[slim] Running with MySQL on Windows
Trying to get SlimServer running under Windows with MySQL. I think I
have most everything in place, but SlimServer won't start and gives the
following error message in the Application Event Log:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be
found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote
computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this
description; see Help and Support for details. The following
information is part of the event: DBI
connect('database=slimserver','slimserver',...) failed: Client does not
support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading
MySQL client at /PerlApp/Slim/DataStores/DBI/DataModel.pm line 106.First I
created the database in MySQL 4.1.10a, then created the schema
using the SQL statements from \server\SQL\mysql\dbcreate.sql.
I have the correct dbusername/dbpassword/dbsource in slimsserver.pref:
dbpassword = slim
dbsource = dbi:mysql:database=slimserver
dbusername = slimserver
Following Vidur's instructions from
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=13021
I've extracted the files from the archive in /blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/
to
C:\Program
Files\SlimServer\server\CPAN\arch\5.8\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\auto\DBD\mysql\
under the assumption that they should be in a directory next to the
directory for SQLite.
And I've extracted the files from /blib/lib/ to
C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\CPAN\
I'm running the 6.0.1 04/09 nightly. Any ideas about the
authentication protocol error?
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[slim] Re: Running with MySQL on Windows
See this:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html
To take care of this I edited my.ini
under [mysqld] I added
old-passwords
I guess you could run this statement
SET PASSWORD FOR 'slimserver'@'localhost' = OLD_PASSWORD('slim');
to fix it specifically for slimserver
I just experienced success by running slim.exe from the command line..
(up til now I haven't had any luck as a service)... will give that a
shot as soon as library scan is complete
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[slim] Backing up ripped music
Manuel Rathmann wrote (in New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver): [..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox. This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours ripping all my music when I'm done, and there will be around 100GB of data. How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has anyone else got any workable solutions? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver
I am *very* interested in a SB2, but I simply don't want to have a fully fledged PC running for streaming music... Has anyone got a SB/SB2 running with a NAS only? I wish the SB2 could browse the network on its own like the discontinued Turtle Beach Audiotron. -- florian ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slightly OT: Small Amplifier recommendations
Cheap and apparently good: http://www.si-5.com/frontEnd/cm_productDetail.jsp?productID=18. Reviewed here: http://www.tnt-audio.com/ampli/t-amp_e.html. Just set the volume at a fixed position, and use the SB for volume control. -= Mike Hanson =- -- Mike Hanson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver
Couldn't say for sure what version is current where, but I have only recently purchased a Linkstation in the UK and it worked fine with SlimServer. Out of the box the Linkstation was running firmware version 1.44 and I believe that you can successfully run SS on firmware versions up to 1.45. Chris -- Bustofa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: OK, this is totally, totally weird..
I'm seeing something very similar. I've got the SB2 hooked up via coax to the digital input of a Denon receiver. If the coax cable is the only connection between the two, and I'm going wired ethernet, then about every 5-10 seconds the Denon indicator for PCM signal blinks and there's silence for a fraction of a second. If I switch to wireless (and disconnect the ethernet cable) then the dropouts are much more frequent and longer - there's only sound about half the time. But if I connect a cable from the SB2 analog out to any analog input of the receiver, the dropout problem immediately disappears. Oh, btw I have two SB2's and see the exact same behaviour with both. This isn't a big issue for me personally - I've got lots of analog inputs on the receiver and can just leave a cable connected. It had me thinking I had a network/PC performance problem until I figured it out, though. -- mxt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver
Has anyone got a linkstation working with SS6? Also, do these boxes have enough horsepower to handle AlienBBC decoding of Real streams? Finally, has anyone looked at the TeraStation? It looks to be the same basic platform as the Linkstation, but with more disk and some added features. On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 03:25 -0700, Bustofa wrote: Couldn't say for sure what version is current where, but I have only recently purchased a Linkstation in the UK and it worked fine with SlimServer. Out of the box the Linkstation was running firmware version 1.44 and I believe that you can successfully run SS on firmware versions up to 1.45. Chris -- The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backing up ripped music
The standard recommendation for this is to buy another disk, clone your disk onto it, take it out and store it somewhere safe. Repeat periodically. RAID is good at keeping systems running during disk failures, but it's not a backup solution. The problem with RAID solutions, is that if something goes wrong with the OS/FS or with user error it'll probably be replicated on both drives, and bang goes (some of) your backup. On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 03:13 -0700, max.spicer wrote: Manuel Rathmann wrote (in New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver): [..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox. This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours ripping all my music when I'm done, and there will be around 100GB of data. How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has anyone else got any workable solutions? -- The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Backing up ripped music
Best way (in my opinion) is to get a second drive in an external Firewire/USB case and just copy all your data across to it then disconnect and store the backup in a cupboard somewhere. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of max.spicer Sent: 10 April 2005 11:14 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Backing up ripped music Manuel Rathmann wrote (in New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver): [..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox. This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours ripping all my music when I'm done, and there will be around 100GB of data. How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has anyone else got any workable solutions? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ 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] Backing up ripped music
Well Max - this is what I am exactly trying to work out. The idea I had is to buy a Buffalo Linkstation. It's an external harddrive which you can link to your PC either via a wireless network or hardwired. Besides having an external drive which can be in a physical different location than your PC (in case your whole PC drowns/burns etc.) you can also run slimserver on it. This means you do not have to have your PC running in order to use your Squeezebox. You simply mirror whatever you have on your PC onto the Linkstation and you're done. So you've got a backup solution AND a way of not having to run your PC all the time. The only thing is and that's what I am trying to find out is - the Linkstation is not supposed to run any software on it but some clever people found a way around this. The only thing I don't know is if this workaround does still work with the latest Linkstations... Anyone any idea? Cheers, Manuel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of max.spicer Sent: Sonntag, 10. April 2005 11:14 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Backing up ripped music Manuel Rathmann wrote (in New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver): [..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox. This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours ripping all my music when I'm done, and there will be around 100GB of data. How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has anyone else got any workable solutions? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ 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: Backing up ripped music
The cheapest and easiest method is with extra hard drives. You have two basic options for hosting the drive: - External USB2 enclosure for an 3.5 IDE drive. You can find these for $20-50US. - Removable trays, which you can get for around $15US (bay+tray), and additional trays cost around $10US. I use products from www.kingwin.com (see Mobile Rack and Mobile Tray). You can use IDE or SATA drives. -= Mike Hanson =- -- Mike Hanson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] just a test
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Re: [slim] Announce: New Forums - and email list gateway - Please Read!
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Re: [slim] Re: Mis-match song playing and web-interface
On Apr 10, 2005 12:33 AM, Charles Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vidur - I cant't reproduce it. It appears random. I tried playing the same playlist again to see if it would recurr - it did not. Not sure what else I could do to reproduce it. It was easy eneough to 'reset': if I stop play and then start play again, it resets and begins playing the song displayed (ie, the song already played). Same symptoms, can't work out what triggers it. I'm was using a wired SB1 synched to SS2 last night. I'd get the display back in synch by restarting the playlist and it would go again after a few tracks. I was also getting strange dropouts on the SB1 - i could still hear SS playing in the other room but the SB wasn't outputting anything. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeezebox Alarm Playlist Selection
Hi, SuSE Linux 9.2 - Squeezebox2 Slimserver 6.0.1 I have just organised my radio stations in my playlists folder into various sub folders. However, now that I have done that, I can no longer use these playlists for my Squeezebox Alarm setting, as they are no longer visible in the pull-down menu. Is there anyway to make the Alarm option look recursively into the Playlists folder so that it finds all the playlists therein? I could move some of the playlists back into the main older, but that would mess up my organisation. :-( Should I raise an enhancement request for this? Thanks, Patrick _ This email has been automatically checked for viruses using ClamAV ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
Manuel Rathmann Wrote: Well Max - this is what I am exactly trying to work out. The idea I had is to buy a Buffalo Linkstation. [...] Oh sorry, I've hijacked your thread in that case. I hadn't understood what a linkstation was - I assumed it was just another piece of network kit. Maybe I should have actually _read_ your post... ;-) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Rescan / Wipe Cache, where is the cache?
JJZolx said: dsully Wrote: A rescan doesn't clear any data - just picks up new data. Old data is lazily removed as stated before. 6.1 will probably do active deletion. Here's an idea for the interface then. I think it would probably be a good idea to keep the ability to do a fast rescan for those who are just adding new albums and only want the new data picked up. But consolidate the operations on the same page and explain it a little better. Get rid of the Wipe Cache on the Performance page and add a checkbox above the current Rescan button. Label it something like Perform a complete rescan from scratch. Add more informative text explaining that when this option is selected the operation can be much slower, but that it should be used if any tagging information on existing tracks has been changed since the last scan. I agree that these features need to be consolidated to prevent confusion. I searched bugs.slimdevices.com for any outstanding bugs/enhancement requests relating to this, but couldn't find anything. Therefore, I've shamelessly stolen your e-mail message to create bug #1347: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347 -- Jason Voegele There is an essential core at the center of each man and woman that remains unaltered no matter how life's externals may be transformed or recombined. But it's smaller than we think. -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the Long Sun ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thanks for the Pony!
I'm kinda bummed... I didn't get a pony with mine (other than the discount that is :-) Did you look thoroughly through the packaging? I didn't notice my pony until I saw these messages. Then I looked in the very bottom of the packaging, and found my pony tucked away. I went back to the box when I saw this thread and rescued the pony, which had previously escaped my attention... inw -- Ian Whalley first name @ last name . org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze Audio Buffer Underrun
Any luck with the logs? Is there any chance that this problem is related to the fact that (no matter what I do) I can only run SoftSqueeze 2b2 and not 2b3? -- Neil Neil Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard I've tried to post these (long) error logs three times; the go, but don't turn up on the Forum. Can you email your email address to me so I can send them to you? -- Neil Neil Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've just upgraded to 6.1 and am trying it now. Meanwhile, can you help with the 2b2 versus 2b3 problem? I keep installing 2b3, or so I think, and the opening flash Window says 2b3 - but when I go to look it always says 2b2. How is that? -- Neil Richard Titmuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil Cameron wrote: Still having a real probem with this as of 6 April Nightly... The Audio Buffer Underrun errors are mostly harmless, it depends on when they happen. Does the visualizer still work when the audio has stopped? If the visualizer stops then this indicates a problem with the mp3 decoder or stream from the server. Could you capture 'player' debug, if possible noting where the audio stopped. If the visualizer keeps running, then it indicates a problem getting the audio data to the sound card. Could you capture 'javasound' debug, note this is very verbose. Thanks, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Built-in Radio plugins
This is an issue with the 6.1 Windows build: I have added web interfaces to those plugins, they therefore moved to their own subfolders. But the original files have not been removed. I hope this will soon be fixed. Also Live365 seems to have its own subfolder now, but it seems that the live365.pm in plugins folder is still required. I've removed the other original files and restarted slimserver. What's missing? I'm still working on Shoutcast (mainly memory optimisations), but they should work. Shoutcast, SimDevices Picks, and RadioIO seem to work; I can't see anything for Live365 though. The items aren't in any particular order in the browse drop-down list (or the plugins list). The interface to the plugins - there is still a duplicate Shoutcast preference panel (appears in Plugins and Internet Radio prefs pages). I have a question about the Shoutcast prefs. Does the Number of Streams preference apply to browsing through both the Web Interface and SB? I thought the reason for cutting back the number of streams was because it would be tiresome to browse through the SB, but through the web interface, it's perhaps better that this restriction doesn't apply? Thanks, Phil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Duplicate genre entries with accented characters (6.0.1)
I've filed a bug report regarding the subject. Anybody else, who has noticed quirks with accented characters, might like to have a look at it and add her/his own comments: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346 Alexander ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backing up ripped music
I'm probably a bit old-fashioned. I tend to think of hard disks as production media not suitable to off-line long term storage. I'm sure that's no longer the case... Any way, when I ripped my CD collection for the 4th (and final time) -- to FLAC -- I backed up the FLAC files onto DVD. Now, as I rip new purchases, I hold a copy of the FLACs in a directory until I have enough to fill another DVD and I burn those, too. Of course, the ulitmate off-line backup of a CD, is the CD itself. Mine go into a box in the basement. (belt and suspenders) Robert max.spicer wrote: Manuel Rathmann wrote (in New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver): [..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox. This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours ripping all my music when I'm done, and there will be around 100GB of data. How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has anyone else got any workable solutions? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
How many FLAC albums do you get on a DVD on average? I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB. Nice and accurate! ;-) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
I have been trying to deal with the backup issues as well. My problems is scale; I currently have about 24000 ripped flac tracks on hard disks which is about half of my cds. This is currently taking up a little over 1.0 TB on my linux box. Duping the drives would be painfully expensive. A raid setup would be almost as expensive and you would not be protected from OS problems (but it is Linux, so that's not likely). I ultimately decided to back them up to DVDs. IF any single drive dies I will have to spend an hour copying back in a bunch of DVDs, but that is small compared to the time it took cdparanoia to rip them and for me to get the tags correct. All total I will use less than 500 DVDs and those will only cost about $250-$350. Since a single 400G internal drive costs about $250 this price seems reasonable. I still have the problem that DVD-Rs,while more stable than CD-Rs, will probably not last all that long, particularly if you label them (which I did; 500 unlabel DVDs is the stuff of nightmares). Hopefully they will last long enough for the new vertical storage high capacity hard drives to become cheap. I think DVDs are the best compromise between time, cost, and security but there is no perfect answer. I have been averaging about 15cds to a dvd when flacced. -- DrRobert ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
robertwallace Wrote: I'm probably a bit old-fashioned. I tend to think of hard disks as production media not suitable to off-line long term storage. I'm sure that's no longer the case... Any way, when I ripped my CD collection for the 4th (and final time) -- to FLAC -- I backed up the FLAC files onto DVD. Now, as I rip new purchases, I hold a copy of the FLACs in a directory until I have enough to fill another DVD and I burn those, too. Of course, the ulitmate off-line backup of a CD, is the CD itself. Mine go into a box in the basement. (belt and suspenders) Robert From what I've read of recent tests, you'll probably run into problems with the DVD media degrading before the spare HDD gives up. My personal approach to this problem (I'm currently at 150GB and growing fast) is to keep two complete copies (one on my main desktop PC, one on my HTPC in the living room). Every time I rip a new CD I run a script to sync the two up. If one of the drives was to die, the chances are I'd have time to buy a replacement before the other one did - seeing as my current stats are 2 dead drives in 15 years of computing :) -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backing up ripped music
How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has anyone else got any workable solutions? Well, my music collection is fairly static. I add a bit from time to time but it doesn't change radically on a day to day basis. I back up two copies to DVD-R. I like the Verbatim MediDiscs as opposed to generics. I've had trouble with generic DVD-R. The Verbatim MediDiscs are DICOM compliant and acceptable for use in HIPPA applications so at the very least should tend to be among the higher quality DVD-R media. They do cost a little more, though. I keep one set off-site and another set in a media safe in the house. If you're less picky and have a dual-layer driver, you'd need 10-12 disks for your collection twice that for a single layer disk. Not too onerous by my standards, YMMV. I also keep 3 different copies of the ripped music data on 3 different hard drives in 2 different computers in the house. A RAID would be nice, too, but it's not really a backup. RAID vs. backup has been discussed here before. HTH Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
Oh, around 10 to 20 - Nice and accurate ;=) max.spicer wrote: How many FLAC albums do you get on a DVD on average? I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB. Nice and accurate! ;-) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Backing up ripped music
So you've got a backup solution AND a way of not having to run your PC all the time. Of course, the Buffalo Linkstation is just a PC, too. Running slimserver on it is a cool hack, but if reliability is really your goal, do you really want to hack the very device you're using to store the data? Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
max.spicer Wrote: Manuel Rathmann wrote (in New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver): [..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox. This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours ripping all my music when I'm done, and there will be around 100GB of data. How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has anyone else got any workable solutions? My personal setup has been like so: Linux Box with: 30gb boot hard drive 3ware raid controller with two 250gb drives in a raid 1 mirror a single 250gb drive on a controller card All my mp3's (currently 25,845 of them) are on the raid mirror, and every hour a rsync script runs to backup the raid mirror to the single 250gb drive. Recently I just had the boot drive seize on me so I've had to rebuild the box. I took the time to move the guts into a rack mount server case. However, I lost one of the drive bays due to the case size. I've since moved the single 250gb drive to a firewire enclosure and attached it to my mac. I still do the rsync backup of the mirror but it's now going to another computer instead of self contained. A touch safer since it's not all in the same box. However, it is in the same room, in the same city, in the same state, in the same country... It depends on how paranoid you really want to get about disaster recovery. -Healy -- healy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backing up ripped music
Of course, the ulitmate off-line backup of a CD, is the CD itself. Mine go into a box in the basement. *grin* Mine are in folders behind the bed. Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backing up ripped music
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 08:21 -0600, Robert Wallace wrote: I'm probably a bit old-fashioned. I tend to think of hard disks as production media not suitable to off-line long term storage. I'm sure that's no longer the case... But for me it's not really long term. Since I rerun the backup roughly every month to catch any updates, I only need it to last that long. If it doesn't do that, then I'm really worried about the rest of my system. -- The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: New Forums - and email list gateway - Please Read!
* John Gorst shaped the electrons to say... Yes - they'll take a few days to get setup however. Do we need to set them up with gmane - or have gmane started the signup process. I've let gmane know about the new lists. Not sure when they'll get around to it though.. -D ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Re: New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver
* Mark Bennett shaped the electrons to say... Has anyone got a linkstation working with SS6? Yes - Linkstation was one of our testing boxes. It should run fine. Also, do these boxes have enough horsepower to handle AlienBBC decoding of Real streams? Probably not. It only has a 200Mhz PPC processor. -D -- dmercer Because that is what our industry does. Churns out useless shit. Followed by inferior re-implementations of useless shit. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
What flac options are you using? I think I'm using -6. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB Wow. Mine average 500, I must have some kind of broken FLAC codec ;) More seriously, I think it must have to do with the type of music. I always see people saying that you get decent compression with FLAC, and that albums come in at 300MB or so, but the majority of mine seem to be 500 or higher. I have a number around 600 - seems like very little compression going on there. It's my personal theory (backed up by very little evidence) that it depends on the level of dynamics within the music. -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
DVDs are not exactly archival. Naturally, hard drives have the issue that your OS may not support the HD in the future. I often feel like a dung beetle copying all my stuff from computer to computer. Anyway, I just use HDs. Thanks, Phillip ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
I used this in EAC (compression options - External Compression - Additional command line options): -6 --replay-gain -V -T artist=%a -T title=%t -T album=%g -T date=%y -T tracknumber=%n -T genre=%m -T comment=EAC 0.95prebeta5 / FLAC 1.1.0 %s And as an example these are the sizes for Steely Dan (everybody should have these :-) Can't Buy A Thrill (1972) 242Mb Countdown To Ecstasy (1973) 238Mb Pretzel Logic (1974) 199Mb Katy Lied (1975) 206Mb The Royal Scam (1976) 245Mb Aja (1977) 236Mb Gaucho (1980) 216Mb Two Against Nature (2000) 331Mb Everything Must Go (2003) 257Mb == as WAV it takes 466Mb jan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Cue sheets and missing MP3 songs
Using Slimserver 6.0.1 - trunk on Ubuntu linux (Debian!). Player is SB2. When browsing music MP3 folders that contain cue sheets, the last MP3 in each folder refuses to be listed/played by the Slimserver. If I delete the cue sheet, all MP3s list correctly (and PLAY!) in the folder. I do not see any of this weirdness with folders that contain FLACs and cue sheets. Somebody will ask why I have cue sheets in folders of separate MP3s. It's because EAC creates them. Don't wanna delete them unless I absolutely have to. Also, this behaviour has not been fixed by the latest nightly. Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance. Y'all are wonderful here. :-) -- johnduley ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Music Match Integration (was RE: Fishbone Home button problem)
I've done all this and it looks like MusicMatch integration should all be working. SlimServer spent ages loading the MusicMatch database (I turned on debugging and saw it doing this). But how does it work?! I never see the mm even on tracks I know MM has processed. When I hold play down it just goes to save playlist. I have a SLIMP3 - is this a SlimServer only feature? -- garysargent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze Audio Buffer Underrun
The latest example from the debug log is: 26169765 [SlimTCP-1] DEBUG player - httpRequest=GET /stream.mp3?player=38:bc:7c:16:87:63 HTTP/1.0 26169765 [SlimTCP-1] DEBUG player - parsed strm: command=u format=109 crossfade=0 ipaddr=localhost port=9000 file=/stream.mp3?player=38:bc:7c:16:87:63 authType=null authPassword=null autostart=1 26169781 [SlimTCP-1] DEBUG player - start: state 2 26171953 [AudioStream-122] DEBUG javasound - audio stream closed I think that's a new one... -- Neil Richard Titmuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil Cameron wrote: I've just upgraded to 6.1 and am trying it now. Meanwhile, can you help with the 2b2 versus 2b3 problem? I keep installing 2b3, or so I think, and the opening flash Window says 2b3 - but when I go to look it always says 2b2. How is that? I have checked both the slimserver 6.0.1 and 6.1 releases, and they do include Softsqueeze 2.0b3. I wonder if it is a caching problem with java web start. You could try opening the Java Control Panel (in you WinXP Control Panel), and deleting the temporary internet files. Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music Match Integration (was RE: Fishbone Home button problem)
Quoting garysargent [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've done all this and it looks like MusicMatch integration should all be working. SlimServer spent ages loading the MusicMatch database (I turned on debugging and saw it doing this). But how does it work?! I never see the mm even on tracks I know MM has processed. When I hold play down it just goes to save playlist. I have a SLIMP3 - is this a SlimServer only feature? it is a slimserver feature, so it does not matter if you have softsqueeze, slimp3, sb1 or sb2. even http clients will work. c:\program files\slimserver\server\slim.exe --d_musicmagic -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Music Match Integration (was RE: Fishbone Home button problem)
ok thats good, but how do you actually use it then?! I thought you could play a song, then tell it to generate a new playlist from the song. Is there a way to do this from the web interface, because when I try with the SLIMP3 remote (holding down play) all I get is the save playlist display. Thanks. -- garysargent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods
I'm getting exactly this behaviour. Periodic very high CPU activity from slim.exe that lasts up to 20 minutes and stops the player. My library is about 25k songs. Having said that, although I'm trying to get it to use iTunes, I've not succeeded as yet, so I don't know if that is the issue, or not. Tourne Healy Wrote: Mine will peg out at 99% for 10-15 mins each time it does a rescan of the itunes library. Even if I've just quit the iTunes and made no changes (IE: updates the time stamp of the xml file). It jumps up to 99% and scans through the whole library again. Meanwhile while that is happening, more than half the time, the music will cut out the squeezebox will state Can't find slimserver. Sometimes it will come back on and play for 1-2 seconds and they go dead for another 2 minutes. After the CPU goes back down to normal levels, the music comes back on. This happens wired or wireless. I used to have it check for iTunes changes every hour, now I have it set to weeks to try and avoid that. This happened once in a while in the 5.x series but seem to happen now every time it detects an iTunes change. It's getting to the point when I can't even rely on the squeezebox for a party anymore. Very disappointing. Is this the norm for users with huge libraries of music from now on? -Healy On Apr 9, 2005, at 12:48 AM, Mark Bennett wrote: The library scanning is much more CPU intensive than it was before. My collection of ~6k songs takes about 6 or 7 minutes to scan on a P4, 3.4GHz with 1GB RAM. Scaling that up to your music library size and CPU speed and it seems about right. This will happen at startup the first time, but it shouldn't need to do it again unless you've added music. On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 23:35 -0700, Healy wrote: I've been having 99% CPU usage for long periods of time since switching to 6.0. Currently using the 4/7 nightly with the same issues. On start up it pegs at 99% CPU for about 75 mins. I have 26,000 songs on the server. I've removed all the plugins except for: Datetime Screensaver Rescan Music Library Shoutcast Save Playlist iTunes It still seems to peg out Server is AMD 1.6ghz w/ 1.0gb ram, Debian Linux Nothing else running except for sshd and basic init functions. On Mar 26, 2005, at 7:42 AM, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Charles Stanton wrote: (We'll try this again). I am using the 3/23 nighly and from time to time on start-up, slim.exe will max out (96 - 99%) the CPU for 30 minutes or more before settling down. No new music has been added. I don't think it should be re-scanning. Generally it settles down within 5 minutes or so. The library is about 9K songs. The computer is PIII 933 MHz, 512 RAM, W2K Pro. It is dedicated to the slimserver and musicmagic, which is also running. I had something similar but possibly unrelated. For the last week and a half I have been running the compiled 3/14 nightly under WinXPProSP1. Tonight I noticed the service had gone rogue and was using all available cycles. This was after a week of uptime and nowhere near a rescan and nothing was even playing. I just killed the service and upgraded to 3/24. We shall see if it crops up again. OK It did it again and much faster (less than 36 hours); also I don't think I even fired up the player. I currently suspect the RSS plugin. I turned it off and will wait a few days and see. -- Tourne ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music Match Integration (was RE: Fishbone Home button problem)
Quoting garysargent [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ok thats good, but how do you actually use it then?! I thought you could play a song, then tell it to generate a new playlist from the song. Is there a way to do this from the web interface, because when I try with the SLIMP3 remote (holding down play) all I get is the save playlist display. when you are browsing through items, you will see an 'm' icon on the player display. that means you can then press and hold play to create a mix based on that item. press and hold play in the playlist mode saves the playlist, as you have already discovered. player ui and web ui are basically the same in this way. the mixing is done from teh browse modes. The difference is that the web displays all mixers at once, while the player UI will insert an extra step to choose which mixer you want, if more than one is available. the command line I gave you is so that you can see what is going on with the musicmagic communication, since you seem to be unable to sort out why you are not seeing any integration. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Built-in Radio plugins
Philip I just installed the latest nightly on my Windows machine and I did not have the double entries. What release did you use? This is an issue with the 6.1 Windows build: I have added web interfaces to those plugins, they therefore moved to their own subfolders. But the original files have not been removed. I hope this will soon be fixed. Also Live365 seems to have its own subfolder now, but it seems that the live365.pm in plugins folder is still required. I've removed the other original files and restarted slimserver. This is strange as I don't have that Live365 folder nor did I touch the Live365 plugin, yet (I first want to finish ShoutcastBrowser). What's missing? I'm still working on Shoutcast (mainly memory optimisations), but they should work. Shoutcast, SimDevices Picks, and RadioIO seem to work; I can't see anything for Live365 though. The items aren't in any particular order in the browse drop-down list (or the plugins list). I haven't touched Live365, yet. Picks and RadioIO were pretty straight forward. I'm still working on Shoutcast, mainly memory optimisation and integration of the recently played feature into the web interface. The interface to the plugins - there is still a duplicate Shoutcast preference panel (appears in Plugins and Internet Radio prefs pages). This is by design (I guess). I have a question about the Shoutcast prefs. Does the Number of Streams preference apply to browsing through both the Web Interface and SB? I thought the reason for cutting back the number of streams was because it would be tiresome to browse through the SB, but through the web interface, it's perhaps better that this restriction doesn't apply? It's the number of streams that's requested from Shoutcast's server. I guess it was originally meant to prevent timeouts while downloading the list. Limiting the number of streams won't considerably limit the number of menu entries as it's sorted into genres. -- Michael  --- Help translate SlimServer by using the SlimString Translation Helper (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.0.1 bugs
Couple of things I wonder if anyone else is experiencing. Browse by Artist... if I go to browse music, browse by artist and hit the j button on the keypad it jumps to the j artists but it is in the middle of the artist list instead of being at the top of the j artist listings. Shuffle/Unshuffle behavior. When shuffling or unshuffling a large playlist the server will lock up and stop responding, the players will disconnect and reconnect 20-40 seconds later. Is anything being done to optimise shuffle/unshuffle behavior? All in all though a very solid release, thanks SD! -- jmpage2 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Mis-match song playing and web-interface
I have something similar but not quite the same. In the SlimServer window on the server, the highlighted song in the play list doesn't change at all, so the first played song remains highlighted. However, in the now playing area and on the Slimp3 display, the correct information about the current song is shown. This seems to be consistent behaviour. If I then add songs to the playlist, it causes the display of the playlist to be refreshed and the currently playing song becomes highlighted. Then, this song remains highlighted as the current song moves on. Tourne shaboyi Wrote: appears to be a bug with 6.0.x 4/8 windows -- a couple of times the web interface and display will indicate it is playing the song in a playlist that is the one before the song that is actually playing (refreshing the browser does not change it). this continues as the next song plays (ie, it is always one behind in terms of what is actually playing). it is odd. does not occurr all the time. Any ideas? -- Tourne ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
Shoot, most of my 5.25 disks that had sat in a box for 10 years worked the last time I went through them before their ultimate disposal. I think that magnetic media--although it's sensitive to fields--is notably better for long-term archiving. I believe CDs are estimated at about 10 years where magnetic is like 20. CD media is metal that will rust where rust (on disk) won't rust. I think it's a pretty interesting topic actually. Thanks, Phillip ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
From: radish [EMAIL PROTECTED] I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB Wow. Mine average 500, I must have some kind of broken FLAC codec ;) Mine are much shorter as well. Here's a short sample: 225356 Billy Joel/The Stranger 297292 Billy Joel/Storm Front 621032 Billy Joel/Greatest Hits 1143716 Billy Joel/ 268332 Bruce Springsteen/Darkness Of The Edge Of Town 229276 Bruce Springsteen/Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J 304836 Bruce Springsteen/Born In The U.S.A 506368 Bruce Springsteen/The River 286272 Bruce Springsteen/The Wild, The Innocent The E Street Shuffle 1367888 Bruce Springsteen/Live 1975-85 215872 Bruce Springsteen/Nebraska 282456 Bruce Springsteen/Tunnel Of Love 231556 Bruce Springsteen/Born to Run 3692948 Bruce Springsteen/ I use maximum compression when I rip the albums. Note that Billy Joel/Greatest Hits is 2 disks, Bruce Springsteen/The River is 2 disks, and Bruce Springsteen/Live is 3 disks. So, on average, I seem to do much better than your average. Check your compression settings. -- Jeff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Running with MySQL on Windows
BKDotCom Wrote: See this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html Thanks. That worked. I changed the password to an old style password and SlimServer started up. Why, if MySQL 4.1 is recommended, does SlimServer use old style passwords rather than the type introduced in MySQL 4.1? I'm guessing the password style is actually in the ActiveState Perl modules downloaded, so maybe a different package is needed with MySQL 4.1, or perhaps a configuration setting somewhere is needed. -- JJZolx JJ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slightly OT: Small Amplifier recommendations
--- Mike Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheap and apparently good: http://www.si-5.com/frontEnd/cm_productDetail.jsp?productID=18. Reviewed here: http://www.tnt-audio.com/ampli/t-amp_e.html. Just set the volume at a fixed position, and use the SB for volume control. I bought one of these T-Amps at Target.com (not availabe in their retail stores) for use with a SLIMP3. It is intended for portable applications so it does not come with an AC adapter (it runs on D batteries) so you will have to purchase one separately. As soon as I got it my wife decided to remodel our son's room (it was his SLIMP3) so it's been put in a box and has never been used. Hopefully, I will break it out soon and try it. I'll report back and let you know how it works. __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SQL
Working now.. don't know what I did. I did reset the user password.. beats me Any chance the MySQL dbi stuff could be packaged with future releases? -- BKDotCom ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Upgrading froom 6.0 to 6.0.1
Probably asked before (I did search) but: Can 6.0.1 be installed directly over 6.0? I've always uninstalled first.. Would the DB be maintained? (if using default SQLite) How about if using MySQL? ( would prefs be overwritten / need to reinstall the MySQL dbi components ) Thanks -- BKDotCom ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Missing Files On ReScan v6
On Apr 10, 2005 12:52 PM, maurice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...but I see another problem: the Fishbone navigation bar for titles now looks like this: ( Z 1 2 S 5 8 1 9 A B A P A O A M A C A E A L B R B T B J F B V B E B H B N B L B H P B P E B H B C T C F B C O C L C F C L C I D W D H D S D E B E D A M E C E I E F A B F I F P B F N F H S F S G C G R G H B H W H B H C H J H M H I H I C S I O I C I J C J B W T J K P K B L T L K L F L H M P L 1 L H L T L M L M C M T M G M S M N F N J N O U O P B P H P A P G P U P G Q R A R S L R A R B R J R D R S U S M S I S B S T S N S B S W S B S C S A S A S V S A S T O T H T S T E T S T F T L T A M T B T P T W T L T U T U V W G W I W O W A W X Y T Y C Y Z A Z Maurice, I know that Slimdevices developers are working hard to resolve this problem. It seems to be intermittent and you are not alone -- I've seen this problem before myself and resolved it by doing the following steps: 1) shutdown slimserver 2) remove the slimserver.db file (not sure where exactly it is on your system) 3) start slimserver, let it scan completely 4) restart slimserver again I generally try to minimize my interaction with slimserver during this initial scan -- may be paranoia but it seems that the problem occurs more often if I'm messing with the server while I rescan. Some of these steps may not be required, but it's what I have successfully done when I get bit by this bug. FYI, I rescan my tracks a lot because of two reasons: 1) I'm retagging everything lately to include the proper year tag because slimserver updates it 2) I'm tracking the svn branch and am following a few tagging bugs so I choose to do complete scans from scratch to verify them. HTH, Ben ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Running with MySQL on Windows
Not Windows specific, but can slimserversql.db be safely deleted after switching to MySQL? I'd guess so... worked on linux :) C. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
I have a lot of CDs that were originally released on vinyl. That limits them, in most cases, to 25-40 minutes in length. Considering the rule-of-thumb of a bit over 10 MB / minute of audio, uncompressed and approx 50% compression with FLAC, I generally get 200 - 250 MB (in FLAC) for a 30 minute album, er... CD. Newer releases *generally* have longer running times and will, of course, take more MBs. So I'd guess. radish, that most of your CDs fall in the newer release category. Of course, you can trade processing time and get a bit better compression, if you set up your FLAC program that way, but even the highest compression settings aren't going to get you much over 50% (consistently) with FLAC. Robert radish wrote: I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB Wow. Mine average 500, I must have some kind of broken FLAC codec ;) More seriously, I think it must have to do with the type of music. I always see people saying that you get decent compression with FLAC, and that albums come in at 300MB or so, but the majority of mine seem to be 500 or higher. I have a number around 600 - seems like very little compression going on there. It's my personal theory (backed up by very little evidence) that it depends on the level of dynamics within the music. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox2
Dean or anybody, My SB1 (still waiting for Platinum SB2 :-) sometimes has trouble connecting wireless network since I changed to Belkin Pre-N as well as Slimservre 6. Would you kindly let me know how you set up the Belkin Pre-N router? Sometimes it finds wireless network quickly (distance is several feet and normally strength is 80% range) and slimserver 6 runs smoothly. But after a while of listening, drop out starts and then stops. SB1 needs to be powered down, but it won't connect the wireless network, etc. It usually takes a while - after repowering SB1 several times with various intervals, rebooting PC, restarting router, etc. - until I can listen to the music again. My music files are WAV, and No limit. Thanks in advance. Ken -- Old Guy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Softsqueeze 2.0b3 trouble
I am running Slimserver 6.0.1, which generally is working really well. However, when I start and sync Softsqueeze, all I get is white noise from the Softsqueeze itself, and it resets the volume on the synced SB1 to 0. Any fixes? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SlimScrobbler
Dave: Ian Parkinson has been working diligently on a new version for 6.0, which is available via CVS. I'm running 6.0, but haven't made time to try it myself. I need to update the web page, but haven't done so yet. I would appreciate all interested parties pulling the current version and trying it. Stewart Dave Dewey wrote: Quoting Stewart Loving-Gibbard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Craig, James (IT) wrote: I think you will have much bigger problems even if you fix this one! The Scrobbler plugin is tied to the old data cache and this code has all gone now. Someone needs to rewrite for 6.0 - I have not seen any mails from Stuart for some time but a couple of people have mentioned looking at it. I can do it if no-one else is doing so. I will be gone for the next week, but I will try to look at it after that. I have been waiting for 6.0 to go into release before moving to it, so I have no personal experiences here yet. Stew, any progress with the SlimScrobbler plugin for 6.0? dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.0.1 bugs
* jmpage2 shaped the electrons to say... Browse by Artist... if I go to browse music, browse by artist and hit the j button on the keypad it jumps to the j artists but it is in the middle of the artist list instead of being at the top of the j artist listings. I'll let someone who's more familiar with that code respond.. Shuffle/Unshuffle behavior. When shuffling or unshuffling a large playlist the server will lock up and stop responding, the players will disconnect and reconnect 20-40 seconds later. Is anything being done to optimise shuffle/unshuffle behavior? Yes - this is one of the higher priority items for 6.1 -D -- iNoah you know, most free operating systems come preinstalled with their own high horse. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Built-in Radio plugins
Hi Michael Herger [EMAIL PROTECTED], I just installed the latest nightly on my Windows machine and I did not have the double entries. What release did you use? SlimServer_v2005-04-09.exe, but currently running in a console with perl slimserver.pl. This is strange as I don't have that Live365 folder nor did I touch the Live365 plugin, yet (I first want to finish ShoutcastBrowser). I frequently install the latest nightly straight over the top - perhaps its something left over from ages ago. Phil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Upgrading froom 6.0 to 6.0.1
* BKDotCom shaped the electrons to say... Probably asked before (I did search) but: Can 6.0.1 be installed directly over 6.0? I've always uninstalled first.. Would the DB be maintained? (if using default SQLite) How about if using MySQL? ( would prefs be overwritten / need to reinstall the MySQL dbi components ) Shouldn't be an issue - We don't overwrite an existing prefs file. -D -- iNoah you know, most free operating systems come preinstalled with their own high horse. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Running with MySQL on Windows
* BKDotCom shaped the electrons to say... Not Windows specific, but can slimserversql.db be safely deleted after switching to MySQL? Yes. -D -- iNoah you know, most free operating systems come preinstalled with their own high horse. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SQL
actually AOL and GMail are on Sync using imap.aol.com for aol IMAP -Original Message- From: BKDotCom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, Apr 10, 2005 3:08 pm Subject: [slim] Re: SQL Working now.. don't know what I did. I did reset the user password.. beats me Any chance the MySQL dbi stuff could be packaged with future releases? -- BKDotCom ___ 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: SQL
sorry totally wrong list! -Original Message- From: Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, Apr 10, 2005 4:02 pm Subject: Re: [slim] Re: SQL actually AOL and GMail are on Sync using imap.aol.com for aol IMAP -Original Message- From: BKDotCom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, Apr 10, 2005 3:08 pm Subject: [slim] Re: SQL Working now.. don't know what I did. I did reset the user password.. beats me Any chance the MySQL dbi stuff could be packaged with future releases? -- BKDotCom ___ 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
Re: [slim] Built-in Radio plugins
Quoting Philip Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Michael Herger [EMAIL PROTECTED], I just installed the latest nightly on my Windows machine and I did not have the double entries. What release did you use? SlimServer_v2005-04-09.exe, but currently running in a console with perl slimserver.pl. This is strange as I don't have that Live365 folder nor did I touch the Live365 plugin, yet (I first want to finish ShoutcastBrowser). I frequently install the latest nightly straight over the top - perhaps its something left over from ages ago. Live365.pm used to also require Live365/Live365API.pm. at some point they were merged into a single Live365.pm. It should be harmless. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Daytime screensaver wierdness on SB2
I'm running the daytime screensaver when my SB2 is turned off. This morning the time it displayed was off by at least three hours and one second took more like 5 seconds to turn which is prolly why it was three hours behind. When I turned the SB2 on, the time started racing and setting itself to the actual time before turning on the box. How does the daytime screensaver work ? Does the screensaver run totally independent from SlimServer within the SB2 ? How can it get so out of sync with the actual time ? -MarcW -- rephlex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] iTunes playlist regression
I just upgraded to version 6.0.1 on Windows XP. While slimserver is able to see my iTunes data just fine, it no longer shows my iTunes playlists. While I do not remember exactly which version of the software I was running before the upgrade, it used to work. This was also a known problem a while back on one particular 5.x release. -- Paul Forgey ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze Audio Buffer Underrun
Neil Cameron wrote: Any luck with the logs? Is there any chance that this problem is related to the fact that (no matter what I do) I can only run SoftSqueeze 2b2 and not 2b3? Sorry I have been busy over the weekend, and only just had a chance to have a look. I don't understand why you are having problems running the newer version, but that won't make a difference here. The only difference between these versions is a fix to allow Softsqueeze to run on Java 1.4, I had accidentally broken this. In the logs you sent me it looks like the audio decoder stopped part way through the track, have you tried using jlayer instead of the Java MP3 Plugin? If this does not make any difference could you send me offlist a log including javasound, player and player verbose debug, it is not obvious what's gone wrong here. Regards, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
Well for single albums, mine seem to vary between pretty small and very large: 164M/media2/Flac/Enya/Watermark to 689M/media2/Flac/Fish/Mixed Company (This CD is so long that I can't rip the last track, and I've tried 4 different DVD drives on Linux and Windows... It's also a live recorded CD, so is probably not as clean as a studio CD, I guess this could affect the compression ratio.) Overall the largest album is: 1.5G/media2/Flac/Yes/Keys to Ascension (which is a 4-disc set - I rip and tag multi-disc albums as if they were one long album). About 380 of 509 albums are less than 400MB, and on a first analysis they seem to be fairly evenly distributed through the range. On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 09:01 -0700, radish wrote: I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB Wow. Mine average 500, I must have some kind of broken FLAC codec ;) More seriously, I think it must have to do with the type of music. I always see people saying that you get decent compression with FLAC, and that albums come in at 300MB or so, but the majority of mine seem to be 500 or higher. I have a number around 600 - seems like very little compression going on there. It's my personal theory (backed up by very little evidence) that it depends on the level of dynamics within the music. -- The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Softsqueeze 2.0b3 trouble
Neil Coburn wrote: I am running Slimserver 6.0.1, which generally is working really well. However, when I start and sync Softsqueeze, all I get is white noise from the Softsqueeze itself, and it resets the volume on the synced SB1 to 0. Any fixes? What version of Softsqueeze are you running, make sure it is 2.0b3. Otherwise what music format are you listening to? The problem where the volume resets is a known slimserver issue. I am not sure if this has been fixed or not. Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze2.0b3 and 6.1.0 nightlies
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: When starting up the softsqueeze that comes with the 6.1.0 nightly from 4/9, I get a message saying it is not the latest. I went to the sf site and that is sporting the same version I'm running. Are there ss nightlies too? Paul I've not written the version for slimserver 6.1 yet, but by the time this version of the slimserver is released I will have :). The main feature I am planning is a much improved music search/playlist. Softsqueeze 2.0b3 is the latest version at the moment. Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze Audio Buffer Underrun
I did try JLayer - it made no difference. I'll email some new logs... -- Neil Richard Titmuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil Cameron wrote: Any luck with the logs? Is there any chance that this problem is related to the fact that (no matter what I do) I can only run SoftSqueeze 2b2 and not 2b3? Sorry I have been busy over the weekend, and only just had a chance to have a look. I don't understand why you are having problems running the newer version, but that won't make a difference here. The only difference between these versions is a fix to allow Softsqueeze to run on Java 1.4, I had accidentally broken this. In the logs you sent me it looks like the audio decoder stopped part way through the track, have you tried using jlayer instead of the Java MP3 Plugin? If this does not make any difference could you send me offlist a log including javasound, player and player verbose debug, it is not obvious what's gone wrong here. Regards, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze Audio Buffer Underrun
Neil Cameron wrote: I did try JLayer - it made no difference. I'll email some new logs... Hmm. Please could you run Softsqueeze from the command prompt (see the Softsqueeze website for instructions), and when the audio has stopped get a thread dump by pressing Ctrl-Break in the console. If you could include that with the logs it might help here. Thanks, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Unwanted 'synchronisation'
rtitmuss Wrote: Press the apple key (ctrl on windows) while dragging the remote window, you can move it [remote and display] separately then. Thanks! I should have known that, I think... In fact I thought I'd tried it and failed... anyway it works fine. rtitmuss Wrote: Check in the networking tab of the Softsqueeze preferences. If this is the case then the slimserver will only think you have one player, each player must have a unique mac address. I'm afraid all the devices, real and virtual, have different MAC addresses, so that's not it, unfortunately. Good thought though! Thanks, --Richard E -- relen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SQL
Quoting JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BKDotCom Wrote: Any chance the MySQL dbi stuff could be packaged with future releases? That would certainly save some folks a bit of grief. the fact that the code to allow the option should make it clear that it will be in a future release. however, it stands now as an unsupported feature. so, when it will become a standard, supported option depends on when enough of the other priorities clear up to leave enough time to lend support to it. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SlimScrobbler
Quoting Stewart Loving-Gibbard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ian Parkinson has been working diligently on a new version for 6.0, which is available via CVS. I'm running 6.0, but haven't made time to try it myself. I need to update the web page, but haven't done so yet. I would appreciate all interested parties pulling the current version and trying it. Great, thanks! Here are the commands to run to pull the latest CVS for those that don't know (linux command line, these two commands should each be on ONE LINE): cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/slimscrobbler login cvs -z6 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/slimscrobbler checkout SlimScrobbler I will install 6.01-1 and try it out, thanks Stewart and Ian! A working SlimScrobbler is all that's holding me up from buying an SB2. dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.0.1 bugs
Thanks Dan-o -- jmpage2 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
Well, yes, most of my albums are full, i.e. 72 mins, which will make them larger than 40-45 mins pop albums. But, I'm still not seeing the ratios. For example, I took a random selection of 4 tracks from an album, and compared them at different settings: 4 tracks, total play time 16:06 WAV: 162mb FLAC (0): 129mb (1.26:1) FLAC (4): 122mb (1.32:1) FLAC (8): 117mb (1.38:1) [FYI - I use 4 as my default setting) The best I could get for these settings is a ratio of approx 1.4:1, no where near the touted 2:1 (50%). Looking over my collection, this is fairly typical. I'm not suggesting other people are lying, and there's nothing wrong with my compression settings, so that's why I'm assuming that it's the style of music. -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Newbie question
Mike, it sounds as if the slimdevices combo will work for you. My music library is about a third the size of yours. A Pentium II is running Linux and the slimserver. The other two PCs in the house (one Windows PC on wireless and one wired Linux PC) can both operate the slimserver and control the squeezebox. An added benefit is that both PCs run Softsqueeze, too, which gives me easy access to music to play over the PC. An added benefit with the Squeezebox is that you'll be able to enjoy internet radio, too. The squeezebox can be run into your amplifier for distribution, or you can put a separate squeezebox in each location, but if you do, remember that the Squeezebox itself isn't an amp, so you'll need someway to get the music out to the speakers for each SB. If I'd had my choice, I'd have run a wired sb instead of a wireless. I sometimes get drop outs when the cordless phone rings. Although, on the other hand, I'd be reaching for the remote to turn down the music when I take a call anyway. It's not a bug, it's a feature! The gurus on this list will correct me if I'm wrong on any of this. ;-) -- Damon mlsignups wrote: I have 10,000+ mp3 tracks stored on a computer and have been using an Audiotron for the last few years to stream it to a central amplifier and distribution system that in turn sends the music out to speakers in different areas of my house. I recently put in a new firewall/router and I can't get the Audiotron to work. Since the Audiotron is discontinued and a bit quirky at times I've decided to replace it rather than spend time trying to figure out the issue. The squeezbox and slimserver software look like a good alternative. My main goal is to have something I can control from any one of 3 PCs connected over a home network (LAN) with a reasonable interface that will catalog and play songs stored on a PC that is sitting next to it in my basement. Could someone confirm for me that the Squeezbox and Slimserver software are a good combination for what I'm trying to do?Also, out of curiosity, are there one or two products on the market that might be a reasonable alternative? Thanks... Mike ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze2.0b3 and 6.1.0 nightlies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/10/05 4:47 PM I've not written the version for slimserver 6.1 yet, but by the time this version of the slimserver is released I will have :). The main feature I am planning is a much improved music search/playlist. Softsqueeze 2.0b3 is the latest version at the moment. Cool. I'll sit tight and not worry about it... Paul ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes playlist regression
* Paul Forgey shaped the electrons to say... I just upgraded to version 6.0.1 on Windows XP. While slimserver is able to see my iTunes data just fine, it no longer shows my iTunes playlists. While I do not remember exactly which version of the software I was running before the upgrade, it used to work. This was also a known problem a while back on one particular 5.x release. Paul - we know about this, but I've been unable to reproduce it myself. Could you send along your iTunes .XML file, and possibly the output of --d_itunes? Thanks. -Dan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Newbie question
Thanks for your thoughts. I'll probably order one tonight or tomorrow based on your info and some other research I've done. -- mlsignups ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SlimScrobbler
Quoting Jack Coates ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Stewart Loving-Gibbard wrote: Dave: Ian Parkinson has been working diligently on a new version for 6.0, which is available via CVS. I'm running 6.0, but haven't made time to try it myself. I need to update the web page, but haven't done so yet. I would appreciate all interested parties pulling the current version and trying it. I sent this to Stewart and Ian, but here's an abridged version of what I'm seeing: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/slimserver//Plugins/Scrobbler.pm line 424. Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/local/slimserver//Plugins/Scrobbler.pm line 426. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/slimserver//Plugins/Scrobbler.pm line 428. Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/local/slimserver/Plugins/SlimScrobbleSupport/Digest/Perl/MD5.pm line 135. Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/local/slimserver/Plugins/SlimScrobbleSupport/Scrobbler/Session.pm line 575. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/slimserver/Plugins/SlimScrobbleSupport/Scrobbler/Session.pm line 442. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/slimserver/Plugins/SlimScrobbleSupport/Scrobbler/Session.pm line 445. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/slimserver/Plugins/SlimScrobbleSupport/Scrobbler/Session.pm line 457. 2005-04-10 17:51:28.4793 Audioscrobbler could not open ; song record lost! Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/local/slimserver/Plugins/SlimScrobbleSupport/Scrobbler/Session.pm line 575. Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/local/slimserver/Plugins/SlimScrobbleSupport/Scrobbler/Session.pm line 575. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cue sheets and missing MP3 songs
Many thanks! I will try... -- johnduley ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SB2: Fast forward with FLAC?
JayNYC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you for the fast reply. Is Fast Forward with FLAC using cue-sheets for entire albums going to be hardware dependent (ie: Squeezebox 3) or firmware dependent? If firmware, is there an ETA? I suspect it's just a matter of teaching slimserver how to find the right portion of the file to send to the sb2. If that's the case, then it shouldn't require new/different hardware or firmware. Again, this is just my guess. -michael -- ad meo non importante culum rodenti est pgpMVy2XKSK2X.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Noise Spike at Song Startup
Hi Warc, Make sure that you have installed the latest version of SlimServer from our website. There was a fix in 6.0.1 for a problem that could cause noise at the beginning of a track. If that's not the issue, it may be that the noise is actually in the WAV files themselves. Is the problem reproducible with specific audio files? -dean On Apr 10, 2005, at 8:01 PM, warc1 wrote: I just received my Squeezebox2 a couple of days ago. So far, I am really impressed and quite like it. However, there are a couple of bugs that I have experienced. The most annoying is a loud noise spike that occurs during the start of some songs when playing a long playlist. All of my music files are uncompressed WAV files that are streamed at 1411kbps. The problem is intermittent, maybe once every 20 songs. It does not seem to be related to the music file since hitting rewind and replaying the song will not cause the spike. The spike only occurs immediately after one song finishes and the next begins. It is loud enough that I am afraid of damaging my speakers if the volume is set high. The other problem I have encountered is also intermittent and relatively rare. Again when playing a long playlist, the server loses track of the song being played and shows the tag info from the previous song. As the next song is played, track info from the song that just finished is displayed. Exiting the playlist and starting it again is the only way I've found to fix this. Any help in rectifying these issues would be appreciated. Warc1 -- warc1 ___ 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] Noise Spike at Song Startup
Hi, The other problem I have encountered is also intermittent and relatively rare. Again when playing a long playlist, the server loses track of the song being played and shows the tag info from the previous song. As the next song is played, track info from the song that just finished is displayed. Exiting the playlist and starting it again is the only way I've found to fix this. I reported this as a bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329 Haven't been able to isolate it yet ... -- Jeff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox2, Universal Remote and Me
I am seeing the same thing. My Squeezebox2 does not respond as a JVC DVD to my universal remote. And, yes, jvc_dvd is checked in the remote box on the web interface. Any ideas? -- cutting ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Cue sheets and missing MP3 songs
johnduley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using Slimserver 6.0.1 - trunk on Ubuntu linux (Debian!). Player is SB2. When browsing music MP3 folders that contain cue sheets, the last MP3 in each folder refuses to be listed/played by the Slimserver. If I delete the cue sheet, all MP3s list correctly (and PLAY!) in the folder. I do not see any of this weirdness with folders that contain FLACs and cue sheets. Somebody will ask why I have cue sheets in folders of separate MP3s. It's because EAC creates them. Don't wanna delete them unless I absolutely have to. Also, this behaviour has not been fixed by the latest nightly. Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance. Y'all are wonderful here. :-) I believe that the cuesheet parsing code currently assumes your cuesheet points at a single file (regardless of format) that needs to be subdivided at the cue points. If you want to use cuesheet that reference multiple files, you'll probably want to file a bug report. Making the server skip cuesheets with multiple file references should be fairly simple, and may serve your purposes here. Making the server actually grok multi-file cuesheets would require more involved coding changes. -michael -- Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? Uh, yeah Brain, but where are we going to find rubber pants our size? pgpjGzsQmyTpm.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Apple Lossless
I recently purchased a used SB1 from a coworker upgraded to an SB2. Since purchasing it I have tried and failed to get SlimServer running on Linux to play Apple Lossless files. I tried FAAD (various versions as suggested by many sources) and got nowhere fast (could not find stream in ... blah blah blah). Today on a whim I did yet another Google search and found this: http://crazney.net/programs/itunes/alac.html Worked on the first try. I am having a couple issues though that maybe somebody could help with: First, It seems that all songs start out with a pop. I am guessing that the command line options I set in convert.conf were incorrect and are resulting in a linefeed or space at the start of the song. What I used is: mov wav squeezebox * [alac] $FILE$ As a test I tried using alac to convert the file from *.m4a to *.wav, and added the wav file to my playlist. There were no pops. Second, alac supports PCM output. Is there any benefit to using this instead of wav output? Thanks in advance for any advice on the above issues. I hope someone who was looking for a decoder for Apple Lossless finds this useful. -- ___ Frank Xavier Ledo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes playlist regression
* Paul Forgey shaped the electrons to say... When it isn't working, I do get this output on the console every half second (doesn't seem to be d_ anything): Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at C:/Program Files/SlimServer/Slim/Buttons/Playlist.pm line 237. Are you running the 6.0.1 release? -D -- jwb burning substations is manifestly the desire of the free market. hooray for utility deregulation jwb the government would never be able to set fires with such brutal efficiency ___ 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 ?
Is it possible to do something equivalent (I tried this, it bombs) to the following: java -jar -Daudio.mixer='/dev/null' SoftSqueeze.jar I am running multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a server, and displaying back to lower-power machines that run slimp3slave locally to handle the audio. This setup works great for the first client machine, on the second client it plays one song and then stops b/c it can not open the soundcard on the server (which has nothing hooked to it). Essentially I would want to use it as a remote control only, and not have it play audio at all. Failing that I guess I would have to add one card per client on the server, or look into esd/nsd so it thinks it is talking to a card. Thanks, -chris On Mar 22, 2005 4:11 PM, Richard Titmuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
