umm...I'm having some problems with the math here.
600 albums is 25 albums an hour for 24 hours.
25 albums an hour is one every 2.4 minutes, no pausing for eating,
sleeping or the washroom.
I don't think I've ever even done 60 albums a day, at the beginning
when I got started with this whole
Bradley Wrote:
These are obviously Albums containing tracks with different artists,
otherwise known as compilation albums.
At the risk of getting back to the subject: do you also see problems
with multi disc sets of the same artist? I'm using the Group albums
option, have set the TPOS (Part
LOL, I was hoping you'd make more fun of him, not me. Not all of us
still live with our parents, guys =P No way I could have known he
would rip in a format different from what I recommended (I said WMA 192
Kbps, he went WMA Pro after he somehow decided to download windows media
player beta
When I try to connect to RadioIO One through the radioIO menu on the
Internet Radio menu of my squeeze, it instead connects to RadioIO
Eclectic.
Anyone else have this problem? I don't seem to have a problem with the
other channels, though I haven't tried them all.
I also just now emailed them.
On 7/1/06, danull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LOL, I was hoping you'd make more fun of him, not me. Not all of usstill live withour parents, guys =P No way I could have known he
...I hear ya, my folks do some scary things to their computer.
Anyway the question remains as to when Squeezebox will
It's amazing how people misunderstand instructions.
I told a new SB user don't buy the wireless for this application.
She was actually buying it for the mother of her boyfriend. So broken
telephone.
By the time the message got to the person who bought the router, a
techy friend of the
Forgive my ignorance, but what's the command line for this? Any switches
required?
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
In theory, it's just a pair of wires and an IR LED, but I suppose there
*could* be other active components to shape the wave rise and fall,
dunno.
This was going to be my next question! :) Can I do this? Lol
THis IR Emitter thing I have that came with my Media
I'm not an OSX user but this is what I think you need to do:
1. Open a Terminal window
2. Ensure slimserver is not running.
3.cd to the directory where slimserver has been installed - it will
have the file slimserver.pl. If slimserver has been installed in the
default location then the command
Hah, the scary thing for me was that the NAS looked like a household
safe, about 1 metre high!
MC
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Thanks for that. Here's what I get:
2006-07-02 09:05:56.2445 Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=)
at
/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm
line 52.
2006-07-02 09:05:56.2446 Use of uninitialized value in concatenation
(.) or string at
Yes, it's XP (home edition).
Unfortunatly, i dont have an ethernet cable, so i cant test it with a
wired connection.
Ipconfig comes up with the following...
Under the PPP Adaptor Wanadoo: - 217.135.181.35
And under Ethernet adaptor wireless network connection: -
169.254.72.137
It also says
OK, Now i have turned my firewall (zonealarm) back ON it seems to have
worked!!!
I am happy, but very confused to say the least. It worked for weeks
without zonealarm running, yet now it seems to need it. What on earth
is going on??
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Hi there.
Just found this after searching for slow remote!
I have the same problem with my Squeezebox 3 and I'm currently at the
very latest version of 6.5b. I run a very minimal Linux - Fedora FC 5
with no X-windows on an Epia Via 1Ghz based unit with 512MB of RAM. The
problems seems to
Hi,
Like some help removing duplicate entries on my compilation albums
please. I have mostly flac files.
Luckily, it's easy to fix (or at least, has been for most people - one
I think is still experiencing problems). Open the affected album in a
tagger and resave the album tag and the
See this bug:-
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2081
Although marked as 'resolved' I'm not convinced it is.
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mherger Wrote:
At the risk of getting back to the subject: do you also see problems
with multi disc sets of the same artist? I'm using the Group albums
option, have set the TPOS (Part of a set) tags and still see discs of a
single separated. The second album displays the track numbers as
Hello
I have a collection of nearly 50'000 songs in flac. i have stored those
on multiple maxtor onetouch 3 drives. the slimserver itself i have
installed on a Via EPIA ME6000 with 1GB ram. OS is windows. everything
works fine, streaming from the internet, listening to the flac files
etc. but
I found when downgrading from 6.5 to be safe it is best to delete
everything include prefs files, caches and database and then
re-install.
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Hi Howard
Glad to hear you got it working. :)
Did you find a suitable .conf file on lirc.org or did you use the IR
Learning wizard?
Cheers
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)
Richard - 6.5 contains code to suppress stored keypresses if they are
more than 3 seconds old. Run with --perfwarn=0.5 to see what is taking
the resources and post here or on the beta thread. [this doesn't look
to be an Alien issue]
Patrick - I think the official answer is to wait for 6.5. Is
Triode Wrote:
Patrick - I think the official answer is to wait for 6.5. Is the late
keycode suppression important to you and if so is a non windows
solution worthwhile? If so you could patch/replace the IR.pm file [or
could for you..]Indeed Adrian. I'm now using a 2G Althlon 64 so slow
never bought music from an online store such as iTunes, never intend to
either.
Still get all my CDs from local indipendant, high street chains, and
online retailers.
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i think most of it is down to the 600mhz EPIA you are using as a server
to be honest, there is only so much a box like that can do.
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On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 21:41:18 -0700
deserttaxguy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So,
could you tell me your favorite spot to buy some tunes?
Mostly I buy CDs from local and online stores, but I've bought about a
dozen albums from http://www.magnatune.com/. I like their policies (half
the purchase
danull wrote:
As for the Math, I agree sounds strange. Saw it with my own eyes
though, ~620 albums according to Slimserver and he said he started
yesterday afternoon or evening. It is possible I got confused about
when he started since we were playing cards and drinking tonight. I
do
deserttaxguy Wrote:
I dont like the rights management issues with the common commercial
digital vendors and was wondering what the community suggests as the
favorite sites. I just looked around one which I didnt like too much,
but it did have total rights to the buyer of the tracks for all
I couldn't think of a better thread title but it is exactly what I was
thinking last night after ordering a SB, downloading and reading all I
could about what Slim Server really was versus my expectations,
locating and downloading EAC. Configuring EAC, downloading FLAC, oh and
remembering to put
It is not your squeezebox. radioioOne is temporarily out of service due
to bandwidth issues. Expect 30-60 days before it is restored. In the
mean time, it has been redirected to eclectic.
Don
radioioCustomerCare
1-800-884-8634 ext 715
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dangerous_dom Wrote:
And under Ethernet adaptor wireless network connection: -
169.254.72.137
Hmm - isn't this saying that the wireless network is improperly
configured and it chose a 169 address?
Although I've never seen that on a PC where the wireless network
originates (in the case of
Actually, I always thought what you suggest (a device that works great)
is what Slim is aiming for. They're just doing it the open source way.
That is, all of us who buy it in the past and now are helping to create
a better product. Yes, it's frustrating at times. But they (meaning both
those on
Yeah, that confused me too.
As I understand it, 169 addresses mean I went to the DHCP server and
either couldn't find him or he wouldn't give me an address.
That far it makes sense, because in an ad-hoc network there is no DHCP
server.
But how come it works then?
I suppose it's possible that
The problem is, every computer-based audio system requires ripping. You
can't blame this on Slim Devices, everyone has to rip, even users of
fairly primitive long audio cable - type devices like this one:
http://tinyurl.com/e5wyl
Nor do you have to use EAC. dBpowerAMP, for example, is
Well, I think you're both somewhat right. The SB is still more of a
geekbox than one might like. But how to streamline it without losing
it's inherent flexibility has been a perennial question. Without, so
far, a single, clear, straightforward answer.
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Mark Lanctot Wrote:
The Squeezebox is so flexible it actually allows you to choose, which
is quite a radical idea in these days of iTunes/iPod,
manufacturer-specific DRM and the like. Choose your ripper, choose
your OS, choose your server, choose your hard drive size.
It seems this point
The onetouches are USB drives, right?
Does the motherboard (I don't know this one in detail) support USB 1 or
USB 2?
When you say, the performance problem is browsing the music, do you
mean using the Browse Music Folder function of the web interface?
If so, that is actually going back to the
Michaelwagner Wrote:
The SB is still more of a geekbox than one might like. But how to
streamline it without losing it's inherent flexibility has been a
perennial question. Without, so far, a single, clear, straightforward
answer.
I'm thinkin' this is the inherent problem in desiging any
Hi
I have just installed 6.3 and the required update to the squeezebox 3.
Rhapsody media server is showing on my squeezebox but whenever I select
anything to play I get a problem : can't connect to server message. I
have tried turning off ZoneAlarm firewall but this made no difference.
I agree that the Olive (Hifidelio in Europe) is a possible
out-of-the-box solution that is being asked for here. This approach
will suit some not otherssee
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21135highlight=olive
for discussion. See also
ajmitchell Wrote:
I agree that the Olive (Hifidelio in Europe) is a possible
out-of-the-box solution that is being asked for here. This approach
will suit some not otherssee
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21135highlight=olive
for discussion. See also
Well, for whatever reason, delays in the supply chain I expect, Slim has
chosen to supply none of the software for the box in the box, not even
slimserver itself.
I do find this a bit odd. An installable server that, once installed,
upgraded itself would seem like an easy enough thing to do.
Just to clarify, i did check the XP firewall after disabling ZA but it
was still off. And Ipconfig definatly says the DHCP was enabled and
running.
I did manage to connect once to the network using a 169... address but
stopped working again. Since competely uninstalling zonealarm
altogether and
First off EAC may be the most complicated Ripping software to set up,
Although its also probably the best. Regardless there are a lot less
complicated rippers like the one mentioned above (dbpoweramp).
LHawes Wrote:
It seems this point may be the most relevant. What I am suggesting would
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Well, for whatever reason, delays in the supply chain I expect, Slim has
chosen to supply none of the software for the box in the box, not even
slimserver itself.
I do find this a bit odd. An installable server that, once installed,
upgraded itself would seem like an
Recently, I've used a couple of online stores that specialize in
second-hand CD's. I've had very good experiences with them - the CD's
I've received have been virtually indistinguishable from brand new -
especially since I usually just rip them (in flac) to my hard drive and
then store the
Marc Sherman Wrote:
danull wrote:
As for the Math, I agree sounds strange. Saw it with my own eyes
though, ~620 albums according to Slimserver and he said he started
yesterday afternoon or evening. It is possible I got confused
about
when he started since we were playing cards
Point him to these forums.
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Really? I never got a CD with any of my SBs (1s and 3s).
I'd be curious to know what's on it.
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I use AllOfMP3 from time to time.
It's what i like to call 'protest purchacing', because the more the
record industry see's people buying from them, the more likely they
will be to sort it out and offer better quality downloads at decent
prices.
Also, even if the artist only got 1 penny from
dangerous_dom Wrote:
Point him to these forums.
Right! We'll confuse him good :-)
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I agree that giving out software is probably pointless, given the nature
of this product anyway.
One thing i would say is that better documentation and wiki would maybe
help. I don't think the current wiki is that great for a complete
newbie.
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blkwrx Wrote:
First off EAC may be the most complicated Ripping software to set up,
Although its also probably the best. Regardless there are a lot less
complicated rippers like the one mentioned above (dbpoweramp).
I LOVE the idea of having the option of using something as complex as
EAC or
I have a tech background.13 years in the making. I found the
Squeezebox to be technically challenging (especially when problems
occur) but then I LIKE the challenges. It is a learning process for
meso it is no big deal.
Having said that.I have had friends into my home
I agree that the out of the box experience could be a little easier for
the non technical, though given the way SB is advertised and targetted
I'm not sure this is really impacting sales - which is what counts
after all. However, there are issues with distributing other people's
software. For
brucegrr Wrote:
Having said that.I have had friends into my home that LOVE
the Squeezebox.yet most of them are (how can I say it kindly)
technologically challenged. I couldn't imagine them taking a Squeezebox
out of the box and setting it up, let alone setting up ripping
Sounds like you got things sorted out.
dangerous_dom Wrote:
I would love to know how ZA managed to balls everything up, even when it
was disabled and only a complete uninstall took place.
I was a longtime ZA user but about a year or so ago each successive
build was getting more and more
I found the squeezebox amazingly easy to setup. I also found slimserver
easy to install, but I'm also a pretty hardcore geek.
I was curious how simple setting this up would be for someone like my
mom, who uses her windows laptop daily, but has about 0 ability to deal
with anything unexpected on
radish Wrote:
I agree that the out of the box experience could be a little easier for
the non technical, though given the way SB is advertised and targetted
I'm not sure this is really impacting sales - which is what counts
after all.
That's a good point IMO. It's not like you can go to
Did you update to firmware 55?
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
Radish, what are you doing up at this hour? It must be like 4AM where
you are, no?
I'm in New Jersey - same time zone as you I believe (Toronto, right?).
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LHawes Wrote:
I LOVE the idea of having the option of using something as complex as
EAC or as simple as dbpoweramp. My suggestion might include a software
option in Squeezebox that would be simple with another option to choose
a more complex variant if wanted/needed.
Say a less
I like the firewall in a box approach. Firewall on the first router next
to the modem.
I'm still confused as to why Win XP has a firewall on the PC. Do you
need to protect yourself from the other people in your house?
On a laptop, I can see it. But a desktop?
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LHawes Wrote:
That's a good point IMO. It's not like you can go to Best Buy and find
the product. It requires a certain level of computer expertice just to
find that SB even exists, which narrows and targets the market quite
well.
Should it be targeted differently? Another management
flipflip Wrote:
Here's the Hardware section from the latest README.ssods (my local
copy, will be in the next release):
Code:
Hardware
ARM based DiskStations:
Model: DS-101DS-101j
Michaelwagner Wrote:
A word to the wise, or at least the wary.
If you scan the forums, you'll find many posts about the legality (or
lack thereof) of allofmp3.
And aside from the legal niceties, it isn't clear that the musicians
benefit from the sales on that site.
AllofMP3.com sells
funkstar Wrote:
i think most of it is down to the 600mhz EPIA you are using as a server
to be honest, there is only so much a box like that can do.
I think that's pretty much the long and short of it. I expect scanning
to be quicker in 6.5, but I doubt that searching and browsing will be
This thead prompted me to examine my setups 6.3 treatment of multi-disc,
and noticed the same issue that Pat is experiencing. I had submitted a
patch (which went into 6.3) to allow J.River's Media Center's tag
('Disk #') to be mapped to DISC, and prior to the final release,
multi-disc was
Michaelwagner Wrote:
I like the firewall in a box approach. Firewall on the first router next
to the modem.
I'm still confused as to why Win XP has a firewall on the PC. Do you
need to protect yourself from the other people in your house?
On a laptop, I can see it. But a desktop?
More
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Yeah, that confused me too.
As I understand it, 169 addresses mean I went to the DHCP server and
either couldn't find him or he wouldn't give me an address.
That far it makes sense, because in an ad-hoc network there is no DHCP
server.
But how come it works
cparker Wrote:
You cant tell me the artist would get another £6 benefit out of it.
I wouldn't tell you that, because it's not true.
But they do get some money from CD sales.
Artists make their money out of airtime payments and merchandising
anyway
Now that's not true. A goodly bit of their
Sorry, Jim, I don't agree.
If he is using the Browse Music Folder option, USB drive performance
does matter, because BMF bypasses the cache and goes back to the disk
again.
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
Sorry, Jim, I don't agree.
If he is using the Browse Music Folder option, USB drive performance
does matter, because BMF bypasses the cache and goes back to the disk
again.
My bad. You're correct about BMF.
Browse Music Folder still uses the database for what it
On Jul 2, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Michaelwagner wrote:
Ah, that makes sense. You might be right - 2 devices that self-
assign in
the same address range might well talk properly, if they self-
assign to
different addresses but in the same subnet.
How odd.
Not that odd. :)
There's actually a
Ok, here is my final input on this, taken from;
http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/25240.html
The record company foots the bill for production of the CD. That
includes recording, producing, and artwork (for the CD).
They expect the artist to help pay these expenses, so they arrange for
an
If you want to screw the RIAA while supporting the artists, you may want
to consider http://lala.com (currently USA only).
Trade used CDs, $1.50 for each trade including postage. The founder
claims to give 20% of the profit to the artists who's music is being
traded, or in cases where that isn't
There are plenty of artists who get no income from airplay because
they're not played on the radio. They get all their income from sales,
period. Sure it's a small proportion of the total retail cost of the
CD, but it's 100% of their income. I know this for a fact because I
know several artists
Its a case of AllofMp3.com bringing the free market to the consumer and
about time to!
In the same way the guy selling discount laptops at the local pub is
bringing the free market to the consumer?
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radish Wrote:
There are plenty of artists who get no income from airplay because
they're not played on the radio. They get all their income from sales,
period. Sure it's a small proportion of the total retail cost of the
CD, but it's 100% of their income. I know this for a fact because I
Quoting Michaelwagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
A word to the wise, or at least the wary.
If you scan the forums, you'll find many posts about the legality (or
lack thereof) of allofmp3.
And aside from the legal niceties, it isn't clear that the musicians
benefit from the sales on that
funkstar Wrote:
i think most of it is down to the 600mhz EPIA you are using as a server
to be honest, there is only so much a box like that can do.
I have also posted a new thread about web performance. I'm getting
considerable delays with my 60,000 tracks held on an internal IDE drive
in a
I reckon that the flash size has no influence on the performance. As far
as I know, it is used to store the boot loader, the kernel and an initrd
image. These will be loaded on boot and are not used for operation. But
I may be wrong about that.
Btw, there is a beta release firmware for the
Folks,
I am experiencing a strange phenomenon on my second large Slimserver
installation (the first one with 4 Slimp3/Squeezeboxes works fine).
I have set up a rather simple wireless installation consisting of a
Windows XP SP2 PC, a linksys router connecter via wire, and 5
Squeezeboxes2. One
Here is what I'd like to do, and I haven't found an easy way to do it. I
must be missing something:
Periodically I like to shuffle by song everything in my library. As
the songs play I'd like to add the ones I'm particularly fond of to a
playlist. Alternatively, being able to rate the songs
Zone Alarm works great for me...but I did have to tell it to allow the
IP of the SB3 and to allow SlimServer permission to talk back. My
guess is that you set ZoneAlarm correctly, and when you disablrd it the
Windows Firewall didn't have those exceptions.
Any software firewall is going to ask
I'm assuming your Server-Performance settings have
Database Temporary File Tuning (SQLite) set to Use RAM and
Database Cache Size Tuning (SQLite) set to 10,000
Don't set this too high on a system with only 512mb of RAM as Windows
will only end up using virtual memory more of the time if you
Try resetting the squeezeboxes to factory defaults, and then put them on
the network one and a time manually configuring their ips.
I'm wondering if this is another manifestation of the binding to
multiple ips problem a couple people have seen.
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pixels too low and to the right. Softsqueeze 2.3 doesn't suffer from
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I do. It's was strange. I did all this before I posted the question and
I had to re-do 2 more times before it took. But, I have it now and is
working perfectly. Thanks again.
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Leko,
Thanks for the quick reply.
I've done the resetting to factory standards several times - when using
DHCP the different Squeezeboxes sometimes received the same IP address,
so I switched to manual IP assignment outside the DHCP range - but same
thing. And the Slimserver software only shows
andreas_letto Wrote:
Any of them work, but only one at a time.
This suggests to me that all the SB's themselves are working but you
have a network issue, possibly a conflict. Try connecting a second
PC/laptop to the same network and see if the dynamic IP is assigned ok.
IF ok read this IP
ajmitchell Wrote:
Try connecting a second PC/laptop to the same network and see if the
dynamic IP is assigned ok. IF ok read this IP in network properties,
disconnect it, and then try assigning this IP to the second SB; after a
hard (factory) reset.
I'll try (next weekend). I don't use any
yes, i have checked on the squeezebox settings menu and it says firmware
version 55
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cparker Wrote:
In Canada it's ASCAP; I'm not sure in the U.S. When you steal music,
you're not hurting the artist, you're hurting the record company, and
as I said above, paybacks are a bi_ch Artists and consumers alike
have been ripped off by record companies for many years.
Now
Sounds like an IP address conflict.
Also check to see that the Squeezeboxes are actually using the MAC
addresses you think they are. Check the MAC address printed on the
bottom of the unit.
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Mark
bathyscaaf Wrote:
Any software firewall is going to ask you what can come in or go out.
Some of the very simple ones I've found don't. Also I'm not sure if
the Windows XP one does.
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Well - I've deleted everything I can find and reinstalled - no apples.
Exactly the same problem. Even going back to the latest 6.5b1 nightly
has the same problem.
Unfortunately, all this un/reinstalling seems to have impacted the web
interface also - most of the formatting of the pages has
I received the announcement email for the 6.3 release in the discuss and beta
mailing lists, but I don't recall receiving a copy from the announcements list.
Maybe there's something wrong with my account - did one get sent?
I think I set up announcements to go to my main email address, whereas
The darkest hour...
Seems like i missed the Users/yourname/Library/Caches/SlimServer
director on my uninstall quest. Everything working now.
Thanks bpa!
Chippy
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Oh you may also want to check things out with Ethereal.
There's a conflict somewhere, especially since you indicate that DHCP
is assigning some addresses twice. A packet sniffer will provide
additional info.
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bmountney Wrote:
I began having this same problem after upgrading to 6.3.0, and in my
case it appears to be related to the data coming in from MusicIP
Server, rather than from SlimServer's own scan.
If I do a full rescan with Don't use MusicMagic the duplicate albums
are gone. If, on the
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