MyPicks will not handle PLS or M3U different if the M3U/PLS URL is the
URL used in the MyPicks entry.
However MyPicks enables you to import M3U or PLS files and it will
parse them as a list of separate URLs. MyPicks will then make a entry
for each URL in the M£U/PLS list. You can then select
Hi,
I have 4 SB3's connected wirelessly. I have recently upgraded to
Simserver 6.5.1 and shortly afterwards, one of the SB3's started
rebooting soon after I tried playing anything on it. (The two events
6.5.1 reboot may be unrelated).
I followed tech support advice and tried the SB3 via an
Because the various player types have different capabilities, and you
might have more than one connected to your server.
Each player type has a set priority order - for an SB3 for example FLAC
is top of the list - so that's what SS will send it if allowed. An SB1
however can't play FLAC so has
Both Picard or the classic version have GUIs that are way out of the
things user interface design guidelines would suggest, but once you
found out to use them, they may be useful.
It's not fully automated, thats true, but its not so much more steps.
You drag all your files into it, it'll analyze
Hi
Since upgrading to 6.5.1 (and maybe before that), all my songs miss the
last 5-10 seconds or so on playback - with the next song starting
straight away - before the last one has ended.
I have a large library of MP3 (LAME) and Apple Lossless albums, and use
the iTunes interface. All was fine
Sounds like a good idea.
It's be a Godsend if it comes native with Slimserver too.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=29800Itemid=76#jc_writeComment
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Speakers. Storage via
JJZolx;171103 Wrote:
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.
Oooh yes please, one in Europe would be great!!:)
Nic
Thanks for all the suggestions, still confused what to do. I'm swapping
from an old dual pentium workstation to a macbook and don't ~really~
want to fire the PC up just to rip CDs. So windows software seems a bit
of a non starter.
I've looked at the Mac OS X program MAX which can rip to FLAC
It seems it only comes with Itunes server as standard.
It has a Marvell Media processor: Anyone familiar with it?
Hope someone takes it apart soon, so that we may see the innards and
really understand what it is made of
Giacomo
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gbruzzo;171150 Wrote:
It has a Marvell Media processor: Anyone familiar with it?
Marvell acquired the Intel XScale technology last year, so it's likely
to be one of those. They implement the ARM instruction set, but are
internally different and were commonly used in PDAs and one or two
Xscale processor can run as fast as 1GHz but in NAS systems, they tend
to run around 200-400MhZ so not very fast. The ARM architecture is
used in NSLU2 so Slimserver will be able to run on the system as long
as somebody can hack it and install something like Optware.
The most critical factor
DrNic;171145 Wrote:
Oooh yes please, one in Europe would be great!!:)Nic
Ideally the UK!
MC
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Now what?
Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s.
Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt
i'm suffering from this bug as well, with a combination of apple
lossless, aac and mp3s. the cut-offs seem to vary in length according
to the format i'm streaming in - alac flac cuts off around 6 seconds
before the end of a sample track, alac wav cuts off with 3 seconds to
go, and alac mp3
Any chance there's an IP address conflict?
It's been known to cause crashes, and it's the only thing I can think
of that might affect one SB3 and not the others.
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NauticusLX;170346 Wrote:
Slimpy, give me your phone number. Id like to call you to wake you in
the middle of the night. That is, unless you think that would be
annoying.
If you call me everytime my local slimserver goes down at night I would
really appreciate it.
However if you call me
Looks to be just what I was wantingoff to get the plugin and play
:-)
Thanks
Richard
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 12:55:29AM -0800, CCRDude wrote:
Picard is better then through using a newer algorithm than TRM (TRMs
often have a dozen matches), but even uglier to use ;)
But for singles Picard can't create album clusters, and the singles
seem to generate quite a few hits in the
I think it transcodes to LAME, if I'm not mistaken. I had the same
problem with TP and SB3 and had to set the SB3 to limit @ 320k. Solved
all my problems!! I could tell it was wireless bandwidth, especially,
when I'd open up my Powerbook to 'surf' a bit while listening. This
ALWAYS made the
hi - did you get this sorted? sounds exactly like my problem.
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seanadams;171177 Wrote:
Any chance there's an IP address conflict?
It's been known to cause crashes, and it's the only thing I can think
of that might affect one SB3 and not the others.
Thanks for the reply - but no chance of an ip address conflict.
Any other ideas?
Michael
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dSw wrote:
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
gusi;170766 Wrote:
Is the N800 going to be avaiable in Australia and Asia?
Or Canada, for that matter?
Although we can get it indirectly through tigerdirect.ca, which is just
a Canadian web storefront for tigerdirect.com (US). The price looks
bad, but it's a $30 premium over straight
Is there a specific reason why you're tied to iTunes? The only reason I
can think of is if you purchase music from the iTunes store. If that's
the case, then the options above are a good bet. However, if you're
not tied to the iTunes store, then a second option is to get Parallels
and run
Thanks ceejay, unchecking AIFF - FLAC did the trick. It didn't FF or
REW very smoothly and so I've decided it really isn't a high priority,
so I think I'll just stick with Apple Lossless with no FF/REW ability.
Just to experiment, I also unchecked Apple Lossless - FLAC to see what
would happen
Mark Lanctot;171216 Wrote:
I can't figure out how Maemo Mapper gets its maps! It uses JPGs from
Google Maps or something?
Actually the Google Maps files are .PNG format even though Maemo Mapper
saves them with a .JPG extension.
MM works with street and topo maps from Google, USGS topography
Hi,
I read in the Squeezebox documentation that you can place an alias to
another music library folder in the main library. I created an alias to
another library, but the folder did not appear in either the squeezebox
browser or on the device itself.
Does anyone have suggestions?
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Anybody know if there's any truth to this?
http://ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/report-apple-to-open-up-fairplay-drm-to-accessory-makers/
It would be nice to play my itune purchases
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Will Slim try to be one of the companies allowed to access fairplay?
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jpj;171225 Wrote:
Actually the Google Maps files are .PNG format even though Maemo Mapper
saves them with a .JPG extension.
MM works with street and topo maps from Google, USGS topography from
Terraserver, and other compatible sources. Check the
www.internettablettalk.com forums. You can
I think you should take this with the big grain of salt most Apple
rumors require.
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2 of my fantasies:
Itunes ALAC dowloads
No DRM on ALAC downloads
As they say in Spain De ilusion tan bien se vive
how well one lives with illusion
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BTW as you all work through this frustrating process, don't forget
to also petition apple:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/itunes.html
Josh
Do you Yahoo!?
Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.
I agree I don't think this is likely...at least in a big way. I would
however love to have the ability to use the few files I bought from
them on my Squeezebox. I would buy more if I could use them on it.
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Why would Apple do this for Slim/Logitech? I bet iTunes tracks play
really well on AppleTV, why would they allow the Squeezebox to compete
with them? That certainly doesn't sound like Apple...
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Mark
key thing:
...to licensed iPod accessory makers
so, who thinks squeezebox is an ipod accessory?
Why not wait until it's not a rumour to start stretching the reality.
-k
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schalliol;171244 Wrote:
I would however love to have the ability to use the few files I bought
from them on my Squeezebox. I would buy more if I could use them on
it.
Burn them to an audio format CDR (or CDRW if you don't want to waste
blanks) - the licensing allows you to do this. Then rip
cliveb;171258 Wrote:
Burn them to an audio format CDR (or CDRW if you don't want to waste
blanks) - the licensing allows you to do this. Then rip them back in
whatever non-DRM'd format you like. A bit of a pain, but it's do-able.
You mean rip them back in whatever *lossless* non-DRM'd format
Hello!
Hopefully I'm not completely off topic with my question regarding the
remote control function of the Squeezebox (v3).
Actually I'd like to use the Squeezebox in my CD shop as a listening
station and therefore I'm searching for a remote control that only
supports the most essential
kdf;171249 Wrote:
key thing:
...to licensed iPod accessory makers
Not to get anyone's hope up, but we are already a licensed iPod
accessory maker:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN/,crid=2414,contentid=10785
However, the rumor makes no sense. Why would an iPod
Also, TFA suggests that licensed devices might soon be able to access
song title and artist info through the docking connector... but they
can already do that! (TuneView does it, for example)
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Internet Radio works fine on my Transporter and Squeezebox. I just tried
playing it via SoftSqueeze for the first time, and during the Checking
Stream phase, Slimserver popped up the error can't find WMVCore.DLL.
I thought that SoftSqueeze just looked like another Squeezebox to
Slimserver, but
snarlydwarf;171267 Wrote:
You mean rip them back in whatever *lossless* non-DRM'd format you like
or you will further diminish the sound quality, converting that 128k AAC
into the equivalent of a 96k or lower but still taking the disc space of
a 128k
OK, I'm confused ( as usual).
If you
tomjtx wrote:
snarlydwarf;171267 Wrote:
You mean rip them back in whatever *lossless* non-DRM'd format you like
or you will further diminish the sound quality, converting that 128k AAC
into the equivalent of a 96k or lower but still taking the disc space of
a 128k
OK, I'm confused ( as
Mark Lanctot;171236 Wrote:
I've got to see how many maps I'd have to download for, say, a 6-hour
trip. It'll depend on the resolution it needs, but at street-level
resolution it would take hundreds of maps and GB of storage space.
I suspect you're overestimating the storage requirements.
Thanks for clearing that up , Robin.
So if it's re-imported ALAC or FLAC the sound is not degraded but you
are using FLAC size file for 128 sound quality?
What a rip, so to speak.
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I'm using FLAC compressed to max level.
Wired SqueezeBox 3.
SlimServer running on Wired XP Laptop.
FF is very rough.
Sometimes it moves real slow, sometimes it moves so fast I'm on the
next track.
I noticed if I tap FF it goes to Next Track (is that by design).
Why no Normal seperate button
WMA stream?
Squeezebox decodes wma, but if you use softsqueeze the server needs to
do it and assuming you are running windows it is able to do so as long
as you have the relavent Microsoft components installed.
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Gathering some further info from
http://forum.linkstationwiki.net/index.php?action=vthreadforum=15topic=1926
It looks like new Buffalo products will be based upon ARM architecture.
The Terastation live possibly on ARM11
http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/families/ARM11Family.html
Can't get an
Sorry if this is a dumb question. But are there 2 branches running.
6.5.1 and 7.0? I can only find 6.5.1 which is a freshly built nightly.
But I see talk of 7.0 features. Do I have to build 7.0 or are there
kits for both? I'm running on XP platform.
Thanks.
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Sorry if this is a dumb question. But are there 2 branches running.
6.5.1 and 7.0? I can only find 6.5.1 which is a freshly built nightly.
But I see talk of 7.0 features. Do I have to build 7.0 or are there
kits for both? I'm running on XP platform.
7.0 is
mswlogo;171298 Wrote:
Is the firmware open source or just SlimServer.
Just SlimServer.
If firmware is not open source are bugs still filed on the opensource
BugZilla database?
Yes, they are.
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Andy, you seemed to suggest that it would be possible to have a separate
brightness setting just for the downtime messages, when you said earlier
that You can change the brightness of the downtime message I take it
that this will not actually be a separate functionality.
Anyway, it seems
Your logic of displaying brightness 0 even if your powered off
brightness setting is not 0 is flawed. If my players are powered off
and I walk by them, I expect to see the time. If I don't, I
immediately assume my internet connection is dead (or there has been a
horrible SN crash) and go to
Have you enabled the plugin Windows: Prevent System Standby While
Playing?
Technically, I don't think that sending WOL packets will prevent the
computer from entering standby - although it will probably mean it
wakes right back up. I haven't looked at the code but I assume that
SlimServer (as
NauticusLX;171309 Wrote:
Why is this concept so hard to grasp? How difficult would this be to
implement?
If you don't want your display device to show server messages, then
don't leave it connected to the server. Why is THAT so hard to grasp?
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Rather than tackle this exclusively on the remote control side, I think
you could more thoroughly prevent unwanted button actions by editing
the IR/*.ir (and possibly IR/*.map) files so that SlimServer will not
recognize other button presses. Go to the web interface for SlimServer
and look at
Do you have SlimServer running as a service or through SlimTray?
If you have it running as a service I believe there's a way to specify
startup parameters. However on mine the dialog box indicates the
startup parameters are only used when the service is started from the
Services dialog box.
Triode;171294 Wrote:
WMA stream?
Squeezebox decodes wma, but if you use softsqueeze the server needs to
do it and assuming you are running windows it is able to do so as long
as you have the relavent Microsoft components installed.
Aha! Yes, I believe the station I was trying to listen to
I would suggest taking a look at
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?NetworkProblemsSecondGuide and
the wireless tweaks suggested there, particularly NetStumbler.
Brian Ritchie;171076 Wrote:
One change I made a few days ago (after a particularly annoying flurry
of failures) was to switch
Pale Blue Ego;171322 Wrote:
Why is THAT so hard to grasp?
Brightness == zero.
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Peter,
your approach is most useful. I'll try to work on the .ir/.map files.
Thank you very much,
Alexander
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Hi Mark
Yes, initially/by default it is via SlimTray when I log into XP,
however it crashes after about 15 minutes. If I then right click ST and
select 'start slimserver' it will restart but again crashes after about
15 minutes or so.
I've tried going into services.msc and manually entering the
There's a major test and review of the Transporter in the Feb '07 issue
of Stereophile.
I haven't read the whole thing, but it looks like a complete rave
review. Phillips was taken by the sound quality, and also by the
incredible flexibility, extensibility, and customization options
available.
I'm weening myself from iTunes, converting my files from ALAC to FLAC,
and wonder if I should use a music manager to organize my collection?
is it even necessary? Is there a music manager available to manage
FLAC on a Mac?
An example, I have 6 Aerosmith CD's. iTunes will put all CD's in a
Then there seem to be 2 types of users: those who have the SB in their
bedrooms, and therefore more likely to prefer a blank screen when
turned off, and those who have the SB in their living rooms, where
concern with a blank screen might never exist. You are one kind, I
the other.
Andy, expand
NauticusLX;171373 Wrote:
Then there seem to be 2 types of users: those who have the SB in their
bedrooms, and therefore more likely to prefer a blank screen when
turned off, and those who have the SB in their living rooms, where
concern with a blank screen might never exist. You are one
Why are we still having this discussion? OK I will try to restate what
I've done, maybe it'll click this time.
What I've done with the downtime service is that it actually doesn't
care what your 3 brightness settings are, or even if your player was on
or off, it will simply use *whatever the
Contemplating a new SB setup with some existing powered speakers,
tonight I broke out the Kill-a-watt power meter. I wanted to see how
much power the speakers use in their automatic standby mode, to
determine if I should hook them up to an X-10 module and use
BottleRocket to control their power.
snarlydwarf wrote:
NauticusLX;171373 Wrote:
Then there seem to be 2 types of users: those who have the SB in their
bedrooms, and therefore more likely to prefer a blank screen when
turned off, and those who have the SB in their living rooms, where
concern with a blank screen might never exist.
If you hold the FWD button for a few seconds it should begin to play at
2x, then 4x, then 8x, etc etc. If you tap the FWD button it will skip
to the next song, yes this is by design.
This seems intuitive to me.
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snarlydwarf wrote:
NauticusLX;171373 Wrote:
Then there seem to be 2 types of users: those who have the SB in their
bedrooms, and therefore more likely to prefer a blank screen when
turned off, and those who have the SB in their living rooms, where
concern with a blank
NauticusLX,
After reading all your posts I think you should consider the fact that
you may need a therapist more than a squeezebox :-)
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Andy, upon consideration, these things that you claim to have done dont
seem to address the problem, since they, 2 of them anyway, only provide
steps to take AFTER the downtime message is already displayed. If you
explained your strategies more completely, maybe that would help.
Also, there
I give up...
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Oh Tomtjx. The SqueezeBox is my therapist! Definitely. Jazz, to be
more exact! I shall, ultimately, resign myself to the inevitable.
What are your favorite urls?
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On 17-Jan-07, at 7:28 PM, NauticusLX wrote:
how I can set the brightness control, that might work.
1. find remote
2. hold remote firmly in hand
3. find red button
4. press gently
5. locate button labelled brightness
6. press gently
7. observe player display
8. repeat steps 7 and 8 until
Measuring the DC current into the SB would be a better way to measure
power. Power = V * A (for DC).
This can be done accurately with any multimeter that has a current
mode.
TD
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andyg;171104 Wrote:
We have plans to add additional data centers, but there will always be a
need for that kind of downtime message.
andyg Wrote:
What I've done with the downtime service is that it actually doesn't
care what your 3 brightness settings are, or even if your player was on
or
NauticusLX;171396 Wrote:
Also, there is not a single brightness state of my player, rather, there
are several. So I#8217;ll ask again: While connected to the
SqueezeNetwork, what should be displayed on the SqueezeBox screen while
I set the brightness to 0, so that it will not display a
Ok lets see here, I've got my favorite hammer and my autographed bat,
now where did I put that dead horse...
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Understood. Thanks for the reply.
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No, I have not enabled that plugin.
Strange it's staying up tonight but shutdown in the middle last night.
I'll check out the plugin.
Thanks.
Edited: Oops, just checked and it was already enabled by default.
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I have a Harmony 880 and set it up such that it has Descrete PowerOn and
PowerOff codes and works all fine and dandy.
However, if my SlimServer goes to sleep the Display on the SqueezeBox
goes black (which is fine). But the Harmony PowerOn code will not wake
it up. But the Toggle Power will on
Oh yeah, I looked in /tmp/slimserver.log - no errors or warnings there.
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This isn't a known issue thus far.
check server settings-performance-prefs write interval. If you shut
down in less time than this interval, it may not have saved.
turn on d_prefs debugging to get info on any prefs write problems.
-kdf
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Oh, thanks for the tip!
I poked around a little, and found the problem: ownership of
/etc/slimserver.conf was root:root instead of slimserver:slimserver for
some reason.
However, I think that the behavior of SlimServer was inadequate in this
case:
- it allowed changed when it knew the changes
Only contemplating tying myself to itunes as I'm interested in the whole
integrated iLife thing. Mainly for my wife, as I want her to get
involved this time, rather than it be my little project stuck upstairs
on the computer. I personally will probably never buy anything off
itunes, though I will
tyler_durden wrote:
Measuring the DC current into the SB would be a better way to measure
power. Power = V * A (for DC).
That wouldn't measure any power used by the power supply itself (ever
wondered where that heat comes from?)
R.
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