Hi all, I have used my Squeezebox 3 for 3 months on XP, easy install and running in no time. Now I am trying to fire it up in Ubuntu and it's really flogging me out:
1 - took hours to get ubuntu 7.10 to update (over 180MB) even though it was installed from a distro a week old. 2 - all the wikis and help forums did not make it any easier for a novice. Continually refused to install because of dependancies and such. Wiki does not help - even with deb slimserver line added to list, it couldn't install mysql 5.0. Finally I ticked all the sources in the synaptic manager and it then installed (another 100MB download). 3 - Finally, the server runs, the squeezebox sees it, and I point the music directory to my mp3 files: Nothing found. Tried to play the MP3s in the ubuntu music player and was informed it doesn't have an MP3 codec. OH PLEASE. So my humble plea is this: HELP !! 1 - What MP3 package is matched to Squeezecenter so it can see the MP3s and play them? 2 - do I have a permissions problem with the server not seeing my directories? (if so, why the hell doesn't it tell me so?) 3 - Am I doing something totally dumb? For an allegedly idiot-friendly distro, Ubuntu works fine as installed (ie gimp, mozilla, etc) but wow, is tweaking it a nightmare. I am not familiar with the command-line stuff (learning) but if this is supposed to lure windows users over, they must be joking. I am an electronics engineer, I write code in Delphi/Pascal and microcontroller machine code, design engine computers, not totally stupid. I have been building and busting PCs since 1988, never afraid to get in and mash around, but I am fairly f**cked here... Please advise on any of the above pointers, I would be grateful; might even try to add to the ubuntu wiki. Thanks all. -- redmts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ redmts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46783 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
