A quick look in the wiki suggests that someone (finnie ?) has started to
create a page on this subject but as yet it is empty. A case of watch
this space, perhaps?
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerSupportedTags
However this page has been blank for a while so I'm not sure if this
My SB2 has developed a wierd fault over the past few days, it will boot
up, connect to the LAN, find the silmserver, load the initial selected
track play it for 4 or 5 seconds then reboot as if the firmware had
been upgraded.
I have tried moving to the latest 6.2.2, with version 29 of the
b_prem,
I'm still not sure what you are trying to do here.
Is your problem with WMAs or AACs?
Can you play the files in Softsqueeze?
Are you trying to stream WMA files out as an WMA stream to your own
client, or do you want it transcoded into MP3? Is your client emulating
a Squeezebox, or
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'how to setup' info)
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radish Wrote:
slow a track down a chunk and you get phasing on transients like snares,
and kick drums lose all their definition.
I guess this gets into what we use it for.
Swing DJs don't muck with the sound when we play for dancing. We
typically leave the tips and tails alone (we don't
Michaelwagner said the following on 02/01/2006 12:01 PM:
radish Wrote:
slow a track down a chunk and you get phasing on transients like snares,
and kick drums lose all their definition.
I guess this gets into what we use it for.
Swing DJs don't muck with the sound when we play for dancing.
I was having the sme problem with the same router, Network and Server
were almost at idle, but the SB3 Buffer was always less than 1% full.
It would play mp3 and wma but not flac. All working nicely now though
..
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Dave Bird Wrote:
I was having the sme problem with the same router, Network and Server
were almost at idle, but the SB3 Buffer was always less than 1% full.
It would play mp3 and wma but not flac. All working nicely now though
..
Is this also after the V29 upgrade?
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Robin Bowes Wrote:
Those of us who work with audio (I work for http://www.jssaudio.co.uk)
often make the mistake of assuming that everyone who listens to music
is
as passionate and/or knowledgable about audio quality as we are.
They're
not!
R.
I was having a discussion about
Robin Bowes Wrote:
Those of us who work with audio often make the mistake of assuming that
everyone who listens to music is
as passionate and/or knowledgable about audio quality as we are.
It's the same in every field.
Dancers assume everyone cares as deeply about dance as they do. It's a
seanadams Wrote:
I would much rather see pitch and tone controls done as a server-side
function. There is *so* much more you can do beyond the primitive
control on SB1. Eg it is possible to speed up music without changing
the pitch (a frequency-domain instead of time-domain function). If you
Those of us who work with audio (I work for http://www.jssaudio.co.uk)
often make the mistake of assuming that everyone who listens to music
is
as passionate and/or knowledgable about audio quality as we are.
They're
not!Robin, I've just looked at the galley on your website and your
Patrick Dixon said the following on 02/01/2006 01:27 PM:
Those of us who work with audio (I work for http://www.jssaudio.co.uk)
often make the mistake of assuming that everyone who listens to music
is
as passionate and/or knowledgable about audio quality as we are.
They're
not!Robin, I've just
I was getting this reboot problem with firmware 29
and WPA2. Are you using WPA2?
The weirdest thing is that it suddenly changed. I
assume you haven't changed anything on your router?
Simon wrote:
My SB2 has developed a wierd fault over the past few
days, it will boot
up, connect to the
Now that I'm using one as an alarm clock radio I'm
inclined to agree!
Just something simple. A small class D amp chip
like the Tripath TAA2009 - nice-sounding but
cheap, 9W/ch at 89% efficiency, good for battery
power consumption and average output power for a
boombox. Good (but
128 bit WEP with an open key, and no changes to the router (Netgear
DG834GT).
Regards
Simon
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Do you mind telling me where you downloaded the Tag software? The ones
I looked at were all very complicated to use and I'm unsure how to
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abdomen Wrote:
I therefore FF/RW within tracks, and I actually waited a year or two
before buying a Slim Devices product because I was waiting for that
feature to be implemented.
The feature exists now for all non-transcoded music streams. For mp3,
that means back to the SB1 at least, maybe
Patrick Dixon said the following on 02/01/2006 02:32 PM:
In the Gallery!
(I missed Status Quo too)
Which Gallery?
R.
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Patrick Dixon said the following on 02/01/2006 02:32 PM:
In the Gallery!
(I missed Status Quo too)
Which Gallery?
http://www.jssaudio.co.uk/JSSWeb/My_Homepage_Files/Page3.html
A
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This link works in SlimServer
http://www.kenradio.com/audio/kenradio-31-1-2006.mp3
But I don't want to type in a new link every day. I tested all 3 of the
today links but none worked. There is:
http://www.kenradio.com/audio/
today.asx
today.htm
today.ram
It would be nice to use the today
Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes said the following on 02/01/2006 03:23 PM:
On Wed 1 February 2006 15:05, Robin Bowes wrote:
Patrick Dixon said the following on 02/01/2006 02:32 PM:
In the Gallery!
(I missed Status Quo too)
Which Gallery?
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Exists.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2749
If you want more precise tone control out of it (which, if I read your
posting correctly, you do), feel free to add your comments to the
enhancement request.
Done. Thank you!
Michaelwagner Wrote:
The feature
Hi!
I've just ordered the Squeezebox 3. I have hesitated on this move for
a while as I wanted:
1. UPNP support so that I can run an Appliance as a server rather than
my beast of a PC
2. iTunes or similar client for real time manipulation of playlists
(the web interface lacks drag and drop
I didn't realise you were in the PA game and only in York too, we're
talking about replaceing our EV MT1 rig sometime soon. We won't be
needing one of those big bent systems though :-)
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This has been on my SLIMp3 player for close to a year now because I have
not found out how to turn it off. It will say on my Slimp3 box this:
Visualizer Screen saver
Needs Squeezebox2
I guess I have the squeezebox1.
I don't know if I turn it off with the remote or in the Slimserver.
Does any
I have bought another SB2 in order to test my system. If the new
wireless SB2 works ok, I am going to conclude that there is a problem
with my SB3 (all possibly all SB3s if no one can confirm that this
combination works). However if the new SB2 does not work your
hypotheses about wireless or
Michaelwagner wrote:
I wonder if someone's power network solution
mightn't be better than
802.11 for an alarm clock - boom box kind of thing.
Since it's not
truly wireless, it's still plugged into the wall,
why not use the wall?
True. I was trying to merge the Squeezebox clock
radio
Raymond,
You can change the screensaver from both.
In SlimServer's web interface, go to player settings for the
appropriate player (if you have more than one), then scroll down to
screensavers.
It's in pretty much the same place in the player menus.
James
Craig said the following on 02/01/2006 04:18 PM:
I didn't realise you were in the PA game and only in York too, we're
talking about replaceing our EV MT1 rig sometime soon. We won't be
needing one of those big bent systems though :-)
Where are you?
Get in touch and I can sort you out a nice
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Yahoo:robin_bowes
AIM: robinbowes
MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gaaah, that's: robin-.net at robinbowes dot com
Tel. +44 (7737) 776768
Forgot to ask, who's we? i.e. what are you using your MT-1 for?
R.
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http://www.kenradio.com/audio/kenradio-31-1-2006.mp3
But I don't want to type in a new link every day. I tested all 3 of the
today links but none worked. There is:
http://www.kenradio.com/audio/
today.asx
today.htm
today.ram
It would be nice to
This has been on my SLIMp3 player for close to a year now because I have
not found out how to turn it off. It will say on my Slimp3 box this:
Visualizer Screen saver
Needs Squeezebox2
I guess I have the squeezebox1.
No, a SliMP3 :-)
I don't know if I turn it off with the remote or in the
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I'm running XPSP2 on a headless dedicated box (512Meg Kingston ram, AMD
Duron 800 Mhz, Shuttle Mobo) SlimServer Version: 6.2.1 - 5194 - Windows
XP - EN - cp1252
Every 3 or 4 days, I get Virtual
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I am an iTunes user. I would like to be able to exclude songs that
Squeezebox can't play (e.g. songs I bought from the iTunes store). I'd
also like to be able to delete some of the playlists that I have in
iTunes. I don't want to uncheck them in iTunes because then they won't
get sync'd to my
Michaelwagner wrote:
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
network over power equipment [...] stuff is quite
expensive and very
poorly available in this country.
Not a problem if Slim bundled it into the product.
I wasn't suggesting you do it yourself.
Ooooh...that would be cool! :-)
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I have bought another SB2 in order to test my system. If the new
wireless SB2 works ok, I am going to conclude that there is a problem
with my SB3 (all possibly all SB3s if no one can confirm that this
combination works). However if the new SB2 does not work your
Get with it Robin, he doesn't mean your home pages he means the gallery of
http://www.jssaudio.co.uk.
And he's right, music lover :-)
Simon Turner
Barcombe UK
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Hi
Does anyone know what I need to do to 'Enable Personal Firewall' in
Trend Micro's Pc-Cilin Internet Security software. Enabling this causes
the SB3 and SlimServer to stop communicating with each other, so my only
option is to disable the firewall, which is not good for my overall
internet
I'm afraid that if you use the sync iTunes library option in SlimServer,
that will happen. I think that syncs playlists from iTunes as well.. I
believe.
You might try not using the sync option and just adding a select folder
shortcut to your iTunes songs, but I think SlimServer will still find
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I'm afraid that if you use the sync iTunes library option in SlimServer,
that will happen.I think that syncs playlists from iTunes as
The exceptions list in PC-Cilin shows all the Slim connections as
allowed under 'OUT', both TCP and UDP. No connections show 'IN' for all
Slim connections. My Windows (XP) Firewall is 'ON'.
Anything I'm missing here?
Yes, allow them to come in - the player wants to talk to theserver, too.
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R.
We're an 8 piece soul band from Wakefield
www.the-solicitors-band.co.uk
I'll drop you an email with more details
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Gents,
Thanks much for all your help. Yes, it worked from the wife's work!
MrC: No, I figured out how i could see incoming requests on my router
and I had her point to my router on port 22. So, I was fairly confident
that this would work.
Also, you make a good point about limiting the IP
Hi James
You're quite a genius... FollowiTunes works EXACTLY as you said it
would!!! Thank you.
My observations, after an hour of testing, if it helps:
1) I followed your instructions, and the script worked first time!
2) iTunes plays/runs about 3 seconds earlier than the SB3. Thus the
'IN' for all five entries?
-SlimServer Control (TCP) port 3483
-SlimDiscovery (UDP) port 3483
-SlimServer Web (TCP) port 9000
-Slim (TCP) all ports
-SlimTray (TCP) all ports
All connections are only 'OUT' right now. Should I make all 'IN' as
well? Any port changes for the 'IN' entries?
Thanks
pankaj Wrote:
Hi
Does anyone know what I need to do to 'Enable Personal Firewall' in
Trend Micro's Pc-Cilin Internet Security software.
My Windows (XP) Firewall is 'ON'.
Pankaj
It also isn't a good idea to run two personal firewalls at the same
time (i.e. both PC-Cilin and XP
Dave Strickler Wrote:
Its been a little while running SQLite, and I thought I would chime in
an give you a report from the field...
Dave, your reports about the improved performance using MySQL have made
me even more determined to try it out. But I'm stuck. Whenever I try to
configure
Simon @ Home said the following on 02/01/2006 06:54 PM:
Get with it Robin, he doesn't mean your home pages he means the gallery of
http://www.jssaudio.co.uk.
And he's right, music lover :-)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got there in the end!
Anyway, I didn't do any of those gigs.
I do however have
if you prefix an itunes playlist by a special charater such as ; : )
it will drop to the bottom of your playlists and if nothing else you
can remember not to play these in slimserver. Not much of a solution I
know!
I have to admit, I never bought anything from itunes, so I presumed
slimserver
shaboyi Wrote:
Hi - I am trying to program a third party remote (onkyo) to use to
control
basic functions of the SB remtoe. ...Any
suggestions?
You could turn on debugging for IR and see if slimserver picks up any
IR codes from your remote control.
(server settings/debugging/d_ir then
thx. I looked through that thread and it appears that the MySQL mainly
helps with scanning (please correct me if I am wrong).
On my system it also sped up CLI requests (getting album/artist/song
lists) by about 25-30%. So I guess searches and browsing the music
collection will also profit
mparin Wrote:
Gents,
Thanks much for all your help. Yes, it worked from the wife's work!
MrC: No, I figured out how i could see incoming requests on my router
and I had her point to my router on port 22. So, I was fairly confident
that this would work.
Awesome!
mparin Wrote:
Since switching to MySQL I've definitely noticed things being a lot
quicker. Then again, my slimserver machine is fairly underpowered
(PIII 450 with 224MB RAM), so you may not see these effects if running
on a decent machine to start with.
If you know MySQL anyway, I'd say go for it. If you
Siduhe Wrote:
It also isn't a good idea to run two personal firewalls at the same time
(i.e. both PC-Cilin and XP Firewall set to on). They tend to conflict
with each other...
Indeed - pick one and configure it correctly.
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Hello all
Have been mucking about with the skin options. went to default 2 now
when i click on server setting i cant see an option to get back to the
defaults skin, i am using 6.5b1, help please
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when i click on server setting i cant see an option to get back to the
defaults skin, i am using 6.5b1, help please
http://localhost:9000/Default/
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Does anyone know if there's some special pre-build configuration that
needs to be done in order to get MySQL support included in the standard
6.2.1 release?
From the wiki at http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?MySQL
On Linux or Unix, simply type 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' from the command
line
fairyliquidizer wrote:
Hi!
I've just ordered the Squeezebox 3. I have hesitated on this move for
a while as I wanted:
1. UPNP support so that I can run an Appliance as a server rather than
my beast of a PC
You can run an appliance as a server now without uPNP, though
performance is a
Mark Lanctot wrote:
Now that I'm using one as an alarm clock radio I'm
inclined to agree!
Just something simple. A small class D amp chip
like the Tripath TAA2009 - nice-sounding but
cheap, 9W/ch at 89% efficiency, good for battery
power consumption and average output power for a
boombox.
thank you very much for a very informative reply!
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You will also enjoy the superior sound quality, faster UI, larger
feature set, better support for large music libraries, and more
interesting user community compared to tubular alternatives.
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Thanks Sean :-D This is all very friendly tonight :)
stinkingpig Wrote:
You can run an appliance as a server now without uPNP, though
performance is a bit suspect with large libraries. uPNP is yet another
solution in search of a problem.
Is this done by running a version of
fairyliquidizer wrote:
Thanks Sean :-D This is all very friendly tonight :)
stinkingpig Wrote:
You can run an appliance as a server now without uPNP, though
performance is a bit suspect with large libraries. uPNP is yet another
solution in search of a problem.
Is this done by
Is there any simple to use programme (ideally with a GUI) that will
allow me to convert files ,already ripped as FLACs, to mp3 for use on
an ipod etc.
Cheers
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Hi,
I installed MySQL awhile ago, hoping that my slimserver would run a bit
quicker. But it created actually more problems, like whenever a new
song was requested during Random Mix there was a 10 second pause or so
(see my post: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20494 ).
Then I
I just upgraded a fully functional SB3 with SS6.2.1 to the new version.
After the firmware got upgraded to version 29, everything turns mad at
me. I can connect to my server but I do not get any sound playing
music, just see the titel. When connecting to Squeeznetwork, the music
starts playing
When you say the new version do you mean the 6.2.2 branch or the 6.5 branch?I'd say you have two options:1) Go back to your old, good level. Either of the two above levels are still beta levels and not yet released. One of the caveats of going to them is that you may hit bugs.
6.2.2 is supposed
I don't know it, but I will give it a try and see if it makes an improvement and report back.
I checked the wiki - looks like those are the linux instructions. is there any one place where there are windows instructions
I did move slimserver to a PIV 1.7 Ghz with 640 RAM (XP Pro)and it works
.. then I downgraded to 6.2.1 and here is the music again..firmware done
to 28. Pooh.. do not do this to me.. OK. That was scary. OK, I am
running a MacOS 10.4.4 here. Did anybody actually tested this
upgrade?? Just wondering.
Cheers Markus
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SoundBoy Wrote:
I just upgraded a fully functional SB3 with SS6.2.1 to the new version.
After the firmware got upgraded to version 29, everything turns mad at
me. I can connect to my server but I do not get any sound playing
music, just see the titel. When connecting to Squeeznetwork, the
just downloaded and installed foobar2000 but can't find where/how to
convert my FLAC encoded files into mp3.
Cheers
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I'm using a 6.2.2 nightly with no problem. But you still haven't said which new version you tried, so I'm not sure if that's applicable to you or not. And in any case, I'm running on Windows XP and on a nightly from a few weeks back, so it wouldn't necessarily apply to your case.
Nobody said these
Understandable. Foobar isn;t the most intuitive program I've ever used, but I recommend it highly anyway for its flexability in batch transcoding FLACto MP3. Once you've got the list of files you want to transcode selected, right mouse click on them and select convert. You'll find the
:) Hi - well I did what Slim Tech Support told me.. ugrade to 6.2.2 in
order to fix problems with SqueezeNetwork. But, point well taken, I
will move this to the Beta forum and try to be helpful.
Markus
seanadams Wrote:
You realize you're running pre-release software, right? If you want to
SoundBoy Wrote:
:) Hi - well I did what Slim Tech Support told me.. ugrade to 6.2.2 in
order to fix problems with SqueezeNetwork. But, point well taken, I
will move this to the Beta forum and try to be helpful.
Markus
Ah - rock and a hard place then. :)
The bugs you encountered are
SoundBoy wrote:
OK, I am
running a MacOS 10.4.4 here. Did anybody actually tested this
upgrade?? Just wondering.
please read the *Beta* forum, check out bugs.slimdevices.com for all
your needs in this regard.
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just downloaded and installed foobar2000 but can't find where/how to
convert my FLAC encoded files into mp3.
you need to copy the lame_enc.dll files to the foobar directory. you'll
find more info on exactly what to do for that on the foobar site. Then
it is just a matter of
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Fast Audio Converter is another option. It does batch processing so you
can do all of your files at once, and you can select the output
destination if different than the source location.
Works well and the output bitrate is selectable in CBR or VBR. Encodes
To/From other formats as well.
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I guess I should try a small subset of my music collection with maybe 1
or 2 multi-disc albums and 1 or 2 various artists albums. Now it takes
too long to go change everything (even if Mp3tag is good) and then
rescan the whole database.
Last time I tried to use the
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I have a question about ports.
So if I remotely connect with SoftSqueeze to my slimserver at home, and
have OpenSSH set up on the home machine, do I still have to have ports
9000 and 3483 open on my firewall (it's an hardware firewall, behind
the DSL modem, the home pcs don't have a firewall),
So I am wrong to assume that if I have songs with multiple tags such
as:
01-song1 genre: rock;grunge
02-song2 genre: rock;light
03-song3 genre: rock;hard
04-song4 genre: pop;light
And I decide to play songs with the following criteria:
include rock, exclude grunge
This would return me songs
dborn Wrote:
And I decide to play songs with the following criteria:
include rock, exclude grunge
It's wrong because it's based on a faulty premise...
There is only include
There is no exclude.
It would be nice if there was one, IMHO.
But there isn't.
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I've experienced the same problem, once. I have one SB2,
one SB3 and a Linux host for slimserver, all wireless (Netgear
802.11b router). They had been in sync over many Ogg Vorbis
tracks but the SB3 lost it completely when the server started
streaming a FLAC track. I don't know why that would
Started in Windows years ago. Tried and found I really enjoy Linux. I
live on Linux Xandros in a Win AD domain at work, (do ipTel VoIP for
a living). Finding that Mac actually has Linux under its hood, and
that I have always liked their interface, I bought a Mac mini. I am
extremely
Alternately, you can just point Foobar to thelame.exe file on your machine in the encoder configuration dialog.
Larry
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oli wrote: just downloaded and installed foobar2000 but can't find where/how to convert my FLAC encoded files into mp3.
you
As far as my setup is concerned, I have only port 22 forwarded to my pc
with the SlimServer.
MrC,
A quick question for you, My SlimServer is running on an XP Pro machine
and my router does not have the capability to forward ports based on IP
Addresses. ITs an all or nothing deal. So, what
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