baconrad Wrote:
Yes, my app can run on many OS's as it is written in Java. So, yes, I
agree with you about a java rewrite. Then I might do something more
than just complain. Perl is a WO (write-only) language... it's
unreadable. Seriously, perl is very powerful but I would not consider
It certainly could! I found what was causing this. In my sshd_config I
had ClientAliveInterval 1m. Softsqueeze doesn't like this and removing
it removed the problem. It took me quite some time to find this so for
reference for others and myself I'm posting it here.
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Yes, my preamp volume control is set to zero. And your guess is
correct... before upgrading my Squeezebox firmware, I had good volume
parity across sources. Now the Squeezebox is much quieter than the
other sources. But even with the integrated amp volume raised, I still
can't seem to get the
On 3-Nov-05, at 12:28 AM, hazel-rah wrote:
Yes, my preamp volume control is set to zero. And your guess is
correct... before upgrading my Squeezebox firmware, I had good volume
parity across sources. Now the Squeezebox is much quieter than the
other sources. But even with the integrated amp
jhwilliams Wrote:
Yes, look at the server/firmware directory. Take the version 15 firmware
and copy it to your 6.2 firmware directory. Then edit
squeezebox2.version to point to ver 15.
Ah, thank you for the instructions. I'm afraid I'm having trouble
following them though. I have a file
Triode Wrote:
This is by design, the server includes something to stop remote streams
automatically starting. This is to avoid triggering
internet connections if users have some form of dial on demand
connection. [it also ensures a remote stream is stopped rather than
paused at power
Yes, I do mention this in the readme file that comes with the plugin -
but it seems no-one ever READS it!
Maybe I should just force a change to the rescan interval if it's set to
the default...
James
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BTW - I had the exact same problem adding a Netgear Wireless bridge to
my existing Wireless network with WEP enabled.
The bridge could see the network, picked up the correct channel and
SSID, but would not connect.
Switched off WEP on both devices and bingo, I had bridging.
Went to 64 WEP on
Well, I uninstalled completely and just reinstalled 6.1.1. Easier than
fussing around. Everything works perfectly again. Teach me to upgrade
for no reason.
Wow, I guess the volume going to 11 isn't new... I'm not very observant
am I?
Anyway, the top volume may not have changed but the new
Hi,
I've been running the 6.2 betas for a while quite happily on a Win2003
SBS box with 512MB RAM. I have about 10,000 tracks and it was taking a
few hours to rescan but it got there and there was nothing obvious
missing.
I've since upgraded to the full 6.2 release and have now added about 10
I've never seen such a device, how about using your PC to control your
existing amp/speaker switch with an ir emmitter?
A quick google on PC IR emitter returned this:
http://www.smarthome.com/1623PC.html
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did you made up your mind for the buy 2 100$ off-promo in europe?
seanadams Wrote:
Good news - the first ones off the line went out last night.
We have a considerable backlog, so please allow about a week for us to
catch up and get them through to our European dealers. We're getting
them
Thank you for the reply - I understand the reasoning. However, the
stream is a local stream playing from my DAB radio. It would be great
if by simply turning on the SB it would start playing - just like a
normal radio! Perhaps an option could be added to the server settings
to select auto
It seems to me this came up before, in another context. Someone wanted
to mount a slim upside down under a kitchen cabinet, and wanted to know
if the display could run upside down.
I think he gave up and mounted it another way, leaving the question of
whether the software can perform this trick
Whilst I DO get a significant hit when using the web interface, I still
get dropouts when no-one is accessing the server. So I'm not sure if
it's a new problem in addition to the previously addressed bug. To be
honest I hardly ever use the web interface, so the seemingly random
spikes are more of
I have rolled my install back to the Oct 12th 6.2beta Nightly. Deleted
the database and rescanned.
Full rescan took about 1hr. 11,000 tracks, 800 albums. Max mem usage
was 75MB.
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I'm wondering if there is any way to customise the navigation of the
squeezebox. My specific problem is this:
I have set up a number of internet radio streams (ABC radio Australia,
to be exact) as playlists - because this as far as I can see is the
only way to access these streams directly via
I looked in the website FAQ and did'nt see any mention of the original
squeezebox being able to access the slim network, anyone got any
insight(s), does it require only slimserver suppport or are there
firmware dependencies?
Thanks
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seanadams Wrote:
You can write crap in any language. Please learn perl and then tell us
how you feel about SlimServer. I don't speak German so I have no
opinion about its readability.
I love that perltris code. Looks a bit wordy to me though...
Check this out (tetris in 256 bytes)
Hi Sulvo,
I've written a plugin that allows you to put one of your playlists into
the 'Internet Radio' menu on the web page and player menus after a
couple of people asked for this. Just one playlist so far.
Www.jamescraig.co.uk/SlimServer RadioPlaylist plugin.
Really I think the SlimServer
I looked in the website FAQ and did'nt see any mention of the original
squeezebox being able to access the slim network, anyone got any
insight(s), does it require only slimserver suppport or are there
firmware dependencies?
SQN is only available for SB2/SB3.
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Thanks James - that's exactly what I need!
Any plans to allow more than one playlist to be added to the Internet
Radio menu? (Don't want to sound like an ingrate though - what you've
written already is great!!)
Andrew
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seanadams Wrote:
class Div{static $1 $_;class $1{void _$(String $_){System.//
out.print($_);}$1(){_();}void _(){int _,$,_$,$$,__,ä=(15),
å=100,ö=12,åö=ä*ö;å-=14;while(åö0){for($$=_$=_=__=$=(int)
å;_$($$-(12));_$(+(char)(_$)),_$-=11)for(_=$=__-9;_(
$-6);_-=11,_$(+(char)(_$!=å?_:ä)));char
At the risk of getting back on topic ;)
(and I actually really like Perl; it's saved my butt here in
viewdraw-schematic-land many times. But cannot really comment on its
use by real s/w engrs for real applications.)
Anyway, regarding the memory footprint, it does seem large (but we can
still
I have installed the 6.2 version of Slimserver. I have several songs
with unicode (specifically Greek) fonts in file names and ID3 tags. The
song data display correctly in SB2, but I do not know how I can search
using the remote, since it seems that it can send only English
characters. Any
Steve Baumgarten Wrote:
ovonrein wrote:
o I reconfigure the encryption and ... no problem grabbing carrier,
no
problem obtaining IP, then comes Connecting to SlimServer..., where
it
gets stuck.
o When I press remote to reconfigure, up pops Now Playing -
eureka!
Weird, but I
Cool --
Well, if it's any help, the way I got around this was to create two
separate files (i called the second one RadioPlaylist2.pm and changed
all references to radioplaylist to radioplaylist2). Then, I changed
the plugin name (inside the .pm file) to the name that I wanted to
appear in the
Indeed. That is an option but it's not very nice!
I'll probably have something ready next week...
James
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oreillymj Wrote:
I asked both Belkin and Netgear to add this to the Knowledgebases, but I
don't think either Mfg did.
Well, to be fair to them, your experience (and mine, too, incidentally)
places this problem squarely at SlimDevices.
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Heh, if you did that all from memory, you did it
pretty well.
Thanks again.
Geoff B wrote:
On 11/2/05, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There's one critical step that was omitted
What, only one? :)
In fact, I was writing mostly from memory, since I
couldn't access my
MP3Tag at
On 11/3/05, ovonrein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
oreillymj Wrote: I asked both Belkin and Netgear to add this to the Knowledgebases, but I don't think either Mfg did.Well, to be fair to them, your experience (and mine, too, incidentally)places this problem squarely at SlimDevices.
If you would read
Did you follow the directions Geoff B gave me on
removing ID3v1 tags and writing only ID3v2 tags in
Mp3tag? Things worked much better for me with
only ID3v2 tags.
Also you may want to rescan your library, this
time selecting the Clear library before rescan
option. Or just a normal rescan -
JJZolx wrote:
I'm fairly certain that permitting other people to listen to your
collection over the Internet is already a violation of copyright law.
It's not just a matter of allowing others to copy that material.
Not neccessarily true. (IANAL)
This could more likely fall under regs (in
Craig, James (IT) wrote:
Yes, I do mention this in the readme file that comes with the plugin -
but it seems no-one ever READS it!
Maybe I should just force a change to the rescan interval if it's set to
the default...
Yeah, and then document this change in the ReadMe!
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I just stumbled across this while in WHSmiths on my lunch break. The
article in question is now available online -
_'here's_the_introduction'
(http://www.pcpro.co.uk/shopper/labs/214/wireless-media-players/introduction.html)_,
or just skip to the _'main_part_of_the_review'
Hi,
I've searched this forum and noticed some other users suffering from
this problem, or something close to it, but haven't really seen a fix,
so I'm adding my name to the list:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be
found. The local computer may not have the
On 3-Nov-05, at 4:53 AM, Craig, James (IT) wrote:
I don't know if anyone's ever opened a bug on more flexible menu
configuration though.
yup...
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2200
-k
On 3-Nov-05, at 4:49 AM, Larry Cable wrote:
I looked in the website FAQ and did'nt see any mention of the original
squeezebox being able to access the slim network, anyone got any
insight(s), does it require only slimserver suppport or are there
firmware dependencies?
SqueezeNetwork requires
On 03 Nov 2005, at 09:57 , Craig, James (IT) wrote:
Yes, I do mention this in the readme file that comes with the plugin -
but it seems no-one ever READS it!
Maybe I should just force a change to the rescan interval if it's
set to
the default...
If you are going to go to the effort, I
I'm adding my name to the list
Welcome aboard the ship of 6.x Windows/Perl errors. I've posted
several times about this very same problem and haven't got much back
except silence... crickets crickets
I couldn't get any version of 6.x to work either. I've got a day job
so after a few hours I
Hi, I want to get one squeezebox3 but I need to find another potential
buyer in nyc area so we can use $100 OFF 2! coupon, if you are
seriously interested, please contact me through email
[EMAIL PROTECTED], thanks!
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upinya Wrote:
The url is still http://localhost:9000, and so when I change the url to
http://localhost:9876, the page loads without issue. I think the
software should be changed to dynamically pull the user's listening
port, should the user decide to change it.
As a workaround (at least if
For all those requesting the multi-buy discount in the UK, check out
multi-task computing
(http://www.multitask-computing.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=397)
they are doing a buy 2 for £399.99 - saving you just under £60. Nice!
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multi-task computing
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they are doing a buy 2 for £399.99 - saving you just under £60. Nice!
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Unfortunately for me that's the
* Jim Larson shaped the electrons to say...
Also there are 77 tracks with a genre of No Genre.
Jim - can you please send me one of the tracks in question?
dan | at | slimdevices.com
Thanks.
-D
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* Mark_H shaped the electrons to say...
Jim Bob is an artist in my collection. It crashes here every time.
I tried removing slimserversql.db and restarting and it crashed here
again.
Mark - can you please send me one of the tracks from that artist?
dan | at | slimdevices.com
Thanks.
-D
hanpa Wrote:
Hej hanpa!
Which UK dealer did you order from and what was the total amount you
paid for your SB2 (including shipping etc)? Do you feel satisfied with
the dealer in spite of the plug-problem?
__
Quiet Brain! Or I'll Stab You With A Q-Tip
I ordered from
That seems expensive for an offer. I think my sb2 cost me £200 in the
uk. Have prices gone up for the sb3?
Max
DrNic Wrote:
For all those requesting the multi-buy discount in the UK, check out
multi-task computing
Yes, SB3 has an rrp of £229, Dabs are the cheapest at the moment at
£209+postage (excluding me of course)
Andrew
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Did you contact support directly or file a bug? This is the only
official and guaranteed way to get your problems noted! Sure, a lot of
people read these forums, but I'll bet they aren't given as much of
SlimDevices' attention as the direct routes.
Max
bishopdonmiguel Wrote:
I'm adding my
Title: best way to move plugins durring slim upgrade
Hi
I was wondering if anyone has any suggestion regarding moving ones plugins to a new installation.
Is there way to keep them outside the slim directory like you can do with prefs and cache?
Im running perl tar.gz on a linux box and I
Sounds like SlimDevices really need DRM support to make the press happy.
They could also do with a much nicer looking device ... no wait, they
just did that. ;-) It seems that the other feature that gets you
marked down majorly is lack of upnp media server support. I personally
don't care
Yeah, I'm a copycat... but I could really use the $50 I'd save if I
split the $100 off two promotion with someone... reply to jlynch3 AT
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audiofi Wrote:
Yes, SB3 has an rrp of £229, Dabs are the cheapest at the moment at
£209+postage (excluding me of course)
Andrew
Hmmm, not sure they are...?
They are listed at £229.99.
http://tinyurl.com/acqdk
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Hmmm... That's too bad as I really like the new features with 6.x, and
this is the only problem I'm having with it. I'll keep monitoring this
error, but it typically happens when the squeezebox is off.
I can tell when it croaks as I can no longer see the 24-hr clock
screensaver in my living
What do you offer them for, then?
Max
audiofi Wrote:
Yes, SB3 has an rrp of £229, Dabs are the cheapest at the moment at
£209+postage (excluding me of course)
Andrew
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and rolled their terrible
Good point - I'll make it official.
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I can tell when it croaks as I can no longer see the 24-hr clock
screensaver in my living room media cabinet.
Does the service fail or does the program itself just stall? If the
service is failing (stopping) you can set the recovery mode to restart
automatically so you don't have to bother
This is no criticism of slim devices, after all I bought the product and
intend to buy more, but...
I think we need to get a bit real here - the is not yet a mass-market
device, the server software is not plug and play like the type of
consumer products the mainstream are used to.
The SB3 is a
Did you contact support directly or file a bug?
I'd file a bug if I thought I could do so with some useful details.
Perl Interpreter Failed is rather generic so I posted to this forum
to get some advice on where to go next, but either this is such an
infrequent issue so as to be below the
Hi
I can't play any Shoutcast stations from the server but I can from the
player when using the remote. I have had this behaviour for 2 days
now. Can someone help please.
Many thanks
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This is supposed to be a feature of 6.2, but I see no documentation
about it.
I'd like to be able to put my computer to sleep and have it wake up
when I press the SB2 remote control.
When my machine (XP-based) is sleeping, and I press a button on the SB2
remote, the screen says waking
I'm at work right now -- I'll respond to both Mark Dan's
suggestions/requests later tonight. Probably won't get a chance until
about 10 or 11pm Central.
Did anything change re. ID3v1 vs. ID3v2 tags going from 6.1 to 6.2.1?
I'm seem to vaguely remember a server settings page to select which
Opcode Wrote:
Similarly, the installation script should check the port settings from
an existing installation and modify the port for the shortcut
automatically.
Here here! :) Also, the documentation throughout the web interface
references the 9000 port.
In addition, I would like the
I'm also suffering this - it seems to be affecting several people on
these forums, with no proper fix available. :-(
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I can't play any Shoutcast stations from the server but I can from the
player when using the remote. I have had this behaviour for 2 days
now. Can someone help please.
What skin are you using? I'm fine with Default.
SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 5011
Please beware of the 6.5 branch: the web
boybees Wrote:
How do I configure this wake-up feature?
You need to configure your server to use 'Wake-on-lan'.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-101 looks like it has the
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Quoting boybees [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is supposed to be a feature of 6.2, but I see no documentation
about it.
Check this thread (found after a search for wake on lan)
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15523
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On 03/11/05, max. spicer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you offer them for, then?
Max
You can see at
www.audiofi.co.uk
Richard
PS - I'm not connected in any way.
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When using WEP do you have the option of Open or Shared mode? SB only
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mherger Wrote:
I can't play any Shoutcast stations from the server but I can from
the
player when using the remote. I have had this behaviour for 2 days
now. Can someone help please.
What skin are you using? I'm fine with Default.
SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 5011
Please beware
The SB3 is a great looking device, good remote and effective display
and menus, but getting the server to workI like to tweak just like
most of us on this forum but how many average consumer product buyers
hang around geeky music fora and would be happy to do the kind of
fiddling with
Yes I am using default too. I find it strange that the Shoutcast
behaviour is limited to my PC only?
I just noticed another issue: streams will only play the second time you
hit play, be it on the web interface or the player. So if you first tried
the web, then the player, you might think
I've followed those steps but still no joy. It connects fine when
encryption is turned off. Leaving it unencrypted is not an acceptable
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The Online store isn't yet live, but as soon as stock is available over
here I'll sort it all out.
Will keep you all posted
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On 11/3/05, ncrossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've followed those steps but still no joy. It connects fine whenencryption is turned off. Leaving it unencrypted is not an acceptable
solution.You should contact SlimServer support.Ben
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mherger Wrote:
Yes I am using default too. I find it strange that the Shoutcast
behaviour is limited to my PC only?
I just noticed another issue: streams will only play the second time
you
hit play, be it on the web interface or the player. So if you first
tried
the web, then the
I'm having very similar issues as Olaf and Ovonrein...Ovonrein's
description matches mine almost exactly: Upon each power-up, the SB2
gets stuck at Connecting to SlimServer..., then a screen indicating
to either press RIGHT arrow and try again or press LEFT arrow and
reconfigure networking.
Allister:
Be sure the mac address on the bottom of the SB2 is the same one that
is displayed on the sb2 screen in the settings section. A common
problem I've run into and seen on the forum is interference from
firewalls. Turn off the Windows firewall via the control panel and
disable any other
They never do long term tests either, if they did they would get
different results:
1) The Netgear MP101 struggles to connect to a wireless network from
any substantial distance and when this happens it crashes.
2) The Terratec Noxon (not reviewed) beats the Netgear
3) The Netgear is discontinued
avta Wrote:
Allister:
Be sure the mac address on the bottom of the SB2 is the same one that
is displayed on the sb2 screen in the settings section. A common
problem I've run into and seen on the forum is interference from
firewalls. Turn off the Windows firewall via the control panel and
Regarding adding replaygain to Flacs and MP3s, please see this topic:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16529
As far as WMA, I believe I've read on Hydrogenaudio at some point (but
I can't find anything about it now) that WMA works differently to other
formats as far as volume
Don't know WHAT you exactly found, but the only option I can figure out
is changing the server by going through the setup process and entering
another Ip address..which I would like to see embedded in a more
convenient way.
For example: at work we have a squeezebox running music from the local
Hi,
This may or may not help, but have you installed the latest firmware
for the AP?
There have been quite few occasions in the past when I've found that
this sorts out gremlins plaguing an installation:-)
Cheers,
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Where can I find Release Notes for SlimServer 6.2.1?
I'd like to know what has (or has not) been fixed, but all I can find
associated with 6.2.1 are the notes for 6.2.0...I'm hoping that 6.2.1
addresses some of the wireless connectivity issues I've been having.
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Where can I find Release Notes for SlimServer 6.2.1?
They've not been created yet.
I'd like to know what has (or has not) been fixed, but all I can find
associated with 6.2.1 are the notes for 6.2.0...I'm hoping that 6.2.1
addresses some of the
6.2.1 hasn't been officially release yet. I'm sure notes will come when
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Sorted it out - I had configured a character at the start of the
scrolling ALBUM ARTIST display on the SB2 - looks like 6.2 does not
like this character..
Thanks for you help guys.
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I second this one. No firmware on my SMC would
work at all, even with the SB2 5' away from the
router and all encryption off. I must've flashed
the firmware 7 or 8 times before I realized it
just wouldn't work.
Got a Linksys WRT54G (probably the most popular
wireless router ever made) and
Well that's fantastic!
I have a Netgear DG834G router, and had previously checked if I had the
latest firmware by following the link in the router admin -- I did
(v1.05). I just double checked by going through the Netgear support
site, and it turns out there is a much newer firmware available
I'm fiddling around with the settings on my new
Linksys WRT54G. The DD-WRT firmware I'm using
allows QoS.
Has anyone experimented with QoS with an SB2?
I don't see how or why the SB2 would care, it's a
router function only. But it would be nice to
give it high priority and all other
I wonder if it's possible for the string rendering code to look at
the character range and then simply change the order of the rendering
of the characters based on some rules:
look at a character
if (it's in the range of characters that should be rendered right to
left) {
scan forward
Bingo! That is the problem! I can only get it to play if I hit the
play icon (the one on the left pane) TWICE also. I have only been
hitting the play once. This is only happening on the Shoutcast streams
the others seem fine.
I knew we had this issue before:
Cheers,
Being one of the first to applaude when we got the Wake on LAN
functionality, I am a little puzzled by the behaviour of the latest
release that I installed:
Previously when listening to a playlist that was actually an Internet
radio everything worked fine, and when I finally powered off
I have reported Bug#: 2481
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On 3/11/05 at 08:18 -0800, oktup wrote
I just stumbled across this while in WHSmiths on my lunch break. The
article in question is now available online -
_'here's_the_introduction'
(http://www.pcpro.co.uk/shopper/labs/214/wireless-media-players/introduction.html)_,
or just skip to the
I got a response and bought two units within 90 minutes of posting this!
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Having read the release notes for the second time, I noted it says:
WMA Support in Firmware - SB2/SB3
Streaming WMA radio stations and local files.
and since I stream:
http://web-address/e04ch10m?wmcontentbitrate=30/.wma
it could be that the squeezebox does all the work, leaving the PC
Quoting getprogs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The same thing does NOT happen when playing one of my standard WMA
files - then it happily keeps on playing, whats the difference??
perhaps now that WMA is native, the internet radio is direct-streamed
to the SB2
and the server isn't seeing enough
I believe that I have seen this before, as well. If iTunes and the
SlimServer ever try to touch the same resource at the same time (song,
playlist, etc.), the sb2 starts stalling.
When I bring up the performance monitor, it's clear that PERL is
spinning out of control. Exiting iTunes, and
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