Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
Hi, looks good. Now, a suggestion for a few luxury items. Lots of people use Lazy Search plug-in. Looks like that one would require similar change. Then, make this configurable among other server settings and you are rocking big time. Cheers -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Artist Weirdness
When i browse by artist on my squeeze box, i get the composer of the track rather than the band who made the album. i am sure that this is some tag somewhere, but how do i get it to display the band instead of the composer (or better yet,a choice of which to search by)? T. -- tday01 tday01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34947 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Internet Radio over PPP
Now that I can stream AACplus via a PPP connection to my SB3, I think next I am going to attempt to get this all to work with SlimCD currently running on my Nano-ITX board - sorry Michael:) Why would you be sorry? -- 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] Any New Squeezebox coming soon?
A couple of possibilities exist here: 1. A cheaper squeezebox, probably with some compromise on sound quality, and maybe the display. 2. An upgraded squeezebox, at a similar price, maybe with 24/96k support, and an improved DAC. The squeezebox is already nice enough though that I just ordered my 2nd for the kitchen. -- bludragon bludragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1530 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34868 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB3 failing to connect to Slim
Hi all, I've been running SlimServer 6.5.2 from a while ago - think it had firmware 72 with it. I've had some problems with stuttering on my sb3 recently - the display stutters, as does the audio. My SB3 is connected wireless by the way. Before you say to check my wireless connectivity, I have, there are no problems there... Anyway, I decided to upgrade to the latest nightly three days ago, that came with a firmware upgrade - 81 I think. Since then, my SB3 won't connect to SLimserver anymore. Tries to , but then fails, and switches itself off. I've tried this wirelessly, and wired, no joy. I've also tried a completely vanilla 6.5.2 install with no plugins, no joy. I've tried going back to my last working installation - doesn't work. I've tried a fresh 6.5.1 installation, that doesn't work either. I can only guess that the latest firmware has screwed up something in my SB3. Does anyone know how to down-rev the firmware? I've switched on auto-update on the SB3, but it makes no difference. I've also tried various resets - press 1 while powering up, press Add while powering up. I'm open to any suggestionsI need my Squeezebox!! Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34949 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?
I had an interesting experience with pcutmp3 earlier this week. I used it to cut up a mix album into separate mp3 files, and then added the files to my SlimServer music directory, and rescanned. When I tried to play back the new files, my Squeezebox seemed to work ok, but there was no audio, and the playback froze, in that the progress bar wouldn't move forward. And once that had happened, the Squeezebox wouldn't play back any other music, even though I could still use all the menus etc. The only way to correct the problem was to reboot the Squeezebox. If I then tried to play back different music (to the newly-split mp3 files) then everything worked ok. But as soon as I tried to play the new files, it would freeze again. It was definitely caused by the newly-split mp3 files, because when I removed them - or just didn't use them - it all started working ok again! So, to get to my point, I came to the conclusion that pcutmp3 was doing something to the mp3 files that somehow made them incompatible with my Squeezebox/SlimServer. -- Hercules Hercules's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?
Could you please file a bug and attach one of the killer mp3 files to it? -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?
You may also want to try some alternate mp3 splitters: 'mp3splt' (http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/) (Linux/Mac/Win, also splits Ogg) 'mp3DirectCut' (http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html) (Win) -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!
Michael Herger;198953 Wrote: I used your plugin to find all of the strings, but editing them didn't work for either the main set of strings or for plugins Something must be terribly wrong with it. You're not the first to report this, but I wasn't able to reproduce so far :-(. This makes the whole plugin rather useless Well I managed to get it to spit this out: Could not open /etc/slimserver-strings.txt for writing: Permission denied I'm running slimserver on Gentoo linux, using the official gentoo package. Slim::Utils::Prefs::preferencesPath() returns /etc slimserver does not have permission to create a file in /etc This behaviour is correct. The problem is that your plugin is wrongly assuming it can create and modify a file in preferencesPath(), which in my setup (and probably other linux setups) it can't. When I manually created /etc/slimserver-strings.txt and gave slimserver permission to alter it, the plugin started working as expected for built-in strings (the server's still ignoring the custom strings for plugins, but at least /etc/slimserver-strings.txt contains the requested modifications). I'd suggest adding an error message in the web interface that explains the problem and suggests manually creating the file. Or at least modify the installation instructions to mention this problem. Cheers -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeFox - Slimserver extension for Firefox
http://graphicmedicine.com/squeezefox/SqueezeFox-0.6.xpi i've cleaned up a lot of the javascript, and fixed the issue where it would cause firefox to 'crap out', and (hopefully) fixed the volume slider bug Added a statusbar to display the current track title Currently only supports 1 player, but i'm planning on resolving this next, for you lucky, lucky people with more than 1 squeezebox (or transporter) please let me know what you think of this new version -- greebowarrior greebowarrior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11299 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34769 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?
Sure, will do so later tonight. For info, I did raise a support call (070430-002964) for my original problem about the Squeezebox not playing back music, but closed it after working out what the problem was. The person working on the call was very helpful! Thanks for the recommendations for other splitters - I'll check them out. Funnily enough, I chose the pcutmp3 splitter deliberately! I did so because I had read glowing reports on hydrogenaudio about its ability to split single mp3 files in a way that would guarantee gapless playback. -- Hercules Hercules's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeezebox won't go on
Help! We have had no problems with our Slim device until this week. The Squeezebox won't power on. It was fine last week. I tried unplugging it for a while and plugged it back in and it is still dark. -- illis102 illis102's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DSL vs Cable
I've also had both. In addition to depending on the ISP, much can depend on your individual situation. Our home is more than 80 years old, and the phone lines coming into the house, and through the basement, is quite old. During bad storms, the connection is *sometimes* sporadic. Also, the actual thoroughput of DSL can vary greatly, depending on your distance from the switching station (CO). We're actually more than 1000ft out of SBC's range, and although Earthlink is simply a resellar of SBC services, they somehow can break the 14k ft SBC rule. Our speed isn't the best, but it's more than good enough, given the low cost. Streaming radio has not been an issue. Comcast broadband was great, though expensive, and offered far more bandwidth than we needed. Plus, I wanted to get Dish Network for some channels I had been yearning for. At any rate, the ONLY problem I ever had with Comcast was with the splitter outdoors. To get the best possible signal to the modem and keep amps out of the path, a 2 way splitter is often installed at the head end; often outdoors, as in my case. If you get the optimal 15db (IIRC), 7.5db goes to the modem, and 7.5db goes to your TVs. Ours would fail about once a year, due to exposure to the elements. I never had the time or energy to move it indoors, or install a weather proof box. Both provide solid service, with faults that are specific to our situation. -- GlennT GlennT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10243 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34900 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
slimkid;199023 Wrote: looks good. Now, a suggestion for a few luxury items. Lots of people use Lazy Search plug-in. Looks like that one would require similar change. Then, make this configurable among other server settings and you are rocking big time. Cheers Thanks for the feedback! 1) I just spent a bit of time hacking the Lazy Search plugin. After a while I tried the original plugin - it already works fine for me, with no modifications at all to the plugin! This is with LazySearch2 v2.3 for slimserver 6.5.x, and the second version of my modified modules. What behaviour are you seeing? 2) Yes, a server-wide option would be good. I don't have time to do this now, but I'll definitely want to add it in. The problem is that I'd probably want to submit it as a patch to the official tree in order to avoid needing to re-write it for different versions. This would therefore require a lot more testing. Cheers -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Internet Radio over PPP
Michael, due to my lingering lack of knowledge of Linux (slowly getting better with reading,) I will probably get stuck and wind up bothering you with more questions:) -- Ron F. Ron F.'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5616 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34840 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Recommendations for in-ceiling speakers?
I have a pair of Polk RC60i speakers in my kitchen now. Love them. Moving very soon to a new house and put in Proficient Audio (http://proficientaudio.com/) PFC640s (~$150/pair). The change was based purely on cost and an advertised freq response of (32-22kHz). I hope to put together a review soon. Yes the Proficient website is cheesy. The must of hired the same guy who does all the movie voice trailers. -- bobharp Bob Harper bobharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=600 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34944 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Transcoding Support
Where can I find a definitive document that says what formats are supported natively and through transcoding on SlimServer and the Slim clients? Are the implementations of SlimServer (same release level) different? Are the current firmwares for SB3 and Transporter different? This should be an easily accessed piece of information, but I cannot find it anywhere. The reviewer PDF says WMA is supported natively, but that does not seem to include WMA Lossless - yes/no? -- PNCD PNCD's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10778 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34954 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Recommendations for in-ceiling speakers?
Which is going to produce better sound in-ceiling or in-wall. BTW like the look of the Tannoy stuff and have bought from them before. -- Paul_B Paul ~ Slimserver 6.5.2 on EPIA VIA EN15000 Mini-ITX running Windows 2003 R2. Remote storage QNAP(2.0.1T)~(300GB WD) SB3 (x1) RIP - dBpowerAMP R12 to FLAC ID3 Tags - MP3Tag v2.37i ~ Paul_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34944 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hamachi user: No connectivity today?
I set up openvpn to do mine. My slimserver is linux but its also supposed to work on windows. My client is windows. I configured openvpn to use port 443 and opened the port on my router to direct it to the slimserver. I can now tunnel quite happily thru my works proxy server. It did look a bit daunting at first to set up but proved to be easier than I thought. The best bit is you dont rely on someone else's VPN service as your running your own. -- bert1e bert1e's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1419 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34932 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox won't go on
I had 2 squeezeboxes do this, both around 4 months old. Replaced under warranty. Touching wood the 3rd is OK. D. -- deksawyer deksawyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1131 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] RadioTime: security/privacy suggestions
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34909 Question: My opinion of this is... - I don't use RadioTime, and I think this is OK - I don't use RadioTime, but that sounds like a problem - I use RadioTime, and I don't care about these flaws - I use RadioTime, and this bothers me at least a bit Hi, radiobill. Quick question: do you work for RadioTime, or have you? radiobill;199017 Wrote: The risk is much lower -- another user might guess a RadioTime account name to listen to favorite stations. But the user would not be able to identify your email That's not true. When you submit a valid RadioTime username in the forgot password page (http://radiotime.com/SendPassword.aspx), the web site will display a message like Your password has been sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], revealing the user's email address. or your identity, nor would they be able to make any changes to your RadioTime account. Since you don't enter a password for the SlimServer or the SqueezeNetwork the password is never at risk See below for more discussion of the password risk. My concern is how the passwords are stored and processed in the RadioTime system, including those of RadioTime users who never use the SlimServer or SqueezeNetwork integration. , much less the email used to register. Registration with RadioTime.com is secure and passwords entered into radiotime.com and the RedButton TiVo-style Windows software are protected. That's also not true. I don't know about the RedButton software, but the login process on the web site is not secure. The page that displays the login form and processes login attempts (http://radiotime.com/Login.aspx) is not secure. Nor is the page that's used to set up an account (http://radiotime.com/Enroll/QuickEnroll.aspx). RadioTime does appear to use secure web pages (https) when soliciting credit card information, as it is almost certainly required to do by its credit card processing contracts. Obviously you'll want to use a lower risk password for casual sites like RadioTime, as compared to a bank account or accounts with sensitive information. Certainly it's a best practice for users to use better passwords for less casual sites like online banking. And if SqueezeNetwork required a user's RadioTime password to work (as it requires Live365 passwords), that should clearly suggest to the user that a lower risk password would be appropriate. But not all RadioTime users use the SN integration and, more importantly, it's also a best practice for site designers not to store passwords in cleartext or in an easily recoverable format, and not to send cleartext passwords via unencrypted channels like email -- but that's what RadioTime has done. Below is more detail on my findings, since you seem intent on questioning not only the importance of RadioTime's flaws, but the existence of the flaws. There might be some even more interesting (frightening!) combination attack possibilities. For instance, if RadioTime has not built good anti-CSRF measures into the portion of the web site that updates a user's profile, an attacker who knew a victim's email address might be able to write a simple attack that would send a RadioTime user's username and password to the attacker without the victim's knowledge. -Peter Suggestions for RadioTime: RadioTime: * Devise a new forgot password system that does not depend on recovering the cleartext password and convert every single stored user password to a strongly salted hash. * Modify your forgot password web interface so that it does not display Your password has been sent to + the user's email address * Modify your web applications so that https is used at least for displaying login forms and password maintenance forms and for processing logins, password changes, and any other user requests that include users' passwords. * Modify your APIs so that passwords are required and drop the old APIs. * Make sure your non-web login API uses https/SSL/TLS. * Reassess your system design in light of industry best practice and documents such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) guidelines, etc. Privacy Issues RadioTime will provide account information without a password. Passwords are not required for obtaining information about a RadioTime user. RadioTime has an application programming interface (API) for accessing a user's favorites and local radio programming. This API does not require the user's password. By submitting a username to this API, an attacker could learn roughly where a RadioTime user lives, and what programming interests that user. RadioTime asserts that it
Re: [slim] Capacitance
tyler_durden;199020 Wrote: You need to use the black duct tape, and coat it with violin lacquer. Seriously, what caps are you talking about? The power supply caps? Is the power supply inside the amp box or external? Are the binding posts you are talking about speaker terminals or are they used to connect an external supply to the amp? TD Thanks TD, Talking about residual charge waiting at the amp's speaker binding posts. No worries as Skunk simply suggested the obvious (tape off the spades whilst I muck about with the cables) Now ... I'm off to mortgage the house in order to raise cash for the C37 lacquer. . -- haunyack Transporter - BK Reference 200.2 - Vandersteen 3A Signature. Fridgidare - Mirror Pond pale ale - easy chair w/remote - irritated neighbors. haunyack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9721 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transcoding Support
No WMA lossless .. I recoded my library to FLAC with dBpoweramp converter. . -- haunyack Transporter - BK Reference 200.2 - Vandersteen 3A Signature. Fridgidare - Mirror Pond pale ale - easy chair w/remote - irritated neighbors. haunyack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9721 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34954 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hamachi user: No connectivity today?
Yes, that is indeed why I went with Hamachi, because both the vpn and ssh methods looks overwhelming to the uninitiated. Guess I just gotta jump and and give it a try! thanks for your input. -dale -- shadowboxer shadowboxer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8302 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34932 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transcoding Support
Did you look at the wiki ? See the Decoder line of the Hardware Comparison for SB2 and above. I've included the section on Transcoding as well (although admittedly it's a bit light on details). http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?HardwareComparison http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?Transcoding A summary of the position can also be found in the Beginners' Guide to File Formats: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToFileFormats -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34954 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 failing to connect to Slim
Anybody got any ideas? Am I the only one with this issue? If someone could tell me how to revert firmware, that would be a good start! Thanks, Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34949 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 failing to connect to Slim
Quoting chris.mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If someone could tell me how to revert firmware, that would be a good start! older server version will take care of it automatically, and then if you need the more recent server you can modify the Firmware/*.version files to block the firmware update. They are text files and you simply need to change the numbers to match the firmware you have, instead of the number matching the firmware included with the newer server version. This is an unsupported configuration, however. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 failing to connect to Slim
chris.mason;199046 Wrote: I've tried going back to my last working installation - doesn't work. I've tried a fresh 6.5.1 installation, that doesn't work either. Does that mean you didn't uninstall the previous version and delete the slimserver folder before upgrading? Not sure if it's necessary anymore, but at one time seemed to be a problem for people. Is it possible one of the processes was still running while you were installing over, even after 'stopping slimserver' or 'exiting' using the tray icon? Can you connect to squeezenetwork? Maybe try disabling firewalls and anti-virus(?). These are random guesses, if you didn't notice :-) If a problem w/ SB was impeding my music fix, I'd probably contact support directly. -- Skunk Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34949 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 failing to connect to Slim
I just realised the firmware reversion is moot point right now, while my SB3 refuses to connect to SlimServer. Do the debug messages I listed give any indication to the issue? -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34949 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver hangs after remote streaming?
I'm just home. The server is hung again (I was streaming earlier). WMP is v10. Does that do anything to the 9000 port ? I'd like to solve this without having to explain to the wife how to reboot the service. Is there anything else I should be investigating ? TIA -- ncpl ncpl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6305 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34921 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 failing to connect to Slim
Ok, how about a factory reset? Press and hold ADD while powering on. You might also try going through the setup again and setting teh slimserver IP manually. -kdf -- kdf kdf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34949 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?
I have just submitted the details of my problem as bug 4959. -- Hercules Hercules's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver will not start - player dark
All I know so far is I can get it started by refreshing the page that says Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage. I still don't know what causes it. -- gjrhine Gary For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. gjrhine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2481 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34511 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver hangs after remote streaming?
Are you sure the server has hung ? Is it possible it has crashed ? If you are unsure - use Task manager and look for the process slim.exe (I think) -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34921 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] NAS vs. external USB
y360;198799 Wrote: If I had to buy a new external hard drive, I'd consider the faster eSATA interface rather than USB/FW, e.g. Western Digital WDG1SU5000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esata#eSATA_compared_to_other_buses I have been looking at Western products and feedback, was concerned when I read that something seems to happen to them after 3 weeks, either they fail or you must purchase extra software to make it work again ? Please tell what the eSATA-300 is again ? A 7 pin plug I read, but does that just go in the USB connection on my computer ? I have a firewire (400 I think), its connected to the router that streams music to the SB3. I was also considering one of these : http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS106serise/index.php , have to admit, I like the design also..., any comments ? -- Anne Bryston B-100 SST, Squeezebox 3, Martin Logan Aeon I. Anne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transcoding Support
No, I had not looked on the Wiki, just documentation and Forum. Thanks for the pointer. -- PNCD PNCD's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10778 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34954 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DSL vs Cable
nicketynick;198944 Wrote: I understand that in some areas, Verizon is rolling out FTTH (fibre to the home). If you're lucky enough to be in one of those areas, I would think cable would be hard-pressed to outperform fibre, wouldn't it? I happen to be from Keller, TX, where Verizon did trials on the 'FiOS' (http://www22.verizon.com/Content/ConsumerFiOS/) service (that's their name for FTTH). As soon as I was hooked up I dropped the cable modem service from Charter, as it couldn't compete in terms of the bandwidth I get for the price. I'm on the 15/2 plan (15Mb down, 2Mb up) and have been happy with it. Since I also have phone service I get a small discount, so they're charging me $44.95/month. Charter was charging me $39.99/month for 3Mb/256Kb. The upstream difference has been the most useful to me, as I have to upload documents for my job. It also doesn't hurt when I want to stream full-quality music while I'm away from home, either. With cable I had to reboot the cable modem every couple of weeks for some reason, and had regular outages (seemed like about once a month). With FiOS I've had only two or three outages in the past 2 and 1/2 years (none of which laster longer than an hour). Anyhow, aside from your provider's reliability, the main issues are likely to be latency between your provider and the source server and the server being overloaded. Even though I have 15M/2M service, the network between me and the target really makes a difference (see attached images; Fort Worth is a short hop with low latency, while Miami had about 120ms latency). I stream net radio to my SB1 almost continuously during the day (it keeps me company while I work) and have done so for many hours at a time on my SB2 and SB3, depending on where I am in the house. In all that usage, I've found that most problems are either the server being overloaded, or my neighbor's 2.4GHz phone (my SB2 is in a corner of my house and if my neighbor sits outside talking on the phone it sometimes interrupts the connection). In fairness, though, when Charter's internet was working it was more than sufficient to stream net radio to my Squeezeboxes. But it wasn't capable of maintaining sufficient upstream bandwidth for even a 128Kbps stream (despite supposedly being 256) if I wanted to access Slimserver remotely. +---+ |Filename: 2467-1a.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2755| +---+ -- AubreyCTurnerJr AubreyCTurnerJr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9795 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34900 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Capacitance
The amps circuits will drain the charge off the power supply caps in a matter of seconds. I wouldn't worry about it. TD -- tyler_durden tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Capacitance
tyler_durden;199185 Wrote: The amps circuits will drain the charge off the power supply caps in a matter of seconds. I wouldn't worry about it. TD TD, I've had to replace fuses in my Rotel RB 1070 on a few occasions from being careless with the speaker side spades while still connected to the amp. Power off 24 hrs. The BK is not as accessible and therefore would not want to be forced to dissect the boards etc to access the fuses. Aside from that...problem solved. Cheers! . -- haunyack Transporter - BK Reference 200.2 - Vandersteen 3A Signature. Fridgidare - Mirror Pond pale ale - easy chair w/remote - irritated neighbors. haunyack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9721 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeFox - Slimserver extension for Firefox
Yes, that's it! Now, supporting multiple players and a (loading and) showing album cover on mouse-over would make it totally perfect... for me! -- can't post can't post's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3552 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34769 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] NAS vs. external USB
davep;198736 Wrote: Just my opinion of course - I'm sure there are NAS fans who will suggest benefits that I am unable to see for myself. davep Compared to my old PC SS setup, my new NAS SS solution is far quieter (no fans and a quiet HDD), far smaller and was cheap. The first 2 factors are very important if the server has to be located in the same room as the SB. The third is important if you have a family to support and a mortgage to pay. The fact is takes a couple of hours to do a fresh scan my music collection is of no real concern to me. -- shake-the-disease shake-the-disease's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slim 6.5.1 just hangs- will not run
Well I decided my Windows 2003 server was just running slow in general (Windoze Bloat). I have been running three years on the original install mostly without problems, but lately it's been getting slower and slower. So time for a reinstall from scratch. I reinstalled today and after all the MS updates, Active dir, Domain creation, users, network share, printers, blah, blah, blah I installed todays version of Slim 6.5.2 - So far things seem to be running well, but it's still indexing my 29,xxx (flac + mp3) collection. Fingers crossed that I have overcome whatever gremlins were causing me problems. One interesting thing I found in the Windows Services UI, was a bit about if the service fails to start, set it to restart, 2nd failure ... set to restart, third failure... set to restart. I did this to see if it overcomes any failed services for Slim and/or the MySQL service too. -- rmassey rmassey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1495 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34560 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] General Mac question...
I'm about to begin the process of ripping my entire collection to an external HDD, but was thinking about buying an inexpensive external CD-ROM to do so, so that I don't overuse the one in my Mac Mini. Will any USB CD-ROM do, or do I specifically have to use one for a mac? A USB device is a USB device, right? Thanks, Steve -- TexasRugger TexasRugger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11371 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34965 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Radiotime and Realaudio
Hi I have alienbbc installed and working (bbc and other rtsp streams work fine) but I can't play radiotime stations that stream in realaudio format. Is this more to do with radiotime just not allowing it because of realaudio licensing? Is there a workaround for this? I tried sniffing(url snooper) but it uses an embedded flash player and the url must be in the swf cause it doesn't show any media related urls. The particular station is alice 97.3 in the San Francisco Bay Area(94103). I could personally care less about the station but it would sure help with WAF. Thanks wr420 VERSION INFO SlimServer Version: 6.5.2 - 11499 - RedHat - EN - iso-8859-1 Server IP address: 192.168.1.10 Perl Version: 5.8.7 i386-linux MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard -- wr420 wr420's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1040 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34966 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] RadioTime: security/privacy suggestions
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34909 Question: My opinion of this is... - I don't use RadioTime, and I think this is OK - I don't use RadioTime, but that sounds like a problem - I use RadioTime, and I don't care about these flaws - I use RadioTime, and this bothers me at least a bit Peter, thanks for the great feedback. I do work for RadioTime, but not in a technical role. We've tried to balance security against ease of use, since our site is about finding radio, ease of use and simple implementation typically win. But we'll revisit some of the practices below. Yes, a malicious user could guess a username, then request a password reset and then discover an email address. We began displaying the email and clear text password retrieval because a fair number of users would forget the account used or misspelled the email, and then get completely frustrated and stuck in a loop. Within the radiotime system passwords are not stored in clear but encrypted. You are correct, basic registration is not secure, only paid registration. RadioTime support had deleted your account as requested, we don't know what email address they replied to (if at all). We intend to allow users to delete their own account. We'll add some text to the signup and privacy policy saying passwords may be sent in clear text. -- radiobill radiobill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11404 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34909 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] search on NAS-based slimserver
Pellicle, can you tell us how much noise the Thecus box puts out? Also, does it have a telnet/ssh interface, and can one install any old software one wants on it? (ie, imap+postfix, apache, etc) -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Any good tuning guides for slimserver ? Very slow browse response times on Linkstatio
Dumb question, but I assume you've split you music into a/artist/albumn/track, b/artist/albumn/track etc? -- shake-the-disease shake-the-disease's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34047 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Any good tuning guides for slimserver ? Very slow browse response times on Linkstatio
ben2e;191549 Wrote: I've got Slimserver running on a Gigabit Linkstation (PowerPC) with 4000 tracks. I've searched for suggestions tuning but only seen lengthy arguments on MySql or Perl. I have some experience with both pieces of software and it's hard to believe either would take 10 seconds to respond to a browse command (browse music folder being the slowest) under any normal circumstance. snip Basic question here: are you referring to browsing via the web interface or browsing via the remote? I have a similar arrangement, running slimserver 6.5.1 on a gigabit LinkStation with 4000 tracks (3978 to be exact). I get pretty much instantaneous response with the SB remote, whereas the web UI is sluggish. It's not quite as bad as the 10 seconds you cite, but it's slow. Rendering those pages for the web UI puts a fair strain on the LinkStation processor. If that's where you're having the delays, you can possibly reduce them by using a minimalist skin like Handheld. If you're getting such long browse times with the remote then something is definitely wrong, although I don't know where to steer you from there. As a side note, I could be wrong, but I think you'll always find Browse music folder to be slower because it's not using the MySQL database built from the tag info. It's traversing the directory tree. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34047 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
