[slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation
Marc, I am really grateful that someone has put all this information down in one place. It gave me confidence, at last, to go ahead and try installing the slimserver on my linkstation. Everything seemed to be going just fine, but I ran into a problemright at the last step(under "testing and finishing") . I typed in: mnt/slimserver# ./slimserver.pl --daemon --prefsfile /mnt/slim-data/slimserver.pref --cachedir /mnt/slim-data, as you suggested, butthe following response came up: = [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/share# cd /mnt/slimserver [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/slimserver# ./slimserver.pl --daemon --prefsfile /mnt/slim -data/slimserver.pref --cachedir /mnt/slim-data The following modules failed to load: DBD::SQLite XML::Parser HTML::Parser Compr ess::Zlib To download and compile them, please run: /mnt/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules .pl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/slimserver# ps -A PID TTY TIME CMD 1 ? 00:00:04 init 2 ? 00:00:00 keventd 3 ? 00:00:02 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4 ? 00:00:55 kswapd [many lines deleted] 1391 ? 00:00:09 atalkd 1486 ? 00:00:00 papd 1488 ? 00:00:00 afpd 1490 ? 00:00:10 smbd 1527 ? 00:00:00 ppc_uartd 1590 ? 00:00:00 in.telnetd 1591 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 1605 pts/0 00:00:00 ps [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/slimserver# /mnt/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl Welcome to the Slim Devices perl module installer. These packages are needed for SlimServer 6 to function. You will need a C compiler (gcc), make, and perl installed. *** Ignore any warnings about AppConfig. *** Please enter a perl binary to use (defaults to /usr/bin/perl) This must be the same perl binary that you ran this program with -- = As you can see, I tried running "mnt/slimserver# /mnt/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl" as suggested by the program. I tried typing in "slimserver.pl" when it asked for the perl binary, but this didn't work. I don't think I have a C compiler on my computer, and I don't know that the modules DBD::SQLite XML::Parser HTML::Parser Compress::Zlib are. Any suggestions? Rod Tucker BTW, when I copied perl and the slimserver to the relevant directories, both files had a .tar.tar suffix rather than the .tar.gz suffix as listed in your notes. However "tar xzvf filename.tar.tar" (rather than "tar xzvf filename.tar.gz") seemed to work OK. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: AlienBBC vs DAB (was Re: [slim] (UK) Powered speakers for SB)
Richard, I'm afraid you're under a multiple misunderstanding. I'm not selling anything at £129 (or any other price - I'm a customer, not a retailer); Stuart is selling something for £129, but it's not a squeezebox, it's a DAB USB radio. As for your question - someone else might be able to answer it better. I've recently become the happy owner of two Squeezeboxes, but I've never seen a Roku in the flesh, still less used or heard one. As I understand it, the basic Roku is very similar architecturally to the original Squeezebox (whereas the new Squeezebox2 has some enhancements). There's also a version with a much bigger display, for a lot more cash. On software, the SlimDevices boxes will I guess always benefit first from enhancements to SlimServer - but because Slim release the software under a GPL OpenSource agreement, Roku are able to use it for their customers also. OTOH, if you buy 'protected' music from the iTunes music store, the Roku should be able to play these directly, whereas SlimServer currently has to go through contortions. (Again - all this is my understanding - I've never used Roku, and I won't buy music from iTMS.) I can say that in my direct experience, supported by many comments I've seen from others, SlimDevices offer exceptional customer service. Hope this helps, Ben From: Richard Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:49:58 + To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: AlienBBC vs DAB (was Re: [slim] (UK) Powered speakers for SB) Ben, Hopefully you can help me! I want to know whether to splash the cash and get the Roku M1000 or go for the SqueezeBox. I am running Win Xp SP2 and at present do not have a wireless setup and would probably just go for the ethernet connection at the moment. Seeing as though you're retailing the Squeezebox at £129 this week, would you recommend this over the £50 more expensive Roku? Thanks in advance, Richard From: BenRubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: AlienBBC vs DAB (was Re: [slim] (UK) Powered speakers for SB) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:22:14 + on 21/3/05 6:02 pm, Stuart Cooper wrote DAB is now a possibility again using the Trinloc DAB USB radio in the UK - at least on Windows. When used with DABBAR (1.3b1 or above) all stations can be streamed via HTTP and integrated with Squeezebox2, Squeezebox or SliMP3. I am using one with Windows XP SP2 and Squeezebox SliMP3 and its working very well - even in my poor signal area (the highest I get is about 30% signal). It even works with my VIA USB chipset, which the Wavefinder would have nothing to do with! More details here: http://www.multitask-computing.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=30 6 - for anyone interested, I'm retailing it at £129.99 as of this week :-) Stuart, I'd be interested if there was software to support it on a system other than Windows. (Doesn't have to be a UI or anything, just enough to run it through SlimServer.) Realistically, though, while I would then become interested, that might not result in a sale at that price. (I'm not saying it's not a fair price - just that, for me, it would go over a threshold for what it is.) Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: AlienBBC vs DAB (was Re: [slim] (UK) Powered speakers for SB)
Sorry for the misunderstanding Stuart and many thanks for your reply. It looks like the SqueezeBox is going to be the one for me! From: BenRubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: "Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com" discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: AlienBBC vs DAB (was Re: [slim] (UK) Powered speakers for SB) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:22:03 + Richard, I'm afraid you're under a multiple misunderstanding.I'm not selling anything at £129 (or any other price - I'm a customer, not a retailer); Stuart is selling something for £129, but it's not a squeezebox, it's a DAB USB radio. As for your question - someone else might be able to answer it better.I've recently become the happy owner of two Squeezeboxes, but I've never seen a Roku in the flesh, still less used or heard one. As I understand it, the basic Roku is very similar architecturally to the original Squeezebox (whereas the new Squeezebox2 has some enhancements). There's also a version with a much bigger display, for a lot more cash.On software, the SlimDevices boxes will I guess always benefit first from enhancements to SlimServer - but because Slim release the software under a GPL OpenSource agreement, Roku are able to use it for their customers also. OTOH, if you buy 'protected' music from the iTunes music store, the Roku should be able to play these directly, whereas SlimServer currently has to go through contortions.(Again - all this is my understanding - I've never used Roku, and I won't buy music from iTMS.) I can say that in my direct experience, supported by many comments I've seen from others, SlimDevices offer exceptional customer service. Hope this helps, Ben From: "Richard Ray" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:49:58 + To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: AlienBBC vs DAB (was Re: [slim] (UK) Powered speakers for SB) Ben, Hopefully you can help me! I want to know whether to splash the cash and get the Roku M1000 or go for the SqueezeBox. I am running Win Xp SP2 and at present do not have a wireless setup and would probably just go for the ethernet connection at the moment. Seeing as though you're retailing the Squeezebox at £129 this week, would you recommend this over the £50 more expensive Roku? Thanks in advance, Richard From: BenRubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: "Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com" discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: AlienBBC vs DAB (was Re: [slim] (UK) Powered speakers for SB) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:22:14 + on 21/3/05 6:02 pm, Stuart Cooper wrote DAB is now a possibility again using the Trinloc DAB USB radio in the UK - at least on Windows. When used with DABBAR (1.3b1 or above) all stations can be streamed via HTTP and integrated with Squeezebox2, Squeezebox or SliMP3. I am using one with Windows XP SP2 and Squeezebox SliMP3 and its working very well - even in my poor signal area (the highest I get is about 30% signal). It even works with my VIA USB chipset, which the Wavefinder would have nothing to do with! More details here: http://www.multitask-computing.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=30 6 - for anyone interested, I'm retailing it at £129.99 as of this week :-) Stuart, I'd be interested if there was software to support it on a system other than Windows.(Doesn't have to be a UI or anything, just enough to run it through SlimServer.) Realistically, though, while I would then become interested, that might not result in a sale at that price. (I'm not saying it's not a fair price - just that, for me, it would go over a threshold for what it is.) Ben Rubinstein |Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd |Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com|Fax: +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Local Internet Radio
Thanks for the reply, it works :-) Can I ask you how you found that out so that if/when I come across other radio stations like that I dont have to harass people on here. Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonas Nordström Sent: 22 March 2005 07:04 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Local Internet Radio On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:12:56 -, Mark Gillespie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anyone help? I would like to be able to stream the below internet radio through my squeezebox. Is it possible and if so how do I do it? http://merciafm.musicradio.com/homepage.jsp Thanks Mark ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss The link you're looking for is mms://audio1.musicradio.com/merciafm I don't know if you can play it, I can't try it myself right know.. -- Jonas Nordström ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Local Internet Radio
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:32:47 -, Mark Gillespie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the reply, it works :-)
Can I ask you how you found that out so that if/when I come across other
radio stations like that I don't have to harass people on here.
Thanks
Mark
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonas Nordström
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:12:56 -, Mark Gillespie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone help?
I would like to be able to stream the below internet radio through my
squeezebox.
Is it possible and if so how do I do it?
http://merciafm.musicradio.com/homepage.jsp
Thanks
Mark
The link you're looking for is mms://audio1.musicradio.com/merciafm
I don't know if you can play it, I can't try it myself right know..
If you go to your link
http://merciafm.musicradio.com/homepage.jsp
using your webbrowser, there's a link called Listen Live. Now this
is a javascript link which looks like this:
javascript:popup('http://audio.musicradio.com/player.asp?show=50',%20'audio',%20'468',%20'207')
Without examining that further, it probably pops up a new window and
loads the page with url:
http://audio.musicradio.com/player.asp?show=50
in the new window.
try entering
http://audio.musicradio.com/player.asp?show=50
in the webbrowser, I got the option to save the file to disk (I use
Firefox, dunno if that matters).
The file looks like this:
ASX VERSION = 3.0
TITLEMercia FM Live/TITLE
ENTRY
TITLEMercia FM Live/TITLE
COPYRIGHTGWR Group/COPYRIGHT
AUTHORMercia FM/AUTHOR
REF HREF=mms://audio1.musicradio.com/merciafm /
REF HREF=mms://audio2.musicradio.com/merciafm /
/ENTRY
/ASX
and there are your links!
It would probably be easier to start plaing the stream in windows
media player, winamp or itunes and just look at the stream properties.
--
Jonas Nordström
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Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger
I don't remember the exact command, but something like id3v2 -l 11_*.flac came back: 11_Frogs.flac No tags found Or something like that. Most of these files (they're all flac) were ripped/tagged with dbPowerAMP and slimserver seems to be able to pull them out. So i just figured this tool (id3v2) was having issues reading them. From: Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:02:39 -0800 On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:39:48 -0500, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good command-line tagger (I'm already using abcde to rip - just need something to use for the occasional fix).I've tried audiotool, id3v2 and id3tool but they don't seem to read the existing tags. id3v2 works perfectly for me - what do you mean by not reading the existing tags? It does for me - were your mp3's tagged with ape? I don't believe it understands ape tags - but it should work fine with existing ID3V1 or ID3V2 tags. -- http://mpeters.us/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:28:43 -0500, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember the exact command, but something like id3v2 -l 11_*.flac came back: 11_Frogs.flac No tags found Or something like that. Most of these files (they're all flac) were ripped/tagged with dbPowerAMP and slimserver seems to be able to pull them out. So i just figured this tool (id3v2) was having issues reading them. Flac doesn't use ID3 tags man metaflac -- http://mpeters.us/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger
Well, then that explains it. So then does anyone have a command-line metaflac tag editor or whatever which they would recommend for editting flac file tags? From: Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:46:36 -0800 On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:28:43 -0500, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember the exact command, but something like id3v2 -l 11_*.flac came back: 11_Frogs.flac No tags found Or something like that.Most of these files (they're all flac) were ripped/tagged with dbPowerAMP and slimserver seems to be able to pull them out.So i just figured this tool (id3v2) was having issues reading them. Flac doesn't use ID3 tags man metaflac -- http://mpeters.us/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger
Nevermind -I think I get it. Metaflac IS that tool. Thanks for the info. From: "Michael Haan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:49:22 -0500 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss Well, then that explains it. So then does anyone have a command-line metaflac tag editor or whatever which they would recommend for editting flac file tags? From: Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagger Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:46:36 -0800 On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:28:43 -0500, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember the exact command, but something like id3v2 -l 11_*.flac came back: 11_Frogs.flac No tags found Or something like that.Most of these files (they're all flac) were ripped/tagged with dbPowerAMP and slimserver seems to be able to pull them out.So i just figured this tool (id3v2) was having issues reading them. Flac doesn't use ID3 tags man metaflac -- http://mpeters.us/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.
Hello, What would be involved in making the buttons for a given skin (slim or excession) larger? I would like to make them about 100-200% larger for improved use on a touchscreen. They are almost big enough now, but I would like to make them fat-finger friendly. Thanks, -Chris ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 6.0b3 03-22 nightly - the count is correct
Hi, I found that I have 2 albums with the same name (Live), iTunes counts them as 1 album whereas Slimserver correctly counts them as 2... so actually slimserver is now correct and iTunes is wrong. Well done!!! As far as I am concerned there is still one issue on the Squeezebox itself. If you do Browse Music-Browse Genres-select one genre- then instead of seing a list of Artists in this genre I actually see a list of Artists AND Composers! Note the server setting is Don't include composer, band and orchestra in artists. I also mentionned it in my bug report 1133 but I now release that I should have opened a separate bug report. Should I open a separate bug report? Michel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.
Indeed, However at least for me, the buttons are even smaller than the others. Also it seems pretty plain (no insult at all do whomever did the skin). It would look much nicer to have the excession or slim skin. I have tried all of the skins, at 800x600 they can be used with some care, but seeing this is the only thing I am going to run on these machines there is no reason not to take full advantage of the screen real estate. Thanks, -chris On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:18:33 -0700, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is already a touch screen skin. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Laplante Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:11 AM To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel. Hello, What would be involved in making the buttons for a given skin (slim or excession) larger? I would like to make them about 100-200% larger for improved use on a touchscreen. They are almost big enough now, but I would like to make them fat-finger friendly. Thanks, -Chris ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes
* John Hernandez shaped the electrons to say... I find that when doing Browse Albums or New Music, I sometimes don't recognize an album title. I then resort to right-right-down to see the artist, then up-left-left if it's not what I wanted. Instead, I'd like to see something like Album (Artist) in the Browse display to jog my failing memory. Does this option currently exist? If not, can anyone clue me on how and where to tweak the code to make it so? John - Check Server Settings - Formatting Or for the player itself: Player Settings - Display -D -- iNoah my pdp goes to 11. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slim Devices SB2 disappointment SB for sale.
Phil Karn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jack Coates wrote: You might want to do some research on modern virtual memory management... swap is necessary no matter how much RAM you have. I disagree. I see no reason for a swap partition when you already have far more physical RAM than most swap partitions used to be, and tasks never fail because of memory exhaustion. While this makes perfect sense in theory, the linux kernel (among others) is written with the expectation of having a swap space, and it makes decisions about scheduling, caching and memory management based on that assumption. If you really want to run it without a swap space and maintain performance, you need to tweak the kernel settings a bit. Start with a google on swappiness and go from there. -michael ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re[2]: [slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes
Hi John Go to Server Settings...Formatting and scroll down to Title Format. Add this one and select it: DISC-TRACKNUM. TITLE (ARTIST) Then, in Player Settings (main page) change the Title Format and you should see the new one in the drop down. Works a treat for me. Jon --- On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 8:04:59 PM you wrote: Dan Sully wrote: * John Hernandez shaped the electrons to say... I find that when doing Browse Albums or New Music, I sometimes don't recognize an album title. I then resort to right-right-down to see the artist, then up-left-left if it's not what I wanted. Instead, I'd like to see something like Album (Artist) in the Browse display to jog my failing memory. Does this option currently exist? If not, can anyone clue me on how and where to tweak the code to make it so? John - Check Server Settings - Formatting Dont see any option for this. Nearest thing is show year with album. Any chance of doing htis with artist as well? Are you thinking about the 'title options' which is only for the showing the details of a particular song (e.g. in now playing) rather than in album view? Or for the player itself: Player Settings - Display Doesnt seem any helpful options here. Cheers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re[2]: [slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes
or, if you don't want the track number: TITLE (ARTIST) Jon --- On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 8:04:59 PM you wrote: Dan Sully wrote: * John Hernandez shaped the electrons to say... I find that when doing Browse Albums or New Music, I sometimes don't recognize an album title. I then resort to right-right-down to see the artist, then up-left-left if it's not what I wanted. Instead, I'd like to see something like Album (Artist) in the Browse display to jog my failing memory. Does this option currently exist? If not, can anyone clue me on how and where to tweak the code to make it so? John - Check Server Settings - Formatting Dont see any option for this. Nearest thing is show year with album. Any chance of doing htis with artist as well? Are you thinking about the 'title options' which is only for the showing the details of a particular song (e.g. in now playing) rather than in album view? Or for the player itself: Player Settings - Display Doesnt seem any helpful options here. Cheers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Problem with Shuffle modes
I found problems with the 03/21 nightly that caused the sever to crash when selecting Shuffle by Album. That seems to have been fixed in 03/22 but now I'm seeing that with a playlist of 9000 songs, switching between shuffleoff and shuffle by song takes around 3 seconds but switching to shuffle by album takes over 2 minuets of 100% cpu. Thanks Craig ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re[2]: [slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes
John You need to create the format in the server settings (this will affect the browser although you don't have to select the new format) and then you can select it from the player settings. This will only affect the particular player. Jon --- On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 8:06:24 PM you wrote: Dan Sully wrote: * John Hernandez shaped the electrons to say... I find that when doing Browse Albums or New Music, I sometimes don't recognize an album title. I then resort to right-right-down to see the artist, then up-left-left if it's not what I wanted. Instead, I'd like to see something like Album (Artist) in the Browse display to jog my failing memory. Does this option currently exist? If not, can anyone clue me on how and where to tweak the code to make it so? John - Check Server Settings - Formatting Also the 'show year with albums' only affects the web ui, it makes no differnence to the player ui. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Drive letter of playlist
Or to change the drive letter in your playlists, just use find and replace in your favourite text editor. Programmers File Editor or Textpad for example. Ken Hokugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are using XP, and it does that sometimes, go to control panel - ADministrative Tools - Computer Management. Choose Disk Management on the left. Bring the cursol to your music drive, right click, then Change Drive Letter and Paths. You can change the drive letter to whatever you want to make it, and hope that will stay that way! From: David Renee MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Drive letter of playlist Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:48:50 -0500 Is there any simple way of changing the drive letter of songs in a playlist en masse. I reformatted my hard drive and the new set up renamed the drives differently and now my playlists won't work. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 21, 2005 3:00 PM To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Discuss Digest, Vol 17, Issue 76 Send Discuss mailing list submissions to discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Discuss digest... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] More flac playback over wireless data
file server, slimserver and Squeezebox are all independantly and wirelessly connected to my adsl/router/firewall/hub. OUCH!!! this isn't going to work. If your slimserver is mounting its music folder from another (also wireless) machine, this means your data is hitting the airwaves a total of FOUR times ie 6 Mbps total bandwidth usage! file server - access point - slim server - access point - squeezebox You need to get those computers on ethernet with the access point. Then the only traffic on wireless is: access point - squeezebox Thanks Sean. I am aware of that, but I currently live in listed building (called The Hobbits Rest) which I do not own. The only phone point is in the lounge (very near the Squeezebox) so I am a bit stuck. However, I am actually surprised at how infrequent the drop outs are with this set up. For now I have gone back to MP3s and radio (which appear to work fine). I'll leave the flacs till I buy a house high enough for me to stand up in (hopefully before I develop a permananent stoop). Simon Turner The Hobbits Rest ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes
Jon Stanton wrote: Hi John Go to Server Settings...Formatting and scroll down to Title Format. Add this one and select it: DISC-TRACKNUM. TITLE (ARTIST) Then, in Player Settings (main page) change the Title Format and you should see the new one in the drop down. Works a treat for me. Jon Works a treat for me too ...however it only changes the display format in the now playing section What I want it... Browse music -- browse albums -- Albums (23 of 196) Bat out of hell (Meat Loaf) What I currently get is (no matter what I do to title format)... Browse music -- browse albums -- Albums (23 of 196) Bat out of hell As another option I would like to see (where the number in brackets is the number of songs by that artist) Browse music -- browse artists -- Artists (402 of 572) Queen (92) Cheers --- On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 8:04:59 PM you wrote: Dan Sully wrote: * John Hernandez shaped the electrons to say... I find that when doing Browse Albums or New Music, I sometimes don't recognize an album title. I then resort to right-right-down to see the artist, then up-left-left if it's not what I wanted. Instead, I'd like to see something like Album (Artist) in the Browse display to jog my failing memory. Does this option currently exist? If not, can anyone clue me on how and where to tweak the code to make it so? John - Check Server Settings - Formatting Dont see any option for this. Nearest thing is show year with album. Any chance of doing htis with artist as well? Are you thinking about the 'title options' which is only for the showing the details of a particular song (e.g. in now playing) rather than in album view? Or for the player itself: Player Settings - Display Doesnt seem any helpful options here. Cheers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Starting slimserver in Windows
Hi there, I'm running Slimserver 5.4.1 for Windows. Upgrading to the latest version 6 completely screwed my system so I'm back with the old one. I am using Itunes to keep my music organized and therefore would like to run the Itunes plugin as well which updates my ratings etc. Everything is working fine except that I have not found a clever way of starting slimserver. I used to run it as a service but I want to use the direct update functionality of the Itunes plugin - for that it must not run as a service. When I simply put SlimServer.exe in my startup folder it works except that it takes a long time for Slimserver to start, takes a lot of memory and I cannot get it to start minimized. I've tried playing around with running just Slim.exe but that does not work either. There must be a way to run SlimServer silently in the background without hogging lots of memory and not using a service... Any help would be very much apprechiated. Cheers, Manuel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem with Shuffle modes
* Craig shaped the electrons to say... I found problems with the 03/21 nightly that caused the sever to crash when selecting Shuffle by Album. That seems to have been fixed in 03/22 but now I'm seeing that with a playlist of 9000 songs, switching between shuffle off and shuffle by song takes around 3 seconds but switching to shuffle by album takes over 2 minuets of 100% cpu. Craig - could you file a bug? Thanks. -D -- For every new fool-proof invention there is a new and improved fool. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Starting slimserver in Windows
* Manuel Rathmann shaped the electrons to say... I'm running Slimserver 5.4.1 for Windows. Upgrading to the latest version 6 completely screwed my system so I'm back with the old one. I am using Itunes to keep my music organized and therefore would like to run the Itunes plugin as well which updates my ratings etc. Manuel - could you be a little more descriptive in completely screwed my system ? Thanks. -D -- For every new fool-proof invention there is a new and improved fool. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Starting slimserver in Windows
Dan Sully wrote: Manuel - could you be a little more descriptive in completely screwed my system ? Perhaps version 6.0 includes some kind of proprietary security protocol? http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/14238 (last paragraph) Hey, it is kind of audio related, at least. :) - Marc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Problem with Shuffle modes
Dan Sully wrote: * Craig shaped the electrons to say... I found problems with the 03/21 nightly that caused the sever to crash when selecting Shuffle by Album. That seems to have been fixed in 03/22 but now I'm seeing that with a playlist of 9000 songs, switching between shuffle off and shuffle by song takes around 3 seconds but switching to shuffle by album takes over 2 minuets of 100% cpu. Craig - could you file a bug? Thanks. -D Done Bug 1160 Craig ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Debugging missing titles from database
I'm running CVS from yesterday. Trying to understand why the database show the counts I'm expecting: $ fgrep audiodir ~/.slimserver.pref audiodir = /home/moseley/music $ find /home/moseley/music -name \*.mp3 -o -name \*.ogg -o -name \*.flac -type f | wc -l 2257 $ telnet localhost 9090 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. info total songs ? info total songs 1056 - why not 2257? info total artists ? info total artists 321 What steps should I take to see the difference? Do the Slim/* perl modules provide an interface I can use for my own scripts? For example, I'd like to use the same code Slim uses for accessing track metadata (id3/vorbis tags). I'd like to use File::Find and recurse my music folder and use the Slim modules to gather the meta data. It would be helpful to have a small tool where I can pass a file name and see how slimserver parses and how it would index. I know I can turn on debugging and rescan, but I'd like to be able to work with single files. I'd also like to be able to do database queries directly on the database. Then I could compare with the database and see what files are not indexed. Any example scripts for this? Thanks, -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] iTunes reload library vs rescan library
Hi, a general question about the use of iTunes: could someone explain the difference between reloading the iTunes library and rescanning. What is happening in the background. The difference between the 2 is not clear to me and then I am not sure about the effect of the parameters that controls them. There is a reload iTunes library interval (default 60 sec) and a rescan library plugin the allows to schedule a rescan. If I turn the rescan scheduler on, do I still need to reload the iTunes library? There doesn't seem to be a way to schedule a reload of the itunes library or trigger it manually? Thanks in advance, Michel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Debugging missing titles from database
Bill Moseley wrote: It would be helpful to have a small tool where I can pass a file name and see how slimserver parses and how it would index. I know I can turn on debugging and rescan, but I'd like to be able to work with single files. I've used the log file in the past. Start the server with the --log option and then do a full rescan. It will list every track it finds. You can then do your own find, massage both the log file and the find output a bit, and do a diff. Not a perfect solution, but still quite useful. I'd also like to be able to do database queries directly on the database. Then I could compare with the database and see what files are not indexed. Any example scripts for this? Funny, I was just thinking of putting one together -- I just this afternoon grabbed a copy of the schema from svn.slimdevices.com (I only saw a PNG file -- is there something in plain text format somewhere?). I still have to write some perl code to read from the SQLite tables. Basically I just wanted something to dump what's in the database to a flat file for easier inspection. (Having said that, the last time I checked, the server had picked up all my tracks and albums correctly, at least as compared with the output of a find command.) SBB Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Ogg Vorbis issue BBC Radio question
Hi there, Ogg Vorbis problem: Im a Squeezebox newbie running 5.4.1 on a 250GB Buffalo LinkStation (thanks SO much to Marc D. Field for his project notes http://fieldnetworks.com/slim/linkstation.html and plenty of post-project help, nice chap and patient!) but I have one problem I cant play my Ogg Vorbis files. When I try from the Squeezebox/SoftSqueeze it starts saying it will play the file and then comes back with a message saying Cant Open File. When running SlimServer software direct from the LinkStation via HTML on my Windows XP PC and I try and select the Ogg Vorbis options (Server Settings/File Types)I get the following error: File Format Conversions 10: Setting was changed. File Format Conversions 11: Setting was changed. Required binary was not found: [oggdec] -Q -o - -R $FILE$ | [lame] -- resample 44100 -q $QUALITY$ --silent -b $BITRATE$ -r -x - - Required binary was not found: [oggdec] -Q -o - -R $FILE$ This happens whatever version of SlimServer I download (5.4.1, 5.4.x or any of v6.0) although it was never a problem when I originally installed SlimmServer ran it from my PC can someone help please? Ive scanned as much as I can and I think it has something to do with the convert.conf file but where do I find this and how do I edit it? (Id appreciate a real idiots guide (keystrokes file locations etc. as Im a novice - even though Ive installed new LinkStation Perl versions and created files and utilities in vi!!) All my music is in Ogg Vorbis so this is really important to me. BBC Radio Is there any way I can stream BBC radio (specifically 5 Live) to my Squeezebox through my LinkStation? I read that creating an m3u file would do the trick but a) I dont know if Ive created the file correctly and b) I dont know where to install it to test it anyone tried this? Thanks for any help with the two issues. Kind regards, Alan. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.
Chris Laplante wrote: Hello, What would be involved in making the buttons for a given skin (slim or excession) larger? I would like to make them about 100-200% larger for improved use on a touchscreen. They are almost big enough now, but I would like to make them fat-finger friendly. Thanks, -Chris You can edit the existing softsqueeze skins without too much difficulty. In brief: 1) The java .jar file format is the same as a zip file, so rename SoftSqueeze.jar to SoftSqueeze.zip and unzip the file. 2) You will find a 'skin' folder in the zip file. This contains all the png images and xml definition files for the skins. You can then use an image editor to alter the images, and a text editor to edit the xml files. The xml is used to bind a button to an action, and to adjust where the button appears in the window. I think it should be reasonably easy to follow. 3) In the META-INF folder delete the SOFTSQUE.RSA and SOFTSQUE.SF files. These files are digital signatures to make sure the .jar file is not tampered with. As you are tampering with the jar file you need to delete them otherwise Java won't start Softsqueeze. Keep the MANIFEST.MF file. 4) Zip the files backup, and rename to SoftSqueeze.jar. A useful check is to unzip the jar file again to make sure the paths are correct. 5) Send me the modified skin to include with Softsqueeze :) Feel free to ask more questions if needed. Regards, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Just noise from Softsqueeze
Craig wrote: Hi Richard, Well it's playing the aac files now but using Primary Sound Driver or my M-Audio card as the Audio mixer there is still quite a bit of noise with the music. Selecting the Java Sound Engine as the mixer, there is no noise but the level is lower, maybe as much as 6dB. Craig Does this get better if you reduce the volume in Softsqueeze and crank up your amp instead? With some music/soundcards I think Softsqueeze can distort at higher levels. However I found when I lowered the maximum level some people complained they could not hear anything! The Java Sound Engine does play at a lower level, so this is distortion is not normally a problem. Regards, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze 2a14 Issues
Neil Cameron wrote: I've loaded the 17/3/05 Nightlies, and am having issues only with SoftSqueeze, and not with the Squeezeboxes. (1) It still crashes slimserver whenever I press Now Playing more than once in succession (2) It stops just before the end of every song. The display shows STOPPED. It will carry on if I press PLAY or SKIP, but will not move on otherwise. Is this a clean install of the nightly, or installed over a previous version of the slimserver? I don't think this will make a difference, but ... What font do you have selected for Softsqueeze (look in player preferences). The valid font's for Softsqueeze are standard, light and full. Do you have any players synchronized? Could you post the Softsqueeze debug with 'player' and 'javasound' debug options enabled in the Softsqueeze preferences. And also, just to check, you are using the version of Softsqueeze supplied with the nightly. At the moment it is important to use the correct versions of Softsqueeze/Slimserver for everything to work ok. Regards, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How do slimserver clients sync to same stream ?
- Original Message - From: kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [slim] How do slimserver clients sync to same stream ? Quoting Robert Rozman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I wonder how do clients sync to same music source ? What should be done by client and what by slimserver ? What has to be done on client to sync properly ? When thinking as a total newbie I'd guess that they should be in sync if connected to same stream - but I must be wrong all clients get their own streams. syncing means that players have matching streams playing at the same time. http players cannot be synchronised softsqueeze and hardware players can, and are set this way via player settings Ok, thanks for info. What I'm trying to know is HOW they synhonize ? Do they talk to each other, to server - timestamps, ... ? How is sync feature implemented in softsqueeze ? Thanks in advance, regards, Rob. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iTunes reload library vs rescan library
Hi kdf, thanks, if the database rescans all its sources on regular basis (with 6.0) including iTunes (if it is used), is the reload of iTunes still needed? Will you also get rid of the rescan plugin if it is not needed anymore. Having parameters that are not really needed anymore may be a bit confusing. Michel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Starting slimserver in Windows
Hi, - Version 6 seems to consider more tags than the previous version. All of a sudden my browe by Artist showed up Artists I never heared of. Keep in mind that ITunes showed everything correct. I found out that some of my MP3s had tags like Composer which were considered as well as Artist. this is one of the problem I reported in bug 1133 and in a message below: ...there is still one issue on the Squeezebox itself. If you do Browse Music- Browse Genres-select one genre- then instead of seing a list of Artists in this genre I actually see a list of Artists AND Composers! Note the server setting is Don't include composer, band and orchestra in artists. With the latest nightly of 6.0 this behaviour is now only in Browse by genres (browser by Artist is correct now). Michel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes reload library vs rescan library
* Michel Fombellida shaped the electrons to say... thanks, if the database rescans all its sources on regular basis (with 6.0) including iTunes (if it is used), is the reload of iTunes still needed? Will you also get rid of the rescan plugin if it is not needed anymore. Having parameters that are not really needed anymore may be a bit confusing. We do not automatically rescan if you are not using any importers, IE: a Music Folder only. So the Rescan plugin is still needed. -D -- It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.
Looks good / straightforward. I was doing a diff of the XMLs for excession excession-large, and can see the differences are pretty clear. Is there any science to picking the X and Y coordinate values, or just resize the images and replace them by trial and error? I would want to scale all of the buttons by the same ratio. Thanks, -chris On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:23:07 +, Richard Titmuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Laplante wrote: Hello, What would be involved in making the buttons for a given skin (slim or excession) larger? I would like to make them about 100-200% larger for improved use on a touchscreen. They are almost big enough now, but I would like to make them fat-finger friendly. Thanks, -Chris You can edit the existing softsqueeze skins without too much difficulty. In brief: 1) The java .jar file format is the same as a zip file, so rename SoftSqueeze.jar to SoftSqueeze.zip and unzip the file. 2) You will find a 'skin' folder in the zip file. This contains all the png images and xml definition files for the skins. You can then use an image editor to alter the images, and a text editor to edit the xml files. The xml is used to bind a button to an action, and to adjust where the button appears in the window. I think it should be reasonably easy to follow. 3) In the META-INF folder delete the SOFTSQUE.RSA and SOFTSQUE.SF files. These files are digital signatures to make sure the .jar file is not tampered with. As you are tampering with the jar file you need to delete them otherwise Java won't start Softsqueeze. Keep the MANIFEST.MF file. 4) Zip the files backup, and rename to SoftSqueeze.jar. A useful check is to unzip the jar file again to make sure the paths are correct. 5) Send me the modified skin to include with Softsqueeze :) Feel free to ask more questions if needed. Regards, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Browse Albums, New Music woes
Dan Sully wrote: * John Hernandez shaped the electrons to say... I find that when doing Browse Albums or New Music, I sometimes don't recognize an album title. I then resort to right-right-down to see the artist, then up-left-left if it's not what I wanted. Instead, I'd like to see something like Album (Artist) in the Browse display to jog my failing memory. Does this option currently exist? If not, can anyone clue me on how and where to tweak the code to make it so? John - Check Server Settings - Formatting Or for the player itself: Player Settings - Display Dan, as noted by the other John (Gorst), these settings seem to affect only the Now Playing screensaver. I'm look for something that would add (Artist) information to the Browse Albums mode of the player ( possibly web) interface. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: iTunes reload library vs rescan library
OK thanks! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iTunes reload library vs rescan library
Quoting Michel Fombellida [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi kdf, thanks, if the database rescans all its sources on regular basis (with 6.0) including iTunes (if it is used), is the reload of iTunes still needed? it cleans up stale data, looks for new files on browse, but if you change your itunes data from the itunes application, you will still want the reload to be happening. However, if you are not impatient, you can always set the reload interval to a long duration. Will you also get rid of the rescan plugin if it is not needed anymore. Having parameters that are not really needed anymore may be a bit confusing. that's not really up to me. I've never actually felt there was a need for it. Some users liek it have it, even if it may be just as a security blanket :) -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.
Chris Laplante wrote: Looks good / straightforward. I was doing a diff of the XMLs for excession excession-large, and can see the differences are pretty clear. Is there any science to picking the X and Y coordinate values, or just resize the images and replace them by trial and error? I would want to scale all of the buttons by the same ratio. Well I spent last night resizing the excession and lcd skins for Softsqueeze2. I used a pencil, paper and calculator. Then came the trial and error (and a little cursing!). Not too scientific :). Regards, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How do slimserver clients sync to same stream ?
Robert Rozman wrote: What I'm trying to know is HOW they synhonize ? Do they talk to each other, to server - timestamps, ... ? How is sync feature implemented in softsqueeze ? All the players communicate only with the server, using the slimproto protocol. This allows the server to detect the audio buffer status in each player, and start and stop the streams. When playing in sync the server sends the audio stream to the players, but they are paused and just buffer the data. Once all the players reach a buffer threshold the server sends a play message to each player, and they all start playback together. This process repeats at the start of each track, to keep the players in sync. Softsqueeze emulates the squeezebox, including the appropriate buffer sizes, and protocols etc. Regards, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I have more slim software players on single ip ?
Jack Coates wrote: b) no one's tried it yet. Well not true. Someone has tried using four instances of Softsqueeze's on a single PC with multiple sound cards. I understand this was partially successful, the Softsqueeze players were recognized as individual players by the slimserver and correctly played separate streams over the appropriate audio card. Sync did not work correctly, and we never finished debugging this before the audio cards had to be returned. and c) it's so simple to try, no one understands why you haven't tried it yet :) Yes, it is. Try this: write down the names of the audio mixers you want to use from the softsqueeze preferences. The start softsqueeze from the command prompt using: java -Dmacaddress=11:11:11:11:11:11 -Daudio.mixer='Primary Sound Driver' -jar SoftSqueeze.jar Change the mac address to whatever you need, and the audio mixer as appropriate. This will override the stored preferences and creates additional independent Softsqueeze players on the same PC. Regards, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - use on a touchpanel.
Chris Laplante wrote: Should I do my resizing off of a dev branch source then? It would be nice if people could potentially use the skin when I'm done, and not have it be old news. Yes, if you could work from the slimserver trunk that would be good. You need to be working from Softsqueeze 2.0a15, from last nights nightly or using svn. If you have the Java JDK and Apache ant installed then it is easier to compile Softsqueeze from source instead of unzipping/zipping the jar file. Let me know if you need instructions. Regards, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Ogg Vorbis issue BBC Radio question
Quoting Alan Parkyn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, Thanks for your help - you're right I don't appear to have Lame. Do you know how I'd go about downloading it, compiling it and installing it to my LinkStation? there is actually a link in that message telling you that lame isn't found. it will take you here: http://lame.sourceforge.net/ hopefully it is just a matter of ./configure, make, make install. the horsepower of the linkstation is a bit limiting, however. I have my doubts about its ability to deal well with transcoding. Can't hurt to try, though. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Ogg Vorbis issue BBC Radio question
Hi Alan. If you want to stream BBC radio, then you'll need a copy of AlienBBC. It's available from: http://www.mrtickle.org/alienbbc.html However... I do have to confess - we've never tried running AlienBBC on a linkstation... and I'm not totally sure it will be easy. The only main piece you'll need (in addition to thinks like 'lame' potentially working), is 'mplayer' working. Again, this is something that we don't package... and I've absolutely no idea if anybody has ever even TRIED to make that work. Sorry if that's not the most helpful answer in the world. I do wish you the very best of luck, though... and if you do make it work - I'd love to hear from you! -- Jules Alan Parkyn wrote: Hi there, Ogg Vorbis problem: Im a Squeezebox newbie running 5.4.1 on a 250GB Buffalo LinkStation (thanks SO much to Marc D. Field for his project notes http://fieldnetworks.com/slim/linkstation.html and plenty of post-project help, nice chap and patient!) but I have one problem I cant play my Ogg Vorbis files. When I try from the Squeezebox/SoftSqueeze it starts saying it will play the file and then comes back with a message saying Cant Open File. When running SlimServer software direct from the LinkStation via HTML on my Windows XP PC and I try and select the Ogg Vorbis options (Server Settings/File Types)I get the following error: File Format Conversions 10: Setting was changed. File Format Conversions 11: Setting was changed. Required binary was not found: [oggdec] -Q -o - -R $FILE$ | [lame] -- resample 44100 -q $QUALITY$ --silent -b $BITRATE$ -r -x - - Required binary was not found: [oggdec] -Q -o - -R $FILE$ This happens whatever version of SlimServer I download (5.4.1, 5.4.x or any of v6.0) although it was never a problem when I originally installed SlimmServer ran it from my PC can someone help please? Ive scanned as much as I can and I think it has something to do with the convert.conf file but where do I find this and how do I edit it? (Id appreciate a real idiots guide (keystrokes file locations etc. as Im a novice - even though Ive installed new LinkStation Perl versions and created files and utilities in vi!!) All my music is in Ogg Vorbis so this is really important to me. BBC Radio Is there any way I can stream BBC radio (specifically 5 Live) to my Squeezebox through my LinkStation? I read that creating an m3u file would do the trick but a) I dont know if Ive created the file correctly and b) I dont know where to install it to test it anyone tried this? Thanks for any help with the two issues. Kind regards, Alan. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Ogg Vorbis issue BBC Radio question
Hi Jules, Thanks for the tips - I'll let you know if I make a break-through. Regards, Alan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jules Taplin Sent: 23 March 2005 00:00 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Ogg Vorbis issue BBC Radio question Hi Alan. If you want to stream BBC radio, then you'll need a copy of AlienBBC. It's available from: http://www.mrtickle.org/alienbbc.html However... I do have to confess - we've never tried running AlienBBC on a linkstation... and I'm not totally sure it will be easy. The only main piece you'll need (in addition to thinks like 'lame' potentially working), is 'mplayer' working. Again, this is something that we don't package... and I've absolutely no idea if anybody has ever even TRIED to make that work. Sorry if that's not the most helpful answer in the world. I do wish you the very best of luck, though... and if you do make it work - I'd love to hear from you! -- Jules Alan Parkyn wrote: Hi there, Ogg Vorbis problem: I'm a Squeezebox newbie running 5.4.1 on a 250GB Buffalo LinkStation (thanks SO much to Marc D. Field for his project notes http://fieldnetworks.com/slim/linkstation.html and plenty of post-project help, nice chap and patient!) but I have one problem - I can't play my Ogg Vorbis files. When I try from the Squeezebox/SoftSqueeze it starts saying it will play the file and then comes back with a message saying 'Can't Open File'. When running SlimServer software direct from the LinkStation via HTML on my Windows XP PC and I try and select the Ogg Vorbis options (Server Settings/File Types)I get the following error: File Format Conversions 10: Setting was changed. File Format Conversions 11: Setting was changed. Required binary was not found: [oggdec] -Q -o - -R $FILE$ | [lame] -- resample 44100 -q $QUALITY$ --silent -b $BITRATE$ -r -x - - Required binary was not found: [oggdec] -Q -o - -R $FILE$ This happens whatever version of SlimServer I download (5.4.1, 5.4.x or any of v6.0) although it was never a problem when I originally installed SlimmServer ran it from my PC can someone help please? I've scanned as much as I can and I think it has something to do with the convert.conf file but where do I find this and how do I edit it? (I'd appreciate a real idiots guide (keystrokes file locations etc. as I'm a novice - even though I've installed new LinkStation Perl versions and created files and utilities in 'vi'!!) All my music is in Ogg Vorbis so this is really important to me. BBC Radio Is there any way I can stream BBC radio (specifically 5 Live) to my Squeezebox through my LinkStation? I read that creating an m3u file would do the trick but a) I don't know if I've created the file correctly and b) I don't know where to install it to test it - anyone tried this? Thanks for any help with the two issues. Kind regards, Alan. --- - ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.0 - Release Date: 21/03/2005 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] NBMU track display problem 2005-03-22 6.x
The NBMU skin display all the tracks of an album with the name of the first track. Avi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Genres
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 21:22 +, Keith (BB) wrote: freeform or is there an official list of genres. Looking at some of my music I have brit pop, alternRock,sixties,new age but to mention a few. If there is an official list how do I find out what genre my album should be? As others have said, genre is at best a comment. And the history is a bit convoluted. For some, check out http://www.id3.org/ Most important, ID3 tags are really only applicable to MP3 files. Flag and Ogg get a similar function from a much more robustly specified set of metatags see http://flac.sourceforge.net/ The initial ID3 tags were invented by the folks at Winamp (or some other early MP3 player) and reflected two critical biases: first, the developers were young and liked rock and rock-like music and second: there was only room for 64 options. As a result, the initial WinAmp had about 40 genres, which had 30 or more selections of rock, grunge, techo, industrial, jungle, etc and only one classification for all of classical There have been revisions to the id3 format, with more types, and finally a free form field so you can enter what you want. As far as I have been able tell, there is no official standards body for ID3 tags (i.e. no IEEE or IETF, etc.). There are ID3 version 2 format specs, with two separate sub-versions that are only partially interoperable. See http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames.txt for 2.4 and http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0.txt for 2.3 There are assorted notes about ID3 v 3 and even some claims of a version 4, but while I can have google point to people talking about these versions, I can't find any site that actually defines them. Having a single genre on a song is simplistic idea. It is too subjective to be generally useful. One of the reasons driving the SlimServer 6.* effort is to allow more generalized data structure so you can call a song rock and 'classic and head banging all at once. Pat -- Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation
In article news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Rod Tucker rod-726cGAzaMRMGihw92uD59AC/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following modules failed to load: DBD::SQLite XML::Parser HTML::Parser Compr Hi, It looks like you have a build of SlimServer 6 that does not yet have the required ppc perl binaries. If you download the current beta (b3) or nightly, then the required perl binaries will be included and you should not get this error. Marc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB2 forgot it was wireless
I have a SB2, it hasn't been on in a while, and when I plugged it in and turned it on tonight, it came up and (I am guessing) tried to use the wired interface to get an IP address. It doesn't talk about the wireless network anymore, like it used to do when it was working. I went into the current settings, and it only shows me the MAC address for the wired interface, not the MAC address for the wireless. Could it be that my SB 2 has forgotten that it is wireless? rob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Softsqueeze
Is Softsqueeze supposed to be working with the latest beta? I've been having problems with it for about a week, where I load it up, and just get the interfaced blacked out (as-if the "squeezebox" was powered off), and it never responds to button presses. Also...there's a ton of Java exceptions. Anyone got a clue? Danny Rego ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Problems with rescan using 3/19 nightly
I mentioned a few days ago that it seemed like rescan wasn't working for me, but I wanted to do some more testing. Now I'm seeing it again for sure with the 3/19 nightly (running on Windows XP with Fishbone). I just added several folders (each folder is an album containing well tagged MP3 or FLAC files) to my library folder and clicked the Rescan button on the Server Settings web page. Watching the log, I can see it zipping through the library -- tons of output that I'm looking at with tail. What I don't see is any mention of any of the several new folders that were added! All the other folders, the ones that have been there since I first installed the 3/19 nightly and cranked it up for the first time, are all mentioned, but no mention at all of the new ones. Now I'm wondering if maybe it has something to do with my setup. I tell Slimserver that my library path is: F:\MP3\Squeezebox\Library That folder contains a single Windows shortcut called New.lnk which in turn points to: F:\MP3\New That's where all my albums are, each organized in a separate folder. If I do a wipe cache or otherwise completely blow away the database, all albums and tracks are correctly found. But otherwise a normal rescan doesn't seem to pick up new ones. Very odd. Very. I wish I could figure out how to proceed here. Well, here's one thing. The rescan has definitely stopped. Nothing's been written to the log file in a while; the UI doesn't show the still rescanning message. I now do a Browse Artists in Fishbone and then click on S (I added a Swing Out Sister album last night; that's one of the ones that hasn't shown up in the log file). I got a blank document back from the server (Firefox reports the error: Document contains no data) and this in the log file: Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -75 at /PerlApp/Slim/Web/Pages.pm line 2058. That's something I've never seen or had happen before. Quite a coincidence that it would happen just now after this unsuccessful rescan, but I suppose it could just be a coincidence. So I killed and restarted the Slimserver just now. Still doesn't pick up the new folders/albums. And if I click on that S, I get the same perl error in the log file and a Document contains no data error. OK, let's try Wipe Cache. And *now* I'm seeing signs of progress in the log file. Here's one difference: when I just click rescan I see no evidence anywhere of the Slimserver decoding the New.lnk shortcut, seeing that it's a directory, then traversing the directory trying to find new folders. Instead I see it hitting all the folders and files it already knows about (sorry for the line wrapping, I can't figure out how to disable it): 2005-03-22 22:04:48.8104 pushing button mode: OFF.datetime 2005-03-22 22:04:48.8321 Got /F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library from file url file:///F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library 2005-03-22 22:04:48.8492 extracted: F:\MP3\Squeezebox\Library from file:///F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library 2005-03-22 22:04:48.8706 Got /F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library/New.lnk from file url file:///F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library/New.lnk 2005-03-22 22:04:48.8711 extracted: F:\MP3\Squeezebox\Library\New.lnk from file:///F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library/New.lnk 2005-03-22 22:04:48.8783 Got /F:/MP3/New/'N%20Sync%20-%20Celebrity%20(2001) from file url file:///F:/MP3/New/'N%20Sync%20-%20Celebrity%20(2001) 2005-03-22 22:04:48.8788 extracted: F:\MP3\New\'N Sync - Celebrity (2001) from file:///F:/MP3/New/'N%20Sync%20-%20Celebrity%20(2001) See how it goes right from New.lnk to hitting the first folder it already knows about? Now with the Wipe Cache, I see this: 2005-03-22 22:07:48.4657 Scan::readList gonna read file:///F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library/New.lnk 2005-03-22 22:07:48.4681 Got /F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library/New.lnk from file url file:///F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library/New.lnk 2005-03-22 22:07:48.4689 extracted: F:\MP3\Squeezebox\Library\New.lnk from file:///F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library/New.lnk 2005-03-22 22:07:48.4727 Got /F:/MP3/New from file url file:///F:/MP3/New 2005-03-22 22:07:48.4932 extracted: F:\MP3\New from file:///F:/MP3/New 2005-03-22 22:07:48.4941 pathFromWinShortcut: path file:///F:/MP3/New from shortcut F:\MP3\Squeezebox\Library\New.lnk 2005-03-22 22:07:48.4968 Got /F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library/New.lnk from file url file:///F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library/New.lnk 2005-03-22 22:07:48.4979 extracted: F:\MP3\Squeezebox\Library\New.lnk from file:///F:/MP3/Squeezebox/Library/New.lnk 2005-03-22 22:07:48.6562 Gonna try to open playlist file:///F:/MP3/New 2005-03-22 22:07:48.6569 Got /F:/MP3/New from file url file:///F:/MP3/New 2005-03-22 22:07:48.6575 extracted: F:\MP3\New from file:///F:/MP3/New 2005-03-22 22:07:48.6633 *** didn't find file:///F:/MP3/New in playlist cache *** 2005-03-22 22:07:48.6636 Treating directory like a playlist 2005-03-22 22:07:48.6640 reading directory: F:\MP3\New 2005-03-22 22:07:48.9615 directory: F:\MP3\New contains 712 items 2005-03-22 22:07:48.9681 directory
Re: [slim] Softsqueeze
Danny Rego wrote: Is Softsqueeze supposed to be working with the latest beta? I've been having problems with it for about a week, where I load it up, and just get the interfaced blacked out (as-if the squeezebox was powered off), and it never responds to button presses. Also...there's a ton of Java exceptions. It has been working for me with the 2005-03-21 nightly build although it has a problem with the SSH access. This in on OS X. Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Drive letter of playlist
Thanks, That is what I am looking for David -Original Message- From: Bruce Hartley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 22, 2005 3:15 PM To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Drive letter of playlist Or to change the drive letter in your playlists, just use find and replace in your favourite text editor. Programmers File Editor or Textpad for example. Ken Hokugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are using XP, and it does that sometimes, go to control panel - ADministrative Tools - Computer Management. Choose Disk Management on the left. Bring the cursol to your music drive, right click, then Change Drive Letter and Paths. You can change the drive letter to whatever you want to make it, and hope that will stay that way! From: David Renee MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Drive letter of playlist Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:48:50 -0500 Is there any simple way of changing the drive letter of songs in a playlist en masse. I reformatted my hard drive and the new set up renamed the drives differently and now my playlists won't work. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 21, 2005 3:00 PM To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Discuss Digest, Vol 17, Issue 76 Send Discuss mailing list submissions to discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Discuss digest... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB2 forgot it was wireless
If the unit has been bumped around a bit, it may be that the wireless module inside has been disconnected. This would make it behave like a wired squeezebox. Also I don't think it's a squeezebox2 - those are not shipping out for a couple more days. On Mar 22, 2005, at 6:29 PM, Rob Walker wrote: I have a SB2, it hasn't been on in a while, and when I plugged it in and turned it on tonight, it came up and (I am guessing) tried to use the wired interface to get an IP address. It doesn't talk about the wireless network anymore, like it used to do when it was working. I went into the current settings, and it only shows me the MAC address for the wired interface, not the MAC address for the wireless. Could it be that my SB 2 has forgotten that it is wireless? rob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Non Roman charaters. How?
Ripped some tracks from an Israeli CD. Tagged the tracks in Hebrew. The slimserver 6.x web interface correctly shows the Hebrew text. The squeeze box however shows a bunch of question marks instead. I thought that version 6 was supposed to allow the display of UTF-8 characters. Am I wrong? Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB2 forgot it was wireless
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 09:24 pm, Sean Adams wrote: If the unit has been bumped around a bit, it may be that the wireless module inside has been disconnected. This would make it behave like a wired squeezebox. Also I don't think it's a squeezebox2 - those are not shipping out for a couple more days. yeah, you are right. I am talking about the thing which has an antenna sticking out the back. Will crack it open and check to see what's what inside. thanks, rob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Genres
Having a single genre on a song is simplistic idea. It is too subjective to be generally useful. One of the reasons driving the SlimServer 6.* effort is to allow more generalized data structure so you can call a song rock and 'classic and head banging all at once. This capability is already available in slimserver (and has been for a long time). Simply list all the genres you wish using a standard delimiter to separate them. For example, if you want to use a semicolon as a delimiter then classical; romantic would assign a song to both the classical and romantic genres. Then just define the delimiter character in Slimserver under Server Settings - Behavior. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB2 forgot it was wireless
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 09:24 pm, Sean Adams wrote: If the unit has been bumped around a bit, it may be that the wireless module inside has been disconnected. This would make it behave like a wired squeezebox. That was it. All better now. thanks, rob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Tagging Classical Music
I just bought a flac album from Magnatune - Elizabeth Wolff - Moments Musicaux Here is what the file listing looks like (magnatune had spaces which I replaced with _ as I can't stand spaces in a file name): 01-Sergei_Rachmaninoff_-_6_Moments_Musicaux_Op._16_-_Andantino-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 02-Sergei_Rachmaninoff_-_6_Moments_Musicaux_Op._16_-_Allegretto-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 03-Sergei_Rachmaninoff_-_6_Moments_Musicaux_Op._16_-_Andante_cantabile-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 04-Sergei_Rachmaninoff_-_6_Moments_Musicaux_Op._16_-_Presto-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 05-Sergei_Rachmaninoff_-_6_Moments_Musicaux_Op._16_-_Adagio_sostenuto-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 06-Sergei_Rachmaninoff_-_6_Moments_Musicaux_Op._16_-_Maestoso-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 07-Moritz_Moszkowski_-_3_Moments_Musicaux_Op._7_-_Allegramente-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 08-Moritz_Moszkowski_-_3_Moments_Musicaux_Op._7_-_Con_moto-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 09-Moritz_Moszkowski_-_3_Moments_Musicaux_Op._7_-_Tranquillo_e_semplice-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 10-Moritz_Moszkowski_-_4_Moments_Musicaux_Op._84_-_Con_moto-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 11-Moritz_Moszkowski_-_4_Moments_Musicaux_Op._84_-_Moderato_e_grazioso-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 12-Moritz_Moszkowski_-_4_Moments_Musicaux_Op._84_-_Maestoso-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 13-Moritz_Moszkowski_-_4_Moments_Musicaux_Op._84_-_Animato_ma_non_troppo-Elizabeth_Wolff.flac 1-6 all have the same title set in the title field (Sergei Rachmaninoff - 6 Moments) 7-9 all have the same title set in the title field (Moritz Moszkowski - 3 Moments) 10-13 all have the same title set in the title field (Moritz Moszkowski - 4 Moments) Other than the track numbers of the sets being different, from the sets there is no way to tell the tracks apart via the tags. The track names however contain information not in the vorbis comments. What would be the proper vorbis comment field to add to contain the additional data? -- http://mpeters.us/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Non Roman charaters. How?
* Avi Schwartz shaped the electrons to say... Ripped some tracks from an Israeli CD. Tagged the tracks in Hebrew. The slimserver 6.x web interface correctly shows the Hebrew text. The squeeze box however shows a bunch of question marks instead. I thought that version 6 was supposed to allow the display of UTF-8 characters. Am I wrong? Avi - although we support UTF-8 throughout the server, we don't have all the fonts (yet) for them on the player display. -D -- ZangTT berkeley db - it's mostly about the hash() ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Debugging missing titles from database
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Steve Baumgarten wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: It would be helpful to have a small tool where I can pass a file name and see how slimserver parses and how it would index. I know I can turn on debugging and rescan, but I'd like to be able to work with single files. I've used the log file in the past. Start the server with the --log option and then do a full rescan. It will list every track it finds. You can then do your own find, massage both the log file and the find output a bit, and do a diff. Not a perfect solution, but still quite useful. I used the -d_scan option. First rescan got the same numbers -- but then I deleted the .slimserversql.db and got numbers that just about matched what find was saying. I'd also like to be able to do database queries directly on the database. Then I could compare with the database and see what files are not indexed. Any example scripts for this? Funny, I was just thinking of putting one together -- I just this afternoon grabbed a copy of the schema from svn.slimdevices.com (I only saw a PNG file -- is there something in plain text format somewhere?). I still have to write some perl code to read from the SQLite tables. Basically I just wanted something to dump what's in the database to a flat file for easier inspection. That would be nice. I need to clean up a lot of tags, first. Any plugins for editing tags in the web interface? Probably slower than I'd like to work, but it would be nice for fixing things as the show up in play lists. I just searched for rain (those in the Bay Area can appreciated that today) and had a handful of duplicates. It would be nice to be able to flag those for testing and removal later on right from the web interface. I suppose writing a playlist could work. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
