Narcos wrote:
> Sure you can run everything on one Pi, but Im trying to achieve a
> Server + Client architecture, the server would be connected to my router
> & music library (in my case, a 5tb external HDD), the client attached to
> my dac.
>
>
adamdea wrote:
Yes it did work, thanks. Mind you I am trying to repeat the exercise
using Debian on a cubox-i and finding it very hard going. But that's
getting LMS running I haven't got to squeezelite yet
Have you had a go
Not yet. Been busy with other things and trying to get MusicIP and
adamdea wrote:
You may have more luck than I did with LIBC (I'm running 64 bit btw),
but I think it was ok with permissions.
From the Squeezelite thread it looks as if your approach to getting the
newer LIBC went fine. Or am I reading that wrong? I'll still consider
myself lucky that you
Thanks. I did the Squeeze -- Wheezy upgrade over the weekend, which I
neglected to mention also involved changing out the hard drive (I wanted
to install a larger drive and re-purpose the one I had been using).
LMS installation was very smooth. I still need to re-install MusicIP and
attend to
Ah, yes, thanks. squeezelite is another one still on the to-do list. I
was running squeezelite under Debian Squeeze (via the Local Player
plugin) and want to set it up under Wheezy. I'll check out that newer
LIBC. With Squeeze I needed to tweak permissions to access audio devices
to get
Thanks. As dsdreamer says, it seems that Wheezy (debian 7.x) comes with
perl 5.14.2. One of the things I really like about debian for an LMS
platform is that it's never on the bleeding edge (unless you play around
with unstable).
Hi all. I'm planning to upgrade my LMS box from Debian Squeeze (6.x) to
Wheezy (7.x). Any gotcha's I need to look out for when it comes to
running LMS? I no longer follow the bleeding edge of LMS nightly
releases (though the work on 7.9 does look exciting). Thanks!
Ubuntu (and perhaps other *nixes) tend to mount external drives as
readable only by the individual user. But that doesn't explain why it
doesn't see the internal drive also.
Typically LMS runs under username squeezeboxserver , although this is
configurable via the init file. You can confirm
I'm only a noob level 2, but I think there are a few things going on
here:
1) the hash (#) prompt usually indicates that the user is logged in as
root. If that's the case, then sudo isn't necessary, and may not even be
found in root's path.
2) depending on the *nix involved, 'sudo' may not be
And instead of using dir , use ls or ls -l
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It could be a permissions issue. LMS runs under the username
squeezeboxserver, and that user has to have permission to read the
music library, and read/write permission for the playlist folder and
files.
How you enable the permissions depends in part on whether it is an
internal hard drive or
I suggest looking in the log files, as sometimes the software will be
installed but not run correctly. I forget exactly where Ubuntu puts the
LMS log files, and I'm not near my Ubuntu machine right now to check.
I'd start looking under /var/log. A couple possibilities are
Byronscrote wrote:
Using Samsung Chromebook 3 so it sounds like I may be out of luck.
That's consistent with the messages you're about installation and LMS
dying. The installer knows it installed a program of a particular name
and version. But when the Chromebook tries to run the program it
I think you misunderstood. Type http://localhost:9000/ in the browser in
the _Chromebook_, not in your laptop. If the LMS web interface comes up,
then it's running on the Chromebook. If not, then you have some
troubleshooting to do.
jhnpennington wrote:
I only seem to be able to access web remote control, I can't get direct
access to the server software itself like I would on a PC.
Because of this, I can't scan for music files that I have installed in
the Music Folder.
On the web remote control, click on Settings in the
jhnpennington wrote:
How would I change the permissions?
Here is one (of many) short tutorials:
http://www.linux.org/article/view/file-permissions-chmod
You could also set the file and folder permissions by opening a terminal
window, then navigating to the music directory, and giving the
jhnpennington wrote:
Thank you so much for all your help, it's really unsettling being a newb
all over again!
When you say navigate to the music directory, what does that mean, and
how do i do it?
Navigating to the music directory simply means going to that directory
(or equivalently,
gian wrote:
it must be me, who's getting old!
Believe me, I wouldn't have thought of it if it hadn't happened to me at
least one time! Remote control buttons can get pushed without even
knowing it.
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Check the brightness level when in off mode. You could check it by using
the LMS web interface, but the easier way is to grab the infrared remote
and press the brightness button a few times. If all is working well then
it will cycle the screen through the various brightness levels, the
darkest of
Mnyb wrote:
For the latest years the Logitech provided one was buggy and actually
never worked out of the box on Ubuntu , it required some tinkering to
get going .
However there is always the source code , so it can be compiled and
built on anything , but that also require some knowledge
The screenshot is too small for me to see anything useful. You're an
experienced user, so you have done a rescan for new and changed, right?
And when that didn't work you did a full clear-and-rescan, right?
Next thing I'd do is check the file permissions. I've had times when
copying new files
Usually this is a permissions issue, as playlists are the only folders
and files where LMS needs _write_ access. And that would be consistent
with what you describe, because I had the same thing when I was starting
out and didn't have my playlists permissions correct. Perhaps the
playlist gets
Because it's a folder you also need to set the execute permission. In
the context of folders/directories, execute means being allowed to
descend into that directory. So redo the command, but using 777 instead
of 766 and see what happens.
Note that for the files within the playlist folder, 766
With permissions wide open (777) it doesn't matter who the owner is,
you, me, squeezeboxserver, whatever. That error message doesn't make
sense to me.
Slightly off-topic (ie, I'm flailing for ideas here), is the problem
only with saving playlists, or are you also unable to play existing
Do you have any .m3u playlists that you could put in there via a regular
file copy operation? And have you confirmed that you have entered the
path correctly in LMS Settings (best to confirm by using the browse tool
instead of typing the path, and then seeing the box turn green as you
complete
Playable as before when?? I understood that your playlist folder was
empty. You mean before when it played in VLC?
It could be something wrong with the LMS installation, but I don't
really understand why you used the Nautilus and Ctrl-L approach instead
of the suggested browse buttons. Not
What distro are you using now? There are various threads with
instructions for compiling Squeezeplay on *nix -- I had no problem
following one such thread to compile for Ubuntu.
Two more things. First, we've seen your memory situation in post #10,
but what about your CPU? In other words, what
Yes, I was asking if you had heavy CPU usage.
Ah yes, squeezeslave -- that's the other SB (besides Duet Receiver)
without IR support. I hope you get SqueezePlay running. Or you may even
want to consider SoftSqueeze; it is out of date compared to SqueezePlay,
but it may be better than your
You're right that there's a lot of free memory, but what's going on with
the swap? I would expect swapping that would slow things down, even with
an SSD.
Re your last paragraph, I'm pretty sure that Mnyb was comparing the web
ui on the server vs the web ui on another machine on the network.
to
where they should be.
Thanks for your help Aubuti
Normally I would say that your explanation indicates that the parent
music directory didn't have the right permissions, but from your output
here:
drwxrwxr-x 3 david david 4096 May 6 08:39 Music
the directory Music clearly is readable
If it was working, what prompted you to change the permissions? I'm not
trying to be a smartass, just trying to understand. If you're fixing
permissions after adding new albums, it would be safer to do it only on
the new albums, not on the whole library.
Also, what kind of drive is it? Is it
Mnyb wrote:
The tricky part is that I want every file created in a certain directory
have a set of permissions .
Hmm, that is tougher. Is this in a desktop environment? Because if it
were a remote CIFS/SMB environment then I think Samba allows you to set
the umask for different shares. But
It sounds as if umask is what you're looking for. Here is one reference
for it, I'm sure you can turn up a lot more on the 'net.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/understanding-linux-unix-umask-value-usage.html
aubuti's
First there is the obvious: any folder you pick up has to contain
music tracks for LMS to do the scan.
Second is the less obvious: file permissions. The files have to be
readable by the user logitechmediaserver (or maybe it's still using
username squeezeboxserver). That's because LMS runs under
I would use:
ps aux | grep squeeze
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I solved the sound problem in SqueezePlay by disabling pulseaudio while
squeezeplay runs. The following works for me on Ubuntu 11.10.
snip
Hey, thanks for this! Works great for me on Ubuntu 10.04.
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in Synaptic but no joy.
I could be wrong, but I don't believe there ever was a deb package for
SqueezePlay. I definitely recall having to build it manually, probably
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a lot of work, but I'm sure you
have reasons for it based on your usage, which presumably involves a lot
of browsing by music folder.
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Where is the music folder? On an internal drive, external (eg, USB)
drive, network drive (eg, NAS), or something else?
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of the box.
Note that Vortexbox (the Fedora-based Linux distro for SBS) should not
be confused with Vortexbox Appliance, which is server hardware that
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control it via your smartphone. Look in the 3rd
Party Software forum for links to the latest version of squeezeslave
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data and switch to something
that fits your Linux experience level and desire not to tinker. It may
be an Ubuntu version of Mint, Ubuntu itself, or something else. Even MS
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, which is the most
acceptable solution for you among an array of sub-optimal options.
Enjoy the music.
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I was running SBS on Ubuntu I did run into some hassles that
were because of odd decisions made by the Ubuntu team. The most notable
problem was the apparmor protection system, but that's under control
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to be useful. Is there
any particular reason you want to use Mint, or would a different Linux
distribution suffice?
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, but what you have works, and will continue working. Upgrades
tend to have fewer surprises.
An old forum regular used to have a good rule of thumb for choosing
Linux distros. See:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=358039#post358039
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PasTim;662502 Wrote:
Even if I say, OK, I'll pick Debian - where do I go to a get a version I
know for sure will work?
www.debian.org
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why you ventured into Linux. It can make your life simpler, but only
after you get familiar with it. Like learning the public transit system
in a new city. If you're looking for an instant solution, then VB may
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Check SBS's server.log file. I think you'll find it under
/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log.
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permission on the files in the music library, and read-and-execute
permissions on the folders/directories. What do you have on your music
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-folder/any-album
And post the results here. Naturally, substitute real path names for
the (silly) examples I used above.
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had the drive
formatted before (FAT32, NTFS, ext3, etc).
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the binary is not the right way. Maybe something like sudo
services squeezeboxserver start? If you don't already know then I'm
sure a quick google or a visit to ubuntuforums will tell you.
Sorry, but that's the only idea I have. Good luck.
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/media/data/multimedia/_Music
find . -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;
cd /media/data/multimedia/_Music/_playlists
find . -type d -exec chmod 770 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 660 {} \;
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to be run by
user 'george' (assuming george already owns those files and folders) or
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You need to add read and execute permissions for others for the
directory /srv/samba/share, so that it looks like this:
DRWXRWXR-X 3 MARK USERS 4096 2011-09-01 18:35 SHARE
If you have shell access, then you can do this via:
chmod 775 /srv/samba/share
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). Or you could be a bit more secure and do something
analogous to what I described for the library. Define an 'sbs' group,
with user 'squeezeboxserver' as the only member, then make that the
group owner for the playlists folder.
Something analogous could be done for the playlists folder.
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neglectful things, like not having verification signatures on the
debian builds ('Bug 9397'
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9397)).
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haven't had any of the scanning disasters that many are
reporting (knock wood).
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As you're an mp3tag fan, you should definitely check out puddletag for
tagging. Any mp3tag user will feel very at home with it, and there's
good support for it here in the SB forums by member 'audiomuze'.
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to your /etc/fstab file? For SBS to use it as a library it has to
be mounted, even though it may be readable via the usual file browsing
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so that it tries to
mount the SD card at boot time. The line you need is basically a
re-arrangement of the mount command given above.
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, because the music library needs to be
readable by the user 'squeezeboxserver'. Try changing the umask to
022.
Btw, what happened when you tried using the browse button for selecting
the music library?
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with the tablet test. It
takes all of two minutes or so.
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the exact syntax, but it may already be listed in the
startup script.
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7.6 instead of 7.5.x. SBS 7.6 uses
SQLite as the database engine, and it generally has a lighter footprint
on system resources. That said, it is still beta software and still has
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? If that's the case, why not just use a pc or a NAS? Are you
planning to replace the battery eventually? Or is the idea to
re-purpose the tablet because its utility as a tablet is diminished
without a battery?
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Is the problem that I have iTunes managing the files?
That would be an understatement. Even people I know who _like_ iTunes
usually steer clear of that particular feature.
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found ssh useful for trying/customizing
newer plugins, applets, and patches. Most of those that people find
useful eventually get a more convenient user interface to change the
settings. I think (2) above is the only exception in my case.
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already looking things up
directly in the tables I presume you already know about that.
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the number is the difference between the two-digit number
following the 'S' in its current name, and 100. To re-enable the
service, rename the script back to its original name beginning with
'S'.
For more a information see /etc/init.d/README.
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Does SC use mysql when using Music Folder to browse the music
directories?
No. Music Folder is the only browse mode that doesn't use the
database. Instead it reads straight from the OS.
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Perhaps you were on to something with the question about umlauts --
maybe the OP has codepage or locale compatibility problems between SBS
and Ubuntu?
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, but it's easy
enough to test by wiping out the db cache and seeing what happens when
it gets rebuilt.
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This thread may have some useful info for you:
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I ran SBS for quite a while on Ubuntu, and I would say what you are
experiencing is very uncommon. Are you possibly running into problems
with Ubuntu's AppArmor? What does your SBS server.log file say?
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can descend into the folder
tree) by everyone, and that the music files themselves are readable by
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corresponding firmware is 132. You
will keep bouncing back and forth between firmwares until you do one of
the following:
a) update your SBS to 7.5.3
b) always use SBS, and never mysb.com
c) always use mysb.com, and never SBS
Option (a) is the recommended path for most people.
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and there may also be a CLI command reference on the SBS web ui under
Help.
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You could also turn up the logging level to get more info about the
problem than is presently being written to the log (Settings Advanced
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Do you get the SBS web ui?
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Are you sure a firewall isn't blocking port 9000? If that's not it, I've
run out of things to suggest, as I know nothing about Sheevaplug. You
should check the Sheeva threads in the 3rd Party Hardware forum, which
also has pointers to other Sheeva-specific resources.
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I used to get the same prompt confirming installation of an
unsigned package. I'm on Debian now and it still does the prompt to
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If that doesn't work you should check the logs, but unfortunately I
don't know where those are kept in Mandriva installations. Good luck.
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And there is something to the logic of it. After all, the highest
priority is usually the lowest number (#1, unless you're a
mathematician, in which case it's #0). ;o)
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Ubuntu is great for those new to Linux, and excellent as a desktop
environment. But so far I'm liking debian better than even Ubuntu
Server for running SBS, Samba, etc.
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only works with the metadata in your cue files or tags. So if
your tags are crap, then that's exactly what the db will report.
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the Music Folder browse to browse to the
folder where you added the new music. Of the two, (b) is usually
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