Just a quick follow-up:
1. Thanks to everyone for their assistance. Last night I got Slimserver
(version 6.0.2) working with MySQL on a FreeBSD system. (Next task is to
upgrade to 6.2.1).
2. The response of the web interface seemed slightly faster, but it was
difficult to be certain. I think
cliveb wrote:
Just a quick follow-up:
1. Thanks to everyone for their assistance. Last night I got Slimserver
(version 6.0.2) working with MySQL on a FreeBSD system. (Next task is to
upgrade to 6.2.1).
2. The response of the web interface seemed slightly faster, but it was
difficult to be
Sorry but i'm looking for a distributor
and for example Softline don't have any squeezebox 3
I'm a little bit anxious because i can't have any answer of
Slimdevices
I don't want to market Roku products - Please help me :))
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Just downloaded the nightly with this change and the UI is so much more
responsive it incredible. Re-scans also seem to be faster.
Still had to downgrade to FW28, as 29 doesn't work with my router.
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tanguy wrote:
I don't want to market Roku products - Please help me :)
You don't have to if you don't want to. Playing the Roku card just to
get a better response, really won't be very effective in this forum.
The resellers for Slim Devices products around the world are listed on
the
2. The response of the web interface seemed slightly faster, but it was
difficult to be certain. I think the thing which slows down the web
interface the most is the need to serve out all those little graphics.
My guess is that if there was a text-only version, it would be about an
order of
I wish there was simple easier way to scroll custom text when the
player is in screensaver mode.
Oh, I almost forgot about another of my plugins ;-) - MusicInfoSCR
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginServerUtilities).
Install this on your machine. Go to Server Settings/Formatting and
On 03/02/06, bossanova808
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Hey Doc
I can't definitively narrow down the slow down issues - it seems to
happen on a regular basis though, say avery few mins, perhaps when you
are polling the server? The minimise to tray icon definitely has some
bugs in that it
I'm a reseller in France and
I WANT to market Squeezebox 3
But if i want to sell i need to buy
My only solution for the moment is to buy direct to Slimdevices
at Public price ...
So i have to sell more expensive to my customer ( i don't want to do
that )
or i have a better price for me
tanguy wrote:
I'm a reseller in France and
I WANT to market Squeezebox 3
I see. Well, there is Progressive AV in the UK. They certainly have had
SB3 in stock. I'm a bit surprised that you are not getting a reponse
from Slim Devices. Many of them actively read and participate in the
I used mp3-player.de and I'm very satisfied with them.
http://tinyurl.com/95fhp
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While i love my SB3, Fastforwarding/rewinding is an absolute joke. Even
with WMA, MP3 and FLAC (all native) it never seems to work properly, at
all. Another major bug with an otherwise great bit of kit.
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I had a catastrophic drive failure a couple nights ago. Through some
creative means, I've managed to recover most of my music from backup and
good luck. My problem is that while most of the tags are good, either
the filenames themselves or the location is messed up. Is there a
possibility that
Yes or no... Does Slimserver v6 and higher rescan when the service
restarts (or if PC reboots)?
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you can probably do it with your tagger. if you're on windows, this one
supports FLAC and will batch rename files according to the tags easily
enough: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
- Original Message -
From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
Sent: Friday,
I had a catastrophic drive failure a couple nights ago. Through
some
creative means, I've managed to recover most of my music from backup
and
good luck. My problem is that while most of the tags are good,
either
the filenames themselves or the location is messed up. Is there a
possibility
Well I gave up in the end and bought a cheapo USB wireless adaptor.
Boo.
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Thanks Jim,
I exclusively use MP3 files and use Mp3tag to maintain the tags. I can
create a tag named compilation and set it to 1 but will it be
recognized by SS? I guess I could go digging in the perl code to try to
understand what it does but I would think that some people here
(especially the
There is a tag already for this but I'm at work and don't have the
source here. Either someone can step in or else I'll research it over
the weekend.
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I already have too many things that I need to pay for. Radio isn't one
of them (not even TV)...
Daniel
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There's a lengthy discussion of compilation behaviour over in the
Ripping thread - largely me trying to get my head round a particular
type of behaviour by the SB - which may help.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20595
Tag Rename does a fine job of adding the compilation tag
I just purchased an SB3. I have no problem connecting wired - but am not
having any luck with wireless. I've read a number of posts that say a
number of wireless connectivity issues have been fixed in firmware
version 29 that's a part of SlimServer v 6.2.2. (I'm running 6.2.1 with
firmware v28)
On 2/3/06, timwo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just purchased an SB3. I have no problem connecting wired - but am nothaving any luck with wireless.I've read a number of posts that say anumber of wireless connectivity issues have been fixed in firmware
version 29 that's a part of SlimServer v 6.2.2.
Where can I download this updated software/firmware?
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.2.2/
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No. And since rescans take some time on older
machines with limited RAM, it shouldn't be changed
to do so either.
All that's happening when the service restarts is
just that...the service restarting, which can take
some time with certain setups. Takes about 5
seconds for me. What takes a
I know, I know, its not their core business, but think of the $$ savings
in tech support. They could certainly buy enough for volume discounts,
and I for one would be happy to buy it from them at 'average' price (as
opposed to the ridiculous deep discounts you often see, for what I
assume are
hal9000 Wrote:
Positively...I need my Howard in the house (I have two car accounts
already)! Who do I write the check to? ;)
-hal
Plugin or not, no Howard. Unfortuantley only the music channels are
available online :(
-Greg
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From: Kevin Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr Lovegrove
wrote:
Currently the way it adds an album is to add the album itself, rather
than the tracks (so it's really a server issue)..
How does the Fishbone skin do it? When
...what kind of router are you using?
Check here:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=39
but note most of these findings haven't been
checked with firmware 29 yet.
timwo wrote:
I just purchased an SB3. I have no problem
connecting wired - but am not
having any luck with wireless.
How about the Linksys WRT54G? Except for WPA2,
all versions work with the SB2/3.
In fact, over 50% of the entries in that table are
working - I don't see where you're just seeing the
Belkin Pre-N.
This was more evident when there was two tables,
the working/non-working tables.
nicketynick
I have a Belkin F5D7230-4 802.11G router which works just fine with my
SB2 using FW28. I have this router 2years, so the hardware may have
changed inside te current version.
It also seems that the Atheros Wireless module Slim are using has
changed inside later SB2's and SB3, so I'm not sure how
GoCubs wrote:
Plugin or not, no Howard. Unfortuantley only the music channels are
available online :(
Though according to what he's said on his show this week, that's due to
change in the near future. They have to build out a lot of server
infrastructure first, though, to handle the
On 03/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
il.com
From: Kevin Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
How does the Fishbone skin do it? When I add an album through there it
is played in track order.
Im suspecting the problem's with adding the album's
nicketynick Wrote:
does Belkin have a good g-only router?
Comments?
Is it worth a poll?
My Cheapo Belkin G router (bought at.. um... Walmart...) works fine.
(It does have a 108Mbps Turbo Mode! which I haven't turned off, but
my SB2 doesn't seem bothered by it.)
F5D7231-4 with the current
Lust for the Nokia 770. Is it worth getting one for inhouse SB control
and casual surfing?
Well, I've had mine since mid November and I'd hate to be without it
now. It was good with a slightly tweaked handheld skin, but with Ben's
dedicated 770 skin it's just about perfect. Plus it is very good
Build 6.2.2 and firmware 29 fixed my problem! I can now connect
wirelessly. Unlike build 28, the SB3 obtained an IP address
automatically and found my Slim Server immediately.
I'm using an SMC7004AWBR wireless router. At the moment, encryption is
turned off - I'll play around with that later
dangerous_dom wrote:
While i love my SB3, Fastforwarding/rewinding is an absolute joke. Even
with WMA, MP3 and FLAC (all native) it never seems to work properly, at
all. Another major bug with an otherwise great bit of kit.
works fine for me, using MP3, SS ver 6.2. I don't use it much
I've followed your directions for both solutions, and I cannot get
either to show in the plugin section of slimserver.
I know its frustrating for me, so I can only imagine how it is for
you.
I opened your links, saved them as .pm in my plugins folder, stopped,
then re-started the slimserver
PAUL WILLIAMSON Wrote:
Yeah, not on Windows. I use easytag on linux. I'll check out easytag
to see if it does what I need. Good suggestion.
For Linux command line, use 'eyeD3' -- it reads/writes most of the id3
tags and can rename files as well.
--rename=NAME Rename file (the
This thread is fine, although you should also put
your conclusions in the wiki I linked to in order
to help others.
I tried the SMC2804WBRP-G with firmware 29 and an
SB2 - no joy. It sees the SSID, can't connect.
However I didn't reset to defaults on the SB2, so
it was perhaps not a good
Panka wrote:
'IN' for all five entries?
Yes, they need to be in. The Squeezeboxes must talk to the server.
-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
You're right on about the table - it was less ambiguous when it was a
working/non-working set-up, except for when the same router ended up in
both tables.
The linksys WRT54g does seem to be one of the more reliable, although
there have been a number of problem postings with it as well, IIRC,
I'm seeing this message in the log. My disk is NOT nearly full.
However, I'm running the server on an old small machine - 64meg memory,
266mh processor. (ain't linux grand?)
top shows very little remaining memory. is slimserver trying to pin
memory and running out?
what should I do short
nicketynick wrote:
The linksys WRT54g does seem to be one of the more
reliable, although
there have been a number of problem postings with it
as well, IIRC,
probably related to F/W updates either at SD or at
Linksys. And
therein lies the grist of the idea - if Slim would
tell us (and
Whoa - 64 MB of memory is not nearly enough. The
Slim service takes 60-80 MB all on its own (at
least on my Windows machine).
256 MB is the minimum you should have with
SlimServer and an OS.
Millwood wrote:
I'm seeing this message in the log. My disk is NOT
nearly full.
However, I'm
Richie wrote:
Lust for the Nokia 770. Is it worth getting one for inhouse SB control
and casual surfing?
Well, I've had mine since mid November and I'd hate to be without it
now.
Agreed. I've had mine for about a month now. Very handy for travel,
couch-bound Internet and SB control.
I usually don't use the fade-in, fade-out function on the SB, but I
would like to do a playlist of all live tracks where I would want
fade-in and fade-out. Can I make this a trait of a specific playlist
without changing my ordinary setting?
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Here's the correct link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=62827
This works - I just tried it.
X-10 really is lousy for reliability. First, it's very vulnerable to
false commands due to noise. When my contractor plugged in a halogen
light into an outlet, a bunch of
Like you, I cannot get the SMC2804WBRP-G to work with the SB3 in
wireless mode. It sees the SSID and can't connect.
It takes my laptop longer to connect to the SMC2804 than the SMC7004.
I wonder if there's a way to increase the timeout duration past 20
seconds on the SB3 - maybe then it would
Millwood Wrote:
I'm seeing this message in the log. My disk is NOT nearly full.
However, I'm running the server on an old small machine - 64meg memory,
266mh processor. (ain't linux grand?)
top shows very little remaining memory. is slimserver trying to pin
memory and running out?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr Lovegrove
wrote:
Im suspecting the problem's with adding the album's path, rather than
database ID (but can't repeat the problem myself)..
I'm confused now as *every* album I queue up with Moose plays in collating
sequence rather than track number. It's not
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Kevin Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Weller wrote:
I'm not
sure how I'd add an album from 'browse folders' as I don't have each folder
in a separate folder.
Er, I'll try that again - I don't have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/03/06 12:58 PM
PAUL WILLIAMSON Wrote:
Yeah, not on Windows. I use easytag on linux. I'll check out
easytag
to see if it does what I need. Good suggestion.
For Linux command line, use 'eyeD3' -- it reads/writes most of the id3
tags and can rename files as
* timwo shaped the electrons to say...
I'm using an SMC7004AWBR wireless router. At the moment, encryption is
turned off - I'll play around with that later today. I also have an SMC
barricade G (SMC2804WBRP-G) that I will try to work with. Is there a
place (other than this thread) where I
I read some enthousiastic Nokia 770 stories here. In some spec sheet, I
read that the battery lasts about three hours before needing to be
recharged. I guess that leaves the 770 about useless for daily use,
because I always play music in random mode and will want to look at the
display almost all
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You can recharge it while using it. Would you really be looking at it
constantly? I use random play a lot but I only look at Now Playing if
a track I don't recognize comes up. A quick tap on the screen (with
the stylus or my finger) and it wakes up, refreshes Now Playing, and
goes back to
My experience is similar to Ben's. I charge about twice a week.
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The battery lasts for days in standby mode, which it enters when you
slide it into the protective case with the screen facing in.
It's roughly equivalent to a laptop or cell phone that only lasts a few
hours of active use but, because of standby, can be effectively used all
day in sporadic (aka
I bought a shiny new router today with a 5dbi wireless signal strength
and Gigabit ethernet. My ZyXEL router wasn't giving me a strong enough
signal.
As far as I can tell, I can connect okay to the wireless network. I
did a factory reset on the SB3 by pulling the plug then replugging
whilst
try connecting to the Squeezenetwork. If you can connect to that then
you know it't not an SB/Wireless problem.
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Ok, I've changed the code to point towards the text document that
conatins the text I want to scoll.
I've saved Dateibetrachter.pm in the c:\program
files\slimserver\server\plugins folder.
I've stopped and re-started the slimserver service, but I cannot view
the plugin in the server plugin
Hello!
I'm wondering if there is any way to remove or hide the PLAYING (XX OF
XX) text, at the top of the vfd when playing.
It would look a lot nicer if there was only for example
11. A Murder Of One
alongside with the visualizer to the right, but without any text over
the title.
Perhaps
There you go. Now I don't have to look it up. Thanks, Siduhe
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I'm sticking with my WRT54G (a version 1.0!) until it dies. It's a
great wee router (and although the firmware I'm currently running needs
a reboot once every 12 months it's close to perfect).
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My Greatest Hits albums are getting grouped under Various Artists,
even tho the artist tag is the same for each of the albums (eg Chicago,
Aerosmith, etc).
I tried changing the setting for Common Album Titles and re-scanning,
but the artist (eg Chicago) still doesn't show up under
You could set the text to large, which suppresses
display of the top line. I believe in one of the
display modes you'll have a small spectrum
analyzer on the right.
revve wrote:
Hello!
I'm wondering if there is any way to remove or hide
the PLAYING (XX OF
XX) text, at the top of the vfd
Try the excellent MusicInfo screensaver at
http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/ This allows lots of customisation
of top and botom rows of the display.
davep
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squeezeslave is a command line C program to play audio from the
slimserver. It has not gui so all player control has to be done using a
web browser or another program like Moose.
A new release of squeezeslave is available today, you can download
binaries for Windows, Linux and OSX from:
When I ripped a recent CD in Windows Media Player to .wma format it did
not download the Album information. I have since gone into Advanced
Editor within Windows Media Player and have edit the tags, howere Slime
Server does not see the tag information. What is the best way to edit
the .wma file
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Hmm. Thanks for the feedback, everyone. It seems like the only
solution would be to go back to slimserver 5.4, then?
That would be a bit of a drag...
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washburn Wrote:
It seems like the only solution would be to go back to slimserver 5.4,
then?
Well, in the short term, perhaps.
A better solution would be to file a bug report saying it doesn't work
properly, and see if they won't fix it.
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mherger Wrote:
I wish there was simple easier way to scroll custom text when the
player is in screensaver mode.
Oh, I almost forgot about another of my plugins ;-) - MusicInfoSCR
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginServerUtilities).
Install this on your machine. Go to Server
Running the Windows version on my PC, with slimserver on a Linux box, I
can see the player on the web interface, but trying to do anything with
it basically locks up slimserver. I kill the squeezeslave window and
slimserver immediately unlocks.
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I played songs on my computer using squeezeslave and foobar2000. The
squeezeslave output did have some definite background noise. Let me
know if there is anything I can do to give you some more helpful
feedback.
Win2000
SS 6.2.1
squeezeslave 0.3
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There is a bug open against this behaviour. You could vote for it.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670
The more votes, the more they consider it.
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Go Cubs,
Could you please explain in detail?
I'm a newbie at this, and although I have and love your plug-in, I have
no idea how to add customized text.
Thanks in advance.
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One last time - does anybody have apple lossless files streaming without
white noise between tracks?
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Don't use apple lossless at all, sorry.
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I'm using Apple Lossless on OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.4(Intel). I have a
little over 300 discs ripped using iTunes. I haven't had any problems
with white noise. I have an SB3 and am running SS 6.2.1 on the 10.3.9
machine and SS 6.5.1b1 on the Intel machine. I use the digital coax
output into an HK
jasenj1 Wrote:
I'm using Apple Lossless on OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.4(Intel). I have a
little over 300 discs ripped using iTunes. I haven't had any problems
with white noise. I have an SB3 and am running SS 6.2.1 on the 10.3.9
machine and SS 6.5.1b1 on the Intel machine. I use the digital
This maybe a little off topic, but you might find this helpful. There's
a new service at mp3tunes.com. It's a n online music backup/syncing
service. A nominal yearly fee (I think it was $30) and you get
unlimited storage with some automatic syncing features. It also has a
nifty web playback
PAUL WILLIAMSON Wrote:
I don't want just the filename to be changed. I want the entire
location of the file to change. I have about 5,000 songs
at the root of a usb drive, and another 2,000 in the
lost+found directory on the music drive. I need something
to read the ID3 tags and
How's this:
cp -a baddrive /mnt/music/need-to-sort
(ie, make a backup first thing, then go hide that dying drive ... work
on the backup dataset instead of the stuff you just got back.. heck make
a backup of it now on DVDRW's or something just to be extra paranoid)
cd /mnt/music/need-to-sort
eyeD3
I know this is a strange request, as it has nothing to do with the
Squeezebox per se, but I also know there are a lot of Perl programmers
here. So#8230;.
Can someone out there write me a little Perl script? It'd be a dead
simple program, and I can pay you for your time and trouble.
Basically
I've noticed the errors too. Actually had to reboot my fileserver the
other night!! There's a memory leak in something. I've got 512MB,
Slackware-current, 1.8Ghz Athlon XP, Slimserver 6.2.1. Today I saw the
error on the monitor attached to my server and noticed my Squeezeboxes
were both stuck at
* notanatheist shaped the electrons to say...
I've noticed the errors too. Actually had to reboot my fileserver the
other night!! There's a memory leak in something. I've got 512MB,
Slackware-current, 1.8Ghz Athlon XP, Slimserver 6.2.1. Today I saw the
error on the monitor attached to my server
Hey...
Case:
I need to build a setup where i in my hostingcenter will stream out to
about 50-100 different clients, not placed inside hosting-LAN.
Is it possible to somwhow get the Squeezebox to receive a stream named
fex. just IP number or stream.domain.net ?
We have ordered a squeezebox,
Post more specifics please. This sounds like a 2 minute code dump :)
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I posted this to jobs.perl.org by the way, as well as a Perl newsgroups
You can assume the directory is called DirectoryName, and contains
files of only two types: .txt files, and .tif files. The directory
will contain files something like this:
FileName1.txt
FileName1.tif
FileName2.txt
It wasn't clear.
Has anyone had any luck with MySQL 5?
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ok that's a bit more than a 2 minute brain dump :)
I am up late tonight, the baby doesn't feel like sleeping, which means
no one in the house sleeps :) Soon as I get a 10 minute break in the
action I'll whip this out for you
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^^^ Cool!
Then just PM me with your address, and I'll mail you a check.
Thx
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It's not possible at the moment, but it's been requested at least once
before.
If you have an application for 100+ Squeezeboxes we could probably make
this happen.
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I can't connect to SqueezeNetwork either. I can connect to the server
using Putty to open an SSH session and I can ping it from the command
line in Windows. I think it's something to do with the two routers and
port forwarding or some such thing, but I'm not sure how these things
ought to be
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