[slim] Albums view never displays
Using Squeezecenter 7.0 and Firefox. Clicking on Albums never results in a display of albums. The program indicates it is loading for about 15 minutes and then stops loading and just displays an empty page on the left. Clicking on Artists works fine and displays all Artists within a minute or so, as do Genres, Years and Music Folder. I believe I have about 700 albums loaded. Anyone have a solution to this? John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45742 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How Add to Playlist?
Answering my own question, I understand now. I can add a song to the playlist and then play it for preview purposes. If I want to keep it, click save. If it's not the song I wanted, delete it from the playlist. -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45026 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How Add to Playlist?
Thanks. I was missing the idea. Is there any way to be able to preview a song (to make sure it's the right one) and then immediately add it to the playlist? -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45026 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How Add to Playlist?
This is going to be embarrassing, I'm sure. Using SqueezeCenter 7.0 on Windows XP. Listened to a song, clicked Save and gave a title to the new Playlist, and successfully added the first song to the new playlist. Then found another song, but couldn't figure out how to add it to the newly started playlist. Clicking Save in the lower right corner of the right window just seems to start a new playlist. Clicking Add in the playlist on the left window opens a box, but do I type in the path to the song? Just can't quite figure out how to add a second song to a playlist. John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45026 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What cache to delete to solve libary problems?
Mike, I am following your suggestion about re-visiting tag information before the meat cleaver approach and I am making some progress. For example, an album called At Last by Etta James shows up in SlimServer as At Last by At Last. I found under Extended Tags in the tag editor that there is a band entry and that value was At Last. So I changed band to Etta James. Now I have At Last by Etta James, At Last. I've got to figure out how to delete the second At Last, but this method supports your notion that the problem lies not in the cache. Thanks. -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41341 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] What cache to delete to solve libary problems?
Using SlimServer 6.5.4 on Windows Vista and it's running fine. Only real problems are with the Music Library which refuses to accept some changes to tags, while most other changes are accepted. The choices of Look for New and Clear and Rescan simply do not dislodge some persistent errant entries, although those choices do correct others. I've worked my way through tags in Mp3tag dozens of times on these certain entries and tag data are just not the problem. I've seen references to clearing the cache files in SlimServer, but I can't quite figure out where the files are. In Windows Vista, there are two paths: Program FILES/SlimServer/server/CPAN/Cache and Program DATA/SlimServer/Cache under which there are four folders: Artwork, Filecache, MySQL and Templates. I am inclined to think the cache files to delete for rebuilding are those under the Program DATA folder, but which of the four folders or their subfolders do I delete? John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41341 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Cant Access Slimserver
This is pure guess. I had same experience recently. The source of the problem was that I clicked on SqueezeNetwork on the Home page under Internet Radio just to see what it was. It took me to a login page where I stopped. Thereafter, I could not get Squeezebox to work. I think it changed my settings or something, but I solved the problem by re-programming it. John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41076 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What to do with CD booklets
Very nice. I wish there were such plugins for other software. I'll look some more at JRMC. -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40304 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What to do with CD booklets
MrC - You have my attention. I found the River's web site and looked at it briefly. Do you mean that you use J River's Media Center instead of Slimserver to control the Squeezebox so as to be able to create your playlists from within River's Media Center where you can also organize your own database of music, etc.? John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40304 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What to do with CD booklets
If the SB software permitted the use of other cataloging software, you could store all kinds of custom information in such other software. You could add your own notes about the music, the musicians, etc. I do very much like the look of the SlimServer software. John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40304 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
I downloaded Slimserver and took a look at it. It has a handsome interface with lots of white space which is easy on the eyes. The available information is nicely laid out and easy to read. It can browse by various categories such as genre, artist, track name. It doesnt show who are the musicians and what they are playing for each track, which is kind of an important topic in jazz. There doesnt seem to be any way to customize the information so as to add notes about the CD, or the record label, or URLs that have information about Coltrane and his Giant Steps album, for example. It doesnt appear possible to correct the data provided for the CD. It gives you good, fundamental information, but I think you are stuck with that. I dont want to sound like I am carping or finding fault with SS. I am not at all and it looks very nice and presents good information. I am only noting the limitations and regretting that theres nothing more the user can add. It looks like we all get the same information. At a minimum, it seems as though I could use Squeebox for the pleasure of listening through my home audio system to all of the music stored on a hard drive. I can continue to store the information I want about the music in my choice of software, identify those songs I want to hear and then open SS to find the artists, titles and tracks and create a playlist. Ill just use two applications to accomplish the task. Someone here already suggested that idea and I can see how it would work. Erland offered some encouragement. It sounds as though developers may already be thinking and implementing ways to make external software work through SS. Maybe in a year my problem will have been solved. I really havent been ripping much music at all. I havent been interested in listening to music on the computer and until about the day that I first posted, I hadnt explored whether it was even possible to listen to music stored on a hard drive through a home audio system. As I am sure everyone noted, I dived into this forum with my original post knowing next to nothing about this process, but I learned a lot (learned enough to know that I dont know nearly enough, which is a good start) in short order. The music I have ripped has been through Nero which doesnt seem to access a very complete database and so I have manually added artist name and individual track names, which has been fine for the few CDs I have entered. Now the idea of manual entries with so many CDs is daunting. On this laptop I have been using to communicate with the forum, I dont have Nero and so for the first time used Windows Media Player to rip a CD to this hard drive to check out how SS would show it. WMP seemed to do an adequate job and saved the information in the way I have done it, by artist name, CD title and individual tracks. It saved the files in .wma format, which I think is okay. I originally thought I would save them in .wav format, but jeez those are large files, and I have read that .wma format is pretty faithful to playing the music as it would off the CD directly. I almost think I know better than to ask this, but is there a better program than Windows Media Player for ripping? And is there a file format that is preferred over .wma? -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
Radish, In some ways, your post brings me back to the beginning of this thread. I just read the entire thread again. I think some poorly expressed statements I made may have left the wrong impression. I understand the general concept that SB needs SS to run, like Client for Microsoft Networks is needed to access resources on a Windows network. I never meant to say that I didnt want to use SS for its resources to transfer sound files from the computer to SB to the home audio system. I understand that SB relies on and MUST have SS to operate. But I also understand (I think) that SS has a catalog feature from which the user selects the sound files to be transferred. What I want to do is use a different catalog as an overlay to only that part of the SS software from which I can select the sound files and then rely on SSs expertise to move the sound files to SB. To continue the analogy, rather than use Windows Explorer to surf the necessary Client for Microsoft Networks, I would use a third-party utility which is more powerful and full-featured than Windows Explorer. But in using that analogy, I dont mean to offend SS and suggest that it is not powerful. I want to use the separate catalog software only because I like it and have many music tracks cataloged there with the same tracks (mostly jazz) being played by different groups of musicians. I can select the same song by different groups of musicians or the same musicians but over different time periods and listen to the differences. Its really not a huge desire, but if it can be done, Id like to do it. Certainly, I could maintain the catalog software I have for its information, etc., and then turn to SSs catalog to choose the songs. Maybe thats what I will have to do. In short, I know that I NEED to use SS with SB and I WANT to use SS and all of its features (because it gets such great reviews), EXCEPT I want to use a different software from which to select the music. It seemed originally to me as though SS would not care whether I used its music browser or my own, but it sounds as though I have to use its catalog system. And then the complication of tags arose. I know we are at the beat the dead horse stage in this thread and if everyone is tired of it, I understand. I have learned and appreciate all the advice I have received. Ill eventually get something to work. John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
I agree that it would look a lot better if the display accurately displayed and I would prefer that. My concern was whether the absence of tags would prevent Slimserver from working at all. -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
Does Slimserver or any other player need to know the track name for purposes of displaying that information? Does it need the tag information for any other reason? If I were to choose a track saved on computer that had no tag information but to be played through Slimserver, would Slimserver still play track but show no meaningful information in its display? John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
ursus, I didn't get an answer from the Music Label forum. I really am curious where the tag information should be coming from. Should it be on the CD from which I have copied the music and saved it as a wma file or in some other format? Should it come from Gracenote when I query that database with the CD in the computer player for information about the CD? If that doesn't happen, is the tag information supposed to come from a software program for cataloging the music files? And I am still wondering why tag data is important to Slimserver. Thanks, John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
Mark, Where should that tag information be coming from? I insert the CD and save the files as wma files. The database software queries the Gracenote library for information. I am just wondering at what stage that tag information gets inserted. Seems like it should be associated with the tracks on the CD originally and get transferred with the file to the HDD. -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
Many thanks again for all your help. I have a lot to learn yet. That is a disappointment. John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
Mark, No, there is no information in the fields from the wma files. I take it I am up against another hurdle and one which shouldn't be the case, as you say. Were I to save tracks from CDs as wma files, is there is way to add the tag information in that process? I still have CDs to add to the hard drive. John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
Mark, No, you didn't come across as mean at all. I'm at that unfortunate stage where I know next to nothing about this topic that you know a lot about and I really appreciate you assisting me. I am reading as much and as fast as I can on the web. I am probably using terms wrong and missing entire concepts that can be very frustrating for others. -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
Im not yet sure there is anything wrong with Slimserver. The only thing wrong with Slimserver that I think I know of is that I cannot use my existing database software with it where I have all CDs listed with tracks, musicians, individual notes, etc. With my existing software, I have a comprehensive database from which I can compile a playlist which I would like to use to transfer the music to play on the home audio system. I appreciate that Squeezebox has to have server software to ship the music from the PC to Squeezebox and if its as good at it as Ive heard, I would love to buy the hardware and use the high quality server software to get great audio. My only departure from it is to make music selections not from Slimservers catalog but from my own existing catalog. I like Aubuti's description of Slimserver and I had thought that cataloging was a secondary feature, but I was afraid that I had to use Slimservers catalog system if I used Slimserver at all. I will try to find out about tags; I know nothing about them. I will also find out about Music Labels codecs. I dont really want to select tracks from the Squeezebox remote. I really like the idea of sitting at the computer and creating a unique playlist of tracks for a few hours of music. -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
Mark, I want the sound quality to be as good as or nearly as good as putting the CD in the audio system's CD player, which is why I assumed a long cable from the sound card to the RCA jacks on the back of the receiver was not the solution. So I do want very good sound quality. Do you know of anyone that makes something as good as Squeezebox but doesn't commit the buyer to using the software that comes with it? I had originally thought that Squeezebox simply included cataloging software as an option for those who didn't have anything else, much as CD burner drivers come from companies with add-on software that will do all sorts of things you can do with other software if you prefer. Why would Squeezebox make hardware that excludes a customer base that already has software for cataloging music? John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
Thanks for the answer. I was sure puzzled by that. Do you know of other hardware or another way I can play music files stored on the computer hard drive on my home audio system? -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Can I Use Other Catalog Software?
I have music files organized on my Windows XP Home hard drive through a database program called Music Label 2008, which I like very much. I have lots of information stored in that database and Music Label will play those music files using Windows Media Player on the computer. I want to be able to play those music files on my home audio system. Id like to click on the music files in the Music Label 2008 database program and instead of hearing the music come through the computers audio system, I would hear it come out of the home audio system. Squeezebox seems to be hardware that would do that for me, but I admit very little understanding of this idea. My question is whether I can continue to use Music Label 2008 with Squeezebox to move the music files wirelessly through the home network system on a router to my home audio system? The Slimserver software has me confused because it also apparently catalogs music files but I dont want to use that software. Perhaps this is just a matter of using Squeezebox for the hardware but ignoring the software that comes with it. John -- JSharp JSharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
