mkozlows;139746 Wrote:
I know what production quality open source projects look like, and those
aren't it.
Although I'm willing to try. I followed the instructions here:
http://losslessaudio.blogspot.com/2005/12/media-center-edition-2005-with-flac.html
And FLAC stuff appears where I'd
Will a clean install of 6.5 fix this?
I'd imagine yes. If you once installed with the automatic startup feature,
updates possibly just replace the files, but don't change the service
setting.
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Any news on that topic. I`m currently install new nightly builds since
one week with no success.
Greetings from Germany
Frank
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rtrimarchi;139833 Wrote:
Thanks Dave
So the only official method for creating MIP Mix is via the ARTIST or
Album ( TRACK) ??
Let me know if I understood right.
Always thanks again
Hi
Yes, as you are using that track/album as the seed for the mix.
Depending whether you run
Marc Sherman;139860 Wrote:
JJZolx wrote:
Until the browse paging and alphapagebar are fixed, all browsing
that
uses the alphapagebar is of limited use at best. IMO, this is really
a
critical bug right now.
What's wrong with alphapagebar? Is there a bug number?
Dr Lovegrove wrote:
Specially in Jazz the artist name is not at as meaningful as in rock.
Many artist name tags might be:
Oscar Peterson Trio
Oscar Peterson and Ben Webster
Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson
etc etc
It would then be useful to be able to browse the resultset of a search
of artist
I think it would be useful to be able to combine searching and
browsing.
Specially in Jazz the artist name is not at as meaningful as in rock.
Many artist name tags might be:
Oscar Peterson Trio
Oscar Peterson and Ben Webster
Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson
etc etc
It would then be useful to
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I think it would be useful to be able to combine searching and
browsing.
Specially in Jazz the artist name is not at as meaningful as in rock.
Many artist name tags might be:
Oscar Peterson Trio
Oscar Peterson and Ben Webster
Duke Ellington and Oscar
Genres
- (List of genres)
-- (List of artists within the selected genre)
--- (List of albums *sorted by year* for selected artist within
selected genre)
(List of tracks on selected album, artist and genre)
No need for displaying year, just sort by year,
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I thought this was normal?
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I wondered if you had a happy resolution to this problem since I seem to
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gusi;139770 Wrote:
I think the problem arises due to the limitation of tagging. It would be
useful if a track could have many genre and artist tags. Of course it
could be that I haven't tagged my music correctly.Slimserver does allow a
fudge for multiple genres: under Server Settings
Firebat wrote:
I'd like to see a module also. I'd write one but I really don't have
the time.
A note to SD: It's a lot easier to integrate your products with
Crestron/AMX if you have a module posted on your website. Dropping in
a module makes life much easier for integrators which
I had exactly the same problem with my first SB3. Slim Devices told me
there was a faulty batch of screens used in early models which were
failing due to not being able to work with the heat levels they should
have. i RMA'd mine back to the UK company i bought it from. they did
try and send it
miguelk;139808 Wrote:
I'm running XP. I've done a complete uninstallation of 6.3 and
installed 6.5, and every time I tried to scan my collection Slimserver
crashed. (but I'm open to suggestions if anyone knows how to solve the
problem...)
Do you have an on-access virus scanning or
I'm running XP. I've done a complete uninstallation of 6.3 and
installed 6.5, and every time I tried to scan my collection Slimserver
crashed. I gave up and reinstalled 6.3...working fine again. Whatever
the advantages of 6.5, they are pointless if it keeps crashing. Not
quite ready for prime
gusi;139786 Wrote:
A bandmembers or musicians tag(s) would be useful.
I'd hate to type them all in though. Do they exist in any of the
internet databases? I have only used EAC/FreeDB thus far.
Related artists and members of groups are available at a few sites;
http://www.allmusic.com/
Hello everyone,
I have installed SS 6.5.0 and music IP 1.7.
I am sure it might sound a stupid question but I am getting crazy on
it...Please I need some help from you experts
My audio files are on a media server on my home network.
The name of the server is media. and the folders are shared.
I'm running revision 10040 and I'm having the same problem with Live365
also. I haven't been able to log in since upgrading to 6.5 so I got the
latest nightly. I can log in from the Live365 web site. Here is my debug
information:
Logging in x
Live365: Loading
Thanks, I'll try it
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I've used the fishbone skin 95% of the time, so I'm not positive that
this page exists outside that skin - with 6.5, I've noticed that the
Statistics page no longer shows me a genre count. I get songs, albums
and artists, but there's a conspicuous spot of blank screen where
genres used to be...
gusi wrote:
Marc, Why would you need the !filter, do you multiple genres assigned to
each track? A nice idea to be able to browse through named preset
filters.
Yes, this has been discussed in detail in the past on this list, when
the original Random Mix plugin was being developed. For example,
I'd like Browse Artists to be split into Compilations and Artist Albums,
so:
-- Albums
Artist Albums
--(all albums with a single artist, or with album artist set)
Compilations
--(all albums identified as Various Artists either by inference or
the compilation tag)
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radish
mkozlows;139746 Wrote:
Illiminable is at 0.72, has a changelog that's full of critical issues
(fixed crash problem with x, fixed crash problem with y, fixed out
of memory problem with z)
So you're complaining that they've fixed bugs?
Here's a thing - sometimes software doesn't _need_
Thanks Dave
So the only official method for creating MIP Mix is via the ARTIST or
Album ( TRACK) ??
Let me know if I understood right.
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Right sorry, was thinking of a different Live365 problem in 6.5.0. I
don't know what's wrong here, since it works fine with my account.
From looking at the code I think this error can be caused by an XML
parsing problem, I'll make a change to print some debug info if this
happens.
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Marc, Why would you need the !filter, do you multiple genres assigned to
each track? A nice idea to be able to browse through named preset
filters.
Gerph, I guess we'll just have to wait till fixed media becomes more
popular, I am sure the band information mustcome online at some point.
For jazz
on the website, it is now asking for a username, password, and a
randomly generated set of numbers that you have to type in from an
image on the login page. I am suspecting that this is to prevent using
the streaming function from anything other than a web-browser.
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JJZolx wrote:
Until the browse paging and alphapagebar are fixed, all browsing that
uses the alphapagebar is of limited use at best. IMO, this is really a
critical bug right now.
What's wrong with alphapagebar? Is there a bug number?
- Marc
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Hi,
I'm using SoftSqueeze 3.0, SlimServer 6.5.0, Sun Java 1.5.0_06.
Very often (but not always) pressing one of the buttons on the
SoftSqueeze remote results in a double button press -- I'll press the
button once, and SoftSqueeze responds as if I've pressed it twice.
As far as I can tell this
erland;139755 Wrote:
I'm looking for ideas of new type of browse menus to include with the
Custom Browse plugin. So I would like to get some ideas of different
ways you would like to browse your music that is not possible with the
current version of slimserver.
Try to include a menu
broth420;139851 Wrote:
on the website, it is now asking for a username, password, and a
randomly generated set of numbers that you have to type in from an
image on the login page. I am suspecting that this is to prevent using
the streaming function from anything other than a web-browser.
svn up or try tonight's nightly. Run with --d_plugins and you should
see more info about the login error.
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erland wrote:
I'm looking for ideas of new type of browse menus to include with the
Custom Browse plugin. So I would like to get some ideas of different
ways you would like to browse your music that is not possible with the
current version of slimserver.
Try to include a menu hierarchy example
Try browsing by artist or album rather than by music folder. The latter
is just a straightforward browse of the directory structure and does
not make use of the tags or any other cleverness associated with the
tracks.
When you go to an artist, album or track in the normal Browse method
then
hello
iv recently found this entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezebox_network_music_player
and i think that lots of information is missing,
saddly my english isnt good enought..
but maybe some of you can add some relevant information for future
Squeezebox owners ;-)
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using the Rescan Music Library plugin to automatically rebuild nightly
using Clear Library and Rescan Everything. Never had problems doing
this with 6.3.1 but now each morning I notice the playlists on all of
the players are
For Live365 to work you need at least revision 9955.
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A bandmembers or musicians tag(s) would be useful.
I'd hate to type them all in though. Do they exist in any of the
internet databases? I have only used EAC/FreeDB thus far.
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Okey good.
Lets hope they are interested in fixing this tag bug, but I dought it.
In my opinion these kind of companies (Slim Devices, Roku Labs, Cowon,
iRiver) are not serious from a customer perspective. They seem to
launch prototypes rather than products all the time. And yes these bugs
can
Is it just me today, as I cannot find the nightly builds for slimserver
v6.5. Can someone please point me to it.
Sorry to be such a bother.
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6.5 has now been released, so no nightly builds for the moment. There
may be a 6.5.1 in a few days / weeks with small bug fixes.
7.0 is alpha, so only download it if you are ready to debug.
HTH
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Try this http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.5/
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Marc Sherman;139858 Wrote:
gusi wrote:[color=blue]
Yes, this has been discussed in detail in the past on this list, when
the original Random Mix plugin was being developed. For example,
consider the Ryko release of Ziggy Stardust. Most of the album is
tagged
(in my collection) with the
Your ideas are all great, keep more comming.
Some comments regarding some of the already posted ideas:
BERNT
- Your idea to sort albums by year when an artist already has been
selected in the parent menu seems logical, I will change this.
GUSI
- Searching is out of scope for the Custom Browse
Pat,
Flac comments can do all that the problem is getting it into the
database. Freedb has only minimal tags in the database.
This should be possible:
http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html
The ISRC looks similar to the ISBN for books. I am not sure how
thoroughly it is implemented and used
Thanks Ken,
Just what I was looking for. Wierd how I couldn't find it, must be
getting blind in my old age.
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erland wrote:
MARC SHERMAN
- Defining menus for different genre combinations should definitely be
possible with Custom Browse. I will just have to think about it a bit
to see if there is a way to make the menus easy to configure. Today you
will have to hard code the genre names in the
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gusi wrote:
Flac comments can do all that the problem is getting it into the
database. Freedb has only minimal tags in the database.
Actually there are two parts to the problem:
1) getting the data
2) storing the data into the Mysql tables.
In addition to the command to tell the SlimServer
erland;139885 Wrote:
Your ideas are all great, keep more comming.
Some comments regarding some of the already posted ideas:
BERNT
- Your idea to sort albums by year when an artist already has been
selected in the parent menu seems logical, I will change this.
Thank you. I'm really
Than;139869 Wrote:
Lets hope they are interested in fixing this tag bug, but I dought it.
In my opinion these kind of companies (Slim Devices, Roku Labs, Cowon,
iRiver) are not serious from a customer perspective.
You have got to be kidding. I have never found a company more customer
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Pat,
Nice idea. I just had a look at your home page and saw all the tools
you have developed.
For flac files you can use multiple artist comments according to the
slimwiki. I am not sure if it is still valid for 6.5. I understand that
the mySQL database is new in 6.5 but I haven't had a good
erland;139885 Wrote:
RADISH
- Your albums menu with separated compilations and artist albums should
be quite simple, I'll try to include it in next release.
Awesome - thanks! I did try your plugin out a couple of weeks ago and
it worked fine, but browsing the custom menus seemed a lot
Marc Sherman;139900 Wrote:
I'm perfectly content with editing xml files to configure this if
there's no webui. Does the current implementation allow tri-state genre
filtering?
Sure, you just have to figure out how the SQL should look like. The
RandomPlayList plugin (not same as RandomMix)
gusi wrote:
The ISRC looks similar to the ISBN for books. I am not sure how
thoroughly it is implemented and used but having a unique identifier
for each CD-release would be useful in sharing tags.
I haven't slogged thru tags in my collection lately, my software is old
and dusty these days.
radish;139925 Wrote:
browsing the custom menus seemed a lot slower than the regular Browse...
menus. Is this expected? I could understand that caching, indices etc
could be optimised for the standard queries.
I haven't looked at performance optimization at all yet so its probably
possible to
There are folks that can write them for a fee.
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6.5.0 upgrade went smoothly on ClarkConnect. No problems that I can
detect after playing around for an hour.
I have to say that the performance is much better than 6.2.2. I assume
it's due to using MySQL instead of SQL Lite. Both the player GUI and
the web interface are a LOT more responsive.
Pat Farrell;139911 Wrote:
Actually there are two parts to the problem:
1) getting the data
2) storing the data into the Mysql tables.
In addition to the command to tell the SlimServer scanner to never
delete things it doesn't know about.
If you create separate tables for the data
For the record, and after numerous installs / upgrades, I now expect
difficulties to some degree. To soften the potential devastation to my
precious music playlists I've compiled a reinstall pack.
This pack, although personal to me, includes all the prerequisite
settings such as:
Playlists
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hi guys,
just to confirm that since i am 6.5.0 (and i used all the 6.5 beta
before wo problems), all my albums are either splitted in 2 albums, or
without thumbnails, or, or ...
what happened ? , again everything was fine untill official 6.5.0 !!
btw how ca i get the latest 6.5.0 so that i
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As of yesterday I am having the same problem, stuck on requesting
channels or the channels are completely empty. The only thing that I
have done was have the machine with the server running shut down for a
week while I was on vacation. Could this have something to do with
sirius's update for
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erland;139933 Wrote:
I haven't looked at performance optimization at all yet so its probably
possible to make them a bit faster. Also indexes in the slimserver
database are optimized for the standard browse menus. In version 1.0
there were some queries that were a more complex than needed
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jwhittier;139978 Wrote:
As of yesterday I am having the same problem, stuck on requesting
channels or the channels are completely empty. The only thing that I
have done was have the machine with the server running shut down for a
week while I was on vacation. Could this have something to do
Actually I take back my last post...
The plugin is still able to login/get channels/etc, however, something
else seems to have changed at Sirius. I'll have to figure what it is,
otherwise it seems like Sirius is booting logins when you try to start
up a stream.
If anyone has any info on this,
I've gone ahead and posted a new version. Sirius made a URL change
today that broke the plugin when you tried to start up a stream.
This version is tested to work with their regular/low quality streams.
I haven't upgraded (yet) to the new CD quality Internet streaming to
test it out.
If
I primarily run Slimserver to stream my collection to myself at work
(though I love my Squeezebox, it sits at home and waits for me all day
long for the most part). I'm running my server on Windows XP. I
recently wiped 6.3.1 and installed 6.5 - I've been very happy with the
interface changes (I
I noticed that 6.5.0 was released while I was gone so I upgraded to that
and I used 6.2 of sirius plugin. Are the images for the stations missing
or not needed anymore in 6.2?
Just in case some debug helps, here ya go. Not that I understand it but
it appears to be a problem with playboyradio and
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You can download a script that takes all the iTunes 7 downloaded artwork
and embeds it in the song file instead:
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts13.php
It's called Embed Artwork v1.1.
My script is running through iTunes now...
It will add about 50KB to each song.
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cparker;139859 Wrote:
Hi
Yes, as you are using that track/album as the seed for the mix.
I can't seem to create mixes at the song level. It only seems to work
at the album / artist level. Any idea what's going on there?
- Rob
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it seems that uninstalling earlier versions is the prudent way to go.
But I dread reconfiguring all my server settings.
Is there any way to bring across just the settings and still uninstall
all the program files (except the settings)?
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Hi,
Downloaded and installed 6.5 today as a full replacement for 6.3.1
(zipped deleted), where everything had been working well (Win2003 SP1
server). I've looked back through recent postings and can't see some of
my issues listed anywhere, so here goes: -
I've rescanned my albums and I have a
GrahameP;140065 Wrote:
The Beatles - '1' shows 27 then 1 -26 (although it sometimes shows as a
smaller collection of other albums intead).Just spotted a clue here - this
album has the year showing, when I click
on the name I get a list of albums for the same year, under the heading
'Year'.
jwhittier;140017 Wrote:
I noticed that 6.5.0 was released while I was gone so I upgraded to that
and I used 6.2 of sirius plugin. Are the images for the stations missing
or not needed anymore in 6.2?
Just in case some debug helps, here ya go. Not that I understand it but
it appears to be a
You know, while we're wishlisting... How about some of the things that
I hope to see in SlimServer some day.
Optional album counts next to artist names when the next level in the
hierarchy is album
Code:
Home / Artists
...
Cannonball Adderley (9 albums)
I've got an error in my music library that a clear and rescan didn't
clear up. I knew how to delete the file in 6.3, but how do I do it in
6.5?
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Sirius made a slight change again...
Earlier I had to add www.sirius.com/sirius/ to the stream URL pass, now
they're back including it in the HTML source. Argh! I posted an update
with this change, as well as some icons for the new stations
added/changed. I'm still missing two that I couldn't
fred7;139835 Wrote:
Logging in x
Live365: Loading
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/api_login.cgi?password=xorg=live365action=loginremember=Ymember_name=x
Live365 login failure: PLUGIN_LIVE365_LOGIN_ERROR_LOGIN
when i upgraded to the non-beta of 6.5, i had this same problem. i
Well, I think I've determined my problems, anyway. (Not that I have an
answer.)
www.sirius.com is giving me 403-Access Denied messages... and I have no
idea why.
What the hell's going on here???
Here's the debug output:
2006-09-26 20:23:58.3791 SiriusRadio: Network error count: 18
2006-09-26
Xhorder;140087 Wrote:
Well, I think I've determined my problems, anyway. (Not that I have an
answer.)
www.sirius.com is giving me 403-Access Denied messages... and I have no
idea why.
What the hell's going on here???
How are you connecting to the Internet? If you're at work or
Greg, I just upgraded to 6.5 and installed the new plugin. I get the
listings on the left, but when I choose a stream, nothing happens on
the right side. Here's a debugging log:
No URL specified for updateCacheEntry
Backtrace:
frame 0: Slim::Music::Info::updateCacheEntry (C:\Program
I went to the 6.5 download page
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html and saw nothing that
mentions removing 6.3 completely before loading 6.5, which to me,
speaks volumes in answer to the OP's question.
The web site says nothing about removing 6.3, which, if it does, it is
hidden
Here's something I don't remember about 6.3. I seem to have to load slim
server 6.5 before it will play music. Did 6.3 always behave this way?
I can shut down slim server and it will continue to play but the first
time I crank up the computer I have to start slim server to play music
- is this
On 9/26/06, LHawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The web site says nothing about removing 6.3, which, if it does, it ishidden pretty well from this non-techie and yet all the techies (and I
mean that in the most affectionate manner) insist 6.3 must be removedbefore loading 6.5.There are a few
GoCubs;140072 Wrote:
In looking at your error log, it did crap out when getting the info for
Playboy. It came back with a 500 Internal Server error. I haven't
seen this lately with the plugin. Do you have Playboy radio enabled on
your account with Sirius (has to be manually activated)?
radish;139844 Wrote:
So you're complaining that they've fixed bugs?
No. I'm complaining that the bugs they're fixing are critical ones,
and therefore (if they've done any sensible triage at all), the
non-critical bugs are still there.
It's the same way that if you're looking for a web
GoCubs;140089 Wrote:
How are you connecting to the Internet? If you're at work or something,
they may have Sirius blocked :(
Try accessing this web page on whatever computer you have running
SlimServer:
Ben Sandee;139348 Wrote:
Maybe check to see if you have APE tags in there, I believe they may
take
precedence of ID3v2. [...] I'm sure there's a tag in there and it's
just a
matter of figuring out where it is.
... and how to nuke the bastard!
dBPowerAMP does indeed report quite
Since upgrading to 6.5, I have some odd issues with the web interface:
When I click on artists, albums, etc. it returns a blank list and it
says ARRAY(0x5e5ce0c) next to the Home link.
Also, when I try to go to server settings I get a Page Not Found
message...I am running on Windows XP Home.
Yes, SilmServer needs to be started to play music.
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