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Title: Drum Rock
Album Artist: Bill Laswell
Artist: The Upsetters
Album: Trojan Dub Massive Chapter Two
So ALBUMARTIST isn't being directly treated as an additional artist.
Now I'm a bit lost. We may need someone who knows the
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you haven't changed anything else on your network or PC), try rebooting
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I'd like to add 'Random Mix' to the home page, and I need an icon,
similar to the others found on the top level page. Anyone with artistic
ability beyond my 2nd-grade level want to give it a shot? Some kind of
image that's fitting for 'random'. My only idea was a deck of cards
bklaas Wrote:
one question to throw back at y'all--
Should I layout the html to use the extra screen space for when the
toolbar is hidden? Obviously, you can always scroll, but my intention
was to make many of the heavily used pages (home, now playing) not
require any scrolling.
My vote
Did you fit this card yourself or was it part of the PC build?
For WOL to work in PCI2.2 machines, the Network card needs to be in
slot 2 iirc.
For older machines a WOL cable is required to connect the card to some
header pins on the motherboard.
The manuals you got with your system or
one question to throw back at y'all--
macdaddy earlier in this thread suggested I modify the skin to make use
of some more horizontal pixels that can be gained in full-screen mode if
you select from the browser view-toolbar-(uncheck) fullscreen.
I'm kind of conflicted about this...I too
Tourne,
Assuming your network is OK and that you are streaming over a wired
connection to the slimp3 [no wireless bridges?], it sounds like lack of
response from the server.
What does the Server Response Time graph in the Server and Network
Health web page of the Help section show. [as you
Yeah, I've noticed this too.. It's not new, and seems to be a
server bug with setting the song position via the CLI 'time'
command. Reproducable via telnetting..
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Personally i wouldn't hold my breath for native WMA Lossless. the SB3
already has native lossless support (through FLAC) and there is
additional licensing costs for WMA Lossless. The only time i can see
this happening is if download services start selling lossless tracks
with DRM, which isn't
Now I'm a bit lost. We may need someone who knows the slimserver code
to shed some light on this.
It's not just me then!
True, BAND does not describe the role properly.
I don't like the way it is displayed on the Squeezebox as BAND/Orchestra:
..., which is also incorrect if the album artist is
Thanks for the answers so far.
I have not tried to install lame on the server yet. However, playing
mp3 encoded files works fine !
Yet it can hardly be the bandwith, as i.e. winamp will play the wav
files with no problem (from the server file share)
The JVM is a 1.5.0_04, client OS Win2k
Yes I
Hello Dan,
I haven't used the search function yet - I have however tried browse
music - music folders - and playlists that point to songs with
unicode titles.
I have rescanned the library many times.
I have also noticed this problem with real streaming stations, like
Anyone thinking of buying from CompUSA may be interested in 'this'
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oreillymj Wrote:
Did you fit this card yourself or was it part of the PC build?
Came on the machine -- a Dell desktop purchased May 2002. I'm at the
beach right now, so I'll have to check the manual when I get home.
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IMHO, the not-ready-for-the-masses part is wireless technology in
general. There are no standards, those that exist are routinely
violated by every manufacturer for a temporary microscopic marketing
advantage, and the guy down the street who got a new wireless rig, or
microwave, or cordless
Thanks for the suggestion Triode, I hadn't even spotted that that option
existed.
I let it play for an hour or two and the graph showed 85% of the
responses at 0.002 seconds, but there were 10 responses in the 5
seconds range. Immediately after one of the pauses, the max reponse
time showed as
Hi Ben.
I went to http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.2.2/
this morning to download the latest revisions to the 770 skin.
I downloaded two files:
SlimServer_6_2_x_v2005-12-30.dmg
30-Dec-2005 01:11 9.1M Mac OS X Disk Image
SlimServer_6_2_x_v2005-12-30.no-cpan-arch.tar.gz
After hours of tweaking the router settings I still couldn't get my
wired SB to find the server (windows2k).
Just wanted to make a quick note that it never worked until I
uninstalled TCP/IP from 'Local Area Network', rebooted, and reinstalled
TCP/IP.
I never saw that tip searching the forums,
(I am reposting this to reflect new information in the title. I tried
editing the title in my earlier post, but it didn't change the title of
the thread in the list.)
I have a new installation of SlimServer 6.2 on Windows XP. When I
configure it with my music folder and tell it to scan, it
I think this was the possible confusion Michael pointed out before...
Ben is checking his changes into trunk. This is 6.5 and they will
become available in the 6.5 nightlies. [Ben can you confirm that it is
the 6.5 version of the skin that you are checking in here?]
As for the 6.2 nightlies -
If it helps, I've got six wired SB2's connected to a linksys 16 port hub
and talking to a Dell P3 550 256MB RAM. It works like a champ. They
constantly tick RSS if not in use, but in use, 6 play independently
without skipping. Scrolling through the songs are fast and very
responsive.
Before,
OK that suggests the problem is with the server.
There are two possible causes:
1) Other application hogging the server CPU for this time. I suspect
this is unlikely for the time period you are seeing [but not
impossible]
2) Something in slimserver/a plugin taking a long time to complete and
I just got a new JVC TV, when I use the remote to change the TV volume
or change the channel the squeezebox is also activated. Is there anyway
to fix this?
Thanks
Jamy
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It isn't surprising that, if there is a performance problem, the SLiMP3s
show it first - they have the smallest buffer. Not that that's any
consolation to the person who's having the problem, but that's a
factor.
Tourne: you mentioned you're running 6.2.1 and iTunes. I believe I saw
about a week
Have a look at Player Settings - Remote ... and see if JVC_dvd is
enabled. If so, turn it off...
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Excellent. I'll try the suggestions.
Thanks people.
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Does anyone have any idea?
Random thought... You wouldn't happen to have any playlists that point
to non-existing directories? I tried a few times to get 6.x running
(from 5.4.1) but it would crash exactly as you describe. I later found
that I had a gaggle of M3U playlists that pointed to
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Does the event log not have more information than just it failed? Does
it give a line number or a function name in which it failed?
No, it simply says 'Perl interpreter failed.' The full message is
shown below.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application
Event
bishopdonmiguel Wrote:
Does anyone have any idea?
Random thought... You wouldn't happen to have any playlists that point
to non-existing directories? I tried a few times to get 6.x running
(from 5.4.1) but it would crash exactly as you describe. I later found
that I had a gaggle of M3U
veloearl Wrote:
No, it simply says 'Perl interpreter failed.' The full message is
[snip]
The following information is part of the event: Perl interpreter
failed.
Hmm...never saw that before. I've made mine crash, but it always has
enough sense to tell me where or why. So it might be a
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Hmm...never saw that before. I've made mine crash, but it always has
enough sense to tell me where or why. So it might be a resource
problem.
One thing that Active Perl does is create a bunch of temporary files
(all .dlls, for some reason) in a temp directory.
Are
Nothing jumps out at me ...
You said you're running 6.2
there's one more digit, that is, is it
6.2.1 or 6.2.2?
There were some scanning bugs found in 6.2.1 that were fixed in 6.2.2
(the maintainance release).
They were mostly performance related, not crash related, but sometimes
bugs
just curious if you people have and music/ file management gems i should
look into for organising my library?
i encountered this great little tool: Total Commander
http://www.ghisler.com/
A great windows based tool for managing file transfers (without the
unexpected file in use windows
davep Wrote:
Cards being shuffled might be good for another function that could be
added also (here we go, bloat looms) which is the shuffle setting. I
realise that I do actually use this quite a bit in normal operations.
What do you mean by the shuffle setting? Do you mean whether the
Mea culpa...Michael and Triode, my aplogies. You are quite right-- trunk
is 6.5, and that's what I'm checking into. I didn't realize that was the
case, and that explains a lot. A couple things I couldn't get to look
right in 6.2 were 'magically working' with my svn checkout. It's all
clear now...
Kyle Wrote:
I'm at the beach right now.
In North Carolina? Or somewhere else? Beach in NC wouldn't seem to be
all that appealing at the moment
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No one has any ideas on this?
From: "Michael Haan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.comTo: discuss@lists.slimdevices.comSubject: [slim] Tag IssuesDate: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:16:38 -0500
The following output shows that several songs should be appearing
No one has any ideas on this?
This may be way off so feel free to ignore, but in 5.4.1 when tracks
have identical tags, only one will show up even though they are unique
files. I know nothing of FLAC, nor of 6.2.x, but I don't see a TITLE
in your output below. Could it be that SlimServer sees
I'm really keen on buying the new squeezebox 3. I'm just interested, as
I know that slimdevices have a new product that can do this, whether or
not my maxtor 200gb network hard drive plus can be used as the server so
I can turn my computer off. The drive does offer media streaming. I have
a
Ben, I think random.gif is missing from SVN.
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Perl Interpreter Failed is usually a sign that there's something else
wrong with the system, could be disk errors, memory errors, virus,
etc... That error means that there was an internal error in perl
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When the SB3 display scrolls it shows TrackNum, Artist and Title. But I
get repeats separated by ampersands e.g.
3. The Who The Who The Who - Squeezebox
Was the interface designed by public service employees who like
everything in triplicate? Is there a fix?
Viv
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If you go into Title Format, what option do you have selected ? On the
web interface, click Settings on the Player side of the page (right).
If you select something like Title - Artist - Album there shouldn't
be any on the display.
Could you have picked a title format that has ampersands in it
The squeezebox needs slimserver to be running unless you are listening
to the squeezenetwork, so you can't turn off the computer even if you
are using a networked HDD.
Slimserver is the brains behind the squeezebox. When you tell the
squeezebox to play a song, the server starts streaming the
Hi everyone, I have two Squeezeboxes on the way next week, and I'm
pumped ... I'm also looking into external HD options. An interesting
product I saw in Gizmodo earlier this week is called the GLAN Tank -
soon to be available in Asia.
Thanks for that - there must be a way though. I've just seen this
product
http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?products_id=1038
and it's bascially an external hard drive isn't it.
My maxtor is set up ready to provide wireless music and video -- using
the new maxtor network
Hover over the word 'this'. Perhaps the blue doesn't show well on your
monitor?
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I installed 6.2.2 and it still crashes. Then I started removing artists
from the library that I suspected the server did not like. Seems
SlimServer has a distaste for Chopin and Beethoven, but has no issues
with Pixies, Logh, or Guided By Voices.
I am thinking there is something either in
On 30-Dec-05, at 11:01 AM, vhs wrote:
When the SB3 display scrolls it shows TrackNum, Artist and Title. But I
get repeats separated by ampersands e.g.
3. The Who The Who The Who - Squeezebox
Check your tags. you may find that artist, band and some other tag all
have The Who.
By default,
veloearl Wrote:
Seems SlimServer has a distaste for Chopin and Beethoven.
I am thinking there is something either in the tags or the
filenames/folder names about these two that it does not like. Are
there any limitations regarding tags/names that I need to be aware of,
like maximum
Michaelwagner Wrote:
In North Carolina? Or somewhere else? Beach in NC wouldn't seem to be
all that appealing at the moment
Yeah, Holden Beach, NC. Actually about 60 degrees today and plenty of
sun. A few folks in for New Year's. Nice and peaceful. Actually, a
nap sounds good about
RobReich Wrote:
I've just seen this product
http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?products_id=1038
and it's bascially an external hard drive isn't it.
No, it's a hard disk and a CPU to run Slimserver. Packaged together.
And you should note this (from the web site):
The
I just emailed Pandora (http://pandora.com/)to find out if they support
Slimserver - The email and response are as follows:
me -
Is there a way to get a link to play through my slimserver
(http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html)? I am running this at
home and would love to play my
I doubt changing SSID would help. Interference is interference.
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Thanks for the reply, but the TITLE is there, I just didn't show it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Evita]# metaflac --list * | grep TITLE10 Various Artists.flac: comment[5]: TITLE=A New Argentina11 Various Artists.flac: comment[5]: TITLE=Don't Cry For Me Argentina12 Various Artists.flac: comment[5]:
By the way, you might want to vote for this bug:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1946
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On 12/30/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the reply, but the TITLE is there, I just didn't show it:What version of SlimServer are you using? Why don't you supply a metaflac dump of a single track that is being mis-labeled -- that would probably be more useful than a partial
Hi,
I'm using softsqueeze on my slimserver PC in the kitchen, and whilst
using a wireless mouse is okay for operating softsqueeze, I wonder if
anyone has any experience of an infrared remote+PC to control
softsqueeze. I have a Shuttle PN31 remote for the PC, but I do not
believe there is a way to
Neil Sleightholm Wrote:
Ben, I think random.gif is missing from SVN.
quite so. I just checked 'em in.
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Version = 6.2.2.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Evita]# metaflac --list 2*Oh*METADATA block #0 type: 0 (STREAMINFO) is last: false length: 34 minumum blocksize: 4608 samples maximum blocksize: 4608 samples minimum framesize: 877 bytes maximum framesize: 14530 bytes sample_rate: 44100 Hz channels: 2
I don't have any particular skill with flac, but is there a reason that
there's no track 1 on any of your lists ? Or is that the track that is
coming up correctly, and you've only logged the misfiled ones ?
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There is - its:
Requiem for Evita.flac: comment[3]: TrackNumber=1
The only one that shows up is 10.
From:Siduhe [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To:Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.comTo:discuss@lists.slimdevices.comSubject:[slim] Re: Tag IssuesDate:Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:17:17 -0800I
What's more odd, tracks 1 and 2 (and only those), appear under Various Artists/Evita.
From: "Michael Haan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.comTo: discuss@lists.slimdevices.comSubject: RE: [slim] Re: Tag IssuesDate: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:36:23 -0500
Michaelwagner Wrote:
and they tell me about large beach dance parties in the summer on Myrtle
Beach.
Yep. Shagging is huge around the Carolinas. It was invented at Ocean
Drive, a beach just north of Myrtle Beach. Beach music is the music
of choice for shaggers -- The Drifters, The Tams,
I'm very confused at the behaviour of slim server. I'd like for it to
sort everything by first name but for some reason things don't always
work that way and it seems like it picks the method randomly. For
example, the artist Alecia Nugent is sorted under A, however, The
Thelonious Monk Quartet
Kyle said the following on 30/12/2005 22:59:
Michaelwagner Wrote:
and they tell me about large beach dance parties in the summer on Myrtle
Beach.
Yep. Shagging is huge around the Carolinas. It was invented at Ocean
Drive, a beach just north of Myrtle Beach. Beach music is the music
Check that the music file doesn't have an ARTISTSORT tag. Slimserver will
detect this tag in files and use it for sorting the artist entries, but the
artist will be displayed using information from the ARTIST tag.
Phil
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On 30-Dec-05, at 3:25 PM, robwas wrote:
I'm very confused at the behaviour of slim server. I'd like for it to
sort everything by first name but for some reason things don't always
work that way and it seems like it picks the method randomly. For
example, the artist Alecia Nugent is sorted
In addition to tags like 'ARTIST' there are also tags like
'ARTISTSORT'.
This lets you force things to sort correctly (for some definition of
the word -- your view of correctly may not be the same as others).
So you would have something like:
ARTIST: Johnny Cash
ARTISTSORT: Cash, Johnny
I'm using version 6.2.1 of SlimServer. Not sure what you mean by tags
but in iTunes, selecting Get Info shows the artist only once and not
repeated by e.g. singer composer etc. However, the music player side of
SlimServer shows several repeats of the artist name, separated by
commas, not
For those who would like a more UK locale-centric weather feed for your
Squeezebox's RSS plugin, take a peek at this page: -
Thanks - works well!
One minor point from a SlimServer software perspective. I went to server
settings - Plugins and added the new RSS feed entry. I clicked the Change
Tags are bits of information coded into the music file (Artist name,
Title, Track no etc) which are read by whichever application plays
them, whether it's Itunes, Slimserver or WMP.
When you rip your music to mp3, the tags are set as part of the
process. It sounds like yours have gone a bit
On 30-Dec-05, at 4:02 PM, vhs wrote:
I'm using version 6.2.1 of SlimServer. Not sure what you mean by tags
but in iTunes, selecting Get Info shows the artist only once and not
repeated by e.g. singer composer etc. However, the music player side of
SlimServer shows several repeats of the
This programming is done in the skin for SoftSqueeze. The basic
rundown of how to reprogram them:
- Find out what key codes the keys you want to use represent
- Unzip the jar file
- Edit the XML for the skin's keybinding (its very straightforward to read)
- Remove the signing encryption keys
-
Do you just overwrite the program files\slimserver directory with the
new zipfile? or will it overwrite your settings, plugins, etc?
james
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On 30-Dec-05, at 5:06 PM, mikelis wrote:
Do you just overwrite the program files\slimserver directory with the
new zipfile? or will it overwrite your settings, plugins, etc?
download the EXE if you are installing on windows, and used an EXE to
begin with.
The zip is more for those who want
You send a request to the Receiva website requesting that the station is
added. As for the on-demand content. I listen to a lot of BBC Radio 7
on demand content and it appears to be updated automatically.
If you are interested in certain radio stations, let me know and I will
see if they are
so basically if i use the exe, then my current configuration will be
saved, correct?
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These are the radio stations I'm interested in:
1. www.israelnationalradio.com
The path to the live streaming content is:
http://www.israelnn.com/metafiles/asx/israelnationalradio.asx
2. www.svoboda.gov
The path to the live streaming contet is:
shifty1725 Wrote:
You send a request to the Receiva website requesting that the station is
added. As for the on-demand content. I listen to a lot of BBC Radio 7
on demand content and it appears to be updated automatically.
If you are interested in certain radio stations, let me know and
Yeah, yeah, I meant to preface the segue with a warning for the brits.
Actually, growing up in Brit influenced Ontario, I knew the other
meaning too.
But in the Carolinas, it's a style of dance. And they don't know the
other meaning there.
But it's hard to talk about it here in Ontario without
On 30-Dec-05, at 6:41 PM, mikelis wrote:
so basically if i use the exe, then my current configuration will be
saved, correct?
that is correct.
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Robin Bowes Wrote:
Shagging is obviously an American thing.
The word has different connotations here in the UK. ;)
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=shagging
(the second entry down)
R.
But check out the third entry down:
shag2n.
A dance step of the 1930s consisting of a
Hi,
A few days ago, I installed Slimserver 6.2.1 on a little server pc.
Now, I can load the Slimserver web interface, but when I attempt to
scan my music library, nothing happens.
I should mention, that this server pc runs an extremely stripped down
version of Win2k (using nLite IE and its
Michaelwagner Wrote:
I saw all these people shagging on the beach
Done it both ways, but the mosquitoes can be murder ;). The dance is
more a series of shuffles and turns than hops. And, yeah, Mike Meyers
turned a lot of folks on this side of the pond onto the alternative
definition.
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pfarrell Wrote:
Right, no one in the Carolinas likes Mike Myers
or saw: Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me (New Line Platinum
Series) (1999)
Fair enough.
But I mostly hung out with the shaggers in the middle '90s.
As you say, I'm sure they know the alternate meaning now.
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Ben:
I installed Slim Server 6.5 for Mac. I have had several problems.
First, when I run the web browser, it does not show any songs, albums,
etc. as being available when I click the corresponding icon -- just a
blank page. I tried to rescan my library, but still no music shows up
(although
I don't have a Squeezebox yet, but seriously thinking about it, because
the sound quality I get through my TiVo is not that great.
I use MusicMagic all the time with my TiVo ( http://www.predixis.com ).
The nice thing is that the first option on the TiVo MusicMagic screen
is the 'Instant Mix'.
Sometimes when updating it will need to rescan your music library. Don't
worry - this is normal. Also sometimes it will update the flash in your
squeezebox.
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Can you define nothing happens a little better?
Is there a lot of disk activity but no results show up?
Is there no activity at all?
On the home page, on the left side, does it say Your music library
consists of... and 3 numbers? What are those numbers.
When you trigger a scan, does the
You'll need to give us some more information.
Wired or wireless?
Operating System?
Server version?
How long did you have the SB3 working?
Does the SB3 power up? Is the display lit up?
You also have the option of calling the slim people for support,
depending on where you are that might be an
Try this from a command prompt if you still have that in your stripped
down server:
c:\program files\slimserver\server\slim.exe --d_info --d_scan
can you access http://serverIP:9000 ?
if so, does the music folder look right in server settings?
you can also go into server settings-debugging
On 30-Dec-05, at 8:42 PM, treble wrote:
As I understand how MusicMagic works with the Squeezebox is that there
is a little icon or something behind the songtitle when it is
'mixable'.
That is basically correct. When browsing music via the web interface
OR the player interface, you will see
This sort of thing happens to me fairly often (maybe every time that I add
music to an existing artist?). I usually get a second listing for that
artist, but I've had your problem too.
Anyway, wiping the database and rebuilding always fixes it for me.
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But the fix the original poster suggests does not work for me. I will
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I'm a little surprised you say I am the first person saving
playlists using the web interface. I would have thought that this
was used a lot?
I use it a fair amount, with no problems, and it definitely survives a
normal rescan, as well as a full wipe/rescan.
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