[slim] Re: Mandriva 2007 and YAML::Syck

2006-10-11 Thread Lyndon

I am having the exact same problems with YAML::Syck.

Starting the slimserver I get the following error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# ./slimserver start
Starting SlimServer: The following modules failed to load: YAML::Syck

To download and compile them, please run:
/usr/local/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl YAML::Syck

Exiting..
[  OK 
]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]#
*

I get the same error whether I use the RPM or the
SlimServer_v6.5.0.tar.gz perl files.  I have confirmed that version
0.67 of YAML::Syck is already installed on my system:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] SlimServer_v6.5.0]# rpm -qa | grep YAML
perl-YAML-Syck-0.67-1mdv2007.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] SlimServer_v6.5.0]#
*

I tried to use the build-perl-modules.pl script to build the module but
I got the exact same error as Xhorder in the above post.

I then ran the following perl code to see if I could load the
YAML::Syck modlule:

Code:


  # test loading of YAML module
  use YAML::Syck
  print "End of test.\n";
  



This was the output:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ perl yaml-test.pl
End of test.
YAML::Syck version 1 required--this is only version 0.67 at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Exporter/Heavy.pm line 121.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at yaml-test.pl line 4.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
*

It's weird that version 1 of YAML::Sync is required.  AFAIK, the latest
available version is 0.71.
(See http://search.cpan.org/dist/YAML-Syck/)

I have just bought a nice SilverStone media case that I am going to
dedicate to the Slimserver.  If anyone can help with this problem it
would be much appreciated.  In the meantime, I will revert back to
6.3.1.

Regards, Lyndon


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[slim] Re: FreeBSD port

2006-10-11 Thread devin

Thomas J. Angstman;145564 Wrote: 
> True, and I did this, but the output is silent as the script runs as a
> daemon.
> 

This is how it is supposed to work.  The output from slimserver is
written to /var/log/slimserver.log

Thomas J. Angstman;145564 Wrote: 
> Any other ideas?  

If you are determined to run it directly from the command line, then
you should specify the user and group to run as, since it refuses to
run as root.

For example:

# /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl --user=slimserv --group=slimserv


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[slim] Re: More than one location for files

2006-10-11 Thread vacaboca

I've been doing this all along on Windows - Up until very recently, I
actually pointed to a folder that *only* contains shortcuts to my
various collections and drives... never had a problem with it.


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[slim] Re: The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread Nostromo

ModelCitizen;145394 Wrote: 
> I do wonder if this works correctly all the time on XP.
> I had something similar. Slimserver appeared to hold on to a tag that
> had been removed from a file a while ago. Even after doing a full wipe
> and rescan SlimServer still included this tag. I only managed to get
> rid of the entry by stopping SlimServer, deleting my whole cache
> directory (C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache) and then
> restarting SlimServer again (at which point it rebuilds the whole cache
> and initiates a rescan).
> I'd be interested to know if you find the same.
> MC

Did you delete the whole cache folder or just the FileCache folder?


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[slim] Re: The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread Nostromo

> Then one of two things is happening -- either the files have two tags
> (they
> can have id3v1 and id3v2 tags at the same time), or SS is guessing
> based on
> folder structure and file name. I don't think it guesses genre tags
> though,
> so the two tags thing is most likely. MP3Tag can make it clear by
> adding a
> tag type column, see if T&R can do that.

Yes, Tag&rename can filter tag types. And there doesn't seem to be a
id3v1 or a id3v2 tag, just a MP4/M4a tag.


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[slim] Re: Cannot connect to slimserver

2006-10-11 Thread nabwong

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to thank everyone here. I finally got my sb3 to connect to
ss. Anyway, i still don't know what's wrong. I bought a new hard drive,
did a fresh OS install and then run slimserver. Every ok now. I needed
the hard drive upgrade anyway.

Cheers,
najib


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RE: [slim] Re: FreeBSD port

2006-10-11 Thread Thomas J. Angstman
True, and I did this, but the output is silent as the script runs as a
daemon.  So, I manually ran the server and this is the issue I have
after installing the port.  In other words, running the rc.conf script
just looks like this, with no server running:


# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/slimserver.sh start
Starting slimserver.
#

Any other ideas?  

Thanks.

TJ

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TJ Angstman;145280 Wrote: 
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> compslim# /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl
> 061011  5:17:31 [ERROR] Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of
> the
> manual to find out how to run mysqld as root!
> 
> 061011  5:17:31 [ERROR] Aborting
> 

This isn't the correct way of starting slimserver on FreeBSD.

You should put

slimserver_enable="YES"

in /etc/rc.conf and then you can use

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/slimserver start

to start it (and it will also be restarted automatically when you
reboot).


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[slim] Re: Wishlist: "wall pack" SB

2006-10-11 Thread psb4me

i was thinking what would be perfect for a whole house system would be
something modular, where you'd have a box with a tuner and maybe some
audio inputs along with card slots for SB3 "cards" which would be the
audio portion of a sb3, then have a wall controller that had the screen
with some control buttons (or even sweeter - touchscreen).  Making it
modular would let people have 2-3 zones or up to 7-8 zones

Where I live only a couple radio stations stream and the ones I would
want, don't.  In addition, it'd be nice to have TV or DVD be able to be
played over the system as well (hence the audio inputs)


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[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread Kyle

I've got a Sony Clie TH-55 with Pocket Tunes, which makes a nice
interface, but I don't think there's any way to read directly from a
hard drive.  It takes Memory Sticks, so I could go up to 4 gb and rip
FLACs to mp3 or ogg.  Not exactly what I'm looking for, but all I'd
have to buy is the memory.


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[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread Ron F .

My first post on this forum...

I noticed my regular computer running SlimServer began having a problem
immediately after I installed 6.5 a few days ago. SlimServer runs for a
while, and then dies. This did not occur with releases in the past.

I came to this thread during my search of an answer as to why my music
server is no longer reliable.

After reading this thread, I tried an experiment: I loaded 6.5 onto my
machine here at work, and found that the cache grew immediately to
about 40 MB, that is with only 47 songs in iTunes and no artwork.

Is that reasonable?

-Ron


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[slim] Re: Sirius help

2006-10-11 Thread atlslim

The plugin author monitors this thread:

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20621

You should turn on debugging for plugins and post the log entry output
to that thread after attempting to connect to Sirius.

from web ui --> Server settings>debugging>d_plugins


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[slim] Re: FreeBSD port

2006-10-11 Thread devin

TJ Angstman;145280 Wrote: 
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> compslim# /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl
> 061011  5:17:31 [ERROR] Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of
> the
> manual to find out how to run mysqld as root!
> 
> 061011  5:17:31 [ERROR] Aborting
> 

This isn't the correct way of starting slimserver on FreeBSD.

You should put

slimserver_enable="YES"

in /etc/rc.conf and then you can use

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/slimserver start

to start it (and it will also be restarted automatically when you
reboot).


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[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread andyg

It's probably album art.  Run the cachedump script to see.


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[slim] Re: Song Lyrics Link

2006-10-11 Thread earthbased

radish;145547 Wrote: 
> http://slimlyrics.sourceforge.net/

I don't want the lyrics on the small display of the SB...


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[slim] Re: Song Lyrics Link

2006-10-11 Thread radish

http://slimlyrics.sourceforge.net/


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[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread rbdavis

I was running the nightly build that i mentioned. I started with a cache
of 0 (i had deleted the entire directory) and it increased over about 30
mins to 500MB, leaving no space on the C drive.

Are you saying it would gradually decrease again?

Why can't i put this huge cache on my music drive, which has 100GB free
and allow the cache to decrease without killing my PC?

Are you saying I should still expect to have 100s of MB of cache even
after it reduces? What is the expected footprint of SlimServer now - it
seems more than any other application that i use..?

By the way, with SlimServer 6.3 my FileCache is currently 1.78KB! What
have you done to this great software!!!


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[slim] Song Lyrics Link

2006-10-11 Thread earthbased

It would be great if Slim Server's song info had a link onto the
internet for song lyrics...


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[slim] Re: iTunes7, SS6.5, & Volume Adjustment

2006-10-11 Thread Gildahl

I'll look into these things a bit more deeply, but here are a few
observations I made.

1.  When I look at the iTunes Music Library.xml file, the only tracks
that have a volume adjustment tag are those for which I have made
volume adjustments using the slider.  This implies that the other
(sound check) volume settings are stored somewhere else (in the song
file headers, perhaps?).

2.  When running the first script, the only tracks that are displayed
are ones for which I set the volume using the slider.  

3.  In iTunes, every album that had a slider value set was set to 100%
on the slider. However, the value displayed by script 1 differed from
album to album (but not track to track).  For example, on one album,
all the tracks were set to 58, another whole album had its tracks set
to 100, etc.

4.  To confuse matters some more, when I look at these same albums (the
one set to 58 and the one set to 100) in Slimserver, all the tracks are
set to 6.02db.  Other albums have other db values, but this is strange
indeed.

5. After running the second script, the first script no longer shows
anything.  If I go into iTunes, I will also see that all the sliders
are now set to 0.

And finally, to answer your questions, I have done a full
delete/rescan, and I have never used anything but iTunes for tagging my
collection.  Pretty weird huh?


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[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread slimpy

kweller;145493 Wrote: 
> The problem I have now is that for compilation albums Slimserver is
> displaying - by Various Artists from . I
> preferred the 6.3 version that displayed  by  From
> . The format I'm now seeing is irritating, in fact I think it's
> nonsense, but I can probably put up with it. What's giving me
> difficulties is that Slimscrobbler is now logging my tracks from
> compilation albums using Various Artists' as the artist name
> (presumably because that's what SS is now passing it). So I'm seeing
> 'messed up data' when there is nothing wrong with my tags.
Having reread your post I just realized that you seem to have a
completely different problem than Iznotgold.
There's nothing wrong with how slimserver groups your albums but how it
displays track information. Is that right?
Can you explain exactly where you see this odd formatting (squeezebox,
web interface, skin you're using, etc.)
Please also post your formatting settings (Server settings - Formatting
- Title format)

-s.


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[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread slimpy

Ben Sandee;145529 Wrote: 
> 
> I use this feature to categorize all soundtracks into a separate
> VA-type
> folder.  I set the TPE2 to "Film Soundtracks", which creates an artist
> with
> this name in the artist list.
Fair enough.
Do you see the same behaviour Kevin describes?

-s.


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[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread slimpy

Do you have "List albums by band" selected in Server settings - Behavior
- Compilations?
What happens if you change it to "List albums by all artists for that
album"?

-s.


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Re: [slim] I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread Ben Sandee
On 10/11/06, Kevin Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Slimpy wrote:> Why do you set the album artist to 'Various Artists'? I don't see any
> use for that.I use that within my tagging software to group all compilation albumsinto the same folder tree.I don't understand why that would cause a problem to Slimserver as theartist is correctly set in the artist field.
I use this feature to categorize all soundtracks into a separate VA-type folder.  I set the TPE2 to "Film Soundtracks", which creates an artist with this name in the artist list.Ben

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Re: [slim] I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Weller
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
Slimpy wrote:
> Why do you set the album artist to 'Various Artists'? I don't see any 
> use for that.

I use that within my tagging software to group all compilation albums 
into the same folder tree.

I don't understand why that would cause a problem to Slimserver as the 
artist is correctly set in the artist field.

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[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread slimpy

kweller;145493 Wrote: 
> My MP3s are correctly tagged - the artist field contains the name of the
> artist. The album artist field contains 'Various Artists' for
> compilations and the name of the recording artist for the rest.
Why do you set the album artist to 'Various Artists'? I don't see any
use for that. Get rid of those tags and you should be fine.
Some time ago there seemed to be a common misunderstanding that
compilations need the album artist tag to be set this way to work
properly. But that was several releases ago. Just make sure all tracks
from the same album are in the same folder and slimserver will
recognize them as compilation.

-s.


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[slim] Sirius help

2006-10-11 Thread musicman

I have read all the threads and still cannot get my sirius feed to play
any suggestions???

Need help please!!

Thanks,
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[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread andyg

And have you run a 6.5.1 nightly build to have it clean out the cache?


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[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread alefgr

My statistics...

SlimServer Version: 6.5
Library Type: Only MP3's (5437 albums with 56494 songs by 5195
artists)
Library Size: 551 GBytes
Cache Size: 1.005.468.292 bytes!!! (56.288 Files, 4.376 Folders)

Sory but the cache is very huge...

In version 6.3.1 the size of cache was only 70-80 Mbytes.


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[slim] ~I want this to be first~ 6.5 alphabetizing prob.

2006-10-11 Thread Sam Lowry

Hi-
After updating to 6.5, my special folders I named with punctuation, are
now alphabatized based on the first letter after the punctuation. I want
my "special folders" to be first. Is there a way to make this happen
without naming them AA?

Thanks,
SL


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[slim] Re: Internet Radio failure to parse error

2006-10-11 Thread kenj

I used to be able to sync my live365 stream across players using
Slimserver 6.3.1.  Upgrading to 6.5.1 broke this... I entered bug 4236
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4326).  Note, running the
players individually and connecting to live365 streams fine - just does
not work anymore if synchronized through Slimserver.

Suggestions on where to look?  What log file? Debug settings to turn
on?

Versioning:
SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10265 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt


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[slim] Re: Album cover battle

2006-10-11 Thread MillmoorRon

Some people have too much time on their hands.

Good though!


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[slim] Re: Tag info. displays Album Artists not Artist

2006-10-11 Thread kdf

well, I'll admit I'm not following you so far.  however, if you wish to
tackle it again, I'd recommend working with a 6.5.1 nightly build (or
waiting a day or two for the 6.5.1 release).  There were some tagging
issues in 6.5.0 that could easily be causing confusion here.
-kdf


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[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread kweller

slimpy;145277 Wrote: 
> I don't like the idea of making adjustments to one program because
> another program has messed up the data the program works with.
> Slimserver doesn't give priority to the album artist for
> non-compilation albums. What you're seeing is an unexpected behaviour
> due to the messed up information in your tags. You should definitely
> clean up your tags.
> 
> -s.

Have I missed a change somewhere along the line? My MP3s are correctly
tagged - the artist field contains the name of the artist. The album
artist field contains 'Various Artists' for compilations and the name
of the recording artist for the rest.

The problem I have now is that for compilation albums Slimserver is
displaying - by Various Artists from . I
preferred the 6.3 version that displayed  by  From
. The format I'm now seeing is irritating, in fact I think it's
nonsense, but I can probably put up with it. What's giving me
difficulties is that Slimscrobbler is now logging my tracks from
compilation albums using Various Artists' as the artist name
(presumably because that's what SS is now passing it). So I'm seeing
'messed up data' when there is nothing wrong with my tags.

Is the only solution to go back to 6.3?

EDIT: I looked in the Help but couldn't find anything that discusses
this behaviour. I'm quite happy to read the relevant documentation if
someone can point it out to me.

Thanks.

Kevin


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[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread tomsi42

Kyle;145416 Wrote: 
> The problem is that the device would be limited by the size of its
> storage capacity and would require transferring music files to its
> internal drive.  I've already got the music files on a hard drive,
> which is fairly portable.  I'm just looking for a one-stop device that
> would allow me to choose and play those files.

I have been playing around with this for a while, and have given it up.
First of all, my FLAC collection is now around 500GB and I don't need
all of at at all times.

When I bring my music to parties etc. I have mp3 copies on a portable
hard disk and use a laptop as interface -the sound systems are so
cheesy that mp3 at vbr 0 (highest quality) is good enough.

When I am on the road I use a Sandisk Sansa e260 (4GB). About 2.5GB is
miscellaneous easy listening and 80's hit's and rest is reserved for
new music. Also mp3 at vbr0.

I also have a iAudio X5, but it is too bulky when I need a portable
player, and there isn't space enough for all I the nusic I want to
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[slim] Re: Tag info. displays Album Artists not Artist

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Weller
Hmm, no replies to this so either no-one knows what is causing the 
problem or no-one has a clue what I'm talking about! If it's the latter 
will someone please tell me so I can have another go as this is a 
really annoying problem.

I suppose the alternative is to go back to 6.3 to see if the problem 
goes away.

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[slim] Re: Playlist Problem in 6.5.0

2006-10-11 Thread ceejay

(1) try the latest 6.5.1 nightly

(2) do a full clear and rescan of the library

(3) turn on the d_scan debug flag and have a look at the log output
when you force a scan. If you have a large library you might want to
give yourself a small test version so you can see what's happening more
clearly.

HTH

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[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread funkstar

Kyle Wrote: 
> Do they make what I'm looking for? 
By the sounds of it i don't think so :)


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[slim] Re: Playlist Problem in 6.5.0

2006-10-11 Thread socialxray

I disabled DynamicPlaylist, SQLPlaylist, CustomerBrowse plugins but
still no tracks in my playlists after restarting SlimServer.  The link
is there in the web interface but when clicking I get the playlist
title but no tracks.


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[slim] Re: Album cover battle

2006-10-11 Thread ModelCitizen

I found it a bit bloody and unpleasant. Did remind me of iTunes though.
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[slim] Playlist Problem in 6.5.0

2006-10-11 Thread socialxray

Upgraded to 6.5 and my playlists do not work anymore.  When attempting
to edit them via the web interface no tracks are displayed.  When
attempting to play them the web interface shows zero files, even though
the files do contain information. 

I do have the following plugins installed: DynamicPlayists,
SQLPlaylists, CustomBrowse.  I am not sure if these plugins are causing
the problem though.

Anybody have any ideas?


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[slim] Re: Random within a selected year

2006-10-11 Thread Flamingo

DOH!

Cheers Sebastian!

It would be nice to have it hanging off the random menu somehow though.


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[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread Kyle

azinck3;145401 Wrote: 
> Is there anything wrong with Andy's suggestion of an mp3 player with
> rockbox?  It sounds like *precisely* what you're looking for.

The problem is that the device would be limited by the size of its
storage capacity and would require transferring music files to its
internal drive.  I've already got the music files on a hard drive,
which is fairly portable.  I'm just looking for a one-stop device that
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[slim] changing server IP on squeezebox remotely

2006-10-11 Thread bglad

hi, does anyone know a way to change the slimserver-ip address on a
squeezebox... without using the remote control (which in this case is
awol, and the slimserver is on a different network so auto-detection
won't work)? 

In the tech info pages (html/docs/protocol.html) it appears that there
might be a way to do this by sending a UDP packet - but that page
refers to a SLIMP3. Does that protocol still apply to newer squeezebox
2/3 devices? (I have access to a PC on the same subnet as the
squeezebox, from which i could send such a packet.)

any tips much apprd...
thanks
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[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread CatBus

JJZolx;145406 Wrote: 
> Most don't have USB ports to access an external hard drive, so you're
> limited to the space on the internal drive.

FWIW, the iAudio (Cowon) X5 seems to be a favorite of some of the
Rockbox developers, so it's very likely to be a well-maintained port. 
It's also got a very good reputation as far as hardware quality.  It
has a USB-OTG port, but I'm not sure that would work they way you'd
want, even if RockBox supported it, which I believe it doesn't.

Nevertheless, there are several websites describing in detail how you
can replace the hard drive in the X5, to replace a bad drive or to
upgrade capacity.  Basically the X5 does not do anything special to
make hardware tinkering more difficult than normal (unlike other
players).  The only limitation on the drive is that it has to be under
a specific height to fit inside the enclosure.  I've even heard of
people choosing an oversized drive and just holding their player
together with electrical tape afterwards to give it huge capacity.


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[slim] Re: Random within a selected year

2006-10-11 Thread srasher

I have done this already. Really nice functionality especially for
freaks like myself that like to randomly "browse" their music
collection in any possible kind of way ;-)

As I am currently not at home I cannot give you an exact specification
but it is something like this:

- Go to the players settings via the remote control on the Squeezebox
itself and select that you'd like to hear your selections in random
mode.
- After that go to select the music by year and when you're at the year
you're looking for just press the play button.

Cheers,
Sebastian


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[slim] Random within a selected year

2006-10-11 Thread Flamingo

Is it possible to play random tracks from a selected year, or even a
selected decade. I can't see any obvious way at the moment.

I used to have this feature on another bit of software and I found it
really handy. e.g. play a random mix of stuff I've bought this year.

If not, 7.0 PLEASE?

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[slim] Re: Album cover battle

2006-10-11 Thread SlimPvC

absolutely brilliant.


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[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread JJZolx

Kyle;145179 Wrote: 
> I would like a device that will play my FLAC files directly from my
> external hard drive though powered speakers.  Is there a device that
> will allow me to eliminate the PC and LAN from the equation when I want
> my music portable?

I think the best list of devices that support flac can probably be
found at http://flac.sourceforge.net/.  Not sure if any of them support
external hard drives, though.  I'd look into a cheap or used laptop for
this purpose.  If audio quality is a concern add an external USB DAC.

Any "device" that can play audio... even a tiny flash-based pen drive
is really a "computer", so it's just a matter of drawing the line
either at size, features, or cost.  If such a portable player is going
to cost $700 then why not just buy an inexpensive laptop with 12"
screen at the nearest big box store for about the same price?


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[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread JJZolx

azinck3;145401 Wrote: 
> Is there anything wrong with Andy's suggestion of an mp3 player with
> rockbox?  It sounds like *precisely* what you're looking for.
Most don't have USB ports to access an external hard drive, so you're
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[slim] Re: More than one location for files

2006-10-11 Thread wullsy

interesting! will try that out later tonight..

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[slim] Re: Album cover battle

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Lanctot

:-)

That's cool!

It's neat to try to see how many albums you have - some of them go by
pretty fast.


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[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread azinck3

Kyle;145311 Wrote: 
> It also is wireless, which I don't want to pay for because I don't need
> it.  Is there something simpler that is wired-only?  It would need
> these capabilities:  1.  Read and decode FLAC from USB hard drive; 2. 
> Provide ability to browse music files; 3.  Output audio line signal
> (RCA or mini) for powered speakers.

Is there anything wrong with Andy's suggestion of an mp3 player with
rockbox?  It sounds like *precisely* what you're looking for.


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[slim] Re: options setting up slim server

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Lanctot

tucson5;145390 Wrote: 
> All i have is time and i love tinkering and am geeky. Why is it better
> to set up the extra computer with slim server using linux as opposed to
> windows?

Well:

- it's free

- it's fun

- you learn something

- Linux is generally more stable than Windows.  Note the term
"generally", it's not as bulletproof as the myths would have you
believe.  However my router and my 'SmoothWall'
(http://www.smoothwall.org/) run Linux and both are very stable.

> i am asumming linux would run faster for the limited resources of the
> computer?

Yes, Linux generally runs better on older hardware than Windows. 
Depends on the distro though, the aforementioned Ubuntu isn't all that
resource-light, but it still runs well on my 1.2 GHz AMD Duron PC with
256 MB of RAM.

> thanks for the info. the ready install cd seems like a great idea. can't
> wait to start. i was pretty sure i did not have to reinvent the wheel. i
> knew some else would have looked into this.

Yeah, the live CD uses Damn Small Linux (DSL) so it'll give you an idea
if your hardware is compatible.  Linux has gotten over most of the
hardware incompatibility issues anyway.

The speed won't be an indication - the OS is contained on the CD so the
speed will be dependent on your optical drive.  Linux installed on a
hard drive will be much faster.  But it will give you an idea, and once
up and running it should be fast.


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[slim] Re: The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread ModelCitizen

Nostromo;145372 Wrote: 
> Yes, I have. Full wipe and scan.
I do wonder if this works correctly all the time on XP.
I had something similar. Slimserver appeared to hold on to a tag that
had been removed from a file a while ago. Even after doing a full wipe
and rescan SlimServer still included this tag. I only managed to get
rid of the entry by stopping SlimServer, deleting my whole cache
directory (C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache) and then
restarting SlimServer again (at which point it rebuilds the whole cache
and initiates a rescan).
I'd be interested to know if you find the same.
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[slim] Re: options setting up slim server

2006-10-11 Thread jeffluckett

I've got my SlimServer running on a headless Win2k3 box with an 800Mhz
PIII and 512mb RAM.  

OS choice was simply because I got Win2K3 free with a MSDN subscription
at work, and I'm familiar with it.  I plan on doing a *nix (probably
Ubuntu) setup eventually when I've got a little tinkering time.

I like the "dedicated box for slimserver" option primarily for the
flexibility it affords me.  Very easy to add/remove plugins and muck
about with the internals when I feel the whim.

I also run MusicIP mixer on this box, and have SQLyog installed so I
can play around with the database when I feel the need.  These things
would be more challenging to do if I were to run a NAS.


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[slim] Re: options setting up slim server

2006-10-11 Thread hirsp1

I've got an old dual PII (233) box setup with Kubuntu and slimserver. 
The only thing I don't like about it is the extra power it draws. 
Otherwise, it serves 2 SB3s and a couple of squeezeboxes without
problems (FLACs and MP3s).

And I really love the Weathertime plug-in...  It's worth it just for
that!


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[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread ModelCitizen

andyg;145320 Wrote: 
> If you really do have 100s of GB's in your FileCache directory, the
> first time you run a build of 6.5 with the cache cleanup code, it will
> take a long time for it to clean out the cache.  Just let it run.  For
> more detailed info you can run slim.exe --d_server from the command
> line.
I think it's 100s of megabytes Andy!  :-)
It's certainly taking a little time for my install to reduce the cache
but it does seem to be reducing. I installed the nightly from the 11th
Oct 24 hours ago (having previously run the nightly from the 3rd
October), at which point my C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache
directory was over 300mb. It's currently at 108mb.

Sorry if the post appears twice, but the first time I hit submit it was
nowhere to be found!

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[slim] Album cover battle

2006-10-11 Thread bernt

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[slim] Re: options setting up slim server

2006-10-11 Thread tucson5

All i have is time and i love tinkering and am geeky. Why is it better
to set up the extra computer with slim server using linux as opposed to
windows? i am asumming linux would run faster for the limited resources
of the computer?

thanks for the info. the ready install cd seems like a great idea.
can't wait to start. i was pretty sure i did not have to reinvent the
wheel. i knew some else would have looked into this.

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Re: [slim] Re: The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread Jack Coates
On 10/11/06, Nostromo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, I have. Full wipe and scan.Then one of two things is happening -- either the files have two tags (they can have id3v1 and id3v2 tags at the same time), or SS is guessing based on folder structure and file name. I don't think it guesses genre tags though, so the two tags thing is most likely. MP3Tag can make it clear by adding a tag type column, see if T&R can do that.
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[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread Iznotgold

Slimpy - thanks for sticking with me on this one.

As previously said I'd had problems caused by 'Album Artist' tags being
automatically updated by WMP (now disabled option)atributing tracks to
compilation albums. I've subsequently gone through the collection
removing this inaccurate data. But I was still having problems with
None compilation albums being identified as compilation albums by SS.
So as you say in the song info getting the result Compilation: Yes.

I was confounded by this because no tagging data was indicating this
and the album folders were OK as should be. But thanks to your
suggestions I have tracked down the problem, which goes like this: -

I have 36 genuine Bob Marley Album folders but SS was identifying
several as compilations. But I also have a generic Bob Marley folder
containing a few early ripped tracks, before I became systematic about
ripping albums. In this folder were several tracks also in the seperate
album folders. But these odd duplicate tracks had the artist listed as
'Bob Marley & the Wailers' where as the ripped albums had artist info
as just Bob Marley. Therefore for a given album SS was listing the full
album plus the duplicate track, there by creating multiple artists. I
assume that this is how SS defines a compilation album and therefore
gives it the dreaded Various Artist label.

Removing the duplicates and clear - rescanning resulted in no more
compilation / various artists issues with these tracks. I now just have
to track down any other instances where this will be causing me
problems.

Once again thanks for your forbearance and once again it comes down to
user error...doh!


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[slim] Re: Now Playing button...

2006-10-11 Thread MillmoorRon

Thanks, found  it now.

I'm sure that option wasn't there last time I looked!


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[slim] Re: The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread Nostromo

Yes, I have. Full wipe and scan.


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Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver 6.5 MySQL Requirement - Bad!

2006-10-11 Thread Jack Coates
On 10/10/06, smc2911 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
neurophyre;145151 Wrote:> Funny, I came here to make a post asking if there's any way to improve
> performance on low-end machines.  Hitting "play" on a directory with a> few hundred files in it (say I want to listen to a shuffle of all my> alternative music, or whatever) is absolutely glacial on my even more
> lowly 600MHz VIA Eden CPU (vaguely comparable to a 350MHz original> Celeron, or so I've heard).  The Squeezebox freezes hard for like 15> seconds until SlimServer can get itself together to build the playlist
> and start servicing UI requests again.Building huge playlists like that can certainly be slow. If you want ashuffle on a big list of music, I'd suggest you look at erlands pluginshere 
http://erland.homeip.net/download (primarily DynamicPlaylist andSQLPlaylist), which dynamically generates playlists in blocks of 10tracks at a time. The performance is far better this way.
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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread andyg

I've also made another change: the Show Buffer Fullness display on
remote streams where the bitrate is known will now display the number
of seconds of audio in the buffer, instead of the percentage value
which wasn't very useful.


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Re: [slim] The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread Jack Coates
On 10/11/06, Nostromo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, here's something weird.I took Philip Glass's "Fog of War" album (ripped with iTunes in AAC @
224 kbps) from my iTunes folder and copied it in my Slimserver musicfolder. I tagged it in the "classique" genre in iTunes. But after Icopied it in my Slimserver music folder, for an obscure reason, its not
tagged as "classique" anymore in Slimserver, but as "classical". I know,they're the same, but I now get both the "classical" and "classique"when I browse genres.
I checked the tags with Tag&rename and it identified the genre as"classical". So I changed it back to "classique", cleared my browser'scache and then clicked rescan. But it didn't work: the damn thing is
still classified as "classical".VERSION INFOSlimServer Version: 6.5.0 - 9916 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252Did you do a full wipe and scan, or just a "look for changes"?
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[slim] CLI Button Play Command

2006-10-11 Thread Pantau

Hi 

I'm controlling my squeezebox from a automation tool installed on my
PC. I'm using tcp cli commands ( button ) to
control the squeezebox. 
Everything, exept of the button play command works as I want.

If I choose an album with my remote control and press play the current
playlist will be cleared and the new selection is being played.

If I do the same with the button play command nothing happens.

Is there a solution for this ?


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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage

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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread andyg

That's how it works in last night's build.  I've made a few tweaks to it
today, so it won't rebuffer unless the buffer is completely drained.


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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage

Thought that might be the case.

Noticed that on start of (my marginal test) stream, SB3 reads about 3%
then rapidly depletes to 0% and rebuffers to about 5% and holds steady
at that.

Is the rebuffer different to the start-up buffer?


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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread andyg

Softsqueeze can't benefit from the rebuffering code, it doesn't report
buffer status in the same way.  I'm sure this will get fixed in a
future Softsqueeze version.


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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage

Andy

New buffer management works OK on SB3, but not on SSq 3.2.1, is that
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[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread slimpy

Iznotgold;145335 Wrote: 
> I suspect I'm not alone in experiencing unexpected behaviour since
> upgrading to 6.5
There were considerable changes made in 6.5 regarding the handling of
compilation albums. For most users compilations are now handled
correctly by slimserver. But then there are some who experience
problems, just like you.

Iznotgold;145335 Wrote: 
> I'm still not sure why SS gives priority to the 'Album artist' tag
> rather than the 'artist' tag. That is, why does SS insist on listing
> tracks as 'Various Artist' (due to there being an admittedly eroneous
> 'Album Artist' tag) when there is a perfectly good 'artist' tag for it
> to read?
Is there a line "Compilation: YES" on the song info page for the
songs/albums listed under Various artist? 
If that's the case then slimserver thinks these albums are compilations
and doesn't list them under each artist but under the 'Various artist'
entry (coincidently the same as your ALBUMARTIST tags).
Another thought: What happens when you select "List albums by all
artists for that album" (instead of "List albums by band") in Server
settings - Behavior - Compilations?

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[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread Iznotgold

Of course you're right...and I am slowly going through my tagsbut a
quick short-term fix would have been to be able to get SS to ignore the
'album artist' tags...I suspect I'm not alone in experiencing unexpected
behaviour since upgrading to 6.5

I'm still not sure why SS gives priority to the 'Album artist' tag
rather than the 'artist' tag. That is, why does SS insist on listing
tracks as 'Various Artist' (due to there being an admittedly eroneous
'Album Artist' tag) when there is a perfectly good 'artist' tag for it
to read?

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[slim] Wishlist: "wall pack" SB

2006-10-11 Thread hirsp1

I'm an architect w/ a couple of SB3.  The one thing that would be really
cool...is if SB could be made in a form factor that would fit in a
standard duplex switch box w/ a switchplate (and a nifty "hotswap"
bay).  It looks like it would almost fit in a quad-outlet box as it's
designed now.

Pair it with something like the new Logitech Harmony 1000 remote, a
small in-wall amp & speakers and you'll be rivaling a SONOS...with
better stuff!

In fact, if you had the right form factor, I'd bundle it with an
InfrantNAS and we'd have a very use-friendly whole-house entertainment
system.  A package with "wall" SB3's, NAS for the audio &
speakers...I'm already jealous of the first guy who gets one!


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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread andyg

atlslim;145329 Wrote: 
> Andy,
> 
> Noticed quite a few recent check-ins in svn re: rebuffering streams.
> What differences in player behavior should we be looking for at this
> time? 
> Also, would the changes impact player performance when a plugin
> (SuperDateTime) makes async_http call while playing a remote stream?  
> 
> Thanks.

When playing a stream, if the buffer level drops to below the Radio
Station Buffer Seconds value (the number of bytes needed for X seconds
of audio at the station's bitrate), the stream will now pause and wait
for more data.  "Rebuffering..." will be displayed when this happens.

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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage

QoS was disabled, but I tried with it on and off with no noticeable
difference in results.

This particular stream is marginal as my measurements give it an
average bit rate of less than 192K - nominally 185K with peaks and
troughs of 201K and 134K.

The interesting thing is that SB3 copes well with it whilst Winamp and
SSq do not.  In fact Winamp is poorer than SSq.  My PDA player also
plays without interruption.

Using Netstat showed the retransmitted segments were of the order of 1
or 2 in 15 mins.

I think there may be issues with how SSq manages the buffer, which
indicates 0% on a number of streams whilst SB3 will show 3 or 4% on the
same stream.

Because of all the variables in play with net radio it is difficult to
be definitive about the cause of the problem.


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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread atlslim

Andy,

Noticed quite a few recent check-ins in svn re: rebuffering streams.
What differences in player behavior should we be looking for at this
time? 
Also, would the changes impact player performance when a plugin
(SuperDateTime) makes async_http call while playing a remote stream?  

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Re: [slim] More than one location for files

2006-10-11 Thread Michael Herger

I can only see one setting for file location. Is it possible to have
more than one - I have two separate NAS drives, and I'd like to point
at both, but I can't see an easy way to do it.


"to point" is the keyword: you can put shortcuts from one to the other in  
the main folder. This will be followed by slimserver.


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[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread Kyle

nicketynick;145305 Wrote: 
> Interesting bit of kit, in that it does provide the portability Kyle is
> looking for - but it doesn't appear to support FLAC currently..

It also is wireless, which I don't want to pay for because I don't need
it.  Is there something simpler that is wired-only?  It would need these
capabilities:  1.  Read and decode FLAC from USB hard drive; 2.  Provide
ability to browse music files; 3.  Output audio line signal (RCA or
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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread bpa

It's been a while since I dealt with QoS and I'm not sure if it is used
generally but XP implemented it.  I don't know of specific tools just
general ones like Ethereal.

Perhaps if you disabled QoS in the XP network interface it would be
interesting to see if it makes a difference to Video streams.


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[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread andyg

If you really do have 100s of GB's in your FileCache directory, the
first time you run a build of 6.5 with the cache cleanup code, it will
take a long time for it to clean out the cache.  Just let it run.  For
more detailed info you can run slim.exe --d_server from the command
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[slim] The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread Nostromo

OK, here's something weird. 

I took Philip Glass's "Fog of War" album (ripped with iTunes in AAC @
224 kbps) from my iTunes folder and copied it in my Slimserver music
folder. I tagged it in the "classique" genre in iTunes. But after I
copied it in my Slimserver music folder, for an obscure reason, its not
tagged as "classique" anymore in Slimserver, but as "classical". I know,
they're the same, but I now get both the "classical" and "classique"
when I browse genres.

I checked the tags with Tag&rename and it identified the genre as
"classical". So I changed it back to "classique", cleared my browser's
cache and then clicked rescan. But it didn't work: the damn thing is
still classified as "classical". 

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[slim] Re: More than one location for files

2006-10-11 Thread jeffluckett

In order to have your library spread over multiple locations, you set
one of those locations as the home for the music library in the
SlimServer config.

Then, you put a shortcut (or symlink depending on your OS) in the root
of your primary music folder that points to the other location
containing additional music.

On a scan, SlimServer will follow the link and include whatever it
finds at that location as well.


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[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread nicketynick

MeSue;145199 Wrote: 
> The Macsense HomePod has a USB port so you can connect an external
> drive. http://www.macsense.com/product/homepod/
> 
> I bought one in early 2005, and it was horrible so I returned it and
> got the Squeezebox. Never used it with an external drive while I had
> it, and it looks like development has stagnated.

Interesting bit of kit, in that it does provide the portability Kyle is
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[slim] More than one location for files

2006-10-11 Thread wullsy

I can only see one setting for file location. Is it possible to have
more than one - I have two separate NAS drives, and I'd like to point
at both, but I can't see an easy way to do it.

I would imagine that it's possible as I guess the slimserver database
stores a pointer to the file.

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[slim] Re: iTunes7, SS6.5, & Volume Adjustment

2006-10-11 Thread barcar

Gildahl;145156 Wrote: 
> Unfortunately, when I run the second script, it only clears out the
> manual volume adjustments set by the slider bar.  When I reimport, the
> decibel adjustments apparently made by the sound check action are still
> there.

I've checked in the SlimServer code - it looks like the SlimServer
iTunes Importer plugin module takes the iTunes "Volume Adjustment"
setting (-100% to +100%) and stores it as a dB value in the
REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN field in SlimServer. 

After runnning the second script above can you re-run the first script?
It should list no files. This will confirm the script has removed these
values correctly from your iTunes library. 

And can you confirm you have done a full "clear library and rescan" in
SlimServer rather than just looking for new and changed files?

If both these are the case then there are two options I can think of.

One is that iTunes stores the Sound Check information somewhere else
(which looking at the SlimServer code doesn't seem to be the case).

The other is that iTunes Sound Check is not to blame and that your
tracks may have volume adjustments embedded directly in the tags from
another tool
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?page_name=AutomaticVolumeAdjustment).
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Re: [slim] Re: Now Playing button...

2006-10-11 Thread Michael Herger

>It's called "Customize playlist display" - better suggestions are
welcome

I can't find that!
Which page is this setting on?


Be sure you've enabled the Music Information Screen plugin (Server  
Settings -> Plugins - you might have to restart Slimserver after  
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[slim] Re: iTunes7, SS6.5, & Volume Adjustment

2006-10-11 Thread barcar

Hmm - I've checked the latest iTunes SDK and that's the only Volume
related value they've documented. 

If you can post a snippet of the Itunes XML file for affected files I'm
happy to look again.

Alternatively there's the worst case option to delete your iTunes
database and reimport all your music with Sound Check disabled. Of
course that solution is not without it's risks depending on how you
have tagged your files.

BarCar.


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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage

Can't say my monitoring tools only check bit rates.

How could I check?

Further measurements using my PDA to play back the stream via
ActiveSync thro' my PC is stutterless!


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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread bpa

When monitoring did you see if any of the stream (video especially) are
using QoS measures such as DiffServ ?


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[slim] Re: Now Playing button...

2006-10-11 Thread MillmoorRon

Michael Herger;145110 Wrote: 
> >It's called "Customize playlist display" - better suggestions are
> welcome  
> :-)

I can't find that!

Which page is this setting on?


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[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage

Just to kick a few more ideas around:

I have been monitoring a particularly troublesome stream, which started
stuttering after I loaded 6.5.1 and Softsqueeze 3.x.x.  Now running SS
3.2.1 but effect is the same. (Timing could be coincidence tho')

The stream runs at 192Kb/s - Love Channel on 65.19.173.132:4064 - if
snyone wants to try it.

The good thing is that SB3 plays this stream OK and maintains a buffer
level of 3% or so consistently.  I am unable to monitor the actual
network throughput as SB3 connects directly to the stream.

Softsqueeze however will run for a while then start to stutter, the
buffer level records 0% from start. Pausing playback will replenish the
buffer and when play restarted, the buffer starts to reduce until
stuttering begins at 0%.

Significantly, the same stream stutters on Winamp with buffer empty
messages being displayed.

I am able to monitor network throughput on my PC, and this is showing
the stream average throughput is less than 192K ergo, the buffer will
eventually empty.

The conclusion is that SB3 is very much better at dealing with this
stream in direct mode than my PC network card.  My PC has no problem
handling video streaming at much higher rates (I have an 8Mb/s ADSL) -
so

A point to note is that streams which are able to maintain healthy
buffer levels transmit at much higher burst rates at startup, and when
buffer replenishment needed. Love Channel is limited to a max of about
200K - not much headspace if there are network issues - this could of
course be true for many more radio streams.

I get the same effects if I connect through SN.

Monitoring this stream on SB3 and Softsq at the same time, and SB3 is
OK and SoftSq stutters.

Whether these observations throw any light on the problems experienced
by others is debatable, but I would be interested if anyone else was
able to duplicate these observations.

These tests were done on the WinXP setup.
Netgear DG834G Router.
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RE: [slim] FreeBSD port

2006-10-11 Thread TJ Angstman
Brooks,

First, I want to say thanks for maintaining the freebsd port.  I installed
6.3.1 without a hitch.  I am having problems with my upgrade to 6.5.  I
deinstalled 6.3.1 (/usr/ports/audio/slimserver make deinstall).  I
deinstalled mysql (same, make deinstall).  I have wiped the
/usr/local/slimserver and /var/db/slimserver directories.  I ran portupgrade
-r perl.  Next I make install clean slimserver.  I get the following error:


compslim# /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl
061011  5:17:31 [ERROR] Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of the
manual to find out how to run mysqld as root!

061011  5:17:31 [ERROR] Aborting

061011  5:17:31 [Note] /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete

2006-10-11 05:18:01.1972 ERROR: MySQLHelper: createSystemTables() Couldn't
connect to database: [Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/db/slimserver/cache/slimserver-mysql.sock' (2)]

Any suggestions on what I need to do here?  

Thanks again for maintaining this port!

T. J. 


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To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
Subject: [slim] FreeBSD port

I wanted to give the SlimServer a try before I bought a Squeezebox
and after playing with it a bit, I built a port so it's now in the
FreeBSD ports collection as audio/slimserver.  Like the RPM, it
has a startup script.  The script runs the server as user/group
slimuser for security reasons.  The config file is configured to be in
/var/db/slimserver/slimserver.conf (IMO, it machine generated and thus
doesn't belong in /etc).

I've also configured the installation process to not install copies of
perl modules that exist as ports as per the ports collection policy.
Similarly I'm using a port of mDNSResponder instead of the builtin
binary.  The upside of this is that SlimServer should work on all
FreeBSD platforms since it doesn't depend on having binaries in the
correct format.

I also apply a couple of patches so the tag cache ends up in
/var/db/slimserver/slimserver.db.  It would be nice if you could do this
from the command line instead of via patches.

SlimServer packages should be available for the next FreeBSD release.

I'm quite impressed with what I've seen so far and plan to purchase a
Squeezebox when I return from my upcoming vacation.

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[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread slimpy

I don't like the idea of making adjustments to one program because
another program has messed up the data the program works with.
Slimserver doesn't give priority to the album artist for
non-compilation albums. What you're seeing is an unexpected behaviour
due to the messed up information in your tags. You should definitely
clean up your tags.

-s.


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Re: [slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread Michael Herger

Seems mysql might be spoiling things for the rest of the class...


MySQL has nothing to do with the FileCache.

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[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread rbdavis

And back to SlimServer 6.3 and i have an immediately working system
again...

Seems mysql might be spoiling things for the rest of the class...


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[slim] Re: 1e99 songs in database

2006-10-11 Thread bpa

Have you tried the "Clear library and rescan everything " option in the
Server Settings/Rescan library section - it is an option in the drop
down box.


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[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread rbdavis

Back up to 400+MB now...


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[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread rbdavis

I totally deleted my install directory and installed
SlimServer_6.5_v2006-10-11.exe just now. It ran OK (though oddly its
attempt to run after install failed - i had to manually start it).

10 mins later the cache is 92MB and growing rapidly...


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