Re: [slim] Status indicator for built-in vs server decoding?
the server will try to play a file with no conversion at all, ideally. if the input format doesn't match any natively supported type or if the "built-in" option has been disabled in file types, then it will look for a conversion in order of preference. For SB this is FLAC, WAV, MP3. SB1 is WAV then MP3 and slimp3 plays mp3 only. the first enabled conversion is used, seemlessly. You can check a song's file type from the songinfo page of the web UI, or the trackInfo mode in the player (press RIGHT from the track display). Native file types will always play native if they are enabled. there is no display, aside from the check boxes in server settings->file types. If your player is set for bitrate limiting, then all output is forced to mp3 at the specified bitrate. The trackinfo will show the converted rate (as "converted to xxx") in trackInfo, and the Now Playing section of the web interface will also show this. -kdf On 24-Aug-05, at 8:13 PM, kbelinski wrote: The SB2 supports native FLAC decoding. I think that is configurable at Server Settings -> File Types. A couple of questions: 1. If both FLAC decoding at Server and built-in FLAC decoding are checked, which one takes precedence? 2. Is there an easy visual indicator to tell whether SB2 is decoding FLAC natively vs a server-transcode? -- kbelinski ___ 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: SB2 Stops Responding
Just to bring some closure to this thread I did the debugging as suggested by KDF for four days and this problem never happened during that time. Then I decided I didn't need to see the temperature on the SB2 since I have a wireless thermometer in the next room, so I removed SuperDateime as my screen saver. None of the other plugins I am using query the Internet and this problem hasn't recurred, so I suppose it was something to do a flaky dialup connection. -- MeSue Sue ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Same album title, different artists
I downloaded the 8/24 nightly for 6.2. Erased my slimserversql.db file. Installed. After the rescan, the duplicate album names that I HAD listed in "common album titles" seem to be fine, with one exception: "The Hits" by REO Speedwagon is listed 6 times. This is probably because I listed song year for those that I knew. The duplicate albums titles that were NOT listed under "common album titles" are still all grouped together. Examples: "X by Various Artists" shows one album by INXS and one by Def Leppard, all mixed together. "Stand Up" shows three albums all mixed together one by Dave Matthews Band, one by Jethro Tull, and one by The Del Fuegos. Note that on once case the Album shows "Various Artists" and in the other, no artist is shown in the Album list. This goes back to my original message #1, for which there is already a bug report (1378). Do you want another bug report filed since this is still happening in 6.2? Do you still want me to upload my slimserversql.db? That might be difficult because I'm dialup and it's over 11MB, but I can queue it up before I go to bed some night if it will be helpful. -- MeSue Sue ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Status indicator for built-in vs server decoding?
The SB2 supports native FLAC decoding. I think that is configurable at Server Settings -> File Types. A couple of questions: 1. If both FLAC decoding at Server and built-in FLAC decoding are checked, which one takes precedence? 2. Is there an easy visual indicator to tell whether SB2 is decoding FLAC natively vs a server-transcode? -- kbelinski ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 Power over Ethernet?
I've got a dlink DWL-p200 (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=332&sec=0) that I bought for my home broadband (long distance 802.11, I live in the mountains). I switched providers and no longer need it. It'll do 2.5A @ 5V, which should be fine (as noted below). $25 + USPS shipping to whoever wants it. I also have 3 DHP-100 powerline adapters for sale (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=4). These are handy if you don't want to mess with Wi-Fi, or have issues w/ 2.4GHz interference from other sources. These are $35/ + USPS shipping. Buy all 3 and shipping's free. All items in near new condition, original boxes with manuals, disks, etc. -bill -- wyldbill ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 and WEEI
Yan Tran Wrote: > > Yan > What! Another Yan(n). Doppleganger! There can be only one... ;) y. -- Yannzola ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB2 and WEEI
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that WEEI's station is now doing some sort of bizarro handshake that only WMP understands. I never thought to try to stream WEEI to an SB before. I'll have to try tonight since my radio's reception of WEEI is poor in my home. Yan On 8/24/05, bobr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After weeks and weeks of working fine, the internet radio station athttp://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/weei no longer works on my SB2. Continuesto work fine on Windows Media Player. Not only does it never connect, but I have to stop the slimserver andrestart it. Otherwise it is perpetually hungup. This on v6.1.1Any ideas.Thanks--bobrbobr___ Discuss mailing listDiscuss@lists.slimdevices.comhttp://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- Yan Tranhttp://www.yantran.com___Why do people run from me? --Ralph Wiggum ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Play one thing, display another?
If you want that behavior permanently, you could also set the "screensaver to use while playing" setting (under player settings) to the RSS feed. -- superbad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
FS: POE and Powerline adapters WAS: [slim] SB2 Power over Ethernet?
I've got a dlink DWL-p200 (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=332&sec=0) that I bought for my home broadband (long distance 802.11, I live in the mountains). I switched providers and no longer need it. It'll do 2.5A @ 5V, which should be fine (as noted below). $25 + USPS shipping to whoever wants it. I also have 3 DHP-100 powerline adapters for sale (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=4). These are handy if you don't want to mess with Wi-Fi, or have issues w/ 2.4GHz interference from other sources. These are $35/ + USPS shipping. Buy all 3 and shipping's free. All items in near new condition, original boxes with manuals, disks, etc. -bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Dunn Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 2:52 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] SB2 Power over Ethernet? If the SB2 has the same 2.0A 5V PSU requirements as the Slimp3s and SB1 then In theory, this should be possible. You are pretty much right at the edge of the POE spec but there is a little margin. Yes you can buy POE adapters that inject at one end and have another device at the other end to extract a DC voltage, leaving the end device with a normal Ethernet connection and separate PSU connection. D-Link even do one which supplies 5V at 2.5A; it might meet your needs ( http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=48 ). Cost isn't cheap though (US $45) and you'd need to make sure you get a good 5V regulated output from it. James Just an idle thought - where I work we use IP phones powered over the LAN wiring using Power over Ethernet (IEEE802.3af). Could this also be used to power a Squeezebox2? I don't know very much about these things however are there such things as an off-the-shelf adaptor for Power over Ethernet that would be suitable for a SB2 power input? ___ 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: SB2 went bonkers
I just found a faster way to recover from this problem. Just unplug from power source and leave idle for 15 minutes. Reconnect power and execute a factory reset. Reconfigure all network parameters connect... all will be ok. This problem has occurred no less than 6 times since last weekend. I have written in to SlimSupport to request for a swap out. -- kbelinski ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 went bonkers
Hi Sean, It happened again a moment ago. Exactly the same sympton. I am calling [EMAIL PROTECTED] for help. seanadams Wrote: > Congratulations, this is the most bizarre failure we've ever heard of. I > have no idea what would cause it - maybe a bad memory chip or power > supply... so strange. > > If it happens frequently please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] so we > can get it swapped out. Never heard of anything like this and would > like to take a look at this one if it ends up coming in for > replacement. -- kbelinski ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB2 and WEEI
After weeks and weeks of working fine, the internet radio station at http://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/weei no longer works on my SB2. Continues to work fine on Windows Media Player. Not only does it never connect, but I have to stop the slimserver and restart it. Otherwise it is perpetually hungup. This on v6.1.1 Any ideas. Thanks -- bobr bobr ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?
I use a RAID1 setup on Linux. Just plug in a second HardDisk with a partition of equal size of your audio drive, and mount the pair of them as Raid1. Everything is then mirrored, and if one drive fails, I get an e-mail to tell me so. Surprisingly easy to set up too. Doesn't cover you from fire, theft or accidental deletion, but it lowers the risk of having to re-rip everything again, and if one drive does fail, it buys you a bit of time to sort it out without any downtime. Stuart. -- stuorguk ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?
I was going to post the same thing! Robocopy is all you need, and it's free (you might have to download one of MS's toolkits to get it). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of radish Sent: 23 August 2005 23:51 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [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 -- 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
RE: [slim] SB2 Power over Ethernet?
If the SB2 has the same 2.0A 5V PSU requirements as the Slimp3s and SB1 then In theory, this should be possible. You are pretty much right at the edge of the POE spec but there is a little margin. Yes you can buy POE adapters that inject at one end and have another device at the other end to extract a DC voltage, leaving the end device with a normal Ethernet connection and separate PSU connection. D-Link even do one which supplies 5V at 2.5A; it might meet your needs ( http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=48 ). Cost isn't cheap though (US $45) and you'd need to make sure you get a good 5V regulated output from it. James Just an idle thought - where I work we use IP phones powered over the LAN wiring using Power over Ethernet (IEEE802.3af). Could this also be used to power a Squeezebox2? I don't know very much about these things however are there such things as an off-the-shelf adaptor for Power over Ethernet that would be suitable for a SB2 power input? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB2 Power over Ethernet?
Just an idle thought - where I work we use IP phones powered over the LAN wiring using Power over Ethernet (IEEE802.3af). Could this also be used to power a Squeezebox2? I don't know very much about these things however are there such things as an off-the-shelf adaptor for Power over Ethernet that would be suitable for a SB2 power input? -- poneill ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver eating my memory.
yep, spot on - all works again. Thanks. -- stuorguk ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
