[slim] Re: Suggestion
Yup, I think a forum devoted to the Transporter might be useful too. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30159 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.1has mind of its own
What is your dyn dns address? This'll make it pretty quick to figure out if it's a security issue. :-) MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30125 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver wants a FAST machine
Peter;158399 Wrote: MelonMonkey wrote:[color=blue] Yes, for raw operations C is faster and assembly language is even faster, but in real world speed is limited by disk access times and database transactions. Perl is no slower in accessing databases than assembly language. Regards, Peter I'm not sure you are not completely correct on this. I know he's Mac (Linux plus GUI) based and that Slashdot runs on a *nix based servers but Perl on Windows seems quite inefficient. CYG-Win (or whatever it is) just does not cut the mustard. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30145 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver wants a FAST machine
There is a quite a difference between running SlimServer via the remote as opposed to the web gui. I ran a 192mb, 500ghz PII dedicated Windows XP machine for Slimserver 5.*/6.2/6.3 for a long while. Using the remote (my usual device) was fine but the web gui was pretty pants (I could even say it sucked). Scanning was slow but it always happened while I was asleep so I didn't care. Unfortunately 6.5 was too much for this machine so I gave it away. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30145 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Transporter arrived but...
Mine makes a much more musical sound than that... with no noise whatsoever. Set it up properly and then see. Otherwise contact technical suppport. Sorry. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30151 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Media Center PC as remote
MelonMonkey;157437 Wrote: I don't know. ;) I run Slimserver on a PowerMac G4 with Mac OS 10.4.8 and there's no chance I will ever try installing it in Windows. I might move it to Linux in the future, but Windows just isn't a suitable OS for any kind of server-based software. At least not with a desktop installation of XP Pro. I don't mean to upset anyone, but running this stuff on Windows would be like building the foundation of a skyscraper using toothpicks (without glue). Strange. I've been running umpteen types of server (including SlimServer) on XP Pro at home for a long time and find it absolutely rock solid. Never a problem, never a crash. I am also a partner in a web hosting business. We used to run FreeBSD exclusively but in recent years have included Windows 2003 servers. We've had virtually no problems with these either and doing almost anything on them is so much less of a headache then trying to do a similar think with *nix. BTW, I'm not upset, just bemused. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29810 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there a way to send song info (now playing) to Trillian chat?
I really do not know Trillion but wonder if it might be possible somehow to use the announce html ouput of Last.FM (via the Last.fm/SlimScrobbler plugin) MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30007 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Skin Breaks SlimServer!
I've assumed you are on Windows. If not, hopefully you'll know what to so. It sound's like you may have installed 6.5 over a non-6.5 installation without deleting the Program Files/slimserver directory. Unfortunately the uninstall of 5.2/3 etc does not remove all the files left in this directory and this screws up the installation of 6.5. I believe if you search for default2 on this forum you'll find others who have had exactly the same thing. Add /default to the URL of your Slimserver and it'll bring you back to the default skin (if I was you I'd add /fishbone instead and then select Help from top right and choose the Tan version... the best skin for a PC by a long way imho!) Saying this, I think you'd be wise to uninstall your current 6.5, delete the SlimServer diretory found in Program Files and then install 6.5 from afresh again. Otherwise you may well encounter other questions. Why on earth there are not big warnings about this on the 6.5 download page and the installer is beyond me. SlimDevices have had long enough to sort it out. It's not as if it's a new issue or anything. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 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: How do I set player menu settings globally (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
mkanet;155826 Wrote: I am still very new to Slimserver, but the more I use it, the more I realize it is in it's very early stages of development. This is one of the oddest statements I've read in this forum. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29830 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: things that drive me nuts...
pablolie;155985 Wrote: ...when an utterly unchanged configuration, for no reason, stops working. nothing has changed. the slimplayer now can't connect to the server, dammit. it's worked flawlessly for months on end, and NOTHING was changed. This is the sort of sentence one generally has to eat later. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29866 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is it possible to modify Now Playing display on Slimserver?
vdorta;155976 Wrote: I modify practically all my filenames and choose the SB file.ext Title Format while playing a track so that I have all the information I need from a track; however, the Slimserver Now Playing display adds from (CD title) information that I don't need. Is there a way to eliminate this extra information so that the display is exactly like the one on the SB? I'm interested to know why you so this. Is it because you use wavs which don't support tags (which doesn't look to be the case judging by your signature)? Otherwise why not tag the files correctly and then use either the default Slimserver display stuff or install Michael Herger's excellent MusicInfo plugin to expand your display options? MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Server settings options appearing in player settings dropdown
Hello all, Sporadically over the last three weeks or so my player settings drop down menu is poluplated with the servers setting items as well as the player items. Restarting SlimServer sorts it out so it's not too much of a problem but it does seem to have been happening with at least the last four 6.5.1 nightlies I've used so I'm thinking I should report it as a bug but am relucatant to unles it can be corroborated. So, has anyone else seen this? Or, if there is a bug existing for it can someone point me to it so I can add myself to it? Cheers MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29759 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Fonts - wierd naming and SqueezeboxG Fonts Plugin
A two part query: I've just installed SqueezeboxG Fonts by Bob Vilhelm (obtained via plugins page) into my Windows 6.51 installation. Although I've put them into the SlimServer/server/Graphics directory as instructed they do not show up as font options in Player Settings/Display. Does anyone have them working sucessfully? This for my Transporter and SB3. Which leads me to this The default font titles listed in the GUI are not too clear (and the capitalisation is odd): full High light standard threeline I wanted only the two largest fonts to cycle using the remote so picked full and High... and recieved one large font and one very, very small font. I'll try them all tonight to find which are the two largest, but really I'd like the plugin fonts to work too as they might be the clearest ones. Anyone got any previous experience? Thanks, MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Server settings options appearing in player settings dropdown
kdf;155250 Wrote: It is covered by bug 3267 as it has a very large scope already requiring in a rip up of the existing code for the pulldown. -kdf I'm sure you're right but to me that bug looks like it's adressing SlimServer set up rather than confusion of information in the drop down between server settings and player settings. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29759 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Rave about the new Transporter Remote
The backlit buttons are welcome, but I find that in the dark it would be more useful if the letters above the buttons were lit up. Overall I like the new remote but it does not seem much a departure form the last one MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29426 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 service stops sporadically
Just thought I'd better write back to this thread. Since I added the exclusion for .my* files to my virus scanner SlimServer 6.5.1 has stayed up. It didn't stay up when I had added just .myl to the exclusion list. Thanks all. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29031 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Music Folder Problems
Use the network (UNC) path (the one that starts with \\), look in network neighbourhood. It is possible that you may need to run SlimServer service under an account that has network privileges too. The default install under local system account does not. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter Naim NAP 250 PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29135 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Are there any radio stations for children?
I found a children's program on our Digital radio the other day: http://www.funradiolive.com/ It broadcasts from the web site in a Microsoft format I think, at least, when I clicked on the radio link using Firefox I got: Sorry you must have Interent Explorer to Listen Live (sic!). Looks like a high quality affair. :-) MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29062 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Anyway to transfer settings from one player to another?
JJZolx;149720 Wrote: If this takes you more than 5 minutes I'd be amazed. Most of the complex settings are Server settings, which you won't need to touch. Ha, you obviously don't use all those fiddly up and down arrows to personalise your menu display. Getting that as I (and the family) like it takes well over five minutes running the web GUI on a 1.5Mhz 1gb RAM pIV. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29047 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.5 service stops sporadically
replcaed 6.3.1 with a 6.5 beta (what seems like years ago). I did a completely new uninstall and install, deleting the Program Files/Slimserver directory. Since then I've done at least two completely clean installs of 6.5. I'm on XP and using the 6.5.1 nightlies (this last crash happened with last night's nightly). The random SlimServer service stops have abeen happening ever since I first installed 6.5. At least one cause of the problem at one time seemed to be the Music Info plugin. I run these plugins (all 6.5 verion): AlienBBC Music Info Last FM SlimScrobbler Lazy Search (only installed this recently, crashes occured before it was installed) I've disabled the majority of the plugins that come with the SlimServer installtion, leaving only: CLI Date and Time Random mix Rescan Music library Save Playlist I run Nod32 and have excluded .myi files from the scan. Any help appreciated (or even any Me too's!). Thanks MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29031 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: UK Transporter bundle, trial period, duty...
When I worked out the costs, using 17.5% VAT (which of course you still have to pay on the locally supplied ones) and a 5% import duty it still worked out cheaper to get it from the States (at the current exchange rate). It also appears that at the moment you may get it quicker if ordered directly from SlimDevices... and you get a free SB3 (if this is still listed on the SD web page). As it comes with a UK plug buying it direct was a no-brainer for me. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29033 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 service stops sporadically
I don't know, you guys. I try to include all the information I can to cause as little hassle as I possibly can and no-one reads it! :-) To copy from my post: I run Nod32 and have excluded .myi files from the scan. I don't run any other virus scanners. Any other suggestions very welcome. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29031 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 service stops sporadically
I run Nod 32 virus scanner (only) and already exclude .myi files from the scan. I'll try excluding .my* now and see what happens. Thanks. MC. -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29031 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Anyway to transfer settings from one player to another?
I'm certain the answer will be no but no harm in trying. I have mu SB3 set up perfectly for me. Tomorrow I'm going to replace it with a Transporter. Is there anyway I can import the settings from the SB3 to the Transporter? I ask as it took quite a while using the gui web interface (which is slow for me and I rarely need to use it apart from to set things up) to do stuff like set up the menus I want to appear when I use the remote (my favoured control). It'll probably take me over an hour to set up the Transporter in the same way otherwise. Cheers MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29047 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 service stops sporadically
Just in case this was missed... and bearing in mind that there was someone who thought it was Fishbone that caused their crash of 6.5.1... and that the only time I have performed an action at the exact time 6.5.1 service crashed (i.e. opened up Fishone on secondary machine) what does this (from Windows event log) mean: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Can't call method displayAsHTML on an undefined value at /PerlApp/Slim/Web/Pages/Status.pm line 153. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29031 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Buy a Squeezebox now or wait?
peejay;149264 Wrote: Get one now before accepting the risk that the next manufacturing run of cases has a different logo on the front. My sentiments entirely. I shall be well aggrieved if my Transporter arrives with anything but a pure SlimDevices logo on it! :-). I did idly wonder about buying ten Transporters now just in case they became classic collectors items in the future. I do hope Slim fix the knob soon though. I can see that becoming a little annoying quite quickly. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28952 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Album plays with Cue sheet but does not show different tracks
fingers;149206 Wrote: I'll bite. Which forum is that? As you suspected, it was a joke. SlimServer has never been very good at handling cue sheets and there always seem to have been one issue or another with them since I first got a Slim Device. Personally I rip all my mix/live albums as individual files and keep the cue sheet (renaming the file extention to .cue_ so SlimServer can't see it). As I use Flacs there are no issues with gapless playback etc. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28948 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Open Source Dream Falls Apart?
Mark Norton;148341 Wrote: The whole point of this thread is to point out to people working with Open Source that you are being taken for a ride if you do not receive commercial recompense for your efforts. Yup... as you'll know, having three cars and one driver... these goods are very hollow and unsatisfying marks of success. The ownership of them will not make you happy. All they'll make you do it wonder why you feel hollow and unfulfilled... plus many everyday people will really dislike you or think you are pathetic for promenading your wealth infront of them and thinking it makes you important and superior. I'm afraid you've rather missed the mark with this one. I'm sure Sean's sense of self-fulfillment (like Michael Hergers and the other contributors too) comes mostly (99%) from doing something they believed in and enjoyed. The rest is just baubles. Unfortunately out current shallow glossy magazine western society promotes baubles above the (to me) obviously important things that bring individuals happiness and fulfillent. Give me a bicycle, fresh air and open country roads over the planet-destroying, selfish, short sighted and ego-centric behaviour of someone who owns three gas guzzling cars any day. That about sums it up really. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
Dan Sully;147560 Wrote: Too late, Sean already has a Porsche. Hopefully it's easier to park than the last one. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
)p(;147694 Wrote: The design of the 1000 sure comes close to the brushed metal rounded corners look of the sb3 already...seems like a pretty good basis for creating the sb remote everyone seems to want ;) peter Judging by a comment Sean made some time back and the new SD ownership I'm sure it can only be a matter of time before there is a new remote. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
Jetlag;147847 Wrote: I was just getting ready to order a Transporter, but now I am quite hesitant. My concerns? 1. Will we continue to see the release of dailies, timely updates and bug fixes or will this turn into a rare firmware upgrade once every blue moon? Will these frequent updates (usually created as a response to user input) disappear altogether? 2. DRM - I don't own and iPod or Zune because of it (nor do I use iTunes, Rhapsody, etc as I refuse to pay $1 for a lossy crappy sounding MP3 song | Your opinion may be different). I don't illegally trade or sell my music, but once I buy a CD, I want to use the FLAC files I make from them as I wish whether it be in my home setup, on my DAP, in my car or on my laptop. Because of Logitech's more mainstream computing presence (for lack of a better term), will we soon be forced to pay for and download Logitech branded MP3s that will only play on the Logitech-Slimdevices gear and possibly ONLY on that specific player? 3a. What is Logitech's plan for continued support of FLAC? 3. I love the integration between my Infrant NV ReadyNAS and my current SB2 and SB3. Will this relationship continue with SS being part of the ReadyNAS OS or will this also vanish in the future due to big company corporate meddling in my much loved current setup? 4. How soon will we see the SB3 and Transporter appear with a Logitech logo emblazoned on the front? Much trepidation and concern over the future of my music Go and buy it! I'm very glad I've ordered a Transporter and one with a SlimDevices logo on it too (although this might not change). For the first time in the three or so years I've owned a Squeezebox I now have a system that causes me no trouble at all. I have no reason to upgrade as 6.5.1 provides all the features I require and it just seems to work (I'm even perfectly happy with the current remote as my main controller). I'm pretty sure it'll work just as well in the Transporter (when it arrives). So, if Slimdevices decided to go interplanetary travelling I would not really care. At last I have what I want, an audiophile network player that only requires powered speakers or a power amp and speakers. In the event of things changing... (i.e. new MS OS, new wireless standards, new super-compressed lossless files etc) I am sure that there are already enough SB*'s around that the open source software would get updated. I do think Sean should have made the firmware open source before selling the company though! :-) MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
CatBus;147877 Wrote: If, for example, Logitech negotiates licensing terms for the WMA codec that charges them per codec supported by the device, then it is in their finincial interests to reduce the number of supported codecs as much as possible. I have no idea if such terms exist, but it would be not unlike the licensing terms for OEMs that charges them per unit shipped, regardless of the MS software on the unit (which works as an incentive not to ship non-MS software). I bet you that terms like this probably do not exist in written format, but that they do exist. And this is a big worry. I am certain that it would be easier to aquire a license for Apple/MS stuff if you did not accommodate the opposition (open source and free flac etc). Out local newspaper the Evening Argus (known coloquially as the Evening Anus), a US owned Gannet publication, informs newsagents that if they stock rival start up papers (the independant Brighton News being the case in point) they will not be supplied with the Argus. This is not writtent down anywhere, but it happens. As for SqueezeNetwork... I really would not get too attached to this. It's almost inevitable that it will disappear or not change at all. It doesn't make any money and it's not generally a reason anyone buys a Squeezebox. As for not being able to buy a CD... who tf cares? There are loads of bittorrent sites you can download lossless CDs from for free. And I do not care one s*** about whether I do this as I have almost inevitably bought that same album already in a now redundant format (i.e. vinyl or CD) and, as far as I am concerned, paid for the music, not the format. I have been ripped off by the music industry for years (i.e. had to buy the same music on CD, only to find it sounds flat and crap compared to my original, and now degraded vinyl). I am not going to be ripped off by record companies or hardware vendors anymore. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
ModelCitizen;147905 Wrote: I bet you that terms like this probably do not exist in written format, but that they do exist. And this is a big worry. I am certain that it would be easier to aquire a license for Apple/MS stuff if you did not accommodate the opposition (open source and free flac etc). Our local newspaper the Evening Argus (known coloquially as the Evening Anus), a US owned Gannet publication, informs newsagents that if they stock rival start up papers (the independant Brighton News being the case in point) they will not be supplied with the Argus. This is not written down anywhere, but it happens. And from: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/10/slim_devices_ac.html this: I wonder how this will affect Logitech's relationship with Apple. Logitech makes all sorts of iPod accessories as part of Apple's Made for iPod licensee program, and soon, its new Slim Devices department could be competing with Apple, when it releases its networked media player (tentatively called the iTV) early next year. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Stop this Various Artists Madness !
I have to agree that the way that SlimServer 6.5.* handles folders is painful. I've got a folder called 70s pop singles under a folder called MP3 and a folder in the root of my drive also called 70s pop singles. The reason for this is that I keep my (few) MP3s separate from my Flacs. All the files in these two folders have the same album tag (70s pop singles) yet Slimserver lists them as two albums (both called 70s pop singles)... and there is no way round it. I much preferred the arrangement as it was in 6.3. Yes, I agree, it'd be good to have a switch allowing us to switch off Slimserver's over-clever folder behaviour. One other thing: Shouldn't the Compilation tag have a value of 1, not Yes? (Or maybe that's the same thing in some taggers). MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28780 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Changed Sorting in 6.5 Browse Music Folder
kdf;147062 Wrote: The truth is that it is more a case of 6.5 finally doing it correctly according to the design. Punctuation is ignored for purposes of sorting. It was never intended to match windows explorer. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4363 Why is the the *correct* way? The bug report does not make that clear. What advantages does performing sorting in the new way help SlimServer? For me and all Windows users it would be better if we got expected beahviour (i.e. the same as Windows), if there were no obvious stated advantages with the new implementation. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28778 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Real Music Visualisation
Wow! That's given me an idea for our halloweeen party! Shame about gravity though... it's be great if the flames came out the bottom too. Hmmm. have to think some more. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28809 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Tons of Problems with 6.5
JPKaro;146737 Wrote: It appears to me that SD development follows feedback of the user community closely, which is great. However, I consider myself as being more of a final product consumer than a beta tester, and prefer stable releases over cutting edge. For me it's mostly about listening to music, rather than troubleshooting software. The 6.5 release was a bit of a let-down in that regard. Meet a different model! Slimserver is made by it's users. However, after the 6.3.0/6.3.1 mess, as chronicalled on these forums) it does appear like 6.5.* is repeating this, new SlimDevices quality control people or not. However (and this is a big one or two): 1) Only the people with problems post to the forums 2) The software is agressively cross platform, which if you are a user of Windows (like the vast majority of other personal computer users) comes with some downsides. Another painful thing is that you really need to *completely* remove your old 6.3.* installation (including plugins) before installing 6.5 as the architecture (seperate scanner, new database etc) is so different. Unfortunately this is not at all made plain on the Slimserver download pages (why not?? it's a simple thing to implement!). The upside is the community, the help that's offered on these forums is phenominal, second to none. These guys are angels and will help you fix almost anything (bar your toilet). MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28416 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Only rescan playlists bug perhaps?
I've been spending some time making playlists. As I've added/change/renamed playlists I've occasionally got Slimserver to Only rescan playlists. I find that if I rename a playlist Slimserver still keeps a listing of the playlist's old name even though it also adds it by its new name as well. Could this be a bug? XP. SlimServer nightly from about the 11th Oct. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28702 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The tale of the tenacious tag
I deleted the whole of this folder: C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28571 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver shuts down by itself - why?
In don't suppose by any chance this could be due to the 6.5 MySQL/virus scanner problem? Try excluding .myi files from you anti-virus scan and see if that helps. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28032 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
andyg;145320 Wrote: If you really do have 100s of GB's in your FileCache directory, the first time you run a build of 6.5 with the cache cleanup code, it will take a long time for it to clean out the cache. Just let it run. For more detailed info you can run slim.exe --d_server from the command line. I think it's 100s of megabytes Andy! :-) It's certainly taking a little time for my install to reduce the cache but it does seem to be reducing. I installed the nightly from the 11th Oct 24 hours ago (having previously run the nightly from the 3rd October), at which point my C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache directory was over 300mb. It's currently at 108mb. Sorry if the post appears twice, but the first time I hit submit it was nowhere to be found! MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox3 (with linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other annoying black boxes Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Album cover battle
I found it a bit bloody and unpleasant. Did remind me of iTunes though. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28582 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums
slimpy;144904 Wrote: Another (unverified) solution you might want to try: Tag all compilation tracks with the COMPILATION=1 tag. I'm not sure if this works though as I haven't actually tried it. But telling slimserver explicitely to treat these tracks as compilation could do the trick. -s. This did not work for me due to the music being spead over vartious directories. For all compilations albums each with their own directory it works fine (i.e. cures multiple listings of compilation albums). -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox3 (with linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other annoying black boxes Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27746 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.1 - dos window keeps opening
In addition my Slimserver service startup type has been changed from Automatic to Manual (it's possible that the account it uses has been changed from an Administrator account to a local account too, but can't be certain). MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28438 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.1 - dos window keeps opening
JJZolx;144351 Wrote: Was this ability added only to enable the use of mapped drives? There are much better ways to address that issue. I have always been surprised that Slimserver does not either install itself under a user account that has network access or creates one itself whilst installing. The mapped drives issue for Windows is a hardy perennial here. It's a query that comes up with annoying frequency. However, not being much of a computer bod there are probably issues with creating accounts that I do not understand. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28438 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Does Fishbone skin have a Home?
This doesn't happen to me. Perhaps you should try to clear your browser cache? MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Tons of Problems with 6.5
Many 6.5 problems seem to result from not having completely uninstalled 6.3... and all the plugins. It is best (on Windows) to uninstall 6.3 (using Windows uninstall facility) and then make sure you delete the Program Files/Slimserver directory before installing 6.5. Unfortunately after this you have to reinstall all your plugins... making sure you get the 6.5 version of each plugin. It'd be good if the SlimDevices donwload page made this clear. The tags bit is probably a different issue though. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28416 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 can't see network UNC paths anymore
Funny, but I found that upgrading to the latest 6.5.2 nightly reset my SlimServer account to local (whereas I normally run it under my administrator acount so it can access network shares). In addition it seemed to change the service startup to manual (should be automatic). It sounds like you've done this but it's not completely clear... does your SlimServer service run under an account that has network privileges? To test, set it to your administrator account and see if it will scan your music. Make sure you use the UNC path for server settings. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28262 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Playlist file type
I make playlists in Foobar, and then I open them up in a text editor and search and replace for the paths. Hope that helps. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
andyg;141719 Wrote: To run this script: Install ActivePerl if on Windows. Place cachedump.pl in your SlimServer's 'server' directory. Run at a command prompt: perl -Ilib -ICPAN cachedump.pl C:/Program Files/SlimServer/server/Cache After it's done, open up the cachedump.txt file. Replace the last item with your cache directory if it's different. I have Active Perl 5.88 installed on XP. I dumped dumpcache.pl in my C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server directory (I have a default SlimServer installation). I then tried the command above from the C: prompt, and then tried it again changing the forward slashes to back slashes, but just got this: C:\perl -Ilib -ICPAN cachedump.pl C:/Program Files/SlimServer/server/Cache Can't open perl script cachedump.pl: No such file or directory C:\perl -Ilib -ICPAN cachedump.pl C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache Can't open perl script cachedump.pl: No such file or directory cachedump.pl is certainly in this directory: C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server It's icon shows it is associated with Active Perl. If I double click the file a dos box opens and closes... so I guess most of my end seems OK. Does anyone (errr.. Andy?) have any idea why it's not working for me. I've looked to see if I am doing something stupid, but missed it if I am. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
I had tried that but thought it's inclusion made my post too long... :-( here's the output (using your path as posted with the forward slashes): C:\Program Files\SlimServer\serverperl -Ilib -ICPAN cachedump.pl C:/Program Files/SlimServer/server/Cache Directory C:/Program does not seem to contain a FileCache directory. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
Well, the script worked, but the output flummoxes me. The output contains 153 lines of fitstretches and 9 lines of squash. I have 1,060 folder.jpg files, each resting in the individual album folders. Virtually all (barring mistakes) are 300 pixels by 300 pixels. Anyway, that aside, quick maths: 1,060 times average folder.jpg file size (est at 38kb) equals around 40mb.. and if the cache creates and hold thumbnails then this total byte size should be a lot smaller. So I still don't understand why my cache size is 185mb (and even wierder too, why it was 246mb just two days ago, when I've not upgraded my SlimServer installation or added any music to it). Tonight it's: 185mb, 299 folders, 4,287 files Two days ago it was: 246mb, 4,286 folders, 13,981 files Hopefully it will continue to shrink at this rate! :-) MC. -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate Song Titles
Is it a Various Artists album? If so try a forum search for just that. Otherwise do you have a playlist that references that album which may have the wrong paths in it. Or maybe you have two sets of tags in the album - look at it with a tag editor and see if you do. Otherwise, you need to post a lot more info for anyone to be able to help. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28193 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
ModelCitizen;141559 Wrote: My cache directory is 246mb and contains a staggering 13,981 files in 4,286 folders. It seems that (at least) 4096 folders are sub folders of SlimServer\server\Cache\FileCache. This folder has 16 subfolders (called 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f). Each of these directories has another 16 simlarly named subfolders and each of those a further 16 similarly named subfolders. Windows counts 4,276 folders and 13,843 files in the FileCache folder. I can't seem to find anything like that number of files (but I guess they must be in one of the directories somewhere though). MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
Ramage;141609 Wrote: All those folders (1-F) in the cache, are they produced by Lazy Search for indexing? To answer my own question - maybe not as I don't have the Lazy Search on my v6.5.0. So what are they?? I don't have Lazy Search installed either. Each file seems to be contain information about an individual track though. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Compilation albums problem since v 6.3 and in 6.5
gorgenyi;141610 Wrote: Im not sure whether its actually my setup / os problem or bug. Since v 6.3 I have an issue with compilation albums. In most cases they are no longer kept as a single entity by slim server when scanned but completely randomly, are split into many albums. Each listing holing 1 or many songs under them. Does any one else has this problem? Its been absolutely fine until v.6.3, 6.3 was a lot less responsive then previous versions, 6.5 is very quick, but this problem remains. I have no add ins, using win xp pro, Pentium 4, 2.5GH, 2 gig ram. There is lots of info about this on the forum. My compilations broke first on 6.3 (as did many other peoples). The cure is to add the custom tag COMPILATION with a value of 1 to all songs in compilations (this took me only a minute or two to achieve using Foobar2000). Also ensure that under Server Settings/Behaviour/COMPILATIONS that you have Group compilation albums together selected. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28139 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
Ramage;141659 Wrote: Stuart I agree looks like tag info. I also noticed in mine that duplicate info from a previous scan of a different music directory has remained. Could this account for some of the inconsistencies experienced after repeat scans of the music directories?? What will happen if the cache is deleted? I've been delting the whole cache folder and all subdirectories whilst trying out the 6.5 betas to ensure that SlimServer truly does do a clear and rescan of the database. All that happens is that SlimServer recreates it as it starts up and then does the scan (which can take a while depending upon library size and computer power). So, yes, you can delete it (stop SlimServer service first though). MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
radish;141681 Wrote: Just to drop in on the question of the 4096 directories arranged in a tree, that sounds like a hashmap to me. If you drill down until you find an actual file, you'll see the first 3 characters of it's name correspond to the directory path to find it. I'm guessing the filenames are hashes either of the content of the file or some other data He's not just a pretty face you know! This all checks out with my files. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache
My cache directory is 246mb and contains a staggering 13,981 files in 4286 folders. My library is about 350gb (mostly flac). As I have been told to delete my cashe directory to get SlimServer to completely rebuild it's database I assumed that it was the index of my music. If this is the case deleting it will force a rescan of SlimServer as soon as it is restarted. Taking the shortcut out of Windows startup will only disable the System Tray icon I think. You need to disable the SlimServer service to ensure SlimServer does not rescan on start up recreating the cache file. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: I can't fall asleep in 3 minutes. Can you?
kdf;141529 Wrote: On 30-Sep-06, at 7:00 PM, MeSue wrote: Is there any chance this behavior will change? nope -k Why not? MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28130 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 - no sound at all
I have fixed it. I had to do a complete and clean reinstall of 6.5 (deleting my SlimServer folder after uninstallation but saving saving my plugins folder, cache folder, slimserver.pref, types.conf and convert.conf, so no arduous reconfiguration required afterwards). Thanks for the help. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27671 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Gapless mp3 playback when is it going to be fixed??
Ben Sandee;136224 Wrote: On 9/14/06, CatBus CatBus.2e51db1158259801 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote:Transcoding at the server is a great workaround for gapless playback, and I'm very grateful we have it. But true client-side gapless MP3 playback support would be a very good feature--and not just a feature only a few rare cases would take advantage of. I realize anyone can hear the gaps -- I certainly can hear them (although they are VERY short, almost inaudible). But I'm also able to contain my rage at them and still enjoy my music. If gapless MP3 were added I would certainly use it. On the other hand, if gapless were important to me I wouldn't hesitate to migrate to a format that supported it more uniformly, rather than waiting for the feature to be added to my player. Ben The gaps are not that short (are we talking microseconds or cloth ears?) and they are very annoying. Many other players support this and SlimServer should too. Unfortunately migrating away from SlimServer is not that easy as nothing else quite does the trick... and perhaps this is why people are so eager to get their particular problems sorted. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27384 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7
joncourage;139266 Wrote: One-button, automated backup/export of all configurable settings/preferences. yes this is a good one. It took me quite a while to work out which files/directories I had to save so I did not have to reconfigure SlimServer each time I upgraded to another nightly. But still for me the main bugbear is the scanner. If I change a playlist (in a third party app like Foobar or Winamp) and want to hear it instantly (a pretty common occurence) I should not have to scan my whole music directory. This is particularly irksome when I add just one file that already exists in my library to a playlist. In this case I can see no need for SlimServer to require any sort of scan for the music files, but instead I've got an hours worth of scan ahead of me before I can hear the playlist! MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26874 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Does Fishbone skin have a Home?
Nostromo;138904 Wrote: The default skin, in comparison, looks like a spreadsheet. But I'm not sure I like Fishbone's color scheme. A bit too dark for my taste. The best looking skin, IMO, is Nokia 770. I just wish there was a version for normal-sized computer screens. Yes the default skin really does need some work. I find it quite amazing that SlimDevices are putting out a default skin like this in this day and age, when it could easily be so much better. They really need to employ a web developer (and ergonomics specialist). However, I think you should try the Fishbone tan version. When you are in Fishbone click on Help. You should see an item (maybe the last one) that states something like Fishbone style changes. Try the tan one. You may have to delete your browser cache to get it to work correctly, but in my humble opinion it's the best. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5.0 and Plugins advice
I have been using all these plugins barring the iTunes one on 6.5 for quite a while now with no problems. Go to the plugins page on the SlimDevices web site and download and install the 6.5 version of the plugins. There are no concerns about running as a service. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27692 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 - no sound at all
oreillymj;138142 Wrote: I've seen some weird issue where the SB and server get's out of synch. The power is off on the SB according to the web UI, but the player is actually on. Using the Web UI to send a power off/on combo got the SB back in synch with the server. If that doesn't work, I'd try a hardware reset. Hold down Add on the remote while cycling the power. Thanks for this but I'm sorry I do not understand what you mean by send a power off/on combo from the web UI. I tried a factory reset of the Squeezebox just in case but as expected no joy. The problem seems to be that SlimServer is not outputting any audio at all, so no players work (software or hardware). Lame and Flac processes appear to be running but are using no cpu cycles so I assume are not receiving any info from SlimServer. I've tried running the software with various debug switches enabled but the log is just blank. Event viewer is similarly uninformative. I've checked all my settings and all apear to be OK. I gues the next step is a clean reinstall, but I am getting fed up with the time it takes to reconfigure the software and plugins every time I upgrade/reinstall, so would like to avoid this. Does anyone have any idea which debug switches to use? Cheers MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27671 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: anyone know anything about this?
Quite a nice example of an eBay scam. He had about 16 Squeezebox3's and Ready Nas for sale with all auctions ending at very similar times. Despite the bad press eBay receive in the Uk I am heartened to see that they have removed the dodgy listing already. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27721 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wish List for SlimDevices
gian;138582 Wrote: I would never trash my dashboard with such cheap plastic... you know, SD has spoiled us SB3 lovers with such a smart design... You never had an SB1 or 2 then? :-) MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27696 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Saving configuration - which files to backup
I want to upgrade my 6.5b3 to 6.5 full. I want to make sure that I dont have to go through resetting up any of my config or reinstalling AlienBBC. Am I right to think that the only files I need to keep copies of are: slimserver.pref and type.conf This on Windows. Thanks. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27630 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.5 - no sound at all
I've been running the 6.5 betas nightlies with very few problems. Tonight I installed the 6.5 full release and updated the firmware. Since then I've had no sound at all. The VU meter on my Squeezebox2 doesn't register any audio although apart from that the display is normal and looks like music is being played, my headphone socket is quiet. I've tried running Softsqueeze locally and still no sound. I've tried flacs and mp3s and Internet radio. Still no sound. I've rebooted everything to no avail. flac.exe and lame.exe appear to be running but are not using any processor power. I haven't a clue what to do now. I did keep my slimserver.pref and types.conf from my last beta installation, but I have now tried getting the thing to work with the ones from the new full release and also my saved files. Still no sound. This on XP. Any suggestions as to what I should do would be very welcome indeed. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27671 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Saving configuration - which files to backup
I have to agree that they should be simply saved, or not overwritten. However this is not the case and as per usual, this is probably due to the cross platform nature of SlimServer. I know that I have seen posts about this before but I can't seem to find them. The Wiki does not appear to have any info about it I can find either. At least you only have your config files to deal with. Since upgrading to the full 6.5 I have no sound! MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27630 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Biography as screensaver?
Hi Michael, Somewhere in this thread I'm sure you requested that anyone let you know if they experienced any bugs.. I can't find it now, but hope my memory serves me well. I have recently had a problem with Slimserver stopping. Dan Sully is currently trying to diagnose it. I am becoming a little suspicious that it could be your screensaver plugin that's causing it. It's hard to test it though as does it so infrequently. Anyway I managed to trap the reported error when the thing froze and the thread is here if you have any interest: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27478 The last post includes the error. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14230 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Upgrade Ready Today ?
Who knows. After the 6.3.* debacle (and the imminent release of Transporter) I think Slim are making sure it's dead ready before stating that 6.5 is stable. However, my impression is that 6.5b3 is very stable indeed so I wouldn't hesitate in trying it out. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27556 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Biography as screensaver?
Michael Herger;137418 Wrote: Somewhere in this thread I'm sure you requested that anyone let you know if they experienced any bugs.. I can't find it now, but hope my memory serves me well. It's always good to have people know about problems with their plugins, even if they don't ask for it. I have recently had a problem with Slimserver stopping. Are you using 2.01? I wasn't but am now. Thanks for the update. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14230 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.5b3, 2 Various Artists albums with same name
I have two folders holding files with the album tag set as 80s Pop Singles (one in my MP3 folder and one in my Flac folder). The files are by various artists and all include the Compilation tag with value set to 1. When I use the GUI I appear to have two albums called 80s Pop Singles. One contains all the files from one folder (MP3 files) and the other the files from my Flac folder. Is there anything else I need to set to get them to appear as one album? Thanks for any help MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27465 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5b3, 2 Various Artists albums with same name
Patrick Dixon;136722 Wrote: I'm pretty sure this is intended behaviour (why would you want it any other way?). This is a shame. I like to keep the few MP3s I have separate from my Flacs and not mix the two formats. This is neat and has never caused me problems as previously all files have been held in an alums directory and each albums has contained wholly flac foilkes or wholly MP3s. However in this case the various complication albums of 70s and 80 pop have so much dross on them that I thought it better to just keep the tracks I like and dump the others. As I cannot get all the tracks I want in Flac format I have to make do with MP3 for some of the rarer ones. I'd rather not put these in amongst my Flac files. I'd like them to appear as one album though (yeah I know I could make a playlist but I tend to use albums and genres more than playlists and using an album tag means I not have to muck around adding individual tracks to playlists as I add them to my music disk). I hope that makes sense Patrick. I suppose SlimServer organises it the way it does is to make sure that albums that have the same name do not get all their tracks dumped under one album heading. Bummer. if anyone can suggest a hack that will still enable me to keep my Flacs and MP3s separte but still play them all as one album, I'd be grateful. The only hack I can think of is to create a bespoke genre - 80s Pop Singles, which is what I'll have to do unless I can think of anything else (I'd prefer the genre to stay as Pop though). MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27465 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Album/artist sorting issue in 6.5
XP Pro, 6.5b3, default skin. If I list albums all OK, then from the resulting dropdown I select I select Artists,Album I would expect to get Artists listed in alphabetical order on the left with their albums on the right. Instead I get albums on the left and srtists in alphabetical order on the right. These are (randomly) interspersed with Various Artists albums. This may be a registered bug, but I can't find it. MC All Songs 70s Pop Singles by Various Artists Hits by 10CC The Singles by 10CC Urban Gamelan by 23 Skidoo Black Secret Technology by A Guy Called Gerald Warp 10+1 Influences (disk 2) by Various Artists Totally Wired 6 - A Collection From Acid-Jazz by Various Artists Does the Cosmic Shepherd dream of Electric Tapirs? by Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Colours by Adam F Fahrenheit Project Part Two by Various Artists Songs Of Praise by African Head Charge Vol. 2-Great Vintage by African Head Charge Drums Of Defiance by African Head Charge Versus Professor Stretch Analogue Bubblebath 1 by AFX Analord 01 by AFX Analord 02 by AFX Analord 03 by AFX Analord 04 by AFX Analord 05 by AFX Analord 06 by AFX Analord 07 by AFX Analord 08 by AFX Analord 09 by AFX Analord 11 by AFX Chosen Lords by Various Artists Moon Safari by Air Talkie Walkie by Air Abstract Music EP by Akufen Akufen - Deck The House EP by Akufen Dada by Akufen My Way by Akufen Psychometry Vol.2 by Akufen Quebec Nightclub by Akufen Greatest Hits by Al Green The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (Disc 6) by Various Artists The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (Disc 7) by Various Artists King Of The Blues Guitar by Albert King Love It To Death by Alice Cooper -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27438 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Album/artist sorting issue in 6.5
aubuti;136509 Wrote: The relevant bugs are: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3350 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3323 Crikey, you're good at finding bugs! MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27438 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: slimGhost maybe more appropriate.....
rtrimarchi;135844 Wrote: hi , does it sound 'NORMAL' to you all that I change the Music Folder in the server settings and run a complete clear+rescan and after I still get the same number of playlists and songs ?? By the way... the new Music folder has ONLY 10 songs (mp3). Isn't it odd ? ...or it is ME :-( Ric If the old folder had ten songs and the new folder has ten songs then it seems very normal. Otherwise it's odd. That was easy... anyone got anything more difficult? MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27355 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Looks like Apple are joining the party
bklaas;135625 Wrote: a nice little blurb on ehomeupgrade sums up my feelings on iTV well. http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/3018/is_apple_late I thought exactly the same thing when I read Jobs' pitch of near DVD quality when describing 640x480 movie downloads (and DRMed movie downloads, at that). I think Jobs could unveil a plate of dog turd on a clean white plate, call it iPoo, and the apple fan boys would go crazy. Hear hear, what a very depressing presentation that was.. aimed at barely sentient sheep. Work hard all your life just to buy the latest ultimately unsatisfying slickly marketed crap and then die. The end. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27325 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Official 6.5.0 Beta 2 - lost Player settings
It's not a problem for me on XP. I've just noticed the undock function. Super! I am a bit worried by the Sleeping in 14 minutes countdown. SlimServer seems due to go to sleep in 6 minutes now. As I am listening to music I'd really rather it didn't. I'll have to figure out how to stop it I guess. I am having a few other problems with Fishbone though... but a new thread for that I think. MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27273 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Official 6.5.0 Beta 2 - Fishbone oddities?
XP Pro. I've been running the 6.5 beta for a couple of weeks now and always used the default skin (I am pretty sure I've not even looked at Fishbone on 6.5, but am not completely certain). Now seemed like a reasonble time to have a look at my favourite skin, Fishbone (tan style). After installing 6.5b2 (via Windows exe) over my existing installation I changed to the Fishbone interface (using the drop down server setting menu). Surprisingly I immediately received a mainly tan Fishbone with some black Fishbone buttons (server settings) and the currently playing track listed with a black background (making the text unreadable). I used the help page to set the style to tan to see if it would clear the black fishbone remnants. This didn't change anything - I have a sucpicion that clicking Change style to tan in Firefox doesn't actually do anything (at least nothing appears to happen). (BTW. I did click Click here to refresh and see the new style.). I cleared my cache and restarted the browser but still no change. All this was in Firefox. I opened up IE and cleared the cache, restarted it and then browsed to SlimServer. The black Fishbone version displayed (perhaps confirming my suspicion that changing to tan in Firefox does nothing). I changed the Fishbone style to tan and although it's virtually all tan now (i.e. the server setting buttons are not the black ones as still seen in Firefox) the background of the currently playing track is still black (making the text unreadable). I am intigued as to why it works better in IE than Firefox though :-) MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27279 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Biography as screensaver?
Michael, you are a star! Your plugins are phenominal. The scrolling screen saver functionality has made these two plugins my definite favourites. I'm exceptionally grateful you have added it. Lovely. Thanks. One small thing. I installed them but did not do the Perl modules. On the Squeezebox screen I was promted with somehting along the lines of You probably need to install some perl modules for this to work correctly. See documentation. Perfect! Anyway, I decided to install Active Perl as this seemed to obviate the need for adding any further CPAN modules. However, the installation changed nothing so I installed your CPAN pack and all was fine. Maybe I have to actively start Active Perl or something? XP Pro. Slimserver 6.1b MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14230 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: slim server will not start - Perl58.dll
Well, I'm glad you posted about this as I have experienced the very same thing trying to install 6.2.2 onto a Windows 2000 machine. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26608 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
Robin Bowes Wrote: I hope it was more thorough than when you brought that Pentium 166 with 96MB of RAM round to my place and wanted to install Linux on it :) R. Yeah, thanks for reminding me of that Robin! :-) At the time my company were running two FreeBSD based nameservers on 486s with 64mb RAM each so thought it would be OK. I didn't realise that all the Linux graphical stuff would cause such an overhead. When I commissioned my present music server laptop (P500, 192mhz PII) I tried about four different Linix/FreeBSD installs. I had no luck with any of them so installed XP Home. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
When the firmware installed correctly I found that SlimServer 6.5 could not access my music. It looks like an old bug may have resurfaced. The only account I seem to be able to run SlimServer on so that it has permission to access my music files across the network (to a Windows Home machine) is my own administrator account, so this is what I run it under. Installing the latest 6.5 executable over my existing 6.5 installation caused the SlimServer account to be set back to local system account. I've reopened the old bug. Otherwise it is looking promising. I am now uninstalling 6.3.1 from my underpowered music server latop and installing 6.5. I'm keeping my figers crossed that I'll have enoough horses to run it. Cheers MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
Triode Wrote: When you have a blank screen does the server think ther is a player connected? Which 6.5 nightly are you using? SlimServer had died. I restarted it. I was using the nightly I downloaded last night. So far it appears to be running well, but this is on my main PC that has a reasonable amount of oomph. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Looking to buy a Squeezebox 3 Query
If you do consider buying another NAS maybe you shoud read this thread... when you have a few hours to spare. It can read a bit like War and Peace. Most entertaining. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26542 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
Thanks. Will do. I need to delete the 6.5 database from my music server as I have installed 6.5 on it and copied across the SlimServer Program Files from my main machine (so I don't have to set up all the codecs, plugins and config again). Could you possible tell me where it is (on Windows)? I've searched the forums but cannot find the answer. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
Cheers. I have deleted contents of SlimServer directory and restarted SlimServer. It seems to be recreating the stuff now. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Which setting controls this?
I don't know what SlimServer version you are using but. You need to set Group Compilation Albums Together in Server Settings/Behaviour/Compilations to get one album listed with all the tracks by different artists listed in it. If you have albums with the same title (i.e. Greatest Hits) I'm not too sure what will happen to these (I've found it inconvenient to use albums titles such as Greatest Hits and always include the artists name in the album tag as well as the title). if you are on 6.3.* you may have to make a tag called COMPILATION and set the value to 1 for all your compiltaion albums if you still get various artists vagaries. There are quite a few recent threads about this oddity. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26560 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
As I am now reporting back on my experience of installing 6.5 I've continued in the beta forum: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26561 MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What makes the Transporter worth $1700 (or more) more than the SB3
If Transporter sounds better in your system then it will be worth the money to those who take the sound so seriously that they throw loads of money at achieving their nirvanha. If you don't have a pretty high end system the chances of you noticing the difference between it and a SB3 are virtually non-existent. The two pertinent points for me are: 1) As Pat pointed out the high end market is very small... margins are high (the opposite of the iPod/fridge pile-em-hight mentality.. although I might be a little wrong on the iPod bit as I think the margins when I bought my 3rd generation 40gb piece of crap were probably quite high). In the audiophile world the Transporter is very cheap. In this oddly convoluted world cheapness seems to be a reason not to buy a product! I am interested to see who will actually buy it. 2) The software will have to be rock solid (especially on the OS of least resistance). Saying that... there is a reasonable chance I will buy it, having a moderately high end system. I would want to listen to it first though. I will have to be convinced that Slimserver 6.5 is totally robust though as I have spent far, far too long getting the software to work correctly up to now (it's been going on for at least two years) and do not want to spend any more time doing it, especially if I've spent £2k (which is what I hope it doesn't cost in the UK, but think it probably will). This I think is the crux of it's success. You cannot persuade someone to buy a 2k piece of kit, however well the hardware is engineered, if they have to spend any time at all maintaining the software. I will then dump my ugly and unnapreciated Benchmark Dac, my SB2, my linear PSU and probably my Naim pre-amp... meaning the thing will not end up costing me less of an arm and a leg... in the end. I'd like to think that's it and I'll not buy any more hifi after that... but I'm sure that's pretty much pie in the sky. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25927 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Anyone have an SB2 for sale?
Seeing as you're desperate i'll sell you mine for $299.00 MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25996 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Looking to buy a Squeezebox 3 Query
ashmant Wrote: 1 - Do I need to use the slim server software as I already have a networked storage system in use (i.e can the SB3 search this permanantly connected network storage - SNAP with GuardianOS)? You will need Slimserver, as Pat says. Nothing else will do. You will be able to access the music stored on your Nas as the SS library. Whether you will be able to hack around your NAS and get SlimServer to run on it is a different matter. Try a forum search on your NAS name to see if anyone else has posted any comments about it. ashmant Wrote: 2 I pay a subscription to Digitally Imported music for CD quality internet radio, will this work on the SB3 as they normally use cookies or a user name / password? I'm 99% certain you will be able to do this by making up a playlist (m3u, pls etc) with the contents something like this: http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8020 ashmant Wrote: Help is naturally apreciated as I am desparate to buy this. OK. You can buy it now. Digitally Imported looks very interesting. Think I'll try it out myself. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26542 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
be either other programs running on the server or slimserver processing a complex task. 0.002 : 138036 : 81% 0.005 :18602 : 11% # 0.01 : 4165 : 2% # 0.015 : 1120 : 1% 0.025 : 7248 : 4% ## 0.05 : 688 : 0% 0.1 : 364 : 0% 0.5 : 385 : 0% 1 : 36 : 0% 5 : 38 : 0% =5 : 45 : 0% max : 56.367177 min : -0.008761 avg : 0.007770 Timer Accuracy Slimserver uses a timer mechanism to trigger events such as updating the user interface. This graph shows how accurately each timer task is run relative to the time it was intended to be run. It is measured in seconds. Timer tasks are scheduled by the server to run at some point in the future. As only one timer task can run at once and the server may also be performing other activity, timer tasks always run slightly after the time they are scheduled for. However if timer tasks run significantly after they are scheduled this can become noticable through delay in the user interface. 0.002 : 6139 : 47% ### 0.005 : 2873 : 22% ### 0.01 : 3224 : 25% 0.015 : 168 : 1% 0.025 : 67 : 1% 0.05 : 58 : 0% 0.1 : 81 : 1% 0.5 : 121 : 1% 1 : 37 : 0% 5 : 90 : 1% =5 : 145 : 1% max : 55.997836 min : 0.00 avg : 0.210063 Timer Task Duration This graph shows how long each timer task runs for. It is measured in seconds. If any timer task takes more than 0.5 seconds this is likely to impact the user interface. 0.002 : 6964 : 54% ## 0.005 : 42 : 0% 0.01 : 569 : 4% ## 0.015 : 1217 : 9% 0.025 : 4113 : 32% ### 0.05 : 53 : 0% 0.1 : 20 : 0% 0.5 : 24 : 0% 1 :0 : 0% 5 :1 : 0% =5 :0 : 0% max : 1.012572 min : 0.000203 avg : 0.007812 -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
Cheers Triode. I was nearly at this point anyway. I've installed it on my main machine and will try it. I hope it will run on my underpowered dedicated laptop but do not hold out much hope. Maybe it's time to trash it. I've spent so many hours getting 6.3.* to work correctly that I'll be glad to see the back of it. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
Cheers but I tried Linux. Panic, Panic cannot mount root. I tried your (?) Slimserver CD. I couldn't get this to work either. I tried another four versions of Linux... within the time I had to get it right I had no joy. I am sticking with Windows. I do not want to spend time learning new Os's. I would prefer to spend as little time on my computer as pssible (it's unhealthy!). Unfortunately SlimServer seems inclined to make me spend a lot more time fussing about with the damn things. My next post vents some of my frustration. MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
Groaaann. I tried to get my Squeezebox to connect to my alternative 6.5 version of SlimServer and the box froze at Press Right now to use SlimServer. I've had to power off to recover. I am now trying to balance out the time I take to put CDs in the CDX (and lack of playlists, internet radio etc) against all the time (over two or three years) I have spent trying to get the SlimServer software working properly. It's not looking good for SlimServer. However AlienBBC (and other convenient stuff) is so huge in my life that I have no choice but to continue. But I am really pissed (and not American). I just want some stable software that I do not have to spend hours getting to work correctly (I'd rather be fishing.. screwing about with computers became tedious a long, long time ago). I recently asked on this forum about the percentage of Mac/Windows/Linux downloads for Slimserver. SlimDevices chose not to publish the figures (or didn't see the post, but I think that's unlikely). But, if my hunch is correct and the vast majority of downloads are Windows I think SlimDevices ought to consider making a cut down Windows only version of the software that just works (and takes advanyage of Windows features/bugs like being able to add multiple directories for your Music Directory, scanning progress bars, the thing that makes indexing files so much faster... this one is really important... so I (and I'm hoping I am right to assume) many others can just listen to music and not have to keep f* around with the software and configuration to get the damn thing to work. I'm hoping that the Transporter might well make this a necesssity anyway (I often wonder if Sean is stuck between a rock and a hard place). I imagine most of the people who'll pay $2k for a SB3 plus are older and most likely Windows based. If you pay $2k for a box you are not going to put up with flaky software. Sorry for the whine. It's saturday night, I'm stuck inside baby sitting my kid.. and I can't even listen to music the way I want to! -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help needed with dropours and Server Network Help
Rebooted Squeezebox. Asks me to update firmware (why didn't it do this first time around?... yes I know, it's beta). Did that and get some message like bad state or something. I can hear the owls outside now. It's probably a better bet to listen to them for an hour or two. :-) MC -- ModelCitizen Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26544 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
