[slim] Re: Can't connect SB1 to Linksys WRT54G Wirelessly
Check that you have it in both 802.11b and 802.11g. I'm not sure what the default mode is, but it is possible to make the WRT54g work only in 802.11g mode, in which case, the SB1, which only speaks 802.11b, won't be able to connect at all. Eric -- kolding kolding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23038 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Can't connect from outside world
Or rather, I can connect but there is no sound. I have SlimServer up and running on one of my computers with IP:192.168.0.3 On another computer with IP:192.168.0.2 I can point Mediaplayer or VLC to 192.168.0.3:9000/stream.mp3 and listen to my lovely music and select songs via my browser on 192.168.0.3:9000. But when I try to connect to my IP from outside my router, it doesn't work. I point my player to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9000/stream.mp3 It says connecting...buffering...and then playing, but there is no sound. It also says Welcome to SlimServer. In my router i have port 9000 and 3483 forwarded to xx.3 What have I missed ??? -- oban oban's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5034 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23041 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Folders under Playlists?
You might want to visit and vote for this bug/enhancement request... http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1740 Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23029 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Version Histories
Hi, Is there a list anywhere of which features / bugfixes were implemented in which version of slimserver? I tried updating from 5.1.1 to 6.2.1, but found a couple of (for me) showstopping problems, regarding playlist handling and performance. I'm now idly considering whether I should try one of the interim releases (5.2, 5.3, 5.4 etc) but I can't find any information on what each of those releases contained. Any ideas? Is it worth updating from 5.1.1 to (say) 5.4.1? (It's looking like v6.X is going to be unusable for me due to performance.) Cheers, Tim. -- timjon timjon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5024 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23044 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problems!SB3
It appears to be failing at trying to establish a connection with the router, the logs don't show a failed connection as it doesn't appear to be getting that far! The Wireless router is being used as a DHCP Server and I've added the complete range into the firewall just to make sure it isn't that. I've completely reset the router and set it up again, but still have the same problem. -- Daveo Daveo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5018 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23015 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver PC going into standby
mortod Wrote: But if the PC has woken due to WOL from the SB, it then goes into standby just 2 minutes after the SB playing is stopped - not 15 minutes. That is pretty odd.. I wonder if it is related to my display never going into standby when I get WOL from SB.. Maybe the windows power management settings dont get restored properly when the machine wakes up from WOL.. Sounds like a problem that might be hard to track down. So I might leave it until I have more time.. (working on a plugin to skip all songs in the zapped song playlist -- taking up most of my SB time :) -- bigjules bigjules's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4805 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22625 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problems!SB3
It does sound a bit to me like the wireless router is trying to give them the same IP address, which would explain why only one can connect to the network at a time. Have you tried forcing the second SB to a static IP outside the range of your DHCP allocation - so something like 192.168.0.300, or 192.168.1.300 ? -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23015 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can't connect SB1 to Linksys WRT54G Wirelessly
dennitzio Wrote: Ideas? Call Linksys. They *can* help you. -- ezkcdude SB3-Derek Shek TDA1543/CS8412 NOS DAC-MIT Terminator 2 interconnects-Endler Audio 24-step Attenuators (RCA-direct)-Parasound Halo A23 125W/ch amplifier-Speltz anti-cables-DIY 2-ways + Dayton Titanic 10 subwoofer He's not hi-fi, he's my stereo. ezkcdude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2545 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23038 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Remind me what I did about slimserver.log
trebejo wrote: Did you maybe put the --logfile switch in your start script? That's something that people usually don't wipe out in an upgrade/reinstall. Eh... did I really do that? I'm on a Mac. I just click and grin. :) Don't you think it might have been a good idea to mention that in your first message? - Marc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] FLAC to MP3
Hello, I know that this might seem like sacrelidge to some of you but now that I have converted our CD collection to FLAC my wife has some concerns with portablity. She understands the conversion and likes the Squeezebox but wants our collecton to be more portable (ie. move to the car, use when working out, bring to work). I have suggested an Ipod for the ease of use. Now I need to now if there is anyway I can convert these FLAC files to MP3 easily? Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason -- jmusante jmusante's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4011 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23046 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problems!SB3
Siduhe Wrote: It does sound a bit to me like the wireless router is trying to give them the same IP address, which would explain why only one can connect to the network at a time. Have you tried forcing the second SB to a static IP outside the range of your DHCP allocation - so something like 192.168.0.300, or 192.168.1.300 ? ... I think that should be 192.168.0.200 or 192.168.1.200 ... Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23015 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC to MP3
Many threads on this. for example http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20672highlight=flac2mp3 Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23046 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
AndreasG wrote: Hi Everybody, With a music library of 600GB that is still growing, I finally made my decision to go for a dedicated RAID5/NAS solution to store my files. I find that handling all those external harddrives is just too much clutter, and the RAID5 configuration will give some protection against hardware failure. (I know that a a RAID does not protect against data loss due to human failure, so there will be an additional backup, but I still think that the additional safety of a RAID makes sense) So here are my requirements for the NAS storage solution: - at least 4 discs, RAID5 configuration - works with Mac and PC - does not have to be absolutely silent, but quiet would be welcome - I don't plan to run SlimServer on the NAS, it will just be used for storage - use of SATA discs would be welcome for future upgrades My options: 1. Infrant Ready NAS NV: 688 Euro empty + 320 Euro for 4x250GB or 400 Euro for 4x300GB (total price 1088 Euro for 4x300GB config) 2. Buffalo Terastation Pro: 849 Euro with 4x250GB, not available empty (???) 3. Buffalo Terastation 739 Euro with 4x250GB (P-ATA only!) 4. ??? please recommend other options ??? If you're anything like technically capable then I would suggest buying a good quality large case capable of holding several drives either internally or using 4:3 trays mounted in the 5.25 slots and to build your own server. This is the most cost-effective way of doing things. I picked up an old dual 1GHz PIII machine from ebay (in a Coolermaster case) and loaded it with 6x250GB SATA drives. I'm running linux (Fedora Core 4) and have the drives configured in RAID5 with a hot spare. If I was doing this again I'd use RAID6. In the end, it's a trade off - cost vs. time invested. If you buy and off-the-shelf NAS solution, it will likely be more expensive but you will not have to spend much time getting it working. With a custom solution, it will be cheaper but you'll have to spend time building/configuring it. HTH, R. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Version Histories
timjon wrote: Hi, Is there a list anywhere of which features / bugfixes were implemented in which version of slimserver? I tried updating from 5.1.1 to 6.2.1, but found a couple of (for me) showstopping problems, regarding playlist handling and performance. I'm now idly considering whether I should try one of the interim releases (5.2, 5.3, 5.4 etc) but I can't find any information on what each of those releases contained. Any ideas? Is it worth updating from 5.1.1 to (say) 5.4.1? (It's looking like v6.X is going to be unusable for me due to performance.) I believe there were a couple of bugs in 6.2.1 that were fixed shortly after release. You might like to try the latest 6.2.x nightly release - this is the stable branch and will be released as v6.2.2 at some stage in the near future. Get it here: http://slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/ You want the SlimServer_6_2_x_v-MM-DD directory. R. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Remind me what I did about slimserver.log
Marc Sherman wrote: trebejo wrote: Did you maybe put the --logfile switch in your start script? That's something that people usually don't wipe out in an upgrade/reinstall. Eh... did I really do that? I'm on a Mac. I just click and grin. :) Don't you think it might have been a good idea to mention that in your first message? (S)he did: If you know the answer, please ease my mind and remind me of how I managed to relocate slimserver.log. I'm running a Mac, OS 10.4.latest, fwiw. R. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Database Inconsistencies
I've just been putting FLAC tags on various files, and ran into difficulties with the database. Seems ok now after various deletions of database, rescans, etc. All on a small library so that I could check things easily. But in the course of doing this I had database inconsistencies quite frequently, and wondered if this problem was known. Not just with the database failing to reflect the library, but with data looked at one way being inconsistent with the same data looked at differently. The problem seems restricted to flacs, my mp3s seem to show up ok. Also, I wondered if there was any connection with the issue that some people have of items in the library not showing in the database. For instance, I went to Browse Genre, and clicked on the genre Country. The result I got was 1 song in 1 album by 0 artists, and (since there were zero artists) nothing showing up underneath this. 1 song in 1 album was correct (all my albums are ripped and tagged as a single flac) and I had not entered an Artist tag. But this should have shown up (as happened with a correct database) as 1 song in 1 album by 1 artist, with the entry No Artist. Also, despite nothing appearing when I clicked on the genre, if I clicked on the Play button for the genre the album did play. On another occasion, Browse Genre, and clicking on Blues showed as 2 songs in 2 albums by 1 artist, with the one artist being No Artist. But when I then clicked on No Artist, instead of it showing 2 songs in 2 albums it showed as 1 song in 1 album. All this with SlimServer 6.2.1, Mac OS 10.4.6 -- danco danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23048 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Remind me what I did about slimserver.log
Robin Bowes wrote: (S)he did: If you know the answer, please ease my mind and remind me of how I managed to relocate slimserver.log. I'm running a Mac, OS 10.4.latest, fwiw. Whoops, I'm an idiot. Sorry about that. - Marc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Database Inconsistencies
Before raising a bug report, upgrade to the latest 6.2.2 candidate build - this contains all the latest bugfixes to the 6.2 code. (The only reason it hasn't been released yet is that they're still ironing out a wireless connection bugs with the firmware). You could even try the latest 6.5 build. Its still beta code, but its reliable enough now that I can run it with no problems. This has loads of new features, and a few database changes too. So I'm sure the devs will be interested to know whether the latest 6.5 code works correctly or not!! Both builds are available here: http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/ -- cbemoore cbemoore's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=163 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23048 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC to MP3
I use to have a perl job I wrote to transcode my FLAC to mp3 to use on my iPod. However recently I started using jriver's Media Center for syncing my iPod and it handles on-the-fly transcoding of FLAC to mp3 for the iPod (even uses lame). Sure the sync time takes a lot longer however once you sync you whole library once, adding a few songs in a sync is not so bad. The first sync takes a bit though. -- m1abrams m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23046 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: A Silly Poll
30 here. Time to start wearing sensible clothes and reading real newspapers. I'm also making lists of things to shout at kids when they stray onto my lawn. Nah, just make it up as you go along: the real art is to be able to mumble and yell at the same time, so it doesn't really matter what you say. The attitude matters more than the words. Keep this phrase handy: In my day... ;-) BTW, I'm 42. SBB Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: sox/lame
See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=102554#post102554 for details -- jamesho jamesho's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=847 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22780 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Internet Radio - Finding hidden audio stream addresses.
Hi
I've read this thread and others concerning the use of URLSnooper 2 and
have found it useful for a number of streaming sites. One I don't seem
to be able to solve is streamed audio from
http://www.702.co.za/onair/tunein/tunein.asp. The page in question has
a LISTEN NOW! javascript popup link as follows:
javascript:windowpopupplayer('player.asp','448','375','no') which opens
up windows media player and commences the streaming.
Using URLSnooper I've been able to discern the link as
mms://196.35.64.36/702_16?WMThinning=0
Pasting that link into a browser window or into windows media player
directly commences the audio streaming. For the life of me though, I
cannot get squeezenetwork or slimserver to stream it. Any assistance
would be much appreciated.
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[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
Robin Bowes Wrote: In the end, it's a trade off - cost vs. time invested. If you buy and off-the-shelf NAS solution, it will likely be more expensive but you will not have to spend much time getting it working. With a custom solution, it will be cheaper but you'll have to spend time building/configuring it. I've purchased two NV's and I can tell you they're definitely not plug and play nor trouble free. If I had to do it again I would definitely opt for an old PC with a RAID controller and a few hard drives rather than spend weeks troubleshooting what should be a plug-and-play device. The PC is likely a cheaper option too and you will get substantially better performance. A key issue with the ReadyNAS products is slow throughput even across gigabit ethernet. I'm still trying to solve my throughput issues:7-8kB/sec whereas the same PCs do a server to server copy at close to 6x faster than that. Infrant support is assisting, however, if you're thinking user error I'm definitely not the only one experiencing these and a host of other issues. Look carefully at the ReadyNAS forum posts before deciding on a course of action. -- egd egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Rescan doubles up entries due to inclusion in playlists
I have just purchased a ReadyNAS NV which is running SlimServer 6.2.1. In the Music folder I have both mp3's and also a couple of reasonably large playlists which include my favourite songs. Trouble is on rescanning any entries that are in the playlist files are being doubled up. How can I get SlimServer to ignore the content of the playlist files. Regards Gordon -- gordonavon gordonavon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23055 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remind me what I did about slimserver.log
danco Wrote: I had just thought of that answer, and was going to suggest it to you. I've just found (using the Help Viewer and looking for Spotlight) a document indicating that most of the Library folder is not searched. That's remarkable. I would actually insist on that as one of the prime directories to search through. Maybe it's a *feature*. Oh well. I suppose that after deleting all that the usual search finds, one can go to terminal and do something like this: $ cd ~/Library $ find . -name \*slim\* \; and take it from there. On a systemwide install, use sudo and go a bit higher (or lower depending on how you define it) in the filesystem. Cheers, Ariel -- trebejo trebejo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23020 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
I've had a good experience with the ReadyNAS NV. Gives good performance over GigE. Setup was straightforward. Good feature set. I did have some networking issues on first setup, but it turned out to be a problem with my router handling the 'burstiness' of the NAS traffic. Solution actually turned out to be getting better power to the router. I was a bit torn between that and the DIY small box solution. I would have liked to have the extra horsepower to give the option of running a better performing SlimServer on the storage box. In the end, I went for the ease of setup and am happy. I know I would have spent a good deal of time getting the DIY box configured. One option you might consider is going with a 3x400GB drive config. Price should be similar. At the cost of a bit of storage today you'll get room to grow and one less drive device to fail. --rt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: MLB.com gameday audio on a SqueezeBox?
I voted for this as well. Radio (audio) is the best way to enjoy baseball. This would be a fantastic enhancement, and a sure way to sell some Squeezeboxes to baseball fans. --rt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
Hi again, thanks for all your answers. I did think about DIY, too, but at the moment I have very little free time, so I decided not to go that way... Hearing about the problems of the ReadyNAS gives now me some doubt again. The whole point of buying the ReadyNAS would be to save some trouble and not having to spend time configuring it... Andreas P.S.: Can anybody say anything about the Terastation *Pro*? -- AndreasG AndreasG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4834 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Database Inconsistencies
Sensible suggestions, but I tend not to like using beta programs. At this point I was wondering if anyone else had similar problems. -- danco danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23048 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MLB.com gameday audio on a SqueezeBox?
Amen, to that, Fuzzy. Other baseball fans have told me they'd subscribe to MLBTV, where you can *watch* feeds of every game, if the price were a bit lower. I tell 'em that no matter *how* low the price falls, I will stick with GameDay audio. There's nothing like listening to a radio broadcast of a game...it fires your imagination. When I use GameDay Audio I like to think of my laptop as some amazing transistor radio that can pull in signals from anywhere! Many of the feeds also include the local commercials, so they're a fun voyeur aspect when you hear ads talk about local landmarks that everyone knows about while we listen in. Also, when Vin Scully talks about Farmer John hotdogs I want to rush out and buy 'em! -- slumlord slumlord's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5010 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14871 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: MLB.com gameday audio on a SqueezeBox?
Any idea what the streaming technology is this year? They've used Real in the past, but I thought I'd read where they'd signed a new deal. Can't recall who the provider was, or what formats the streams would be in. That would make a big difference in LOE for the SN. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
...I just realised that the prices listed for the ReadyNAS NV at the German distributor's site are *without* VAT. So this means that the empty unit costs 800 Euros, not 688. Ouch... What makes the huge price difference between the Terastation Pro and the ReadyNAS NV? Andreas -- AndreasG AndreasG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4834 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: MLB.com gameday audio on a SqueezeBox?
ron thigpen wrote: Any idea what the streaming technology is this year? Answering my own question: http://www.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/help/faq_system_requirements.jsp Looks like WMA. That's good news as far as SN feasibility. But bad news for my idea of tuning in via the Nokia 770 with audio out to my receiver. Oh well. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
You may want to spend some time reading the posts on the Bufallo forum vs. the Infrant forum. Quite a difference and it is what made me choose first the X6, then follow that up with an NV. I have had 0 issues with my units. My NV has been up for over 4 weeks, running SS non-stop. I do not know how to write Linux, so home-grown was not an option and I've never had my PC up for 4 weeks without a reboot (even if it is just for a security patch re-boot). My neighbor and good friend also has an NV, and his has also been trouble-free. He is running 4x500, and my HDDs are 4x300. YMMV -- Jetlag Jetlag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1012 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Database Inconsistencies
danco Wrote: Sensible suggestions, but I tend not to like using beta programs. Its a reasonable position. Also consider that with the promotion of software from beta to golden often being affected more by schedule and external dependencies (and not necessarily bug find/fix rates, bug totals, severity, etc.), the customer's viewpoint that released is more stable/better than something tagged beta is entirely arbitrary. The view suggests that, for example 6.2.1 is of higher quality, with fewer bugs than 6.2.2-beta, when it seems fairly agreed upon that 6.2.1 was released before it was fully cooked (no sleight intended, it just happens sometimes). 6.2.2 has had a significant amount of work, resolving bugs found since/known during 6.2.1. Because the update process is so trivial, and you can revert, consider giving it a try if resolution of the bug(s) is important to you. -- MrC MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23048 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
I have a 1GB Terastation connected to a SlimServer on an old EPIA Eden based machine. I want the later as I use AlienBBC an awful lot. The Terastation has been fine for me so far, speed is more than adequate. - it can happily stream to Slim server, Twonky server (for a netgear MP101) and video to a machine with no dropouts. The Pro looks better in a couple of respects - 1 it is easier to swap disks - they are caddy's whereas the non pro is a complete dismantle. The Pro also works with ADS whereas the non pro does not. Mac connectivity is fine as it is a standard SMB connection.. I do backup my data onto an external USB HDD. I have seen a massive difference in performance in backing up between choosing EXT3 and FAT. You can read the former natively under OSX, but under windows you will need an additional driver. -- poyntzj poyntzj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2628 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
Please don't misinterpret my post. Installation and configuration was a breeze. And performance is good. This is a very slick product. It /is/ technology. There is a lot to potentially go wrong, and it has to get along with other gear. Most of the support threads on the Infrant forums show good interactions with the company and have happy endings. In most cases, the fault and the fix seem to be with associated equipment. In my case, it was the router's fault. Or more accurately, the router's wall wart's fault. Others have had issues with bad cabling, NICs, NIC drivers, etc. Just the nature of the beast. For most users, I'm guessing this is their first foray into GigE. I give Infrant credit for corralling a host of potential issues and putting out a highly usable device. And since finishing my setup and writing some robocopy scripts I've not had a single issue. --rt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
Jetlag Wrote: You may want to spend some time reading the posts on the Bufallo forum vs. the Infrant forum. Quite a difference and it is what made me choose first the X6, then follow that up with an NV. I have had 0 issues with my units. My NV has been up for over 4 weeks, running SS non-stop. I do not know how to write Linux, so home-grown was not an option and I've never had my PC up for 4 weeks without a reboot (even if it is just for a security patch re-boot). well, for all that reasons I was almost decided to buy a ReadyNAS NV. That was when I still thought it would cost 688 Euros, which is already a lot. Now I found out that this price was without VAT and the only German distributor sells it for 800 Euros (which is around 1000 Dollars!!!). That is empty, no HDs included. These prices are just insane, I am definitely not going to pay that... Maybe I will have to go the DIY way after all... Pricing in Germany has already been a topic in the Infrant forum. If I knew anyone in the US who could buy one for me, I would definitely take that option Can anybody give more information/experiences about the Terastation Pro? I heard about a Mac OS X filename issue (15 characters limitation) with the old Terastation. Has this been fixed? What other alternatives do I have? Thanks again, Andreas -- AndreasG AndreasG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4834 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ready NAS NV vs. Terastation Pro vs. Terastation vs. ??? (Storage Solution)
I've had a ReadyNAS 600 that I bought without drives last August. I populated it with four 320GB Western Digital WD3200JD drives, giving me about 872 GB of RAID5 storage. After some initial strife getting the drives installed and set up the way I wanted (mostly my own fault) and one failed drive in the first month, the thing has run pretty much flawlessly. I tried running Slim Server on it, but wasn't impressed with the performance, so canned that idea. I also tried using their included backup software, but ran into issues, so switched to using NTBackup and now back up PCs on my network that way. At this point I use the NAS for absolutely nothing but storage and have all of the included software services disabled. Performance isn't mindd-boggling, but it's adequate. Adding a 1000 Gbps switch to my home network helped a lot, plus I've found the performance of the PC doing the reading or writing to the NAS plays a large factor. To give you an idea of up time, my NAS has been shut down exactly _once_ in the last six months, when I upgraded its firmware in March. Looking at the logs, it ran continuously from 20-Oct-2005 to 16-Mar-2006. Almost five months without so much as a hiccup. I think you could successfully use it wirelessly with a USB wireless adapter, but I'd have two large reservations about doing this: 1) Troubleshooting Slim Server problems, particularly wireless issues if you use your SB wirelessly, will be compounded by having your storage connected wirelessly. 2) Library scanning will take a performance hit. While I think the wireless storage connection will be more than adequate to keep a few Squeezeboxes fed a music stream, the scanning will be slow. If you only scan occasionally, this may not be an issue, but if you're like me and constantly adding new music, you'll want to scan fairly often and may not like waiting. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: HELP: Pressing ADD button zaps file
andreas Wrote: hello... cvj wrote: I have encountered a strange anomaly using the remote. If I am playing an album - say track 1 - and I want to change to track 4 using my remote, here is what happens: Selecting track 4 (using the DOWN button) then clicking the ADD button - a message to the effect file added to the Zapped directory flashes across the SB3 screen and presto - the file/track has disappeared from the database. If you want to skip to a song in the current playlist you should just move to the song and press play. if you press Add you will remove it from the playlist, and if you press-and-hold Add it will move the song to the Zapped Songs playlist. I can't locate any such zapped directory - and I am wondering if I am the only one with this problem? The file is not really moved anywhere, it's just moved from the current playlist to the Zapped files playlist. Just Browse Playlists and there it is... This is the behaviour for me, running 6.5b1 - 6107, anyways... /A/A/A Sorry - there is no zapped playlist shown when I scroll the playlists.. I also did a complete file search on my PC for any file with zapped in the file name...again no such file... This is going byond weird :-( -- cvj cvj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2979 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23012 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Database Inconsistencies
Thanks for the encouragement to use 6.2.2. It is maybe a good idea. I probably won't as I'm away much of the next month, and may as well wait till I am back. At this stage, solving the bug isn't that important to me, though it may become so later. I'm mainly intersting in knwoing if I have found a new bug, come across an old one, or run into some peculiar incompatibility bnetween SlimServer and my tagging program. Given that I was finally able to get a good database, the last of these (which is the one that most concerns me) seems unlikely. -- danco danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23048 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC to MP3
You might also consider installing more capable firmware on your iPod to make it support FLAC. http://www.rockbox.org/ -- rudholm rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23046 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: FLAC to MP3
rudholm wrote: You might also consider installing more capable firmware on your iPod to make it support FLAC. http://www.rockbox.org/ True...But, be aware that battery life will suffer considerably if you use FLAC on your iPod or other portable player. In general, higher bitrate files will allow fewer hours of listening on a single charge. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: FLAC to MP3
John Hernandez wrote: True...But, be aware that battery life will suffer considerably if you use FLAC on your iPod or other portable player. In general, higher bitrate files will allow fewer hours of listening on a single charge. I had not considered that. Why is it so? And is this true for all players? or just those with hard disks? I can understand bigger files take more disk spinning, but in flash based players, I'm not sure I see why the draw would be higher. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] ReadyNAS for Slimserver
Maybe I'm lucky, put I've installed 2 ReadyNAS X6 and they've all been almost braindead to install. Their are several models and I'm not aware of that many issues with the X6 model. I recommend the X6 model BTW, and once I installed 4 SATA drives, I plugged it in, waited 4 hours and had a RAID server. Did the same to second, with same success. On this one, I installed the Slimserver plugin and copied my FLAC files to the NAS. Did a rescan and bingo, one Slimserver. Been streaming loseless around the house to 5 Squeezeboxes for several months without a single problem. No dropouts, and no throughput issues both to wired and wireless Squeezeboxes. File performance to the X6 File server exceeded that of the PC file server it replaced with 10K SCSI 320 RAID and an Intel gigabit card. The boxes are plug into one of the higher end 24port gigabit switches. Each box creates snapshots every 12 hours and back up to each other once a month. I've installed these to other people and can certainly recommend them as a fine good NAS slimserver device. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.384 / Virus Database: 268.4.2/314 - Release Date: 4/16/2006 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] REadyNAS performance
I'm sure it's been pointed out by others, but the throughput of the infrant X6 is way past the terrastation. Tried that for Slim and what a dog. Now running the X6 and happily streaming FLAC files all day long, wired and wireless. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.384 / Virus Database: 268.4.2/314 - Release Date: 4/16/2006 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] The Worst DB Implementation?
Ok, this is weird, and I can't think of a single reasonable explanation for this. I populate my slimdb database (SQLite) from an external Access DB. Everything works great, until I start browsing my db through the SlimServer web interface. I browse by artist (or search, for that matter) for the artist Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. I find one album with 12 tracks. Everything is fine. The next time I browse (or search) over to that album, -there are only 11 tracks-. The first track no longer appears with the album. Surf over again, -now there are only 10 tracks-. Tracks 1 and 2 have disappeared. What's up with this? Anyone else see this? - Jeff -- JSonnabend JSonnabend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23061 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How to play SlimServer library on a computer
Now that I have a great library to feed my SqueezeBox, I'd like to use computers in other parts of the house, where there are no stereo systems, to access it. My tunes are all stored as FLAC. Can I use SlimServer to stream them to computers? I tried using the localhost:9000/stream.mp3 interface, but nothing happens (or I misunderstood the directions), but not surprising, since I'm using FLAC and not mp3. Tried it substituting FLAC for mp3, but just got a browser message asking me which program I wanted to use to open the files. Which brings me to my next question. If I want to use another program, not SlimServer, to access the Slim library, what's a good player to use that works with FLAC? -- mschlack mschlack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1159 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23063 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?
Why are you importing it instead of letting the server build it? It's a relational database and is difficult to get the entries correct in all the tables. If it sees things it doesn't like in a record (it certainly does this when the file location isn't found), it will remove the entry. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23061 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC to MP3
It will drain battery life more than compressed music. Reason, more harddrive access. A FLAC file will have the harddrive spinning longer than an mp3 file that is smaller. Because of this, pretty much any player will suffer reduced battery life for playing lossless over a lossy format (given the lossy compresses to a smaller file size). Above is regarding HD based devices. Not sure about flash. However 4GB of FLAC is almost not worth the effort ;) edit: Also I briefly looked into rockbox for my 4G iPod. From what I was reading it seems that tag based browsing is poorly supported and favors file based browsing, which is just not an option for me. -- m1abrams m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23046 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play SlimServer library on a computer
Have you tried softsqueeze? It has the benefit of buffering (or not buffering as the case may be) correctly since it uses the same protocol as a hardware squeezebox. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23063 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play SlimServer library on a computer
mschlack Wrote: Now that I have a great library to feed my SqueezeBox, I'd like to use computers in other parts of the house, where there are no stereo systems, to access it. My tunes are all stored as FLAC. Can I use SlimServer to stream them to computers? I tried using the localhost:9000/stream.mp3 interface, but nothing happens (or I misunderstood the directions), but not surprising, since I'm using FLAC and not mp3. Tried it substituting FLAC for mp3, but just got a browser message asking me which program I wanted to use to open the files. You _could_ do that, but why? All you have to do is share the folder containing your music library so that other computers on your home network can access them. Which brings me to my next question. If I want to use another program, not SlimServer, to access the Slim library, what's a good player to use that works with FLAC? Particularly if you want to use a program other than Slim Server, you'd want to directly access the files. It would only be if you were particularly fond of the Slim Server web interface that you'd need to figure out how to stream the music to a PC. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23063 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC to MP3
Not sacrilegious at all; merely practical. You have done the right thing by starting with flac, though, as that means you will always have a digital lossless 'master' copy that can be used as the source for whatever other digital music formats may become popular, without having to rip everything all over again (as described here: http://blog.tomtebo.org/programming/flac2mp3_py.html). There are different programs available depending on whether your slimserver machine is running on Windows, Mac or Linux, and in fact there are a number of scripts that will do the job. I've tried a few, and the one that works best for me is one written by Robin Bowes: https://projects.robinbowes.com/projects/flac2mp3. I personally have my CDs all ripped to flac on my Linux (Debian) box, then I convert them to MP3 for use on my iPod using Robin Bowes perl script. Assuming your FLAC files are in good shape (i.e., they include tags), this is probably all you need. It is very easy to use; running the command flac2mp3 flac mp3 looks in the directory 'flac' and converts all the FLAC files it finds into MP3 files in the directory 'mp3', recreating all subdirectories as needed, to create a mirror of your FLAC files in MP3 format. Simple, works great, should run on Windows, Linux, or Mac, as it is a perl script (like SlimServer itself). I have something in the neighbourhood of 500 CDs ripped to FLAC. Converting them to MP3 was just a matter of time; it is not fast (at least not on the 700Mhz machine that holds my music collection), but you just run the script, leave it for the weekend, and you'll have all your FLAC files converted to MP3. After that, just run the script again whenever you add a new CD or change a tag, and it updates your MP3s. Whenever you run it, it checks to see whether the MP3 file already exists, and if so goes on to the next, so updates are relatively quick (a new CD takes about 1/2 an hour to be encoded on my machine). -- BBB jmusante Wrote: Hello, I know that this might seem like sacrelidge to some of you but now that I have converted our CD collection to FLAC my wife has some concerns with portablity. She understands the conversion and likes the Squeezebox but wants our collecton to be more portable (ie. move to the car, use when working out, bring to work). I have suggested an Ipod for the ease of use. Now I need to now if there is anyway I can convert these FLAC files to MP3 easily? Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason -- bbb bbb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5045 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23046 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?
I'm copying over rather than letting it scan my tracks because my tracks aren't tagged, but I do have a complete, centrally managed, clean db with all my track information. As for the notion that it's somehow difficult to populate a relational database, that's just not true. This isn't a particularly complicated schema, and there's should be no reason why one can't manually build the db. In any event, it seems that the tracks are disappearing, SlimServer is renaming the tracks. So track 1, which was some song title From Clap Your Hands Say Yeah by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah becomes Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - some song title on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Why is SlimServer renaming the tracks in the db? [image: http://sonnabendlaw.com/cap1.jpg] [image: http://sonnabendlaw.com/cap2.jpg] [image: http://sonnabendlaw.com/cap3.jpg] -- JSonnabend JSonnabend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23061 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?
I believe that when you play the track slimserver attempts to actually read the tags at that point to try to maintain accurate DB info. Your tags don't exist so it uses it's guess tags feature to attempt to discern the appropriate tag info from your directory structure and filenames. It then updates its database to reflect the results of its guess, thus resulting in the info you're seeing. -- azinck3 azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23061 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC to MP3
Going a little off topic, I have also heard that DRM'd files use more battery life than non-DRM'd ones. Never tested it though. -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23046 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?
Quoting JSonnabend [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why is SlimServer renaming the tracks in the db? becuase slimserver believes the file is not yet scanned, so scans for metadata and populates the db with its data. Given that you don't have tags, then what you have is probably the result of the guessTags function. Try going into server settings and deleting all of the guess tags options. -k ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?
azinck3 Wrote: I believe that when you play the track slimserver attempts to actually read the tags at that point to try to maintain accurate DB info. Your tags don't exist so it uses it's guess tags feature to attempt to discern the appropriate tag info from your directory structure and filenames. It then updates its database to reflect the results of its guess, thus resulting in the info you're seeing. Thanks for the info. I was starting to think this might be the case. How do I turn off the guess the tags feature (or, for that matter, the update the DB with the best info feature)? I'll twiddle with the Perl code, if need be. TIA - Jeff -- JSonnabend JSonnabend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23061 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?
Thanks for the idea. I've done that already, but to no avail (the first guess tags entry reads 0 after I delete all the entries and hit Change). - Jeff -- JSonnabend JSonnabend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23061 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?
Quoting JSonnabend [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the idea. I've done that already, but to no avail (the first guess tags entry reads 0 after I delete all the entries and hit Change). that's odd, but 0 should fail to match anything. Thinking about this more, the server will probably end up with the plain filename. Unfortunately, populating the db from an outside source just isn't a supported function. I can't even think of a simple place in the code where you could short-circuit the data updates. Perhaps have a look in Datastores/DBI/DBIStore and block any of the writes to the db. You may find that there is some data missing, which could be part of the trigger for the updates. Also, if you are running on windows, you'll have to install ActivePerl and run slimserver.pl, instead of slim.exe for your changes to take effect. -k ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Help: cannot connect to ethernet network
I've just upgraded my SB1 for an ebay-SB2. However, the SB2 does not get a proper IP through my WRT54G's DHCP-server when using a wired connection. Also assigning a static IP does not connect the squeezebox with my network. In wireless-mode the squeezebox works fine. I've searched through the forums and tried pretty much everything that might help: resetting, upgrading firmware of SB, upgrading firmware of router,... Also I might add that my SB1 worked flawlessly in wired mode. Please, could anyone help me find a solution? -- Dave Dave's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=584 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23064 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?
Slimserver also updates the database when it reads files. Mine all have tags, so I don't know what it would do if the file has no tags at all and guesstags is off. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23061 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Mindless scrolling of display on SB2
Due to rearangement of our furniture the Squezebox is now connected to another switch on my LAN, and the issue has almost disappeared. Sometimes the Squezebox does scroll a line or two after releasing the button on the remote, but that is definately tolerable behaviour. One must assume that it was some kind of weird interference between the particular switch and the Squeezebox, that triggered some packets to be duplicated. I'd still like to see a reference document on the protocol between the Squeezebox and the Slimserver to learn a little more about the possible causes of this problem. /Fedder -- Fedder Fedder's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21153 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem: Can't open file from
Sorry for the frustrations! Can you please try deleting EVERYTHING in C:\program files\slim server. After ensuring that is all removed, please download the latest nightly build of slim server 6.2.2 from: http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.2.2/ Please make sure your music folder does NOT contain any .pls or .lnk files, I'd suggest searching with the windows search utility for *.pls, *.lnk within the directory where you are referencing slim server for your music. Now install slim server, please point it to your music library and click rescan. This next step is important, just walk away! Once you hit rescan, don't touch the computer. Give it an hour, and try it out again. Post here and let us know how it goes! -- Ross L Ross Levine Slim Devices Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.510.743.1152 ext. 3 Ross L's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4416 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21776 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem: Can't open file from
Thanks Ross - Just wanted to mention that just deleting the db file seemed to do the trick for me. -- bigmdime bigmdime's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4956 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21776 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem: Can't open file from
Thats great! Would you say the issue is resolved then? Thanks for hanging in there, and thanks to all here for the wise words. I'm still learning a lot from this wonderful online community! -- Ross L Ross Levine Slim Devices Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.510.743.1152 ext. 3 Ross L's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4416 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21776 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem: Can't open file from
deleting the db solved the problem that i was having. -- bigmdime bigmdime's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4956 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21776 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SlimServer on a Synology Diskstation 101j How To
Philippe Kehl has announced a How-To for running SlimServer on a Synology Diskstation 101j in the German forum: http://oinkzwurgl.org/software/slimserver/ The documentation is in English - might be interesting to users of that NAS solution. -- 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: Problems!SB3
What kind of security settings are you using? WEP? WPA? -- ChrisOwens -- Christopher Owens QA Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] (510) 743-1152 x717 ChrisOwens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4240 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23015 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19369 Question: Do you have a 770? - Got it - Want it - Need it - Forget it bklaas Wrote: I was referring to the 'playlist is empty', but I think I may have fixed the icon thing as well. If you can, please give it a try and report back. If it doesn't work, could you right-click on the text-that-appears-where-an-icon-should, copy the image location, and paste it to your reply? Thanks! #!/ben Ben, Last night's build fixed my issue. Thanks so much; cheers! +---+ |Filename: fixed.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1205| +---+ -- EnochLight EnochLight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3392 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19369 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19369 Question: Do you have a 770? - Got it - Want it - Need it - Forget it Getting back to responding. You covered most of them, so I'll delete and only include ones you asked for a response. Thanks again for all this hard work! bklaas Wrote: thanks for all of the ideas. I'll respond to them one at a time... 4) If click on Squeezebox's Playlist when it's empty, the image is not sized correctly - scrolls right. what image? Need more info... *** I can't recreate what she descriped. What she described wasn't the image, it was the entire window with whitespace next to the skin. But as I said, I can't recreate it. 5) If click on a Squeezebox's Playlist when it's full of songs, there are not icons for Play, Move Up, Move Down, Next, Remove, etc. Looks like text box image place holders? These basically split the screen in half and causes songs to wrap. The functionality is great! I've seen this under certain circumstances, and I can tell you it's an issue with the Opera browser and not the skin per se. I don't know how I can fix this, but I will see if there's anyway of preloading images into opera's cache (esp. ones that are used repeatedly throughout a page like these) workarounds: configure slimserver through server settings to not display as many items/page. hit the playlist icon a second time when you see this and the images may load on the page refresh. *** See some recent posts about images. Will try today's nightly. 6) Does not appear to be ability to delete a playlist? Typical situation is when I do a playlist rescan, it pulls playlists from iTunes I don't want so I go in to delete them from Slimserver. It's in the default skin with a second confirmation step. How is clear playlist different than delete playlist? *** If I understand, clear a playlist clears the contents of a squeezebox's playlist. Delete a playlist actually deletes it from the slimserver console so it never shows up again in browse playlists. -- patrija patrija's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19369 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Help to upgrade plese
I am running Slimserver 6.1 with SB2 and would like to upgrade to 6.2, but I use AlienBBC a lot, and wanted to know the best way to upgrade without creating lots of work? If I donwload 6.2 and install it, does it realise that I had 6.1 loaded and does it see the changes I had made for AlienBBC to work, and keep these? I have looked around for an answer to this but can't find anything obvious on upgrading, sos sorry if I have missed this. -- nfshirley nfshirley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23067 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19369 Question: Do you have a 770? - Got it - Want it - Need it - Forget it New build works perfectly - thanks! -- RDaneel RDaneel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3695 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19369 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help to upgrade plese
The upgrade procedure will depend somewhat on what OS are you using and what version of AlienBBC ? If you are using Windows, you could upgrade to AlienBBC 1.01 at the same time as the install procedure is a lot better now but if you have any custom Alienstream lists they should be saved. For Linux you should be able to minimise the effort by saving and then restoring the Alien folder but this may depend on the AlienBBC version. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23067 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: MLB.com gameday audio on a SqueezeBox?
I voted for this as well. Radio (audio) is the best way to enjoy baseball. This would be a fantastic enhancement, and a sure way to sell some Squeezeboxes to baseball fans. --rt I actually would rather see an FM tuner with timeshifting -- think Tivo for radio. This is obviously a server-side app, not an addition to the SB. MLB is a draw, but only local, and there are also a ton of other local radio shows/resources that I or my wife want to hear. I've tried a number of different solutions, but ended up just providing a tabletop radio next to the SB in many rooms. It seems so inefficient to stream the same data over the Internet when it's passing by in the air... -- Jack Coates 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 - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problems!SB3
Daveo Wrote: OK The plot thickens! If I disconnect the working sb3, then the bad one will work, but I then get exactly the same problem with that one and it will not work with the other box connected. Thanks for your help so far, hopefully we're getting there, any ideas as to why this happens? That makes it sound like an IP address conflict. You say you only have one DHCP server, your router. Have you checked your DSL/cable modem though? They are often set up as DHCP servers as well and if you have two DHCP servers on your network, weirdness results. Could you list your network devices by IP address? I'd be particularly interested to see where your DHCP pool stops, i.e. the address of your working SB3. I assume when you swap SBs around, this is the address that the working one is always using and that the non-working one is trying to use the next address in the pool which causes everything to screech to a halt. That next address - is there another device on the network using that address? Do you have enough addresses in your DHCP pool? Will a computer work when you statically assign it the problematic address? (I bet not.) -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23015 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play SlimServer library on a computer
You're right JJZolx, I'm not wed to using the SlimServer interface. I'm looking for recommendations for a player that will play FLAC. I did find one called Ashampoo, of all the names, and it's not bad. But WMA and other obvious ones don't seem to support FLAC. -- mschlack mschlack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1159 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23063 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play SlimServer library on a computer
It would help to know what platform you're on, but assuming it's Windows, here are a few options: - SoftSqueeze (Java-based, included in the slimserver package) - foobar2000 - WinAmp - squeezeslave, probably partnered with a front-end like Moose BTW, streaming to http://localhost:9000/stream.mp3 does work, but it's not as flexible as any of the above solutions. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23063 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play SlimServer library on a computer
I like foobar2000. -- dwc dwc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1892 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23063 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can't connect to shoutcast via SlimServer
If I browse on sqeezebox, only a few stations will play. But if I log on to the server with the web interface, most stations will play - through the sq3. I can access shoutcast fine. -- reduakm reduakm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22946 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can't connect to shoutcast via SlimServer
I have been using the same static IP - it just stopped working with shoutcast only. With DHCP it works fine. Even tried a bunch of different DNS addresses with no luck. I wonder why this is a problem. Using DHCP it is using the DNS address that I originally had. -- reduakm reduakm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22946 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB audio quitting after one track
i've started to see a few posts like this. I am having the same problem. but here's my deal: 2 SB3's, one works fine, other exhibits the 1 song problem server is XP box running 6.2.2 SB firmware is 41 - before that i was running 6.2.1 28... I just upgraded server and firmware today (4/17) seems like there is a ghost in the machine... -- melston melston's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5054 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21976 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
