Ah, interesting.
I think I mananged to figure out the plugins but am not using 6.5 so it
didn't work fully. I may try you option as I am happy with the standby
option.
Thanks all again for the input.
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said:
On 4/19/06, patrija
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I have 2 SB2s connecting to Slimserver running on a Dell Server and a
Nokia 770 as a remote. Music is AAC and managed with playlists via
iTunes. Internet is Comcast cable
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:30:17 -0700, Cubed
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I too have a Netgear DG834, though mine is the 'GT' model which
supposedly has a 108Mbps option. I too have been experiencing constant
stuttering and dropouts with the SB3.
I've just loaded Firmware 41 and the latest 6.5
Replying to the original question posted, I have a Belkin 802.11G router
and have had a very solid experience with it. From day1 it's worked
flawlessly.
However there are few other Wirless networks in my area. My experience
may not correspond with yours.
How many WLAN are visible in something
Although I've had numerious problems since getting my SB they were
entirely due to either Windoze's view of how to manage my wireless
network or my decision to build a new uber PC to run house my music
collection.
I now have a wireless setup which seems 100% reliable when streaming
Apple
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:55:46 -0700, hifisteve
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Although I've had numerious problems since getting my SB they were
entirely due to either Windoze's view of how to manage my wireless
network or my decision to build a new uber PC to run house my music
collection.
There's
Peter, I disagree.
My router works perfectly with other music streaming devices (Airport
express,Roku) not to mention laptops and desktops. It may well be at
the bottom of the table when it comes to throughput but this only seems
to affect the SB3 which would lead me to assume it is at least
There's another important issue here. It is unwise to let both the SB
and the PC that runs slimserver connect to the AP wirelessly. The
server
should be connected (optionally by a switch) to the wired port of the
access point. If both the server and the client connect wirelessly,
the
traffic over
A friend of mine has a problem with his SB3. It sounds like a hardware
fault to me, as I have guided him through a clean install of 6.2.2 with
FW41, performing a factory reset of the squeezebox.
His problem is that he can connect the squeezebox to slimserver via his
wireless LAN using WPA
Have you checked the advanced settings of the PCI card? I've read about
people having problems due to the power saving feature in XP. If you
disable that, it might solve the problem.
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Final note: running SlimServer on a device connected wirelessly is a
bad idea. Wireless bandwidth problems will be compounded due to the
stream going over 2 hops. Some people do this and if it works for
them, more power to them, but if you experience wireless
Michael,
My Palm T|X is running OS 5.4.9 so my experience may not be relevant to
this bug. In any case, the problems described in both bug reports -
unresponsive Next and Volume controls - do not occur on my set up and
I can repeatedly move to next song and put volume up and down using the
Yes. The latest nightlies have an Intel native control panel though.
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(http://www.livingwithmusic.com/index.php/main/cd_sleeves/) which
reviews both the JewelSleeves and another similar option.
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I'm not sure why people think wireless is a panacea. It's not. It's a
technology in it's infancy.
I run wireless in my home because I don't own the walls (I'm renting).
I also run wireless at my work location and at my girlfriends work
location. So I have some small experience with this.
We
and this has what to do with slim devices and squeezeboxes?
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people having troubles with windows xp sp2 wireless zero configuration
service might find the following article helpful (or not).
How to troubleshoot wireless network connections in Windows XP Service
Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870702/en-us
FWIW, I upgraded to sp2 solely for this
Oh, and I should have pointed out that, when entering a password for WEP
or WPA, watch out for trailing spaces. They're next to impossible to
spot, but they matter and screw things up.
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In 2 seperate locations I use a Linksys WRT54G or WRT54GS. I have
replaced the firmware with sveasoft.com tailsman. I have had zero
problems with the wireless on my SB(es). I play mostly flac and have
been very happy.
Well actually I do have one problem. My microwave totally ruins the
wickedbob wrote:
Hasn't done much about my problem though.
Neither does complaining. Have you contacted support?
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Bravo MichaelWagner for a well constructed post containing much useful
information to someone new to wireless networking. It must have taken
you a while and I hope it solves somebodies problem somewhere.
It however convieniently skirts the issues raised by my post, namely
that the SB3 seems to
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Oh, and I should have pointed out that, when entering a password for WEP
or WPA, watch out for trailing spaces. They're next to impossible to
spot, but they matter and screw things up.
I think I have indadvertently added a space to the end of my WPA
password in SB3, but
Bennett, Gavin (LDN Int) Wrote:
Windows has some major bad points but if done carefuly can very
succesful.
My next project is too add Exchange Server, Outlook Web Access and a
HTTPS
web site to the slimp3 server - it has plenty of capacity to run these
as
well.
I've got an Athlon
On 4/20/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally, the last issue would be security.You would probably want to investigate some sort of VPN solution between the two networks because SlimServer really isn't designed to be left open to the internet.There
have been numerous threads about this.VPN
timmorris Wrote:
Having said that if I try running any of the nightlies with the latest
firmware all 3 stop playing at seemingly random points.
Can you please try firmware 43 available in the latest nightly. This
includes a fix for this problem.
Richard
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On 4/20/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally, the last issue would be security. You would probably want to
investigate some sort of VPN solution between the two networks because
SlimServer really isn't
hey guys,
I am new to this forum. I love the Squeezebox 3, for now I am serving
my MP3's and WAV files (iTunes catalogued) from a MAC running
SlimServer. Once the device scanned my music, it's been a joy to
retrieve media without having to stare at a bright computer screen.
Before this I was
Cubed Wrote:
It however convieniently skirts the issues raised by my post, namely
that the SB3 seems to be unduly sensitive to certain routers when
everything else on the network works.
It wasn't meant to skirt but to educate.
It's a difficult swamp to negotiate, and the territory keeps
wickedbob Wrote:
Yes that page is not very helpful.
There is limited information on the page and no indication of the ratio
of users with problems and without problems.
Also my router is listed there with no apparent problems.
I beg to differ.
It's hard to say what will work for you and
Excellent post Michael, I just wanted to add to it.
Michaelwagner Wrote:
10. Published reports say WEP encryption is crackable. I don't know how
much power that needs, but what used to take a Cray can now be done on
a laptop. If you were a determined hacker, you could stuff the back of
a
Wow. Looks like my thread is dying. Oh well. In the above graphic. I
have one SB downstairs driving my Cambridge Soundwork system (so I can
view whats playing) while the other is hooked into my multi-zone
system.
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Cubed Wrote:
I'm sorry, I didn't see this written on the box, in the manual or
anywhere else for that matter. Obviously it doubles the throughput but
then that should be no problem when streaming mp3's at 250ish VBR
It's not merely the drop in throughput, it's the fact that it has to go
Mark, I obviously tried hardwiring the server as a test - at least I
thought that might isolate the problem but it made no difference. Even
with the server hardwired I couldn't stream internet radio or low bit
rate MP3's (I do have a few!) let alone anything approaching lossless.
As I said,
bobharp Wrote:
Wow. Looks like my thread is dying. Oh well. In the above graphic. I
have one SB downstairs driving my Cambridge Soundwork system (so I can
view whats playing) while the other is hooked into my multi-zone
system.
I really appreciate your diagram, as I am planning to
I have one SB in the den with the analog outputs going into my Russound
whole house system and the digital (coax) driving my Marantz den
receiver.
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I have one SB in the den with the analog outputs going into my Russound
whole house system and the digital (coax) driving my Marantz den
receiver.
Had not thought of that. One SB with multiple outputs. Cool.
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Hi Philip,
You specify that it happens with mp3 files. Does it also happen with
other music files or is it only mp3? That would be VERY strange!
You also note he's running FW41. Did he have the same symptoms under
FW28, do you know?
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Apologies if this has been discussed before...
I've got SlimServer 6.2.1, 6.2.2, and 6.5b (6.2.2 and 6.5b builds as of
20th April). I wanted to see if there was any real gain in moving from
6.2.1 to 6.2.2.
As a side note, one thing I noticed is that 6.2.2 seems to consume a
great deal of CPU
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/aircrack/ can crack WEP in as little as 2
seconds.
Doesn't require anything more sophisticated than a laptop.
That's sobering ...
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It's a nice idea, though. It's just that my setup's a bit complicated
and it's quite a job to make a diagram.
Regards,
Peter
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:44:46 -0700, bobharp
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Wow. Looks like my thread is dying. Oh well. In the above graphic. I
have one SB downstairs
Actually, speaking to him again today, most of his files are WMA.
However, the same rebooting problem occurs if he tries to play any
internet radio stream.
He tried to go back to FW28. The same problem occurs.
He said that everything was fine when he first installed the
SqueezeBox, but there
I have been using Slimserver for a year or so, and have been generally
using the latest version from www.slimdevices.com and running it
manually on my Debian Linux machine. I never got around to installing
the startup scripts, so would have to manually run
/usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl
I got the faceplate on my SB3 anodized black so that it would more
closely match the rest of my AV gear. What'ya think?
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|Filename: black_SB3.JPG|
|Download:
Very nice - but the cool etched Slim Devices logo is gone, which is the
nicest thing about the faceplate. Mirror finish lettering in a brushed
aluminium faceplate.
I guess it's still there but it's not very visible from the camera
angle.
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Yeah, the guy at the front counter said that the logo would be OK, but
when I picked it up today it was gone. The guy who runs the machines
in the back did not speak english as far as I could tell, so I doubt he
understood the directions. Oh well.
I'll try to post a better photo, but I am not
Great!
I try to keep everything black as well, which isn't easy in these silver
times, and the black sb isn't black enough to my taste!
P.
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:43:52 -0700, Jetlag
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I got the faceplate on my SB3 anodized black so that it would more
closely match the
As I said I am not much of a photographer, but the front plate is very
black. Here are two more attempts, one with the flash and one without.
The lower photo is really the more accurate depiction.
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Hi all,
I'm messing about with SlimServer 6.2.2 at the moment. I noticed how
much it slows down my system on startup, and when rescanning -
something 6.2.1 never did.
This is running on Windows XP sp2 BTW.
I checked the process list, and looked at the process priority and it
was set to High -
This is a recent change in the 6.22 nightlies.
There's a thread in the beta forum that you can add your comments to.
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bobharp Wrote:
Had not thought of that. One SB with multiple outputs. Cool.
Synchronization? No problem.
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This is potentially quite off-topic, but I need ideas and this is a very
active board full of intelligent people ;) with lots of varied
experience. So read-on if you have any experience in pro audio or are
otherwise interested in helping me!
I'm looking for what amounts to a slim recording
Quoting bklaas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
First, try this:
Server Settings-Security-CSRF Protection
Set it to NONE.
That shouldn't be required with the latest script. The headers are
set to avoid the problem. However, it is possible that the cache is
involved becuase the script has been
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After giving up troubleshooting the network issues, I tried installing
the Slim Devices .deb file of the 6.5 beta (as described here:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?DebianPackage), instead of the
current Debian version, and this resolved the problems with accessing
SlimServer over the
Use VNC. Run the server on one machine and the client on the other. Then you can have a small window of the recording machines desktop open while you use the graphics machine. (Unless its not appropriate to have the recording SW display on the graphics display. Do you actually display CG during
Anyone actually gotten kefa's plugin to work on a windows machine? I
can't get it to load with the latest svn of 6.5. I'm getting the
following output from --d_plugins:
Code:
2006-04-20 13:55:49.8508 Requiring Plugins::ShutdownServer plugin.
2006-04-20 13:55:49.8519
bobharp Wrote:
Had not thought of that. One SB with multiple outputs. Cool.
That would just be a fairly standard whole house audio installation,
like they've been doing for the past 20 years or so, exept using a
Squeezebox as a source instead of, or in addition to, an FM tuner or CD
player.
azinck3 wrote:
This is potentially quite off-topic,
Just a tad.
Perhaps if you think I have any good ideas, we should
take this off to private mail.
With what we have we're obviously not
looking for a studio-grade recording, just listenable, undistorted
sound.
The problem is that it takes
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I'm messing about with SlimServer 6.2.2 at the moment. I noticed how
much it slows down my system on startup, and when rescanning -
something 6.2.1 never did.
This is running on Windows XP sp2 BTW.
I checked the process list, and looked at the process priority and it
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All you need now is a Black Display that lights up Black on a Black
background!!
Truely a Squeezebox for all Disaster Area fans
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I have mentioned this in a few threads along these lines. I listen to
quite a bit of internet radio and being able to stream that through the
slimserver to my psp would be extremely cool.
I also came across this program but was dismayed to discover it could
not handle pls shoutcast streams. I
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You could also look at DAT. As mentioned, a compressor would help a lot,
but for recording I'm sure you could pick up a decent rack mount DAT
recorder (with basic VU, transport, etc) for a couple hundred bucks.
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You could also look at DAT. As mentioned, a compressor would
help a lot, but for recording I'm sure you could pick up a
decent rack mount DAT recorder (with basic VU, transport, etc)
for a couple hundred bucks.
Thanks for the reply, radish. Yes, a compressor would certainly help
our
Nice.
Someone should sell these.
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azinck3 Wrote:
Thanks for the reply, radish. Yes, a compressor would certainly help
our situation greatly! Hopefully the budget will be available for one.
As for the DAT: I don't really think it would serve our needs well as
our end-product must be on a computer.
Well, sure, but it's
Thanks to everybody who has placed feedback about your setups that work
seamlessly. This is incredibly useful for me and I hope for other
newbies pulling their hair out with poor performance from their
squeezeboxes and wireless networks.
I have setup a test system with an old mac mini running
That's true...in truth, I never gave much thought to the DAT option. I
see that it's a valid solution, particularly given the constraints I
articulated in my original post. However, I failed to mention that we
really need to be able to burn and duplicate CD's immediately following
the service.
wickedbob Wrote:
As a squeezebox newbie, I would have appreciated a large disclaimer on
the slimdevices website stating that the wireless version may not work
correctly in some setups, as I remember not being sure which version to
buy.
In retrospect I would have saved myself $100 and just
I recently sarted loading the nightlies again to see how things are
going. I've noticed that SlimServer now automatically rescans my
library every time the machine is re-started. Is this behavior
intentional?
I'm running SlimServer on our household PC and I would like to disable
the automatic
radish Wrote:
They look pretty cool. Any chance you could let me know the dimensions
of one of the sleeves? I couldn't find that on the site.
I have one right here...let me take out my tape measure:
height: 6.25
width: 5.25
There are four pockets in the sleeve:
CD-Book pocket is 5 x 5.25
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BBobley Wrote:
I have one right here...let me take out my tape measure:
height: 6.25
width: 5.25
There are four pockets in the sleeve:
CD-Book pocket is 5 x 5.25
CD pocket (which is padded) is also 5 x 5.25
CD Tray Card pocket is 6 x 5.25
Label pocket (where you can put your own
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sonyericsson k700 LCD,
I have so far been unable to get this to work.
The startup.bat works fine when I execute it on my PC... but it fails
to work when I press the Power Off button on the SB3 (wireless).
When I select the startup.bat as the option from and press the Play
button, ther SB3 screen says running script
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