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One additional request, if it's not too difficult. A much earlier
version of the script had an option to execute a script immediately.
This is useful from time to time (I used it to turn off my server using
the SB remote control). So if you could have an Execute
kdf;214044 Wrote:
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Execute: Play Stopped
Execute: using server pref
(and then Executing unjiggle, which is the script I have chosen on
the
server for Stop).
yes, it's a log. Please feel free
that entry and then
look again then there is no visible indication. Or are we supposed to
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the choice made in the Web interface (other than the Power Off
choice, which seems buggy), actually work when the relevant action is
performed? It does for me.
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they are
installed, and it is useful to keep /usr/bin for just Apple's own items
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the Intel Macs that I don't know.
But those should not be where the problem lies in this case.
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both a Plugins subfolder and a mplayer.sh file, and the
AlienBBC site should have Linux installationinstructions
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checking shares, as I don't know precisely what is
needed. You should look at the main AlienBBC instructions and the SSODS
instructions and you should be able to work this bit out.
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It can't harm to increase the radio station timeout in Server Settings,
Network. Even if it doesn't work, you've only lost a few seconds
trying.
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I don't think AlienBBC is the way to go for this.
Just play the programme using Listen Again, and use software that
records what comes in (Rogue Amoeba for the Mac even lets you schedule
items, or recors with the volume muted). I don't know about PCs, but
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have in my AlienBBC playlists do play without any problems. Also I can
play items through my browser, so it shouldn't be a problem with the
BBC site.
Using Mac OS 10.4.9.
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So are there any tests I can usefully perform?
There aren't any problems with normal browsing.
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Stopping and restarting SlimServer seems to have solved the issue. I
should have thought of that.
I'll post further if I still have problems.
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(which is what
you should have) and a further Plugins folder inside that, which is
wrong.
It should simply be .../SlimDevices/Plugins/Alien
So move the Alien folder, and delete the unwanted Plugins folder.
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the Library.
Do both of them work? Method 2 is the preferred one, as it is easier to
access and doesn't get clobbered with any upgrade to SlimServer.
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js85;189073 Wrote:
Danco can I refer you to post 13 in this thread
So what have I missed? That post just says that you will follow
instructions to build mplayer. Maybe you mentioned elsewhere what the
results of that were.
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/bin is the best place for them.
If you haven't installed lame yet, that would be a reason why AlienBBC
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), MPlayer1.0pre8 versus MPlayer-1.0pre8.
2. Isn't the cd command wrong? Wouldn't you have to cd mplayersrc
first?
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your squeezeboxes. How many do you
have, and does the problem occur on all of them?
And do you mean, as I guess, that AlienBBC does not show up in the
Squeezebox menu or does it show up but not work?
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find mplayer if it is in /usr/local/bin, but OS X itself won't.
So the terminal command has to be more specific, starting with
/usr/local/bin/mplayer and not just mplayer.
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you can copy the lines of text that appeared into a
message here and we should be able to diagnose things further.
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Station
Timeout (it's in Server Settings/Network) and see if that solves the
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If you haven't stopped and restarted SlimServer, try it. It's quite
likely that this would solve your issue.
But if you've already tried that, I have no suggestions.
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users and the ones for each individual user.
My preference pane is in ~/Library, by the way, not /Library, because
that's how I installed it.
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Have you tried going to the streams in you Web browser? There's always
the possibility that something is going wrong at the BBC. In fact, if
you haven't changed anything else, that's perhaps the most likely.
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Apart from bpa's suggestion, it can't do any harm to increase the radio
station timeout - to 30 seconds or even more - even though it may not
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though in your case this probably does not matter.
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If your extra plugins aren't visible (they are in the correct place),
have you stopped and restartes Slimserver? This is sometimes necessary
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running terminal and
typing mplayer followed by the suggested parameters (some mplayer
parameters plus the name of some program) will test it. From bpc's
comment and my memory, try just
mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2.rpm
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is not on the SlimServer/AlienBBC
end.
I don't have much time at present to check further, but will report
when I can.
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people
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turning it off manually. I also don't know if it only
occurs when the computer is put to sleep before midnight, and then
woken up next morning, though I think this may well be the only time I
have had this issue.
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Thanks, that should deal with it.
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back. I
can get the current one if I just select it in the Radio 3 submenu of
AlienBBC.
What is happening? Perhaps a cache somewhere.
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Yes, I get the same on a PowerBook G4 running 10.4.8.
Over in the General forum, someone else reports this, but without
stating the OS
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I've just upgraded to SlimServer 6.5 and the corresponding AlienBBC.
I would like to put my AlienBBC Playlist item at the top of the
AlienBBC menu. Can someone remind me how to do that.
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I think you should keep the old versions available - there could be many
reasons why someone would not wish to upgrade SlimServer.
But no need to develop them further for old versions of SS.
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with the shell
scripts.
Mac OS 10.4.7, SlimServer 6.3.1, and the current Execute Script (1.7).
I'm not sure when it stopped working, presumably at one of the upgrades
of either SlimServer or Mac OS.
Any ideas, or advice on what switches to use for debugging, would be
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back. I think it's posssible
that I just wasn't waiting long enough - my script sent the computer to
sleep and perhaps thinking it had not worked and pressing another button
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What version of SlimServer? What OS?
ISTR that some other files were needed, and that they were mentioned in
the Web site for these plugins.
Search the forums, and you should find an answer. I remember finding
thisout for someone a fair while ago.
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With no information about your OS and your version of SlimServer, the
best I can come up with is that you installed the wrong version of
AlienBBC (perhaps for a different OS, perhaps for a different version
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See my post on the Announce:AlienBBC 1.05 thread for details of how to
find the Unix executable mplayer inside the MPlayer OSX application
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if Intel ones do), so presumably
would need to use mplayer_noaltivec, but would need to rename it to
mplayer to get it to work with AlienBBC.
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won't find lame.
I don't see any reason why the slimserver-convert.conf and the
custom-types.conf should differ between 6.5 and 6.2 (or 6.3), but I
note that you don't seem to have replaced these.
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it will create if necessary). Then mplayer
should be installed in the same place.
Alternatively, you could put both mplayer and lame into /usr/bin, but
it's actually easier to reinstall lame as above than to find it inside
iTunes-LAME.
I don't know anything about Sirius.
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Does anyone know if the version referenced from the AlienBBC page works
for Intel Macs or not? bpa? Neil?
If it doesn't, we can use the version indicated by Adrian. Adrian, does
this require any extra codecs or is it complete in itself?
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, and then easily restore that drive to a standard
backup.
We do ned someone with an Intel Mac, though, as well, as I can only
check on a G4 machine.
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normally invisible folders may be the thing here.
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that is linked from the AlienBBC page should work just as well, unless
the version you downloaded is specifcally needed for Intel machines.
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. From the point of view of mplayer.sh it doesn't matter
whether mplayer is in /usr/bin. /usr/sbin, or /usr/local/bin. As
remarked by others, the first two are on the system path, while the
third isn't (but the recent change in mplayer.sh deals with this).
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Good. We might want debugging instructions, but let's wait and see if
anybody has trouble.
I do reckon you should correct that little bug with the playlists menu
even before there is a new version of AlienBBC. But perhaps putting up
this slight change is more effort than I realise.
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with AlienBBC playlists? I'm inclined not to,
as this very minor issue will surely be cleared up in a future version
(it's just a matter of some unwanted spaces on one line of one item)
and won't affect that many people.
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The same issue came up for me with the 6.2 version of AlienBBC. Same
solution.
So will the people developing AlienBBC correct the files soon, or will
we have to wait for a new version?
It is easy enough for users to correct, but first they have to find
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Out of curiosity, what was the solution?
I ask because you have two posts within a few minutes of each other,
one saying that you followed a suggestion and had no luck, and the
other saying that some unspecified suggestion worked.
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instructions for the Mac.
With this change, and the newish mplayer that does not require an
external codec, it's all a lot easier than it was.
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. This issue should be
solved in the next release of AlienBBC.
In another thread there has been a discussion of Shoutcast. Look for
details yourself, but I gather they have changed the format of their
streams, which is causing problems at present.
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downloadable).
In another thread, we have been discussing the best way to rewrite
mplayer.sh so that it works for all users, and probably the next
version of AlienBBC will not need any editing of mplayer.sh
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just put in the instructions (when it is
time for a new set), If AlienBBC does not work, please let us know, by
posting on the forums, where your copy of mplayer is.
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where I found it.
I'm not sure if it produced an error message or not, as I wasn't sure
exactly where to look for it in the Web UI.
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, but there are a whole host of symbols, accented letters, and
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is not in any of the relevant folder, which says no
mplayer found in
whereis produces no ouput, just goes straight to a command-line prompt.
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I'll check this in the morning.
Where would the error message appear if mplayer is not found? On the
SB, on a window on the computer, in a shell window?
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. First, on the Squeezebox. Second, in slimserver.log
if that is possible. And perhaps in other places.
The point is that on the Mac we are not running SlimServer from any
kind of command line, so the echo message isn't going anywhere useful
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how difficult it would be for a new user, it's probably
time to invite other views - the installation is easy enough once one
has found the relevant files, but the crucial point is getting
mplayer.sh to work for various places where mplayer might be, and we've
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Neil Sleightholm Wrote:
danco - does the version of mplayer at the bottom of this page
http://www.x2systems.com/alienbbc/mplayer.html work for you? If so is
there any way it could be included with an AlienBBC Mac download?
Neil
I think this is the version I originally got from Dave
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isn't in a sensible location.
As soon as a new version of mplayer.sh is incorporated into AlienBBC, I
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Good, glad you got it sorted.
On another thread we have been discussing changes to mplayer.sh that
will mean users no longer have to make this change themselves.
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I have put bpa's code fragment into my mplayer.sh instead of the
original lines, and I can confirm that it works on my Mac (running OS
10.4.5).
I think this change in mplayer.sh is the way to go.
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system install.
I think this is quite a useful distinction, and worth preserving.
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do it within mplayer.sh. Triode's suggestion seems best. Can its error
message (mplayer not found) be sent to the Squeezebox, or is that too
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much debugging
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. In fact, I think I did mention it in one
version of the instructions, but that never made its way onto the
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needing editing.
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I actually tried two versions. The first, dated 14th March, was the one
accessed from the AlienBBC page. The second, dated 15th March, came
from www.dmason.net/mplayer.
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Just to confirm. I have been happily listening to a programme from my
AlienBBC playlists.
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it also existed in 1.0 and is largely
cosmetic, I will post it elsewhere.
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I note that the codec that works (at least on my version of mplayer) is
called cook.bundle. You don't seem to have it, which may be the trouble.
Look at the AlienBBC instructions to find out where to get it, though it
is possible that it is no longer on those pages.
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to run (it shows running script ...) but does
not make my computer sleep.
I have double-checked that the script is executable for all users.
Mac OS 10.4.4, SlimServer 6.2.1.
By the way, the description in Execute.pm still claims it to be 1.0,
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Whatever the problem was - and it would be interesting to find out why
it happened - I am glad to say that stopping Slimserver and restarting
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Not sure how many people would use such an item.
I might, as I still prefer physical CDs to ripping and playing, and
this would enable me to play the CD in two rooms at once (with two
SBs).
Depending on the operating system, a shareware program like
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the default plugins in a Plugins
folder in the server folder of the contents.
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no reason
why it would not work, if you follow the instructions in the readme
link, but I've not tried it.
You did remember to stop and restart SlimServer (might not be
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