Try slim.exe --help
It'll print a list to the console.
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Philippe, let me know how to email you, and I'll send instructions.
Thanks.
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I'll give that a go this evening bpa, thanks.
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I don't think there is a need to test Mplayer - I noticed the following
line
Code:
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such device
This means there was no audio out device which is what you said. My
Mplayer test will
The multiple album entries has been reported before, but the duplicate
tracks thing came up for the first time yesterday:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24955
No-one is quite sure if it's a tag issue or a bug - it doesn't appear
to affect all albums, and seems to mainly affect
Lowrent - Read the wiki on your progress.. do I take it that the project
is now abandoned or is there still a glimmer of hope ?
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Count me in when you get details...
Will there be an option to backup to an external disk or is it just for
Q-RAID 1
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I am considering getting a qnap and has some quesitons:
1. Performance: How is the performance especially with a lot of
lossless music installed? I have a Buffalo Linkstation with Slim
installed and the response time is dismal both from the remote control
and web. Would the QNAP having tested
Once I pick a cd or group of cd's or random mix from my computer, I can
(with thr remote) change within the selection but if I try to pick a
different cd or from random to cd it freezes and I have to refresh and
then choose.
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I only have mp3 files, thinks could be a bit different for lossless
formats, so be careful.
1. Performance: satisfactory.
Generally there are no interruptions during the music.
The response is sometimes a bit sluggish. The interface hangs and
then, after about a second, it's starts to respond.
For bpa
BBC stations play OK, it is only AAC+ that I have a problem with. I'll
run the MPlayer test into the wav file and replay on my WinXP box to
make sure.
I'll do the d_source check for mplayer.sh output and perhaps compare
for BBC stations and AAC+.
One other minor issue is that the
agentsmith Wrote:
I am considering getting a qnap and has some quesitons:
1. Performance: How is the performance especially with a lot of
lossless music installed? I have a Buffalo Linkstation with Slim
installed and the response time is dismal both from the remote control
and web.
1. Regarding the blank filetypes - The formatting is critical. Ensure
that AAP on first line starts in col 1. Ensure that the 2nd line has
a tab (ascii 9) before and after the EN - some editors replace tabs
with spaces !.
2. Check that AAP is in the types.conf file.
3. Restart SS
If still
Just to add my £0.02
Performance when using the remote is generally the same as wehn i was
running SS on my laptop. Listing all 880 albums, 320ish artists or 100
newest additions does take a few seconds (i think i timed it at about
6), but this isn't a major problem. Would be nice if there was
Slimserver hosted on the QNAP is at the following address as written
previosuly in my thread
http://192.168.1.68:9000
It times out on the psp.
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I'm using 'nano' to edit the files, and I am not sure whether it does
something when wrapping the text - I would hope not. Is there any case
sensitivity as types.conf and the other files are lower aac and
strings.txt upper AAC?
I know this is not a problem on Windows as it works fine.
I will
bklaas Wrote:
I believe I have fixed everything, but let me know if anything is
amiss.
Been away from the trunk until the last few days -- just curious if you
are currently able to browse artwork?? I get a text listing on the
Nokia?
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Case shouldn't matter - I did my testing on a Linux 6.3/6.5 systems.
Don't know about nano but try moving the cursor across the line - if it
jumps then there are tabs. Inconclusive if it doesn't. Usually the
replace tabs with spaces feature is a user configurable setting.
There are some
Siduhe schrieb:
No-one is quite sure if it's a tag issue or a bug - it doesn't appear
to affect all albums, and seems to mainly affect albums with multiple
artists ? My theory remains that it is something to do with the
different way that Slimserver reads tags in 6.3.0. but I haven't been
I had a quick go at using it, but its probably a bit early in the
development stage just yet as it would freeze when scanning wma files,
but would play tracks if you openeed them individually.
All in all worth keeping an eye on, but a bit buggy to be useable just
yet imho!
N
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atlslim Wrote:
Been away from the trunk until the last few days -- just curious if you
are currently able to browse artwork?? I get a text listing on the
Nokia?
Nice catch-- yep, broken. I'll take a look at it later today.
cheers,
#!/ben
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oreillymj wrote:
Looks like an open source iTunes replacement
I've been watching this project and hoping for good things.
The dev roadmap is here:
http://www.songbirdnest.com/development/roadmap
And here is a preview-preview of their next release:
http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/525
If
Hi,
First of all I LOVE the random album feature, I dont know why this is
so rare on players..
..BUT is there a way to Skip an entire album without skipping over
every track on the album?? If a way to do this doesnt exist i think
it'd be a nice feature could be done using say a double
Hi all,
I need a clarification about streaming AAC files in native format, from
the slimserver.
We are planning to stream AAC files in native format without any
transcodings. Does Slimserver support streaming AAC files in native
format without any transcodings?
Could you please clarify me
gregoryroberts Wrote:
Slimserver hosted on the QNAP is at the following address as written
previosuly in my thread
http://192.168.1.68:9000
It times out on the psp.
Not sure if this is relevant, but I thought I would post anyway. When I
try to access my QNAP remotely from work, I can
ModelCitizen Wrote:
All my files are flac, all tagged using MP3Tag.
Each disk is held in a separate directory, i.e.
Music Folder/Artist - Album [Label,Year]/disc 1
I only populate the title, artist, album, tracknumber, genre, year and
comments fields. These are the tags supported by
As title really. How do I give SlimServer a designated IP address (in
non-technical speak!)? My router is setup to get dynamic IP address
from my ISP, but is there a way to say that the SlimServer is always
192.168.0.100 (for example) on my network?
This has come about because I have recently
I believe that the answer is No, although I can't find a document to
corroborate. The SB 2/3 can natively decode WAV, FLAC, MP3, and WMA
(not lossless).
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Did you check in mp3tag only the standard tags shown on the left pane in
the predefined input fields or did you also check the hidden tags
which you can see if you choose a song with the right mouse and choose
the tags item from the context menu?
I had the problem that for some of my songs the
b_prem Wrote:
We are planning to stream AAC files in native format without any
transcodings.
Why is this an issue? It's a completely transparent process.
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Thanks very much for the suggestion dip. I have indeed checked the
extended tags and what I state above is definitely correct for all my
Various Artist albums (at least) - the only tags used are tracknumber,
artist, title, album, genre, year, comment.
Any other suggestions very welcome,
gwiddicombe Wrote:
As title really. How do I give SlimServer a designated IP address (in
non-technical speak!)? My router is setup to get dynamic IP address
from my ISP, but is there a way to say that the SlimServer is always
192.168.0.100 (for example) on my network?
When the SB tries to
That depends on what your slimserver is.. I assume you are running
windows. The easiest way is to simply set a static IP in windows.
I googled for windows set static IP and found this:
http://www.portforward.com/networking/static-xp.htm
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Even easier might be to used a reserved IP address for your system.
This will maintain the same IP address for your slimserver PC, and you
don't have to worry about setting up other IP info such as DNS, etc. on
your PC.
See Reserved Ip Addresses on page 7-6 of your manual, online at
I use a mixture of ogg and flac files and the same tags as you except
comment. I also have for each album a separate directory. A further
suggestion is that sometimes I had strange results (like double
entries) although I made a wipe and rescan. After manually deleting the
cache file everything
I am grateful for your help but I'm afraid it doesn't help. What you
call the cache I call the database and as I state quite unclearly
above, I delete it each time I attempt a rescan to cure the problem.
Any more suggestions very welcome.
BTW. There is a difference in the way you and I hold our
I also have for each physical disk a separate directory, i.e. for an
album comprising two disks I have two separate directories.
My structure is
music folder/artist/album name/tracknumber-artist - title.flac
for normal cases and
music folder/artist/album name - CD1/tracknumber-artist -
Thanks. Should have thought of that. That will teach me to ask questions
right before going to bed.
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For bpa
I have checked the file changes and seems OK. The Filetypes problem was
finger trouble now corrected.
The problem is worse than I thought, I can't play wma albums either.
The album is selected into a player list which then runs through every
track in a few seconds with no output into
I forgot to mention one difference between our structures. In my
structure the ALBUM tag is always identical to the directory name
containing the files (e.g. The Disco Years - CD1). As far as I
understood in your structure the ALBUM tag would be The Disco Years
(CD1) but the directory structure
WMA on Linux is usually implemented using AlienBBC for SB1 and
SoftSqueeze.
I'm wondering whether you installed the Windows zip for AlienBBC and
not the Linux version ?
If a playlist is set up (i.e. select an album) and SlimServer cannot
play a track, it will move onto the next one. If WMA
Siduhe schrieb:
However, some people are experiencing the same problem on files which
do not using the compilation tag. In these cases, AFAIK, it's been
resolved just by resetting the album tag and doing a full rescan.
I usually don't use the compilation tag, either. I only had to set it in
The browser should refresh on all platforms, it's the only way for the
display to remain current. You can set the interval in Server
Settings/Interface/Browser Refresh Timing.
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Well, did it work?
I don't think I've had a problem with SlimServer causing the FF memory
leak, but Gmail caused it just now for me - I killed the FF process
when it exceeded 200 MB of memory!
So I applied the fix.
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Restarted SS with d_source on and found parsing error on
custom-strings.txt. Deleted the file and restarted - wma now works
OK. However AAC will still not run.
This is the output of the d_source log:
2006-06-28 19:22:28.5089 undermax = 1, type = aap, squeezebox2 =
00:04:20:06:63:22, lame =
Hi,
I haven't needed to post before, but I think my squeezebox may be
allergic to Slimserver 6.3...
My setup:
- Mac G4 Cube (450MHz G4, 1.0 Gbyte of RAM, 120Gbyte of disk, 21Gbytes
free), MacOS 10.3.5,
- 3700 files in Apple Lossless encoding, no MP3s
- Slimserver serves files from iTunes
Dunno, it still leaks for me... :/ Maybe something else is causing it
to leak, too... it seems to be leaking slower than before.. but it
still leaks.
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Does the slim.exe --help show all the commands because I was looking
for a command line way to have it rescan the music director and I don't
see that under --help?
Sorry if this is another dumb question.
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Title: Scalix message content
Since FLAC is unable to
stream, and I guess SS needs to transcode into something like MP3 to stream
(assuming this is correct), where/what are the most optimal settings? My goal is
to stream the highest possible bitrate/quality as I send a digitial out from the
blkwrx Wrote:
Does the slim.exe --help show all the commands because I was looking
for a command line way to have it rescan the music director and I don't
see that under --help? There was --scanonly but I don't want to exit
when done.
Sorry if this is another dumb question.
You would do
That's not true, at least with respect to the SB2/3. (I'm not sure
about the other devices.) You ARE able to stream flac which is one of
the great advantages to storing your music as flac as opposed to WMA
Lossless. You are still able to get a bit-exact output with about half
the bandwidth as
Ahhh...sc. Off I go now to re-rip 700 cd's as FLAC...
Thanks...I was hoping I was wrong
-Original Message-
From: bgriffis
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Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:33 PM
To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
Subject: [slim] Re: Optimal settings
JJZolx Wrote:
You would do this in 6.2.x and 6.3 by having SlimServer already running
and then using the CLI to send it a command to rescan. The CLI
interface is just a telnet interface to the server. You could either
use Windows Scriptiong Host to script the Windows telnet.exe client, or
What is slims response to these issues? Is it always someone elses
fault?
At the moment i have an SB3 sitting there pretty much useless.
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At the moment i have an SB3 sitting there pretty much useless.
contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for direct contact. For reasons that
should be obvious, less and less actual SD employees have time to pour
over forum posts.
-kdf
I think --stdio will then let you do CLI from the the console although I
have never tried it.
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Working on a fix for browse-by-artwork. Opened a thread in the
developers forum discussing it:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25066
Digest:
I've mostly fixed the traditional browse-by-artwork, although it isn't
sorting like it should be.
The 1-by-1 artwork browse feature from
Quoting bklaas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Digest:
I've mostly fixed the traditional browse-by-artwork, although it isn't
sorting like it should be.
sorting is an ongoing issue, and may take a while. 6.5 is unstable,
and will probably remain so for at least a while longer. At least
with 6.3.0
I think I found another case where Group compilations is not working
correctly. I noticed this with my remaining WMA files. All artists
from the tracks are showing up under Browse Artists, as is the artist
Various Artists
Album is stored in the music directory as Various Artists\Album.
Each
as always, spot on and thanks KDF (and for your help on the dev
thread).
all-- artwork browsing should work for both styles of browsing again
(checked in fixes Wed afternoon). sorting will wait until after the
dust settles a bit on 6.5. Like KDF, I'm happy to see 6.3 released so
focus can shift
BTW, the only options with flac files is the compression ratio, with 8
being the highest level of compression.
I have heard from several sources that the difference in the amount of
compression is not that great. You may want to try a few test rips at
different levels of compression.
I use 8
I can run slimserver and play music on the squeezebox for approximately
30-45 seconds, and then without fail slimserver stops and slim.exe
disappears from the list of processes. I have disabled the Windows
firewall as well as the PC-Cillin firewall. I have a 2wire firewall
running on the
nelamvr6 wrote:
BTW, the only options with flac files is the compression ratio, with 8
being the highest level of compression.
It is really an indication to the compression engine of how much time
the user wants the engine to spend trying to compress things a little
bit better.
It is really
BigBirdy Wrote:
Ahhh...sc. Off I go now to re-rip 700 cd's as
FLAC...
Thanks...I was hoping I was wrong
If they're already ripped as a lossless format (e.g. WAV) you don't
need to rerip - just convert.
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blkwrx Wrote:
Hey Jim thanks for the response. The OS I'm running can not install
teraterm and has the telnet services removed so unless you guys go
another way I'll have to figure out another way.
It's the telnet client you need - not the telnet service. You can use
the built in windows one
radish Wrote:
It's the telnet client you need - not the telnet service. You can use
the built in windows one or something like hyperterminal or putty. If
those are a no-go you can look at something like starting IE with a
magic url to trigger the scan.
telnet clint is also removed I was
pfarrell Wrote:
nelamvr6 wrote:
BTW, the only options with flac files is the compression ratio, with
8
being the highest level of compression.
It is really an indication to the compression engine of how much time
the user wants the engine to spend trying to compress things a little
I've run tests myself to compare encode speed vs. compression.
Obviously, if speed is not an issue, 8 is the best. That's what I
typically use. However, if I want to go faster but still have
reasonable compression, 5-6 is pretty good. The speed difference from
1-5-6 is minimal, while the
Something like this should do the trick, just fix the server URL.
http://localhost:9000/setup.html?page=serverrescantype=1rescanrescan=Rescan
Try this first in IE, you may get a CAUTH warning, in which case use
the URL it provides on that page.
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Just upgraded to Slimserver to 6.3.0 from 6.2.2 today on Linux. I was
shocked to find this problem (among others -- eg: CPAN issue)
These are obviously Albums containing tracks with different artists,
otherwise known as compilation albums.
Is there a fix for this? To me, this isn't a valid
You might want to look a few threads down.
This is a known issue, but it isn't yet clear whether it is a bug or
something to do with a slightly revised way that Slimserver reads
tags.
Luckily, it's easy to fix (or at least, has been for most people - one
I think is still experiencing problems).
radish Wrote:
Something like this should do the trick, just fix the server URL.
http://localhost:9000/setup.html?page=serverrescantype=1rescanrescan=Rescan
Try this first in IE, you may get a CAUTH warning, in which case use
the URL it provides on that page.
Thanks, worked perfect.
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Another question...
When slimserver starts it brings up IE to http://localhost:9000/
Is ther a place to change this to the rescan url without too much
trouble?
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Not that I know of, but I don't use the tray icon. Out of curiosity -
why do you want to rescan so often?
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radish Wrote:
Not that I know of, but I don't use the tray icon. Out of curiosity -
why do you want to rescan so often?
I don't necessarily. I'm putting an SB2 and a CarPC in my car and its
not going to be hooked up to a monitor so I need to automate all these
features. I have the SlimServer
On 28-Jun-06, at 7:39 PM, blkwrx wrote:
radish Wrote:
Not that I know of, but I don't use the tray icon. Out of curiosity -
why do you want to rescan so often?
I don't necessarily. I'm putting an SB2 and a CarPC
can you not save the rescan url as a shortcut and put it in the startup
All my albums are in seperate directories. It seems to effect both
compilation albums and some single albums with no specific reason. Even
if uninstalled, it continus to effect earlier versions such as 6.2.1 or
6.2.2. Is there a way to remove absolutely all of 6.2.3, what files
could I be missing
kdf Wrote:
can you not save the rescan url as a shortcut and put it in the startup
folder?
-k
Yes but the server isn't started in time. I've been researching a way
to delay opening the url shortcut until after the server is started but
I haven't found one yet.
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Genius! But I'm not sure what this means.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 6/28/2006
Time: 7:57:06 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DIRTYSOCKS
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source (
blkwrx Wrote:
I don't necessarily. I'm putting an SB2 and a CarPC in my car and its
not going to be hooked up to a monitor so I need to automate all these
features. I have the SlimServer installed on a external drive and it
automatically runs when the drive is plugged in (the drive also has
JJZolx Wrote:
Enable the 'Rescan Music Library' plugin and just set it to rescan every
night.
You should run the server as a service so that it automatically starts
up when the computer boots. Although if you don't have it set up as a
service now, and you've write protected the system
Well it did work :) I finally played around with some of the server
setting too and disabled some stuff so it will load faster. But I don't
think its going to work for a library rescan because on my home computer
the drive comes up as L: and the D: drive is a fixed drive that needs to
be labeled
To stream AAC files from slimserver(version 6.2.2) in native format
without any transcoding, I disabled the following, and restarted the
slimserver.
File Format Stream Format Decoder
Apple AAC, Lossless or Movie File AIFF mov123
Apple AAC, Lossless or
rick's cafe Wrote:
Lowrent - Read the wiki on your progress.. do I take it that the project
is now abandoned or is there still a glimmer of hope ?
Ah man... it is SO frustrating. Every time I had a good idea, there was
something in the way.
At the moment, I have way too much stuff to take
I've got a Mac and use iTunes to rip/organize all my music files, but I
don't use the iTunes Music Store because a)I have a problem with DRM
and b) I especially have a problem with DRM that prevents me from
streaming to my Squeezebox. So I'm wondering if there's a good
alternative to iTunes for
I use Lala.com to trade cds and rip them using iTunes. As far as
buying music online I don't much. If you have access to your iTunes
folder then you can copy mp3s to your non-apple mp3 player.
On 6/28/06, jake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a Mac and use iTunes to rip/organize all my
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