Re: [slim] Unable to run slimserver 6.0.0 on linux as user other thanroot

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:36:40 +0100, Patrick Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this with FC3 and filed it as bug 1085. I ran the RPM installation as 'root' and so it created the slimserver.db and slimserversql.db files in /root/ and the cachedir at /root/usr/local/slimserver/.. Hmm... the

[slim] 6.0.0 crashing during scan under linux

Mandrake 9.1 Perl 5.8 Slimserver 6.0.0 installed via RPM Music Library is about 15,000 files. End of log is below but I only have 'scan' and 'os' flags turned on. Any suggestions on others that may give better debugging? Should I be looking at my tags for a cause or filenames? Nothing looks odd

RE: [slim] Unable to run slimserver 6.0.0 on linux as user otherthanroot

I guess you ran it the very first time as user root which created the wrong paths. Ahh - right, that would be it then! I will wipe the whole lot and install a clean copy of released 6.0. Wouldn't it be better if it created all the caches as if user 'slimserver' as part of the install? Then

Re: [slim] Slimsever stops playing randomly

I'm getting a lot of this too. On the 26th Nightlies... -- Neil Patrick Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm running XP, SlimServer Version: 6.0b3 - 2609, Softsqueeze 2.0a16 I'm now starting slimserver using perl -w slimserver.pl and I'm finding that

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

I can't even get 6.0.0 to load and run. Should it work OK installed over many previous 6beta nightlies? -- Neil Dan Sully [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We're happy to announce the release of the production version of SlimServer 6.0.0. Installers for this

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

OK; it did eventually, after three re-installs and me waiting for 10 mins instead of 20 seconds - weird... -- Neil Neil Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't even get 6.0.0 to load and run. Should it work OK installed over many previous 6beta nightlies?

[slim] 6.0.0 Browse Artwork Issues

I have wiped cache and started again; but there are a lot of occasions where it has not picked up the artwork, or simply has the wrong artwork, or shows no songs when I press the cover... -- Neil ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Missing Files On ReScan v6

Hi Everyone, Ive just installed the v6 release over the top of one of the 21/03/2005 nightly. Both in the nightly and the new release, slim server is not picking up all of my music tracks on a re scan. Can anyone give me some ideas on what to do to try and get it working? Regards

Re: [slim] Missing Files On ReScan v6

Snap. Further investigation of my Browse Artwork issues (see thread below) reveals that some tracks are missing on a rescan even if the artwork is correct. I assume that deleting the cache folder contents does no more than a Wipe Cache command? -- Neil Mark Gillespie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[slim] Feature Request: Completely random play

Hi, I find myself playing the same albums/tracks most of the time and would like to just tell slimserver to pick me a random list. I know moodlogic does this but you have to pay to activate tracks with moodlogic and there are still lots of tracks that aren't moodlogic aware. I would like to be

Re: [slim] Missing Files On ReScan v6

On my system the effect appears to be random; i.e. it happens to different albums each time, so would not appear to be dependent on characters... -- Neil Steven Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You're not the only one, I've been having this trouble all through

[slim] Slimserver v6 crash

Just installed v6, and I find a repeatable crash when trying to access player settings for a remote streaming client. Anyone else seen this? Chris ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] mplayer

You need to use the -playlist option if you are going to play an rpm file. Neil Daniel Cohen wrote: I've just upgraded to 6.0. No comments as yet. AlienBBC installs but doesn't play anything. I have traced the problem to mplayer, which doesn't seem to work. That is, I've tried running

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

Slimserver 6 is working ok for me, not that I have given it much of a workout. I do have the problem someone else reported with the Shoutcast station. They don't play and attempting to play them just stops the Slimserver. Other radio choices (I haven't tried 365) do work. But softsqueeze

Re: [slim] Unable to run slimserver 6.0.0 on linux as user other than root

Hi Michael, I'm running slimserver on a Buffalo Linkstation. I downloaded the complete .tar.gz archive and expanded it in /usr/local/slimserver directory so I did not use any rpm. My call script uses --daemon and --user slimserver etc... (I created that user with its home directory at

Re: [slim] Missing Files On ReScan v6

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:07:07 +0100, Mark Gillespie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok.. I have just wiped the cache and my missing albums/tracks have appeared. Track count is now 8340 but windows is showing 8362 files if I do a properties my root music folder. I guess there could be some rogue none

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

I have to report the same problem with SoftSqueeze. I have tried 6.0.0 and the 29-05-05 nightlies - on both occasions reinstalling SoftSqueeze. Then I completely unistalled SlimServer and reinstalled 6.0.0 and 29-05-5 (and SoftSqueeze) again. I stil have a totally unresponsive SoftSqueeze.

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

Running on Win XP with SlimServer running as a service. Trying to play MP3 files. I activated those debug settinsg but get no response from any SoftSqueeze button and nothing in the console at all. If it is of interest; the icon calls itself SoftSqueeze 2.0b2, but the player describes itself as

Re: [slim] Please hide email addresses in archives

That's why I use my GMail acct for this list. BTW I have 50 invites in anybody wants one. On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:06:31 -0500, Thomas B. Malsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have to agree that the archives were recently harvested. I began receiving spam at my slim only account a few

Re: [slim] Minor 6.0 problems

Andrew wrote: I'm still seeing this problem with the official 6.0 release, although I did post repeatable steps. Did it get lost in the noise? Should I repost? Did you file a bug in bugzilla? That's how bugs are tracked. - Marc ___ Discuss mailing

Re: [slim] Slimserver v6 crash

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:46:09 +0100, Chris Brooking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just installed v6, and I find a repeatable crash when trying to access player settings for a remote streaming client. Anyone else seen this? Chris, I'm sure the slimdevices would appreciate it if you filed a bug at

RE: [slim] OT?? Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging, issues

I ripped my approx. 1600CD collection to WAVs using EAC, in which you can define file naming formats. The directory structure I used was \artist\album\filename. For filename, after some experimentation, I used [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@genre. EAC allows you to set up a various

Re: [slim] Missing Files On ReScan v6

I tried disabling the use itunes option and pointed the music folder to the itunes folder and did a rescan. Unfortunately I am still getting the same problem I have posted a bug no 1226. Steven Moore On 29 Mar 2005, at 12:55 pm, Steven Moore wrote: Yes, you are right. I am getting a different

Re: [slim] Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging, issues

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 12:59 +0100, Natan Nicki Tiefenbrun wrote: I played with MusicMatch, adding some tags (2.3 I think) to the WAV files, but this seemed to confuse Slimserver (I guess WAVs Tags dont mix)? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Last time I looked into the details of this,

Re: SV: [slim] No Shoutcast with SlimServer 6.0

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:02:01 +0200, Tore Johnsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. It worked But it is odd. In 5.4.1 there were no problems with the default setting for timeout. Hmm... I'd say it was introduced with 6.0 :-/ Kind Regards Tore -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från:

[slim] Re: 6.0.0 crashing during scan under linux

* Jess Askey shaped the electrons to say... Mandrake 9.1 Perl 5.8 Slimserver 6.0.0 installed via RPM Music Library is about 15,000 files. End of log is below but I only have 'scan' and 'os' flags turned on. Any suggestions on others that may give better debugging? Should I be looking at my tags

[slim] Re: Slimsever stops playing randomly

* Neil Cameron shaped the electrons to say... I'm getting a lot of this too. On the 26th Nightlies... I believe Dean fixed this - for the 6.0 release, and 27th nightlies. -D -- ZangTT berkeley db - it's mostly about the hash() ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Re: Feature Request: Completely random play

* Steve shaped the electrons to say... I find myself playing the same albums/tracks most of the time and would like to just tell slimserver to pick me a random list. I know moodlogic does this but you have to pay to activate tracks with moodlogic and there are still lots of tracks that aren't

[slim] Re: SS 6.0 and Internet Radio streams

* Roy Owen shaped the electrons to say... The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to

Re: [slim] Re: SS 6.0 and Internet Radio streams

Yes, shuffle by album was on. I thought that when using a Shoutcast stream that the SS ignored the shuffle by setting. On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:37:27 -0800, Dan Sully [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Roy Owen shaped the electrons to say... The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application

RE: [slim] Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging, issues

I too would recommend using FLAC and EAC. FLAC generally gives about a 2:1 compression and since it's completely losslessit means you're not compromising audio quality. Plus it supports tags which are reasonably comprehensive. 600 albums on FLAC will rip to something in the region of

RE: [slim] Re: Slimsever stops playing randomly

Yes - I don't see this any more having installed the 6.0 release. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Sully Sent: 29 March 2005 17:28 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: [slim] Re: Slimsever stops playing randomly * Neil Cameron

[slim] Cache directory location in Linux

A few posts recently have been about the location of the Cache files. I've been a little surprised by these file locations as well. I would expect any Cache type directory to be found somewhere on the /var path. For a system wide installation, then /var/SlimServer or /var/cache/SlimServer or

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

Sorry Richard, but where are the command line instructions? I can only find on some platforms you might have to execute java -jar Softsqueeze.jar on the command line, and that doesn't work for me anyway -- Neil Richard Titmuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [slim] Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging, issues

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 12:59 +0100, Natan Nicki Tiefenbrun wrote: I played with MusicMatch, adding some tags (2.3 I think) to the WAV files, but this seemed to confuse Slimserver (I guess WAVs Tag?s don?t mix)? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Last time I looked into the details of

[slim] Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging,

Thanks for all the feedback. Assuming I do go with the directory filename structure instead of tags, is there an application that will scan my WAVs dump artwork into the appropriate folders so that SlimServer Telcanto will display it? Any ideas when/if SlimServer might support

[slim] Re: Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging,

* Natan Nicki Tiefenbrun shaped the electrons to say... Regarding using FLAC instead of WAV - I can actually hear a substantial difference between the two. I'm currently using the original Squeezebox, so I assume I'm relying on my PC to uncompress the FLAC and stream as PCM/WAV? I'm still a touch

[slim] Crash during install build

Hello, I've not been successful in getting SlimServer to install. Following is the output. First: The following modules failed to load: XML::Parser To download and compile them, please run: /usr/local/SlimServer_v6.0/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl Second: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/local/slimserver/Bin#

RE: [slim] Re: Re: Announce: SlimServer 6.0

Browse Music Folder is one of the more processor intensive operations that SlimServer performs, especially if you have a large number of top level directories. Coupled with the small buffer of SB1, drop outs can happen. If you set the Server Settings Behavior Sort By File Name

[slim] Re: Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork,

The desktop PC is currently wireless, the SqueezeBox1 is wired. How do I enable/disable transcoding? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

RE: [slim] Re: Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork,

Slimserver - Server settings - File types: uncheck the line that has FLAC as the file format and MP3 as the stream format. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Natan Nicki TiefenbrunSent: 29 March 2005 18:52To:

[slim] alienBBC 0.94 - listen live causes crash

ok...apologies for the length of this post, I believe it is warranted. I can now get some BBC listen again streams working via alienBBC but choosing listen live crashes slimserver. I've pasted the output of slimserver.pl -diag below. Going to Item: 0 PlayableAODItem: Trying to get stream for:

[slim] Re: Crash during install build

* Rocky shaped the electrons to say... I've not been successful in getting SlimServer to install. Following is the output. Rocky - SlimServer should start without that module. However - in order to compile that module - you need to install libexpat. -D -- They're techno trousers, ex-NASA,

[slim] Re: Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork,

* Natan Nicki Tiefenbrun shaped the electrons to say... The desktop PC is currently wireless, the SqueezeBox1 is wired. How do I enable/disable transcoding? Go to Player Settings - Audio: Set the option to No Limit -D -- They're techno trousers, ex-NASA, fantastic for walkies!

[slim] Squeezebox2 on the 31st?

Are you guys still on track to ship the Squeezebox2 on March 31st? I'm placing an order for a Wireless Platinum and I'm pretty sure I'd just bust if it were delayed. :-) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Squeezebox2 on the 31st?

We're not only on track, but we actually started shipping sooner than anticipated (last Friday). It will take 1-2 weeks to clear the current backlog though - we'll update the order page. On Mar 29, 2005, at 11:03 AM, JJ wrote: Are you guys still on track to ship the Squeezebox2 on March 31st?

Re: [slim] mplayer

On 29/3/05 at 12:17 pm +, Neil Sleightholm wrote You need to use the -playlist option if you are going to play an rpm file. Neil Daniel Cohen wrote: I've just upgraded to 6.0. No comments as yet. AlienBBC installs but doesn't play anything. Right, that gets mplayer working. But AlienBBC

Re: [slim] New Item Request- Squeezebox with amplifier

2005-03-28-00:12:49 Ken Gilmore: I totally disagree. Powered speakers are actually a great innovation. Matching amps with speakers has always been a black art; better that they do it at the factory - that way they can tailor the amp to the driver(s) and perform any EQ needed to get the

[slim] Pause via Fishbone skin in 6.0

I noticed that after pressing pause in the Fishbone skin, the voume went down to almost 0 (1 bar, I think). I tried pressing pause again and it went up to about 75%. Subsequent presses toggles the volume between the two settings. Is there something intentional going on, or is this a known

Re: [slim] mplayer

Are you able to run slimserver from the command line and see if you can get any additional tracing. I use the command line: slim --d_plugins --d_parse --d_remotestream Also if you edit slimserver-convert.conf and change #PIPE# to #DEBUGPIPE# you should see mplayer starting with some

Re: [slim] alienBBC 0.94 - listen live causes crash

Any chance you could try the command line: perl.exe -w slimserver.pl --d_plugins --d_parse --d_remotestream --d_server Neil hudsonk wrote: ok...apologies for the length of this post, I believe it is warranted. I can now get some BBC listen again streams working via alienBBC but choosing

Re: [slim] Cache directory location in Linux

I think it is in the wrong location for Windows as well. Typically I would expect it to be in the %TEMP% directory (as it is running as a service acount this would probably be c:\windows\temp). Neil Chris Johnson wrote: A few posts recently have been about the location of the Cache files.

[slim] XMCD Motif based player as FLAC ripper for LINUX?

I'm in the process of building my first linux box. I'm using Xandros 3.0.1 Open Circulation and want to rip my CD collection to FLAC format. I came accross an application called XMCD, a motif based player/ripper. Has anyone on the list had any experience using it to rip lossless for the SB? If

[slim] where have playlists gone ?

Dear all, I would appreciate any help with this problem. I have been using slimserver over a wireless system on a Mac for a long time and never had any problems. I recently upgraded to Slimserver 6 and it would not connect to my Slimp3 device. Therefore I reinstalled 5.4.1. Since

Re: [slim] Missing Files On ReScan v6

Hi, Same here: in iTunes I have; 112 artists, 226 albums , 2699 songs in slimserver I have: 108, 222, 2609 strangely enough, with initial betas is was wrong then a few nightly ago (6.0b3) it was correct, it is wrong again. Michel ___ Discuss

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

On 29 Mar 2005, at 14:25, Daniel Cohen wrote: But softsqueeze doesn't seem to work at all. It seems to fail in a number of different ways at different times. I managed to break Softsqueeze when using Java 1.4 in the last release over the weekend. Sorry. I fix is now available on Sourceforge, and

RE: [slim] Re: Re: Announce: SlimServer 6.0

Phillip, Could you confirm whether changing the Sort By File Name setting changes the dropout behavior? I already had Sort By File Name set to Sort by song information Thanks, Phillip ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] struggling with AlienBBC and Mplayer

Hi All I've been try for a while to get AlienBBC working. It says it's playing but no sound comes out. Can someone please suggest a way to test mplayer on the command line but not using a real audio stream as I think that might be the problem. I saw a post from a while back that had an example

RE: [slim] Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging,

Im not entirely sure if this is how its working, but I directed slimserver to look for artwork in the folder in which my library software keeps images, and once slimserver correctly identified the albums, it connected the artwork. Artwork is called artist - albumname.jpg. In JRiver, I was

[slim] FW: New from MultiTask Computing - Trinloc DAB USB Radio

Does this help with BBC radio?! -Original Message- From: MultiTask Computing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 March 2005 20:24 To: stephen skeels Subject: New from MultiTask Computing - Trinloc DAB USB Radio The new Trinloc DAB USB Radio (PC MP3 recorder) is a DAB digital radio that

re: [slim] alienBBC 0.94 - listen live causes crash

Neil From that command I got a working listen live stream for the 1st time - this surprised me enormously as it looked like you were simply asking for more debugging options to be selected. I then realised that I had selected my SliMP3 and not the SB that I had been using for my previous

[slim] Squeezebox2 on the 31st?

I noticed the order page says 1-2 business days for black units, and shipping March 31st for platinum ones. I ordered fairly soon after it was possible to do so, so I know I am fairly early on in the pre-order list, but I wonder if I banked on the wrong colour if I was hoping to get it

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

It's 1.4 - I'll try tomorrow's nightlies... -- Neil Richard Titmuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 29 Mar 2005, at 18:03, Neil Cameron wrote: Sorry Richard, but where are the command line instructions? I can only find on some platforms you might have to

Re: [slim] Squeezebox2 on the 31st?

Yes but I don't have exact delivery dates. We're getting them out as quickly as possible - please sit tight. On Mar 29, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Mark Bennett wrote: On this same topic, have you started shipping to international distributors yet, or just to direct orders on your web site? I ordered two

[slim] Got the pony :-)

Hi I just opened the box the UPS man delivered today and found in it the 'pony' that I had ordered - and I also found that the pony seems to come with a free Squeezebox 2 :-) Digital output is rock solid in every way! GREAT WORK FOLKS! MANY THANKS to all those at Slim Devices and to the

Re: [slim] Unable to run slimserver 6.0.0 on linux as user other than root

That's the thing, I haven't run it as root. As a matter of fact, I just cleared out *everything* pertaining to slimserver on my linkstation and reinstalled *everything* back from the official 6.0.0 release. Then I used my startup script with the --user slimserver in it and it still does the exact

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

On 29/3/05 at 3:30 pm +0100, Richard Titmuss wrote Neil Cameron wrote: I have to report the same problem with SoftSqueeze. I have tried 6.0.0 and the 29-05-05 nightlies - on both occasions reinstalling SoftSqueeze. Then I completely unistalled SlimServer and reinstalled 6.0.0 and 29-05-5 (and

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

On 29/3/05 at 3:48 pm +0100, Richard Titmuss wrote Neil Cameron wrote: Running on Win XP with SlimServer running as a service. Trying to play MP3 files. I activated those debug settinsg but get no response from any SoftSqueeze button and nothing in the console at all. If it is of interest; the

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0

On 29/3/05 at 9:21 pm +0100, Richard Titmuss wrote On 29 Mar 2005, at 14:25, Daniel Cohen wrote: But softsqueeze doesn't seem to work at all. It seems to fail in a number of different ways at different times. I managed to break Softsqueeze when using Java 1.4 in the last release over the

[slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

My SqueezeBox2 arrived today. Lot's 'o fun so far. I do have a question about the FLAC transport: no matter how I change the Server-File Types settings or comment out lines in convert.conf, Slimserver still seems to transcode my FLACs. Even with just FLAC (built-in) enabled, I'm seeing the

Re: [slim] Unable to run slimserver 6.0.0 on linux as user other than root

Another thing, after clearing out everything and re-installing I got this message in the log file (over and over): Couldn't write preferences file out /etc/slimserver6.conf It appears that this file was created by slimserver under user root... After a chown slimserver:slimserver, things were able

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

Gordon Harris wrote: My SqueezeBox2 arrived today. Lot's 'o fun so far. I do have a question about the FLAC transport: no matter how I change the Server-File Types settings or comment out lines in convert.conf, Slimserver still seems to transcode my FLACs. Even with just FLAC (built-in)

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

Vidur Apparao wrote: The transcoding does not happen if you don't use cuesheets with FLAC (excuse the double negative). Hah. Another good reason to not to rip your CDs to one FLAC file! I knew we track folk would be vindicated. ;-) -- Daryle A. Tilroe

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2 audio quality.

Excellent info - Did you test the analogue quality - I would like to avoid the cost of an external DAC, if it was in the running I'm guessing that a battery power supply would even improve it more? Mike. On Mar 29, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Julian Alden-Salter wrote: Hi, Some of you may remember that

Re: [slim] Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging,

tagrename? On Mar 29, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Natan Nicki Tiefenbrun wrote: Regarding using FLAC instead of WAV I can actually hear a substantial difference between the two. Im currently using the original Squeezebox, so I assume Im relying on my PC to uncompress the FLAC

Re: [slim] where have playlists gone ?

Restart the server. I found that after a fresh install, it wouldn't find your playlists directory even after you specify it. Restarting the server solved the problem. The software seems to only look for a playlist directory when the server starts. Since a new install doesn't have it

[slim] Uninstalling 5.4.0 before installing 6.0.1

The new 6.0.1 slimserver RPM suggests uninstalling the old version before installing the new. But I've already deleted my old copy of 5.4.0. Are the old server RPMs archived someplace? Home | Server Settings says I'm running 5.4.0 - For some reason I thought I was running 5.4.1 or something like

[slim] Re: Minor 6.0 problems

Ben Sandee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew, If it's important to you I'd recommend filing a bug at http://bugs.slimdevices.com. Issues don't get lost there, I've found. Ben Thanks, I wasn't really aware of that. Hopefully I entered it correctly, I don't have much experience with

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

- Original Message - From: Gordon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question Rats. And here I've spent 2 months working on cuesheet parsing routines so as to better

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

JJ wrote: Is there any control over the level of compression to be used in this transcoding? There's obviously a tradeoff between CPU load used to transcode and the bandwidth used to stream the flac, so it seems there should be a means of letting the user determine the level and perhaps

Re: [slim] kinks in the SB2?

First, mine goes blank for no apparent reason sometimes. Blank screen. Does it keep playing audio? Can you control it from the web interface? Also, I'm trying to compare the digital out into my DAC to the internal DAC but the digital out can't stay locked (I think that's it... my receiver keeps

RE: [slim] kinks in the SB2?

First, mine goes blank for no apparent reason sometimes. Blank screen. Does it keep playing audio? Can you control it from the web interface? I'll test it out more... basically, it's dead then I unplug and try again. Also, I'm trying to compare the digital out into my DAC to the

RE: [slim] kinks in the SB2?

Sean, I'm about to buy my wireless set up for SB2 now. Probably FLAC, definitely lossless, via Xandros (Debian based) Linux distro. Any other hardware to stay away from, or more importantly that is really stable? Mike -Original Message- From: Sean Adams

[slim] How to use multiple hard drives on mandrake

how do i get slim server to see 3 hard drives on mandrake linux ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] How to use multiple hard drives on mandrake

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 04:02 +, dave wrote: how do i get slim server to see 3 hard drives on mandrake linux Put softlinks in the top level music folder For example, on mine, the top is /songs so cd /songs ln -s /bay5/rock rock ln -s /bay8/jazz jazz etc. Then kick the server for joy

Re: [slim] Re: 6.0.0 crashing during scan under linux

Looks like I have this in /var/log/messages... it was previously failing without effecting the machine but just last time took the whole thing down. This happens about 3 minutes into a rescan. Mar 29 18:26:48 rex kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:97! Mar 29 18:26:48 rex kernel: invalid

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

Daryle A. Tilroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vidur Apparao wrote: The transcoding does not happen if you don't use cuesheets with FLAC (excuse the double negative). Hah. Another good reason to not to rip your CDs to one FLAC file! I knew we track folk would be vindicated. ;-) Yes, but

Re: [slim] kinks in the SB2?

I'll test it out more... basically, it's dead then I unplug and try again. I'm trying to identify if it's a software issue or a display issue. If the former, you'd probably not be able to ping it. If the latter, audio would probably keep playing. At any rate this is a new one but we'll figure

[slim] Re: Re: 6.0.0 crashing during scan under linux

* Jess Askey shaped the electrons to say... slimserver runs at about 85% cpu and 36Meg of memory on the machine until it crashes. It seems to crash in different places everytime too so Im wondering if the problem is something with my CPU overheating or something. The machine is a P-II 366

[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.0 - Big Disappointment

* Bradley Feldman shaped the electrons to say... Even better, when I try to stop Slimserver, it just won't die. Even trying to manually kill the process doesn't work. Only a reboot kills it. A little more debugging info would be useful. What does an strace -p on the process id yield? (it will

[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.0 - Big Disappointment

A little more debugging info would be useful. What does an strace -p on the process id yield? (it will output a lot). Can you try disabling MusicMagic? Ok, the culprit seems to be MusicMagic and the integration between SlimServer and MusicMagic. Once the MusicMagic API is shut off so that

Re: [slim] New Item Request- Squeezebox with amplifier

On Mar 29.2005, at 11:17, Jeff Moore wrote: ATC's active speakers, for example, have an excellent reputation. This highlights the real key here: it's the speakers that matter. I've got a 5 year old pair of powered logitech speakers, which are fine for gaming but I don't particularly enjoy

[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.0 - Big Disappointment

* Bradley Feldman shaped the electrons to say... Ok, the culprit seems to be MusicMagic and the integration between SlimServer and MusicMagic. Once the MusicMagic API is shut off so that SlimServer doesn't see MusicMagic, the server behaves and CPU utilization by SlimServer is extremely low.