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Remember the parking photos? Let's start some new rumours ;-)
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Sorry to hear about your trouble. If Felix (K55)
He still had three on stock. Two of them should be on their way to the
wild west of Switzerland (just to be brought back to Bern in a few
weeks...).
cannot help you I can
offer you to do the necessary soldering.
From Felix' mail: Felix
I just want to say I hope with future releases of 6.2 the clock screen
saver will be returned. I miss having the time displayed when the
slimp3 is off.
It has not been removed. Check the player settings, screensavers. And make
sure the player's brightness isn't set to 0.
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1. I can't access SqueezeNetwork. I just get a message that it is unable
to connect and I'm never given a PIN.
Please give some more detail about your network configuration, for server
and SB2:
- IP address
- gateway
2. Radio stations sometimes simply stop, as if I'd pressed stop on the
I considered doing something similar, but as you say, it's just a bit
too big to fit in a standard car audio spot.
You might ebay around for a sb1 (NOT sbg!): the display is a little less
wide with the IR sensor on a separate board. It might be the inch you need.
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If the PC has a PCMCIA or CF slot, you might move your boot partition to
a
CF card, and install Linux there. There's a dist that runs well on a CF
card:
Even better ;-): the SlimCD
(http://www.herger.net/slim/detail.php?nr=763). It's a byproduct of my
wish to have a linux box boot from a
Sorry, Michael, cannot reproduce unless I installed 6.2 again, which I
do not
wish to do until the m3u/BBC problems are sorted.
Please don't get me wrong, but we won't be able to fix anything if those
having the problem can't give us any more information.
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I would really appreciate something like this as well. I'd like to print
out an album list (to check that Ive ripped all my CDs amongst other
reasons). If someone could tell us how to generate a csv file, Id be
happy to format it in Excel or similar
There are ODBC drivers available for SQLite
Is 6.2 supposed to support the SLIMP3 player?
Yes, and it does fine.
If yes, I would have to say it's a pretty poor attempt, and anyone in
my situation should not even try it. Your time is worth more than
this.
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minor glitch in that URL...
http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/
Depends on your browser ;-). Opera does not include closing bracket when
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You don't have to remember this, you only have to know how to read and
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I liked the idea someone mentioned about a USB knob ...
http://www.herger.net/slim/powermate.avi :-)
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Ok, Michael, tell us how you did that!
Wow! At last! I really had to insinst until somebody asked :-)
It's obviously a Powermate I'm using with the Gizmo Daemon (formerly known
as powermated: http://powermated.sourceforge.net/) running on my Linux
box. A little script receives the events
Michael: what was playing in the background. I could tell it was german
but couldn't make it out. It sounded like a radio advertisement.
Neither nor, I'm sorry: it's french, a skit on couleur3
(http://www.couleur3.ch) - anyone who knows that channel could confirm it
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I certainly don't want anything as power-hungry as mini-ITX, so it's
something like the NLSU2 or Linkstation for me - and currently we'd be
lucky to have the luxury of 64Mb to play with!
A mini-ITX system with a 2.5 hd and 256MB of RAM might run as low on
power as a Linkstation with a 3.5
It seems like the software needs to be rearchitected so different
plug-ins are only loaded as they are used and are unloaded when not in
use (see Eclipse).I believe you can turn off plug-ins you don't use.
...and even remove them from the file system. Which I do for stuff like
iTunes,
I believe someone pointed out a few days ago that the database system in
use has such an option. It would just have to be made adjustable at the
user interface.
I immediately thought of a small plugin doing nothing but that setting in
its initPlugin() routine... volunteers?
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I have just noticed the Play Random Shoutcast stream! Great addition.
Can be pretty fun discovering rather... ahem... different music styles :-)
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slimserver on Fedora Core 4 (linux). The Asus device allows access via
FTP or Samba so I will have access to it. How would I point slimserver
to my music library on the device? Could you simply type
smb://192.168.1.7/directory or ftp://192.168.1.7/directory
Rather mount the share to some
But now I have regular dropouts every half-hour or so and when
ever I interact with the web interface the slim process spikes for
about 0.5 to 1.5 seconds.
Is it _whenever_ you access the web page or only on some of them? Eg. the
help pages should run fine, while browsing artwork is pretty
information is part of the event: --- !perl/YAML::Error
code: YAML_PARSE_ERR_TEXT_AFTER_INDICATOR
msg: No text allowed after indicator
line: 390
document: 1
This is while trying to read the configuration file. Whats written in
slimserver.pref at line 390?
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I looked in the website FAQ and did'nt see any mention of the original
squeezebox being able to access the slim network, anyone got any
insight(s), does it require only slimserver suppport or are there
firmware dependencies?
SQN is only available for SB2/SB3.
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I can't play any Shoutcast stations from the server but I can from the
player when using the remote. I have had this behaviour for 2 days
now. Can someone help please.
What skin are you using? I'm fine with Default.
SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 5011
Please beware of the 6.5 branch: the web
Yes I am using default too. I find it strange that the Shoutcast
behaviour is limited to my PC only?
I just noticed another issue: streams will only play the second time you
hit play, be it on the web interface or the player. So if you first tried
the web, then the player, you might think
Bingo! That is the problem! I can only get it to play if I hit the
play icon (the one on the left pane) TWICE also. I have only been
hitting the play once. This is only happening on the Shoutcast streams
the others seem fine.
I knew we had this issue before:
As an aside, if you set your SB2 to Squeezenetwork and then from the
server try to play a Shoutcast stream, that this kills the server.
Do I understand you right: when playing a Shoutcast stream from SQN, your
local server will crash?!? This would be too odd...
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But that's my point, we aren't average consumers, we're technically
able - we're on a forum for the product after all.
I think PCs aren't for the average user - though everybody uses them. A PC
based product therefore can hardly be.
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3) From the left pane of the server try to play any Shoutcast stream
(even though the player is not being seen by the server as it is
connected to SQN)
Did you close the web interface after you went on SQN? Or was the
shoutcast page already open? Can you confirm that there's a player=...
in
Any ideas? or recomendations to make the new machine run any faster?
I accept its not a head to head comparison as I'm running differnet
versions but even so
In very recent builds there's a performance parameter which let's
slimserver use ram instead of the disk to do some caching. Could
However, it seems to be missing one thing - an A-Z list at the top of
the Browse Artists and Browse Albums listings. I can only ever see the
You're on 6.5? Please open a bug for this issue (bugs.slimdevices.com)
6.2 should be fine.
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error message that the client isn't valid/found. I can drop that in
tonight unless michael gets to something first :)
Thanks for the fix! I was busy eating this season's first cheese fondue
with friends :-).
Don't expect too much code from me for the next few weeks - cardboard
boxes are
The parameter is currently set to 100,000, the database file is 6.4Mb
with 400 albums, 5274 tracks, 220 artists. Slim.exe is running using 60
to 63Mb memory
I have increased the parameter to 500,000 and the response has
improved.
Are you sure you're talking about 100'000s?!? I can't see any
Does it work well with plug-ins like Biography and Album Review?
The plugins are browser independant. And they include a Handheld skin as
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I prefer the first way, but as I say its hit and miss as to when this
occurs I can't seem to find a pattern as to why sometimes it does or
does not occur. Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?
I think the first dynamic way is only active, if you did _not_ hit enter
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All my mp3's flacs start with a 2 digit number for example:
MP3 or flac?
03 - Band on The Run
05 - Another Day
Is this the filename or the title tag?
This is great because I can keep the album in song order and useful too
on my IHP340. I don't really like to see the number on SB2 so is it
Is there any way I can copy settings from one player to another ?? Or
is this a new feature request ??
It is. I already thought about creating a plugin for doing this... but
then: just open the preferences file and have a look at the clients
section. You could simply copy the values from
There was an error parsing the stream information. Try reducing the
number of streams if you've set a great number. (2)
This goes away if I reduce my list to 300.
Entered Bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2501
You'll have to send that bug report to the station that's causing
So you are saying it is not a Slimserver problem but a problem with the
way that Shoucast sets up its XML listing? I have not seen this before
Exactly.
in over 3 weeks of using SB2. What changed from yesterday? I presume
this has occured in the past and resolved itself?
I have seen them
Should tune in work with Squeeze Box 1? I am running on ver 6.2.1. The
Of course - it even does with my SliMP3.
station name apears on the SqueezeBox screen, but I get no audio. I have
tried many links which others on tthis forum say work ok. Do I need to
upade to SqueezeBox 3?
What
I can play these audio streams directly on my pc, but not through the
Tune In function on SqueezeBox.
Could you please give us some urls to see, what kind of stream you're
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Is it just me, or does the plugin 'Recently Played Tracks' crash the
server?
I can't say for sure but think it has been crashing ever since slimserver
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How does one go about getting it fixed? :-)
contact the author
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I've not researched this _at all_ and I'm sure I could find the answers
on Google within a few mins. But just wanted to get some opinions from
some audiophiles...
There's even an audiophiles list, if you want to meet the cracks ;-)
So FLAC is lossless? And MP3 is lossy? Can you encode to
A lot of the performance problems would go away if there was a
separate process which did nothing but deliver music to the slimp3/sb
(and handle display features, etc). I think this should be broken out
from the main server.
We all know this. Just do it.
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Recently I installed Slimserver 6.2 and I got an error message that
paused the installation saying that it could not replace SlimTray.exe.
I tried to delete it by hand but it seems to be protected for deletion
or so. It choose to skip this error and continue the installation. Does
this mean I am
Hard-disk: to do it properly, would need a large disk in another
machine, with regular backups using rsync or something similar. In an
ideal world I'd not like to keep more than one box running constantly.
Use an external HD (USB2/Firewire), copy everything over, put the HD in a
safe place.
I think at one point Sean (or someone from Slim) commented on putting
an old computer at a friends house with DSL or cable, running an FTP
server on it, and backing up to there. Probably not a bad idea.
If you go the internet way, use rsync instead of ftp. Can easily be
automated and won't
Yesterday, after playing a random mix (in which one song would not
play), my display mode changed from Small Spectrum and Elapsed Time
to Spectrum and Elapsed Time. I later logged into the web interface
and changed it back, but is there any known reason it would change by
itself (e.g. is there a
Maybe it's possible to increase the font size
in the handheld skin.
Can't the browser zoom pages?
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Since the SB2 is 'connected' with this wireless router, can I use the
SB2 as a bridge between the notebook and the DSL router. I've read
that the SB2 has a bridging option, but can figure out if this is the
same thing or something different. (and I can seem to turn the
bridging option on
Would changing the font size in the skin be something simple I could try
myself?
You might want to change the font-size values in Handheld/slimserver.css.
Increase them from eg. 10 to 12.
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Thanks, that's made it look much better. I had to take it up to 20 to
get it to look right.
Could you please upload a screenshot? Would like to know how it looks on
the Nokia (which is still not even announced to be available in
Switzerland :-().
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I've taken a few photos, which can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I tried resizing the gifs in the images folder, to make the icons for
play, add etc. a little larger but it didn't make any difference. Are
they resized in the html somewhere?
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I know you can install Linux on modded XBOX, but have anyone also tried
to put slimserver on top of it, if that works, how about putting the
AlienBBC plugin also, any info will be greatly appreciated.
I think there was once a guy who wanted to remaster SlimCD to install it
on a xbox...
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restored files to re-apply your CURRENT tags.
And now tell me how you back up / restore your mp3 tags only. If this is
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Are MP3s the only format Slim Server reads?
Are you serious?!? FLAC, WAV, WMA, Ogg, and some more... What exactly do
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1. Can I hear internet radio stations with squeezebox without having
turned on the Computer? (of course I have wireless lan)
Yes, you can. The service is called SqueezeNetwork and lets you stream
directly from the internet.
2. Which Internet Radio formats does Squeezebox 2/3 support beside
Does anyone know what might be causing this problem...?
Or of a way to debug/cure it...?
Could be that slimserver writes out configuration, DB or playlist changes
every x minutes. You could try to move these files to the machine running
slimserver so there's only the music files on the NAS.
Do you know what they're called or where I would find them...?
You're on Windows? slimserver.pref should be the configuration file,
slimserversql.db the database. Playlists are stored in the folder you
defined in the server settings of the web interface.
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I searched for both the files you mentioned and neither of them exist
on the NAS. (slimserver.pref exists in the server subdirectory and
slimserversql.db within .../server/cache).
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tried this several times this morning with the SB3 and I can *see* that
bridging isn't set on, but I never get the option to turn it back on.
RIGHT on the remote? Or PLAY?
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There also appear to be some unsolved memory leaks
I wouldn't talk about leaks too quickly. Some functions or plugins only
use memory once they've been used. Eg. Shoutcast can swallow a megabyte
after it has loaded the stream list. This is not a leak. But before it has
loaded the data it
I just came up with this questions as I'm looking for replacing the MP
101 and found that the products of Slim Devices could be the one.
Can't you define mp3 streams in the player? You could try to connect to
http://yourserver:9000/stream.mp3
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For example, Softsqueeze has a simple dialog to point Softsqueeze to
any host you want. Now, was that so hard? Didn't even have to hold
down the power button...
No, but try to open that configuration window on the squeezbox. Now, that
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Typical response from this community.
I'm sorry, you're wrong. Please go through the forums and have a good
reading. You'll see that discussions generally are kind. There are some
discussions which get a little too noisy. But that's a minority.
Everybody's happy as long as we,
the
cmd
and hit Enter.
The change directories
cd \Program Files\SlimServer\server
(or wherever your slimserver is installed). The run:
.\slimserver.pl
You can also just start slim.exe - with the same parameters and output. No
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I'm using SS 6.5.4, and do use the Music Information plugin though I
don't think that relevant.
Please disable it to reproduce the issue without it.
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I was not about to complain, as it is most certainly labeled
Pre-releases are here to find problems before going final. It wouldn't
have been a complaint, but (if correctly worded) a big help for us. If
there really was an issue slowing down systems that much, then we're
really interested
What's the status with version 7?
Close to final.
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- initial scan was 2+ hours (1600+ albums, 20,000+ songs, 1,500+
artisits, 160GB of disk space on an internal hard drive)
Is this slower than it was before? Are you using MusicIP or iTunes? When
looking at the scanning status page, where's most of the time spent?
- screen refresh was
excellent but when I install SqueezeCenter 7 it installs the software
but never goes past the 'loading' SqueezeCentre prompt.
Where do you see this loading message? Do you see any SC related messages in
the Windows event viewer?
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Another unrelated New Default comment: especially on short item names,
there's a lot of blank horizontal space between item name and the small
Add/Play/etc. icons. It's sometimes a hassle to mouseover the item and
then slide right to the icon -- it's easiest to select an item by
What probably
Hi Michael, I've been meaning to say for a while, I find the new web
interface incredibly slow.
You're late in the game to expect major changes...
Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load.
Are you running short on memory? What's the machine's specs?
Secondly, I have observed that if
Agreed. I like the new default skin quite a lot. The only thing that
it seems to be really missing is drag-and-drop playlist reordering.
d'n'd in Default currently is available for playlist (current saved) and
favorites reordering.
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I was pretty disappointed as I've been looking forward to this. However
I think I found the solution late yesterday (not by myself but on a
Microsoft forum!). This guy had a similar problem and he like me had
all the correct ports open.
Could you please post that link?
Doesn't make much
Had the same problem as most of you.
Then we'll ask the same as we're asking them: could you please upload some log
file? Please turn on scan.scanner and start a full rescan.
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I'm curious about the state of playlist management generally in 7.0.
Adding songs to an existing saved playlist is fairly tedious in 6.5, at
least with Fishbone. I haven't experimented with 7.0 yet, but if playing
with playlists has been improved (in any skin)
That's still on the todo list
I've had a similar problem but it started about two/three SC7 nightlies
ago...
Hmm... I did do some changes to the installer a few days ago.
even though all Squeezecenter and related processes and services
appeared to have been stopped it could not overwrite squeezecenter.exe.
...which
three Squeezeboxes/remotes, so I've been reticent to do a complete
uninstall/reinstall as I don't relish the idea of reconfiguring my
custom settings. I didn't have this problem with an earlier
SqueezeCenter nightly from a few weeks ago. Of note, I had previously
SAVED the SqueezeCenter
Guys I'd really like to get this working before Christmas, any
suggestions for me as to how to proceed.
Well, one interesting bit of information would be the slimserver log file.
What version are you running? Is it repeatable for a song? If you skipped
back a few songs, would it stop at the
The, how shall we say, kind of lousy support for fiddling around with
playlists is, I'm convinced, another hallmark of a product designed by
techies who mostly listen to albums.
Let's call this group adult, not techies :-).
I'm an album guy, because I believe that many albums are an entity,
Also, be warned, adding Shoutcast feeds to your favorites will not
work. It will play the Shoutcast feed from favorites for maybe one
day. Then selecting the same feed from favorites will not play.
That's a general issue with stations which change server address. I've been
using some
After installing SC7 nightly build 21 Dec, sometimes SueezeCenter web
page at http://127.0.0.1:9000 does not open (blank page)even though the
SC is running.
Would it load if you do this manually (not using the tray icon)?
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I'm having the same issue and have already filed a bug report...
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6415
Could you please follow up on that bug report? I've posted a question...
Michael
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BTW, maybe this thread should be moved to the Beta section. Also, looks
like another new posting of the same issue...
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41302
You said that you would get the loading page. What happens if you hit a full
reload, after having cleared your browser's
Artwork, Filecache, MySQL and Templates.
I am inclined to think the cache files to delete for rebuilding are
those under the Program DATA folder, but which of the four folders or
their subfolders do I delete?
Try the MySQL folder - although I doubt this will fix your issue. If you do a
full
SqueezeCenter failed, please see the Event Viewer Contact Support' pop
And... what did the Event Viewer say?
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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
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
Where can i locate server.log?
It's in Documents settings\all users\squeezecenter or similar (may vary
depending on Windows version)
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I am using a brand new iMac w/Bootcamp partition. SS 6.5.x downloaded
on Vista.
Make sure you have 6.5.5, make Explorer display hidden and system folders. It's
in c:\programdata\all users\application data\squeezecenter or similar.
Michael
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Where do you find them? I've seen them mentioned here several times, but not on
their site...
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Thanks Michael. I found it and it said I can't open unless I assign a
program to it. I have not been able to find one that works.
Wordpad should be fine - it's a simple text file. If you want a decent text
editor, get a copy of PSPad (http://www.pspad.com/).
Michael
Thanks. Unfortunately, preferences is not a text file. I just want to
set my preferences and I cannot get the file to open.
Why would you want to edit that file manually anyway? Don't get me wrong, but I
guess if you can't open that file, then you shouldn't touch it. You'll easily
break
All development effort currently concentrates on SC7. Feel free to give it a
try.
From the lack of feedback you can imagine that your issue isn't wide spread -
if it's a bug at all.
Michael
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Yes !!! Thank you. It works ! But not with Safari. FF is OK. Somewhere
buried in Safari settings there must be a box to check to all SS to
enter. But I cannot find it. But I will be happy with FFox. Have a
great day.
What failure do you see in Safari? Can't you open http://localhost:9000/ ?
http://content.us.squeezenetwork.com... This is the error that shows up
on my Squeezebox:
Do you still see this issue? It's working fine here.
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install itunes. Could this be the problem.
I don't know how you managed to only see one of the two, but iTunes can
definitely be the problem here. I guess iTunes only sees your MP3 files. Even
if you didn't include the mp3 folder in SlimServer, it will read iTunes'
library to find them.
If you click the playlist name I think you should see a 'Delete' button
and be able to rename the playlist. Then again, maybe it's not the same
for iTunes imported playlists as it is for file based playlists.
iTunes playlists can't neither be edited nor deleted. But they shouldn't show
up
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