[slim] Does SB3 send out ir while left in standby?

2008-04-26 Thread HCNinDK
Hello! I have a SB3, which for some reason causes my amplifier to lock up. (the amp does not lock up if the SB3 is left without power) The SB3 is connected to the amp via Toslink/optical and located abt. 8 ft. from the amp. I suspect that the SB3 is sending/broadcasting IR codes even while it

Re: [slim] Does SB3 send out ir while left in standby?

2008-04-26 Thread snarlydwarf
HCNinDK;295696 Wrote: Can anyone confirm that SB3 sends out IR codes?? – if so, can this be disabled? The SB3 doesn't have an IR emitter unless you buy an optional one and plug it into the headphone output... So, no, it doesn't send out IR unless you work to make it do that. --

Re: [slim] Does SB3 send out ir while left in standby?

2008-04-26 Thread Mnyb
Disconnect the toslink, maybe your amp is autosensing inputs or similar ? Teh SB is never off realy so it migth still send something trough the spdif/toslink. This is normally considered a good thing, other wise you will have clicks and pops and other artefacts when amp is losing lock on the

Re: [slim] Duet and Favorites

2008-04-26 Thread kidstypike
Siduhe;295676 Wrote: Kirsty, spoke too soon - sorry - after a reboot, the favorite a single via Now Playing is gone again. Think this is a bug but probably peculiar to my/our setup. Are you running Windows? What plugins do you have installed? Will do a bit of debugging over the weekend

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread danco
bpa;295660 Wrote: WHat do you mean recognised ? Is there a CDplayer in the Extras menu. It is a normal Plugin and should be installed alongside plugins such as Alien. If there is no CDplayer in the Extras menu but CDplayer appears in the Advanced/Plugins menu - then something is wrong

Re: [slim] Duet and Favorites

2008-04-26 Thread casperse
Same problem here I used 7.0 and after updating to 7.01 I lost favorites option in the remoet...stil works on the web browser... I then tried to go back to 7.0 but that didtnt help... Any new solution to this? really a bad bug that you cant add Favorites! -- casperse

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread bpa
I came across this 404 situation with an AlienBBC install and was surprised how many different ways it can be caused and how hard it is find the cause. Essentially - Plugins have two passes. First the XML and conf files are processed and it seems to be a general search of all subdirectories of

Re: [slim] An alternative to Look for new and changed music...?

2008-04-26 Thread schiegl
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[slim] SC7 on Ubuntu 8.04 - cant'create stringcache

2008-04-26 Thread jimwillsher
Brand new clean install of Squeezecenter 7.01 on Ubuntu 8.04. This was done via apt-get and debian slimserver repository (note: 7.01, not 7.00). Prior to the install I stopped apparmor. Squeezecenter seems unable to start, and is logging this: [08-04-26 10:30:58.7759] Carp::croak (102) Warning:

Re: [slim] Duet and Favorites

2008-04-26 Thread casperse
UPDATE! I just removed everything... And updated to the following: http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/trunk/ jive_7.0.1_r2354.bin 26-Apr-2008 01:25 11M (REMOTE) SqueezeCenter-7.0.1-19177.exe26-Apr-2008 00:24 32M (PC) (And disabled

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread danco
I have found the problem. The log said can't locate Plugins/CDplayer/plugin.pm. But the unarchived folder was not named CDplayer, its name was CDplayer 2. Changing the name to CDplayer got it going. I haven't actually got a CD to play yet, but this is probably my error. First, I have to

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread bpa
I'll check the tar for the 2 - it may be my fault or possibly whatever is used to unatr - I know sometimes when using Konqueror browser - it can add a (2) to a directory or Zip rather than overwrite. The id vS_.lOC.YOss1.Oh_VcHYVrbWvI- is gives a CD The Visit by Lorna McKennit (

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread NewBuyer
bpa;292566 Wrote: Newbuyer, What is the spec of your CDROM drive ? The actual playing code hasn't changed since last version except for adding a parameter in the custom-convert.conf file. Edit custom-convert.conf and remove the -S 4 settings on each line. Now the conf file is as per

Re: [slim] An alternative to Look for new and changed music...?

2008-04-26 Thread Stuart Hickinbottom
I did look into that recently. I trigger the rescan when that happens and, tracing through the SqueezeCenter code, it looks as though removed files are supposed to be removed from the database if they can't be found during that rescan. However, the files aren't actually removed, which I think

Re: [slim] Does SB3 send out ir while left in standby?

2008-04-26 Thread HCNinDK
Thanks for input. Strange, my dealer told me that the SB3 have a ir-blast function.. anyway, no emitter = no “outgoing” ir-com :) I have already tried with/coax spdif, and the amp still locks up. I guess that it must be the wireless communication that interferes with the amp’s (Naim Supernait)

Re: [slim] Does SB3 send out ir while left in standby?

2008-04-26 Thread aubuti
Your dealer might have been referring to the function snarlydwarf mentioned, whereby you can make the SB3 emit IR by connecting an IR emitter to the SB3 headphone jack. Re eliminating wireless, it can be a big project to pull cat5 cable, but if that's more than you want to get into right now you

[slim] Can ff/rew be enabled while using Inguz?

2008-04-26 Thread joeriz
I use the Inguz EQ plugin and have noticed that this disables ff/rew functionality. Anyone know of a way to enable both? Thanks, Joe -- joeriz Transporter rebuilt/modified Dynaco ST-70 amplifier JM Reynaud Arpeggione Signature speakers

Re: [slim] An alternative to Look for new and changed music...?

2008-04-26 Thread schiegl
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Re: [slim] Does SB3 send out ir while left in standby?

2008-04-26 Thread Phil Leigh
HCNinDK;295696 Wrote: Hello! I have a SB3, which for some reason causes my amplifier to lock up. (the amp does not lock up if the SB3 is left without power) The SB3 is connected to the amp via Toslink/optical and located abt. 8 ft. from the amp. I suspect that the SB3 is

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread bpa
The DDU1615 is quite a fast (48x) DVDROM/CDROM drive - I was worried it might be a very slow drive. I have an old DDU1613 (40x) - I installed in on an XP system and tested it and it worked OK with CDplayer. The DDU1615 is the next generation and I think should work as well. What is the firmware

Re: [slim] Energy saving thoughts and tips

2008-04-26 Thread bobkoure
syburgh;295626 Wrote: Not a great idea to run SC7 open to the public Internet, but many home routers support VPN... Or you create a virtual machine, give it read-only access to the base OS that actually contains all your music files (the same way you'd do if it was two machines networked

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread danco
The Loreena McKennit album is recognised now. I don't know why it wasn't recognised before. We can just call it a glitch unless it happens on several albums. It is still not actually playing. The log is too long to give here, though I could spread it across several posts. Looking at it, I can

Re: [slim] stream.mp3 tag question

2008-04-26 Thread Dave Dewey
Quoting Dave Dewey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There has to be an easy answer to this I'm missing I do a lot of streaming from my Squeezecenter to work. Works great, no complaints music-wise. However the tag set that comes across in the stream appears to be only TITLE, ie, track

Re: [slim] SC 7.0 Duplication of names of artists (bis)

2008-04-26 Thread Scallywagfr78
I will give it a try! Thanks -- Scallywagfr78 Scallywagfr78's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5136 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46799

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread bpa
Don't worry about the no sound support configured - that command is only used to list the CD's index and it worked OK. The MusicBrainz and FreeDB databases get overloaded from time to time either the network or the number of users and so the request is either denied or takes a long time (30

Re: [slim] Does SB3 send out ir while left in standby?

2008-04-26 Thread radish
Switching off the SB3 would have very little impact on the RF flying through the air in that vicinity...after all the signal from the AP must still be there, and 3 or 4 cell phone networks, and radio, and TV, and cordless phones, and any bluetooth devices around, and...you get the idea. --

[slim] SBC Acceleration enhancement proposal

2008-04-26 Thread bhaagensen
and suggestion for new a acronym, YAAP - Yet Another Acceleration Proposal The SBC wheel acceleration/handling has come a long way, and is fairly good today. To make the user experience better I suggest: 1. Give some visual indication of the acceleration level. This would a) make it easier to

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread danco
Yes, all three are as they should be. Precisely, the file types under CD player show as FLAC cdda2wav/flac MP3 cdda2wav/lame WAV cdda2wav I still can't get tracks to play. I also experimented with disabling some of the types, in case some helper app wasn't being found, but that did not seem to

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread bpa
It's possible that SC is not finding the cdda2wav binary but if the types are enabled then SCs has found it. Unlike AlienBBC there is no intermediate shell script. Can you check wehther the command line that is beingf issued to extract a track is working. The command below should extract Track

Re: [slim] Controlling Duet with IR??

2008-04-26 Thread mikeselectricstuff
orrinc;295653 Wrote: Dean, Any ideas how I could connect the IR signal to one of the connectors inside the Duet? Unlikley to be worth trying as I doubt there is any firmware support for it. -- mikeselectricstuff

Re: [slim] Does SB3 send out ir while left in standby?

2008-04-26 Thread tyler_durden
Does the SB3 display face the IR input on the amp? The display is multiplexed and it may be have enough output in the IR spectrum at the right frequency to confuse the amp's IR detector. Try turning the SB3 so the amp can't see its display. TD -- tyler_durden

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread danco
bpa;295805 Wrote: It's possible that SC is not finding the cdda2wav binary but if the types are enabled then SCs has found it. Unlike AlienBBC there is no intermediate shell script. Can you check wehther the command line that is beingf issued to extract a track is working. The command

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread bpa
I think things are quite good. The filename shouldn't be the issue as it is output to stdout and piped into Lame or Flac when run by SC. If both commands worked - there must be something else. Can you do a log - starting just when requesting to play a CD track from the track list. This log

Re: [slim] Energy saving thoughts and tips

2008-04-26 Thread Zaragon
One interesting point about using Squeezeboxes in a green fashion that always seems to crop up is the comment along the lines of I'm going to build a low power server . So I was wondering in global enery and resource terms is going out and buying new components, which used electricity in

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread danco
Here is the zipped log file. +---+ |Filename: log.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4963|

[slim] Icebergradio on Squeezebox

2008-04-26 Thread bengten
Hello, anybody knows how to get some channels from Icebergradio into the Squeezebox? They are loading their own player when accessing the web-page, and i can not see any indication to the playlist in the html. I am specially looking for the World channel. Regards !/Bengt -- bengten

Re: [slim] Squeeze controller losing network connection

2008-04-26 Thread PeterDB
Hi, I have been through the same as most here, i.e. loose connective or just poor reception in general. I have been running the latest nightly builds for quite some time, but it never really seems to get that much better. As any other wireless device in our household has not issues, I thought

Re: [slim] Icebergradio on Squeezebox

2008-04-26 Thread andyg
Appears to be a track-by-track service like Pandora, ad-supported and using 56k mp3 files. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread danco
By the way, though I see that the name of the file should not be relevant in itself, the .raw extension suggests that it has been saved to the wrong kind of file. I have not found anything that will let me play the file, even if I change the extension to .wav -- danco

Re: [slim] An alternative to Look for new and changed music...?

2008-04-26 Thread Craig
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Re: [slim] Rating songs

2008-04-26 Thread bad
Now all I need is a plugin for shutdown the server via the remote. The link to ShutdownServer by Daniel Butler is dead. Tnx again :) -- bad bad's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17052 View this

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread bpa
The log shows everything OK but for some reason the command to read a track doesn't execute. Since there is no copy of the actual command, I have added an extra log command to the CDPLAY.pm file - the modified version is attached. Can you replace the current CDPLAY.pm and restart SC. Then

Re: [slim] Energy saving thoughts and tips

2008-04-26 Thread dsdreamer
Zaragon;295818 Wrote: One interesting point about using Squeezeboxes in a green fashion that always seems to crop up is the comment along the lines of I'm going to build a low power server . So I was wondering in global enery and resource terms is going out and buying new components,

[slim] Wake On LAN before alarm occurs

2008-04-26 Thread Phil Meyer
I've got WOL working, in so much as I can leave my PC in Sleep mode and pressing power on a SqueezeBox will wake the server up. However, I'm wondering if there is anything I can do to wake my PC up when the alarm time is reached (or slightly before). Eg. is it possible for the SB firmware to

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread danco
Here's a portion of the log, as requested. I wondered if there could be a permissions issue, but it doesn't look like it, as permissions are -rwxr-x-r-x. [08-04-26 22:19:54.5198] Plugins::CDplayer::CDPLAY::new (101) SetCurrentTitle for

Re: [slim] Wake On LAN before alarm occurs

2008-04-26 Thread Mnyb
Well isn't the clock on the server ? no server no clock no alarm ? Wake up by SqueezeNetwork then ? but who knows when SN or the Internet connection goes down. Well maybe the new Controller could be used for this as it is more intelligent (I see an enhancement request coming up ) -- Mnyb

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread bpa
I don't believe it could be permission as cdda2wav had to be run to get the track index. I'm wondering whether there is some command option which is not supported on OSX but itr is unlikely since you already ran the cdda2wav command to play a track. To see if there are any error messages when

[slim] scanning issues

2008-04-26 Thread firestorm
I've tried the search function for this, but haven't found anything relevant yet. I'm using the latest SC7.01 beta (26 April) Where is the database/library located ? reason is I want to delete and start from scratch. even renaming the SC dir and installing a new copy of SC, it remembers my old

[slim] artwork from itunes?

2008-04-26 Thread davec67
when in itunes my library shows artwork. Some of the artwork was found by itunes some of it by myself and manually added. Squeezecenter maybe picks up 1 in 10 of these. Is there some kinds of itunes artwork it can see or not. There does not seem to be any logic to it. Some of the automatic ones

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread danco
I ran SqueezeCenter from the command line ok. However, when I tried to play a CD track, the Terminal just filled up with loads of lines flashing past before I could stop things. As far as I can see, this was repeated attempts to play the track, and therefore repeated lines. I *think* this part

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread bpa
Is there an error after editing the custom-convert.conf file ? It looks like there is a - left over in the conf file just after the little Before: About to execute: '/usr/local/bin/cdda2wav -S 4 --output-format raw -gui output-endianess=little --quiet dev=IODVDServices -track 1 - | After:

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread danco
I am not sure how cdda2wav is supposed to work as regards mounting and unmounting. But the sequence I seem to get is the following (if my head is not in too much of a whirl). Insert CD, and it shows up on the desktop. Open Disk Utility, which shows the CD as mounted, and use Disk Utility to

[slim] upgraded to squeezecenter 7.0 - playlists and prefs

2008-04-26 Thread lugnutz
Hello, I've been a happy user of my ethernet squeezebox v3 for a while now (a couple of years maybe?), but just upgraded the slimserver to the latest 7.0 squeezecenter software and have a couple gripes/questions/pleas for help. 1. For the love of all that is HOLY, can you guys PLEASE, PLEASE,

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread bpa
cdda2wav is pretty basic - it just accesses the CD drive through the standard Linux CDROM interface. However I think OSX has some special behaviour to simplify things for the user. Your ignorance of cdda2wav is unfortunately matched by my ignorance of OSX. I came across the following when

[slim] Poor streaming performance

2008-04-26 Thread pajamabama
Can someone suggest why I would be having problems playing a stream (shoutcast 128kbps) through the squeezebox when I can play the exact same stream through my laptop without any problems at all? They both are using the same WiFi connection (signal 90%). The squeezebox will sit there tripping

Re: [slim] scanning issues

2008-04-26 Thread JJZolx
firestorm;295874 Wrote: I've tried the search function for this, but haven't found anything relevant yet. I'm using the latest SC7.01 beta (26 April) Where is the database/library located ? reason is I want to delete and start from scratch. even renaming the SC dir and installing a

Re: [slim] artwork from itunes?

2008-04-26 Thread orrinc
I have the same issue in the Windows version- there doesn't seem to be any compatibility between the artwork that iTunes recognizes and the artwork that SqueezeCenter does. For the most part, I need to have a cover.jpg file in every music folder for SC, and also link that file to each mp3 track

Re: [slim] artwork from itunes?

2008-04-26 Thread pippin
You will need the iTunes updater plugin (see 3rd party plugins) or you need to manually add the iTunes artwork either to the album folder (as folder.jpg or cover.jpg) or to the mp3 tags. iTunes does not do that but stores its downloaded artwork in it's own cache file structure. -- pippin ---

Re: [slim] artwork from itunes?

2008-04-26 Thread Eric Seaberg
OR get the program CoverScout from http://www.equinux.com/us/products/coverscout/index.html. Works GREAT and fills in all the holes. It seems iTunes embedding of covers doesn't quite work the way SS wants to see it. This solved it for me!! SlimServer on a MacMINI OS 10.4.11 Server v7.0 iTunes

Re: [slim] Spare cradle?

2008-04-26 Thread vitoruch
JimC;290151 Wrote: The Squeezebox Controller and Squeezebox Receiver release dates haven't officially been announced, but at least for folks here in the US it should be by end of month. -= Jim Yes man, so we're a few days from it, right? : ) Vitor -- vitoruch

Re: [slim] Playing cd's

2008-04-26 Thread NewBuyer
bpa;295775 Wrote: The DDU1615 is quite a fast (48x) DVDROM/CDROM drive - I was worried it might be a very slow drive. I have an old DDU1613 (40x) - I installed in on an XP system and tested it and it worked OK with CDplayer. The DDU1615 is the next generation and I think should work as

[slim] Database failure with Squeeze Center 7 on OSX 10.4

2008-04-26 Thread lgreco
I run Slimserver on PowerPC running a fully updated 10.4.11. I just downloaded and installed SqueezeCenter 7.0. However if fails to start. It tries to start for a few seconds and then it just dies off. Here's the slimsever log regarding what's going on: [08-04-26 20:55:58.8240]

Re: [slim] Can ff/rew be enabled while using Inguz?

2008-04-26 Thread inguz
No... it uses the transcoding pipeline stuff, which means FF/RW don't work. (I'd love to find a solution to this if anyone has any insights...) -- inguz inguz's Profile:

[slim] Unable to get new SqueezeCenter Software to work

2008-04-26 Thread Ralph Plumb
I installed the new squeezecenter 7.0 software but when I click on Start Server, Web Access remains grayed out and eventually Stop Server reverts back to Start Server again. Any ideas? Also where can i download the Slim Server software 6.5.1 so I can try it. Ralph

Re: [slim] Poor streaming performance

2008-04-26 Thread SuperQ
Please post the URL to the stream you are having problems with. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46864

Re: [slim] Poor streaming performance

2008-04-26 Thread Mnyb
Buffersize ? it is larger in the laptop. And theres differences in the SqueezeBoxes the Slimp3 and Squeezebox v1 has smaller buffers. You can set the buffer time for radio on Both SqueezeNetwork and your Local SqueezeCenter. SN players then settings for the player then network SC settings

[slim] Display problems

2008-04-26 Thread asrai
We have a squeezebox 3 which we love. It is a great little device apart from one thing - it now has an intermittent display problem. From time to time the top row of pixels are dead. It now happens more often than not. This is the case whether the unit is on or off. Everything else works as