SilverRS8 wrote:
The opening of the file in IE is actually hardcoded for two reasons;
1. everybody has IE installed
I wouldn't say that in the company of people using free software (e.g.
the GNU/Linux OS)!
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SilverRS8 wrote:
The opening of the file in IE is actually hardcoded for two reasons;
1. everybody has IE installed
I wouldn't say that in the company of people using free software (e.g.
the GNU/Linux OS)!
;-)
True. But (maybe sadly) ACC is writtin in
Thanks for the answer.
Anyway, I got it working by myself at last.
In fact, the SB doesn't need to have an IP number specified to be able
to connect to the network.
The error is in the faq, because it is not mentioned anywhere that you
have to set up the network as ad hoc.
This is crucial
He said that owning films was pointless and renting them much better. He
said that didn't apply to music where people wanted to hear the same
thing many times.
By that does not mean a music subscription service would not work. To
date none of them have proved that popular, but that's probably
schatzy;259347 Wrote:
MuckleEck,
Please try and select just one of the album folders in your that has
less than 50 tracks (if you have one)
I.E. y:\music\v\various artists\album
And try to run ACC again, then run it on a folder that has more than
150 tracks and report back if
I've been using it under Windows Vista platform for about 8 weeks now
and have upgraded it occasionally with the 'daily'. It has worked 100%
once running and the Squeezebox playing has been fine.
Only one issue I have had is that I had to figure out it is best to
login as the admin account
MuckleEck;259647 Wrote:
Schatzy,
I ran various scenarios last night as follows:-
1. Reverted to another machine and installed Slimserver from the
website, asked it to scan just one directory of tracks (mixture of MP3
and FLAC) with no album with more than 20 songs, then ran ACC no
He said that owning films was pointless and renting them much better. He
said that didn't apply to music where people wanted to hear the same
thing many times.
That's not quite accurate; he didn't say pointless but did say that music was
listened to many times and movies were often watched
jfo;259601 Wrote:
I thought I would try SC7 after reading it was quite stable, but didn't
have success. It installed fine, but ran very, very slowly. For
example, it took a long time to load the album screen(with art) and
then would take 10-12 seconds to select an individual album. It would
Frank,
SS is on a laptop (for testing) SC on a desktop (primary) all music
stored on a NAS
On the desktop with SC running the URL in the MySQL database looks
like
takes between 1 and 2 minutes to start and then maybe 30s to 1 min to
display anything whenever I click a link.
Your machine is much stronger than what I'm using at home (server Via C3/1GHz,
client Pentium-M 1.4GHz). But I can't confirm this.
Are you using Firebug or any other browser add-on
I've reported this a few times now and it's still the case.
When the Default skin is shown in Firefox, it uses 100% CPU time.
When it's loaded but not the visible tab, CPU usage drops to 0%.
I do not have Firebug installed.
It's making the new interface unusable for me, and these reports are
MuckleEck;259647 Wrote:
Schatzy,
I ran various scenarios last night as follows:-
1. Reverted to another machine and installed Slimserver from the
website, asked it to scan just one directory of tracks (mixture of MP3
and FLAC) with no album with more than 20 songs, then ran ACC no
Robin Bowes;259445 Wrote:
mflint wrote:
I happily use a Kurobox HG/WR for SqueezeCenter 7 with a Squeezebox
Controller. It has just 128Mb, but seems to perform well with my
collection of approximately 4000 tracks.
It also has gigabit ethernet (but probably not enough processor
ShadowWar;259656 Wrote:
Jim, I've got definite speed problems as well, but only on the new
interface. Switch to classic and it's fine. PC's quite old (AMD 2.7GHz,
1GB RAM, Win XP Pro SP2) but doesn't have too many speed problems
otherwise. I was playing back an album encoded with FLAC on my
MuckleEck;259658 Wrote:
Frank,
SS is on a laptop (for testing) SC on a desktop (primary) all music
stored on a NAS
On the desktop with SC running the URL in the MySQL database looks
like
heyho;259660 Wrote:
I'm using Kaspersky suite for firewall, a/v etc.
I've got the current(ish) release of the free ZoneAlarm and AVG's free
scanner. Hell, I sound really cheap, don't I?!
Mike
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Michael Herger;259661 Wrote:
takes between 1 and 2 minutes to start and then maybe 30s to 1 min to
display anything whenever I click a link.
Your machine is much stronger than what I'm using at home (server Via
C3/1GHz, client Pentium-M 1.4GHz). But I can't confirm this.
I don't think
That's no problem as long as we're not talking about _minutes_ (or 20
seconds for that matter). Any program will take all the resource it can
get to get its job done the fastest possible. The issue is the duration
of the process, not the spike. The first time loading of the page is
slow, I have
I've reported this a few times now and it's still the case.
When the Default skin is shown in Firefox, it uses 100% CPU time.
That's no problem as long as we're not talking about _minutes_ (or 20 seconds
for that matter). Any program will take all the resource it can get to get its
job done
Michael Herger;259670 Wrote:
There's even a bug open about this (6625). But I am as much surprised as
the bug reporter that this hasn't been brought up as a killer problem
before.
I think beta testers tend to lean much more to the geek side of the
spectrum, so are likely to have both a
The only addon I have installed is Adblock.
Adblock or Adblock plus?
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mflint wrote:
Mine's a Seagate too, 320GB. Model ST3320620A.
Is the cooling fan running in your Kuro?
Yes, it is.
I've got it up and running at the moment and seem to be holding steady
at 45C, but I suspect the acid test will be when I rsync my mp3 folder
to it.
I'm planning to get one
Is there a way to make iTunes playlists browsable in SlimServer 7? I
want them to behave like the library, browsable by artist, album, etc.
Now they just show up as a large list of songs.
Speaking of playlists, why can´t the server detect so-called smart
playlists from iTunes?
I´m running
When the Default interface is shown, Firefox uses 100% cpu time *all the
time* - not just when it's loading.
Now that's news to me. I use to have the skin open in FF, Opera and Safari|IE
(depending on what system I'm working with) at the same time. Three of them,
sometimes even more than one
I don't understand this. It looks like this is for browsing in a window
where the url you connect to is different from the url you are seeing
so you can beat the work firewall etc. And they can pay for it by
putting advertising banners into the page.
But for squeezebox (I have no interest in
I tried 6.5.5 and 7. Both with the same results HOWEVER the good news is
if I clicked on an album cover in the gallery view, then did a screen
refresh the cover turned up in the Gallery view. I did this for each
album and so I now have a complete Album gallery.
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40 seconds is just to load the Default web page - not to load Firefox!
The only addon I have installed is Adblock.
I only get this problem with the Default skin, nothing else.
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Ooh not sure. I'll have to check - are there any known issues with
either?
No. Just tested both. No problem :-/.
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Ooh not sure. I'll have to check - are there any known issues with
either?
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Diana Artemis;259640 Wrote:
SilverRS8 wrote:
The opening of the file in IE is actually hardcoded for two reasons;
1. everybody has IE installed
I wouldn't say that in the company of people using free software (e.g.
the GNU/Linux OS)!
;-)
Diana,
Maybe you should have read through
Just to clearify things up because I think there is a miss understanding
here. ACC does not have a external browser requirement. It generates
plain text files which happen to have the .html extension. It can be
opened with IE or Firefox (as this was fixed in the last version).
It also creates a
SilverRS8;259631 Wrote:
Thx, Tamanaco for your feedback that it now works for you. You were
still my list because you still had some issues.
The font size thing is indeed what Schatzy described. Actually
applications can't handle the larger font size very well. They are all
designed for
I ran Port Query from my office. 9000 returned filtered and 3483
returned filtered or listening. Is it possible that it is my company's
firewall that is blocking communication and not my machine at home? I
can load slimserver via the web and see my library from my office. I
just can't get
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What are the actual benefits of a NAS? is it just that you have the NAS
on all the time and it goes into sleep mode when not being used?
loads of questions really.
will the NAS wake when the SB tries to access it?
with SC 7 and accessing SN beta through that will it work?
what are the
Not really sure about the whole NAS waking up thing, I never set mine to
sleep.
For me it isn't just for SS, it is my main bulk storage now too. I have
a 5x 500GB drive N5200. Making about 1.8TB of online storage.
I also treat is like an appliance, so while i mess about with my
laptops or
dminches,
That's a similar problem to what I'm having: I can open SlimServer from
my office, I can play an mp3 stream through Windows Media Player, but I
can't get SoftSqueeze to connect. I haven't solved mine SoftSqueeze
problem yet, so I don't have any advice for you.
If I solve mine, I'll be
Super-Gonzo;259455 Wrote:
How much work is the CPU doing (on the server) to transcode 2 streams at
once? Perhaps your running out of oomph there, rather than bandwidth?
If this is the case, you might try changing the lame encoding quality
to a lower level, which has less cpu cost.
Many
schatzy;259463 Wrote:
Sometimes it takes a little while (sometimes as much as a day or more)
to get someone on the forum that knows the answer to your question.
Most cable internet connections have a slower speed of upload than they
do of download. Like my cable connection at my house
I would just like to second this point. I have been waiting and watching
eagerly for this product, but am not sure whether or not to purchase
because of the high price.
Now I am not saying that it is not worth the money, in fact the key
issue here is that I haven't got a clue, because we don't
If Microsoft take over Logitech I'm gone. What are the althernatives to
Squeezebox?
Transporter.
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NAS Devices are good for storing data but most of them are way under
powered for running thins like SS and SC. Just read through the threads
here, many people say they are under powerded.
For actually less money than a decent NAS i have a mini iTX computer
and a 500GB usb hard drive. The iTX is
If Microsoft take over Logitech I'm gone. What are the althernatives to
Squeezebox?
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Just to be clear...
does the ALBUMSORTORDER tag only affect the web interface? Or, does
using this tag impact the sort order of albums via the SqueezeBox
itself?
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You will get en central storage you can share from serveral PC's. And if
you have a mediaplayer you can store you DVDs on the NAS and access them
from the media player. Power consumption on my nas is only 11w idle and
18w when running.
After 10min the HDD goes into hibernate.
I also have my
to: tamanaco,
Glad to be of assistance.
To: MuckleEck
I will be borrowing a NAS with music on it this weekend to do some
other testing for SilverRS8.
If you are still having problems after going through Phil's posts let
me know and I will try to figure out a senario for you that will work
OK, I can create a new playlist within SlimServer and it will play.
Here's a sample line from the playlist I just created and tested:
F:\music\ext\Compilations\I'll Take You There\03. Aretha Franklin -
(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman.flac
...and here's a sample line from one of the
Hello
I am new to the forums.
I was ready to go purchase a Sonos system but I decided to wait until
after CES to see if any new simular devicle would be announced there.
I was pleased to see the Squeezebox Duet.
One thing I would like to do is be able to play my music while my
computer is off.
2) Can you think of two compilation albums with exactly the same
title?
Lady Sings the Blues
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Frank,
Now that I have it working I have a request.
I use a customDB setting in my tags that allows me to sort the music by
who owns it in the family (me, wife, kids etc)
How easy would it be to add an extra sort criteria that can be
customised?
The heading in the MySQL database is value
schatzy wrote:
For actually less money than a decent NAS i have a mini iTX computer
and a 500GB usb hard drive. The iTX is a 1Ghz processor with 1GB ram
and runs WIndows XP.
Which iTX hardware are you running?
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Espen;259784 Wrote:
I am using such a setup. The only component that makes noise is the
harddrive. I have configured it to spin down after a few minutes of
inactivity.
I currently have two My Book 500GB hard drives. One is in use the other
is stored away as a back up. Both of these drives
schatzy;259768 Wrote:
For actually less money than a decent NAS i have a mini iTX computer
and a 500GB usb hard drive. The iTX is a 1Ghz processor with 1GB ram
and runs WIndows XP. I have 3 SB3's connected to it all running
different stream and no lag in the menu's on any of the SB3's. I
Dave Dewey;259593 Wrote:
Didn't Jobs say in the keynote that renting music was pointless?
Something like people want to OWN music, but only watch a movie once or
twice? Paraphrasing of course, but that was the gist.
He definitely is missing the boat as far as my own personal desires. I
Brilliant! that is so cool!
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thats pretty interesting actually. just looking at itx's now. most seem
to come with cd drives and small hard drives built in. I have an
external drive I would be happy to use as an external, and have built
computers before so am happy to build it myself. what kinda price could
a simple one cost?
Hi All
I just read that the new controller saves the Music library in the
controllers memory!
I also read that the Sonos have a song limit of 40.000 songs.
I always loved the idea about Slim devices not having a limit! (-;
And yes I actually know people with over 4000 CD´s in their collections
MuckleEck;259791 Wrote:
Frank,
Now that I have it working I have a request.
I use a customDB setting in my tags that allows me to sort the music by
who owns it in the family (me, wife, kids etc)
How easy would it be to add an extra sort criteria that can be
customised?
The heading
maggior;259772 Wrote:
Just to be clear...
does the ALBUMSORTORDER tag only affect the web interface? Or, does
using this tag impact the sort order of albums via the SqueezeBox
itself?
Thanks,
Rich
It affects the SB itself. Albums are sorted by year under Artists -
Albums for me now
Bay City;259759 Wrote:
One thing I would like to do is be able to play my music while my
computer is off.
IMHO you'll be happiest with the system if you always have the
SqueezeCenter software running somewhere on your home network.
It can run on certain NAS devices, but that may be slow.
Schatzy Frank,
I have played around with things and found the following:-
1. I change the SS to log on as user and then use x:\music as the
folder, SS still stored everything in the database as
\\n2100\itunes\music...so no joy there
2. I copied all my music onto an external USB drive. Attached
MuckleEck;259791 Wrote:
Frank,
Now that I have it working I have a request.
I use a customDB setting in my tags that allows me to sort the music by
who owns it in the family (me, wife, kids etc)
How easy would it be to add an extra sort criteria that can be
customised?
The heading
Out of curiosity, where were you reading this info? I think something
somewhere may need a correction :)
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1) So make it an option - everyone's happy.
2) Can you think of two compilation albums with exactly the same title?
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radish;259538 Wrote:
EAC, for example, doesn't have a way of setting COMPILATION.
No, but you can pass the tag to an encoder using the additional command
line options, at least for something like FLAC. I explicitly set the
compilation tag to 0 for all albums, and then manually change it when I
Does anyone have 6.5.5 (any nightly) running properly in Leopard?
Before you answer that, do the following...
1. Is SlimServer running? If you see a display on your SB or can play
music right now, then the answer is yes.
2. Next, open your System Preferences.
3. Then click on the SlimServer
I know alot of people using Sonos are having problems with large music
collections and are trying to Squeeze (-; more songs into their Sono
by shorten filenames and Dir structure...
They have raised the limit from 20.000 to know being close to 50.000
but because its all in the local memory it
There are no limits on the server end either.
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Gibbo;259812 Wrote:
thats pretty interesting actually. just looking at itx's now. most seem
to come with cd drives and small hard drives built in. I have an
external drive I would be happy to use as an external, and have built
computers before so am happy to build it myself. what kinda price
casperse;259842 Wrote:
I just read that the new controller saves the Music library in the
controllers memory!
It doesn't. It caches some information, but it makes no attempt to
save it all. (The server has that, and has it indexed.. it would be
slow to move from Albums to Artists if the
I have an elements drive already that is pretty quite, well it'd be ok
in the right location.
I'd love it if people could recommend some cheap setups and stores.
i'm in the uk.
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jezbo;259793 Wrote:
1) So make it an option - everyone's happy.
some, not everyone. for example:
-QA who have to test every option
-Support who have to keep track of every option and it's effects when
helping customers diagnose an issue
-Developers who have to continually track each
I posted this on the plugin forum, and will try here as well. Is there
any download that will allow me to use my Blackberry 8830 as a remote
for my Squeeze box 3
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Frank,
I shall have a play with the replace() caommand tomorrow
Shatzy,
It worked through the USB only.
I suspect that there may be an issue wither with the drive mapping (as
discussed with Frank above) or the speed at which the data can be
recovered from the NAS, not sure. My network is all
That Sonos limit is why I decided not to consider it. I do not expect to
break the barrier soon, but I do not like to know there is one either.
I have read that people with a lot of classical music (and some tend to
have really much) often see lower limits as the file tags are often
longer that
That's server statistics, have you tried player statistics when playing
from your personal collection (not SN)?
Sounds like wireless issues. Repeaters keep the signal up but they
can't increase bandwidth, they only work with what they can get from
the router.
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I would like to get any feedback from people who have compared the
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CIA VDCSB
Paul Hynes SR1-5
Bolder Ultimate
I am mainly looking for feedback for people who have compared all 3 or
at least 2 out of the 3. From my reading I am leaning towards the SR1-5
but that is not
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There are no limits on the server end either.
Sure there is... int(10).
So somewhere before 9,999,999,999 tracks, albums or artists, the schema
will need to be adjusted.
(Though my guess is performance would suffer somewhere before that
point... but when machines
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I'm using this skin and really like it. One question: is there a way to
have a music folders browsing option on the main menu?
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Hmmm.
Turns out my problem *was* caused by Adblock!
Disabling it removed the CPU usage. I've installed Adblock Plus, which
was the same to start with (maybe a little faster) but with an
exclusion on http://localhost:9000 the issue is gone!
To think I was starting to consider using ie again...
I can't give you a comparative answer, but I own the CIA. Compared to
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Whole-heartedly disagree.
I'm a developer myself, and our happiness is not the issue, a product
must be flexible enough to satisfy the majority of customers. Making
some rule rigid so that it only satisfies half the customers, even if
it makes things simpler, is not good practice. And the rule
OK, following a support request I copied one of my music directories
into my c:\music\ directory and re-scanned playlists, then created a
new playlist - and the new playlist worked fine.
I noticed though that my playlists had *doubled*, except for the new
one - with one version of each working,
jezbo;259946 Wrote:
Whole-heartedly disagree.
I'm a developer myself, and our happiness is not the issue, a product
must be flexible enough to satisfy the majority of customers. Making
some rule rigid so that it only satisfies half the customers, even if
it makes things simpler, is not
Turns out my problem *was* caused by Adblock!
Thanks for the feedback! Good to know we're not that awfully slow after
all...
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seanadams;259851 Wrote:
There are no limits on the server end either.
And that is one of the reasons I went with Slim Devices in the first
place and why I have just bought a Transporter. I currently have 29876
songs 5066 artists and I am still buying lots of CDs. Infact I buy
more CDs now,
snarlydwarf wrote:
A ton of customers Just Work with the dropping of Common Album Names
and the must-be-same-album-if-in-same-directory code. Common Album
Names sucked.
Agreed. I don't think it's an unreasonable requirement that tracks from
the same album are in the same directory.
R.
jezbo;259946 Wrote:
I'm a developer myself, and our happiness is not the issue
Depends on whether you're paying said developers ;)
As it is, I won't be using the SlimServer web interface since browsing
of albums is such a pain; I'm writing my own interface that builds it's
own
jezbo wrote:
Whole-heartedly disagree.
I'm a developer myself, and our happiness is not the issue,
Correct. The customers much be happy, which most are.
a product must be flexible enough to satisfy the majority of
customers.
Which it does.
Making some rule rigid so that it only
Is anyone else having problems with certain Radioio stations, e.g.
Chill, Ambient?
When I try to hook up, I get a message that says ICY 401 Service
Unavailable. Some stations work fine (Classical, Acoustic), some
don't.
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I can get to Slacker if I use the remote and connect to SqueezeNetwork
Beta (using SC 7.0). But if I try to call slacker, pandora, radiotime,
etc from my PC running SqueezeCenter I get an error:
There was an error loading the remote feed for Slacker: (Invalid
username or password)
Where can I
Since I couldn't find a video that showed a walkthrough of the Duet, I
made my own at Macworld today. Will be posted here momentarily:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonbauer/2201055378/
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Nice work.
I wasn't sure about my opinion of the Controller from the various specs
and photos I had seen, but now I REALLY want one.
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The video makes a world of difference for anyone interested in this
product. I don't think Slim/Logitech are doing themselves any favors
with the coverage on this web site right now. The images in the gallery
are small and don't show anywhere near enough of the functional aspects
of the products.
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