- Browse button
That would be the most important improvement for me :-)
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Lärmdämmmatten
*Lärm*? And not *Geräusch*?
Yes, that's the first expression I've found. Lärm and Geräusch both
stand for noise. While Geräusch is rather neutral, I'd consider Lärm
negative. Dealers selling those pads might think we don't like our
machine's noise. But that's quite off
Problem solved. I had to throw away any files associated with
SlimServer; from the system folder, library etc. Then I reinstalled v.
6.3.1. Thanks for sharing advice!
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My SqueezeBox doesn't sync with anything I'm aware of.
Since it's seems to be a player problem and not a server problem, I
guess it doesn't matter on the platform the server is running.
I'm using SB2, just like the initial poster. Maybe there's a problem
with the firmware v55 and SB2? Anyone
That Album Cover Art Downloader seems interesting, thanks for the tip!
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Is anyone else having issues with the browswer interface and Firefox
1.5.0.5.
I can't reproduce this. Have you tried flushing your browser's cache?
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Since you are using 6.5b1 you'd be better posting this on the Beta
forum. It may also be worth trying a more recent nightly / version
since 6.5b1 is changing very fast at the moment.
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I think the SB's plus point was its low price and audioserver bang for
the buck given the features. If you start making it an audiophile
component from the get go though, the glaring problems with navigation,
etc start becoming exposed. The Wheel MAY address some of those issues,
but the encoder
aubuti Wrote:
It's a screensaver setting, but post back if you don't find it. Somehow
my analog and digital VU meters suddenly disappeared when running an
earlier build of 6.5b. Haven't figured that one out yet..
Thanks, found it - eventually!
Jon.
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cshaida Wrote:
Does anybody have any troubleshooting advice that I might use to figure
out why some (maybe 5%) of the album art isn't showing up?
In which view are they not showing up? If you are browsing by artwork,
it's usually because you have a song with an incorrect tag. Enable the
Thanks, clearing the cache fixes it.
The reason i am giving the beta a try is for the native ogg vorbis
support in FW 59 and reason for it not being the latest is i have to
wait for the LastFM plugin to catch up.
Thanks again,
Doug
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
Mark: Why the requirement for 2 drives?
You're right - in my present system, I only use 1 drive and back it up
to an external drive.
I guess I still had it in my mind of trying to compete with the NAS
boxes. The higher-end consumer ones use drives in RAID 1 or RAID 5.
support in FW 59 and reason for it not being the latest is i have to
wait for the LastFM plugin to catch up.
Dougal,
What's up with the LastFM plugin?
James
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rhyzome Wrote:
The Wheel MAY address some of those issues, but the encoder doesn't
fully compensate for the lack of a 10-foot or multiline display, which
I think you need to be able to fulfil the purpose of navigation a large
library.
Hmm? I can easily read the display from 15 feet away
I can very highly recommend the Home Theater Master MX-500 univeral
remote as a substitute. Only got my SB3 yesterday and the first thing I
did was to teach the MX-500 the SB remote and I'll pack the SB remote
away.
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Gregory Hamilton Wrote:
Are both your Music and Playlists folders the same? It's possible the
folder scan and playlist scan are creating the duplicates.
Mine are and that probably explains the duplicate in my case. I don't
really want playlists elsewhere though. I normally keep a playlist
mherger Wrote:
But that's quite off topic :-)
True. I'll drop it now.
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Do you really need RAID to run a slimserver?
Wouldn't once a week backups be enough?
How often does your music collection change anyways? And without your
being aware of it?
Just back it up to an external whenever you change it, and be done with
the complexity.
Sometimes design is knowing
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Do you really need RAID to run a slimserver?
Wouldn't once a week backups be enough?
How often does your music collection change anyways? And without your
being aware of it?
Just back it up to an external whenever you change it, and be done with
the complexity.
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I don't doubt the Transporter will work for some, but equally I think a
Mac Mini or a silenced MITX machine + RME Fireface 400 will give equally
good audio results combined with a higher degree of flexibility - for
significantly less money, if the
Jazz1 Wrote:
I'm not locating the EDIT button on the right hand pane of Browse
Playlists. Hmmm? I see menu of Home/Browse Playlists and Items 1 to
50 of 123, and finally page numbers. This is on a Mac using Safari.
Any thoughts?
That sounds like the left pane...
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CavesOfTQLT Wrote:
Maybe so but with a system that's running 24/7 you want it to consume as
little juice as is possible, if not for pennies sake but for the
environment...
One justification for this for me would be power consumption.
Currently I'm running SS on a P4 system, very power
There are lots of peak power calculators out there, but I'm looking for
idle power figures. Unfortunately these are very hard to find.
It's ITX only, but it might be of interest for you:
http://www.epiacenter.com/powersim/powersim_v2/epiasimulator_v2.htm
I do like saving power but I'm also
mherger Wrote:
It's ITX only, but it might be of interest for you:
http://www.epiacenter.com/powersim/powersim_v2/epiasimulator_v2.htm
Very cool! The fanless MII6000 system I was looking at is listed.
Unfortunately with 1 3.5 HDD it blows the previous estimate out of the
water at 45.91 W
I tried Michael's calculator too.
Any system with a 3.5 HD takes 30 or so watts for the HD, according to
it.
A 2.5HD is 8, according to it.
Are those numbers right? 30 watts for a hard disk seems like an awful
lot to me.
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Very cool! The fanless MII6000 system I was looking at is listed.
Unfortunately with 1 3.5 HDD it blows the previous estimate out of the
water at 45.91 W idle. That makes the savings 34.09 W, 0.48 kWh/day,
$10.01/year.
True, but I guess I'm not enough of an
Hello I purchased two wireless squeezeboxes a couple months ago.
Everything worked great.
Then, several days ago, the one in the kitchen stopped being able to
connect. The one in the loft worked fine still.
I unplugged it, placed it right next to the router, and reset
everything. It worked
Most 3.5in drives, even the screamers at 10k or 15k rpm use more like 12-15 watts.On 8/2/06, Michaelwagner
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I tried Michael's calculator too.Any system with a 3.5 HD takes 30 or so watts for the HD, according toit.A 2.5HD is 8, according to it.Are those numbers right? 30
Michaelwagner Wrote:
I tried Michael's calculator too.
Any system with a 3.5 HD takes 30 or so watts for the HD, according to
it.
A 2.5HD is 8, according to it.
Are those numbers right? 30 watts for a hard disk seems like an awful
lot to me.
Yeah, you're right, something's wrong.
Quoting MUCHO ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello I purchased two wireless squeezeboxes a couple months ago.
Everything worked great.
Then, several days ago, the one in the kitchen stopped being able to
connect. The one in the loft worked fine still.
I unplugged it, placed it right next to
On 8/1/06, Mark Lanctot
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The ultimate would be one that's fanless. I'm almost there, so close!
Drives need cooling too - more than CPUs, really. A processor can run
happily at 60 C, but more than 40-45 for a drive is pushing it. You'll
want some substantial heatsinking
Craig, James (IT) Wrote:
support in FW 59 and reason for it not being the latest is i have to
wait for the LastFM plugin to catch up.
Dougal,
What's up with the LastFM plugin?
James
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I seem to be missing password box with SlimServer_v2006-08-02.exe
Interesting. Someone said the same about the Sirius plugin recently.
I'll have to check it out tonight as I am a couple of days behind...
James
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Jacob Potter Wrote:
On 8/1/06, Mark Lanctot
Mark.Lanctot.2bvmtc1154461802 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com
wrote:
The ultimate would be one that's fanless. I'm almost there, so
close!
Drives need cooling too - more than CPUs, really. A processor can run
happily at 60 C, but
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Are those numbers right? 30 watts for a hard disk seems like an awful
lot to me.
The numbers for 3.5 disks are way out. I did a quick check on the net
and I found that the drives used between 10W and 15W when seeking.
A modern 3.5 disk will use 0.5/1.0A (roughly) for
Its extremely possible you're right. I admit I don't know crap about
networking and settings. Whats wierd is:
A) It just suddently happened out of the blue
B) I have reset (power cycled) the router and factory reset the
squeezebox and the result is exactly the same.
I'll play around with it.
Craig, James (IT) Wrote:
I seem to be missing password box with SlimServer_v2006-08-02.exe
Interesting. Someone said the same about the Sirius plugin recently.
I'll have to check it out tonight as I am a couple of days behind...
James
I tried this last night and did not have any luck. It work on the SB3
fine, but on SB1 there is just the message of 'error connect'. It would
be great to hear from someone that has gotten it to work.
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Hey.
Just bought a SBv3.
Did a firmware update, because the slimserver told me that.
After playing music for about 5 minutes the SB shuts down and I hear
some click noices in my speakers.
I have to remove the power and insert again before I can come in
contact with the SB.
Any ideas???
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Any ideas on how to solve the problem?
Switch to a static IP arrangement and it'll never happen again.
Your router is probably 192.168.1.0. Assign your PC 192.168.1.1 and
your Squeezebox 192.168.1.2.
Just make sure all devices are on the same subnet (i.e. the first 3
numbers
At today level of price for used computers is unnecessary to see at low
low Celeron/Pentium II (Slimserver is light but if You have a large
collection of music!). My (happy) experience is with a HP e-PC 40
(a Pentium III 1000), external power supply, only one big and silent
fan and a big HD
I think Sirius is WMA - which SB3 can handle but SB1 cannot so it needs
to be transcoded on the server. If you listen to Sirius in SoftSqueeze
then it should work on SB1.
How WMA transcoding is done will depend on your OS. For Linux you'll
need something like Mplayer/AlienBBC
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On Aug 2, 2006, at 9:56 AM, tureby wrote:
Hey.
Just bought a SBv3.
Did a firmware update, because the slimserver told me that.
After playing music for about 5 minutes the SB shuts down and I
Powered down the machine, router, etc. Pulled the plugs and waited some
seconds. The issue still remains. I think I need to open a bug or so
Mark
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Thank you - problem is solved by assigning a static IP address to each
squeezebox.
Where's the staples button when I need it?
That was easy
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I know Mark, I apologise for that. That was rude.
I think the rest of it was fair.
Ironically, I actually like the Slim remote. Does the job, snappy
enough, feels OK. I'm stil using my SliMP3s and I love them to bits.
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ChrisOwens Wrote:
Do you install that from our binaries or does YM have an installation
somewhere that you download?
YM?
I'm away from my machine until the weekend and will give you more
specifics then. The image is downloaded from Infrant and SlimServer is
inside of their package. I
Iain Shaw Wrote:
I know Mark, I apologise for that. That was rude.
Apology accepted.
I think the rest of it was fair.
I tend to agree, that's what I have heard regarding Sonos. I still
like Slim's price structure, philosophy, quick introduction of new
features and sound quality.
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radish Wrote:
Not a chance. I'm not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination,
but... just... no.
Any reason why?
The output from my Mini + Fireface (800) goes into the dCS Elgar Plus,
clocked by the Verona. It gives generally as good a result as I've ever
heard out of a transport
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
Hmm? I can easily read the display from 15 feet away (and I wear
glasses) plus it is a multiline display (2 lines).
Also with the new 2-display Transporter, you may be able to stretch
text over both displays, which would make the text width at least as
wide as you'd
LastFM fix posted on my site. Thanks for the warning!
James
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radish Wrote:
Not a chance. I'm not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination,
but... just... no.
Any reason why?
The output from my Mini + Fireface (800) goes into the dCS Elgar Plus,
clocked by the Verona. It gives generally as good a result as I've ever
heard out of a transport
rhyzome Wrote:
The output from my Mini + Fireface (800) goes into the dCS Elgar Plus,
clocked by the Verona. It gives generally as good a result as I've ever
heard out of a transport (including the Verdi La Scala sitting on the
top of my stack, which is actually used these days only to play
rhyzome Wrote:
As for 15 17 monitors or whatever, there's this thing called a TV in
most people's living rooms, or in my case an ultra-quiet LCD panel.
That's what my Mini is hooked up to and I don't have to squint at all
to look at that.
I have indeed heard of a TV, thanks for the
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You say yourself that the La Scala is better
than the mini, it's simply my opinion that whilst the mini may well be
-good enough- (and probably would be for me, given the rest of my
system) I'd be amazed if it were -as good- as the Transporter - or even
Sounds complicated.
Referring to iTunes on another machine can be tricky, but it looks like
you're using the correct path.
Just curious, have you thought of consolidating everything to one
machine?
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No, I believe the problem is that browser access can't wake the
computer. To wake a sleeping computer, the ethernet port has to
receive a magic packet that wakes it up, a.k.a. the wake-on-LAN
packet. The Squeezebox is configured to send such a packet, hence it
can wake a sleeping computer. Web
The screen going blank is behavior indicative of the Squeezebox losing
it's connection to the Slimserver. Low signal strength or wifi
interferance can cause this, or possibly an issue with Slimserver
itself. (firewall snapping closed, or the server app is shutting
down.)
Can you try resetting
bringing this back up to see if a feature request exists for ability to
select the server independant of re-running the network setup. I have
one library on a RAID5 server in the basement, but multiple PC's
running around the house. Different platforms, some SS playlists, some
iTunes playlists,
I tried opening the UNC path directly on my XP box running slimserver
and while I could open the XML file (after I dropepd the /Users from my
path), I could not get SlimServer to accept that path for an iTunes XML
file.
My workaround was at Ross' suggestion - I loaded SlimServer directly on
the
bpa Wrote:
I think Sirius is WMA - which SB3 can handle but SB1 cannot so it needs
to be transcoded on the server. If you listen to Sirius in SoftSqueeze
then it should work on SB1.
How WMA transcoding is done will depend on your OS. For Linux you'll
need something like Mplayer/AlienBBC
did a little more digging with different search terms in the bugs.
area.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2607
short answer is won't be fixed as an on-the-fly selection, but we could
possibly get acceptance of a choice of predefined network/server
setups. For me, this would be
There are, however, lots of WOL (wake on lan) freeware utilities out
there that will wake up a machine hosting slimserver. See this article
on wikipedia for many solutions for many platforms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
Now, does anyone know of a nice WOL utility compiled for a
twylie Wrote:
Even the hold the left button to reselect isn't a great option for me
as my SB3 is in the basement feeding a distributed audio setup. Web
interface changeability is what I'd need to make it super easy.
Maybe this can be looked at in conjunction with some of the future
changes
Can you play any normal WMA station on SB1 ?
If so then the problem probably lies with the Sirius plugin and
obtaining an URL and not the transcoding.
Try debugging with d_plugins d_source and compare logs for
SoftSqueeze and the SB1. The differences might help indicate what is
the problem.
JJZolx Wrote:
I know there are plans to make the web interface work better with
SqueezeNetwork, and I believe this includes the ability to get an SB2/3
to connect and disconnect from SquuezeNetwork through the web interface.
Isn't this already implemented from 6.3.0 on? Plugins - Switch to
rhyzome Wrote:
I think the SB's plus point was its low price and audioserver bang for
the buck given the features. If you start making it an audiophile
component from the get go though, the glaring problems with navigation,
etc start becoming exposed.
I strongly disagree. I've used
How often does it scan on? Can I control this? I'm thinking some of my
dropouts are happening when it decides to scan. I put the new Tom Petty
CD on my server and then went upstairs and I had stalls. I did see text
notice on Squeezebox telling me that it was scanning.
Also, really weird, during
bpa Wrote:
Can you play any normal WMA station on SB1 ?
If so then the problem probably lies with the Sirius plugin and
obtaining an URL and not the transcoding.
Try debugging with d_plugins d_source and compare logs for
SoftSqueeze and the SB1. The differences might help indicate what
Have you since tried it again perhaps with a different radio station?
I just tried and I was unable to reproduce the crash. Although, I am
using 6.3.1.
Could you try reproducing this with 6.3.1?
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I'll try 6.3.1.
It doesn't matter which radio station I listen to. Adding it to
Favorites is fine, it's pressing the Favorites button that causes the
crash.
The crash occurs regardless of what I'm playing - Internet radio or my
music library.
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fast switching for me would be the ability to switch slimservers
(running on different machines) via the web interface, even if it
required an auto reboot of the SB3 and associated delay.
The hold down the left arrow works, but 2 of my players are in the
basment feeding a whole house audio
Umm, I'm wondering if the fact that I had the Favorites plugin disabled
had anything to do with it...blush
Works fine after altering that fairly critical setting.
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Ross L Wrote:
It should only rescan when you tell it to, or when you browse music
folder to a newly added directory.
Check Server settings - plugins - Rescan Music Library.
You can have SlimServer automatically rescan regularly... is that what
you're looking for?
I'm only going to
If you have iTunes integration turned on I think it will also scan that
periodically, but you can adjust the interval in the preferences.
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Jacob Potter Wrote:
On 8/2/06, radish radish.2bxkpz1154552401 (AT) no-mx (DOT)
forums.slimdevices.com wrote:
You say yourself that the La Scala is better
than the mini, it's simply my opinion that whilst the mini may well
be
-good enough- (and probably would be for me, given the rest of
Now I understand. Thanks for clearing that up. Sounds like you have a
lot of toys!
This isn't the first time I've heard this request. I wouldn't be
surprised if this 'feature' is implemented in the not too distant
future.
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pfarrell Wrote:
Last login: Sun Jul 23 10:43:51 2006 from 172.16.4.41
(beatles)/home/pfarrell uptime
23:52:10 up 403 days, 11:03, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.13,
0.11
Given the recent weather, this has me wondering - how do you manage
that? Do you use a UPS?
The uptime on my router
I imagine that one of the significant enhancements in the Transporter's
function over the previous Squeezeboxes, is the ability to use the
Transporter as both a fine external DAC and as an input-selection
device.
This would allow buyers to eliminate both the cost and sonic coloration
of even
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
Given the recent weather, this has me wondering - how do you manage
that? Do you use a UPS?
The uptime on my router hasn't been longer than 2-3 days for about 2
weeks now due to all the power bumps. Not failures, just long enough
to cause a reboot.
Not everywhere is
On 2-Aug-06, at 9:02 PM, radish wrote:
To be honest, it still shouldn't have crashed. But glad you got it
working!
sadly, too much time on drama not enough time on writing the message
from the event viewer.
just in case anyone MIGHT be keen on preventing such a crash in future
release.
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
Given the recent weather, this has me wondering - how do you manage
that? Do you use a UPS?
UPS on my fileserver, UPS on my big fish tank, UPS on my home theater,
UPS on my main system, battery in the laptop! Power outages are rare
in Eugene but I use them for line
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