I have a similar problem. my music files are stored on an Airlink NAS
(a saamba server) with UTF8 support. I could see chinese and japanese
characters correctly from windows, but these are not displayed
correctly in SC7,2,1.
would like to find out how to fix.
thanks, mmc
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I have a similar problem. my music files are stored on an Airlink NAS
(a saamba server) with UTF8 support. I could see chinese and japanese
characters correctly from windows, but these are not displayed
correctly in SC7,2,1.
Where are you running your SC?
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Nonreality;342511 Wrote:
Ape tags sometimes take over preference in programs and sometimes they
have very little info. If you use mp3gain to do your replay gain this
could be the problem. It writes the replay gain tags to v2.4 so a lot
of programs only see the replaygain tags and not the
Shein,
This is a long standing issue - check
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4892
(I've just run into again, and now I can't even get the scanner to tell
me which files are causing the problem - grump).
Larry
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shein;321887 Wrote:
Thanks, Nonreality and moley6knipe.
All tags are of the same kind (ID3v2.4, APE etc).
The issue does not appear to be related to the length of the
filename/tag.
All files are MP3.
I wasn't sure what to make of the reference that iTunes is a lot less
tolerant of
iTunes is a lot less tolerant of filename and path length than
SqueezeCenter, I think. I've fallen foul of this - if I scan the .xml
using iTunes integration in SC I get less tracks than if I scan the
music folder directly. Reason being, as far as I can see, if a
filename/path combo exceeds a
Are they all mp3, or are there any AAC or Apple Lossless files? Seem to
recall there's a bug with mov123.exe/QuickTime (used by SC for
transcoding these files to a format SqueezeBoxen can play) which means
files with a filename of 63 chars of more won't work. A forum search
for faad normally
Thanks, Nonreality and moley6knipe.
All tags are of the same kind (ID3v2.4, APE etc).
The issue does not appear to be related to the length of the
filename/tag.
All files are MP3.
I wasn't sure what to make of the reference that iTunes is a lot less
tolerant of filename and path length than
Thanks, MrSinatra. I'm guessing there is some overlap with your bug
report 8764. My problem is shown in the scan results in my original
post,
Total Tracks: 19,618
[...]
Music Scan Details
iTunes Import (27132 of 27132) Complete 01:13:15
So SC7 only shows 19,618 of the 27,132 tracks, although
When you say The problem is that SC7 only includes about 19,000 of the
tracks in its own library, even though SC7 does see all 27,000 tracks.
- do you mean that SC sees them via Browse Music folder? No chance the
missing tracks have DRM (which SC won't be able to play)?
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Who am I on
i don't use itunes integration or itunes, so i'm not much help. but i
have read many issues on here about things not showing up, including
even cases where one install of SC7 finds it, while another does not!
in that case it did turn out to be unusual character sets, but it
didn't explain why
Siduhe,
Thanks for your question. I tell SC7 (running on the QNAP TS-101) to
import the iTunes library from the iTunes XML file. As shown in
another of my posts in this thread, the iTunes import routine does show
the right number of tracks being considered / seen (I don't know how
else to
shein;321616 Wrote:
Siduhe,
Thanks for your question. I tell SC7 (running on the QNAP TS-101) to
import the iTunes library from the iTunes XML file. As shown in
another of my posts in this thread, the iTunes import routine does show
the right number of tracks being considered / seen (I
Hi all,
I have an extensive MP3 library (about 27,000 tracks) which is
organized with iTunes. I have recently acquired a QNAP TS-101,
installed SC7, and moved the library there. The problem is that SC7
only includes about 19,000 of the tracks in its own library, even
though SC7 does see all
there could be lots of reasons for this.
look here:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8380
and here:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8764
for just a start. might it also be an issue with the mp3 header?
do you use itunes integration? did SC7 used to see all the stuff
I tried this and SqueezeCenter can't even find my music when I only use
iTunes and blank the path to my music in the basic settings (and tell
it to clear and rescan my library).
It finds 8 songs out of 3500.
Music lives on my NAS box. SqueezeCenter lives on my NAS box. iTunes
Library.xml
The latest version on SqueezeCenter for ReadyNAS has now been running
all weekend and is a significant improvement on all previous verions in
many respects. There are still problems but I'll summarize them here:
Stuttering - I've not had any stuttering/rebuffering problems with
this at
I downloaded the 14th May nightly update and it seemed to be extremely
well behaved. I noticed today that a 'final' release has been posted on
Slimdevices for the ReadyNas and I've just installed that, along with
the plugin pack and the Multi-player plugin pack (both of which have
been impressive
and where did you get it?
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When I tried SC7 was quite relieved to find the old user interface is
still there - however when I tried to access the formatting page in
server settings it proved to be empty -
I have huge collection of WAV files - artist album and title are
encoded in folder / file name - it seems any
settings-advanced-formatting: guess tag formats
there should be some defaults already in there.
K
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The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will
improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAj2aPdQnk
I deleted a load of temp files manually from C:\Documents and
Settings\Colin Wheatley\Local Settings\Temp (Win XP Pro SP2) and ran a
registry clean using RegScrubXP and now SqueezeCenter won't start.
This error comes up in the Event Viewer Application Log...
Event Type: Error
Event Source:
[08-05-13 22:29:26.5002] Slim::Schema::forceCommit (1363) Warning:
Trying to commit transactions before DB is initialized!
[08-05-13 22:29:27.4220] Slim::Schema::Storage::throw_exception (67)
Error: DBI Connection failed: DBI
It's in:
SqueezeCenter_MultiPlayer_PluginPack_0.1
also, try:
SqueezeCenter_PluginPack_0.2
They're not bad!
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Well, it seems to have had some effect. There was a big improvement but
still some slippage.
I then set up the 'Synchronizer' Plugin and that has solved it all. I
recommend trying this if you're still having problems.
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I've just turned ALL logging off to see if it helps. I'll let you know.
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.png .jpg and .jpeg files are all associated with Irfanview, as
expected. I'll keep an eye on it; I'll keep the artwork logging set to
debug and check the logs again if anything else strange happens. Let's
face it though, it's 99% certain to be IE7's unique approach to
things that's to blame!!
I have serious sync problems and we (slim tech support) have established
that the machine I run SC7.0 on does not keep good time. In my case
this was identified with the sync.player logging option set to debug,
resulting in a constant stream of 'adjust jiffies epoch...'
I have only experienced
Yes, sorry - had to cut the log way down to get it to upload! The whole
thing continues in that vein though, can't see any errors.
I can visit the url shown on the screenshot - it's the cover for
Tripping The Live Fantastic by Paul McCartney, a double album that I
had ripped as mp3, and I've
significant. When I visited the url the QuickTime logo briefly
appeared in my browser window, and the picture appeared in the middle
of the window with black bars padding the top and bottom (the original
jpeg is wider than it is tall).
Hmm... this sounds like misconfigured doc-types or
It's starting to look that way! The strange thing is that it only hung
once on that particular file (as per screenshot in my first post), and
it's always displayed fine when browsing the album/playing it etc.
A Google search of ie7 .png files seems to show that IE7 has issues
with .png files -
I have EXACTLY he same problems with SC7 - Start track, noise, track
stops, rebuffer, track continues fine. Also, my 2 players go out of
sync and, if I start up SoftSqueeze on my Mac, the whole thing STOPs
after about 5 tracks.
I will try disabling plugins but I'm not hopeful about this.
These
I've attached a small excerpt from server log (with artwork logging set
to debug) from one of the times the web gui was waiting for...
+---+
|Filename: server_log.txt |
|Download:
I've attached a small excerpt from server log (with artwork logging set
to debug) from one of the times the web gui was waiting for...
May be too small - I don't see anything irregular in there. Could you open
the url you've shown in the screenshot?
Michael
When I open the SC7 web gui, I sometimes get a message about
downloading picture as per the attached screenshot, that stays there
until I change screen. I presume it's struggling with a .png file, but
how do I find out more, ie is it one of my jpegs that's causing it, is
it a system file, or
how do I find out more
Please check server.log, and set logging for artwork to debug.
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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:
Thanks Andyg,
I did a reboot and a complete rescan (after deleting the autorescan
plugin) and all the problems seem to be solved.
Groeten,
Erik
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For what it's worth I have been having the same sorts of problems for a
couple of weeks now -- song starts up, crunchy noise, rebuffer. I
thought it was issues with wireless, but the same thing happened when I
switched to a wired connection.
After reading this thread I've disabled last.fm and a
Anyone any idea why SC suddenly won't work any longer? I did change
anything but SC Duet couldn't find my Squeezecenter any longer. NAS is
okay I can access the file in my network.
I reinstalled SSODS (slimserver on diskstation) and reinstalled SC,
but the problem isn't solved at all. Loading
Looks like you need to remove the AutoRescan plugin.
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Thx for the quick reply.
I've deleted the Autorescan plugin-directory, but still the
webinterface isn't working.
Logfile this time:
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0020: [08-04-10 22:02:42.4956]
Slim::Networking::SqueezeNetwork::_init_error (121) SqueezeNetwork sync
init failed: Connect timed out, will retry in 3600
0019:
rfish;284476 Wrote:
Just a follow up. I switched my setup to use MySQL 5.1.23 and it fixed
the sort order issue.
New to MySQL, any hint on how to install a never version when I am
using SSODS? I am tired of having the genres being ramdomly
displayed...
Thanks
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why is this thread getting no love from the company or the community?
are my posts too long? surely the need for this is evident as the
issues are systemic and abundant.
all i'm asking for is some help, i'm prepared to do a lot of work to
test the logic and powers of SC7.
if the community
Well there's already this page:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerSupportedTags
I'm sure it's out of date but it's a starting point.
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yes, and theres a various artists logic page as well, (also out of
date).
but i am asking for a whole different thing... maybe i am not being
clear?
what i am saying is we need flowcharts, and they would say essentially
given this such and such would be a result.
so one flowchart would be
I understand that. I just thought you wanted someone to create a page
for you to put this content on... it seemed to me like the page I
linked to would be a good location. Just add your charts to that page.
If you're looking for help actually creating the flow charts, well
that's a different
well, i don't think its appropriate to put charts of how SC7 handles
tags on the same page with what tags SC7 actually uses.
i'm thinking that would be too broad for one page.
if you know how to do wiki, if you could create a page, and have it
linked from the rest of the slim wiki in a proper
If you're going to do any kind of wiki editing you should read the how
to page: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?KwikiFormattingRules
Creating a page is as simple as editing an existing one and creating a
link by putting two or more words together LikeThis. Save that page and
you'll have a
radish;289202 Wrote:
As for the content, my initial understanding from your posts was you
wanted to create a page describing how tags are interpreted and thus
how to set the tags to get the desired effect. I do agree that would be
valuable. However your last post makes it sound more like a
MrSinatra;289150 Wrote:
why is this thread getting no love from the company or the community?
are my posts too long? surely the need for this is evident as the
issues are systemic and abundant.
all i'm asking for is some help, i'm prepared to do a lot of work to
test the logic and
radish wrote:
I understand that. I just thought you wanted someone to create a page
for you to put this content on... it seemed to me like the page I
linked to would be a good location. Just add your charts to that page.
If you're looking for help actually creating the flow charts, well
What OS are you running SC on?
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bugs:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6490
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6635
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6658
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5108
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4629
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i should note here the nature of my setup and the problem leading me to
see the extreme need for this.
i use EAC and lame.exe to rip 256kbps mp3s. (all mp3s made with lame
3.96 or later). i have the lame dll also installed in EAC to give me
the extra dialog screen, but afaik, i don't have
Having it clearly explained would certainly help clarify what should or
should not happen as well as giving a better idea as to whether things
that don't work are bugs or enhancement requests.
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exactly...
i was actually hoping the development team would internally have such a
flowchart somewhere, but that doesn't seem to be the case. in so far as
i can tell, its currently done ad hoc, and people seem to either use it
as is, or figure out workarounds.
my feeling is that a wiki chart
hi all,
we have seen a lot of posts lately about trying to figure out how and
why SC7 does what it does depending on the files and tags and data it
finds (or doesn't find) in our mp3s and other audio files.
what i am proposing and requesting help on, is a wiki page that lays
out in a linear way
It fixed some of mine, in that tracks that would just stop playing now
work, but I still get clicks and bursts of digital noise which I never
did with 6.x.
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Duet/SB3 - Linn Kinos - Linn 5Ch Amp - Linn Speakers
I don't have a ProgramData folder anywhere.
You do. But Microsoft has decided not to tell you. It's either displayed
under a different name (yes, they do this in Vista - [EMAIL PROTECTED]) or
simply
hidden. It's what was called documents and settings in XP. Paste that
path in the execute
7.01 has NOT helped audio issues.
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Found it, thanks. Here's some exerts from the server log that have to
do with plugins:
08-03-11 16:57:07.7968] Slim::Schema::Storage::dbh (47) Error: Unable
to connect to the database - even tried restarting it twice!
[08-03-11 16:57:07.7971] Slim::Schema::Storage::dbh (48) Error: Check
the
This might be a problem. Squeeze Center says my log file is at the
following address:
C:\ProgramData\SqueezeCenter\Logs\server.log
I don't have a ProgramData folder anywhere.
FYI: I'm running Vista
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Thanks. Trying 7.01 now... Will reply if does not fix my issues.
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I upraded to SC7 recently and loaded in my favorite plug-ins. I didn't
think they were working, but after a while I realised they were working
perfectly, but SC7 was not saving my plug-in setting changes. The
result is that I can't get any new plug-ins working. It just keeps
telling me they
I upraded to SC7 recently and loaded in my favorite plug-ins. I didn't
think they were working, but after a while I realised they were working
perfectly, but SC7 was not saving my plug-in setting changes. The
result is that I can't get any new plug-ins working. It just keeps
telling me
Try the latest nightly of 7.0.1, it fixed my audio issues.
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I've upgraded to SC7 and now get occasional noise in the playback of my
SB3. Every once in a while, the system produces a noise like a needle
scratching across a vinyl album. It's just a second-long noise. I had
this issue when I tried the beta SC7 a few weeks ago. I downgraded and
the problem
Just a follow up. I switched my setup to use MySQL 5.1.23 and it fixed
the sort order issue.
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a followup...
after disabling the last.fm plugin I've noticed an improvement in my
synced slimp3 and sb2. I've also noticed that the original problem
continues when I use any dynamic playlist. I think maybe there's a bug
with the dynamic playlist plugin which is quite possible since it's in
m1cross,
I am far from an expert but all my iTunes playlists show up in SC with
the settings as described above. I have always assumed the iTunes
playlists are imbedded in the xml file. If you are using iTunes to
manage your music in SC make sure in SC Basic Settings the Music Folder
and
Not sure if this helps but i had a simular problem with all the 7.0
betas i used and found it was the last.fm plugin. I disabled it and now
my sb3 and sbr sync perfectly.
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LAST.FM.
*AMP:* CAMBRIDGE AUDIO 640A
thanks for the suggestion. I've disabled the last.fm plugin and now I'll
test it out.
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My playlists show up in SC but they are empty. Tried a clear and rescan
to no avail. I am pointing SC to my Itunes Music Folder. It finds the
playlists fine but not the music attached to it, but all my artists and
songs are in the SC Music Library.
My basic settings are:
Music Folder -
so with the encouragement of another thread here recently talking about
the improvements in synching players I decided to take the plunge and
upgrade from 6.5.4 to sc7.
All went well in upgrading the software and all of my plugins. But now
I have introduced a whole new can of worms into my
I figured it out, searched the support pages and found the answer, the
basic settings page should be left blank if you are using iTunes to
manage your library. Point SC to where your iTunes xml file and music
files are and it works like a charm.
JDB
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How can i make sure all of my itunes playlists are in the same spot? I
can never get SC to find 100% of my playlists... always missing about
1/3 of them for some reason... it's got to be for whatever reason,
some of my itunes playlists are stored in different locations??? Very
frustrating!!
I installed SC7 last week. Previous version was 6.5.4.
I am having problems with the SB3 shutting down, rebuffering and
skipping a song.
At first I though it may be the fact that I'm wireless so I hooked the
SB3 up as wired.
This was NEVER a problem with 6.5.4. I never had this happen once
did making it wired fix the issue?
if so, have you tried going back to wireless?
whats the wireless signal strength?
also, have you unplugged and replugged in the power to the SB3 since
the upgrade?
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Using:
Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / Jive -
I also have had this problem non-stop since I installed SC7. I
constantly get the crackling, stopping, skipping problem while the unit
keeps telling me on the display it is Rebuffering. It is the worst
when I am streaming FLAC or WAV, which is mostly what I listen to.
My connection is solid. I
rebooted = power cord pulled for a half minute and then plugged back
in?
i have to do that every time i update my firmware just about.
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XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655
MrSinatra;281093 Wrote:
did making it wired fix the issue?
if so, have you tried going back to wireless?
whats the wireless signal strength?
also, have you unplugged and replugged in the power to the SB3 since
the upgrade?
It was wireless. I hooked it up wired after I experienced the
Since I discovered bug 4769
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4769 I have been naming my
main playlist on 6.5.x All.Jeff which always created the file
All.Jeff.m3u. Now that I'm running SqueezeCenter the filename becomes
All Jeff.m3u, which is not the filename I would expect.
Is this a
I have been enjoying my SB3 for nearly 2 years and have upgraded SS
firmware periodically with no issues. I have an older pc (P4 1.8 Ghz /
512 MB ram) with approx. 500 albums on the hard drive.
I decided to migrate to SC7 last night and am starting to regret the
decision. After the DL and
and still going. CPU usage was maxed at 100%. I use Firefox as my
browser, but navigating was almost impossible.
Looking at the task manager: what's eating the CPU? SqueezeCenter or Firefox?
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Michael Herger;279144 Wrote:
Looking at the task manager: what's eating the CPU? SqueezeCenter or
Firefox?
It looked like the combination of the two and something with scanner
in the name (which I assumed was the library scan that was underway).
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It looked like the combination of the two and something with scanner
in the name (which I assumed was the library scan that was underway).
It would really be important to know which of them. I _guess_ it was the
scanner. In this case you should try to run the scanner from the command line
to
Now that I'm thinking about it, there was something that I found odd
during the set-up. When prompted by the wizard to give the path to my
music library, I wasn't able to get all of the way to it. My music
library is located in My Music which is a subfolder of the My Documents
folder. However,
kblee;279184 Wrote:
where can I edit the path to restrict the scan?
If usiing the Default UI, open the browser with SC running, in the
lower right corner you should see a link for Settings.
The default screen that appears will have text boxes for the search
path.
.
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Well - my system miraculously healed itself while I was at work today.
I think it was the scan that was truly slowing things down. Now that
I've been able to spend some time adjusting a few settings, I can say
that SC7 definitely seems faster and more robust than SS. Thanks...
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Well I don't know about playlists cause I never use them. But maybe
this will help answer your question. I just installed v7 over 6.5 and
the installer uninstalled 6.5 in the process before installing sc7. I
would guess that your playlists will be safe because my
\SlimServer\server\Playlists
Same here. It doesn't seem to migrate existing settings either which is
a bit of a pain.
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Migrating on my Mac, SC picked up the music library and playlists
folders from where they were in SS 6.5.
Some things are differently organised (or need new versions of the
plugins) between the two. I am not sure exactly what was transferred
and what wasn't.
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Forgive me if I've overlooked a previous recommendation, but I'm
wondering if I can simply install over the top of 6.5.4, or if
uninstalling/reinstalling is more bulletproof.
My biggest concern is loosing playlists
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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The sort order for my genres is more or less random and not
alphabetically like it was in 6.5. Searching the forums I found a few
others that seem to have the same problem, but no solution provided.
I'm running on a linux box (FC5) and using an external database.
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rfish
The sort order for my genres is more or less random and not
alphabetically like it was in 6.5. Searching the forums I found a few
others that seem to have the same problem, but no solution provided.
What browse mode? Web or player interface?
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Michael Herger;277835 Wrote:
What browse mode? Web or player interface?
Both the Squeeze box (I have 2 version 2 and one 3) and the web
interface sort them in the same order, it is just not alphabetical. I
can't really tell how it is sorted, maybe by time added to the
database?
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Is this the mysql bug again? Mysql versions 5.0.45 - 5.0.51?
-k
On 10-Mar-08, at 6:45 AM, Michael Herger wrote:
The sort order for my genres is more or less random and not
alphabetically like it was in 6.5. Searching the forums I found a
few
others that seem to have the same problem, but
I found the sort problems are for both Artist and Album, they are sorted
by a random order.
My environment : (Synology DS207+)
SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0.1 - 17829 - Linux - EN - utf8
Server IP address: 192.168.1.5
Perl Version: 5.8.8 armv5tejl-linux-thread-multi
MySQL Version: 5.0.51
Platform
kdf;277873 Wrote:
Is this the mysql bug again? Mysql versions 5.0.45 - 5.0.51?
-k
Ahh, I bet it is, I'm running 5.0.51. I'll change versions and see
what happens.
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