WhaleOil wrote: > Hi netchord > > Just a few (hopefully helpful) comments on your installation approach: > > - Installing in the directory > /Library/PreferencePanes/Squeezebox.prefPane/contents/server/Slim/Plugin/ > as you suggest will work, but you will need to reinstall the plugin if > you update to a new version of the server software as this directory > will be overwritten by the installation of the new version. (As an > aside, because you are using Mountain Lion, it would be worthwhile > updating to the beta of 7.7.3 or 7.8 because this will stop your server > going to sleep while it is playing music/radio.) > > - Better to use the ~user/Library/Application Support/Squeezebox/Plugins > as the install instructions suggest... The trick is that you do have a > Library folder in your User folder - it is just hidden by the operating > system (this was a new 'feature' introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 and later). > To reveal your ~user/Library folder, the easiest way is in Finder, > click on Go in the menu bar at the top of the screen and then hold down > the alt/option key. As if by magic, your Library folder will appear in > the menu, click on this and you can then navigate to the folder you > need. You will find all sorts of interesting stuff in the ~user/Library > folder, but best not to mess with it or your funny things can happen to > your system - maybe this is why Apple felt the need to hide it? > > - If you install the plugin from the usual plugin tab it will appear in > ~user/Library/Caches/Squeezebox/InstalledPlugins/Plugins (your other > third party installed plugins should be here already if you have > installed any). Manually installing the iTunesUpdate folder to this > folder should work as well. Not sure why installing from the plugin tab > said "failed to load" for you - may be that you restarted before it had > downloaded from the repository? (When the plugin is downloaded, but > before it has been installed by restarting the server it should appear > in ~user/Library/Caches/Squeezebox/DownloadedPlugins.) > > > Hope this helps. > > Kind regards > > WhaleOil
thanks WhaleOil, that is helpful. have not tried it yet, but am i to understand that one can install EITHER manually, as you suggest to the hidden Library directory, OR via the plugins tab? if so, the latter seems much simpler, but i could not get that to work on its own. -- 4 TB Drobo-->FW 800-->mac mini-->Ethernet Transporter--> Wireworld Eclipse 6 coax-->Meridian G61 G61--> Nordost Red Dawn-->Primare 30.3 Primare-->Ocos--Vienna Acoustics Beethoven/Maestro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ netchord's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21002 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91737 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
