I'm not an industrial designer but I always thought that the attached
wal-wart and the thick RCA cords running from the back were a dead give
away as far as portability goes.
I remember very clearly the two times that my Nokia 9210's display died
after just a one meter drop. I agree that that's a
I think the SB3 is amazingly well made for the price, good quality
mouldings, good display and if you take it apart, the quality of
construction is fine. The display is glass and of course it will break
if you drop it. I don't think anyone should seriously think of an SB3
as being a portable
I noticed that Sonos is now available at Future Shop - can you
imagine all the folks who will drop the cash without really knowing
what they're buying, or what the alternatives might be?
But that's not what your first posting was about: Sonos an open solution?
I know I am sure having a hard
FWIW I am having this problem with the qnap and sb3 combo. I think in
my case I didn't leave the scan long enough. Some directorys are fine,
whilst others have a couple of tracks in at best that play, despite the
album being listed there. Its no biggy for me as I still have several
(hah!)cds
I would think the main thing holding this back is market forces.
Exactly. And it's not one market. We're talking about very different
markets:
- Simple silent: the NAS solution
- Cheap: the turn-my-PC-into-Slimserver solution
- Hifi: the I want a component sized slimserver solution
-
I've used XMMS on my HTPC Linux box for quite a while now. I'm able to
control it via IR through an IRman serial device. I've even got my
Philips Pronto remote configured for it. It's nice being able to start
playing music in my media room from a single remote without needing a
separate SB.
I
3 people have got one having used mine and I got my SB3 after visiting a
friend and seeing his SB2.
When someone gets to play with a Squeezebox they just fall in love with
it - one chap asked if he could use my PC to order one on the spot!
I think that the problem with trying to market SB to
Agree,
At last count I have two workmates with them and the no.'s rapidly
rising (I work in Engineering though) and three Brother's in Law that
will have them in the near future.
Based on my experience, I would say sales are exponential too. The new
case design of the SB3 is a key part to it.
I seem to have solved part of the problem by removing the lyrics from
the 7 problem files. Slimserver now recognises the files, puts them in
the right folder and reads them normally.
The other 50 files with lyrics in the same folder, showing under
Slimserver Song info, some Lyrics: eng some
Anybody got any help / advice as to why my SB2 freezes after the 1st
song is played when I use firmware 48?
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Hi, I've been playing around with Slimserver and Softsqueeze to get an
idea of how it works before buying a SB3 and I have a problem.
I get occassional crashes and when windows reboots it says the
following:
the size of the \windows\temp\sqlite_X entry is not valid
What is causing
Yeah, I definitely waited for the scan to complete before trying to play
the music. That's not the cause of this for me. I think I'll try the
downgrade.
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The pre7 version of mplayer does not have a built in RealAudio codec and
there is no external MIPSEL codec for RealAudio.
Normally I would advise to get the most recent CVS tarball snapshot and
compile it instead but the snaphsot is broken. So use CVS to get your
own snapshot and then compile
I had a similar problem (Windows XP cannot install Slimserver Service)
with the 30 April nightly for 6.3.0. I uninstalled, then reinstalled
the 28 April nightly with no problems and everything is working fine.
Maybe give that a try and see if it solves the Shoutcast problem ?
Now I have lost ShoutCast streams, even though the plugin is there.
Shoutcast has changed their stream directory format - and the necessary
new plugin is not in 6.2.x. You'll have to use 6.3 or later to use it.
(you'll find quite some information about this issue in these forums)
If
Note the MAC can also be found in Settings - Information - Player
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The SB3 is clearly not meant to be a portable product!
Just because it looks like it is (I don't fully agree on this, but
anyway) doesn't mean it is.
Perhaps you're looking at it more from an industrial design standpoint,
but if you carried it around like that just to prove a point, well,
point
Sorry, but you are just redirecting the anger about yourself to someone
else. I don't think you will find the word portable anywhere on
either the packaging or the slimdevices web site (you can prove me
wrong).
This isn't a portable device. Period.
If I dropped my DVD player which has the same
mherger Wrote:
Now I have lost ShoutCast streams, even though the plugin is there.
Shoutcast has changed their stream directory format - and the necessary
new plugin is not in 6.2.x. You'll have to use 6.3 or later to use it.
(you'll find quite some information about this issue in
Hello,
Is not the 6.3 build available for the Mac anymore? Haven't seen it
for several days now. Last time I installed it, the server would not
start, so I deleted 6.3 and reinstalled 6.2.2 and it started. Will any
of the other nightly 6.3 builds install in the Mac? Thanks
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dfk, that's exactly the problem I got with the 30th April nightly.
Reinstalling it didn't help (I tried several times). Have you tried
the 28th April version I linked to ?
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dfk, that's exactly the problem I got with the 30th April nightly.
Reinstalling it didn't help (I tried several times). Have you tried
the 28th April version I linked to ?
I think this is the cause of the problem:
There is no slim.exe file in SlimServer_6_3_x_v2006-05-01
Something similar happened to the nightlies a few weeks ago. It was
just a bug / compile error and fixed in the next day's update. AFAIK
slim.exe is still required.
Either try an earlier build or wait for the next update.
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Siduhe Wrote:
Something similar happened to the nightlies a few weeks ago. It was
just a bug / compile error and fixed in the next day's update. AFAIK
slim.exe is still required.
Either try an earlier build or wait for the next update.
Yes, I did revert to an earlier build of 6.2.2 as
People see mine on top of my stereo stack with the RSS feed scrolling by
and ask what it is. Once I tell them it's usually just an Oh for a
response and that's it. Apparently I'm one of the few people I know
who prefer to listen to music over watching TV. On top of that most
people I know
You're saying Windows itself is crashing? That's very unlikely to be
anything to do with the Slim software.
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Take away the VFD and replace it with an LCD? No way, the VFD is the
reason I bought the SB3.
I'm not going to try it, but I don't think my Ipod's hard disc would
fare to well if I dropped it either...
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After having mine for a month, two of my neighbours have ordered theres.
I thought I would be using it for my own music, but so far it's 90%
radio. Groove Salad accounting for about 50% of that and BBC Radio1 the
rest (AlienBBC is the best thing since sliced bread !)
Can't wait to see what
chrisla Wrote:
Can you get your IR setup to input X IR code and output Y keyboard
press? SoftSqueeze already has a full host of keyboard shortcuts, the
easiest thing to do is send those.
This is what I do with my setup though not using a slim remote.I'm not sure
if I can do this or not;
As I mentioned, 6.3.0. 28th April is working for me.
As this isn't fixed in 1 May version, I'll open a bug. Appreciate it
can be frustrating, but bugs do creep in, and the one thing you can be
sure of is that it will be fixed quickly. I find the Slim Devices guys
incredibly responsive
I agree...it is all in the test drive. I got a friend at the office to
go in on the 2 for $100 off deal. She wass a little unsure, but since
having it she loves it.
The video from the NY Times review that showed how Pandora worked was a
great example I have used to convince other people. Maybe
I listen to several of the radioio stations. It appears they have added
a few new stations. I was wondering if they will be added to the
choices available on the either the squeezenetwork or the slimserver?
radioiodead and radioioplug seem to be missing from the choices on the
SN.
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SN's RadioIO plugin will be updated to match the trunk version very
soon, with support for their login system and the new stations. You
can download a 6.3 or 6.5 nightly to get the same in SlimServer.
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Yes, it can show lyrics on the songinfo screen: it does for me on the
very few songs I've added lyrics to.
(I need to find a nice tool to take a txt file and cram it into a USLT
tag...)
Only thing I don't like about it is it would be nice if br's were
inserted at line breaks, but other than
In order to fly off the shelves the Squeezebox needs to be on the
shelves to begin with. There are are hardly any retailers selling it
right now. I live in NYC and wanted to pick one up at a bricks and
mortar store and couldn't find one. (Tekserve only had the Squeezebox
2). Internet sales
On Mon, 1 May 2006 07:37:14 -0700, matt24
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Take away the VFD and replace it with an LCD? No way, the VFD is the
reason I bought the SB3.
I'm not going to try it, but I don't think my Ipod's hard disc would
fare to well if I dropped it either...
My iRiver H140
Siduhe Wrote:
As I mentioned, 6.3.0. 28th April is working for me.
As this isn't fixed in 1 May version, bug opened below. If you want it
fixed, please vote for it (more votes = more attention).
Appreciate it can be frustrating, but bugs do creep in, and the one
thing you can be sure
dfk Wrote:
What I find incredible, is that the same guys are putting out builds
with the main .exe missing and not even noticing it.
I believe the nightlies are released though an automated process. It is
entirely resonable that something awry is not noticed until after the
fact.
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Seems the 6.3.0 rpm also has problems.
Won't start :
Some sort of SHA1 perl module error.
Had to erase and install back to 6.2.2.
Runs fine.
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the Okura) and it bounced on the stones a few times. It was turned offand the iRiver's metal casing is probably a lot more sturdy than theiPod's plastic.
On FC5 from the tar ball:
# ls -l /var/log/slim*
ls: /var/log/slim*: No such file or directory
#
Anybody know where the log is?
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On FC5 from the tar ball:
# ls -l /var/log/slim*
ls: /var/log/slim*: No such file or directory
#
Anybody know where the log is?
its usually in /tmp
Not a great place for it, we know.
There is a startup parameter that tells it where to
place the log.
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I do this very thing with Girder on Windows.
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Ok, here's what I get:
# tail -f /tmp/slimserver.conf
tail: cannot open `/tmp/slimserver.conf' for reading: No such file or
directory
tail: no files remaining
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2006-04-30 11:59:00.2642 DBD::SQLite::db do failed: attempt to write a
readonly
I haven't had the problem again, and it seemed to be an issue with the
file encoding.
Allofmp3 were upgrading their site at that point so may have been that,
but I have had no problems since.
I know use 6.2.2 with no issues, and it definitely re-scans much
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Quoting Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On FC5 from the tar ball:
# ls -l /var/log/slim*
ls: /var/log/slim*: No such file or directory
#
Anybody know where the log is?
The RPM defaults to /tmp/slimserver.log, but if all you have done is
install the tarball then there is nothing else setup
I haven't anything to my library for a while. I have just ripped a few
tracks with EAC and SB2 says 'Problem: Can't Open File For..' All old
files are playing fine. Any ideas?
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mitip Wrote:
I may break things but I also design them, I argue if you haven't broken
something you can't tell how strong it is! An expensive approach I
know. As a designer and English contemporary of Jonathan Ive, of Apple
design notoriety, I can see the iPod influence in the design of
I appreciate you sharing your experience with the forum. It is a good
reminder to be careful not to accidently knock over the SB when
mucking around behind the stereo equipment.
That must have been a heart stopping experience. Ooch.
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I needed a way to keep my FLAC and MP3 libraries in synch so I wrote a
quick and dirty application to do this. I'm not Perl fluent so it was
quicker for me to go this route, believe it or not. It reads the
Ogg-vorbis comments out of the FLAC file, decodes the FLAC file back to
WAV and them
Hi,
Is there a way for my slimserver to be running on a remote network (for
example at my girlfriend's house), and my squeezebox to connect to it
while it is running at my place? The documentation says the squeezebox
will scan the local network when it starts up. However, I'd like to be
able to
faisalm Wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way for my slimserver to be running on a remote network (for
example at my girlfriend's house), and my squeezebox to connect to it
while it is running at my place?
-Faisal
I tested this out at work by opening up the appropriate ports on my
firewall at home
Yes, this is possible. It will, however, require some configuration on
your part. The simple but unsecure way is to forward ports 3483 and
9000 on your router to the box hosting slimserver.
This, however, leaves your server machine open to potential (but
unlikely) exploits. The more secure
However, I'd like to be
able to tell it to go to a URL where I've opened up a port for the
slimserver to run on at the remote location.
The SB will scan the local network for easy setup. But you can always
manually define a fixed IP address.
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Hi all,
After installing Slimserver 6.2.2 my Squeezebox3 required (and loaded)
new firmware, version 48.
However, if I now check the player-information it says: Squeezebox2.
Did it install the wrong firmware ?
Thx for your replies,
Louis
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johnc_22 Wrote:
I used the softsqueeze app to test and it did work but my upstream was
not enough for my FLAC files so there was massive delay and dropouts.
Slimserver will transcode to a user-selectable mp3 bitrate on the fly
to avoid this problem.
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azinck3 Wrote:
Slimserver will transcode to a user-selectable mp3 bitrate on the fly to
avoid this problem.
That is totally cool - doesn't get around my security concerns so I
probably won't use that info just yet, but the ability to have my music
collection at work (or anywhere I happen to
On Mon, 1 May 2006 11:44:05 -0700, azinck3
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Yes, this is possible. It will, however, require some configuration on
your part. The simple but unsecure way is to forward ports 3483 and
9000 on your router to the box hosting slimserver.
This, however, leaves your
No, the Squeezebox2 and 3 are almost hardware-identical and use the same
firmware.
There was code in some firmware releases to try to detect if it was a
v2 or v3 by MAC address, but it looks like it was dropped.
It's just cosmetic, you won't experience any issues because of this.
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On Mon, 1 May 2006 11:15:52 -0700, joek
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I appreciate you sharing your experience with the forum. It is a good
reminder to be careful not to accidently knock over the SB when
mucking around behind the stereo equipment.
It sure made me check if the cables would hold
It made me check the calendar to make sure it was May1 not April1.
Original poster,
Sorry your SB3 is broken, but do you complain to the manufacturer when
you drop anything else and it breaks? Like a crystal glass, or a
china dish or a vase, or an egg? They are all much more portable
than a
peter Wrote:
On Mon, 1 May 2006 11:44:05 -0700, azinck3
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said:
Yes, this is possible. It will, however, require some configuration
on
your part. The simple but unsecure way is to forward ports 3483 and
9000 on your
peter Wrote:
On Mon, 1 May 2006 11:15:52 -0700, joek
joek.2755bb1146507601 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com said:
I appreciate you sharing your experience with the forum. It is a
good
reminder to be careful not to accidently knock over the SB when
mucking around behind the
On Mon, 1 May 2006 12:11:54 -0700, azinck3
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For me, between not having anything of great value/secrecy on my
personal computer and the relative obscurity of slimserver, I've felt
no qualms simply using IP filtering. I'm glad to know this is not only
convenient, but
peter Wrote:
IP
filters are impenetrable without attackers having cracked his (or her)
ISP first and then it's not just you who's in trouble.
Could you explain this? I've seen you state it a few times in other
threads, and I'm not sure I believe it. I'm not a security expert, but
I play one
If you have an Infrant ReadyNAS variant, and using the built in
Slimserver, be advised Infrant released SlimServer 6.2.2 this weekend.
http://www.infrant.com/support.htm
I have not installed it yet.
Needless to say, I am excited to get rid of all the 6.2.1 bugs. I was
very happy with 6.2.2 on
Triode Wrote:
I would hope this would state 100%. During this time did the
instantaneous value drop below 100%? Less than 100% at slightly higher
than your desired rate is likely to be a problem. [NB there is some
overhead in the streaming protocol.] This should not be a problem when
Well, I've heard that for people that have this problem, it sometimes
happens again. Please let us know if you notice that! I'm very keen
to reproduce this issue.
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I may break things but I also design them, I argue if you haven't broken
something you can't tell how strong it is! An expensive approach I
know.
If you had simply rebooted your router like everyone repeatedly
suggested, I'll bet you wouldn't have thrown it into the wall in
frustration.
My
Paul_B Wrote:
My biggest issue is finding a small neat amp to partner the squeezebox
and install some in-wall / in ceiling speakers. I think the solution
will be the so called T-amps. I would like Squeezebox to offer this
solution or provide quality active / powered speakers
Have you been
azinck3 Wrote:
What would they have that the others don't?
Brushed Aluminum face plates that say Slim Devices.
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Yes, Windows XP reboots. Win XP just had a clean re-install recently
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If you had simply rebooted your router like everyone repeatedly
suggested, I'll bet you wouldn't have thrown it into the wall in
frustration.
My apologies if I have the wrong thread,
FL
ROTFLMAO x 5
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Came across this post as I was looking for a way to get Capital FM
streaming via my Slimp3 and/or SB3. I've only been testing with the
Slim (as it's closest to me at the moment), but can't quite seem to get
it working. The URL I've been using is:
http://audio3.musicradio.com/capitalsuperhi
On Mon, 1 May 2006 12:50:04 -0700, radish
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peter Wrote:
IP
filters are impenetrable without attackers having cracked his (or her)
ISP first and then it's not just you who's in trouble.
Could you explain this? I've seen you state it a few times in other
Here's some C# code my friend wrote to read the Vorbis comments. You
really just need to read the first 1K of the file.
This is based on the format spec here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html
public static FlacMetadata ReadComments(Stream flacStream)
{
Sorry I don't have much to add to solve your problem. But it certainly
isn't normal behavior on a Mac. I'm running 6.2.2 on a 1 GHz G4, MacOS
X 10.3.9 which is also day to day computer. If I'm playing songs, with
a browser open to the Server webpage, it still only uses 2-5% of the
processor.
I
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Brushed Aluminum face plates that say Slim Devices.
Sign me up for 5 pairs!
Err, maybe not. ;-)
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coldslabs Wrote:
I have had the same problem while using two different routers (a NetGear
and a DLink). I'll post the model #s when I get home.
I hadn't seen that link. Thanks. Unfortunately most of that page seems
applicable to WIRELESS/FLAC playout and problems. There doesn't seem to
be
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Mark Lanctot Wrote:
I didn't realize you were on a wired network! A wired network that
can't pass more than 192 kbps of data is severely broken. Have you
swapped cables?
I hadn't thought of that. Unfortunately the wiring is in the walls so
swapping cables isn't really very easy. I'll have
I was able to get rid of a similar problem by deleting some cache files.
Weird little bug.
The files in question were
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.searchindexcache
More details at these threads:
JJZolx Wrote:
I think I've said in the past that someone would do well selling turnkey
Slim Server machines. I think they still would, but it's a small market
and one which is obviously broken up into people who want different
things from their server.
First off, you can run Slim Server
It is possible for a wired connection to show that sort of problem if
the wiring is faulty. If it gets too near a 120vac circuit for too
long, inductunce can be a problem (not always from the 120vac itself,
that's a nice 60hz hum.. but things with motors and such can grind up
an electric signal
always worth asking - was it a telecom guy who put the ethernet cables
in the wall? Cat 5 is pretty simple to wire, but you need to know the
rules. There are some rules about not pulling it hard around sharp
corners, etc. Some of those can break a cable and cause instabilities.
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always worth asking - was it a telecom guy who put the ethernet cables
in the wall? Cat 5 is pretty simple to wire, but you need to know the
rules. There are some rules about not pulling it hard around sharp
corners, etc. Some of those can break a cable and cause
stinkingpig Wrote:
On 5/1/06, MrGadget MrGadget.275dez1146518101 (AT) no-mx (DOT)
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Yes, Windows XP reboots. Win XP just had a clean re-install recently
too.
I can't think of a way for Slimserver or Softsqueeze to cause it --
both are
written in
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