using a $1000 NAS box as a
dedicated Slimserver. In my experience, you don't need to spend
anywhere near that amount. I'm a brand new SB3 owner and I just built a
brand new Slimserver linux box for well under $300.
I bought from Newegg a shoebox
I'm not an expert on ad-hoc mode, but I think
there is a reason why it's not very common.
I'd be concerned about speed, stability, DHCP and
IP address sorting, load on the central machine
and security (namely, no MAC address filtering, no
SPI firewall).
Wireless routers have gotten fairly
On 12/18/05, ctbarker32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could be... you might be the first person to excercise the features asyou have. I suggest filing your bugs at
bugs.slimdevices.com and I'msure theywill be addressed soon.I'm a little surprised you say I am the first person saving playlistsusing the
On 12/18/05, ctbarker32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,Just wanted to comment on your post about using a $1000 NAS box as adedicated Slimserver. In my experience, you don't need to spend
anywhere near that amount. I'm a brand new SB3 owner and I just built abrand new Slimserver linux box for well
Listener Wrote:
However, I am a retired software engineer and found the enhancement
request to be wrong-headed. It does not work well for a novice to ask
for a specific enhancement without detailing his problem with the
current system. When that request is not based on a clear
I already tried both of your suggestions prior to creating the post.
Same thing.
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Do you have any playlist files in your music directory?
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Gary
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality
of life, please press three.
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Yes. There are 3 playlists
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tonymuffin
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Put them in a different directory, tell SlimServer where it is and
rescan.
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gjrhine
Gary
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality
of life, please press three.
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I can sure do that. However, none of the duplicate tracks are included
in any of my playlists.
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I must be doing something stupid here, I dropped the scanner plugin into
the plugins folder and restarted the server. I did not see any
indication the plugin was installed in the plugins menu in server
options. Does it have to be in its own folder? What am I missing.
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On 12/18/05, samlw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A WAY TO HAVE A SINGLE CENTRALIZED LIBRARY OF MY DIGITAL MUSIC IN ASINGLE HIGH-QUALITY COMPRESSED (BOTH ON DISK AND OVER-THE-WIRE) FORMAT(PREFERABLY LOSSSLESS, DEFINITELY NOT MP3), THAT LIVES ON A LOW-POWER
LINUX BOX, AND THAT CAN BE ACCESSED AND PLAYED
It is in the Picks.
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CardinalFang Wrote:
Do you plan to support Apple Lossless via Quicktime or just formats that
need no 3rd party decoders and are SB native?
I have already implemented transcoding for Ogg Vorbis, so other codecs
are certainly possible. I guess if it can be done in Perl then it can
be done in
clumsyoik wrote:
It will be GPL. Source will be available shortly. Am
currently looking
for somewhere to put it...
How about SourceForge.net?
See
http://sourceforge.net/docs/about
SourceForge.net provides free hosting to Open
Source software development projects.
They have the
eulbeulb Wrote:
If somebody could compile it with one of the opensource java compilers,
it should be possible to run it without having java installed on one of
the linksys nslu-2 units and without having to use an external hd.
That would be so great :-)
For some reason (I haven't
dryden555 Wrote:
The design of the remote could use a re-think.
Sure could; think about it from the point of view of someone with
limited vision or someone (any of us) trying to use it in the dark.
Even when you remember where each button is (no backlighting, no logic
to the button
clumsyoik Wrote:
Brilliant. ID3 tag support is my next job. If you send me an email, I
can let you know when it's ready.
By the way, unless someone can convince me otherwise, I intend to
support ID3V2 only. ID3V1 needs to die and I don't want to prolong its
suffering.
Your project
MeSue Wrote:
The last several mornings I have woken up to an unresponsive SlimServer.
It is set to perform a rescan every day at 5 am. When I go to my PC, I
see it has my CPU spiked at 100% usage. I changed nothing immediately
before this started. Last night I tried the latest 6.2.2 nightly
Keeping this on top
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Mitch Harding Wrote:
On 12/18/05, samlw samlw.2094dn (AT) no-mx (DOT)
forums.slimdevices.com wrote:
A WAY TO HAVE A SINGLE CENTRALIZED LIBRARY OF MY DIGITAL MUSIC IN A
SINGLE HIGH-QUALITY COMPRESSED (BOTH ON DISK AND OVER-THE-WIRE)
FORMAT
(PREFERABLY LOSSSLESS, DEFINITELY NOT MP3),
RobP Wrote:
So, it looks like the cable itself isn't bad, but I can't figure out why
the SB3 will work with the pre-made cable and not the in-wall cable.
Rob
A cable and/or jacks that are not in spec will create exactly these
types of problems. What is likely happening is that your other
I noticed that AOL Radio via the Winamp directory is streaming some XM
radio stations using the uvox protocol (whatever that is). Is there any
way to get Slimserver to support it so i can stream the stations though
my squeezebox?
I have just got my SB3 up working (wireless), communications
seem great, but I can only play some of my wav files, all created
using EAC, though differing in method as I refined my EAC method.
Lateley, I have first gotten the freeDB information, next created
a cuesheet, then ripped selected
Problems: I have a first generation SlimPC which I have been using for
years. Now just added several dozen new mp3 files to my library .
Library holds 3000 + songs.
Upgraded to latest 6.2 Software.
Rescanned libary.
Newly added tracks show up but will not play if entire library is
scanned.
It
Im going to run my SB3 with just a WiFi card in my PC in ad-hoc mode, as
i dont have any other wifi kit.
What are people experiences with this, good, bad? Anything i should
know? Any tips?
Thanks again :)
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dangerous_dom
I'm having similar issues. I went ahead and downloaded cover art
overnight Friday. About 75% of my discs were matched and I have
'cover.jpg' files in the album directories.
The first automatic rescan was basically hanging--taking 99% CPU while
not doing anything for over 12 hours. I restarted
I have come to the conclusion quite a bit is not up to par w/ SS. Seems
that SS has a mind of its own. Hopefully the release will address this
and other issues.
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dangerous_dom Wrote:
What are people experiences with this, good, bad? Anything i should
know? Any tips?
I think one of the gotcha's is that adhoc networks are generally
limited to 11mbps (even 11g ones).
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jhwilliams
Are you using AlienBBC? I see the same if one of the SBs is streaming -
100% cpu and database scan never finishes. (running Linux and 6.22 by
the way).
Andy.
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Hi all...
Is there any way I can play songs that are not in my SlimServer library
(and keep them out of it after playing them)?
My library consists of FLAC files only, all ripped from my CD
collection. On occassion however, I'll get a stray MP3 or other sound
file that I might want to play
I also never use playlists, but I hear enough talk about it to assume
that plenty of people do :) I'd certainly suggest filing a bug, I'd
also suggest calling/emailing support - as they're actually pretty
helpful.
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radish
alex_london Wrote:
Is there any way I can play songs that are not in my SlimServer library
(and keep them out of it after playing them)?
Nope. Drives me crazy, too. :)
I believe this capability is being worked on for SlimServer 6.5, which
will be the next major release of SlimServer. Still
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
Well based on my experience with the
SMC2804WBRP-G, I would suspect the router.
There was nothing I could do to get an SB2 to
connect. MAC filtering disabled, encryption
disabled, SSID broadcast enabled, nothing. I
could see the SSID when I enabled broadcast but
CardinalFang Wrote:
Is it still doing the re-scan when you look at the web interface?
Are
you suing iTunes for ripping?
I can't access the web interface because it is unresponsive. And, no, I
am not using iTunes for anything. Don't even have it installed.
AndyWright Wrote:
Are you using
How do I remove the 'Musical note' from the display? I KNOW the music is
playing, I can hear it! I would like to use that space for more song info.
Also is it possible to create another 'format' for the info that is shown
whilst playing?
I am looking for something like a 1 or 2 pixel high,
On 18/12/05 at 11:46 -0800, samlw wrote
It could also be solved by SlimDevices if they would
license Apple Lossless and include it in their firmware.
As has been said before (many times now), at present Apple will not
licence Apple Lossless (ALAC).
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Daniel Cohen
I have been poking around the forums and faq for a while but have not
found answers to this question.
I have used an audiotron for years. So, I am used to having my music
stored on a server and a music system that runs regardless of what is
happening with the pc.
I have not found a set of
Sorry to resurrect an ancient thread, but I have just started having the
same problem.
I've used my SBv1 (with the graphic upgrade) for more than 18 months
without any problems, on a b-only WEP network with static IP and strong
signal strength.
After a house move and some equipment changes, the
On 12/18/05, 930 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been poking around the forums and faq for a while but have notfound answers to this question.I have used an audiotron for years.So, I am used to having my musicstored on a server and a music system that runs regardless of what is
happening with the
930 wrote:
(I did find various discussions of what I would really
like to have running, music store and slimserver all standing alone on
the NAS, but the technical requirements seem beyond my capabilities.
Hopefully, this is something that gets simpler in time).
Hi,
In case you just need some
On 18/12/05 at 19:22 -0800, alex_london wrote
Hi all...
Is there any way I can play songs that are not in my SlimServer library
(and keep them out of it after playing them)?
My library consists of FLAC files only, all ripped from my CD
collection. On occassion however, I'll get a stray MP3 or
Problems: I have a first generation SlimPC which I have been using for
You mean SliMP3?
years. Now just added several dozen new mp3 files to my library .
Library holds 3000 + songs.
Upgraded to latest 6.2 Software.
Rescanned libary.
Newly added tracks show up but will not play if entire
How do I remove the 'Musical note' from the display? I KNOW the music
is playing, I can hear it! I would like to use that space for more song
info.
You might try my MusicInfoSCR:
http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/detail.php?nr=446
Also is it possible to create another 'format' for the
My SB3 arrived a few days ago; took almost five minutes to get it up and
running :)
We've had a LinkSys WMA11B Wireless Media Adapter in the living room
for about a year, with a small (ancient) computer monitor connected to
it. My wife groks the WMA UI, and has gotten used to it. I was
worried
Bought a WPN824 today. Had no trouble connecting the SB3 using wired but
have had no success setting up the wireless. My laptop works fine using
Auto 108 and other settings... I have tried g only and g and b
along with WPA, WPA2 and no security options.
I have also tried checking and unchecking
Damn.
Now she wants the same capability in the kitchen. I knew I shoulda
taken advantage of the $100-off-two deal. She hasn't yet seen the
credit card bill for the first one - that would've been a big brouhaha
if she didn't like the system so much.
Don't suppose you guys can offer a discount
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