[slim] Re: streaming AAC files in native format
As has already been said, this won't work, the SB will not play AAC without server-side transcoding. There is very little downside to having the stream transcoded on the server, though: the only functionality you lose is ffwd/rew within a track while playing. Is your concern about the load on the server with transcoding going on? Most people don't find this an issue, are you planning on having lots of streams at once? Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25053 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: streaming AAC files in native format
Are you trying to stream AAC to a Roku ? AFAIK Roku does not support AAC in slimserver emulation. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25053 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.3 no longer groups compilation albums
As far as I understand, if the ALBUMARTIST tag is set (you mentioned it is set to Various Artists) then slimserver doesn't try to detect compilations automatically. In this case the COMPILATION tag is not automatically set and therefore the group compilations option does not apply. You have either to delete the ALBUMARTIST tag or to set the COMPILATION tag manually. -- dip dip's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24724 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: streaming AAC files in native format
Interesting call, bpa, but I think not - b_prem has started at least a dozen threads on this or similar topics over the last 6 or 7 months. I think s/he is trying to stream to a homemade software client, so we may not be able to help much here. Here is just one of many ... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19169 Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25053 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Flash skin for PSP with FW2.7
Hi Lowrent good luck on the move and enjoy your travels in europe... thus far the weather on this side of the world has been very good so with any luck (for us all) it will hold! ;-) If you send me a link or PM me a copy of the skin in current form I will have a go and give you my feed back if it helps take care Rick -- rick's cafe WHEN MUSIC HIT YOU YOU FEEL NO PAIN!!! rick's cafe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim.exe commands
blkwrx Wrote: Yes but the server isn't started in time. I've been researching a way to delay opening the url shortcut until after the server is started but I haven't found one yet. Can't you build a batch script/vb program which waits for a few seconds (pinging localhost or something) then launch the IE, with the homepage set to the rescan page? I have done this a couple of times where programs needed loading in a certain order and it has always worked so far. -- audiofi audiofi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=726 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25046 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.3 no longer groups compilation albums
ModelCitizen Wrote: Yup, setting the compilation tag has worked. All compilation listings are back to normal now. Cheers! MC Hi there, Does anyone know when using TagRename how you set the compilation flag. There is a tick box for Part of a compilation or something like that. I assume this relates to the compilation tag ? Thanks in advance, Andrew. -- finnie finnie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24724 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Any Mac users who don't use iTunes?
I use a Mac but refuse to use the Itunes Music Store because I feel that DRM is a violation of my rights to play music that I have purchased on any device of my choice. I do, however, use iTunes to manage and digitize all my music. It is very good at those functions and integrates well with my various iPods and Slim Devices products. I choose not to buy music online (iTunes Music Store or others) to avoid DRM. I buy new music on physical CD media (mostly from Amazon because of overnight delivery) and immediately rip it into iTunes. This works quite well for me and gives me both digital and physical back ups. You do not have to use the iTunes Music Store in order to have iTunes manage your music library. -- jbuccino jbuccino's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25073 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.3 no longer groups compilation albums
I found that 6.3 not only created multiple albums but repeated tracks for no reason. On various CDs I now have double tracks i.e. 1,1, 2,2 etc etc. They are all in seperate directories, all in flac and many are not compilations. Even when I remove 6.3 the fault remains. How can I FULLY remove 6.3. I tried regedit, searched for everything on the hard-drive but still something remains which is now effecting 6.2.2. when I go back to it. I NEVER had these problems with 6.2.2 before installing the latest download. -- Ledwidge Ledwidge's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6189 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24724 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
Siduhe Wrote: This is a known issue, but it isn't yet clear whether it is a bug or something to do with a slightly revised way that Slimserver reads tags. I'm sorry, but this IS A BUG. It did not exist in previous versions. It's ruining my experience with this product -- It will no doubt ruin the experience of other users (especially new users). I have a huge music library of solely FLAC files and many, many compilation albums. My system runs on Gentoo Linux It is LUDICROUS to ask me to go into some editor and resave tags. The tags are fine. THE CODE IS BROKEN, not the Tags. All I did was take a fully functioning 6.2.2 release and install 6.3.0. Developers MUST fix it, NOT put the burden on users. If you folks changed the way the system handles tags, then either write a compatibility layer that bridges any changes in logic, or write a converter that fixes tags to what Slimserver needs to see. As a former VP of Development and CTO at many firms, I would never tolerate a situation like this -- nor a release of software that breaks basic functionality. Where is the regression testing? A word to SlimDevices: It's great that you've enjoyed success to date with your products, but start facilitating BS like this 6.3.0 release and watch your customer base rapidly shrink towards zero. *Bradley -- Bradley Bradley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Any Mac users who don't use iTunes?
I also do not buy music online for the very same reason. I buy physical CD's then digitize. DRM is one reason. MP3 vs WAV, etc. I do use iTunes on my mac to handle the digitization of my music though.JimOn Jun 29, 2006, at 7:32 AM, jbuccino wrote:I use a Mac but refuse to use the Itunes Music Store because I feel thatDRM is a violation of my rights to play music that I have purchased onany device of my choice.I do, however, use iTunes to manage and digitize all my music. It isvery good at those functions and integrates well with my various iPodsand Slim Devices products.I choose not to buy music online (iTunes Music Store or others) toavoid DRM. I buy new music on physical CD media (mostly from Amazonbecause of overnight delivery) and immediately rip it into iTunes. Thisworks quite well for me and gives me both digital and physical backups.You do not have to use the iTunes Music Store in order to have iTunesmanage your music library.-- jbuccinojbuccino's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1096View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25073___discuss mailing listdiscuss@lists.slimdevices.comhttp://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss --Jimbalson AT comcast DOT net ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
Totally agree, if a newer software release screws up what a previous version was performing well, it has a bug. Think I'll hold 'upgrading' to 6.3 until the consensus of opinion is that it's a sensible thing to do. MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
Bradley Wrote: It is LUDICROUS to ask me to go into some editor and resave tags. The tags are fine. THE CODE IS BROKEN, not the Tags. All I did was take a fully functioning 6.2.2 release and install 6.3.0. Developers MUST fix it, NOT put the burden on users. If you folks changed the way the system handles tags, then either write a compatibility layer that bridges any changes in logic, or write a converter that fixes tags to what Slimserver needs to see. For the avoidance of doubt, I'm nothing to do with Slim. Thanks for making me so pleased that I took time out to try and assist you by directing you to the ongoing discussion about this issue (which you seemingly didn't even bother to look three threads down for), as well offering a work-around suggestion as to how you might want to fix it, pending something more focused from SD. For myself, my current theory is that its something to do with the way that Slimserver reads the ALBUMARTIST tags in 6.3.0. As you say, it may be a bug or it may be a logic / conflict issue, but I haven't yet been able to reproduce it at will. Or perhaps you might want to file a bug yourself if you're not happy to follow my suggestion ? It's usually the best way to get the developers attention, rather than sounding off on these fora. Regards -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
I have to agree that this must be a bug and (even if it isn't) the release of 6.3 should have been put back until it was sorted (one way or another). However, if it helps you at all Bradley I found is very easy to get round by opening all my compilation albums at once in FooBar2000 (as I am on Windows) and adding the tag COMPILATION value 1. Luckily for me all my Compilation album folders begin with VA to they were instant to identify. The extra features included with 6.3 made this well worth doing. 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=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
Siduhe Wrote: For myself, my current theory is that its something to do with the way that Slimserver reads the ALBUMARTIST tags in 6.3.0. None of my files include an ALBUMARTIST tag, so can your current theory still stand? Oooh, and opening the files and resaving the tags did not cure the problem either. 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=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
ModelCitizen Wrote: None of my files include an ALBUMARTIST tag, so can your current theory still stand? Oooh, and opening the files and resaving the tags did not cure the problem either. MC Ah well, as I say, just a theory. Time for me to bow out, I think. Was the Oooh really necessary particularly when I did suggest the compilation tag as a possible solution too ? Perhaps I'm just being over-sensitive, and whilst I understand the frustration that things like this cause - not least because I had to go through the same process as you to fix my db, I'm really not up for that being directed at me when I'm just trying to contribute to the discussion. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
Hey Sidue, I'm sorry, I did not mean my comments to be taken that way. They were supplied in a spirit of helpfullness, not antagonism. I have been (and still am) very, very appreciate of your help. The Oooh, was added a I just remembered to put the comment in at the last moment. Sorry to offend you. I don't want to be responsable for you feeling you cannot provide people with help any more. :-( 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=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Flash skin for PSP with FW2.7
rick's cafe Wrote: If you send me a link or PM me a copy of the skin in current form I will have a go and give you my feed back if it helps Hi Rick, the skin is attached in the wiki page since a couple of weeks. Enjoy! -- Lowrent Lowrent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5665 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.3 no longer groups compilation albums
Ledwidge Wrote: I found that 6.3 not only created multiple albums but repeated tracks for no reason. On various CDs I now have double tracks i.e. 1,1, 2,2 etc etc. They are all in seperate directories, all in flac and many are not compilations. Even when I remove 6.3 the fault remains. How can I FULLY remove 6.3. I tried regedit, searched for everything on the hard-drive but still something remains which is now effecting 6.2.2. when I go back to it. I NEVER had these problems with 6.2.2 before installing the latest download. If you uninstall SlimServer and then delete the remaining Program Files and then reinstall 6.2.2 there should be no problem. It might be worth regetting the firmware incase it's changed by holding down the brightness button afterwards... but this shouldn't be necessary I think. 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=24724 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.3 no longer groups compilation albums
I removed 6.3, removed the slimsever directory, removed any remaining regedit entries. But still there are multiple entries in both titles and tracks when I reinstall 6.2.2 or even 6.2.1 ! 6.3 left something somwhere, any ideas ??? -- Ledwidge Ledwidge's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6189 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24724 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Best way to install Slimsever?
Just wondering, on an XP machine, is it best to completely stop SS running and uninstall it before installing a new version? Is it fine to just run the installer and install it of the top of a previous version? -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25077 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
A little over the top on the rage but I agree that this is a bug and not a feature. End users should not have to go through and retag all their cd's. I know that I have many cd's that could be affected by this bug. -- dae3dae3 dae3dae3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1739 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Add Wireless to Squeezebox 2
I have a SB2 that I bought without Wireless. I'm wondering what are the options for adding wireless to it. I was thinking about some type of ethernet to wireless brigde. I tried a linksys 'Game' adapter without much success. Any ideas? 802.11g and WPA would be my only requirements. Thanks, Chad -- chadh chadh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5981 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25079 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimserver wont start
I have SB2 and slimserver running on XP. For the first month all was fine. About 3 weeks ago my slimserver (6.2.2) stopped running. It would start, then EI would give the URL not found for http://localhost:9000. I checked all settings and firewall permissions and all are they were when slimserver worked. I read through other posts here and I can see others have similar problems. I tried all ideas already suggested but nothing works. I also tried uninstalling and installing version 6.3. Yesterday I checked in the Event Viewer and found this message from when Slimserver tried to start: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Perl interpreter failed. The Perl interpreter failed makes me wonder. Slimserver is written in Perl I believe. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks in advance! -- maxheadroom maxheadroom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6212 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
All have a look at http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2976 which I think may be relevant. It discusses a bug fix for another problem. In the discussion a side effect like the one being discussed here is anticipated. I think this shows that the Slim folks did at least consider what they did, and came to a conclusion. Now, it may be that they've missed the relative importance of the problem being fixed vs the one being introduced, but I think the discussion would go smoother with a little more light and a little less heat... Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Add Wireless to Squeezebox 2
Might not be helping you here, but have you thought of using some kind of ethernet over power line solution, such as this - http://www.devolo.com/co_EN/produkte/dlan/index.html -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25079 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim.exe commands
audiofi Wrote: Can't you build a batch script/vb program which waits for a few seconds (pinging localhost or something) then launch the IE, with the homepage set to the rescan page? I have done this a couple of times where programs needed loading in a certain order and it has always worked so far. That was the other option :) -- blkwrx blkwrx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25046 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Best way to install Slimsever?
I just stop the server and install over the top of the existing installation. Hasn't caused me any problems. This is assuming you're using official release versions, if you're running dev or beta builds you should probably be a little more cautious. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25077 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim.exe commands
You can use at to schedule a task to run in the future. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25046 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver stops after running for 30-45 seconds
The important bit here is perl interpreter failed - that means basically something bad happened but we're not sure what - it's the catch-all error message. So debugging this could be tricky. If you search the forums (from the advanced search page) for that phrase you'll get a bunch of threads talking about it. A common cause seems to be bad playlists - so I'd start by taking out all your playlist files. Another one is specific music files (tags it doesn't like, etc), so try taking out almost all of your music and see if it stays running any longer. This link : http://tinyurl.com/p2x59 contains some information on how to get (hopefully) more detailed information about the error. You could try that and see if it yields more clues. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25069 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Best way to install Slimsever?
depends if you are going forward or backward... in my experience if you are stepping down a version .. say beta 6.5 to 6.2.2 then you will need to do an uninstall.. but if moving up a level then no need to perform an uninstall -- rick's cafe WHEN MUSIC HIT YOU YOU FEEL NO PAIN!!! rick's cafe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25077 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SlimServer 6.3 no longer groups compilation albums
On 29-Jun-06, at 5:59 AM, Ledwidge wrote: I removed 6.3, removed the slimsever directory, removed any remaining regedit entries. But still there are multiple entries in both titles and tracks when I reinstall 6.2.2 or even 6.2.1 ! 6.3 left something somwhere, any ideas ??? slimserversql.db perhaps. just to chime in...I have not seen this problem with 6.3.0. If any of the hundreds who installed nightly builds during pre-release saw it, they chose to remain silent. I'm sure that if anyone willing/able to fix it can reproduce it with a specific case, it will get fixed asap. -k ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.3 no longer groups compilation albums
dip Wrote: As far as I understand, if the ALBUMARTIST tag is set (you mentioned it is set to Various Artists) then slimserver doesn't try to detect compilations automatically. In this case the COMPILATION tag is not automatically set and therefore the group compilations option does not apply. You have either to delete the ALBUMARTIST tag or to set the COMPILATION tag manually. This isn't quite how its working. For my FLAC files that have ALBUM ARTIST set to Various Artists, the individual artists do not appear when GCAT is set. When GCAT is unset, individual artists appear. This works fine. For the WMA files, WMP sets WM/AlbumArtist to Various Artists, but unlike FLAC files, all artists show up regardless of the GCAT setting, AND the Various Arists artist appears as well. I have no COMPILATION tags anywhere. The behaviour of FLAC and WMA files should be consistent when tagged typically and properly. Since WMP sets WM/AlbumArtist, (which SlimServer internally maps to ALBUMARTIST), the logical that hides artists for WMA should be the same as that used for FLAC. -- MrC MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24724 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Firmware requests-if possible?
Perhaps this is the wrong venue, but I'm sure somebody here will be happy to inform mw of that... I have no idea if this is even possible, but 2 issues I find with the Squeezebox (3) are... Disabling JVC remote codes only works when your computer is on. Once you've shut the power sucker off settle down in front of the brain sucker, the JVC codes are active again. Every time you pause your JVC DVD the Squeezebox lights up for a moment or two. Big deal? Not really, but it would be great if that could go away. It would also be great if the time would display when the computer was shut down. I suspect this is even less likely, but maybe that info could be pulled off the Squeezenetwork somehow? The clock feature is pretty spiffy (I've always thought that VCR/DVD manufacturers got it wrong with their display options...Dimmed when off. Isn't that what most people use for a clock?), but not worth keeping the computer/server on for. These are pretty minor quibbles, perhaps insurmountable. Other than these 2 items, I am very pleased with the performance ease of use. I had an Omnifi DMS1 set up previously, it was an exercise in frustration. Had a 10,000 song limit unless you used buggy third party software. In contrast everything I've done with SS has been very slick. TIA, Kevin -- ZappaLover ZappaLover's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6214 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25084 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Change appearance of 6.3 buffer fullness screenie?
I am ok with the new progress bar graphic showing buffer fullness, but I don't want the dancing background lights. How can I tweak that acreensaver to not show the dancing lights? Thanks, Dan -- dwc dwc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1892 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Change appearance of 6.3 buffer fullness screenie?
Quoting dwc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am ok with the new progress bar graphic showing buffer fullness, but I don't want the dancing background lights. How can I tweak that acreensaver to not show the dancing lights? by dancing lights, I'm assuming you mean the visualiser. pressing NOW PLAYING button will change the display mode. Not all modes show the same visualiser, or buffer fullness. Options are available in player settings. -k ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Any Mac users who don't use iTunes?
I don't use iTunes to purchase music, also prefering to purchase CDs and rip to FLAC instead using the excellent Max utility. I have a couple of Applescripts that I use to transcode from FLAC to my iTunes library (MP3) for playback on the Mac itself and syncing to the iPod. I hope to have this more automated shortly, so that after ripping, the MP3 transcode is automatically generated and iTunes is automatically updated. -kefa. -- kefa Mac OS X 10.4.6, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, TBD-eBay kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25073 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim.exe commands
I think I found an easy answer From Wiki Wrote: Scanning your library Of course, you will want to keep adding new music to your slimserver library... or perhaps you will have updated the tags in your files. In either case, slimserver needs to be told that something has changed in the library so that it can update its database. This is done by the scanning process. You can do this as a one-off, or schedule slimserver to rescan, say, every night. * Tip: if you've just added a single album, you can force slimserver to read the files (and add it to the library) without doing a complete rescan just by browsing to it using Browse Music Folder... -- blkwrx blkwrx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25046 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.3 no longer groups compilation albums
kdf Wrote: just to chime in...I have not seen this problem with 6.3.0. If any of the hundreds who installed nightly builds during pre-release saw it, they chose to remain silent. I'm sure that if anyone willing/able to fix it can reproduce it with a specific case, it will get fixed asap. -k Hundreds? Not thousands then? :-). Actually I had this problem once with 6.3, multiple albums and multiple tracks, but I thought my problem was due the fact I had been installing the modified perl files issued as the result of a fix singly into my SlimServer installation, so did not do more than mention it in a thread. Anyway, it went away as soon as I reinstalled a 6.3 nightly. The thing with Ledwidge's problem is that he can't get rid of it which is very wierd as, afaik if he uninstalled and deleted the SlimServer directory in Program Files there is no way that there could be any information left over for his next installation of SlimServer to pick up. As SlimServer does not write tags it cannot be that his tags have changed so I'm completely stumped. 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=24724 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Difficulty accessing hard disks with SlimCD
(I tried posting this on the Linux/Unix forum, but got some Invalid forum message.) I have a computer that normally boots in Win98 that I wish to use with SlimCD when serving music (mainly because Win98 chokes when piping flac-wav-mp3 to my SB1). I have three drives: the Win98 boot drive, the music drive (200GB in two partitions) and a (Suse) Linux-formatted drive. The first is on a normal IDE connector, and the others are on ATA-100 connectors. Win98 sees the first two just fine; I think the last is hidden because Windows doesn't recognize the Linux file system on it. I can't use the other IDE connector for the music drive because it's too big for Win98. The problem is that DSL can't access either of the drives on the ATA-100 connectors. The MB manufacturer (Gigabyte) offers beta Linux drivers, but has no clue how to install them (when downloaded, the file is a Windows executable, for some strange reason). When I Google for Promise ATA/100 Linux Drivers, I get the impression that the 2.4 kernel should handle ATA/100 natively, and the DSL wiki says that it uses 2.4. Any suggestions? -- dbls dbls's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=296 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25086 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim.exe commands
blkwrx Wrote: I think I found an easy answer Which was what? I'd assume that if you'll be yanking the hard drive and hauling into the house to put new music on the server, then you'll be adding a lot more than a single album at a time. Browse Music Folder would work, but it's pretty tedious (particularly using the remote) to add more than a couple albums. And it won't pick up any deletions from your library. If you're talking about using the 'Rescan Music Library' scheduler plugin, see my reply above in post #18. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25046 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim.exe commands
JJZolx Wrote: Which was what? I'd assume that if you'll be yanking the hard drive and hauling into the house to put new music on the server, then you'll be adding a lot more than a single album at a time. Browse Music Folder would work, but it's pretty tedious (particularly using the remote) to add more than a couple albums. And it won't pick up any deletions from your library. If you're talking about using the 'Rescan Music Library' scheduler plugin, see my reply above in post #18. My guess is I would only be adding a CD or two at a time. I'll do the major music scan before its installed in the car and then I would only be adding CD purchases. If I ever need to rescan the whole library I can initiate it using a thumb drive and a inf file like I mentioned above. I think that's the simplest solution. Sorry if I was unclear and thanks for all your help. -- blkwrx blkwrx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25046 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Here'a a fix for Firefox memory leak
bgriffis Wrote: Didn't work for me either. I have that leak issue no matter what pages I'm viewing, i.e. it's not SS specific. I've always assumed it was some extension I've installed. It would be nice if FireFox allowed you to disable extensions rather than deleting them (at least, I don't think you can merely disable them) for the purpose of debugging. Then I'd disable them all, and enable one at a time to see if I could find the culprit. -- dbls dbls's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=296 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24982 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Here'a a fix for Firefox memory leak
view your extensions, then right click on one and say disable. that extension will be disabled on the next firefox restart. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas the Nokia770 skin guy bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24982 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Here'a a fix for Firefox memory leak
dbls Wrote: I've always assumed it was some extension I've installed. It would be nice if FireFox allowed you to disable extensions rather than deleting them (at least, I don't think you can merely disable them) for the purpose of debugging. Then I'd disable them all, and enable one at a time to see if I could find the culprit. You can. click on tools-extensions. Right click on the individual extensions, choose disable, Bob's yer uncle. -- ZappaLover ZappaLover's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6214 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24982 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: SlimServer 6.3 no longer groups compilation albums
Quoting ModelCitizen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf Wrote: just to chime in...I have not seen this problem with 6.3.0. If any of the hundreds who installed nightly builds during pre-release saw it, they chose to remain silent. I'm sure that if anyone willing/able to fix it can reproduce it with a specific case, it will get fixed asap. -k Hundreds? Not thousands then? :-). might have been. I'm an outsider as much as anyone when it comes to that. how about millions? As SlimServer does not write tags it cannot be that his tags have changed so I'm completely stumped. me too. I hate saying well, it works for me. well, ok, glad that I CAN say that, but it means I can't offer much help. Although, with some of the mudsligning, I'm not sure I'd feel motivated either to be honest. Having the problem not go away is bizarre. Hopefully it is just the lingering slimserversql.db. However, it is possible in a great number of ways to have this kind of problem. As things progress, and being completely open, there are always nudges from users along the way with special interests. Tweak something to handle that, and another case gets mixed up. Now, this may not always be a user thing. If playlists, for example, are created one way then things change, a rescan might not like it. Taking into account my huge sample group of 1 (me), that could be one explanation as the nature of the poking around that I do tends to result in destruction of playlists regularly. I'm also updating daily, running multiple copies of the server, rather than going through any upgrade/downgrade stuff. Also of note: I almost never just listen to music any more. Free time ends up with me looking over some bug report or another, even if only absent mindedly. Thus, even playlists that I do create aren't normal. Of course, it means I also don't have a clean library (lots of deliberate buggy files) so I don't notice a handful of dupes mixed in among deliberate duplicates of albums in different formats, etc. Anyway, this issue is now in as bug3658, so it's being tracked. -k ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Firmware requests-if possible?
ZappaLover Wrote: Disabling JVC remote codes only works when your computer is on. Once you've shut the power sucker off settle down in front of the brain sucker, the JVC codes are active again. Every time you pause your JVC DVD the Squeezebox lights up for a moment or two. Big deal? Not really, but it would be great if that could go away. ? Do you mean after your SlimServer is off your Squeezebox will respond to a JVC remote? Most people have their Squeezebox connected to an always-on server, either their own SlimServer or SqueezeNetwork, which would avoid this issue. It would also be great if the time would display when the computer was shut down. I suspect this is even less likely, but maybe that info could be pulled off the Squeezenetwork somehow? The clock feature is pretty spiffy (I've always thought that VCR/DVD manufacturers got it wrong with their display options...Dimmed when off. Isn't that what most people use for a clock?), but not worth keeping the computer/server on for. Why not just keep it logged in to SqueezeNetwork? That would solve the first problem too. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25084 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Change appearance of 6.3 buffer fullness screenie?
KDF, I have examined all the now playing screensavers. Of all the variations provided, only one includes the buffer fullness. It is called Show Buffer Fullness In 6.2.x, Show Buffer Fullness showed only the buffer percentage, i.e. nothing additional was displayed beyond the song info you have specified. In 6.3, the display has been altered. Adding the progress bar graphic along the top - which graphically represents buffer fullness. In addition, the Spectrum is running in the background. I would like to disable the Spectrum element of the Show Buffer Fullness screensaver. Thanks, Dan -- dwc dwc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1892 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Add Wireless to Squeezebox 2
radish Wrote: The adapter you tried should have worked fine - you just need a wireless bridge (which that is). What problems did you face? I would have thought so as well. First, it didn't support WPA. Even after disabling WPA on my access point, it would connect but not stay connected. And the SB could not play any files without the sound breaking-up. Keep in mind, the wirless access point and the game adapter were in the same room. I know that's not a network issue as I have used Softsqeeze on my laptop with the same WLAN. In addition, the configuration tools were pretty bad. No Mac software of course. Perhaps I just need to try another Vendor. Chad -- chadh chadh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5981 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25079 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Versalink 327W Problems
We used to have a lot more problems connecting to wireless routers, but recent work has solved a lot of them. Your post might indicate there's still an issue or two, though. Have you tried to see if changing the modem settings has any effect? You might try, for instance, if it is set to WPA/WPA2 auto, to set it to just one or the other. Or try WEP instead, if it's supported. Or, temporarily, set it to 'no security'. Also, many modems/routers have firewall features to filter packets from various addresses or ports. If you have 'MAC address filtering' turned on, you might need to add the mac address of the Squeezebox to a list in order for most traffic to be allowed through. Or perhaps you have some of the ports that the Squeezebox uses (9000 and 3483) filtered. Have a look and see what's up in your modem configuration! -- 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=24992 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Change appearance of 6.3 buffer fullness screenie?
Quoting dwc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In 6.2.x, Show Buffer Fullness showed only the buffer percentage, i.e. nothing additional was displayed beyond the song info you have specified. http://svn.slimdevices.com/branches/BRANCH_6_3_x/server/Slim/Player/Squeezebox2.pm?rev=7756view=log This change was made 3 months ago (March 12), and you can see why from the note for Change 6562. I can't link directly to that change since viewcvs doesn't seem to like showing changes that far back directly. This change was included in the 6.2.2 release on April 25. I would like to disable the Spectrum element of the Show Buffer Fullness screensaver. That can be done by modifying the line that you see changed if you click on the diff link. However, this won't affect the Windows EXE install, as the code is already packaged there. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Change appearance of 6.3 buffer fullness screenie?
Thanks for looking that up for me. -Dan -- dwc dwc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1892 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Add Wireless to Squeezebox 2
This was exactly my question too a few days ago. I have orders the buffalo wirless bridge and I will let you know if that works in a week or so (if I remember ; ) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24976 -- ajmitchell ajmitchell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=800 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25079 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.3 no longer groups compilation albums
kdf, get your self a glass of wine or a beer or whatever stimulant dings your bell and listen to some music! 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=24724 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Add Wireless to Squeezebox 2
chadh Wrote: I would have thought so as well. First, it didn't support WPA. Even after disabling WPA on my access point, it would connect but not stay connected. And the SB could not play any files without the sound breaking-up. Keep in mind, the wirless access point and the game adapter were in the same room. I know that's not a network issue as I have used Softsqeeze on my laptop with the same WLAN. In addition, the configuration tools were pretty bad. No Mac software of course. Perhaps I just need to try another Vendor. Chad Sounds like maybe it was a 802.11b only client? That would lower the bandwidth dramatically to a level which often causes breakups for people. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25079 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate/triplicate artist names
Fixed by rebuilding the library. Strange that something must have corrupted it. I do have lazysearch, and musicip plugins. I will search for known issues with these. Thanks aubuti and kdf. Steve -- madfuzu madfuzu's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5149 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25032 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Right Side Pane does not refresh
Since upgrading to the final 6.3.0 version I am having the following problem: When I browse music folder and add music to the play list the right side pane turns white and does not show the chosen music until I manually refresh the page. This does not occur when using any of the other browse functions..only browse music folder. I have tested this in Firefox 1.5 and IE Explorersame result. It seems to be skin related. It malfunctions with dark, purple, bagpuss,NBMU, and touch but not with default, default2 Suggestions? -- brucegrr brucegrr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3964 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25090 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Difficulty accessing hard disks with SlimCD
When I Google for Promise ATA/100 Linux Drivers, I get the impression that the 2.4 kernel should handle ATA/100 natively, and the DSL wiki says that it uses 2.4. I can't say for sure what's compatible and what's not. But why do you know that they're not recognized? -- 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: Difficulty accessing hard disks with SlimCD
dbls Wrote: (I tried posting this on the Linux/Unix forum, but got some Invalid forum message.) This seems to happen in any of the forums when you take long enough to write your post so that your session expires. Then when you submit the post you have to log back in again, and somewhere along the way the forum id must get lost. It's a pain in the neck. A bug in vBulletin, I suppose? -- azinck3 azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25086 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate/triplicate artist names
Quoting madfuzu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I do have lazysearch, and musicip plugins. I will search for known issues with these. Two known issues: search for new and changed causes dupes with lazysearch musicIP can result in dupes if the pathnames include non-latin characters not sure what bug numbers these are attached to currently. I think both were not reflected directly in the original report. -k ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Right Side Pane does not refresh
Quoting brucegrr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It seems to be skin related. It malfunctions with dark, purple, bagpuss,NBMU, and touch it is indeed. the link is pointing to status_header.html, which is only found in skins like Default, Fishbone, Default2, etc. it's a fix that doesn't have to wait for a new build, however: look for c:\program files\slimserve\server\HTML\EN\browsetree-list.html open it in any text editor (wordpad is good on windows) find the line: [% PROCESS browselinks.html header='1' width='13' height='13' target='status' urlcmd='play' cmdstring='PLAY' %] remove header='1' save the file. That will fix most of the skins that are broken. It will break fishbone, but that's a matter of adding header='1' again in the right place if you feel the need to use that skin. I can merge in a full fix in for the nightlies. -k ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
In the past I believe the scanning part of the software attempted to be clever and interpret what albums should be regarded as compilations. A recent change to fix other issues with scanning compilations has perhaps changed the guessing functionality. I'm a bit hazy on the specifics. Proper tagging of your music library would certainly help. This would have benefits such as perhaps working better in other software packages, and perhaps make scanning faster. Its a bit like the rules for guessing missing tags in music files - they don't work too well. It's much better to have proper tags so the scanner knows how to treat albums. I'm sure the developers are doing their best. I'm sure the releases are tested fairly well. They have to make the software cater for many different situations. Problems like this will happen, but I'm sure problems will be rectified. So, I suggest you consider some of the other advice already given for quickly setting the COMPILATION tag correctly for your various artists albums, and perhaps be a tad less aggressive to the developers who are doing their best. Alternatively, raise a bug report and see if you can provide some useful information to help the developers fix the issue for your situation. Phil ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimserver 6.3 is not reading my second drive
Folks, I was using windows XP, slimserver 6.2.2, SB1 and SB2, and everything was running perfectly, scanning my 32000 songs in less than 45 minutes. I was having the famous 30-second freeze, which was not present with the previous 6.0 versions. Now with 6.3, it's not reading the tags on the second drive. I can get through the windows shortcut with Browse Music Folder to that directory, but it still can't read the tags (Flac files). On the positive side the 30 second freeze has been eliminated. I've also tried 6.5, same thing. Is anybody having this problem? Peter -- Peter Evans Peter Evans's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5193 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25092 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Right Side Pane does not refresh
Thanks. That hack fixed it! Bruce -- brucegrr brucegrr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3964 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25090 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Advice would be appreciated!!
I can weigh in with another Powerline recommendation. I just bought a pair of the Netgear adaptors. I live in NYC and gradually the interference of the 20+ (and growing) wireless networks that battle with my own G network - regardless of channel - was really getting frustrating. The adaptors are literally plug and play and easily have enough bandwidth to stream FLAC to my SB3. No more drop outs, choppy sections or command latency! The other machines on my wireless network are also now more content, as there isn't a flood on bandwidth every 4 mins when the track changes! Good solution! -- sebage sebage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2617 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24793 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
I too upgraded to 6.3 today and have the same problem. It's a real pain. Also, the CD's i have ripped to an image/CUE also show up twice in album art. -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Can't connect to slimserver anymore
I have been running an ad hoc wifi setup between my PC and SB3 perfectly well for a few months. But now i can not longer connect my SB3. The strange thing is that my PC seems show the connection is fine and when i go into view current settings it show the signal strengh as 90%. I have tried everything i can think off over the last 6 hours, but it just won't connenet to my wireless network. One thing i did do was install SS 6.3, but would this have made a difference? I can't connect to my wireless network anymore so it has not even been able to try and access SS yet. Any idea's? I'm completey lost! -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25093 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
I began having this same problem after upgrading to 6.3.0, and in my case it appears to be related to the data coming in from MusicIP Server, rather than from SlimServer's own scan. If I do a full rescan with Don't use MusicMagic the duplicate albums are gone. If, on the other hand, I point SlimServer's music library at an empty folder, and enable MusicMagic, I get all of the duplicates, which completely eliminates SlimServer's own scan from the experiment. So, SlimServer appears to be misinterpreting MusicMagic's data. - Bill -- bmountney bmountney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3338 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] New feature request for players (hard and soft)
I have been using my slim device now since december of last year, and soft squeeze for the last 2-3 months. I like them both very much. However, something is missing that I would love to have. And that is a delay between the songs. Not a cross fade, which is already there. But a delay in between the songs, which would mean silence for some number of seconds. I like to listen to my music with a 15-45 second gap in between the songs. Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. This feature does not exists, should be easy to implement I guess. just "sleep(n);" before playing the next song. Am I the only one who would like to see this feature in the players?Jim --Jimbalson AT comcast DOT net ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New feature request for players (hard and soft)
Quoting balson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I like to listen to my music with a 15-45 second gap in between the songs. Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. for players with digital output, there is a player setting that can add 0-5 seconds before a song start (to allow for DAC's to sync up). You might be able to hack that pref into the prefs file and see how that turns out. This feature does not exists, should be easy to implement I guess. just sleep(n); before playing the next song. that woudl block everything else from happening as well, on all players, for web and remote control input. Am I the only one who would like to see this feature in the players? probably not, but I'm guessing it is still a small number. either you can file requests at bugs.slimdevices.com, select enhancement as the severity and let people vote on it. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: streaming AAC files in native format
If he's trying to work with a software client, I suppose he could do something wacky like encapsulate his AAC files with a RIFF (wav) header. It'll play noise on a Squeezebox since AAC data is not a valid wav file, but the data will be intact on the other end for his software to decode as it pleases. As Mark points out, the only problem isn't that Slimserver can't stream AAC; with a bit of hacking it can stream anything. It just *doesn't* out-of-the-box because Squeezeboxes can't decode AAC. Anyway, if he's a programmer, I've heard Slimserver's open source. :) -- 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=25053 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can't connect to slimserver anymore
Check the SB MAC address? Although I'm not sure if ad-hoc software can filter by MAC address. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25093 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver wont start
The problem was some mp3 files I had ripped in iTunes. For some unknown reason iTunes created a folder name with unprintable characters in the name. I changed iTunes setting to Keep iTunes Music folder organized (in Preferences, Advanced, General). This caused iTunes to rename the folders and that did it - Slimserver started working again. -- maxheadroom maxheadroom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6212 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Firmware
is firmware version 54 the correct version for 6.3 -- bgrounds bgrounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25098 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Firmware
No it should be 55. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25098 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Firmware
How do I get the new version? -- bgrounds bgrounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25098 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Firmware
If you've installed 6.3.0 and it contains a new firmware version, your Squeezebox should prompt you to press and hold the brightness button to update the firmware. If it hasn't, hold it down anyway. That will load the firmware contained in your SlimServer. If it's still 54 after you do this, you don't have 6.3.0 official. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25098 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver stops after running for 30-45 seconds
You're the man! I ditched Itunes and rescanned my music folder after reinstalling Slimserver. It works like a charm for the time being. Now I plan to waste another 5 days trying to get Sailing Clicker to work on my Treo. Thanks for your help. -- brentb brentb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25069 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
