On 29-Jun-06, at 12:03 PM, ModelCitizen wrote:
kdf, get your self a glass of wine or a beer or whatever stimulant
dings
your bell and listen to some music!
but if I did that, my last.fm profile wouldn't be HALF as funny
-kdf
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Just a thought, but streaming over that distance may be a problem. As
mentioned, the advantage of synching would be minimal because how would
you ever know, unless you phoned someone in the main house! Why not
consider a small seperate server for the barn. It would be easy to
dubplicate your
Can I just point out that Cat-5/6/7 cables are not waterproof, and be
careful with the runs as you are hitting the maximum distance for Cat-5
before errors kick in.
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flocknocker Wrote:
I currently have a squeezebox2 . I have a finished barn located 300'
away from the location of the Squeezebox. Would it be ideal for me to
run a cat 5 wire to the barn, buy another squeezebox, and link the two
together so I can enjoy my music out in the barn? Could I get
I found SB3 runs pretty warm, even I turn it off. I disconnect the power
supply and it cool down. Is it normal?
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pretty much. a SqueezeBox never really powers off, 'off' is just a
player state with different settings for the display and brightness
etc. I guess if you set the screen to be completely black it wouldn't
be generating any heat, but the rest of the unit will still be powered.
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100m free air can be bridged wireless almost out of the box.
So I would also suggest going wireless with directional antennas.
I thing that 1 directionl antenna at the house would be sufficient, use
a SB2 with wireless on the other side.
There are quite a few plans on the web to build your own
I just installed version 6.3.0 and noticed this version no longer seems
to present a top level 'Podcasts' menu option on my player. I can
browse to my itunes library 'podcasts' playlist but that presents a
scrambled mess. I liked how slimserver would group them just like
iTunes does.
What
FIXED!
The problem was solved after I emailed support, this was the suggested
fix and it worked -
It sounds like you may be running into a version conflict between your
old and new Slimservers.
Try the following:
* Uninstall Slimserver from the Add/Remove Programs box in Control
Panels
*
sorry mark, not sure what you mean.
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I've gone back to 6.2.2 and I don't have this problem anymore.
Slimserver follows the windows shortcut to the second directory.
For some reason 6.3 and 6.5 are not getting to the second drive.
While browsing music folder, when I get to any of the files on the
second drive I see that all of
kdf Wrote:
search for new and changed causes dupes with lazysearch
Sadly, yes, with SlimServer 6.2/6.3 that is the case. The bugzilla
numbers are #2511 and #2531 (I think your problem is specifically the
first of these two).
This problem is resolved with SlimServer 6.5 and the
kdf Wrote:
It will break fishbone, but that's a matter of adding header='1' again
in the right place if you feel the need to use that skin.-k
Is a fix for fishbone in the works?
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Thank you
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Thanks for the hints...
This is strange to me, cuz it appears to connect to the router, just
not my hard-wired machine.
I've tried with the router's firewall turned off, and mac filtering is
not enabled. But I have not yet tried it with different or no security
(i.e., WEP vs. WPA, etc).
On 30-Jun-06, at 4:31 AM, Jeff52 wrote:
kdf Wrote:
It will break fishbone, but that's a matter of adding header='1' again
in the right place if you feel the need to use that skin.-k
Is a fix for fishbone in the works?
nope. it was merged in last night, as I had said I would do.
grab the
Paul Forgey Wrote:
I just installed version 6.3.0 and noticed this version no longer seems
to present a top level 'Podcasts' menu option on my player. I can
browse to my itunes library 'podcasts' playlist but that presents a
scrambled mess. I liked how slimserver would group them just like
We are moving all of our media off our iMac and onto our new ReadyNAS NV
we purchased through Slim Devices' promotion.
How will I create playlists now that Slim Server isn't using iTunes as
its source, it is just scanning the music folder?
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I am going out of my mind. I just to have my SB3 connected in ad hoc
mode just fine, but now i cent get it to connect. I have tried setting
it all up again, but i just can't get it to work.
The truth is, i know little about wireless networks and even less and
ad hoc ones. The wierd thing is that
You're right, actually on the Squeezebox it was under the Browse Music
menu. There are no podcasts under the podcasts plug-in other than the
two PodcastAlley menus.
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Mine gets warm as well.
I'd like to see this improved in a later release of the hardware.
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You're right, actually on the Squeezebox it was under the Browse Music
menu. There are no podcasts under the podcasts plug-in other than the
two PodcastAlley menus.
Podcast browser is not the same as the iTunes Podcasts menu item.
the iTunes scanner
ZappaLover Wrote:
You can. click on tools-extensions. Right click on the individual
extensions, choose disable, Bob's yer uncle.
Thanks. Silly me - I expected a button, like Uninstall or Options.
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Hi,
Was this ever resolved? My SB3 is showing 12:32PM when it should be
8:32PM. I've looked all over my Slimserver but can't see anything
wrong.
Regards,
NZ
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I've configured a number of radio stations, however, the following
station only plays the ident and then never plays the live stream.
I've tried URL snooper and Lynx to dump the http for the website but no
joy. Can anyone help.
Main website: www.dee1063.com
The radio URLs I have tried are:
Unless your wireless network has DHCP enabled to assign IP addresses to
the clients, you need to assign a fixed IP address that is in the same
subnet. If your SB is not in the same subnet, it will not see anything
else on your network.
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I've configured a number of radio stations, however, the following
station only plays the ident and then never plays the live stream.
I've tried URL snooper and Lynx to dump the http for the website but no
joy. Can anyone help.
I used this tool from
try
mms://stream00.prostream.co.uk/dee1063
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Thanks for the link. I've tried that and none of the URLs found by
that software work:
http://www.t2euk.com/customers/dee1063/asx/dee1063.asx
mms://stream01.prostream.co.uk/dee1063
mms://stream01.prostream.co.uk/dee10633
HTTP://stream01.prostream.co.uk/dee1063 dee1063.wma
Nick
On Fri, 30 Jun
When I add this to the Radio Tune In option it fails to play. If it's
working for you perhaps I have other problems. Can you confirm if it is
working for you?
Thanks,
Nick
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, bpa wrote:
try
mms://stream00.prostream.co.uk/dee1063
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kdf Wrote:
Quoting Paul Forgey
Paul.Forgey.2a8agz1151693101 (AT) no-mx (DOT)
forums.slimdevices.com:
You're right, actually on the Squeezebox it was under the Browse
Music
menu. There are no podcasts under the podcasts plug-in other than
the
two PodcastAlley menus.
Podcast
Works fine for me but I forgot to say I have Window media (Built-in)
disabled in Server Settings/Filetypes. It doesn't work if this box is
checked.
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Thanks. I've disabled that as well but the stream changes to 'stopped'
almost immediately. At least I know it is something wrong with my server.
Can anyone offer any debugging help? Is there anyway to get a log file
that details what is causing this URL to fail to play?
Nick
On Fri, 30
mherger Wrote:
I can't say for sure what's compatible and what's not. But why do you
know
that they're not recognized?
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For one thing, Linux takes its sweet time before it begins configuring
devices; I get the penguin icon in the upper left corner, then it sits
I've opened bug 3665 on this.
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You are using Fedora - to play WMA with built in disabled on Linux you
need something like Mplayer installed. What have you installed it ?
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How do i know if DHCP is set up and where do i look to see if it is? I'm
completely lost here now!
And how do i manually sett up a wireless network? I can only seem to
find the wizard.
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I've just installed mplayer and restarted slimserver. Do I need to
configure anything in Slimserver to associate mplayer with Windows media
files?
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Seems there is a lot of stuff going on about this, however all theories
put forward so far do not seem to account for what is happening to
me mainly as I keep each disk (and each album) in a distinct folder
and my problem is not cured by opening the files in MP3Tag and resaving
the files.
In
dangerous_dom Wrote:
How do i know if DHCP is set up and where do i look to see if it is? I'm
completely lost here now!
And how do i manually sett up a wireless network? I can only seem to
find the wizard.
It's not likely that you're using DHCP unless you installed a DHCP
server on the PC.
From the manual, page 14-15
http://www.slimdevices.com/documentation/Squeezebox-v3-Owners-Guide.pdf
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You can use the remote control or the web interface to create playlists
and
save them for later. Before you
Once you have Mplayer installed working - if you have a sound card on
your PC then the following will play your station. If it doesn't work
then either the version of Mplayer is too old or incompatible sound
subsystem.
mplayer -cache 128 mms://stream00.prostream.co.uk/dee1063
The easiest way
Ok, as far as i can tell the network is up and running on my PC. I can
even connect my PDA to it and browse my shared files.
The SB3 is obviously detecting my nwtwork as it shows the signal
strengh as 90% and even find thes SSID of the network. The problem is
when i choose the SSID of the
NookZ Wrote:
Hi,
Was this ever resolved? My SB3 is showing 12:32PM when it should be
8:32PM. I've looked all over my Slimserver but can't see anything
wrong.
Regards,
NZ
The original post was about squeezenetwork, which is out of users'
control. If you're using slimserver, it
Thank you for your help. It's all now working. I'll know if it was worth
it tomorrow morning when my wife can finally listen to a local radio
station.
Perhaps this will persuade her for the need for another couple of
Sqeezeboxes!
Nick
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, bpa wrote:
Once you have
Well, don't bang your head against the desk!
Let's start with the easy stuff:
You're connected from a Windows PC to an SB3 using an adhoc wireless
network, is that correct?
On the PC, you can tell what the IP address of the various by opening
up a command prompt, and typing ipconfig. If you
Every once in a while the SB3 will forget its MAC address. It'll be
listed in Player Information as ff:ff:ff:ff:00 or something. Setting
it to the MAC address listed on the bottom of the unit fixes this.
However that would only impact routers that are set to filter out
unauthorized clients by
coldslabs Wrote:
From the manual, page 14-15
Thank you for pointing me to that. I am doing it now and am frustrated
that many of the albums I added have been added twice to the playlist so
I have to go back and remove track by track. :-(
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You're welcome...but do you have firmware 55 now? :-)
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Hi Guys:
This will be my first post on the Slim Devices forum so please bear
with me if you don't understand what I'm trying to tell you.
I have been reading many posts on audiocircle about linear power
supplies for the SB3's and the earlier models. Everybody seems to think
that is the way to go.
Bradley Wrote:
A word to SlimDevices: It's great that you've enjoyed success to date
with your products, but start facilitating BS like this 6.3.0 release
and watch your customer base rapidly shrink towards zero.
*Bradley
This has been my experience with this product (and I'm
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
?
Why not just keep it logged in to SqueezeNetwork? That would solve the
first problem too.
Now I just knew somebody would have an answer for me. I hadn't actually
tried leaving the Squeezebox connected to Squeezenetwork (don't have a
lot of use for it personally,
Umm...
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20844
Yeah, it's been known for some time.
However it's a bit contentious - that thread ended up self-destructing.
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On a slightly related topic: The Dell server that I use to run
Slimserver has never kept time well. (Bad battery on motherboard? I
don't know for sure). I found that it slipped out of sync quite often.
By default, Windows XP only syncs with an Internet time server once a
week. But by the
realtyler Wrote:
Responses of get the nightly build to questions posed makes me
frustrated...
At least you don't see much of the RTFM answers that you typically see
on Linux/Open Source forums. Unfortunately, getting information out of
the open source crowd is usually like pulling teeth.
Hi ,
I've 2 mp3 files that plays perfectly in winamp but SB has problem
playing one of them until the end and the other it doesn't play at all
(I get the message problem can't open the file for:)
before I'll fill a bug report is there anything I can do? am I missing
somethong?
Thanks,
Yoni.
Using 6.2.2 and F/W 48 my SB3 constantly seems to drop off, the music
stops and the display goes blank. When I try to wake it up it says
waking up slimserver but often doesnt connect. Sometimes if I ping
the SB3 from the slimserver it all wakes up and works again at the
first ping, but often
For those who have one, get it now!
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3111
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