I am also interested finding out about Sonos ZP80. I use both SB3 and
Sonos system.
I use one SB3 for my main Hi-Fi system in entertainment room. I am
using Sonos for rest of the house now (where UI and synch ability are
more important than Hi-Fi).
If ZP80 with digital output is equal to
Hi All,
I've just fixed up home.html in Nokia 700 skin to specify image width
and height for all the images. This makes it much more pleasant and
faster on first use because:
1) it doesn't redraw as it downloads the images
2) because of 1 the final image appears quicker
If you use the skin on
Are you referring to the old xBox. The old xBox is a dinosaur so it may
be unfair to judge the xBox360 with the new one.
Just wondering how the xBox score as a media box, as it has tight
integration with Windows Media OS it may be work as a video version of
the SB. Also, since it has more
Hi,
Just a quick question - is there a Nokia770 skin page for Random mix?
The SVN version seems to be from the default skin. I'd be happy to help
convert this page, but I don't want to waste my time if someone else has
already done it.
Malcolm
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Once you've suffered the double indignity of being sent music which is
lossy AND DRM'ed...
Ceejay
LOL - I don't think I could have said it any better myself. ;-)
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Please refer back to the SMC thread, so we don't up doubling up here!
Thanks!
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Synchronisation seems to work on the latest build - IF you are just
using harware ( any version of the Slim devices ). However, once a
SoftSqueeze client is included, there is a latency of about half a
second for that particular client.
If you just try synchronising a number of SoftSqueeze
To reiterate, the problems I am seeing are on the above configuration.
Note that the firmware is fixed at version 21 to match up with the
slimserver version, as advised by kdf.
I have begun thinking that it may be a server problem, as I have
observed that the wireless stops transmitting from
Actually what I meant was, what SlimServer version
are you running? (That dictates the Squeezebox
firmware version).
Not what router firmware version, since I don't
have your router, nor am I likely to get one now. ;-)
nicketynick wrote:
Hi Mark,
Please refer back to the SMC thread, so we
If your server is on a laptop and the laptop uses wireless to the router
- what wireless card is in the laptop ?
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I figured out what the problem was: by reading an old forum I
discovered the problem could lie in a perl issu, as I was keeping some
cue sheets created with EAC together with the single flac files. I
squeezed the cues to zip files and the problem was solved...
Thanks!
G
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Thanks to older posts and newer replies it seems I am solving out most
of the problems affecting my squeezebox and my slimserver.
One last problem, however, is still there to puzzle me. I am using a
Netgear SC101 with a Maxtor 300 giga hard drive in it. This is
connected to a Netgear
It is the SMC WCB-G - I've been pleased with it so far. One thing I
like is that it tells you signal strength as well as 'link quality', so
it helps with identifying issues. For example, last night the SB
actually started 'stuttering' - I currently have the laptop near the
unit while I'm
Malcolm-- thanks for the patch to home.html. I hadn't realized I didn't
have width/height tags on the home img tags. I tested it, then checked
in your revision a few minutes ago.
I have some ideas on the 780 vs 800 width thing. I'm going to test them
out today and see how it works.
cheers,
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Well, which firmware was it?
I'm using DD-WRT v23. Seems to be very Slim-friendly.
:-)
Glad you solved your problems!
Thanks! Right now I'm sticking with WRT54GS/GL HyperWRT + Thibor.
http://www.thibor.co.uk/ I guess it's a combined version of HyperWRT
and
I have an Intel 2200BG card which resulted in spurious disconnects to my
Linux server - turned out to be power mangement in the laptop reducing
wireless signal. I don't know about the SMC card
AFAIK WPA results in a small reduction in bandwidth - since both server
and SB3 are connected by
Just a quick question - is there a Nokia770 skin page for Random mix?
No, and there can't be.
Of course there can! You could create Nokia770 specific templates for
those plugins. There's already been a request today for this.
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Could you also ask why their customer services have refused to even
acknowledge my attempts at discussing a way of obtaining replacements
for CD's bought in the 80's where the aluminium has rotted and they are
no longer playable. Is it acceptable that I should go and
nelamvr6 wrote:
You guys can't see it right now, but I'm lifting a Guinness to all my
fellow Squeezebox users in the UK. Cheers!
Actually, some of your favourite plugins were written by a Canadian, not
a Brit. :)
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Actually is should be posible to skin the plugins as well, although I
can't get this to work yet. Michael Herger on the developers forums
said:
QUOTE:
Copy Plugins/RandomPlay/HTML/EN to Plugins/RandomPlay/HTML/Nokia770 and
change it to your likings.
However I've tried this and it
Okay, thanks, I see where you can create a mix in MMJB, and then
right-click the MMJB Play button to get a list of available players,
and for the Slimserver, a list of connected SB units. Each unit is
listed by it's MAC address (client name would be easier to recognize).
However, when I select
bpa Wrote:
I have an Intel 2200BG card which resulted in spurious disconnects to my
Linux server - turned out to be power mangement in the laptop reducing
wireless signal. I don't know about the SMC card
I'll check power management again - maybe there is something in there
set for 100
I find it amazing that the original author has the idea that his
widget somehow warrants a strict attitude like that. The widget does a
very basic task, nothing complex has to be done and no inventive coding
seems to be needed. I might just take this challenge up and start a new
version (have not
On 16 Jan 2006, at 06:06 , EnochLight wrote:
pfarrell Wrote:
Decompressing it does not recover the lost signal.
Its gone forever.
I am aware of that; I'm not saying that files like that are
lossless to
begin with. However, ripping them to CD doesn't degrade their sound
quality from
Michael Herger wrote:
Just a quick question - is there a Nokia770 skin page for Random mix?
No, and there can't be.
Of course there can! You could create Nokia770 specific templates for
those plugins. There's already been a request today for this.
Are you referring to the old xBox.
No. I'm referring to the 360. My modded Xbox is _much_ quieter.
Just wondering how the xBox score as a media box
Well, Xbox media center is pretty slick, but I don't know how long
it'll be supported now that the Xbox 360 is out. And you have to
hack
My remote is the RM LJ304. what I am really interested in not only
changing volume and on/off, but also the source. If I cannot do his, I
still have to move from the couch, which ofcourse is not a good thing
;)
Had a problem with my cables yesterday but will test the setup via the
keene
I currently have a Linksys b-based router. However, I really want to
upgrade to a g-based router before installing the SB3 and Slimserver.
Are the Linksys/Netgear/? etc. routers all equally compatible with the
SB3 and Slimserver?
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I tried the codes available for sony and power on off worked (albeit
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So al least one positive. The connection to the Keene ir distrubutor
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my netgear DG834 has never had a problem, connecting via a belkin 54g
WAP.
If you look at the wiki here:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RouterStatus
there is a list of which routers/WAPs people have got working and which
ones people have thrown out.
The Linksys WRT54G seems to be very
I don't have either one, but I am pretty sure you need Windows Media
Center installed on your PC to stream content to the 360.
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/Xbox360/video.html
The 360 has two real disadvantages for me: sound quality (not going to
be as good as the Squeezebox), and the
My SB3 has been working flawlessly until I added a bunch of music
recently. I just about filled up my hard drive (7.39GB left of 279GB
total). I placed a link to a folder on another drive for more music
within the primary folder as well.. Now my SB3 finds everything and
starts playing any song
jtuggey Wrote:
I have used auto shutdown Xp with great success.
This will either shutdown/standby/hibernate at set time, or more
usefully, when a particular process or system measure falls below or
above a certain threshold. I use it to monitor the network activity of
the slim server, and
Marc Sherman Wrote:
nelamvr6 wrote:
You guys can't see it right now, but I'm lifting a Guinness to all
my
fellow Squeezebox users in the UK. Cheers!
Actually, some of your favourite plugins were written by a Canadian,
not
a Brit. :)
- Marc
Yaeh, and I'm grateful, but the
To be accurate, they play audio on machines that have QuickTime
installed - it does not use iTunes.
And since you must have QuickTime installed to use iTunes (DRM files or
not), I'm not sure what the big deal is?
Music Library is a Java-based program that uses the QuickTime API for
this
I've just installed slimserver on a new machine and have a weird
problem. I can't connect to 127.0.0.1:9000
I have a webserver running on the same computer on ports 80 and 8080
and I'm able to connect to 127.0.0.1:8080 just fine.
However, I can connect to 192.168.1.101:9000 (ip of said
kewe65 wrote:
To be accurate, they play audio on machines that have QuickTime
installed - it does not use iTunes.
And since you must have QuickTime installed to use iTunes (DRM files or
not), I'm not sure what the big deal is?
Music Library is a Java-based program that uses the QuickTime API
Can't figure out why my G5Imac running 10.4.4, Slimserver 6.2.2 won't
playback .shn files.
When I save/change the shn related preferences in Slimserver it shoots
out the related line from convert.conf and says it can't find an
appropriate binary.
I'm running (Carbonized) Shorten 1.1a4 available
kdf Wrote:
Michael Herger wrote:
Just a quick question - is there a Nokia770 skin page for Random
mix?
No, and there can't be.
Of course there can! You could create Nokia770 specific templates for
those plugins. There's already been a request today for this.
mikerob Wrote:
The Motorola ROKR (aka CROKR) mobile phone does support DRM protected
iTunes Music Store tracks (www.apple.com/uk/itunes/mobile/faq/) but
Motorola appear to be the only company to date that Apple has done a
licensing deal with.
And even then, Motorola didn't exactly get a good
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kdf Wrote:
Michael Herger wrote:
Just a quick question - is there a Nokia770 skin page for Random
mix?
No, and there can't be.
Of course there can! You could create Nokia770 specific templates for
those plugins. There's already been a request today for
I'm also not sure what exactly is missing. With the patch that I
provided in the dev forum, you should be able to see a nokia770-like
versino of random and favourites already. You just have to make more
use of [% webroot %] instead of making those urls absolute. An
absolute href will break
spot on as usual, KDF!
I'm making the necessary changes to all of the pages and will update
svn in a few minutes.
This will give plugin-fed pages the top nav bar and player chooser.
One remaining inconsistency is that I want the playlist controls to
show up on the left, not the right of each
Thanks - I'll look into those logs.
If it is a problem with shorten metadata would this mean shn playback
on my SB3 is hopeless and a mass recode necessary?
Man I hope not...
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stinkingpig Wrote:
kewe65 wrote:
To be accurate, they play audio on machines that have QuickTime
installed - it does not use iTunes.
And since you must have QuickTime installed to use iTunes (DRM files
or
not), I'm not sure what the big deal is?
Music Library is a Java-based
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I have an as*load of archived .shns - this is a big issue for me.
check the logs with d_source enabled in server settings-debugging.
more than liklely, it is a problem with the metadata. Shorten
documentation is very limited for extracting metadata
kewe65 wrote:
...
No, the files are decoded prior to the soundcard. A programmer
reverse-engineered the quicktime API for the protected format and put
the method in a book - QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook By
Chris Adamson
The software I'm talking about, Music Library, is unique in
Also, hadn't update my svn tree on Nokia770, so I wasn't using the new
cmdwrappers you checked in (didn't realize anyone else was checking in
things)...
anyway, looks pretty good to me now...
#!/ben
Ben,
Would it be possible to have an 'I' button for each track in the
playlist, just like
I too am getting the same problem, but I don't have the knowledge of how
to upgrade Perl. I'm using CentOs 4.2, which is basically RedHat
Enterprise. Can anyone help?
For what it's worth, I've had this frequently, but only since 6.1.
5.4.x was rock solid, and would run for weeks; 6.x runs for
kewe65 Wrote:
The software I'm talking about, Music Library, is unique in that it's
the only thing out there right now that will play all different file
types AND also access Sony CD Changer tracks via a Slink-e AND placed
them in the same inventoried library list.
Quoting bklaas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
spot on as usual, KDF!
I'm making the necessary changes to all of the pages and will update
svn in a few minutes.
I saw the checkin, and it looks good from viewing that. I can't update
until later.
One remaining inconsistency is that I want the
Quoting bklaas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Also, hadn't update my svn tree on Nokia770, so I wasn't using the new
cmdwrappers you checked in (didn't realize anyone else was checking in
things)...
yes, sorry about that. Being as active as you are on this skin right
now, I'd normally have posted a
Does the Replay gain function work equally well with either the Sound
Check feature of iTunes or the manual volume adjustment in Itunes?
I ask because the utility i used to equalize the volumes in my library
(iVolume) has changed the way it operates. It now uses the Sound
Check functionality
Richie Wrote:
Ben,
Would it be possible to have an 'I' button for each track in the
playlist, just like fishbone? This would be a great help when I want
information on a track in a random playlist that isn't the currently
playing track.
Thanks for the excellent work on this skin,
g_ghirardi Wrote:
In previous posts, I found someone suggesting to wipe the cache each
time before rescanning, but I cannot find a command like that in the
6.2.2. version of the slimserver. Any help will indeed be mostly
appreciated!
Server Settings - Rescan Music Library - select Clear
jimwillsher Wrote:
For what it's worth, I've had this frequently, but only since 6.1. 5.4.x
was rock solid, and would run for weeks; 6.x runs for hours at most.
I believe 6.x uses (and requires) perl 5.8.7
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I'm getting a The page cannot be displayed in the right pane, where it
would normally show the play list. Hasn't always been like this, and
I'm not sure what changed to make it happen.
Tried reinstalling Slimserver, but the same behavior started again
after a short time. (In fact, I re-imaged
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The website here:
http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_specs.html
says
Linux/BSD/Solaris/Other: Perl 5.8.3 or later
I don't really have the option of upgrading as there's no RPM available
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comes with 5.8.6. Unless anyone can
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Ah, think I got it
Pop-up blocker in IE was turned on. Turning it off seems to have made
the problem go away.
I'll leave this post up in case anyone else has a similar problem.
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Is there a way to convert a playlist that I created in SlimServer to an
iTunes playlist? I have tried a few different apps to convert .m3u
files to iTunes playlists, but none seem to work.
Of course, it could just be the user!
Thanks for the help.
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'I' button was replaced by hyperlinking all track names to the info
page. Just click on the song title and you'll get what you're asking
for...
#!/ben
Thanks, I hadn't realised that.
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Is there a webgui (like that excellent Fishbone) that does what kdf is
talking about?
I'm guessing he's not talking about doing it manually.
I could imagine that the pulldown where you can choose the player, has
the option all, automatically updating all the players.
Or is there another way?
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Hi Jaap_98
The following .conf file has been learned from an universal remote.
Maybe it works...
Felix
Code:
begin remote
name sony_rec_2
bits 11
flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH
eps30
aeps 100
header 2468 537
pjeutr Wrote:
Hi
Is there a webgui (like that excellent Fishbone) that does what kdf is
talking about?
I'm guessing he's not talking about doing it manually.
I could imagine that the pulldown where you can choose the player, has
the option all, automatically updating all the players.
Or
Uh, maybe not.
Problem is back. Now setting the pop-up blocker off/on/off isn't
resolving the page can not be displayed error.
Anyone seen this behavior?
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I love my SB3 at home and was thinking about getting one for my beach
house. A few original Squeezeboxes are now offered on Ebay. My stereo
is close enough to my AP to go wired or wireless. My music files are
all flac. Would I be giving up anything that I love about the SB3 with
an original
I can't get my iTunes playlists either.
I have a new PC with fresh install of iTunes and SS 6.2.1
My iTunes Playlist is in the default setting of C:\DOCU..\MY
MUSIC\ITUNES
My music is on another drive on E:\ITUNES
I can get all my music via SS but none of my iTunes Playlists come
across.
Was
* ARL67 shaped the electrons to say...
I can't get my iTunes playlists either.
I have a new PC with fresh install of iTunes and SS 6.2.1
My iTunes Playlist is in the default setting of C:\DOCU..\MY
MUSIC\ITUNES
My music is on another drive on E:\ITUNES
I can get all my music via SS but none of
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I love my SB3 at home and was thinking about getting one for my beach
house. A few original Squeezeboxes are now offered on Ebay. My stereo
is close enough to my AP to go wired or wireless. My music files are
all flac. Would I be giving up anything that I
I sent my supplier my SB3 back as being faulty. However, they are saying
that they have tested it and have found no fault. Also, they are saying
that they wont return it until i pay a charge.
It is faulty, the top half of the screen fails and the front metal
bezel is coming un-stuck. The problem
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I have a 360. Excellent games machine, lousy media player. Basically,
with an XP machine on your network you can:
Look at JPGs
Listen to WMA/MP3
To play video (WMV/MPEG only) you need a machine running Media Center
(which I don't have or want).
If you already have a Media Center PC which you
* radish shaped the electrons to say...
I'm still looking for a (simple) way to watch DivX on my TV without
burning DVDs.
http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/xbox-360/the-360-does-divx-148837.php
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Taking the advice of a previous poster, here is how it fixed itself:
Stop SS service via the system tray
Open a command prompt, navigate to the SS folder, and run SLIM.EXE
My hard drive churned away for many minutes.
Once the hard drive access stopped, I opened up Internet Explorer to
config my
Are you running a Firewall?
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All this talk about the work being done for the Nokia 770 is making me
jealous. But it seems Nokia has no plans to release the 770 here in
Canada.
So I was wondering about other options.
Has anyone any experience using HP iPAQs for this?
If so, how well do they work? Any gotchas, things (or
twynne Wrote:
Putting the machine into suspend and then resuming seems to cause some
problems. .net details attached. Let me know if you want/need further
info.
Cheers,
Tom
So it does - I guess it loses the network socket. Will put a patch into
the next release - thanks for the
Michaelwagner Wrote:
But their families might.
Regardless of how you personally feel about it, society as a whole
decided, not just for music but for all copyright issues, decades ago,
that copyrights last for some period of time after the copyright holder
has died (I think it's 50
stinkingpig Wrote:
kewe65 wrote:
I'm curious about this latter path. Could you describe this in lay
terms? I could use the squeezebox to receive the stream based on
capturing whatever is passed to the soundcard?
I already actually have the computer wired to take the output from
kewe65 wrote:
...
Can't Slimserver just be configured to stream to the Squeezebox
whatever is being delivered to the soundcard?
That would be pretty cool:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643. I added my vote.
All I'm really interested in is playback of these files. I intend
* Jack Coates shaped the electrons to say...
You just paste the URL of the Icecast stream into the Tune In box
under Internet Radio in the web interface. Setting up an Icecast
server can be a pain, if converting your DRMed tracks to MP3 looks like
trouble, you really don't want to know how
I don't know if it will help but try these two things. First of all,
you should have at least 10% free space on any hard drive, optimally 15
- 20%. After freeing up some space I'd try defragmenting the drive.
When a volume get's really full like that things can get pretty messy.
But be sure
Hi,
I've been trying to play the following internet radio station:
mms://ms2.capitalinteractive.co.uk/xfm_high
but get no sound. It looks as if it is going to work, and says it is
loading the station, but I just get silence. Most other radio stations
seem to work.
I'm running Mac OSX 10.4.4
Well I did own a Neuston media box that does video quite well and MP3s
very poorly. Not a bad box if you use it mostly for video, as a music
box it is close to unusable for me in terms of ergonomics and sound
quality. Not sure what the status of the company is.
What operating system are you using?
Was there a message anywhere when it stopped?
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I'm not being any help, but I can confirm it is working for me.
SB1
SlimServer 6.2.1
Ubuntu Linux
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Individuals no longer have a say when it comes to copyright. The debate
is between electronics manufacturers and the entertainment industry.
Both sides are interested in earning our dollars - neither campaigns
for the rights of individuals. We've lost our voice.
And they
another attachment to handle the randomplay plugin using cmdwrappers,
moving the controls to the left side of the page. I'll leave it to you
to decide on the exact layout that you like. This is mainly for an
example to show that the controls can be moved.
-kdf
Index:
Can't Slimserver just be configured to stream to the Squeezebox
whatever is being delivered to the soundcard?
That would be pretty cool:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643. I added my vote.
There's a discussion of this going on right now in the Beginners list,
where pbjbryan
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Let's be clear on another thing.
Some form of copyright was in the US constitution. I don't think the
recording industry in it's current form was around back then.
Yes, Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution says The Congress shall
have Power...To promote the
agentsmith Wrote:
Hope I am not causing a stir here.
Just wondering how the new XBox 360 compares with the Slim offering. I
have an Sb2 and am wondering if I should get an XBOX too.
The 360 has several big advantages over the Squeezebox:
1. It can use WMC (on a regular XP box) or Media
icky2000 Wrote:
You no longer are allowed fair use or in some cases, the advantages of
the first sale doctrine.
Has this survived a supreme court challenge?
I'm not in the US, so I'm not familiar with US politics, but it's hard
to see how DMCA could overturn fair use and first sale,
BTW, on this topic, interesting web site here:
http://www.digitalconsumer.org/
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I am trying to get slimserver (slimserver-6.2.1-1) working with
softsqueeze under linux prior to purchasing the hardware.
On pc1 I have slimserver running
On pc2 I have softsqueeze running
The problem I have is that when I try to scan my music collection
I do not see individual
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