Re: [slim] iTunes on Windows SlimServer on Linux

Is there a reason that you want SlimServer to read the iTunes xml file ? If you are just using iTunes for ripping and organizing tags it sounds like it would work to just specify the Music Folder in SlimServer to detect the music. No need for SlimServer to read the iTunes xml file in this

Re: [slim] Don't Know If This Was Covered - Streaming SlimServer With Netvibes

I personally think new rich interfaces to slimserver are desperately needed. Like you I stream my music to work and I manage to do it despite of the hoops I jump through rather than because of it. The most tedious hoop of all is the web interface. Trouble with this one is the whole netvibes

Re: [slim] Don't Know If This Was Covered - Streaming SlimServer With Netvibes

Michael I've been trying your small app a little at home which seems fairly good. How's it working out remotely? It uses the telnet integration doesn't it? It's working surprisingly well. Don't tell anybody ;-): quite a few lines I developed at work, connecting to my home server through a

Re: [slim] Multiple instances of album titles

I'm afraid I don't use Itunes or Itunes integration, so I'm not sure what further help I can offer. It sounds like the structure of your library should work fine. A basic suggestion would be to open up the files for the complete album in an entirely different tagging program - Media Rage is the

[slim] Lost Album Art

Disclaimer:I'm merely socialising this problem in case someone else has seen it, or it's already a known bug: end of Disclaimer :-) Whenever I change an album (sometimes I rip mp3s from FLAC and accidentally remove the original - it's a long story) and I need to re-rip the FLAC, I then re-index

Re: [slim] No radio streams or RSS feeds after upgrade

I have the same problme. Was it reboots of the server or of the Squeezebox? -- Aguida Aguida's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9285 View this thread:

Re: [slim] SlimServer on XBOX ?

Ive just turned my xbox into a server and it really isnt as hard as all that. If you want to just use an xbox as a storage box (and maybe some other server-ish jobs), its as easy as peeing into a well. The softmod method is full of holes to fall into, and changes for each version of the xbox you

Re: [slim] Album by (A Thousand Artists)

If I navigate to No Album, any given song will be by ALL artists with no album. This isn't a very intelligent side-effect. SlimServer should either treat No Album tracks differently (your database query shouldn't be having 'WHERE ALBUM = ', which I suspect it does in this case, and then picks

Re: [slim] No radio streams or RSS feeds after upgrade

I had the same problem with Radioio after upgrading. Here's the response I got from the guys at Logitech support: Interesting, this doesn't seem to be a common problem. Perhaps it's something local to your machine, could you try this please: Try the following: * Stop Slimserver (right-click

Re: [slim] No radio streams or RSS feeds after upgrade

Wow, removing the pref file is not going to delete all the settings I have in my slimserver? Better writing down everything then before trying it. -- Aguida Aguida's Profile:

Re: [slim] Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums

I'm resurrecting this old post because I've got the same problem with Slimserver splitting certain albums into two or more. I am using SS 6.5.1 from 17/01/07. Most of the albums in question are those which I've ripped on two different occasions (e.g. having first used iTunes to rip, I later

Re: [slim] Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums

I opened a bug some time ago for this issue. Although the circumstances triggering the bug might be a little different. In my case, the same album by the same artist split over 2 dirs in the file system result in 2 album entries. Also updating 1 track within an album and hitting Look for new...

Re: [slim] lists.slimdevices.com mailing list memberships reminder

Hey nice, now we all know the official password... -- CCRDude CCRDude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8478 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32334

[slim] FLAC to MP3 player on the fly -- no sound

I have my music library FLAC encoded on a Win2k PC and want to be able to access it remotely using an MP3 player like WinAmp or Windows Media Player. I can remotely connect to SlimServer using a browser via port 9000, and I can see the MP3 player listed as a player device, however I can't hear

Re: [slim] play interruption

Yes, a 2-hop wireless arrangement doesn't work for everybody. Could you not temporarily wire up the pre-n router to the server with a long patch cable? Or move the pre-n router close enough to be wired, just for tests (even if this involves unplugging the pre-n from your Internet connection)?

Re: [slim] Vista and DRM - Important read

desertrat58;175965 Wrote: Vista, hell. I see Linux in my future after all. earthbased;176365 Wrote: XP is my last MS OS. Same here. Once support for XP is dropped, I won't be going to Vista. Instead I'll be going to Ubuntu Linux full-time. Ubuntu is the first Linux distro I can actually

Re: [slim] SB3 rebooting very frequently

The itunes cover art is something I am having difficulty answering. I do use itunes to rip and it may have embedded artwork for some albums. What I can say is this It definitely crashes - reboots on albums with no cover art. Update: Support asked me to uninstall and re-install 6.5.1. and

Re: [slim] Vista and DRM - Important read

Quoting Mark Lanctot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): desertrat58;175965 Wrote: Vista, hell. I see Linux in my future after all. earthbased;176365 Wrote: XP is my last MS OS. Same here. Once support for XP is dropped, I won't be going to Vista. Instead I'll be going to Ubuntu Linux

Re: [slim] very long gap between songs, rebuffering

Is this playing Internet Radio or files from your own collection? If from your own collection, what file type are they? What does Help - Server Network Health - Network Test show? -- Mark Lanctot It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response. - Jon Heal

Re: [slim] very long gap between songs, rebuffering

It sounds like a wireless issue (if you are using wireless). If so, search the forums for wireless interference. -- jeffmeh jeffmeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3986 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Multiple instances of album titles

sdhubbard;176270 Wrote: It gets stranger. I've just had a look at a couple more of the problem listings, and I've found one with tracks 1, 2 and 10 from a 10-track album listed, with another listing, under the same album name with tracks 3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9. Steve Make sure that iTunes

Re: [slim] Slimserver won't start automatically

I also found the switch from run at system start to run at login did the trick on my work and home computers. Both computers now start automatically, no hangups. On home computer, I removed references to proxy address and now internet radio and RSS feeds work as well. What a leap from 6.5 to

Re: [slim] RSS failure

FWIW, I found the switch from run at system start to run at login did the trick on my work and home computers. Both computers now start automatically, no hangups. On home computer, I removed references to proxy address and now internet radio and RSS feeds work as well. Neither Windows media

Re: [slim] Music IP question.... sigh.....sigh... :)

thing-fish;176274 Wrote: The big thing is that MusicMagicMixer has to have its API service turned on (regardless of whether it's the headless or GUI version), and it needs to be running before SlimServer starts. Thanks for the reply!! I tried to test this by disabling the autostart of SS

Re: [slim] Music IP question.... sigh.....sigh... :)

Ron Olsen;176330 Wrote: Are you sure the MusicIP Server is running? Point your browser to http://localhost:10002/; you should get the MusicIP Server page. If you don't get anything at this URL, then you need to restart the MusicIP Server so it can communicate with SlimServer. Yes Ron,

[slim] Recommendations for a notebook sound card?

I'm looking for a notebook soundcard (PC slot or USB) to play my flac files on the road. Any suggestions? -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!

Hi guys, I read all of the stuff you wrote on these pages, and all I can say is ''Time will see''. The big company that acquires the small one doesn't necessary mean a drop of quality; Logitech surely has a lot of resources to spend in this project, and Slimdevices has a killer application to

Re: [slim] Music IP question.... sigh.....sigh... :)

Try stopping and restarting SlimServer. Sometimes that helps get in into sync with MusicIP Server. -- Ron Olsen Ron Olsen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9233 View this thread:

Re: [slim] play interruption

I could bum a router from work and try that I suppose. I am thinking that it might be something else because I set the slimserver display to show the buffer size and it pegs at 100% when cutting out. Does the wireless network have anything to do with the slimserver buffer? -- randybrand

Re: [slim] Music IP question.... sigh.....sigh... :)

Hi Ron thanks for helping!!! Yes for sure all these things you mention I have done and checked or they are running and showing up as supposed to. The only difference is that my MusicIP is set to 10040, but that is also what it says in the Slimserver setting for its HTTP port would this be a

[slim] Slimserver Shuffle problems

Has anybody else noticed that when you select a playlist and then switch shuffle on, the track names get seperated from its artist and album so EVERYTHING gets shuffled! -- MarkBee MarkBee's Profile:

Re: [slim] play interruption

randybrand;176535 Wrote: Does the wireless network have anything to do with the slimserver buffer? Yes, definitely, but if you indicate it's at 100% it shouldn't be cutting out. Try all the steps here then: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?DiagnosingPerformanceIssues and copy/paste

[slim] SlimServer and VISTA

I installed Windows VISTA (clean) last evening and this morning downloaded and installed the latest build of 6.5.2 thinking that it would probably be a better match for the newly released OS. However, SlimServer does not start and I am getting the following error: Localhost is not set up to

Re: [slim] Lost Album Art

I started this thread last week: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32184highlight=album+art Cheers, Paolo -- polocruz polocruz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4296 View this

Re: [slim] Naxos radio

MrStan;176066 Wrote: If you want to subscribe to listen to any Naxos CD's plus a lot of other classical labels then you can either pay around 20$/Euros a year and get a 20k WM stream using their normal search facility (yes it is awful quality) or you can pay about 150 or 250$/Euros per year

Re: [slim] FLAC to MP3 player on the fly -- no sound

I have the same problem with SlimServer 6.5.1. Try going back to 6.5.0. That solved the problem for me. -- pjalle pjalle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9785 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Converting to Apple Lossless

thesil;175777 Wrote: I am a mac person as well and I am supported by iTunes. In that case, what should I be ripping new tunes as? Two good choices: Apple Lossless or .aiff. Squeezeboxes don't seem to enjoy the former much: no ff or rew function, and it has to be transcoded on the fly to

Re: [slim] play interruption

Do you know if that test is available in 6.3? I rolled back to get rid of the problem with the end of songs getting chopped off. -- randybrand randybrand's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3645

Re: [slim] iTunes on Windows SlimServer on Linux

I had the same problem. There is some data and metadata in the XML that is not available elsewhere. Unfortunately, you cannot change the location of the xml file on your Windows box. You can, however, share a Linux directory with Windows, and copy the xml file to this location after you've made

Re: [slim] Don't Know If This Was Covered - Streaming SlimServer With Netvibes

I noticed a couple of bugs around the synchronisation but I'm not sure how much it's come on now. Looks like good work... my feature request would be that it supports plugins, and TrackStat ratings in particular. -- Smiley Dan

[slim] Favorites with artist name displayed

any way to do this? Right now it just displays the song name. Thanks Tony -- mantis007 mantis007's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=491 View this thread:

Re: [slim] play interruption

randybrand;176555 Wrote: Do you know if that test is available in 6.3? I rolled back to get rid of the problem with the end of songs getting chopped off. Oh. Back then Network Test and Server and Network Health were plugins. There were posts containing the files back in the Developers

Re: [slim] Music IP question.... sigh.....sigh... :)

Zevs;176536 Wrote: Hi Ron thanks for helping!!! Yes for sure all these things you mention I have done and checked or they are running and showing up as supposed to. The only difference is that my MusicIP is set to 10040, but that is also what it says in the Slimserver setting for its HTTP

Re: [slim] Music IP question.... sigh.....sigh... :)

Sorry to mention the obvious here - but you have checked Use Music Magic in the Server Settings Page of Slimserver have you ? Sometimes, uninstalling MIP will cause Slimserver to default to no - and you need to manually reset Slimserver to look for MusicIP. -- Siduhe

Re: [slim] play interruption

Thanks, I'll work on that tonight. -- randybrand randybrand's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3645 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32269

Re: [slim] Can anyone recommend headphones?

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I bought a pair of Sennheiser HD280s today. (Those in ear things are just too expensive!) -- PhilD PhilD's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7808 View this

Re: [slim] Music IP question.... sigh.....sigh... :)

Hi again Ron! I noticed something strange that I don't really understand. I tried to change the port values and realized I couldn't change the port in Music IP to 10002. The program said I needed to try another port. Using services.mcs I then looked at the MusicIP service and stopped that. Then

Re: [slim] Multiple instances of album titles

Thanks for the suggestions again. I've fixed the problem. The location of my iTunes library as I'd configured it in the web interface and its actual location on the external disk were different (I'd set its location to /external/Music whereas the iTunes library was actually stored in

Re: [slim] Music IP question.... sigh.....sigh... :)

Zevs;176586 Wrote: Hi again Ron! I noticed something strange that I don't really understand. I tried to change the port values and realized I couldn't change the port in Music IP to 10002. The program said I needed to try another port. Using services.mcs I then looked at the MusicIP

Re: [slim] Vista and DRM - Important read

bklaas;176160 Wrote: I'm pretty sure they do. When I got my squeezebox, in it was a flyer that said that a portion of the profits had been donated to EFF. There's a HUGE Slim Devices banner here, right at the top of the page: http://www.eff.org/thanks/ I don't know how things will change

Re: [slim] Music IP question.... sigh.....sigh... :)

Zevs;176586 Wrote: Hi again Ron! I noticed something strange that I don't really understand. I tried to change the port values and realized I couldn't change the port in Music IP to 10002. The program said I needed to try another port. Using services.mcs I then looked at the MusicIP

Re: [slim] Album by (A Thousand Artists)

Bug filed: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4725 Please vote if you care to see this corrected. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Any UK Users using SB3 wireless with Sky Broadband router?

Hey Gazza, Would you be so kind as to tell us exactly what you did to get up and running because I'm having problems connecting to my Slimserver using the Sky router. I appear to be connecting to the wireless network initially through the networking setup dialogue, but when I get an IP address

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

Which Version of Vista? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

Gregory Hamilton;176644 Wrote: Which Version of Vista? Version is: Ultimate 32 Bit -- fingers fingers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5570 View this thread:

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

Localhost is not set up to establish a connection on port 9000 with this computer. Sounds like Vista comes configured with a fairly restrictive firewall that even applies to itself. I haven't played with Vista yet but I suspect you'll need to authorize port 9000 in the security settings. --

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

Okay During the install did you accept all the defaults? Can you confirm if the Service Slim.exe is running? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

mlsstl;176652 Wrote: Localhost is not set up to establish a connection on port 9000 with this computer. Sounds like Vista comes configured with a fairly restrictive firewall that even applies to itself. I haven't played with Vista yet but I suspect you'll need to authorize port 9000 in

Re: [slim] How would you like to select which music to play ?

I think everyone agrees that music is all about emotion. Music creates emotions and sometimes you want to strengthen your current emotion through music. In all kinds of theories about emotion, including the ancient chinese ones, there are 7 emotions: Sadness, Anger, Surprise, Contempt,

Re: [slim] Batteries and Beer Hang my SqueezeBox

Nothing show up in the log files. The problem also occurs with squeezenetwork. Does anybody else listen to this station? Does it work? -- jabrazil jabrazil's Profile:

Re: [slim] Update to v6.5.1 creates problems

I was using 6.5.0 previously. -- smoj smoj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32058

[slim] Using v3 with no remote

Ouch. So I'm moving, and I already shipped my box of remotes, including the Squeezebox v3's. The unit itself is going in a later, faster shipment. So now I've got an empty house, and I'd like to use the thing. More importantly, in a couple of days in the new place, I'd like to use the thing.

Re: [slim] Batteries and Beer Hang my SqueezeBox

I've had some Squeezebox reboots when listening to Internet Radio, too. I think it's only been since upgrading from 6.3.x to 6.5.1, but I haven't kept track very well. mflint -- I think this is different. In my case, for instance, my SB2 crashed/rebooted the other day (on FolkAlley.com) but I

Re: [slim] Using v3 with no remote

I realized I wasn't clear about what I'm looking to do -- I can get the thing to work by setting up a computer to pretend to be the old slimserver. What I can't seem to do is actually alter the network settings on the squeezebox remotely (ie, switch it from wired to wireless). -- aiken

Re: [slim] Using v3 with no remote

aiken;176679 Wrote: I realized I wasn't clear about what I'm looking to do -- I can get the thing to work by setting up a computer to pretend to be the old slimserver. What I can't seem to do is actually alter the network settings on the squeezebox remotely (ie, switch it from wired to

Re: [slim] Using v3 with no remote

seanadams;176681 Wrote: No can do. Have you got a universal remote that can send JVC DVD codes? Yep... packed up with the rest of my stuff :) However, that should be easier to find, so at least I won't be entirely without music for the 4 weeks or so the actual remote is in shipping. Thanks!

Re: [slim] Clearing the DB

Server Settings Rescan Library Clear Everything. Where is this setting? Not on my server... I just want to clean out the library. I want to rescan it at a later point. VERSION INFO SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10879 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 Server IP address: 10.0.0.2 Perl Version: 5.8.8

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

I can't possibly be the only one that is trying to install SlimServer on Windows Vista? I can't believe that SlimServer has not been tested on this OS. -- fingers fingers's Profile:

Re: [slim] Album by (A Thousand Artists)

It's not horrendous, but I think would indeed qualify as a bug. I'll go vote on it. - Tim -- tbessie tbessie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8521 View this thread:

Re: [slim] low volume

I'm using analog ouput ,i know all about the volume gains the preamp volume the remote volume, the this the that it plays my music ALOT LOWER than anything else I have hooked up to my stereo! that includes my old dell mp3 DAR that played the exact same mp3's off my pc. can anyone

Re: [slim] Batteries and Beer Hang my SqueezeBox

Here's the URL: http://www.live365.com/stations/dapples What is strange is that I can play any and all of my other stations, but once I try and play this station the squeezebox just locks up imediately, everytime. I've never had a problem with other stations like Folk Alley, Moxie, etc. --

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

I am testing on a VM now for you. During the installation did you notice a prompt for elevation? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] low volume

While the music is playing, point the remote that came with the Squeezebox at the Squeezebox and hold down the button at the very top of the remote, in the middle, with an up arrow on it. Hold it down for several seconds. Does that help? Does it appear to do anything at all? -- CatBus

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

Gregory Hamilton;176697 Wrote: I am testing on a VM now for you. During the installation did you notice a prompt for elevation? A prompt for what?? -- fingers fingers's Profile:

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

The Slimtray application runs under the account of the logged in user. However, the slimserver service is set to run under the system account. Unfortunately, under Vista, normal users are not allowed to start services. Try yourself by opening a command prompt and type 'net start slimserver' and

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

A prompt to allow the installation to run at the administrative or elevated level. At the very least you would have received a dimmed screen and a continue prompt. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

bergek;176699 Wrote: The Slimtray application runs under the account of the logged in user. However, the slimserver service is set to run under the system account. Unfortunately, under Vista, normal users are not allowed to start services. Try yourself by opening a command prompt and type

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

Gregory Hamilton;176702 Wrote: A prompt to allow the installation to run at the administrative or elevated level. At the very least you would have received a dimmed screen and a continue prompt. a got it... YES -- fingers

Re: [slim] low volume

Have you tried connecting the SB to one of your stereo inputs that is playing normally? Steve. -- SteveEast SteveEast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4193 View this thread:

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

It is getting even more amazing to me that it appears that Slim folks have not tested any of this on VISTA. I contacted support this even and have been waiting to hear back as support admitted they have no VISTA machine to troubleshoot on after attemtping everything they could think of based on

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

I disabled the firewall in Vista and now my SqueezeBox is working. I would like to know if anyone working for SlimDevices can tell us what particular settings need to be configured so that the firewall does not need to be shut off entirely. -- AudioVideo

Re: [slim] Update to v6.5.1 creates problems

Reverting to v6.5.0 leaves me with 0 albums with 0 songs by 0 artists instead of the aforementioned (and false) 1/1/1, which obviously is no better. I'm getting closer and closer to formatting the computer and starting over, but before I do that I'm going to go ahead and continue reverting back

[slim] updatede slimserver and now ???

I just updated slimserver and now when I add new cd's slimserver does not find the first song of ever cd. It found all of the songs from all of the cd's that were already ripped. But the new cd's that I have ripped, it only finds the songs after song 1 how can this be? I have checked

Re: [slim] Update to v6.5.1 creates problems

Windows event logs contain nothing to do with SlimServer (although there were multiple mySQL errors that I haven't yet dug through very far...are these important?) and I became impatient with v6.3.1 after installing it and waiting 30 minutes only for it still to be starting Slimserver. -- smoj

Re: [slim] Music IP question.... sigh.....sigh... :)

Thanks Siduhe for the detailed and clear instructions!! I went through them and SS is now rescanning the library. The only thing that surpised me a bit was that the icon for SS disappeared from the tray as soon as the scan started. It is for sure scanning though! Will let you know the result

Re: [slim] Vista and DRM - Important read

ddewey;175828 Wrote: I know it's long and fairly techie, but this is an important read, especially for this community.] Interesting article. I guess it's no accident I've been buying only used vinyl lately or working a little harder to find music I can buy in my preferred format (non-DRM

Re: [slim] Vista and DRM - Important read

Mark Lanctot;176598 Wrote: There's a HUGE Slim Devices banner here, right at the top of the page: http://www.eff.org/thanks/ Thanks Mark! Never thought to look there :-) Slim Devices deserves a pat on the back. -- Skunk

Re: [slim] SlimServer and VISTA

AudioVideo;176713 Wrote: I disabled the firewall in Vista and now my SqueezeBox is working. I would like to know if anyone working for SlimDevices can tell us what particular settings need to be configured so that the firewall does not need to be shut off entirely. I also disabled the

Re: [slim] Clearing the DB

I just want to clean out the library. I want to rescan it at a later point. That's currently no option. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography,

Re: [slim] updatede slimserver and now ???

I just updated slimserver and now when I add new cd's slimserver does not find the first song of ever cd. First of all, please give us some information about your system. You updated from? To? What operating system? What file format? Did you try a full rescan? Have you tried turning on