A tip, especially if you are creating a new page ... create it off-line,
using Notepad or similar! Then you can be sure you won't lose anything.
Unfortunately I thought of that after I lost the edits ;)
Will do from now on though!
Phil
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Hold your mobile phone up to the speakers when it is playing and dial 2580.
Shazaam (sp?) will text you back the name and artist. Costs 50p per shot I
think.
Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately the program isn't on anymore, but that might
come in useful for the future.
Phil
Will Slimserver see iTunes on my main G5 disk as well as my music folder
full of FLAC Files on an external hard drive? Will it search in both
places? When I select the use iTunes preference does it mean that
Slimserver uses iTunes exclusively?
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OK, after some experimentation it seems the liability to crash is when
the special character is in the song title. For example I have quite a
few artists such as Prozzäk or Röyksopp or indeed Björk which appear to
play fine (see above post). I use itunes, and itunes uses the artists as
the filing
as a sonyericsson faithful, I was holding out for the new Sony Ericsson
p990 (QVGA, wifi b, and touchscreen) for SB remote control purposes,
when I stumbled across the Nokia N80 that should be released in a
couple of months with a 352x416 screen resolution and wifi g.
Or if you are using the mailing list instead of the forums, you should
create a new message, instead of replying to an old one and changing
the subject.
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Hi
Sorry if this has been covered before but has anyone seen the above ?
I have just received an SB3 wireless for Xmas ( already have a wireless
SB1 graphic ) and when the player is powered on it comes up with the SB2
splash screen.
It did a firmware update immediately but still the same.
Hi
I cannot decide between buying a slim server and AE1(acoustic energy,
can anyone help me.
My main interest is listening to the internet radio. In both the units
i can have internet radio without switching on the PC. However the only
difference being with slim server i can have control over
westiebj Wrote:
Hi
Sorry if this has been covered before but has anyone seen the above ?
I have just received an SB3 wireless for Xmas ( already have a wireless
SB1 graphic ) and when the player is powered on it comes up with the SB2
splash screen.
It did a firmware update immediately
Thanks for the info. I will try that this morning and see what happens.
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jhurley Wrote:
Do I need to do something special to get my setup to manage
special/accented characters?
No, that shouldn't be necessary.
I was going to search for accents in my collection, but the search box
doesn't like accents, for some reason, so I couldn't find any to try
out.
But I'm
Bug report created
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2776
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I just played Was Wäri Wänn on my SB3 and it worked.
So let's figure out what's different between our systems.
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I uninstalled, rebooted, then installed 6.2.2 (1/1/06 build).
Same thing, would not read the FLAC tags and the songs will not play.
Uninstalled that, rebooted, then installed the standard 6.2.1, works
fine, back to normal. Songs play, broken down into albums/artists.
I would like to take
Yesterday Mitch suggested
you may want to try uninstalling and removing the old SlimServer
directory entirely. This will have the side effect of losing any server
and player settings, so you may want to record your current settings if
you don't know them offhand.
Did you do that? Actually
I'm on subversion 6-2-2 BRANCH_6_2_x (mentioned earlier on up the
thread)
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twynne Wrote:
Doh - just found an old post about this (should have searched first!)
and it seems the last version doesn't work with 6.x server. Does
anyone have the 'fixed' version that they could share?
Thanks,
Tom
I don't have the update, but be careful with this widget - I had to
Thanks for the reply. Fortunately I don't use iTunes on any of my
'client' PC's. :-)
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I don't know what got checked in yesterday, so I don't know if anyone
was working in this area or not.
So it might yield results, or it may not. I can't tell.
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I had this kind of behavior happen to me, see
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2404, which is now fixed,
although you may need to pick up a nightly or something to get a
version with the fix.
I have a lot of music with odd accents (since I listen to a lot of
world music). I don't
Thanks for the help everyone. I'll probably wait a bit then try again
in a few days. Is the proper way to 'update' slimserver just to shut
it down, then run the exectuable right over the existing installation.
i.e. no uninstall?
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ajmitchell Wrote:
I am having crashes with special characters in title. These are in the
id3 tag and I believe in the file as well. For example Shakira [artist]
Que Me Quedes Tú [title] laudrey service [album] appears to cause a
crash, I presume because of the ú which can be corrected by
Just thinking more on this... I can't see how the original developer can
claim any exclusive rights to a module that works within an open source
framework (Yahoo/Konfabulator) and speaks to an open source server. As
it would appear he has abandoned the project, could it not be released
under a
I've had the same problem that a lot of people on these boards seem to
have had with M3U playlists causing double entries in the album track
listings.
I've tried moving the playlist to a different directory and telling SS
about it but this and other things I've tried did not work.
I did notice
I have the exact same Shakira album, with the same accents (in both the
tags and the filenames) and it works just fine here (Win XP, 6.2.1).
One difference is that my file is OGG not MP3, so the tags aren't ID3.
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I haven't tried it as a Slim remote, but I have used the device. I
suspect that the screen would be rather small for a remote, or you'd
just be doing a LOT of scrolling :) The screen is very high
resolution, but it's still physically not nearly as large as a 770.
If you can, pick up a
radish Wrote:
I have the exact same Shakira album, with the same accents (in both the
tags and the filenames) and it works just fine here (Win XP, 6.2.1).
One difference is that my file is OGG not MP3, so the tags aren't ID3.
Another difference is 6.2.1 vs 6.2.2
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Okay, so I was having this problem where some of my albums had songs out
of order. When I switched to now playing, the correct order would
appear. However, in the web access page and accessed through search on
the SB3, they were out of order.
So, I did everything. Reset iTunes library.
I assume one of the artists is no artist.
Who is the other one?
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Victor Brilon Wrote:
If there's enough interest, I might be able to get someone at work to
loan me an N80 and I can take some screenshots of what a Slim
interface looks like on it.
I would be extremely interested to see what this looks like - and also
how easy it is to navigate without a
(although, my Was Wäri Wänn is called Was Wäri Wänn.mp3 on the disk,
Wow! Who's that song's artist? This must be swiss german or something :-)
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(although, my Was Wäri Wänn is called Was Wäri Wänn.mp3 on the disk,
Wow! Who's that song's artist? This must be swiss german or something :-)
Do you really have Subzonic in your collection?!? Amazing...
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On Jan 2, 2006, at 1:02 PM, kefa wrote:
I would be extremely interested to see what this looks like - and also
how easy it is to navigate without a touchscreen/stylus. A bit
off-topic, but any other user experience on the device would be
welcomed!
Ok, I'll look into it. I am on paternity
On 2/1/06 at 02:09 -0800, octavian wrote
Will Slimserver see iTunes on my main G5 disk as well as my music folder
full of FLAC Files on an external hard drive? Will it search in both
places?
It might be a good idea if SlimServer gave an actual option for more
than one music folder, but it
Yup!
It's from a Sony collection called Sounds of the Century or something
like that. I'm not at home now, so I can't check.
I listened to it this morning and it's certainly no language that I
speak. Michael, now that you say that it's Swiss German, that clarifies
everything.
(to paraphrase
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 15:12 +, Daniel Cohen wrote:
It might be a good idea if SlimServer gave an actual option for more
than one music folder, but it doesn't.
Since it follows links in both Linux/Mac and Windows,
why would it be a good idea?
If you know that you want to do it, its easy.
It's from a Sony collection called Sounds of the Century or something
like that. I'm not at home now, so I can't check.
Soundtrack for a century
Must be quite satisfying for a swiss band singing in swiss german to be
included in a sampler of that title :-)
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On 2-Jan-06, at 12:28 PM, Mark Lanctot wrote:
Ack, just upgraded to latest nightly, same problem here - cannot read
FLAC tags. And unfortunately rolling back to 6.2.1 did not solve the
problem.
Looks like I'll have to uninstall/reinstall. :-(
or run a full rescan.
Tried to use latest
kdf:
I have rescanned at least a half-dozen times,
alternating between Clear library and rescan
everything and Look for new and updated music.
When I encounter database trouble, that's the
first thing I do. Usually it corrects it, but in
this case it doesn't.
I'm wondering if this bug is
On 2-Jan-06, at 12:44 PM, Mark Lanctot wrote:
kdf:
I have rescanned at least a half-dozen times,
alternating between Clear library and rescan
everything and Look for new and updated music.
When I encounter database trouble, that's the
first thing I do. Usually it corrects it, but in
this
Hi All
I've been playing with the XML skin (and I must say, it's so much
faster in 6.2 than previous releases - good job !)
I've noticed that when using the 'search.xml' page, I'm getting *html*
returned, eg :
http://slimserver:9000/xml/search.xml?type=artistquery=ozric
- this returns an HTML
Sure thing kdf. Yes, I can appreciate both you
and Dan are working on this and I thank you for
your help.
I will be uninstalling and reinstalling, I just
have to get all my server and player settings
recorded.
kdf wrote:
On 2-Jan-06, at 12:44 PM, Mark Lanctot wrote:
kdf:
I have
On 2-Jan-06, at 12:58 PM, Mark Lanctot wrote:
Sure thing kdf. Yes, I can appreciate both you
and Dan are working on this and I thank you for
your help.
I found a possible cause, and Dan has put in a fix.
svn 5504 should now fix the no album issue. This will be in the next
nightly if you
ok, the missing albums problem has been found and Dan has put in a fix.
If you are using subversion, you can update to 5504. if not, the Jan 3
nightly build should correct this with a rescan. Still trying to lock
down the track order problem :)
-kdf
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When I bought my house, there already was some speakers installed in one
of the rooms. I thought I'd put a Squeezebox in there, but I need an
amp. So I'm looking for a small one. Having a digital in would be
great, but I'd settle for analog.
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many thanks for the suggestions, but sadly still drawing a blank. I run
other wireless connections to the same router with no issue. No
obvious nearby items which would interfere such as cordless phones +
I'd tried range of the wireless channels on the router just in case
(01-13).
SB3 also
On 2-Jan-06, at 12:46 PM, catdna wrote:
Bug ?
is this the latest 6.2.2 nightly build?. The Endless has been actively
updating the xml skin since 6.2.
If you are still having the issue with the latest build, please file a
bug report at bugs.slimdevices.com
-kdf
kdf Wrote:
You then see an item in server setting to
use moodlogic or use musicmagic as a library import.
-kdf
I'm having the same problem. I downloaded the Music Magic program, and
I don't see anything in SlimServer. According to the Music Magic docs,
there should be a small mm somewhere,
Stewart - Please post on another thread. But in the mean time, check
you don't have another device which is conflicting for the same IP
address. [the change of TTL in echo reply looks odd to me...] Try
showing the arp table while doing your ping test.
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On 2-Jan-06, at 2:31 PM, ezkcdude wrote:
kdf Wrote:
You then see an item in server setting to
use moodlogic or use musicmagic as a library import.
-kdf
I'm having the same problem. I downloaded the Music Magic program, and
I don't see anything in SlimServer. According to the Music Magic
I'm also having problems with Music Magic. I tried re-starting both
apps, and all the other advice here, with no luck. Any other
suggestions?
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These two programs seem to do essentially the same thing. Are there
essential differences? What are the pros and cons of each?
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Hi,
I think it's nailed now. After tracking down the cause, and getting a
few pointers from Dan on what to tweak, svn 5505 and the Jan 3 nightly
should now show the correct order (it is for me at least).
Please update your svn or download the next nightly and let us know how
it goes.
thanks
kdf Wrote:
On 2-Jan-06, at 2:31 PM, ezkcdude wrote:
kdf Wrote:
You then see an item in server setting to
use moodlogic or use musicmagic as a library import.
-kdf
I'm having the same problem. I downloaded the Music Magic program,
and
I don't see anything in SlimServer.
I just saw this posted and discussed over at Audiokarma.org...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060102-5877.html
I thought it even more appropriate to post here - Not that I care about
Coldplay - I couldn't even identify a Coldplay song if my life
depended on it, but since Capitol's
I have had an SB2 for some time, and its connected on the LAN in my office. It works quite well, whether playing the radio streams or MP3s from my Slimserver that's also on the LAN. No surprise there...
I now have a SB3 at home, and I can't connect it to the Slimserver at work. It does
How do we tell what the next nightly will be?
IOW is there a closing time? All fixes up to 11PM PST go into the
nightly? Or something like that?
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* Michaelwagner shaped the electrons to say...
How do we tell what the next nightly will be?
IOW is there a closing time? All fixes up to 11PM PST go into the
nightly? Or something like that?
The builds start at 01:00 US/Pacific - that's 09:00 GMT.
So anything that's in by 01:00 will be
It's working now! What a fantastic tool. I've been wanting this kind of
thing for years, but never knew anything actually did it until now.
Thanks, for the help, Slim Goodbodies!
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Dan,
Are you talking about the new 6.5 build? I moved to that, and THAT's
when I started having this problem with Slimserver not reading my
iTunes library.
In fact, I just tried it -- it shuts off rescanning in a few seconds.
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You're half-way there. :)
You also need to open port 3483.
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* highdudgeon shaped the electrons to say...
Are you talking about the new 6.5 build? I moved to that, and THAT's
when I started having this problem with Slimserver not reading my
iTunes library.
In fact, I just tried it -- it shuts off rescanning in a few seconds.
6.5 is considered
On 2-Jan-06, at 3:04 PM, Kyle wrote:
These two programs seem to do essentially the same thing. Are there
essential differences? What are the pros and cons of each?
MusicMagic has some sort of programmatic algorithm for combining
trackss.
MoodLogic uses user input describing the songs to
I just purchased Music Magic for $19.95, while MoodLogic is $39.95. I
agree with everything you said.
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The guys over at AVS Forum have been raving about the
Panasonic SA-XR receivers for over a year now.
They are small, they don't produce much heat, they
have digital inputs and they are affordable. Plus
they will have the volume control you will need, and a
remote control for convenience
I have both Music Magic and Moodlogic. MusicMagic by far is the
superior product. The Moodlogic mixes are pretty bad (unlike you like
a lot of the same artist in your mix!).
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I tried regressing, but that was a flop. I couldn't get the previous
version to work (unless there are files to be deleted that I am unaware
of. I am a Mac user, incidentally). However, I know what's happening
(not with the random mix; just the one song thing). Here goes:
I was clearing out
This is under 6.5, right?
What does SlimServer say under Server Settings - iTunes - iTunes
Music Library folder and .xml location?
If you are running SlimServer and iTunes on the same computer these
last two should be blank with 6.5.
What does iTunes say under Preferences - Advanced -
T-amp. methinks you'd want the super model
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/6cd8/
insanely detailed review of it
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/sonicimpact2/t2.html
cheers,
#!/ben
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At least this confirms what I was seeing.
I did try at least 5 or 6 versions of the firmware, starting with the
first and ending with the last version 2s.
It's too bad I had to ditch this router because it had a very powerful,
stable wireless module that puts the Linksys WRT54G to shame. It
tyler_durden Wrote:
I have the SMC2804WBRP-G router that is listed in the wiki as having a
problem connecting to the SB-3. I can verify that in all modes of
setting the router, it is not possible to connect to the SB-3. I have
the latest firmware in the router. Testing was done with the
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
At least this confirms what I was seeing.
It's too bad I had to ditch this router because it had a very powerful,
stable wireless module that puts the Linksys WRT54G to shame. It also
had a very good firewall.
The good news about the WRT54G is that you can use 3rd
On 2-Jan-06, at 7:51 PM, highdudgeon wrote:
This is a problem, because ALL of my music is on an external hard
drive. Slimserver, for some reason, is no longer picking up on that
fact.
maybe, or the permissions aren't right somewhere. Server might see the
xml, but be unable to access the
I found this interesting
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4729641740.html
especially these bits:
Linksys's director of product marketing, Mani Dhillon, said Linksys made
the switch because, as a more deeply embedded system, VxWorks allowed
the company to halve the amounts of Flash and RAM
Also
http://www.si-technologies.com/frontEnd/cm_productDetail.jsp?productID=35
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I think you need to contact the slim support people. Not many of them
hang out here.
support at slimdevices dot com
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