I hate them (YMMV, of course). Take a look at the front of
the Transporter - now THATS a jog wheel!
Too bad they didn't put it on the remote :).
They had an early prototype of a remote featuring the Knob:
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First, you should upgrade the software, the latest nightly 6.5.1 is
significantly improved over what you have. I agree it probably won't
fix your problem, but do it anyway - it ensures you are on the same
page as people who may be trying to help you.
Second, it sounds like a problem with your
You're not alone - I'm seeing the same symptoms. I suspect that 6.5
needs a new version in the same way 6.3 did.
Suspect I'll end up going back to 6.3 for a while..!
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I checked the song titles in Finder and they are all correct, though I
have now removed the number that preceded the track names in each
song's file (seemed to be the track order number). Incidentally,
whereas I thought this was only happening with my Chinese-language
tracks, it is in fact
ianc == ianc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ianc You're not alone - I'm seeing the same symptoms. I suspect that 6.5
ianc needs a new version in the same way 6.3 did.
ianc Suspect I'll end up going back to 6.3 for a while..!
Yeah. I am considering doing that as well. I have the squeezeslave
My collection has a number of Greatest Hits type albums.
I'm a but fussy with my music tags, and when I see a track I like to
know whan that track was released, and not necessarily when the album
was released. As such, I edit all my tags from compilation or best-of
albums and correct the tag to
Hi all,
I've been using slimserver 6.5.0 (official release) on Windows XP (SP2)
for a few weeks now, and noticed that under Browse Albums, the artist
count doesn't match the count on the home page. I upgraded to the
latest 6.5.1 build last night to see if this behaviour persisted, and
it does:
Hi - i've been away but have just caught up on this thread.
I have album artwork for 90% of the tracks in my iTunes library, so I
wonder if that could be the cause?
Actually I did used to have an odd bug with the last version of
SlimServer - it would display album artwork for some tracks but
Could it be related to the various artists functionality that has been
introduced in the later versions?
As in - SS might be listing 113 unique artists (including one artist
called Various Artists at home page, but if you have compilation
albums, then each artist may be listed separately in the
So, has anyone found out how to stream music from Napster to my
Squeezebox via Slimserver?
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I don't think WMA support is the point. I think all that needs to be
done is for Slimserver to be able to intercept the audio being streamed
and send it to the Squeezebox.
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Yeah you could have a point there, and I was wondering about that. It
might also be to do with tracks that are tagged with multiple genres -
I have quite a few tracks like that.
I also have a far number of Various Artist compilation albums as
well, but I'm not sure if the numbers tally. I could
There've been all sorts of headaches with the new functionality :( I
know that the official response from Support is that Slim no longer
'guesses' and now relies on 'proper tagging' but it's a change from
previous versions that confused plenty of people :) :)
There are a couple of settings you
To put in my X cents worth, I currently use SlimServer to listen to my
iTunes music library on several PCs. I have been taking a while to
consider my upgrade path to a 5-room hardware solution.
I'd like to keep using SlimServer because I think its a solid solution
and has a great community, but
I just installed 6.5 over 6.31 working well
at present though I have noticed a couple of things that I have tried to
resolve but the resolution has yet to materialise!
Firstly, in both web and player interface if
I look for Robert Plant he no longer appears under R but Robert
Plant
I've got my SB running via the ethernet cable now. In theory, there
should be no worries about bandwidth any more. There are only a few
devices on the ethenet LAN, and the hubs/switches are both gigabit
capable (to service my fileservers).
So I want to remove bitrate limiting or at least set
It's in the player settings, under audio.
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Interesting...as you suggested, I changed bevaviour from Group
compilation albums together to list compilation albums under each
artist. Now I have 408 artists under the Home view, and in Browse
Artists. Browse Albums is still showing 465 though.
Almost right, but not quite!
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I upgraded to the latest 6.5.1 build last night (SlimServer Version:
6.5.1 - 10130 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252), and did a rescan, ending up
with 0 albums.
I have MusicIP server installed and running, and everything worked
correctly under 6.5 (official release). If I switch off Use
MusicMagic,
Chip Hart wrote:
As my wife says, I'm obsessed, so I spent a little while last
night until I came up with what seems like a successful brute
force method for finding the problem for our missing music under
6.51.
Our music is already divided into a
Thanks for the pointer to 6.5.1. for the refresh fix.
A full refresh also bought the gallery option back in.
cheers
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Ah :)
Nice one - thanks for your help :)
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Windows 2000 Professional sp4
Intel Celeron 1.4GHz
512MB RAM
Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40)
Excellent - many thanks indeed.
Looks like the tags I should be using are
YEAR; and
TORY
Cheers for that!
Dan.
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hello thanks for the respond guys however i am very new to ubuntu (like
2 days) and i don't understand any terminology on ubuntu, could you
please show me how to download and install slimserver for ubuntu on
steps ?i'd be grateful as i miss my squeezebox for 3days now :(
Cheers mate for the
I get the following when trying to run the new Softsqueeze 3.1. Version
2.8 works fine (but still tells me to download a new version.) Does
anyone have any suggestions?
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no jawt in java.library.path
at
Try the following (you will be prompted for your password):
Code:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
which will edit the list of sources (download locations) for the
apt-get package manager. You will need to add the following line:
Code:
not a fix, but maybe a workaround:
Instead of running the service with the exe and the switches try
creating a batch file that has the formatted command in it and set the
batch file to run as a service.
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I know you've said you are sure the SB3 is talking to your router but
...
If you haven't, set the router SSID to something other than the default
and make sure that's the SSID the SB3 shows when you select the wireless
network.
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I am trying to figure out what the use of radio station buffering
seconds is in server settings/network/radio station buffering seconds.
Does it buffer data to slimserver from the internet to help with
internet download latency or buffer seconds onto a squeezebox from the
slimserver to help
chris.mason;142375 Wrote:
Thanks Jeff, maybe its a related issue..?
I've not got any problems with accented characters coming from MIP, but
I used to have problems. I spent some time investigating this and
discovered the issue lay with file and directory names (at least on
Windows) that
That's a very good point - maybe you're connected to someone else's
network. That would explain everything!
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Yeah, I agree its not an ideal solution, and not one I really wanted to
implement, but it was the only way I was going to get my classical
music to appear properly in Slim.
If I recall, I used tagrename or mp3tagger (can't remember which) to
change the files/folder names. There was a simple
Mark Lanctot;141712 Wrote:
Go to Help - Server Network health. Run the Net Test tests, you
should be able to get 1500 kbps at 100% or 2000 kbps at 100% for FLAC
playback.
Enable performance monitoring and submit the output.
I thought i had fixed my problem with distance. This morning it
Are the laptops running a DHCP server, by any chance?
The router, by default, will have it's own DCHP server and should be
asigning an IP to the squeezebox. But if laptops are also running
their own DHCP server, then maybe that is confusing things.
In that case, perhaps the laptop is giving
On 10/3/06, Richard Scales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where should I look further? I am assuming at this
stage that it will be in the handling of the tags and I should therefore look
at the tags in more detail – which I will!Look and see if you have APEv2 tags in your MP3 file that specify the
lordhong;
Try this: If you can, hardwire your pc to your router. Then put your SB
back at it's original distance/location. Also, check your routers
configuration, something about packet size and/or amount of packets
transmitted may need to be adjusted.
I had a similar problem to yours and
Jeff - do you store MIP music fingerprint into your tags? If so, then in
theory, a quick(ish) test would be to create a new music folder (test,
for example) with only 1 track in it. You could use MIP to store
fingerprint into the track tags and then get Slim to try and scan the
track in; if that
Is there a way to get Slim Server to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?
I have had lots of 'Artists' disappear from my listings. From the
investigations I've made - what appears to have happened is that I had
WMP set to update media info from the internet but not over right
existing data. What
It should not be that big. Please run my cachedump script if you'd like
to know what's using up the space.
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I wonder if the designers at SD have considered having both AlbumArtist
and Artist (track artist) in the browse and search menus. This would
solve nearly all the artist listing dislikes that people experience.
R
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Ben Sandee;142384 Wrote:
Either that or a TSOA id3v2 tag (which tagrename doesn't support as
far as
I know nor does mp3tag). You can view all the tags using a command line
tool
like id3v2 on Linux. I don't know of a tool that will set the TSOA
tag
except for musicbrainz.org's tagger.
sudo nano / etc/apt/sources.list does open nano console but i
do not know where to paste ( i do deleted 2# of multiverse
lines.)
RIght now my nano's outcome:
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
It appears to me that whenever possible the SB3 winds up talking
directly to the internet radio stream. Is this true?
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Direct connection whenever possible is the norm from 6.5 onwards and
latest FW. See discussion at
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27996
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Selecting Keep iTunes Music Folder organized causes the track number
to be put at the start of the filename.
Have you looked at the tracks with a tag editor?
Don't know much about Macs, but are you in a non-US/European locale?
Steve.
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gutted;142389 Wrote:
Jeff - do you store MIP music fingerprint into your tags? If so, then in
theory, a quick(ish) test would be to create a new music folder (test,
for example) with only 1 track in it. You could use MIP to store
fingerprint into the track tags and then get Slim to try and
I have upgraded to 6.5.0 and iTunes 7.0.1, running Mac OSX 10.4.8.
Approx. 10 percent of my music, about 80 albums, is being put into No
Genre in SlimServer. Thats goes for all sorts of genres from iTunes.
The formats are MP3, AAC and ALAC. The MP3´s have IDtag v. 2.2 or 2.3.
Does anyone know
Thanks for the reply Ceejay; I will follow your advice and report back.
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Nicely done... Looks like you're onto something with the TrackStat.
(What is TrackStat, out of interest? I could Google it, but I'm very
lazy :P )
TrackStat is a plugin that keeps track of play counts, ratings, etc...
It's supposed to be able to survive rescans,
Ok ... the scan completed, and SlimServer did not crash *BUT* none of my
tracks are mixable, so it seems MusicMagic data isn't being brought in,
or the MusicMagic plugin is borked.
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gutted;142421 Wrote:
Sounds very cool (apart from the crashes and all ;)
You sure you're running a version which is suitable for your updated
version of slim? Maybe there are some old plugin files hanging around
which are upsetting slim?
It was running fine under 6.5.0 ... didn't see
Sounds very cool (apart from the crashes and all ;)
You sure you're running a version which is suitable for your updated
version of slim? Maybe there are some old plugin files hanging around
which are upsetting slim?
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Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer
I should add that I did confirm that MusicMagic was enabled in my
settings, and that the MusicMagicServer is indeed running and
accessible via http://[server_ip]:10002
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slimserver then wouldn't have control over the stream. There will legal
implications to that method as well.
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Out of curiosity, I checked my FileCache and it was pretty large. I ran
the cachedump script and it produced an output that contained nearly
500 lines that referenced fitstretch-100-100-0 on each line. Is this
for the resizing of the Album Art? Here are my details:
Library: 722 albums with 9653
Yes that's resized cover art.
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On 10/3/06, slimpy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is actually the TSOP frame (performer sort order) and not TSOA(album sort order) you should look for.
Yes you're right, performer.Ben
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gutted;142433 Wrote:
This happens on a recent nightly? If so, I'm not sure whether users
like ourselves are supposed to log problems (in bugzilla) for nightlies
since they are - in effect - beta versions.
Hopefully someone else will know how to address reproducible problems
in nightly
This happens on a recent nightly? If so, I'm not sure whether users
like ourselves are supposed to log problems (in bugzilla) for nightlies
since they are - in effect - beta versions.
Hopefully someone else will know how to address reproducible problems
in nightly releases and whether they
Good news on bug 1026. Comment #15 From Richard Titmuss 2006-10-03
07:50:
This bug is fixed in firmware sb65/tr19.
It is currently undergoing internal testing.
You will be notified again when it is made
part of a nightly release.
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radish;142220 Wrote: Something to bear in mind is that a Win98 machine is in the region of
6-8 years old (obviously). Even if slimserver runs, does it have enough memory/cpu/disk space to be effective?Yes indeed, another good point, but my sales
Mark Lanctot wrote:
Robin Bowes;142152 Wrote:
use slimCD.
If it was me, I would, but this guy doesn't have a spare PC.
He could run it on the existing PC, without touching his Win98SE
installation.
R.
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I get the same, with Mac OS 10.4.8. What is your OS?
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Mac 10.4.8 on a PB G4.
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Wow, I'm glad I missed most of this thread. You folks can be pretty
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hi there
i got a brand new squeezebox3 last friday and was very happy with the
easy and self explaining setup! I have listened hours without any
problem since yesterday, suddenly the sound is gone ... there was no
special interaction (besides listening my sound collection). i can
hear this noise
I recently upgraded from 6.3.1 to 6.5.0
I have roughly 26,ooo tracks, 6000 albums and 2500 artists
Scaning always has been a bit of an issue - in so far as my Win XP
machine takes a couple of hours to complete its scan. I have always
wondered if this is to be expected or if my set up causes
Does this only happend when you are playing a playlist with the Dynamic
Playlist plugin ?
In that case, what kind of playlist are you playing ? SQLPlayList,
TrackStat, RandomPlayList or some other ?
Is the problem always at end of a track or does it also happen in
middle or beginning of tracks
We just wanted to let you all know that Slim Devices will be exhibiting
at the Digital Life Show - http://www.digitallife.com/ - this month at
the Jacob Javitz Convention Center in New York City.
We have partnered with Infrant Technologies and Ruckus Wireless to
build the 'Digital Domicile' at
I may add a few stats: I've just upgraded to 6.5 and my stats are as
follows: Database: some 130 Go in some 13.000 files and the Cache is
about 1.75 Go size with 4237 folders and 12.889 files. I have no ready
comparison with 6.3.0, but I may add that some 124 files are not
read/scanned comme il
I know this is usually easy, but I tried to delete various RSS feeds
that no longer worked. Now I have 4 empty boxes, which leaves SB
thinking there are 4 feeds extra. Is there a way to force it to delete
the empty ones? Currently using 6.5, but I had the problem back in 6.2
6.3- just didn't get
andyg;141719 Wrote:
To run this script:
Install ActivePerl if on Windows.
Place cachedump.pl in your SlimServer's 'server' directory.
Run at a command prompt: perl -Ilib -ICPAN cachedump.pl C:/Program
Files/SlimServer/server/Cache
After it's done, open up the cachedump.txt file.
Replace
Change to the server directory first:
cd \Program Files\SlimServer\server
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Did my first rescan after the initial one - 3 minutes 32 seconds for 301
albums, 3026 songs, 461 artists.
Not bad at all.
The processor usage pattern is different with the split scanner. It
used to take 30-40% processor with heavy disc access for the initial
75% of the scan, then 50-60%
jeffluckett;142436 Wrote:
Yeah ... on last night's nightly build. I won't log a bug unless
directed to by someone.
I cross-linked this thread to the one I originally started in the Beta
newsgroup, before this one became the active discussion thread. :P
Hopefully someone will pick up on
Robin Bowes;142447 Wrote:
Mark Lanctot wrote:
Robin Bowes;142152 Wrote:
use slimCD.
If it was me, I would, but this guy doesn't have a spare PC.
He could run it on the existing PC, without touching his Win98SE
installation.
R.
Hmm. I'm used to having SlimServer always on for
I had to run the command like this on my system (from the Server
directory):
perl -Ilib -ICPAN cachedump.pl C:/Program
Files/SlimServer/server/Cache
I needed to wrap the path in quotes due to the space in the Program
Files folder name.
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*MP3s:* 67.2 GB / 9,653
I had tried that but thought it's inclusion made my post too long... :-(
here's the output (using your path as posted with the forward slashes):
C:\Program Files\SlimServer\serverperl -Ilib -ICPAN cachedump.pl
C:/Program Files/SlimServer/server/Cache
Directory C:/Program does not seem to
ModelCitizen;142544 Wrote:
here's the output (using your path as posted with the forward slashes):
C:\Program Files\SlimServer\serverperl -Ilib -ICPAN cachedump.pl
C:/Program Files/SlimServer/server/Cache
Directory C:/Program does not seem to contain a FileCache directory.
See my post
On 10/3/06, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did my first rescan after the initial one - 3 minutes 32 seconds for 301albums, 3026 songs, 461 artists.
Not bad at all.The processor usage pattern is different with the split scanner.Itused to take 30-40% processor with heavy disc access for the
I think it happens during both SQL and Dynamic playlist use but I'll do
a bit of playing and see if I can isolate exactly when it occurs.
It seems to be at any point during a song.
I didn't notice this happening in the week or so that I was running the
final beta version, just since the full
I think the new scanning process is definitely a bit flakey. My first
scan with 6.5 missed out large parts of my collection. I looked at the
main SS log and there were loads of errors as follows:
'*Use of uninitialized value in string eq at
/usr/local/slimserver/lib/MP3/Info.pm line 823, $fh
Jack Coates;142552 Wrote:
I find that wipe-and-rescan is still necessary far too often
(effectively
just about every time I add music). The regular scan detects new music
properly, but does not handle changes to existing music well at all.
Does your tag editor preserve the file date/time
The only major issue that I've seen is that the favorites don't seem to
work (?) - also occasionally I'm getting duplicated artists/albums -
but this is fixable by clearing the music library/rescanning
everything...
Also I've seen softsqueeze die with bad tracks.. (although my sb3 just
skips a
radish;141985 Wrote:
Well then you seem to have a problem. Usual questions - what type of
files, what server version, etc. Sync has some issues with softsqueeze
sometimes, and streaming radio is always a problem, but playing regular
files should be basically perfect.No Softsqueeze or radio
A .bat script run from the server directory solved the space in Program
Files for me, and I used this command:
perl -Ilib -ICPAN cachedump.pl Cache in a .bat
Just change the .txt extension on the attached to .bat and put in
server directory with cachedump.pl.
Using a batch file allows you to
Well, the script worked, but the output flummoxes me. The output
contains 153 lines of fitstretches and 9 lines of squash.
I have 1,060 folder.jpg files, each resting in the individual album
folders. Virtually all (barring mistakes) are 300 pixels by 300
pixels.
Anyway, that aside, quick
On 10/3/06, gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
radish;141985 Wrote: Well then you seem to have a problem. Usual questions - what type of
files, what server version, etc. Sync has some issues with softsqueeze sometimes, and streaming radio is always a problem, but playing regular files should be
On 10/3/06, shabbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jack Coates;142552 Wrote: I find that wipe-and-rescan is still necessary far too often
(effectively just about every time I add music). The regular scan detects new music properly, but does not handle changes to existing music well at all.Does your tag
I've taken away all 3rd party plugins except TrackStat and
DynamicPlaylists.
I then selected the top rated songs playlist and let it play for 20
minutes occasionally skipping forward to the next track.
This is my resulting log file.
Does this give you any pointers?
It seems the file cache size is always changing. I just checked mine now
and it's considerably smaller than before. I have been listening to
music all day and browsing the interface every now and then using
Fishbone skin. My FileCache folder is 3.39MB; 678 files; 4,342 folders.
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and an ability to talk up our
Unfortunately this can't tell what the freezes where on button presses
at the start [do you remember what display mode you were in and what
button you pressed?]
The rest do look down to the plugin though.
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I spoke to soon - i haven't used SlimServer today (it was brough down
again) and the cached has gone up from an initial 25MB to 450MB again.
I'll look into running the script you mention, but i don't have the
other think you mentioned installed so might not be possible...
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I have Now Playing displayed with just time remaining and no visual
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gorman;142556 Wrote:
And it doesn't seem to matter whether I transcode to the wireless one
or not... it stays on synch for a while, and then it loses it...
Can you clarify what happens when it loses it - does either player
stutter or stop? Or do they simply drift out of sync without
Jack Coates;142564 Wrote:
What it doesn't pick up without a wipe-and-rescan is new cover art
(cover.jpg in the folder), or merges of albums.
New cover art has always needed a clear and rescan to get picked up.
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*MP3s:* 67.2 GB / 9,653 songs and growing! | *MP3
hello all,
I need your help!
Some time ago, several members advised me on the procedure to stream
the radio RTL.FR to my device. I needed to use the link:
mms://vipmms9.yacast.net/encoderrtl
I don't know how you found this info, but it worked.
Since 1 Oct, the radio changed their interface,
Could you turn on the debugging flag in the Dynamic Playlists setting
page in the web ui ?
This will make it possible to see a little bit more what actually
happens when the DynamicPlaylist plugin handles the commands that take
som time. If these commands is happening when the track is changed
Try this : http://streaming.radio.funradio.fr:80/rtl-1-44-128
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