Re: [slim] Album artwork bug?

I have this same problem, all albums have artwork as a jpg in the album folder, courtesy of mp3toys (if you are missing artwork use this!), when you go into the album, artwork is there, but on the main browse I get the big question marks. I've done a clear and rescan. How do you clear the cache

Re: [slim] Think System

yes, but the buttons also do not work on the Transpoter once this happens -- aw4 aw4's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11542 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37140

Re: [slim] Nokia 770

I have the N800. Having never used or seen an N770, I can't say how much faster the newer device is. Ben's skin is excellent. There are a couple of minor improvements that would be nice, but it does an excellent job. The main problem with using the Nxxx as a remote replacement is the need to

Re: [slim] BBC in Australia?

Make sure to use the newest socketwrapper, see other threads -- y360 y360's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37208

Re: [slim] slimcd not handling scan well

I am new to linux but i tried to delete from Midnight Commander and also thru a shell window via sudo rmdir CustomBrowse it kept coming back that it could not do it because they are read only. You can't remove a folder which isn't empty. sudo rm -rf CustomBrowse would do the trick, removing

Re: [slim] BBC in Australia?

socketwrapper is not used on OSX or Linux only Windows. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37208

Re: [slim] Nokia 770

oreillymj;218046 Wrote: The main problem with using the Nxxx as a remote replacement is the need to leave it on for an extended period so that it's available when required. Whereas the Slim Remote is an always-on, instant device, the startup time of the Nokia is about 1 minute with

Re: [slim] Network range problem

Maybe there is a problem with auto speed sensing on the router. -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://www.lastfm.com/user/BondJamesBond Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this

Re: [slim] sorting FLAC MP3 files

Apologies if this appears as a hijack, but it's on subject I believe. I was thinking of converting my Itunes music to flac in a separate folder (first copy highest quality music to one folder, the convert to flac and delete the copied data). While a space waster, space is cheap and I'm on a

Re: [slim] Track playing display problem - Newbie !

yeah, i found that slightly confusing at first too. press the now playing button to active the real-time display of the currently playing track. when you browse to a song and press play, you are essentialy still in browse mode, which does not show the currently playing track. in theory, this

Re: [slim] Problem with SlimServer and EAC/EZ Fix I'm sure!

hi there! i am an avid EAC user. to me, it sounds like one of the three possible problems: 1. it sounds like your EAC is ripping the CDs as one single track and not as separate tracks. which is weird, because EAC will rip single tracks by default. are you sure you are not going through action -

Re: [slim] Track playing display problem - Newbie !

You can make this happen automatically after a set time by using the Now Playing screensaver. This is set up under the Player Settings menu, you can choose what is displayed and what is the delay time before it kicks in. davep -- davep

Re: [slim] sorting FLAC MP3 files

FTJoe;218071 Wrote: What do I lose by not using Itunes in slimserver? Only complexity and occasional headaches. If you don't need iTunes for anything else then you really don't need it for SS. davep -- davep davep's

Re: [slim] PPC Mac Mini Linux Advice for Media Server

Thanks .. I will take a look at mythtv.org -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37211

[slim] Sudden Nokia770 Now playing problem

I have suddenly noticed (over the past 2 days) that the now playing screen on the Nokia 770 Opera browser (using both the Nokia770 Touch skins) no longer shows the Album Art, the progress bar or the track info. Everything else seems to be in order. The skins are working fine on all the browsers

Re: [slim] slimcd not handling scan well

Michael Thank you for all your help. After turning off all plugins, not removing them there was no change in the final outcome. Still on the last scan to get the last few (200-300) songs loaded it came back with zero artists. I will delete the plugin folders that i do not need. I can always

Re: [slim] slimcd not handling scan well

I will delete the plugin folders that i do not need. I can always add them back later. and do another dump of the database and scan from fresh. Please don't forget to log the scanner's output. It might tell us where we have a problem. On thought: you have enough free disk space, do you?

Re: [slim] Any reason slimserver doesn't automagically add albumart when browsing new folders?

On 28/07/07, egd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Herger;217570 Wrote: A known issue: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4631 Thanks Michael, it's a damned annoying known issue and seemingly one that isn't going to be addressed. Doing a full rescan is a royal PITA (scanning for

Re: [slim] How to backup Slimserver configuration?

I tried copying the .pref file to back it up (I'm running Win XP Home SP2) I did a fresh install of SS, stopped it, copied the .pref file over the one in the directory, restarted SS but my old settings didn't reappear. Did I do something wrong? Not that important now as I put my settings back

Re: [slim] How to backup Slimserver configuration?

Did I do something wrong? Not that important now as I put my settings back in manually, but curious for future reference? Shut down SlimServer _before_ you put the prefs file in its place. Michael ___ discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Pardon me - a volume issue

Mark Lanctot;217920 Wrote: Back on topic, the problem is incredibly specific and you'd be noticing other effects if it was just the remote batteries. Try: - altering the volume using the web interface (if this works then this is the remote) - altering the volume while connected to

Re: [slim] slimcd not handling scan well

I have turned on d_scan, d_info and d_file and after 20 minutes of scanning only have 12 lines of data in the log file. I should have enough disk space as i am running a 4gig drive. If that is not enough then i will have to figure something else out. I expect that it will be another 5-6 hours

Re: [slim] Any reason slimserver doesn't automagically add albumart when browsing new folders?

Dr Lovegrove;218090 Wrote: Feel free to add a vote - i just did.. Always annoyed me (and quite a few moose users) too.. Trouble is I dont think it's that simple to fix.. Just voted for it. -- egd http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_transporter.html?

Re: [slim] remote control out of synch with squeezbox

Hi thanks for the tip. I actually did two things. I changed the batteries on the remote and I also restored windows back to a time when I knew the squeezebox was working. It seems to have fixed the problem. -- johnalmeida

Re: [slim] sorting FLAC MP3 files

ashmore;217881 Wrote: I have two folders: one entitled ‘Best Quality’ and the other entitled ‘Smaller’. The Best Quality folder contains (you guessed it…) my entire collection in the best quality format that I own it in. Thus it has a mixture of MP3 and FLAC. Slimserver is pointed at the

Re: [slim] sorting FLAC MP3 files

Ditto Matthew - the flac2mp3 is a godsend. I even managed to work out how to do a batchfile to make the whole process simpler (I am not that technical). Simon PS The girls didn't want to know. I think I was too exciting for them... -- ashmore

Re: [slim] Sudden Nokia770 Now playing problem

Sounds like JavaScript is turned off in the Nokia browser - from the browser menu tool settings Enable JavaScript -- atlslim atlslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3054 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Sudden Nokia770 Now playing problem

yeah that was it ... thanks. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37242

Re: [slim] Pardon me - a volume issue

You didnt happen to install the VolumeGuard plugin did you? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37202

Re: [slim] Pardon me - a volume issue

snarlydwarf;218127 Wrote: You didnt happen to install the VolumeGuard plugin did you? Not consciously, but it certainly sounds as though I should check. It would happen to be a plugin that gets installed on it's own? In any case, I'll check this evening. Thanks for your thoughts! SS --

Re: [slim] Pardon me - a volume issue

It shouldn't get installed automatically, but it does have the behavior you describe... though it is supposed to sneak the adjustments in instead of disallowing them. I can't think of why the server of all things wouldnt work... I don't think it queries the SB and asks the volume, it keeps track

Re: [slim] Updated firmware, now SB3 won't start

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon Geraghty[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It connected up to my slimserver fine but then recommended a firmware update. So I dutifully held down brightness on the remote and set it updating. It then gave some message like restarting, this may take a

Re: [slim] RadioIO

Just a quick update on this situation. The RadioIO menu has been changed in 6.5.4, trunk, and on SqueezeNetwork (within the next 2 hours). It no longer uses RadioIO's direct feed, and should now provide the correct SoundPass streams to members as expected. The folks at RadioIO would like to

Re: [slim] New Pronto TSU9400 or Harmony 1000 ?

OFFICERTOM;217962 Wrote: Which of those universal remote controls do you think is the best to work with my SB3? My Harmony 880 works very well with the SB3, but some of the buttons are starting to go on the fritz I have considered the 1000. However, I am not sure about switching or just

Re: [slim] New Pronto TSU9400 or Harmony 1000 ?

I personally prefer the 880 or 670 to the 1000. -- mvalera Michael Valera Online Communities Manager slimdevices.com mvalera's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11086 View this thread:

Re: [slim] New Pronto TSU9400 or Harmony 1000 ?

Isn't there a fancy, new remote in the works? A remote based on Jive? -- Nostromo Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6322 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Best way to get artwork?

The BEST way is to get covers manually. It's not the fastest of course. If your music is properly tagged and album names are correct, iTunes is an invaluable source for decent resolution images for a large collection of music. You can easily imbed the artwork into your tracks with a simple

[slim] Best Cell Phone Remote??

Hello In the very near future I am going to purchase a new cell phone. I would like to be able to use this phone as a remote for my SB. What cell phone(s) works best in this capacity? What are some recommendations - or some phones to avoid? Thanks! -- jmstipe

Re: [slim] Best Cell Phone Remote??

Quoting jmstipe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello In the very near future I am going to purchase a new cell phone. I would like to be able to use this phone as a remote for my SB. What cell phone(s) works best in this capacity? What are some recommendations - or some phones to avoid?

Re: [slim] Best Cell Phone Remote??

What cell phone(s) works best in this capacity? What are some recommendations - or some phones to avoid? I'm using a Nokia E65 with the handheld skin. This is a small mobile phone, not a touchpad based smartphone, but the browser is great. Michael

[slim] Library

I have my entire CD collection saved in MP3 (Why oh why did I bother???). I now have a transporter, and want to create a seperate library in lossless format, how do I best acheive this? I probably need to buy an external hard drive to put it all onto ... Can someone give me a tutorial on how to

Re: [slim] Library

rubi1971 wrote: I have my entire CD collection saved in MP3 (Why oh why did I bother???). I now have a transporter, and want to create a seperate library in lossless format, how do I best acheive this? I probably need to buy an external hard drive to put it all onto ... Can someone give me a

Re: [slim] Best Cell Phone Remote??

Dave Dewey;218180 Wrote: e phones to avoid?[/color] iPhone with Nokia 770 skin == awesomeness I'm very interested in this comment... I just got to see mvalera's iPhone yesterday with Nokia770, and some of the Nokia770 CSS somewhat ruined the user experience (although I could see the

Re: [slim] Library

but how do I make 2 itunes librarys? -- rubi1971 rubi1971's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12262 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37257

Re: [slim] Library

I recommend ripping your CDs to FLAC with EAC. These links should get you started: http://flac.sourceforge.net/ http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToRipping http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToOrganising http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?EACBeginners

[slim] Isle of Wight radio problems

Hi, I'm using a Squeezebox to listen to Isle of Wight radio via the internet (we live in the midlands in the UK and the island is one of our holiday haunts). The website in question offers various alternative methods: Real Player, Winamp, Quicktime, WMP etc. I can only get the Real Player version

Re: [slim] Updated firmware, now SB3 won't start

Hi Andy, Just tried that and still no joy sadly. I tried all manner of button pressing/holding and I'm not getting a peep out of the thing :/ Thanks anyhow, - Jon -- Jon Geraghty Jon Geraghty's Profile:

Re: [slim] Library

Doug Wise wrote: I recommend ripping your CDs to FLAC with EAC. These links should get you started: http://flac.sourceforge.net/ http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToRipping http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToOrganising

Re: [slim] Updated firmware, now SB3 won't start

re-install the older version of slimserver - that might get it to reload the old firmware and get back to life. -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially.

Re: [slim] Best Cell Phone Remote??

Quoting bklaas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Dave Dewey;218180 Wrote: e phones to avoid?[/color] iPhone with Nokia 770 skin == awesomeness I'm very interested in this comment... I just got to see mvalera's iPhone yesterday with Nokia770, and some of the Nokia770 CSS somewhat ruined

Re: [slim] Best Cell Phone Remote??

Michael Herger;218181 Wrote: I'm using a Nokia E65 with the handheld skin. This is a small mobile phone, not a touchpad based smartphone, but the browser is great. I have the same phone and assumed that it would struggle as a remote so I'm glad to hear this is not the case. My battery oftern

Re: [slim] Updated firmware, now SB3 won't start

Thanks Slimkid, gave that a try (now back to 6.2.1) but the Squeezebox is still dead. Slimserver is running happily though. I do notice that the SB3 is pretty hot while it is plugged in, is that normal? -- Jon Geraghty

Re: [slim] Isle of Wight radio problems

I'd be happy to help you, but... :( Apologies Our streaming services are only available to listeners in the United Kingdom -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this

Re: [slim] Best Cell Phone Remote??

I'm not sure that we get the Nokia E65 in Canada... and the iPhone isn't out here yet either. Any other suggestions? Nokia is still sounding like a good one to look at? How about Motorola? -- jmstipe jmstipe's

Re: [slim] Isle of Wight radio problems

It looks like the format of the Winamp higher bitrate stream is AAC plus which is not supported natively by Squeezebox. To support AACplus on slimserver you will need to add in support as detailed in this page. Look about halfway down. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AACplus If you have

Re: [slim] Updated firmware, now SB3 won't start

Jon Geraghty;218209 Wrote: I do notice that the SB3 is pretty hot while it is plugged in, is that normal? Normal. Have you tried a factory reset? Unplug power, press and hold ADD, replug power. If you can't get any activity after a factory reset, it's dead. Contact support. -- Mark

Re: [slim] Updated firmware, now SB3 won't start

Mark Lanctot;218215 Wrote: Normal. Have you tried a factory reset? Unplug power, press and hold ADD, replug power. If you can't get any activity after a factory reset, it's dead. Contact support. Yeah, I tried the ADD thing, factory reset didn't do anything. I'm waiting to hear back

Re: [slim] Pardon me - a volume issue

Secret Squirrel;218221 Wrote: Okay then. I came home and rechecked everything to make certain I wasn't dreaming or just missing something stupid. All remained the same. So I called support. I had about a five minute conversation with Dan and me suggested stopping SlimServer, deleting the

Re: [slim] Pardon me - a volume issue

Oh neat, so every time you hit volume up it mocked you and sent an additional volume down? That is actually, well... funny. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View

[slim] Help: can't access slimserver while running VPN.

I just moved and with my new ISP I have to run Cisco VPN to access my work e-mail/network drives etc. However, as soon as I start up VPN my squeezeboxes can't talk to slimserver anymore. Does anyone know of a solution/work around for this? I will be running VPN on my server pretty much all the

Re: [slim] Best Cell Phone Remote??

I don't think you can beat Safari on the iPhone. Mike -- mvalera Michael Valera Online Communities Manager slimdevices.com mvalera's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11086 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Pardon me - a volume issue

snarlydwarf;218134 Wrote: It shouldn't get installed automatically, but it does have the behavior you describe... though it is supposed to sneak the adjustments in instead of disallowing them. I can't think of why the server of all things wouldnt work... I don't think it queries the SB

Re: [slim] Best Cell Phone Remote??

The Nokia N95 does well with the handheld skin, especially with the screen rotated 90 degrees. It's a little awkward at first, but you get used to using the handset sideways. Great phone, BTW. -- 4mula1 SlimServer 6.5.3 + Solaris 10 x86: Because Linux would've been too easy!

Re: [slim] Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7

What about native AAC (maybe even AAC+) streaming? It's currently pretty cumbersome to get AAC running on ARM machines and even that is not really fast. -- livelock livelock's Profile:

[slim] Wcbs Fm

I would like to listen to WCBS FM (http://www.wcbsfm.com/) on my Squeeze Box. Does anybody know what URL I need to access this station? Thanks Andrew Smith Southampton England -- norderney norderney's Profile:

Re: [slim] Wcbs Fm

Try http://64.34.251.165:80/WCBSFMDIALUPCMP3 -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37263

Re: [slim] sorting FLAC MP3 files

erland;218086 Wrote: When you say converting I hope you don't actually mean to convert mp3's to flac's with some software. This will only result in that the files take more space, you won't get any better sound quality. To get better sound quality you will need to rip your music again from

Re: [slim] Help: can't access slimserver while running VPN.

I bet your VPN tunnel is a captive one. All your traffic will flow through the tunnel. That blocks your local network. If you are using the Cisco VPN client, there is a checkbox to allow the local LAN. -- jarome jarome's

[slim] How to change the server my squeezebox connects to

I now have two SlimServers, one on Linux and one on my Mac. I need to be able to switch which one I am using. There seems to be no menu item to allow this. And The wireless is the same, so I do NOT want to have to reenter all the WPA2 security stuff. So how do I easily switch servers? (It is

[slim] streaming resolution?

for a long time now, i have not been able to reliably listen to net streams with the sb2. long ago they used to work, but with ~6.3 and beyond they became unusable. (any search of my posts will show my various documentations of these issues) it got to the point where andy even added an option

Re: [slim] Help: can't access slimserver while running VPN.

I tried that. It does absolutely nothing. Under Status and then Statistics, it still says Local LAN: disabled, which I think is the problem. Are there any solutions to this? Lanier -- lanierb lanierb's Profile:

Re: [slim] sorting FLAC MP3 files

FTJoe;218241 Wrote: Yes - that's exactly what I mean. I was suggesting it because the mix of WAV and MP3s I have are maintained in my Itunes library, I can copy them out to a single fodler and then just convert the whole thing to flac. Space is cheap on my array and I really don't want

Re: [slim] How to change the server my squeezebox connects to

with the unit on, hold the left arrow key for a few seconds until the option appears. One issue is that if you have different versions on the two servers, you may need to change your firmware every time you switch as well. -- thomsens

Re: [slim] Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7

integrated support for flash streams [for clear channel and infinity radiostations] that require logon. -- chale2 chale2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10046 View this thread: