On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:26 -0800, RuefulR wrote: > Increasingly I'm under the impression that Linux, Slimserver, and me > make for a poor combination.
I can't help with your last problem, but lets see if we can do some problem isolation on your first one. > My current problem or problems: > > 1, My playlists are all .m3u files in a directory called /playlists on > a FAT32 volume. Put the full path--/mnt/win/music/playlists--as the > place Slimserver should look for playlists, but it doesn't find them. > All of these files were created using Foobar on a machine running > Windows XP, and Slimserver recognized them on that machine. Since .m3u files are very small, can you try copying them to a ext2 or ext3 directory on the same box as the slimserver? The files are just text files. copy some, point to them. Try that, and see if anything changes. > 2. Because I want artists sorted alphabetically by last name but > displaying with full name in correct order, I have fields that look > like: > ARTIST=John Coltrane ;McCoy Tyner ;... > ARTISTSORT=ColtraneJohn ;TynerMcCoy ;... > This used to work well under 6.1.1 on my Windows machine and I think > initially on my Linux set up. But now the Artists appear in an > apparently random order when browsing, and searc Try using sqlitebrowser on your database and see what's in the data. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/ -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
