You know, this is good software, and I appreciate its freedom (in all
senses) very much. But, geeze, what's with the lack of even the most
rudimentary testing in the major releases?
In 6.3.0, the server just flat will not run as shipped. Why? Because
it doesn't correctly include its own
My music library contains 3230 albums with 39877 songs by 1448 artists.
Server is a quite outdated P3 800 MHz, 384 KB RAM, 1.3 TB Raid 5
(6x250GB sw raid), SuSe 8.2
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much more pointed if this weren't old news, mate.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25250
you'll find that there is a more sustainable fix in nightly builds if
you wish to test here:
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.3.0/
If you find anything new, please file
Well, I've been running Slim for a good long while, since just after the
Squeezebox2 shipped.
The feature set in the code is great. The testing/QA is *abysmal*. I
have NOT ONCE been able to upgrade smoothly from one release to the
next. Not ONCE. Something ALWAYS breaks. And it's not like
It amazes and distresses me that this is a known problem, has been for
at least five days, and yet the default download for new customers
remains unchanged. It's obviously fixed, so why on EARTH is the old
broken one still up?
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shen wrote:
Hi all,
I'm looking for a simple way to do the following:
On the machine slimserver is installed I want to start a windows
program if a special button of the slimserver remote is pressed.
Sounds simple, but it seems not to be that simple :(
I googled a lot and found programs
gorstk Wrote:
I am sure xplhal can do this.
Setup a 'determinator' in xplhal to listen for the IR message of the
'special' button. Then set the action to launch a program.
Not really.
I did the following:
Installed xPLHAL Manager 1.53
It can see my SqueezeBox in xPL devices so far.
I can't get Slimserver to make playlists so I make them with Winamp -
this gives them meaningless titles (like p3fd8r.m3u) so,after copying
them to My Playlists I rescan and change the name in Slimserver - this
causes the server to stop...
Also: after renaming the playlists they no longer appear
Thank you for all the answers.
Regarding implementing and solving this i thought i would share some
ideas. I'm not a programmer etc so if anything sounds strange sorry for
that.
Regarding briefly showing the track info at song change, i believe
there are a few implementations.
First of all:
First a caveat - the current version of xAP SlimServer was not written
for the current CLI that is in v 6 of SlimServer and particularly not
v6.3/6.5. It's use here is unsupported until a new version of the
conduit is released and that will not be in the near future until the
(excellent) new
Why would voice be the killer app for accessing any kind of extensive
library? The picture on the website shows a yuppie doofus sitting in a
La-Z-Boy playing with with some sort of walkie-talkie device. I suppose
that he either doesn't have a large collection of songs or he knows
exactly the
Ok, I posted this in the third party plugin forum with no luck. Maybe
it's not a third party plugin. I'll post it here, hopefully wihout
incurring any anti-cross posting wrath.
The Rescan Music Library plugin isn't rescanning. It's turned on
and set to rescan at midnight. I have the d_scan
shen wrote:
Thanks Kevin,
but this all seems to me to be to complex for the simple thing I want
to do. I installed a few of your recommended programs and they all seem
to be a sort of overkill for the things I'm planning to do :(
Well they do a lot more than just what you want as lots of
Kevin, I know the possibilities one has with these applications, but
that's not the one for me :-)
Back to the program I want to run: It's a simple commandline script
(PHP) which sends it's output via telnet to the SB. So there's no need
to stop this program.
So let's say the SqueezeBox is
I don't think it's a case of the newest releases being untested. It's
just that Slim Devices is a small company and they can't possibly test
new code in every way that the full userbase will deploy it. Even a
huge company like Microsoft, after extensive alpha and beta testing,
still manages to
shen wrote:
gorstk Wrote:
I am sure xplhal can do this.
Setup a 'determinator' in xplhal to listen for the IR message of the
'special' button. Then set the action to launch a program.
Not really.
I did the following:
Installed xPLHAL Manager 1.53
It can see my SqueezeBox in xPL devices so
I really hate voice command stuff. I just feel like a complete idiot and
nerd using it. I really dont want to talk to electronic stuff, why are
some people to obsessed with it? I guess because it's all futuristic
like star trek. No, not for me.
Also, i would like to know how well it would work
shen wrote:
Kevin, I know the possibilities one has with these applications, but
that's not the one for me :-)
Back to the program I want to run: It's a simple commandline script
(PHP) which sends it's output via telnet to the SB. So there's no need
to stop this program.
So let's say the
fathom39 Wrote:
last Sunday I learned how fighting is done on the soccer field without
hands!
Someone on local radio called it the head-butt seen around the world.
:-)
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Malor Wrote:
It amazes and distresses me that this is a known problem, has been for
at least five days, and yet the default download for new customers
remains unchanged. It's obviously fixed, so why on EARTH is the old
broken one still up?
Because that's not how software release cycles
dangerous_dom Wrote:
I really hate voice command stuff. I just feel like a complete idiot and
nerd using it. I really dont want to talk to electronic stuff, why are
some people to obsessed with it? I guess because it's all futuristic
like star trek. No, not for me.
I have a friend who is a
I've been saving all of my albums with the same method as shown by Jesse
in the original post (with Cue file, log and m3u) and I'd like to ensure
that these files are ignored by SlimServer.
Was there any answer found to this question in any other thread?
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new Squeezebox owner -
Rhapsody seems to be working fine on my SB2 after the firmware update.
I'm really looking forward to this combination.
Can't seem to get the latest Softsqueeze (2.8?) to work with Rhapsody.
Is this expected?
--charlie
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I posted a couple of things to the beta mailing list today, but I haven't seen
them arrive back from the list. I had a look in the forum too - they are not
there. Is there a problem in general, just the beta list, or is it a problem
my end?
Phil
dangerous_dom Wrote:
Also, i would like to know how well it would work in a room full of loud
music ;)
That is such an obvious point - probably why I hadn't thought of it!
Can you imagine shouting turn the $%*!! volume down!!!
It's the wrong solution to the problem. Selecting music is often
CardinalFang Wrote:
That is such an obvious point - probably why I hadn't thought of it!
I was thinking more about Computer, play [Untitled]...
Song titles matching [untitled]: 18
And would I have to say something weird for Crimson's The
ConstruKction of Light?
We won't even get into the
You know, for about a year after I RIPped all my dance music to a hard
disk, I still took the albums along in their books. They weigh a ton,
but I found that the way I had grouped my music in the album books and
the visual look of the album would remind me of an appropriate song to
go next.
I love just leaving the Squeezebox on Random Mix based on the genres to
match my mood. You get to hear tracks you had forgotten all about it is
fantastic
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~
Slimserver 6.3 on QNAP(1.2) ~ (160GB Maxtor)
SB3 (x1)
RIP - dBpowerAMP v to
gorstk Wrote:
In the slimserver web interface (http://127.0.0.1:9000)
Server settings -- plugins -- ensure xPL interface checkbox is ticked
and click on apply
Server settings -- plugins -- xpl settgins (at the bottom of page for
me) -- heartbeat interval 5, infra red processing raw
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=122154#post122154
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CouchPotatoe Wrote:
Some help posts to the lists also either go
ignored or solicit quite unpleasant responses. I know in an open
project
environment this is very difficult to manage but in the end the
customer
'feels' this as reflective on Slims' attitudes.
Wow, this is the first I
I have multiple SBs synchronized to move sound through the whole house.
WHen I am playing a shuffled playlist (out of iTunes), the SBs begin to
stutter and generate noise when they hit an AAC or AIFF track. All of
the MP3s are fine, but a single AAC in the playlist will mess things up
when that
Sounds like your bandwidth is marginal. AAC and AIFF are (by default)
streamed in a lossless format thus needing much more bandwidth than
MP3. If you don't mind taking a hit in sound quality you can configure
it to use MP3 for all formats, the only other option is figure out how
to make the
What repairs were carried out?
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AAC is definitely in the minority in my library, so converting to MP3 is
easy ... thanks.
And yes, makes sense that it is a bandwidth issue: 4 or 5 sync'd units,
all on wireless (802.11b, so not super fast).
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selop
I know I've seen this on this list in the past, but my google fu is
failing me.
What's the syntax in IR/custom.map to redefine a key to start a Random
Album Mix?
Thanks,
- Marc
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Hi,
I have exactly the same problem as you, but only when I am playing from
a NAS. I suggest you run slimserver's Home / Server Network Health
test (=Home / Server Network Health = enable monitoring). I suspect
it will tell you there is a problem as already suggested. My experience
is that
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Interesting backers though. Polaroid is one.
Is Polaroid even a real company these days? I thought they wend
bankrupt and someone bought the rights to use the Polaroid brand and IP
for instant cameras. I think they then leased out the name to a generic
digital camera
On 16-Jul-06, at 1:31 PM, Marc Sherman wrote:
I know I've seen this on this list in the past, but my google fu is
failing me.
What's the syntax in IR/custom.map to redefine a key to start a Random
Album Mix?
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16091
post #4
-kdf
kdf wrote:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16091
post #4
Thanks very much.
BTW, I just upgraded my server 6.3.1 (from 5.4.1), _and_ installed
AlienBBC for the first time, and it took me all of an hour and works
wonderfully. Thanks for the fantastic software, folks.
- Marc
Hi,
When I set the Slimserver language to Dutch, the date on Squeezebox is
still in English. Is it possible to change this?
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The host Media Center PC is on 192.168.1.51 - DHCP can assign from .10
through .50 which the squeezebox and Xbox should be assigned from.
I can't see any conflicts...
Thanks
Mike
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Slimserver 6.3.0 is released software and is the version you first see
from SlimDevices website. A new user will more then likey pick 6.3.0,
and may not even be aware of the history of the older versions -
especially without a little hunting around the slimdevies website. In
addition, I would
Setting the language in Slimserver only affects the webinterface and the
menus.
You can set the time format under Settings - Formatting.
Day of week and month names are dependant on the system language (e.g.
system language English - displayed month July).
-s.
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Or save them as playlists? If yes, I havent been able to figure it out.
thanks!
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Hi,
Thanx for your quick reply. So, you are saying that the language
display on the Squeezebox depends on my operating systems settings?
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I posted a couple of things to the beta mailing list today, but I haven't seen
them arrive back from the list. I had a look in the forum too - they are not
there. Is there a problem in general, just the beta list, or is it a problem
my end?
Problem solved - I was sending mails from an
Arie Wrote:
Hi,
Thanx for your quick reply. So, you are saying that the language
display on the Squeezebox depends on my operating systems settings?
Only month (eg July) and day of week (eg Sunday) depend on your
operating system settings. Like I said before, the date/time format
itself can
funkstar Wrote:
Is Polaroid even a real company these days? I thought they wend bankrupt
and someone bought the rights to use the Polaroid brand and IP for
instant cameras. I think they then leased out the name to a generic
digital camera manufacturer for those.
Good one. I hadn't known
Ok, I have changed the language on my Ubuntu box to Dutch, and when I
type the command date it shows the date in Dutch (ma jul 17 00:13:07
CEST 2006). When I check my SB, it's still monday...
What to do next?
Thanx in advance.
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Arie
Do you run slimserver as root? Root may not use the same settings as a
regular user.
Did you try to run the date command as the same user that runs
slimserver?
I think this problem has come up before. If I remember correctly it
had something to do with perl not picking up date/time system
ajmitchell Wrote:
Hi,
I have exactly the same problem as you, but only when I am playing from
a NAS. I suggest you run slimserver's Home / Server Network Health
test (=Home / Server Network Health = enable monitoring). I suspect
it will tell you there is a problem as already suggested.
For redhat AS 3, I had to run the following:
up2date perl-CGI
To fix the perl problem. (Plus the other rpms that were listed as new
dependancies).
These new dependancies should really be in the release notes...
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Thank you for your rapid response.
I should have figured that proprietariness was at least involved, if
not the main reason.
I was motivated by the fact that I find myself listening to internet
radio (via Squeezenetwork) much more than I anticipated I might. I
suppose because of the
Hi,
Is it possible to setup slimserver so that
http://myslimserver:9000/stream.ogg produces an Ogg Vorbis stream? I'd
like to be able to have a 64kB Vorbis stream to listen to at work.
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andyg Wrote:
single-word domain = use system library for lookup, it's probably in a
hosts file or LAN DNS server, so lookup should be fast.
That's interesting. My domain is a single-word domain, which explains
why it used to work, but not why it's not working now. Any suggestions
greatly
Not right now, sorry. The non-slim stream is limited to mp3.
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IMO, forums are places for people to vent
I disagree. I don't think venting in a public place--and I
consider forums to be a public place--is ever appropriate. If you
want to vent to a friend in email, fine, but to do it in public is at
best impolite. Particularly given the
On 7/16/06, dgpretzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for your rapid response.I should have figured that proprietariness was at least involved, if
not the main reason.I was motivated by the fact that I find myself listening to internetradio (via Squeezenetwork) much more than I anticipated I
It should work now, have you tried a recent nightly?
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...That makes two positions in the code I have to change on every newSlimserver release. The other one being the SQLite pragmas for using
RAM instead of temp files.Seems like that's a UI option in 6.3, are you sure you need to do this? See Server Settings Performance Database Temporary File
I notice that the track info for live365 stations is significantly out
of sync with what is actually playing. Usually, the track info changes
about 45 - 75 seconds before the music changes. That's so much that you
can't always tell that a piece is winding up. So, sometimes, you
don't know
You may want to set static IPs just to be sure.I had a similar
problem, not with a 360 but another like minded networked device.
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You're right that the track info is not contained within the stream but
polled from a separate XML feed. I will take another look at how it
works and see if the track changes can be more exact. Without looking,
I think the feed provides a value such as time until next track that
we use to
I am doing an Experiment in slimserver. I am trying to play the m4a
files in wav format.
I dont want the file to be converted in any other format. Or if it
must be played in m4a format itself.
I have tried changing in convert.config file as m4a m4a * * or m4a wav
* *.
I just removed all other
First, let me say that I love my Squeezebox. I bought it after reading
a great review of it in the New York Times.
I just got the Rhapsody trial going today, and I think it's pretty
cool.
I got some playlists and songs loaded up, but I just can't seem to get
them to play continuously. I have
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