Hi
Actually this capability is already there, its just not referred to in
the blurb. You can use the keyword COMPOSER in a title format string
and Slimserver will happily use it in both the web interface and the
standard UI.
So the request should probably be add COMPOSER to the blurb so we
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DJMUK Wrote:
At least with MP3tag you can sort all your albums in one list by Artist
and then select each Artist in turn to set the new tag. Great
advantage if you have multiple albums by same artist. It also, of
course, will include any on
Mark,
Sorry to hear you are having problems when other people are using
theirs fine.
The product as it ships supports the native formats of the Squeezebox
range and we are working as hard as we can to support the other
formats. OGG is now available and I hope to have AAC available this
weekend
Paul,
Just wanted to wish you guys good luck. We SB owners appreciate every
new third party product that we can use with our Squeezebox. It sounds
like you guys had some teathing problems but are fixing them quickly and
producing an excellent product. If I hadn't built my own silent server
(a
Mark Norton Wrote:
No point you buying a drive duplicator because if you don't get
SlimServer working on the QNAP, your sales are going to dry up anyway.
I'm on the point of returning mine, not fit for purpose. Hello? The
general idea is that you do the development and testing before you con
does the $100 off when you buy two offer apply?
Is it true that Roku will be bringing out an iWatch which will use your
server software to produce a less reliable service on a more cylindrical
device?
Fairy
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Do I need a plugin for it?
If you have a SB2/3 you shouldn't need anything. If you've got a SB1,
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Try this alternative stream:
http://ms2.radio-canada.ca/EspaceMusique.ogg.m3u
But keep in mind that ogg can't be played natively by the player.
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However, once the selection has been played and the player stops, the
original FOUND LIST is gone. Pressing the LEFT ARROW produces only
NOW PLAYING. I would need to re-enter my search from the beginning.
Use another screensaver, like the Now playing (Jump back on wake) or my
MusicInfoSCR
Sorry for the scant information.
I'm using Mac OSX.4.5 (dual 1.8 G5 with 1.5GB RAM))
I don't know the version of SlimServer (I assume the latest because I
downloaded it 3 days ago)
I'm mostly listening to AIFF files but also AAC files on the local
drive (I don't notice a difference in
I've always used the fishbone skin, since I liked the information shown
in that skin. I've also modofied the latest versions of it to still
show me the cover images...
However lately Ive realised that the skin is slow and one of the
reasons for the music stopping and stuttering when browsing
You can observe the CPU used by vartious processes from Activity Monitor
(in the Utilities folder).
There are some issues, I think, with refreshing the Web browser. It
sometimes takes over the system for just long enough to cause hiccups.
You don't, after all, have to use the browser at all,
This problem is strange, those station works fine for me, what version
of firmware are you using ?
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If only your post had arrived yesterday Geoff, I've done them all now. I
must make a donation, MP3tag is really well written software, far
superior to othe products which cost $30 to register. I must also send
that postcard in for EAC. Mareo needs a bit of work I must get around
to documenting
I sent him a book from his Amazon wishlist...
Well worth it.
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does the $100 off when you buy two offer apply?
Yes. This month only, renewed every month.
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Which programing lanuge was used to make this?
C++ PHP??
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Well, thanks for the info JJZolx - much appreciated. Guess it looks
like I might be hunting for a Squeezebox 2 on Ebay for a while... BTW,
what I'm thinking of trying is putting my SliMP3 (or a Squeezebox),
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Which programing lanuge was used to make this?
C++ PHP??
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Well, thanks for the info JJZolx - much appreciated. Guess it looks
like I might be hunting for a Squeezebox 2 on Ebay for a while
I have a Platinum Wireless SB2 which I would be happy to trade for a
black wireless SB3.
Let me know if you're interested.
R.
some1 wrote:
Which programing lanuge was used to make this?
C++ PHP??
To make what?
slimserver is written in perl.
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The problem would be reduced if the text that is displayed when the unit
is off scrolled across the screen slowly, or maybe bounced back and
forth across it. If it moved 1 pixel in 10 seconds it would spread the
load over the whole display and eliminate the uneven burn-in problem by
spreading it
I'm using sb3 which I bought 2 weeks ago, running on winXP home,
and the urls that you all mentioned work fine streaming with
windows media player and the player from the station's site,
http://radio-canada.ca/radio2/index.html (the en direct button on the
left)just can't connect with
tyler_durden wrote:
The problem would be reduced if the text that is displayed when the unit
is off scrolled across the screen slowly, or maybe bounced back and
forth across it. If it moved 1 pixel in 10 seconds it would spread the
load over the whole display and eliminate the uneven burn-in
I've been using the READYNAS device from infrant for over a year now and
am very happy with it as a Slimserver music server. Infrant offers a
module for download that turns their NAS into a slimserver server. It
is slower than using a computer but it saves a great deal on your
electricity bill.
Howdy,
I just pulled a recent version (as of 4/02) of the slimprotolib (via
SoftSqueeze) and tried to build it. A few comments:
1) You might want to mention in the readme that you need to have the
FLAC source installed. I didn't have any FLAC installed and then I
tried to install the packaged
holderlin Wrote:
I don't understand the server/processor question. What is the server (I
thought it was the SB3)?
Sorry, I should have been more specific. The Mac is the server, the
SB3 is the client. I was just looking for hardware details, which you
provided. Stuttering on web page load
Hmm...started to post, then computer crashed.
Another code example, this time Foxpro.
you may wish to prevent Windows from shutting down under certain
conditions, such as an import process not being complete. In that case,
you'd bind to the WM_POWERBROADCAST message and return
Sorry to re-post on an old/open subject, but I am still to receive a
response from Slim after almost 2 weeks and am becoming slightly
disillusioned and fed up. In the hope that this post either jogs
someone at Slim in to action or receives a solution/suggestion from a
forum member here goes...
I
Certainly the server is not underpowered.
But you did say you were running on an Airport network. If you mean
Airport and not Airport Extreme, that is only 892.11b which is a little
slow for aiff files.
However, as you said it works the second time you try, I think my
earlier suggestion is
It's all to do with expectation. I bought (ordered) this product in
November since when there's been the countless missed delivery dates,
the bull about the Chinese New Year and the rest. Even if there were
problems in getting the hardware shipped, presumably Progressive could
have been working
You may want to try upgrading to the latest nightly of 6.2.2. A number
of firmware revisions have been made to correct problems with various
wireless configurations. There is a list of wireless configurations
that have been tested. I just did a quick search, and there is also a
critical bug
Mark Norton Wrote:
It's all to do with expectation. I bought (ordered) this product in
November since when there's been the countless missed delivery dates,
the bull about the Chinese New Year and the rest. Even if there were
problems in getting the hardware shipped, presumably Progressive
What about the web brower bit?
is that all html?
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What about the web brower bit?
is that all html?
html, css, template toolkit and some skins are now using ajax.
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I've just installed 6.2.2 but when I try opening it up, nothing happens,
the icon in the task pane just keeps flashing on and off, saying that
Slimserver is starting, but it never does. I've re-installed 6.2.1 and
it works fine.
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html, css, template toolkit and some skins are now using ajax.
AJAX is just a buzzword, though, referring to a combination of HTML,
Javascript, and some sort of data format (usually XML or JSON).
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I've just installed 6.2.2 but when I try opening it up, nothing
happens,
the icon in the task pane just keeps flashing on and off, saying that
Slimserver is starting, but it never does. I've re-installed 6.2.1 and
it works fine.
install 6.2.2 again.
Fifer Wrote:
That's a good reason for using lossless, but not necessarily Apple
lossless. I (and many others) use FLAC for the same reason. Others use
WMA lossless.
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On 4/2/06, kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
html, css, template toolkit and some skins are now using ajax.
AJAX is just a buzzword, though, referring to a combination of HTML,
Javascript, and some sort of data format (usually XML or JSON).
yes, it
Just tried re-installing it twice and still no joy.
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Thanks ceejay. I guess I should have been more enterprising and just
tried adding COMPOSER!
I did vote for your bugs. Obviously classical music fans share a lot
of the same frustrations in a TITLE/ARTIST/ALBUM world, and I hope
others will make the (tiny) effort to vote for your suggestions too.
On 2-Apr-06, at 11:36 AM, oli wrote:
Just tried re-installing it twice and still no joy.
apologies for perhaps being too simplistic. I don't run the installer
on windows personally, so I'm only reiterating what has been reported
in the forum several times. It may be that I forgot an
See http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368 for discussion and
workarounds. Some things called WMA play, some don't, and the server
can't tell which are which. Older versions of SlimServer, which simply
transcode all WMA to something else, play this stream. (I listen to
it, in fact.)
Mark,
I'll answer a few of your questions.
Firstly we made a mistake about announcing the product so early. Qnap
prommised us the product would launch back at the end of October last
year and they kept pushing it back and pushing it back. We could have
had a small amount of units just before
As Michael says, Slimserver won't decode Ogg natively. I don't know if
this applies to radio streams as well as .ogg files, but you may need
to install LAME on your PC to get this stream to work - it's pretty
straightforward, see the Wiki below. Upgrading to 6.2.2. may also help
- it isn't far
Several forum members are using the WebLogger plugin to display whats
currently playing on their Squeezeboxes on their personal web sites.
My philosophy: Why spend five minutes implementing a perfectly
functional existing solution when you can spend 30 or 40 hours doing a
substandard version of
After re-installing 6.2.2 again and being unsuccessful again, I tried
re-starting the computer. On the password screen I get a pop-up screen
headed slim.exe - Application Error, it says,
The instruction at 0x0012e838 referenced memory at 0x. The
memory could not be written.
Click on OK
Today I haven't had any troubles with it. I will try to use the remote.
I'll have to get accustomed to the remote after all this time
controlling music via keyboard.
Thanks for suggestions, I'll let you know how things go.
Bob
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Have Slimserver 6.2.1-5194 with Fishbone running in Firefox 1.05.01 and
Internet Explorer 6.0.28. All ran fine until rescanned music, now IE
working fine but all graphics broken in Fishbone on Firefox. Also
broken are even the little red graphics to load playlists, etc. Have
tried refreshing
gdsqueeze Wrote:
Again what version of firmware is running on your squeezebox ? are you
using slimserver 6.2.1 ? or the latest 6.2.2 nightly release ? I am
running the latest nightly release without problem accessing those
station (when installing the latest 6.2.2 server the firmware of your
This message is very helpful, but not all remotes are recognized by my
Squeezebox. I've got 10 or so remotes from old iMacs. I'd love to
have them configured so that I could leave them all over the house and
not worry about finding a remote. Other remotes create lines like
this:
2006-04-02
Hello,
I have just registered after a few weeks of interested lurking in these
forums. I have encountered my first problem: When I double-click the
SlimServer icon in the taskbar (or run it from the desktop or Start
menu), it says SlimServer Starting... but it never does. Can anyone
help?
You also cannot transcode any non-native formats to play on the device
either. After much considderation this made me decide to pass on the
ReadyNAS and go for a real server instead (which i've also used for a
PVR/HTPC). At the moment i'm using AlienBBC for BBC radio stations, but
will be using a
On 2-Apr-06, at 2:09 PM, khuongkt wrote:
Hello,
I have just registered after a few weeks of interested lurking in these
forums. I have encountered my first problem: When I double-click the
SlimServer icon in the taskbar (or run it from the desktop or Start
menu), it says SlimServer
It could be that you have another application running on port 9000.
Tim
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Thank you both. It turns out all I needed was a reinstall!
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It's also considerably more expensive than a cheap PC based server,
which will wipe out any savings from electricity (which, to be honest,
are going to be minimal).
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I'm running a SlimP3, and I'm finding that many stations coded at 96 kbps
won't play. Is this a limitation on the SlimP3 or do I have a
server/installation problem. I could have sworn these streams played before
I switched over to 6.x. The streams play just fine on Softsqueeze.
Bruce
..M3U playlists have been broken for a while, I was surprised there was
no more uproar about it. It seems to me many people in this forum have
such an emotional connection to the SQB that they ignore the
idiosynchrasies - when I reported the broken M3U lists, the automatic
assumption was it was
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I'm running a SlimP3, and I'm finding that many stations coded at 96 kbpswon't play.Is this a limitation on the SlimP3 or do I have aserver/installation problem. I could have sworn these streams played before
I switched over to 6.x. The streams play
Hi,
I see there is a podcast browser but I don't see how to get to it. It
doesn't show up on any of my menu selections. Do I need to have ITunes
installed (I don't)?
Sorry if this is a stupid question as I've never actually listened to a
podcast...never had the need until now that I saw the
Are you running Windows XP with SP2 installed ?
That error appears to be a data execution error message - very odd.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=875352product=windowsxpsp2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912923/
I would try uninstalling Slimserver completely - maybe using a
On 2-Apr-06, at 3:35 PM, pablolie wrote:
The occurrence of a bug like that
is what separates a world class consumer product from a promising toy,
in my opinion.
it's a freaking beta...get off it.
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Hi,
I see there is a podcast browser but I don't see how to get to it.
server settings-plugins. look for the podcast browser section. you
can then add podcast urls to that list.
to access them, look in the player menus for plugins, press right
KDF, thanks for the code changes. For going to the current song, that
worked like a champ (even though the existing code seems to have
changed, using the latest nightly 6.5 build)
Little confused on the changing of the height for the play/add/etc
buttons. You mention the browsedb_list file and
You can only access the podcast browser from the player, not from the
web interface, and only when slimserver is running - not from
SqueezeNetwork.
Plugins / Podcast Browser (although you can move this up to the top
level if you want). There are two podcast alley links to get you
started, or
Millwood Wrote:
The 6.2.2 beta was broken sometimes between 3-22 and 3-25 and has not
yet, AFAIK, been fixed. See (and vote for) bug 3201
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3201
I think this is fixed in the latest nightly - 6803. Try downloading
again tomorrow and see if it's
and in case you may have missed it...the bug was marked fixed for
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KDF, thanks for the code changes. For going to the current song, that
worked like a champ (even though the existing code seems to have
changed, using the latest nightly 6.5 build)
yes, many changes in 6.5. Probably more to come, and I'll certainly
you can get the original at forums.slimdevices.com. it isn't necessary
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Try KBCS-FM http://kbcs.fm/site/PageServer?pagename=listenlive
attached is the playlist file.
bruce
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kdf Wrote:
On 2-Apr-06, at 3:35 PM, pablolie wrote:
The occurrence of a bug like that
is what separates a world class consumer product from a promising
toy,
in my opinion.
it's a freaking beta...get off it.
You mentioned earlier growing weary with the incessant whining of the
I can't add much about hardware requirements -- P II or better and 128MB
RAM is _more_ than enough for most home set ups. You don't have to start
with a huge hard drive if you use LVM but it is usually better to go
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Robin,
I just wanted to say thank you for your apply-replaygain.pl script. It
works like a charm, and saved me from having to write one. I would have
appended this thanks to the thread where I first found your script, but
for the life of me I couldn't find it. Go figure.
So, again, thanks.
That sounds pretty cool, thanks for all the hard work, Jon!
The really cool part would be if you could use this to display what's
playing on your Squeezebox in a sig file which could be displayed on
these forums. The forum isn't currently set up to display sigs, but
most vBulletin forums are,
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ThanksTry KBCS-FMhttp://kbcs.fm/site/PageServer?pagename=listenliveattached is the playlist file.Hey Bruce,Yeah, something seems to be going on with at least that stream. I can't play it on my SliMP3 or my SB3. Server says this:
2006-04-02
I edited the cmdwrappers_fishbone file per your post and poof the evil
play button is gone. Thanks!
In my searches and browsings I was starting to think that the EN
directory looked like a default location that skins fell back on for
info. I pulled up the files you mentioned in your first post
fwiw, they seem to have messed up the MIME types. I can't play the mp3
streams from their web page: instead I get the PLS file displayed in
Firefox.
Content-Type: text/plain
That would break things.
It should be audio/x-scpls, not text/plain.
The live365 link on that page should work.
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timmorris thnaks for the response.
My problem is that the uncheck songs in ITune check box will not stay
the way I want it - I want to display songs that are not checked. I
rip using ITunes and use lossless.
As far as my characterization of SS, I think it is about right. The
problem is that
Tried that. Didn't make a difference.
I did a couple of more trials. Somewhere between the time I start the
song and when the songs ends, Slimp3 forgets the previous search. I
don;t have to wait for the end and for the screensaver to kick in.
I just want to be able to, say... play the next
The problem is inherent with vacuum fluorescent displays. One person
has complained, but the product is new. In a year or two from now,
everyone's display will be fading/burned. Look at any VCR with a
vacuum fluorescent display. In a year or so they fade. In 5 years you
can't read them any
Like the music you play when on the bicycle?
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From what I've read, it is also, apparently NOT meant to be an acronym
This begins to sound like the
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My SliMP3 is around 4 years old and shows no burn-in whatsoever.
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Like the music you play when on the bicycle?
I was listening to some fast Chemical Brothers stuff yesterday.
I was averaging over 35 kph, reaching 40 kph. I sustained that for 16
minutes, 10 km.
Needless to say, quite a workout.
But I'm really starting to like
I have ReadyNAS NV and tried slimserver on it. It works but you cannot
add any additional plug-ins (it comes with LastFM plugin).
It is also quite noisy -- noisy enough not to place it in a media room.
My media PC with 5 hard drives and 4 fans (CPU, power supply, inlet,
and outlet fan) makes
Robin Bowes wrote:
lnxguru wrote:
If you want to practice your Linux skills you could use telnet/ssh for
command line or consider using a remote X server. Cygwin and
Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows. The power and RAM
you'll need for this will depend on what else you're
Thanks for checking. I'll search for known bugs tomorrow. Maybe others
with Slimp3s or SBs could check too to see if this (Live365) stream is a
problem for everyone. I know there are other streams that don't work for me
too (I wonder if they are all 96kbps). I'll pass on a few of these
tyler_durden Wrote:
Look at any VCR with a vacuum fluorescent display. In a year or so they
fade. In 5 years you can't read them any more.
I have a VCR from 1996 whose display has dimmed, but is still perfectly
legible.
I have a microwave from 1998 whose display is at least as legible.
Well my problem goes away as soon as I switch to WEP 64 bit. It seems
that the SB2 is having a problem staying connected to my Motorola
Surfboard 900 with WPA encryption. I've contacted Slimdevices tech
support and they only said 'h, that's odd.'. Hopefully they
will get a Surfboard in
It seems I have run into another problem. I'm not sure if the problem
lies with SlimServer or Softsqueeze, but on certain .WAV tracks the
output from my notebook has accelerated speed, like if someone had
messed with audio editing. I'm sure you've heard it before: the vocals
take on a
khuongkt Wrote:
It seems I have run into another problem. I'm not sure if the problem
lies with SlimServer or Softsqueeze, but on certain .WAV tracks the
output from my notebook has accelerated speed, like if someone had
messed with audio editing. I'm sure you've heard it before: the vocals
I am using Softsqueeze on the notebook. I recorded the files using
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Robin Bowes wrote:
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for
command line or consider using a remote X server. Cygwin and
Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows. The power and
RAM
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