thanks ghostrider!
your seggestion also pointed me to the factory reset option - which i
decided to try first. and it worked!
set up networking again and everything (!) is back to the way it was.
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how do i get the original MAC address back and the MAC not set!
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transitions meanwile... see above.
the odd thing is, it still seems as if an MP3 file is required for sync
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instances where sync broke on a vorbis file. and again, it came back as
soon as an MP3 file came up. i didnt even need to do anything about
it...
strange. as if SC sometimes forgets to keep sync when playing a
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i will see if the sync breaks are reproduceable on certain tracks. if
yes, i will try encoding them with the reference encoder and see if the
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actually works, and this chain of logic is based on pure assumption.
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confirmed behavior by playing over night.
this problem is too consistent for my taste. hence:
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systematically eliminating potential sync
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alone, the longer they would stay synced.
so how do i get vorbis to work properly when synced?
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not be necessary and it is
supported natively. which is why i bought the SBs in the first place.
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VERY odd...
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do some experiments...
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read here, that could solve the problem.
unfortunately, they dont describe how to got about that...
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rudimentary linux knowledge...
thanks VERY much in advance!
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not found?
the same btw for the other versions as well.
i guess since mvalera (webmonkey) left logitech/slimdevices, the new
webmaster has to get acquainted, yes? ;-)
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fluorescent display. they are always on and can only be switched off by
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and incompatibilities), rather
just putting an album.jpg file in the same directory as the track
itself.
quite possible that (re-)discovering _embedded_ albumart requires a
full re-scan tho...
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everything under control and can stop anytime i want
to.
my SB even makes me aggressive sometimes, especially when i listen to
skinny puppy, makai or juno reactor.
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AAC will be transcoded in SC. did you check to make sure you are
transcoding to wav or FLAC? you could be transcoding to mp3, thereby
transoding lossy to lossy which _will_ degrade soundquality.
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even brand new ones.
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hi!
you may want to check out these vorbis bugs:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7857
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4418
sounds as if you (too) may be suffering from at least one of them.
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actually, i must admit that i haven't seen this effect in a while. the
only thing (i believe) i did was to clear out the DB and do a complete
rescan (due a different bug).
wierd... is it reproduceable on your system or only sporadic? (like on
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4th cent - it look as if the new ff/rew will not work with vorbis files
with embedded artwork...
oops - that was 4 cents!
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network:
1. resource starved servers (both windows and NAS)
2. disks going to sleep and needing time to wake up (delays responses
by ~30 sec.)
3. web interface is/was -as far as i am concerned- so slow to be quite
useless. so i don't use it. ;-)
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symptoms is iTunes' ripping process itself and/or a healthy dose of
placebo. but no-one wanted to believe the MP3 codec bug at first,
either... ;-)
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is this perhaps related to this bug?
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4418
(i specifically try to keep the artwork 32Kbyte due to this bug)
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it!) and maybe slimdevices will set it back to major...
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jademonkee: to me, it sounds like your problem is at least related to
this localization issue. you might want to vote for it - i already
did.
Nostromo: you're running windows, you may indeed be experiencing a
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, i suspect the web UI is the
culprit, not the scanner...
can i ignore this? and/or how do i read the scanner's log file
correctly to find out if there is a problem?
thanks in advance,
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not sure if others (like you) can change the priority back higher
again, if not, and you'd like it higher again let me know here.
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hi peter!
thx for the help!
well, since i consider myself to be more of a user type than a
operator type, understanding the perl and editing it is probably too
complicated for me. ;-)
i guess i will just file a bug.
mr. sinatra: vote for me! and we can do it! ;-)
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it worked fine. go figure... as i said, i'll wait for 7.3 for more
conclusive results.
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out of ~10x. the rest of the time
it worked fine. go figure... as i said, i'll wait for 7.3 for more
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which needs to be included! :-)
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right now i am trying to find a way to edit linux-compatible playlists
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gentlemen, i just found this:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6447
which would fix all of my problems and possibly yours too!
if you agree, please VOTE for the enhancement - i already did. :-)
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thanks in advance,
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just in case anyone can use this information... ;-)
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of synch, too. as long as softsqueeze is not involved, i
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arbitrary album browse pages takes about 20-25 sec. now. (still long, i
know. but my server just doesnt have enough processing power)
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you have another SB to verify this against?
3. are you getting any error-messages (even briefly)
4. is it reproduceable? (same track, same position, same ripper, same
encoder, same playing time, same etc...)
5. does it still happen when you only loop one and the same song over
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once that is running, i think i am fixed and happy. if SC7 didnt fix
the problem after all, i'll be back. ;-)
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~35GB to
~200GB.
8. i use my WLAN for other things sich as mpeg4 playback as well - i
need the bandwidth.
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crashing may only be a
symptom, not the root cause.
i guess there is only one more thing for me to do: try SC7... :-(
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, but does not make the problem go
away.
my next steps:
- i will test homogeneous playlists of mp3 or vorbis to see what
happens.
- then i will try SC 7 beta.
thanks for your thoughts on this guys, it is driving me nuts. i really
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message before (out of decoder RAM), in
context with the vorbis decoder crashing on certain internet radio
stations: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4418
since i use vorbis a *lot*, this seems related.
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said now playing but
they weren't. at least they didnt freeze this time (odd, that) - i
pressed play on the remote and they started up again. re-playing the
same tracks was flawless, however...
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firmware.
ps. sorry slwiser if i hijacked your thread! please let me/us know how
much of this is familiar! ;-)
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i will try transcoding as soon as i have one more crash - i want to
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Rosso - Nicola Conte - Bossa Per Due with 4.21 mins playing
time...!?
weird: this time, they didnt skip a track, but just went on to the next
one in the playlist.
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some point. frankly speaking, i am starting to think it may not be SBs
fault after all, but what SS is feeding it. maybe something wrong with
the way SS deals with the ogg-container...?
btw. statistics so far are: 4 stops in ~54 tracks. that is too much and
not sporadic anymore. :-(
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just that two players will cause the problem to occur double as often
as one... (?)
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, but the 86KB list shows up empty to this day.
i have NO idea what is going on, i opened both versions in notepad and
they both appeared identical!? but personal playlist manager seems to
be adding some kind of padding or junk (?) to the m3u files.
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potayto - potahto
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than 10 sec. to load mood groovy shuffled.
here is what i did: opened mood groovy in winamp. immediately
re-saved it (different file name) - shrunk to 14KB. re-scanned
playlists in SS. done!
maybe you want to try that?
other than that, i really wouldnt know either - sorry!
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, this is not true for other EU-countries, such as
austria... :-(
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playlist manager plugin for winamp), always adds some stuff to the
file, which is invisible. (at least in notepad and winamp). maybe that
junk is buggering up SS...
i will do some testing with the new cleaned up versions of my
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seriously, does this merit a bug report? after all, i can reproduce
this effect at any time, on demand...
or should i just wait for SS7 final/release and see if the problem goes
away?
thanks!
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therefore connected to the network.
i opened a thread on that as well:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41793
does any of that sound familiar to you?
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to cause my problems, and that is also
why i am not sure i am in the right thread here...
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the display @ max fontsize without my glasses.
oh, and softsqueeze may not be quite original size, depending on your
PC screen size and resolution! (on mine, the large softsqueeze display
is only ~1.1cm high)
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in case no body has suggested them yet:
- Linksys/KISS DP 600/1600
- FujitsuSiemensComputers Activy mediaplayers
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for it - but what gave you that
intuition that there may be something wrong?
btw, i can confirm this on my SB3s, FW 81. ;-)
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, but an enhancement request.
and it contains a suggestion to add a control which will let you choose
squeezecenter's behavior.
that way you can be happy and me too! :-)
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who dont. ;-)
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: 70% of my music is in ogg-vorbis format. it does not
support albumart embedding, because the ogg file is a general purpose
streaming media container which is not specifically limited to audio.
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thinking? bug?
i am considering reporting this as a bug.
oddly enough, the directory structure has an impact on another topic:
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#.artist.trackname.ogg
and put in to a FLAT directory.
that way, i can scroll up and down in explorer and locate albums and
files very quickly. (works great for me and my GF when we select files
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and to be honest, i would hate to have to re-arrange ~6500 files just
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seems to be a variation of the same problem above.
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hi catbus - it seems my favorite encoder GTune3b1 is the culprit. when i
encoded the offending tracks with xiph's reference at q10, everything
played just fine.
but i agree with you that ultimately the higher bitrates with gtune3b1
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scanner still gobbles up lots of CPU cycles during web access.
which other dirs must i exclude?
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is your web UI also *very* slow? as in: 10-20 sec. for displaying a
browse albums page?
oh, and i found it had (as you suspect) nothing at all to do with my
WLAN. ;-)
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hey tyler i appreciate your enthusiasm!
but i need a cover for my REMOTE not for my SB3! if you find any of
those on ebay, let me know. ;-)
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it may not be a good candidate to
detect jitter.
or does the original slimdevices housing of my SB3 shield that?
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the first bid for 1$ + 5.50$ (SH) has come in...
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along just fine.
@skunk: seriously, sell it on ebay - you'll make more money. i have
been following the ebay prices for SB3 in germany. and let me tell you,
one guy bought a used SB3 for 325 (plus shipping)! retail price @
logitech online: 300. d'uh
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the integer implementation of the
vorbis decoder called tremor? (http://xiph.org/vorbis/)
gentlemen, does something like this merit a feature request /
bugreport? probably not, but you never know, you know? ;-)
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identical.
has anyone else seen this?
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this shows up in browse - albums as:
Album A
tracks 1-4
Album A
tracks 5-9
but since the albums are identical, i would expect:
Album A
tracks 1-9
isnt there a way to do that?
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slimserver lots of
work to do, i.e. add large shuffled playlists (500 tracks) and/or it
is performing its weekly virus-scan.
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OggEncGTb3 does not comply to
ogg-vorbis reference specs, but then again i am only encoding @ q6. if
CPU choking is indeed a problem, then it should even occur with the
reference vorbis encoder @ q8-10, which is claimed to be supported by
slimdevices, no?
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they look cool
and impress the hell out of visitors! ;-)
4. just zap the track for know to prevent it from stalling my SB3.
but isnt there maybe a way to optimize the vorbis decoder in SB3's
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