[slim] Re: Alien BBC Garbled Sound
I'm still having trouble using Neil's fixed Mplayer in Windows. The SB just freezes, usually showing 'connecting' on screen, sometimes getting past that to 'now playing [programme]' but then freezing with no audio. I then have to power cycle the Squeezebox. I've tried rebooting after updating mplayer, and tried downloading the zip file again and doing the whole process again. Any thoughts? -- neilcoburn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Unable to Connect to SlimServer from Another Host
David Thomas said the following on 11/10/2005 12:51: My Machine: RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0, wireless, running slimserver. [snip] Is there a service that I need to enable on the Linux machine to allow the connection? Something in iptables, perhaps? You'll need to open up ports 9000(TCP) and 3483 (TCP/UDP) on the RHEL server firewall. Look for something like redhat-config-securitylevel. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Live365 Session ID Invalid
I'm not sure how to sort the Live365 presets. They appear to be sorted by listener hours, not my ideal but I keep my preset list fairly short.On 10/10/05, fozzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy Owen Wrote: Log on to Live365 and add the station to your presets. With the addition of the Live365 presets to the web interface this really is the easiest way to use Live365 and Squeezebox. BTW I have a VIP membership. You can also move the menu items around so that the first menu after Now Playing is the Live365 menu.Thanks for the info.That's what I'm now having to do, but it's notideal with all the stations in one big long list and no way of sortingit.I liked the idea of having individual playlists on Slimserver i.e.one for Dance, one for Disco etc.Unless I'm missing something, I don'tthink this can be done with the Live365 presets?--fozzie___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
[slim] Re: Auto Rescan?
Excellent, am running 6.2 so will have a look tonight. Thanks Andrew -- audiofi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2 nightlies/AudioScrobbler/SlimScrobbler
Hi Payo, As far as I'm aware, both the released and CVS versions of SlimScrobbler ought to work with the 6.2 betas - though I don't have access to a Mac so I can't test it on that platform. If the admin panel is not showing, then the plugin hasn't been loaded. Check that both Scrobbler.pm and the SlimScrobbleSupport directory are available in the Plugins directory. If they are, run the server with the d_plugins flag set (you usually need to start the server with this option at a command-line, it doesn't help to set it through the server's web interface, because we need trace from startup). The d_plugins output ought to suggest why it couldn't load SlimScrobbler. Cheers, Ian -- iwp ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SHN Help Please
I was having the exact same problem (click on the play or song link, and it immediately stops) with both FLAC and shorten. I got FLAC working, but I have been unable to get SHN files working. I've tried both renaming Shortn32.exe to shorten.exe copying that file and Shrtn32.dll to my slimserver/bin/windows... path, and I've tried the same with the cygwin 3.6.0 version of shorten (as well as copying in the cygwin1.dll file), as instructed here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?Shorten Both methods have yielded nothing for me. Can this be done? And which checkboxes should I have checked in my server settings under File Types? If I check SHN/wav, SHN/flac, and SHN/mp3, will it conver to all 3 and let my client player (iTunes in this case) decide? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- tfish77 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Open/Shared WEP SB1
Hi, I've got an SB1, and have had to move my access point from 'shared key' to 'open key' WEP to accomodate my PSP which only works in 'Open' mode. I've found that it appears that my SB1 only works in 'shared' mode. Is this the case? Is there nothing i can do except choose between my PSP and my SB? Thanks. -- chris ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?
Still, the easiest way to get performance in the PC world is with new, fast systems. I'd look at a SFF system for music performance. I don't like laptops in that environment because they tend to be more fragile than I like. Not that you can let a roadie throw any computer around like they do amps and speaker stands. Get one with a handle on top. I run on an XP2200 system with 512MB of ram and 7200 RPM disks (Gentoo Linux). The performance problems are mainly due to the way the slimserver software is written. Throwing hardware at the problem will not solve those design issues. Telling people they just need to throw more money at it is not helping anyone. FL ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Finally Solved Scanning Gaps
And - if any one's interested - for the first time ALL my album art shows up properly! -- Neil Neil Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been so fed up with this I decided to try some illogical tests; for the first time I checked ALL my songs in iTunes - despite having 'Ignore Songs Disabled in iTunes' set to 'Don't Ignore'. The next rescan found all my missing songs and CDs. Something doesn't work properly here. Or have I misinterpreted the grammatically ambiguous Disabled Songs setting? Running 6.1.2 Nightly from 9th October on Win Xp. -- Neil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Open/Shared WEP SB1
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 07:45 -0700, chris wrote: Hi, I've got an SB1, and have had to move my access point from 'shared key' to 'open key' WEP to accomodate my PSP which only works in 'Open' mode. I've found that it appears that my SB1 only works in 'shared' mode. Is this the case? Is there nothing i can do except choose between my PSP and my SB? Some routers allow you to to support both types of security at the same time. E.g. my USR9106 gives me the choice of optional or required for shared key. Check if your router offers this in current or any newer firmware, otherwise you might need to invest in a new router/upgrade to an SB2/only have support for one at a time. -- 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: Problem when not running as a service
That's it, thanks so much. Is working a treat. And huge thanks for the plug-in as well, it's fantastic. Time to get the credit card out. -- AaronS ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimserver and Suse 9.1
Hi, can somebody help please. I installed Slimserver 6.1.1 from RPM and could not get to start. Trawling back I've seen various comments about Suse and have copied a startup script into /etc/init.d that I found in the discussion group. Now I can stop and start the service at will from YAST or command line but whatever I do I cant seem to get it to autostart when the system boots. Any advice would be appreciated. I'd prefer not to go away from the RPM, at least for now anyway. (I've just moved distro from Mandrake for a number of reasons, and this is one of my few items to fix). regards, robin ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets
I'm guessing it's a bug, and I haven't tried a nightly in the last couple of weeks, so it's always possible it's fixed - I'm planning on updating shortly. Cheers Geoff It was a bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248 and it was fixed about a week ago. If you try the latest nightly you'll probably find it does what you want. Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Alien BBC Garbled Sound
No - it will with the next version of Alien though I still have the problem on Radio 2 plays introduction and then silence. I can't edit perl, would this be fixed by downloading the latest night version of Squuzebox software? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets
Richie Wrote: I'm guessing it's a bug, and I haven't tried a nightly in the last couple of weeks, so it's always possible it's fixed - I'm planning on updating shortly. Cheers Geoff It was a bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248 and it was fixed about a week ago. If you try the latest nightly you'll probably find it does what you want. Multi-disc sets are no longer being grouped together properly. I just filed this bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278 I think some recent fix or another to multi-disc treatment probably caused this bug. -- JJZolx Jim ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New low price on SB2!
Asked Slim Devices about possible refund last night --- no reply yet. I received my replacement SB2 yesterday (first one couldn't power up). -- mbsb2 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver and Suse 9.1
I'd just like to point out there's a dedicated Linux forum - you're more likely to get help from people who know what they're doing over there :) -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?
ModelCitizen Wrote: It's not solely a problem with Perl code performing badly on Windows machines I saw no evidence of that. I can fire off at least 10s of requests per second to the slim server and it handles the interrupts and replies quickly. it's just that SlimServer is fundamentally flawed and needs some part of the core rewriting. I wouldn't agree with that assessement either. I would say, from past experience with performance analysis of large pieces of code, that 99% of it is fine. There's 1% that may need some rewriting. Finding and identifying that 1% is often more work than the rewriting of it. Robin Bowes was adamant that this should include making the application multi-threaded. Unfortunately his suggestion was not taken up. In retrospect it looks like it should have been. Again, I don't think that conclusion is supportable (at least not as far as I have looked into it). I read in another thread recently that someone broke it out into 2 threads fairly easily, and that solved almost all of the problem. I'm waiting to hear back from him what he did. But from what he described, the results sound plausable and the work achievable without huge expenditures of time and resources. Michael -- Michaelwagner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver and Suse 9.1
| Unfortuneatly I can't answer this, as I cannot even do what you are able | to do. I'd be happy if I could at least do that. What script did you | download to accomplish the start stop ? Did you have to do anything | else other than installing the script ? I send it directly to you if you contact me offlist, save putting a large post on the forum. I didnt do anything to it to make it work, just put it into /etc/init.d. I've been trying vsrious things since then to no avail. robin ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?
Michaelwagner Wrote: I read in another thread recently that someone broke it out into 2 threads fairly easily, and that solved almost all of the problem. I'm waiting to hear back from him what he did. But from what he described, the results sound plausable and the work achievable without huge expenditures of time and resources. Michael This thread... and I am *still* waiting to hear back from him too (hoping that the two instances of slimserver.pl do not require twice as much RAM as one process). cygwin? efficient? c'mon. Surely anyone who has tried Windows ported perl code via cygwin can easily discern that it works very badly indeed on Windows compared to the original code on Unix/Linux? MC -- ModelCitizen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Unreliable Wireless Connection
I've enabled UpnP and there is no difference, the squeezebox will only connect when the router is turned off at the plug then back on again and only within a minute or two of doing that. Furthermore, even this is not always reliable. Any suggestions? Thanks Jono -- jonolumb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: ASX stream support
sorry- those were the multimedia links I have found but I havent tested them. Jono -- jonolumb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimscrobbler- why should I have it?
I have been looking into this slimscrobbler thing- I understand it sends information to the audioscrobbler servers to tell it what you have been listening to. However,I dont understand the advantage of doing so! Is there some way you can listen to the last.fm audio streams on your squeezebox or something? Can somebody explain this idea to me? Thanks JOno -- jonolumb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimscrobbler- why should I have it?
The advantages: 1) After you've reported 'enough' they'll make automated recommendations on other things that you may be interested in. For me, it's about as accurate as Amazon's: sometimes it's oh, yeah, and I even have that around here somewhere, let me find it and rip it, how could I have missed it? and sometimes it's yeah, right... But my tastes are.. odd. People with less extreme tastes no doubt get more credible recommendations. 2) You can see what people who listen to 'similar' music are listening to lately. This may pick up more interesting music for you. 3) Your last.fm 'neighbor radio' gets closer to reality ins what you may like. You can listen to this with the last.fm player 4) Yes, there is a 'LastFM' module for Slimserver which lets you listen to stations there. (Gads and I didnt even get into 'tags' but then some of the tag stations are.. odd.) -- snarlydwarf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimscrobbler- why should I have it?
Quoting snarlydwarf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The advantages: 6) It will drive your competitive spirit to listen to more music when you see how many more songs your friends have listened to than you. 7) You'll find yourself becoming frustrated when you listen to music that isn't being 'Scrobbed, because it doesn't 'count.' 8) Your friends can make fun of you when your #1 artist of the week is Kelly Clarkson, no matter how much you protest that it was your wife listeing to the backyard Squeezebox. http://www.last.fm/user/ddewey/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?
ModelCitizen Wrote: I am *still* waiting to hear back from him too (hoping that the two instances of slimserver.pl do not require twice as much RAM as one process). The interpreter/compiler/hybrid/whatever no doubt has some RAM overhead of it's own. But I suspect the lions share of resource consumption is due to the actual perl code. If you strip function from one in order to move it to the other, the ram usage of the two will be greater than when it was monolithic, but hopefully nowhere near twice. -- Michaelwagner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?
* ModelCitizen shaped the electrons to say... cygwin? efficient? c'mon. Surely anyone who has tried Windows ported perl code via cygwin can easily discern that it works very badly indeed on Windows compared to the original code on Unix/Linux? SlimServer doesn't run using Cygwin. We use ActiveState perl on Windows, which is native code. -D -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets
On 10/11/05, Richie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was a bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248 and it was fixed about a week ago. If you try the latest nightly you'll probably find it does what you want. Richard Ok, I installed the latest nightly, and this is the summary of what works (for me): MP3 files need PARTINSET, with a string value of 1/2 or 2/2 etc. I.e., you HAVE to include both the disc number and disc count, separated by a forward-slash. You don't need any other disc count tags. Everything else that I tested (FLAC, OGG) needs both DISCNUMBER (set to the disc number within the set, 1, 2, 3 etc) and DISCC (set to the total number of discs in the set). PARTINSET does no good here. This gives me Violent Femmes (Disc 1 of 2) (2002) Violent Femmes (Disc 2 of 2) (2002) (for both MP3 and OGG / FLAC). Caveats: I don't use any of that wacky single-file-album-with-cue-sheet stuff. Most of my stuff is MP3. I only tested MP3, OGG and FLAC. Of course, this kind of sucks, because it means that I can't set up mass tagging for multi-disc albums; I have to check the file extension. I guess I know what I'm doing tonight. Cheers Geoff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?
Two cents from the Peanut Gallery It seems like people are pretty happy with performance if they have around 350 or less albums in the database. 750 albums or more is about the place where no one seems satisfied with performance. Between those quantities satisfaction varies quite a bit. I could easily have missed posts to the contrary. On the surface it looks like data handling is the bottleneck, not processing power. I have no problems running SS on w2k with a 800mhz PIII and only 256 meg ram. My database has a little less than 350 albums. Regards, Music Machine -- Music Machine ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets
Of course, this kind of sucks, because it means that I can't set up mass tagging for multi-disc albums; I have to check the file extension. I guess I know what I'm doing tonight. Cheers Geoff DISCNUMBER works for me in both flac and mp3. To be honest I've never bothered trying to set the total number of discs, I just want to see the albums listed separately. Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 15:13 -0700, Music Machine wrote: It seems like people are pretty happy with performance if they have around 350 or less albums in the database. 750 albums or more is about the place where no one seems satisfied with performance. Between those quantities satisfaction varies quite a bit. I could easily have missed posts to the contrary. I've bought a small number of albums since I upgraded my server. Right now, SS says Your music library contains 707 albums with 10480 songs by 1188 artists. I was quiet happy with the performance on my P3-500 w/384mB of ram. More power is always good, but then, I'm not at your magic 750 number. It is not clear to me what the important number is, number of albums, or songs, or artists. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Browse Genres Genre All Albums, very slow
MC: Try updating to SlimServer 6.2 beta, which has a number of performance improvements, including this kind of browsing situation. Thanks, dean On Oct 11, 2005, at 6:37 AM, ModelCitizen wrote: One of my most frequent menu choices is Browse Genres Genre All Albums. However listing All Albums is terribly slow (can be as long as a minute), leading to 99% CPU usage and audio drop-outs. Most other menu options seem sufficiently fast (now I have a dedicated SlimServer machine) apart from (possibly) Browse Albums All Songs, Browse Artists All Albums. Strangely the behaviour does not appear consistent. The wait appears to be longest the first time a particular menu is called (is this possible?). I only use the remote. I just tried Browse Genres All Albums on the web interface and it seemed OK. I realise that the listing is returning a fair few results, but should I expect it to be this slow, and for CPU usage to stay at 99%? Thanks. 813 Flac Albums Windows XP SlimServer Version: 6.1.2 - 4429 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 Squeezebox 2 MC -- ModelCitizen ___ 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] SqueezeNetwork - Slimserver - SB2 prefs
dean blackketter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Aug 16, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Dave D wrote: Is there a way to save the display preferences (or for that matter, other prefs) from Slimserver, out to SqueezeNetwork? Not yet, but we do plan on adding some settings synchronization between SlimServer and SqueezeNetwork in a future release. I hope readers won't mind my hi-jacking Dave's thread, but I would like to expand on this a little: I was (am) very impressed with SqueezeNetwork. But I am also one who likes to drive his SB from an iPAQ (I know the SB's display's brilliant but me eyesight's not what it used to be). And I don't like the (lack of) integration between SlimServer and SqueezeNetwork, the fact that players which are logged in to SqueezeNetwork vanish completely from SlimServer's radar. I understand that the point of SqueezeNetwork is to provide feeds in the absence of a SlimServer. It's just that mine's forever present and I'd appreciate if the two offerings could be integrated beyond a simple exchange of preferences. Bottom line: I'd like to be able to browse SqueezeNetwork from my iPAQ. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeNetwork - Slimserver - SB2 prefs
Quoting Olaf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bottom line: I'd like to be able to browse SqueezeNetwork from my iPAQ. in what way? the internet radio streams offered on squeezenetwork are the same as those found on slimserver. Sharing prefs will allow ssharing the favourites that are already stored on the squeezenetwork profile. If you iPaq has an internet connection, then you should also be able to access the squeezenetwork web page. It might be worth clarifying just what functionality you feel is missing. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SqueezeNetwork - Slimserver - SB2 prefs
What I'd like to see is this; when SlimServer can't be found it automatically goes to the SqueezeNetwork to show the clock, and when SlimServer is available it swaps back over. That is unless you manually left it on the SqueezeNetwork when you last turned off the SB2. And I'm not too happy that the dispay dims whilst using the SqueezeNetwork, when I prefer my display to run at full brightness all the time. Other than that, it rocks. Keep up the good work. -- CavesOfTQLT ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 wont detect new music.
I'm having an ongoing problem with that issue in iTunes. Rescanning does nothing, and slimserver seems to find different, wrong total numbers of songs in the library. The only fix I've found is to download a new version of slimserver and let it go to work scanning. Not very convenient, or confidence-inspiring. - Pat -- tubesguy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SqueezeNetwork - Slimserver - SB2 prefs
Olaf Wrote: It's just that mine's forever present and I'd appreciate if the two offerings could be integrated beyond a simple exchange of preferences. I'm confused as to why you're using SN if your server is always up? Bottom line: I'd like to be able to browse SqueezeNetwork from my iPAQ. Doesn't your ipaq have a browser? -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver and Suse 9.1
I finally was able to get the Startup script from WIKI to work. I had comment out the line in slimserver.pl - that is # $0 = slimserver; I found this in thread: http://lists.slimdevices.com/archives/developers/2004-July/009722.html I also had to go into etc/slimserver.conf and change cachedir: /usr/local/slimserver It was set to /root I found this in thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16096highlight=suse+startup P -- vwguy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 wont detect new music.
There are 2 ways to scan the music directory. One is the rescan button. The other wipes the cache of existing music and then scans fully. I'm not sure of the exact meaning of each scan, but the second one makes fewer assumptions and so gets it right more often in odd situations. Have you tried the second one? That, by the way, is what you are effectively doing when you install a new version. Michael -- Michaelwagner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 wont detect new music.
Oh, another thing. Any chance of 2 similarly named tracks? For instance, Happy Birthday.flac and Happy Birthday.mp3 ? -- Michaelwagner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2 nightlies/AudioScrobbler/SlimScrobbler
iwp Wrote: Hi Payo, Check that both Scrobbler.pm and the SlimScrobbleSupport directory are available in the Plugins directory. If they are, run the server with the d_plugins flag set (you usually need to start the server with this option at a command-line, it doesn't help to set it through the server's web interface, because we need trace from startup). The d_plugins output ought to suggest why it couldn't load SlimScrobbler. Cheers, Ian Thanks Ian, The plugin and support folder are in the right place. I have tried to set the debug flag but didn't realize I needed to do it from the cl. I've done that, here's the result: ./slimserver.pl -d_plugin2005-10-11 18:46:04.5087 Can't require Plugins::Scrobbler for Plugins menu: Can't locate Math/Round.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /Users/payote/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Plugins/SlimScrobbleSupport /Library/SlimDevices/ /Users/payote/Library/SlimDevices /Users/payote/Library/SlimDevices/Plugins/ /Library/SlimDevices/Plugins/ /Users/payote/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Plugins /Users/payote/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server /Users/payote/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN /Users/payote/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/arch/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Users/payote/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/arch/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto /Users/payote/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/arch/5.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Users/payote/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/arch/5.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto /Users/payote/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/arch/darwin-thread-multi-2level /sw/lib/perl5 /sw/lib/perl5/darwin /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .) at /Users/payote/Library/SlimDevices/Plugins/Scrobbler.pm line 52. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/payote/Library/SlimDevices/Plugins/Scrobbler.pm line 52. Compilation failed in require at (eval 65) line 3. -- el payo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem when not running as a service
Running SS 'interactively' should make no difference to performance, in fact some people believe it performs better than the service. Windows workstations are generally set to give CPU priority to foreground applications. Accordingly, most of the background services (including SlimServer) will receive a lower overall priority and appear less responsive depending on the system configuration. So the perception that it might perform better interactively is probably accurate for those running SlimServer on their local box. Of course, there are advantages to running in service mode (i.e. starts automatically and you can't accidentally shut it down), especially when installed on a dedicated application server that is configured to give priority to background tasks. -- bishopdonmiguel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem when not running as a service
That's it, thanks so much. Is working a treat. Good to hear. For the record, what was it specifically that did the trick? It would be good to know should I ever get the notion to install the iTunes thingy. -- bishopdonmiguel ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?
Music Machine wrote: Two cents from the Peanut Gallery It seems like people are pretty happy with performance if they have around 350 or less albums in the database. 750 albums or more is about the place where no one seems satisfied with performance. Between those quantities satisfaction varies quite a bit. I could easily have missed posts to the contrary. On the surface it looks like data handling is the bottleneck, not processing power. I have no problems running SS on w2k with a 800mhz PIII and only 256 meg ram. My database has a little less than 350 albums. Regards, Music Machine 728 albums with 8504 songs by 755 artists My performance is still fine on 6.1.1, though there can be some slowness in browsing music. I guess I'd better quit buying albums :) -- Jack At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin so across the Western ocean I must wander -- trad. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver and Suse 9.1
Robin Edwards wrote: Hi, can somebody help please. I installed Slimserver 6.1.1 from RPM and could not get to start. Trawling back I've seen various comments about Suse and have copied a startup script into /etc/init.d that I found in the discussion group. Now I can stop and start the service at will from YAST or command line but whatever I do I cant seem to get it to autostart when the system boots. Any advice would be appreciated. I'd prefer not to go away from the RPM, at least for now anyway. (I've just moved distro from Mandrake for a number of reasons, and this is one of my few items to fix). regards, robin ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss http://tinyurl.com/8cruh the init script needs modifying to work on SuSE. Can't blame you on Mandrake, I just switched to SuSE as well on my laptop, will switch my server when I get around to it.* * -- Jack At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin so across the Western ocean I must wander -- trad. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimscrobbler- why should I have it?
snarlydwarf wrote: The advantages: 1) After you've reported 'enough' they'll make automated recommendations on other things that you may be interested in. For me, it's about as accurate as Amazon's: sometimes it's oh, yeah, and I even have that around here somewhere, let me find it and rip it, how could I have missed it? and sometimes it's yeah, right... But my tastes are.. odd. People with less extreme tastes no doubt get more credible recommendations. ditto. 2) You can see what people who listen to 'similar' music are listening to lately. This may pick up more interesting music for you. 3) Your last.fm 'neighbor radio' gets closer to reality ins what you may like. You can listen to this with the last.fm player I have an interesting use case -- I travel a lot, and my home's uplink speed is not very good. So if I can't get to the home Slimserver, I can always listen to last.fm instead and it will have some decent music on it. http://www.last.fm/user/Stinkingpig/ -- Jack At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin so across the Western ocean I must wander -- trad. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2 nightlies/AudioScrobbler/SlimScrobbler
OK, so the problem seems to be this. With SlimServer installed for single user in OSX, the Scrobbler plug-in is looking in the wrong place... it should look for plug-ins in ~/username/Library/SlimDevices/Plugins but looks instead in the SlimServer pref pane plugins folder. Moving Scrobber.pm and SlimScrobbleSupport into the SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/Plugins/ directory solves the problem. -- el payo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2 nightlies/AudioScrobbler/SlimScrobbler
OK, SlimServer is correctly reporting to last.fm now. Thanks for your help guys. This problem likely wouldn't occur if I'd chosen the 'Install for all users' option when installing SlimServer. Ordinarily I don't install for single user, but I guess I decided to be stingy. -- el payo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Still unable to connect to Belkin wireless network
Hello all I've been having problems for a while connecting to my Belkin adsl modem and router. The slim device recognizes the network and all is well until connecting. It just keeps coming up with problem:unable to connect to wireless network. It works like a dream over ethernet but I am totally stumped as to why it won't connect wirelessly. I am assuming its something in the router setup because but of my vey limited experience I'm not sure if I've missed something. The internet works fine wirelessly but for some reason the squeezebox just won't connect. I've tried updating the firmware but no joy. I was just wondering if anyone else has had problems trying to connect a squeezebox to a belkin wireless network. Any help or advice would be very much appreciated -- matt1711 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2 nightlies/AudioScrobbler/SlimScrobbler
I should mention that as a result of this error log I compiled Math::Round via CPAN - doing this got through the error at line 52, but gave me a new error at line 57 in the Scrobbler plug-in, that's when I just decided to move SlimScrobbleSupport and Scrobbler.pm into the SlimServer.prefpane itself. I have to manually move these two files into the prefpane each time I update to the newest nightly. Tracking down this error also allowed me to solve a problem I was having with th iTunes Update plugin. Again I needed to move the plugin directly into the SlimServer.prefpane -- Either I have a seriously messed up PATH file or this is a common problem across a number of plugins. -- el payo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Still unable to connect to Belkin wireless network
If you want help or advice, you're going to have to give us the network setup details, your configuration, etc. In a previous post, Ceejay threw out some things for your consideration. Did you follow-up on those? If so, please post more to help diagnose what's going on. *) What model belkin? *) Are the SSIDs the exact same on both the SB2 and the AP? *) Is your security still disabled on both? *) Have you verified the MAC address on your SB2 matches that on the bottom label? and for later *) Are you running a DHCP server on your router/AP? *) Is the firewall configured to allow access? -- MrC ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?
And another 2c: I ran Slimserver (up to 5.4) on a dual PII-733 box, 1GB RAM for several years - mostly OK. I now run the latest 'official' release on a P4 3Ghz box with 1.5GB RAM under Windows 2003 Small Business Server and it mostly performs at rocket speed - there are however significant delays (3-8 seconds) when navigating right from 'browse artists' or 'browse albums' before the list of artists/albums is displayed. Once displayed I can navigate through the list at high speed. I suspect that the source of my particular problem is as follows: 2596 albums with 48489 songs by 6223 artists Regards Richard -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 October 2005 03:01 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations? Music Machine wrote: Two cents from the Peanut Gallery It seems like people are pretty happy with performance if they have around 350 or less albums in the database. 750 albums or more is about the place where no one seems satisfied with performance. Between those quantities satisfaction varies quite a bit. I could easily have missed posts to the contrary. On the surface it looks like data handling is the bottleneck, not processing power. I have no problems running SS on w2k with a 800mhz PIII and only 256 meg ram. My database has a little less than 350 albums. Regards, Music Machine 728 albums with 8504 songs by 755 artists My performance is still fine on 6.1.1, though there can be some slowness in browsing music. I guess I'd better quit buying albums :) -- Jack At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin so across the Western ocean I must wander -- trad. ___ 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: Best Performance - recommendations?
It seems like people are pretty happy with performance if they have around 350 or less albums in the database. 750 albums or more is about the place where no one seems satisfied with performance. Between those quantities satisfaction varies quite a bit. I could easily have missed posts to the contrary. I've well over 1000 albums on a 1.4 GHz Athlon. Performance is absolutely fine. Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
