Re: [slim] How does it all work?

MrSinatra;181400 Wrote: do like devo: wiki it, crack that wiki, wiki it good! i actually don't know any beyond the url below, or how good that info is, but sometimes wiki is very good. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/ Thanks to KDF and Mr Sinatra, I have plenty of reading to do. Cheers.

Re: [slim] Apple Lossless - stream format for best sound?

Thanks very much for your help. Richard -- Richard62 Richard62's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32844

Re: [slim] 6.5.1 Windows now supports mapped drives

MrSinatra wrote: are you saying that any program that runs as a service rather than process in XP can't access a NAS which is a mapped drive? why? Ask Microsoft. is there no workaround for this? Use UNc paths: //server/share R. ___ discuss

Re: [slim] How does it all work?

peejay;181396 Wrote: As an IT enthusiast, I'm interested in a 'getting started' guide for writing plugins, understanding the protocols between the slimserver client and the server, and so on. Is there a good starting place which can start me off on this journey of discovery? ThanksBesides

Re: [slim] 6.5.1 Windows now supports mapped drives

MrSinatra wrote: are you saying that any program that runs as a service rather than process in XP can't access a NAS which is a mapped drive? Because mapped drives are set up for each user account at login time, and a service runs before you log in. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180362

Re: [slim] Announce: Official SlimServer v6.5.1 Release

As written in I managed to install slimserver on my Linkstation pro http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=181459. @Slim-TEAM: Please!!! provide a Debian ARM target that we can install slimserver via apt-get, currently this only works with amd and intel... :-( Anyway, thanks for the

[slim] mysql configuration for slimserver on linkstation pro

I got a linkstation pro with 128MB and 400MHz ARM processor, what is the optimum configuration for mysql in order to give slimserver enough ressources? my current config is: [client] port= 3306 socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock [mysqld_safe] socket =

Re: [slim] Resizing the Now Playing Artwork in Fishbone

Sorry for resurecting an old thread but i got my answer here. I changed the status image to use thumb.jpg in hreftemplate. When SlimServer is upgraded with this file be overwritten and hence back to using cover.jpg reduced to 100x100? -- dmce

Re: [slim] mysql configuration for slimserver on linkstation pro

by setting skip-innodb I save more than 10MB RAM, why do we need ACID compliants transactions with slimserver? -- livelock livelock's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10284 View this thread:

[slim] SlimServer shows it's running, but

I can't open it so it will not play on my SB3. When I try to open it, it just attempts to open forever, but never opens. Squeezenetwork is playing now so I know the box and connection work fine. I installed SS on a new Vista yesterday and got it to work, but it will not work today. Any

Re: [slim] mysql configuration for slimserver on linkstation pro

ok, this did not work, I am getting a lot of errors now - but Mysql did not die 2007-02-18 16:02:09.4897 Select task failed: Carp::Clan::__ANON__(): Error executing 'SELECT contributor.id, contributor.name, contributor.namesort, contributor.moodlogic_id, contributor.moodlogic_mixable,

[slim] Need to factory reset SB3 evey morning!!!

I have an SB3 running Slimserver 6.5.1 on my basement computer.It is a wired connection not wireless. I listen during the day to a variety of radio and sample my 600 or so albums .At the end of the day I turn off the SB3 by the remotes power button. The next morning it cannot find the slimserver.

[slim] 6.3.1 forces firmware downgrade to version 55

I have the latest SlimServer 6.5.2 on my PC and this has upgraded my Squeezebox to firmware version 76. However on a Linux box I have SlimServer 6.3.1 running and when I connect my Squeezebox it insists on downgrading the firmware to version 55 and then does a factory reset. How can I stop my

Re: [slim] 6.3.1 forces firmware downgrade to version 55

brookheather;181482 Wrote: I have the latest SlimServer 6.5.2 on my PC and this has upgraded my Squeezebox to firmware version 76. However on a Linux box I have SlimServer 6.3.1 running and when I connect my Squeezebox it insists on downgrading the firmware to version 55 and then does a

Re: [slim] 6.3.1 forces firmware downgrade to version 55

server versions are matched with a particular firmware version. You might get unexpected results from using fw76 with 6.3.1 -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this

Re: [slim] Server Securitry IP-Range blocking

Hi, Yes, its about the settings in the webinterface. And of course I´m totally aware of the fact, that we are only talking about limitign access to the slimserver process itself, not a generall firewall replacement. (Running on a Mac btw) About your suggestion: Well yes, there are at least 5

Re: [slim] 6.5.1 Windows now supports mapped drives

Hi, I read your post, did a clean install of the latest release. I still can not get slimserver to use mapped drive ie. Z:\ I still can only use \\servername\musicfolder. What do I have to do? -- mitchjstein

Re: [slim] 6.5.1 Windows now supports mapped drives

mitchjstein;181492 Wrote: I read your post, did a clean install of the latest release. I still can not get slimserver to use mapped drive ie. Z:\ I still can only use \\servername\musicfolder. What do I have to do? What in the world is the reason that you'd want to use a mapped drive letter

Re: [slim] 6.5.1 Windows now supports mapped drives

mitchjstein wrote: I read your post, did a clean install of the latest release. I still can not get slimserver to use mapped drive ie. Z:\ I still can only use \\servername\musicfolder. What do I have to do? I'm not sure of the definitive answer, but I'd consider it a feature. There is

Re: [slim] 6.5.1 Windows now supports mapped drives

just guessing, but it maybe that like me, he doesn't know what a unc drive is, what it does, how it works, or how to make one. pointers welcome. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.2 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram

Re: [slim] mysql configuration for slimserver on linkstation pro

Ok, mysql does die. I am stuck, I tried all kinds of settings, but mysqld dies all the time. in slimserver.log you see how often it happens I am stuck here, maybe I try installing mysql 4.1 :( -- livelock livelock's

Re: [slim] 6.5.1 Windows now supports mapped drives

MrSinatra;181498 Wrote: just guessing, but it maybe that like me, he doesn't know what a unc drive is, what it does, how it works, or how to make one. pointers welcome. 1. You create a share on the remote system. You'll need to do that regardless of whether you're using a UNC path or a

Re: [slim] 6.5.1 Windows now supports mapped drives

MrSinatra wrote: just guessing, but it maybe that like me, he doesn't know what a unc drive is, what it does, how it works, or how to make one. pointers welcome. Googling for unc path gives you the definition as the first result. The original poster by his own admission already has his

Re: [slim] 6.3.1 forces firmware downgrade to version 55

Or make both SlimServer versions the same. Is there a reason why they're different? And is there a reason you're running it across two machines? -- Mark Lanctot It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response. - Jon Heal

Re: [slim] Control SlimServer _from_ iTunes

Kaitsu;178519 Wrote: What did you do to the Anton script? I couldn't get it work. Or can you send the working script? Did you get the script working? If so, please could you post the fix ...? THANKS! -- reeve_mike

[slim] Low output after firmware upgrade

I may have lost connection whilst doing a firmware upgrade recently. I think the upgrade restarted and went OK. The output level from my squeezebox is now about 20 percent of what it was before, this is into my meridian D600 speakers and also the headphone output. Are the two events connected or

Re: [slim] Low output after firmware upgrade

Is your volume the same level it was before? And you upgraded from what to what? (The volume scale was changed not too long ago). You can reload the firmware at any time by pressing and holding brightness. -- Mark Lanctot It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble

Re: [slim] Resizing the Now Playing Artwork in Fishbone

On 18-Feb-07, at 7:30 AM, dmce wrote: Sorry for resurecting an old thread but i got my answer here. I changed the status image to use thumb.jpg in hreftemplate. When SlimServer is upgraded with this file be overwritten and hence back to using cover.jpg reduced to 100x100? yes, it will.

Re: [slim] Need to factory reset SB3 evey morning!!!

Some of us have had this kind of problem, and I don't think it has been diagnosed. Have you also tried pressing and holding the Power button or pressing and holding the Left button (I think this may only work when the SB is alive, and then it gets to the setup menu)? The first of these works

[slim] Icecast/Ogg stream: artist/title info not displayed?

I just set up Icecast 2.3.x with Ices 2.x to stream music from my regular stereo to Squeezeboxes in the house. It's working pretty well, except my Squeezeboxes (SB1G, SB2, SB3) all show the .ogg filename from the Icecast URL instead of the Artist/Title metadata that Icecast is sending along with

[slim] Select Song in Playlist w/o Clearing Playlist

OK maybe I'm dense but I keep repeating the same mistake. I'm hoping there is a better way to do this. My issue is that I have a playlist queued up and while a song is playing I grab the remote and go to now playing and then press the down button until I find a song that I want to play now as

Re: [slim] Slimserver shuts down by itself - why?

Suddenly my SS just stops when I try to start it, after years of running almost 24/7. downloaded the latest nightly but no change. Been down since yesterday. I have no clue what to do. I don't even know how to get some sort of log to explain the crash - please can someone help me out. I am on a

Re: [slim] SB3 rebooting very frequently

msui772;181140 Wrote: I haven't found the time to downgrade my XP PC to 6.5.0 yet - will probably do it tomorrow or Sunday. I'll report back with results I finally found time to downgrade my XP server from 6.5.1 to 6.5.0 and no more problems :-) I can now use my squeezebox that his been out

Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?

Februari, 18th. No update... When can I expect to download the new testversion? -- quick_snack quick_snack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?

Are you using the latest 6.5.2 build with firmware 76? -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32080

Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?

No I am currently using firmware 72, see my earlier post. When I do apt-get update no new slimserver versions will show up. -- quick_snack quick_snack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67 View

Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?

http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.5/ -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32080

Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?

I am using the debian install (repo) from: Code: deb http://debian.slimdevices.com testing main -- quick_snack quick_snack's Profile:

Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?

Yeah, don't know why that isn't working for you, but you can grab the deb and install manually if you want. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?

After a remove and a new install i have: SlimServer versie: 6.5.2 - 11466 - Debian - NL - utf8, firmware 76 Thanks! -- quick_snack quick_snack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67 View this

Re: [slim] Announce: Official SlimServer v6.5.1 Release

Mark Lanctot wrote: Ken;181373 Wrote: As an alternative, I've been using Album Art Cover Downloader which seems (to me) to be a little more convenient than Album Art Aggregator. http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/ I like the fact that it supports more than Amazon.

Re: [slim] DVBShout

Thanks, Phil. -- DynamicalSystem DynamicalSystem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4594 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32749

[slim] How do I remove Slimserver completely?

I am having all sorts of problems conecting my squeezebox to my network... yes I have Norton Int Sec 2006, but I have done the supposed fix with no joy. What I want to do is start from scratch, I have uninstalled slimserver, but it leaves a file in program files which I cant get rid of. If I

Re: [slim] Slimserver shuts down by itself - why?

6.5.1 kept crashing on my Win2K (ok, I know) server. I downloaded latest 6.5.2 today (2/17/07) and crash no more. Been listening all day. Cool. -- dyohn dyohn's Profile:

[slim] SB3 for sale - wired, white x2 + Linkstation

Due to change in circumstances, need to go wireless but could not get wireless ethernet adapters to work properly with my units. Thought I would ask here before going to eBay. If you do not need wireless, these will be very good value (and wired is much better if you can do it, anyway ...).

Re: [slim] How do I remove Slimserver completely?

Kenders;181591 Wrote: I am having all sorts of problems conecting my squeezebox to my network... yes I have Norton Int Sec 2006, but I have done the supposed fix with no joy. What I want to do is start from scratch, I have uninstalled slimserver, but it leaves a file in program files

[slim] Retail outlets carrying Squeezebox in SF Bay area?

I was hoping to get a Squeezebox this weekend as a present for a friend, and wanted to find out which BM retailers carry them it in the SF Bay area. I checked with Magnolia HiFi in Palo Alto and they indicated that they carry it, but are entirely out of stock. Are there any other places I can

Re: [slim] Need to factory reset SB3 evey morning!!!

It has happened twice to me, that for no apparent reason the SB will just fall into a state of utter ijability to communicate, with nothing else changing. These discussion boards tend to quickly try to absolve the SB and Slimserver, and claim something else is at the root, but given the fact that

Re: [slim] How do I remove Slimserver completely?

XP Media Center -- Kenders Kenders's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10291 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32880 ___

Re: [slim] Retail outlets carrying Squeezebox in SF Bay area?

Never mind. I found the Retailers list on the Slim web site. - Ken Ken wrote: I was hoping to get a Squeezebox this weekend as a present for a friend, and wanted to find out which BM retailers carry them it in the SF Bay area. I checked with Magnolia HiFi in Palo Alto and they indicated

[slim] Problem with shorten (shn) playback on Mac OSX on Intel

Greetings, longtime Squeezebox owner here, with a wired Squeezebox classic and a wireless Squeezebox 2. I am having a problem with shorten (shn) file playback on Mac OSX 10.4.8 on Intel. I have two Slimserver machines, both running 6.3.1. The main server is a G4 tower running OSX 10.3.9. That

Re: [slim] Select Song in Playlist w/o Clearing Playlist

Well, I had thought that the answer was going to be press and hold the '+' key to add as 'Play Next' but, when I just did a test of doing exactly what you had been doing - just scrolling down to the song in the playlist that I want and then hitting 'Play', it did not clear the list but just

Re: [slim] Need to factory reset SB3 evey morning!!!

Hi all I am a very happy new SB3 and Transporter owner here in Oz, and I have the very same issue on the SB3. Every morning the screen is blank and it will not connect back to the SlimServer unless I powercycle. It's a shame because otherwise I think both devices are near perfect! :-) I would

Re: [slim] How do I remove Slimserver completely?

Kenders;181601 Wrote: XP Media Center What slimserver version? -- haunyack haunyack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9721 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Running SlimServer as service on Mac

ftp, ssh, http (webserver), slimserver all run as 'services' that don't require a user to log in. After you turn the services on, go to Accounts -- Login options, make sure to DEselect Automatically log in as ... and that should get you where you're going. -- dbwat

[slim] 6.5.1 causing some troubles on OSX

No end to the whinging tonight sorry! I've upgraded to 6.5.x a couple times now, and retreated back to 6.3.1 for the same unresolved issue. Here it is. In Search Music, after returning a result, if you click the artist name, for example, The Beatles, the browser hangs and doesn't display the

Re: [slim] End of songs chopped off

Thanks for the advice. I just downloaded the latest nightly, and it didn't help. I'm still losing the last 5-8 seconds of each song formatted w/Apple Lossless (FLAC seems okay). Now, has the nightly fix actually fixed the problem w/Apple Lossless, generally, and I'm just experiencing a

Re: [slim] End of songs chopped off

Well, as embarassed as I may be, I've no idea how to roll back to a prior version. One of the recommended fixes had been to roll back to 6.3.1. How do I do that? Thanks. -- brucesee brucesee's Profile:

Re: [slim] End of songs chopped off

brucesee;181612 Wrote: Thanks for the advice. I just downloaded the latest nightly, and it didn't help. I'm still losing the last 5-8 seconds of each song formatted w/Apple Lossless (FLAC seems okay). Now, has the nightly fix actually fixed the problem w/Apple Lossless, generally, and I'm

Re: [slim] Need to factory reset SB3 evey morning!!!

Are you using DHCP or a static IP on your Squeezebox? It sounds to me like your router / DHCP server is not renewing the lease for your Squeezebox. For starters, try setting up your SB with a static IP. -- Steven W.

Re: [slim] Running SlimServer as service on Mac

From a broader perspective, can you do the same thing with other applications? e.g. could you have a FTP or web server run without being logged in when the Mac is first booted? Yes. (Insert the appropriate warnings regarding security risks running thise services on any platform entails, of

Re: [slim] Running SlimServer as service on Mac

Can SlimServer run without have a user logged in? Yes. My ancient iMac is doing this right now. Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Need to factory reset SB3 evey morning!!!

I have the same problem, and there is a bug report filed on it (or a bug like it). http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3778 It seems to be taking a back seat to other bugs, given it is rare. I wonder if it has something to do with a PARTICULAR router problem, wifi problem, or possibly

Re: [slim] Need to factory reset SB3 evey morning!!!

Thanks Steven W I'll give it a go, but it's just weird that the SB3 would have the problem and not the Transporter when both devices are on the same network with the same settings. I'll try it out when I get home tonight and see what happens over the next few days. Regards pufnstuf --

Re: [slim] 6.5.1 causing some troubles on OSX

Here it is. In Search Music, after returning a result, if you click the artist name, for example, The Beatles, the browser hangs and doesn't display the result at all. In 6.5.0 this behavior actually crashed Slimserver and required a [Slimserver] restart. In 6.5.1 Slimserver doesn't crash but nor

Re: [slim] Need to factory reset SB3 evey morning!!!

My SB operates with a static IP address out of the range of the DHCP. Only end device in my network to do so. No conflicts there. The problem is that the SS and the SB stop communicating. It hasn't happened often enough for me to do more systematic debugging, thus far a random sequence of

Re: [slim] Need to factory reset SB3 evey morning!!!

pablolie;181630 Wrote: My SB operates with a static IP address out of the range of the DHCP. Only end device in my network to do so. No conflicts there. The problem is that the SS and the SB stop communicating. It hasn't happened often enough for me to do more systematic debugging, thus

Re: [slim] End of songs chopped off

All my music is in Windows Media Lossless format. Since upgrading from 6.5.0 to 6.5.1 I have noticed that the player stops each track about 17-20 seconds from the end and moves to the next track on the album. It seems to be independent of track length. 6.5.1 came with a firmware upgrade. If I