Re: [slim] FLAC playback keeps stopping
Since it has been working fine until recently - it is possible a new wifi network has been setup nearby. You can check with Netstumbler or a wifi detector. Try changing channel on the router and then restart all the wifi equipment so they pickup the new channel. The channel with least overlap are 1, 6 and 11. In Europe you can also try channel 13. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41384 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] FLAC playback keeps stopping
Hi, The SB1 doesn't play flac natively, so it is probably being sent wav's and stalling the wifi. Try installing LAME mp3 encoder and unchecking flac wav. Doug. -- Dougal Headless Mini-ITX Clarkconnect 4.1, MPlayer, MusicMagicServer SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12491 - RedHat - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.5 i386-linux-thread-multi MySQL Version: 5.0.21-standard SB3 Cambridge Audio P500x2 Wharfedale Pacific Evo 30 SB3 Graham Slee Solo HD650 Dougal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5489 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41384 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] FLAC playback keeps stopping
I have just uninstalled SlimServer Version: 6.3.1 - 8468. Then rebooted by PC. Then installed SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0 - 15528 and the SAME thing is happening. So it does not appear to be a problem with the software! MP3's are still playing perfectly, but FLAC files keep stopping and starting. FLACs play for about 15 seconds then stop for about 5 seconds then play for 15 seconds etc etc. I am really desparate to get this resolved, as most of my music is in FLAC format !!! -- norderney norderney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41384 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] wake up lan ?
Super Q, Thanks for your help and heads up on this subject I much appreciate your advise. -- mintjaman mintjaman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41287 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New NAS devices by Netgear (Infrant)
I didn't realise they had added the LCD, when i saw this on Engadget i thought they had just bumped the capacity. As Netgear seem to be selling them as pre-configured units as opposed to diskless units, i figured it was jus a bit of marketing and not really a new device at all. Looks like i was mostly right :) -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41378 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 802.11n range question
slack_ed;251210 Wrote: Hello, I just got the SB set up yesterday and it is a very cool device for listening to tunes. The distance between my pc and computer seems to be an issue. Using a Linksys WRT54G router the sound cuts out, or gets more distorted, from time to time. Looking at the new routers it sounds like the new 802.11n routers get better range. Does anyone know if there would be an increase in range if one went to one of these routers? I have the same router. Before you toss more money on the issue, try upgrading to the latest router firmware. Also if you only have 'G' devices on your network, make sure the router knows that. Finally, CALL their tech support. They have bailed me out of numerous issues. I do not recommend the live chat tech support. -- bflatmajor bflatmajor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=794 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41342 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.
I am new to the Squeezebox. I bought two recently as Christmas gifts. After setting them up and demoing them for the recipients, I am not happy with the performance. Perhaps I am doing something wrong. 1) The remote stinks. Is there a cheap remote that I can buy that has individual letter buttons on it? Pressing the 7 button four times to enter an S is horrible. 2) Why do search results in Rhapsody come back unsorted? Unless I enter the entire name of a band, I get back 100 hits. Then I have to search through all 100 to see if the band I am looking for is even available because they are unsorted. Ugh. Otherwise, I have to enter the whole name and press 20 buttons (on average) for a band with 10 letters in its name. 3) Why is the Squeeze Network so slow? When I press buttons on the remote, I have to wait several seconds or more between presses for the display to respond. Is this for real? Are users supposed to be accepting of this? I was using the system on FIOS, with WEP encryption (I heard about the WPA problems) and 802.11(g). There was no difference when I hooked up via an ethernet cable. 4) Why can't the Squeezebox simply pull songs from a NAS without a server installed on it (or a computer)? Sonos can, so I know it is not a technological problem. Thanks for any input. Matt -- MattB MattB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14616 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41393 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.
MattB;251612 Wrote: I am new to the Squeezebox. I bought two recently as Christmas gifts. After setting them up and demoing them for the recipients, I am not happy with the performance. Perhaps I am doing something wrong. The Squeezboxes and Slimserver take a bit of a context shift in your brain to get used to. Relax, don't worry and it gets easier. Do remember this is not a support forum.. it is a user forum, and though support people wander through here from time to time that is mainly because they happen to also be users... I don't think their job description says to come here... they come here because they want to. So most if not all the support you get here will be from other SB users, who of course are under no obligation to help you at all... so be nice and calm and you'll get far. 1) The remote stinks. Is there a cheap remote that I can buy that has individual letter buttons on it? Pressing the 7 button four times to enter an S is horrible. You must not text message much? Those of us with tiny phones (I hate how fat blackberries are.. ewww) are used to the cycling. (And actually I do very little searching any more.. not much text entry at all.) That said there is a LazySearch plugin that you may find helpful: it is sort of like the spelling software on many cell phones... as you type a word it tries to figure out what you mean based on the contents of your library. You can get it from the Plugins page. 2) Why do search results in Rhapsody come back unsorted? Unless I enter the entire name of a band, I get back 100 hits. Then I have to search through all 100 to see if the band I am looking for is even available because they are unsorted. Ugh. Otherwise, I have to enter the whole name and press 20 buttons (on average) for a band with 10 letters in its name. Almost certainly an issue with how Rhapsody implements their API.. My guess is they come back in some order Rhapsody thought was useful (closest match first? or most popular first? dunno, i don't do rhapsody). 3) Why is the Squeeze Network so slow? When I press buttons on the remote, I have to wait several seconds or more between presses for the display to respond. Is this for real? Are users supposed to be accepting of this? I was using the system on FIOS, with WEP encryption (I heard about the WPA problems) and 802.11(g). There was no difference when I hooked up via an ethernet cable. That sounds like a latency issue. Speed and latency are related sometimes, but not quite the same thing. An eighteen wheeler moving 50,000 DVD's across the country is high speed (moving 200 terabits in just a couple days), but very high latency. That first disc takes a long time to get there. (Or if you have ever had the extreme displeasure of talking on a satelitte link, that 2-3 seconds of latency when you speak is enough to make conversations stutter like mad.) SN is working on opening some new data centers to be closer (at least network-topology-wise) but you really shouldn't see that problem in the US, the current center is pretty well connected 4) Why can't the Squeezebox simply pull songs from a NAS without a server installed on it (or a computer)? Sonos can, so I know it is not a technological problem. Because that is not how it is designed... Very few things in the world are technological problems. In order to access a drive it would take more CPU and RAM on the SB than currently exists, as the SB would need to at least perfom some mild indexes (even for 'Browse Music Folder' functionality... some people are weird and have thousands of items in folders...), and for the flexibility of what the SB can do (I abuse erland's plugins so I can have a Random Mix of Music Suitable for Work where I exclude some genres like Christmas and Explicit) a PC based server with a flexible plugin structure gives you a ton of power... In this case, I think that was the deciding factor: you could throw more CPU and memory at the SB but you would still lose out on functionality unless you basically made the SB into a PC. which would mean noisy fans, electricial noise, etc... By keeping as much of the heavy stuff outside of the SB itself, you not only keep the cost down, the extensibility of the product goes way up. PC's are cheap, get faster all the time, etc. So, yeah, Sonos has an internal OS (actually Linux as I recall).. but you still can't modifiy the server core, and you lose out on all the plugins (some of which you may find silly, but some of which I find essential... I would be -so- lost without Trackstat/DynamicPlaylist/SQLPlaylist etc these days...) If you are at least semi technically inclined there are some easy solutions: Dell for example sells Linux PC's (you have to look in their Small Business section, they seem to think consumers would never want them) pretty cheap. Since you're not paying for Windows, you save some money. Use one of those with a copy of one of the CD-Rom
Re: [slim] Inguz Room Correction Plugin
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41349 Question: Inguz Room Correction plugin - Highly recommend - Worth a try if you have time - Geek stuff only - Vaporware It's worth it if your system can support it. Having said that, if you don't have much of a desire to take some steps first - careful speaker placement, at least a basic level of room treatment - then you will get something out of it, but not the best you can. Bottom line is I use it and it works. -- tonyptony tonyptony's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3397 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41349 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 802.11n range question
I'd also use netstumbler to figure out a free channel, or if you don't have a wireless computer try out different channels. There is a network test at the slimserver web console, check its results. -- y360 y360's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41342 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.
Rhapsody search was discussed in this thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34386 I'm sure it will improve in the future. As for the remote, I think it is wonderful, but it is obviously not intended for heavy duty text typing. If you're using Rhapsody, better organize a library via their PC client and then use the SB remote to access it. Pressing the first letter to choose from a list of artists/albums is very easy. Then you don't need to type that much with the remote, nor wade through the Rhapsody search results on the SB. -- y360 y360's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41393 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Automatic Start of SlimServer System Preference On Mac
I'm also noticing the same thing with a recent build of 7. (Which -- by the way --- is fantastic.) -- Flying Point Flying Point's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7644 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41357 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.
I have three squeezeboxes. I'm happy with mine. My attitude is that this is cutting edge technology that is a work in progress. The benefits far outweigh the idiosyncracies (spelling?). As you use it, and use the pc interface too, things get easier. -- mortslim mortslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41393 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Automatic Start of SlimServer System Preference On Mac
I am also enjoying SqueezeCenter7 and am mostly happy with it, but have also noticed this problem. SC7 is failing to automatically start on system boot. -- bephillips More than 38,243 songs on 3028 albums by 2130 artists. Mostly flac, some mp3 and aac. SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0 - 15288 - Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S165) - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard On a 1.2GHz G4 Mac iBook with 768MB RAM http://db.etree.org/bephillips bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41357 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
I have just installed SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0 - 15528 today onto my PC running Windows Vista Ultimate. I was hoping to configure AAC Plus, so that I can listen to AAC Plus streams. I have already installed AlienBBC, which is working, so I know MPlayer is installed ok. I downloaded the following files custom-convert.conf, custom-strings.txt and custom-types.conf from http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AACplus. I put these files into both C:\program files\squeezeCenter and C:\program files\squeezeCenter\server, but I am not getting any audio from the AAC Plus streams. I am getting scrowling text showing the track and artist names relating to the AAC Plus streams. Have I done something wrong. Any advice would be appreciated. -- norderney norderney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running AAC Plus with SC7
Does your custom-convert.conf file contain the #PIPE# string as per the instruction ? If so - can you enable logging with player.source set to INFO and copy the log of trying to play a stream to a post. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41403 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] PC sound cards
Does the quality of the PC sound card have anything to do with playback through the SB3. Cheers Charlie -- Charles Calkins Charles Calkins's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6228 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41405 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] PC sound cards
Charles Calkins wrote: Does the quality of the PC sound card have anything to do with playback through the SB3. Not unless you are using the PC sound card. The SqueezeBox is a wireless replacement for a sound card. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] no preference file
I just downloaded Slim Server and the system preference file did not download along with it. I have spent a fair amount of time looking for it and it is just not there. Any ideaas on how can get it to download? Thanks. -- Shredder Shredder's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41406 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Mac. SS stops/no auto start
I have an old MacG4, OS 10.4.11. I installed SS 6.5.4. It will stay running for only 30 seconds and then stops. Also SS will not auto start on bootup. Have gone thro all security settings and browser settings and cannot see anything that will help. I cannot access web page either with any browser. Any ideas welcome. -- graley graley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11756 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41407 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Replacing mDNSResponder with avahi
I already run avahi (a Bonjour daemon) on my Linux box and I'd rather have it advertise my slimserver instead of having slimserver run its own copy of mDNSResponder. In the past I've done this by manually creating the appropriate avahi config file and commenting out the mDNSResponder invocation in Slimserver. But avahi is getting pretty popular now so I'm wondering if any thought has gone into making slimserver work with it a little more naturally. --Phil ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] no preference file
I tried downloading again w/o success. Any ideas? -- Shredder Shredder's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41406 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] no preference file
Doesnt the server create it when it starts up? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41406 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Can the Transporter do this?
Can it use the digital output as a signal for a further DSP device and then accept that as a digitsl input for it's inbuilt DAC. IE could I go digital out to lets say a TACT and then take the TACTS output to one of the transporters digital inputs and then use the trasporters DAC on that DSP altered signal? -- Rodney_Gold Rodney_Gold's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14618 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41410 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] no preference file
I just downloaded Slim Server and the system preference file did not download along with it. The preference file is created when you start SS/SC for the first time. You should find it in a prefs sub folder of the program folder where you installed (assuming SS 6.5.x on Windows) or in Documents Settings/All Users/Application data/SqueezeCenter (SqueezeCenter 7). If you can't find them, then you should give us some more information about your system. Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.
Last time I looked a Dell Linux machine cost more than the equal Windows machine. On Dec 26, 2007 11:29 PM, Diana Artemis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snarlydwarf wrote: big snip Use one of those with a copy of one of the CD-Rom based servers (I think there is one based on Debian Linux and one based one FreeBSD) Snarly Sorry to butt in on this thread, but I was interested in this bit of advice, and not sure what you meant exactly. Are you talking about a CD-Rom based SqueezeCentre? (Like Michael Herger's SlimCD?) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Mac. SS stops/no auto start
I have an old MacG4, OS 10.4.11. I installed SS 6.5.4. It will stay running for only 30 seconds and then stops. Also SS will not auto start on bootup. Could you please provide us with the slimserver.log - you should find it somewhere in ~/Library/ or /Library/ Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thinking about sending two SBs back.
snarlydwarf wrote: big snip Use one of those with a copy of one of the CD-Rom based servers (I think there is one based on Debian Linux and one based one FreeBSD) Snarly Sorry to butt in on this thread, but I was interested in this bit of advice, and not sure what you meant exactly. Are you talking about a CD-Rom based SqueezeCentre? (Like Michael Herger's SlimCD?) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
