[slim] Re: Delete File from Library Via Remote?
In a word, no - sounds pretty dangerous to me! You might instead want to consider using the zap feature which adds the song to a special zapped list which you can deal with later (I think there is a plugin which will stop zapped files playing). HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32204 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How would you like to select which music to play ?
1. *How do you select which music to play today ?* (Browse, Search, Random, Smart playlists, other?) 1. by album (browse) 2. favorite (radio station) 3. Random Mix 4. MIP based on some song I like (browse to song - MIP) ... . using a pre-defined playlist - Do only like to use browsing functions or only search functions or both ? Almost browse only. Search only for questions like didn't we have that song (of which I don't know where it's published). I guess I know my collection too well. Will have to buy more music :-) -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Delete File from Library Via Remote?
Is there a built-in way, or a plug-in, which would allow me to delete a music file from my music library via the remote control? No. SlimServer does not touch your files in any way other than reading. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Delete File from Library Via Remote?
Thanks. Yeah I know it's dangerous, but it would save me a lot of niggling work. I've got several thousand songs I want to go through and I don't know if I want them in my library or not. I don't see how it could be that dangerous if it was a menu option that you had to specifically navigate to, especially if it had an are you sure option. Anything would be better than walking over to the computer for each song I want to delete. Because, I'd like to, you know, actually be listening to the songs through the squeezebox, rather than turn it into a task that I have to sit at a computer for. And I would use the zapped playlist, but that thing always seems to mysteriously disappear on me. I have no idea what the trigger for that is -- does it get recleared on a server restart? A playlist change? Who knows. But, if I take the trouble to listen to 2000 songs and select 500 for later deletion, I sure as hell don't want to take a chance and lose all that work. So I'm not taking a chance on zapped, thank you very much though. ceejay;175200 Wrote: In a word, no - sounds pretty dangerous to me! You might instead want to consider using the zap feature which adds the song to a special zapped list which you can deal with later (I think there is a plugin which will stop zapped files playing). HTH Ceejay -- GeorgeE12 GeorgeE12's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9924 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32204 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How would you like to select which music to play ?
hi erland - thats a lot of questions in one go! But what the heck, lets try... The first thing I'd say is that it's really important for me to be able to choose music in any of several different ways. 1 - most often, I browse by artist, or sometimes by genre then artist (I have multiple genre values on my music) for an album and play the album as intended. Sometimes, to pick an artist, I press one of the number buttons to be taken to a random place in the list (so I'm not always starting at A) and scroll from here till I find something I like. 2 - slightly less often, I think I want to listen to X and then use either search or browse to find it (LazySearch works well if I'm not absolutely sure of the details, otherwise I just browse to it). 3 - occasionally I want the system to choose for me in which case I usually use LastFM. Occasionally I might use a randomplay list from a genre. In these cases I'm listening to tracks rather than albums. This is quite rare for me. 4 - I have almost no use for static or dynamic playlists. I do have an audition playlist which is my preferred reference list of music to listen to when I'm checking out a change to my stereo, but that's it. As Michael said, Search mostly gets used for answering questions (have we got this track? how many versions of it? who sang that song?). Some but not all of the music I listen to is classical: in this case options 1 and 2 work but not very well due to SS's limitations in dealing with classical music, and 3 is irrelevant. For nonclassical, what would improve my listening would be something that made option 1 more effective at leading me to places I might be missing. I suppose a list of the albums that haven't been played recently would be a start (I know I could do that with your plugins!) but it would be a pain if you got the same list every time, because there is probably a good reason why those albums haven't been played! Filtering this list by Genre would be good. Maybe what I want is give me a list of 20 albums from this genre which haven't been played recently and which weren't on the list offered last time I asked this question! Just my 2p worth Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can anyone recommend headphones?
Could anyone recommend some good headphones? They will be for use at work to listen to music streamed directly from my PC. It is important that they aren't leaky - I don't want to annoy my colleagues. I have a pair of Etymotic ER-4Ps that I think are great. They provide 20 to 25 db of acoustic isolation so you can listen to your music at reasonable levels in relatively noisy environments. They are in-canal earphones, though, which I know not everyone likes. Also, if you're at work using them, you're not going to hear the people around you if someone phones, talks to you, etc. very well. Lots of good info is at http://www.head-fi.org Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How would you like to select which music to play ?
Erland, My best answer would probably be all of the above. It really depends on the situation, time of day, mood, if I'm alone or with guests, etc. One of the real benefits of the SS/SB setup for me is the amazing flexibility of ways to start and then continue playing music. For me, once you master the slight idiosyncrasies of things like going right and then down a couple of times on a now playing screen to use the current track as a seed for MIP, you can do pretty much whatever you want. Admittedly this sort of methodology does not have a high WAF but that's where pre-defined playlists of stuff I know she likes come in, tied to a favourites button for simplicity. When I do want to search I usually use Lazy Search which allows the neat trick of thinking of a particular tune (I'm a jazz listener) and getting a list of all of the versions I have of that on the system and then playing them all with a couple of button presses - makes for interesting comparisons if you are that way inclined. I would say that making playlists is pretty difficult using SS alone but I have hit on a simple method (on Linux) of using XMMS which enables me to drag and drop flac files out of my music folder onto a list window which can then be easily saved as a Playlist. It will even randomise the list for you before saving. Basically I'm happy with the way things are but of course YMMV. davep -- davep davep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: When I hit X on Softsqueeze to close, wmadec.exe flac.exe don't exit memory!
mkanet wrote: YES!! How did you know? wmadec behaves itself while softsqueeze is in memory and stays around 8.5MB's. As soon as I close softsqueeze, it continues to grow out of control. Starting softsqueeze back up again just starts another wmadec. What's the matter? I swear I'm not doing anything wrong. Looks like a bug in slimserver to me. The slimserver process should kill the wmadec process after it's done playing your music. Have you tried explicitly use 'stop' on the softsqueeze player from the web interface? I've noticed that my squeezebox buffers streaming audio when I press pause, which is usually not what I want. A long press on pause does a 'stop' instead. Perhaps you should file a bug on this. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can anyone recommend headphones?
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I will definitely look into the noise cancelling ones. My buying decision will also be based on what is available here in the UK, which is probably a smaller section than in the USA. -- PhilD PhilD's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can anyone recommend headphones?
Everything suggested so far is available in the UK. -- Fifer Fifer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=639 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: End of song is cut off
anyone any ideas? am i not providing the right kind of information for troubleshooting purposes or is there not much that can be done here? am very grateful for any input! cheers! -- bodajmac bodajmac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9573 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32135 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Update to v6.5.1 creates problems
I have indeed tried all of the above, but thanks for your suggestions. I suppose the next move is just to take v6.5.1 off entirely (again...) and just use one of the older versions I fortunately still have the installs for. It actually seems like the more times I reinstall/rescan the less music I end up with. For instance, the 10cc folder (just happens to be first in the artist list) dropped from the full 16 tracks to 11 to 8 and now I've only got one showing. What makes this more frustrating is that my music is on an XP Pro system with nothing more than a power cord in the back of it, so in solving all of these troubles I've been using remote desktop connection (puts a little more legwork into fully rebooting the computer for starters.) -- smoj smoj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32058 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Feature request for next SlimServer (Replaygain)
This is already logged as an enhancement request targeted for future (i.e. not soon I guess). See http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4362. There's been no update since Chris posted that Slim were going to have a meeting to discuss the topic in October 2006. Please add your name as a CC to the bug to raise it's profile. -- barcar barcar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How would you like to select which music to play ?
The main ways I cue music are (in roughly order of priority): 1. Browse New Albums to play music I've just bought/ripped. 2. Dynamic playlist Top Rated (4 or 5 star) using your fantastic TrackStat/DynamicPlaylist/SQLPlaylist combo. 3. Dynamic playlis Unrated (with around 10,000 we are working hard to rate them all and we've almost hit 50%). 4. Lazy Search to find a particular artist/album/track that just sprang to mind. At some point method three should become unnecessary. That pretty much meets all my needs at the moment, so I don't really have any great new suggestions to make. -- smc2911 smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can anyone recommend headphones?
My experience is hat the isolating ones are better bang-for-the-buck than the noise-cancelling, but YMMV. Koss have the best low-end, though many people have problems fitting The Plug well in their ears. And if they're not fitted well, they sound becomes very boomy (or instead without bass). Their Spark Plug fits a bit easier. For the middle end Shure e2c e3c are really good, as well as Etymotic's model (forgotten model name/number). At higher end Etymotic also has good models, don't know if the Shure e4c are worth their money. There's another manufacturer also making very good high-end - have forgotten the name - but maybe it's not interesting if the headphones start to cost the same as the computer...? -- tommypeters SB3--Meridian G68--NuForce Ref8--Bc Acoustique ACT A3 tommypeters's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6528 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Update to v6.5.1 creates problems
I have indeed tried all of the above, but thanks for your suggestions. I suppose the next move is just to take v6.5.1 off entirely (again...) What was the last version you've been using successfully? Have you ever been on the 6.5.x series before? When you look at Windows' event log - do you see anything slimserver related? Have you ever tried running the scanner from the command line? What does the log file say? Turn on d_info d_scan, restart full scan and see what the log says after it finishes. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Feature request for next SlimServer (Replaygain)
Not soon, since nobody has even voted for it yet... -- tommypeters SB3--Meridian G68--NuForce Ref8--Bc Acoustique ACT A3 tommypeters's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6528 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How would you like to select which music to play ?
I always select music at the time, never choosing random play. I also never use playlists or ratings. I normally use the web interface, 95% of the time. Where my CDs have multiple pieces (classical), I separate them into 'albums' that are each one full piece. I use browse artist for pop, and I'm totally happy with that; I only have about 300 pop albums. However, classical (the majority of my listening) is more cumbersome. I use genres that have the period (baroque/modern etc), scale (chamber, orchestral etc), type (concerto, symphony, quartet), but this only gets me part of the way there. What I would like is a system like the way www.dabs.com works (!): - I choose symphony, and it gives me the choice of selecting submenus (or filters), for example Composer, Period, Orchestra and Conductor, but also gives me the view of albums that fit my selection I'd like a choice of whether to show albums or tracks (I'd always use albums, but others may not) The problem is that I don't think there is enough info in MP3 tags for this. I have multiple values in genre tags, but it doesn't know whether this tag is a period or whatever. I'm sure we could get around this, though. So that's what would do it for me :) Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Update to v6.5.1 creates problems
I have similar problems with 6.5.x (starting with 6.5 allready). ) In my case about 25% of all files where not indexed after a complete rebuild of the DB. Anyhow, after a rescan for new files, some of the missing files did show up, and after some 12 or so days with nightly rescan for new files the index DB was complete. I discussed thet with the tech support allready and they have ben able to sort of reproduce the problem: Some files simply dont get indexed for unknown reasons. Anyhow, They did not come up with a real solution so far (seems they ahve given up...) Anyhow, because a dozen rescans or so do the job for me, its not such a big deal and I can live with it. Another problem I have since 6.5 (wihtich still exists with the currently installed 6.51) is that all tracks in the current playlist are showed to be from the same album which is the currently played track from. Hm. I guess I need to cleariefy that a bit: Lets asume the current playlist has 3 records in it say Beatles-Love, Carl Orff-Camina Burana XOL DOG 400 - Unstable Prototype All of these records have more then one track, so the playlists consists of about 30 tracks. If the current track played is f.e. Strawberry Field forever from the Beatles album Love then the webinterface shows that all OTHER tracks, including the ones from Carl Orff and YOL DOG 400 are from the album/recording Love. Once track from XOL DOG 400 plays, all tracks are from the album/recording Unstabel Prototype. If you click on a track for detailed information, then this detailed information shows the correct data. Its onyl in the current playlist window. (using Server 6.5-6.5.1, German, Server running on a Mac withOS X 104.7 -10.4.8 DE ) The problem seems to be limited to the skin DARK however. -- Soulman Soulman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6283 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32058 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How would you like to select which music to play ?
adamslim;175237 Wrote: What I would like is a system like the way www.dabs.com works (!): - I choose symphony, and it gives me the choice of selecting submenus (or filters), for example Composer, Period, Orchestra and Conductor, but also gives me the view of albums that fit my selection Feel free to add a vote to http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2701 ! Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Server Securitry IP-Range blocking
The IP Range blocking alows to do something as (f.e.) 192.166.198.0-50 to allow incomeing conntections from a range of IPs. What I need to do is to allow from say 123.123.90.0 to 123.123.110.255 How Do I do that? Something like 123.123.90.*-110.* or 123.123.90-110 or 123.123.90.0-110.255 or is it not possible? I do not want to do 123.123.*.* (which works and which is what I currently do... but this opens much more addresses then actually needed) Hint for me anyone? (Why do I need to do that? My server has a fixed IP and is in a center, while my Slimbox is behind a DSL line. This line resets every other night and gets a new IP from the address range 123.123.90.*-123.123.110.*) -- Soulman Soulman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6283 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32210 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Crossfade help needed
I would also really like to be able to do this - the fade in does, as you say, mean the song loses it's impact. Steve luga00;173065 Wrote: Hi, Can someone clarify whether the crossfade option applies an ingoing and outgoing fade? I would rather that the incoming song be started 5 to 10 seconds before the outgoing song ends *without* adding any fades, so that the incoming song retains it's impact. regards Russ -- Steven Cooper Steven Cooper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31975 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver, Shoutcast and Winamp
more self-important drivel snipped sigh It's not what you say, it's how you say it. You just don't get it, do you? *plonk* ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk ) R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Mr Sinatra, I fully support your position. I have at least three friends who asked me about feedback about my squeezebox. My answer: great hardware, software which is just for jerks that want to spend more time in debugging that playing music. In short - SORRY, BUT I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT - The driver would be a very, very good idea. If this is not possible, a software product (whatever it is) that works and do not introduce more bugs any new release like ss does. My suggestion: you have done your point very clear, probably at Logitech (which does understand consumer business) got it, stop wasting your time arguing with all the attacks to you. Many people in this thread seems do not want to understant it. Probably spending time debugging make their ego feeling good. Aragorn -- Aragorn Aragorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4229 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How would you like to select which music to play ?
1. I use SQL Playlists and Trackstat quite a lot. My most common selection method by far is a random dynamic playlist of never played tracks and while I'm listening I will rate the songs and occasionally play a random selection of top rated songs. I also have a selction of SQL playlists which are a bit less general - e.g. Rock music from 1968-74. If I'm in the mood for a particular artist/genre I will use (custom) browse to get to it. Quite often I will hear a song from a random playlist and it will remind me of another song I would like to listen to. To find these I prefer to use Lazy Search, as this seems the quickest way, and insert them into the playlist. I do not use any static playlists. Generally, I like to hear a random selection, sometimes modified by certain criteria, but with the ability to add individual tracks at will. 2. I think the combination of SQL Playlists, Custom Browse/Scan and Trackstat already gives plenty of scope for future ways to listen that I've not yet thought of! I'm also quite intrigued by the LastFM similar artists feature of Custom Scan. It seems to allow a Pandora-like selection from my library. An option to permanently exclude the currently playing artist from a 'similar' playlist would be useful. -- MillmoorRon MillmoorRon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6413 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How would you like to select which music to play ?
ceejay;175239 Wrote: Feel free to add a vote to http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2701 ! Ceejay Will be done once I've got the password sorted :) What the feature request doesn't cover is the enhanced data required for the genre tag. If we could have a genre tag as follows: Classical;Period=Classical;Scale=Orchestral;Type=Symphony And SS could be made to parse this and use such data for browsing then I'd be most pleased. Ideally, the data field names would be dynamically created so that the user could control this - i.e. if there is Foo=Bar, then it would create a field named Foo that you could filter on, and this track would be Bar. Do you think this is reasonable and/or possible? Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Aragorn;175250 Wrote: I have at least three friends who asked me about feedback about my squeezebox. My answer: great hardware, software which is just for jerks that want to spend more time in debugging that playing music. In short - SORRY, BUT I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT - The driver would be a very, very good idea. If this is not possible, a software product (whatever it is) that works and do not introduce more bugs any new release like ss does.Do you want a device driver because you think there would be less bugs in a system that consisted of a completely newly written device driver + an external application not written by Logitech ? Or do you really want the device driver for the functionality ? The reason I'm asking is because newly written code often has more bugs in it than old code and this is especially true if code from different companies shall collaborate. I'm not arguing that a device driver is wrong, I'm just checking that you want it for the right reason. The problem with slimserver is that the environment it runs in can be completely different. - Some people uses MP3 files some other people uses FLAC files. - Some uses iTunes or MusicIP plugins for scanning files and some uses the native scanning mechanism builtin in slimserver. - Different software is used for tagging music files. - Some people knows what tags are other have no idea what a tag is - Slimserver runs on different operating systems. - People are having different type of networks, some wireless some wired. - Some people are running slimserver on servers, some are running it on the desktop where new games and other applications are installed every week. - Sound quality is number one priority for SlimDevices, while other products might focus more on usability than sound quality. The problem with this senario is that it is impossible for SlimDevices to test all different configurations without the help of the end users. I know this might sound bad, but we are not talking about Microsoft here we are talking about a quite small company (at least until Logitech bought SlimDevices). I'm running my slimserver on a server and has only been running official releases on it. I have only FLAC music over a wireless network and it has been running for about a year now. I can honestly say that I haven't had a single problem during this time. I know you guys that are having problems might not feel any better because of this, but at least it shows that it can actually work really good. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Update to v6.5.1 creates problems
I've tried an uninstall and a re-install. My symptom is that Slimserver won't start. I find this message in the event log: C:\PROGRA~1\SLIMSE~1\server\Bin\MSWIN3~1\mysqld.exe: unknown option '--install SlimServerMySQL' I have no idea of how to fix this. Any suggestions? Thanks, Thomas -- tweis tweis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9279 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32058 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
erland wrote: I'm running my slimserver on a server and has only been running official releases on it. What OS does this server run? Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How would you like to select which music to play ?
adamslim;175255 Wrote: Will be done once I've got the password sorted :) What the feature request doesn't cover is the enhanced data required for the genre tag. If we could have a genre tag as follows: Classical;Period=Classical;Scale=Orchestral;Type=Symphony And SS could be made to parse this and use such data for browsing then I'd be most pleased. Ideally, the data field names would be dynamically created so that the user could control this - i.e. if there is Foo=Bar, then it would create a field named Foo that you could filter on, and this track would be Bar. Do you think this is reasonable and/or possible? Adam Hi Personally I don't like the idea of using either a standard or user-specific fixed sub-genre structure like this. While I have genre values along the lines you suggest I also use values which wouldn't really classify well like that. The multi-level browse I had envisaged would allow you to make a selection on a tag (eg Genre) and then to make another selection on another tag (which could be Genre or something else). That would allow you to filter on Genre=Classical Genre=Romantic Genre=Symphony which would give you the hierarchical search you are thinking of, but would also allow me to filter on Genre=Romantic Genre=Loud Genre=Choral And, of course, to have a Conductor=Karajan in the mix if we felt like it... If some of the defined enhanced data fields you are interested in are something you would want to make much use of, I think that would be better served by using a custom tag for that purpose: we can do that today with one of erland's plugins (thats how I have PERFORMER in use at the moment!) but there are many more ways this could be used - see another of my requests, http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2700 BTW - not sure what problems you are having with creating a password in bugzilla - you do know it is entirely separate from the forums? Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Update to v6.5.1 creates problems
When I install the following, I'm back to operational: SlimServer Version: 6.5.0 - 9916 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 Server IP address: 192.168.1.3 Perl Version: 5.8.7 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt -- tweis tweis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9279 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32058 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Peter;175264 Wrote: erland wrote: I'm running my slimserver on a server and has only been running official releases on it. What OS does this server run? Regards, PeterLinux (Ubuntu), it has of course been restarted a few times during the year since I also use it as my web server, and slimserver has been restarted every time I have released a new plugin version. But what I am saying is that I haven't had any problems whatsoever with slimserver during this year. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Crossfade, fade in, fade out, etc.
I am listening on SB3. I thought that I selected a value; let me check and listen again. I will let you know. Thanks -- thesil thesil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9197 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32199 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
erland wrote: Peter;175264 Wrote: erland wrote: I'm running my slimserver on a server and has only been running official releases on it. What OS does this server run? Regards, PeterLinux (Ubuntu), it has of course been restarted a few times during the year since I also use it as my web server, and slimserver has been restarted every time I have released a new plugin version. But what I am saying is that I haven't had any problems whatsoever with slimserver during this year. I thought so. I'm running Linux on my server too. I suspect that most problems are found running on Windows platforms. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Another LAME question
Thanks, I have the situation under control. I only questioned it because I noticed that LAME was not installed and thought that it could be an integral part of the system -- thesil thesil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9197 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32038 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
I thought so. I'm running Linux on my server too. I suspect that most problems are found running on Windows platforms. I don't have any longtime experience with SlimServer on Windows, as I only use it on my development machine (which is a Windows laptop). But I think there are so much more tools installed on typical Windows systems which can make live for a server type application harder: antivirus tools, personal firewalls (and both with often not very transparent behaviour and configuration), optimizing utilities etc. And then there's simply a much bigger number of Windows installations out there. Which increases the number of problems even if both systems are on par. And you'll mainly hear about the troublesome installations. Happy campers don't bother subscribing to forums. But still: ome say the problem was sitting between keyboard and screen - this happens a lot less with headless Linux boxes :-) -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Hallo erland Do you want a device driver because you think there would be less bugs in a system that consisted of a completely newly written device driver + an external application not written by Logitech ? Or do you really want the device driver for the functionality ? I would like to be able to use Slimbox as a (high quality) remote soundcard. The beauty of device driver concept (if the implementation is high quality) is that it would allow the use of any software. Basic integration would just stream the sound, while advanced integration would also support the display The reason I'm asking is because newly written code often has more bugs in it than old code and this is especially true if code from different companies shall collaborate. I am not a developer, as a user this waht I would like to have. I'm not arguing that a device driver is wrong, I'm just checking that you want it for the right reason. The problem with slimserver is that the environment it runs in can be completely different. - Some people uses MP3 files some other people uses FLAC files. - Some uses iTunes or MusicIP plugins for scanning files and some uses the native scanning mechanism builtin in slimserver. - Different software is used for tagging music files. - Some people knows what tags are other have no idea what a tag is - Slimserver runs on different operating systems. - People are having different type of networks, some wireless some wired. - Some people are running slimserver on servers, some are running it on the desktop where new games and other applications are installed every week. - Sound quality is number one priority for SlimDevices, while other products might focus more on usability than sound quality. The problem with this senario is that it is impossible for SlimDevices to test all different configurations without the help of the end users. I know this might sound bad, but we are not talking about Microsoft here we are talking about a quite small company (at least until Logitech bought SlimDevices). I am not blaming SlimDevices, simply noticing the big gap between hardware and software quality. In my opinion the software is not mass market ready and I believe Logitech should address this issue. I'm running my slimserver on a server and has only been running official releases on it. I have only FLAC music over a wireless network and it has been running for about a year now. I can honestly say that I haven't had a single problem during this time. I know you guys that are having problems might not feel any better because of this, but at least it shows that it can actually work really good. I am also running my slimserver on a linux server, however for my needs and my enviromental feeling, this is an overkill. Aragorn -- Aragorn Aragorn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4229 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Interesting issue with 6.5.2/nightly
I did some more testing with this on an openSuSE 10.1 system and found that it has the same problem. It seems that startproc forks the new process using the caller's environment, even if it is starting as a new user (I confirmed this in the source for startproc as well). So this means that under SuSE, invoking the init script from root will always cause HOME to be the HOME of root. This probably explains why I found a number of forum entries where people were having problems getting Slimserver to start after installation, since the SuSE init scripts all use startproc to invoke Slimserver under the Slimserver user. So I began looking for a way to find the user's home directory without relying on the environment. The following code should work on Unix, but not on Windows (but I see that Prefs.pm checks for Unix, so it should be OK). It uses 'getpwuid()' (http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/getpwuid.html) to retreive the user's home directory, based on the UID ($) of the currently running user. Code: @uvals = getpwuid($); $dir = $uvals[7]; print (Retreived home directory = .$dir.\n); Running the above in a Perl script invoked via startproc correctly gives the user's home directory based on the userid that startproc is told to use (i.e. if used with -u slimserver the output shows /usr/local/slimserver instead of /root). -- AubreyCTurnerJr AubreyCTurnerJr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9795 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32200 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Album thumbnail problem
MrSinatra;175190 Wrote: i'm actually surprised to hear that u only had one file for multiple albums and it worked. when it worked like that, weren't cd1 and cd2 differentiated in the dir name? if so, i'm impressed it worked anyway. i have always duplicated the artwork file in each dir of a multi disc set, so i can't speak to if it did that in my case. The weird thing is that the albums that worked before like that are still working like thateven after I delted the /cache/Artwork, restarted SS and did a complete rescan. This is how they look: \Folk\Townes Van Zandt\2000 - Texas Troubador (Disc 1)\*.flac cover.jpg \Folk\Townes Van Zandt\2000 - Texas Troubador (Disc 2)\*.flac \Folk\Townes Van Zandt\2000 - Texas Troubador (Disc 3)\*.flac \Folk\Townes Van Zandt\2000 - Texas Troubador (Disc 4)\*.flac so I have the cover.jpg in with the CD1 directory and all of the CD1 flac files. But in the other directories I only have the .flac files for that CD, no artwork. However, the ALBUM tag for all files in all directories is set to Texas Troubador and then I use DISCNUMBER = 1,2,3,4 for each directory. The year, genre, and artist tags also match for all files. I just figured that since SS scans them all and then groups them together, it only needed one artwork file, and it has always worked that way until yesterday. -- lemmy999 lemmy999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32190 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can anyone recommend headphones?
I'm a big fan of the noise isolating variety of headphones. I ride the subway to work every morning and they're a great way to block out (most of) the noise of the train and people around me without extra battery attachements or ridiculous head enlarging earmuffs. One word of warning about the Etymotic ER-6i's though. While their sound quality is fantastic they are extremely delicate. I had to replace them once during their one year warranty period since the extremely thin chord on one ear began to cut out. It happened again six months later after the warranty was over and I decided that $120 a year in headphone costs weren't working. I replaced them with the Shure Er-2c's which have a much thicker chord and a 2 year warranty. Sound quality is comparable and I haven't looked back since. -- mrchrispy mrchrispy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4175 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Interesting issue with 6.5.2/nightly
I filed 'bug report 4718' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4718) just to get this documented as a possible issue for SuSE users. -- AubreyCTurnerJr AubreyCTurnerJr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9795 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32200 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can anyone recommend headphones?
BTW, Shure's warranty is 2 years *from the date of product manufacture* I take this to mean you can keep sending them back so long as no one set gets older than 2 years - and I'm on my fourth replacement pair already. Of course this doesn't reflect very well on the headphones - I get almost exactly 6 months of daily use from a pair of E3Cs before they start getting faulty. But this is mysteriously double the amount of time (3 months) that each pair of Sony MDR-EX71s lasted me... James NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not intend to waive confidentiality or privilege. Use of this email is prohibited when received in error. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: One album artwork displays too large
I've seen this as well, and reported it 'here' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30905). I'd be happy to provide the jpg that causes problem if needed. Perhaps this should be registered as a proper bug, it might be time to learn how to do that. Hang on... -- morberg morberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8757 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32053 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Aragorn;175277 Wrote: I am not blaming SlimDevices, simply noticing the big gap between hardware and software quality. In my opinion the software is not mass market ready and I believe Logitech should address this issue. I completely agree. Although my box is working perfectly there has been a lot of posts lately about users having problem. I would expect the number of complaints to increase as the massmarket sales goes up, so its definitely something that Logitech need to address. I also believe that slimserver probably isn't the cause in most situations, I think most of the problems people are having is because the environment slimserver is running in. It might be everything from an operating system filled with applications and games that conflicts to badly tagged music files or users that aren't used to using a computer. So I think Logitech needs to focus on addressing the source to the problem instead of making slimserver handling all kinds of strange environments. Some examples to this would be to: - Provide a prefered ripping and tagging tool with the product - Sell an optional small PC like hardware with preinstalled slimserver - Provide virutual machines with slimserver (for example VMware based) - Improve the installation program so people doesn't have to uninstall and reinstall every time they upgrade -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Playlists - how do you save after updating?
I am having the same problem. Here is more detail. I have playlists I saved with the version of SlimServer prior to 6.5.0. They all worked. I saved a copy of the playlist directory. I then uninstalled Slimserver and then installed 6.5.0. This reinitialized the default play list directory. I then set the playlist directory to the location where I copied the playlists to. Slimserver would not recognize the playlists in the directory I pointed it to. I then selected the Only rescan playlists choice on rescan music library and did a rescan. It ran for several minutes, to no apparent effect. Slimserver still does not see my playlists. Is there something else to try? -- tweis tweis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9279 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31744 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Peter;175276 Wrote: erland wrote: Peter;175264 Wrote: erland wrote: I'm running my slimserver on a server and has only been running official releases on it. What OS does this server run? Regards, PeterLinux (Ubuntu), it has of course been restarted a few times during the year since I also use it as my web server, and slimserver has been restarted every time I have released a new plugin version. But what I am saying is that I haven't had any problems whatsoever with slimserver during this year. I thought so. I'm running Linux on my server too. I suspect that most problems are found running on Windows platforms. Regards, Peter Just as a side note, Windows can be very stable as a server to. The problem is when you use it as desktop and install new software and games every week and upgrade to new version of drivers now and then and start to install firewalls and antivirus software. A few years back I was running my web server on Windows (W2k I think) and it was as stable as my current Linux box. The reason that most problems are found on Windows is probably because there are more Windows users and the Windows computer often tend to also act as the ordinary desktop where all kind of strange things are installed. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
- Provide virutual machines with slimserver (for example VMware based) SlimCD anyone? :-) -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem restoring playlists from backup
Hello, I am having a similar problem. When I update Slimserver, I can't get it to recognize any of my existing playlists. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, copying playlists to directories and alternately, setting the playlist directory to where my playlists are. Slimserver sees none of my playlists. I initially discovered the problem when I updated to 6.5.0. I had my playlists in the default location and it got wiped out. I rebuilt my playlists in a safe location but I can't use them. Thanks, Thomas -- tweis tweis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9279 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29283 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can anyone recommend headphones?
I think closed headphones sound far better than noise-cancelling ones. As others have said, check out www.head-fi.org, the for sale forum always has headphones for sale, some just slightly older than brand new. Closed phones I like are: Sennheiser HD280 (can buy from Headroom, an online headphone gear store), Sennheiser 25-1, and Beyerdynamic 250-80. Ultrasone, another German company, also makes lots of models of closed phones. If you want something very small and portable, look at the in-ear monitors (IEM's) like Shures and Etymotics as others have recommended. Very noise proof but you won't hear most anything else around you either, like your boss speaking to you or your phone ringing. -- sc53 sc53's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8690 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Playlist expected behavior question
Hi everyone, I have a question about the expected behavior of playlists. Here is a typical sequence of events for me: 1) Load playlist named A 2) Add some songs to it 3) In the web interface (I use Fishbone, if it matters) click on Save in the right pane to save the new playlist 4) In the left pane, enter a different name, like B and hit enter My playlist B is saved, but A is erased. Is this expected behavior? If so, is there any way for me to start with an existing playlist, add to it, save it, and have both the old and the new playlists still saved? Within Slimserver, I mean -- I know I could accomplish this by using a different program for managing my playlists. Thanks in advance for any help. Mitch ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: One album artwork displays too large
I ended up just making a thumb.jpg and that fixed the problem. I have no idea why I had to do this. -- lemmy999 lemmy999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32053 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Automatic artwork resizing
I know that if you have a cover.jpg file that is 300x300 it will resize on the fly to 100x100 for viewing in Slimserver album view. I was considering trying to make a 100x100 thumb.jpg in each directory so that the artwork will load faster when I am using SServer from a remote location over the internet. But will this help at all? Does the resize happen on the server and then the smaller 100x100 image is sent to the remote location or does it send the 300x300 image and the resize happens at the remote location? -- lemmy999 lemmy999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32214 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How would you like to select which music to play ?
Hi, I find the 'drill down' method to be very usefull if one really wants to actively listen to the music. Lately, I have asked a question about obvious bug, where there's the arrow showing by the 'Year' tag, but drill-down doesn't work. But then, I'm thinking that the drill-down might be implemented on any tag where there's a posibility of having multiple items. Title is the first that comes to mind. For example, I'm listening to 'Almost Blue' performed by Diana Krall. Then I ask myself, let's see how does Elvis Costello does the same song (for purely trivia reasons :) ). Then, I'd like to compare it to more classical performance of Billy Holiday. So, drill-down on title would make sense. Then, I want to hear why (or if) is Karajan's vision of Requiem better than other's performances. Drill down on track title or album should be able to take me to the another track with the same name. thks, K -- slimkid slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: One album artwork displays too large
Quoting lemmy999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I ended up just making a thumb.jpg and that fixed the problem. I have no idea why I had to do this. the thumbnails are resized by the server when possible (if the GD library is sucessfully loaded by slimserver). GD only supports GIF, PNG and JPG file types. Currently, any other type remains unresized since there is no current way to break the assumption of server resizing by item. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MP3Gain, MP3Tag, iTunes craziness
eschurr;175136 Wrote: Can anyone explain this? I have a sample MP3 file where SlimServer shows a volume adjustment value of -13.50 (i think it came from an iTunNorm tag). Check this out: 1. use MP3Tag to delete the iTunNorm tag. There were no ReplayGain values in the files. 2. In Slimserver, clear library, rescan 3. Slimserver shows no volume adjustment (this makes sense) 4. In MP3Gain, load the track. Run track analysis. it shows a track adjustment value of -4.5 5. Go to MP3Tag for the same file. It shows a ReplayGain value of -9.26! 6. Go to Slimserver: clear library, rescan 7. Slimserver shows a volume adjusment value of -9.26 (this matches what MP3Tag shows, but is different than what MP3Gain shows, wich generated the value) 8. In Foobar2000, advanced edit: shows ReplayGain value of -4.745 (this matches what MP3Gain showed during Track Analysis but is different from MP3Tag and Slimserver) 9. MP3Gain: Undo, remove tags from files 10. MP3Tag: no replay gain value (makes sense) 11. Foobar2000: no replay gain value (makes sense) 12. Foobar2000: scan per-file track gain. shows value of -9.27 13. MP3Tag: shows replaygain value of -9.27 14. MP3Gain: Track analysis shows value of -4.5 (huh?) 15. MP3Tag: shows ReplayGain value of -4.5 16. FooBar2000 advanced edit: shows value of -9.27 17 SlimServer. Clear library, rescan. 18. Slimserver: volume adjustment value of -4.75 What is going on here? Hi Does this not just show the difference between the reference values set between ReplayGain MP3Gain? MP3Gain can have a user defined value therefore when you are IN that program if you analyse the track and your reference value is set to 93dB - the values in the list below it are referenced to this value. Going into MP3Tag or Foobar - shows you the stored replaygain value which is always referenced to 89dB (I think). MP3Gain will let you change the reference point (as said above) but his only works when the value is written to the file (ie the track data is altered - rather than reading a value from a tag). Otherwise the analysis value stored to tag is like the value stored to tag from Foobar's Replaygain... Hope that makes some sense!! Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32178 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MP3Gain, MP3Tag, iTunes craziness
thesil;175167 Wrote: I am not being facetious here, but isn't about the music? If it aint broke, don't fix it; just enjoy the tunes, INMHO Respectfully - 1) this doesn't help the Original Poster, and 2) volume normalisation might be extremely important to some to enjoy the music, particularly if people listen in random mode etc. Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32178 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Delete File from Library Via Remote?
It's not dangerous because one might just deleted a song. In short, it's dangerous because it just might open a security hole, where somebody on the network could gain the access to your computer. -- slimkid slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32204 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Album by (A Thousand Artists)
Not to distract the thread, but I have a related question. Here is my desired behavior: I want all of my artists to show up in the artists list, whether or not they are compilation only. However in the albums list, I want a compilation album to only show up once, not once per artist. I've found no combination of settings which produces this -- I seem to remember that Slim Server used to behave this way, but changed at some point along the line. Is there any way to achieve this behavior with the current SS version? Mitch On 1/28/07, JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bullgod;175068 Wrote: Ok, I'm new to this lark, but I'd come to much the same conclusion as this previous post. I'd rather not see every artist listed because they have one track in my library. Once one has a number of compilation the artist list becomes very long. But neither do I want my Blues compliations list ed with Movie Soundtracks under the one Various Artists umbella. Can we have Compilation Album list by Album Artist option please? Use the alternative setting Group compilation albums together. This will suppress the artists that only appear on compilation albums. They should still be searchable and will appear under the album listing, just not in artist listings. My question was really one about the display of the albums when the List compilation ablums under each artist option is selected. I know a lot of changes are constantly being made to the way VA albums are handled, with many unintended side-effects, so it wouldn't surprise me if the ugly album display above was unnoticed by any of the developers or the beta testers. Then again, it wouldn't surprise me either if that was the way it was supposed to look, although I'd sure like to hear the reason why it would be desired. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32108 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem restoring playlists from backup
First question - is the path used in your playlist files the same as the way Slimserver sees your music library ? So if your playlist shows mnt/dir/Music/filename.mp3, is your music library also set up as mnt/dir (for example) ? Do your playlists use relative paths ? [Slimserver doesn't] You need to point Slimserver at the playlist directory - does it recognise the directory as valid ? Could it be a permissions issue, if you've been moving the playlists around - does Slimserver have read access ? Finally, try running Slimserver from the command line, but add the following --d_scan --logfile=[your directory here]scanlog.txt Then do a playlist only rescan. When Slimserver has finished the scan, look for the scanlog.txt file and see if there are any error messages. Does this give you a clue as to why the files aren't found ? Welcome to post a chunk up here if you want others to comment. See the below thread for a very similar discussion I had with another poster that may help. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31790 -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29283 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Album by (A Thousand Artists)
Mitch Harding;175328 Wrote: Not to distract the thread, but I have a related question. Here is my desired behavior: I want all of my artists to show up in the artists list, whether or not they are compilation only. However in the albums list, I want a compilation album to only show up once, not once per artist. I've found no combination of settings which produces this -- I seem to remember that Slim Server used to behave this way, but changed at some point along the line. Is there any way to achieve this behavior with the current SS version? Are you using 6.5.1? There were some significant changes made to compilation handling to fix sorting and pagebar issues in browse Albums. I'm not seeing the situation that you're talking about... In browse Albums, albums never show up more than once. Even when List compilation albums under each artist is set, all my compilations are still sorted to the spot where Various Artists would appear alphabetically. That setting only appears to apply to browse Artists, causing all of the one of artists from compilations to be listed. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32108 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Disappearing thumbnails?
polocruz;175050 Wrote: BTW, didn't there used to be an option to not use placeholders when no album art was available? Thanks for allowing me to ramble. Paolo SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11206 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 Server IP address: 192.168.0.101 Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt Hi Paolo You are right there did used to be a delete placeholders option - I miss that too!!... I guess that because the latest SS uses a Gallery to browse the whole Music Collection, missing out albums without artwork would mean not being able to browse the whole collection. Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32184 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Vista Slimserver
snap, i have this problem too. can anyone help? -- Kezza25 Kezza25's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9933 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31883 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Vista Slimserver
Kezza25;175335 Wrote: snap, i have this problem too. can anyone help? *Warning - Sarcasm/joke/unhelpful to original post/useless post alert!!!* Don't use vista?? :) Nic Sorry just felt daft for a moment... -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31883 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Disappearing thumbnails?
DrNic;175334 Wrote: You are right there did used to be a delete placeholders option - I miss that too!!... I guess that because the latest SS uses a Gallery to browse the whole Music Collection, missing out albums without artwork would mean not being able to browse the whole collection. Yes. I think it was eliminated in part to avoid the inconsistency between the gallery and list views - otherwise, you'd have albums appearing and disappearing only because they were missing artwork. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3703 -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32184 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to stop auto firmware update after 6.5.1?
tyler_durden;174829 Wrote: Under windoze, you don't get the notification (is there some way to do this?) so unless you check periodically, you don't know there is a new version. Home - Server Settings - Behavior - Software Updates (4th item). -- Mark Lanctot It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response. - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32154 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Michael Herger wrote: - Provide virutual machines with slimserver (for example VMware based) SlimCD anyone? :-) Isn't it so that VMware allows you to distribute their player freely? That way you can make a VM with their VMWare server (also free) and ship the result with a player. I haven't done this but it could be pretty smooth... Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: End of song is cut off
I am having the same problem with the last quarter of a second or so of all songs being cut off. I initially upgraded to a nightly image in order to use the iTunes update plug-in and that's when I noticed the problem. I thought it might be the iTunes update plug-in but disabling it and rebooting didn't make any difference; I still hear the end of each song being clipped. I already had an email thread going with Daniel in the support team; I have pointed him to this thread and hope he'll file a bug or tell me if it's a known issue. I'll update this thread when I hear from him. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32135 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Isn't it so that VMware allows you to distribute their player freely? I don't know whether I am allowed to distribute it - but I wouldn't want anyway. It's freely available from their site. That way you can make a VM with their VMWare server (also free) and ship the result with a player. I haven't done this but it could be pretty smooth... It really is easy. And for an even easier experience there are live cd VMware images available on the internet: http://www.virtualization.info/2005/10/how-to-launch-iso-and-use-livecds.html -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Playlists with SS and MAC
Yes, thank you -- thesil thesil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9197 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32122 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How would you like to select which music to play ?
ceejay;175266 Wrote: The multi-level browse I had envisaged would allow you to make a selection on a tag (eg Genre) and then to make another selection on another tag (which could be Genre or something else). That would allow you to filter on Genre=Classical Genre=Romantic Genre=Symphony which would give you the hierarchical search you are thinking of, but would also allow me to filter on Genre=Romantic Genre=Loud Genre=Choral And, of course, to have a Conductor=Karajan in the mix if we felt like it... If some of the defined enhanced data fields you are interested in are something you would want to make much use of, I think that would be better served by using a custom tag for that purpose: we can do that today with one of erland's plugins (thats how I have PERFORMER in use at the moment!) but there are many more ways this could be used - see another of my requests, http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2700 BTW - not sure what problems you are having with creating a password in bugzilla - you do know it is entirely separate from the forums? Ceejay OK, that would be fine for me - as long as it allowed multiple genre selections, I'm cool. It'd also be nice not to have to update my tags again! I'll have a look at erland's plugins in more detail too. It's all so exhausting though - I only finished ripping everything a month ago, tagging works well but is not 100% complete, having to retag the whole lot would do me in!! Bug thing was access to email from work - voted now :) Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Vista Slimserver
urbanshepherd;172254 Wrote: Hi, having used slimserver without any problems for some time, I decided to get cocky and upgrade to Vista. Woe is me... The problem I'm having, is that when Vista boots, slimtray starts without problem, however slimserver never starts and has to be started via the slimtray icon. I've selected 'Automatically run at system start' from the slimtray icon but this seems to have no effect. Has anyone had a similar issue, and a resolution? Thanks. Anything in the Event log? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31883 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MP3Gain, MP3Tag, iTunes craziness
No offense intended -- thesil thesil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9197 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32178 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Printing out Music Collection
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22169 In the last few pages there are some options. -- Mark Lanctot It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response. - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32162 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Michael Herger wrote: Isn't it so that VMware allows you to distribute their player freely? I don't know whether I am allowed to distribute it - but I wouldn't want anyway. It's freely available from their site. http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ VMware Player lets you evaluate new or pre-release software contained in virtual machines, without any installation or configuration hassles. You can also share existing virtual machines with colleagues or friends---just use VMware Player to run any virtual machine. I thought you might want to distribute a VM version of slimCD... Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Automatic artwork resizing
lemmy999;175316 Wrote: I know that if you have a cover.jpg file that is 300x300 it will resize on the fly to 100x100 for viewing in Slimserver album view. I was considering trying to make a 100x100 thumb.jpg in each directory so that the artwork will load faster when I am using SServer from a remote location over the internet. But will this help at all? Does the resize happen on the server and then the smaller 100x100 image is sent to the remote location or does it send the 300x300 image and the resize happens at the remote location? Resizing is done on the server. However, I believe that the use of the thumbnail jpegs in the directory (ie 'thumb.jpg', or whatever you would have configured it as) vanished from the server in 6.5. This is one reason why (IMO) trying to view album art is far slower with the later versions - it has to resize the images on the server before serving them, whereas previously it'd just pick up the thumbnail graphic which had been pre-sized correctly and serve that. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32214 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: End of song is cut off
After seeing an apparent lack of response to this and other similar threads by those in the know I decided to go back to 6.3.1. That got rid of the whacked ends and also may have gotten rid of another problem that I was having where Slimserver would stumble after the first half hour or so of playing like it couldn't get enough music through the pipe. Previous solution to that was to pause for awhile and then things would be fine. I think part of the problem is that it varies so much depending upon the system - many others are running 6.5.x without a glitch. There must be a common thread somewhere. -- randybrand randybrand's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3645 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32135 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Automatic artwork resizing
The resized images are cached on the server in 6.5.1 for 10 days so you should only see the hit of resizing the first time you browse your collection [and if you only do it rarely!] -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32214 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] PepperPad3 as slimserver remote
This device has been brought up in past threads, but I thought I'd ping the forum again about it-- Has anyone tried using a PepperPad3 as a slimserver remote? http://pepperpad.com More specifically, have you tried either Nokia770 or Touch skin on it? How does it work? I'm really intrigued by the PepperPad3 because of its combination of WiFi and IR. Potentially a fantastic DIY slimserver remote. They already market it as a combination internet tablet and universal remote, so the seeds are there. Not so intrigued about the price (~$600). Though I can understand why a device like this might cost that much, Nokia's 800 must be seriously undercutting their sales. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas the Nokia770 skin guy bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32220 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can anyone recommend headphones?
mrchrispy;175289 Wrote: It happened again six months later after the warranty was over and I decided that $120 a year in headphone costs weren't working. Well, you can find them at least $20 cheaper on-line. mrchrispy Wrote: I replaced them with the Shure Er-2c's which have a much thicker chord and a 2 year warranty. When I tried them the thicker cord was pretty microphonic. Almost as bad as the cord on my ER-4s. -- Meatwad650 Meatwad650's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9725 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Disappearing thumbnails?
From what I see on my system, a black-background placeholder means there used to be a placeholder here, but I can't find it, usually because the file was changed somehow. A grey-background placeholder means there's no album art, the thumbnail was never there. -- Mark Lanctot It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response. - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32184 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: PepperPad3 as slimserver remote
just did some searching around the pepperpad forum... looks like somebody on the pepperpad forum is using slimserver with their pepperpad, but not with a squeezebox...he actually installed softsqueeze directly on the pepperpad! I'm shocked, since the pepperpad is linux-based and I've never had success running softsqueeze on my heavyweight (in comparison) linux desktop PC. Amazing he got it to work on a handheld. http://www.pepper.com/forums/showthread.php?t=383highlight=slimserver another thread on the pepper forum by gandt (this is the only person on the slim forums I know to be using the pepperpad), discussing using Nokia770/Touch skins and full screen on the browser. gandt, if you're reading this--ever figure this one out? http://www.pepper.com/forums/showthread.php?t=548highlight=slimserver -- bklaas the Nokia770 skin guy bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32220 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: PepperPad3 as slimserver remote
I use it all the time with the slightly pathetic mod to touch I suggested the last time this came up. It works well enough and, of course, its built in speakers are a bit more powerful than those on the nokia (dunno about n800 though). Its water resistant so it has become the bathroom squeezebox! I like the Pepperpad and use it more than the Nokia - mainly because the form factor makes it a better living room tablet. It is the way the family does quick web based tasks whilst watching TV. The Nokia slips in the pocket so is better out and about but seems to me the Pepperpad 3 is designed to live in the lounge, has IR and therefore makes the better uber remote. I do not think though that it is better than the Nokia, just clearly different. -- gandt gandt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=586 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32220 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Automatic artwork resizing
Triode;175370 Wrote: The resized images are cached on the server in 6.5.1 for 10 days so you should only see the hit of resizing the first time you browse your collection [and if you only do it rarely!] Is it possible to extend the caching from 10 days? I'd be happy to trade disk space for performance. -- morberg morberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8757 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32214 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] anyway to show NEW MUSIC with Artist
right now it only shows Album. I'd love NEW MUSIC to show Artist too - is there any way to change this? Thanks Tony -- mantis007 mantis007's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=491 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32221 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: anyway to show NEW MUSIC with Artist
mantis007;175408 Wrote: right now it only shows Album. I'd love NEW MUSIC to show Artist too - is there any way to change this? Thanks Tony Artist will only show in the WEB GUI IIRC. -- earthbased earthbased's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=334 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32221 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] anyway to show NEW MUSIC with Artist
Quoting mantis007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: right now it only shows Album. I'd love NEW MUSIC to show Artist too - is there any way to change this? server settings-format. Show Artist with albums and Show Year with Albums -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Automatic artwork resizing
Its hard coded into the server at present and looking at the caching code used does mean cached images are always exired after 10days (even if you use them frequently). So what do people think a better time would be? - downside of being bigger is that it uses up disk space and slows down server start up as the server checks all the files for expiry on startup. -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32214 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
I thought you might want to distribute a VM version of slimCD... I thought about this. But there are two reasons I don't think it makes a lot of sense: - setting up a VM yourself is really easy (given you're using that live disk VM) - the main problem remains the same as when using the CD with your computer: how to connect SlimCD to your collection - that's no easy task for a Linux newbie As an alternative I just did a quick test with a SlimNAS VM, based on FreeNAS, featuring two shares (Music and SlimNAS installation folder). A full install with a 100GB virtual disk would easily fit in a 100MB ZIP archive. But again: does it make sense copying a collection to a virtual disk, if it's already on your harddisk? And a VM run on your computer needs a lot more RAM than the SlimServer itself. So... while this is might be a good approach for demoing the possibilities, I don't think it's mass market. There must be something leaner than VMware to make this approach reasonable. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Italian owners?
Riccardo, credo tu abbia postato qualcosa su AF Digitale a riguardo dello Squeezebox. Io sono Marco, ne ho uno da pochi mesi, acquistato in US e sto a Milano. Ciao -- wellington wellington's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7601 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Michael Herger wrote: I thought you might want to distribute a VM version of slimCD... I thought about this. But there are two reasons I don't think it makes a lot of sense: - setting up a VM yourself is really easy (given you're using that live disk VM) - the main problem remains the same as when using the CD with your computer: how to connect SlimCD to your collection - that's no easy task for a Linux newbie As an alternative I just did a quick test with a SlimNAS VM, based on FreeNAS, featuring two shares (Music and SlimNAS installation folder). A full install with a 100GB virtual disk would easily fit in a 100MB ZIP archive. But again: does it make sense copying a collection to a virtual disk, if it's already on your harddisk? And a VM run on your computer needs a lot more RAM than the SlimServer itself. So... while this is might be a good approach for demoing the possibilities, I don't think it's mass market. There must be something leaner than VMware to make this approach reasonable. OK, makes sense. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Automatic artwork resizing
Triode;175420 Wrote: Its hard coded into the server at present and looking at the caching code used does mean cached images are always exired after 10days (even if you use them frequently). So what do people think a better time would be? - downside of being bigger is that it uses up disk space and slows down server start up as the server checks all the files for expiry on startup. Shouldn't proper caching note the last time that a file was accessed and then _extend_ its expiry from that time? -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32214 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Automatic artwork resizing
Agreed, but having looked at the CPAN perl Cache::FileCache module which is used I'm not convinced it does this.. Someone feel free to put me right on it. -- Triode Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32214 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: End of song is cut off
randybrand;175367 Wrote: After seeing an apparent lack of response to this and other similar threads by those in the know I decided to go back to 6.3.1. That got rid of the whacked ends and also may have gotten rid of another problem that I was having where Slimserver would stumble after the first half hour or so of playing like it couldn't get enough music through the pipe. Previous solution to that was to pause for awhile and then things would be fine. I think part of the problem is that it varies so much depending upon the system - many others are running 6.5.x without a glitch. There must be a common thread somewhere. randybrand, I can say that after dealing with the truncation of my wma tracks that I also reverted back to 6.3.1 after receiving only cursory assistance from Slimdevices support. You make a valid point in that with only a few of us that are affected by this bug and no apparent troubleshooting with the log reporting function of slimserver itself,verification, not to mention specific problem definition is futile. ok, that said, when 6.5.1 was released I did a clean install (6.5.1) and found that the truncation problem became intermittent for me. Then, 6.5.1 slimserver refused to start so I again went back to 6.3.1 - truncation issue went bye bye. Because of major rework of my storage/array structure on my local machine, I re-installed my os (wxpsp2). Guess what? 6.5.1 is working almost flawlessly. Don't know how to explain that one but I am not inclined to think that the fresh windoze install had anything to do with it. Maybe the camera in the interface ran out of film? -- haunyack haunyack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9721 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32135 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: One album artwork displays too large
morberg;175405 Wrote: Turns out my jpg was only such by extension. The file itself was a bmp which is unsupported. Bug closed. I am thinking this might have been my problem. It wouldn't open in MS Photo Editor, but it would open in Paint. However in Paint I saved it as a .jpg and it still was too large. -- lemmy999 lemmy999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32053 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Server Securitry IP-Range blocking
Yes, you can use both ranges and wildcards: This field accepts a list of specific IP addresses, * style wildcards, and IP address ranges in a comma separated list. For example: 10.1.2.2 will allow only 10.1.2.2 to connect 10.1.2.* will allow anything with an IP address that be the 10.1.2.x addresses. 10.1.2.2-50 will allow IP addresses in the range 10.1.2.2 - 10.1.2.50 to connect. Finally, multiple entries can be combined with commas, like this 10.1.2.2,172.16.1.*,192.168.1-255.* However it might be easier just to get a static IP address at www.dyndns.com. -- Mark Lanctot It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response. - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32210 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can anyone recommend headphones?
quoteWhen I tried them the thicker cord was pretty microphonic. Almost as bad as the cord on my ER-4s./quote Not totally sure what this means, but if it refers to the noise you get when the chord jiggles around I found a relatively easy way to neutralize it I use an aligator clip to attach the cord to my collar to keep the headphones from pulling at my ears and to keep the chord going down my back towards my pocket rather than dangling in front of me (the clip clamps on my clothes not on the chord). The benefits are twofold: 1) while walking the chord doesn't get caught up in subway turnstiles, doorstops and the like. 2) You don't get that weird noise from the headphone swishing around since it's completely controlled for few inches from your ear to your collar. (Of course if microphonic means something else I'm babbling pointlessly here.) PS One hundred dollars a year on headphones wouldn't have worked for me either. As a one time purchase to last a few years a hundred dollars is reasonable for me. Once you start talking annual purchase it's time to start rethinking priorities especially considering how much I've already invested in squeezeboxes, ipods, hard drives, etc. -- mrchrispy mrchrispy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4175 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Random Mix, how to include or exclude genres?
I chose Random Mix in SlimServer, I go to Select genres to include. Lots of genres are listed, and I may remove the X or leave it there. But what does it mean: Are the genres included if I remove the X or if I leave it? Further on: There seems to be no way to confirm the choice I make. Is there a step by step manual somewhere? I've been experimenting with this for a while now, and I don't find it intuitive. Regards Jan -- janti janti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32223 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Album thumbnail problem
so the album tag is the same for all... maybe thats why it works. i assume discnumber is a non-standard tag... what pgm does it and is it automatic or manually set? also, are you positive some of your tags don't have the art embedded? -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.1 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32190 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB3 will not work with Belkin wireless ethernet bridge
Help! Has anyone successfully networked their SB3 with a Belkin F5D7330 wireless ethernet bridge? I bought two wired versions of the SB3, because the house had CAT6 throughout. Now having moved house, one of these SB3 had to be made wireless, hence the bridge. (or, if someone wants to buy the used wired model ...) I cannot get these two boxes to talk to one another, in order to allow the SB3 to connect through the bridge to the network. I read a post on another forum that there was a trick to the Belkin settings, but it did not elaborate and I cannot find that post in order to ask for more detail. I am using a BT Home Hub modem/router updated with firmware 6.2.2.6. The Belkin firmware is also updated to 1.00.09 SB3 is updated to firmware version 72. The SB3 will connect to the router successfully through a direct ethernet connection (either static or DHCP addressing). The bridge connects wirelessly to the router using WPA-PSK security - no problems pinging it and getting the configuration screen. Again, either static or DHCP - no difference. (Curiously, the MAC addresses for both the WLAN and LAN adapter components show up on the router.) I can plug a laptop (with its wireless network card disabled) into the bridge and it connects to the network fine - the bridge no longer shows up independently on the router - the router only sees what is plugged into the bridge. So, the bridge appears to do its job, but ... Now, try plugging the SB3 into the bridge, and -- nothing. SB3 cannot find network for DHCP; try static IP for SB3, cannot ping it, etc. Tried messing around with MAC address of the SB3 but no luck. Could be that the router does nto like this combination of device and bridge - I will try a different brand although I am not hopeful. Any ideas anyone? Would be fantastic if this could work as it seems it should, otherwise left with expensive pieces of kit that are no use to me. Very grateful for any help. Hamish -- mawfin mawfin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2612 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32224 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix, how to include or exclude genres?
You select the genres to include, then click either 'save' at the bottom, which makes it stick after restarts. Or you can click 'play random songs' at the top and it will play only the genres selected, but go back to the last saved config after restart. Hope that Helps. -- Skunk Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32223 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
