[slim] Any way to filter podcasts from artists/albums menus?
Hi - I'm using 6.5.1 on Intel Mac OS X 10.4.9 with iTunes 7.1.1. My problem is that I use iTunes to subscribe to podcasts for listening on my iPod, but I don't want the same podcasts contaminating my Squeezebox under the artists/albums menus. I do, however, want Slimserver to continue to integrate with iTunes. Is there any way to put the podcasts in a different Squeezebox/Slimserver menu? Or even hide them from the Slimserver completely? TIA Chippy -- Chippy Chippy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=247 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33860 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Scanner.exe Crash
Is there a FAQ somewhere showing how to debug and spot the problem file? From what I've seen so far, usually one playlist or audio track/tag is to blame for the crash, I just don't know how to find which one to fix... In the end I hope they fix this, as I never got the crash with earlier versions of Slimserver. -- illusion8055 illusion8055's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2569 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stripping ads from radio shows
I believe the density in the sound during TV ads is higher than in regular TV broadcasts, resulting in a perceived higher volume (in some countries there are regulations on volume of advertisements, set by the broadcaster or the broadcasting authority. Increasing the density, and therefore the perceived volume, has the same attention grabbing effect). This is how your TV/HDrecorder can distinguish between advertisement and general content. If same principle would apply on internet radio, theoretically the same trick could be applied. -- matthijskoopmans matthijskoopmans's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33851 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Firmware 76 - no Wake on LAN
A few people have mentioned in the Beta forum that wake-on-lan doesn't seem to work with Firmware 76. As the current version of Squeezenetwork uses FW76 I guess it can't really be classed as beta. Therefore I'm having a try here as I really miss the function... One person seems to be able to get their PC to wake using FW76 but the others in that thread no longer have that functionality (myself included). I no longer see 'waking slimserver' when pressing (or double pressing) the power button on the SB3 remote. This used to work flawlessly and there have been no BIOS modifications to my PC (not that this would affect the message on my SB3). Am I in the minority? Thanks, Daz -- dazbarber dazbarber's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33867 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Scanner.exe Crash
Ok I had the same problem. Each time I ran the scan it was crashing scanner.exe. I did execute the command in the dos window (my media server is an XP machine) I saw that it was crashing when scanning a cue file. The cue files I had where not used anyway, so I did simply remove them. Since I removed the cue files I have no crash anymore. Hope this helps others. -- FraKtus FraKtus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10840 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Can't Read from NAS drive
I'm using SlimServer 6.5.0 on windows. I have recently set up a NAS drive. I have created an S: mapped network drive. I can see/read/write to this from windows. When I tell SS to scan S:\My Music is says Oops - S:\My Music doesn't seem to be a valid directory. Try again. Any ideas? -- RossGoodman RossGoodman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4233 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33869 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Problem after update to SlimServer 6.5.1
thanks for this - have given it a try and currently working well. Andy -- dr-andy dr-andy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10739 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33698 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Play back Real Audio
Hi, I have noted that it is possible to grab the BBC listen again RA streams with mplayer with a command like this.. mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile jam.ra -bandwidth 1000 rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/fri1830.ra I know I can convert this stream to MP3 and then play it back on my wonderfull SB, but is there any way of tweaking the config to get mplayer to stream the out put to my SB. Thanks Tom -- TurnipMan TurnipMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9739 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33870 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Any way to filter podcasts from artists/albums menus?
have you tried the custom skip plugin? -- matthijskoopmans matthijskoopmans's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33860 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play back Real Audio
Have you tried AlienBBC for Listen Again which transcodes on the fly or is it you want to play back RA files as well on the SB ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33870 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Problem after update to SlimServer 6.5.1
I think you should also identify what process was causing the CPU spike - because it may be the same process hogging the CPU just resulting in different symptoms ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33698 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play back Real Audio
bpa, Yes I use Alien BBC all the time and it's great but when I'm on holiday or whatever I can get someone else to grab the stream for me before the week is up. I would then like to be able to play the .ra file back directly on my SB without converting it to another format. Tom -- TurnipMan TurnipMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9739 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33870 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't Read from NAS drive
try this \\servername\my music -- vain4 vain4's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3502 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33869 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple Iphone= Idiotphone?
I heard in the radio that you can send free SMS messages throw this site: www.freebieSMS.co.uk Have you heard about that? I haven´t tried yet, and I don´t know if it works, do you know? -- Bilar Bilar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10841 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31507 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't Read from NAS drive
Yup tried that. Also tried \\192.168.1.14\My Music and \\192.168.1.12\My Music\ I have also modified the server process to run under my user account. -- RossGoodman RossGoodman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4233 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33869 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play back Real Audio
You have two choices 1. Save the audio stream in MP3 (or another format) using the following commands. If you are using Linux you can pipe output of one into the other. Code: mplayer -af volume=0,resample=44100:0:1,channels=2 -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=jam.wav rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/fri1830.ra lame -r -x jam.wav jam.mp3 2. Set Slimserver up to play RA file - see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33855 I'm a bit suspicious about mplayer dumpstream as it doesn't always write the RealMedia file header properly. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33870 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play back Real Audio
bpa, Thanks I edited both the custom-convert.conf and the custom-types.conf files and it works. But when I look in server/filetypes it does not list ra as a type but there are some blank entries instead. Have I missed something? I copied the rtsp lines and change rtsp to ra and added ra ra ? audio to the custom-types.conf If I want to convert to MP3 currently I use mplayer to dump the ra as a wav file and then edit that to get rid of the continuity announcements and trailers. It is good to know that I can convert directly to mp3 I I want though. Tom -- TurnipMan TurnipMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9739 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33870 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Forum search offline today.
When I attempt a forum search, after I fill in the keywords and click [go], it fails: Under Safari I get the error: Safari cant open the page http://forums.slimdevices.com/search.php. The error was: lost network connection (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message. Under Firefox, the browser downloads a zero length file called search.php which then tickles a NASTY bug in Dreamweaver 7. (Friends, don't ask Dreamweaver 7 to open a zero-length php file. Your only recovery is to power cycle your Mac.) Anyway, I expect y'all will fix search soon, but I wanted to warn people that it seems broken at the moment. -Bill Cattey -- wcattey wcattey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7506 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33871 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
I've been doing client / server computing practically since it was invented. (Anybody remember MIT's Project Athena?) One of the design principles that I keep seeing people failing to learn year after year, generation after generation is this: The end nodes ALWAYS get smarter. Make sure your architecture takes advantage of that! Being a computer geek, I decided that instead of simply buying the gold-plated Sonos system that did exactly what I wanted, I would experiment with the lower cost Slim Devices and Roku solutions to home audio. I've been running the cheapest boxes from Roku (the M500 SoundBridge) and Slim Devices (the SB3) side by side for a while. Both solutions lack a crucial feature: multi-device synchronized playback. I'd hoped to participate in development of this feature, but other obligations have kept me away from contributing. So I've been a plain user for a while -- watching both systems when they work, and when they don't work. When they work, BOTH systems are quite nice. Slim Devices, by putting more reliance on the server, and making that open source makes it easier to get new features going, and perhaps to fix problems. When they don't work, the Roku becomes a brick that you can't debug. The Slim Devices is this thing you can take apart and fiddle with, and maybe get working. But why do I find myself prefering the Roku to the Slim Devices system? Because the Slim Devices system, for all its openness and featurefulness, is FRAGILE! It breaks down MUCH more often than my Roku. What is my experience just as a user? I go downstairs, and exercise to internet radio played directly off my Roku. Then I come upstairs and then begin the process of trying to figure out why my Squeezebox won't play today! By having the ABILITY to put some brains in the device, and some brains in a server, Slim Devices has a more powerful architecture. By opening up the development, it has the ability to leverage much more talent out in the world. But by putting ALL the brains in the server so that even the most basic things like connecting to someone ELSE's stream, require perfect operation of the device, the server, and a lot of additional festoons in the architecture, Slim Devices has a total solution that is screwed by, not enhanced by, the tradeoff it makes. If there is ONE thing I would change about the Squeezebox it would be: Get someone to write some REALLY TIGHT, REALLY ROBUST, stand-alone code for the device firmware that enables it to act on its own without a server. Essentially provide the same stand-alone baseline that Roku does. -William Cattey Senior Analyst Programmer Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- wcattey wcattey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7506 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] one proposal maybe useful for displaying Chinese characters
I am a new user from China Mainland, I bought SqueezeBox V3 last week. All I have to say is : it is a amazing product! The small box is so smart that includes all functions i need:) More and more new functions are interesting me during these days ,for example, weather screen saver and rss news ticker are very useful. Thanks to SqueezeBox, I could touch my music so easier than before. There is one proposal maybe useful for displaying Chinese characters. I think the default chinese font is not good enough in some situations. Especially in large size some strokes of chinese characters are missing. So I tried to substitute STXIHEI.TTF for default CODE2000.TTF, and then the chinese characters displaying were more beautiful and clear. STXIHEI.TTF, which in chinese is #21326;#25991;#32454;#40657; #65292;is an open type ,digitally signed, truetype outlines chinese font file. And it is included in Microsoft Office Chinese Edition. I found it in windows font folder. The following two photos contrast the default chinese font and the STXIHEI.TTF font . it's only my opinion. I wish I could do something for this wonderful player. SqueezeBox is the best player i have ever used. +---+ |Filename: STXIHEI font1.JPG| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2579| +---+ -- hanshanson hanshanson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10811 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33872 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 6.5.1 upgread not working
Try starting it up manually, see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33787 and post any error messages on startup. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33837 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play back Real Audio
I forgot you need a string translation for a new filetype. The easiest way is to edit Alien/Plugin.pm (use Wordpad if you are using windows). Find the lines (around line 1646) Code: RTSP ENRTSP Copy them and change RTSP to RA. Make sure there is only a single TAB character before EN and after EN. If you want on the second line you can say what you want such as RealAudio instead of RA -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33870 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
Both solutions lack a crucial feature: multi-device synchronized playback. You can synchronize Squeezeboxen. I don't know about SB and Roku though. Because the Slim Devices system, for all its openness and featurefulness, is FRAGILE! It breaks down MUCH more often than my Roku. Hmm... mine just keeps running for weeks, most of the time until I update to a newer version. No joke. You would have to describe your problems in more details if you wanted them to be fixed or need help. -- 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] Slimserver Problems running on Windows Vista
Vista Ultimate 32-bit SlimServer 6.5.1 I only get the tray-bar icon. When I select start Slimserver nothing happens. I have no idea what I should do. I have recently gone from wireless to wire. I diden´t use Vista on my other computer, wich was an laptop, thereby the wireless. Can someone help me? This to me is rocketscience. I have read through the other pages, but I don´t understand anything. Thankful for help! -- Poddan Poddan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10843 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32578 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't Read from NAS drive
If you're willing to go to 6.5.1 or higher you can do as suggested here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=178727postcount=7 -- MeSue Sue PS: I once wanted a Squeezebox boombox, but I don't anymore. ;-) MeSue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=985 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33869 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
You're right to point out that Slim Server has a synchronization feature. Search is not working in the forums right now, so I can't point to the thread I participated in where the extreme shortcomings of the feature were reviewed. Summary: Synchronization works by putting every device in Pause before the beginning of each song, and then sending Unpause to every device. At computer speeds, you'd think this would be enough, but it really works very badly in practice. It presumes that all devices are similar enough in response to commands, buffering, and latency, and that turns out to be totally untrue. With a mix of Roku Soundbridge which emulates Squeezebox 1, Softsqueeze and Squeezebox devices, the differences end up being up to FIVE SECONDS between the devices. With internet radio, there is often no detectable song boundary to pause upon, so that implementation simply does not work at all. To do a proper synch, one needs synchronized time between all devices to the milisecond level, the ability to establish, and sometimes correct the latency between when a sound sample is received and when it actually makes it to the ears of the listener, and finally the way to unobtrusively stall a stream, or catch up in silences to bring out of synch streams into synch. This all must be done continuously, is a difficult problem, and is not anywhere near being implemented. With regards to the failures I've been experiencing, I do intend to query the forum and advertise the symptoms as soon as search comes back up. I've looked in a couple likely threads, but it looks like a couple months have gone by without people really understanding the issue. I'll mention in passing another observation relating to the fragileness of Slimserver: Sometimes problems are not accounted for explicitly. They mysteriously come and go after new releases. In a sense it's unreasonable for me to expect every problem can be traced to its root cause. The server has grown to sufficient size and complexity to prevent this. Yet, I hold out hope that the internal structure of the server would evolve so that core functionality was dedicated to small, well understood routines, and well understood interfaces and that basic problem manifestations like: -- wcattey wcattey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7506 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Forum search offline today.
Now Search is working again. -- wcattey wcattey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7506 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33871 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver Problems running on Windows Vista
Did you read my message (#48) in this thread? If you chose the Vista default installation of user with administrative privileges, I suggest you uninstall and reinstall, and then use the workaround I explained. If there is anything you don't understand, please post a more detailed question. -- vdorta vdorta's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32578 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
wcattey;189932 Wrote: basic problem manifestations like: waking up Slimserver... Blank screen would be able to be traced quickly and easily, rather than to live on as Is it your wireless hub? Is it how much memory your Slimserver host has?. How would you get any information beyond that? WOL is I send a packet to the server.. If the server doesn't wake up, there are a ton of things that could be the problem, and testing them in software is nontrivial. Oh, I forgot to enable WOL on the server or The Server is unplugged would test the same. An access point would certainly be awake or the SB would complain about a lack of network. But is it like one of mine that would get stupid sometimes and not feel like passing packets? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe it takes the server 5 seconds to wake up.. maybe it is in ultrasleep mode and had tons of stuff running, loading it all back into RAM can take a while... There really isn't a good way for WOL to know why something isn't waking. The best option would be for the SB to just keep trying... Maybe a UI change to note, Retry #6, something is broken would be useful so people don't keep pressing the Power button, but that's just UI stuff. Tracing why WOL doesnt work or is slow is something that needs to be done on the sleeping device. Synching works great for me on my SB's. I don't know why it doesn't work on Roku's, but, then I won't use one. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
I edited out my description of the problem because I didn't want to clutter up the thread with it. But your info on how the WOL is a really hard thing to debug is helpful. -- wcattey wcattey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7506 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play back Real Audio
Terrific. That worked. I'll just have to remember to do that each time I install Slimserver. Thanks for your help. -- TurnipMan TurnipMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9739 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33870 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeezebox and Slimserver can't find each other.
Lately my Squeezebox and Slimserver have had trouble making contact. I hit the power button on the remote and see the mesage: waking up slimserver... and then the screen goes blank. I start the web interface into Slimserver, and it says that my device is not found. I stopped and re-started Slimserver. No change. I power cycled the Squeezebox. No change. The first time I tried to debug this, I started Softsqueeze 3.3, on the same host as my server, and it COULD reach the server, but no sound came out when I told it to continue the internet radio stream that it said was what I'd left off now playing. I quit Softsqueeze 3.3, and started Softsqueeze 2.8. That one made contact, but had trouble doing anythng. Finally from the web interface, I told it to play random mix onto my Softsqueeze. A little while after that I was able to make contact from the Squeezebox to the server, and play music. A couple days go by, and all seems well. But today, again Squeezebox and the Slim Server can't find each other. This time Softsqueeze 3.3 works fine, but no difference with Squeezebox. Seeing in other threads, that sometimes there's a wi-fi issue, I've plugged my Squeezebox into one of the hard wired ports of my Wi-Fi router and power cycled the Squeezebox. Now the Squeezebox seems to be able to reach the server. But I don't know if that's because I've gone hard-wired, or if I managed to do the same shaking loose of the problem that I did last time. Additional information: My players are generally configured to be synchronized, and I wonder if this is creating additional complexity, even though the Softsqueeze is generally not running. I listen to internet radio via Radio paradise, which sometimes has problems with streams hanging up. My Squeezebox is literally five feet away from my wireless router, whereas my server is in the next room. I expect nobody is going to be able to help on this one. I'll run for a while hard wired to the Squeezebox and reply to the thread if the hardwared connection manifests the problem same as the wi-fi. -- wcattey wcattey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7506 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33878 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Spring white sale...
Apparently they just had new boxes printed with both the all-black and the white SB3 on them, so it doesn't seem like they're trying to clear out all the remaining white SB3s. Of course, there should be a new batch of boxes with the Logitech logo on them any time now... -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33794 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land
bobschneider;189842 Wrote: It just so happened that evening was the first bad thunderstorm we've had since I got the SB3. Just as Raid kills bugs dead, thunderstorms kills wireless networks dead. At least for me. My wireless network is extremely unstable and more or less unusable if there's a thunderstorm in the area. Thankfully that won't happen here for another 3 months yet. But when it does, it can sometimes be every night for weeks on end. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33630 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Problem switching from Squeezenetwork to Slimserver
In a different thread someone suggested squeezenetwork is running firmware 76, while slimserver 6.5.1 is probably using formware 72. if the above is true, you might be experiencing an upgrade and downgrade of firmware problem. In particular, downgrading the firmware is always a little testy.. Upgrading to slimserver 6.5.2 (firmware 76) should level things out. Richard -- RichardG RichardG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=801 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33859 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Problem switching from Squeezenetwork to Slimserver
Well, I just went back and tried to recreate the problem in order to try the left button on the remote. For some reason I cannot recreate the problem, so I suspect it is a little more complicated than I thought it was. If, when, it returns I will do some more investigation. Thanks for the suggestions. -- Mike White Mike White's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=630 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33859 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] display inbound calls on asterisk on squeezebox
Doh! Thank you. Gramels also pointed this silly error out. I have now got it working for internal calls, however, I'm grappling with the asterisk backend, which I'm not used to, to get it working on external calls. -- Jono Jono's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10803 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33525 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Can't Connect SlimRemote (Dell Axim)
I tried to go all technical and use my PDA for more than reminding me what meetings I'm late for! In IE I can log onto SlimServer, but when I run SlimRemote, with the same server details it just come up with Can't Connect. Any clues? Any magic I need to know, not much info on the website where I d/l the program. CHeers BT -- BigTony BigTony's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10638 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33880 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
Nice to see you on the forum, William. Hopefully you do have some time for developing patches/troubleshooting/new features - I'm sure everyone would appreciate the contributions of someone from MIT with the sort of experience you have! :-) wcattey;189906 Wrote: The end nodes ALWAYS get smarter. Make sure your architecture takes advantage of that! They currently are taking full advantage of the processor, even pushing it beyond its abilities: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=188851postcount=28 Also I hear the firmware is nearly full. To accommodate extra features, including a barebones server, would either require: - a lot more firmware space. It's a hardware change so a new device would have to be introduced. Existing owners wouldn't be able to have this. - removing lots of features in the current firmware. Now there are a lot of features and a few codecs I could do without, so that would be fine with me, however this would cause howls of protest from others. The server in a Squeezebox idea keeps coming up but it's currently opposed to the Squeezebox paradigm - the emphasis is on new features and new codecs, which were made easier to implement since the codecs are all in firmware since the SB2. Putting an elementary server in would require substantial firmware rework as well as removal of a lot of these codecs, plus other features. However things are still being pulled the other way - there are people that would like to see RealAudio, AAC, AAC+, Apple Lossless and Windows Media Lossless added to the firmware. Clearly Slim/Logitech is going to have to start saying no and not bending over backwards to support every codec ever developed natively. In regards to synchronization, there were plans to introduce a fine-grained network clock in 7.0, but I see that's no longer in the software roadmap. Still, as the developers are fond of saying, patches are welcome...if you were to submit code I'm sure it would be well-received given your credentials. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] display inbound calls on asterisk on squeezebox
Not the most elegant of solutions, however, with grateful thanks to
gramels, I have now got this working.
As I'm using [EMAIL PROTECTED], I had some fiddling to do:
in extensions_custom.conf, somewhere near the top, I created a dummy
extension number 1660 with the following:
exten = 1660,1,ringing(1)
exten = 1660,2,system(/usr/local/slimserver/slimdisplay.pl
--name=lounge --line1=${CALLERIDNAME} --Line2=${CALLERIDNUM})
exten = 1660,3,wait(10)
I found that dialling 1660 produced the desired effect on internal
calls, however, if I included extension 1660 in the ring group (which
falls over to an IVR after 15 seconds usually) the IVR would kick in
immediately for the caller, the house phones would ring and when
answered, no-one was thereand the script failed to run.
So..., I created another dummy extension, however, this time,
through AMP/FreePBX - ext 211.
I dialled into the call forwarding system (*72) and diverted all calls
for 211 to 1660. Then I included extension 211 in my ring group.
Now I have caller display on my slimp3.
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Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
On the subject of syncronisation. Surely to achieve this would require a multicast network than relying on pausing and unpausing at the same time? -- Paul_B Paul ~ Slimserver 6.5.1 on EPIA VIA EN15000 Mini-ITX running Windows 2003 R2. Remote storage QNAP(2.0.0)~(300GB WD) SB3 (x1) RIP - dBpowerAMP R12 to FLAC ID3 Tags - MP3Tag v2.37h ~ Paul_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
Paul_B;189969 Wrote: On the subject of syncronisation. Surely to achieve this would require a multicast network than relying on pausing and unpausing at the same time? For the time syncs? Probably, though I could envision other problems with it (latency with wireless, for example: since 802.11 is a half-duplex medium, with its own layers of correction, it would be impossible to ensure a packet was delivered to both wired and wireless devices at the same time). That is probably why Sonos doesn't use 802.11 networking, instead using their own protocol. Reliability or Realtime... can't have both. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
I think Wcattey is correct in pointing out that increasing the intelligence in SB is a desirable path forward. That is not to say it should abandon it's roots but technology and competition march on. At the end it is as much of a cost decision as a design philosophy. The current SS capability is partially based on the cost of processing power when designed. Looking at the give and take between distributed computing with PC and centralized computing this can be seen. When the computing power to do a particular application well comes down to levels allowing it to be cost effectively implemented at the point of use it is. IN cell phones you can see applications many said wold never be deployed on a phone platform but today a smart phone is a computer capable of handling database, graphics processing, AV processing etc. The cost to deploy greater intelligence in the SB has decreased significantly since the original design. Memory price has tumbled even more and given the very aggressive memory roadmap will continue to do so for some time. An Ipod nano has up to 8gb of flash today. In another year it will be 16gb. Competition will inevitably push the model of independent device capability. I don't think this precludes the use of SS, syncing or the WEB interface. It merely means the device at a minimum may be able to do more independently or even implement some of the synchronization capability on the devices with one acting as a server. Some MPC players have much of the capability of the SS embedded including sorting and graphics display. This underscores the hardware capability at this price point being available. I think the challenge will be to move forward with more device level capability while not alienating the current base by obsoleting legacy devices. -- Pellicle Pellicle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9789 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox and Slimserver can't find each other.
If there is doubt about whether the packets from the Squeezebox reach and are processed by Slimserver - then you can do 1. run Ethereal all the time logging to a ring of files so that you will always have a log of what's has been happening on the network on the previous hours. When the problem shows - stop ethereal and see if Squeezebox packets are being logged and received by server. 2. Enable d_proto on slimserver - this will indicate if packets (including the very first discovery packets) are being received and processed by Slimserver. If packets are not being logged by Ethereal - check wifi and network hardware (NICs, Routers and cables). If packets are logged by Ethereal and not being processed by Slimserver then I'd investigate security s/w - firewall, anti spyware, IM protection etc. If Packets are being processed by Slimservers but replies not seen by Squeezebox - check security s/w. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33878 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
Pellicle wrote: I think Wcattey is correct in pointing out that increasing the intelligence in SB is a desirable path forward. For you, you may say that. For me, no way. I want a slim device. I want one smart server and bunches of cheap devices. I'd be happier if they were cheaper still. Given a choice between smarter and more expensive and dumb and cheap, I want cheap. When you have one SqueezeBox, the incremental cost of making it smarter and better is modest. I've got four. Adding $20 to each is starting to get to be real money. If I wanted a home entertainment PC, I would have made one. Instead, I have bought SqueezeBoxen. YMMV -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't Connect SlimRemote (Dell Axim)
Have you got the Command Line Interface (CLI) plugin enabled? Check Server settings Plugins CLI ticked. Also check further down the page that the CLI port number is set to 9090. This is the most obvious cause of failure to connect. The other may be security - turn off your firewall and try the SlimRemote. Might be useful if you posted details of your OS, Slimserver version etc. -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux ClarkConnect 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.2 - 11354, Alien 1.06, perl 5.8.8 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, SlimServer Version: 6.5.2 - 11304 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252, Alien 1.06 NSLU2 Unslung 6.8b SlimServer Version: 6.3.1 - 8476 - Linux, No Alien Ramage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5343 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33880 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver Problems running on Windows Vista
I have done what you explained in message (#48) and still nothing works. Any more propositions? -- Poddan Poddan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10843 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32578 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
Going down Multicast route I believe meane ditching wireless as inadequate. To achieve quality streaming means, in my eyes, hard-wiring ethernet or ethernet over power cables. -- Paul_B Paul ~ Slimserver 6.5.1 on EPIA VIA EN15000 Mini-ITX running Windows 2003 R2. Remote storage QNAP(2.0.0)~(300GB WD) SB3 (x1) RIP - dBpowerAMP R12 to FLAC ID3 Tags - MP3Tag v2.37h ~ Paul_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Integrating cover art from Amarok
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:59:38AM -0700, bklaas wrote: hi Bill- I ran your SQL query without the 'where tags.album = albumid' clause and all records return the same md5sum. Any ideas there? Same md5 hash? With Postgresql? Shouldn't be the case. I have a script that I used to use for a very, very similar task that could be reworked for this purpose. If you want to pool resources, I'm game. Ya, just have to get it back into my schedule. ;) I have not decided what I want the script to do. Since Amarok uses the id3 tags to generate artist and album (and thus the md5 has) I suppose it makes sense to scan all directories and generate sums for all audio files (ignoring duplicates) then look for the cover art in the amarok directory. Copy the image to the directory and also create a thumbmail at the same time. What I'm not clear about is what to do if a given directory has more than one music file that don't agree on Artist/Title tags. IIRC, Slimserver expects to only fine one art file per directory. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Failed to find Softsqueeze libraries error
Well, I finally found a way to fix this SoftSqueeze problem in 6.3.1 under WinXP in a way that doesn't require the workaround hack I mentioned in a post above. Here's what I did. 1) Download http://slimdevices.com/downloads/SlimServer_v6.3.1/SlimServer_v6.3.1.perlscripts.ZIP Note: This assumes you're running 6.3.1!!! If running a different SlimServer version, find the corresponding zip file (not the exe installer, but the zip) from the downloads section. 2) Unzip it to a temporary folder 3) Navigate to the C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\HTML\EN\html folder where SlimServer is installed. Use your SlimServer install path if different from above. 4) Delete the entire softsqueeze folder underneath the path in step 3 (and all its subfolders) 5) In the unzipped file from part 2 above, locate the softsqueeze subfolder in the path analogous to that of step 3 above. 6) Copy and paste this folder to your SlimServer installation so it's underneath the path in step 3 above (same path as where the original softsqueeze folder was before, but now the contents are coming from the downloaded zip file). Now the SoftSqueeze subfolder of your SlimServer has been replaced with the one from the downloaded zip file. 7) Stop and restart SlimServer 8) Run the normal SoftSqueeze install procedure from the help page. This made the SoftSqueeze error go away for me. Hope it works for you. -- andy_c andy_c's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3128 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27470 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Integrating cover art from Amarok
Hi Bill, maybe this doesn't catch the point for you, but just as an alternative train of thought: You don't necessarily have to use artwork by putting an album.jpg or whatever into each album's folder. You can also use one common folder where all the artwork files are stored together using a naming scheme that identifies them uniquely. With this you don't get into any hassle when concurrent Album/Artist information is stored in the same album folder. The necessary information for this is anyway already there as you read the Album/Artist tags. Of course, I admit there might be other drawbacks with this method, at least for me (as I wrote: ~1000 albums and very few various artists ones) this works pretty well... Cheers, Sebastian -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33697 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver Problems running on Windows Vista
Poddan;189984 Wrote: I have done what you explained in message (#48) and still nothing works. Any more propositions? Poddan, are you using the latest nightly download of Slimserver 6.5.2? Mine was dated March 20th, 2007 Get it here: http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.5/ Choose the Windows Executable. Install it as Administrator and follow the instructions below. Enjoy your music:-) kesey kesey;189140 Wrote: Vdorta, thank you for your directions quoted here. I had Slimserver working fine on my XP desktop and laptop, but have been unable to get it working on my new computer which is running under Vista Ultime 32 bit. I downloaded Slimserver 6.5.2 dated 20th Marchj 2007, followed the instructions above and I'm busily enjoying lots of music I have not listened to in years. Right clicking the Slimtray icon and selecting Open Slimserver now works thank you, kesey. -- kesey kesey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32578 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Robocopy help, please
I experienced a similar thing after Sydney daylight saving ie: tried to do a backup the older (source) was overwriting newer (destination) files. To overcome this I set my switches to the following: robocopy M:\my music J:\my music /E /MAXAGE:1 seems to be working so far -- ipy ipy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3367 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29417 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Robocopy help, please
I think the Daylight Savings Time change was the cause of my problem. What does the MAXAGE command mean? -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29417 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Robocopy help, please
Kyle;190022 Wrote: I think the Daylight Savings Time change was the cause of my problem. What does the MAXAGE command mean? /MAXAGE:n : MAXimum file AGE - exclude files older than n days/date.## Just means I 'm restricting any updates from my source to the backup drive to files newer than a day or not older than a day. Files will be be ignored if it does not meet this criteria. -- ipy ipy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3367 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29417 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Album Art Aggregator - gone bye bye?
has anyone else noticed this? Their website: http://team.thenexusnet.com/nexus/AAA/ gives back the dreaded Server Application Unavailable. What other progarms are people using? reading through these posts I have read about Media Monkey...what else? A quick search of download.com points to iAlbumArt, but i'm not running iTunes. suggestions? -- jsunandmax jsunandmax's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10411 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33888 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Art Aggregator - gone bye bye?
jsunandmax wrote: What other progarms are people using? I use mine ;-) Actually, I abandoned it for a long time, 18 months or so because Amazon changed their API and my day job got in the way of keeping my code current. I'm working on it as I type, it seems to work for about 75% of my library of 750 or so CDs. I've got a bug or two to chase down, and then I'll be looking for alpha testers. The commands and philosophy are as described in my .sig -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Art Aggregator - gone bye bye?
Album Art Aggregator also seems to be incompatible with .NET 3.0, so if you update, it won't run anymore. See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=190019postcount=8 for an alternate program suggestion. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33888 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stripping ads from radio shows
More likely find something that will just do track splits at gaps greater than a certain length. Then manually remove the offensive material and re-encode. Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net) won't do it automatically but at least you can see a timeline on the audio and cut what you want out. It can import most audio formats and output depends upon encoders available. -- notanatheist notanatheist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33851 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
