Installed biography to plugins...renamed it to Biography.pm (why not?)
copied everything else overalso installed MHCPAN to the plugins to
fill in for the missing modules, as I am playing with this on a windows
200 box. I get no more errors on the console in regards to the
biography
Quoting Mark Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Installed biography to plugins...renamed it to Biography.pm (why not?)
copied everything else overalso installed MHCPAN to the plugins to
fill in for the missing modules, as I am playing with this on a windows
200 box. I get no more errors on the
Pat Farrell wrote:
The problem with open source is that the contributors want to
do the cool stuff, especially when it is pretty easy.
Redesigning the basic engine is hard, slow, and has zero sizzle
Well, most people would say the same thing about an operating system
kernel. Yet Linux routinely
Todd Larason wrote:
Another option would be to run a server which speaks iTunes' sharing
protocol. I haven't paid much attention to this space since doing the initial
work figuring out the protocol, so I'm not sure if any of the pre-packaged
servers would do quite what you want. The perl module
Quoting Mark Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
kdf wrote:
it will appear in the help section of the Fishbone skin (sucks, I know, but
that's the only remnant of the home.html.
--d_plugins will show any errors loading it on startup.
if its listed in server settings-plugins, it should have at
KDF,
I raised a bug for this yesterday because the iTunes scan is far from
improved.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093
My experience is that it's 60% slower on the initial scan and 420%
slower on rescans.
Sorry!
James
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Kim Rochat wrote:
I've been waiting for a wireless-G version of the Squeezebox on the
assumption that it would support PCM sampling rates greater than 48kHz,
but reading the specs for the SB2 says that the digital outputs only
support 44.1 and 48. Is this
This has come up before. Sorry, but I can't find it.
When listening to MP3's via S/PDIF, in the gap between tracks the processor
seems to 'loose' the signal and starts switching things until a couple of
seconds into the next track when it stabilizes and audio returns. This happens
between
The problem with open source is that the contributors want to do the cool
stuff, especially when it is pretty easy.
Redesigning the basic engine is hard, slow, and has zero sizzle
Well, most people would say the same thing about an operating system
kernel. Yet Linux routinely runs for months
Avi Schwartz said:
Jason Voegele wrote:
Couldn't you simply:
metaflac --set-tag='DISC=2' MyFlacFile.flac
You are right, I was confused by the fact that there is no way to edit a
tag in place, it needs to be removed and then added. But the syntax is
--set-vc-field. There is no
Hello,
I think your problem has something to do with your DAC (stand-alone or in amp).
I have used the coaxial output from the SB1 in combination with an
AV-receiver and it just worked well. I had to tweak a little bit with
the 'start delay' because the receiver did not catch the beginning of
the
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:44 AM
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Subject: Re: [slim] Slim Devices SB2 disappointment SB for sale.
Pat Farrell wrote:
The problem with open source
Hello. I've found that I need to use SlimServer's Bitrate Limiting
feature at 256 kbps, or my music won't play smoothly. I'd prefer not to
use this, since the audio is already compressed. Is my experience
typical, or is there something I could do to improve things?
According to the control
Craig, James (IT) wrote:
Mark,
I'm fairly sure this is because you renamed the plugin file.
It's all case sensitive and this has caused me no end of head scratching
in the past.
Yeah. This is why I should not be setting up software at 4:00AM. I
unzipped the plugin into its own directory in
[..]
not required, but you do avoid the undefined string warnings with the
latest.
you have to have the latest version of biography.zip (unzipped to get
biography.pm) of course
This must be Plugins/Biography/Plugin.pm ;-)
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Don't get me wrong - I am not here to bash or inflame. SB has a great
display, great software, a pretty good UI, and a healthy fanatical base, but
the hard truth is the case needs to evolve - someday. IMHO, it needs to
happen sooner rather than later. Perhaps the primary goal of Slim is to do
the
Jim McCall wrote:
Don't get me wrong - I am not here to bash or inflame. SB has a great
display, great software, a pretty good UI, and a healthy fanatical base, but
the hard truth is the case needs to evolve - someday. IMHO, it needs to
happen sooner rather than later. Perhaps the primary goal of
Danny Rego wrote:
Ummm...as does Windows XP (although the more geek-sided may refuse to
believe that)what's your point?
Slimserver is open source, so Linux is the closer analogue. Windows XP
is 1) proprietary and 2) owned by Microsoft, so it has its excuses for
being so unreliable.
Making
The overwhelming majority of users do not seem to have the problems you have
with the server crashing or grinding to a halt.
It sounds like it might be worth your time to try Slimserver on another
machine.
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Patrick Dixon wrote:
Phil, are you seriously saying that you can design a 'brick-wall'
reconstruction filter at the Nyquist rate (fs/2)?
With reasonably modern DSP techniques such as those employed in most
modern DACs, yes. It's not *totally* brick-wall because all such filters
are impossible,
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:37:29 -0800, Phil Karn wrote:
v5.4.1 runs beautifully on my Windows XP machine...so on a decent linux
machine, I would only imagine how smooth it would run.
I see various nightly versions of 5.4.x, but nothing officially labeled
5.4.1.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:54:25AM -0500, Mark Bassett wrote:
Installed biography to plugins...renamed it to Biography.pm (why not?)
I think you are suppose to put the entire plugin into the Plugins
directory.
I have mine symlinked:
$ ls -l Plugins/Biography
lrwxrwxrwx 1 moseley moseley 36
Christian Pernegger wrote:
Sorry if I missed something in this thread, but what's the down side
of ogg-pcm on the server? Bandwidth to the SB?
Yes. Raw PCM is just below 1400kbit while the ogg stream itself would be
much larger.
Don't you mean that the ogg stream would be much *smaller* than
I'd ditto that. My Slimserver runs flawlessly 24/7.
Patrick
Jason wrote:
The overwhelming majority of users do not seem to have the problems you have
with the server crashing or grinding to a halt.
It sounds like it might be worth your time to try Slimserver on another
machine.
Ummm...as does Windows XP (although the more geek-sided may refuse to
believe that)what's your point?
Slimserver is open source, so Linux is the closer analogue. Windows XP is
1) proprietary and 2) owned by Microsoft, so it has its excuses for being
so unreliable.
The phrase unreliable is
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:23:47AM +0100, Christian Pernegger wrote:
Sorry if I missed something in this thread, but what's the down side
of ogg-pcm on the server? Bandwidth to the SB?
Yes. Raw PCM is just below 1400kbit while the ogg stream itself would be
much larger.
By larger you mean
Maybe I should also mention that I run SuSE Linux 9.2..
Patrick Delamere wrote:
I'd ditto that. My Slimserver runs flawlessly 24/7.
Patrick
Jason wrote:
The overwhelming majority of users do not seem to have the problems you have
with the server crashing or grinding to a halt.
It
You'll probably get lots of responses on this one...but
I have to say that this thing is great looking on top of my TV.
Half the time, people don't even notice it's there, but when the do,
they always comment on if my clock is correct.
And it's easy to pick up and bring out to the deck for
You'll probably get lots of responses on this one...but
I have to say that this thing is great looking on top of my TV.
Half the time, people don't even notice it's there, but when the do,
they always comment on if my clock is correct.
I have an old Slimp3 with the Shelf Hanging facia in
Greetings All,
You'll probably get lots of responses on this one...but I have to say
that this thing is great looking on top of my TV.
Half the time, people don't even notice it's there, but when the do,
they always comment on if my clock is correct.
Personally, that is one of the great things I
I have read that a LinkStation can be hacked to host SlimServer. For any
that have done so, may I ask for some feedback on performance? The specs
on the Buffalo website indicate only 64MB RAM. My SlimServer currently
eats up about 55MB with 4K tracks. Is the LinkStation prone to pauses,
skips,
Quoting Bill VanderClock [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I know this has been talked about before but I don't understand what I
need to do to fix it. I am running the newest version of Slimserver
(6.0b1 not nightly) on a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Dell
PowerEdge 400SC (how's that for
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
You'll probably get lots of responses on this one...but
I have to say that this thing is great looking on top of my TV.
Half the time, people don't even notice it's there, but when the do,
they always comment on if my clock is correct. When I tell them
that not only am I
Yes. Raw PCM is just below 1400kbit while the ogg stream itself would be
much larger.
By larger you mean more bandwidth required? Why would ogg require
more bandwidth that raw PCM over the network?
I meant smaller, naturally. Sorry.
C.
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I have a squeezebox I and am running the new slimserver 6.0b1 software. I'm
having a problem with the Handheld skin/interface used on Internet Explorer via
a Dell Axim x30 (PocketPC). Basically the browser works (ie you can switch from
home to status to playlist, etc.), but when you click on one
I am having the same exact problem.
From: Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
Subject: [slim] Problems with PocketPC web interface/skin with SlimServer6.0b1?
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:30:57 + (UTC)
I have a
Michael Haan wrote:
Having just gotten my myth tv box running, and relocating my slimserver
(now 6.0 - thanks to those who helped) install to it, I'm ready to rip
and tag the CDs that have piled-up over the past two months and I'd
really like to use a command-line tool to do it. Does anyone
Just so there is some clarity on the subject, here is where I am
coming from completely.
snip
Your post is extremely informative and I'm sure Fedora users appreciate your
work. However, there is exactly one point about which I propose we just
agree to disagree:
Lossless streaming of ogg files
Exactly. Most users probably could not even tell if their Ogg library was
being sent as PCM. If they are on a lossy or low bandwidth network they can
always install LAME and stream their library as MP3.
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Michael Haan wrote:
Having just gotten my myth tv box running, and relocating my
slimserver (now 6.0 - thanks to those who helped) install to it, I'm
ready to rip and tag the CDs that have piled-up over the past two
months and I'd really like to use a command-line tool to do it. Does
anyone
Anyway to get wav streaming working on a windows client? I doubt there
is anything that will get winamp to work. Is there anything else. I
guess I could use the squeezebox emulator, but I really hate the idea of
running a MP3 client on top of a 50 meg java virtual machine. Nobody
has
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:10:49 -0500, Michael Haan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having just gotten my myth tv box running, and relocating my slimserver (now
6.0 - thanks to those who helped) install to it, I'm ready to rip and tag
the CDs that have piled-up over the past two months and I'd really
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:29:52 +0100, Christian Pernegger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just so there is some clarity on the subject, here is where I am
coming from completely.
snip
Your post is extremely informative and I'm sure Fedora users appreciate your
work. However, there is exactly one
Phil Nelson wrote
Aaron Zinck wrote:
dean blackketter wrote in message
If you don't mind the size, I just bought a Dell 420SC server with a
160GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM and 2.53Ghz Celeron for $229.
Remarkable deal and should have plenty of power for the job with your
favorite
To save others from pulling out their hair, I thought I would share
this in case you have a similar situation.
First of all, I have a pretty unusual setup:
Slimserver 6.0b1 running on a Linux box with a raid card. Two 250gb
hard drives in a raid0 mirror shared out to the network via samba
I'm not oppsed to additional work, especially if it reduces errors and can be somewhat scripted. So, your method adds a manual step for naming the files, otherwise using cdparanoia and flac? That's not so bad. I still need to look at jack and compare it to abcde and your method, but would you
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From: Mark Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: [slim] Wav streaming for windows?
Anyway to get wav streaming working on a windows client? I doubt
there is anything
So by streaming oggs as lossless, you use more resources and
do not gain anything.
If all your network/computer do is squeezebox - BFD.
But Linux users tend to have a lot more going on, and also
often tend to use older computers as headless boxes for
things like slimserver - where the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/05 2:34 PM
To save others from pulling out their hair, I thought I would
share this in case you have a similar situation.
First of all, I have a pretty unusual setup:
Slimserver 6.0b1 running on a Linux box with a raid card.
Two 250gb hard drives in a raid0 mirror
* Matt Nadler shaped the electrons to say...
I've checked server settings, (Home / Server Settings
/ Behavior) and its set to *not* include Composers,
Band etc. in Artist.
Matt - we've fixed this problem already. I'll be releasing a second beta
today at some point.
-D
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They're techno trousers,
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:30:57 + (UTC), Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a squeezebox I and am running the new slimserver 6.0b1 software.
I'm
having a problem with the Handheld skin/interface used on Internet
Explorer via
a Dell Axim x30 (PocketPC). Basically the browser works (ie
You don't get better audio quality by streaming an ogg file as lossless.
I do not know if all possible ogg decoders necessarily produce identical
output
It's a waste of resources.
It does take more CPU usage - as it has to be decoded (and maybe flac
encoded)
It does take more bandwidth on your
All,
We've added 4 more radio stations to Slim Devices' Pick:
* KDFC 102.1 - the top rated classical radio station in the US
* 95.7 The Bear - San Francisco's new country music station
* KOIT 96.5 - top rated adult music station in San Francisco
* Twang City - Alt. country internet-only station
I have submitted an enhancement request (BUG 1061). I also agree with the other
poster that it is a waste of resources. SLIMDEVICES is hoping that the extra
buffer and the bandwidth compression of FLAC will be a reasonable stopgap
measure. It definitely will be an improvement over WAV and SB1,
JJ wrote:
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: [slim] Wav streaming for windows?
Anyway to get wav streaming working on a windows client? I doubt
there is
Hi Ben.
Actually... the new versions of AlienBBC are fairly modular already -
what we effectively have is some 'player' modules (which take care of
dealing with RTSP streams), and effectively an overall plugin, which
invokes modular parsers to read in data, and populate the menu structures.
After making my own high quality case, the reason is simply cost...
http://207.115.86.156/slimp3/g2/index.htm
As volume grows, options will likely change... you've already seen
this via price drops over the years.
J
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:18:52 -0800, Jim McCall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't
I have problem when I tried to start Shoutcast SB
lost connection
.
This is what I got from the log.
2005-03-16 22:08:23.2031 Trying to open protocol stream for http://update.slimdevices.com/update/picks.pls2005-03-16 22:08:23.2532 Looking for handler for protocol http2005-03-16
Heh...have I got a silly solution for you.
I had the same issue for a while, so what I did was install
a webcam, pointed it to my slimp3, then injected that coax
signal onto my internal cable tv network at channel 68 or
something, then I could turn my TV to 68 and send my
slimp3 IR commands
If you increase the size of the text it is enormous and can easily be seen
even 20 feet away. Many users have requested some basic hard buttons on the
unit for things like the arrow keys (browsing) power, volume, mute.
Hopefully some of those things will make it into a product eventually.
I was
thinking it would be nice if the display was a separate unit from the
audio output part.
Me, I'm always lobbying for a display that's physically much bugger
(say, by a factor of two in height) so I _can_ see it across the
room. Although, if you use the biggest text it is manageable now.
It may be already covered in bug
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046 but in case it is
different, the 3-16 nightly 6.x build offers a standard font for my sb1
but the font comes out completely weired.
Avi
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Quoting Avi Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It may be already covered in bug
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046 but in case it is
different, the 3-16 nightly 6.x build offers a standard font for my sb1
but the font comes out completely weired.
That would indeed be the bug in
Jules,
Thanks for your detailed reply (and thanks, in advance of my actually
getting it up and running, for AlienBBC. I suspect that there might be a
real shift in perception going on with the Squeezebox: from a device for
playing one's own music collection - which is great in itself - to being
Dave wrote:
Hi All,
Ive just setup my new slimserver box running Mandrake 10.1 with the
new Seagate 400Gb Barracuda HDD.
Im about to re-archive my CD collection and now that Ive got space
to burn Im considering using a lossless format of some description
so as to repoducce the sweetest possible
- Original Message -
From: Mark Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [slim] Wav streaming for windows?
Headless slimserver --- windows clients all over the house. A few have
small
A better man than I! Running SlimServer from CMD line gets as far as the
Yahoo! News Business, http://rss/ and then hangs. However running
within Win I get Alien on the web page and in the Internet radio menu but
all Slim menu selections lead to No items being displayed. Win XP 0.94.
Any
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:54:59 -0800, Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On my 2Hz athlon machine -
That should read 2GHz ;)
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* Free Lunch shaped the electrons to say...
Seeing 6.0 linked off the main page, I expected great things and gave it a try.
The linked version would not run on my gentoo system due to perl
issues. The latest nightly, v2005-03-16 (6.0b1), did.
Performance was unexpectedly much worse than 5.4.1 on
Many users have requested some basic hard buttons on the unit for
things like the arrow keys (browsing) power, volume, mute.
Or buy an extra remote and glue it in place?
Is there geekport documentation so that I could, perhaps, stuff the SB
internals in an old CD component case, and map
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:06:46 +0100, Christian Pernegger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you sure you're cpu bound and not disk bound? The 2.4 disk elevator is a
nightmare and the 2.6 default is not perfect either.
It also happens with my flac files which are on a separate dedicated
hard disk
http://lists.slimdevices.com/archives/discuss/2004-January/024041.html
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:50 -0800, Dave Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many users have requested some basic hard buttons on the unit for
things like the arrow keys (browsing) power, volume, mute.
Or buy an extra
We already got a Free Pony so I think a KNOB is not gonna happen. But feel
free to post an enhancement request.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Klaas
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:25 PM
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Subject:
I have a SB which is driven by slimserver. So I'm not sure if SLIMP3
also is based on slimserver. But if it is, you can use the following
guide.
The basic file to save is .slimserver.pref. I'm not sure where that
lives on a Mac installation, you should search for it if you don't
know.
Once
I can consistently crash slimserver 6.x 3-16 when I click on one
specific album to get more details about it or if I try to play it. My
guess is that something in the tags breaks slimserver. It was ripped as
flac.
What debug flags should I turn on to help in figuring this out?
Avi
* Avi Schwartz shaped the electrons to say...
I can consistently crash slimserver 6.x 3-16 when I click on one
specific album to get more details about it or if I try to play it. My
guess is that something in the tags breaks slimserver. It was ripped as
flac.
What debug flags should I turn
Is there a UPnP plugin that will allow Slimserver 6 and thus SB2 to be run from
the jRiver Media Center?
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Dan Sully wrote:
* Avi Schwartz shaped the electrons to say...
I can consistently crash slimserver 6.x 3-16 when I click on one
specific album to get more details about it or if I try to play it.
My guess is that something in the tags breaks slimserver. It was
ripped as flac.
What debug
Robin Bowes wrote:
Marc Sherman wrote:
If it's AAC, it has to be transcoded. Without bitrate limiting, it
will be transcoded (well, decoded) to PCM, which is pretty much
guaranteed to get dropouts with a wireless SB1, regardless of the
signal strength.
sigh No it isn't. Many have reported
Of course you can plug in a monitor... the reason Dell says it isn't
to be used as a workstation is just that they don't support it as a
workstation. It is built for Windows Server 2003 and the driver discs
included are for Win2k3. If you tried to put XP on it, you'd have to
manually install each
A few weeks back, I came across a Roku Soundbridge M1000 for a good
price at Best Buy. I then ordered a wired Squeezebox1 for comparison.
From various reviews and things I've read, I was really expecting to
prefer the Squeezebox, but that hasn't been the case...
My setup is an 800 Mhz G4 Mac
My opinion -- return them both and wait for a SB2. If SB2 doesn't
work for you can return it and go for the Roku since it seems to work
better for you than SB1.
Before you do that though, try the recent nightlies for slimserver 6.0
(beta 2 if it's out by then) -- they've improved dramatically
Debian Sid SB1 owner. Yet another best way to rip question.
I normally use grip to rip to ogg. But listening to people here makes
me think I should go out and get a few honkin' drives, a dvd burner,
and rip to flac. I already have a number of title ripped to flac, but
mostly ogg and some mp3.
Maybe the long-term solution would be to implement an USB host port on
the SB and then plug a Griffin PowerMate
(http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/index.php) in...
Being able to plug in USB HID (Human Input Devices) into the SB would be
rather interesting, actually. :-)
Ben
On 03/16/2005 09:53 AM, Michael Sigalos wrote:
I have read that a LinkStation can be hacked to host SlimServer. For any
that have done so, may I ask for some feedback on performance? The specs
on the Buffalo website indicate only 64MB RAM. My SlimServer currently
eats up about 55MB with 4K
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