, or is there actually a seperate
disk-based cache used to display info in the interface? If separate,
is that cache cleared when the server is rebooted, or is it persistant?
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explaining that when this option is selected the operation can be much
slower, but that it should be used if any tagging information on
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the password style is actually in the ActiveState Perl modules
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market? Portable devices have little in common with the Squeezebox, so
there's very little technology for them leverage against the dozens of
companies already flooding the field.
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you'll see many more devices like the Buffalo Media Player that someone
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Are you running logged in or as a service. Windows does not keep network
connections when logged out.
Running SlimServer as a service.
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Can you browse into the share now? If so, does your music appear
correctly?
No. If I do a Browse Music Folder I get:
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Running SlimServer 6.0.1 06/15 nightly on Windows XP Pro. I'm trying to
get SlimServer to use a music folder on the network. Permission on the
network share is Everyone/change. SlimServer is running under a local
user account on the XP machine.
If I try to do a scan I
in
SlimServer 6 and hoping that some major fixes make it into the nightly
builds.
There was a thread earlier today - the Windows and Mac nightlies will
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I label the disks and keep a spreadsheet listing the albums on each
disk. You can get a fairly large music collection onto a 100 disk
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different compression levels on a couple of WAV files and see for
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, but how much worse can
it be than the 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 releases?
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.0.2/
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Does the Browse Music Folder means of navigation in the SlimServer 6 UI
utilize the music cache/database? What about when you're down to the
Song Info level - is this data coming from the db or from real-time
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that it was worth it to just mirror my FLAC files in mp3.
The entire mp3 mirror at --preset standard takes up less that 1/4 the
space of the FLAC library. Then I don't have to go through any
particular gyrations to quickly load a few dozen odd mp3s onto a
portable player as I'm running out the door.
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have is a very strict and well-done directory
structure of Artist/Album/Track, and all tracks are names precisely in
the same manner of
[tracknumber] [tracktitle].mp3
Can SlimServer be told to use the directory and filename structure when
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other kinds of applications do you run on this machine and which other
third-party services do you have installed and running?
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connecting to the network share, it's probably a permission problem.
Make sure that on the computer where you have the music share you've
set the necessary permissions on all directories and files and on the
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If 'duhass' is the other computer's name and 'music' is the share name,
then that's correct. But it will only work if you're running the
service under an account other than Local System.
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the CUE sheet is
completely unplayable.
Is there is a setting somewhere to direct SlimServer to ignore all CUE
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of that trunk?
If I began tagging files today in the prescribed manner, what is the
current behavior of SlimServer 6.0.x - will it pick up the value of
only first named tag it finds, the last one, neither, or ??
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Is there is a setting somewhere to direct SlimServer to ignore all
CUE
sheets?
removing the referece to cue file types in types.conf should do it.
then restart the server.
Thanks. I think
standpoint, that it shouldn't
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manager. It may get there some day, but given the current capabilities
and the complexities of a web application that could do something like
this, you're probably looking at the wishlist for SlimServer version
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no SlimServer user interface at all and that I could just use Windows
Explorer to browse and play _music_ and forget all the plugins, screen
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only thing you can do in an outside app is read-only.
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Animated avatars are OK with me. Grown men who use the term ick give
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this way, but I'm fairly certain that enough
of ua are using subfolders in some manner that this would be very
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In this scenario I wonder if the the server is doing 800 database
lookups to tell if it's seeing any new directories? Or should it only
query the database when it encounters music tracks?
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, will
SlimServer see the changes at all? How? Does it keep date/time stamps
for all files, or does it actually look inside every file in the
music directory each time it does a scan? And just as important, will
all references to the removed artist also be removed from the library?
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As with file deletions, what happens when a tag change causes a data
item to go away? For instance, if I correct the year on a track from
1892 to 1992, or if I correct the spelling of Mile Davis to
Miles Davis? Will I still have tracks listed for the year 1892 or
by the artist Mile Davis?
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whether Dr. John is
under D or J isn't always the easiest thing when searching for a
CD. If I were using SlimServer and searching for Dr. John, I wouldn't
_want_ to have to remember whether he was stored under the D's or the
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also plays a part in the logic, but that it only controls whether or
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not published until the version is released. Not exactly the
best way to encourage people to beta test, so expect 6.1 to be about as
well tested as 6.0 was upon its release.
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so, any discrepency between the CUE sheet and tagging data will cause
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it was implemented like this on purpose. I can understand that if the
underlying dbms is case sensitive then it can require some additional
work to see these as the same artist. This should be done, though.
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jumping through hoops to get SlimServer to behave the way I want. I'd
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column with the leading articles removed in the 'contributors' table
('namesort'), so why not just do lookups on that column in the SQL
statements when cataloging tracks or when browsing by artist? Display
the mixed case 'name' column.
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Enhancement requests filed. Please vote or comment.
Artist, Album and Genre should be case insenstive:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1548
Drop articles from artist name:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549
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Anyone know anything about XM Radio Online? What kind of bit rates it
offers, whether it's mp3 or some proprietary format?
Any chance that it could be streamed to a Squeezebox?
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would be interesting to see if that was a workable approach to these
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Anyone know anything about XM Radio Online? What kind of bit rates it
offers, whether it's mp3 or some proprietary format?
Any chance that it could be streamed to a Squeezebox?
I just found the enhancment request in bug #714:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714
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I'm running 6.1 2005-05-17 on Windows XP Pro with a wireless
Squeezebox2. I've noticed this several times - if I have more than one
browser window open playback will sometimes stop between tracks.
I just reread that... It should say if I have multiple browser windows
open
. If you can use wired
Ethernet wherever possible that shouldn't be much of a worry.
I don't quite understand your current Softsqueeze/Laptop solution
unless you're also using the laptop for music output.
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Are settings and favorites kept on a central server or in NVRAM? If
the former, how is a network or player identified and will a person see
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When it connects it goes immediately into my chosen screensaver,
which
is date/time. It might be good to have an indication on that screen
that you're connected to SqueezeNetwork. Maybe on all screens.
Hm, it shouldn't do
.
- Don't want to leave a PC running 24x7, so they'd use SqueezeNetwork
for their alarm, or to play music after the PC has been shut down at
night, or maybe when they just don't want to run the server.
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I take it the attitude of this vast majority is due to some kind of
concern for security? Like if their PC runs 24 hours per day, they
feel they're 12 times as likely to get hacked as when it's only run 2
hours? :-)
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can with each other. It's really all about peer support - questions
here really shouldn't be seen as directed to Slim Devices support, and
right now only Slim Devices employees and a handful of other people
have any genuine in-depth knowledge of how the software or hardware
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When Browse Artwork is selected, it does not show any album details
under each thumbnail, just Play and Add to playlist.
I was wondering: Can this be accomplished within a skin or does it have
to be hard coded within the page generation source code?
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various artist collections by album name, but for _browsing_ grouping
by artist seems a lot more functional.
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GENRE/CT/ARTIST/ALBUM/TRACKNUM TITLE
GENRE/CT/ARTIST/ALBUM/TITLE
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kept crashing. It's amazingly vulnerable to problems in the database.
You don't really have to actually 'corrupt' the db, just throw some
unexpected data at the server and it will crash and burn.
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cache') and the track won't appear in SlimServer and All Songs will
skip it. The downside is that the track won't be playable by anyone
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'wipe cache' after the new install, found on the Server Settings
Performance page in version 6.0.x. If you're installing version 6.1.x
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What exactly is your association with Slim Devices? Are you either a
part-time or a full-time employee?
I'm just trying to understand whether your replies should be considered
to be the position of Slim Devices or if they're exclusively your own.
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, there's a very good chance that
SlimServer's scanning will just wipe it out the next time it scans your
library. Make that a 100% chance if you do a 'wipe cache' before a
rescan. If you're only planning on doing SELECT queries, though, you
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that i have
read about? I have spent a lot of time looking for it with no success.
Am I going to have to uninstall slim server and then reinstall?
It's on the Performance page of the server settings. In 6.1 it's been
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names. I'm pretty
sure that your tracks will not be seen as being on the same album if
you prefix the album name with the disc number. You should be using
DISC or DISCNUMBER tags for that. SlimServer should then display the
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mv: cannot move `SlimServer_v2005-06-08' to
`../SlimServer_v2005-06-08': Permission denied
Deleting exported copy...
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having browsed a removable storage device.
I've said it before - give me the option of realtime _actual_ directory
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The http://; part may also be optional, depending on the browser. If
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Is this a problem that can't be fixed? Do you know why, when run as a
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instead of downloading it again (usually you can tell when the download
is very fast). Try using a different browser and downloading SC7
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Why, if all logging levels are set to Off would anything at all be
written to the logs? Apparently these entries were at the Error
level. Are there events that will bypass the logging settings and be
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That's just a warning and may not have any effect on the scan's
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