NauticusLX;170732 Wrote:
Most significantly, how can this device be used, reliably, as an alarm
clock if there is some other process, outside the users control,
competing with this function? Hmm? Answer: it cant be. Because a
sleeping brain cant discern between the intended alarm
Looking at Netgear, I can get something like the following:
Netgear RP614 4 Port Cable Router - £28
http://www.dsl-warehouse.co.uk/product.asp?pr=RP614
or the Netgear WPN824 Pre-N MIMO 108Mbps Router - £64
http://www.dsl-warehouse.co.uk/product.asp?pr=WPN824
I guess it does make sense to get a
yes - have tried the Song Scanner plugin which works well. But of course
you can't scan and listen at the same time so getting to where you want
to be is a bit tricky. Also it is not as handy to use although I
believe you can reconfigure the FF and FR keys to use it ..
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rbl
Do your FLAC files have a SEEKTABLE? and if so what are the SEEKPOINT
intervals?
http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_tools_metaflac.html
--list will show the metadata contents of the flac file and your
seektable
This post 'here'
chobbney;170782 Wrote:
Looking at Netgear, I can get something like the following:
Netgear RP614 4 Port Cable Router - £28
http://www.dsl-warehouse.co.uk/product.asp?pr=RP614
I'm pretty sure that the RP614 was one of the various Netgear routers
that were guilty of causing NTP request storms
Slightly OT:
A new, different type of alarm clock, based on sleep research. Looks
very interesting.
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I just created the FLACs with EAC. I am not aware of any seektables,
cuesheets or anything - not even sure what they do. Is this for the
FF/FR buttons, or for Song Scanner? Should I add them?
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Hi all,
Firstly, I'm new to this forum, so hello to all...
I've had a squeezebox and an old SLIMP3 for ages and am running the
latest version of slimserver on XP. I'm not sure when it happened but I
noticed a while ago that there is a problem with compilation albums.
Each track on the album is
Due to recently getting a shiny new All-Black SB3, I've now got a
Wireless SB1 with upgraded display for sale. In good condition, never
had any problems with it. Selling for around £100 or swap for a
wired-only SB2.
It's got a UK Power supply and and UK shipping's included in the price.
Anyone
NauticusLX;170758 Wrote:
Wait, this may be it. I was just experimenting with the remote for the
SB-3 and discovered that, while listening to music via SqueezeNetwork,
if I choose the Connect to SlimServer option from the main menu, this
logs me off SqueezeNetwork. And if I do this while
I have tried rescanning my music. Any other ideas?
There's a setting where you can define whether you want them grouped or
not. Did you check this as well?
What exact version are you using? Latest means tonight's build?
--
Michael
Use the Browse - Folders functionality.
This method gives you instant access AND adds the tracks to your
library without a rescan.
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great!
Never saw it, was blind to it, since I'm so much into tagged music and
the album, artist, title thing :-)
when does it add them? If I have it in a temp folder and play it...
it's not then added, is it?
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analographi
Awesome. I didn't realize I had that 'include all songs' option in the
slimserver. sounds like that should solve the problem!
like I said, I expected it to be embarrassingly easy... :)
thanks much --
Brandt
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mecouc;170861 Wrote:
I find the lack of an Off button a bit of a pain. My Squeezeboxes keep
having the power lead pulled out either by myself or my wife because
they don't turn off.. and then the lead drops down the back of the
cupboards and you can't reach it to reconnect it..
Simple
See http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?IRBlasterDirectLink
It's very new and incomplete - you would greatly assist anyone trying
to do this if you filled out what equipment it was, any caveats you
found and even if it did/did not work.
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Mark Lanctot
From your screen shots, it looks like you are still scanning the library
when you see this behaviour. My experience is that the album thumbnails
are the last thing to be built by the scan and only appear at the very
end. Do you still see this behaviour after the scan has finished?
Cheers.
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I didn't let it get that far I noticed other problems as well, remote
streaming not working, text in window pane not wrapping correctly.
Whilst the 'scanner.exe' process was running, my PC kept giving me
warnings about running out of virtual memory which I find hard to
believe as SlimServer is
I didn't notice that the Netgear I linked to was a pre-N - I thought it
was a G.
*bleaches eyes*
Cheers all.
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chobbney;170883 Wrote:
I didn't notice that the Netgear I linked to was a pre-N - I thought it
was a G.
*bleaches eyes*
Cheers all.
Pre-n and MIMO are pretty good though. You would probably get higher
throughput and longer range than with a standard g router.
But you're paying more,
I also just considered--I only really ever use the remote-control
interface. I went to the web interface to set up the sync but did
everything else from the remote control on one device. Perhaps there's
different behavior when you set the playlist for both devices from the
web interface?
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NauticusLX wrote:
Ceejay, turning off the power itself is what I’ll do. A practical
solution would be for the red button to be multi-purpose: press it to
put in stand-by, press and hold to turn it off. That seems like an
easy, win-win solution, I wonder if Slim Devices will take this
snarlydwarf wrote:
If you want a 100% reliable alarm clock, you can get something far
closer for $10 or so as you keep it wound or keep the batteries fresh
-- depending which model you get.
I use an SB3 with a local playlist (tried internet radio, that's a bad
idea). That works fairly
MrP;170817 Wrote:
Hi,
Just upgraded to the latest nightly 6.5.1 (16th Jan) and I've noticed
that in the web interface (Firefox) when a song is playing the song
details goes off the page,
Firstly, you're using Fishbone, so you'll need to edit
SlimServer\server\HTML\Fishbone\skin.css . Just
Peter;170902 Wrote:
I use an SB3 with a local playlist (tried internet radio, that's a bad
idea). That works fairly reliably. And if the server decides to turn
off
at night there's alays the 8 month old as a backup. Not very precise,
but extremely reliable... ;)
Yep, local playback
Shouldnt be. The already-playing player should restart the song it
was playing so that they are both started at the same spot.
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Thanks, I'll give that a try the next time I try and upgrade to 6.5.1.
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Should have mentioned if you want to lose the bitrate data alltogether
you can edit SlimServer\server\HTML\Fishbone\status_header.html . The
plus side would be that the artist album links won't get pushed out of
frame as quickly.
Code:
div id=songtitlehref
Press and hold left arrow takes you back to setup screens. you can dim
it there and the players can do nothing, receive nothing from any
server. they will sit there until you use the remote to select connect
to squeezenetwork or connect to local server.
-kdf
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mecouc;170861 Wrote:
I find the lack of an Off button a bit of a pain. My Squeezeboxes keep
having the power lead pulled out either by myself or my wife because
they don't turn off.. and then the lead drops down the back of the
cupboards and you can't reach it to reconnect it..
Why not just
I've just switched my slimserver over from my mp3 folder to my freshly
ripped FLAC folder. Previously I could stream the mp3s no problem from
slimserver on my home pc to winamp on my work laptop at the office.
Now when I show winamp the stream and tell slimserver to use lame to
encode the flacs
Yes, that is what I meant.
AudioVideo;170745 Wrote:
I think Dave means a 1/8 jack to 1/8 jack cable like he said.
They are available at Radio Shack or many other places.
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I just started re-ripping all of my music to FLAC since Apple's lossless
is having problems with SS.
I woke up this morning to begin listening to some of the newly ripped
files and they won't convert to LAME. I'm having to limit to 320k on
my wireless devices, yet the Transporter is wired and
Is there any way to have a CD player like display on the SB3 with either
the current playing time or the remaining time in large numbers on the
display?
Would like to have it on my TP with the analog VU meters on the right
and the time displayed on the left.
Very retro :-)
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magnanimous
I am in the same situation even though I'm using LAME mp3. Here is
something else you can do: leave your iPod set up to automatically
sync, but only sync specific playlists (don't sync all). In your
library, create a playlist called something like My Synced Music.
Set the iPod to only sync
Note that the option is NOT there if you have SlimServer configured to
look for music only in iTunes and have the music folder field blank. I
ran into this myself and it is not obvious. I thought I was going nuts
because I couldn't find the option.
Rich
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maggior
magnanimous;170928 Wrote:
Is there any way to have a CD player like display on the SB3 with either
the current playing time or the remaining time in large numbers on the
display?
Would like to have it on my TP with the analog VU meters on the right
and the time displayed on the left.
Hi
Since upgrading to 6.5.1 (and maybe before that), nearly all my songs
miss the last 5 seconds or so on playback - with the next song starting
straight away.
I have a large library of MP3 (LAME) and Apple Lossless albums, and use
the iTunes interface.
This playback problem occurs on every
You are correct. I realised that the IR-Blaster only worked with SB2 and
I had it in my feeble mind that I had an sb2. I now remember that I
purchased it just 5 wks before the sb2 was released. Back to the
drawing boards.
Thanks!
Ben
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bmccall
analographi;170848 Wrote:
I have this song and I just want to listen to it one time before I
decide to add it to the library or not.
I have my laptop, connection to the slimserver and my SB running... Is
there a way I can simple and fast listen to the song on my SB?
Like others have
When I select browse then choose any of the options, as the info scrolls
across I'm left with the 'm' character from the Slim Devices logo (the
one with a line above and below) in the very top right hand corner!
This occurs on both my SB3 and Softsqueeze.
I'm using Slimserver 6.5.1.
Does this
Hi All
There was another thread
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28032;) that seems to
begin to address this issue but then gets lost amongst other issues
that are raised within the same thread. So was going to start a new
thread in the hope that there is a resolution to the
sdevans;169527 Wrote:
I've looked at Mareo in the past, but it doesn't fit my needs exactly in
that I need the replaygain added. (Plus I could never get it to work)
Currently if I want an mp3 (or other 'portable' version) of a CD, I'd
rip to FLAC for the squeezebox, load into FOOBAR to
This may be the MusicIP Mixer marker which indicates that you can select
a MusicIP mix from this track. Presumably you have the MusicIP plugin
installed.
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P2 266MHz,Linux ClarkConnect 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145,
Alien 1.06
P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 -
When I select browse then choose any of the options, as the info scrolls
across I'm left with the 'm' character from the Slim Devices logo (the
one with a line above and below) in the very top right hand corner!
Isn't this the MusicIP icon? It is there to tell you that you could start
a MIP
I've made the following improvements to the downtime service:
* The brightness setting set for your player on SqueezeNetwork will be
remembered and used for the downtime message.
* You can change the brightness of the downtime message.
* You can hit the power button to toggle brightness between
Over the years I've ripped my CDs to MP3, Ogg, FLAC, and maybe a few
other formats. In addition, files are not always organized very well
and the file names are not consistent.
Anyone know if there's a script (for Linux-type system) that can go
through my music directory and try and figure out
Thanks guys for your help. I searched as well, but to no avail. The
existing Yamaha remote has a toggle on-off button, as most do. This
does not mean that my receiver does not accept discrete codes, only
that they weren't implemented in the remote. Next time I'm fiddling
with the setup, I'll
andyg;170985 Wrote:
I've made the following improvements to the downtime service:
* The brightness setting set for your player on SqueezeNetwork will be
remembered and used for the downtime message.
* You can change the brightness of the downtime message.
* You can hit the power button to
I use iTunes and have all my tracks ripped using the Apple Lossless
format and from what I understand I cannot use the Fast Forward or
Rewind functionality of the SB3's remote with that format.
However, even if I rip tracks in AIFF or WAV formats, the Fast Forward
and Rewind functions using the
For what its worth, I use Anapod Explorer to convert from FLAC to MP3 on
the fly. It offers a drag and drop interface to iPods (and other
devices) and means that I don't need iTunes installed. It also supports
playlists.
Takes 3-5 minutes to copy a CD over but it means that I don't need to
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:25:26 -0800, TCM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
andyg;170985 Wrote:
I've made the following improvements to the downtime service:
* The brightness setting set for your player on SqueezeNetwork will be
remembered and used for the downtime message.
* You can change
Haven't had a chance to install NetTest yet, but I wanted to ask two
more questions:
- Could my use of WPA2/AES wireless security be putting a load the
processor that might cause such a delay?
- Could certain receivers (for the Transporter) and active speakers
(for the Squeezebox) introduce
The way it should work:
. slimserver fills the buffer of both players
. slimserver sends them both a 'start playing'
The difference between the two starts should be minimal (unless you
have a very icky network and the packets have to be retransmitted I
guess...)
Are you transcoding or
TCM;171002 Wrote:
Customer service of the month! Great one! :-D
Agreed, good stuff, how often do you see customer service like that?
Other companies take note.
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mattybain
'[image:
http://imagegen.last.fm/recenttracks3/recenttracks/MattyBain.gif]'
I thought it was a graphical glitch!
MusicIP is not in my plugin list though - the only ones I have are
Erland's plugins (Trackstat, SQL playlist etc) and Lazy Search.
Could it be one of those?
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MillmoorRon
MillmoorRon;171034 Wrote:
MusicIP is not in my plugin list though - the only ones I have are
Erland's plugins (Trackstat, SQL playlist etc) and Lazy Search.
Could it be one of those?
Yes, several of my plugins indicates with the 'm' that you can hold
play down to access their functions in
No, I'm not transcoding or bandwidth-limiting or anything.
In addition to NetTest, I'm going to try it out with FLAC and see if
this is a Vorbis-only issue. I'm assuming kdf has a similar-enough
setup to mine that I should be able to get similar results when doing
the exact same thing.
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Peter;171023 Wrote:
Next time I want something done, I'll remember to swear and threaten
with lawsuits ;)
Perhaps we could further improve customer service by adding a I'M GOING
TO SUE YOU checkbox in bugzilla?
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seanadams
Well, FLAC sync works for me as well between an SB and a Transporter.
I'm wondering whether you are unwittingly transcoding, either because
the ogg-ogg entry in server settings/file formats isn't ticked, or
perhaps there is a bug in some table somewhere that tells the server
that the transporter
Hi. I've been using SlimServer for over a year, and it's great.
But everytime I rescan my songs on the hard drive to update them, my
playlists disappear! How can I prevent that?
Thanks.
Slimmin'
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Probably because in Server settings/file types the server is set to
transcode both of those types to FLAC, which would stop ff/RW working.
Uncheck the boxes for AIFF to FLAC and WAV to FLAC.
HTH
Ceejay
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ceejay's
How does the synch get off by a full second only seconds into the
track?
One is starting before the other?
One has dropouts?
One is playing (significantly) slower than the other? If that's
possible, then what does it say about non-synched playback through the
SB - can playback speed be faster
MrP;170882 Wrote:
I didn't let it get that far I noticed other problems as well, remote
streaming not working, text in window pane not wrapping correctly.
Whilst the 'scanner.exe' process was running, my PC kept giving me
warnings about running out of virtual memory which I find hard to
If not, what's the point of tagging the software with the release tag
and entering a release date of 1/15 in the changelog? If so, where are
the announcements, the fireworks and the champagne?
The phrase not with a bang, but a whimper comes to mind.
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JJZolx
Jim
jpj, I've owned a SqueezeBox since the week before Christmas, and am
thrilled with it. When you say the N800 makes for a great SB
controller, do you mean it can be used as a remote control for the
SqueezeBox (2 remotes would be more useful than 1, I admit), or because
it allows you to access the
Soon as we're done testing the release builds we'll put it out. But if
you've got a recent nightly, you might as well have the real deal.
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I'm considering purchasing a Squeezebox. One important thing for me is
internet radio. My goal is to create an easily accessible list of
favorite stations. I have been trying SlimServer with the SoftSqueeze
player. I'm only trying to use stations that have MP3 streams -- I'm
not worried about
Due to Windows Media Player doing some misdeeds to my tags without my
permission, many of my tracks now have Album Artist and Track
Artist tags instead of simple Artist tags. When I play these
tracks, the artist name is not displayed at all on the Softsqueeze or
SlimServer web interface view of
seanadams;171042 Wrote:
Perhaps we could further improve customer service by adding a I'M GOING
TO SUE YOU checkbox in bugzilla?
Maybe, but to be credible, it would have to be a US-only service, like
Pandora
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aubuti
Thanks ceejay. I think I'm confused as to what is really going on there
with those settings ... why is the same format selected multiple times?
How does the SlimServer then decide which one to use? Aren't we just
telling SlimServer which format to convert the file TO before it is
streamed to
Peter;167608 Wrote:
I don't lose much sleep over things that occur so rarely. AFAIC the WAP
just had a moment of weakness after years of reliable service. I find
the SB3's wifi pretty good.
I suppose I shouldn't either; but I've now had the connection fail at
least once a day ever since.
Hooray! Here's the solution for my problem. Please help me determine
what this means.
The fix? In SlimServer, under File Format Conversion Setup, UNCHECK
the box next to Ogg Vorbis (built-in). Suddenly everything is synced
beautifully.
More on the symptoms: JJZolx was correct, the
You didn't mention what version of slimserver you are using, but this
sounds like a known problem in 6.5.0. It is already fixed in the 6.5.1
nightly builds available here:
http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_nightly.html
6.5.1 is expected to be officially released in the next few days, any
Nic, when youre as near sighted as me, a small point of light appears
much bigger.
aubuti, your previous comments did serve as inspiration, so thanks.
Regarding the in-line power switch suggestion, which has been made in a
few postings, do you think it best to hit the red button first, to
I'm glad your problem was solved so quickly (if only in a development
release). I'm honestly amazed at the fast turnaround.
Don't let the occasional anarchy in the forums get you down.
SlimDevices does seem to listen to its customers. That's why they're
the best.
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CatBus
NauticusLX;171080 Wrote:
Regarding the in-line power switch suggestion, which has been made in a
few postings, do you think it best to hit the red button first, to
disconnect from the server, and then flick the in-line switch, or would
it matter?
Shouldn't make a wit of difference.
You may also want to check out the My Picks plugin instead of using
Favorites.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?MyPicks
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shabbs;169459 Wrote:
Have you looked at RealVNC?
http://www.realvnc.com/
(Well, I think I'm going senile... I was *sure* I'd replied to this,
but can find no record of it now. Maybe I forgot to hit Submit; or
maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. Maybe (since I was almost
certainly saying
From the SlimServer web interface on the right hand side at the top
you'll see an option Save.
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NauticusLX;171080 Wrote:
A question thats occurred to me is, what does the red button actually
do? It doesnt disconnect from the most recently used server,
according to prevous posts. Does it simply turn off the light display
and terminate the flow of sound?
The Off switch actually
I will do it for you, just send me your music collection. Bet that
others will want it to.
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NauticusLX;171080 Wrote:
AndyG, I was thinking yesterday that the SqueezeBox was like a rose
bush. Beautiful, but with thorns. Now, its simply beautiful.
But tell us how we can change the brightness of the downtime message,
hopefully it can be turned down all the way that would be a
Bill Moseley;170990 Wrote:
Over the years I've ripped my CDs to MP3, Ogg, FLAC, and maybe a few
other formats. In addition, files are not always organized very well
and the file names are not consistent.
Anyone know if there's a script (for Linux-type system) that can go
through my music
I'm using v6.5.0.
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We have plans to add additional data centers, but there will always be a
need for that kind of downtime message.
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If you can have a downtime service available, couldn't you instead
achieve nearly 100% uptime of SqueezeNetwork itself with a second SN
cluster at another datacenter? One in the US and one in Europe, for
instance.
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Jim
NauticusLX, the Nokia 770 skin for SlimServer has certainly sold more
than a few 770s and N800s. Have you tried it yet? Just punch this URL
into your N800 browser, then bookmark it:
http://your-slimserver-host-ip:9000/Nokia770/
You get all the extra functionality (and eye candy) of the web
TechHome;170996 Wrote:
Thanks guys for your help. I searched as well, but to no avail. The
existing Yamaha remote has a toggle on-off button, as most do. This
does not mean that my receiver does not accept discrete codes, only
that they weren't implemented in the remote. Next time I'm
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 06:58:51PM -0800, jeffluckett wrote:
Check out www.musicbrainz.org. It uses signatures to match up your
tracks and apply standardized tagging information and then rename the
files with the conventions you specify. While you CAN just let it do
its thing, I recommend
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