On 11/5/06, Blubbels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And what level of Slimserver? If you mean the version, I used 6.5 in that mentioned case. When trying to look up "Information" on a Squeezebox to find out the version information for what I tried last (imho 6.5.1), slimserver died immediately. > it puts a lot more effort into finding and interpreting tags As I said the tags are all following the standards. ID3v1 can be found at position filesize-128 and ID3v2 can be found at position 0 in all my files. So actually it needs no effort to find them, they're in the most standard position. > A very common problem is to have tag3v1 and v2 tags with different information That's a problem? Well, it happens only for half a dozen albums, where the name is longer than 30 characters; there I took the liberty to adjust the ID3v1 album name to something more useful than just a cut version. Oh, and genres of course - ID3v2 just offers way more default genres as well as custom genres. If you say a difference there is a "problem", you're saying that people should nto use the features of ID3v2 because that would cause a difference, and that would be silly ;)
Stop thinking so hard, you're losing track of the problem :) I'm saying that a very common issue is a corrupt id3v1 tag which is masked from the average music player or tag editor because there's a correct v2 tag. Your description of your differing tags will cause duplicate records, but it won't cause a scanning loop like you appear to be seeing.
> This is hard to detect because most programs will show you the v2 tag and ignore the v1 Well, WinAmp shows both, and for editing I use ID3Tag and my own software, which also both show both tags. I don't need to detect it though, since in some cases it's wanted! And for all other cases, see my comments above, I used my own software to improve tags, which includes synching ID3v1 and ID3v2 where the difference is not intended. > you can turn on debug options from the command line Have you ever tried to type -slimserver --help-? Exactly! So I actually can't turn it on - I could only if I knew how, that's why I asked ;)
Yes, it works just fine. if it doesn't, perhaps that's your problem. Oh wait, are you complaining that there's a lot of options? Try these: --d_info => MP3/ID3 track information --d_scan => Information about scanning directories and filelists
> or the web interface The init.d script from the now dead apt repository seems not to be compatible with the standard debian package; it will cause a slimserver and slimserver_safe to run, but doesn't react on port 9000 at all. > you can download the latest nightly Even 6.5 and 6.5.1 depend on libyaml-syck-perl, which is not available in Debian PowerPC stable. Since then, every time I want to use apt, I have to remove slimserver to get rid of those dependencies, then reinstall it afterwards.
Are you using the Slimdevices repository or something else? The one at slimdevices.com should have all this stuff. I don't have the address offhand, my server is a SuSE box. Anyway, init script aside, just running slimserver.pl from the command line should get you a web interface on port 9000 unless something else is busted. However, the web interface's debugging screen shows you just as many options, so if I guessed your problem correctly up at the command line paragraph, you're still going to have it...
Well, back to the problem: I spent another hour getting the Debian clean again (you know - the new Debian packages with their dependency hurting apt) and trying to install the SOAP::Lite perl module, which a --d_9 (the only debug-similar thing I found) showed to be missing. I'll have to spend another hour (another hour I don't really have) to finish this just to get it back running, which'll mean at least 4 hours wasted because they deleted the apt repository. Well maybe I should just put wires everywhere and get some Rokus :-/
That one's gonna work here about as well as "Well, maybe I should format this and go back to Windows" works on a Linux help list. -- "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
