This looks useful but :-)
My wife and daughters music are defined by having their name in the
comments so they're easy to select so would it be possible for the
comments field to have a "Equals" type drop down please?
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Hi all,
Took my old v1 squeezebox out of storage this weekend and found the black
plastic finish has gone sticky!
Any advice on dealing with this?
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Bose = limited fidelity alternative
In professional audio circles it mean Bring Other Sound Equipment!
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You must be able to get a replacement PSU dirt cheap on Ebay
Then at least you'll know which is at fault.
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Well in the olden days their CD players were just Phillips models in
flash cases.
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Hiya,
If I go into my music, I don't get the little white triangles that let
me pin to the home screen anymore.
This is on a Galaxy SIII with jelly bean.
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Sorry I didn't get any logs to you before you tackled the list problem,
I've just ordered myself a 10 tablet so was wondering if you'd
considered a widget version that I can keep on one of the home screens?
Thanks
Craig
think it was on lists generated by
Custom Browse rather that the built in ones.
Hope that helps,
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send a log if it is of any use to you.
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What's the exact error you get?
I would expect the path to the iTunes_Hist.txt file needs to be provided
(unless you are running from the directory that contains it)
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The text file containing the play history should appear in your configured LMS
playlist directory.
You then run iTunesUpdate.pl on it.
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I've just installed this and it's looking good, I look forward to the
multiple server option though ;-)
Oh and good call on the Manu Chao too !
Cheers
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LastFM almost always falls over at the weekend. Wait until Monday and see what
happens...
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I've cured my problems, I put 7.4.2 back on!
I saw no advantages to 7.5 and if they're stopping supporting the older
players then there's no point being on the bleeding edge anymore.
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I'm seeing this too, I'm also seeing similar weirdness with
pause/unpause and play all since I upgraded to 7.5.
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slate;543549 Wrote:
All my CD's are in boxes in the basement.
We had about 500 copies of my bands new cd in the bass players garage
when his street got flooded, it made a horrible mess. I'd put them in
the loft Slate.
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I'm aware of the old long pause bug but I've not had that for ages. What
I'm seeing is that if I press pause on the remote, the player pauses
then immediately un-pauses as if I'd pressed the button twice.
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I'm aware of the old long pause bug but I've not had that for ages. What
I'm seeing is that if I press pause on the remote, the player pauses
then immediately un-pauses as if I'd pressed the button twice.
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I've been having this problem with pause too, as if the button is being
read twice. It's only happened since I put 7.5 on, nothing else has
changed.
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It works fine on 7.4 - doesn't it?
Or was that a special version with Mac support?
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Yeah, sorry i forgot it's all about the acronyms :)
EDIT: Ha, no, your wrong! It would be SBSL :)
You can't have that - it's an FLA not a TLA :)
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My iTunes Party Shuffle plugin can already do this.
http://www.jamescraig.co.uk/SlimServer
Unfortunately Apple have not included Genius in the AppleScript/COM interface
to iTunes so you can't initiate a new genius mix from SlimServer, which would
be a nice feature.
James
It's certainly not the plugin creating them itself, but it may be a side effect
of interacting with iTunes over the COM interface.
I get the same problem but definitely not one .tmp file every time a track is
played, it's more like one every day.
Hence I always used to think it was caused by the
I'm running pretty much the same set-up as you.
Ian, are you using the iTunesUpdate plugin?
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Thanks Ian, doesn't sound like you are using the iTunesUpdate plugin.
However, I believe the library scan in 7.3 now uses COM to get the artwork from
iTunes...
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i am new to forums and am having the same problem with my sb. when it
works it is awesome and then although it says it is connected to my
computer the player can't be found message comes up.
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Nothing that Logitech makes can compete with the audio stuff I have,
especially not surround sets.
Nothing? Not even their audio products?
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So WTF is an SB3 doing in your living room?
Must be a networking product ...
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weirdness I was seeing too, very strange.
thanks everyone
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problem a while back with the repeat button but that
just seemed to go away.
Is anyone else seeing this?
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I'm getting the normal response's. I'm using the 7.2 official release
and XP. I'm also using the pluging that when you hit sleep it doesn't
change it but gives you the mode first.
Hmmm, that plugin rings a bell, what's it called?
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Yes I think I had that installed at one time but I can't find it on
there now.
I'm seeing as if you pressed the button twice, I'm also seeing it on
shuffle but not repeat, Wierd eh?
This is on XP too.
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Well I've now noticed that my Musicinfo display is screwed up too so
I've reinstalled the last nightly that I used (22869 from Aug 25) and
all is well.
I'll try the official release again later.
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that build 22869 from 25th Aug is good
build 22886 from 25th Aug is good
build 22900 (the official release) is bad
build 22973 (the latest nightly) is bad
Here's a couple of pics to show the effect on MusicInfo
Craig
Part of that typo has been corrected in the text of the article. 3 inch
woofers ...
Wow, what the heck is this thing??? 30 inch woofers and it runs on
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It went up on their site in the last half-hour or so. And ... *Now
shipping!*
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You may want to check now... :-)
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My Prontos work fine with all the Squeezeboxes I've owned.
I never learned the remote commands, just downloaded a pronto config file from
SlimDevices - have you tried that?
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Try the LastFM 'normalizer':
http://www.associativetrails.com/stuff/normalisefm/
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Guys, its clearly not the connection as I have 3 other devices
connected, some twice as far away, that work fine.
No, it's not clear at all. The entire purpose of asking you do
TEMPORARILY (!!) wire the connection is to determine if the problem is
with the wireless connection. It COULD be the
Storage is cheap. Buy some and sleep well. Good luck to you.
Carbonite.com and Moxy.com do what they do quite nicely. About $50
bucks a year and you have offsite backup that you don't have to
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My file date changer available from the link below (scroll to the
bottom of the page) was designed to over come this exact problem.
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plugin though, give me a shout when you have a windows version built.
did you ever get anywhere with lazysearch for jive?
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mr356;285936 Wrote:
I have the same issue. However if I turn off virus scan in Macafee, the
problem goes away.
H, I'll give that a go tonight.
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on preloading the artwork to speed it up even
more?
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iTunes 'folders' are actually also playlists (try selecting one in
iTunes), so there's not a lot you can do about this.
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Are you using any internet radio services?
A few of them manipulate the repeat mode to make streaming work
correctly.
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No, but iTunesUpdate has a dedicated Duet menu that allows for rating
the songs.
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My iTunesUpdate and iTunesPartyShuffle plugins do all of these things.
http://www.jamescraig.co.uk/SlimServer
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The US went on daylight savings time overnight.
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM, TerryHawkins
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Hi,
For some reason at some point overnight, the time of my squeezebox has
become an hour fast.
I am running slimserver on a QNAP TS109 and the time on this is
correct,
My daughter's SB only has a subset of my library on it which is defined
by putting her name in a comments tag, I use Erlands plugins to achieve
this. I'm not sure whether you can add a new menu to the SBC that just
lists the subset though.
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you can on an Artist.
Like I said, it's come a long way and I find that I'm using it more and
more.
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Is this with the perl script? In it's original form it should loop
forever.
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Why bother reconfiguring the whole network?, just do the cable test as
others have suggested then people will be able to help you get it
working.
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1. I read somewhere on the slimdevices site about SS that there was no
need under version 6.5.4 to rescan a musicbase managed through iTunes
presumably after changes and/or additions. I am using 6.5.5 five SB2+3s
and I never came across this possibility?
This is not true. Any changes in music
Thanks so much!
But is that really the latest version for SC7?
You also shouldn't need to disable the built in AudioScrobbler plugin,
in the latest version SqueezeScrobbler should (?) disable its own
scrobbling if it detects the other plugin is correctly configured.
James
I've reported this a few times now and it's still the case.
When the Default skin is shown in Firefox, it uses 100% CPU time.
When it's loaded but not the visible tab, CPU usage drops to 0%.
I do not have Firebug installed.
It's making the new interface unusable for me, and these reports are
That's no problem as long as we're not talking about _minutes_ (or 20
seconds for that matter). Any program will take all the resource it can
get to get its job done the fastest possible. The issue is the duration
of the process, not the spike. The first time loading of the page is
slow, I have
40 seconds is just to load the Default web page - not to load Firefox!
The only addon I have installed is Adblock.
I only get this problem with the Default skin, nothing else.
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Ooh not sure. I'll have to check - are there any known issues with
either?
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Personally, I love my Pronto 7000. It's got plenty of hard buttons and a
beautiful colour screen.
I can control every IR device I own with it.
(Wierdly, I still use the SB remote for intensive button pushing, but
it's the only one I do that for)
It's a one-way device though and you can't do
- screen refresh was labored and delayed
Player screen or web interface?
Hi Michael, I've been meaning to say for a while, I find the new web
interface incredibly slow.
I'm running from SVN on Windows XP, Firefox 2.
Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load.
Secondly, I have observed
Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load.
Are you running short on memory? What's the machine's specs?
It's a 2Ghz P4 with 1Gb of memory. SqueezeCentre is running on the same
machine.
I think there is plenty of memory, about 600Mb in use normally.
Firefox uses 100% CPU time. Switch to
If you run SlimServer iTunes on the same Windows box,
you can use my iTunesPartyShuffle plugin to play iTunes playlists on
SlimServer without scanning the iTunes library.
Any tracks encountered that aren't already in the SlimServer library are
scanned and added.
They're played in the same way
Actually the iTunes Party Shuffle plugin would do pretty much what the
original poster requested.
It will allow you to play a playlist from iTunes without having to
rescan the SlimServer library first.
Tracks are added as old ones finish, in the same way as the Random Mix
feature.
(It only works
Strange.
I won't be able to investigate for a couple of days, but what skin are
you using for the web interface and what language is your SlimServer
running?
Can you take a look in the log file for any obvious errors as well?
James
Hi Pierre,
Did you enable the artwork option? It's not on by default.
Have a look at Server Settings - iTunes Update
Please note that the plugin only fetches artwork for the currently
playing track, so you won't see artwork when you browse the library
(other than for tracks that you've played
They should be in a 'podcasts' playlist if your iTunes scan is working
correctly.
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As I said, you should have a Playlist called Podcasts.
(Even if you don't actually have a playlist in iTunes called Podcasts,
that's just the way it shows up. )
Being a Playlist, you'll find it in the 'Playlists' submenu of 'Browse
Music'.
Now, if you have your iTunes playlists in SlimServer,
Actually, not strictly correct.
My iTunes Update plugin has an option (for windows only) that copies the
artwork for the currently playing song into SlimServer.
It is working rather well with the new default skin in SS7.0!
James
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My SlimServer plugins are available from www.jamescraig.co.uk/SlimServer
I haven't released an version for 7.0 yet though - look out for a
message in the 3rd party plugins forum in the next couple of days.
With a total of 14 posts he's obviously asked us all how to fix his
problems :-)
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If you want to use this with Slimserver V7.0 then the commands need to
be :-
7.hold = modefunction_Slim::Plugin::RandomPlay::Plugin-tracks
8.hold = modefunction_Slim::Plugin::RandomPlay::Plugin-albums
9.hold = modefunction_Slim::Plugin::RandomPlay::Plugin-contributors
Thanks again to KDF
Craig
ITUNES PARTY SHUFFLE PLUGIN:
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Makes it possible to launch a Party Shuffle playlist from SlimServer.
You need iTunes installed for this plugin to work.
Thanks Erland!
This plugin actually supports playing *any* iTunes playlist in 'real
time' on
I have to say I actually think it looks OK in monochrome on the front of
the Squeezebox.
The colour version in the web interface is a bit horrible though.
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Evan,
Are you sure you don't have my iTunes Update plugin installed?
It would start iTunes after each song is played.
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besically what i would like to do is setup the network in this way.
Router (connected to internet) - straight thru ethernet - switch/hub -
straight thru ethernet to p.c's and xbox360 and sb2 and qnap ts101.
is this possible or do i need cross over cable.
Yes, that's the way to do it. You
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can you read your adsl stats from your modem? snr margin and downlink
attenuation? if you can then see if they change when you connect your
SB. this could indicate an interferrence problem.
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It works for me, I used it this morning.
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It's something to do with which account your Slimserver service is
logged in to. I think the default login is done before drives are
mapped. Sorry I can't remember any more but a search should find out
more.
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I've not noticed any hum from mine either but the power led faded away
to nothing in the first few weeks.
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iTunes Update does work on the Mac.
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with a different music dir and then put shortcuts to the music she want,
in there.
Any better ideads?
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Thanks Guys,
Erlands wiki has details of setting up a kids Squeezebox using a couple
of his plugins. I'll let you know how it goes.
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Thanks to Erlands plugins and setup guide she now has a SB with 1 menu
item that lists all the artists she wants. All I have to do to add
something is put her name in the Comments tag of the files they appear
after a rescan.
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Because her library is filtered on the comments tag containing her name,
I found I had to rescan using 'look for new and changed music' in the
standard Slim Server settings before any changes were reflected in her
library.
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which is
far superior to ITunes.
you end up with a great windows front end for your squeezebox
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BTW, Shure's warranty is 2 years *from the date of product manufacture*
I take this to mean you can keep sending them back so long as no one set
gets older than 2 years - and I'm on my fourth replacement pair already.
Of course this doesn't reflect very well on the headphones - I get
almost
I've had this one open for almost a year as well...
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3081
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(I really don't like iTunes, BTW. I haven't found a way to see albums
instead of a massive tunes listing..)
You just click on the browse button/icon, then select an album in the
top pane.
Only the tracks of that album are displayed in bottom pane.
I don't think iTunes is really that 'album
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4652
This bug (mine) is when sending requests from an external app though - I
found the 'problem' files played fine when using SlimServer itself...
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Do you have access to your log file?
Or if you're running the default installation on Windows can you check
the Event Viewer for errors from SlimServer?
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Didn't the OP just mean Squeezeboxes in the Logitech branded box, as
seen at the link?
The picture of the SB itself wasn't good enough to make out if the logo
had been changed or removed...
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Wow, so much steam and blather in this thread and no one has mentioned
the only thing
that's relevant to Slim/Squeezebox?
The web UI (or a fuure custom application once people are able to
install them
- this will come) would make for a fine Squeezebox controller.
Ha! At last! Like I said,
It does have wi-fi.
Looks great to me apart from the phone bit - I don't need that at all!
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If you only bought it in October then it's a warranty job and should go
back to your dealer.
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There's a bug open for this
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4180
But I don't think there's been much progress.
I searched around last week and there still doesn't seem to be any
documentation anywhere of how to link a track to an art file using only
what's in the library xml.
I
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