Re: [slim] Any word of SB4?
JimC;252796 Wrote: Would you mind sharing what changes you made to the menus the your friends find easier? It's always good to hear what works out in the field. -= Jim I think the most important thing is that I *can* hack the menus! The simplicity of my menu arrangements reflects my own (perhaps limited) usage of the wide range of functions/services provided by the SB3. Anyway, for what it's worth my public SB3 Remote top level menus look like this: Favorites Albums Artists Genres New Music Years Playlists Random Mix BBC Radio LastFM This is with SC7. BBC Radio is a renamed AlienBBC. Search is performed via the Remote search button. I've also modified the default behaviour of the screen savers slightly. I am happy that the Favorites facility is now implemented sensibly in SC7. My favorites mainly includes Shoutcast radio stations and BBC Radio Listen Again programs (The Archers.. you should try it!). I am very much looking forward to being able to arrange the Remote menus via drag and drop (SC 7.1??). I'd love to be able to have a lot more control too... especially the ability to simply rename menu items (i.e. like Alien BBC to BBC Radio), create new items and add/remove sub-items. Not too much to ask huh? :-) I am hoping that I'll be able to do the same on the Jive remote too. Hmm.. I should have stuck this in another thread :-( MC -- ModelCitizen It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Transporter Bryston 4B ST PMC OB1s SB3 NAIM NAC 102 + HICAP NAIM NAP 180 Shahinian Arcs http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Couple of nagging questions...
NewBuyer;252866 Wrote: aubuti, That is exactly what I am referring to also. If you need to initiate and control the audio stream with some other application, then SS is passively receiving (not initiating/controlling) the stream. I am talking about SS doing this itself with basic functionality (certainly nothing nearly as complex as Win/Foo), so the user could still just use a headless PC in the background. Okay, I follow you now. But making slimserver, which is obviously a server application, into a CD-playing application seems like a huge stretch, especially across multiple platforms. I'm not trying to shoot down your idea -- I imagine it would be useful to some people. But just a couple of the many details to work out are (1) with multiple SBs, how does slimserver know to which SB it should stream the CD?, and (2) most headless computers running slimserver are in relatively inaccessible places, so popping a CD in isn't necessarily convenient. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41577 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] End of the Squeezebox?
Sorry to burst your bubble. All these internet articles are nonsense spread out by a misunderstanding and desire to attack the RIAA. The case was about ripping and then ***sharing*** files, not just ripping them for personal use. The judgment is here http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=atlantic_howell_070820OrderGrantSumJudg and the retraction is here http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/30/riaa-not-suing-over-cd-ripping-still-kinda-being-jerks-about-it/ -- y360 y360's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41571 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Couple of nagging questions...
aubuti;252879 Wrote: Okay, I follow you now. But making slimserver, which is obviously a server application, into a CD-playing application seems like a huge stretch, especially across multiple platforms. I'm not trying to shoot down your idea -- I imagine it would be useful to some people. But just a couple of the many details to work out are (1) with multiple SBs, how does slimserver know to which SB it should stream the CD?, and (2) most headless computers running slimserver are in relatively inaccessible places, so popping a CD in isn't necessarily convenient. Hi aubuti, 1) This could hopefully be easily selected within the relevant page of an enhanced SS (why not?) 2) The Waveinput plugin itself is already often being used in this way, right? The SD Dir of Engineering wrote that people had been requesting this for years! I believe I'm not the only one who would find this enhancement extremely functional. It seems to me that serving music files from an optical-drive platter is just as much serving, as when it serves from a hard-drive platter. Users would still serve most music from ripped copies on harddrive, but being able to also spin the occasional CD on your SS computer would be a function, that more people would appreciate than you might think. :) Honestly, why not enhance SS to do this? And why not also have an option to serve the PCM audio to a selected soundcard? Maybe it is extremely difficult to program and implement, I don't know. Perhaps I am the only one who would really enjoy and use these functions... -- NewBuyer NewBuyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7862 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41577 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Songs removed from library when hard drive accidentally turned off
Hi all, I have a silly habit of forgetting to turn on my network hard drive where my music resides before trying to play a song on the squeezebox. Slimserver has a silly habit deleting the said song from the library index whenever this happens. This forces me to do a full library rescan before I can play the song again. Over my network this takes hours, very annoying! Is there some way I can disable this feature? Cheers! Ben -- amorphia amorphia's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14363 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Grouping multiple albums, how does it work?
Can anyone explain how the Group multiple albums option works? ( using SC7 ) I have it turned on but am not sure what results I am supposed to see? Should I just see a single album rather than 2? If I play the first should the second automatically follow? ( Neither of these appear to happen ) How should multiple albums be ripped to facilitate this option? I have many formats such as CD1, CD 1, disc 1 etc picked up from freedb. Should there be an option to list all that are acceptable? Or should I change them all to a single suitable format? If so what? Any clarification most welcome. Cheers Alan -- alanj Cheers Alan Koolu + SC 7 feeding == SB3 - Cyrus 6vs - KEF iQ7 SB2 - Super T amp - Mission 771 alanj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2017 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] End of the Squeezebox?
As I've mentioned on a couple of other threads, the position in the UK is exactly that - it is technically illegal even to rip your own CDs to make a portable copy or backup. We have no concept of fair use at law. The BPI said in 2006 that they would not pursue consumers -if they copy their CDs for their own private use in order to move the music from format to format-, however there's some concern about what this actually means. For example, if I upload my music to mp3tunes and use it for playback at work rather than as a backup copy - does this fall within moving the music from format to format? The 2003 EU Copyright Directive was intended to retain an ability for consumers to make copies for purely private purposes (in the sense that the use must be domestic). However, this has been brought into law in a number of different ways in different EU countries (almost all of them are more restrictive on consumers than before the Directive was put into law). The exceptions to this are the UK and Ireland which allow time shifted recordings only (so I can copy or record something and listen for a limited time such as seven days, but no longer). All my music is bought and paid for, or ripped from CDs that I retain the physical media for. However, I resent having to rely on the whims of the BPI as to whether they will or will not maintain the personal use exception now or in future. One small glimmer of hope in Europe is a recent study published on the Copyright Directive (by the European Commission) which points some of these issues out and concludes that the Directive has given rights-holders -near-absolute control over acts [digital/electronic reproduction] which in the off-line world were never the right holderÂ’s prerogative- and which rights go significantly further than the Directive was intended to allow. So there is a prospect of some amending legislation in Europe in...oh...about 2-6 years...by which time the technology will have moved on sufficiently to make whatever is put through completely obselete. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41571 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Songs removed from library when hard drive accidentally turned off
I'm pretty sure it isn't possible to turn off the deletes without changing the SlimServer source code. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Grouping multiple albums, how does it work?
alanj;252889 Wrote: Should I just see a single album rather than 2? Yes alanj;252889 Wrote: How should multiple albums be ripped to facilitate this option? I have many formats such as CD1, CD 1, disc 1 etc picked up from freedb. Should there be an option to list all that are acceptable? Or should I change them all to a single suitable format? If so what? You should use a common format and it's stored in a special tag. It depends on the format you are using for your music, please look at the following link at the Disc Number row: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerSupportedTags It is important that the album title is exactly the same on all discs. So if you have an album with two discs they can be tagged as: Disc 1 == ALBUM=My nice album DISC=1 Disc 2 == ALBUM=My nice album DISC=2 It won't work if the album title contains something like (disc 1) at the end since SlimServer then don't know that this is the same album. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] the second coming
I'm running 7.0, the syncing seems perfect, will know more soon as i'll probably be running both of them together for the rest of the day. got a set of aego m's in the kitchen, great little system, and they sound brilliant with the SB. -- Gibbo Gibbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41540 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Couple of nagging questions...
Disclaimer: I haven't tried this! But... If your server is linux-based or *BSD-based, then FUSE [1] might come to your rescue. There's a FUSE-based filesystem called CDDFS [2] which allows the audio CD to be 'mounted', and the tracks appear as WAV files. So you could just select an empty directory in your music library folder as the mountpoint. This would (of course) only be a starting point, as it raises more questions than it answers: - slimserver would index the virtual WAVs into its database - you probably wouldn't want that - no track metadata, and titles would probably be something non-descriptive like track001.wav [1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSystems [2] http://castet.matthieu.free.fr/cddfs/ -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41577 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is my Squeezebox 3 dead?
I'm in Sydney too. Just returned from holidays tonight and found my Squeezebox 3 unresponsive. I also run a server and a Tivo - both OK. From the logs the SB died sometime in the 24 hours after 4pm on Christmas Eve. Very sad. I bought mine 18 months ago online in the US so will try out the two year warranty. Would appreciate any suggestions for repair/warranty. -- tegandrew tegandrew's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4246 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41199 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver Problems running on Windows Vista
Personally, I don't like Vista -- house house's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14719 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
[slim] Wrong Squeezeboxes playback
hello, I have an annoying problem when I play my music with slimserver webinterface. I use the skin 'fishbone'. When I click on the left panel on an album to playback my Squeezebox that is selected on the right panel won't playback it but the squeezebox in front of it. Let me clearify myself a bit :). I have 4 SB's named: -SB_Kitchen -SB_Living room -SB_Sleeping room When I have SB_Living room in the right panel and click on an album on the left panel to playback the SB_Kitchen starts to play :(. I have to stop this SB manual (SB_Kitchen) and re-click on SB_Living room on the right panel. If I now press again on an album to play it use the right SB. -- jordi.c jordi.c's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12402 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41591 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeBox3 fails to play Groove Salad 128k wma stream
WPWoodJr;252853 Wrote: The URL is: http://somafm.com/wma128/groovesalad.asx The 32 bit stream plays fine: http://somafm.com/wma/groovesalad.asx Can anyone else reproduce this or suggest a fix? Thanks, - Bill Doesn't work here either. However, the asx file seems to be pointing to the same (mp3) streams as the 128 kbit mp3/pls file. It works for me (Win XP, SS 6.5.4), so you might want to use that one instead... http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls -- KoxxBoxx KoxxBoxx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13356 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41580 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Couple of nagging questions...
mplayer will play a CD and I think CD playing works across all platforms. Using mplayer with SC has been proven with AlienBBC. I know mplayer can be told to play a selected track - I'm not sure whether it will play a whole CD. All that is needed is a small plugins that defines a protocol handler (e.g. cdrive:) and a parser to get pass the track number to mplayer (e.g. cddrive://1) To SC it would behave like a stream and not a file and so would not be entered into the database. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41577 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Couple of nagging questions...
bpa;252927 Wrote: mplayer will play a CD and I think CD playing works across all platforms. Using mplayer with SC has been proven with AlienBBC. I know mplayer can be told to play a selected track - I'm not sure whether it will play a whole CD. All that is needed is a small plugins that defines a protocol handler (e.g. cdrive:) and a parser to get pass the track number to mplayer (e.g. cddrive://1) To SC it would behave like a stream and not a file and so would not be entered into the database. Yep, that's probably the best way to go. Would it be possible to get metadata from CDDB too? Incidentally, I'm currently listening to Aerosmith using the CDDFS method. It just works... :-) -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41577 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] End of the Squeezebox?
Siduhe;252892 Wrote: (snip) One small glimmer of hope in Europe is a recent study published on the Copyright Directive (by the European Commission) which points some of these issues out and concludes that the Directive has given rights-holders -near-absolute control over acts [digital/electronic reproduction] which in the off-line world were never the right holderÂ’s prerogative- and which rights go significantly further than the Directive was intended to allow. Ridiculous! Also, all those street video cameras you guys have across the pond. -- earthbased earthbased's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=334 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41571 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Couple of nagging questions...
For playing audio CD thru mplayer, I've had some success with: Code: mplayer -cache 1024 cddb:// where the cache setting is necessary (on my machine) to prevent stuttering. And this performs a CDDB query too -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41577 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Pandora set up problems
I purchased my new Squeezebox 3 and cannot get Pandora to set up. I have run the set up procedure from the Squeeze Network FAQ without success. My player is recognized on the network and I have successfully subscribed to the 30 day free trial with Pandora. Has anyone had similar issues? -- chaughery chaughery's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14721 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41594 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] End of the Squeezebox?
There's a blurb on Ars Technica about CD sales dropping 20% this Christmas and it also pointed out some things I'd been thinking about. I won't argue that file sharing is a bad thing, and in the pre-litigation days I would've said that the artist and label deserved their compensation for their work. After the litigations began the RIAA can go, well, you can imagine. Now we live in the age of digital downloads from retailers such as Apple and Amazon. We can download the tracks we want and skip what we don't. Brilliant! Now let's think about this, the RIAA believes that the lossless rips that we, the consumer, make with CDs that we bought are unauthorized copies yet now condone purchasing individual tracks (generally in a lossy format and now becoming DRM free) and getting only a fraction of the revenue that would be generated from a full album sale is acceptable? Sure, a lot of albums have a few dud tracks and a couple of gems and it can be a little frustrating plopping down the full price of a CD and only end up with a couple tracks you like, but that's how it's been since the beginning. Single track downloads are driving the decline of CD sales, those of us who rip should be commended by the RIAA for buying the whole album, warts and all. There have been so many articles about how the labels were unhappy with Apple's $0.99 pricing that there were a lot of threats about pulling out of their store. In this case the RIAA has less control over their margins, unlike CD sales where they're priced more favorably for the RIAA. The RIAA can't allow legal digital downloads while still crowing that file sharing is killing CD sales. Sooner or later the general public will figure out (more aptly have it pointed out to them) that legal downloads are killing the CD. If there wasn't already enough dislike towards the RIAA already just wait until the masses realize that they have been misled. Consumers vote with their wallet, and the RIAA wants your vote. Here's the Ars link: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071231-ho-ho-horrible-music-sales-plunge-20-percent-this-christmas.html -- 4mula1 SlimServer 6.5.4 + Solaris 10 x86: Because Linux would've been too easy! 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41571 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wrong Squeezeboxes playback
What version of SlimServer/SqueezeCenter are you using? Try the 7.0 version here and see if it's working better for you: http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_nightly.html -- dean dean's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41591 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wrong Squeezeboxes playback
I use a Slimserver latest build 6.5.0.4. I cannot install SC 7.0, because I'm using my NAS (thecus N5200) and I have to wait for new module (SC7). I have these SB's upgraded to newer firmware for SC 7.0 when I used these on my PC's. Now I use my NAS for streaming so I went back to SlimServer 6.5.4 -- jordi.c jordi.c's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12402 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41591 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Songs removed from library when hard drive accidentally turned off
amorphia wrote: Hi all, I have a silly habit of forgetting to turn on my network hard drive where my music resides before trying to play a song on the squeezebox. Slimserver has a silly habit deleting the said song from the library index whenever this happens. This forces me to do a full library rescan before I can play the song again. Over my network this takes hours, very annoying! Is there some way I can disable this feature? I've also been bitten by this and had some discussion about with kdf. I don't recall what the outcome was. I seem to remember things were left as they are. Try searching the forums - maybe the developer or beta forums. R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Songs removed from library when hard drive accidentally turned off
I've encountered that problem myself a number of times... VERY frustrating. Playlist index can also be messed up in same fashion. Hopefully it's somewhere on their To-Fix list. -- sleepysurf main system: sb2 (with elpac linear psu) benchmark dac-1 modwright swl 9.0se belles 350a reference ml summits. blue jeans cables. secondary sb3 systems in master br (russound r235ls amp driving in-ceiling speakers) and game room (powered swan s200a speakers). sleepysurf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Couple of nagging questions...
NewBuyer;252887 Wrote: Hi aubuti, 1) This could hopefully be easily selected within the relevant page of an enhanced SS (why not?) 2) The Waveinput plugin itself is already often being used in this way, right? The SD Dir of Engineering wrote that people had been requesting this for years! It also seems (at least to me) that serving music files from an optical-drive platter is just as much serving, as is serving from a hard-drive platter. Users would still serve most music from ripped copies on harddrive, but being able to also spin the occasional CD on your SS computer would be a function, that more people would appreciate than you may think. :) Honestly, why not enhance SS to do this? And why not also have an option to serve the PCM audio to a selected soundcard? Maybe it is extremely difficult to program and implement, I don't know. Perhaps I am the only one who would really enjoy and use these functions... Re (1), sure that makes sense. Re (2) I'm just saying that while adding this feature to a headless server is do-able (as demonstrated by the WaveInput plugin), there's likely to be a lot more demand from people running slimserver on ordinary PCs or workstations, rather than headless servers, which are often located down in the basement, up in the attic, or some other out of the way place. In other words, my point (2) wasn't saying that serving bits from an optical drive is that different from serving it from a hard drive. Rather that from a user convenience standpoint a headless server isn't the best target market. Indeed, many headless servers don't have CD trays. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41577 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Hi All, Since I bought my Squeezebox I have greatly expanded my music collection which is good. The bad thing is that when I want to play something I can't possibly remember my whole collection. I think that sounds pretty familiar to many of you? In search of a tool able to print the collection in nice format to paper I got stuck; there isn't such a tool. Therefore I have created a script to do exactly that and maybe someone can use it to so I decided to post it here. The script is called AlbumCatalogCreator. I have attached some images from the GUI and the output files. There are a few options to change the layout. The help file further explains most of the questions (I hope). How does it work: - It connects directly to SlimServer database using default credentials used at installation. It then queries the database and generates the output. Some things to know: - The mySQL ODCB driver is required to be able connect to the SlimServer database. It can be downloaded here: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/3.51.html - It looks for album cover files named either cover.jpg or folder.jpg which must reside in the actual album directory. - It assumes there is a dedicated folder for compilation albums because the SlimServer internal compilation detection doesn't work very well (I am forcing myself to put it nicely) - It automatically inserts page breaks (only for printing purposes). Since browser print margins can only be set using the browser, you may need to narrow the default margings. You can also change the header and footer so the ugly URL isn't printed put page number are instead (see help screen in application for more info) Well, I hope you can use it at your advantage. I consider it a Beta version because it works for me but hasn't been tested by anyone else yet. Since its a VBScript, you can change it yourself but I would greatly appreciate if you use this threads in case of bugs or ideas for me to work on so other users can use it too. The script can be downloaded from: http://www.vanholt.nl/uploads/AlbumCatalogCreator.zip Start the script by double clicking the AlbumCatalogCreator-V1.hta file. For those interested; have fun and happy new year in advance. Frank +---+ |Filename: catalog-short-sample.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3939| +---+ -- SilverRS8 SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Songs removed from library when hard drive accidentally turned off
sleepysurf wrote: I've encountered that problem myself a number of times... VERY frustrating. Playlist index can also be messed up in same fashion. Hopefully it's somewhere on their To-Fix list. I don't believe so. Now, if I could only find the thread in which I discussed this with kdf... R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Awesome Frank. Thanks for the holiday gift. I will try it out tonight. I'm sure SlimDevices will want you to add your utility to the wiki: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginsAudio Happy New year! -- bobharp Bob Harper bobharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=600 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
I've been looking for something like this. Thanks, I'll feed back when I've tried it. -- Fifer Fifer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=639 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeBox3 fails to play Groove Salad 128k wma stream
KoxxBoxx;252926 Wrote: Doesn't work here either. However, the asx file seems to be pointing to the same (mp3) streams as the 128 kbit mp3/pls file. It works for me (Win XP, SS 6.5.4), so you might want to use that one instead... http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls Weird! You're right! The Groove Salad 32k stream is pointing to a WMA stream though. -- WPWoodJr WPWoodJr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41580 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeBox3 fails to play Groove Salad 128k wma stream
Forget the WMA stream, use the 128k mp3 stream, if for no other reason than it provides track metadata. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41580 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeBox3 fails to play Groove Salad 128k wma stream
andyg;252994 Wrote: Forget the WMA stream, use the 128k mp3 stream, if for no other reason than it provides track metadata. True, but the WMA streams are much higher quality - compare the RadioIO Ambient 128k WMA stream (http://streampoint.radioio.com/streams/114) to Groove Salad 128k MP3 stream (http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls) - on a good stereo or home theater setup with Dolby Pro Logic II Music you'll hear much more stereo separation and openness. -- WPWoodJr WPWoodJr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41580 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimserver freezing
My 6.5.4 slimserver freezes after few minutes in IE v7. I have to close it to get it going, but it freezes shortly again. Any ideas? -- And123 And123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14726 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41599 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeBox3 fails to play Groove Salad 128k wma stream
WPWoodJr;252996 Wrote: True, but the WMA streams are much higher quality - compare the RadioIO Ambient 128k WMA stream (http://streampoint.radioio.com/streams/114) to Groove Salad 128k MP3 stream (http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls) - on a good stereo or home theater setup with Dolby Pro Logic II Music you'll hear much more stereo separation and openness. Here's a better comparison - the Radioio ambient stream in 128k mp3: http://streampoint.radioio.com/streams/111 versus the same stream in 128k wma: http://streampoint.radioio.com/streams/114 Seems more open, with better definition on cymbals. -- WPWoodJr WPWoodJr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41580 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where to buy a squeezebox in Las Vegas?
Many thanks for your feedback. With 299$ the savings are not huge. I might have to rethink buying the SB in US. Still, I will have a look at Fry's just to see what else they have got to offer. Norman -- Norman5007 QNAP TS-101 v2.0.0 / Slimserver 6.5.0 / Draytek 2800VG Norman5007's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6554 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41547 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Gap of a few seconds in FLAC music playback on my SB1
I posted the following in the Beta forum but have not had any replies yet. So this afternoon, I decided to uninstall SC7 and downgrade to SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12568. So having installed version 6.5.4 and let it do a full music scan, I was very disappointed to see that I am STILL suffering the same problem. Getting a gap of a few seconds when doing things like searching for music or when the web browser freshes the music playing screen. The music plays fine with NO gaps if I am accessing other web sites other than slimserver. I have no problem searching for music with the remote control, as long as the slimserver web browser is not active. I only get this problem with FLAC files. MP3 files play ok all the time even when the web browser refreshes. I am currently running SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0 - 15528 on a Windows Vista Ultimate Dell PC with 3Gb RAM. My SqueezeBox is an SB1. This is what I posted to the Beta forum, but is also seems to apply to 6.5.4 too for me! I recently upgraded to SC7 and have been suffering a problem when using the web browser. I control my SB1 with a Dell Axim PDA using Internet Explorer. When the web browser refreshes the screen each time a new track starts playing I get a gap of a few seconds in the music playback. This also happens if I use the web browser on my PC. If I close down all web browsers and control my SB1 with the remote control, it works fine. Is this a problem with my SB1? Any advice would be appreciated. -- norderney norderney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41600 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] the second coming
I picked my 2nd Squeeze box a few weeks back for the bedroom upstairs. And its all good, setup was a snap. looking forward to setting up the internet streaming, so I can listen at work. -- Recoveryone Pioneer Elite Fall in! SqueezeBox 3 wirelessly connected Pioneer Elite VSX-81TX Pioneer Elite DV-45A Pioneer Elite M53 CD Pioneer M66R Cassette Server running on (In garage) P3 800 MHz 1 gig ram Windows 2000 Professional 2x 20 gigHD(music/SS on same drive) Linksys 54g wireless router w/HG antana PCI Linksys 54g adapter card w/HG antana Recoveryone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9205 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41540 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Brilliant idea, been looking for something like this for ages! Can't get it to work yet though my SqueezeCentre is on a different Linux server, so anyone know what the userid/password that an SC7 install would use is? -- alanj Cheers Alan Koolu + SC 7 feeding == SB3 - Cyrus 6vs - KEF iQ7 SB2 - Super T amp - Mission 771 alanj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2017 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] End of the Squeezebox?
4mula1;252946 Wrote: Sure, a lot of albums have a few dud tracks and a couple of gems and it can be a little frustrating plopping down the full price of a CD and only end up with a couple tracks you like, but that's how it's been since the beginning. With one very important difference - in the beginning the concept of the album was just that - albums generally encompassed a theme and were meant to be enjoyed in their entirety to fully appreciate the artist's work whereas today's mass-market, one hit wonder crap lends itself to sale of single tracks - the cd's are exactly that - a collection of singles with very little common thread (besides frequent lack of artistic ability). -- egd Thecus N5200PRO Transporter ATC SCA2 ATC SCM100SLAT egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41571 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Grouping multiple albums, how does it work?
Thanks for that, all makes sense now! I was getting confused with the folder structure. A fun time ahead retagging all my multiple albums now. lol -- alanj Cheers Alan Koolu + SC 7 feeding == SB3 - Cyrus 6vs - KEF iQ7 SB2 - Super T amp - Mission 771 alanj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2017 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41586 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
alanj;253009 Wrote:
Brilliant idea, been looking for something like this for ages!
Can't get it to work yet though my SqueezeCentre is on a different
Linux server, so anyone know what the userid/password that an SC7
install would use is?
If the database structure hasn't been changed SC should work. The
script currently expects the database to be on the same machine but you
can easily change this.
Change the the ip number after 'server=' in the line:
Const ConnectString = DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51
Driver};Server=127.0.0.1;Port=9092;Database=slimserver;UID=slimserver;Password=;Option=3
It is on line 41 of the .hta file. Let me know if it works. I'm very
curious though if album cover detection will work when the files are on
a linux server. Let me know the outcome!
But you have a good point there. I can add an option to specify the
server address in the GUI.
Frank
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Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
I will try this soon. Thanks for the effort, looks great. I wanted to strongly recommend for the sake of the trees of planet Earth, that everyone prints to a PDF version and not use paper whenever possible. Based on my current collection of music, I believe it would take many hundreds of double-sided pages. Hopefully there are font choices for headlines. -- Sam Lowry Sam Lowry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3447 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
I just tried running the script from my SC 7.0 Windows XP server after installing the ODBC connector 3.51. After the script runs for a few seconds I get the following error: Error creating file C:\Album Art Creator\AlbumCatalogs\AlbumList - Long - 12/31/07.html Possibly Open by another application? I stopped SqueezeCenter.exe and kept mysqld.exe running, but it still gave the same error. Any suggestions? -- tamanaco tamanaco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4620 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
SilverRS8;253014 Wrote: If the database structure hasn't been changed SC should work. The script currently expects the database to be on the same machine but you can easily change this. Note that the default installation of SC configures mysqld to only accept connections from localhost. -- Fletch Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Finding URL for internet radio stations
Thanks bpa. Great little app but it appears some stations have the stream hidden where it can't be detected. -- Turnandcough Turnandcough's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41517 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Wireless network confusion
In my home music system I have: iMac G4 as a music server, used for nothing else. 2 original Squeezebox (wireless B) 1 SLIMP3 with a WET-11 wireless adapter 1 Airport Express basestation My music network is a sperate wireless network from my other network wich is used to connect ot the Internet. The music network is internal only, no connection to the outside world. I use channel 1 for my Internet connected network and cnannel 11 for my music network. These two channels have been most reliable and least prone to interferance of others I have tried in my house. My question is: When using the Airport Express base station, sometimes the music stops and then the Squeezeboxes restart on their own. Kind of like starting a song, then stopping and starting over again. I recently purchased an Airport Exterme base station, in hopes of getting better range. It doesn't seem too much better. But when I am using the AIrport Exterme base station, and the music stops, the Squeezeboxes doe not restart like when using the Airort Express base station. I believe the settings are identical in both base stations and yes, I only use one base station at a time. If one is in use, the other is unplugged and unpowered. Anybody else have similar experiences with the Airport Extreme base station? Thanks for any help, Andy -- andyda andyda's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=268 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41603 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] the second coming
having a small problem, from what I can tell, when anyone gets near the second SB, the wireless signal drops off, sometimes causing the SB to lose connection to SC, quite annoying. I have a linksys WRT54GS version 6, not sure if firmware upgrades work on this model? have bought a couple of high gain antenna, hopefully they will solve the problem. strange thing is, the second SB is about the same distance away as my computer, and that has no problem. -- Gibbo Gibbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41540 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Latest version of SlimServer that supports?
What is the latest version of the SlimServer that supports.. The original SLIMP3 (Yes, I still have one!) The original Squeezebox (first version Squeezebox) I am currently running 5.4.1 but some of the features in the newer versions look pretty good... So maybe it's time to upgrade. Thanks, Andy -- andyda andyda's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=268 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41604 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Latest version of SlimServer that supports?
Slimp3 and SB1 are still fully supported in SC7. You'll even get new features like Pandora and Slacker on them. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41604 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Latest version of SlimServer that supports?
And this is exactly why SD deserves our business -- who else continues to support products that old? Thank you, Slim Devices! On Dec 31, 2007 1:29 PM, andyg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slimp3 and SB1 are still fully supported in SC7. You'll even get new features like Pandora and Slacker on them. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41604 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
tamanaco;253017 Wrote: I just tried running the script from my SC 7.0 Windows XP server after installing the ODBC connector 3.51. After the script runs for a few seconds I get the following error: Error creating file C:\Album Art Creator\AlbumCatalogs\AlbumList - Long - 12/31/07.html Possibly Open by another application? I stopped SqueezeCenter.exe and kept mysqld.exe running, but it still gave the same error. Any suggestions EDIT: I noticed that the help button does not work from the GUI interface, but if I click AlbumCatalogCreator-help.hta in the includes folder it works... In the help file it refers to SC 6.5... Is this a limitation? Thanks for the update. The script uses the current date to create the filename. You apparently have american notation which uses slashes which is not allowed in a file name. I fixed it. Please download again and let me know if it works. It should work now. I will also fix the helpfile issue tomorrow (its almost party time here because of old-new year). Frank -- SilverRS8 SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SS keeps going into PAUSE on it's own???
Has there been any progress on this bug? I recently upgraded my Infrant ReadyNas to the most recent software (RAIDiator 4.00c1-p2), which also included a newer Slimserver (6.5.4) and firmware for the SB3, and I've just started being plagued by this bug. It is driving me crazy. I have a pair of Squeezeboxes (SB3) and am running SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12568 - Linux - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.8 sparc-linux MySQL Version: 5.0.24a-Debian_3.infrant1 RAIDiator 4.00c1-p2 I wasn't plagued by this until upgrading the RAIDiator version (and consequently SB3 firmware and Slimserver), but it seems others have been. I'm seeing both pauses and stops, though primarily pauses and only when by SBs are synced. -- ttocs ttocs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14729 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33465 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Connection to Denon 3802
I am struggling to connect the Squeezebox to the correct spot on the AV receiver. I have tried coax, optical3 and still no music output. Is there an easier way for a beginner to get connected? -- david m david m's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14731 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41607 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Odd entries in home menu
I have two peculiar entries in the home menu, and I can't figure out why they're there, or how to get rid of them. I've attached an image from the SqueezeCenter UI, but they also appear on the SlimServer UI (installed on a different computer) as well as in the Home menu of the players. The two odd listings are: JKLS: JKLS: JKLS: Owner JKLS is the name of my son's computer. I don't think he ever installed SlimServer on his computer; it's not there now. What's especially odd is that when I installed SqueezeCenter for a trial run on my laptop, it created those two entries. What's going on? +---+ |Filename: sqhome.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3941| +---+ -- dbls dbls's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=296 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41608 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Odd entries in home menu
What happens if you click on them? I think UPnP media servers will appear like that. Have you tried disabling UPnP Client under settings-advanced-network? -- Fletch Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41608 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Odd entries in home menu
That was it! Thanks; I'd never have figured that out. -- dbls dbls's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=296 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41608 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Connection to Denon 3802
Either type of digital output should just work. Most Denon's have a menu that requires you to assign each digital input to the desired input source. Have you confirmed that's set up correctly? -- Fletch Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41607 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
SilverRS8;253032 Wrote: Thanks for the update. The script uses the current date to create the filename. You apparently have american notation which uses slashes which is not allowed in a file name. I fixed it and updated the download so please download again and let me know if it works. I will also fix the helpfile issue tomorrow. I used a fixed path assuming the mshta executable is in c:\windows and you apparently have windows installed in a different directory. Sorry for my (ugly) coding error (never use fixed paths, use system variables). Must have been a quick coding mistake and never looked at it again. (its almost party time here because of old-new year). Frank Ok, I tried beta 2 and got the same error, but after I click ok on the error message it starts IE with the content of my music catalog. There are some album covers missing which should be there. I double checked the albums with missing album art in the resulting catalog and all my album folders have a corresponding folder.jpg. I also have album art embedded in every track. The font for the tracks also look a bit small in the browser, but it might be my browser's font settings. Btw, thanks for sharing the script... it shows a lot of promise. Don't worry about fixing it today... Go party and have a Happy New Year! -- tamanaco tamanaco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4620 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where to buy a squeezebox in Las Vegas?
Norman5007;253003 Wrote: Many thanks for your feedback. With 299$ the savings are not huge. I might have to rethink buying the SB in US. Still, I will have a look at Fry's just to see what else they have got to offer. Fry's is -always- good for a look around :) -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41547 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Art - How To Acquire
Did you try my suggestion of Album Art Aggregator yet? (http://team.thenexusnet.com/nexus/AAA) You just point it at your root music folder, tell it the naming standard you use (\artist\album for example) and it will tell you any folders that don't already have a folder.jpg or similar file, and then fetch it from Amazon if available... -- CliveL CliveL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12180 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41523 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver freezing
And123;252997 Wrote: My 6.5.4 slimserver freezes after few minutes in IE v7. I have to close it to get it going, but it freezes shortly again. Any ideas? Switched to Netscape - works fine -- And123 And123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14726 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41599 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Hi Frank, Well been delving on my Linux server and found as already pointed out by Fletch that only local connections are enabled. This should be dead easy to change as it is only a setting in the my.cnf file to alter the bind address from the current 127.0.0.1 to whatever your servers ip is. lol However I have tried that but the my.cnf file gets overwritten and reset to the original every time I restart it! Very annoying. Don't suppose anyone knows what in Slimserver is resetting the /var/cache/slimserver/my.cnf file do they? I think it is being created from a /var/share/slimserver/my.tt file but not sure how to change that to set the correct ip as it isn't a straight copy but full of variables. -- alanj Cheers Alan Koolu + SC 7 feeding == SB3 - Cyrus 6vs - KEF iQ7 SB2 - Super T amp - Mission 771 alanj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2017 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
alanj;253058 Wrote: Don't suppose anyone knows what in Slimserver is resetting the /var/cache/slimserver/my.cnf file do they? I think it is being created from a /var/share/slimserver/my.tt file but not sure how to change that to set the correct ip as it isn't a straight copy but full of variables. I assume you're using a recent SC7 nightly? If so, look for bindAddress in server.prefs. I'm not sure what the syntax is if you want to list multiple IPs. -- Fletch Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezecenter doesn't stay running
Scroll down in this forum and look for post by graley (me) who had same prob. See reply from mario. It is tedious but it works. I used his/her suggestions for SS 6.5.4. You can deduce what to do with either SS 7 or 6.5. -- graley graley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11756 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41466 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Connection to Denon 3802
Agreed with Fletch - your problem is almost certainly with the Denon, the SB always outputs on optical, coax and analog all the time. You need to decide which input you want to map the SB to - eg CD: then go to the input mapping menu and tell the Denon that the CD input is coming in to coax 2 or whatever. You might also want to consider that the DAC inside the SB is probably better than the one built into the Denon, so unless you're into the processed modes (in which case it will digitise anyway) you might find the sound quality better with an analog link. Then select Direct (as opposed to Stereo) mode. Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41607 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Scanner.exe Keeps Stopping?
For some reason whenever I scan my ctalog at the same point 648 of 2100 when scanning albumn artwork the Scanner.exe errors out. The following is what is always in the event log: Faulting application scanner.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x45fe3932, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549bdc9, exception code 0xc005, fault offset 0x00042e7b, process id 0xf6c, application start time 0x01c84c0457c7623a. Any ideas? I have no Virus software running on this box either. -- Itlan Itlan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14732 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41616 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Art - How To Acquire
I use Album Art Downloader on a Win XP machine. Aggregator did not work for me, period. I don't think it's supported anymore..? Downloader searches, I dunno, 8 or so data bases for artwork based on tag info. It batch processes folder structures, and uses tag info to retrieve artwork. For each CD, it retrieves 20-40 jpegs you can quickly scan and choose from. I spend about 30 seconds per CD to choose, based on the correct cover and image size. You click on the image file you want, and it saves it to cover.jpg (or whatever), in the folder you want. I was able to gather images for ~900 CDs pretty effortlessly. Highly recommended. -- desertrat58 Transporter - Bryston BP25MC preamp - MK (R.I.P.) MPS 2510 active monitors + MK MPS 5410 subwoofer. Also a Sota Nova tt with Graham 2.2 arm Benz Ace HO feeding into BP25MC. desertrat58's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9431 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41523 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Firewalls, security and SB3
My free Cox Security Suite wreaks havoc on Slim Server software, so I would like to buy something that is more compatible. Are there any security programs (e.g. Norton Internet Security 2008) that are known to work well with Slim Server software? Thanks. -- dthagerty dthagerty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41619 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Couple of nagging questions...
aubuti;252977 Wrote: ...while adding this feature to a headless server is do-able... from a user convenience standpoint a headless server isn't the best target market. Indeed, many headless servers don't have CD trays. Many users are ripping their music from optical drives on their server PC's, right? So I think is quite reasonable to assume that SB/Transporter users are an appropriate audience here. :) I think it would help more people than you think. For instance, I have a totally silent headless PC right next to my stereo shelf, which runs SS and also functions as our HTPC. Having basic CD-playback functionality in SS would be extremely useful to me, as would having a send to soundcard option. I'm sure many others too would enjoy these enhancements. So I again wonder, why not? -- NewBuyer NewBuyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7862 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41577 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Firewalls, security and SB3
The (free) versions of AVG anti-virus and Comodo Firewall work for me. I'd avoid Norton ;-) -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41619 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Scanner.exe Keeps Stopping?
I had the same issue... When I ran scanner.exe in debug mode (in a command window) --d_scan, I found that it was choking on one file over and over. When I moved it out, it finished the scan. c:\path\scanner.exe --d_scan or something like that. -- rambeaux rambeaux's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14686 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41616 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
