A patch file has already been attached to the bug report. The changes
are a number of small additions/aterations, no major changes. This
should make them acceptable to the maintainer of SlimTray.
Before you embark on a C++ version that could replace SlimTray. Make
sure that in principle
It seems like every time I try updating Slim Server past 6.3.1, I run
into something that sends me back.
The slimtray was leaking handles so badly it crashed my machine. I'd
stopped using it until bpa posted a custom one that doesn't do that.
I have almost all my music in FLAC images + cues,
Michael Herger wrote:
Please search the forum for Sonos. You'll find plenty of discussions of
this topic.
I am particularly impressed with the Sonos hand held
controller, as using a conventional remote control is not that
appealing and the user interface seems very important.
I
One more test data point for you:
I hadn't noticed any particular issues with slimtray but reading this
thread got me interested enough to look. My handle count was
approaching 1.5M. I can't now remember the memory usage but I don't
think it was excessive - 12M?
SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 -
The patch file has been assigned to Dan to review but I think he is on
vacation so if accepted it may be a while before any changes may appear
in the nightlies.
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Still it's a pity. If there were a sexy 2 way controller option that
comparison would look so much better, wouldn't it?
From the rest of your response it looks as if it wouldn't...
What I would find most annoying is the need to keep these things charged
up all the time.
Two way
haunyack;184736 Wrote:
jon,
fart-facedness and arse-ness ... I'm not immune as well.
Shouldn't have jabbed you about your avatar, really is quite a darling
photo.
Care to share the identity of that adorable child?
Well, the child is not that adorable. It's me. :-)
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Jon Heal
Michael Herger wrote:
Still it's a pity. If there were a sexy 2 way controller option that
comparison would look so much better, wouldn't it?
From the rest of your response it looks as if it wouldn't...
Yeah, it's like a stream of consciousness post. ;)
What I would find most
Nevertheless, it's clear that lots of people choose Sonos over SB
because of the Sonos remote.
One other advantage of Slim Devices I mentioned was the developpers
listening to their customers... There's hope!
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haunyack;184036 Wrote:
Old post's are off limits now?
Never said that but being as the original poster basically was slagging
people off then I just thought it odd to raise it back when the original
poster probably no longer even posts.
That's all.
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probedb
Paul.
'last.fm'
Michael Herger;184847 Wrote:
Please search the forum for Sonos.
...
Sonos:
...
+ DRM support(?)
The Sonos does not appear to support iTunes purchased tracks. From
their site:
**Tracks purchased from iTunes Music Store are DRM restricted and not
compatible with Sonos.
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The Sonos does not appear to support iTunes purchased tracks. From
their site:
iTunes isn't the only source of DRMed media. They support the MS flavour
of things.
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http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on
Am I right in saying that when your songs are on a network drive and not
on the same PC, SlimServer can ONLY deal with UNC paths
(//qnap/Public/music) and NOT drive mappings (H:/music). Certainly it
wont accept the H:/ form for the Music Folder in Server Settings
(reports Oops - H:/music doesn't
Sparky;184842 Wrote:
I would appreciate any feedback from anyone who has tried both.
Thanks, Sparky
They are both awesome, and they happily coexist side by side in my
home.
Here's something I wrote about a year ago. Most of it still holds true,
but I would be happy to elaborate on any
jezbo;184886 Wrote:
Am I right in saying that when your songs are on a network drive and not
on the same PC, SlimServer can ONLY deal with UNC paths
(//qnap/Public/music) and NOT drive mappings (H:/music). Certainly it
wont accept the H:/ form for the Music Folder in Server Settings
I did try both forms, / and \, but I could not get it to recognise drive
mapping paths. BUT it does now! Does it depend on the setting
Automatically run at login?, since I turned this on and now drive
mappings seem to be accepted. Would make sense, since it's the user
login that sets up the drive
w4rren;184755 Wrote:
I was told many years ago to keep the cable length of each speaker
approximately the same. I wouldnt consider myself obsessive but I like
to get the best setup possible for the system I have. Unfortunately I
have to put one speaker next to the amp, and the other at the
jonheal;184864 Wrote:
Well, the child is not that adorable. It's me. :-)
You're very advanced for your age.
MC
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in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s.
One of the folders I deleted completely from the hard drive in on my
windows xp slimserver machine, is now being added back to the database.
There is no music there, so nothing plays, but it shows up when I
browse. Also I'm having a terrible time getting cover art to show up
now. This all seems
I've just dug out one of my NAIM (www.naim-audio.com) manuals which
clearly states that the cables should be of the same length and under
3m long. They should also be made by NAIM. :-/
MC
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in delusion,
ModelCitizen;184930 Wrote:
I've just dug out one of my NAIM (www.naim-audio.com) manuals which
clearly states that the cables should be of the same length and under
3m long. They should also be made by NAIM. :-/
MC
Surely that should be *over* 3m long? Naim power amps rely on the
inductance
Michael Herger;184878 Wrote:
iTunes isn't the only source of DRMed media. They support the MS
flavour of things.
Only the PlaysForSure flavor of things, not the Zune flavor...
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ModelCitizen;184589 Wrote:
Check that it has the correct mac address. Sometimes Squeezebox's lose
their correct Mac address and then you get exactly what you're
descibing.
I assume you've already factory reset it.
MC
I had exactly that problem with my SB2. The wireless appeared to be
jezbo;184907 Wrote:
Does it depend on the setting Automatically run at login?, since I
turned this on and now drive mappings seem to be accepted.
That's right... and I think it is new since 6.5.1. Before that, I don't
think Slimserver could use network drives by a mapped latter at all.
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jezbo;184907 Wrote:
Does it depend on the setting Automatically run at login?, since I
turned this on and now drive mappings seem to be accepted.
That's right... and I think it is new since 6.5.1. Before that, I don't
think Slimserver could use network
kdf;184949 Wrote:
Slimserver could always do it, but was always a manual effort, either
tweaking the service to run as a user, or running slimserver.pl after
logging in.
-kdf
Well, I'm very glad they simplified it!
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Sue
PS: I once wanted a Squeezebox boombox, but I don't
By the way, it's not that Slimserver won't do it
No Windows service will communicate with a mapped drive by it's drive
letter if you use the local system account.
That's a Windows limitation. You can either go with UNC's or change the
Windows service to run under you login.
From a performance
w4rren;184785 Wrote:
thanks all, i will start cutting
Likely you've already given your cables a vasectomy, but why not just
coil one up behind the amp? That's what I did.
-- Timothy
(who on repainting the living room is likely to put in that funky
baseboard that can hide the speaker wires)
Hi folks
I have bought acces to sky radio premium,but cant figure out to connect
my squezzebox to the links they provide for instance:
http://www.sky.fm/listen/tophits/128k.asx
Can anuone help me?
Regards Mads.
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danaronson;184172 Wrote:
looks like a bug, file a bug report.
--dan
And how does one do that?
I went to Bugzilla and tried to create a new account but kept receiving
an error message.
Sorry for the ignorance, I'm not a frequent visitor here.
Thanks
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Chop
TimothyB;184962 Wrote:
Likely you've already given your cables a vasectomy, but why not just
coil one up behind the amp? That's what I did.
-- Timothy
(who on repainting the living room is likely to put in that funky
baseboard that can hide the speaker wires)
just as long as you don't
snarlydwarf;184938 Wrote:
Only the PlaysForSure flavor of things, not the Zune flavor...
Actually Sonos does support Zune Marketplace tracks.
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mflint;184941 Wrote:
I had exactly that problem with my SB2. The wireless appeared to be
faulty, but in fact the Mac address had changed to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
and my wireless router had Mac address filtering turned on...
Easily fixed, but I was concerned for a while!
Matthew
eep..
Hi,
Recently a number of radiostations I listen to have started using
Abacast to stream their content. This requires downloading a helper
application, and defaults to using windows media player to play the
stream. They claim to be able to get higher quality streams because
they use the your
Paul_B;184415 Wrote:
I have run the following command against my collection of 5,000 songs:
scanner --wipe --cleanup --d_info --d_server --d_scan
\\ip-address\public\music
I've used a similar approach along with the linux `time' command to
record scanning times under linux. Is there a
aubuti;184978 Wrote:
I've used a similar approach along with the linux `time' command to
record scanning times under linux. Is there a DOS/Win equivalent to
`time'? And no, I don't mean the DOS command that tells you what time
it is, but one that tells you how long it takes to execute a
Two options is run a from a batch file and echo time before and after.
If you aren't echoing anything to screen then you can change the
command prompt with:
prompt $T $P$G
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Paul
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Slimserver 6.5.1 on EPIA VIA EN15000 Mini-ITX running
Further update: although the number of handles is certainly stable it
does look as if there are some memory leaks here. I've left my server
running for 10 hours since restarting it this morning - nothing
playing, no activity anywhere, and the memory usage has gone from:
Slimserver: 76,460k to
I'd like to be able, when I hear a certain track, to be able to either
tag it or add it to an arbitrary other playlist, so if I think ooh,
that would be good to play at our party or I must play this to Bob I
can find it again ten days later when I suddenly think what was that
track I wanted to
Sort of what I was driving at too.
-Chris
On 3/2/07, mecouc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'd like to be able, when I hear a certain track, to be able to either
tag it or add it to an arbitrary other playlist, so if I think ooh,
that would be good to play at our party or I must play this to Bob I
cliveb;184933 Wrote:
Surely that should be *over* 3m long?
Yup, you're right... which is odd... as NAIM excel at selling you yet
more bits... so it's surprising to see them miss a trick with speaker
cable.
MC
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mecouc;184989 Wrote:
I'd like to be able, when I hear a certain track, to be able to either
tag it or add it to an arbitrary other playlist, so if I think ooh,
that would be good to play at our party or I must play this to Bob I
can find it again ten days later when I suddenly think what was
I have been running Slimserver 6.5.2 using Perl interpreted via ActiveState
Perl (WinXP) verison 5.8.8.819.
Due to recent problems with music playback stopping randomly between tracks, I
decided to try updating to 5.8.8.820, in case this improved things.
However, I am finding that Perl crashes
mflint;184941 Wrote:
I had exactly that problem with my SB2, unique country homebut in fact
the Mac address had changed to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF and my wireless router
had Mac address filtering turned on...
Easily fixed, but I was concerned for a while!
Matthew
Mine hadn't changed to that
The DRM thing isn't a big deal. I bought some tracks on iTMS and play
them on my Squeezebox. You just have to burn them on CD and them rip
them in FLAC. Its easy and perfectly legal.
I never tried the SONOS remote. It looks nice, but I'm not sure its
better than the Squeezebox's remote. Its
Curious observation. I'm trying to sort out a socketwrapper issue but I
couldn't get DEBUGPIPE debug output when running 6.5.2 so I installed
6.5.0.
I now get debug output and also SlimTray doesn't leak handles
AND it is only 5.8Mbytes in size. So it looks like the memory
leak and size has
1. How do you select which music to play today ?
(Browse, Search, Random, Smart playlists, other?)
I browse by a series of tags. Most commonly (for classical music),
Genre, Composer, Album (Work name) and then Artist (performer.)
Sometimes I have to finally select a particular version (mono,
jonheal;184335 Wrote:
My money is on similar times for both OSs.
Certainly not if count how long it took me to figure out how to get
slimserver on Windows read the library on my NAS!! But if you don't
count that, Win2K was about 40% slower to scan than Ubuntu.
Server hardware: Dell P3 500MHz
Nostromo wrote:
The DRM thing isn't a big deal. I bought some tracks on iTMS and play
them on my Squeezebox. You just have to burn them on CD and them rip
them in FLAC. Its easy and perfectly legal.
No big deal, just don't buy into DRM.
I never tried the SONOS remote. It looks nice, but
aubuti;184978 Wrote:
I've used a similar approach along with the linux `time' command to
record scanning times under linux. Is there a DOS/Win equivalent to
`time'? And no, I don't mean the DOS command that tells you what time
it is, but one that tells you how long it takes to execute a
bpa;185002 Wrote:
Curious observation. I'm trying to sort out a socketwrapper issue but I
couldn't get DEBUGPIPE debug output when running 6.5.2 so I installed
6.5.0.
I now get debug output and also SlimTray doesn't leak handles
AND it is only 5.8Mbytes in size. So it looks like the
It would be interesting to run netstat before and after a scan to get
TCP statistics to see if there is any significant difference in the
volume and/or type of network traffic between a Linux scan and a
Windows scan.
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Doesn't running the scanner with --progress give you timing info for dos
and windows?
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aubuti;185006 Wrote:
Certainly not if count how long it took me to figure out how to get
slimserver on Windows read the library on my NAS!! But if you don't
count that, Win2K was about 40% slower to scan than Ubuntu.
Server hardware: Dell P3 500MHz with 256MB RAM,
NAS hardware: Buffalo
SteveEast;184590 Wrote:
None of this should be necessary if you aren't doing bit rate limiting.
Steve.
I thought you at least had to have quick time installed?
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Thanks for the timing tips under DOS. I was wondering if there was
something better than the [time / scan / time] batch file kludge, but
for these purposes that's good enough. Actually, the times I reported
above are the differences between the first and last lines that scanner
reports with
jonheal;185038 Wrote:
I guess I would expect it to be a little slower on windows since it's
dealing with a non-native file system. It would be interesting to see
if the difference is linear with larger collections.
The NAS is mounted on the Ubuntu system using smbfs, so there's still a
However, I am finding that Perl crashes frequently when using the WebUI.
Seems to be due to the ntdll.dll (windows system dll). I've tried disabling
Data Execution Prevention, but still get the crash.
I've uninstalled Perl, and reinstalled the previous version, but still get the
crash as soon
The main issues with speaker wire:
1. Wire diameter. If your wire lengths are 5 feet or less, 16-gauge
wire is fine; for longer runs, 12 gauge is better.
2. Keep the wire lengths as short as possible.
AntiCables states that the distortion caused by the dielectric effect
of speaker wire gets
Hi,
My Slimserver has picked up the habit of just stopping for no apparent
reason. I can re-start it from the slimtray with no problems
whatsoever, though. I think it might have to do with some plugins I've
been playing around with lately, namely Fileviewer.pm, SaverSwitcher.pm
(which I had
Ron Olsen wrote:
1. Wire diameter. If your wire lengths are 5 feet or less, 16-gauge
wire is fine; for longer runs, 12 gauge is better.
12 gauge is good for 20 amps.
What speakers need 20 amps? what speakers can even live with 20 amps of
current?
Unless my arithmetic is faulty, driving a 8
. which is why i love coming to these boards!
geek on!
-JAC
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Can anybody direct me to
which debugging routine might provide an indication of what is going on
that causes the server to stop?
If you are on Windows, check the Event Viewer for information about
the crash: start-settings=control panel-administration
Really strange. Normally, when the album is up in ITunes, if one ticks
all songs, right click, then ITunes ask if you want to edit all the
songs. click yes and a frame comes up with info , and a little window
for the picture. When you glue a picture in here and click ok ITunes
will transfer this
The Sonos remote allows for displaying 9 or 10 lines in addition to the
menu and status lines at the top and bottom. That gives you a much
better view into your files than a single line on the SB remote.
I can't imagine preferring a 2 line display to a 11-12 line display.
Bill
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I've been running 5.8.7.813 for quite a while with no issues.
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.8/
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I looked at both products for a long time before buying 4 squeezeboxen
for my house. The Sonos remote was the only thing I felt they did
better, and really only for the ipod-like scroll wheel. The display
isn't the best in the world, though it is nice. The scroll wheel is a
god-send for people
I have been running Slimserver 6.5.2 using Perl interpreted via
ActiveState Perl (WinXP) verison 5.8.8.819.
I've been on the same build since december 06. No problem.
However, I am finding that Perl crashes frequently when using the WebUI.
Do you see any error message on the console or in
Do you see any error message on the console or in the event viewer? I
doubt this is a pure perl problem.
All I see is:
Faulting application perl.exe, version 5.8.8.819, faulting module
ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x1095.
A google for ntdll.dll indicates that
This morning I removed all third-party plugins, including a MHCPAN
folder that was in my plugins folder that contained some HTML perl
modules (I vaguely remember having to install that for a plugin to work).
I have a vague idea why you installed them - I kind of remember what MH is
Titles one of my linked drives suddenly show up as doubles in slimserver
6.5.1.
I did numerous rescans (deleted cache) to no avail.
When I trried yesterdays nightly I get double albums of most of my
collection.
I a using SS now for nearly a year without a glitch.
Now, after restructuring my
This happened to me with a Mac Mini and a network drive. It was
something to do with the 'Music Floder' name being case sensitive, or
refering to the shared drive a slightly different way. What works for
me now is /Volumes/[DRIVE]/[Folder]
Good luck.
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