[slim] Wpa-aes
Does SB3 support WPA-AES? I can connect SB3 using WPA-Personal if I set my WLAN with WPA TKIP encryption but not with WPA AES. Not all of my laptops support WPA2 network authentication. Therefore I am limited to WPA network authentication. I would like to use AES encryption rather than TKIP, but I am not sure if SB3 supports WPA-AES. -- chocomonsters chocomonsters's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3245 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19793 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Saving Playlists
3. clicked Now Playing, Play and the the right arrow 4. named the playlist IMHO you can't enter a playlist name after hitting right in the now playing screen. There you'll be presented details about the currently playing song, nothing about a playlist. Please give us some information about what exactly you'd like to do and the steps that didn't do this for you. And add some details about player and server version. -- 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: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up
Many of us hope using Nokia 770 as a remote could bring user friendly UI experience to SB3. Using skins is adequate at best as it still limits us to webbased interface. I would love to see Moose getting ported to support Nokia 770 as linux front end. Or at least Moose like front end for linux platform like Nokia 770. I can only dream, right? -- chocomonsters chocomonsters's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3245 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18850 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Saving Playlists
jonheal Wrote: I can't seen to add to a playlist using the remote. I believe I followed the instructions: 1. found an album 2. clicked the Add button 3. clicked Now Playing, Play and the the right arrow 4. named the playlist 5. found another album 6. clicked the add button ...but my second album was not tacked onto the end of the current playlist. How do I do this? You can nearly do this using the Save Playlist plugin (which I guess is what you have been using so far). 1 - find album 2 - play to start a new playlist 3 - find another album 4 - add to add to end of playlist 5 - repeat 3 4 6 - go to Plugins / Save Playlist 7 - name and save the playlist If you subsequently want to add more, you can: load the playlist, add stuff, save it again, you have to repeat the name (and if you give the same name you DON'T get asked if you want to overwrite an existing playlist, which I suppose mught be considered a bug). Still, I think this is what you were looking for, more or less. Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19788 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up
I can only dream, right? No, you could pick up programming instead and do this for all of us ;-). While I'd love to see a Linux client I don't think Moose will ever be ported to anything like the 770. As it's programmed in .net (afaik) there's little chance for this to happen. -- 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: Nokia 770 Skin
I am looking forward to your final version getting rolled into future slimeserver release (which Infrant modify and release as add-on). AFAIK the 770 skin is slimserver 6.5 only, and Infrant's still using 6.2.x. You couldn't copy the 6.5 skin to your NAS even if it wasn't a plugin. -- 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: MoodLogic Problem
Hi Peter, Thats one large collection you have there. Personally I try and only rip and keep good tracks and even with 6k, I have 1k that I have not listened to in at least a year (according to itunes). Getting musicmatch to process 41k must have taken a little while ;) alex -- ajmitchell ajmitchell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=800 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19404 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: fribidi integration (hebrew)
I agree fribidi didn't work for me either. Could someone post a file with a Hebrew tag and description of how it should look? -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19790 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver won't read through a Windows Shortcut for playlists
Well, no good reasons from anybody, so http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2790 Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19761 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Performance Issue
I turned on d_itunes and d_itunes_verbose. Then added 3 CDs. 1. Never saw any output from putting Slim into debug mode. 2. The CDs show up in iTunes, but not in Slim. -- dancarne dancarne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2726 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19706 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wpa-aes
On 7/1/06 at 00:18 -0800, chocomonsters wrote Does SB3 support WPA-AES? I can connect SB3 using WPA-Personal if I set my WLAN with WPA TKIP encryption but not with WPA AES. Not all of my laptops support WPA2 network authentication. Therefore I am limited to WPA network authentication. I would like to use AES encryption rather than TKIP, but I am not sure if SB3 supports WPA-AES. I believe it is supposed to, but in practice, partly because there may be issues with the network, it often doesn't. -- Daniel Cohen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Saving Playlists
I,m trying to work out the best way to add to an existing playlist. Ideally I would like say select random songs and then when I hear something I like easily add it to a particular playlist; without having to stop the currently selected random list. One way to do would be from the web browser, where you could select a playlist in the left hand panel and then just drag and drop the song from the right hand panel into it. -- Vulcanbomber Vulcanbomber's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3249 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19788 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 loses connection to SlimServer
I'm losing connection as well but it happened when I added a SB3 to my setup. I'm running a linksys wrt54g with tailsman 1.1/Basic firmware with mac address filtering, SSID hidden and WPA encryption. My SB2 always worked flawlessly with this setup. I just received my SB3 and added it to the network, it seems that whenever both squeezeboxes are on, I start having network difficulties: basically, it connects, I can listen for a bit and then it loses its connection to slimserver. [Note, I am not streaming from both SB's at the same time: one is running super date time and the other playing music. Even after I shut one of them off, I experience the same dropped connections. The router hasn't rebooted either. SB2 gets 75% wireless signal strength and SB3 gets 100%]. -- macattack macattack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3193 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19225 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Remote Button Sensitivity
I realize that if you hold down the UP or DOWN buttons on the remote, SB3 will scroll through the available selections. But mine is TOO sensitive. Often, even if I just tap one of those buttons the SB3 will scroll through two selections instead of one. It's very frustrating. I know I'm kind if a butter-fingers, but I'm not THAT bad! I hope this isn't normal behavior. SB3 Slimerver 6.2.1 -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver
Have you managed to get the Kuro Box HG working with Alien BBC? I want to take my PC out of the loop, but AlienBBC is essential, so wouldn't do it without that working. Any other suggestions would be very much appreciated, including a view of whether any NAS will do the job... -- MattM MattM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2467 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=13598 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Saving Playlists
Vulcanbomber Wrote: I,m trying to work out the best way to add to an existing playlist. Ideally I would like say select random songs and then when I hear something I like easily add it to a particular playlist; without having to stop the currently selected random list. One way to do would be from the web browser, where you could select a playlist in the left hand panel and then just drag and drop the song from the right hand panel into it. Sounds like you need the proposed flagman plugin, that has been discussed at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18982 Or, if you are prepared to use your computer instead of the Player UI, consider using instead some different software which is much better at playlist generation and maintenance ... eg MusicMagic Mixer, which also features Slimserver integration (for a fee). Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19788 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Problems after Changing Wireless Router
I was using a Netgear DG824M (which is 802.11 b) and did not have any problems on payback from player. I have now upgraded to Netgear DG834PN (802.11 b g with MIMO technology) and I have problems with dropouts. The music start OK for 2-3 secounds then there is interference and jumps. The signal strengh is about 70%. I don't have an option on the router to use 802.11 b only. Any ideas? ASenna04 -- ASenna04 ASenna04's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2696 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19797 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote Button Sensitivity
are you playing alienbbc at the same time? I sometimes get this when using alienbbc; the gui becomes a little less responsive and skips over menu items two at a time. However, it's fine the rest of the time. I guess that slimserver is preoccupied with transcoding the realaudio streams and gui updates are not as smooth as they could be. -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SlimServer 6.2.1 Crashing
I've just started using SlimServer and I am having problems with it crashing when performing a music or playlist scan. I have checked the Event Window and get the following: 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: Can't update www.allofmp3.com: DBD::SQLite::st execute failed: column url is not unique(1) at dbdimp.c line 401 at C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\CPAN/DBIx/ContextualFetch.pm line 51, GEN13 line 4. at /PerlApp/Slim/DataStores/DBI/DBIStore.pm line 1869 I have cut it down so that the music directory only contains a few WMA files, and the playlist directory 1 playlist refering only to the files in the music directory. Can anyone help please ... -- Dave Bird Dave Bird's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3251 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19801 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Understanding of shutting down a Win XP Server
In my earlier posts Switch on and off my server with the SB and No More shutdown with xPLHal I tried to figure out, how to shutdown and restart my Windows XP Server with my remote. Now, I CAN shutdown my server pressing 1,2,3 on my remote and I ALSO CAN restart my server pressing the power button on my remote. BUT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHO THAT WORKS ... The standby mode was not really good because it is not reliable after a couple of hours and the hibernate mode didn't work with my machine. Now, the PC completely shutting down. That's good for me and my wishes. BUT HOW DOES THAT WORKS??? I'm using xPLHal and the command-line utility NirCmd (see www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html) with the command 'nircmd.exe exitwin poweroff'. Also I want to know, whether I could do the same under a Linux (i.e. Debian, Knoppix, Ubuntu, SlimCD) system. Are there any tools for linux shutting down and restart a server by pressing the remote? Not in a schedule. Individual! Thanks -- Toby Toby's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2676 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19803 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Help required, how do I ......
Hi, Can anyone tell me how I can syncronise my SB3 and Softsqueeze running on my PC, so they are playing the same music at the same time? Cheers -- Badger Badger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3037 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19804 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote Button Sensitivity
I suspect that you are actually streaming flac to the player. In this case it is bug: 2018 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018) -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Fast Forward on Remote
Would this include iTunes files too (.m4a) - i.e. should they work natively with the remote or not? -- jdonelan jdonelan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19789 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help required, how do I ......
At the web UI, in the settings section, you should see 3 lines: Server Settings Player settings for and a MAC address (00:01:02:03) Player settings for and an ip address (127.0.0.1 for the software player) Click on either of the player setting lines. Click on Audio The first paragraph says this player can be synchronized with other players ... Select the other player from the drop-down list and click change. Done. To undo it, select No Syncronization. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19804 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] File types for different SB versions
Hi Hope everyone had a good New Year Christmas (etc!). I have a SB1 and SB3 now. If I specify in the server settings: FLAC - FLAC (built in) - checked, _and_ FLAC - WAV - checked Does this mean my SB3 will still use FLAC streaming in preference to the conversion to WAV (like my SB1 has to do)?? Many thanks Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19805 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: File types for different SB versions
Yes (this is for the short message filter) -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19805 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2.1 Crashing
Dave Bird Wrote: Can't update www.allofmp3.com: Well, in the middle of that mess is this odd line. I can't think of a reason that Slimserver would want to be (or could be) updating allofmp3.com Did the music come from that web site? Does that string show up in any of the tags for those songs? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19801 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Wireless connection... my solution... switch computer OFF!
1. hard reset of router and TURN OFF computer on which Slimserver is installed. 2. Factory reset of SB3 (hold down Add button on remote when plugging in power to SB3). 3. With the computer still switched OFF I was now able to go through the wireless setup on the SB3 and the SB3 connected successfully to the network (the SB3 would not connect previously when my computer was switched on). 4. Continue through the wireless setup on the SB3 until you reach the select music source screen. 5. Now turn ON computer on which slimserver is installed and your computer's IP address should appear on the SB3's screen. You should now be able to connect to slimserver and the SB3 should work (at least it did for me). A pretty simple procedure really - just having the computer switched off... shame I wasted 2 hours tearing my hair out trying to figure it out! Dan PS My router is a 3Com Officeconnect set to 11g only with MAC address filtering but no encryption. -- danruz danruz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3253 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19806 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2.1 Crashing
* Michaelwagner shaped the electrons to say... Can't update www.allofmp3.com: Well, in the middle of that mess is this odd line. I can't think of a reason that Slimserver would want to be (or could be) updating allofmp3.com Did the music come from that web site? Does that string show up in any of the tags for those songs? This has been fixed in the 6.2.2 nightlies. http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_nightly.html -D -- vacation (n) : an extended trip away from home in search of inconvenient ways to connect to the Internet. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How to play songs with no gap
How can I play songs with no gap when I have a CD with continuous music? All my CDs are ripped with WMA lossless. On a CD where the music is continuos, but there are track marks, I get a small gap of no audio between tracks. If I play the same music in windows media player there is no gap. Is there anyway to play this music with slimserver without having this audio gap? I'm using two SB3 boxes on my wired gigabit network. -- aaronwt aaronwt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19807 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SlimServer 6.2.1 won't start
Got my wireless SB3 configured for the network without any issues (except at the final step it can't find the SlimServer). Installed the 6.2.1 server software on an up to date XP system without problem. When I try to start the server it just keeps saying SlimServer Starting when you point to the icon on the tray. The server never actually completes starting. If you try to access the server from the web, you get an error message. I feel dead in the water. Any suggestions? -- Larry Larry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 loses connection to SlimServer
So hang on - you're saying that the SB3 loses it's connection and the browser loses it's page at the same time? And the browser server are on different machines? And you're running wireless? Sounds like the wireless connection is burping. I would guess either interference or the router rebooting (surprisingly common). If you can either switch to wired or try another router you may be able to eliminate some possibilities. EDIT: s/wireless/wired -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19225 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help required, how do I ......
* Kevin Weller shaped the electrons to say... In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michaelwagner wrote: The first paragraph says this player can be synchronized with other players ... Select the other player from the drop-down list and click change. But I suspect after doing so you'll be disappointed as IME they never stay in sync for long. Syncing SoftSqueeze and a hardware player will not be in sync because of the Java Sound layer and buffering issues. -D -- vacation (n) : an extended trip away from home in search of inconvenient ways to connect to the Internet. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2.1 won't start
Larry, This is a common issue. Uninstall, then re-install. That should get you going. -- bishopdonmiguel bishopdonmiguel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=278 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up
Unless mono gets ported to maemo :) What would that end up being called? maemono? -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18850 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2.1 won't start
Larry Wrote: Got my wireless SB3 configured for the network without any issues (except at the final step it can't find the SlimServer). Installed the 6.2.1 server software on an up to date XP system without problem. When I try to start the server it just keeps saying SlimServer Starting when you point to the icon on the tray. The server never actually completes starting. If you try to access the server from the web, you get an error message. I feel dead in the water. Any suggestions? You may not even need to uninstall and reinstall. Try Shut down Slimserver, then Exit Slimserver, then reboot PC. That may well do to the trick. Oh, and if you have a firewall, make sure that it's enabled for Slimserver. Slimserver will get stuck on starting if the firewall won't let it act as a server. If that fails, uninstall and reinstall should do the trick. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2.1 Crashing
Dan Sully Wrote: This has been fixed in the 6.2.2 nightlies. Ah, and I was looking at nightly source from last night. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19801 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Is there a sneaky way...
I think this is a problem there's no easy answer to...but if any group of people know a sneaky round it, I reckon they'll be on here. Not a SB issue as such, but I run slimserver (6.2.2) on a Linkstation (i.e. Linux build). My music library is also on my Linkstation which is mounted as a network share. However, I quite often use my laptop (Windows XP) to create and play playlists (usually via MusicMagic, ob not integrated with Slimserver). Slimserver won't read playlists created in Windows - presumably because the file references aren't the same. Is there any way round this problem, such that Slimserver would be able read playlists created via my laptop ? I can't think of one, but was curious if others with more knowledge had. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19810 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2.1 won't start
Thank you for the quick replies. I tried both methods, and it still isn't starting. The firewall is configured for SlimServer. Even so, I turned it off and tried again. Still didn't start. Any other suggestions? -- Larry Larry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver-ready NSLU2 NAS or better?
Under $200 is a tough milestone. The slug costs a $100 or so, but then you need a USB hard disk. So really you're up around $300 for a slug solution. If you want to put your paging on a memory stick for better performance, that's probably another hundred. So we're at $400 or so. And then there's still a fair bit of work to shoehorn Slim in there (either software or hardware or both). I've read that you really need the 64MB of a FAT SLUG to get decent performance out of Slim running on the slug. FAT SLUGs require you to be handy with a desoldering tool. It might be possible to patch up a trimserver to shoehorn it into a slug by removing code you don't need or want, but it's a big project. Some of it is easy - remove all the plugins you don't want, stick to only one or two music formats (the different music readers are loaded dynamically only if needed). But shortly after that, it gets harder to find memory savings, harder to maintain and there are those diminishing returns. You could remove the windows specific code, but that's small. If only I could find a USB ram stick that wasn't flash memory ... in that case, it might run closer to the theoretical 400MB/S that USB 2 could do, and it would be a good swap device for the slug (anyone here old enough to remember dedicated swap devices?). In the windows area, there are these: http://www.stealthcomputer.com/littlepc.htm but even the little ones are $850 (US prices even though they're in Canada, I hate that!) with Red Hat Unix, a grand with Windoz. You can get little VIA mini-ATX systems for about half a grand, if you're in the US. For us guys in Canada, I'm having a hard time finding a source. And you still have to do the customization yourself. I gave up and bought a W2K laptop used. About $500. Runs windoz, which I know, has a keyboard and a screen already attached :-), built-in UPS. Since I already had another from the same series (Dell C610), I have interchangeability of hard disks, batteries and CD-ROM readers, etc. The other option is a buffalo linkstation. Not that easy to get here. Tigerdirect.ca claims to have them and can mail them to you. From them the linkstation is about $300 Cdn with a 250GB hard disk in it. From what I've read, the gigabit linkstations are too easy to brick, but the ones that only speak 100BaseT are better behaved. The linkstation comes with 64MB instead of the slug's 32, and it seems that's a big difference. I went by a retail store that Tiger has near my path to work, but they didn't seem to have any there (and little in the way of support staff). -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19781 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2.1 won't start
Which firewall ? And how is it configured for Slimserver ? -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2.1 won't start
Have you enabled the Slimserver Program itself rather than just the ports ? To enable a program by using Windows Firewall, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, click Run, type wscui.cpl in the Open box, and then click OK. 2. Click Windows Firewall. 3. In the Windows Firewall dialog box, click the Exceptions tab, and then click Add Program. 4. In the Add a Program dialog box, either select the program from the list that appears, or click Browse to locate your program. 5. After you select your program, click OK. 6. On the Exceptions tab, make sure that the check box next to your program is selected, and then click OK. Then shutdown and reboot. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2.1 won't start
It's the Windows Firewall. Under the Exceptions tab the following appear and are checked: SlimServer 3483 tcp SlimServer 3483 udp SlimServer 9000 tcp UPnP Framework (I'm not sure if this one came from the SlimServer install or not, but it does appear) -- Larry Larry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there a sneaky way...
can musicmagic create playlists with relative file names? Relative to the root? That should do it. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19810 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there a sneaky way...
Thanks Michael, I'll try mounting my Linkstation as a removable drive as Musicmagic will support using relative file names for removable drives. Will let you know if it works ! -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19810 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play songs with no gap
Anyone? Am I the only one with this problem? -- aaronwt aaronwt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19807 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB1 SB3 out of sync with FLAC tracks
I've got an SB1 and an SB3. They play in sync perfectly well with MP3 files. When a FLAC file creeps into the playlist, they're about half a second apart, leading to an odd sound in a room where I can hear both. Oddly, some tracks are improved markedly with this technique, with interesting synchopation and harmonic effects appearing. I'm not sure which player's behind. Obviously I can work around it by not playing FLACs but I'd prefer to just leave them playing entirely randomly. -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19812 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play songs with no gap
Ripping the album to one single file would work. You can use a cuesheet to still be able to jump to the beginning of each track. I can only give you some hints here, I've never used cuesheets myself. -s. -- slimpy slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19807 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play songs with no gap
not with WMA lossless. I can't remember the ins and outs of gapless playback at the moment, there is a bug with FLAC playback i think. MP3 should be ok and same with WAV. Because WMA lossless is being transcoded on the server i don't think it will be possible to make it gapless (not without some re-working of the way transcoding works anyway) -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19807 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: fribidi integration (hebrew)
OK I have a file. Could a Hebrew reader have a look at the two attachments? Unflipped is prior to flipping the reversed text, flipped is the result with flipping. Does the flipped one look right? The library puts the numbers at the right hand end if there are numeric characters prepended to the string - is this correct? [not that I can do anything about it!] +---+ |Filename: flipped.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=632| +---+ -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19790 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Moose - Awaiting server response
I've been looking for a way to look at what's in my SlimServer db and Moose (v.020) seems just the ticket...if I could get it working! I suspect I've done something daft. When I load the program it sits there 'Awaiting server response'. If I open the Library page the display at the bottom says 'Connected to server.. logging in.. please wait'. Local details: This is on Win XP Pro SP2, SlimServer is sitting on another machine and there's no security on it so username and password are blank, clicking the browser button brings up my SlimServer web page correctly, server IP contains the same IP as the server url, CLI port is at the default 9090 (I've no idea how to check it on SlimServer so I assume it's OK, I tried turning off the SP2 firewall and that didn't make any difference... I don't know what else I can tell you. Any ideas? Thanks. Kevin ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: File types for different SB versions
Thanks (this too is for the short message filter) -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19805 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Understanding of shutting down a Win XP Server
Thank you for your answer, Pat. In my understanding before, I thought that I need the standby or hibernate mode to awake the server again. But now, it seems that I can shut down the server completely and by pressing the power button, the squeezebox sends a magic packet and the server is starting up again. I didn't know that before. So I do not need any standby or hibernate mode. There are many reasons for me to shut down the server with the remote because I'm a lazy bone ... ;-) The servers place is in my cellar, the SB is in my living room upstairs and in a few weeks I have a new music-, reading-, television-room under the roof. Than, there is also a SB. Reaching the server means walking down THREE floors. It makes sense for me, shutting down by remote. Also I save a lot of money and it's eco friendly ... What else should I do? Is there a low cost and eco friendly solution for a server being up all the time??? Now I have an old ATX-machine, AMD 1GHz, 3ware raid system and external storage for double save. In the case my house is burning down I still have my datas, because they are in my fathers house. -- Toby Toby's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2676 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19803 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronization should use fine-grained network clock
Michaelwagner Wrote: Across a hub, propegation is essentially instantaneous. Across a switch, there is a very tiny delay and the potential of a longer one if there is interfering traffic on the other side of the switch. I don't know if there is a promise by the protocol to limit the delay to a level where it would be insignificant for this use. Across a wireless access point? I expect all bets are off. I'm not sure multicast will offer any advantages there ... You need to reconsider your definition of instantaneous. :) Sound only travels at measely 1.1 feet per millisecond, so even if your synchronization were only accurate to within a millisecond, you would still be synced to just a small fraction of the distance between your speakers. The thing is NTP can even do a lot better than 1ms... how accurate you can get is mostly a function of variance over long periods time in the latency of the network/OS (and this is very low for Squeezeboxes on a wireless lan), NOT the absolute timing between hosts. i.e. it doesn't matter if one machine is directly connected and the other is on wireless, you can compensate for this with a high degree of accuracy, provided you can make reasonable assumptions about the latency being consistent and symmetric for trasmit vs receive (which lucky for us it is). When you consider the speed of sound (30,000 uS between rooms) vs the speed of 802.11g (600 uS to go the same distance) it makes sense that even our simple go now! signal should work in most cases (usually within 2-5ms). But with NTP (or similar protocol) it could be a lot more accurate, and there are other sync improvements that would be possible once a solid continuous time base is available, eg using multicast to save bandwidth, and drifting instead of rebuffering to align clocks. -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19466 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Understanding of shutting down a Win XP Server
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 10:57 -0800, Toby wrote: The servers place is in my cellar, the SB is in my living room upstairs and in a few weeks I have a new music-, reading-, television-room under the roof. Than, there is also a SB. Reaching the server means walking down THREE floors. Mine is in the basement, which is cold and dark. I try to not go there. Plus having it in the basement means I don't have to listen to the fans when listening to my serious system. What else should I do? Is there a low cost and eco friendly solution for a server being up all the time??? I'm cheap, and willing to save the earth when possible. But I leave my computers on all the time. Most of them do not have monitors. Or go into standby pretty quickly. There are lots of arguments pro and con about turning things on and off. Most (many?) failures happen during thermal and electrical stress. I put the machines on a UPS and leave them running. Most get down below 100 watts when idle on their own. A SlimServer doesn't need a lot of CPU power, no need for a Pentium 4 power sucker. The real question is what is the actual saving between hibernation and being powered off? and at what duty cycle does the inrush power and startup overcome any theological savings? I tend to play music a lot on my SqueezeBoxen, it makes no sense to me to turn it off. Of the components in my music system, the PC is nothing. The class-A circuits in my Classe power amp overwhelm it. I bet the Benchmark DAC-1 draws as much as the PC, the Benchmark runs hot to the touch. -- 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: Wpa-aes
AES is optional in WPA, and is not supported by many AP vendors. Slim's AES support is for WPA2-AES, where the AES method is mandatory. See the WAP and Router Compatibility list: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RouterStatus. -- MrC MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19793 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver
Infrant's ReadyNAS already has a Slimserver add-on that can be installed. This is by far the best NAS on the market today, and it beats TeraStation, which I also owned, hands down. LinkStation has no RAID in it. Aren't you afraid all you music will be gone one day? -- sirozha sirozha's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2986 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=13598 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Fast Forward on Remote
On 7-Jan-06, at 8:35 AM, jdonelan wrote: Would this include iTunes files too (.m4a) - i.e. should they work natively with the remote or not? m4a, AAC is not a native format. The server uses mov123 to transcode to FLAC for playback. fwd/rew scanning will not work. Enhancement request for AAC is already filed on bugs.slimdevices.com if you want to vote: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1985 -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless bridging Q: Will it see the server?
Mark, Wow, I had pretty much given up on this - then I was just browsing the forum and saw your thorough, detailed posts. Thank you very much! Now, regarding this issue: Mark Lanctot Wrote: Your SlimServer will have to stream data to your router through your SB, then back to your SB. They cannot stream data directly between each other, it will have to be through the router. I'm trying to be able to stream data to the Squeezebox without using any kind of wireless connection at all - except for internet radio. This would be for minimizing the possibility of dropouts or glitches. But it looks like that can't happen with the configuration I had proposed in my original post. So how about this idea? Suppose I got, say, a USB wireless adapter for the server. Then file transfers between the server in the living room and my main computer in the spare bedroom would go through the wireless USB adapter. How about if I enabled internet connection sharing (ICS) on the server and connected its ethernet port (from the built-in NIC on the mobo) to the ethernet port on the Squeezebox. Then the Squeezebox would be configured for a plain old wired connection, with no wireless or bridging or anything like that. Does this sound like it would work? -- andy_c andy_c's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3128 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19612 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote Button Sensitivity
This bug also occurs with formats other than FLAC. I see it daily with WMAs. -- MrC MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: fribidi integration (hebrew)
Attachment 632 looks correct to me. What happens if there is a number in the middle of the Hebrew string and what happens if English words are in the middle? Avi Triode wrote: OK I have a file. Could a Hebrew reader have a look at the two attachments? Unflipped is prior to flipping the reversed text, flipped is the result with flipping. Does the flipped one look right? The library puts the numbers at the right hand end if there are numeric characters prepended to the string - is this correct? [not that I can do anything about it!] +---+ |Filename: flipped.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=632| +---+ -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Error Messgae - Any thoughts
Hi. I am running a SB2 off build 5.4.0. Lately I have noticed intermittent blips in the audio feeds. All of my music is ripped as VBR WMA. Most files average bitrates exceeding 450kbps. I do have LAME installed and have it converting to 320kpbs. Checking debug logs here is what I am seeing: 2006-01-07 15:15:18.7406 Undefined string: SETUP_D_MP requested language: EN failsafe language: EN Assuming raw pcm input file : Forcing byte-swapping Error writing mp3 output Reading from stream failed with error code 0x Assuming raw pcm input file : Forcing byte-swapping Error writing mp3 output Reading from stream failed with error code 0x Is this error set related to the dropouts? I remember before I had LAME installed I had this problem as the buffer choked on the raw feed. Is it possible that my LAME encoder has failed? -- JimB JimB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=327 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19820 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote Button Sensitivity
Triode Wrote: I suspect that you are actually streaming flac to the player. In this case it is bug: 2018 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018) You are correct, sir. Maybe someone'll fix it sometime. In the meantime, I'll just continue pulling what little hair I have left, out. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: fribidi integration (hebrew)
Thanks Avi - its good to confirm it is correct! I think the library should handle all the cases OK as it looks for embedded strings within the string which should be reversed. I will look to get this into 6.5... -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19790 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: fribidi integration (hebrew)
Triode Wrote:
OK I have a file.
Could a Hebrew reader have a look at the two attachments?
Unflipped is prior to flipping the reversed text, flipped is the result
with flipping.
Does the flipped one look right? The library puts the numbers at the
right hand end if there are numeric characters prepended to the string
- is this correct? [not that I can do anything about it!]
Yes, it looks great. And yes, the number should be on the right.
Thats the start of the string in hebrew.
Note that if you use Locale::Hebrew, it only works well for unicode
hebrew, whereas most tags are still ISO hebrew. Therefore, I wrote my
own patch which handles both unicode hebrew and iso hebrew. (Thanks
for the note about Locale::Hebrew - it solved my problem). I'm not a
perl developer so my code probably sucks, but here it is anyway. I put
it in Graphics.pm, at the beginning of String(). My code is between the
Mack comments.
code
sub string {
my $fontname = shift || return '';
my $string = shift || return '';
# Mack
use Locale::Hebrew;
for my $ord (unpack('U*', $string)) {
# Convert ASCII Hebrew to Unicode Hebrew if required.
if ($ord 223 $ord 251) {
require Encode;
$string = Encode::decode('iso-8859-8',
$string);
last;
}
}
$string = hebrewflip($string);
# /Mack
my $bits = '';
/code
(Sorry about lack of indentation. The forum seems to drop the tabs
upon submitting).
This code seems to produce correct results in all files I checked. The
manual test for ASCII hebrew was added because Encode::decode crashed on
certain unicode strings.
Now, the only problem I failed to solve is the scrolling. When a long
hebrew string needs scrolling, it should start by showing the rightmost
part of the string first, and scroll towards the leftmost part of the
string. I can't find the part that controls scrolling. Is it handled
by the firmware itself ? Any way to change the scrolling behavior as
described here ?
Thanks,
Mack
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[slim] Re: Remote Button Sensitivity
This annoyance occurs on both my SB2/SB2 remote and SB3/SB3 remote. There was talk of it being possibly due to the SB being in a room surrounded by glass windows/reflective surfaces. As my SB2 is in a conservatory surrounded by glass windows I thought this could be the case and thought nothing more of it, but when I got my SB3 (with a dodgy display I might add) this is also showing the problem and it's in a standard wallpapered room, so I don't know. I have also noticed that when browsing through the menus it can do a double jump, and, in the majority of cases, immediately pressing the opposite direction button also causes it to jump back a double jump, as though it's something to do with the displayed info. I agree that it needs sorting as when it happens it's a RPITA especially if you know the next entry in the menu is the one you want to select. -- CavesOfTQLT CavesOfTQLT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=263 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver
See post #8 re AlienBBC on a linkstation HG. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17963 -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=13598 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Synchronization
Just got the Squeezebox yesterday. Main reason I got it was the synchronization feature that the sales guy assured me that it had. Well, as I have now learned the hard way (after reading this forum for a few hours and trying various things) the synch doesn't work as advertised. My softsqueeze player is consistently ~1 sec behind my squeezebox. Before I give up on it completely, wanted to make a post of my own to see if someone could provide a checklist of steps to try to synch the squeezebox and softsqueeze. As of now, I have already: 1) installed the most recent Java and (1.5.0_06) and softsqueeze version (2.2) 2) Set audio to Primary Sound Driver 3) Installed Java MP3 plugin 4) Verified that the wireless connection is good (also connected it via ethernet cable and still have ~1 sec delay with squeezebox first) 5) Tried different music sources (iTunes, no iTunes, radio) and all had same delay. Any ideas? I have seen many synch posts in here, but no comprehensive set of steps to try to resolve. Thanks! Pyle -- prvtpyle prvtpyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3262 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19823 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: fribidi integration (hebrew)
Thanks Mack, I'm also planning some changes to the scrolling code to allow it to go backwards. Are you availble for offline email discussion on how things look - if so PM me. Adrian -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19790 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there a sneaky way...
Sadly didn't do the job. I now have m3u playlists created on my Linkstation by MusicMagic with relative file paths, but Slimserver doesn't even see them when I rescan. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19810 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MoodLogic Problem
Thanks, upgrading to 6.2.2 fixed the Moodlogic problem. Any thoughts on my other issue where I appear to have two copies of every track? I believe this is due to the server counting the tracks in my music directory and then re-counting the in my MoodLogic database. -- PeterBorner PeterBorner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19404 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless bridging Q: Will it see the server?
Another alternative you might want to consider is home-plug ethernet - using your mains to carry IP from one room to another. Put one in one room, another in the other room, and off you go. This sort of thing - http://www.homeplugs.co.uk/acatalog/HomePlugs.html (NB I don't have any myself, as wireless works well for me, but I can see the attraction) JAT. Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19612 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Special characters (accents, etc)
Got my PC up again today, and loaded some more albums - decided to test the special characters problems more systematically. Heres the results. [a] Slimserver Synch with itunes 6 Andúril [song title] by Howard Shore [artist] from The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King [album] = crashes slim.exe after 1-5seconds. [b] Slimserver Synch with itunes 6 Anduril [RENAMED song title] by Howard Shore [artist] from The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King [album] = PLAYS PERFECTLY [c] Slimserver direct read off hard disk Andúril [renamed song title] by Howard Shore [artist] from The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King [album] = crashes slim.exe almost immediately [b] Slimserver Synch direct read off hard disk Anduril [renamed song title] by Howard Shore [artist] from The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King [album] = PLAYS PERFECTLY I then repeated the experiment with the most complicated song name I could find: Vðrar Vel Til Loftárása [title] Sigur Rós [artist] Ágætis Byrjun[album]. Results were the same. I concludethis is not an itunes integration issue but a more serious problem in slimserver itself. Clearly not everyone has this problem so there are probably some other variables. Next step? I am happy to forward the files. Alex -- ajmitchell ajmitchell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=800 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18985 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MoodLogic Problem
ajmitchell Wrote: Hi Peter, Thats one large collection you have there. Personally I try and only rip and keep good tracks and even with 6k, I have 1k that I have not listened to in at least a year (according to itunes). Getting musicmatch to process 41k must have taken a little while ;) alex It took about 18 hours for MoodLogic to process the tracks. Not to long considering! I've still got lots of tracks I hardly ever listen to but, because there is always music playing somewhere in the house, we have listened to every track at least once! MoodLogic is really useful for selecting tracks to suit the occassion/mood. Peter -- PeterBorner PeterBorner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19404 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronization
* prvtpyle shaped the electrons to say... Just got the Squeezebox yesterday. Main reason I got it was the synchronization feature that the sales guy assured me that it had. Well, as I have now learned the hard way (after reading this forum for a few hours and trying various things) the synch doesn't work as advertised. My softsqueeze player is consistently ~1 sec behind my squeezebox. Synchronization works between hardware players. It will not always work with SoftSqueeze because of the Java Sound buffer. I will speak with our sales guys to make sure they understand the difference. -D -- weezyl $6.66: The Value Meal of the Beast. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Special characters (accents, etc)
* ajmitchell shaped the electrons to say... I am happy to forward the files. Please email me the file with the accented character. dan | at | slimdevices.com Thanks. -D -- weezyl $6.66: The Value Meal of the Beast. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: MoodLogic Problem
On 7-Jan-06, at 1:19 PM, PeterBorner wrote: Thanks, upgrading to 6.2.2 fixed the Moodlogic problem. Any thoughts on my other issue where I appear to have two copies of every track? I believe this is due to the server counting the tracks in my music directory and then re-counting the in my MoodLogic database. it is just the count, or are you actually seeing duplicate tracks in the listings? -k ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Synchronization
prvtpyle wrote: Before I give up on it completely, wanted to make a post of my own to see if someone could provide a checklist of steps to try to synch the squeezebox and softsqueeze. As of now, I have already: 1) installed the most recent Java and (1.5.0_06) and softsqueeze version (2.2) Try an older version of Softsqueeze from Sourceforge (http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net). Sync does not work in the latest version, hopefully I should find some time to look at this over the next couple of weeks. For some people sync with Softsqueeze apparently does not work, others including myself have some success (it's still not 100% solid). 2) Set audio to Primary Sound Driver To get sync working this is a must, otherwise the audio buffering in Java introduces approx .5 second delay. You'll find sync between hardware players works well, and I have spent many hours getting Softsqueeze sync to work as well as possible. Once I have fixed the current bug, if you find it still does not work I would be happy to work with you to help debug this one ... Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: fribidi integration (hebrew)
Triode Wrote: Thanks Mack, I'm also planning some changes to the scrolling code to allow it to go backwards. Are you availble for offline email discussion on how things look - if so PM me. Adrian OK, sent you a PM. -- mack mack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1849 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19790 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless bridging Q: Will it see the server?
andy_c Wrote: Mark, Wow, I had pretty much given up on this - then I was just browsing the forum and saw your thorough, detailed posts. Thank you very much! You're welcome, I just hope it will work for you. I think it will. Now, regarding this issue: I'm trying to be able to stream data to the Squeezebox without using any kind of wireless connection at all - except for internet radio. This would be for minimizing the possibility of dropouts or glitches. But it looks like that can't happen with the configuration I had proposed in my original post. So how about this idea? Suppose I got, say, a USB wireless adapter for the server. Then file transfers between the server in the living room and my main computer in the spare bedroom would go through the wireless USB adapter. How about if I enabled internet connection sharing (ICS) on the server and connected its ethernet port (from the built-in NIC on the mobo) to the ethernet port on the Squeezebox. Then the Squeezebox would be configured for a plain old wired connection, with no wireless or bridging or anything like that. Does this sound like it would work? I don't know much about ICS. As I understand it, it turns the *PC* into a bridge, either wired or wireless. The Squeezebox and the server would not necessarily see each other in this mode. I could be wrong, but ICS is just that - Internet Connection Sharing - it shares the Internet connection to devices downstream, but does not allow traffic between a downstream PC and the ICS PC. The ICS PC is not acting as a proper router, it doesn't know what IP address is where, nor can it direct LAN packets to their appropriate destination, only WAN (Internet) packets. The wireless connection is not bad at all! There are no glitches, playback is perfect. There can be dropouts if the buffer underruns though, but the buffer is really quite large - you ought to try it with an MP3 some time, it really takes a long time to empty. There are various tests you can do to see if you have the required bandwidth. For example, try the Network Test Plugin: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18149 If you can achieve 1500 kbps (2000 kbps preferred) at 100% you will never experience a dropout with FLAC. As I said in my post, I am in a very poor wireless networking situation. Yours is almost surely better than mine. I have never experienced a dropout caused by wireless bandwidth starvation. The drawbacks of your apartment situation is the presence of other wireless networks. But the advantages are less distance and no floor/ceiling to go through. I am going through 2 walls, 1 floor and 30-40 feet of air. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19612 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronization
Um, OK. That doesn't help me too much now though. Any ideas on massaging the settings to get the synch to work with the software? Is there a way to set an automatic delay in the hardware/software to manually fix the delay? -- prvtpyle prvtpyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3262 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19823 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2.1 won't start
Get the same behavior with the firewall enabled or disabled. I also now get an error on XP startup asking me to send an error report to Microsoft. It reads, slim.exe encountered a problem and needed to close. -- Larry Larry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19809 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MoodLogic Problem
I'm seeing a double count and a duplicate tracks. I've tried clearing the database and re-scanning but still have the same problem. -- PeterBorner PeterBorner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19404 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronization
Thanks Richard, I will give this a try and let you know how it works... -- prvtpyle prvtpyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3262 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19823 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there a sneaky way...
are they in the directory you specified to slimserver as the playlist directory? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19810 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Special characters (accents, etc)
michael at thewagners dot ca oh, and what version of slimserver are you running now on this rebuilt machine? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18985 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote Button Sensitivity
I think the problem is in the remote control unit itself. When you press and hold the arrow button the remote repeatedly sends the command to change the display (flip the menu). If the remote sends it too quickly, or the buttons aren't well debounced, it will send the command out multiple times and go further than you want. The server is just doing what the remote tells it to do. This can be fixed either in the remote control or in the server software. If the server is simply programmed to recognize multiple menu flip commands and just ignore every second one. Then it will still respond to a single push (when you manage to let go quick enough to not send multiple commands) but will automatically ignore excess commands. TD -- tyler_durden tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play songs with no gap
WMA - no gapless possible (format is broken) AAC - no gapless possible (format is broken) MP3 - no gapless possible (format is broken) - some hacks do exist but slimserver doesn't support them WAV - works fine Vorbis/OGG - works fine FLAC - works fine with one caveat : client side decoding of FLAC sometimes glitches at transitions I use a mixture of vorbis FLAC, for the FLAC files I have it decoding and streaming as PCM to avoid the bug mentioned above. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19807 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play songs with no gap
(Bad form to reply to yourself but the mailinglist doesn't propagate edits) I just noticed the OP said that WMP does do gapless playback of WMA files. This is interesting, I was under the impression WMA doesn't support exact track lengths. Does this mean the decoder we're using is somehow missing this capability? -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19807 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronization
Just to keep you updated I have had a first looked at getting sync to work again tonight. Found a couple of timing/buffer bugs that can mess things up. I have a rough fix for both of them, and am now listening to my four well sync'd track :). I need to refine the fixes a little more before releasing a new version, but this should be within the next few days. Richard PS I read the forum through a filtered mailing list, so please include Softsqueeze in your reply's or I might not get them. Thanks. -- rtitmuss rtitmuss's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19823 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 locking when wirelessly connected
SteveL I am having similar problems. SB3 runs for various lengths of time and then locks up. As with your the only way to kick start it is to turn the power off. This morning it ran un-interupted for some 5 hours (Van Morrison session while I painted the walls and ceiling of our front room). Early afternoon - lock up, which has been repeated regularly. Wireless signal strength seems to fluctuate, high of 90 - low of 33%. Not sure why. We have wireles phones and neigbours. The phones I can deal with... I would be interested to know if you manage a solution. Bob -- Bob Derbyshire UK Bob Derbyshire UK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3244 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19613 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there a sneaky way...
Yes, and saved directly there (rather than saving them to the default MusicMagic directory and moving them there). Tried a full rescan as well as rescan playlists. Am going to load slimserver up on the laptop and see if that install will see and play the playlists when the one on the linkstation won't. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19810 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB1 SB3 out of sync with FLAC tracks
Is FLAC natively decoded on the SB1? It is on the SB3. I would suspect this is cause. -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19812 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: fribidi integration (hebrew)
I'm messing with the same code at the moment to achieve the same goal (Hebrew). If you need help or assistance, please send me PM too. Avi -- ganjastone ganjastone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19790 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SB1 SB3 out of sync with FLAC tracks
On 1/7/06, dangerous_dom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FLAC natively decoded on the SB1? It is on the SB3. I would suspectthis is cause. Actually, I believe when sync'ing it reverts to lowest-common-denominator so it would be transcoded to WAV or MP3 depending on server settings. Could be wrong though.Ben ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SB1 SB3 out of sync with FLAC tracks
On 7-Jan-06, at 4:43 PM, dangerous_dom wrote: Is FLAC natively decoded on the SB1? It is on the SB3. I would suspect this is cause. Flac is not native on SB1, but if you have SB2/3 synced in a group with an SB1 then the server finds the best matching format for playback. in this case, WAV. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] True Type fonts
I read a review for the SB3, which said that it supports true type fonts. I did not think this was the case. Is it true and if it is, how do you change them/add new ones? -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19826 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] True Type fonts
On 7-Jan-06, at 5:01 PM, dangerous_dom wrote: I read a review for the SB3, which said that it supports true type fonts. I did not think this was the case. Is it true and if it is, how do you change them/add new ones? it supports the use of a couple truetype fonts for unicode handling. CODE2000.TTF for one. There is also a utility to convert Truetype fonts to the font format used for slimserver. The SBG version of the software is here: http://mylefteye.com/sbgfonts/ the SB2 version, I think, was posted here a while back. it is called TTF2SB2.EXE -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronization
It worked! I downloaded the 2.0 beta version of softsqueeze and everything is all synched now. The whole house is blasting Radiohead at me. This thing is so sweet... -- prvtpyle prvtpyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3262 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19823 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Missing Perl Files
Hi there I'm using SlimServer 6.2 and recently tried downloading some plugins to use. I've tried both AlienBBC and RadioPlayList and both fail to be added as SlimServer plugins. I've tracked it down to missing .pm files from my distribution (see below). Does anyone know where I can get my hands on the /Slim directory that contains Slim/Utils/Prefs.pm modules (and the rest)? Thanks - James. C:\Program Files\SlimServerperl -ICPAN -c Plugins/Alien/Plugin.pm Can't locate Slim/Utils/Prefs.pm in @INC (@INC contains: CPAN C:/Program Files/Perl/lib C:/Program F iles/Perl/site/lib .) at Plugins/Alien/AlienCommon.pm line 14. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Plugins/Alien/AlienCommon.pm line 14. Compilation failed in require at Plugins/Alien/AlienSubMenuItem.pm line 14. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Plugins/Alien/AlienSubMenuItem.pm line 14. Compilation failed in require at Plugins/Alien/Plugin.pm line 135. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Plugins/Alien/Plugin.pm line 135. -- jdonelan jdonelan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19831 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
