On 27-Dec-05, at 10:24 PM, pbjbryan wrote:
How does one edit thir MAC address to match the sticker as suggested
above?
press and hold the power button, or unplug and replug the squeezebox.
on startup, you'll be shown the setup menu.
scroll down to view current settings
in the menu, you'll
Interesting.
How do I keep this from happening again?
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Well, hope everyone had a great Christmas...now back to work!
Paul did the Qnap's come in as we hoped, or are the delays continuing
for a litle while longer?
Regards
Paul
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On 28-Dec-05, at 12:41 AM, pbjbryan wrote:
Interesting.
How do I keep this from happening again?
FW28 from 6.2.1 is supposed to contain at least a couple attempts to
prevent this. If the problem persists, there will be more attempts.
all indications are that it is a hard issue to reproduce
JJZolx Wrote:
Wireless works absolutely perfectly for me with both of my SB2s and also
worked with my SB1. Recently while setting up the newer SB2, I had an
error in the WPA key. That's where the confusion was. The lack of an
error message had me fiddling with the DHCP server and looking
I'm running the PSP on v2.6.
I think the original problem is simply down to me copying the URL from
my laptop which had (and was presumably ignoring) the erroneous 0.
I agree that it's a shame the PDP slows the network, however I take the
view that I'm generally not using other wireless
mikelis Wrote:
I created the following .pls playlist and put it in my playlist
directory. when i click in the playlist name (via browse playlist), two
entries show up, one with the name of listen and the other with the
url. i have titles defined for each entry but neither are displayed.
Michaelwagner Wrote:
This is not one of the specifically supported hardware devices for the
Slimserver. However, *if* (and I couldn't figure it out from the docs)
it can browse over to a stream id like
http://myslimserver:portnumber/stream.mp3
then it might work. A number of software
I have a bit of music now, back up to 4Gb (did have 112Gb but HDD died)
what i would like to know is is there a way or program that will scan
my music libary and produce a word/csv/excel document of what music
artist songtitle etc i have?
cheer's
the easier the better
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I've got a couple of WMA11Bs, and they've worked quite well. Only real
problem is the UI - it's painful scrolling through a large music
collection, and there's no search capability. One of them has now been
replaced by an SB3. I don't know if it's possible to stream to one from
SlimServer -
Stoo
Have you tried firware upgrades... chk OpenWRT or HyperWRT (for
Linksys) to boost your signal. All of a sudden I started to experience
dropouts several times a day and after reviewing the performance
metrics... used HyperWRT and it seemed to resolve my problme... check
out OpenWRT for
Cleve Wrote:
Sean, I'm sorry, I don't know. I had been listening to an internet
radio station. Not sure whether they were 44.1 or 48 khz tracks.
I experienced the same problem yesterday. The device was connected to a
fairly basic HiFi system using the RCA output and suddenly the audio
This has also happened to me once, whilst listening to web radio, via
Alien BBC.
Pulsating noise which was way, way louder than the actual output from
the BBC source. lasted about 3-4 secs then went back to normal.
SB2 connected to Denon micro system via analogue RCA connectors, with
the SB2
Jungle Wrote:
the software for the device is so badly written that I wasn't even able
to get the device up and running properly - the XP driver didn't load
properly. A quick scoot round the net shows that this is a fairly
common problem
I think Linksys is pretty good at their core
If they died after 3 months, you should send them back and see if the
slim guys can perform an autopsy.
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Is there anyway to boost the antenna strength or connect an externalantenna to the SB3?
Try Belkin Pre-N router. They are now quite reasonably priced. Very significantly impoved range and signal quality for me. This is comparing to Motorola G router.
No hacking required :)
Hope it helps.
I have 4 albums* that show up at the top of the list in 'Browse Albums'
view. Looking at the data tables indicates these 4 albums have no data
in the TITLESEARCH and TITLESORT fields. Also, 3 of the 4 albums are
single artist albums but are incorrectly flagged as compilations. I
have re-tagged
I have had exactly the same problem, and tried your advice of maunually
putting in new Mac @ and I am now up and working properly.
My concern here though, is why this happened in the first place. I saw
some other threads with the same problem as I initially had, ie, SB3
screen filled up with
I am running SlimServer 6.2 on XP. I have all my music organized into a
folder hierarchy, both flac and Mp3 files. I went to SlimServer and
told it to scan my music folder to find new music. It stopped
SlimServer and never restarted it again. I manually restarted it and
it appears to have not
well, advancedmp3players.co.uk, who are at least responding to e-mails,
think they will have stock in on Friday the 6th
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We don't know how to trigger this crash - if you manage to reproduce it,
please do file a bug and it will be fixed very quickly.
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This is definitely a bug. You shouldn't have to do a rescan. There
are a number of itunes and scan related bugs fixed in the nightly
releases, so if it happens again, please give them a try.
-dean
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On 28-Dec-05, at 8:47 AM, veloearl wrote:
I am running SlimServer 6.2 on XP. I have all my music organized into
a
folder hierarchy, both flac and Mp3 files. I went to SlimServer and
told it to scan my music folder to find new music. It stopped
SlimServer and never restarted it again. I
Hi,
I use a SB1 and Slimserver 6.2.1 which I just installed after using
6.2.0 for some time. The problem I have (and already had with 6.2.0) is
that I can not produce playlists. I usually use Browse by Folder to
identify songs to be added, as many songs are not tagged. Most are
FLAC. Sometimes
I've just bought a D-Link DWL-G710 but cant get my SB3 to work with it.
If I select to use DHCP it gets given an IP address outside of my
network range (192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.255)and doesn;t connect. If I
select static IP it connects to the WAN but cannot find the SlimServer.
Any help
Do you have any security set on either device? Are you using MAC address
filtering? Have you changed the default SSID?
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Hacked Router :(
No Dropouts :)
... the devil made me do it :)
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Hello all,
I just got a squeezebox and have been playing with it nonstop. I am
trying to also stream my music collection from Slimserver through
WinAmp at work. I noticed that if I try to stream my OGGs, WinAmp never
gets the stream, and the Slimserver stops playing after 8-10 seconds. I
thought
Ben:
I have been using the SlimServer 6.2 version of new skin for a few days
now. It is great! Thanks for sharing.
I have a couple of suggestions.
First, have you considered to eliminate the Search Music icon from
the Browse Music box on bottom half of the homepage? I think this is a
I have had an Squeezebox for some time now with my iTunes library on an
an external hard drive. (in iTunes on my computer, the location of the
iTunes music folder is PSP-7000:iTunes:).
Yesterday I downloaded the newest version of the Slimserver software
and that says there is nothing in my
Fifer Wrote:
I think I remember reading somewhere that the Roku only 'works' with an
older release of Slimserver.
As I recall, the Roku isn't supported by Slim. To the extent that it
works at all, I think it worked on 5.4 version of Slimserver. At least,
that is what they show on the Roku
Ben,
Great job w/ this skin for the 770. I've just started exploring the
features available. I did notice that the refresh interval settings for
the browser aren't working for me with this skin. Default and fishbone
work. I have to do a manual refresh to update the 'now playing' window.
Is this
kdf Wrote:
if the server is stopping in mid-scan, it will find no more music from
the point of the crash.
When the server is stopped, you should see a reason for it in the
Windows Event Viewer.
Please report that message as it may point to the problematic file.
-kdf
The event log
I'm sure some of that MS junk can make use of comma separated files.
Use sqlite to dump your database into such a format and import it.
Or use MP3::Info and write something in perl to read the actual files.
-- Mike
g7pkf wrote:
I have a bit of music now, back up to 4Gb (did have 112Gb but
i found that if i put a triling slash after the port number, the name
gets taken from what ever comes after the slash. if there is nothing,
then the name is displayed as the url. this seems wrong as the url
standard requires a slash after a url:port name if i'm not mistaken.
anyway, it works now.
OK, here's a strange one... my playlists have appeared. What did I do?
I shut off the slimserver service in Windows and I ran slim.exe from the
command line. When I did, I could see a lot of hard drive activity for
15+ minutes so I figure it was scanning my library. When it was done,
my
Ben:
Another suggestion to add to my post 2 above, is to remove the back key
on the top of the menu bar. This is duplicated by the HARD KEY
backspace on the 770 just below the arrow keys. By elminating this
soft backspace key and the search key as mentioned above, you will have
a symmetrical
Hello,
I am running the windows version of slimserver,
I also have a domain that is running off a local system
is there any way to have slimserver use the url of (for example)
http://www.mydomain.com:9000 instead of
http://MY_WAN_IP:9000/ ?
Clicking a link to http://www.mydomain.com:9000 does
cheers, that does the trick.
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Check out this bug:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2759
and vote for it so it'll get fixed sooner.
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mikeb Wrote:
A heart-beat sent to the server by each client
with a frame number and ntp time synched time stamp would allow the
server to send a signal to the client to advance the track 3 frames to
catch up with the other clients.
Personally, that's not a route I would prefer.
Assuming
make my Squeezebox compatible with Rhapsody so I don't have to shell out
for a Sonos! (Is this happening anytime soon?).
Corey
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Thanks for all of the suggestions, all!
atlslim-- on the refresh thing...I commented out the javascript that
does the auto-refresh during my devlopment, and selectively neglected
to put it back in. Eventually, I'll put it back in there, although my
ideal fix is that instead of a full page
Jack Coates wrote:
Anyway, as others have noted, multicast doesn't like wireless.
There may be issues with layer 2 ethernet multicast over certain
vendors' APs, but the standard layer 3 routed multicast packets (that
I at least was speaking of?) will work fine regardless of the layer 2
other than it looking nicer, is there a reason why you care?
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fwiw, my to-do whiteboard for this effort--
http://mcstayinskool.tadalist.com/lists/public/170297
cheers
#!/ben
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Hi all,
I've got a brand new Squeezebox 2 connected via wireless Airport to an
Airport Extreme base station in the next room. Signal strength is at
80%+.
Several times now, the Squeezebox has frozen up hard such that only
pulling the power plug will bring it back. It is totally unresponsive
to
Jack Coates wrote:
Anyway, as others have noted, multicast doesn't like wireless.
There may be issues with layer 2 ethernet multicast over certain
vendors' APs, but the standard layer 3 routed multicast packets (that
I at least was speaking of?) will work fine regardless of the layer 2
logicology Wrote:
Hello all,
So in short: MP3s stream over the internet fine / OGGs do not stream
over the internet at all.
Is this a bug, limitation, or an incorrect setting somewhere?
It's a limitation of your upstream bandwidth, and the fact that OGG is
decoded on the server and
Open a browser to your slimserver, select your player
Hmmm, just noticed that you're using WinAmp at work. I don't know if
that will show up as a player in the slimserver web interface. You
might want to give SoftSqueeze a shot. (Less clunky, imho, than trying
to use the webinterface to
What do you think I did - kept them and just bought new ones...?? ;-]
I sent them back to the vendor I purchased from in the UK, who I assume
sent them back to the UK distributor and back to Slim Devices
themselves, eventually.
If only I'd had the sense to take a note of the serial #'s before
Ben:
Glad to see that I was able to contribute w/ some creative input (as I
could never create the skin myself -- I am not that technical.)
I agree w/ you about GENRE. I integrate that feature through playlist.
STASTICS isn't that critical either (as long as it is somewhere in
there).
It
Couple of things -
I would sorely miss genre (especially around Christmas time :)
As for the volume thing, I don't think you _can_ control it remotely on
streaming devices (like the 770). If anybody ever does a SoftSqueeze
for the 770, I'd expect the volume panel to show up again.
- Dennis
This happened to me on my SB2 connected to my SlimServer Locally. My
collection is all MP3's and on a wired LAN. I couldn't say what song it
was unfortunately as I too, lept from my chair and dove for the power.
Radar442 wrote:
Cleve Wrote:
Sean, I'm sorry, I don't know. I
i'm on the same boat, tried a million executable + config combinations,
and phone support essentially hung up on me. i have yet to get shn
support to work at all. i vote for removing the wiki and conf entries
until there is at least basic support for shorten -- Shorten support
is available for
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19403
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Were you using () and/or () keys in one of the skins (e.g. Fishbone)
when it happened? I found a way to failthfully make this happen using
those buttons during playback. As a workaround, the Fishbone skin's
author changed the commands send by those buttons recently. See my bug
for more info:
Is it even possible to play XM through the squeezebox2? If anyone
knows, please post. I tried searching the forums for XM and it said
the search string was too small. Then when searching for XM radio the
results were too vast...
The ability to pull XM in through the SB would be a huge bonus.
I get a similar problem sometimes while playing internet radio.
Granted, the server is usually very bogged down with extra work and
doesn't have much RAM, but it's not the server that freezes AFAIK.
Rather than pulling the power, you can hold the power button down on
the remote for a few seconds
Excellent! Thanks for your help. Winamp -does- show up as a player on
the slimserver. I'll experiment with what you said, and I'll also try
Softsqueeze.
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tass Wrote:
I get a similar problem sometimes while playing internet radio.
Granted, the server is usually very bogged down with extra work and
doesn't have much RAM, but it's not the server that freezes AFAIK.
Rather than pulling the power, you can hold the power button down on
the
Play dumb. When you buy a CD you can't rip to your iPod or
Slimserver, call or email the record company. Tell them you need to
get the music onto your iPod and so what should you do? Take the CD
back or download the tracks off the net? After all, there really isn't
any other choice - make
I had tried a range extender from Airlink with similar problems - and
finally gave up. Have you verified that other devices can get IP
addresses from the range extender? Have you verified that your router
now sees those devices?
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shvejk Wrote:
Is there anyway to boost the antenna strength or connect an external
antenna to the SB3?
Try Belkin Pre-N router. They are now quite reasonably priced. Very
significantly impoved range and signal quality for me. This is
comparing to
Motorola G router.
No hacking required
LavaJoe Wrote:
In my hang, holding power had no effect. The SB3 was frozen solid, and
only pulling the power plug revived it.
Same with me. As I said, the SB is completely unresponsive to the
remote when the freeze occurs. And nobody was accessing it at the time
it froze, either via remote or
me too..using AlienBBC. the white noise repeated every 3mins or so.
I set a debug going which captured nothing of note as far as I can
tell.
If this happens again, any suggestions as to which debug settings I
should log?
JP
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