Re: [slim] Confused about remote mapping
On 12-Nov-06, at 9:19 PM, Bill Moseley wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 07:49:20PM -0800, kdf wrote: you choose which ir files are active, and you choose which single map file is active for each player. look in player settings->remote. Ah, right there in front of me! I guess I could create more than one map file so I could have more then one set of functions for the buttons on the remote. It would be nice if I could assign a button to toggle through different map files. there is a way to create a shift key that switches maps, but it is undocumented, unused and more or less unsupported. There is mention of it in this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15108 And from the docs, I really don't understand where [INPUT.Text] applies. Are there any more docs on this? look in the docs for the input modes. They are generic input types that help to reduce the need for every different mode to have it's own code for a BAR ui, inputting a text value, choosing an item from a list, etc. I see. Is there a way to tell what is the current input mode? Slim::Button::Common::mode($client) if you are using code. otherwise, look at the d_ui logs. And the logs are confusing, for example I see the following. Why does it say repeat_toggle is not defined then it executes it? probably a case of an overly verbose debug flag or not showing the full information. The ir routine does search for the current mode ir map, but then will fall back to what is found in the [common] section the repeat function works because it is there. if you trace the messages through the Slim/Hardware/IR.pm, you should be able to see that path. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 Scanner crash No Errors
Thanks Fish... I tried editing all of the MP3 Tags and scanner.exe still crashed... However, I took it a step further and found where it was crashing.. In my library I had a file called "stream.M3U".. As soon as I deleted this file I had no more problems. My guess is that something within scanner.exe was picking up this file and trying to do something with it. Possibly it thought an M3U file should be included in the library and it was looking for a tag of some type. Anyway, maybe this will help someone debug the pearl that is causing this problem. -- kirsch kirsch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=751 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28419 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Composer tag?
Havoc;154278 Wrote: > Why is there no beter use of the composer tag? > > I want to put all my cd's on slimserver, but this is holding me back. > You cannot search on the composer tag (or at least not combined with > artist since a composer tag equals an artist tag), there is no entry > for composers (like there is for artists, albums etc). > > For anyone with more than a few cd's of classical music, this makes the > system harder to use than it should. And for clasical music, this system > makes a lot of sense. > > Not being able to "automagicaly" link the different movements of a work > together is another issue, but first things first. You don't have to settle for a system that requires you to force Composer, Work Name, Artist and Movement name into the standard Album, Artist and Track Title tags. I participated in two extended message threads about tagging for classical music with Ceejay that led to his bugzilla requests for better support of classical music(#2696-2701.) Since Slimserver just didn't have what I needed then, I turned to ripping my CDs and hoped that SS might improve by the time I finished ripping. I have now ripped and tagged my entire collection of classical and non-classical using the J. River Media Center 11 program. I have the tags I want - Composer, Album, Work name, Artist, Genre, Sub-genre and Version (to separate different remasterings) and a few more. That program has a first-rate UI and has browse, search and sort facilities that really work for classical music. It is easy to keep all movements together and the program provides gapless playback for Flac files. I'm spoiled and I'm not giving anything up. It doesn't provide a solution for playing music in a room separate from you PC but it does provide the interface I need. I recommend that program for ripping, tagging and playing classical music. There are 3 plugins discussed in this forum's 3rd party plugins section that might help in using Slimserver and Squeezeboxes. Erland's Custom Scan and Browse plugins provide for using more tags in Slimserver. And Craig has announced a plug-in for the J. River player that can feed its audio output to Slimserver. Using the J. River interface to play through a Squeezebox might be a good solution. Good luck finding a solution rather than settling for a kludge. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29641 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering
I've had connectivity problems with SB3 Firmware 6x with Slimserver version 6.5.x. I see the buffer does not get filled up in time. My wireless strength is around 50% and I play flac files. I have reverted to 6.3 and firmware version 55. No problems now. (BTW, do you guys think 6.5.1 sounds better ? Maybe, it is just my mind playing tricks) -- SoftwireEngineer SoftwireEngineer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28392 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: wmadec
I'm having a similar problem. If I start SoftSqueeze and do something that requires wmadec.exe (i.e., like XM Radio plug-in), wmadec.exe starts OK with no problems. If I switch to something else within SS before exiting that doesn't require wmadec.exe (like play an MP3), wmadec.exe is properly stopped. BUT -- if I exit SoftSqueeze while wmadec.exe is still running, wmadec.exe never goes away on the server, and slowly increases memory usage indefinitely until I manually kill it. I killed it last time when it was using 80 megabytes of memory, for instance. I upgraded to the newest version of wmadec.exe, but no dice -- still have the same problem. Is there any possible fix to this issue? -- miked miked's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4442 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28018 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Confused about remote mapping
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 07:49:20PM -0800, kdf wrote: > you choose which ir files are active, and you choose which single map > file is active for each player. > look in player settings->remote. Ah, right there in front of me! I guess I could create more than one map file so I could have more then one set of functions for the buttons on the remote. It would be nice if I could assign a button to toggle through different map files. > >And from the docs, I really don't understand where [INPUT.Text] > >applies. Are there any more docs on this? > > > look in the docs for the input modes. They are generic input types > that help to reduce the need for every different mode to have it's own > code for a BAR ui, inputting a text value, choosing an item from a > list, etc. I see. Is there a way to tell what is the current input mode? I thought I could use [INPUT] to define things then override with [INPUT.Text], but that didn't seem to work. And the logs are confusing, for example I see the following. Why does it say repeat_toggle is not defined then it executes it? The repeat function is working. 2006-11-12 21:07:39.4720 found button bose_repeat for a25d24db 2006-11-12 21:07:39.4728 found function repeat_toggle for button bose_repeat in mode common from map /home/moseley/SlimServer_v5.4.0/IR/Bose.map 2006-11-12 21:07:39.4735 irCode = [repeat_toggle] timer = [382590.719] timediff = [321.4293] last = [left] 2006-11-12 21:07:39.4740 irCode: repeat_toggle, 00:04:20:05:87:0e 2006-11-12 21:07:39.4748 irCode not defined: repeat_toggle 2006-11-12 21:07:39.4754 trying to execute button: repeat_toggle 2006-11-12 21:07:39.4763 executing button: repeat_toggle -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Custom remote buttons?
Hi, Is there any way to program my own buttons on the remote (or another remote)? I'd like a button to log me on/off Squeezenetwork, among other things. Can this be done through the CLI? thanks, grimholtz -- grimholtz 'Get PasswordMaker' (https://passwordmaker.org/) 'Get FoxyProxy' (http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/) 'Read one of my books' (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861005202/102-7541338-1644948) grimholtz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5235 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29653 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Confused about remote mapping
On 12-Nov-06, at 7:36 PM, Bill Moseley wrote: http://localhost:9000/html/docs/buttons.html left me with a lot of questions. Ok, so the .ir files map a remote's buttons to the IR code. So if I have a "power" button on the remote I might enter the .ir file: power= a25d48b7 Then in a .map file I might map that key to turn my SBII on or off: power= power_toggle What I don't understand is how the server knows which .map file goes with which .ir file. you choose which ir files are active, and you choose which single map file is active for each player. look in player settings->remote. Finally, is there a list of all the functions I can use in the .map file listed someplace? note really, as this can change at any time. Plugins and new features regularly add functions. Look in Slim/Buttons/*.pm and in Plugins folder. Any functions in those modules are valid for use. And from the docs, I really don't understand where [INPUT.Text] applies. Are there any more docs on this? look in the docs for the input modes. They are generic input types that help to reduce the need for every different mode to have it's own code for a BAR ui, inputting a text value, choosing an item from a list, etc. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim server keep restarting
anybody help please ? -- thoeng thoeng's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29629 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Confused about remote mapping
http://localhost:9000/html/docs/buttons.html left me with a lot of questions. Ok, so the .ir files map a remote's buttons to the IR code. So if I have a "power" button on the remote I might enter the .ir file: power= a25d48b7 Then in a .map file I might map that key to turn my SBII on or off: power= power_toggle What I don't understand is how the server knows which .map file goes with which .ir file. I assume that when the IR code a25d48b7 is generated that the server looks for the first "power" in any of the .map files. Or should I prefix with the name of the remote. I have a Bose programmable remote, so: bose_power = a25d48b7 Then in the map file bose_power = power_toggle The reason that makes sense is the Bose remote control can be programmed to act like a number of different remotes, so I might have multiple .ir files. So, when the remote is programmed to act as a Toshiba DVD remote I would have this .ir file: bose_toshiba_dvd_1503.ir "power" seems like an obvious example. But, say I have a record "rec" button that I'd like to make use of -- say to toggle the brightness. So, which do I use: # in .ir file rec = a25d5da2 # in .map file rec = brightness_toggle Or would I do this? # in .ir file brightness = a25d5da2 # in .map file brightness = brightness_toggle Finally, is there a list of all the functions I can use in the .map file listed someplace? And from the docs, I really don't understand where [INPUT.Text] applies. Are there any more docs on this? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 Will Not Start
Nothing related to Slim or Slimserver -- kerry_nyc kerry_nyc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4079 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29647 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No Album Art in Gallery View
smc2911;153994 Wrote: > I'm surprised you get so little in your log. If the initial part of the > scan process is working, I'd expect to see pretty verbose logs with > d_scan set. Another flag that may be worth trying is d_artwork. It > might also be worth trying to reinstall slimserver (sledgehammer > approach in the absence of other inspiration!). Well, I'm not sure why I never got much of a log listing via the HTML interface, but I read through the wiki on running the scanner from the command prompt (I sure am learning stuff), set just about every flag I could think of and saved the log to a file. The scan crashed again, I noted the MP3 it had stopped scanning at, and moved it out of my music directory, and ... viola...SUCCESS! The scan ran to completion, and now I have album art (for those I have it for). It would be nice to have gotten some kind of error message when the scanner crashed but I feel happy now that it finally suceeded. -- BlueWombat BlueWombat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6159 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29477 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Clutter Utility For Mac Question
Is there anyway to get Clutter to display the name and artist of a song play via a Live365 Internest Radios station? I can see it in my browser, but not via the utility called Clutter. -- Jazz1 Jazz1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6623 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] No Audio
I played with the crossfade functions via the WWW browser and now I've got no audio. I've tried to get internet radio and i see if buffering, but still now audio. I've restarted the Squeezebox and the server. The SB is connected through the wireless just fine. Any ideas on how to get the music back? -- Jazz1 Jazz1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6623 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29649 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver 6.5.1 plays no FLAC ?
Could be AV or other security s/w preventing socketwrapper from working. What AV or security s/w have you installed ? Have you entered socketwrapper as a trusted app ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29648 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Waking up Slimserver
Since upgrading to 6.5.0 and then 6.5.1 I've had similar problems on occasion. My normal fix is that when the SB fails to connect on the first attempt, I: - turn it on again - let it get past "Waking up SlimServer..." - when it gets to "Connecting to SlimServer..." - press the left arrow on the remote - SB now says "Connect to at ?" - press the right arrow - SB now connects properly - but usually goes into standby - one more push of the red button turns it on I've never had this not work (so far - touch Formica). I've not managed to work out why this happens sometimes but not others. It's not (solely) related to the order in which we turn on the boxes. -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29230 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimserver 6.5.1 plays no FLAC ?
Found out my slimserver is not playing FLAC anymore. Silence all the way. Playing ape (after a hack in convert.conf), mp3 etc.works just fine. Playing FLAC on my Softsqueeze works fine as well. Found out that SoftSQ does eat native FLAC, no conversion on slimserver being done that means digging into convert.conf.. FLAC is the only format with a $BEGIN$ and $END$ tag. In the flac.exe command line options you're able to give a start and cut-off point for your decoded file. (Partial decoding of a file) Slimserver sends a begin of 0 and an end of -0 duration of flac file is detected by slimserver. Erasing the "--skip=$START$ --until=$END$ " part does not help, still no stream to my squeezebox. When i paste the command executed by slimserver (eehh, displayed in the logfile..) to my command-line a playable wav file is being created... HELP!! (i have *tons* of FLAC which i cannot play :-( here's my debug info: Slim::Player::TranscodingHelper::checkBin (142) Found command: [flac] -dcs --force-raw-format --endian=little --sign=signed --skip=$START$ --until=$END$ -- $FILE$ Slim::Utils::Prefs::maxRate (935) Setting maxBitRate for 192.168.10.29 to: 320 Slim::Utils::Misc::findbin (150) Didn't find binary for lame.exe Slim::Player::TranscodingHelper::getConvertCommand (302) Matched Format: wav Type: flc Command: [flac] -dcs --force-raw-format --endian=little --sign=signed --skip=$START$ --until=$END$ -- $FILE$ Slim::Player::Source::openSong (1616) This is an flc file: file:///D:/Data/media/Classic/Handel/Messiah%20-%20Beecham/101%20-%20Part%20I,%20Overture.flac Slim::Player::Source::openSong (1617) file type: flc format: wav inrate: 719.423 maxRate: 320 Slim::Player::Source::openSong (1618) command: [flac] -dcs --force-raw-format --endian=little --sign=signed --skip=$START$ --until=$END$ -- $FILE$ Slim::Player::TranscodingHelper::tokenizeConvertCommand (360) Using command for conversion: "C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\flac.exe" -dcs --force-raw-format --endian=little --sign=signed --skip=0 --until=-0 -- "D:\Data\media\Classic\Handel\Messiah - Beecham\101 - Part I, Overture.flac" | Slim::Player::Pipeline::new (77) Launching process with command: "C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\socketwrapper.exe" -o 3143 -c "\"C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\flac.exe\" -dcs --force-raw-format --endian=little --sign=signed --skip=0 --until=-0 -- \"D:\Data\media\Classic\Handel\Messiah - Beecham\101 - Part I, Overture.flac\" |" Slim::Player::Source::openSong (1758) Streaming with format: wav Slim::Player::Pipeline::acceptReader (183) Pipeline reader connected Slim::Player::Source::readNextChunk (1988) Would have blocked, will try again later. Slim::Player::Source::readNextChunk (2005) readlen undef: (Unknown error) 10054 Slim::Player::Source::readNextChunk (2034) end of file or error on socket, opening next song, (song pos: 0(tell says: . 0), totalbytes: 11662920) Slim::Player::Source::gotoNext (985) Opening next song... -- Meganerd Meganerd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5040 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29648 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Composer tag?
> While this might work if you only have a single version of each piece, I > do have around 12 versions of some pieces. I do have a lot of organ > music you see. And there you can have a single piece by different > artists on different organs. And it all is interesting and used > information. It would be great if I could search the index and see on > what organs artist X played piece Y. So there goes the comment tag as > well. > > Really, I even wish for a "verzeichnis" tag. Like BWV, KV, WQ etc. And > I would not refuse "scale" and "Op" tags either. All usefull if looking > for music that would go together. > > Problem is I have about 50/50 clasical and other music. So sacrifising > the artist for composer isn't an option either as that would introduce > as many problems at the other side. > Reply With Quote I admit I don't have that many versions, but my plan is to differentiate them through the title. So I could have... Le sacre du printemps (Pierre Boulez- New York Philharmonic) And Le sacre du printemps (Leonard Bernstein - London Symphony Orchestra) Well, that's the plan for now. I'm still noodling with tagging... As for the other kinds of things you want to, I think you could do it all using the comment tag and dynamic playlists. -- Nostromo Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6322 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29641 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums
ceejay;152432 Wrote: > Agreed. Also strange as it clearly isn't happening for most other > users! > > What OS? Which version of SS, exactly? What file type? If MP3, might > you have both v1 and v2 tags? Do you have any playlists? Using iTunes? I discovered what was causing the problem. The problem, again, was that songs were showing up two or three times when I would open or play an album. The culprit: I had cyclical (redundant) shortcuts to certain music folders. Since I can only specify one folder for Slimserver to scan, I plugged shortcuts into that folder, directing the server to other folders. What I failed to realize is that I had duplicate shortcuts, leading to the same folder. With previous versions of Slimserver, this wasn't an issue - it knew that the shortcuts pointed to the same file, and included the file only once in the database. With 6.5, it counts the file with each scan. Long story short: if your playlists show the same file multiple times, I recommend checking your shortcuts. Chris -- benthos benthos's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2556 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: Would Squeezebox work for me?
Were I you, I would check out Sondigo's Sirocco product. As a wireless audio bridge, it is not an apples-apples comparison to the SB3, but could fit your situation better as you can use any player you like and avoid all the issues you'll face using SlimServer with your library in its current state. ...It's also half the cost!! Has this product been available when I bought my SB, I would have made a different choice. -- thaumaturge thaumaturge's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29590 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver 6.5 MySQL Requirement - Bad!
Jack Coates;145366 Wrote: > Or use the built-in Random Play, which does the same thing. Mind you, erland's plugins provide far more flexibility than the built-in Random Play (e.g. play tracks you haven't played in a long time, rate tracks and then randomly play 4 and 5 star tracks, play unrated tracks, play jazz tracks you haven't played on the SB before, etc, etc). -- smc2911 smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver 6.5 MySQL Requirement - Bad!
Wow, if Slim went with MySQL for performance improvements, I think they failed on that one miserably... -- Mister-E Mister-E's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1680 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7
6.5 is "in the bag"??!?!?! Yeah, right, the TRASH bag. I've got a suggestion for v7: Make it WORK!! Man, I'm so sick of Slim Devices releasing software and firmware that completely nukes a system that was working fine. 6.5.0 certainly should have never been released, period. And from what I gather, the 6.5.1 daily builds are still pretty flakey. But I wouldn't know, because I'm tired of wasting my time being an unpaid bug-finder for Slim Devices. I may never upgrade from 6.3.1. I have no desire for slower, buggier, more bloated software on my system. -- Mister-E Mister-E's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1680 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26874 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 Will Not Start
Does the Windows Event Viewer show anything? -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29647 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.5.0 Will Not Start
I had 6.5 working fine on another computer, but moved to a new computer and installed the GA release 6.5 on Windows XP Pro, however, the slimtray and slim.exe will not start. It just blinks in the tray and never starts. So far I have: 1) in/uninstalled and restarted 4 times 2) copied my old slim folder over and tried that I followed one of the links that mentions setting it up as a services from a dos prompt, but I get an error that says PERL failed. Is there a way to manually add this as a service? Is that necessary, because I don't recall doing that on the last install on the old computer. Any help is appreciated. -Kerry -- kerry_nyc kerry_nyc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4079 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29647 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Composer tag?
Havoc;154296 Wrote: > So sacrifising the artist for composer isn't an option either as that > would introduce as many problems at the other side. It's not a question of "sacrificing" ARTIST. Artist, IMHO, should be used for the one main piece of information about a piece of music that tells you who its by. For non-classical that's the performer. For classical its the composer. So don't be shy or purist, set both ARTIST and COMPOSER for classical music, and make use of the CONDUCTOR, BAND and PERFORMER tags as well. For non-classical just let ARTIST be the performer and thats probably all you need. To keep different versions of the same piece apart, I do put the extra info in the ALBUM tag too (eg "Symphony 1 in C Minor, Op 11 - Karajan - Berlin Phil"). While I quite agree about the need for better search and browse (which is why I wrote the bugs!) I really wouldn't let this current limitation stop you using the system, it really does work very well if you're prepared to put a little effort into the tagging in the first place. Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29641 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Relocate Playlist
Hi, I would like to use a playlist (created with slimserver on my server) in winamp (running on my laptop). In the playlists now the location of the files is incorrect for use with my laptop. Any suggestions how to solve this problem? Thanks, Giorgo -- Wasaia Wasaia's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7289 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29646 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Composer tag?
> Don't hold your breath, though, they have been there nearly a year and > despite being among the most voted-for bugs there does not seem to be > much movement Got that idea as well. And what happened won't help. Maybe if more people asked? > When it comes to classical, I use the artist tag for the composer. While this might work if you only have a single version of each piece, I do have around 12 versions of some pieces. I do have a lot of organ music you see. And there you can have a single piece by different artists on different organs. And it all is interesting and used information. It would be great if I could search the index and see on what organs artist X played piece Y. So there goes the comment tag as well. Really, I even wish for a "verzeichnis" tag. Like BWV, KV, WQ etc. And I would not refuse "scale" and "Op" tags either. All usefull if looking for music that would go together. Problem is I have about 50/50 clasical and other music. So sacrifising the artist for composer isn't an option either as that would introduce as many problems at the other side. -- Havoc Havoc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5064 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29641 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Favorites2playlist
Is there an easy way to get songs from the favorites-list in a playlist (or the current playlist)? I've looked on the forum for an answer but couldn't find it. -- Wasaia Wasaia's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7289 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29645 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver 6.5 MySQL Requirement - Bad!
I'd just like to add another request for a future option to use the sqlite3 back end. After installing slimserver 6.5 on my VIA M1 machine with 256MB memory it became unusable for other work (ripping cds, etc.) due to swapping so I've had to order additional memory. I'm an experienced sqlite3 developer myself and I'm not aware of any memory overhead problems compared to other DBMS. Thanks! -- chickenmagnet chickenmagnet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2840 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Composer tag?
When it comes to classical, I use the artist tag for the composer. And the performers are in the title of the piece. For example, Le sacre du printemps (Pierre Boulez- New York Philharmonic) And, depending on the cases, I put the title either in the song title tag or in the album tag. Btw, you could probably also use the comment tag. -- Nostromo Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6322 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29641 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Composer tag?
Hi you may wish to visit bugzilla and vote for http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2698 and its companion enhancement requests. Don't hold your breath, though, they have been there nearly a year and despite being among the most voted-for bugs there does not seem to be much movement (nothing promised for 7.0, for example). For linking the parts of a piece together, you might want to review the recommendations at http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToClassical - this is quite do-able. Note that you can use Composer for display purposes quite happily - MusicInfoScr, for example, will make use of it. Also that erland's excellent plugins (see the plugins forum) do offer some limited CustomBrowse functionality in this area. You can even use his CustomScan plugin to get extra tags in to play - I've just done this with "PERFORMER". So - its not as good as it could be, but it is manageable. Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29641 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Composer tag?
Why is there no beter use of the composer tag? I want to put all my cd's on slimserver, but this is holding me back. You cannot search on the composer tag (or at least not combined with artist since a composer tag equals an artist tag), there is no entry for composers (like there is for artists, albums etc). For anyone with more than a few cd's of classical music, this makes the system harder to use than it should. And for clasical music, this system makes a lot of sense. Not being able to "automagicaly" link the different movements of a work together is another issue, but first things first. -- Havoc Havoc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5064 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29641 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Digital output loses a channel ??
Hi Sean, I said I'd post back It's just done it again today for the first time in ages. I unplugged and replugged the spdif cable on the SB3 and it resolved the channel issue. I suspect therefore it may be an issue with how the DSP's are handling the feed from time to time. cheers -- ncpl ncpl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7
I am new to this board so forgive me if this is a duplicate request. I tried searching for it but I could not find it. What I would REALLY like to see is a new visualization. If you use Winamp visualizations you may have seen one called the sexy scrolling voice print. It has time on the x-axis and frequency on the y-axis and it scrolls. It has 5 or 6 different intensity levels which represent the amplitude of a particular frequency at a given moment in time. It looks really cool. I was thinking since the SB has a grayscale display maybe someone could implement it. I would really like to see it and make my firends envy it that much more. -- anonymouse anonymouse's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8471 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26874 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7
Hello, I run a large music base of mostly classical music in MP3. I would like to be able to display any combination of info/tags on the "Albums" page in Slimserver e.g. Composer - Album Title - Album artist. At present, if I want to knows who's symphony is shown performed by whom I have to enter all the info under the Album Title and possibly repeat it in other tags. What's the use then to have multiple tags in MP3? One way out could be (I am not a developer) to develop the possibilities now given by the dropdown on the Album page by showing the info (artist genre album year) not only using it to determine the order of display. After all, I can determine quite nicely the info to appear on the SB. Or am I missing something here? Incidentally, after lots of problems with 6.5.0 things seem to be running nicely with 6.5.1. Thanks -- Scallywagfr78 Scallywagfr78's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5136 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26874 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim server keep restarting
I have had the same issue, the player resets a few seconds after starting to play a track. This just started this morning, I'm about to throw the thing away and badmouth slimserver for horrible quality control...this thing is great when it works, but unfortunately that is only about 5% of the time. -- scatbass scatbass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4216 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29629 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Whats the Size of Your Library of RATED Songs
ajmitchell;154227 Wrote: > What I was wondering is how large are the collections of rated songs.I have a > quite small collection of totally 2977 tracks, 2050 of these has a rating. The number of tracks per rating looks as follows: 1: 0 tracks 2: 114 tracks 3: 1400 tracks 4: 536 tracks 5: 0 tracks -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist) , 'DynamicPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist), 'Custom Browse' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-custombrowse),'Custom Scan' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-customscan) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29635 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: which 2way remote is usable (uPnP?)
'[IDC Wrote: > Dragon;154236'] > Or are there ways to "hack" slick two-way slimserver control into a > Nevo SL, Philips Pronto, Logitech Harmony or what else? > Unfortunately the Pronto and Harmony models are completely out in this department. The Nevo is WiFi and as far as I recall should support uPnP. In addition you can look at the *'Philips RC9800i' (http://www.homecontrol.philips.com/)* which provides a tablet layout closer to the unit for Sonos. When I finally get my SB I think I'd like something like this as well. I've been looking at the Nokia 770 but haven't done enough research into user-experiences. But I suspect it can't be any faster than using the 770 skin through a standard browser on my PowerBook, which is a mixed bag. The SONOS definitely has a slick hand-held remote with a slick interface on top of a solid piece of hardware. Unfortunately that's where it ends for that device. I wasn't going to settle for a device where I didn't have a unit that could stay in a fixed location with its own display. Marying the two conceps seems like a natural fit and I'm sure it's something we'll see explored by Logitech in the future. In the meantime I can't offer a concrete solution. If the SONOS units were using standard WiFi perhaps they'd be hackable to work with Slimserver. I recal they use their own network though, don't they? Bruno -- MelonMonkey MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29636 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Whats the Size of Your Library of RATED Songs
Hi, Apparently theres lots of people out there with large collections (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701&highlight=size+collection) that would take along time to listen to (end ot end) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25759. What I was wondering is how large are the collections of rated songs. I know not everyone rates their tracks, but for those that do, how many tracks have you actually rated with one star or above? I suspect many large collections are ripped from CD but never listended or rated. In my case I have 9200 tracks, of which 5703 are rated, but all listened. thanks -- ajmitchell Check out my other hobby http://ajmitchell.shutterpoint.com ajmitchell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=800 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29635 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can not get SB to connect to slimserver
tf1216;154158 Wrote: > Ramage, > > I have read about softsqueze but I do not know what it is. My > apologies for my ignorance. > > Softsqueeze is a software emulation of squeezebox which runs on your PC. You can access from your Slimserver web interface (http://localhost:9000/default/), help, softsqueeze. Follow the instructions to install and run. Having read your other thread, and not wanting to miss the obvious, it is not clear whether slimserver is running properly on your PC. To check, launch Windows Task Manager and check that slim.exe and mysqld.exe are listed under the processes tab. It sometimes takes quite a time for the slimserver web interface to respond when started (up to 2-3 mins). -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux ClarkConnect 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145, Alien 1.06 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10638 - Windows XP, Alien 1.06 Ramage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5343 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29517 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Non-standard cue sheet format
TimothyB;154203 Wrote: > I've been using FLAC images and cues since 6.2.2(?). I take the cues > generated by EAC, and update them using a Ruby script. I validate the > fields against my local CDDB, make sure the REM GENRE is quoted, add > the REM YEAR (also quoted), and delete ISRC lines with odd characters > (to make FLAC happy). Hi TimothyB, Since 6.5.1 you don't need to modify GENRE or add REM YEAR (instead of REM DATE) anymore. Quotes are optional and only needed if GENRE is more than one word. I logged a bug fix on this and it was promptly fixed. - http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4077. I hope it saves you work in the future. regards -- Greg Erskine Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29598 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: DirectPlaybookPDF - turn your music collection into a book
Chris Laplante;154199 Wrote: > > - Various Artists compilations showing up multiple times under each > artist instead of "Various Artists". Ideas on a better SQL query are > welcome. > > Not sure if this is what you are looking for - last page of this thread... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29282 Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29630 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
