[slim] Re: slimserver installation on ubuntu 6.06
Er .. how do i download the package mate ?? it seems no links link to the file -- thoeng thoeng's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28175 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: slimserver installation on ubuntu 6.06
You must follow the instructions here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?DebianPackage There are .deb packages for i386 and AMD64 linux. I have personal experience with the AMD64 package- it works. TD -- tyler_durden tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28175 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums
Have a close look at the file path on the song info page for both the entry from the playlist and the library. Do they differ in any way? -s. -- slimpy slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27746 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Always fails to connect after shutting down server computer
Bruce S. wrote: Nope. Note above that I do not have the luxury of 4 ports. But it appears that I may have two not just the one. One for the cable modem (phone line) going in and one going from the router to the machine on which my slim server is running. Get yourself an ethernet switch. connect it up like this: phone -- modem -- switch | +-- PC | +-- SB R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeezeslave and Slimserver 6.5
Hi, After upgrading Slimserver to 6.5 (latest stable) squeezeslave no longer works. It starts but nothing happens. I can see, that the slimserver sees it, because it shows up in the web interface, but adding music to it does not trigger any music being played. Does any body see similar behavior? I am running Slimserver and softsqueeze on Debian stable and unstable both has the same behaveior. Best regards, Lars Chr. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Sonos-like remote?
Balthazar_B;141877 Wrote: Let's put it this way: if Apple had released the iPod with a web interface for navigation instead of the simple but brilliant wheel mechanism, it would have flopped in the marketplace (I suppose one could say the Newton was the original flop). SanDisk, Creative, et al. have pretty decent navigation mechanisms as well. A small device (as a remote should be) whose essential function is navigation really needs something like this, and IMHO that's one of the strongest points about the Sonos (despite that the remote could still stand improvement). Messing with a web interface compared with a device where hardware and firmware are well-matched will almost always be a poorer user experience.There we go, you managed to explain it better than I could (and I surely don't love Apple, btw). Regarding the price, yes, it's expensive but... is it more expensive than buying a dedicated amp, quality speakers, thousands of CDs? No compared to all of that it would still be cheaper. And yes, I, too, would spend $300 for it. My initial price point was just to make it clear that I didn't want something cheap. -- gorman gorman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27824 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Zone control on Squeezebox or Transporter?
Pat Farrell;141722 Wrote: With my SqueezeBoxes and SlimServer, I can play the same music in many rooms or different music in each.I have one SB2 on Ethernet and one SB1 on WiFi G and no, they don't stay in synch. As in rarely they are in synch after a couple of songs. -- gorman gorman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28081 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Radio URL needs synchronized SoftSqueeze to play.
Hi Community. I am new to post on this community, although I have had my Squeezeboks for 6 months or so now. It is fantastic and through the whole period I have found only one strange thing that I cannot get to work properly. Here is my problem. I had a friend coming over all the way from Turkey, and she gave me a tip regarding a radio station called Lounge 102. (www.loungefm.net) When I got there I found this link http://www.loungefm.net/lounge_fm_2006.asf to the radiostream. Here the strange thing begins. I can easily play this on my computer, in any audio players, but I cannot access it directly from my Squeezebox. What is even stranger is that if I start up a synchronized Softsqueeze on my computer I can access this stream both from my Softsqueeze and from my Squeezebox directly. So in order to initiate this stream from my Squeezebox I need to have an instance of Softsqueeze running on my computer. If I do not have a Softsqueeze running it does not manage to connect. I have not seen this with any other radioURLs. I have searched the forum for an answer to this question, but I have not found anything on this Have any of you seen this before? Thanks -- bbpbbp bbpbbp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7774 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28178 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Radio URL needs synchronized SoftSqueeze to play.
Try disabling built-in WMA support, it looks like this stream might not support HTTP streaming. You get a 404 error when trying to play this directly. mms://85.25.145.192/lounge_fm_2006 -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28178 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Duplicate Tracks
On XP and latest nightly 6.5.1 from 1st October. Apart from the same missing albums problem that I've had since before 6.5 I now have a new problem on rescanning; many duplicate tracks. The new tracks show the SONG NAME and ALBUM, but no ARTIST of the original duplicated track. e.g. 14 There's A Doctor - The Who - Tommy 14 There's A Doctor - Tommy Is this another Tag problem? Neil ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
Disclaimer: I'm speculating on much of this, and would love it if somebody with more knowledge of the various specs could show me I was wrong. funkstar;141448 Wrote: the reason DTS or AC3 wrapped up in a WAV or FLAC works is that the SB doesn't need to do any surround processing, it just thinks it is regular audio and passes it as is to the AV reciever. I'm guessing that surround MP3 would need to be decoded and then sent to the digital outs. So it is completely different process than what will currently work. I think that sending to the receiver will be the hard part. I wonder if it's possible to send a 6-channel WAV directly to a receiver... if not, the problem is (as you say) that the MP3 will have to be decoded and then re-encoded to some format the receiver understands (AC3 or DTS? Possibly not practical; I don't know what the licensing or processor power issues are). Decoding: according to Fraunhofer, decoding the six channels needs around three times the processing power of decoding stereo MP3. I have no idea if the SB2/3 could support that. Fraunhofer also claim that an MP3 Surround stream can be sent over S/PDIF just like MP3. I presume that implies the receiver will be decoding it, and that a compliant receiver would be required for the surround effect (but I'm just guessing). ... Just checked the specs for my receiver, which can handle AC3 and DTS -- there's no mention of multichannel PCM support (and indeed it seems to be that PCM data is forced to be stereo). That's just one receiver out of many, so maybe 6-channel PCM is still viable. I suspect that the best way to get this to work would be if a receiver supported MP3 Surround files natively, and could be passed the data over S/PDIF. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
smst;141947 Wrote: I think that sending to the receiver will be the hard part. I wonder if it's possible to send a 6-channel WAV directly to a receiver... Don't know what you mean exactly here, but I'm playing DTS WAVS (= 6 channel wavs) perfectly through the SB2. These are the wavs that play extreme white noise when played undecoded. So I guess the SB2 is capable of decoding these wav files on the fly and sending a digital signal to the receiver? -- SlimPvC SlimPvC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=51 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Live365 Ads - I shouldn't be hearing them
Has something changed since 6.5+ that would affect Live365 subscribers still using 6.3.1? When I browse to Live365 stations via Internet Radio on the Squeezebox, the first thing I'm greeted with is a VIP membership ad from Live365. I'm already a VIP member. My Live365 login username and password are correctly entered in Slimserver. Any ideas? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28182 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Same album with several entries in the database
Well, and for my part, I may not have expressed it clearly because I'm not entirely sure what exactly happened. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 gotchas and instructions
jeffluckett;141860 Wrote: Before you can get much help, you'll need to state what OS you're running on, and perhaps some specifics about your hardware. FWIW ... I think most people have had success with a Fresh install. Most problems seem to occur when installing over old versions. I am running Windows XP SP2 on a Thinkpad T30 with 1GB RAM. Files are stored in a Buffalo Linkstation. I refer to my files using Windows UNC i.e. \\Trinity\media Since I tried 6.5 beta before and gave, I know about the requirement to uninstall. Before installing 6.5, I uninstalled and deleted the whole tree. -- agentsmith agentsmith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28173 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can my PC and SB3 access my networked music library remotely?
Ross L;136279 Wrote: Running SlimServer on Win95 can be done, however it might be worth looking into other options. I believe SlimServer 6.1.1 and before will run on Win95. How about Windows 98SE? I'm selling my SB3 (no, not leaving Slim, getting a Transporter!) but the guy who's most interested is running 98SE. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27360 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.5.0 is OK except for....
Hi All, 6.5.0 seems generally OK for me so far...no crashes, random stops etc. However, I've 2 issues that I haven't seen any previous answers too on the forum... 1) when viewing my SS from another pc in my house, it doesn't refresh the page during playback. Previously, SS would click away and refresh right on time. I've tried different refresh time settings, but, only a manual refresh/F5 in IE6 seems to work. OS in XP Pro on SS and XP Home on the PC I'm viewing on. All files are .flac. 2) I now have a bunch of random no artist/no album tracks. I saw another poster mention this but couldn't spot the solution. I can't see them in mp3tag or in the file directory. Any words of wisdom greatly appreciated. cheers -- ncpl ncpl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28183 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
SlimPvC;141950 Wrote: Don't know what you mean exactly here, but I'm playing DTS WAVS (= 6 channel wavs) perfectly through the SB2. These are the wavs that play extreme white noise when played undecoded. So I guess the SB2 is capable of decoding these wav files on the fly and sending a digital signal to the receiver? It's not -- I wasn't clear. I was referring to WAV files containing 6 channels of uncompressed PCM audio. Your DTS WAVs actually contain specially encoded DTS data which is masquerading as PCM data. That's why they sound like white noise when played normally: most players think they're reading 2 channels of uncompressed PCM audio (it's all just bytes, after all) and the sound is horrible. That happens when the player is trying to convert the PCM data to an analog format to be sent to speakers (say, you have your PC hooked up to a pair of stereo speakers, and playing the WAV back through WinAmp or fb2k results in white noise). But if you have the player hooked up to a DTS-aware receiver using a digital connection, the playing software doesn't try to interpret the data and the receiver does the work instead -- and the receiver is clever enough to spot the DTS data and decode appropriately. You can connect a PC soundcard's S/PDIF output to a DTS-aware receiver and play DTS WAVs successfully (but you'll need to be careful that your OS and music playback software leave the volume alone -- for fb2k that means an attenuation of 0.00, and with Windows the volume slider needs to be at max IIRC (if you try this, turn your receiver's volume down very low at first in case I'm wrong!)). So anyway, the SB2 doesn't actually know anything about DTS WAVs. It does know that if it receives a WAV file and has been told to play it back at full volume over its digital output, it should shunt the data right out over the S/PDIF connection to the receiver, untouched. It's just a simple conduit for getting the DTS data from your PC to your DTS-aware receiver. (It's the same with Dolby Digital files from DVD, after they've been suitably wrapped in WAV format; DTS files from DVD too. DTS WAVs ripped direct from special DTS CDs can be passed through with no work at all.) So passing DTS and AC3 (Dolby Digital) data straight through to the receiver is what the SB2 can do now. Those are formats that the receiver can understand, and the SB2 need do no special work to pass them on. I'm wondering if there's another format (maybe an MPEG format?) that can carry 6 uncompressed channels and which is understood by many receivers. If there is such a format, perhaps it would be possible to decode MP3 Surround files on the SB2 and pump the 6 channels out over S/PDIF. Of course, in theory the SB2 could create an AC3 or DTS stream to get that data to the receiver, but I'd be surprised if the box had the horsepower to do so, and there may be licensing issues. (Plus it's a lossy-to-lossy conversion which isn't usually a great idea.) If receivers start to support MP3 Surround, it might be possible to just wrap such a file in a WAV container (as we can do for AC3/DTS files sourced from DVD) and pass it straight through. Would be nicer if the SB2 could support it though. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 is OK except for....
When I first went to 6.5 before it became an official beta I had similar problems. It may be a simple matter of your browser cache needing to be refreshed. Either try ctrl+f5 to force a refresh, or go into your browser's menu item and manually clear the cache. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28183 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
Thanks for your explanation! Bye Peter -- SlimPvC SlimPvC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=51 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Bonus Track handling
Jon wrote: I have a number of CDs that include Bonus Tracks ... most notably, virtually all of my David Bowie CDs are loaded with bonus tracks. While I appreciate having all this extra music, somehow Young Americans does not sound quite right when it doesn't end with Fame. I suppose I could break these up by editing the tags to set the bonus tracks for a different album name from the main tracks (such as Young Americans and Young Americans Bonus Tracks) ... but is there a better way to do this? God damned Rykodisc. :) The Elvis Costello reissues are even worse -- some of those bonus tracks sound like they just turned on a tape deck randomly while hanging out with friends and then they stuck it on the end of the CD. The weird thing is, I've always known that both Bowie and Elvis were unhappy with the bonus tracks on the Ryko releases, and in both cases, subsequent reissues on different labels didn't include the bonus tracks on the same disk, but I never understood why until I got my squeezebox. When I was listening to CDs, it never bugged me having to get up to change the disk when the bonus tracks start, but when I'm listening to a playlist with 4 different albums queued up in a row, it's much more annoying. - Marc ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cannot connect to slimserver
Do you absolutely have to have the server wireless? A wireless server is a bad idea. Even if you can get it working, you may experience bandwidth issues and you'll be doubly-vulnerable to interference. Yes, here's the part where someone comes in and says works for me but it's still a bad idea and if you can avoid it, you definitely should. No other server you connect to is wireless, don't treat SlimServer any differently. At this point, it looks like the router is running in AP isolation mode, where wireless clients can't hear each other. This is strange because your router probably doesn't support this mode. Also other users of your router haven't reported this problem. You may still have firewall issues though. In an effort to be helpful, some firewalls keep running even when they're disabled. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28149 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Same album with several entries in the database
joncourage and I appear to be having the exact same behaviour. I concur with Michael's observation in that I only started having the problem when I pointed slimserver to a music directory on a second drive. joncourage, slimpy has suggested checking the paths to each of the dupes in the song info page (in the other thread) - I won't be able to do so for 12 hours - have you had an opportunity? -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cannot connect to slimserver
I have a Netgear DG834G (not the same but...) and it has a wireless isolation option. The manual states: Wireless Isolation: If Enabled, the Wireless Stations will be hidden from each other, and will not be able to communicate with each other. For normal situations, this setting should be left at the default value of Disabled Double check your router manual for this option. Check for isolation by pinging each of the wireless connected terminals - laptop to laptop. If you can ping across 2 wireless terminals then isolation is not enabled. -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.3.1 - 8278, Alien 1.04 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, Slimserver Version: 6.5.0, Alien 1.06 Ramage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5343 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28149 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
smst;141947 Wrote: Just checked the specs for my receiver, which can handle AC3 and DTS -- there's no mention of multichannel PCM support (and indeed it seems to be that PCM data is forced to be stereo). That's just one receiver out of many, so maybe 6-channel PCM is still viable. I believe 6-channel PCM can't be transmitted over S/PDIF due to insufficient bandwidth. However it can be transmitted over HDMI, and in fact until HDMI 1.3 is released, that's how the 7.1 discrete formats will be transmitted to the receiver from an HD-DVD or Blu-ray player. See http://www.dolby.com/assets/pdf/tech_library/DPlus_TrueHD_whitepaper.pdf , chart on page 9. Unfortunately that leaves this sort of multichannel support for the Squeezebox high and dry. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 is OK except for....
Thanks Jeff, Just before I picked up your response, I changed skin from default to dark, and it seems to refresh. Changing back to default and it doesn't. Perhaps it's juyst an issue with the default skin. I know not to touch default 2 anyway now having been caught out by that last week. Seems also that ctrl+F5 is the only way to fully change a skin also. Any thoughts on no album/no artist ? Cheers -- ncpl ncpl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28183 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 is OK except for....
ncpl;141979 Wrote: Thanks Jeff, Just before I picked up your response, I changed skin from default to dark, and it seems to refresh. Changing back to default and it doesn't. Perhaps it's juyst an issue with the default skin. I know not to touch default 2 anyway now having been caught out by that last week. Seems also that ctrl+F5 is the only way to fully change a skin also. Any thoughts on no album/no artist ? Cheers Sorry, no input on that I'm afraid. I'm not experiencing that issue. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28183 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cannot connect to slimserver
Ramage;141980 Wrote: I have a Netgear DG834G (not the same but...) and it has a wireless isolation option. The manual states: Wireless Isolation: If Enabled, the Wireless Stations will be hidden from each other, and will not be able to communicate with each other. For normal situations, this setting should be left at the default value of Disabled Double check your router manual for this option. Check for isolation by pinging each of the wireless connected terminals - laptop to laptop. If you can ping across 2 wireless terminals then isolation is not enabled. Aha! Thanks for that info, Ramage! -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28149 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Sonos-like remote?
Balthazar_B;141877 Wrote: Let's put it this way: if Apple had released the iPod with a web interface for navigation instead of the simple but brilliant wheel mechanism, it would have flopped in the marketplace (I suppose one could say the Newton was the original flop). SanDisk, Creative, et al. have pretty decent navigation mechanisms as well. A small device (as a remote should be) whose essential function is navigation really needs something like this, and IMHO that's one of the strongest points about the Sonos (despite that the remote could still stand improvement). Messing with a web interface compared with a device where hardware and firmware are well-matched will almost always be a poorer user experience. I have something like 15 remote controls in a drawer in my living room. All of them look essentially the same as the standard slim remote, a bunch of buttons on a rectangular lump of plastic. The display, if any, is on the device itself - not the controller. Now I'm not trying to argue that this is an ideal situation - I replaced all 15 of those with a Harmony after all - but it doesn't seem to be a major problem in most people's eyes. I don't see Best Buy going out of business because no-one's buying TVs anymore, and the vast majority of people use the stock remotes perfectly happily. Like I said, I have nothing against a fancier remote control being available, but comparing a squeezebox to a portable player is not comparing like with like. I can't read the screen on my ipod from the other side of the room either, but I don't see people complaining about that. For myself (and I realise I don't represent everyone) - it's the web interface which sold me on slim. Without that I wouldn't have bought the 4 squeezeboxes and a transporter which currently sit in my apartment. (oh and if Slim ever do anything as annoying to use as that stupid ipod wheel I'm selling up and switching to Roku!) -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27824 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cannot connect to slimserver
The 834b uses 802.11b bandwidth 11Mb/s max, although I have seen this kit advertised as 8Mb/s. With that limitation it is a bad idea to connect the server by wireless. -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.3.1 - 8278, Alien 1.04 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, Slimserver Version: 6.5.0, Alien 1.06 Ramage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5343 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28149 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
Well, there's scope for a server-side transcoding from surround mp3 to dts isn't there? I mean I have no idea if there's any cheap/free way of encoding DD or DTS but it's techically possible. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
radish;141987 Wrote: Well, there's scope for a server-side transcoding from surround mp3 to dts isn't there? I mean I have no idea if there's any cheap/free way of encoding DD or DTS but it's techically possible. Yes, you could do some sort of server-side encoding to get it into a DD or DTS WAV. There are a few new soundcards that can do this, although not with surround MP3. Google Dolby Digital Live. DTS has a similar technology, can't remember what they named it. Unfortunately these cards put the DD or DTS on their S/PDIF out, so SlimServer wouldn't be able to see it. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
Mark Lanctot;141978 Wrote: I believe 6-channel PCM can't be transmitted over S/PDIF due to insufficient bandwidth. I had a feeling that might be the case; I think I remember reading that S/PDIF had insufficient bandwidth for DVD-Audio also. Unfortunately that leaves this sort of multichannel support for the Squeezebox high and dry. It can't transmit anything other than 2-channel PCM over S/PDIF and since surround MP3 isn't contained in a specially-encoded 2-channel PCM stream like DD and DTS, it can't be passed to a receiver, even if the receiver could decode such a stream. But might it not be possible to encode streams other than AC3/DTS in the same way? For example, this S/PDIF information mentions MPEG audio as one possible thing to put into the stream (although it might be speculative): http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html And indeed it seems that Harmon Kardon produce an amp capable of receiving MP3s over S/PDIF: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=23822 Of course, the existing players will only be able to produce stereo from the new MP3 Surround files, but if we could wrap up an MP3 in the same way we can wrap an AC3 or DTS file, we might still be able to transmit it to a suitable receiver. (I wonder if anybody other than HK make such a thing?) And if we can transmit a stereo MP3 to a receiver, I'd imagine that adding support for MP3 Surround would be fairly easy, should a receiver come to exist which can support it. Transformed MP3s would almost certainly be as big as their decompressed stereo-WAV equivalents, but would compress well to FLAC due to all the padding (going by the way AC3/DTS behaves). Unfortunately my receiver can't take MP3 files, but it would certainly be interesting to get this going. And if it could be made to work, the SB2/3 firmware could probably do it for us. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 Unstable and Bugs
I just installed 6.5 (saw the notification that a new version was available at the bottom of the version I was using (6_3_x_v2006-06-03) First thing I noticed was that it loaded in my browser quicker, quite a lot quicker. The second thing I noticed was that all my album art has gone. I have a folder.jpg in all my album folders, but nothing displays. That's what brought me to the forum, to see if this was a documented problem and whether there was a fix. I haven't found anything. I'm running it on ClarkConnect 3.2 Home. The third thing I noticed was that my SB3 now displays Cyrillic! How long I have waited for this! Now I can get to work ripping my Russian CDs at last! I have had one SlimServer crash since upgrading (never had one prior to that) and I haven't really checked the bandwith issues on my DGL-4300 -- I did have a problem playing FLACs in the farther away of my two SB3s, but it's in the kitchen where I mainly listen to podcasts in MP3 format, so it wasn't too big a deal. I wonder whether the 802.11n standard will see its way into the SB3 (if it ever gets ratified that is!) I like how 6.5 looks over 6.3 based on my 10 minutes of using it. I hope the bugs get fixed, as I'm sure they will be. I've had the two SB3s about a year now and I'm very glad I chose them. They quite simply have changed how I consume my audio in the home and I would hate to 'go back'! So, any ideas on the album art thing? Cams -- Cams Cams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3302 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
Mark Lanctot;141989 Wrote: DTS has a similar technology, can't remember what they named it. DTS Connect. http://www.dts.com/consumer/pc/dtsconnect.php BTW, Dolby Digital Live: http://www.dolby.com/consumer/technology/dolby_live.html Once card supports them both: http://www.auzentech.com/products_xplosion.html That card has a neat feature: socketed op-amps. I'd like to get it if computer sound didn't suck so bad. :-P Both these technologies have licensing costs though. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes WAV - AIFF adds volume adjustment field info
I just tried something similar - converted an AAC track to WAV and then AIFF with iTunes 6. No replay gain showing in SS or dBPowerAmp. Got me stumped... What was the original source of your WAV files? Ripped with...? Steve. -- SteveEast SteveEast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4193 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 Unstable and Bugs
Update: A rescan brought back the album art so I'm all fixed up! I'm stoked about the Cyrillic thing too! -- Cams Cams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3302 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
smst;141995 Wrote: For example, this S/PDIF information mentions MPEG audio as one possible thing to put into the stream (although it might be speculative): http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html And indeed it seems that Harmon Kardon produce an amp capable of receiving MP3s over S/PDIF: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=23822 Of course, the existing players will only be able to produce stereo from the new MP3 Surround files, but if we could wrap up an MP3 in the same way we can wrap an AC3 or DTS file, we might still be able to transmit it to a suitable receiver. (I wonder if anybody other than HK make such a thing?) And if we can transmit a stereo MP3 to a receiver, I'd imagine that adding support for MP3 Surround would be fairly easy, should a receiver come to exist which can support it. Transformed MP3s would almost certainly be as big as their decompressed stereo-WAV equivalents, but would compress well to FLAC due to all the padding (going by the way AC3/DTS behaves). Unfortunately my receiver can't take MP3 files, but it would certainly be interesting to get this going. And if it could be made to work, the SB2/3 firmware could probably do it for us. Interesting! Well that would be the way. You'd need a firmware change so that the SB could pass surround MP3 without decoding it over S/PDIF, then a receiver capable of decoding surround MP3. This might be able to avoid the licensing cost on SD's part. I would assume a receiver capable of decoding surround MP3s is capable of decoding 2-channel MP3s, so all the SB would have to do is transmit the MP3 bits over S/PDIF. It certainly can recognize MP3 from other streams, all it has to do is pass the raw data over rather than convert it to PCM like it currently does. Not knowing how the SB firmware works, I'm not sure if this could be done. But it will be rebuilding the MP3 file from the SlimProto packets, just like it's doing now. However it will bypass the decoder and transmit the reassembled MP3 data directly over S/PDIF. Since this is handled by SlimDSP software, it should be possible to change it as it's not hardwired if you will. It'll certainly be easier to do it this way rather than heroics at the server decoding the surround MP3, then re-encoding it into DD or DTS, then getting that into SlimServer - and incurring two or maybe even three licensing costs in the process! (Surround MP3, DD Live and/or DTS Conncect). At first I thought surround MP3, why do I want a lossy format? But that's exactly what DD and DTS are, lossy multichannel. Lossless multichannel is DSD, MLP and (new) Dolby TrueHD. Those can't be handled by S/PDIF, no way no how, plus they are content-protected. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 is OK except for....
I've tracked the no name/no artist stuff down to .wavs that were from aborted rips. It seems that SS could see them but as they never picked up any tags, I couldn't see them in mp3tag. Without any tags, they showed up as no album,/no artist as you'd expect. Probably explains why mp3tag and SS always had different stats. 6.5.0 must be behaving differently with the database. I'm still not sure why default doesn't refresh and for some reason I can't see any option for artwork now on any skin? cheers -- ncpl ncpl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28183 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Bonus Track handling
Ben Sandee;141544 Wrote: On 9/30/06, Jon Jon.2ez9kb1159670101 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: One interesting bug that I encountered in doing this (and not the first time I've seen this) ... I had to do a Clear library and rescan everything, when I tried Look for new and changed music SlimServer did not pick up the changes. One thing that can cause this is taggers that don't update the file modification timestamp. SlimServer uses the last modified time to determine whether or not to rescan. And a lot of taggers have an option on whether or not to update the timestamp (eg, mp3tag's Tools Options General settings panel). Fix that setting (if you have one) and you should be okay. Or change your tagging program. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28128 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duplicate Tracks
On closer inspection; I also have many duplicate tracks with SONG NAME, ALBUM and ARTIST all duplicated. Does no-on else have this problem? Neil Neil Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On XP and latest nightly 6.5.1 from 1st October. Apart from the same missing albums problem that I've had since before 6.5 I now have a new problem on rescanning; many duplicate tracks. The new tracks show the SONG NAME and ALBUM, but no ARTIST of the original duplicated track. e.g. 14 There's A Doctor - The Who - Tommy 14 There's A Doctor - Tommy Is this another Tag problem? Neil ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
This thread is old, but it suggests there may be some scope for server-side AC3 or DTS encoding, which could be coupled to a mp3 surround decode to allow playback via squeezebox. Probably a thorny legal area... http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t4208.html It could also work for things like multi-channel vorbis or flac. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 is OK except for....
ncpl;142006 Wrote: I'm still not sure why default doesn't refresh and for some reason I can't see any option for artwork now on any skin? This is now in a gallery view and is available using a small button on the right side of the Sort By field in any view showing multiple artists, albums, etc. You may have to rescan to see it: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=142002#post142002 -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28183 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is 6.5 perfect?
Another neat feature I just discovered this morning: alarm fade-in! Plus the alarm plays continuously. It had stopped doing this in 6.3 for me. Which is a good thing, it's a short sound and if it takes 20 seconds to fade in, it would stop playing before it was audible. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28115 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: 6.5.0 is OK except for....
Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], ncpl[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for some reason I can't see any option for artwork now on any skin? On the 'default' skin, go into 'Albums' and then there's an icon to go 'To Gallery View' Andy ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums
Wow, good call. The songs in the dupe album point to the location on a previous hard drive where I kept music before upgrading to the 6.5 version. That hard drive is still online and accessible by the Slimserver, so Slim doesn't appear to think anything is wrong or obsolete about that location. The songs in the real album point to the correct location. So, it would seem by induction that the Playlists entries continue to point to the original location of the song in the playlist (which makes sense I guess since the playlist has no way of knowing the music has moved and re-pointing, does it?). And since that location is still available, the music is getting scanned. An interesting conundrum - if you move you music directory, is there no way to update playlists with new locations, or do playlists have to be manually recreated? Thanks for the great diagnostic direction! -- joncourage joncourage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27746 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 6.5.0 is OK except for....
On 2-Oct-06, at 5:58 AM, ncpl wrote: Hi All, 6.5.0 seems generally OK for me so far...no crashes, random stops etc. However, I've 2 issues that I haven't seen any previous answers too on the forum... 1) I've tried different refresh time settings, but, only a manual refresh/F5 in IE6 seems to work. OS in XP Pro on SS and XP Home on the PC I'm viewing on. All files are .flac. known issue, and known to be fixed in 6.5.1 nightly builds. -k ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SS doesn't advance to the next track after pause
Probably relates to this bug which is marked as fixed http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169#c12 Basically if I pause a track within the last ~30 seconds SS doesn't advance to the next track unless I press next on either the remote or web interface. I had this with 6.3 and I've now got it with 6.5 (which was a fresh install). Is anyone else still experiencing this; this is now my only bug-bear (no pun intended and only a minor issue at that) -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28188 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Zone control on Squeezebox or Transporter?
Maybe sync'ing should be perfect, but after doing a lot sync'ing I still find it to be hit-or-miss. I have a wired SB2 and a wireless SB3 running 11g only (signal strength usually around 80%). I've used 6.2.2 and 6.5 on a LinkStation HG. Sync'ing does work for me most of the time, and 6.5 seems better at this, but it's still quite common for there to be a stutter when starting a track, and then the track is out of sync. Sometimes it's subtle enough that it just sounds like overdone reverb, other times it's really annoying (the rooms are close enough you can often hear both players, otherwise syncing wouldn't matter). How annoying depends probably as much on the particular track as it does on the precise length of the delay. Usually they will click back into sync on the subsequent track. And forcing it to restart a track will also usually re-sync. I've tried a few things, and still haven't gotten sync'ing to be rock solid. I figured the wireless SB3 was the weakest link, but I still lost sync when I connected it via ethernet (need to retest this with 6.5). Sometimes turning off wireless computers on the network helps, but again, that's no guarantee. Haven't yet tried swapping the router (Netgear WGR614v3) for something else. I'll try it again soon after I upgrade my Dell running Ubuntu to slimserver 6.5, in case it's a problem of the LinkStation's underpowered hardware. From reading other posts I think it's not only radish who syncs without problems, and not just gorman and I who have less-than-perfect sync'ing. That's why the fine-grained network clock for synchronization is still on the software roadmap, albeit quite vaguely, right? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SoftwareRoadmap -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28081 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums
joncourage;142021 Wrote: Wow, good call. The songs in the dupe album point to the location on a previous hard drive where I kept music before upgrading to the 6.5 version. That hard drive is still online and accessible by the Slimserver, so Slim doesn't appear to think anything is wrong or obsolete about that location. The songs in the real album point to the correct location. So, it would seem by induction that the Playlists entries continue to point to the original location of the song in the playlist (which makes sense I guess since the playlist has no way of knowing the music has moved and re-pointing, does it?). And since that location is still available, the music is getting scanned. An interesting conundrum - if you move you music directory, is there no way to update playlists with new locations, or do playlists have to be manually recreated? Thanks for the great diagnostic direction! Glad to be of any help. Playlists are basically just text files. Search the internet for a text editor that can replace text in multiple files at once, open all playlists in the text editor and replace the changed part of the file path. This is certainly easier than recreating all playlists. -s. -- slimpy slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27746 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums
Once again slimpy - awesome. Thanks so much! -- joncourage joncourage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27746 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?
Mark Lanctot;142004 Wrote: Interesting! Well that would be the way. You'd need a firmware change so that the SB could pass surround MP3 without decoding it over S/PDIF, then a receiver capable of decoding surround MP3. ...As a first pass, we could encode it to FLAC as we can for AC3/DTS, and then without firmware changes it'll pass right through. But that supposes that I can work out how to convert it; I'll probably have a look in the next few days. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Remove Title under Artwork
How does one remove the Title and Artist from under the ArtWork view but keep the mouseover Title and Artist in 6.5? -- fingers fingers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5570 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Sonos-like remote?
On 10/2/06, radish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...people's eyes. I don't see Best Buy going out of business becauseno-one's buying TVs anymore, and the vast majority of people use the stock remotes perfectly happily.well said(oh and if Slim ever do anything as annoying to use as that stupid ipod wheel I'm selling up and switching to Roku!)The wheel does suck, much as iTunes sucks, but there is something to say for its market share. The question is, does that market share come from people who think the wheel navigation is the best thing since monkey pie, or does it come from people who don't realize that there are non-Apple choices? /me enjoys the confusion when people try to use my iRiver iHP-120 running Rockbox. Part 1 -- When did Hewlett Packard start making players? Part 2 -- The joystick is exactly unlike the wheel.-- 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: Always fails to connect after shutting down server computer
I think we have two definitions of connect. One is a connection that is achieved when the SB reports a wireless signal strength of 80% or so. The other is when it actually sends data. I don't believe I can download SB3 firmware with only the first definition in play, since the server software reports that it can't find my SB3. So, no data will be sent. I won't get to this till later tonight. Thanks for all the help. -- Bruce S. Bruce S.'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2532 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28125 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums
Well done, slimpy - another fine example of how great this community is! Now, how do we keep other unwary users from running into this problem? Is it a bug? Or an enhancement request? Any of our friends from SD care to chime in here? -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27746 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Always fails to connect after shutting down server computer
Bruce S.;142038 Wrote: I don't believe I can download SB3 firmware with only the first definition in play, since the server software reports that it can't find my SB3. So, no data will be sent. Yes, in order to download firmware from the server, the player needs to be connected to the server, i.e. the server has to see it. Should work if you wire it. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28125 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Zone control on Squeezebox or Transporter?
aubuti;142024 Wrote: Maybe sync'ing should be perfect, but after doing a lot sync'ing I still find it to be hit-or-miss. Same here. IMO, the syncing of players in SlimServer was something of an afterthought, whereas with the Sonos it appears to have been a high priority in the design from the start. Maybe that will change as Slim Devices moves forward, but their direction now seems to have little focus on whole house audio. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28081 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Same album with several entries in the database
Playlists are basically just text files pointing to the actual files using file name and path. Slimserver first scans your music library and populates its database then it goes on to scan the playlists. The path to the referenced file in the playlist is read and compared to the database entries. If slimserver finds a matching path and filename in the database the already existing entry will be used. If there's no match slimserver tries to read the tags from the file referenced in the playlist and adds the information to the database, assuming it is a different file. This way playlists can be used to add tracks to your library that are outside of your music library tree. You can end up with duplicate entries for one of the following reasons: -You have a copy of your music library, music library in slimserver is set to the original but playlists reference the copy (or vice versa) -You have symlinks somewhere pointing to your music library, music library is set to the absolute path (without symlink) and your playlists use any symlinked path (or vice versa) e.g. music library setting: /music playlist: /home/slimpy/music/track.flac (/home/slimpy/music is symlinked to /music) If you need to move your music library you need to make sure the paths in your playlists are still valid. If you move your library your playlists will go missing because the files they reference are no longer there. If you copy you will end up with duplicate entries for the reason discussed above. To update your playlists you can use any text editor that can replace text in multiple files at once (search the internet). Make a backup of all playlists somewhere just in case the files get screwed up. Open all playlists in the editor and replace the changed part of the file path and save. -s. -- slimpy slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes WAV - AIFF adds volume adjustment field info
They were ripped with EAC, to WAV and then iTunes via iTunesEncode - just checked and haven't got EAC nomalise switched on - strange :-/ -- Timbo Timbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=933 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Remote streaming with Palm/Treo 700p: security questions
Hi there. I've been been using my two Squeezeboxes for about 6 months now and LOVE them. Thank you to all the developers and all the forum posters out there. I just purchased a Palm/Treo 700p and have set up remote streaming and remote access to my home computer's (Win XP Pro) SlimServer website. I'm doing this by forwarding port 9000 on my router (wrt54g). I'm using SlimServer user/password and also blocking requests except for the IP of my smartphone (which hasn't seemed to change over the last few days so I'm assuming it's mostly static). My question is: how secure is this? Has anyone tried to hack a system configured as such? I've read the few posts suggesting ssh, but I'm not sure if that can be set up on a palm 700p. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Dan -- dperrigan dperrigan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7780 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28192 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Zone control on Squeezebox or Transporter?
Perfect was too strong a word to use, I acknowledge that :) It's just that I haven't noticed any problems the few times I've used it, and I've not seen many complaints about sync around here that haven't involved softsqueeze or radio streaming. I'm perfectly happy to believe there are sometimes issues - although I'd be fairly surprised if wired vs wireless made a difference. Are there bug reports for these issues? (other than the fine-grained clock one, which is more of an enhancement request to allow non-pause syncing). -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28081 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is 6.5 perfect?
Mark Lanctot;141445 Wrote: Well...after installing and reconfiguring my players, it's running perfectly for me. I know this is going to sound like fanboyism, but I can't say anything different - it's perfect on my system: Well, um, I've been quiet on the forum lately mainly because I am, well, stuck. I have the same, wow, this is nice feeling at the moment. I tracked the nightlies on 6.5 shortly after the MySql change (and had all the fun of that :P), but now, well, it just... works. I really havent felt a need to hang out here as much as I used to, because 6.5 just works so well. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28115 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Bonus Track handling
aubuti;142003 Wrote: And a lot of taggers have an option on whether or not to update the timestamp (eg, mp3tag's Tools Options General settings panel). Fix that setting (if you have one) and you should be okay. Or change your tagging program. I use TagRename ... it has an option on whether or not to update the timestamp ... but in my case, that option was already set to update the timestamp. -- Jon Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28128 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Zone control on Squeezebox or Transporter?
On 10/2/06, radish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfect was too strong a word to use, I acknowledge that :) It's justthat I haven't noticed any problems the few times I've used it, and I've not seen many complaints about sync around here that haven'tinvolved softsqueeze or radio streaming. I'm perfectly happy to believethere are sometimes issues - although I'd be fairly surprised if wired vs wireless made a difference.Are there bug reports for these issues? (other than the fine-grainedclock one, which is more of an enhancement request to allow non-pausesyncing). It is a common problem with radio streams and long-running tracks (read classical music and auidobooks), used to be a common problem with pop music too. There have been gradual improvements, largely by accident IMHO as improvements in resource management have decreased the likelihood of lost frames. -- 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] Duplicate Song Titles
An album I ripped shows up in SS with duplicate song titles, IE, each track is listed twice, and played twice, yet if you look in the directory at the flac files there is only one copy of each track file. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. -- halstrom505 halstrom505's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28193 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes WAV - AIFF adds volume adjustment field info
Timbo;142051 Wrote: They were ripped with EAC, to WAV and then iTunes via iTunesEncode - just checked and haven't got EAC nomalise switched on - strange :-/ Normalization isn't recommended, and even if you did turn it on, it doesn't write any tags because WAV can't be tagged. Instead it permanently alters the audio data - which is why it's not recommended! -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote streaming with Palm/Treo 700p: security questions
A Google search shows no exploits for port 9000, but that doesn't mean there aren't any or won't be any in the future. Your PC will currently be listening on port 9000 for all requests. If an attacker can figure out that this is SlimServer, he can maybe start your player up at 4 AM. :-) That's not to say there's no security risk. New exploits are being developed all the time and SlimServer is not designed as a secure server for use over the Internet. SSH is. If you don't want to use SSH but wish to avoid someone playing around with your SlimServer, you may want to set a user name/password in Server Settings - Security. You can then access the stream at http://username:password@SlimServer IP:9000/stream.mp3 -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28192 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remove Title under Artwork
currently, you can't. In 7.0a1 builds, there is an experimental ui (meaning it may go away if people don't like it or if it becomes annoying to maintain) that allows you to click a link to make the text appear or disappear in the fishbone skin. for current releases, you'll have to resort to editing a file. Look for the file, HTML/EN/cmdwrappers under the slimserver install location. open it with any text editor (notepad, vi, etc) Look for the [% BLOCK galleryitem %], around line 150 Near the end of that section, around line 180 you can remove the line: [%- content | indent(4) %] with that gone, the text under the image will no longer be there. installing any newer version of slismerver will require redoing this edit. -- kdf kdf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] 6.5.0 is OK except for....
Hi, There were two causes on my machine for the no album no artist problem under 6.5.0 1) Cover art embedded in the album. I went through the files with iTunes and deleted the cover art and all the tracks but one were put back in the database. 2) The track title was too long on the last track (something classical that had a title that went on for probably more than 100-200 characters). I shortened the title and the track was back in the database. I found them all by browsing albums to no album and picked them off one by one in iTunes. It soon became obvious that cover art was the problem because I don't normally use it and tracks without cover art were OK. Cheers, James 2) I now have a bunch of random no artist/no album tracks. I saw another poster mention this but couldn't spot the solution. I can't see them in mp3tag or in the file directory. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote streaming with Palm/Treo 700p: security questions
Thanks, Mark. I'm already using the username:password and the IP blocking. I'm wondering if that's safe enough. Also, does anyone know if ssh or something like it can run from a palm? Thanks, Dan -- dperrigan dperrigan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7780 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28192 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Another 6.5 Missing Songs Problem
...after switching from the 7.0 to 6.5/6.51 (there are some plugins I can't live without), I can't seem to get a complete scan of my collection. Worse, for the life of me, I can't seem to get *any* debug information to help me figure out which track(s) I presume have bad mp3 tags. I have approximately 2K artists, 30K songs (iirc). After doing a fresh install, I only get 728 artists. And I can see lots of gaps in my artist lists. Clues and work: - I've tried every debugging flag combo that makes any sense to me (d_mp3, import, scan, *sql, etc.) and not only do I fail to get error messages...I don't seem to get the logging of the successful scans, either. Which I seem to remember getting previously. [I've seen the other threads here about this and I, too, only get UPDATE contributors SET customsearch = ? WHERE ( id = ? ): errors.] - If I navigate to a missing directory, the tracks get added to the DB, as expected. - I've tried looking for new, clean and rescan, and even removing the sql db. - More than once, I've actually had the entire db picked up (i.e., 2K artists show up) but it immediately disappears once a rescan runs (like, over night). - Of course, none of my gallery-view artwork is working. Only when I drill down to an entry. I am delighted to re-scan, try different debugging options, post results, you name it. Any help appreciated. Thanks. SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10122 - Debian - EN - utf8 Server IP address: 192.168.1.101 Perl Version: 5.8.7 i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi MySQL Version: 4.1.15-Debian_1ubuntu5 -- Chip Hart - Pediatric Solutions * Physician's Computer Company chip @ pcc.com * 1 Main St. #7, Winooski, VT 05404 800-722-7708 * http://www.pcc.com/~chip f.802-846-8178 * Pediatric Software Just Got Smarter. Your Practice Just Got Healthier. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes WAV - AIFF adds volume adjustment field info
Timbo;142051 Wrote: They were ripped with EAC, to WAV and then iTunes via iTunesEncode - just checked and haven't got EAC nomalise switched on - strange :-/ I thought iTunesEncode wrote .M4A files? Or does leaving off the -o cause it to just do the iTunes tagging? Steve. -- SteveEast SteveEast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4193 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Remote streaming with Palm/Treo 700p: security questions
On 10/2/06, dperrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Mark.I'm already using the username:password and the IPblocking.I'm wondering if that's safe enough.Also, does anyone know if ssh or something like it can run from a palm?Thanks,DanSafe enough depends entirely on the threat surface, which depends entirely on the likely attackers. You're probably fine, unless: 1) you run with a very clever and motivated crew with a bent towards practical jokes.2) some security researcher figures out and publishes an automated attack against slimserver's username and password function. -- 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] 6.5.0 Problem
Since installing 6.5.0 (full version) I've been experience a bit of an intermittent problem. In a (seemingly) random fashion, the remote stops responding for a few seconds (sometimes up to 30) which is quite annoying after a while! Initially I thought the batteries needed replaing but that wasn't it. Any suggestions? ps Plugins I've added: Trackstat, Dynamic SQL Playlists and LazySearch (all latest versions as of about a week ago!) -- MillmoorRon MillmoorRon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6413 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28195 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Remote streaming with Palm/Treo 700p: security questions
dperrigan wrote: Thanks, Mark. I'm already using the username:password and the IP blocking. I'm wondering if that's safe enough. Also, does anyone know if ssh or something like it can run from a palm? Google for ssh and palm yields http://www.sealiesoftware.com/pssh/ pssh is a free, open-source SSH 2 client for Palm OS 5. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 6.5.0 Problem
On 10/2/06, MillmoorRon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since installing 6.5.0 (full version) I've been experience a bit of anintermittent problem. In a (seemingly) random fashion, the remote stops responding for a fewseconds (sometimes up to 30) which is quite annoying after a while!When this happens have you noticed if the server hosting SlimServer is at a very high CPU or I/O level? It's surprising that you didn't see this before and you are now -- the general consensus is that this happens much less often with 6.5 than previous releases. I wonder if one of your plugins is generating a lot intermittent CPU load and you just happen to be trying to use the server when this happens.Ben ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 Problem
Could you run the diagnostics described in the following thread and post the output of the log here? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28118 -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28195 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 Problem
Is this the right bit?: ERROR: Failed to detect server IP address. Invalid argument ERROR: objectForUrl: Null track request! Backtrace: frame 0: Slim::Schema::objectForUrl (E:\Data\SlimServer\server/Plugins/TrackStat/Storage.pm line 128) frame 1: Plugins::TrackStat::Storage::objectForUrl (E:\Data\SlimServer\server/Plugins/TrackStat/Plugin.pm line 2963) frame 2: Plugins::TrackStat::Plugin::startTimingNewSong (E:\Data\SlimServer\server/Plugins/TrackStat/Plugin.pm line 2677) frame 3: Plugins::TrackStat::Plugin::playCommand (E:\Data\SlimServer\server/Plugins/TrackStat/Plugin.pm line 2905) frame 4: Plugins::TrackStat::Plugin::commandCallback65 (/PerlApp/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 1640) frame 5: Slim::Control::Request::notify (/PerlApp/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 753) frame 6: Slim::Control::Request::checkNotifications (slimserver.pl line 464) frame 7: main::idle (slimserver.pl line 35) frame 8: PerlSvc::Startup (perlsvc.pl line 1482) frame 9: PerlSvc::_startup (slimserver.pl line 0) frame 10: (eval) (slimserver.pl line 0) Timer Task 0.5 : 0.56283 Plugins::LazySearch2::onFindTimer Response Time 0.5 : 0.56302 Request Task0.5 : 0.54156Execute: Slim::Control::Commands::buttonCommand Request Task0.5 : 0.54225Execute: Slim::Control::Commands::irCommand Response Time 0.5 : 0.54296 Request Task0.5 : 2.87201Execute: Slim::Control::Commands::buttonCommand Request Task0.5 : 2.87269Execute: Slim::Control::Commands::irCommand Response Time 0.5 : 2.87340 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.62038 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.19853 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.21976 -- MillmoorRon MillmoorRon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6413 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28195 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Bonus Track handling
Marc Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: God damned Rykodisc. :) The Elvis Costello reissues are even worse -- The version of the Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society I have has two complete (with small variations) copies of the album. greg ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote streaming with Palm/Treo 700p: security questions
dperrigan;142077 Wrote: Thanks, Mark. I'm already using the username:password and the IP blocking. I'm wondering if that's safe enough. That's as safe as you're going to get without SSH. Whether it's safe enough, see stinkingpig's second point. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28192 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remove Title under Artwork
Will this still allow the mouse over with the Album and Artist name to still appear? -- fingers fingers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5570 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Radio URL needs synchronized SoftSqueeze to play.
bbpbbp;142099 Wrote: With the risk of sounding like a nouvise, I am afraid I do not understand what you mean by disabeling buildt in WMA support. Do you mean trying the link you suplied? If that is the case I tried that but it makes no difference. I can still only access the radiostation if I have a softsqueeze running localy on my computer, not by starting the link from the Squeezebox. Starting it through my browser, softsqueeze, Windows Media player og Winamp is no problem, only directly from the Squeezebox. Do you mean something else by disabeling buildt in WMA support Is it a setting I have not found? Go to SlimServer Server Settings - File Types and uncheck the Windows Media - Windows Media (built-in) line. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28178 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Remove Title under Artwork
Quoting fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Will this still allow the mouse over with the Album and Artist name to still appear? yes. the removed line is only the text below the artwork. the mouseOver effect is handled elsewhere. -k ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Running SlimServer on Windows 98SE?
In order to partially fund my purchase of a Transporter (yay!) I'm selling my SB3. Due to my super salesman tactics, I've gotten an acquaintance very interested. Perhaps it's my offer of a free demo at his home using his equipment, free installation and free, perpetual product support that will no doubt come back to bite me on the keister. Anyway, this guy is running Windows 98SE. That's a problem. I see a passing reference that you can run 6.1.1 on Windows 95 here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=136279postcount=8 so I assume 6.1.1 will run on Windows 98SE as well. Is that as far as he can go? That'll make new product features and bugfixes impossible, but once we shake out the problems it should be stable. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28199 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 Problem
This is showing the server being unresponsive for 2.8 seconds: Request Task 0.5 : 2.87201 Execute: Slim::Control::Commands::buttonCommand Request Task 0.5 : 2.87269 Execute: Slim::Control::Commands::irCommand Response Time 0.5 : 2.87340 However it doesn't give any immediate clues of why. Could I suggest you leave it running like this for a while and then look back at the log for each instance of Response Time 0.5 and see what it says just before this - it may give us more details. If it does not then we need to run this at the same time as some more debugging. -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28195 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cover art files
This is exactly the problem I wrote about in another thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27810 Running gentoo. -- letalis letalis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2610 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28059 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cover art files
After reading this thread I deleted the entire contents of my cache directory, double checked permissions and did a rescan and voila - all covers are back! -- letalis letalis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2610 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28059 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Streaming radio ok, streaming from server not ok
Hi there. I am very frustrated with my set up. Granted I have the server (and internet modem/wifi router) on my 3rd floor and m SB on my first, I get an quite reliable connection (although medium to poor in % of full signal) which seems to be enough to play radio streams. The same doesnt apply to music from my db. Streams stop and drop and start again for a second and stall etc. Before I go down to the shop and buy a $130 LAN over power line plug and connect wired, I want to know if wifi reach is really my problem or it is something else. Does it sound to you like it could be something else? Can one fiddle with buffer sizes, server versions, framware versions or anything else that might fix the problem. I am on 6.3 now, but unless somebody swears that ony a server update will do the trick, I wont upgrade. Thanks Vic PS: my db size souldnt be the problem yet, I have only ripped 120 CD so far. -- vsu vsu's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28201 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.5.0 - No Album Art in random mix
Wow. What happened? 6.5.0 is without a doubt the buggiest release yet! Should we have a mini forum just for 6.5.0 bug reports? The title says it all, no artwork with a random song mix. I'm using SlimServer Version: 6.5.0 - 9916 - Windows Server 2003 - EN - cp1252 Album art displays OK when playing albums, just not in random mix. I usually use the Fishbone skin, but I tried a bunch of others and the result was the same. The tracks play just fine, so it's a minor inconvenience. but it's not right, and it was right in 6.3. -- nelamvr6 nelamvr6's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3113 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Streaming radio ok, streaming from server not ok
What kind of files do you play? Specifically, what bitrate? You can limit the bitrate by going to Player Settings - Audio - Bitrate Limiting. Almost surely this is due to poor wireless reception and higher bitrate files, but if you wish you can go to Server Network Health and enable performance monitoring, then post the output here. I can't remember where this was in 6.3 (Server Settings - Plugins? In Help?) but in 6.5 it's in Help. 6.5 won't be able to cure wireless issues but since the scanner process is separate, your music won't skip due to low server resources when you're scanning. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28201 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 6.5.0 - No Album Art in random mix
On 10/2/06, nelamvr6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. What happened? 6.5.0 is without a doubt the buggiest release yet! That's a great way to start off with some goodwill to the volunteers who make the product what it is.Ben ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate Song Titles
Is it a Various Artists album? If so try a forum search for just that. Otherwise do you have a playlist that references that album which may have the wrong paths in it. Or maybe you have two sets of tags in the album - look at it with a tag editor and see if you do. Otherwise, you need to post a lot more info for anyone to be able to help. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? 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=28193 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 - No Album Art in random mix
nelamvr6;142121 Wrote: Wow. What happened? 6.5.0 is without a doubt the buggiest release yet! Actually I'm not the only one to think it's the best release so far... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28115 Sorry to say works for me, but it does, cover art and all. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 - No Album Art in random mix
Ben Sandee;142123 Wrote: On 10/2/06, nelamvr6 nelamvr6.2f2f7z1159817401 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: Wow. What happened? 6.5.0 is without a doubt the buggiest release yet! That's a great way to start off with some goodwill to the volunteers who make the product what it is. Ben Well, I'm sorry, but it is. I have had a LOT more problems with this release than with ANY previous release. And I'm not a newbie, I am a BIG squeezebox supporter, not just here but on a bunch of forums. Check my post history, I'm not a complainer. But I gotta call a spade a spade. And look at the forum posts recently. A LOT of problems with 6.5.0. Now having said all that, I reread my post, and you're right, I at least could have phrased it better. I really do appreciate the work the developers do. That's why I'm hopeful I can get help with this problem. I'm gonna go back and edit my original post. I guess it was mostly my frustration talking. -- nelamvr6 nelamvr6's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3113 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 - No Album Art in random mix
OK, let me please start again. Sorry about that. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks! -- nelamvr6 nelamvr6's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3113 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 - No Album Art in random mix
nelamvr6;142129 Wrote: And look at the forum posts recently. A LOT of problems with 6.5.0. Doesn't seem to be any more or less than other big releases like 6.2.0 and 6.3.0? What's weird is that the problems are not at all related to the major architectural changes in 6.5.0, notably split scanner and MySQL. They mostly seem to be about track duplicates. I wish I could help though, I do understand your frustration and it was good of you to back down a bit. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: 6.5.0 - No Album Art in random mix
Quoting nelamvr6 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone have any ideas? The 'now playing' section is updated via ajax. As such, it is patheticly incapable of giving much help when something goes wrong. The tracing is an ongoing effort, so while I can't say that I've seen the issue, I can say there have been many changes to the skin to handle various potential hurdles. It would be worth trying a 6.5.1 nightly build before going through to painful process of tracking down exactly what might be missing. -kdf ps. a great majority of the 'bugs' being reported are in fact all a combined problem due to upgrade issues that weren't properly handled. If you did an upgrade from 6.3.1, it is also worth getting rid of Plugins and HTML directory trees and reinstalling. Old plugins/page templates are a nuisance. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 Problem
A bit more info: ERROR: Failed to detect server IP address. Invalid argument ERROR: objectForUrl: Null track request! Backtrace: frame 0: Slim::Schema::objectForUrl (E:\Data\SlimServer\server/Plugins/TrackStat/Storage.pm line 128) frame 1: Plugins::TrackStat::Storage::objectForUrl (E:\Data\SlimServer\server/Plugins/TrackStat/Plugin.pm line 2963) frame 2: Plugins::TrackStat::Plugin::startTimingNewSong (E:\Data\SlimServer\server/Plugins/TrackStat/Plugin.pm line 2677) frame 3: Plugins::TrackStat::Plugin::playCommand (E:\Data\SlimServer\server/Plugins/TrackStat/Plugin.pm line 2905) frame 4: Plugins::TrackStat::Plugin::commandCallback65 (/PerlApp/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 1640) frame 5: Slim::Control::Request::notify (/PerlApp/Slim/Control/Request.pm line 753) frame 6: Slim::Control::Request::checkNotifications (slimserver.pl line 464) frame 7: main::idle (slimserver.pl line 35) frame 8: PerlSvc::Startup (perlsvc.pl line 1482) frame 9: PerlSvc::_startup (slimserver.pl line 0) frame 10: (eval) (slimserver.pl line 0) Timer Task 0.5 : 0.56283 Plugins::LazySearch2::onFindTimer Response Time 0.5 : 0.56302 Request Task0.5 : 0.54156Execute: Slim::Control::Commands::buttonCommand Request Task0.5 : 0.54225Execute: Slim::Control::Commands::irCommand Response Time 0.5 : 0.54296 Request Task0.5 : 2.87201Execute: Slim::Control::Commands::buttonCommand Request Task0.5 : 2.87269Execute: Slim::Control::Commands::irCommand Response Time 0.5 : 2.87340 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.62038 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.19853 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.21976 Request Task0.5 : 2.29887Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.43785 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.67452 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.52748 Request Task0.5 : 2.48270Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.59810 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.22875 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.73911 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.72874 Request Task0.5 : 2.31524Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.44339 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.42638 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.06636 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.91238 Request Task0.5 : 2.51113Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.63540 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.70331 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.88466 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.36758 Request Task0.5 : 0.56329Notify: Plugins::TrackStat::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 0.71692 Request Task0.5 : 6.99087Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 7.26327 Timer Late 0.5 : 7.36683 Timer Late 0.5 : 7.00764 Timer Late 0.5 : 5.90682 Request Task0.5 : 0.82096Notify: Slim::Player::Playlist::modifyPlaylistCallback Request Task0.5 : 2.31407Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.43974 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.07012 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.95494 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.43898 Request Task0.5 : 2.36760Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.47757 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.12041 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.71317 Request Task0.5 : 2.09371Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.09825 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.67301 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.60420 Request Task0.5 : 2.09777Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.24321 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.04331 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.68247 Request Task0.5 : 2.10994Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.23681 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.12441 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.02855 Timer Late 0.5 : 0.62178 Request Task0.5 : 2.06020Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.21443 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.70048 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.49155 Request Task0.5 : 2.17592Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.28973 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.02540 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.95717 Request Task0.5 : 2.00991Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.16045 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.01647 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.76358 Request Task0.5 : 2.04082Notify: Plugins::DynamicPlayList::Plugin::commandCallback65 Response Time 0.5 : 2.17983 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.14218 Timer Late 0.5 : 2.00342 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.68494 Timer Late 0.5 : 1.37821
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 - No Album Art in random mix
You don't mention what you've done, so I'll start with the obvious. (1) Do a complete clear and rescan of your music library. (2) Force your browser to clear its cache. (3) If that doesn't work, try trashing the database cache file to make sure it starts fresh. I haven't had to do this yet on 6.5, so I'm not sure what the name of the relvant file is in 6.5. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
