Re: [slim] Re: Server won't start
Thx for that. I actually got it working just now by uninstalling and re-installing. Second time round it all seemed to be there! - Original Message - From: ZaphodBx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 7:46 PM Subject: [slim] Re: Server won't start I had the same problem... The info in this faq did it for me: http://faq.slimdevices.com/index.php?action=artikelcat=2id=5artlang=en -- ZaphodBx ZaphodBx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9361 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31182 ___ 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] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
With the never-ending price drops in hard drive prices, why not just rip to WAV files and not worry about FLAC? erm ... cos FLAC has tags ... and if you save 40% of hard disk space ... FLAC does make a difference when you have lots of tracks ... ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Volume Normalization
you need the id3v2 tag support component, and you need to set write v1 v2 tags in preferences/standard inputs ... also on the id3v2 preferences make sure you select whether you want ISO ot UTF tags (default setting is UTF i think). it workd fine for me on 12K tracks ... - Original Message - From: Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:40 AM Subject: Re: [slim] Re: Volume Normalization Mr_Smiley said the following on 02/27/2006 12:20 AM: Foobar deleted my ID3v2 tags leaving only v1 on about a third of my files. It also clipped some of the longer artist names. And to top it all off it added varius simbols to the end of most of the artists, albums and titles. Sounds like you need to configure foobar to write ID3v2 tags and not id3v1 tags (which have a length limit). R. ___ 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] Re: Volume Normalization
out of interest, how did it screw up your tags? (i.e. what happened to them) - Original Message - From: Mr_Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:54 PM Subject: [slim] Re: Volume Normalization Thanks. Now that I think about it I did know about that setting. My test database didn't have a player connected so I couldn't peruse that area. However, I still can't find anything about using iTunes volume adjustment like the wikipedia suggests. I used foobar to add replay gain on my test database. I used the newest version and tested the tag writing like it was suggested. Things worked great so I set it up to run on the whole database last night. It screwed up over a third of my tags. Glad I didn't do it on my main database. -- Mr_Smiley Mr_Smiley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3213 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21468 ___ 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] Multiple genres in tags
as a (much!) simpler question ... has anybody out there got multiple values in genres working? - Original Message - From: Howard Darwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:00 PM Subject: [slim] Multiple genres in tags OK ... this is going to be a hard one to pin down I think. But any help/advice appreciated. I have recently started using the multiple items in tags feature with a semicolon (;) delimitor. In a few istances this is in the artist field, and that appears to be working well. In my genre field however, complete chaos seems to have broken out :). I can't see any pattern to the behaviour, though it is consistent in that specific files are similarly tagged after any rescan. It's just the genre tags are not what I am expecting. I get the following types of behaviour: - Some files are genre tagged correctly (both with single and multiple tags) - Some specify no genre at all (even in cases where there is only one value and no delimiter) - Others specify just one of the multiple values in the file Like I said, the bahaviour is consistent in that a specific file will display the same characteristic (i.e. one of the above) after a rescan. Some observations: - In certain cases I have gone completely over the top and have 4 or 5 values in the genre field (separated by semicolons). Maybe there is some limit I am not aware of??? - One of the genre values is 12' so I can easily access all 12' singles i have ripped. Not sure if the ' character could be causing an issue, i.e. only letters an numbers supported??? - This one is really odd, but when I am rescanning to build the database, the genres seem to be coming up correctly. I can only explain this with an example: Several files have Tech House as a value. Typically, the actuall field value would be House;Tech House;12'. Now, during the actual process of scanning, if I select Tech House from within Browse Genres it shows me an increasing number of files and everything looks OK. But once scanning is complete, if I select Tech House, I get just a single song ... the same one each time. I have looked at the tags with my tag editor and they all seem fine (but there are a lot of files). Am running a recent 6.2.2 nightly on windows, but have been having the same behaviour for some time. If anyone has any suggestions, even just suggestions of how I migh be able to troubleshoot, it would be appreciated. Many thx. Erm ... sorry for the long post. Howard. ___ 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] Re: Tagging question
iTunes will show the whole string as a genre ... it's annoying but you can use smart playlists to get round it i guess. for this reason, when i convert my FLACs to lossy, i only copy the first genre in the list. - Original Message - From: Dave Horoschak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 5:20 PM Subject: 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Multiple genres in tags
OK ... this is going to be a hard one to pin down I think. But any help/advice appreciated. I have recently started using the multiple items in tags feature with a semicolon (;) delimitor. In a few istances this is in the artist field, and that appears to be working well. In my genre field however, complete chaos seems to have broken out :). I can't see any pattern to the behaviour, though it is consistent in that specific files are similarly tagged after any rescan. It's just the genre tags are not what I am expecting. I get the following types of behaviour: - Some files are genre tagged correctly (both with single and multiple tags) - Some specify no genre at all (even in cases where there is only one value and no delimiter) - Others specify just one of the multiple values in the file Like I said, the bahaviour is consistent in that a specific file will display the same characteristic (i.e. one of the above) after a rescan. Some observations: - In certain cases I have gone completely over the top and have 4 or 5 values in the genre field (separated by semicolons). Maybe there is some limit I am not aware of??? - One of the genre values is 12' so I can easily access all 12' singles i have ripped. Not sure if the ' character could be causing an issue, i.e. only letters an numbers supported??? - This one is really odd, but when I am rescanning to build the database, the genres seem to be coming up correctly. I can only explain this with an example: Several files have Tech House as a value. Typically, the actuall field value would be House;Tech House;12'. Now, during the actual process of scanning, if I select Tech House from within Browse Genres it shows me an increasing number of files and everything looks OK. But once scanning is complete, if I select Tech House, I get just a single song ... the same one each time. I have looked at the tags with my tag editor and they all seem fine (but there are a lot of files). Am running a recent 6.2.2 nightly on windows, but have been having the same behaviour for some time. If anyone has any suggestions, even just suggestions of how I migh be able to troubleshoot, it would be appreciated. Many thx. Erm ... sorry for the long post. Howard. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: new music menu item
Thx ... I do have an option to preserve in my tagger, but that will mess up file sync to the server (assuming the file size does not change - which it won't if it's a FLAC). Can't think of a solution, but no big deal. Thx anyway. H. - Original Message - From: JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:04 PM Subject: [slim] Re: new music menu item hdarwen Wrote: A (slightly) related question ... is new music keyed off the file mod date, or does Slim remember when it was added to the library? Am asking because tag changes to existing songs seem to send the album to the top of the list for me. But I do tend to clear the database and rescan a lot. It uses the file's last modified date/time. Because of the way it works, it may be valuable to have a program that can set the last modified time of files. I have one that's a Windows Explorer extension that I sometimes use after editing tags. Some programs automatically preserve the modified time. I think metaflac does this, and IIRC flac.exe also stamps the same modified date/time on flac files as the original WAV. One (welcome) quirk of the NAS and tagging program I use is that when I edit tags in files stored on the NAS, the last modified time doesn't change, so I don't have to bother resetting them. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21087 ___ 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] Re: MusicMagic Mixer: What do you think?
The registered version has the API that enables integration with SlimServer. Basically, this allows you to generate a MusicMagic playlist through the slim web UI or the remote. - Original Message - From: Bart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:25 PM Subject: [slim] Re: MusicMagic Mixer: What do you think? NJRonbo Wrote: someone suggested using Predexis MusicMagic Mixer over the slim design software for playing music to the squeezebox. At the moment the only functionality is to send tracks to append to the current playlist on Slimserver, no functionality to see the current track, pause, skip, move tracks up or down, etc. However, Musicmagic is so good that even this is an improvement over the Slimserver web interface - Musicmagic's library can be searched and sorted much more easily than Slimserver's. It talks to Slimserver via the CLI, so in time it may have much better functionality. It can be used unregistered (I forget what restrictions the unregistered version has) -- Bart Bart's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=116 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21106 ___ 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] Re: new music menu item
A (slightly) related question ... is new music keyed off the file mod date, or does Slim remember when it was added to the library? Am asking because tag changes to existing songs seem to send the album to the top of the list for me. But I do tend to clear the database and rescan a lot. thx. h. - Original Message - From: kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [slim] Re: new music menu item Quoting fihzy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ah an upgrade to 6.5 2/14/2006 displays the Album/Yeah/Artist correctly. Now, can I rearrange that so it says Artist/Album/Year? at this time, you cannot. -k ___ 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] Let slimserver organize music?
you can probably do it with your tagger. if you're on windows, this one supports FLAC and will batch rename files according to the tags easily enough: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ - Original Message - From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:02 PM Subject: [slim] Let slimserver organize music? I had a catastrophic drive failure a couple nights ago. Through some creative means, I've managed to recover most of my music from backup and good luck. My problem is that while most of the tags are good, either the filenames themselves or the location is messed up. Is there a possibility that slimserver could have a feature that could reorganize my music for me? It would take me an extremely long time to put things in the locations I want them. I think iTunes has some feature about letting it manage the folder/library format, but all my music is flac. Or, should I start writing some code to do this? Paul ___ 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] Re: Can I stream Ableton to Squeeze?
yep ... i just figured that! think i might just connect the sound card directly to the amp ... thx for the suggestions though. - Original Message - From: radish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:19 PM Subject: [slim] Re: Can I stream Ableton to Squeeze? Don't forget there will be a (potentially significant) delay, so you won't be able to use the output as a live monitor for mixing. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20190 ___ 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] Squeezebox Or Glorified PC?
Less noise would be my number one reason. No fans. - Original Message - From: CavesOfTQLT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:04 AM Subject: [slim] Squeezebox Or Glorified PC? I have a SqueezeBox 2, and I'm about to order, right at this very minute, a SB3, but... this question keeps coming into my head. Why buy a SqueezeBox? A PC or some other type of system is needed to run SlimServer. Okay, but... You then need either a) Softsqueeze, or b) an actual hardware SqueezeBox to play your music. Now assume a motherboard/mainboard that has an on-board digital co-ax or SP/DIF output; can't the Softsqueeze player output via this to an amplifier with digital in, so negating the need for an actual SqueezeBox? Why pay $250+ for an SB? Isn't this overkill? Now if I want to send the same music to different locations then can't a PC be set-up running SoftSqueeze in each location, utilizing the on-board SP/DIF output for digital quality audio? Please someone give me the reason why I need to purchase another actual SqueezeBox hardware unit. BTW the need to have a motherboard/ram/powersupply at each location I want music in is irrelevant, and let's say I can get these at roughly equivalent cost to the SB3. And let's assume I can hide away these components behind the walls/in a cupboard so no case/enclosure needed... Discuss. Any help on this would be extremely grateful. -- CavesOfTQLT CavesOfTQLT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=263 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19342 ___ 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] Re: Automatic volume adjustment in 6.2
works well for me ... my files are all over the place in terms of the volume level, but the RG tags and slim seem to have sorted it all out ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of eschurr Sent: 29 October 2005 20:06 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Automatic volume adjustment in 6.2 Thanks for all the help. I've been debating if I should buy an SB2 and the volume equalization is compelling enough to make me get one. i've been wanting this for two years. Congratulations on adding it. Can anyone say whether it works well or not? does it make a noticeable difference? -- eschurr ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] default2 interface
Is anyone using the Default2 interface to access the server? It does not seem to work for me ... I don't get anything listed in the Music Player pane, even when stuff is playing, Advanced Search buttons don't work, get Error on page messages coming up in IE on the bottom left. Are there some settings I need to change in IE to use the page, or use another browser, or is Default2 not fully functional yet? Pointers appreciated. Thx. H. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: default2 interface
6.2 ... just tried Firefox and get exactly the same behaviour ... exbrowse3 is working OK though ... anything i can do to find out more? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of mattybain Sent: 28 October 2005 18:46 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: default2 interface Fine here, I am on 6.21 running Firefox. What version of SS are you using? There is something different under the hood with default2 and exbrowse3 I have no real idea of the specifics but see here if you are really interested http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15752highlight=default2 Do you see the same sort of problems with exbrowse3? -- mattybain That suit's as sharp as a page of Oscar Wilde witticisms that have been rolled up into a point, sprinkled with lemon juice and jabbed into someone's eye! - Ace, Stoke Me A Clipper ___ 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] Re: default2 interface
tried ... thx ... still not working ... but i am getting an error in the java console ... Error: string has no properties Source File: http:\\mserve1:9000/html/home.js on Line 90 ... which is ... FROM = + strings.getAttribute(from) + ; apparently. ??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of snarlydwarf Sent: 28 October 2005 20:39 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: default2 interface I had something similar happen to me with Fishbone yesterday... all the other skins worked fine, but the upper right box that lets you select which player and shows what's playing, etc... was white. Firefox said it was 'about:blank' and this was only on my machine at work: my home machine was fine. So I deleted the cookies saved on my work machine's firefox and hit reload.. and it worked. Something got odd in a cookie somewhere. Try deleting yours? -- snarlydwarf ___ 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] Re: replaygain = mp3gain??
I didn't see a response to this, but there have been a lot of slim mails in the last few days :) Anyway, i used exactly the same tools (foo mp3 tag) and get exacly the same behaviour - all zeros in the volume adgustments fields in the web interface. This is for MP3 files at least. All my flacs (tagged using the same tools), show replay gain OK. Any resolution that I have missed ... or do I file a bug? Thx. H. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of GoCubs Sent: 20 October 2005 18:55 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: replaygain = mp3gain?? OK. Now I'm confused. I had Foobar2000 go through all my MP3's and add replaygain tags. The gain information is visible via Foobar2000 and MP3tag 2.33a (so it's there). However, when I look at what SlimServer is reading for the tag information (via web interface), it's all zero's. What gives? I'm running the latest beta of 6.2 and I've done some complete DB rescans. In listening it didn't seem like replay gain was making any difference, and as it turns out, looks like SlimServer isn't picking up the data. Any ideas? -Greg -- GoCubs ___ 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] Re: replaygain = mp3gain??
OK ... so i submitted one ... http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2381 Thx. h. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of GoCubs Sent: 26 October 2005 19:10 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: replaygain = mp3gain?? Howard Darwen Wrote: Anyway, i used exactly the same tools (foo mp3 tag) and get exacly the same behaviour - all zeros in the volume adgustments fields in the web interface. This is for MP3 files at least. All my flacs (tagged using the same tools), show replay gain OK. Any resolution that I have missed ... or do I file a bug? This thread also seemed to touch on the problem: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17342page=1pp=10 But likewise, no solution or confirmation of a bug has been said. -Greg -- GoCubs ___ 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] Tracks featuring other artists
there's no easy solution as far as i can see. i use the same method as you - put everything in the ARTIST tag. you could split the artists out like you say, but after a lot of thought i came to the conclusion that putting everything in the one tag was the most sensible - and it comes up as a selection in an artist search anyway. also, there are other examples of similar situations: use of presents and versus for example: Lenny Fontana pres. Cassioware Cracked Logic vs. Zed's Ded you'd need solutions for all of them, not to mention occasional use of with and even showcases. and things can get really out of control when multiple use comes into play - e.g. my all time favourite: Blaze pres. Underground Dance Artists United For Life feat. Barbara Tucker thx. h. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Meyer Sent: 22 October 2005 22:18 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Tracks featuring other artists I tried asking about this in the Ripping list, but got no responses, so I thought I'd open it up to a wider audience... What do people think the best way is to tag tracks such as Twista feat Kanya West Jamie Foxx? I currently have a few of these tracks with the whole string entered in a single ARTIST tag. I'd like to tag them as separate artists, with associated ARTISTSORT tags. Eg. I could enter the example above as: ARTIST = Twista;Kanya West;Jamie Foxx ARTISTSORT = Twista;West, Kanya;Foxx, Jamie I think this is a little better. However, this would mean I am losing the information that associates the 2nd and 3rd atists as featuring artists; browsing the entry would list the artist as Twister and Kanya West and Jamie Foxx. I wondered if there is a tag for listing the featuring artists? I've seen an INVOLVEDPERSONS tag - but I guess there's no specific support for the tag in SlimServer, or an associated SORT tag. Perhaps as an enhancement, a special character after the separator character could indicate to SlimServer to use feat. instead of and as separator text? Eg. something like ARTIST = Twista;+Kanya West;Jamie Foxx I'm also thinking that the featured artists shouldn't be listed in Browse Artists, unless they are also in the library as an album artist - like how teh new various artist logic works. What should I do? How have others organised their tags? Phil ___ 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] Backup: REV drive or external HD?
Personally, I use an extra external hard disc. It's more expensive, but it's a little quicker/easier, and it means that any tweeks made to the tags as I go along are also backed up (I'm forever fixing small mistakes in stuff I thought was correct first time round). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JayNYC Sent: 23 August 2005 05:05 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Backup: REV drive or external HD? What is the general consensus on the best way to back up our 250GB+ and growing FLAC collections? REV drive and a few REV disks stored at a friends house in event of fire or external hard drive etc.. -- JayNYC ___ 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] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
why not just get Music Magic and create the playlists dynamically from one song. it's way easier and you may even find some hidden gems in your collection. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Khuli Sent: 12 August 2005 09:32 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! wr420 Wrote: I'm sure this kitchen can use another cook.. How about a send to plugin During the playback of any song, playlist item ect.. Hold down some button on the remote. A send to dialog would appear on the screen allowing you to choose an existing playlist to add that song to or option to create a new one. As a new SB user, I'm astounded that this isn't standard behaviour. One of the reasons for buying it was to make it easy to create a 'Party playlist', a 'romantic playlist', a 'background music' playlist... etc etc -- Khuli ___ 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] Re: Feature request - guessing tags
on your original post it's not clear what you are trying to do. there are no month and day tags as such, only year. just use something like ARTIST - YEAR - ALBUM, and put the month and date info in the album field if you want to see it. be careful that you don't have different albums with the same album name though, as slim will see these as the same album i think. h. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of buzd Sent: 04 August 2005 07:03 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Feature request - guessing tags Hate to be a pain, but is my logic so mucked up that this doesn't even merit a response? (Even though that probably sounds like it, I'm not trying to be pushy or annoying, but if I missed something obvious, I'd appreciate someone pointing it out). I appreciate your comments. Thanks, ashton -- buzd ___ 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] MusicMagic - bizarre mixes..
most of the mixes i get out are pretty spot on ... there are occasional tracks that are missplaced, but i just live with it. one thing i have done is put stuff i don't want included in MMM mixes in a separate folder so that they don't get picked up by MMM - but slim can still see them. i do this mainly on mix albums where i don't want individual mixed tracks popping up in a play list, but you could handle embarassing stuff in that way too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 31 July 2005 21:24 To: Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] MusicMagic - bizarre mixes.. Recently got MusicMagic plugin up and running, and wondering if anyone can share some MM experiences with me? On the whole, I'm finding it pretty cool: it's generating some decent mixes for middle of the road stuff, but it seems to generate some unusual mixes for on the edge sort of stuff. e.g. if I go for a mix around some mainstream indie music (think Oasis, Coldplay, Travis - and you've got the general idea), it works like a charm. But if I go for a mix around some metal (think Helmet, Quarashi, Pantera etc) then it throws in a fair bit of techno-dance, and some embarrassing pop. Similarly, if I go for a hard-house type mix it throws in quite a lot of embarrassing pop. When I say embarrassing pop I mean that I've got a Best Chart Hits in the world... Ever!! album that I bought in a moment of madness. Among a couple of half decent tracks, there's some absolute dirge - including a kind half-hearted-attempt-at-reggae track by Boy George which is just shameful. Particularly shameful when it turns up in a mix of hard-house/trace. In fact, MM seems to love this Boy George track and keeps trying to sneak it in to almost any mix I request which is a bit irritating. I dare say it would fit quite well with something like UB40, for example. But I can't understand why MM tries to stick it in the middle of a punk-metal mix or a dangerously hard house mix. I've played with a few of the settings on the SB web panel (e.g. MusicMagic mix style at the max value of 200) but there seems to be only a marginal improvement. Also, MM application was running for nearly 2 days and has complete analysis - all tracks are apparently verified, and I rebooted the server and got slimserver to rescan the music library. As far as I can tell, everything is as it should be on the slimserver side - any settings I can play with in the MM application? I kind of loathe to delete stuff from my music library just for this purpose. Even if I don't like a some of the music, it goes against the whole idea of squeezebox to delete tracks here and there. Cheers! Dan. ___ 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] Re: Volume levels across files
would it not be better to use replaygain if the aim is to get the files to be at the same perceived volume level? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of stuorguk Sent: 12 July 2005 14:08 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Volume levels across files Mike Hanson Wrote: Wouldn't it be cool if we could place a file called VOLUME.TXT into the directory. When SlimServer saw this file, it would look for a single number within, which would be a volume adjustment amount. -= Mike Hanson =- You might want to add your idea, and vote for this feature request: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1700 Stuart. -- stuorguk ___ 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] Re: Why should I use ITunes
access to your iTunes playlists (including smart playlists), and (in theory at least) fewer re-scans ... maybe the artwork gets imported too, though i don't use iTunes, so am not sure. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of bouton Sent: 16 June 2005 17:38 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Why should I use ITunes may be the short answer - but the question is even more basic than that. If I like itunes, whar does usng it with slimserver plugin give me? radish Wrote: I guess the short answer to your question is - you don't have to. If you like iTunes, use it, if (like me) you don't see a need for it, then don't. -- bouton ___ 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] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3
from what i've worked out, it MMM does something like this ...
- first, MMM generates a fingerprint for each song, taking about 10 secs per
song
- if MMM can find that song from the fingerprint in the online database then
it can get the full analysis data from there (cos someone else has already
done it for you and it's been uploaded to the online database!)
- if the song is not in the online database then it takes roughly 80% of the
playtime of the song to analyse
for me it took 3 to 4 days continuous running to analyse 2000 FLACs. it's
hard to determine, but I think about half my music was not on the server.
on the first pass, i switched slim off for the analysis. i now have it on
again, but the analysis process does not work so well when both are on.
which is a total pain in the arse as i add music all the time and i don't
want to keep switching slim off.
if slim is on when you're analysing, from my experience it will either slow
it down massively or just grind to a halt completely. it also indicates slim
is hogging the CPU rather than MMM (which seems strange).
so i'm thinking of an alternative strategy where i do the analysis on my
normal PC, archive the info into the tags, then upload to the server. which
means the data is already there and MMM won't have to analyse. i don't
really like this though, and it would be better if things worked with both
services on at the server.
thx.
h.
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To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
Subject: [slim] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3
After more experimentation ('testing' would be too grand a word!) last
night, I found that there was some progress, it's just extremely slow.
I left my machine running MMM and SlimServer all evening, probably
around 3 hours, and of 2,000 songs I had the 'mm' icon down to early
'C' entries. After another hour, most of the 'C's had been done.
I don't know the precise alphabetical distribution of my collection,
but this implies it's got a way to go yet. I've left it running today
while I'm in the office. Hopefully it'll reach a point where SlimServer
knows all about the MMM library and will then, with a sigh of relief,
slip back into normal running.
Does this fit with other people's experience when first introducing MMM
and SS to each other? People have posted issues of 30 min delays when
adding an album's worth of songs, but nothing about the initial scan.
Maybe it's something with these particular versions - if you initially
scanned your collection with earlier versions you're okay?
That leads to another question. If I upgrade either MMM or SS, will I
have to repeat this painful process?
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks,
Andrew
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RE: [slim] Re: Tagging WAV files
as far as i know you can tag wavs using the INFO chunk but hardly any software supports this, and those that do are fairly unuseable for mass tagging. EAC lets you add an ID3tag to a WAV, but am not sure if slim will pick this up (most software will not). i spent ages trying to do this and in the end just decided FLAC was my only option. and am happy i went that way now as it saves me disc space as well. thx. h. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of sleepysurf Sent: 29 April 2005 13:05 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Tagging WAV files As far as I know, .WAV files cannot be tagged. However .FLAC files ARE tagged, and LOSSLESS. SB2 works perfectly with .FLAC Best approach is to rip CD's to FLAC using EAC, for bit-perfect extraction. Also, if for any reason you need to edit tags after ripping the files, and if running Windows OS, I recommend a freeware program called AudioShell which lets you edit .FLAC tags by just right-clicking on the file! -- sleepysurf ___ 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] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3
i think it's the analysis that takes the time. and having slim up while your analysing doesn't seem a good idea. once it's all done though, it is really kool. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of hunta Sent: 29 April 2005 19:02 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3 Well, having left MMM and SS thrashing away while I went to the office, I got back to find that they've sorted themselves out and all songs have the 'mm' logo next to them. CPU is down to standard, though it does seem to have the odd busy moment which also causes a pause in playing. My SB2 hasn't arrived yet, so I'm just running SoftSqueeze - hopefull a hardware buffer will take care of that. So, all in all it seems to work. Just takes a healthy dose of patience... I guess the reason why SS takes so long to read a fully analyzed and verified MMM library will remain a mystery for now. Thanks to all for you input. Andrew -- hunta ___ 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] MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3
Strange as MMM should be the process hogging CPE when it's scanning as far as I can see. Am not sure what slim could be doing. I've actually turned slim off while MMM is scanning my library - not because it was consuming CPU, it's just MMM randomly stopped when I had slim on, and it seems to be running more consistently now. I have MMM scanning a subset of my files right now. Started on Sunday on a batch of 2000 FLACS and it has about 400 to go. But it depends on whether the songs in your collection already exist in the music magic online database or not - or that's what I have assumed from what I have read. If a track is already in the online database then MMM only seems to have to generate a fingerprint (10 secs or so). If the track can't be found in the database from the fingerprint then MMM does a detailed analysis - which apparently takes 80% of the songs playtime. Most of my tunes seem not to be there :) Thx. H. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of hunta Sent: 26 April 2005 22:40 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3 I've installed SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3 to get to grips with things while I wait for my SB2 to arrive. This evening I tried integrating MusicMagic. It took a while to get the two talking to each other, solved only when the mysterious 'Use MusicMagic Playlist' radio button came to light. As soon as that was checked things fell into place. However, slim.exe has been running at near 100% CPU ever since. I guess this is while it reads the MusicMagic data. Is this normal, and if so how long can I expect it to last? At present the whole thing is unusable. I'm running XP SP2 on a machine with plenty of grunt. Thanks in advance. Andrew -- hunta ___ 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
