Re: [slim] Whole album FLAC files, multi-CD albums and tagging
Andy Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > I've knocked up a Perl script that can convert a directory tree containing > FLAC files (either individual tracks or whole CDs) into another directory > tree containing MP3s (suitable tagged) if anyone is interested? > > Could probably do with some polishing, but basically appears to work for my > relatively small collection of FLACs. Please pass it along. Most of the conversion scripts posted so far have assumed one track per file. And the more the merrier anyway. :) -michael -- "People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore" -Bill Joy author of vi pgpnQm9DV9HqX.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Welcome to Slimserv <- how to change that?
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:13:47 +0200, superbad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the server directory there is a file called strings.txt. You can search for the phrase in that file and change it there. Make sure you save both the original and the edited version with a different name, because every time you update the software it will overwrite your customized strings.txt file. ...and if you don't want to care about filenames, locations etc. you can download my StringEditor plugin: http://www.herger.net/slim/detail.php?nr=461&kategorie=slim It was basically developped for translators, but will serve anybody who wants to change strings.txt. -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Squeezeboxes randomly rebooting
Quoting Allan Hise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Dan Sully wrote: > > * jonsandys shaped the electrons to say... > > > > >It's a Squeezebox 1 running on XP SP2. Network equipment's a Belkin > > >Wireless 54Mbps adaptor and a BT Voyager 2100 router, although I had > > >the same problem with a D-link card on an ad-hoc network in the past. > > >Any thoughts? > > > > Is this a graphical unit, or the old character based display? > > I am not having this problem, but how does one tell the difference between > the two. I've only see the one squeezebox that I have - how can I tell > which one it is? When you press SIZE to change text size... Slimp3/SB1 has two sizes SBG has four sizes of bitmapped fonts SB2 has 3 sizes of hi-res bitmapped fonts (currently) -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Squeezeboxes randomly rebooting
Allan Hise wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Dan Sully wrote: * jonsandys shaped the electrons to say... It's a Squeezebox 1 running on XP SP2. Network equipment's a Belkin Wireless 54Mbps adaptor and a BT Voyager 2100 router, although I had the same problem with a D-link card on an ad-hoc network in the past. Any thoughts? Is this a graphical unit, or the old character based display? I am not having this problem, but how does one tell the difference between the two. I've only see the one squeezebox that I have - how can I tell which one it is? Just wondering, Allan click the size button on your remote until the fonts are as large as possible. If they're jagged and made of characters in a smaller font, that's a squeezebox 1. If they're just larger, bitmapped fonts, that's a squeezebox 2. -- Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a Scientific Venture... Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip since 1996! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Squeezeboxes randomly rebooting
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Dan Sully wrote: > * jonsandys shaped the electrons to say... > > >It's a Squeezebox 1 running on XP SP2. Network equipment's a Belkin > >Wireless 54Mbps adaptor and a BT Voyager 2100 router, although I had > >the same problem with a D-link card on an ad-hoc network in the past. > >Any thoughts? > > Is this a graphical unit, or the old character based display? I am not having this problem, but how does one tell the difference between the two. I've only see the one squeezebox that I have - how can I tell which one it is? Just wondering, Allan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Welcome to Slimserv <- how to change that?
In the server directory there is a file called strings.txt. You can search for the phrase in that file and change it there. Make sure you save both the original and the edited version with a different name, because every time you update the software it will overwrite your customized strings.txt file. I also edited mine to say "Artists" instead of "Browse Artists" and so on. -- superbad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Jitter specifications
Has anyone measured the jitter of the Squeezebox 2 through the digital outputs? What did you find? Thanks. -- FlyFishAndGolf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Unwanted 'synchronisation'
vidurapparao Wrote: > Would it be possible for you to post debug output with the --d_source > debug flag turned on? Let me know if you need instructions for getting > > the debug log. > Vidur - I'm the originator of bug 1289, which may be a variation of the same issue. I attached a log to that bug in which Player A came to the end of a song and, rather than advancing to the next song, Player B woke up from a paused state and advanced to its next song. Player A stayed stuck at the end of its song and did not advance until I used the remote control to go to the next track. Please let me know if I can help track this down further. Greg. -- Greg Friedman ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Dropouts with SB2-Apple system
Thanks for the help so far. Here is what I know 1) The signal strength ranges from around 50-66%. I have never noticed a correlation between the dropouts and the signal. I fooled around a lot with Macstunbler and changing the frequencies, but no major affect. 2) I'll chack on the buffer stuff tonight. 3) I forgot to mention that the dropouts are usually worst when I'm just starting to play fromthe SB2. After a while it seems to lock on things much better. It also may be worse in the AM, but I can't see any affects of time of day on the signal strength. 4) The airport express is hooked up to the ISP via a cable modem. I checked the speed of the thing with a few bandwidth meters last night, always runs between 3-3.3 Mb. Thanks, Bruce -- bec143 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Using ExBrowse2 corrupts other skins
On 4/18/05, dbls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Server running on WinXP SP2 > 18 Apr 2005 nightly (6.0.1 - 2895) > Using the standard SlimServer Web UI > > When I switch to ExBrowse2, I get the following Internet Explorer > script error: OK. found the problem there, will fix. > It asks, "Continue running scripts on this page?" and I click > "Yes". If this is the first time switching to ExBrowse2 in the > current SlimServer session, when I refresh the page, all that shows > is "Loading..." in the upper left, although the status bar indicates > that a bunch of stuff is being loaded. Strangely, if I open an IE > window and navigate to localhost:9000/Fishbone, when the new window > refreshes, the ExBrowse2 display (in the original window) fills in. Weird... I'll look at that one. > Strange? Wait, there's more! > > When I switch back to Fishbone on the standard web UI, the playlist > no longer contains links, just a text dump like this: > > This happens with all the html skins I've tried. To get the proper > display back, I either need to close the server, or refresh the IE > window. That's an issue with the skin cache on the server. It's not exclusive to ExBrowse2, actually; there's a similar corruption when you switch from, say, Fishbone to Default. There's a bug open (1212) about a similar problem; I'll add a note there. Thanks for the reports! - Jacob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Welcome to Slimserv <- how to change that?
ok. i know this may or may not be kosher, but i would like to change the "Welcome to SlimServer" message that is in the metatdata of the stream. any easy way of doing this? as a thought for the future maybe make it an option in the web config. -- c0wz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Unwanted 'synchronisation'
Would it be possible for you to post debug output with the --d_source debug flag turned on? Let me know if you need instructions for getting the debug log. Thanks, --Vidur radish wrote: Thanks for the suggestions - the MAC addresses are different, and the web interface sees them as different players, with their own configs. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Dropouts with SB2-Apple system
Hi Bruce, How is the computer connected to the network? Also, could it be some kind of interference (a cordless phone or microwave oven? On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:56 PM, bec143 wrote: I'm using my SB2 wirelessly with Airport Extreme. I have been using uncompressed formats (to compare to a good CD player) and have dropouts that seem unrelated to signal strength. I switched from Apple lossless to AIFF, but no improvement. Happens with with the web interface or off. Always seems to go in spurts. That i, I can have no problems for quite some time, then a ton of dropouts. It never happens with internet radio. I'm thinking it's a bandwidth problem that may be hard to solve short of going from wireless to ethernet, but this isn't possible for me. Any ideas? Thanks, Bruce ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Graphics format change on version 6.0.1?
On Apr 18, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Arnon Meshoulam wrote: Yes, if you could provide the email. I have tested the manual change in prefs to overcome the interface limitation, but get a blank screen with SB1 when I try the font. Sorry: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeboxG display corruption
On Apr 18, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Craig, James (IT) wrote: Sadly not a Squeezebox 2 ! I will have to keep an eye on it! Please do. That's a totally new problem to me, I want to make sure that it's fixed. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Dropouts with SB2-Apple system
Couple of things to check: What does your signal strength look like? (go to Settings->Information->Player Information on the SB2) What's happening to your buffer? (first enable the buffer fullness display on the web interface player settings page, then press now playing until the SB2 display shows the buffer size). -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Not all songs showing up
To diagnose this problem, it would be great to get debug output with the --d_info and --d_scan debug flags on when you do a rescan. To get this output, shut down SlimServer, launch a Terminal window, cd to the SlimServer directory (/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server for most people, the same path with a ~ prepended to it for others), and type: ./slimserver.pl --d_info --d_scan Choose Rescan under the Server Settings of the web interface after doing this and send the terminal output (you can cut&paste or redirect to a file) to me at vidur | at | slimdevices.com. Thanks, --Vidur bmccarthy wrote: I am using the original Squeezebox and I have just recently found that it is only seeing about half of the songs in my iTunes library. I am on Mac OSX 10.3.8 connecting over a mixed G/B wireless network. One non-standard feature of my set up is that I have my tunes all stored on an external drive. It played all the songs in my library for the last couple of years, but now no luck. The song count is half what it should be and several of the playlists show empty. Also, many songs I attempt to play from the Squeezebox (as opposed to the Web interface) don't play but display STOPPED on the display. A couple of things have changed recently that could be behind it. First, I upgraded the Slim Server software recently to version 6.0.1 because the Squeezebox was having frequent trouble connecting to Slim Server (even though it found the network fine). Also, I recently updated to iLife '05, which upgraded iTunes to version 4.7.1 (30). Not sure which event triggered the problem. I followed the suggestions in the FAQ about changing the path for the iTunes library and changing it back with no luck. I also changed the preferences so the Slim Server starts when I log in to get around the problem of the external drive not being mounted right away. I also tried their suggestions about changing the Keep Music Folder Organized settings. I've done all this twice but with no results. Any suggestions? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Unwanted 'synchronisation'
Thanks for the suggestions - the MAC addresses are different, and the web interface sees them as different players, with their own configs. -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Doesn't seem to be a valid directory
the easiest way to fix this little fiasco that i found was to go into the service properties for slimserver and change it from "Local System Account" to "This Account" and put in the whatever user you login on that computer that has full rights to the network share. this was the only step i had to do and everythings working great. next step is to figure out how to put limits on how often a song can be played getting sick of hearing the same crap. -- c0wz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Doesn't seem to be a valid directory
Steve Baumgarten Wrote: > I ran into just this problem yesterday with 6.0.1. I set it up on my > laptop and created a folder that contained a Windows shortcut to my > music directory on a Windows share. The share is also mapped to a > drive. > I tried it both ways, with an UNC and with the drive letter, and I set > > the service to run as the user I was logged in as -- but I just could > not get it to work right. Same symptoms as you say; when I click on > Browse Music Folder I get one line, "Music.lnk" (my Windows shortcut), > > but then when I click on that I get nothing. Looking at the log it > seems > that the server couldn't traverse down into share. > > Yet when I ran the server via FireDaemon (again, running as the same > user I normally log in as), it worked perfectly. > > I must be doing something wrong; the above doesn't really make any > sense. Yet I did spend about 15 minutes yesterday fooling around with > various possibilities, all to no avail. > > Perhaps I'll try some more experimentation this week. Certainly > FireDaemon (although a wonderful free utility) shouldn't be required to > > run slim.exe as a service. My trouble ended up being an odd permission problem on the share itself (rather than directory or file permssions). I have it working now. Thanks to all those who responded. -- JJZolx ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] mp3 degradation over time
> The symptoms are presenting as clicks/pops and sudden bursts of static. > The static can be much louder than the output of the rest of the song. Assuming that the same songs were fine at one point, something has corrupted / is corrupting your files. This could be anything hardware related like a dying disk drive, cable, controller, RAM stick, you name it. Other likely culprits include software like buggy taggers, or even players that "clean up" the tags as they go along. You might want to try generating .par2 files for your important music, which would allow you to recover from small defects. More about PAR2: http://parchive.sourceforge.net/ The leading software for Windows is QuickPar (http://www.quickpar.org.uk/). C. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Rhapsody on Slim
> Aaron, I'd like to know how you got Rhapsody to auto-launch and stay > logged in via execute scripts. Can you post the way you did that? To launch Rhapsody from the squeezebox you need KDF's execute-script plugin. Install that and set up a directory in your slimserver\server directory called "scripts". Stick a bat file in there that launches rhapsody. Mine looks something like this: @start "" "c:\Program Files\RealRhapsody\Rhapsody.exe" exit You can theoretically set up the plugin to run that script whenever certain buttons are pressed on your squeezebox remote (though I think KDF was having problems with this, last I heard), but I prefer to use it in it's "testing" mode where you simply navigate to the execute-script plugin in the plugin menu, then down to an event, then over, and choose your bat file and press play to launch rhapsody. To keep rhapsody running I use girder (an AMAZING program that seems to be able to do anything). The trial version of girder now requires registration after 30 days (and it's really worth it, if you ask me), though I do have an older version that's an unlimited, uncrippled (legal) shareware version from about a year and a half ago if you'd like me to send that to you. Girder has a timer plugin that I use to instantiate a girder macro once every 3 hours. The macro checks to see if rhapsody is running and if it is it maximizes the app and clicks the "album info" button under the album art. This proves to be sufficient interaction to keep rhapsody from timing out. I can also send you my girder file when I get home (I'm still at work), if you'd like. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: mp3 degradation over time
Thanks for the input. I don't think I've got a Re-encoder running...? Is this something that could be running without me knowing it? Would MusicMatch be considered an mp3 tagger? I used MusicMatch to rip all the songs. I have read that there are better tools for the job and frankly I wish I could remember which ones were recommended. Any suggestions? I also seem to remember that ripping from a particular cd drive wouldn't take care of the problem, but once I switched to my other drive, the songs were better. Does it make sense that the cd drive would make a difference? Thanks again, elm -- elmtree ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Unwanted 'synchronisation'
In my case the problem is not quite as described in the bug report but in the same general area - and I have already checked that all MAC addresses are different, so it regrettably isn't as simple as that. --Richard E -- relen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Dropouts with SB2-Apple system
I'm using my SB2 wirelessly with Airport Extreme. I have been using uncompressed formats (to compare to a good CD player) and have dropouts that seem unrelated to signal strength. I switched from Apple lossless to AIFF, but no improvement. Happens with with the web interface or off. Always seems to go in spurts. That i, I can have no problems for quite some time, then a ton of dropouts. It never happens with internet radio. I'm thinking it's a bandwidth problem that may be hard to solve short of going from wireless to ethernet, but this isn't possible for me. Any ideas? Thanks, Bruce -- bec143 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Unwanted 'synchronisation'
Before modding it to have uniq mac addresses, I had the exact same scenario when multiple slimp3slave players with the same mac were on the same network. Could be totally unrelated, but I thought it worth mentioning since the symptoms are the same. -chris On 4/18/05, radish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any progress on this? It's really annoying, and basically means I can > only use one squeezebox at a time. Which kind of makes my investment in > a second one useless. The bug report in bugzilla just seems to end with > people saying they can't reproduce it - I can and I'd be happy to help > out with debugging in whatever way I can. > > > -- > radish > ___ > 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: Unwanted 'synchronisation'
Any progress on this? It's really annoying, and basically means I can only use one squeezebox at a time. Which kind of makes my investment in a second one useless. The bug report in bugzilla just seems to end with people saying they can't reproduce it - I can and I'd be happy to help out with debugging in whatever way I can. -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Softsqueeze problem
It is a radio station which works on the SB1 as well as other Softsqueeze installation. So my guess is in must be related to this one specific installation. M -Original Message- From: Dan Sully [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 10:40 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: [slim] Re: Softsqueeze problem * Matthias Schnizer shaped the electrons to say... >On one of my Windows machines, I played around with version 1.16 and >went back to 1.14 (at least that's what I thought.). Everything works >fine except listening to streaming radio stations... I am getting the >annoying Mickey Mouse stream. Streaming from the same server to the HW >box works fine, so do the other SoftSqueeze installations. Which radio stations? If it's Ogg based, we've added a fix in 6.0.1 for the "Micky Mouse" problems. -D -- do they call it 'gq' because it makes your text fashionable? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] mp3 degradation over time
elmtree wrote: I've noticed some discussions around the quality of mp3, however I am experiencing something that I've yet to find a duscussion on... It sounds like various tracks within my .mp3 library are degrading over time. The symptoms are presenting as clicks/pops and sudden bursts of static. The static can be much louder than the output of the rest of the song. I am running slimserver on a PIII 450 with 256 RAM and an 80GB drive (appx 6000 songs @ 192 or above) and a 12 GB drive for the OS (Win2K Pro). I am currently storing some large mpg files on the music drive as well. On the other end I have the original slimP3 hardwired. Between the slimP3 and the server there 2 hubs & and a patch panel. I have thought that maybe there is too much going on between the server and the head-unit, but the problem appears to present itself on different songs- and once a song is 'infected' the only thing I've been able to do is create new mp3s from the CD. For the most part, the server is dedicated- though I do use it occassionally to surf the web and check mail through web-mail. Neither of these activities occurs while streaming music. I had a similar problem when i ran a mp3tagger a while back )-: ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Rhapsody on Slim
Aaron, I'd like to know how you got Rhapsody to auto-launch and stay logged in via execute scripts. Can you post the way you did that? Aaron Zinck Wrote: > I'll whole-heartedly weigh-in with support for this suggestion. This > is > also a major obstacle to me considering a squeezebox2 as it simply > won't > work with Rhapsody. And while the squeezebox is impressive for a > number of > reasons (slimserver is especially flexible) I agree with the original > poster > that rhapsody/realslim is consistently the most impressive thing about > the > squeezebox to most people I've shown it to. > > Charles-- I'm wondering what you find high-maintenance about it. Is it > the > issues of launching rhapsody and keeping it running? In conjunction > with > Girder and KDF's execute-script plugin I've got an almost bullet-proof > hands-off solution that allows me to launch rhapsody from my squeezebox > and > will keep rhapsody from timing out indefinitely. If you'd like some > pointers on how to set up something like this I'd be glad to give you > a > hand. The main problems I have arise when rhapsody itself has it's > occasional glitch. > > I'd also like to be able to see more information about currently > playing > songs--when music is queued from the rhapsody catalog you get > sufficient > info (title, artist, album), but when you queue it from "my library" > you > lose the artist info, and things get even worse when you queue it from > a > rhapsody playlist as you then only have access to the name of the song. -- jabesnyder ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Rhapsody on Slim
Aaron, I'd like to know how you got Rhapsody to auto-launch and stay logged in via execute scripts. Can you post the way you did that? -- jabesnyder ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Cover art and EAC cue files
Hi, I rip various artist cd's as eac WAV image's with cue files. This had been fine but now the cover art doesnt display properly, an image which is I think an XP default for a music cd comes up instead. This only happens where the directory for the cd holds a cue file, otherwise its ok. 6.1.0 trunk on XP. -- andy lucas ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] mp3 degradation over time
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 16:09, elmtree wrote: > I've noticed some discussions around the quality of mp3, however I am > experiencing something that I've yet to find a duscussion on... It > sounds like various tracks within my .mp3 library are degrading over > time. > The symptoms are presenting as clicks/pops and sudden bursts of static. > The static can be much louder than the output of the rest of the song. > I am running slimserver on a PIII 450 with 256 RAM and an 80GB drive > (appx 6000 songs @ 192 or above) and a 12 GB drive for the OS (Win2K > Pro). I am currently storing some large mpg files on the music drive as > well. > On the other end I have the original slimP3 hardwired. > Between the slimP3 and the server there 2 hubs & and a patch panel. > I have thought that maybe there is too much going on between the server > and the head-unit, but the problem appears to present itself on > different songs- and once a song is 'infected' the only thing I've been > able to do is create new mp3s from the CD. > For the most part, the server is dedicated- though I do use it > occassionally to surf the web and check mail through web-mail. Neither > of these activities occurs while streaming music. That sounds suspiciously like disk corruption to me -- either a bad drive or a bad driver. In either case, backups are a good idea. The bursts of static are exactly what you'd get if some bits get scrambled in the middle of the file; because MP3 is frame-based, it will eventually get back to uncorrupted frames and get back on track. I'd recommend using Norton Disk Doctor, but that useless pile of bits just utterly and absolutely failed to help me in the slightest about an hour ago[0], so I'm not going to recommend it out of pique. You might have better luck with it than I've had, though. [0] "Drive C: is misconfigured. Exiting." Thanks, I knew that. What I wanted is for NDD to *FIX* it, not just sit and gripe about some miscellaneous unknown problem. I can't even fix it myself because it won't tell me what's wrong! Meanwhile, Linux has no problem on the same hardware... [rant about Windows skipped] -- Stephen Ryan Digital Rights Management is bad for all of us: http://www.bricklin.com/robfuture.htm ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] mp3 degradation over time
On 4/18/05, elmtree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've noticed some discussions around the quality of mp3, however I am > experiencing something that I've yet to find a duscussion on... It > sounds like various tracks within my .mp3 library are degrading over > time. You probably haven't found a discussion because it doesn't happen? Either your system is losing bits or you have something corrupting your filesystem. Or maybe you're running a re-encoder that's messing up and corrupting the file. Or your slimp3 is dying. Try setting all the music files to read-only and see if it keeps happening. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] mp3 degradation over time
I've noticed some discussions around the quality of mp3, however I am experiencing something that I've yet to find a duscussion on... It sounds like various tracks within my .mp3 library are degrading over time. The symptoms are presenting as clicks/pops and sudden bursts of static. The static can be much louder than the output of the rest of the song. I am running slimserver on a PIII 450 with 256 RAM and an 80GB drive (appx 6000 songs @ 192 or above) and a 12 GB drive for the OS (Win2K Pro). I am currently storing some large mpg files on the music drive as well. On the other end I have the original slimP3 hardwired. Between the slimP3 and the server there 2 hubs & and a patch panel. I have thought that maybe there is too much going on between the server and the head-unit, but the problem appears to present itself on different songs- and once a song is 'infected' the only thing I've been able to do is create new mp3s from the CD. For the most part, the server is dedicated- though I do use it occassionally to surf the web and check mail through web-mail. Neither of these activities occurs while streaming music. Any advice is appreciated. Thx elm -- elmtree ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Live Music Archive plugin on SS6.0
tvoil Wrote: > This patch fixed the problem. Thank you. Is there anyway this update > will be posted on the main plugin download page of the slimdevices > site? Yes, I believe Dean just took care of that. Thanks for the feedback. -- Dave Cohen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezeboxes randomly rebooting
I've also experienced the reboot problem with exactly the same symptoms as those described in this thread. In general, the music suddenly stops, the squeezebox reboots and then the song starts from the beginning again. It's not always random as occasionally, the squeezebox reboots at exactly the same spot in the song. On these occasions, I suspect an encoding or decoding glitch is responsible, but although the same song will go down at the same time on two or more consecutive occasions, the same tracks will play just fine on many other occasions. That coupled with the usually random nature of the reboots suggests a server-side or data transmission error. The tracks that occasionally cause these reboots are all VBR encoded (alt-preset normal LAME). On the server side (5.4.1 running on Mac OS 10.2.8), I frequently get crashes, particularly when browsing long lists of albums/songs while the squeezebox is receiving a stream. Much less frequently when the box is idle. But all in all, the software is normally quite stable and I can listen for hours before encountering a reboot or server crash. I did try the 6.0beta a few weeks ago, but the server crashed immediately on streaming every time, so I went back to 5.4.1. The server (iMac 400MHz G3) is wirelessly bridged to my D-Link 713P router via ethernet. -- David Miller ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Graphics format change on version 6.0.1?
dean blackketter wrote: Arnon, Can you post an example file to the list or send it to me directly? Thanks, dean On Apr 16, 2005, at 8:16 AM, Arnon Meshoulam wrote: I have just upgraded to 6.01 from a 5.x version. I have a few graphic files I wrote myself - to support international languages, whichd now aren't recognized by the gui. If I hardcode them in the prefs file, they come out corrupt. I used the wonderful GUI tool that someone wrote (can't remember the name). Has the format changed in version 6.0 BTW, tested both on SoftSqueeze and on two SB v1.0 Arnon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss Yes, if you could provide the email. I have tested the manual change in prefs to overcome the interface limitation, but get a blank screen with SB1 when I try the font. Arnon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Using ExBrowse2 corrupts other skins
Server running on WinXP SP2 18 Apr 2005 nightly (6.0.1 - 2895) Using the standard SlimServer Web UI When I switch to ExBrowse2, I get the following Internet Explorer script error: Line: 10 Char: 1 Error: Object doesn't support this property or method Code: 0 URL:http://localhost:9000/setup.html?player=00%3A04%3A20 %3A05%3A11%3A38&playerid=&page=interface&skin=ExBrowse2 &itemsPerPage It asks, "Continue running scripts on this page?" and I click "Yes". If this is the first time switching to ExBrowse2 in the current SlimServer session, when I refresh the page, all that shows is "Loading..." in the upper left, although the status bar indicates that a bunch of stuff is being loaded. Strangely, if I open an IE window and navigate to localhost:9000/Fishbone, when the new window refreshes, the ExBrowse2 display (in the original window) fills in. Strange? Wait, there's more! When I switch back to Fishbone on the standard web UI, the playlist no longer contains links, just a text dump like this: Bill Frisell Good Dog, Happy Man file:Gateway400/Music/Bill%20 Frisell/Good%20Dog,%20Happy%20Man/01%20-%20Bill%20Frisell%20-%20Rain, %20Rain.mp3 Bill Frisell Good Dog, Happy Man file:Gateway400 /Music/Bill%20Frisell/Good%20Dog,%20Happy%20Man/02%20-%20Bill%20 Frisell%20-%20Roscoe.mp3 This happens with all the html skins I've tried. To get the proper display back, I either need to close the server, or refresh the IE window. More info: I don't get the script error when I switch to ExBrowse2 in the IE window, but I do get the blank screen. Also, the other skins usually aren't corrupted in IE after using ExBrowse2. Finally, browsing to localhost:9000/skinname always presents the skins properly. All this behavior is similar when using FireFox. -:- dbls -:- dbls___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fishbone glitch
From: "kdf"
> Quoting dbls:
>
>> On either Win98 or WinXP SP2, when browsing the music folder,
>> nothing happens when I click on the letters a the top of the
>> lefthand panel (that is, the subfolder list doesn't scroll as
>> in other browse modes).
>>
> I'm not able to reproduce this. Are you using the latest nightly? Which
> browser are you using, and have you tried to see if other skins work?
>
> -kdf
This happens with Firefox, Internet Explorer and the standard
SlimServer web UI.
I've installed the latest nightly, following the link for 6.0.2
(SlimServer_v2005-04-18.exe) which for some reason still shows
up as 6.0.1 - 2895, the same version as the one I obtained via
the link in Server Settings ("A new version of SlimServer is
available") on the 14th.
This still exhibits the same behavior. For example, if I let the
pointer hover over the "M", the status bar shows
http://localhost:9000/browse.html?&player=00%3A04%3A20%3A05%3A11
%3A38&&start=0#M
but the list remains scrolled to the top when I click it.
Other modes work, though I just noticed that the Browse Music
Folder list is on a single page (i.e. all the letters are in
boldface), which isn't true in other modes. By the way, the
default skin behaves exactly the same as Fishbone.
I switched to ExBrowse2 (which had its own curious behavior, but
that's another thread), and the letter shortcuts do nothing in
any mode unless the desired letter links to a different page of
the list.
One thing - when I switch to ExBrowse2, I get this Internet
Explorer script error:
Line: 10
Char: 1
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method
Code: 0
URL:http://localhost:9000/setup.html?player=00%3A04%3A20
%3A05%3A11%3A38&playerid=&page=interface&skin=ExBrowse2
&itemsPerPage
After that, the skin seems to work other than the scrolling
shortcuts (except for some overlapping frames when the window
isn't maximized).
-:- dbls
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[slim] Feature Request: Log stream metadata on request...
Hey guys, I searched through the change log and didn't see anything like this, so If this already exists, I apologize. Any how, I had some people over the other night, and we were listening to a shoutcast radio stream. A song came on that I liked, so I went and wrote down the artist and name of the song. A buddy of mine (who also has a Slimp3) came over to see what I was doing. He mentioned that it would be cool if you could press a button on the remote, and have it log the current stream metadata to a log file somewhere. What a great idea! :) So, my feature request is, when playing an internet radio stream, can a button be added to dump whatever the current metadata for the playing stream to a file? An enhancement to this, might be to add a link in the web interface to view the log. Thanks! Brian ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Building a house server?
Hi, Orb Wrote: > What do people recommend for a basic house server? > I could get my hands on an old (very cheap) Pentium 3, 600 MHz, 256mb > ram pc. I have a 200gb drive where my music is stored which would live > in the house server. > Would a machine of this (old) spec be good enough to cope with > slimserver, file sharing and maybe a broadband connection in the > future? > I am running a linux "house server" 24/7 with on a p3 800 MHz with an intel 815 chipset. With 384 MB RAM I don't even need swap (but that is another discussion) and slimserver including on the fly re-encoding of media data via lame and/or mplayer works fine. I also have a software raid 5 running on this which makes 2TB of storage out of 14 drives with 160 GB each. The P3 handles all this very well. Only if you go for software encryption by a loop device on top, then the P3 is going give up, file transfer goes really slow then. If you don't need encryption, the P3 should be fine with linux. > What do people recommend as a OS? I have an old copy of windows 98 > floating around but what about the free OS like BSD? > Any linux/unix should do, I made good experience with SuSE 8.2 (kernel 2.4). Win 98 doesn't seem to me to be a good choice for a server. If you are a friend of MS products better look for XP or 2000/2003 server so that you don't have to boot twice a day ;-) Enjoy your project! I found building a house server great fun. The hardest thing was getting the necessary approvals from my wife to occupy half a square meter for that in the utility room she is in command of ;-) -- docbee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Building a house server?
Hi Michael, I'll look into my exact setup when I get home, but I believe the spamassassin problem is due to a bug of some kind. On a heavy day, I don't get more than 20 messages to my home email. I use gmail for the lists I'm on. But basically something pops them from verizon, then procmail, then spamd. I then pop them again to one of 2 WinXP boxes where they get read. I've never really put a lot of effort into this once I got it working reasonably (but not necessarily efficiently). But sometimes, with no reason that I've yet found, the spamd process will be running, consuming all CPU. And it doesn't stop. The only way to clear it is to kill it, or reboot the system (which is usually what I do to make sure everything gets started up again correctly). People I correspond with get whitelisted after they end up in the SPAM folder once. On 4/18/05, Michael Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 08:29 -0400, Jim Dibb wrote: > > > The only time I really have a problem is when the SpamAssassin daemon > > goes crazy and chews up the whole CPU. That happens from time to time > > and I don't know why. > > How do you filter? > My "utility box" that does everything - > > fetchmail pops, sends it through procmail > procmail does all my filtering for lists etc. > THEN if it hasn't been filtered to another list, it goes through > SpamAssassin. I whitelist everyone in my address book. > > The result has been incredible - SpamAssassin is a lot nicer now, since > it is used far far less. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Softsqueeze problem
* Matthias Schnizer shaped the electrons to say... On one of my Windows machines, I played around with version 1.16 and went back to 1.14 (at least that's what I thought.). Everything works fine except listening to streaming radio stations... I am getting the annoying Mickey Mouse stream. Streaming from the same server to the HW box works fine, so do the other SoftSqueeze installations. Which radio stations? If it's Ogg based, we've added a fix in 6.0.1 for the "Micky Mouse" problems. -D -- do they call it 'gq' because it makes your text fashionable? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] SqueezeboxG display corruption
Sadly not a Squeezebox 2 ! I will have to keep an eye on it! James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dean blackketter Sent: 18 April 2005 16:55 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] SqueezeboxG display corruption On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:08 AM, Craig, James (IT) wrote: > I noticed some weird display corruption on my SqueezeboxG over the > weekend: >> From time to time the display would 'roll' up and down, like a TV that > had lost vertical sync. > Does anyone know what causes this? Have never seen this on SqueezeboxG. Could be a hardware problem. If it's a Squeezebox2, the latest nightly releases include vertical scrolling as you move up and down through the user interface. That's a feature! > Also, what does the little black box wrapped around the power lead do? > I moved it a bit further away from the squeezebox so it was hidden down > the back of my hifi cabinet. That sounds like "choke" that reduces RF interference. Moving it may change the RFI emitted by the player, but shouldn't be a problem. -dean ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ___ 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!
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[slim] Re: Squeezeboxes randomly rebooting
* jonsandys shaped the electrons to say... It's a Squeezebox 1 running on XP SP2. Network equipment's a Belkin Wireless 54Mbps adaptor and a BT Voyager 2100 router, although I had the same problem with a D-link card on an ad-hoc network in the past. Any thoughts? Is this a graphical unit, or the old character based display? -D -- do they call it 'gq' because it makes your text fashionable? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Softsqueeze problem
I am running Slimserver 5.4.1 with a Squeezebox 1 and several Softsqueeze (typically V-1.14) installations. On one of my Windows machines, I played around with version 1.16 and went back to 1.14 (at least that's what I thought.). Everything works fine except listening to streaming radio stations... I am getting the annoying Mickey Mouse stream. Streaming from the same server to the HW box works fine, so do the other SoftSqueeze installations. I think I messed up the Softsqueeze on this particular computer since during startup (Webstart 1.2) it is reporting Softsqueeze 1.14 but looking at the preferences, it is reporting 1.16. How can I get rid of all Softsqueeze installations on this computer so I can start from scratch? Or, alternatively, how can I fix the Mickey Mouse effect? Thanks in advance Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Bugzilla voting
dean blackketter wrote: Feel free to visit the bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224 and vote for it if it's important to you. Do you guys pay much attention to the votes when planning your work for upcomming slimserver releases? If so, it might make sense to publicize Bugzilla's voting feature a bit, so that those who aren't familiar with Bugzilla can be included in the counts. - Marc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Building a house server?
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 08:29 -0400, Jim Dibb wrote: > The only time I really have a problem is when the SpamAssassin daemon > goes crazy and chews up the whole CPU. That happens from time to time > and I don't know why. How do you filter? My "utility box" that does everything - fetchmail pops, sends it through procmail procmail does all my filtering for lists etc. THEN if it hasn't been filtered to another list, it goes through SpamAssassin. I whitelist everyone in my address book. The result has been incredible - SpamAssassin is a lot nicer now, since it is used far far less. Box is a 1.6 GHz Duron (the low cache on that chip can really be felt, I'm not going to make that mistake again) It's running headless (no X11 sucking resources) - Fedora Rawhide. 512 MB RAM Two hard drives (ATA 100) services it runs: apache, vsftpd, sshd, slimserver, dovecot (imap server, how I read my mail on my main rig), postfix, bind (caching dns for lan), ntpd At night it mirrors several yum repositories. Anyway - after putting the SpamAssassin recipe at the end, the box is generally a LOT more responsive as all my mailing lists don't go through it anymore. Oh - and on topic, no problems with SlimServer feeding a SoftSqueeze client. Only using mp3 though, so that's not really testing it. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ExBrowse2 problem
On 4/18/05, Patrick Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure if this is the correct place to report this, but using > ExBrowse2 on the latest V6.01 nightly, the text that's displayed as a > placeholder in Browse Artwork when there is no cover art, destroys the > formatting of the page. Whoops. Will fix. - Jacob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeboxG display corruption
On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:08 AM, Craig, James (IT) wrote: I noticed some weird display corruption on my SqueezeboxG over the weekend: From time to time the display would 'roll' up and down, like a TV that had lost vertical sync. Does anyone know what causes this? Have never seen this on SqueezeboxG. Could be a hardware problem. If it's a Squeezebox2, the latest nightly releases include vertical scrolling as you move up and down through the user interface. That's a feature! Also, what does the little black box wrapped around the power lead do? I moved it a bit further away from the squeezebox so it was hidden down the back of my hifi cabinet. That sounds like "choke" that reduces RF interference. Moving it may change the RFI emitted by the player, but shouldn't be a problem. -dean ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] ExBrowse2 problem
Not sure if this is the correct place to report this, but using ExBrowse2 on the latest V6.01 nightly, the text that's displayed as a placeholder in Browse Artwork when there is no cover art, destroys the formatting of the page. -- Patrick Dixon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Problem with Slimserver 6.1.x and ShoutCast
Okay, ThanksOn 4/18/05, Michael Herger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:36:28 +0200, Roy Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Running the 4/15/2005 nightly on WinXP SP2. When attempting to access> ShoutCast SS crashes with the following in the 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:> undefined entity at line 8951, column 52, byte 443983 at > /PerlApp/XML/Parser.pm line 187I have checked in a fix which should catch this problem. The crash was dueto some incorrect entity in the XML file we get from Shoutcast. If you runinto this, try reducing the maximum number of streams. With less streams chances are you don't get the culprit, as it's not the most popular (<10listeners this afternoon).--Michael---Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/)___Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.comhttp://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss-- Do meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with Tabasco. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Graphics format change on version 6.0.1?
Arnon, Can you post an example file to the list or send it to me directly? Thanks, dean On Apr 16, 2005, at 8:16 AM, Arnon Meshoulam wrote: I have just upgraded to 6.01 from a 5.x version. I have a few graphic files I wrote myself - to support international languages, whichd now aren't recognized by the gui. If I hardcode them in the prefs file, they come out corrupt. I used the wonderful GUI tool that someone wrote (can't remember the name). Has the format changed in version 6.0 BTW, tested both on SoftSqueeze and on two SB v1.0 Arnon ___ 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] Open Key Authentication on SB1?
There's an open bug about this issue for SB1, but it's a lot harder to fix on SB1 than it was on SB2. Feel free to visit the bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224 and vote for it if it's important to you. -dean On Apr 16, 2005, at 8:33 PM, JJZolx wrote: I see in the changelog for 6.0.1 that Open System authentication is now supported in the SB2 firmware. Is this also planned for the SB1? -- JJZolx ___ 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: Doesn't seem to be a valid directory
This is basic stuff, isn't it? Can anyone tell me if they actually have a 6.0.x installation on Windows, running as a service, and using a network share as the music folder? I ran into just this problem yesterday with 6.0.1. I set it up on my laptop and created a folder that contained a Windows shortcut to my music directory on a Windows share. The share is also mapped to a drive. I tried it both ways, with an UNC and with the drive letter, and I set the service to run as the user I was logged in as -- but I just could not get it to work right. Same symptoms as you say; when I click on Browse Music Folder I get one line, "Music.lnk" (my Windows shortcut), but then when I click on that I get nothing. Looking at the log it seems that the server couldn't traverse down into share. Yet when I ran the server via FireDaemon (again, running as the same user I normally log in as), it worked perfectly. I must be doing something wrong; the above doesn't really make any sense. Yet I did spend about 15 minutes yesterday fooling around with various possibilities, all to no avail. Perhaps I'll try some more experimentation this week. Certainly FireDaemon (although a wonderful free utility) shouldn't be required to run slim.exe as a service. 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
Re: [slim] Problem with Slimserver 6.1.x and ShoutCast
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:36:28 +0200, Roy Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Running the 4/15/2005 nightly on WinXP SP2. When attempting to access ShoutCast SS crashes with the following in the 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: undefined entity at line 8951, column 52, byte 443983 at /PerlApp/XML/Parser.pm line 187 I have checked in a fix which should catch this problem. The crash was due to some incorrect entity in the XML file we get from Shoutcast. If you run into this, try reducing the maximum number of streams. With less streams chances are you don't get the culprit, as it's not the most popular (<10 listeners this afternoon). -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
Obvious, isn't it? - thanks! Isn't there a joke about svn up and some dwarfs? Or am I thinking of something completely different? So to summarise: Setup - yum install perl-SVN-Simple svn co http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/trunk /usr/local/slimserver Updates --- svn up /usr/local/slimserver service slimserver restart -- Patrick Dixon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SB2 issue when PC is turned off
On Apr 17, 2005, at 5:17 AM, Orb wrote: By the way, I tried the holding the power on button and nothing happens. SB2 is dead & the only way I can get it on again is to disconnect/reconnect the power cord ??? Something's not right. How long are you holding the button? It will take 5 full seconds to restart the player. You shouldn't have to restart a Squeezebox2 at all, in any case. When your server comes back, the player should reconnect. What kind of network connection are you using and what make/model devices are you using? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:00:19 +0200, Patrick Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK I have done: svn co http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/trunk /usr/local/slimserver and it 'A'dds a load of files. I then do: svn up http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/trunk /usr/local/slimserver and it tells me that: svn: 'http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim' is not a working copy You have to do svn up /usr/local/slimserver because you want to update your copy, don't you? -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
On 4/18/05, Patrick Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I then do: > > svn up http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/trunk > /usr/local/slimserver After you've run "svn co", you don't need to specifiy the URL. Just run: svn up /usr/local/slimserver - Jacob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
OK I have done: svn co http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/trunk /usr/local/slimserver and it 'A'dds a load of files. I then do: svn up http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/trunk /usr/local/slimserver and it tells me that: svn: 'http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim' is not a working copy So I'm stuck. -- Patrick Dixon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Switching Between Servers
If you are using a Squeezebox2, you can press and hold the LEFT button to go back to setup and scroll down to the other server on your lan that you'd like to connect to. On SB1, you'll need to go back all the way through setup again to switch servers. On Apr 17, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Bustofa wrote: Does anyone know of a way of quickly changing the Slimserver used by a Squeezebox without going through the whole set-up sequence again? -- Bustofa ___ 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] Router Crashes
Make sure that you have the latest firmware on your router. Also, let us know which model you are using... On Apr 17, 2005, at 10:45 AM, warc1 wrote: Ever since I got my Squeezebox 2 a couple of weeks ago, I have been experiencing router crashes at least daily. I have a Linksys 2.4GHz Wireless "G" router that had never crashed in the four months I had owned it prior to hooking up Squeezebox. The crashes always occur when I am doing something with Slimserver or Squeezebox, like selecting songs from the remote or trying to connect to Slimserver on my desktop from my laptop. When it crashes, Squeezebox2 goes black and every connection from my router is down (including the wired connection to my desktop). Unplugging and repowering the router restores all of the connections. Any advice is resolving this would be appreciated. -- 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
[slim] SB2 - WOW!
Upon receivig my SqueezeboxG, I was overjoyed with the gadget but deep down inside I had issues with it that I didn't want to admit: - The sound through the analog outs was amazingly flat and not very strong. - I store my files in Apple Lossless and used to cross my fingers every time a track would change so I didn't get a drop/skip. - Even with a wired model, I could always count on skips due to buffer underrun 1-2 times for every 5 minutes of music or so. Luckily, I had my SBG for less than 30 days at the time the SB2 was announced and since I couldn't get the SBG to playback lossless audio without drops, the guys at Slim accepted my return. Now with the SB2: - the audio is awesome out of the analog outs. The music sounds vibrant and colorful and the output level is at or better than my other components. - The transcoding from Apple Lossless to FLAC is flawless and only uses 1-4 percent of my CPU. Tracks line up perfectly and there is no audible pop/clip/gap between tracks. - I now use the Wireless model (compared to the Wired SBG) and I haven't had a dropout yet. In fact, I've never seen the buffer drop below 100 percent yet. I'm so happy as I have ZERO reservations about this product as it works flawless. Hat's off to the guys at slim!!! - Chris ps - Now if Slim will only get some sort of support for Rhapsody (pretty please???) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Rhapsody on Slim
Where is this "version 3" of the Rhapsody client? I haven't been able to find it and this is the first I've heard of those features being added to Rhapsody. This is rather exciting ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Building a house server?
> If you are planning on a wireless B/G router (Linksys or other) consider > using a Buffalo Linkstation network storage device as the media server. > It can be located in a remote location (mine is in a bedroom closet, > along with my Linksys Wireless Router/Network hub). It's a lot cheaper > than buying an entire PC for that purpose. I bought a 300 GB one, and am > ripping FLAC files to it. You'll still need a computer to run > SlimServer... I use an old Compaq Evo N600 which sits in my home You actually *don't* still need a computer to run slimserver. Slimserver can be installed on the Linkstation itself. Just do a little searching on the mailing list for Linkstation and I know there's at least one site out there with a how-to for installing slimserver on the linkstation. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezeboxes randomly rebooting
I've had exactly the same problem for ages now - started (I think) around version 5.1.5. It was just about bearable, then my player suddenly died, so was sent a new one, only for that to have exactly the same problem (the restarting, not the dying), so I'd imagine it's a server/firmware problem rather than hardware. It's got worse over the past couple of weeks, for no reason I can work out. There are no conflicting networks nearby (I've tried different channels too), and signal strength's not great but not bad. It's not just losing contact with the network though, it's just crashing completely, sometimes as often as every minute or two. It's a Squeezebox 1 running on XP SP2. Network equipment's a Belkin Wireless 54Mbps adaptor and a BT Voyager 2100 router, although I had the same problem with a D-link card on an ad-hoc network in the past. Any thoughts? -- jonsandys ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Building a house server?
> > What do people recommend for a basic house server? > i'm using an old Dell PIII 600 with 512MB RAM. i uninstalled win98 and put Mandrake 10 on it (i'm a linux newbie and had it running in about 30 minutes) installing slimserver from the RPM took another 15 minutes and then figuring out all the permissions and stuff took a couple of days and lots of help from this list. however, that was because none of the music is stored on this machine - it's all on 2 snap servers on the network. It's a solid performer - occasional dropouts but not enough to bother me. the machine doesn't really do anything other than server music although i've got apache (which never really gets hit)and an FTP server on it as well. you can buy machines like this on ebay for around 200 bucks i think. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Building a house server?
> What do people recommend for a basic house server? I'm using an old notebook computer as our house server, because it has a very low power consumption (approx. 10 watts when the disk is powered down and slightly more when the SlimServer software is streaming data). Our house server currently is a Toshiba Portege 7020 notebook (made in 1998) with a 366 MHz Pentium II CPU, a 60 GB internal disk and a 100Mbit/s cardbus ethernet card. The system is running Fedora Core 1 and SlimServer 5.4.0. The server sits in a wall-mounted kitchen cabinet in our house's utility room together with the DSL router/switch and WLAN AP. This works fine, as the notebook computer generates almost no heat. We have been using this configuration for several months now and are quite happy with it. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Building a house server?
If you are planning on a wireless B/G router (Linksys or other) consider using a Buffalo Linkstation network storage device as the media server. It can be located in a remote location (mine is in a bedroom closet, along with my Linksys Wireless Router/Network hub). It's a lot cheaper than buying an entire PC for that purpose. I bought a 300 GB one, and am ripping FLAC files to it. You'll still need a computer to run SlimServer... I use an old Compaq Evo N600 which sits in my home office. I can rip CD's while doing other work in my office. So far, the system is working flawlessly for me. -- sleepysurf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Building a house server?
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:45:54 -0700, Orb > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What do people recommend for a basic house server? > > I could get my hands on an old (very cheap) Pentium 3, 600 MHz, 256mb > > ram pc. I have a 200gb drive where my music is stored which would live > > in the house server. > > This is more than I run my single SB1, my mail server and a caching DNS on. I'm running RH9 on a P2/450 Mhz w/256 MB (I think, not sure on the ram). An 80GB drive is about half full. I'm using Slimserver 5.4.1 now. I try to limit my rescans to after I go to bed. The only time I really have a problem is when the SpamAssassin daemon goes crazy and chews up the whole CPU. That happens from time to time and I don't know why. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Building a house server?
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:45:54 -0700, Orb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do people recommend for a basic house server? I could get my hands on an old (very cheap) Pentium 3, 600 MHz, 256mb ram pc. I have a 200gb drive where my music is stored which would live in the house server. Would a machine of this (old) spec be good enough to cope with slimserver, file sharing and maybe a broadband connection in the future? I've been running a Via C3/800 (might be about as powerful as your PIII) for quite a while. No problem as SlimServer, fileserver, mailserver (3 users only), and dev webserver running Linux. Listening to a mp3 stream uses about 5% cpu, Real with AlienBBC (transcoding Real->wav->mp3) about 25%. There are people running SlimServer and Samba (fileserver) on a Buffalo Linkstation - at 250MHz! What do people recommend as a OS? I have an old copy of windows 98 floating around but what about the free OS like BSD? Forget Windows 98 if you can install something like BSD or Linux. The latter might be easier to handle as there are packages available (RPM). -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Building a house server?
I used to have a PC with a C3 700MHz CPU, 768MB RAM, Win2K. It would run SlimServer, FTP, Web and email OK, but I used to get drop-outs about once per hour. I thought this was due running the SB1 wirelessly, but I've since upgraded to a new PC (P4 CPU) and I've not had a drop-out since. The PC you mention would just about do the job under Windows, but it may be slow when you do stuff like 'Play all music', or shuffle large playlists. Also you may have problems running other apps at the same time. -- benc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
Thanks very much, that should keep me busy for a while! I've got svn by doing a 'yum install perl-SVN-Simple' - I think it came from the dies Repository but I'm not absolutely sure 'cos I spent ages trying to 'yum install svn' and adding more repos when it didn't work. -- Patrick Dixon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Building a house server?
What do people recommend for a basic house server? I could get my hands on an old (very cheap) Pentium 3, 600 MHz, 256mb ram pc. I have a 200gb drive where my music is stored which would live in the house server. Would a machine of this (old) spec be good enough to cope with slimserver, file sharing and maybe a broadband connection in the future? What do people recommend as a OS? I have an old copy of windows 98 floating around but what about the free OS like BSD? Any tips appreciated. Thanks -- Orb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
A quick click around the Community links at the top of the forums pages shows that the svn url that you're after is probably http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/server/. Try "svn co http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/server/ ". You can then cd into and do "svn update". "svn status -r" would, I think, tell you if you need to update, but I could be wrong about the -r bit - you need an argument to tell it to check the remote repository rather than just to look at your local copy. "svn help update" will tell you what you want. -- 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: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
Don't know about FC3, but Subversion is at http://subversion.tigris.org/. Once it's installed, you need to do "svn co ". From then on, you just cd to the directory where you put it and type "svn up[date]" - it will know where to go. Sorry for the skeletal response - I've never used the Slim repository - but it might at least give you some pointers. -- 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: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
"On days when the nightly builds are broken the svn archive has been available just fine in my experience. I don't know why so many people go through the hassle of reinstalling every day; all have to do each morning is: svn up sudo /etc/init.d/slimserver restart" Sounds great in theory, but doesn't seem to be quite as simple as that. Can you point me at a HOWTO that tells me where/how to get a svn client for FC3 and how to configure it so that I can just do 'svn up' - please? -- Patrick Dixon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SqueezeboxG display corruption
I noticed some weird display corruption on my SqueezeboxG over the weekend: >From time to time the display would 'roll' up and down, like a TV that had lost vertical sync. Does anyone know what causes this? I've recently moved all my hi-fi/squeezebox/router components and ramped up the scrolling refresh rate. Also, what does the little black box wrapped around the power lead do? I moved it a bit further away from the squeezebox so it was hidden down the back of my hifi cabinet. James PS. Other than that, no problems to report on v6.1! NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
