[slim] Intel (especially) Mac users needed to help development
We are trying to get easy and reliable installation instructions for AlienBBC on Macs. We have what we think works ok, but need someone who is prepared to spend some time testing the instructions on an Intel Mac. This would need someone willing to create users on their machine, install and remove files, etc., but I can indicate what is needed. Further testing on a non-Intel Mac (G4, G5, or even G3) would be useful, too. -- danco danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24967 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Playback freezing
Seemingly out of the blue, my SB3 has started freezing during playback (playback stops and the SB3 display doesn't change), partway through songs. The behavior is consistent, altho I'm not sure yet whether the freeze occurs at a specific time-spot (# minutes/seconds), but the freeze/lock-up seems to occur at same point within a song consistently. For instance, one songs stops playing with about 49 seconds left, each of the 3 times I tried (on a 3 min 57 sec song). - happens wireless and wired - happened on 6.51b and now with 6.22, f/w 48, after an uninstall/reinstall - when wireless, signal strength is 90%+ Can't think of what I may have changed to cause this, altho around the same time I moved some of the stereo components around (disconnected, moved and reconnected. But I'm not sure why that could cause this behavior. Anyone have any ideas? -- joncourage SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 6939 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 Player Firmware Version: 41 SB3 > Audio Note DAC 3.1x Sig > Levinson 383 integrated > Amphion Argons joncourage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24966 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
Actually there's been at least two threads asking for this very thing. These were people with SBs in inaccessible locations, media closets, no remote etc. Personally I can't use the feature. But I still think it's a good idea. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
kdf Wrote: > This one is a step, jjzolx. Clearly, it wasn't written just for you, > but some out there appear to appreciate it for their needs. Which is what I was asking. How is this ability by itself the least bit useful to those people? I'm not knocking the feature, but I fail to understand how anyone could get excited by it. You connect a box to SqueezeNetwork through the web ui from a PC or your PDA. Then you pick up the remote and use the remote interface to connect to a feed. You could have more easily connected to SqueezeNetwork with the remote itself. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
Quoting JJZolx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Mark Lanctot Wrote: Just like connecting to SN through the player UI, you need to select something. I'm having a difficult time understanding what good this feature is by itself. It would be much more useful to have the ability to break the SB away from SqueezeNetwork from the web ui. that may eventually come too. This one is a step, jjzolx. Clearly, it wasn't written just for you, but some out there appear to appreciate it for their needs. It doesn't always make sense for everyone. I personally have all the features I need on slimserver, and only use SQN for testing a few things now and again. With just one player (old SBG) running rss in the kitchen (sitting on the microwave, wirelessly, no less) -k ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > Just like connecting to SN through the player UI, you need to select > something. I'm having a difficult time understanding what good this feature is by itself. It would be much more useful to have the ability to break the SB away from SqueezeNetwork from the web ui. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Dedicated skin for Dell Axim x51v
Here's a new release. This one has been tested with SlimServer_6_3_x_v2006-06-22. +---+ |Filename: Borg (v0.3).zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1454| +---+ -- shawkie shawkie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3751 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23354 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WAV to FLAC
I find the command line parameters to be simple enough so I just create a .bat file to invoke flac.exe such as this: flac --best -T artist="Yeah Yeah Yeahs" -T date="2003" -T album="Fever To Tell" -T tracknumber="09" -T title="Maps" -T genre="Rock" "C:\wav\wavs\Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 2003 - Fever To Tell - 09 - Maps.wav" >From a command line if you type "dir /s/w/b > wavs.txt" you'll get a listing of all wavs into 1 file. I use Excel to build the line above for each file. This is easy if your comfortable with the text to columns feature and then a simple formula. Once this is in Excel you can do touch-ups on the tags prior to creating the .bat file. If the file name is in column A, followed by artist, year, album, track, title and genre in columns B-G then paste this formula in column H: ="flac --best -T artist="""&B1&""" -T date="""&C1&""" -T album="""&D1&""" -T tracknumber="""&E1&""" -T title="""&F1&""" -T genre="""&G1&""" """&A1& copy the results of column H to a text file (notepad is fine) then save it with a .bat extension and run it while making sure flac.exe is in the same folder. This may seem complicated (and perhaps some of the UIs make this much easier) but I like the control over the process and the speed of making tag changes among the cells and using search/replace in Excel. -- zooropa320 2 Channel Setup: SB3 * Benchmark DAC1 * Classé Audio DR-15 mono blocks * Magnepan MG 3.5Rs * REL Strata III Music Server: Lian-Li PC-V2000B Case * Turbo-Cool 510 XE Power Supply * Tyan Thunder K8S Pro Motherboard * 3Ware 9500S-8 SATA RAID Card * 2 AMD Opteron 240 1.4GHz CPUs * 2 512MB PC3200 Corsair CAS 3 DRAMs * 8 250GB SATA Hitachi drives in RAID 5 http://www.last.fm/user/zooropa320/ zooropa320's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3420 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24873 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
JJZolx Wrote: > Once the box is on SqueezeNetwork, does it automatically connect to the > most recent feed, or do you still need to use the remote to begin > playing something? Just like connecting to SN through the player UI, you need to select something. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
JJZolx Wrote: Can you switch back - disconnect the SB from SqueezeNetwork and connect to the local server - from the web interface? No. SS -> SN, not the other way around. Pity. I'm sure people are working on it, but I've never been quite sure why the Squeezenetwork was not better integrated into the main menus. I don't understand why you need to sign on to use those services as a separate step. I mean could not selecting Pandora imply the need to sign on without having to explicitly go through that step? And couldn't selecting "Library" on the SB automatically switch back to slimserver without explicitly signing off? To me, those steps seem clearly implied and therefore should not need to be performed explicitly in separate steps. As I said, I'm sure people are working on it. Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > No. SS -> SN, not the other way around. Once the box is on SqueezeNetwork, does it automatically connect to the most recent feed, or do you still need to use the remote to begin playing something? -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
JJZolx Wrote: > Can you switch back - disconnect the SB from SqueezeNetwork and connect > to the local server - from the web interface? No. SS -> SN, not the other way around. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
What would be really cool is if the Squeezenetwork web interface had the full suite of controls, including the ability to disconnect from Squeezenetwork and go back to Slimserver. I have patio speakers for outdoor listening. When I use them the IR remote isn't an option since the SB is far away, so I use a laptop to control the music. But this means Squeezenetwork and Pandora are not an option, which is disappointing. I imagine anyone using anything besides the IR remote for SB control would feel the same way. -- rudholm rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > The largest difference I noticed was a very neat plugin - switch to > SqueezeNetwork. It's prominently there on the home page. > > I tried it out - works flawlessly. It's the first > SlimServer/SqueezeNetwork integration I've seen Can you switch back - disconnect the SB from SqueezeNetwork and connect to the local server - from the web interface? -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Disabling SlimServer on boot
cool that did the trick - many thanks! -- closetjunkie closetjunkie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6126 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24931 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim Server won't start
I installed v6.3. Same problem. Bob -- holderlin holderlin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4821 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim Server won't start
I forgot to add that I'm using v6.2.2 on a Mac running 10.4.6 When I go to systems profiler/startup items, here's the description: Description:SlimServer Location: /Library/StartupItems/Slim Provides: SlimServer Requires: Disks Uses: mDNSResponder, Resolver, DirectoryServices, NFS, Network Time Messages: Start: Starting SlimServer Stop: Stopping SlimServer mDNSRespnder, Resolver, DirectoryServices are not among the startup items. Could this be my problem? -- holderlin holderlin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4821 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slim Server won't start
I have Slim Server set to start at start up. It doesn't start. When I press Start Server, it goes to stop server for a few seconds then returns to Start Server. Web access is also disabled. Any thoughts? Thanks, Bob -- holderlin holderlin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4821 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
On 24-Jun-06, at 8:19 AM, Mark Lanctot wrote: I tried it out - works flawlessly. It's the first SlimServer/SqueezeNetwork integration I've seen, for completeness, it was recently added to the web UI. a menu item has been on the playerUI since squeezeNetwork went full release. "new" things are cool, but progress is an important thing too. -k ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Neat new feature in 6.3.0 - switch to SqueezeNetwork
Just updated to the latest nightly in order to correct 'bug 2510' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510). The largest difference I noticed was a very neat plugin - switch to SqueezeNetwork. It's prominently there on the home page. I tried it out - works flawlessly. It's the first SlimServer/SqueezeNetwork integration I've seen, it's been requested a few times, it's very visible on the home page and it works so well I'm surprised no one's commented on it. But despite several searches with different terms and manual browsing of the General Discussion, SqueezeNetwork and 3rd Party Plugins forums I can find no mention of it. So in case it's been missed - thanks developers! Great job. And I think this is the first sign of a trend towards integration of SlimServer and SqueezeNetwork. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Duplicate track entries in 6.3. Anyone else?
I've been using the 6.3 nightlies. Since the 18 June I have noticed that a good many of my tracks now have duplicate entries. I can see no logic as to why some tracks have duplicate entries and other don't. It appears random. In addition some albums (all compilations at a first glance) have multiple entries eg: Acoustic Songbook (disk 1) (2004) by Various Artists Acoustic Songbook (disk 1) (2004) by Various Artists Acoustic Songbook (disk 2) (2004) by Various Artists Acoustic Songbook (disk 2) (2004) by Bobby Womack Acoustic Songbook (disk 2) (2004) by Various Artists Acoustic Songbook (disk 3) (2004) by Various Artists Acoustic Songbook (disk 3) (2004) by Ralf McTell All my tracks are flac. I have no cue or playlists amongst my music folder and no shortcuts. I'm on XP Pro. Currently I am running a nighlty from last night. I have set "Group compilation albums together". The PC holding my 6.3 installation has never had 6.5 on it. I have tried deleting the database and rescanning from scratch to no avail. Just to know that someone else has noticed this problem on 6.3 would be good. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 > Benchmark Dac1 > Naim NAC 82 > Naim NAP 250 > Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24955 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeeze box dropping off Wireless network constantly usingDraytek Vigor 2600 router
I'll log the info against my open call with Draytek as well. -- consciouspnm consciouspnm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5961 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=10458 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Stuck in wrong time zone
When in SlimServer mode, the Squeezebox gets its time from SlimServer. So - are you -absolutely- sure that the time on the ReadyNAS is correct? That's where the time is coming from. When you're in SqueezeNetwork mode, you get the time from the SqueezeNetwork servers which change it for you based on your timezone setting. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24950 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Stuck in wrong time zone
I'm using a Squeezebox that connects to SlimServer on an Infrant ReadyNAS NV. The time on the ReadyNAS is set correctly (using NTP). The time on the SqueezeBox seems to be stuck in the west coast (I'm in NY). Incidently, when I connect to slimnetwork, the time is correct, yet when I log off, it reverts to west coast time. Is this a bug? Or is there some super-secret time setting function I haven't been able to uncover yet? TIA, Evan -- Evan Evan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6140 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24950 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Complete uninstall
I noticed that SlimServer puts it's templates and caches in the Users/yourname/Library/Caches/SlimServer/ directory if you use your own iTunes. Deleting this DlimServer directory and the Users/yourname/Library/SlimDevices directory, rebooting, and reinstalling SlimServer 6.3.0 last nightly build has resolved all problems. Hope this helps others too! For the future: a good uninstall would be very userfriendly. -- evert evert's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5912 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24210 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeeze box dropping off Wireless network constantly usingDraytek Vigor 2600 router
Richard - thanks for your swift analysis and for confirming why this is happening. I keep on ranting to draytek to let me have some dialogue with their engineers (rather than 1st line)..after 6 weeks they still refuse this. If I can get a contact from draytek then I'll keep you posted (I think we know where the problem lies, it is just getting that acknowlegment from draytek that their wireless implementation is not stable). -- dave w dave w's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=10458 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linear PSU - For Sale
Robin, I have to give credit to another user called 'Heuer' who posted similar pictures in the 'Audiophiles Forum'. He also listed the necessary components as part numbers from RS Electronics. Good luck with the project - It's very satisfying once you have completed the box. Jon -- jjrobb jjrobb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3306 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24878 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Complete uninstall
I have identical probelms (see my other thread on 6.3.0 empty web pages) and am also looking for a 100% uninstall. For Mac OS X. Can ANYONE help? -- evert evert's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5912 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24210 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Web interface server empty in 6.3.0 - what's missing?
As my system used to work before I upgraded to 6.5b1, maybe I should do a 100% unstill so all files created by SlimServer. But the installer has no uninstaller... How can i do it? -- evert evert's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5912 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24928 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
