[slim] Re: Scanning huge disks question
ob_kook Wrote: MrC - don't worry about it! I know a bit about storage due to my job, but am in no way an engineer and am always challenged by F/S issues and networking. As I said, your post was helpful. What I meant by block level is that although SANmelody runs on Windows, it does not put any kind of signature on the disk. It is served as raw blocks. Therefore, it can create and serve disks to any operating system (well, any that has either a Fibre Channel or an iSCSI driver written for it) including Windows, Linux, various flavors of Unix, Novell, Mac, and even VMware. Each of those can use virtual disks as if you actually plugged a physical drive into it. Would it be fair to describe it as a lower cost, DIY, potentially higher performance alternative to a standalone iSCSI system (such as Promise)? I haven't used iSCSI yet myself but it seems like a sound concept... RAID subsystems work great but are too expensive on a per-GB basis for home servers. -- seanadams ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 went bonkers
If you ask have I done anything special recently before the occurrence. Well, I tried the 6.2 nightly on the same PC (I uninstalled 6.1.1 then installed 6.2). This involves firmware upgrade to 16. The key feature I was looking for in 6.2 was not working correctly so I performed a rollback to 6.1.1. All firmware updates were successful. The rollback was ok. The SB2 worked fine. I started noticing the weird problem only after the upgrade and downgrade exercise. Have I done anything wrong in the process? -- kbelinski ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Scanning huge disks question
seanadams Wrote: Would it be fair to describe it as a lower cost, DIY, potentially higher performance alternative to a standalone iSCSI system (such as Promise)? I haven't used iSCSI yet myself but it seems like a sound concept... RAID subsystems work great but are too expensive on a per-GB basis for home servers. At the lowest entry point, it would be fair to say what you mentioned above, with the addition that it is much easier to create and allocate disks on the fly and with no disruption using SANmelody as opposed to a standalone solution. For SMB's and Enterprise, the fact that they can keep their storage management practice in place while upgrading underlying hardware, and also use different manufacturers storage arrays is a huge benefit. (When you upgrade a storage array you also throw away the software functionality which is bound within the hardware as opposed to ugrading the server as with you would with most applcations.) Regarding iSCSI, we have found that the performance approximates that of FC at the 1GB level (without using TOE's). -- ob_kook ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 went bonkers
SB2 was working fine since last evening. I will continue to monitor and if it happens again I will get in touch with SD support. Thanks for the advice, Sean. -- kbelinski ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backup: REV drive or external HD?
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:04 -0700, JayNYC wrote: What is the general consensus on the best way to back up our 250GB+ and growing FLAC collections? REV drive and a few REV disks stored at a friends house in event of fire or external hard drive etc.. A REV drive only appears to hold 35GB, so for 250GB you'll need 6 disks, and it looks like the list price for this is nearly $600. A much better idea (IMHO) is an external USB attached hard disk. You can probably pick up a 250GB (or bigger) disk, and put it in a USB case for about $150. You can still disconnect the drive and take it somewhere else for safety if you want to and you don't have to faff around with multiple disks etc. -- 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: How to find my iTunes Playlists ?
There should be a 'use iTunes' section between playlist folder and rescan library! Have you got the 'iTunes' plugin enabled in the plugins section? -- James ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backup: REV drive or external HD?
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:04 -0700, JayNYC wrote: What is the general consensus on the best way to back up our 250GB+ and growing FLAC collections? Depends on how paranoid you are. I just keep the original CDs and will re-rip if I have to. The cheapest practical approach is probably to get another 300GB disk and copy all the files over to it. It will take a long time, many hours, maybe a couple of days, depending.on lots of things. Using something like DVDs is impractical, it would take 100 or more of them. Whether you want external, internal, etc. is more of a personal decision. Of course, you should do backups and then take the backup media offsite, even if you just take them to work and put them in a drawer. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?
In terms of absoloute recovery, I still have all the original CDs. To guard against having to rip them all, I have the entire filesystem duplicated on two seperate machines, manually synced whenever I make a change (no autosync to guard against oops moments!). To guard against fire - insurance. -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Podcasts
Hello, Anyone how long you can pause a streaming podcast for. I'm talking about podcasts listened to via the podcast plugin. I have paused a podcast before and when I resume it, it plays for a short while and then restarts from the begining, which is a bit of a pain since you cannot fast forward or rewind podcasts. Cheers -- JonM ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What I want, what I really really want is...
I know this isn't quite what you're after, but I thought it was interesting anyway. I was walking past Brookstone yesterday (I wouldn't normally take any notice as everything they sell is basically junk) but they had one of these playing on a table outside the store: http://tinyurl.com/dy9ul (apologies for long link) Anyway - it sounded pretty damn good, and looked very outdoor proof. It's wireless, but not in the same sense as the SB. You hook the little transmitter up to your indoor hifi and whatever you play on it is piped outdoors. Still, nice little unit. -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox skips end of track
Forgot to post here last night --- I've added a working .mp3 file to the bug report. I would, of course, be interested to know what the differences are between those files... -- Nick McGrogan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to find my iTunes Playlists ?
There is no use iTunes section in my slimserver menu. The iTunes plugin is enabled. Here is an answer I got on mail, but I have not tried this solution yet. Hi, We've encountered a couple of problems that seem to occur when iTunes is being used but the library or XML file have been moved from their default locations. It can also cause the 'Use iTunes' option to vanish... To get iTunes recognized again on this system, we should: - stop slimserver by right-clicking the system tray icon - remove the slimserver.pref file (in C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\) - remove the slimserversql.db file (in C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\cache\) - restart the server - go in to Server Settings and turn Use iTunes on. If the Use iTunes option is still not present, do the following: - go to server settings - itunes - specify itunes xml file location manually (example: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music Library.xml) - specifying the alternate music folder location - setting it to specify itunes library location manually - restart slimserver - rescan music library from server settings with the clear cache checkbox checked If Use iTunes still does not show up: - stop the server - click start - click run - type in 'services.msc' and hit enter - find slimserver in the list and double-click it - click Log On, and set it to Log On to your username - specify your password and verify it. then click apply and close out services - restart SlimServer using the system tray icon -- mrmattis ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: How to find my iTunes Playlists ?
Do try this and let us know what works. Thanks, dean On Aug 23, 2005, at 7:35 AM, mrmattis wrote: There is no use iTunes section in my slimserver menu. The iTunes plugin is enabled. Here is an answer I got on mail, but I have not tried this solution yet. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?
If you are running Windows, I'd recommend buying another hard drive of same controller type and same or greater size. Also get a removable disc tray (these cost about $20) and Norton Ghost 2003. Create a bootable Ghost floppy or CD-R, then as often as you like, power-down, insert your backup disc, power up with the Ghost disc, clone the drive, power-down, remove backup disc and store in secure location, remove the Ghost disc, power-up. For me, using 80GB UATA-100 drives, a 60GB data backup takes about 25 minutes. Easy as cake. -- bishopdonmiguel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?
I respectfully disagree with Pat. I am backing up to DVD+R, although I admit that this is a hundred times more convenient if done at the same time as ripping your collection in the first place. I might make a different decision if I already had all the rips done. I'm finding that one DVD+R is holding anywhere between 12 and 16 CDs in FLAC format which, at half an hour per CD to rip, fix up tags, download cover art, etc is about the limit to what my patience will allow me to rip in a day. This means however that I have found a system that works perfectly for me. I rip about 15 CDs during a day and then just before I go to bed I set a DVD backup going to create the next DVD in my backup set and do a read-back verification on the media. I'm also keeping a simple text document that records which CDs are archived onto each DVD so that if I have a localised corruption then I know which DVD to pull out to recover a file or directory. Since the backup happens while I sleep and is interleaved with my ripping activities it effectively takes me no time at all. I only have about 700 CDs in my collection and I'm estimating about 50 DVDs but even at UK prices this is only costing me about $17 in blanks (and they're not bargain basement blanks, they're top rated media) and you can get very nice 100 CD/DVD storage wallets to hold them all in one neat case that fits on a bookshelf. Once I've caught up and ripped/archived my entire collection then as I buy new stuff I'll rip it and add the newly ripped CDs to my text file under the category un-archived. Once my list of un-archived CDs gets to 16 (or whatever fills a blank DVD) then I'll burn them onto a new DVD and reset my un-archived list to empty. As with others, I always have my original CDs as the ultimate backup (and legal proof of ownership). - Julian -- JulianL ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Same album title, different artists
If I install the 6.2 beta will it treat duplicate album titles by different artists as separate items I didn't get an answer to this yesterday so I just went ahead and tried the beta. The answer is no. So why was 6.2 beta suggested to me? It actually makes things worse than before. I took the album titles 'X' and 'Stand Up' out of the common titles listing, wiped and rescanned, and they are are still grouped under one album with 6.2. The responses in this thread led me to believe this would not be the case. I left the album title 'Shine' listed under common album titles and now it is listed 3 times when it only should be 2 albums (by Cyndi Lauper and Daniel Lanois). For some reason the Daniel Lanois album is split up with half the songs under one entry for 'Shine' and half under the another. I've looked at the tags and they are correct. Also in this 6.2 beta I can no longer generate a MusicMagic mix either from the WebUI or from the player. -- MeSue Sue ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Strange New Behavior - Squeezebox Goes Blank
I have a Squeezebox that was running on the last official 5.x build and I noticed the other day that the Squeezebox would just go blank after a bit, even though it's set to show the clock. Thinking the SW was busted, I upgraded to the latest version, and that still remains. Any ideas? The server hasn't really been adjusted. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB2 Power DVD for Home Theatre Playback
Newbie here, so please be gentle if I ask something which has already been answered. I'm a strickly a two channel guys BUT have a Home Theatre which currently uses PowerDVD to Project on a screen and sound via a long coax cable from my Computer, to an external DAC. As a Video player PowerDVD offers MANY different setting for me to virtually create surround sounds through my two speakers setup. This setup is effective in doing the overall job and suits me well. Anyhoo, once I purchase a SB2, and integrate into my current setup, will I be able to channel the downmixed 5.1 information to my Stereo, as I currently do. This is pretty important to me. All feedback regarding this would be VERY much appreciated. Thanx much Fred in Canada -- Fredly ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Strange New Behavior - Squeezebox Goes Blank
You might have hit the brightness button while it was in screensaver mode. Next time it does that, hit the brightness button again and see if it comes back. -dean On Aug 23, 2005, at 9:37 AM, Jon Schalliol wrote: I have a Squeezebox that was running on the last official 5.x build and I noticed the other day that the Squeezebox would just go blank after a bit, even though it's set to show the clock. Thinking the SW was busted, I upgraded to the latest version, and that still remains. Any ideas? The server hasn't really been adjusted. ___ 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] Multiple Slimservers on OS X?
Hello, Is it possible to run 2 Slimservers on one OS X machine at the same time? I am trying to connect to Slimserver, 2 players with the same IP address (behind the same firewall ), but Slimserver thinks they are the same player since they have the same IP address. If I could run 2 Slimservers on different ports, I think that would fix the problem. I couldn't figure this out when I browsed the startup files. Darrin -- darrinbutts ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Backup: REV drive or external HD?
Personally, I use an extra external hard disc. It's more expensive, but it's a little quicker/easier, and it means that any tweeks made to the tags as I go along are also backed up (I'm forever fixing small mistakes in stuff I thought was correct first time round). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JayNYC Sent: 23 August 2005 05:05 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Backup: REV drive or external HD? What is the general consensus on the best way to back up our 250GB+ and growing FLAC collections? REV drive and a few REV disks stored at a friends house in event of fire or external hard drive etc.. -- JayNYC ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB2 Power DVD for Home Theatre Playback
Newbie here, so please be gentle if I ask something which has already been answered. I'm a strickly a two channel guys BUT have a Home Theatre which currently uses PowerDVD to Project on a screen and sound via a long coax cable from my Computer, to an external DAC. As a Video player PowerDVD offers MANY different setting for me to virtually create surround sounds through my two speakers setup. This setup is effective in doing the overall job and suits me well. Anyhoo, once I purchase a SB2, and integrate into my current setup, will I be able to channel the downmixed 5.1 information to my Stereo, as I currently do. This is pretty important to me. All feedback regarding this would be VERY much appreciated. Thanx much Fred in Canada -- Fredly If you're asking to match the video from your computer (powerDVD) to audio delivered via a powerDVD - squeezebox2 - stereo setup then the short answer is that it's not possible/feasible. Please see this bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643 Routing audio output from an application to the squeezebox is certainly possible (see the bug listing for a couple of suggestions), but the squeezebox is not really natively designed for this and there would be nightmarish issues related to delay and buffering that would render matching audio to the projected image nearly impossible. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 went bonkers
seanadams Wrote: That's a lovely ostrich - BTW they make delicious burgers in case you haven't tried one. And one heck of a large omlette. kbelinski Wrote: I knew sombody would complain about it. Sorry. I have now turned that into an ostrich Oh, no complaint meant at all, nor request to change it. I was thinking along the lines of those cartoon characters, that when they spot something perplexing, their heads spin in circles accompanied by those wonderful cartoon sound effects. -- MrC ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] SB2 Power DVD for Home Theatre Playback
Don't know what you mean by 'downmixed 5.1 information' exactly, but my (wireless) SB2 streams multichannel (DTS) WAV's without problem. I have not tried multichannel WMA's etc. yet Peter -Original Message- From: Fredly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 23 augustus 2005 18:57 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] SB2 Power DVD for Home Theatre Playback Newbie here, so please be gentle if I ask something which has already been answered. I'm a strickly a two channel guys BUT have a Home Theatre which currently uses PowerDVD to Project on a screen and sound via a long coax cable from my Computer, to an external DAC. As a Video player PowerDVD offers MANY different setting for me to virtually create surround sounds through my two speakers setup. This setup is effective in doing the overall job and suits me well. Anyhoo, once I purchase a SB2, and integrate into my current setup, will I be able to channel the downmixed 5.1 information to my Stereo, as I currently do. This is pretty important to me. All feedback regarding this would be VERY much appreciated. Thanx much Fred in Canada -- Fredly ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:03 -0700, JulianL wrote: I respectfully disagree with Pat. I am backing up to DVD+R, No problem, I was just trying to say that there is no consensus. For me, using 50 to 70 DVDs is just not all that attractive. Now that I've added a couple of DVD burners to my systems, it is a lot easier to consider. One other poster said that they have lots of tweaks of tags and meta data, which is something that really needs to be properly backed up. Re-ripping is painful to imagine, altho it isn't physically hard. Remembering what was wrong with the FreeDB/cddb data, and what you fixed is much worse. Backing up the slimserver database, which should have all the critical meta data is separate, and should be lots easier, than backing up the flac files. The important thing is to think about how important backups are to you, and decide what you want to backup, and then do it. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: XMRadio via Slim/Squeeze
I was also hoping for this until I tried out XM Online and saw/heard they stream their music channels at 32K (probably WMA). The sound is just terrible - makes regular XM sound like wonderful and that says alot... -- Chop ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?
I agree with the last couple of posts, tweaking the inevitable tag errors is the big problem (what, you don't get your tags right first time, every time? Oops, nor do I!). The way I incorporate this into my DVD backup scheme is that whenever I discover a tagging error I fix it on my hard drive and then document the fix in the text file where I have the catalogue of which CDs are stored on which backup DVD, e.g. Mr Lucky [ Genre set to Blues ]. If I get to about 5 fixes up on a DVD then I'll probably recut the DVD. Ultimately I definitely agree with Pat, there is no consensus. All I would say is that, if you're starting out your Slim Devices adventures from scratch and are just starting to rip your collection, and you have a DVD writer on your system, then I suggest my system as a cheapskate's solution to the backup problem. - Julian -- JulianL ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?
I use this very nice piece of Windows software called Second Copy. http://www.secondcopy.com/ Basically, you give it a source folder and a destination folder. The destination can be on another hard disk or even another computer on your LAN. Then you just tell it to keep the two in sync. So I simply put additional music files in my Slimserver music folder hierarchy. Then, silently, at night, Second Copy copies over just the new or changed files. Works great. Never gets in the way. Yeah, I suppose I could have written a perl script to do something similar, but Second Copy is dirt cheap and works really well. I am using it to backup my music files as well as pictures and other stuff from machine to machine within my home. -- BBobley ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?
BBobley Wrote: I use this very nice piece of Windows software called Second Copy. http://www.secondcopy.com/ Basically, you give it a source folder and a destination folder. The destination can be on another hard disk or even another computer on your LAN. Then you just tell it to keep the two in sync. So I simply put additional music files in my Slimserver music folder hierarchy. Then, silently, at night, Second Copy copies over just the new or changed files. Works great. Never gets in the way. Yeah, I suppose I could have written a perl script to do something similar, but Second Copy is dirt cheap and works really well. Wow! They charge $30 for a GUI on top of robocopy? I'm in the wrong business. The script I use to do the same thing is: robocopy /MIR source dest -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Same album title, different artists
Thanks for the reply. It's good to know it's being worked on. By the way, most of the duplicate album names that I left in the common titles section are now listed multiple times for the same artist. I did the logging of d_musicmagic and the problem only occurs when I have certain filters selected for the mix filter. It works fine for some filters and with other filters I get nothing. Here is what the log shows when it fails: 2005-08-23 18:41:31.5759 MusicMagic: read cacheid of 1124771116 2005-08-23 18:41:31.6166 MusicMagic: got status - idle 2005-08-23 18:41:35.6312 MusicMagic: filter ! No Junk in use. 2005-08-23 18:41:35.6315 Musicmagic: request http://localhost:10002/api/mix?albu m%3DU2%40%40Achtung%20Babyvariety=9filter=! No Junkstyle=0sizetype=trackssi ze=25 2005-08-23 18:41:35.8385 Musicmagic Error - Couldn't get mix: album%3DU2%40%40Ac htung%20Babyvariety=9filter=! No Junkstyle=0sizetype=trackssize=25 2005-08-23 19:04:59.1247 MusicMagic: filter No Country in use. 2005-08-23 19:04:59.1287 Musicmagic: request http://localhost:10002/api/mix?albu m%3DChris%20Isaak%40%40Always%20Got%20Tonightvariety=9filter=No Countrystyle= 0sizetype=trackssize=25 2005-08-23 19:04:59.1550 Musicmagic Error - Couldn't get mix: album%3DChris%20Is aak%40%40Always%20Got%20Tonightvariety=9filter=No Countrystyle=0sizetype=tra ckssize=25 2005-08-23 19:06:11.5634 MusicMagic: filter Favorite Genres in use. 2005-08-23 19:06:11.5681 Musicmagic: request http://localhost:10002/api/mix?albu m%3DEric%20Clapton%40%40Another%20Ticketvariety=9filter=Favorite Genresstyle= 0sizetype=trackssize=25 2005-08-23 19:06:11.5734 Musicmagic Error - Couldn't get mix: album%3DEric%20Cla pton%40%40Another%20Ticketvariety=9filter=Favorite Genresstyle=0sizetype=tra ckssize=25 I was going to roll back to 6.1.2, but I now I don't want to give up the mix filters with MusicMagic. What else can I do to help you guys fix the duplicate albums problem? -- MeSue Sue ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?
radish said the following on 23/08/2005 23:51: BBobley Wrote: I use this very nice piece of Windows software called Second Copy. http://www.secondcopy.com/ Basically, you give it a source folder and a destination folder. The destination can be on another hard disk or even another computer on your LAN. Then you just tell it to keep the two in sync. So I simply put additional music files in my Slimserver music folder hierarchy. Then, silently, at night, Second Copy copies over just the new or changed files. Works great. Never gets in the way. Yeah, I suppose I could have written a perl script to do something similar, but Second Copy is dirt cheap and works really well. Wow! They charge $30 for a GUI on top of robocopy? I'm in the wrong business. http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=108f89b9-be0b-4ec4-9736-3a43d39f0146 R. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: XMRadio via Slim/Squeeze
I get 96 kbps on their stream and it sounds OK, not great. A lot better than the BBC. -- jarome ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to find my iTunes Playlists ?
I get the no iTunes playlists problem as well quite frequently (once a week). I usually end up reinstalling the SB2 6.1.1 server software from scratch to fix it. When I reinstall the server software the use iTunes option is in the Server Settings options page but then subsequently disappears (I think when I rescan my library with clear cache checked). Pretty frustrating because I need to clear my library often due to maintenance I do to my MP3 tags (mostly consolidating Artist names). I have posted my issues a few times in this forum and things are generally working ok right now but jsut this morning I had to reinstall again. -- hal9000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: XMRadio via Slim/Squeeze
I just checked the stream and it is a steady 140 kbps for the classical channel (110). I think different channels have different rates. -- jarome ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Same album title, different artists
Quoting MeSue [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the reply. It's good to know it's being worked on. By the way, most of the duplicate album names that I left in the common titles section are now listed multiple times for the same artist. I did the logging of d_musicmagic and the problem only occurs when I have certain filters selected for the mix filter. It works fine for some filters and with other filters I get nothing. Here is what the log shows when it fails: Have you tried creating these same mixes in MusicMagicMixer with the same filters, style, variety, size and type settings? If MusicMagic can't create an applicable mix, it will report couldn't get mix as well as when the seed is not valid. I was going to roll back to 6.1.2, but I now I don't want to give up the mix filters with MusicMagic. What else can I do to help you guys fix the duplicate albums problem? Check out the various 'duplicate entry' bugs in bugs.slimdevices.com and see if any match up with what you see. if not, create a new report. Zip up your slimserversql.db file, and perhaps also a copy of your slimserver.pref file. Make sure these are from the very latest 6.2 build and after a rescan, with clear library checked. -kdf -- NOT a Slim Devices employee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Same album title, different artists
Have you tried creating these same mixes in MusicMagicMixer with the same filters, style, variety, size and type settings? If MusicMagic can't create an applicable mix, it will report couldn't get mix as well as when the seed is not valid. I just tried it and got a mix just fine in MMM. Check out the various 'duplicate entry' bugs in bugs.slimdevices.com and see if any match up with what you see. if not, create a new report. Zip up your slimserversql.db file, and perhaps also a copy of your slimserver.pref file. Make sure these are from the very latest 6.2 build and after a rescan, with clear library checked. I'll try to do that later this week when I have more time. -- MeSue Sue ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Strange New Behavior - Squeezebox Goes Blank
Quoting Jon Schalliol [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a Squeezebox that was running on the last official 5.x build and I noticed the other day that the Squeezebox would just go blank after a bit, even though it's set to show the clock. Thinking the SW was busted, I upgraded to the latest version, and that still remains. Any ideas? The server hasn't really been adjusted. press the brightness button on the remote. Does that have any effect? -kdf-- NOT a Slim Devices employee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimserver eating my memory.
I could no longer see the tracks in Browse Music on my SB. Just the artists, and album names. Yet I could select an album, and it would play all the tracks. So I attempted to do a rescan, and my Gentoo Linux box became so unresponsive, I couldn't even shut it down. When I restart slimserver, the memory usage goes through the roof (768MB Ram), and all my swap space gets used up, then everything dies again. I also see this looping in the console Code: utf8 \xB4 does not map to Unicode at /usr/local/slimserver/Slim/Formats/Parse.pm line 153, GEN8 line 34. utf8 \xB4 does not map to Unicode at /usr/local/slimserver/Slim/Formats/Parse.pm line 153, GEN8 line 34. utf8 \xB4 does not map to Unicode at /usr/local/slimserver/Slim/Formats/Parse.pm line 153, GEN8 line 34. -- stuorguk ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver eating my memory.
* stuorguk shaped the electrons to say... I could no longer see the tracks in Browse Music on my SB. Just the artists, and album names. Yet I could select an album, and it would play all the tracks. So I attempted to do a rescan, and my Gentoo Linux box became so unresponsive, I couldn't even shut it down. When I restart slimserver, the memory usage goes through the roof (768MB Ram), and all my swap space gets used up, then everything dies again. This has been fixed in the 6.2 nightlies. -D -- There was supposed to be a big kaboom. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Play one thing, display another?
I had a need this morning to see what was going on with a particular news story this morning, but still wanted to listen to music. So, it got me thinking... Can the squeezebox play a song (or playlist), but scroll through an xml feed from a web site while doing so? Paul ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play one thing, display another?
On 23-Aug-05, at 7:25 PM, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: I had a need this morning to see what was going on with a particular news story this morning, but still wanted to listen to music. So, it got me thinking... Can the squeezebox play a song (or playlist), but scroll through an xml feed from a web site while doing so? absolutely. play a song, then navigate to plugins-RSS News. scroll through the items you've set at your own pace, line by line. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
