Re: [slim] DSBridge - A simpler way to stream Spotify
chp;438750 Wrote: *Laz*, the new release will work with iTunes, just make sure to drop everything in the bin/ folder into the iTunes directory. Do note that if your music is not 44.1kHz stereo, there will be issues. Hi chp, Thanks for the update and my apologies for the delay in my reply - I suspect I'm on the opposite side of the world to you. Things are looking better now but not quite there. I now get the blue icon for about half a second before it vanishes again (faster than I get my mouse down for a hover over). I suspect my problem is that my copy of iTunes takes a very long time to fire up - of the order 3 to 10 seconds (I keep my library files on a network drive and thanks to Apples monolithic approach, I'm loading about 20 MB across the network). Is there any chance you can make the delay a configuration variable in the ini file so that I can experiment with this a bit further. The other possibility is that I'm not set up for 44.1kHz output - am I correct in assuming that I need to do this in the Quicktime Control panel? I currently have all of my sound devices set to 44.1kHz 16 bit stereo. I also have a quick suggestion for an interface option in the future. I really like the ability to mute the local output - it would be even more awesome if you could add a click on the icon option to select between three options of: Play local (pass through?), Stream, Play local and Stream. Finally, I presume you aware that this code is likely to give Apple corporate types heartburn - they do so like their Bonjour solution with tie in to iTunes and Airport Express. Thanks again for the good work. Laz -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64590 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DSBridge - A simpler way to stream Spotify
chp;432858 Wrote: I thought I'd share the fruits of my labour here... I have written a small drop-in wrapper utility that will allow you to stream among other things Spotify (anything that uses the first DirectSound API basically) as MP3 (with metadata). chp, I suspect this is dumb question, but should it be possible for me to use this as a wrapper for iTunes? (Not as silly as it sounds - I want to stream audio from iTunes movies to another location - I use the SB normally when I'm listening to my own library). Anyway, I have done the obvious and dropped the dsbridge and the lame dlls in the directory. The red error icon comes up briefly and then disappears altogether when iTunes comes up. Could you let me know if: a) What I'm trying to do should be feasible? b) Any suggestions as to changes I could make to get the system working? Cheers, Laz -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64590 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 Question: Does Album Catalogue Creator (RC5+) create a trustworthy output? - Yes - Yes but with minor issues - No - It does not work at all Frank, Some more info on 3716. I am running my slimserver on a linux box on the 255.255.255.0 and I have been getting the 3716 error pretty well regardless of whether I include the server box in my trusted sites or not. The only way I have got the system to run is allow Access to data sources across domains for the internet zone (no effect in the other zones). In this case, I don't need to add the slimserver IP to the trusted sites list. I presume this is because my windows box does not recognise my slimserver box as being in the same domain (and I'm too lazy to figure out what I need to change - I can live with doing this change as a one off to run acc). Anyway, I hope this is helpful. Now I'm getting the report without cover art, so on to trouble shooting that! Cheers Larry -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Mismatch between Itunes and SC track count - helpful script
Hi All, I've had a long standing problem with track count mismatches between iTunes and SC - mainly related to the fact that iTunes is case insensitive and accent sensitive while SC appears to be case sensitive and tends to strip accents from path names (see http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4892) Anyway, this problem finally reached the point that I was irritated enough to do something about it. As my perl-fu is not up to scratch at the moment, I have written a quick VBscript to scan the iTunes library (attached below). The scan looks for file paths containing accents (resolution is to remove the accent from the tune name in iTunes) and iTunes file paths that have a different capitalization to the actual file path (normally occurs with multiple albums by one artist - make sure the capitalization of the artist is consistent across albums in iTunes). Anyway, I hope this is useful for other Squeezecenter users mixing up Windows iTunes and Linux Squeezecenter. Cheers, Laz ' script begins - save as CheckItunesFiles.vbs Option Explicit ' If the script engine is WScript,next lines will execute the script again using ' CScript and exit from the current WScript script. '~~ If InStr(1,WScript.FullName, wscript, 1) Then CreateObject(WScript.Shell).Run cscript.exe //NoLogo _ WScript.ScriptFullName , 1, False WScript.Quit End If '~~ Dim objFS Dim objFile Dim objItunes dim objTracks Dim strItunesName Dim strActualName Dim boolMismatchFound dim strAccents dim strRemoveAccents dim i dim j ' Set objFS = Wscript.CreateObject(Scripting.FileSystemObject) set objItunes = wscript.createobject(Itunes.Application) set objTracks = objItunes.LibraryPlaylist.Tracks boolMismatchFound = False strAccents = array(À, Á, Â, Ã, Ä, Ç, È, É, Ê, Ë, Ì, Í, Î, Ï, Ñ, _ Ò, Ó, Ô, Õ, Ö, Ù, Ú, Û, Ü, ß, à, á, â, ã, ä, ç, è, _ é, ê, ë, ì, í, î, ï, ñ, ò, ó, ô, õ, ö, ù, ú, û, ü) strRemoveAccents = array(A, A, A, A, A, C, E, E, E, E, I, I, I, I, N, O, O, O, O, O, U, U, U, U, ss, a, a, a, a, a, c, e, e, e, e, i, i, i, i, n, o, o, o, o, o, u, u, u, u) for i = 1 to objTracks.Count strItunesName = objTracks.Item(i).Location ' strItunesName = M:\iTunes\iTunes Music\rcade Fire\Funeral\02 Neighborhood #2 (Laïka).mp3 ' wscript.stdout.writeline i , strItunesName if objFS.fileexists(strItunesName) then set objFile = objFS.GetFile(strItunesName) strActualName= objfile.path ' wscript.stdout.writeline strActualName if strcomp(strItunesName, strActualName, vbBinaryCompare) 0 then If not boolMismatchFound then boolMismatchFound = True end if wscript.stdout.Writeline Path case errors: strItunesName else for j = 0 to ubound(strAccents) if instr(strItunesName, strAccents(j)) then If not boolMismatchFound then boolMismatchFound = True end if wscript.stdout.Writeline Path contains accents: strItunesName ' strItunesName = replace(strItunesName, strAccents(q), strRemoveAccents(q)) exit for end if next ' j end if else If not boolMismatchFound then wscript.stdout.Writeline Mismatch(es) found boolMismatchFound = True end if wscript.stdout.Writeline Missing file: strItunesName end if next ' i if not boolMismatchfound then wscript.stdout.writeline No mismatches found. end if wscript.stdout.write Hit enter to continue. wscript.stdin.readline set objFS = nothing set objFile = nothing Set objItunes = nothing Set objTracks = nothing -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53690 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC7 doesn't recognize all MP3 files
Shein, This is a long standing issue - check http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4892 (I've just run into again, and now I can't even get the scanner to tell me which files are causing the problem - grump). Larry -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50032 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iTunes playlists empty...
You may need to specify a Slim Server playlists directory - I couldn't get SS to pick up iTunes playlists until I did this. Also, some of the older versions of SS were just crap at reading iTunes xml (much better with 6.5.2/3) -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Certain artists not appearing in Slimserver library with itunes...
Can you do a get info from iTunes on the albums and check if the cases of the pathname to the mp3/m4a files match the actual case of the path to your path? I.e. is the get info paths something like ../sting/.. while the actual path name is ../Sting/..? If this is the case, this is a bug I reported about a week ago. Cheers, Laz -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34690 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Certain artists not appearing in Slimserver library with itunes...
Are you running slimserver on Windows, OSX or Unix, and are you running iTunes on the same machine? I know that this problem crops up for me because I have slimserver on a Linux box and am running iTunes from a shared folder on the Linux box - I have problems with Album/Artist case names and special characters in the Itunes xml file not matching the actual filepath. (if you are running on windows this should not be the cause of the problem). -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34690 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
Pat Farrell;188703 Wrote: Laz wrote:[color=blue] That is way overkill. I ran for years on a P3-500 with 386MB, and currently run on an AMD 2400+ (about 1.5 gHz) with a gig of ram, Wifi G. Since ram is nearly free, I don't see any reason to not put in lots, but as a minimum, I think you're over specifying it, and will scare people away who would be happy campers. I was indulging in a bit of hyperbole. My point was that the minimum requirements for slimserver are quite low relative to the performance of a new, cheap PC - and cost of such a PC is about the same as one squeezebox! Given this, why not just raise the bar for recommended minimum server specs and reduce the scope for broader market complaints about responsive. Cheers, Laz -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why is the Squeezebox so dependant on the server?
Guys, I agree with the OP about remote latency, connectivity and buffering. These are all a pain in the backside for me. However, they are also own goals, because I'm using an underpowered server, one of my wireless routers is surrounded by electronics, the other is surrounded by more electronics and sits in a Faraday cage style metal stereo rack, and I keep them at opposite ends of a house with significant rebar. I'm perpetually amazed that my network works at all. Even so, the only time latency becomes really ignificant is when I'm working with both iTunes and slim at the same time. As I see it, Logitech/Slim can deal with this issue by simply upping the minimum required server spec and bandwidth requirements for the broader release. Most people will not be terrible stressed to see a requirement for a 2GHz+, 2GB+ @ 54MBs or better. If you want to get by on less powerful hardware, you can, but don't be too surprised by the performance hit you suffer. -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't add Playlists menu item to Squeezebox
Gave the restart a try, but no luck. I'm also unable to access the alarm menu on the older (v2) squeezebox. I'm thinking a flush of preferences/forget player may be in order. Thanks for the head's up on the prefs file - I'll have a dig in there as well. Laz -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33614 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Can't add Playlists menu item to Squeezebox
Hi All, I've just bought my second squeezebox (mmm, all black v3, nice) and I am now suffering a bit of frustration with adding a playlists item to squeezebox menu. If anybody can help with this, it would be much appreciated. The summary of my setup and the problem is as follows: - Slimserver 6.5.1 running on Ubuntu. - All music and playlists taken from my iTunes library. The library is on the Ubuntu box. - No non-iTunes playlists. - Playlists are available and work fine from the server web interface. - Playlists are available and work from the Browse-Playlists menu on the Squeezeboxen. - I had added a Playlists top menu item to my old Squeezebox, which was working fine. - Problem: I expected it would be trivial to add a Playlists menu item to the new Squeezebox. Unfortunately, the Playlists menu item is not available on the Squeezebox config menu on the server. - To make matters worse I deleted the Playlists item from my old squeezebox menu and can't add it back! Can anybody help add Playlists back to my top level Squeezebox menus (I can still get there by browse, but I'd like to avoid the two step) Cheers, Larry -- Laz Laz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33614 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes issues
Scanning iTunes results in extra albums, artists, and songs (the number varies when I rescan, but varies around 15, 30 and 500 respectively). I suspect this has to do with non-latin characters in names, as I notice that the scan had a real problem with a German alblum with a u-umlaut and also a Los Lobos album with an o-grave. Still looking for a solution, but may need to revert to 6.01 if the going doesn't get better. -- Laz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes issues
I uninstalled slimserver, deleted the m3u playlists created by slim server, deleted the slimserver directory, reinstalled 6.02. At this stage I end up with 1 extra track, 2 extra albums and 2 extra artists. I'm willing to live with this until 6.1. Probably not a viable option if you have a substantial investment in slim playlists. You could try editing the m3u playlists directly to see if you have junk entries from the previous version (I haven't tried this - YMMV). Cheers, Laz -- Laz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
