Re: [slim] Silent SoftSqueeze 2.0b99 workaround
Richard, I installed the 5-16-05 Nightly of the 6.1 Trunk. The Primary Sound Driver problem I was having with 2.0b99 seems to be resolved with the release of SoftSqueeze 2.0b7. I'll beat on it today and let you know how it holds up. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Silent SoftSqueeze 2.0b99 workaround
Sorry for the delay in this response Richard, I have been away for the past two weeks. Has this problem been tackled yet, or would my debugging info still be of use to you? Let me know where it stands, and I will help you all that I can. Tom Malsbury Richard Titmuss wrote on 5/3/05: Tom, Can you enable all the javasound debug options, and then switch between Java Sound Audio Engine and Primary Sound Driver a couple of times. Then post the output of the log. I think this is a new problem ... Thanks, Richard Thomas Malsbury wrote on 4/26/05 Today I upgraded my SoftSqueeze install on my work PC from 2.0b2 to 2.0b99, my playlist loaded and everything seemed fine except there was no audio playback when I pressed play. The counter just sat at 0:00. I had a memory that at one point there was mention of having to use JLayer instead of the Java MP3 Plugin. I switched that and still got no playback. Thinking maybe my memory was in question, I switched it back to the Java MP3 Plugin and changed the Sound driver from Primary Sound Driver to Java Sound Audio Engine. That seems to have done the trick. SoftSqueeze is behaving normally, and playback is fine. Any debugging info that would be useful, I should be able to get. I can reproduce it easy enough. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slim and Spinal Tap
Is it me, or has someone recently changed the volume control in SlimServer from 1-20 to 1-11? ... I highly approve of being able to go to 11 when I need that little bit more! ;-) in the web interface it's been 11 for quite a while. The player uses another scale. This feature appeared around introduction of Slimserver 5.0.1 and the release of the SB1. I think it started as a mailing list joke about the line level out of the new hardware being a little low, so the volume scale was shifted from 1-10 to 1-11 so it would be louder. This and the free pony request still make me laugh when they crop up from time to time. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Silent SoftSqueeze 2.0b99 workaround
This is mainly directed at Richard, but I have seen a few posts about AlienBBC being displayed but silent in SoftSqueeze, so it may be helpful in working around that issue as well. Today I upgraded my SoftSqueeze install on my work PC from 2.0b2 to 2.0b99, my playlist loaded and everything seemed fine except there was no audio playback when I pressed play. The counter just sat at 0:00. I had a memory that at one point there was mention of having to use JLayer instead of the Java MP3 Plugin. I switched that and still got no playback. Thinking maybe my memory was in question, I switched it back to the Java MP3 Plugin and changed the Sound driver from Primary Sound Driver to Java Sound Audio Engine. That seems to have done the trick. SoftSqueeze is behaving normally, and playback is fine. This what my setup is: Windows XP SP2 SoftSqueeze 2.0b99 JRE 1.5.0 Connected via SSH to Slimserver 6.1 (4/24/05 Nightly) on a FC3 Linux box Any debugging info that would be useful, I should be able to get. I can reproduce it easy enough. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Softsqueeze 2.0b6 (Over SSH), Slimserver 6.0.2-1, No audio...
pbrubaker wrote: I just upgraded to Softsqueeze 2.0b6 and now I have no audio. It looks like it's playing but there is no audio, the timer does not update and the spectrum does not display. Are you by chance using the Primary Sound Driver option in the audio settings section of the preferences? I was seeing a similar behavior this morning, and was able to get around it by changing the setting to Java Sound Audio Engine You can see my post on this thread for more details: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=13960 Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Tagless Library?
JJZolx wrote: On one of my networks I have a very large mp3 library, with about 15,000 tracks, mostly complete albums, but the id3 tagging of these tracks is pretty hit and miss. Many of the tracks were never tagged. SlimServer does an incredibly poor job of cataloging this library. What this library _does_ have is a very strict and well-done directory structure of Artist/Album/Track, and all tracks are names precisely in the same manner of [tracknumber] [tracktitle].mp3 Can SlimServer be told to use the directory and filename structure when it scans, rather than id3 tag data? Yes, go to Server Settings in the WebUI, then click on the Formatting tab. At the bottom of the page is a section titled Guess Tags Formats. Enter the file structure of your library as the first entry in the list, then SlimServer will use that structure to index and catalog the files. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] AAC with original SliMP3
Adlopa wrote: Apologies if this is an obvious one but I'm damned if I can find mention of it anywhere... I'm having trouble playing AAC (M4A) files on my original SliMP3 box with SlimServer 6 -- audio just comes through as staccato clicks. Am I missing something here..? What OS are you running Slimserver on? I am playing .m4a's to my Slimp3s on my Fedora Linux system successfully with both 6.0.1 and 6.1. Is this a problem only with your Slimp3 and you are successfully playing m4a's on an SB1 or SB? Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Seeking Tech Info on Squeezebox Remote
Marc Sherman wrote: cliveb wrote: Hi, this is my first post. Yesterday I took delivery of a SB2, and jolly nice it is to. I'm interested in building a remote receiver that will switch on my power amps (using a power relay) at the same time as turning the SB2 out of standby. To this end, I need to find out some technical data about the remote, such as the frequency it uses, and the codes it sends. I've tried a search of the forums but came up with nothing. Does anyone know where I can get this kind of data? At least some of that info (the codes, not the frequencies, though I tink the frequency info is fairly standardized for IR remotes) is available in the file .../IR/Slim_Devices_Remote.ir within the slimserver source. If you've already got a remote that can control your amps, you could go the other way around, and program the Slim to respond to that remote; setting the d_ir flag will output every IR signal received to the log, and you can use those log entries to create a .IR file that maps the remote codes to symbolic button names. Those buttons are then mapped to modes/features in the Default.map file in the same directory. Another alternative you might want to consider is the geekport -- the SB1/SBG had a pin labled: s/pdif enable indicator (may be used to drive remote amplifier turn-on); I'm not sure, but I'd imagine that the SB2 geekport has a similar pin. - Marc It is planned that the SB2 headphone port will be able to send out IR signals to an IR blaster to control other devices. You can see the post that Sean Adams of Slimdevices wrote here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=34594postcount=2 Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: FW: [slim] Re: Problems/Frustration with Softsqueeze/SSH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but I can't find the help page you refer to. There's a Softsqueeze SSH Tunneling Howto that points you to how to set up a (generic) SSH Server, but doesn't address the steps necessary to make it and the slimserver work together on a Windows system. I guess I will look those over again and make any need changes once we get you up and running. They were posted with the release of SoftSqueeze 1.0, not that much has changed in the SSH tunneling feature of SoftSqueeze2 but I'm sure they could be refined. Sorry to reveal my ignorance (again), but your note raised a couple of questions for me: 1) Which port on the Slimserver? My firewall won't forward to just an IP address, it needs a port number as well. You need to set you router/firewall to forward Port 22 to the local network IP address of of your XP box running SSH and Slimserver. You don't need to forward any other ports through the firewall. The point of SSH tunneling is that all traffic and ports needed are tunneled through the single open and secure port. 2) How does one set up the SSH config file? - it doesn't appear to be something that Notepad can handle. It should be. It is just a generic text file that hold all the settings that SSH uses when it starts up. 3) I didn't realize that one could enter the IP address in the SSH Server box - it appears to be a dropdown with only one choice. Thanks to your note, though, I've put the right information in that box. I still can't connect, but I feel like I'm getting somewhere. When you enter the IP address of the SSH Server, make sure that you are using the IP address assigned to your WAN/Router by your ISP, not the IP address of the XP box on your local network. Let me know if any of that was helpful. If not, don't worry we'll get it. Lots of people use this feature everyday so it is just a matter of trouble shooting your setup and getting you enjoying your music collection from anywhere with an internet connection. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Just getting started...
CavesOfTQLT wrote: Sorry to jump into this thread but reading those flac comments makes me want to try it out. Can someone point me to a good 'copy that CD into flac' site or just to indicate the steps/instructions I need to do this using EAC or other software. So far all my CDs are encoded in mp3 and Ogg (mainly because my personal DP reads these formats), but I'd like to start using flac for all my new CDs, in readiness for my SB2 system. Any help/pointers appreciated. This was discussed a little over a year ago in a previous thread, you can see my response there: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=12002postcount=2 But in a quick summary here is what I did. I used EAC to encode directly to FLAC. It is identical to setting up EAC to encode to LAME. You just select Other Codec in the settings and point to where the FLAC.exe file is located. You can get the codec at http://flac.sourceforge.net/ plus links to other software that supports FLAC. Settings for using alternative codecs in EAC can be found at http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/EAC/. dbPowerAmp, can also rip from CD to FLAC. It worked well in a few trials that I did. If you are not willing to wait for EAC I think it is a good substitute. Even with its AccurateRip feature turned on , which I would recommend, it was about twice as fast as EAC. If you have any questions feel free to ask. Tom ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Remote won't work
Tahir wrote: Thanks Dean It's usually dark when I need to press the sleep button on my remote and I just can't find it on the Slim one. All the way to the right, one up from the bottom that's the one I do every night with my glasses off and lights out. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Ugrading SoftSqueeze
Max wrote: What is the correct way to upgrade SoftSqueeze? I just went from 2.0a4 to 2.0b3 by clicking on the install link in SlimServer 6.01. The upgrade went fine, but the player showed up as a new player in the server, forcing me to configure it all over again. I'm assuming that this isn't meant to happen! Thanks, Max Spicer Yes, the reset was intended. One of the versions along the way from alpha to beta forced the reset. I believe it was related to a MAC address problem that Richard corrected, that is why it appeared as a new player in the Server. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thanks for the Pony!
Are we talking about the ponies or the twins? Sorry couldn't resist. You have tried looking into their eyes and squeezing their bodies, right? I hadn't seen that before and laughed for 5 minutes straight. Robert Jeff Coffler wrote: I got three black SqueezeBox 2's, and I received three different color ponies. My 3yr old twin boys promptly took them all. They're very picky about the toys daddy gets to play with. :-( -- Jeff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Nightly RPMs not building
I just wanted to let you know that the nighlty rpms for 6.1 or 6.0.1 have not been built for the last three nights, 4/1, 4/2 or 4/3. I was able to check out the current SVN for 6.1 and use the makerelease.pl manually build the release for myself if that info helps. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Erratic scrolling with Internet Radio Stream in 6.0
I have noticed erratic scrolling with the following internet radio stream. http://www.somafm.com/indiepop.pls I see the same scrolling behavior at home with my SliMP3s and now with SoftSqueeze2. It jumps back to the beginning of the Text as soon as the last character is displayed. With other streams and files directly off the Slimserver, the Scroll continues until the first character is back to its original position at which point is pauses before it begins to scroll again. I know that this stream scrolled normally under 5.4.1 and have only been seeing this problem since upgrading to 6.0. I normally access this stream through SHOUTCast plugin, but see the same behavior when I tune in directly with the link above. I am currently running the 3-28-05 Nightly of 6.0 on a Fedora Core3 box. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question
When I re-ripped all my CDs to Flac, I used dbPowerAmp with the add-on Flac Codec. It worked very well for me. http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm The only problem that I have is that all my ripping, tagging and storage was done in a Windows environment and my SlimServer runs on a linux box. Since the upgrade to 6.0 some files with special characters were not found since the language sets were not specified in my samba share. This seems to be more a Linux-Windows problem in my setup and not a problem with SlimServer 6.0. Just the changes in 6.0 manifested a problem with my setup. Dan Sully is already aware and helped me track down the problem. I just wanted to through that out there since you mentioned you might be moving your files from one OS to another after the ripping process. Tom Malsbury Jay Sissom wrote: This is more of a general question about Flac encoding. Quite a few people are using it, but I've found the tools that I've looked at are just a little difficult to deal with. I used CDex and iTunes to rip CD's to mp3's. Is there an open source tool like that for Flac? So far, all the tools I've seen require multiple steps for ripping, CDDB then flac conversion. I have Windows, Mac OS and Linux, but would prefer a Windows or Mac OS tool because Linux is my server. Thanks Jay ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LinkStation as SlimServer... Performance Issues?
Marc D. Field wrote: Who's running the deep discount on the 160? Marc I saw on Techbargins.com earlier this week that Buy.com is offering them at $209 with free shipping. http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10377699dcaid=1688 Looks like the offer is still valid, and its $40 less then Amazon, so this might be the deal he was talking about. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - where did the search UI go?
Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi, In the first version of SoftSqueeze I used (that went with the 5.4 release of SlimServer) it had a nice button that let you type in (using the keyboard) an artist name, title etc., and search based on that. In the newest version of SoftSqueeze, this appears to have disappeared. Is this deliberate, or am I missing something? Thanks Andy >From the SlimServer 6.0b1 release notes: Softsqueeze know issues: Spectrum Analyzer is not working correctly. SB2 features not yet implemented: native FLAC, audio transitions. Excession, lcd, full screen and applet skins need updating. Experimental music search is now disabled, this was not working with slimserver 6.0. Java MP3 Plugin may use 100% cpu, if this effects you try jlayer instead for this release. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Anyone else having problems with the JavaMP3 Plugin on Windows?
Patrick Dixon wrote: Only problem is, having downloaded javamp3-1_0.exe, the installation doesn't progess beyond choosing an install directory (where it just loops). I had this problem when first installing the Java MP3 Plugin from Sun. It seems to be a problem with their installer not a problem with SoftSqueeze or Slimserver. I found that if I chose another directory other then the one is it trying to create the install proceeds without a problem. I think in the end I just moved up one directory to the main JRE folder and let it install it there. As long as Windows and JRE know where it was installed even if it was not the default location, SoftSqueeze can find and utilize it. As a side note the version of Softsqueeze shipped with SlimServer 6.0b1 (SoftSqueeze 2.0a11) doesn't work with the Java MP3 plugin. If that is a feature that you are looking to use it has been fixed in the 3-14-05 Nightly and is updated to include SoftSqueeze 2.0a12. Tom Malsbury ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] RFI with SB. Will it happen with SB2?
Alan D. Falk wrote: Also, anyone from SlimDevices care to comment on whether the power supply in the SB2 is the same as the one in the SB? If different, is it better shielded? Thanks again. Jeffrey Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sean from Slim Devices addressed this in a previous thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/gforum.cgi?post=35362#35362 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] WikiSlim? SlimWiki? SlimWikiCity?
For the record it is located at: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/tiki-index.php Craig, James (IT) wrote: There is already a Wiki on SlimDevices web site. Not much on it though... James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damon Riley Sent: 02 March 2005 17:26 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] WikiSlim? SlimWiki? SlimWikiCity? Hi, everyone. I've enjoyed being a part of this mailing list and plan to continue with it. I do find it easier to stay on top of things when the messages land in my 'slim' inbox. BUT... There is a project called WikiCities that the creator of the Wikipedia has begun. How much interest is there in starting a WikiCity to compile and refine what we know about the Squeezebox, slimp3, slimserver, softsqueeze other related topics? A WikiSlim could be like an FAQ on steroids. There would be no one maintainer-- we could all add our two cents without waiting for the FAQ owner to get around to making updates. Yes, there are ups and downs to this, but what is there to lose, really? WikiCities lets us use their software servers to run the wiki and they get to place ads on the site. The content is free to anyone. To see what's starting, you can look at WikiMac: http://mac.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page If you're not familiar with the Wikipedia concept, you could look in the March issue of Wired where there is a decent article. An excerpt is here: http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Wikicities_in_the_news -- Damon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
