issues, and operate under the assumption that if you're using any *nix
variant you are probably smarter than the average bear
Much nicer wording than my you're no normal user - I could learn a lot
from you marketing guys. :-)
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Since then, I experience very slow menu navigation at SB startup, but
this disappears as soon as I play music on the SB.
Menu navigation on the player? Did you give your player a name? There's an
issue with SC7.0 if your player doesn't have a name, locking up the player
interface for
Hello,
Planning to replace my current server for a new one and should be as
green as possible with reasonable performance.
Anyone experience with one of the Asus EEE Pc's as a server (for
SqueezeCenter).
Sure there are a lot of pro's and con's but for me a NAS with SC is not
the way to go as I
I am considering partnering the Transporter with a Lossless Audio
DAC2004, which can be send a wordclock output. When using Wordclock
input on the TP, does this automatically detect the clock rate received
from the DAC (e.g. 44Khz, 96KHz etc) and does this work synchronously
within the TP?
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SqueezeCenter).
Search the 3rd party hardware forum - at least one person has done this
already.
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I have just migrated from Slimserver to Squeezecenter on my Mac SB3.
I have set the SC to automatically start when system boots in the
System Preferences however this does not work as I get an error cant
open the page http://localhost:9000/;. In order to access SC I have to
go into System
I have set the SC to automatically start when system boots in the
System Preferences however this does not work as I get an error can’t
open the page “http://localhost:9000/;. In order to access SC I have to
go into System Preferences and manually start SC. I never had this
problem with
A made two simple experiments
Changed to a simplier password no luck.
typed the http://user:pass@my dyndns:9000/stream.mp3 in another
browser window.
Then quicktime atempted to play the stream, mozilla apeared as
player in SC7
but i got no sound from Quicktime.
So SC7 accept the passw this
Hi Sunset !
I has SC7 installed on Linux Fedora Core 3 and when I go to Advanced
and click on Network I don't see any WOL related tabs like wake on
magic packet. Is it only for Windows version ?
That's the Status
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MrSinatra;284577 Wrote:
i still wonder what would have happened had u left it as is and renamed
the album name tags.
If the album was renamed it would have solved the problem as well.
MrSinatra;284577 Wrote:
i don't understand however, why that tag would connect those two albums.
from post
I just got a SB3, and one of the first things I noticed is that it is
quite warm to touch even when it is in standby mode. The ambient
temperature in the room is 22degC, standby the SB3 is 31degC, when on
it's 33degC. This is measuring on the top of the SB3 in the middle
near the back, where I
Thanks for the feedback, we listened. Now RadioTime hides stations on
the SqueezeBox that don't work, for both local radio and browse.
Later we'll improve the message inviting users to check and report
problems from radiotime.com.
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I am struggling to get Squeezecenter to recognise my multi-disc albums.
After selecting the option in Squeezecenter and seeing no change in the
way the discs were being handled I did a lot of searching on the forums
and the wiki and started to find useful information. This stuff should
be much
Nothing to worry about, my devices are all warm to the touch.
The temperature difference between on and off is only marginal
because the SB is always on, only audio outputs might be disabled when
off.
There's always a network connection (wireless card in use if you use
wireless).
Are you
Squeezecenter can only group multi-disc albums together if they share
the same album name.
How should SC otherwise know if two discs with different name belong to
the same album?
You only need to change your tags to the same name, you can still have
the disc x part in the filename if you like.
Wallman;283458 Wrote:
I am having the same problem with my controller, red signal showing up,
not finding network when asked (with endless looping of searching). The
controller also doesn't turn off. However, the volume does work. Go
figure. Can you force an update or does it happen
OK, thanks, I feared as much :(
Squeezecenter is just one of the pieces of software which accesses my
music so altering ALBUM tags to suit it is not an option.
Perhaps there could be some extra logic in the GROUP DISC procedure
that knows to look for ALBUM tags with (disc ...) appended and to
Thanks for the reassurance. If I use a hardline for networking does it
switch off the wifi, thus not getting as hot?
I'm connected to my local SqueezeCenter yes. But it does seem to cover
once it gets a stream, just seemed to be in limbo for a good half to one
minute
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There is an incredible simple interime fix for this, reopen the online
store for non US people for spares/repair only until logitechs
international retails is up to it. It will take i bit longer to mail
things to and from the US but thats better than nothing.
That would
Just a question - If a station has multiple streams available, does
RadioTime default to the highest quality stream for the Squeezebox? For
example, if a station offered both 24k and 96k mp3 streams, would
Squeezebox users get the 96k stream? Also, is there any way to tell now
which stream we're
Mark_H;284641 Wrote:
Perhaps there could be some extra logic in the GROUP DISC procedure that
knows to look for ALBUM tags with (disc ...) appended and to then lump
those in with the other discs of the same album...
What should it look for?
The album tag is free text so there are numerous
Sure, it's a good point, but the Squeeze wiki regularly refers to using
Musicbrainz for good tagging, and yet ironically Squeezecenter doesn't
recognise the (disc n) format recommended by Musicbrainz...
I'll have a look at submitting an enhancement request.
Cheers,
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Fork wrote:
I wonder if you're like me? Your setup directly connects your computer
to your stereo component, so you don't need the Squeezebox receiver but
you'd love to have a good remote with a visual display, to control your
SqueezeCenter software.
Apple already has a remote feature to
Hi sl789,
In Windows I set Wake on Lan for the Network Adapter under the Device
Manager (under the Power Magagement Tab). I have attached a picture of
this screen.
I'm not familiar with Linux, so I can't help you there.
On my PC there is a light on on or near the network adapter even when
the
Can the Transporter or Squeezebox for that matter be configured as
access point? I'm sure to have read this somewhere.
I would like to extend my wireless range. Since my Transporter is in
the middle of my router and the room where I want (better) wireless
reception, it seems like the perfect
No, they can act as wireless bridges for wired devices but not APs.
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No, they can act as wireless bridges for wired devices but not APs.
Thanks, but that leads me to another question. Does a wireless bridge
not just do exactly what Im trying to accomplish? Or what else is the
function of a wireless bridge?
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According to the bug page this would appear to have been resolved today
- Fixed in SB fw 88, TR fw 37, SBR fw 23
The big question now is how to upgrade SB firmware to 88 when the SB is
not talking to the Time Capsule network?
I have the latest 7.01 Slimserver software on my iMac.. and fw 86 on
ncarver;284555 Wrote:
Hmm. Never heard of DLL hell, eh? Before you get too smug about how
easy it is to provide software for Windows you might want to have a
look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dll_hell.
The fact that you have to provide a wikipedia link is very telling.
This hasn't been
A wireless bridge allows wired devices to connect to an existing
wireless network. An AP acts as a central point through which wireless
devices can connect to each other.
Example - you have an Xbox sitting next to your SB3 and want the Xbox
to connect to the wireless network. Instead of buying
Mark_H;284674 Wrote:
Sure, it's a good point, but the Squeeze wiki regularly refers to using
Musicbrainz for good tagging, and yet ironically Squeezecenter doesn't
recognise the (disc n) format recommended by Musicbrainz...
The Musicbrainz style guidelines are indeed a good source for good
S2K wrote:
radish;284679 Wrote:
No, they can act as wireless bridges for wired devices but not APs.
Thanks, but that leads me to another question. Does a wireless bridge
not just do exactly what I'm trying to accomplish? Or what else is the
function of a wireless bridge?
You
Thank you for your clear explanation. :)
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slimpy;284686 Wrote:
Even if SC recognizes many of MusicBrainz' standards it's more than
reasonable not to follow this one.
-s.
In the respect that Squeezecenter is album centric, perhaps. But that
doesn't mean that it should not understand Musicbrainz's
recommendations and accommodate
radish;284688 Wrote:
Ethernet cable?
Yes I have one connected now - unfortunately SB is not connecting
correctly to Squeezecenter even via ethernet.
It does connect to the Squeezenetwork ok though.
If I press brightness on the remote for long enough, I get a message
update_begin:bad state
andlauer, Thankyou for that script. Brought the artwork to life on my
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I just want to add my data point to this discussion. I have had to deal
with Logitech support once so far. I was extremely pleased that I got
through to a live, english-speaking (hey, no offense, just happens to
make my life easier) human being immediately. Moreover, the gentleman
was very
Yes on the player.
And I think I have not given the player a name (since I own only one
for now ...).
I am going to try this after work and report back here. Thanks for the
quick answer !
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peter;284180 Wrote:
sapnho wrote:[color=blue]
I find that turning my SB3's off with the SBC is quite a hassle, the
powersave pluging fixed that nicely.
It's nice, but do you know if it is actually saving any power? The
on/off function in the SB is a software function that does not
Any idea to solve the title display mess?
I read chinese and installed the fonts successfully, but for the reason
you mentioned, the title information is just mess, thus I can't use the
most efficient way to choose songs - browse by folder.
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tyler_durden wrote:
peter;284180 Wrote:
sapnho wrote:[color=blue]
I find that turning my SB3's off with the SBC is quite a hassle, the
powersave pluging fixed that nicely.
It's nice, but do you know if it is actually saving any power? The
on/off function in the SB is a software
tyler_durden;284717 Wrote:
It's nice, but do you know if it is actually saving any power?
Probably not, but it is protecting the screens of my SBs (at least the
way I have it set up). My SB2 is suffering a little bit of screen burn
(where the : between the hour:minute is on the time). Only
This is unfortunate that it is unavailbale in stores. I guess I will
just get him the Sonos which I can find in a local store even though it
is a little too expensive for my tastes. I live overseas and rarely
come back home. This is the first time in years that I have been home
for my father's
If so, how do i force an update on these two.
Thanks
Tony
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Macfam53 wrote:
This is unfortunate that it is unavailbale in stores. I guess I will
just get him the Sonos which I can find in a local store even though it
is a little too expensive for my tastes. I live overseas and rarely
come back home. This is the first time in years that I have been
Siduhe;284723 Wrote:
(although I think they have a different screen type from the SB2s
anyway).
Same screen, different colour filter.
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creeksox;282376 Wrote:
2) I want the screen to blank out when I put remote in charging station.
It seems to stay on the screen saver...unless of course I turn it off.
What am I missing?
I believe this is a setting in Advanced Settings - Screen -
Screensavers if I recall correctly.
It was
SlimServer 6.5.4 under XP
I'm running 2 Squeezboxes, synched but with independent volumes.
I have both set to deliver an identical Alarm in the mornings, the data
stream being a BBC Radio playlist. All well and good.
However, the ALARM VOLUME settings in the ALARM window seem to make no
Mark_H;284693 Wrote:
In the respect that Squeezecenter is album centric, perhaps. But that
doesn't mean that it should not understand Musicbrainz's
recommendations and accommodate them. It's a win-win situation -
taggers get the clarity of Musicbrainz tagging and the folding-in of
albums
the home and home premium versions DO support remote desktop OUT so you
can control the xp machine (if XP Pro which includes the remote server
bit).
If not I can recommend TightVNC which is free!
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creeksox;282376 Wrote:
2) I want the screen to blank out when I put remote in charging station.
It seems to stay on the screen saver...unless of course I turn it off.
What am I missing?
There's a dim screen when charging option somewhere...don't have one
to hand to check right now, sorry!
snarlydwarf;284738 Wrote:
Album/Tracknames are constantly changing on MB.
Yes, the album/tracknames may change but the style guide is quite clear
on how to handle multiple discs:
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/DiscNumberStyle - *that* doesn't change...
Mark
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But if SqueezeCenter is playing music controlled by the SBC and I want
to play music from the SC via internet, I see in the main menu which
player is 'active'. I can choose then the other internet player. But
can you not hear both at the same time??
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Siduhe;284723 Wrote:
Probably not, but it is protecting the screens of my SBs (at least the
way I have it set up). My SB2 is suffering a little bit of screen burn
(where the : between the hour:minute is on the time). Only really
noticable when brightness is on high, but I'm hoping that
I think i have seen the future
After messing around in my cinema on my apple TV last night and
watching the girlfriend pile into the tv shows with glee and ask why
anyone needs a tv...
!!!IT CAME TO ME
Currently the internet is the network of choice we spend hours on
browing wiki
slimpy;284624 Wrote:
If the album was renamed it would have solved the problem as well.
from post #5 in this thread:
-s.
I can understand why disc number would cause this to happen, but in the
case when the disc number is 1/1 then it should really ignore the disc
number, IMO.
Either
radish;284685 Wrote:
The fact that you have to provide a wikipedia link is very telling. This
hasn't been a problem for years, I can say a lot of bad things about
Windows but ease of installation is not one of them - even the article
you link to points out that most of the problems discussed
Mark_H;284743 Wrote:
Yes, the album/tracknames may change but the style guide is quite clear
on how to handle multiple discs:
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/DiscNumberStyle - *that* doesn't change...
Actually, I have edited a bunch of things according to Disc Number
Style. Please don't
Screen burn may not be the correct technical term - is very much what is
described here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36636#6
When on full brightness, the : is between the hours/minutes is not as
bright as the surrounding pixels to the point where you can identify the
shape of
snarlydwarf;284756 Wrote:
Actually, I have edited a bunch of things according to Disc Number
Style. Please don't lecture me on Musicbrainz style.
*sigh*
It is more complex than just (disc 1). You have named discs as well.
And things like: '(bonus disc: Live from Las Vegas'. What is
Jeff Flowerday;284754 Wrote:
I can understand why disc number would cause this to happen, but in the
case when the disc number is 1/1 then it should really ignore the disc
number, IMO.
I think the scanner completely ignores the values in the disc number
tag when it reads the files, it merely
Mark_H;284762 Wrote:
Clearly there won't be 100% success. I simply don't understand the
reluctance to update Squeezecenter and make it more usable...
*everybody* benefits!
The problem is that if there is not 100% success, are you willing to
tell people why what they have now does not
Mark_H;284762 Wrote:
Clearly there won't be 100% success. I simply don't understand the
reluctance to update Squeezecenter and make it more usable...
*everybody* benefits!
...
And assuming the change is well made it would be rather trivial to
update the Groups Disc code...
From a
I used to follow Musicbrainz guidelines 100%, and hit this same problem,
I had my multi-disc tagged with the (disc X), but Squeezecenter
identified them as different albums, so I struggled some time, because
I really wanted to treat them as the same album.
In the end I realized it didn\'t matter
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slimpy;284776 Wrote:
From a software engineer's point of view your solution leads to a
cumbersome and messy implementation that's will be difficult to
maintain.
I haven't yet proposed a solution, just a suggestion that one would be
nice.
No reason to get personal here... :-(
I wasn't,
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Haven't read this in a huge amount of detail, but I thought the EMI case
against MP3tunes.com was related to the Sideload feature - not the back
up your own music element? Guess they must have expanded the scope of
the claim.
To be honest, I can kind of see EMI's point on Sideload.com - but
Glad im not the only one. I have a Duet controller which is also having
the same random drops in connectivity. I only have one wireless
connection to the SqueezeCenter--just from the Duet receiver. The only
other wireless device I have in the house is a laptop. I have another
Squeezebox but its
Siduhe wrote:
Screen burn may not be the correct technical term - is very much what is
described here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36636#6
When on full brightness, the : is between the hours/minutes is not as
bright as the surrounding pixels to the point where you can
max.spicer;284749 Wrote:
That's the first time I've ever heard anyone report screen burn on a
squeezebox.
I'm seeing it here as well on an SB2 that always runs the date/time
screensaver. As Siduhe says, it isn't comparable to burn-in as seen
with CRT monitors. More like burn-out - the
Hello,
Has anybody any experience of using an eSATA drive/RAID enclosure with
an eSATA-PCMCIA adapter on a laptop, especially under Linux (Ubuntu)?
I'm specifically thinking of the Thecus N2050 DAS device.
Any advice/info gratefully received...
Thanks
Mike
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max.spicer;284749 Wrote:
That's the first time I've ever heard anyone report screen burn on a
squeezebox.
I'm seeing it here as well on an SB2 that always runs the date/time
screensaver. As Siduhe says, it isn't comparable to burn-in as seen
with CRT monitors.
No Unix experience, but I have found that using PCMCIA or CARDBUS with eSATA
is sub-optimal. The interface will only allow up to speeds up to USB 2.0spec.
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Hmm, thanks for the reply...
Having looked around the web, people seem to have varying degrees of
performance.
Theoretically, one should be getting 1.5Gbit/sec which is the max for
PCMCIA but, obviously, one wouldn't expect that in a real life
scenario.
What I want to do is attach something
Hi again,
I have about 10 radio stations which I listen to regularly. I would
like to add those directly under the Internetradio folder.
I was hoping that after upgrading to SC7 I'd have the possibility to
add stations directly to the Interneradio menu/folder. Isn't this
quit obvious
Hi Sunset !
Thanks for the info. I'll check my Linux settings (I switched to Linux
on my 8 years old laptop which I use as music server only recently,
since it was regulary loosing connections with SB3 each couple of days
while running both Slim Server and Slim Center, don't know what was the
Sorry if this reads like a noob question, but I have used SlimServer for
a number of years with almost no problems and fast response times to all
actions.
However... recently updated to the Slimcenter version and oh dear, all
is not well. It now takes ages to load every time I open a browser
If yours is a Windows system, have a look at the info here and check
that it is not the cause of your performance problems
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44696
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erland;284077 Wrote:
What are your title formats set to in SqueezeCenter Settings/Interface
?
OMFG I've fixed it, but what an issue!
I installed the nightly, removed all your add-ins, did numerous Mp3Tag
actions over my entire library (so scary), all to no avail.
However, changing the title
hello
I use squeezecenter running on a dual core ubuntu box to stream my
music to my work. so i point foobar at http://myserver:9000/stream.mp3
and use the web interface to add tracks.
here is where the prob comes. for some albums squeezecenter will not
play the first track. it will load it
Hello,
I got the Duet a few days ago, great, I love it. But got a question:
There is a plug for earphones on the controller. If I plugin ear
phones, I can hear the noises from the controller. But I would like to
stream musik out there as well, is that possible as well?
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is this not a bug? i think it is, or at least, its something SC7 should
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Would there be a Harmony Universal with the capabilities of the Duet
Remote. Same company only one control, makes sense to me. I guess it
would be a matter of number of Slim owners to make commercial sense.
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I had the same problem after a clean install. Gary's tip: Clear library
and rescan everything solved the problem. I changed the language from
English to Norsk during the scan. Maybe thats the reason?
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It's been discussed in the past but nothing has been announced :)
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slimpy;283723 Wrote:
Keep in mind that SC treats albums as a compilation if it finds more
than one artist.
One solution is to tag the files with COMPILATION=0 (as you did). If
I'm correct this will however lead to the album being listed as album
by artist A, artist B and the album will be
The list albums by band option is just broken.
There is no way, a 20 track album with every track having the same
album artist info and complication flag=no should appear under
various artists just because there is a guest singer on one track.
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let me clarify that a bit for you...
album artist and band are both tpe2 tags. so essentially the same.
when SC7 says list by band thats the same as saying list by album
artist, and all it means is it DISPLAYS that tag as by album artist
it does not mean to suggest it SORTS by that tag.
Thanks guys, this bug should be fixed.
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bullgod;284848 Wrote:
For example: a album of 20 Frank Sinatra tracks, on one of which Frank
is joined by Shirley MacLain.
Now does this make the album a Compilation? It shouldn't do, especially
if I have Compilation=No.
Right, and Thirty Years of Maximum RB by The Who should be listed
my SC7 does not, and has never, sorted by album artist.
it does display album artist as by album artist but it does not sort
by it.
i am in view artwork, artist, year, album mode.
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MrSinatra;284866 Wrote:
my SC7 does not, and has never, sorted by album artist.
I beg to differ.
i am in view artwork, artist, year, album mode.
I don't know what view artwork means in the context of sc7...
I the top of my screen on the Default style says:
Home Albums
I clicked W
and
MrSinatra;284855 Wrote:
let me clarify that a bit for you...
album artist and band are both tpe2 tags. so essentially the same.
when SC7 says list by band thats the same as saying list by album
artist, and all it means is it DISPLAYS that tag as by album artist
it does not mean to
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