If you can find the model number then I suggest you search for the tech
specs on the PC or motherboard manufacturer's web site. It will
probably mention PATA and / or SATA which will tell you the drive types
the mobo supports. IDE is Integrated Drive Electronics, which describes
both PATA (older)
You might want to consider an external drive; they're cheap, easy to
install and when/if you switch computers the move is trivial.
I just bought a My Book from Western Digital, but I don't think there's
any big differences between brands/models. The one thing to consider is
if you want a small
snarlydwarf;165780 Wrote:
Something is wrong if it takes that long. I have a very underpowered
system (with 128M of RAM!) that works great as a server, and can do a
full scan of 17,000 tracks in less than 30 minutes
Tags are read, a large database is filled with album names, track
Pale Blue Ego;165790 Wrote:
It shouldn't take 5 hours to scan your music, unless you have a huge
library, like 50,000 tracks or more - or, unless you're running
slimserver on very underpowered hardware. Also in some cases, the scan
process can get in a loop due to broken shortcut links.
1) You need a faster server if you want better performance.
2) It will work better without SoftSqueeze
3) If it's a dedicated server, you could try a headless linux without
any GUI running, Clarkconnect works really well for me.
4) On the remote or Web UI, select Browse, then Music Folders and
Siduhe;165803 Wrote:
I would second what JJZ says about giving it a bit of time. The sheer
ease and breadth of the functionality gets hidden behind the look of
the interface on my first viewing too. However, everything I've ever
needed Slimserver to do, it's done (or someone here's been
thanks for your reply!
Patrick Dixon;165837 Wrote:
1) You need a faster server if you want better performance.
2) It will work better without SoftSqueeze
3) If it's a dedicated server, you could try a headless linux without
any GUI running, Clarkconnect works really well for me.
I didn't
Agreed - an external drive is easiest to plug in and go.
I'm not so sure about there being no difference between brands - the
lack of adequate cooling is probably the main issue which causes drives
to cook and die prematurely (I've read about Maxtor problems in this
area, but it probably affects
Lost Viking;165775 Wrote:
I just ordered Slim Device Transporter.
While waiting I decided to install and set up SlimServer software.
I have to say, the way it is operating is a bit disappointing :-(
I strongly hope, the device itself (Transporter) is better.
1)
It took more than 5
So what do you guys think of this:
http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=44D2CategorySelectedId=11026PageMode=1NavigationKey=11026InMerch=1
Would I be able to use this to store my music and run SS from my pc and
just point my SB to this drive on my home network?
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Lost Viking;165842 Wrote:
Maybe this is an important information: During installation this error
occured (see attachment).
I post this quote from another thread, which helped me with my new
SlimServer install.
vdorta;56701 Wrote:
The solution was easy enough: I uninstalled Slimserver;
Lost Viking, you might want to look at your Avira settings. The
anti-virus application might be inspecting each music file as
slimserver opens it. If that's the case, your scan will take forever.
You should be able to tell the anti-virus program to ignore mp3 files
and other music filetypes.
Lost Viking wrote:
* MS Win XP Prof SP2
* Celeron 900MHz (admittedly not exactly a rocket to the moon)
* Mainboard Intel S815EBM1
* SATA Seagate Barracuda 320GB (latest model)
* onboard graphics
* 512MB RAM
* Promise TX2300 RAID1
* NO iTunes!!!
* NO personal firewall
* Avira Antivir Personal
There seems to be a lot of internet radio listed within itunes/radio
section not listed thru the SB.
Some of these stream at 192 kbps.
I created a new itunes playlist called '1 itunes_radio'
Beginning with number one puts it always at the top of my playlists.
I tried using a period, but
I just upgraded my Slimserver to 6.5.0. Big Mistake. All the Radioio
feeds that were previously 128K are now only 32K ! However when I went
back to Radioio Jazz which I had stored as a favorite it went to 128K
but was a different stream playing different music! Unfortunately
further playing
fzwo wrote:
A master/slave multiple socket outlet _might_ do the trick - just
connect the SB as master and hope it uses noticeably more energy when
on than when in standby.
It doesn't...
Could this be an option?
http://www.happcontrols.com/amusement/jukebox/95078400.htm
(I thought I'd
Has anything happened on this in the last year? We have music on a lot
and sometime on random, I really don't want my daughter, on her 1st day
at school, being sing Fat Boy Slim is F***ing in heaven if I can avoid
it! - Often it is just one song in an Album we'd want to exclude - e.g.
Scooby
see this thread
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24065
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Hi there,
I have a brand new set up using a qnap 101 running slimserver 6.2.
Streaming music works ok from qnap to sb3. But I am having trouble
accessing both squeezenetwork, alienbbc and rss feeds although the
time/date appears fine on the sb3. Accessing internet streams is ok via
laptop.
For
Marc Sherman;165871 Wrote:
Lost Viking wrote:
* MS Win XP Prof SP2
* Celeron 900MHz (admittedly not exactly a rocket to the moon)
* Mainboard Intel S815EBM1
* SATA Seagate Barracuda 320GB (latest model)
* onboard graphics
* 512MB RAM
* Promise TX2300 RAID1
* NO iTunes!!!
Hi Graham,
The WD device should work - suggest you do some googling for any
feedback on reliability problems on any external device before you take
the plunge though. You'd still need the PC turned on to run SlimServer
- there are similar devices that can run Slimserver themselves (have a
look
snarlydwarf;165780 Wrote:
I have a very underpowered system (with 128M of RAM!) that works great
as a server, and can do a full scan of 17,000 tracks in less than 30
minutes
Wow. How do you achieve this? What format is your music in? Do you have
album art? My full scan takes several hours
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, snarlydwarf wrote:
For some stupid reason I actually like helping people get the most
out of their music listening and if a simple macro in the
tagger-of-your-choice lets you do that, then why not?
Because, dear SnarlyDwarf, you're confusing 'helping' with
'pressuring
I switched from using the version of mysqld that ships with
Slimserver to using mysql-server-5.0.22-1.FC5.1. The times
are better, but still not very good.
2006-12-30 09:46:06.5058 Response Time.1 : 0.11989
2006-12-30 09:46:06.5061 Backtrace:
frame 0: Slim::Utils::PerfMon::log
shabbs;165898 Wrote:
Wow. How do you achieve this? What format is your music in? Do you have
album art? My full scan takes several hours (12,000 mp3 tracks). My
music is on a NAS device and everything has album art so I'm sure that
adds a bit, but still, 17K track in less than 30 mins...
Adriaan van Nijendaal;165900 Wrote:
Because, dear SnarlyDwarf, you're confusing 'helping' with
'pressuring people to adopt YOUR solution'.
Pressure? Oh, lord. Words on the screen are coercion? Saying
Personally, I think is pressuring you?
Doctor, why does it hurt when I swallow
timrfletcher;165799 Wrote:
I knew I was going to regret getting involved with this. On one hand
you're right, I wouldn't have to retag, but it would involve
considerable changes to my existing scripts and configurations.
On the other hand, why are you being such a pain in the ass about
Anyone know if there are plans to port the Orban aacPlus Plug-in to make
it slimserver compatible?
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pedz;165797 Wrote:
sorry, just a couple more questions. I downloaded slimserver and
softsqueeze as you suggested and it is a great way to try out the
interface, thanks for the suggestion.
A couple of things seem strange and may be specific to the softsqueeze
program. When playing a
If the tags are correct, it should be fairly simple to reorganize the
files to be in a single directory per album. For example, MP3Tag will
rename/reorganize the files based upon the tags.
I use these strings to reorganize after I have cleaned up tags. All of
my flac files are under
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to view playlists I have created in
Album view? I am able to do this when listening in iTunes, but can't
seem to find a way to do this using the SlimServer software, either on
the computer or via the device itself. Any help much appreciated!
Andy
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The unfortunate reality is that Slim were not careful or just outright
careless when choosing the device ID and command codes for their
commands.
Given the lack of reasearch to make sure they did not collide with
other devices, they should have made sure to include two completely
different
Why don't you just imbed the artwork into your tracks? That way it's
portable, perdiod.
Also, there's nothing extremely cryptic about the way iTunes is storing
its album art. It keeps it all as plain image file in a folder. Sure,
the filenames don't make much sense to the naken eye, but it
Why are people still posting to this thread?
Useful information would be a lot easier to find if posts didn't go
off-topic and if new threads were started instead of hijacking older
threads.
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Bruno
*'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) |
'mira -
Sell your Squeezebox and wait for Apple's own streaming device to be
announced in just under two weeks at Macworld. TV-out connection that
will let you browse album art as well as watch movies.
If you're going to connect your computer directly to your TV to view
album art then there's not much
Just been playing around with the above. Anyone using slimserver should
check this out for ripping. Still in beta, but it is very stable and
functional. The only feature I am personally waiting for is a
multi-encoder (encode simultaneously to two codecs).
Key benefits for slimserver users:
cover scout from equinux.com will embed with one click
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MelonMonkey;165919 Wrote:
The unfortunate reality is that Slim were not careful or just outright
careless when choosing the device ID and command codes for their
commands.
Given the lack of reasearch to make sure they did not collide with
other devices, they should have made sure to
Strange...Can now connect to sqeezenetwork ok for some reason! Still
have no access to internet streams and rss feeds screensavers.
Thanks
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SB to Squeezenetwork does not go through your QNAP server - so it looks
like your QNAP is either barred from accessing Internet or your QNAP
has a firewall which is preventing slimserver from accessing internet.
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bpa
Before you get an external drive, make sure the USB ports on your PC are
USB 2 ports, NOT USB 1. USB 1 is found on old machines and is not fast
enough. It might be OK to stream audio off the drive, but transferring
all that music to the HDD will take weeks at USB 1 speed.
TD
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How about assigning that music a genre tag of adult, then unchecking
that genre from the random songs list? It isn't perfect, but it will
keep the neighbors happier.
TD
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Didn't want to start a new thread on simular issue, but here it goes.
Having problem getting any Radio Time stastion to play. I have signed
up for an account on their site and added the info on the squeeze
network page and I still can't get any station to play.
I do get the RSS ticker and some
Eserim;165880 Wrote:
Has anything happened on this in the last year? We have music on a lot
and sometime on random, I really don't want my daughter, on her 1st day
at school, being sing Fat Boy Slim is F***ing in heaven if I can avoid
it! - Often it is just one song in an Album we'd want to
Alas only one SB and daughter isn't even 1 yet!
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DannyKudos;165932 Wrote:
Just been playing around with the above. Anyone using slimserver should
check this out for ripping. Still in beta, but it is very stable and
functional. The only feature I am personally waiting for is a
multi-encoder (encode simultaneously to two codecs).
Key
Recoveryone;165948 Wrote:
Didn't want to start a new thread on simular issue, but here it goes.
Having problem getting any Radio Time stastion to play. I have signed
up for an account on their site and added the info on the squeeze
network page and I still can't get any station to play.
Hi
I justgot my Squeezebox up and running today, and have been able to use
it from any PC on my network by connecting to
http://mycomputer:9000/stream.mp3 on the local pc, and setting a
playlist from the remote pc which runs the slimserver.
It seems as though it should be possible to do this
You've never actually looked at the iTunes downloaded artwork files
then? They're not plain image files for a start, although that is the
easiest problem to solve.
I don't want to keep an identical copy of the same piece of artwork
embedded in every track of an album, so SlimServer not
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, snarlydwarf wrote:
Pressure? Oh, lord. Words on the screen are coercion? Saying
Personally, I think is pressuring you?
Oh - I'm sorry. You aren't the one calling my work messed up and
chaotic? And painful if you'd do the same? And you aren't the one that
pities the day
There is a good section in the Wiki that covers a lot of this -
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?ConnectingRemotely
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Lost Viking;165890 Wrote:
I would like to state here again my gratitude for all of you, dealing
with my problems!
I will give it a try, setting the virus scan accordingly. However, I
bought a Intel Dual Core Core 2,4GHz 1GB RAM ASUS P5B in the meantime
;-) I hope, this is sufficient, if
Eserim;165880 Wrote:
Has anything happened on this in the last year? We have music on a lot
and sometime on random, I really don't want my daughter, on her 1st day
at school, being sing Fat Boy Slim is F***ing in heaven if I can avoid
it! - Often it is just one song in an Album we'd want to
On 12/30/06, adrianh1960
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just upgraded my Slimserver to 6.5.0. Big Mistake. All the Radioio
feeds that were previously 128K are now only 32K ! However when I went
back to Radioio Jazz which I had stored as a favorite it went to 128K
but was a different stream
Use Mp3Tag to change the Album Artist Field to Albumartist.. This
field is recognised by slimserver, whereas Album Artist is not. Set
ss to display albums by band and all artists when viewing by artist.
Then set ss enable album and band in album browse view
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I'm sure this is an issue for some, but for my personal setup, I haven't
run into any tagging difficulties.
I guess usual caveat's apply but all works fine for my personal
setup. (SB3 and Creative ZVM)
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DannyKudos
Thanks for the response, sounds like you are right and it is specific to
the demo software. i found that if i double click the skip button it
goes to the next song. it still only plays 15 seconds of each song but
i am guessing that is the software also.
thanks again for your help,
peter
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I'm seeing what appears to me to be a buglette in the fishbone skin.
On the left frame, at the top, it shows the slim logo on the left corner
and three active text tags on the right: home / server settings / help
But if I try to mouse to the Home link, it does a roll over to Music
folder
The
Upgraded to 6.5.1, I also had to change my port.
Anyway to have the browser load with the new default port (9080)?
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Hi,
I'm having problems playing some podcasts. They used to work fine, but
I recently had to reinstall linux on the computer that runs slimserver.
I installed ubuntu development version, feisty fawn, and so I can't
install the slimdevices standard slimserver, and so had to use the one
that came
Pat Farrell;165986 Wrote:
This might be a feature, but it looks like a bug to me.
It's a feature. Home will go to whatever you've selected in the
drop-down menu. Player settings are available via the link in the
right pane.
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I think I know the solution to this one!
Open file explorer in win xp. Then go to the folder where your music is
located. Choose Thumbnails from the View menu. You should then be able
to see all the folders as album images. Do a full rescan in slimserver.
The album art should then be present :-)
Right this has taken me an age to suss out: I've had to write a VB
program to list a directory and match it to the excellent music library
listing available here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28457page=4
But what happens is consistent: Slimserver is missing out Janacek. The
its amazes me how such highly reguarded product has so many issue with
the software. I order a SB3 based on the recommendation of the reviews
on CNET also on the poor performance of my Netgear Mp101 DAR unit. The
one thing that push me to get a SB was the fact it had digital outputs.
And with
Turns out my issue was not port related. I had an older screen saver
(worldclock.pm) that was causing the server to crash.
Seems like the worldclock screen save will not work with 6.5.x
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On 30-Dec-06, at 4:40 PM, Fletch wrote:
Pat Farrell;165986 Wrote:
This might be a feature, but it looks like a bug to me.
It's a feature. Home will go to whatever you've selected in the
drop-down menu. Player settings are available via the link in the
right pane.
technically, Fishbone
Fletch wrote:
Pat Farrell;165986 Wrote:
This might be a feature, but it looks like a bug to me.
It's a feature. Home will go to whatever you've selected in the
drop-down menu.
OK, not too obvious.
I think I don't like the way it rollover changes the target, or at least
the appearance of
adamslim wrote:
But what happens is consistent: Slimserver is missing out Janacek. The
album has been ripped so it has file names such as: Janá#269;ek, Leoš
-- Glagolitic Mass - Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra --
01 -- Glagolitic Mass - I Uvod (Introduction).flac, and the tags
In the new features section it lists:
Include discrete power on/off for folks who are using smart remotes
like Harmony's
Does anyone have the RC5 codes for power on and off?
Steve
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Happy New Year everyone.
I've run into a situation that hopefully someone has an easy fix for.
Months ago I ripped a bunch of old cassette tapes and then split the
resulting file into separate songs. Originally I had them in WAV
format. In WAV they played just fine on my SB3. To conserve
My first guess was that you might be missing the WMA codec, but then no
WMA files would work, so that's not it.
I wonder whether there might be something wrong with the tags, so that
they're just not showing up in the interface?
Can SlimServer find them and play them if you use Browse Music
I am a new owner of the SqueezeBox 3, and explored the entire menu of
the SqueezeBox, the one thats used with the SqueezeNetwork, on
12/30/06 from about 11am-3pm, and would like to make a few comments
that may benefit the entire SqueezeBox community:
There should be at most about 5 levels of
Tylers being sarcastic! Of course I can push the buttons, dummy. I
want to do it with 1 button, not 54,183. Thank you Tyler for the
suggestion.
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I was happy with this product back in version 6.3 or so but since I've
downgraded to version 6.5 I've had nothing but problems. The
slimserver just inexplicably stops running during the middle of a
playlist. Quite embarrassing in the middle of a party. Happened twice
in the same night. In
Actually, I wasn't being sarcastic. Posting messages here and checking
responses has taken much more time and energy than simply taking the
DIY approach that I suggested.
TD
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Eric Seaberg wrote:
I'd really rather NOT re-rip everything with FLAC. I have thought
about it just to get the extra quality bump, but iTunes won't read them
which, for me anyway, REALLY puts a crimp in my tag editing and
organization for SlimServer. As a Mac user, there just aren't as many
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