i want to thank you again for your other post in the other thread.
erland;299582 Wrote:
The current cost of SqueezeCenter is zero as far as I know, so it can't
get much cheaper, but I suppose you are talking about the whole system
including the SqueezeBox hardware.
actually, that works
pippin;298814 Wrote:
Do you plan to encrypt something with the titles in your playlist?
Otherwise even rand() should be good enough for shuffling.
It's not the sorted order of an individual playlist that is the
problem; I totally agree that rand() is good enough for that.
What I really
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
I filed a bug on this issue:
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In the old Fishbone skin, the ability to remove everything by a
particular artist (or a whole album) from the Now Playing list in one
click was very useful.
is it possible to do this from the remote somehow? Anyone want to write a
plugin maybe?
Why don't you use Fishbone to remove artists that
grrman;299383 Wrote:
Anyone tried Meridian DSP5200's? I've been considering these and there
are few dealers in my area to listen to them.
Highly recommended, I nearly bought a pair myself.
Ask questions on the board below if need further information.
erland;297545 Wrote:
Are there any rules regarding donation links in pages related to third
party plugins ?
Am I allowed to have a donation link like I have in the following page
for the Dynamic Playlist plugin ?
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/DynamicPlayList#Bugs_and_new_features
erland;297571 Wrote:
Does anyone have a suggestion for a naming strategy of pages that is
related to setting up a configuration with various third party plugins
?
Maybe the actual page name doesn't matter and we should just put them
in a specific category instead ? In that case, any
Nice one, thanks. I quite like the clock.
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I built a new SqueezeCenter 7.0.0 server, running on Windows 2003 SP2
platform.
I configured it purely to import my iTunes library, not look in any
additional music folders.
Now the import is complete, I see some music missing. For example all
of my music by ZZ Top is missing...I'm sure there
I think there are a few other areas where attachments were useful. If
there was an Slimdevices ftp site where registered users could save
small text files (and possibly make directorties) and put the URL link
in a page - then the problem would go away.
I think in the Plugin development guide
I have had Squeezeboxes since the original sweat shop Slimp3. Although
I am a techie, there is nothing worse than something 'half-working',
i.e. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Over the years I have
had various versions of Slim/Squeezeserver on my server, not all have
been stable.
denmennis;299331 Wrote:
I am now able to stream uncompressed files without interruption, stutter
and so far without interference. (I haven't tried while the washing
machine or dishwasher are on yet). I was skeptical about the whole
thing but when I turned the music on, I was absolutely
Well, I've had a look at that Wiki as well and I still see the
'Many-to-Many' tables in there. The problem with these is that they
have to be created and maintained, which takes time and slows down the
scanning process. Also, when they are being read, they are very
inefficient as they will be
Ben,
Check to see whether they are in a various artists category, there is a
lot of talk in other threads about the VA scanning and categorising
methodology in use.
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Am I hitting an upper limit on the amount of data that can be imported?
There's no upper limit in SC. Limiting your music is a concept you know
from other products :-).
Have I found a bug?
Probably. But if it's a bug, then it very likely has already been fixed in
7.0.1. Please give the
lanierb;299525 Wrote:
I totally agree... except for the part about 7.0 being a step backward.
I LOVE native Pandora/Rhapsody support :-), and I have had zero problems
with 7.0 despite running 4 squeezeboxes in distant parts of the house.
BTW the increased forum traffic may just be due to a
MuckleEck;299628 Wrote:
Ben,
Check to see whether they are in a various artists category, there is a
lot of talk in other threads about the VA scanning and categorising
methodology in use.
I should have said I already checked that. I looked under various
artists, not there. (I have no
Another easy check to make is to look for the music another way - not by
ZZ Top, but by album name or song title. This will rule out the
possibility that there's a problem with the reading of the artist tag
of those files (or a stray artist sort tag), and confirm that the music
is indeed missing
Siduhe;299641 Wrote:
Another easy check to make is to look for the music another way - not by
ZZ Top, but by album name or song title. This will rule out the
possibility that there's a problem with the reading of the artist tag
of those files (or a stray artist sort tag), and confirm that
How is the music stored (in terms of folder structure)? Are all the
songs in one single folder?
I had a similar problem with two albums called Control (Joy Division
and Plastikman from memory) and Slimserver (as was) insisting on
merging them into a single album. There is specific logic to
This bug has been duscussed before. Try a newer version of
Squeezecenter. All products have a couple of bugs when they are
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Siduhe;299647 Wrote:
How is the music stored (in terms of folder structure)? Are all the
songs in one single folder?
I had a similar problem with two albums called Closer (Joy Division
and Plastikman from memory) and Slimserver (as was) insisting on
merging them into a single album.
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
That's the same problem I ran into a while back. It has been solved
AFAIK in 7.0.1.
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I've been using my old PC to run SlimServer. It has a 250 gig internal
drive for storing the music and I have an external 250 gig drive for
back-up.
Recently, I installed SlimCenter on my 'main' PC to try it out and
connected the external drive to play the music. I can't honestly say
that the
Siduhe;299641 Wrote:
Another easy check to make is to look for the music another way - not by
ZZ Top, but by album name or song title. This will rule out the
possibility that there's a problem with the reading of the artist tag
of those files (or a stray artist sort tag), and confirm that
Searched the forums for an answer to this but couldn't find it.
Has anyone found a suitable screen protector for the Duet controller?
Or do I buy a larger one and cut it to size?
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Audio 640R -
Siduhe;299663 Wrote:
That's the same problem I ran into a while back. It has been solved
AFAIK in 7.0.1.
You may be able to resolve the issue without upgrading by removing the
DISCNUMBER tag entirely from the files. DISCNUMBER=1/1 or similar
appeared to be a significant cause of this
A quick review of the earlier thread suggests this problem is limited to
DISCNUMBER=1/1, because it makes SC think that there is only one album
with this name. People agreed that logic needed to be dealt with so
that the different ARTIST or ALBUMARTIST values were given priority.
Any particular
No. Files were not copy protected and the DRM copy protection was
switched off.
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I'm in for a controller if anyone wants the SBR portion of a Duet. PM
me and we can split the net cost savings.
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Siduhe;299670 Wrote:
A quick review of the earlier thread suggests this problem is limited to
DISCNUMBER=1/1, because it makes SC think that there is only one album
with this name. People agreed that logic needed to be dealt with so
that the different ARTIST or ALBUMARTIST values were given
JimC;299610 Wrote:
We're working on a fix for that... give us another day or two and we
should have the WikiRadio pages up and running. Not sure about how
we'll handle InfoBrowser yet...
-= JimExcellent news re WikiRadio! Will the existing opml files be migrated
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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 really can't see what everyone's problems are with compilation tags.
It's quite simple. SqueezeCenter applies good sensible logic for
determining compilation albums, if the user hasn't set up their own
compilation tags. This is better than all other apps, that don't
auto-calculate, and
I'm trying to understand the sync process and how it work.
I see options in the SqueezeCenter settings that allow me to configure
how far my playback is allowed to get out of sync before it attempts a
re-sync and how often it should do this. I get this part.
When 2 or more players are synced,
This is a good thread on the work that was done to Synch to improve it
for SC7 and the issues addressed.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34535
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BEn,
Are you trying to sync two Squeezeboxes/receivers or are you using
softsqueeze as well?
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MuckleEck;299710 Wrote:
BEn,
Are you trying to sync two Squeezeboxes/receivers or are you using
softsqueeze as well?
I've been trying with softsqueeze too.
I know if i start 2 CD players at the same time they will stay in sync
until the end of the track and they aren't even linked.. I'm
Softsqueeze is hit or miss, there are many layers between the hardware
and the player that can introduce delay. With hardware players it
should be perfect, except for WMA radio stations.
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andyg;299716 Wrote:
Softsqueeze is hit or miss, there are many layers between the hardware
and the player that can introduce delay. With hardware players it
should be perfect, except for WMA radio stations.
It should be perfect or it is perfect?
If it is perfect, why do I have resync
andyg;299717 Wrote:
Sync drift happens because the clocks in different players tick at very
slightly different rates. You'll only drift after many minutes, this
is why long-running radio stations always got out of sync before 7.0.
So does that mean that one player will play faster than the
It should be perfect with the default settings. Those settings are for
tweaking in case you have something like a DAC that introduces extra
delay, or for tweaking delay to get a Softsqueeze player to sync
properly.
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A few months ago I changed my slimserver from my QNAP-101 to my MAC
MINI. Everything worked well and was a lot faster.
I was able to play all my music which was still stored on the QNAP Nas
as SlimServer 6.5 on the MAC immediately saw
TwonkyMedia server running and I could browse to my music
RonM;299393 Wrote:
Not sure why a ripping device on a server is an advantage -- if I'm
using another computer on the network with this capacity, I'd be
inclined to just rip on that computer, but rip it to a drive on the
server.r.
Just for convenience of having it all in one place. I
Hi,
I just got SB Duet and have a question. Is there any volume limitation
on the output (phono out) on this device?
Compared to other sources (radio, cd) on my stereo the Duet has very
low volume, and I have to increase to max on the controller to get
anywhere close the the level from other
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On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:56 AM, shlea
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I just got SB Duet and have a question. Is there any volume limitation
on the output (phono out) on this device?
Compared to other sources (radio, cd) on my stereo the Duet has very
low volume, and I have to increase to max on
MrSinatra;299573 Wrote:
you certainly don't benefit from the VA logic. in fact, you have to set
a tag to defeat it.
so why would you want it?
I said I used the explicit compilation tag for about 6 albums out of
300. That means the VA guessing algorithm has a 98% success rate. It
saved
Just got a response from Logitech UK to my progress message today that
the Duet is out of stock, although I ordered the item (presumably in
stock) on 29 Apr and order acknowledged on 2 May.
They cannot give me any idea when they will get new stock at the
moment.
Disappointed with c**p customer
Thanks.
I did not express myself clear. I don't use a phono input. What I meant
is that I use the line/phono/audio OUTput from SB, as opposite to the
digital output.
I have it connected to a tape input.
I'll check replay gain settings.
Is it an idea to adjust the general volume level on the
I used my daughter's recently discarded 2.5GHz P4 to set up a dedicated
server to run SC, DNS (Bind), support file backups, and serve photos,
etc. Bought two 1TB drives and a SATA controller card, and am running
the drives in RAID1 using Linux software RAID. Machine runs SSH and
Samba for file
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I ordered my Duet on the 28th and I received a shipping notification
yesterday afternoon from Logitech (7th May). However UPS are still not
listing it as physically shipped .. 24h later and simply says billing
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On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:37 AM, shlea
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Is it an idea to adjust the general volume level on the mp3 files or is
this not advised to do? Will that cause distortion?
You can certainly do that and the source volume certainly will impact the
volume of sound output from
Philip Meyer;299687 Wrote:
I really can't see what everyone's problems are with compilation tags.
It's quite simple. SqueezeCenter applies good sensible logic for
determining compilation albums, if the user hasn't set up their own
compilation tags. This is better than all other apps, that
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These have become more frequent in the last 2-3 months. Not enough to
really
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larrettp;299626 Wrote:
Well, I've had a look at that Wiki as well and I still see the
'Many-to-Many' tables in there. The problem with these is that they
have to be created and maintained, which takes time and slows down the
scanning process. Also, when they are being read, they are very
No, that's not what I'm saying.
Basically, without access to the full database column definitions, I'm
proposing this:
Instead of the many=to-many tables (ALWAYS something to send shivers
down a DBAs spine!), put Indexes on the columns used in the SQL and
rewrite the statements. The resulting
MrSinatra;299585 Wrote:
but you need a second step. you need to have something to replace it
thats better (although also optional). specifically, my VA terms
suggestion.
I'm sure the VA terms suggestion is described somewhere, but
unfortunately I don't have the time to find it at the
jaffacake;299720 Wrote:
So does that mean that one player will play faster than the other and be
slightly different from the original source?
Would the clock be more accurate in, for example, Transporter hardware
where owners might expect a more accurate reproduction of the source?
The
Philip Meyer;299687 Wrote:
I really can't see what everyone's problems are with compilation tags.
Neither do I and I don't think everyone really is that many users. I
still suspects the current automatic VA logic or setting the
compilation tags works good enough for most users.
Philip
It might be my knowledge that isn't deep enough regarding this, but I
really can't understand what you mean.
The many to many tables contains information that isn't available
anywhere else in the database, so they can't just be removed without
moving the information anywhere else.
I will give
bpa;299619 Wrote:
I think there are a few other areas where attachments were useful. If
there was an Slimdevices ftp site where registered users could save
small text files (and possibly make directorties) and put the URL link
in a page - then the problem would go away.
Isn't it
Hey all,
You'll all be happy to hear that we're now shipping both the Squeezebox
Receiver and Controller to all countries served by the Slimdevices.com
ecom store.
Logitech will follow on soon with the rest of the world.
Get em while they're hot!
'Squeezebox Controller'
Isn't it possible to use the Upload file feature in the left menu, or
am I missing something ?
I thought there was an earlier discussion that attachments couldn't be
added and I assume (possibly mistakenly because of the help text) the
Upload was limited to images and media and some
aubuti;299780 Wrote:
With you 100% on this Phil. After reading this thread I went back and
checked my tags, because my VA works and I couldn't remember whether or
not I had set compilation tags. Turns out I hadn't. And it all Just
Works(tm).
So to get back to the question in the OP, I'd
Just bought a used SB3 and the front screen is scratched to buggery, is
it possible to replace the plastic window? And perhaps with glass
(scratch free)
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as far as i know, what folder its in or what the folder is called
doesn't matter at all. i don't think SC7 uses folder names in any way
to decide if an album is VA or not. i could very well be 100% wrong on
this, (not the first time) but as i write this, i don't think i am.
I believe there are
Hi all,
I know there are probably definitive answers in the forum somewhere,
but I can't find them!
I'd like to connect a non-wireless device to the network using an SBR
(or an SB3) as a bridge. So two questions:
- Do I need a crossover ethernet cable, or will a normal cable do the
job? I
badbob wrote:
Just bought a used SB3 and the front screen is scratched to buggery, is
it possible to replace the plastic window? And perhaps with glass
(scratch free)
Is it possible? how handy are you? On a SB3, class is possible, I would
not want something breakable on something you handle,
seanadams,
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate the time you've spent on this reply.
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its interesting to me that phil, cat, and erland (and otehrs) all don't
really see the point of this, while at the same time they all use comp
tags, (or ALBUMARTIST tags).
i think it explains a lot.
i don't expect people who use comp tags to be advocating for what i am
advocating, but by the
mflint;299834 Wrote:
Do I need a crossover ethernet cable, or will a normal cable do the
job? I thought I'd read that the SBR is auto-sensing (so a crossover
isn't needed)
If you use a non-crossover at least one of the devices (either end)
must be autosensing. The SBR is, the SB3 is not.
1) The logic that determines whether or not an album is a compilation, and
2) The logic that determines how compilations should be displayed in the
interface.
In my opinion, the logic for #1 is PERFECT...and I don't use that word
lightly because I'm very particular about how I tag my collection.
MrSinatra;299825 Wrote:
Aubuti,
out of curiousity, please answer the following:
what format are your files?
and do you have the ALBUMARTIST field populated in SC7?
b/c if so, it would over-ride the VA logic, and therefore the VA logic
would NOT be necessary for you.
They're about
CatBus;299758 Wrote:
Let's see...you ask me a direct question. I answer that question in a
direct manner. You then ask how my direct answer to your direct
question is germane. Interesting debate tactic.
i'm gonna try again...
first, you had to defeat the choices it made 6 times. now, i
thx for taking the time to answer my Q.
aubuti;299850 Wrote:
They're about 95% FLAC and 5% MP3, and I don't have any ALBUMARTIST
tags. I have yet to see much use (for me) in the ALBUMARTIST tag,
although I do have ARTISTSORT (lastname, firstname where relevant) and
have recently added
For who lives in Europe, I suggest to order online from Pixmania. It's
present in quite all Europe with a bit less price and cheaper shipping
costs than official Logitech Site. I buy my Duet here in Italy before
was available from Logitech itself.
Ciao, Riccardo
P.S.: Not at the US prices :-(
tell me, why should a billy joel box set CD that has ray charles guest
on one track (and thus is marked as such on TPE1) be called a VA album
by SC7?
And exactly how do you enter guest performers in your TPE1 tag? There is no
defined allowance for having guest performers in TPE1, due to the
MrSinatra;299855 Wrote:
ok, but its the same thing. SORT tags will override the VA logic just
like ALBUMARTIST will. (so VA logic is not necessary for you)
I don't think so. VA worked fine before I added the ALBUMSORT tags, and
I don't see how ARTISTSORT would override VA logic.
radish;299845 Wrote:
If you use a non-crossover at least one of the devices (either end) must
be autosensing. The SBR is, the SB3 is not.
No easier way AFAIK. It works very well on an SB3, never tried on an
SBR.
That's great - Cheers, Mr Radish. I can confirm that the SBR *can*
bridge
I think the issue MrSinatra and some other users are seeing, is that
COMPILATION needs to be set to 0, not 1. I've set the COMPILATION tag
to 1 for all my VA albums, but I haven't set it to 0 for all the rest.
Still, it's really simple to set it to 0 for all the other albums, in
any of the tagging
pfarrell;299837 Wrote:
Is it possible? how handy are you? On a SB3, class is possible, I would
not want something breakable on something you handle, like a
Controller
Glass on the controller shouldn't be a huge deal. They use glass on
the iPhone, although I don't know exactly what kind.
eh? Just replacement window on the Squeezebox 3 itself.
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OK, you have now shown me a little more about the database structure
which I wasnt aware of but it doesnt mean all is lost. It does mean a
bit more work on the existing system but the benefits could solve many
problems. Taking your example, lets remove the genre_track and
contributor_track
By the way, I followed the link in your signature and I want to try out
some of your plugins. They look as though they might be interesting -
especially with regard to this problem.
I'll let you know how I get on.
Cheers, it's nice to be having a conversation with someone who
understands what
I must be a bigger nerd than I think I am. Never considered myself a
techie, but I've got two SB3's and the Duet combo and although things
have been a little fiddly from time to time, it mostly Just Works. I
did have a problem for awhile with the SBC connection dropping whenever
I put the unit
I am seeing signal strength down to 28%. The high is never more than
56%. I do much better with my laptop which I understand is probably a
matter of the antenna size and position.
I have seen on the forums different methods of trying to improve the
antenna within the SB device. None of them,
I am seeing signal strength down to 28% on my Duet. The high is never
more than 56%. I do much better with my laptop which I understand is
probably a matter of the antenna size and position.
I have seen on the forums different methods to improve the antenna
within the SB device. None of them,
Philip Meyer;299869... Wrote:
But it shouldn't be necessary to set COMPILATION=0 in most cases. I
think that's because there are guest performers and no album artist has
been set. So setting an album artist (or allowing an option for TPE2 to
be regarded as Album Artist), would fix that
FWIW Both PS3 and Xbox 360 work just fine connected to a SB3 with a
standard (i.e non crossover) RJ45 cable.
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kmr;299592 Wrote:
It's not the sorted order of an individual playlist that is the problem;
I totally agree that rand() is good enough for that.
What I really dislike is correlation in the successive random number
sequences. For example, I like to use shuffle songs on my late 2004
4th gen
Couple of things - firstly you can't compare signal strength readings
from one device to another, it's meaningless. So your laptop may or may
not actually be getting a better signal than the SBR.
Personally I doubt the airport express will get a better signal than
the SBR, but it's possible. If
I've got 3 Squeezeboxes around the house and I'm looking for the best
way to setup the same custom menu structure for each?
It's nothing complex but I like to remove the menus I don't use and
just have the ones I use all the time, i.e. Album, Artist AlienBBC at
the root level.
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