Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2008-12-25 Thread svtdoug
I have the same issue - playlist created in WMP - which is a .wpl file and looks like a complete XML file, when scanned into SqueezeControl shows up but is empty. Just purchase the SqueezeBox Duet and installed it. Everything works great, but a bit disappointing that it does not recognize my Pla

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2008-12-24 Thread tgoodman
Just wanted to log that I'm having the same issue as everyone else here in this thread relative to empty playlists created in Windows Media Player. Never a problem before upgrading. I'm uninstalling 7.1.3 and going back to 6-something. -- tgoodman -

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2008-04-27 Thread lugnutz
My Winamp-created m3u playlists worked great in 6.5.4 and previous versions, but now disappeared when I upgrade to 7.0. Dang! Now I'm wondering if going back to 6.5.4 will work again. lugz -- lugnutz lugnutz's Profile:

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2008-04-18 Thread OoerictoO
any solutions to this? i have the same issue in linux. of course the server sits in a root owned location, so moving playlists there is slightly annoying and may indeed be a security risk. it finds the playlist just fine. just thinks it's empty. i've tried the same things with absolute fi

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-12-01 Thread bpa
It's possible the scanner.exe program didn't pickup your pref files or your playlist path is wrong in the prefs file. I got a log although my playlist are not in the same directory as slimserver. Is your prefs file in a nonstandard location ? What is your playlist path set in the prefs file (sl

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-12-01 Thread vnvjeep
bpa;246412 Wrote: > This should produce a log of each playlist being parsed. Copy the > output for parsing the M3U file and attach to a post Wow... thanks BPA... That actually did help narrow down what the issue was. My Slimserver is sitting in C:\program files\slimserver\server. My Music is

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-12-01 Thread bpa
I setup a test Windows system with Winamp. I created test M3U playlists and was able to play them OK with Slimserver. My Winamp M3U file have similar format to your file. I looked at the code - it is coded to handle CR/LF issues and other possible file encoding. Also the code really ignores eve

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-11-30 Thread vnvjeep
bpa;246334 Wrote: > Could still be an issue > - if you look at the conf files used by Slimserver on Widows, they use > Linux format newlines. > > The easy way to check this is to attach some examples a working and non > working files and they can be examined at byte level. I welcome you to lo

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-11-30 Thread bpa
Could still be an issue - if you look at the conf files used by Slimserver on Widows, they use Linux format newlines. The easy way to check this is to attach some examples a working and non working files and they can be examined at byte level. -- bpa -

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-11-30 Thread vnvjeep
bpa;246225 Wrote: > You can try SC 7.0 beta now - it is very stable and close to release. > > Alternatively attach an example file to a post. > > If you have been editing the playlist on Windows but Slimserver runs > under Linux then it is likely you have added characters into the file > which

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-11-30 Thread bpa
You can try SC 7.0 beta now - it is very stable and close to release. Alternatively attach an example file to a post. If you have been editing the playlist on Windows but Slimserver runs under Linux then it is likely you have added characters into the file which may cause problems with Slimserve

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-11-30 Thread hirsp1
Hopefully, the next release will deal with it. Very odd bug, though. Annoying, too! -- hirsp1 hirsp1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2702 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthr

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-11-29 Thread vnvjeep
hirsp1;246118 Wrote: > > Any new suggestions? I've had this issue pending with Slim Support this entire time. I was recently informed that I might as well give up on it. This software is open source... things that are more important get dibs on getting fixed first. So issues like this basica

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-11-29 Thread hirsp1
I've got the same problem - Playlists show up in text editors, but are empty in Slimserver 6.5.4 on a linkstation with Freelink v1.11 installed. 1) I can create and save working playlists using the web GUI. 2) Old playlists, with correct paths do not work, but show up in text editors. 3) Cutti

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-11-20 Thread Marc Sherman
gregious wrote: > This started happening to me today as well. And it's happening with > playlists I actually created using slimserver that I've had for months. > All my playlists are empty. Hello slimsupport? Issue with the new > version? This isn't slimsupport. This is slimusercommunity. You need

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-11-19 Thread hez
Hello I am having these problems as well, it appears I can not save any playlists. When I got and look at the .m3u files created they are virtually empty. All they contain is --- #CURTRACK 0 #EXTM3U --- I turned on d_playlist and got the following errors when I

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-11-19 Thread gregious
This started happening to me today as well. And it's happening with playlists I actually created using slimserver that I've had for months. All my playlists are empty. Hello slimsupport? Issue with the new version? -- gregious

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-15 Thread vnvjeep
Siduhe... this is what I gathered from before after turning on that switch... I put up a test.m3u file with 5 songs contained within it... I'm not seeing any clues other than the fact that Slimserver doesn't seem to want to be able to read the .m3u file. :( scanPathOrURL: Finding valid files in

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-14 Thread Siduhe
vnvjeep, try switching on the d_playlists debugging flag (Server Settings/Debugging), and initiate a "playlists only" rescan. Does the log give any error messages or other clues about why the playlists are not being picked up. neu242, if you are using a recent version of Slimserver, I think you

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-14 Thread neu242
I am not able to get playlists with URLs to work, maybe it's related? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39081 Code: [playlist] NumberOfEntries=1 File1=mms://my.server.com/rod/test_071007_06.wma Length1=-1 File2=mms://my.server.com/rod/test_0710

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-14 Thread vnvjeep
Hi Siduhe, My D: drive is a local drive. I've tried relative paths and absolute ones... it didn't matter. The M3U that the SlimServer's GUI created used absolute paths, but it also used strange formatting which didn't seem to include carriage returns... the entire M3U wraps, which Winamp's or M

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-14 Thread Siduhe
vnvjeep, In my experience, Slimserver's handling of playlists on external drives or partitions can be patchy. What is "D:" - a networked drive / external drive or partition? As you've discovered, it won't accept relative paths, only absolute ones. What is the setting that you put in for Slimser

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-13 Thread vnvjeep
W00t... you guys are all starting to come out of the woodworks now... :) All my M3U's play just fine with Winamp as well... never had a problem with that, or Media Player... There's definitely some weird formatting going on that Slimserver doesn't like. It's GUI-created playlists definitely look

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-13 Thread SlimPvC
I have noticed this behaviour also. Would like to see this solved, because I have some very desirable partyplaylists (M3U format) covering quite a few years (and would not like to have these entered manually track by track). Strange thing is that SOMETIMES (maybe after complete reinstall??) the

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-12 Thread vnvjeep
Hey Killick... glad to finally see I'm not the only one... :(I have currently logged this issue with Slim tech support (issue# 070918-004080)... but as of 10/5/2007, they are still working/testing this issue. It sounds to me like this is a global bug that goes across platforms... Same thing,

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-07 Thread killick
Slimserver says my playlists are empty, but when I open the .m3u files with an editor, I can see that they are not. Strangely, this is only affecting some of my playlists, not all, and I can't see any differences among them. I'm using absolute paths in m3u lists on Ubuntu 7.04 and a SB2. SlimSer

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-09-22 Thread vnvjeep
Just bumping this back to the top... Does anyone else have a solution to getting these playlists to work right? I have tried 3 different methods now: 1 - Created a playlist in Winamp (relative and absolute paths) -- didn't work. 2 - Created a playlist in Windows Media Player (relative and absol

[slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-09-18 Thread vnvjeep
Hi there... I'm having trouble playing my .M3U playlists and will all say that the playlist is empty. It's starting to drive me nuts! :) I'm running Squeezebox and SlimServer 6.5.4 on Windows 2003. Here's detailed info: SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12568 - Windows Server 2003 - EN - cp1252 Per