[slim] what ever happened to the bug-tracker?
Haven't been here in ages, and I got to thinking to myself, I wonder if I should update my old 6.3 SlimServer (running on an old freebsd 5.5). Looks like there's been lotsa changes! Anyways, is the old bug tracker still around? I thought I'd check on a couple of old issues that I was interested in, but I can't seem to find it. -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46989 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] search on NAS-based slimserver
Pellicle, can you tell us how much noise the Thecus box puts out? Also, does it have a telnet/ssh interface, and can one install any old software one wants on it? (ie, imap+postfix, apache, etc) -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Internet speed and wireless network
this is a long shot, but ya never know... It *could* possibly be DNS issues. A similar symptom happened to me a long time ago (FreeBSD), when my cable-modem provider was having all sorts of trouble. I've never touched a mac, but you might try looking into setting up your own local DNS, at least so that your server doesn't try and hit your ISP's DNS server to lookup host-names for your 192.168.2.* addresses on your LAN. Under 'bsd, it was just a matter of setting up /etc/hosts with a whole buncha entries for my network: -- ::1 localhost 127.0.0.1localhost 192.168.1.1 router 192.168.1.2 server 192.168.1.3 dot3 192.168.1.4 dot4 192.168.1.5 dot5 ... 192.168.1.255 dot255 -- And also making sure that my /etc/host.conf file looked like: -- hosts bind -- This tells the OS to first try resolving hostnames from the local hosts file first, and THEN to consult bind (which would try to get the info from a DNS server on the internet, typically whatever your cable-modem tells it to). Probably not much help, though OSX is derived from 'bsd. Might give you something to go on, anyways. Good luck! -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34192 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Skin Breaks SlimServer!
> Then I was fiddling with the skins. I set default2, and not only > was it really odd looking, it got 404s trying to set a different > skin. Did you try forcing a refresh on the page? Might be an old cached version mucking things up... -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29936 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 and Random Mix
> any better after that? Yeah, that fixed it -- thanks a lot Kevin! IIRC, you wrote this plugin, too, didn't you? It's very nice. -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27860 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.5 and Random Mix
I just installed 6.5 on a Win2k box, and have so far found only one bug -- the Random Mix option under the 'Browse' menu (default web interface) looks a little funny. (No genre names, just numbers!) Anyone else see this? There any work-arounds? +---+ |Filename: SlimServer-wtf.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1739| +---+ -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27860 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: OT: HDTV advice?
Well, personally, I like the LCD's, cuz they run a whole lot cooler and use a lot less electricity. Slashdot just had an article discussing this very subject... http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/08/20/1526201.shtml -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26580 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How many SlimDevices units have been sold?
GoCubs Wrote: > I have quite elaborate server logs for downloads of my SuperDateTime > plugin. But I'm not sure what percentage of new SB purchasers download > my particular plugin. It also doesn't take into account people with > multiple players. SuperDateTime is the screen-saver running on my three SB2's, it's awesome! (So, how many times has that plugin been downloaded?) -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware
Your music library contains 539 albums with 5320 songs by 303 artists. SlimServer Version: 6.2.1 - 5194 - freebsd - EN - iso-8859-1 Hardware: Athlon 1.5 GHz cpu, 512 MB RAM, lotsa disk. OS: FreeBSD 5.4-stable, running apache, mail/courier-imap, samba, slimserver, and lots of other goofy code I write myself. 2 wired SB2's, 1 wireless. Likely buying a (wired) SB3 this summer. -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Favorites hang server with large playlists?
> These playlists are typically 1000-1500 tracks. It's my impression that SlimServer doesn't handle playlists optimally -- it's no problem for around 100 songs or so, but after that, it rapidly starts to bog down. Most I've ever put into a playlist (via the webinterface) was about 200 tracks, before it got so unresponsive that I decided that was enough music to last for a while. :-) -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22559 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Playlist disappear because of missing #EXTM3U
> I use it a fair amount, with no problems, and it definitely > survives a normal rescan, as well as a full wipe/rescan. Doh, the 'Only rescan playlists' doesn't cause me any trouble either. -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19219 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Playlist disappear because of missing #EXTM3U
> I'm a little surprised you say I am the first person saving > playlists using the web interface. I would have thought that this > was used a lot? I use it a fair amount, with no problems, and it definitely survives a normal rescan, as well as a full wipe/rescan. SlimServer Version: 6.2.1 - 5194 - freebsd - EN - iso-8859-1 The first two lines of my playlist files all look like: - - - - #CURTRACK 112 #EXTM3U - - - - (Well, the #CURTRACK N varies, obviously) -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19219 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: scan music and produce a word (ish) file
> Now i have no idea where to start to find the sqlite database but > will have a go if anyone has done it a few pointers would be > helpfull. (i use a nix box running cent os) Never heard of that one... If you can find an sqlite (version 3) package for your OS, install that. Once you've done so, here's a script to retrieve a simple list of artist/album/song-title/genre: .mode html select c.name, a.title, t.title, g.name from albums a, tracks t, genres g, genre_track gt, contributors c where t.age > 0 and a.id = t.album and g.id = gt.genre and t.id = gt.track and c.id = a.contributor order by 1,2; (I'm actually building this query in a shell-script, and using the 'age' column a bit differently, but if you want everything, the above works) With the .mode option, you can specify: csv, column, html, insert, line, list, tabs, tcl. -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19484 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Stream Over Internet: Ogg Not Working
> Open a browser to your slimserver, select your player Hmmm, just noticed that you're using WinAmp at work. I don't know if that will show up as a "player" in the slimserver web interface. You might want to give SoftSqueeze a shot. (Less clunky, imho, than trying to use the webinterface to choose what songs to play, with the added bonus of getting you used to the remote-control). At any rate, you don't want to change your bit-rate settings for your hardware squeezebox, as that will just make it unnecessarily degrade the audio. -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19504 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Stream Over Internet: Ogg Not Working
logicology Wrote: > Hello all, > So in short: MP3s stream over the internet fine / OGGs do not stream > over the internet at all. > > Is this a bug, limitation, or an incorrect setting somewhere? > It's a limitation of your upstream bandwidth, and the fact that OGG is decoded on the server and streamed, rather than being decoded on the squeezebox! Luckily, it's easily remedied: Open a browser to your slimserver, select your player, and in the player-settings, click the audio link. Towards the bottom, there's a bit-rate limiting option. If chosen, and you have LAME installed, it'll convert the OGG to MP3 and stream that (at the desired bit-rate). -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19504 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Did The Boys At Slim Do A Bad Thing By Being So Customer Friendly?
snarlydwarf wrote: > ...now I wanna get one of those weather station things so I have > -real- conditions, not just what things are like at the > airport... I'm Not At The Airport! Of course, that's after I > figure out what I'm doing with 'home automation' stuff and how to > work the SB into that... I think it's time for an intervention here, snarly's going over the deep end of nerd-dom. (Just kidding ya, snarly, couldn't resist -- I've had the exact same thought) ;-) -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18223 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronization Delay? (and more!)
> Syncing between Softsqueeze and hardware players just won't work > well. I've noticed it never quite works with a wired and a wireless (both SB2's), playing CBR 192kbps mp3's. :-( Just upgraded from 6.1.1, to 6.2.1 today to see if it was any better, and it's not -- they're not off by much, but it's really jarring if you are in a spot where you can hear both. Letting it go for a couple of songs didn't help any, either. -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18745 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: I could really use some help!
> It looks like all the data being sent to the SB is bouncing back > off the router and back the Slim Server... > > Buffer is permanently at 1-0% - everything else looks OK. > If I disconnect the SB from the router (put still connected to > the slimserver via a switch it leaps back to 100%...any > suggestions? I don't know if this'll help or not, but take a peek at this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16776&page=2 (I added a wireless router to my already existing wired lan) Anyways, the problem I bumped into was neglecting to disable the wireless router's DHCP server, which was conflicting with the one already on my lan... -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18374 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: darkice/icecast/slimserver6.2 problem
> I have a setup for streaming fm radio to my sqeezeboxes similar to that described here: [snip] > Any ideas, anybody? Sorry, I don't. But I'm curious to find out what you're using for the fm-tuner on your 'bsd box. -- Maditude Maditude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18087 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Audiotrons?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17641 Question: Audiotron(s) - Had one, but no longer have it. - Had more than one, but no longer have them. - Have one, have it still. - Have more than one, have them still. I liked the idea that it would just talk to my already-existing file-server, and I thought it looked nice enough, but when I had trouble finding anyone who still carried them, I learned about SlimDevices. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Just bought a Squeezbox - should I take it back?
> I paid $250 + tax. I'd take it back. If they'd be so kind as to knock it's price down to about $100, then it's not a bad deal. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2
Very cool design, guys! -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: wired / wireless lan
> Change the LAN IP address of the wireless router to 192.168.1.2 > and turn off its DHCP server. That did it, thanks much! -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: wired / wireless lan
radish Wrote: > If a router is cheaper (as they often are, especially with rebates etc), > buy that and just don't use the WAN port. I have done that several times > with success. Is there some sort of trick to this? I got it all working without too much trouble (WPA) and the wireless squeezebox was sounding and looking great. Then, my daughter turned on her computer, and complained that she couldn't connect to the internet. After a little investigation, I notice that 192.168.1.1 (which should be my WIRED lan's router IP address) was now showing up with the name of the wifi router. Looking at my 'bsd boxes logs, it seems there was a fight between my wired router and wifi router... (arp: 192.168.1.1 moved from MAC#1 to MAC#2 and back). I didn't try changing the wifi router's network, didn't see any obvious place to do so, but since the WAN port wasn't plugged into anything, it shouldn't have been an issue. right? The new wifi router is a LinkSys WRTG54, and I would just replace my regular router (LinkSys BFRS11 or sumthin' like that), but the wireless signal isn't traveling very well between the basement and the kitchen upstairs. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New low price on SB2!
> Do I get refund? I just bought at $279 :-) Me too! Should be here Monday. It's not a big deal, but this is the second time it's happened to me now (bought my second [wired] squeezebox just before they dropped the price from 249 to 199). If you see any annoucements here in the forum from me about buying yet another squeezebox [they *are* awesome], that's probably your cue to hold off for about a week to two. :-P -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: wired / wireless lan
> Before you head down that route, why is ethernet impossible > in the kitchen? Because I'm not allowed to cut through sheetrock (for good reason, I'm not the handiest person). Thanks to all for the comments in the thread... -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] wired / wireless lan
I've got a wired lan, that covers MOST of the entire house (two floors, plus basement). Anyway, my wife wants to put a squeezebox in the kitchen, where running ethernet is a pretty much impossible. I've got a wireless sb2 on order, but am wondering if I should get a wireless access point, or a wireless router, to hook everything up to the old (wired) LAN. From what I've seen, the routers tend to be a bit cheaper, though it's not a huge difference. Is there a recommended way to go? TIA, Maditude -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Music categories in SlimServer
sposthuma Wrote: > [snip] > Ideally there would be a 'category' feature in SlimServer. A kind of > top level attribute where you could limit your collection when > browsing. Something like this could be achieved with a clever search, > unfortunately the wife is non technical and wants a button called > 'wife' that allows her to access her music. > > AFAIK this doesn't exist right now in SlimServer, so this is a bit of a > musing on something that would be useful. If there is a way to do this > now in SlimServer I'd love to hear about it. > Vote early, vote often... http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825 -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: mixer bass / treble?
wired sb2 firmware v15 slimserver v6.1.1 -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] mixer bass / treble?
I was messing about in the fishbone skin, and managed to set one of my sb2's base/treble mixer settings to 0. Can't seem to change it back (even tried telneting to localhost 9090, and using the CLI)... 00:04:20:05:b2:63 mixer treble ? 00%3A04%3A20%3A05%3Ab2%3A63 mixer treble 0 00:04:20:05:b2:63 mixer treble 100 00%3A04%3A20%3A05%3Ab2%3A63 mixer treble 100 00:04:20:05:b2:63 mixer treble ? 00%3A04%3A20%3A05%3Ab2%3A63 mixer treble 0 Do these settings actually do anything? The player still plays, though I had to keep it real quiet since everyone else in the house is sleeping. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Not impressed with 6.1
> How do you get this flicker to appear? I don't think I've seen it. For me anyways, it only seems to happen on one of my two wired SB2's. Set the size to either the small or medium, and the brightness to any setting other than the dimmest (or off altogether). And have the date/time screen-saver active. There's three little dots that blink rapidly, exactly as the picture attached to said bug indicates. Dunno why it's only happening on one of my sb2's. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Not impressed with 6.1
rds Wrote: > 3) It would have been nice if Bug 1398 could have been fixed in 6.1. > While this bug is cosmetic in nature, it is often mistaken for a > defective display. When I show my SB2 to others, I'm often asked what > the flickering on the side of the display is. I believe Slim Devices > should give this bug higher priority because it reflects badly on the > SqueezeBox itself when it is thought to be a hardware defect. Whew, I'd just noticed this on one of my SB2's, glad to hear it is not the display going bad! -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: More then one file source (windows file server)
roos Wrote: > why not let me point to more then one source? why should i have to go > out and buy a larger disc? u want to buy one for me maditude? i only > have about 600gb worth of files so a 1tb lacie should do the trick > for now. ;p > Just trying to point you towards the path of least frustration, dude. Feel free to carry on with the whining, you'll get great results, I'm sure. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] specs on Squeezebox Wireless Refurbished?
I've not seen any bargains on Ebay, in my quest for a cheap/used squeezebox, so I was wondering, how do I find out what all is included in one of those 'Squeezebox Wireless Refurbished' mentioned on the accessories page... Is it graphical? Does it do the high-speed wireless, or only the slower? (ie, how does it differ from a squeezebox2) -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: More then one file source (windows file server)
Instead of monkeying around with links under Windows (which is a just-plain-broken implementation if you ask me), why not just get a bigger disk, so you can fit your entire music collection on it? Then you'd only need to have one of your computers up and running to listen to music... -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Playlist with NO classical
A number of people are hoping for something like this. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825 Please vote for it! -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: (no subject)
Johnny Stork Wrote: > I just received my SB2 and it worked all of 10 minutes? Connected to > 802.11g AP. no problem, WEP settings ok, set static IP, and it > connects to > the network, and I can browse music, select music etc. But no > incrementing > of the time for any playing song? The visualizations also disapeared > the > same time the sound stopped. I can click though "Now Playing but I > dont > get the options I could choose when first settign it up...like the > spectrums etc? Also tried rebooting, no effect. SB2 streams through > SPIDIF > to a Musical Fidelity DAC21. Also running 6.0.2 of slimserver on > rhel4 > Hoping we can get this workingreal bummer to have it die after > 10 > minutes or so. > Did you try power-cycling the SB2? I've had mine lock up on me once, when I got carried away with the fast-forward button, and in an attempt to make it stop fast-forwarding, hit the reverse button. Have you tried anything else? Like plug it into a wired connection? Does softsqueeze work? (The 6.02 software has a link to it at http://localhost:9000/html/softsqueeze/applet.html. Or if you've got winamp, you can try connecting to the URL http://localhost:9000/stream.mp3 and see if that works... (replace localhost in those urls with the appropriate address of your slim server) -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: CLI on windows box?
Philip Meyer Wrote: > I have tried to connect using the MS Windows cmd prompt telnet command. > > When I do "telnet localhost 9090", I get a blank window with flashing > cursor. If I type anything, such as "login" or "version", the telnet > session just exits back to a standard DOS prompt without any output. > > Am I doing something wrong? > Phil Nope. You're connected, but you need to speak (well, type) in the proper dialect of slimserver command-line-interface. ;-) Point your webbrowser at your slimserver config (presumably http://localhost:9000, then at the bottom of the page, you'll see a "Help" section, choose the "Technical Information" section. Next choose the "Slim Server Command Line Interface", for a lengthy discussion of how the CLI works. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: CLI on windows box?
> Telnet does not work, however opening a raw connection to the > port does get me in. That doesn't make any sense. open up a console window (aka "dos window"). type this command: telnet localhost 9090 it'll look like nothing's happening, but as long as you don't get a response back like "connection refused", that means it's connected. If you're using the windows telnet client, hit Ctrl+] followed by quit to close the session. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] old slimp3 -- still work?
I already own two squeezebox2 devices -- *very* happy with them, but was wondering about scrounging up a super-cheap model for outdoor use. All my music is mp3, and I don't have any plans to switch to FLAC or anything like that anyways, is there any reason to NOT pick up an old slimp3, assuming the price is right (ebay)? I've read that synching between different versions of the device is hit or miss, but I don't expect that I'll be doing that anyways. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote Functions and Synchronization
mikeb Wrote: > The suggestion on downloading the slimserver and playing with it is a > good one. My FreeBSD box is installing the port now. > > Thanks a ton guys. Last I checked, the 'bsd port for slimserver was pretty old. If you decide to go with the new version from just a plain old tarball, note that you will need Perl 5.8.6 (installs from ports easily enough), drop me a note if you have any problems. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Windows: Starting services from cmd line?
BKDotCom Wrote: > I've tried "net start slimserver" > > The SlimServer service is starting. > The Slimserver service could not be started. > > Starts fine from windows' services gui > what gives? > > Since it crashes about ever 24hours I figured a shortcut to restart it > would be dandy. Look into the 'srvany' (google) utility to do what you want. I've used it at work, I can dig up some sample scripts I've used with it next Monday if you're stuck. But, really, you should figure out what's causing the crash, and rectify that before trying to automate a restart. Any error messages? -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: softsqueeze sync problem
Solely in the interest of providing another data-point, this "bug" doesn't actually bother me... ;-) I'm seeing the same thing here -- I'd say it's more like about a third to a half of a second difference. Slimserver is 6.02, running on a AMD 1.2ghz duron, 256mb ram, load average is 0.02,0.03,0.00 (ie, exceedingly not busy). Connected to 100mbps switch in my office via about 5 feet of cat5 ethernet. Squeezebox2 connected to same 100mbps switch in my office, via about 150 feet of cat5 ethernet. Softsqueeze running on my winxp desktop (up-to-date java), connected to same switch via about 5 feet of cat5 ethernet. (Solution: only play "live" music, and pretend it's just an echo) I tried synching both ways (synch the squeezebox with the softsqueeze, and vice versa), but it didn't make any difference. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] integrating FM radio...
(I searched for this, but of course the silly search feature kindly informs me that "FM" is too short or too common to be used, bah!) Since the squeezebox doesn't have a built-in FM tuner (a shame, if you ask me), I'm wondering if anyone has figured out how to integrate a radio tuner-card on the computer running SlimServer and stream that to the squeezebox device, such that one could select the radio station, etc, all from the squeezebox remote. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: NAS Drive Running Slimserver Solution
> How would you guys like the sound of a box with Gigabit Ethernet, > much faster CPU, runs Slimserver out of the box and.. you can > run your own software on it? Oh and a projected retail price of > £199.99 with a 120Gb (maybe a 160Gb) price point ($320 for our > American friends)! Now it's getting interesting. ;-) -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: NAS Drive Running Slimserver Solution
> The company I work for are in the final throws of testing our > NAS drive that runs Slimserver out of the box. > > I am looking for some feedback to the capacity sizes that we > should offer the box in. We are thinking of 120Gb, 160Gb, > 200Gb, 250Gb and 400Gb sizes starting at around £229.99 ($400 > approx) for the 120Gb. > > Any thoughts on this? For me, it's too expensive, considering it won't be "open" (ie, I can't install anything I like on it, like say courier-imap, apache, etc). While it's pretty cool that you persuaded your company to make it run SlimServer, is your company going to keep current with the SlimServer software? -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 Bridge + Tivo
> Is it possible that I need a crossover cable for this to work? If crossover was the problem... wouldn't I at least see something on the NIC LEDs? You need a crossover cable. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: executing binaries on a squeezebox
kdf Wrote: > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200 Cool, thanks. One of these times I'm gonna remember to do a bugsearch before I pipe up with my two cents. ;-) -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: executing binaries on a squeezebox
kefa Wrote: > I live in a small flat, so I have tucked the (Fedora linux) Slimserver > in the bedroom, so that it doesn't cause noise when listening to music > in the lounge over wi-fi. What I want is an easy way to turn the > Slimserver on an off from my Squeezebox. (wake-up on LAN, execute > script to turn off, etc.). > I think this would be pretty useful -- if the Squeezebox can't connect to the SlimServer, it could try sending a WakeOnLan packet, and display a message to the effect of "the server should be booting now, this'll take a bit...". I wouldn't want the squeezebox's power button to turn OFF my slimserver box, but slimserver is aware of the squeezebox's power status -- you could probably watch for that change in a script on your server, and perform a shutdown at that point. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver resource hog?
Jer00n Wrote: > I am running the Slim server as a service now, and am done indexing. > > Mem usage is still at 169.912 K > > I have checked the FAQ, and made sure I have no recursive playlists in > my music folders (actually I have no playlists at all in the music > folders). > > Does anyone have any more ideas what I could try? I can't say if that's a problem specific to SQLite on WinXP but I've got two observations: 1) Dude, you've got 1 GB of RAM, and an operating system with a decent memory manager. You can't possibly be swapping just because one process is eating 170 MB. What does task-manager say is the available memory? 2) Earlier, you mentioned having 28000 songs. That is 8 times as many songs in my collection. My slimserver process (on FreeBSD) is using 34 MB. So proportionately, you're using less RAM per song than I am. [apples to oranges, I know, especially with the different platforms...] If your winXP box has become annoyingly slow since you started running the slimserver software, I'd suggest building (or buying an old used) box just for running the software. I've seen quite a few posts here about people running the slimserver software on some VERY modest hardware. -- Maditude ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
