I looked into this when I first bought my Squeezebox 2 in the summer.
The word I got was that there was no way to tag songs with the remote
(or any other way for that matter). Can anyone elaborate on Zapping?
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Thanks for this thread, this had been annoying me too, although not
enough to go looking for the answer. The corresponding setting in
Firefox is Tools / Options / Advanced / Tabbed Browsing / Open Links
from other Applications in
Its not entirely without risk, however: I went for a new tab
Worth checking your brightness setting in off mode - as you've had to
press brightness to accept the firmware update, you may easily have
inadvertently changed the birghtness setting for off (which is
separate from the brightness setting for on). Have you tried, while
its off, pressing
Mon dieu! You are spot on. Thank you very much for a speedy response,
you have saved me a lot of head-scratching!
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Hello Jhd,
The slimserver documentation has improved leaps and bounds over the
past six months. It can take a little time for open source
documentation to catch up with the progress and changes in the
software. A number of people volunteer and contribute their free time
to making constant
Thanks Chris, have dropped you a line. Bruce
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the bbc are offering at least one live radio feed in WMA format -
Windows Media Audio 9 32 kbps, 44 kHz, mono 1-pass CBR
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live_sportsextra_int.asx
is this a good substitute for an mp3 stream? should the beeb be
encouraged in this direction?
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I'm concerned that the BBC is going the for quantity not quality route
for its digital transmissions, be it downloads, streams or DAB. I'd
like to see them at least offer the option of high quality sources,
equivalent to FM stereo, for music and drama. I know that the
bandwidth you need to
That answers my thread too! Thanks.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18049
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I'll looking at the linux, but in all honesty, it seems to much hassle
to get it running completely right. Samba setup, network config,
mounting drives, getting them to automount etc and the general
maintanance required. seems too much - and will it be stable anyway?
Well, once
A simpler solution is to hold down the SHIFT key, while launching
Slimserver.
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I think you just press the + button while the song you want added is
in the Now Playing Playlist. Do not press and hold, just tap.
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... works like a charm!
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get started.
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Zapping a song also removes it from the current playlist. This probably
isn't what you want. I've never seen the point of zapping. Can anyone
explain the rationale behind it?
To zap a song, press and hold add on an item that is already in your
current playlist.
Max
m1abrams Wrote:
Hi,
I've recently installed SS 6.2.0 (and subsequently 6.2.1). I've a
number of albums ripped with iTunes to m4a format that will not play.
The album shows up on the list on the SB and each track in the album
displays for about 1 second then moves on to the next.
Any ideas?
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Why Australian? I'd go for a sexy Swedish voice every time!
Max
seanadams Wrote:
I'd like to spice up our phone system a bit...
Looking for a professional who can record approx 20 minutes of
announcements/menus, and be available in the future for updates.
If you know anyone please
max.spicer wrote:
Zapping a song also removes it from the current playlist. This probably
isn't what you want. I've never seen the point of zapping. Can anyone
explain the rationale behind it?
Zapping is for when you select by Artist Paul Simon, and after it
plays his first two solo
I've been asking for the ability to stream Napster Music to my
Squeezebox for 2 years. It's unlikely that anything will happen so
don't hold your breath!
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I've set up several PC music devices for friends, but not the Squeezebox
because it won't allow streaming audio from Napster.
It's such a shame, because Squezebox is better than any of its rivals.
PLEASE implement streaming from Napster.
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That's very strange. I've never heard of anyone having a problem like
this. By default, Random Mix will select ten songs from your library
(as filtered by the genre filter) and either add them to the end of
your playlist, or replace your playlist with them, depending on whether
you selected Add
Pressing and holding the + button removes the current song from the
playlist and adds it to a special playlist called Zapped Songs. I
usually use it to flag tracks with quality problems (I have a lot of
concert recordings and some have dropouts or mic problems).
But you could also use the
The music in our library is 196 kbs, and this limits the number of songs
on a portable music player (for the teenage son). Is there a method to
dynamically create a second version of the library at 96kbs in a second
directory? I would direct him to synch to the lower resolution where
quantity
Has this been resolved. I use a laptop sharing my desktop's music folder
and it works fine.
Of course you have to allow SlimServer to log on to your other
computer.
Control Panel...
Administrative tools...
Services...
Scroll down to SlimServer and double-click it.
Click the Log on tab
and enter a
Tapping just removes it from the playlist.
Press-and-hold ADD removes it from the playlist and moves it to the
Zapped playlist.
On Nov 13, 2005, at 5:25 AM, m1abrams wrote:
I think you just press the + button while the song you want added is
in the Now Playing Playlist. Do not press and
max.spicer wrote:
Why Australian? I'd go for a sexy Swedish voice every time!
Max
bork! bork! bork!
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I have some DTS flac files. I can stream these via my SB2 to a surround sound
amp, and it sounds superb.
However, two things I'm not particularly keen about are:
1) I only hear white noise through the analog outputs.
2) I have the Small VU displayed on the Now Playing screen - this doesn't
You don't say what format your music in (I'm guessing MP3), but
generally speaking there are tools out there for doing this. My main
music library is all in FLAC, so I used Pat Farrell's perl script
flac2mp3 (do a search). It requires that you install Perl, but it
wasn't that hard.
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Format is mp3. Thanks for tip. This will require putting PERL on the XP
server. I will take a look at how to do that. Thanks.
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Do any of your m4a files play, or is it only certain ones? I am on 6.2b1
and haven't had any problem like that and most of my music is ripped in
the same way as yours.
You haven't moved the music into another directory and not rescanned
have you?
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On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 09:07 -0800, bwenzlau wrote:
Format is mp3. Thanks for tip. This will require putting PERL on the XP
server. I will take a look at how to do that. Thanks.
Search for activestate perl. It is easy to istall
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radish Wrote:
I found the podcasts useless, I couldn't find a single XML feed with all
of them listed, you have to go to seperate pages for each show to see if
it has a podcast.
All the BBC podcasts are listed at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/subscribe.shtml
Some feedback from my
max.spicer Wrote:
A simple thing might be to watch out for reviews of products similar to
SB2 that don't mention the SB2 and email the mag/website asking why
they don't cover the SB2
Too late, though. Gotta find a way to insert ourselves earlier in the
cycle. Like look in magazine's theme
Yes, will be buying a new SB3 at some point soon. wIll give the old
WinXP fresh build server a go. If its not happening, i will have no
choice but to get down with the linux!
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max.spicer wrote:
Zapping a song also removes it from the current playlist. This probably
isn't what you want. I've never seen the point of zapping. Can anyone
explain the rationale behind it?
afaik it was originally added as a feature to easily tag a song
if you while listening found it
MrC Wrote:
. . . It can take a little time for open source documentation to catch
up with the progress and changes in the software. . . . Your point is
taken, however - the intial out of the box, setup experience could be
easier.
Thanks for your encouragement, though, in fairness, I think
max.spicer wrote:
Why Australian? I'd go for a sexy Swedish voice every time!
... and here _I_ am for just that ;)
/andreas
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Thank you for the replies, but have anyone actually got it done before,
is there any issues during the whole process? I want to hear a definite
answer before I get into it, thanks!
I did the software hack on the xbox some time ago. This only works on
xbox version 1.6 and
Use the undo function in MP3gain ( /u switch in Windows). This has a
very interresting side effect: The gain adjustment in the file will be
undone and the replay gain tags will be updated and can still be used!
If you had a tag with -0.5dB after treating the file with MP3gain, you
will have
No. Why use WMA rather than MP3? More devices support MP3. If you're
going to go for a non-free format, it might as well be the ubiquitous
one!
Max
bglad Wrote:
the bbc are offering at least one live radio feed in WMA format -
Windows Media Audio 9 32 kbps, 44 kHz, mono 1-pass CBR
mikerob Wrote:
Secondly, as mentioned by others, why do they do podcasts in an open
format (mp3) while streaming uses a closed format and proprietary
player?
I believe it is a rights issue.
Podcasts have all music removed (I believe), so they are only making
available speech and content that
Guys - This marketing coverage issue is pretty simple is it not?
Vendors that pay (yes, P - A - Y) advertising money within mags,
specialist or not, will get more visible and favourable coverage. I
know Slimdevices are a technology driven company etc, but standard
business practices must also
We're in agreement Dave2.
I meant my response not as a this is open source reminder, but as a
its a work in progress, and you're seeing progress in action
indication.
Anything that's not yet done can be critiqued as lacking. There are
only so many things that Slim and the volunteers can be do
just found the remote down the sofa after 3 months of looking for it,
mmm. what a relief!! thanks to Chris for the offer of the
remote, have dropped you an email.
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Hi, all. I am having real problems with my SB2 rebooting (after 2 t 20
songs) and then failing to find the slimserver. If I try right to
retry, it stall can't find it. If I try left and reset up the network,
it finds the server first time and is off.
No idea why it is rebooting but (in any
lostboy Wrote:
This follows up on abdomen's suggestion that a basic IR controlled mains
switch would be the simplest way of doing this - at least for those of
us who are not gifted with either the time or the skills to go
cooperised's route (and sadly I have neither).
After a little
Dave2 Wrote:
I sympathize with the volunteer developers: It's probably more fun to
add new features than to document (or stabilize) existing features for
existing customers.
Indeed so. What is _really_ good about documentation however, is that
you don't have to be a developer to write it.
mikerob Wrote:
All the BBC podcasts are listed at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/subscribe.shtml
Right, but I can't just put that URL into a podcast browser (like
slimserver) and pick what to play. I have to load the list into a web
browser, then decide which one's I'm interested
After upgrading my server to 6.2.1 (from 5.4.1) I started getting
internet radio stream failures constantly. A stream will play for a few
seconds then die.
I do not know what debug flags to turn on to diagnose this but I
guessed at a few and got some info that connections are getting
closed.
Try www.vellemanusa.com - and the same part no.
Chris
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Is quicktime or itunes installed on the slimserver machine? I believe
this is required to do the decoding.
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Have you looked at using Sveta Portable Audio at
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/sveta-portable-audio.htm? It allows you to
keep your files in one format and then when you want to move them over
to a portable device you just select the format to move them over in
and it does the conversion on the fly.
Thanks, Dean.
Does Sound Check work very well? i turned it on and was suprised
(disappointed) to find very few songs have any adjustments and I know
many songs need them.
is it better to use something like MP3Gain? I like the fact that Sound
Check will work with both my iPod and SlimServer,
This type of feature is listed as one of their top priorites. With WMA
being decoded directly by SqueezeBox 2, the only obstacle left is a
licensing agreement. I wouldn't be too surprised to see something
soon.
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pfarrell Wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 19:39 -0800,
The answer depends on your OS and level of paranoia.
I'm a Linux guy, and I'm pretty (or maybe very) paranoid.
So I first make a copy of all the important files,
including copying the whole slimserver tree.
Pat
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 15:04 -0800, jazzfan wrote:
pfarrell Wrote:
I'm a Linux guy, and I'm pretty (or maybe very) paranoid.
I don't mean to drag this thread off topic, but just had to ask...
Who's version of Linux are you running and what GUI are you using?
I'm mostly using Mandriva, which
Does Sean have a full-time focused PR guy?
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Hello,
I just placed an order for a Squeezebox 3, just for digital out. I was
wondering, if my current player is Foobar2000, can I set it to directly
output ot the Squeezebox 3? i.e., if I'm playing music on my computer
through Foobar, can I send the music to the Squeezebox 3 and listen to
the
Is there a remote control code for next playlist? I have a
programmable remote control, and if I get tired of the playlist I'm
listening to, I want to be able to skip to the next playlist with one
button.
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Just set up my new squeezebox. Everything seems okay except the
playlists that I have in itunes do not show up in squeezebox. Is this
to be expected?
Thanks
Ray
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OK, back to my problem with Squeezebox/Slimserver...
When I disable the iTunes plugin it works perfectly. but, it no longer
uses iTunes which I want it to use. When I tell it to rescan it reverts
to not using iTunes. When I switch it to use iTunes it plays music for
a few seconds then stops
On 11/13/05, akwok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just placed an order for a Squeezebox 3, just for digital out.I waswondering, if my current player is Foobar2000, can I set it to directlyoutput ot the Squeezebox 3?i.e., if I'm playing music on my computer
through Foobar, can I send the music to the
Thank you for the info,slimpy, but I believe it is much easier to do
soft mod now as long as you get right game and tool, actually it only
took me 10 minutes to mod two xbox this afternoon, but that is another
story, what I am really concerning about is how to put slimserver on
top of it.
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Over on AVSForum, Sean posted that native WMA support is the first step
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Ok, I finally found a comment here
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=52396highlight=wake#post52396
that this won't be added to squeezebox 1 firmware. Shouldn't bug 331 be
marked WONTFIX then? Also I'm wondering if it's possible to achieve
this effect (waking the slimserver) through
bcc Wrote:
I'm wondering if it's possible to achieve this effect (waking the
slimserver) through a plugin instead of a firmware fix.
I don't think so. Plugins plug in to the slimserver, which is
presumably asleep if you're trying to wake it up.
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Some of the plugins (such as graphicfont) affect what's run on the
squeezebox, not the slimserver, no? Maybe a plugin, such as one that
provides an internet radio station, could be hacked to provide this
functionality? For example, a dummy internet radio station whose
password happens to
bcc Wrote:
Some of the plugins (such as graphicfont) affect what's run on the
squeezebox
Correct. They effect what happens on the squeezebox, but they run on
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You can also do this the other way around. SlimServer
will recognize foobar as a player. It will say
player on local IP address. You can change this
to foobar on computer name.
Then set a playlist for foobar using SlimServer and
get the audio stream going in foobar. Start the SB3
and
I'm right thinking the only source we don't have access to in the whole
setup is the firmware source, right?
I understand Slim don't want to use resources upgrading old hardware
which can only introduce problems . Be interesing if some sort of
unofficial firmware appeared somewhere however,
Would that degrade the sound quality though? And also, will it show
what song is currently playing?
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On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 17:54 -0800, Jim wrote:
I'm right thinking the only source we don't have access to in the whole
setup is the firmware source, right?
Right, the microcode SDK is proprietary to the vendor that SlimDevices
bought them from, Apparently very, very expensive.
I know I just
Oh! Is there something I should keep in mind while I'm setting it up?
Are there instructions which explain how I should do this? :-)
Thanks for the reply Mark!
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
You can also do this the other way around. SlimServer
will recognize foobar as a player. It will say
player
Good point Pat. Like you I don't personally care as my server is on
25/8.
But some people do and I was only trying to contribute, and I'd like to
run a firmware upgrade one day. Being a bit late in upgrading from my
SlimMP3 I got my SB1 less than a week before the SB2 came out :(
Propietary
On 11/13/05, akwok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would that degrade the sound quality though?And also, will it showwhat song is currently playing?Could be that it would lower the sound quality of the broadcaster (Oddcast or Shoutcast) were to re-encode the music data (maybe to a lower bitrate). There
On 11/13/05, akwok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh!Is there something I should keep in mind while I'm setting it up?Are there instructions which explain how I should do this? :-)Thanks for the reply Mark!Mark's suggestion would result in your Foobar2000 client acting like a SqueezeBox -- but it
Ben Sandee Wrote:
On 11/13/05, akwok akwok.1ygrxz (AT) no-mx (DOT)
forums.slimdevices.com wrote:
Would that degrade the sound quality though? And also, will it show
what song is currently playing?
Could be that it would lower the sound quality of the broadcaster
(Oddcast
or
Yes, SlimServer would control both. foobar would not
control the playback.
foobar can only play back SlimServer streams in MP3
format. I believe it's high bitrate though, 320 kbps,
so there will be no appreciable sound quality decrease
for playing back an MP3 file or, for that matter, an
MP3
Most Internet audio streams are low-bitrate MP3s, 128
kbps or less.
There are no FLAC streams that I know of. FLACs are
in the 1 Mbps range. This would be considered
extremely wasteful for streaming audio. Most
streaming video is less than that!
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Ben
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 18:23 -0800, Jim wrote:
Propietary this/that/whatever and expense are irrelevant when if
someone smart can do something in a hex editor,
Well, it is just software, but writing micro-controller
code is a very specialized art. Not at all like writing
for an Intel x86. The
I just learned today that if you've got new music that hasn't been
scanned yet, and you go to it by Browse Music Folder in the web
interface or in the player, it gets added to your library on-the-fly.
That's cool. I'm running a recent 6.2.1 nightly (November 9) so I
don't know how long this
I'm with Jim :). I could give Pat a bunch of justification for
wake-on-lan but it sounds like that's a waste of time. Especially
considering that wake-on-lan has already been justified for sb2/3.
Like Jim I got an SB1 just before the sb2 came out. If the slimbox
was sufficiently open ended,
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 18:56 -0800, bcc wrote:
I could give Pat a bunch of justification for
wake-on-lan but it sounds like that's a waste of time.
I'm not the one you'd have to convince. I just asked because
I don't remember any of the reasons folks want it.
For any version of anything.
Personally, it seems to me like a feature looking for a problem.
You can do 90% of the power savings by figuring out how to spin down
the hard disk and getting a temperature controlled fan.
Considering that the implementation of WOL (at least for windows
system, but I think for all systems) is
I agree that the XBOX makes an interesting media server! The HD can
easily be upgraded, it's relatively quiet so it won't drown out soft
musical passages (unlike some of the loud PC fans), it's got the
built-in ethernet. Also, may be able to use it to play AVI/DiVX's off
the HD.
Since the
Oh well, I guess it's time to get rid of Foobar2000 then! I can't live
with anything less than FLAC, I've spent too much on my system !
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My SB2 exhibits some off behaviour when coming off from being paused.
If I pause and unpause within a few seconds, everything is fine.
However, if I pause then unpause 20 or more seconds later, the music
will resume, play to the end of the track, and not play further tracks
on the playlist.
That would be a shame.
foobar is a great player.
The limitation isn't with the player either.
Besides, do some listening tests. Most say that you
can't tell the difference between a 192 kbps
LAME-encoded MP3 and FLAC, let alone 320 kbps.
You should at least do some listening tests to
On 11/13/05, bossanova808 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My SB2 exhibits some off behaviour when coming off from being paused.If I pause and unpause within a few seconds, everything is fine.
However, if I pause then unpause 20 or more seconds later, the musicwill resume, play to the end of the track,
On 13-Nov-05, at 8:14 PM, bossanova808 wrote:
My SB2 exhibits some off behaviour when coming off from being paused.
If I pause and unpause within a few seconds, everything is fine.
However, if I pause then unpause 20 or more seconds later, the music
will resume, play to the end of the track,
I have spent over $5000 on my headphone setup, and for me every bit
counts! I switched from a flashed AV-710 sound card outputting digital
to the Squeezebox to hopefully give me a difference in audio quality.
Here is my setup :
http://tinyurl.com/86md8
So going from FLAC to anything less is
Second time this happened to me, warranted a posting. If I can;t resolve
it here I'll file abug, and maybe you all can let me know what data to
include with the bug. I don;t know if this a corrupt db or not, I
can;t even see an error maesasge, and i have nearly all the flags
turned on (see
Grabbed nightly 6.2.1, no change.
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I think I need to explain a bit better what I am suggesting.
Imagine a serious bugfix. Imagine now is 1999 and SB1 wasn't Y2K
ready. the world would end anyway like they're saying but Slim would I
imagine fix this and release a firmware upgreade.
Why don't Slim upgrade old SB1 firmware?
I have two SB's - an SBg and an SB2. I decided that I wanted my
wireless to be single mode-G rather than mixed mode to work on
stability. To do so, I hauled out an old WET54g bridge to work with my
WAP54g access point. I have another WET54g in another part of the house
feeding a small LAN
Wow guys. With my initial questions I was neither proposing some
firmware reverse engineering effort nor expecting an expensive official
support solution. There was an open bug report in the current database
that appears to have been under investigation for quite some time; I
was trying to get
Jim Wrote:
...nobody is going to buy a SB2/3 just for wake-on-lan (well there will
always be 1).
bcc Wrote:
I *was* considering even upgrading to a newer box if that is what it
would take.
Well, that's just given Slim a $$$ reason to NOT make the change (if
they would have done -
I'll have to get lost in seeing what uname tells me.
I have not ripped CDs mostly because of not having time to digest all
the possible formats to rip to. I'll have to give it a shot.
Linux is very cool - long live the Penguin!
Thanks again,
Jazzfan
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Cool - I'll have to wait until it makes it into the update for the
ReadyNAS, usually a few days after the final major point release. But
knowing it is coming is good enough for me.
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i think this isn't working for me. I get the song i select to play, but
erros on the rest of the songs in the folder. If I start with song 3,
after it finishes I can play 1-3 but not 4-8. I have to do a full
rescan to fix the now-borked folder.
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