Re: [slim] Re: OT: professional-audio slim device?
How about something like the Marantz PMD660? Up to 17hrs on a 1GB compact flash in MP3 format. (Varies depending on compression.) Purchase a CF reader for the PC and you're all set. - Dave azinck3 wrote: Maybe I'm missing a problem with this setup, but why not record through a compressor with good metering straight to a stand-alone CD recorder? Yeah, this would be ideal except for the fact that we need to be able to record more than 80 minutes at a time. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?
I'm trying to get this to work, but it just keeps flashing Logging in to Sirius. I tried my username and PW on the regular Sirius site and it works fine. - Dave GoCubs wrote: Streams can now be played on SB2/3 hardware by disabling built-in decoding (see web site)!!! Now playing information is viewable for all channels via the web and remote control interfaces. No longer requires custom async http classes. Bug fixes. * Please completely delete any previous versions before installing!!! * www.abovethelaw.com/squeeze -Greg ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin
Dave, I've run into this as well. I think what's happening is that when the 770 goes to power save mode (screen dims or turns off), an additional step it takes is to break the network connection. It's a pity that it does this, but the 770 consumes a lot more power when WiFi is active. When the network connection breaks, it also stops the browser from attempting to refresh. Sorry that's not a solution (which I don't have), but I believe that's what's happening. My best solution is to tap the screen to bring it back to life, then top on the musical note icon to do a hard refresh of the screen. If anyone has a better workaround for this behavior, please post. cheers, #!/ben There should be settings somewhere that control the power saving functionality - how long it takes to dim the screen, turn the screen off, turn off wireless, etc. For my personal use, extending the timeouts to something on the order of several minutes instead of the 10-20 seconds that it is now would be sufficient. Maybe there are some tweaks on the 770 forums that can help. Also - my now playing screen doesn't seem to update unless I hit the Now Playing icon and force a refresh. As a song is playing the progress bar moves but the screen doesn't update automatically when the song changes. Do you know why that would be? - Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Plugin support on nokia770 skin
Do you think that would include support for Music Magic, which has some different UI implications than other plugs? - Dave bklaas wrote: it's added to the list... http://mcstayinskool.tadalist.com/lists/public/170297 cheers, #!/ben ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Problem stopping Slimserver
Yes - I am logged in as root. - Dave max.spicer wrote: Are you running as root (or a similarly privileged user) when you try and stop it? Max Dave Horoschak Wrote: Every time I try to stop Slimserver in Linux (.../slimserver stop), I'm getting a FAILED message. I'd like to create a script that stops Slimserver, starts Music Magic, and restarts Slimserver, but I can't do this if I'm not able to reliably stop the server. None of the log files seem to have any indications of a problem. This occurred with 6.2.1 and with the 6.5b1 I just installed. Any ideas? - Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Problem stopping Slimserver
Two reasons: 1. I'm trying to use this as a part of a script and I have no way of knowing the PID ahead of time. 2. I wasn't sure if there were any other processes or cleanup that the server stop executes that don't happen when you kill the process. - Dave rudholm wrote: Is there any reason you don't want to just kill the process? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] MusicMagic startup on Mandriva
What's the best way to start MusicMagic automatically when I boot Mandriva 2006? I tried adding it to /etc/init.d/slimserver before slimserver.pl is run, but Slim still doesn't appear to see it. Any thoughts? Thanks. - Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Problem stopping Slimserver
Every time I try to stop Slimserver in Linux (.../slimserver stop), I'm getting a FAILED message. I'd like to create a script that stops Slimserver, starts Music Magic, and restarts Slimserver, but I can't do this if I'm not able to reliably stop the server. None of the log files seem to have any indications of a problem. This occurred with 6.2.1 and with the 6.5b1 I just installed. Any ideas? - Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Two MusicMagic questions
I just got MusicMagic running on my server and have two questions. 1. Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but how do you generate a MM playlist from the SB? Do I need to generate and save them all from the web browser and recall the static playlists on the SB? 2. If I'm running MM in Linux headless mode, do I need to use the GUI to re-analyze every time I add news songs? Thanks. - Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Tagging question
Thank you to everyone who provided insight to my tagging question. Before I start the process of using multiple genre tags - how are these handled in the iPod? Does it recognize multiple genres, just take the first one, or does is see the whole string as a genre? I want to make sure I don't screw up my library for portable listening. Thanks. - Dave Siduhe wrote: I couldn't agree with Snarlydwarf more. I tidied up all my tags using (mostly) MusicBrainz and some other lookup programs, but then immediately went back and redid all the Genre tags for two reasons: 1) Music classification is personal and genre tagging (IMHO) totally random. I've had each disc of a two disc album classified for genre totally differently. Also, I don't use some of the very common genre tags (Electronica for example). 2) I use multiple genre tags in Slimserver. A good interface to use to redo your genre tags is Tag Rename (30 day free trial). Speeds the whole process up. Re: Music Magic, as far as I know it doesn't use the Genre information at all - it analyses and validates all your music using an algorithm and then matches those with similar results. If you're getting odd results, it may be worth checking your preferences and setting the variety options to low. Also, have you let MM analyse and validate the entire library - this can take a good while (overnight in my case) so it may be it hasn't finished reviewing everything yet ? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Tagging question
I'm just getting my SB3 up running with all of the plug-ins, etc. to my satisfaction and am now working on the arduous task of cleaning my tags. I have already gone through using MusicBrainz and now 95% of my collection has consistent files names and relatively clean tags. However, I found that none of the files have genre tags anymore. Two questions... 1. Any recommendations on how to get genres entered? I could go through with a ID3-Tagit and lookup each album on FreeDB, but it seems like there should be an easier way, considering the fact that most of the tags are clean. What level of detail do most people put in their genre tags? I have about 15k files, so generalizing them into Rock, Pop, Classical, Heavy Metal, etc. is probably not granular enough. 2. I've been playing with MusicMagic and found that the playlists it generates are very odd. How does MM generate the playlists? Is it likely that the lack of genre tags is causing some problems? Thanks. - Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Last.fm question
I'm really enjoying Last.FM, but find it frustrating that any time I want to change channels, skip a song or love a song I have to go back to the main menu and select Internet Radio - Last.FM again. It would make more sense to keep those capabilities right under artist/song info in the menu. Am I missing something in the setup that would streamline this process? - Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.2.1 install help needed
I recently upgraded my system and am trying to install 6.2.1 on Mandriva 2006 but am having some problems getting is started. Slimserver thinks it starts OK but it's never actually running. I'm getting an error that the connect.al module is missing. I tried building the Perl modules, but I get an error on the first one that it couldn't find a valid dynamic library for compress-zlib. Any thoughts? - Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: 6.2.1 install help needed
That worked perfectly. Thanks! It would be helpful if there was mention in the Installation.txt file about what the dependencies are for installation. Or provide a link to a website that has this information. - Dave CavesOfTQLT wrote: Maybe have a quick shufties through my post '_here_' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=83101postcount=9) and see if that helps. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Lockup problem
I've been having lockup problems since 6.0b2 and continue to have them with the 6.0 release. On a Mandrake 9.0 dedicated (Samba) file server, I installed SlimServer. Previously, the system had been up running with a problems for about 2 years. Now that I installed SlimServer, it dsoesn't stay up for more than 24 hours. It locks up hard so that I can't Telnet in, the webserver doesn't work, etc. What's the best way of troubleshooting this problem? slimserver.log doesn't have any data in it. After a reboot, everything seems to run fine until it crashes again. Indidentally, this occurs without any Slim clients ever connecting to the server. Any thoughts? - Dave ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Mandrake install problem
This worked, but the script ended up failing with parse errors. It installed what I needed, though so I'm up running. Thanks. - Dave Dan Sully wrote: * Dave Horoschak shaped the electrons to say... I just installed 6.0b3 on Mandrake 9.0 (first SlimServer install). I'm getting an error Can't locate auto/DBI/connect_cac.al in slimserver.log. It would appear that I need to install a module, but which one? Please run Bin/build-perl-modules.pl It appears that Mandrake has built their perl differently than RedHat. -D ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
