Hi,
is there anything to watch for if I upgrade and are using a standalone
MySQL installation ?
ciao, TommyZ
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Have you had your SB for 30 days yet? If not, it's not too late to
send
it back for a refund.
We could all chip in to pay the return shipping costs if that's a
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This has got to take the cake for bizarrest thread of the year.
One thing really struck me though. Andy wrote some code to address the
concerns of NauticusLX within a day (or two) of his first post, and the
bloke didn't even seem to notice the absolutely superlative (and
second-to-none) customer
Wouldn't you be best off asking SlimDevices directly (horses mouth
etc)?
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snarlydwarf;171772 Wrote:
Hrrm.. is the server restarting perhaps?
I don't know how to tell on Windows... assuming a fast enough machine
and no slow-initializing-plugins it could be crashing and coming back
quickly so you don't notice the crash.
I would think the SB would black the
tyler_durden;171762 Wrote:
The power of the whole system is so low that it won't have any
appreciable impact on your electric bill. If you pay $0.15/kW Hr, and
the SB3 takes 6W, with power on at all times it will cost you about
$0.15/week. That comes to $8 per year.
Erm, coal is a
is there anything to watch for if I upgrade and are using a standalone
MySQL installation ?
If you are using 6.5.0 you should be fine installing right over the
existing installation. This should keep the configuration file. If not,
you'll have a backup, won't you? ;-)
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My Squeezebox 3 for absolutely no reason has died on me 5 (yes FIVE!!)
days after its one year warranty ended. It has been sitting in the spot
for 1 year lightly used and well cared for - now when I start it the
screen is blank and even though I still see it through the PC no sounds
come out of
And he insists that the behavior couldnt be changed, because it makes no
sense how it could be changed without him knowing about it, so Andy must
be lying...
Some people enjoy life in crisis mode and will fabricate all sorts of
paranoid delusions to keep that crisis going.
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ModelCitizen;171825 Wrote:
Wouldn't you be best off asking SlimDevices directly (horses mouth
etc)?
MC
yes, perfectly correct.
if they would only answer...
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You should contact SlimDevices directly for returns.
However, I'd be tempted to search the forums and try some diagnostics
first. From your short description of the problem it is possible that
the SB3 may not dead.
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Music
When you say you can see it from the PC, what display (if any) do you
see on the SB3 screen?
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NauticusLX;171593 Wrote:
Can this device, which appears to be compatible with the SqueezeBox,
fast forward through large mp3 files? I'm talking about mp3 files on
the N800 device itself, and is there a way to QUICKLY fast forward, or
go directly to randomly chosen parts of the mp3 file?
I've just upgraded from 6.3.1 to 6.5.1 and am experiencing somthing
similar; only it's with FLAC images containing embedded cue sheets.
'Bug 1434' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434), which
was resolved over 18 months ago, best describes the problem. The gap
is around 0.5-1
I guess I'm just waiting for a download service that will allow me to
grab CD quality (or hopefully better) sound and use it on my
Squeezebox, Macs, and iPods. Until then, I'll be buying CDs and
ripping them in ALC.
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I've been thinking about adding support to the IR blaster plugin to
allow an API to send arbitrary IR commands.
This is already in place. :) You can send any IR commands defined in a
.conf file via the command line interface of SlimServer using the
following command: player irblaster
This is an odd problem, most likely nothing to do with
SlimServer/Squeezebox, but since I first noticed it when the SB made a
connection after my router rebooted, it seems worth raising it here.
Using a Mac Powerbook G4, OS 10.4.8, Draytek Vigor 2600 router firmware
2.5.6, SlimServer 6.5.0.
The
NauticusLX: have you forgotten to take your pills this week...?
They´re coming to take me away,
Haha, they´re coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the funny farm
Where Life is Beautiful all the time
And I´ll be happy to see
Those Nice Young Men
In their Clean White Coats
I understand we're a demanding bunch, and you do your best to strike a
balance between new functionality and code maintenance, but how much
regression testing is performed on a release before it's released to
the public? I've just spent three hours attempting to troubleshoot
this issue while
If I connect my server to a squeezebox 2 with the ethernet cable, can I
then access the server wirelessly using the Wireless bridge function in
the squeezebox, without having to have a seperate wireless access card
in the server.
I just want to use a VERY simple stripped down server.
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I recently switched from iTunes to MusicIP Mixer as a source for the SS
scan. (those 2 are BTW still in sync)
In the iTunes settings, we had the ability to ex- or include unchecked
songs.
It would be great to be able to do the same with disabled MMM songs.
I think you are asking whether the SB2 can be used as a Wireless Access
Point to access your server.
There are a number of threads on this forum dealing with this, and the
bottom line is that the SB2/3 can not be used as a WAP.
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First thing I would do is confirm that it's getting power. Make sure the
power supply is plugged in securely at both ends (mains and SB). If
that's okay, make sure that the power supply hasn't died. If the SB is
getting juice there's a reddish light that glows somewhere, although I
forget exactly
This is not the support mechanism for Slim Devices, and you can't count
on them to see postings or answer here.
There's a support email address. Use it.
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Michaelwagner;171880 Wrote:
This is not the support mechanism for Slim Devices, and you can't count
on them to see postings or answer here.
There's a support email address. Use it.
Thanks for your advice but I was aware of this. I mailed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the first place, but
Have you tried holding the left arrow button down for a few seconds so
you can re-select your server?
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Thanks
I had searched but most of what I'd found dealt with using the SB as a
bridge and I couldn't find anything quite as specific as I wanted.
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Sorry.
You were replying to a posting of mine from 2005. I didn't know you had
already written them. I didn't see that anywhere.
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It's people like this that are the reason most companies aren't as
readily accessible as SlimDevices. I only hope that with Logitech's
marketing power bringing the Squeezebox more mainstream that these
threads don't become more commonplace and ultimately destroy the
awesome user/developer
Michaelwagner;171887 Wrote:
Sorry.
You were replying to a posting of mine from 2005. I didn't know you had
already written them. I didn't see that anywhere.
Hehe, it's ok, I did't mention it. I just tried to comply with one of
the golden forum rules: it's always better to post into an
very well done and positive review of the N800 in mobilecrunch.
http://mobilecrunch.com/2007/01/18/nokia-n800-a-real-world-review-after-one-months-use/
This little snippet was of particular interest to people in this
forum:
'The instant-on capability of the device makes it ideal for ad-hoc,
GoCubs;171886 Wrote:
It's people like this that are the reason most companies aren't as
readily accessible as SlimDevices. I only hope that with Logitech's
marketing power bringing the Squeezebox more mainstream that these
threads don't become more commonplace and ultimately destroy the
My SB3 asks if I want to connect to Powerbook which is the name I gave
my Powerbook (duh!) in System Preferences/Sharing (using OSX 10.x.x like
you). At least I think that's where I saw the option to name your
computer.
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Ramage wrote:
I think you are asking whether the SB2 can be used as a Wireless Access
Point to access your server.
Not necessarily. Perhaps he wants his server to access the access point
through the SB3. Unusual solution but it might well work.
Regards,
Peter
Has the Debian release been updated?
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sc53;171895 Wrote:
OK this is going to sound stupid, but my SB3 will often do what you are
describing on internet radio stations and the only way to reconnect is
to actually unplug the power cord from the back of the SB3, wait a few
seconds and plug it back in. After it reboots, reconnects,
Repos should be updated.
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I'm not aware of anything. I still would be interested in this,
enabling crossfeed out the analog RCAs would be great.
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Thanks. Updating now.
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I am impressed with everyone's patience with this guy and I am not
surprised the patience has finally run out.
I have to wonder if the OP is actually some former disgruntled poster
who has reinvented himself and is jerking our chains.
His behavior is so obtuse that it is hard to imagine
I want to be able to do a rsync between 2 servers to keep their music
folders identical (I will update the main server then rsync to the
secondary server). I want to access the secondary server using the SB2
as its wireless connection.
does that make sense?
to expand the application a little,
Your intentions are now a little clearer.
I think you will be able to do what you want, as the SB2 will connect
the server in the car to your wireless network in the house and the
second server.
Quite a novel project.
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I didn't get a message about this through the announcements list, so I'd
like to take this opportunity to again ask for it to be revived. The
main discussion list is high volume; too high for me. I stay
subscribed to keep abreast of announcements.
I asked about this 'before'
I've turned d_source debugging on and all I see is this -
songTime: rate:1 -songtime:0 -startStream:0
00:04:20:05:b8:bf: Switching to mode play from stop
openSong on:
file:mrps_disk1/Music_Files/Aerosmith/Devils%20Got%20A%20New%20Disguise%20(The%20Very%20Best%20Of)/01%20Dream%20On.mp3
sc53;171894 Wrote:
My SB3 asks if I want to connect to Powerbook which is the name I gave
my Powerbook (duh!) in System Preferences/Sharing (using OSX 10.x.x like
you). At least I think that's where I saw the option to name your
computer.
Yes, that's where the option to name the computer
Cool! I'm trying to set up a single server for home with all my music
stored as FLAC to retire my cd collection, I can then access this from
anywhere in the house (and work), all my music at the touch of a
button. I then want to duplicate this in the car so I have all my music
available there too
danco wrote:
This is an odd problem, most likely nothing to do with
SlimServer/Squeezebox, but since I first noticed it when the SB made a
connection after my router rebooted, it seems worth raising it here.
Using a Mac Powerbook G4, OS 10.4.8, Draytek Vigor 2600 router firmware
2.5.6,
InguzDSP does crossfeed (on the server, using FIR filters). I've been
using this for stereo-width enhancement with loudspeakers, but it would
work great for headphones too.
http://inguzaudio.com/usage/plugin/settings/enhanced-stereo-filters/
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sc53;171532 Wrote:
You mention the Dell 17--Would any LCD computer monitor work, or does
it need HDMI in?
It's not straightforward to convert from HDMI to RGB - there aren't
aren't any converter cables that I'm aware of and you usually need a
converter unit that adjusts for the differnt
Puggie wrote:
Cool! I'm trying to set up a single server for home with all my music
stored as FLAC to retire my cd collection, I can then access this from
anywhere in the house (and work), all my music at the touch of a
button. I then want to duplicate this in the car so I have all my music
Lost Viking;171882 Wrote:
Today I noticed that they obviously migrated their support ticket system
to a system of Logitech.
Oh dear.
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haunyack,
I have been out of the Slim World for a while after I returned my
Squeezebox. I thought the concept had potential, but like you I wound
up feeling the product does not perform as advertised. My guess is they
do not have a worthy development team. Just a guess, but it seems like
they
Apparently there are a lucky few who have these products working
properly (or someone pays them to say so). You think?
Reply With Quote
I was under the impression that it was the unlucky few who didn't get
it to work properly. Music playback works flawlessly for me. Now if
Logitech paid me
Probably won't sound as good as the Squeezebox. Does it even have a
digital out?
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Both my SBs work fine - but then I would say that wouldn't I? Wouldn't
want to lose those regular cheques from Logitech.
I wish!
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andyg wrote:
I give up...
I admire your patience!
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Nostromo;171981 Wrote:
Does it even have a digital out?
I don't know the answer, but I'll bet it won't, 'cause then (e gads)
you could make a copy of it
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Having followed the entire thread over the past few days, confirming my
initial suspicions, I think the OP had it right in his intial post.
NauticusLX;170227 Wrote:
Maybe...I should return it and get the new Nokia N800 instead, which
has the same EXACT form factor, is even a bit smaller,
slimdemage;171971 Wrote:
Apparently there are a lucky few who have these products working
properly (or someone pays them to say so). You think?
Well over 70,000 tracks played (and scrobbled!) and I still play with
my Squeezeboxes more than any other toy. So when do I get my check
from
Pale Blue Ego wrote:
Nauticus seems confused that others might want to see the display even
when the player is off. When not used as a music player, the SB
makes a superb clock, weather station, etc.
I keep my bedroom SB3 playing all night; actually I'd have trouble
sleeping without it. Try
Thanks for the answer.
The Squeezebox is powered properly - I can see the red light through
the optical port in the back...
The SB screen though is totally blank no display on it whatsoever.
When I go to the slimserver page on my PC, I can see that the SB is
there. I can power it on and off
Have you tried the headphone socket?
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konut wrote:
Having followed the entire thread over the past few days, confirming my
initial suspicions, I think the OP had it right in his intial post.
NauticusLX;170227 Wrote:
Maybe...I should return it and get the new Nokia N800 instead, which
has the same EXACT form factor, is even
Pillock.
I've had five Squeezeboxen/Transporters and all have worked fine. All
the ones owned by the five friends that saw mine and bought one all
work fine too. It is certain that the very vast majority of people who
own them have them working flawlessly too unless you think that only 30
have
slimdemage;171971 Wrote:
haunyack,
I have been out of the Slim World for a while after I returned my
Squeezebox. I thought the concept had potential, but like you I wound
up feeling the product does not perform as advertised. My guess is they
do not have a worthy development team. Just a
Have you tried threatening a lawsuit over lost sleep? :)
On 1/19/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
konut wrote:
Having followed the entire thread over the past few days, confirming my
initial suspicions, I think the OP had it right in his intial post.
NauticusLX;170227 Wrote:
haunyack;171999 Wrote:
slimdemage,
I would advise caution with your remarks...the trolls (fanboys) in
these forums do not like it when opinions do not align with their own.
Or we get annoyed that we are accused of accepting bribes without the
benefit of such bribes.
Screw the pony: I want
snarlydwarf;172005 Wrote:
Or we get annoyed that we are accused of accepting bribes without the
benefit of such bribes.
Screw the pony: I want cash.
Touche'
Screw the pony?
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Also ... maybe the display is dead, but not the audio portion...
Make sure the volume is up loud enough ... perhaps that's why it's not
playing.
(Certainly you'd like to have a working display too ... but if you can
at least get sound ... that's something.)
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MrP;171826 Wrote:
No, the sever is not restarting, it's been running happily on this PC
for nearly 18 months with n problems...
Hmmm, after a chat with Slim tech support the advice was that
'something' on the PC was blocking ports, advised to uninstall McAfee
(damn program) and re-install
Hey...just d/l installed official 6.5.1.
Truncation problem seems to have gone bye-bye!
Possibly too early to tell but I'll stick my neck out and give a bravo
to the dev team.
Things are looking up here in the land of webfoots.
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snarlydwarf;172019 Wrote:
yeah, right, you just want in on the money train!
Now you're just beating a dead horse (pony)
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beats feeding the damned thing. free pony... right... like feeding
and stabling a pony is free?
I'm just tenderizing the meat, ponies are kinda tough.
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bummer! they still don't support the tags. oh well. i am testing again
with the new software and i cannot get rid of gaps. foobar plays the
files fine if i dont use slimserver. just like you guys... my whole
collection lame ;)
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I installed 6.5.1 and it does not work. When I try to play anything, it
shuffles between songs without sound for several seconds (one song
per second) and then stops. Went back to 6.5.0 and everything is
working fine.
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All of a sudden the display of one of my sb3s stopped working during
playback. It works fine when searching for music, when turned off etc,
but the screen goes black when it just plays music.
I turned off the MusicInfo plugin, and installed latest 6.5.1, and as
far as I can see the settings are
You think?
No.
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haunyack;172015 Wrote:
Hey...just d/l installed official 6.5.1.
Truncation problem seems to have gone bye-bye!
Possibly too early to tell but I'll stick my neck out and give a bravo
to the dev team.
Things are looking up here in the land of webfoots.
Spoke to soon.
Truncation has reared
I installed 6.5.1 and it does not work. When I try to play anything, it
shuffles between songs without sound for several seconds (one song
per second) and then stops. Went back to 6.5.0 and everything is
working fine.
Did you try to do a full rescan? What OS? Slimserver's own MySQL?
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by the original poster - all of my compilation albums show up
fragmented when I browse by albums - i.e. one album per artist. I
browsed around the forums quite a bit and realized that this seems to
be a somewhat
Win2k, I tried full rescan, fresh install (manually removed slimserver
dir before installation), nothing helps.
I do not know about MySQL. To go back to 6.5.0 and completely remove
6.5.1 I had to kill mysqld.exe process, if it helps.
Michael Herger;172044 Wrote:
Did you try to do a
Nostromo;171981 Wrote:
Probably won't sound as good as the Squeezebox. Does it even have a
digital out?
'Optical audio out' (http://www.apple.com/appletv/connect.html)
Do you know of any indicators why it wouldn't sound as good?
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verdemar wrote:
All of a sudden the display of one of my sb3s stopped working during
playback. It works fine when searching for music, when turned off etc,
but the screen goes black when it just plays music.
I turned off the MusicInfo plugin, and installed latest 6.5.1, and as
far as I can see
Thanks for the link.
Does it work with flac files?
Cheers
Richard
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Had the same thing happen with my TP, no display when playing but all
else was fine.
In my case, as Peter said, pressing brightness sorted it.
Cheers
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Now that it's official, I am trying 6.5.1 again
(have been using 6.3.1 apart from an early foray into
6.5.1 two months ago). I use WinXP SP2.
One thing I noticed is some of the older skins are missing
(exbrowse, default2). Are these or more skins available
elsewhere as plugins?
The total track
For my fellow US customers... last Thursday, US Senators Dianne
Feinstein [D,CA], Lamar Alexander [R,TN], Joe Biden [D,DE] , and
Lindsey Graham [R,SC] re-introduced a bill called the PERFORM Act of
2007 [S.256] that, in the opinion of the EFF, would require all
webcasters to use DRM with their
Peter;171948 Wrote:
I think it's the hostname your Vigor passes to your machine via DHCP.
If
you want to get rid of it you might try specifying an IP address for
your PC manually.
Regards,
Peter
That's the obvious possibility. But the guy at the Vigor support team
hasn't suggested
Nostromo;171981 Wrote:
Probably won't sound as good as the Squeezebox. Does it even have a
digital out?
Yes, it does. Optical only, I believe.
My big thing about the Apple TV is the TV part. I have to turn the TV
on to use it. So, even if it sounded as good as the SB, I wouldn't be
happy.
The sound works it was just all the way down ... but managed to bring it
up from the server software...
But the Screen definitely is dead - not a single pixel is on. And I
made it sure to always have it run at only the 2nd setting for
brightness on IDLE and 3rd setting when working.
What can I
Mark Lanctot;171761 Wrote:
Yeah, that's not particularly easy or intuitive. I tried to explain it
but it's hard. What you have to do is filter out the networks by using
the filters on the left pane. Filter everything out but your own, using
MAC address for example. When you have only one
Do you know of any indicators why it wouldn't sound as good?
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Skunk;171827 Wrote:
A quick google yielded the approximation of one pound of coal per 1.25
kWh, which ~ a pound of coal burnt per week to run a Sb3.
A pound of coal per week to run the SB3, or a pound of coal per hour to
run your big screen TV, or 5 gallons of gasoline per hour to power your
I just sent an email to my senator (kennedy). Would people be interested
in sharing what they wrote (or at least the gist), in order to gather
ammunition? I would be willing to in a hearbeat.
regards,
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Is the brightness setting still where you put it in SlimServer?
Also try the brightness button on the remote.
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Brian Ritchie;172097 Wrote:
Tonight, it got as far as the Infernal Dance in the Firebird Suite
before barfing. I found that even the 1000kbps network test was
hitting significant dropouts (average 96%, but got much lower on
occasion and even cut off completely at one point).
I switched to
ulvi;172075 Wrote:
One thing I noticed is some of the older skins are missing
(exbrowse, default2). Are these or more skins available
elsewhere as plugins?
No, they are discontinued. Their respective developers may update them
again, or they may not - it's up to them.
Also, as other
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