Have you tried hooking up the Squeezebox in wired mode, for testing?
If the buffer never fills, it's probably not getting data fast enough.
My assumption would be that there's something amiss with your wireless
network. The fact that it's working at all means you're connected,
but the
Honestly I don't think attaching and referencing will really do the
guide justice. I'd attach the guide in PDF form but the forum limits
pdfs to 20kb!!!
A PDF is undesirable too because then others can't edit and update it.
Ideally Slim would somehow host the graphics... but I guess I could
Honestly I don't think attaching and referencing will really do the
guide justice.
IMHO you can reference them from within the text
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?KwikiFormattingRules). Once
attached, reference them and they should be displayed. Or am I wrong?
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An interesting homebrew device from some students in Augsburg.
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/rundfunker/
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Added a section about the 'Best MP3 Guide'.
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WiFi mode)
Krobb's
I have noticed similar issues - 48 kHz flac plays back at 44.1 kHz, and
24 bit flac skips. This is on a 100 Mbit ethernet connection.
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Robin Bowes Wrote:
Philip Downer wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 03:42 -0700, Fifer wrote:
I haven't used them but 'this'
(http://www.devolo.co.uk/uk_EN/button/dlanfaq.html) might help
answer
some of your questions.
I can highly recommend the Devolo homeplug products they are very
Their web site now says they are currently expected 28 February! Will
this ever end?
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On 2/16/06, blueranger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, OK, so I was bored!!
I sat down in front of my server the other afternoon, browsed these
pages and saw that other people were successfully changing over from
SQLite to MySQL. I already have Microsoft SQL installed on my server,
the same
Sounds like a buffer underrun. As many have indicated, signal strength
is not the whole picture.
You can enable the buffer fullness indicator by going to SlimServer
Player Settings - Now Playing Information - Include buffer fullness in
Playing Display Mode list: Enabled. Press NOW PLAYING on
Heuer, where does it say that? Can you post a link? All I can see is
Order now for Feb '06 delivery.
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Is it possible to get a WMA internet radio station (specifically, CBC
Radio 1 Toronto[0]) streaming through slimserver running on a linux box?
Is AlienBBC required to get it working?
[0] http://origin.www.cbc.ca/mrl2/livemedia/cbcr1-toronto.asx
Thanks,
- Marc
Is it possible to get a WMA internet radio station (specifically, CBC
Radio 1 Toronto[0]) streaming through slimserver running on a linux box?
Is AlienBBC required to get it working?
I'd say so, yes. I can't actually listen to it as it's playing at home
(and I'm at the office). But I see
Hi,
How do I get just elapsed time on my squeezebox without the progress bar?
Pressing now playing shows a progress bar with every elapsed time option.
I've got elapsed time on the player settings (default interface SlimServer
Version: 6.5b1 - 6019 - Linux, sb2)
thanks
Waldy
Also, try turning off any other computers/devices you may have on the
network. This would rule out a potential bandwidth competitor, or even
a device with a manually-assigned IP address conflicting with the
address of your Squeezebox. Not that I've ever been silly enough to let
that happen on my
I'm starting to have duplicate tracks show up in my album listings. A
clear and rescan seems to get rid of some of them, but not all of them.
Would erasure of my music files and a new scan help this problem, and
how would I do it? I have WinXP, SS 6.2.1 and don't use MySQL or
SQLite.
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I seem to have the same issue. My collection of recently ripped Chinese
music does not get imported during a scan. It was ripped using WMP and
the directory and song names are in Chinese.
I tried renaming some song DIRECTORY and FILENAMES to English and they
were imported and showed up with
Not Progressive I know but they are all drinking from the same cup:
http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?products_id=1041
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On 2/1/06, dborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess I should try a small subset of my music collection with maybe 1
or 2 multi-disc albums and 1 or 2 various artists albums. Now it takes
too long to go change everything (even if Mp3tag is good) and then
rescan the whole database.
This makes a
Thanks. I think that Progressive are the importers, so they will bring
in the shipment and then send stock on to distributors like Advanced.
If so, (and I've heard nothing to the contrary), I'm hoping those of us
who ordered from Cooltopia/Progressive will still receive our orders
this week as
I've been running slimserver on a Linsys NSLU2, with the Unslung
firmware. Indexing is kind of slow, but other than that it works
pretty well - the box seems to stumble and fall over once in a while.
No floating point, so there are a bunch of formats I can't get
at - mostly an issue (for me) for
Ordered mine from Multi-task Computing who say they have left the Far
East and are expected in the UK later this week. They will ship to
customers as soon as they arrive, hopefully by Friday.
On the other hand this was exactly what they said last Monday for
delivery today!
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I'd be intrigued to know how Slimserver 6.2 runs without either MySQL or
SQLite, and what it's doing when scanning if not filling one or other of
those?
Try looking for a file called slimserversql.db in somewhere like
C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache This is a SQLite database.
Delete it
GoCubs Wrote:
Bradley-
Thanks for the message. I did notice something about this when looking
at the documentation for the Yahoo widget. However, I'm not sure how to
get this information. Do I have to do something special to get it out
of the stream? I thought SlimServer did this
Larry and Mark, thanks for clarifying :) Looks like I can save quite
some bucks.
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* dailofan shaped the electrons to say...
I seem to have the same issue. My collection of recently ripped Chinese
music does not get imported during a scan. It was ripped using WMP and
the directory and song names are in Chinese.
I tried renaming some song DIRECTORY and FILENAMES to English
raylpc Wrote:
Larry and Mark, thanks for clarifying :) Looks like I can save quite
some bucks.
Save yourself some worry, and order in canadian from
www.kawarthatv.com. That's where I ordered all of mine from.
(Never order anything from the states via UPS...their brokerage fee is
You may improve read/write performance slightly but if you choose say...
1024k and then save a file that is 32k then it will take up 1024k of
space. Not a big deal with that big drive...
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Michael Herger wrote:
The stream actually is mms://wm05.nm.cbc.ca/cbcr1-toronto
Thanks.
AlienBBC is the key. Give it a try.
Ok. What exactly does the AlienBBC plugin do beyond what the stock
slimserver does? Is it the plugin that enables transcoding on streams?
- Marc
I have a SB I'd like to be able to move between living room (wired) and
kitchen (wireless).
It's configured for the wired network now.
- when I move it between the two locations, will the SB automatically
know which network connection to use?
- In other words, if I plug it in to the wired net
On 2/20/06, ianwi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The most recent thing I did was add some new music a few days ago. It
played alright. That's the last change I've made to the server.
I'm not a Perl programmer either, but perhaps this points to a corrupt
.db file? Especially if nothing's been changed
Quoting Geoff B [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 2/20/06, ianwi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The most recent thing I did was add some new music a few days ago. It
played alright. That's the last change I've made to the server.
I'm not a Perl programmer either, but perhaps this points to a corrupt
.db
I'm CC'ed to a bug about the remote jumping through menu items.
There are some settings in this bug report that I want. But I can't find the
bug by searching bugs.slimdevices. A search on say,remote jump gives
me zillions of bugs and I still can't find the one I want in the returns.
I just
Quoting Simon @ Home [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm CC'ed to a bug about the remote jumping through menu items.
There are some settings in this bug report that I want. But I can't find the
bug by searching bugs.slimdevices. A search on say,remote jump gives
me zillions of bugs and I still can't
On 2/20/06, Simon @ Home [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm CC'ed to a bug about the remote jumping through menu items.
There are some settings in this bug report that I want. But I can't find the
bug by searching bugs.slimdevices. A search on say,remote jump gives
me zillions of bugs and I
The stream actually is mms://wm05.nm.cbc.ca/cbcr1-toronto
...and it does play. Back home I was even able to listen to it.
Ok. What exactly does the AlienBBC plugin do beyond what the stock
slimserver does? Is it the plugin that enables transcoding on streams?
Exactly. It will help you
ceejay Wrote:
I'd be intrigued to know how Slimserver 6.2 runs without either MySQL or
SQLite, and what it's doing when scanning if not filling one or other of
those?
Try looking for a file called slimserversql.db in somewhere like
C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache This is a
Michaelwagner wrote:
If their main feed is to the satellite, that's their business model.
If they don't (and won't) care about the quality of that, are they
ever going to care about the quality for a few people getting it over
the internet?
I agree with you on this. My hope is that the owners
Cheers groovers,
found it at the bottom of the complex search box thingy.
Simon/MC
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crooner,
My 48KHz files are at 16 bit.
Does this problem only happen with FLAC, or does it happen with all
formats?
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Crooner,
Thanks for responding.
I've got the encryption right -- it's WPA Personal. The SB3 is the
only device connected wireless. The 2 computers are connected by
ethernet cable.
The SB3 appears not to see a signal at all. You think the rounter may
be shot? The darn thing is only 2
OK, I'll bite. What's the theory behind playing an infant white noise?
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Michael Herger wrote:
The stream actually is mms://wm05.nm.cbc.ca/cbcr1-toronto
...and it does play. Back home I was even able to listen to it.
But it sounds terrible... they're only streaming 32kbps. :/
Thanks again for all the help.
- Marc
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What do the files look like? Do they have a proper name and a proper
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What ripper are you using? Sounds like it screwed up.
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And here is a link to an interesting discussion of how each service
works, and how they might differ in usage:
http://www.stevekrause.org/steve_krause_blog/2006/01/pandora_and_las.html
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tyler_durden Wrote:
Try formatting in HPFS. The default allocation size is 512 bytes, I
believe. You'll get less fragmentation in HPFS also.
TD
Thanks for the suggestion but whoa, looks complicated - you seem to
need drivers and special support for it?
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Try this link http://www.mutek.co.uk/ I have purchased Home Plug stuff
from them. They normaly deliver in a day or two.
My experience is that it is a quick and easy way of networking and it
delivers for one of my SB2s sending FLAC files which are transcoded on
the SB2.
Ken
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Mark Lanctot said the following on 02/20/2006 08:43 PM:
tyler_durden Wrote:
Try formatting in HPFS. The default allocation size is 512 bytes, I
believe. You'll get less fragmentation in HPFS also.
TD
Thanks for the suggestion but whoa, looks complicated - you seem to
need drivers and
I had problems with duplicated tracks, too. When I imported new CDs,
recently, the related album seemed to contain each track twice. This
was not the case in former times. My actual configuration is:
SlimServer Version: 6.2.1 - 5157 - Mac OS X 10.4.5 (8H14) - DE - utf8
I had SlimServer
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
FAT32 is recommended for large file sizes but you're limited to 32 GB
volumes. What would be the point of a 250 GB drive in that case?
Only by Windows... in that WinXP won't let you format a FAT32 partition
32GB, because Microsoft want us to stick to NTFS - which, to
One of my more clueful coworkers was talking to me about the Squeezebox.
He's especially interested in it because of the ability to control a
stereo component via web browser instead of memorizing a remote as he
put it. As you might guess from the thread title, he is completely
blind.
So that's
I still haven't heard anything from support.
I have tried moving the unit closer to my wireless access point. I can see a
stable 80% signal strength at the setup menus, but when I connect, I see the
signal strength visibly drop 30% and then it seems to wonder up and down. I
have taken stats
Hi all
Did the switch today. The only minor problem was the DBD:mysql thing,
but Yast2 (I'm running SuSE 9.2) was able to install that for me.
Thanks
Felix
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Everyone said: This cannot be done. But one day someone came along who
didn't know about this - and did it. (Source unknown)
That all looks OK to me... Not sure what more to suggest.
Clutching at straws, do you have a wav file you could try playing? It
should use more of the link bandwidth so should stutter more? (but
exercise a different codec in the player)
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hi -- i'm a little new with slimserver, so please forgive me if
there's an obvious way to do what i need -- just point me in the
right direction.
there are tracks in my collection that i (almost) never want to
hear. these might be voice-only intro segments on live concert
recordings, or
Philip Meyer Wrote:
I still haven't heard anything from support.
Phil
I'm surprised - they've always been very responsive to me. How are you
trying to contact them ? Email ? Make sure that any reply hasn't been
caught by a spam filter - it seems to happen quite a lot.
I would pick up the
slimdemage Wrote:
Do people usually pay $300 to bust out the screwdrivers and take apart
their gadgets? I am almost shocked they asked me to disassemble the
Squeezebox3. I would expect to be paid for that kind of work.
Small companies work differently than large ones. They made it an
option
I don't think there is such a function.
Two workarounds:
- Move the tracks to another genre/album (f.e. rock_extra). Ugly but
works.
- Use iTunes and use the checkbox. Slimserver can be configured to
ignore unchecked songs. You cannot play the songs any longer (from the
Squeezebox), but they
Chuck Pelto Wrote:
Got a playlist I've had for quite some time.
Now I'm getting reports on various songs found on this playlist that
the file cannot be found. iTunes can find and play the mp3 file just
fine.
What is the solution to this problem?
If this is an iTunes playlist, then
goofygrin Wrote:
Is there anything else I'm missing or can try?
I hate to be the one to say it, but
Roku support probably?
25% signal strength is pretty bad.
Add in that Roku only supports 802.11b and there's your problem.
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Just got my m500 up and running on my linksys router (supported).
160, 192 kbps mp3s play fine
320kbps cbr and flac breakup somewhat randomly.
I'm getting between 25-32 on my signal strength.
Running slimserver on my linux (gentoo) server (don't have a windows
box to run anything else
Thanks for the help all.
I've created a bunch of new pages which all link from this page:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?EACBeginners
Please feel free to update as you see fit or send me suggestions.
Mark can you have a look at these pages and determine whether it should
replace your
Slimserver isn't supported by Roku... so I posted here and on their
forum.
It's not 25% signal... it's their signal quality reading.
I think it might be the 802.11b issue... but I'm still playing with
it.
I just can't justify $250 for a squeezebox. I'll add another network
drop if I have to.
Two workarounds:
- Move the tracks to another genre/album (f.e. rock_extra).
Ugly but works.
wouldn't random playback of 'genre rock' still pick them up?
but i understand what you mean in principle.
- Use iTunes and use the checkbox. Slimserver can be
configured to ignore
One of my more clueful coworkers was talking to me about the Squeezebox.
He's especially interested in it because of the ability to control a
stereo component via web browser instead of memorizing a remote as he
put it. As you might guess from the thread title, he is completely
blind.
So
FWIW I use Belkin Powerline adaptors, and they are the greatest thing
since sliced bread! I had a wireless network that was too distant to
work reliably. Network would flake out constantly. I spent countless
hours troubleshooting it. I finally gave up and got the powerline
stuff. I plugged
I'd assume that you've been down this path and have rejected it or are
still looking for alternates...but just in case you aren't fully
apprised you should investigate the nokia 770 (mentioned obliquely in a
post above)--very slick skin, long battery life (for this purpose), a
little pricey as a
Has anyone encountered difficulties connecting a nokia 770 to the web
via an apple airport extreme/mac mini setup? is there a specific
firewall port that needs to be opened? i've discussed this issue with
nokie senior technical advisors who suggest that the airport extreme
does not support the
Jess Askey Wrote:
I am in the U.S. and you are correct, we have 3-wire ~240V with a singel
neutral and two hot ~120V taps that are 180 degress out of phase with a
seperate ground.
Maybe the 600V vs. 440V is due to the canadian/US exchange rate. :-P
Michaelwagner wrote:
This
Hey Ceejay, can you expand on that a bit? I've got Partition Magic here
- can I use that to format my 250GB drive with FAT32? (maybe 2
partitions - 1 for back-up, 1 for FLAC files) Which will enable me to
properly use the DLink DNS120 Network Storage Adapter I bought on a
whim, as it only
Yes, thanks Geoff.
Doing that little subset allowed me to quickly fix most of my problems.
The disc and discc tags ended up just being user-entered tags so
the one I had to use was discnumber or something similar (the one
that gets mapped to TPOS) and that worked.
Now I have my multi-disc sets
the problem is also that the m500 is using a small buffer and has a
questionable TCP/IP stack. Sorry, it is just not likely to do what you
need.
I'd suggest trying out the Squeezebox3 with the 30-day return policy in
mind. If you have any modest amount of time and/or money invested in
your music
Sean you must not be married :)
My wife sees $100 vs. $300 and the conversation ends. Period. If I'm
going to spend $300 per room, I'm going to look much closer at the
Sonos because their remote is way better and wife friendly. Their 40k
song limit + some other things hold me back.
Hibernate or Stand-by can be activated on a schedule using AutoHotKey
from www.autohotkey.com. This free open source scripting utility lets
you control many system level operations very easily. I created a
simple script as shown below. I then created a windows schedule task
to execute this
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Sean you must not be married :)
heh - why do you think I'm posting here 24hrs a day?
WRT to the user interface, I forgot to mention: to get a better idea of
what Squeezebox is like, you might want to try out SoftSqueeze. You'll
see the high-res display, fast response time,
On 20-Feb-06, at 7:54 PM, bklaas wrote:
that certainly implies JPG is the format you need.
.gif works too
-k
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It looks like the best program to control the SlimServer web page would
be Dragon Naturally Speaking.
This Festival program you mention forms the other part of the
equation, audible feedback of the page to the user. Looks quite
My first post so go easy on me if this has already been addressed... ;)
To create a list of all artists/albums/songs I added all my songs into
the playlist in Slimserver and saved it. I then opened that playlist
(*.m3u - an ASCII text written using backslash ( \ ) as the delimiter)
in Excel,
Quoting superbad [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm using iTunes to manage my library, but I don't want to use it for
podcasts (because I don't launch iTunes often enough to update the
podcasts with sufficient frequency). I've entered a bunch of podcasts
in the plugins section on Slimserver, but the
zuvembi Wrote:
One of my more clueful coworkers was talking to me about the Squeezebox.
He's especially interested in it because of the ability to control a
stereo component via web browser instead of memorizing a remote as he
put it. As you might guess from the thread title, he is
seanadams Wrote:
heh - why do you think I'm posting here 24hrs a day?
:D (I just snuck upstairs before bed -- she'll be calling my phone
soon!)
WRT to the user interface, I forgot to mention: to get a better idea of
what Squeezebox is like, you might want to try out SoftSqueeze. You'll
see
goofygrin Wrote:
It's the server web software. It's painful. It feels like it was
written in 2003 or something. The meta refreshes drive me nuts in IE
with the clicking.
Boy, mileage really does vary. I love SlimServer's UI, and think that
not only is it a great Web app, but that it's
FWIW, I had a Roku M1000 for a short time (about a week). After picking
up the Squeezeobx and seeing a HUGE performance difference I
IMMEDIATELY repackaged the Roku and returned it. There is just no
comparing them. If you want to justify the $250 then buy two without
wireless and it's only
mkozlows Wrote:
Boy, mileage really does vary. I love SlimServer's UI, and think that
not only is it a great Web app, but that it's also the best media
player I've used.
(As for the IE clicking, the solution to that is to use Firefox for
SlimServer.)
Holy war territory, but if IE didn't
I don't want to have to add network drops if I can help it (in some
places I can't add them), so I'm stuck at the $250 per (assuming the
$100 off two). Now if I could get the $100 off two of the sb2's...
I realize the component costs are higher. When I was trying to
determine if I could
Frankly, if you think that slimserver's web ui is a great ui, then you
need to get out a little
Thanks for the gratuitous insult. Really classes up the conversation.
- font sizes are locked down and are very small. Not all of us have
20/15 vision :)
Font sizes are only locked down if
and I rarely use the web interface at all...
that's why i have a remote...
(and no pc at all in the bedroom where one sb is...)
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Has anyone encountered difficulties connecting a nokia 770 to the web
via an apple airport extreme/mac mini setup? is there a specific
firewall port that needs to be opened? i've discussed this issue with
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#networking-firewall
nokie senior technical
Me neither. I do have a laptop in my bedroom but I turn it off when I
listen to music.
That's the real beauty of the Squeezebox.
I briefly owned the Roku and I returned it immediately. Inferior in
every way...
snarlydwarf Wrote:
and I rarely use the web interface at all...
that's why i
jmpage2 Wrote:
One thing I forgot to mention is that there are even scrobbler plugins
for iPod, Rio Karma and other music players for last.fm. This is
really cool as when I synch my iPod it uploads a list of all tracks
I've listened to so that last.fm can add it to my user profile.
Does
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