Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter Install Problem CC 4.2

2008-03-15 Thread Ramage
jfalk;280087 Wrote: > That seems to have done the trick... Thanks. Glad to be of help -- Ramage T5500 1.6GHz, SC 7.0 - 17150 Windows Vista, Alien 2.0b3 P4 2.6GHz, SC 7.0 - 17630 - Windows XP, Alien 2.0b5 P2 266MHz, ClarkConnect 4.1, SC 7.0 - 17630, Alien 2.0b5, perl 5.8.8 i686-linux-thread-m

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Is it possible to play mp3tunes through slimserver/squeeze without a suqeezebox

2008-03-15 Thread phabulosa
SuperQ;280166 Wrote: > Can't you just use mp3tunes with other media player software? It seems > kinda silly to go through all the work of setting up SqueezeCenter if > you're not going to use a Squeezebox or SoftSqueeze. No, there is no good way of using mp3tunes in linux. No support. Also, I n

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread Pat Farrell
SuperQ wrote: >> And realistically, most of the above 3GB memory is mapped to hardware, > > Except for the pure evil that is PAE. Thankfully the number of > machines that need/use PAE are few and far between. :) Right, I blotted that stuff out of my brain. Its better left dead. > I've had to m

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread SuperQ
Pat Farrell;280172 Wrote: > > 64 is needed for more than 4gb of memory, since 32 bits is 4gb > unsigned. > And realistically, most of the above 3GB memory is mapped to hardware, > > video cards, buffers for assorted stuff, so its not really useful Except for the pure evil that is PAE. Thankfu

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread Pat Farrell
JJZolx wrote: > To effectively utilize SMP? I've never heard that before. I think you missed a connection. I didn't say that, or at least didn't mean to say that. 64 bit is not needed at all for SMP. www.pfarrell.com for instance, is a dual Xeon server. 32 bit debian. 64 is needed for more th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread SuperQ
Pat Farrell;280144 Wrote: > SuperQ wrote: > > On linux, it's automatic. > > Almost, You really need to load/install a 64 bit OS. On Debian, for > instance, load AMD64 rather than Intel32 > Sorry, I was referring to automatic placement of tasks on multi-core/cpu systems. Not 32 vs 64bits. >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Is it possible to play mp3tunes through slimserver/squeeze without a suqeezebox

2008-03-15 Thread SuperQ
Can't you just use mp3tunes with other media player software? It seems kinda silly to go through all the work of setting up SqueezeCenter if you're not going to use a Squeezebox or SoftSqueeze. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread JJZolx
Pat Farrell;280144 Wrote: > SuperQ wrote: > > On linux, it's automatic. > > Almost, You really need to load/install a 64 bit OS. To effectively utilize SMP? I've never heard that before. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread Pat Farrell
egd wrote: > Pat Farrell;280144 Wrote: >> Now for reference, a quad cpu with 12GB of ram and hardware RAID is a >> fast box. > That'd be a server board though as most desktop/ workstation boards > support max 8GB, right? Yes, its a 2U server, weighs a ton, dual hot swappable power supplies, etc

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread egd
Pat Farrell;280144 Wrote: > Now for reference, a quad cpu with 12GB of ram and hardware RAID is a > fast box.That'd be a server board though as most desktop/ workstation boards support max 8GB, right? -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys can

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread Pat Farrell
SuperQ wrote: > On linux, it's automatic. Almost, You really need to load/install a 64 bit OS. On Debian, for instance, load AMD64 rather than Intel32 (Intel 64 is Itanium, which nearly no one runs in their house) > 64bit is nearly useless unless you have > 3G of ram. For sure. You might even

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread SuperQ
egd;280109 Wrote: > I have an instance of SC7 running on a Quad Core, basically for library > management, plugin testing etc. Is it possible to assign it to a > particular core and MySQL to another? > > I've been meaning to switch to 64bit but haven't gotten round to it as > I will have to move

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread egd
I have an instance of SC7 running on a Quad Core, basically for library management, plugin testing etc. Is it possible to assign it to a particular core and MySQL to another? I've been meaning to switch to 64bit but haven't gotten round to it as I will have to move some data first and I'd also w

[SlimDevices: Unix] Is it possible to play mp3tunes through slimserver/squeeze without a suqeezebox

2008-03-15 Thread phabulosa
slimserver 7.0/SqueezeCenter was recently released. It allow users of music locker to play their music on a SqueezeBox hardware. This is very neat. However, I don't have a SqueezeBox and I always use SlimServer to manager local music and use a simple mp3 player (such as mpd or moc)to stream music

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter Install Problem CC 4.2

2008-03-15 Thread jfalk
That seems to have done the trick... Thanks. -- jfalk jfalk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6929 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44778 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread jth
If it's just for SqueezeCenter 2 cores is plenty. I have mine running on a Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz along with plenty of other server applications (and XBMC for home theatre) and there's plenty to spare. -- jth jth's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread JJZolx
Pat Farrell;280064 Wrote: > JJZolx wrote: > > One question I had, though, is whether there would be any advantage > to > > running on Ubuntu with four CPU cores (1 quad or 2 dual-core CPUs) > or > > even eight cores? > > What are you planning to use it for? Primarily SqueezeCenter, although I r

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread Pat Farrell
JJZolx wrote: > One question I had, though, is whether there would be any advantage to > running on Ubuntu with four CPU cores (1 quad or 2 dual-core CPUs) or > even eight cores? What are you planning to use it for? The short answer is multi-core is great when you have multiple processes, or app

[SlimDevices: Unix] Mutlicore CPUs for Ubuntu & SqueezeCenter Server

2008-03-15 Thread JJZolx
I'm going to build new server with a multi-core Intel CPU. Right now I'm looking at the new(ish) E8400 Core 2 Duo chip, which uses a 45nm process. I'm guessing that dual cores can be well utilized by a *nix system running SqueezeCenter, if only to run MySQL requests on one while OS operates on t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter Install Problem CC 4.2

2008-03-15 Thread Ramage
jfalk;279940 Wrote: > I did not. Is there a simple way to do this? Note: i tried rpm -e > slimserver and it said it wasn't found Slimserver is in /usr/local/slimserver, you could delete this or just leave it just in case. Most important is /etc/init.d/slimserver which starts the service on boo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Replacing mplayer with ffmpeg for m4a files

2008-03-15 Thread Didier Raboud
bpa wrote: > > To help others > > What version of mplayer were you using and where did you get it from ? 1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3etch1 from debian-multimedia.org > Is your system an x86 based system or some other sort of processor ? kernel 2.6.22-4-686 => x86 > With mplayer 1.0rc2 there is a pr

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter Install Problem CC 4.2

2008-03-15 Thread jfalk
I did not. Is there a simple way to do this? -- jfalk jfalk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6929 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44778 _

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter Install Problem CC 4.2

2008-03-15 Thread Pale Blue Ego
Did you remove 6.5.4 before installing 7.0? Squeezecenter puts things in different locations. -- Pale Blue Ego Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.s

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Replacing mplayer with ffmpeg for m4a files

2008-03-15 Thread bpa
To help others What version of mplayer were you using and where did you get it from ? Is your system an x86 based system or some other sort of processor ? With mplayer 1.0rc2 there is a problem with handling aac formats unless special config options are used during build. So if you got a rea

[SlimDevices: Unix] Replacing mplayer with ffmpeg for m4a files

2008-03-15 Thread Didier Raboud
Hi all, I'm using the latest testing version of squeezecenter on a stable(+backports) Debian server with a WiFi Squeezebox of which I am very happy. I have tried to use mplayer to read the .m4a files of my brother's iTunes collection but I had no real success because then squeezecenter tended to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Best Upgrade Method?

2008-03-15 Thread ChrisNY
Personally, I think 7.0 offers a much more integrated and better looking interface. It also interfaces with SqueezeNetwork much more nicely. I've been running 7.0 since the stable was released with no major problems. One thing to be aware of is that if you use a lot of plugins you'll have to up

[SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter Install Problem CC 4.2

2008-03-15 Thread jfalk
Decided to update from a perfectly functioning 6.5.4. Don't knowwhat I'm doing, but I think I can follow directions on my clarkconnect machine from http://www.ulverston.myzen.co.uk/mini-itx/pages/squeezecenter.htm Everything seems to have installed (at least I get no errors) but the service doesn

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter 7.0 on Buffalo linkstation

2008-03-15 Thread dsf
You might want to take a look at 'this thread' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44335) in the 3rd Party Hardware forum, and the 'Rescan music library does nothing in squeezecenter' thread in this forum -- I've spent a bit of time this past week hacking around on the linkstation to g

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Rescan Music Library does nothing in SqueezeCenter

2008-03-15 Thread dsf
FWIW I'm running on a Buffalo Linkstation with Freelink, rather than a regular PC. Anyway, after much digging around with some help from a mate -- who admins mysql for a living -- we narrowed my problem down to mysql. Despite installing (and recommending, in other threads) version 5.0.45 we found

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How to install Album Catalog Creator on Ubuntu

2008-03-15 Thread Ashy72
Frank replied by email, Album Catalog Creator is a Visual Basic Script so it wont work in linux. AAC Revision RC6 is to be released soon so that a windows box can remotely access the database on a linux machine. -- Ashy72

[SlimDevices: Unix] How to install Album Catalog Creator on Ubuntu

2008-03-15 Thread Ashy72
Hello all, I am wondering if anyone has installed the Album Catalog Creator script that frank has written on Ubuntu?.(Do a search on 'print music collection' I am trying to get it working. Could someone give me an idiots guide to install this (Which files to download and where and how to install)

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Best Upgrade Method?

2008-03-15 Thread r14419
I'm happy with SlimServer 6.5.4, but is SlimCenter 7 a stable version that I should upgrade to? I'm running Win2003 Server. -- r14419 r14419's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11027 View this threa