Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 simply won't play...
Mick Seymour;385329 Wrote: Just to confirm my understanding: 1. The two external HDs are connected to the Mac at the same time? 2. Both HDs are powered up and spun up when you boot the Mac? 3. Both HDs are mounted on their same respective mount points each time the Mac boots? 4. An 'alias' on a Mac is the same as a symbolic link? 5. Your defined SqueezeCenter music folder is in your users directory? 6. You have two symbolic links from your defined SqueezeCenter music folder pointing to the mount points, or sub directories of those mount points of the two HDs? 7. SqueezeCenter starts after all internal and external disk partitions are mounted? 8. When you shut down Mac OS, SqueezeCenter stops before the two external HDs are unmounted? If the above is not correct, let us know. Meanwhile, a couple of points. A symbolic link won't change to point somewhere else on its own, even if the file or directory it points to isn't there, for example, if a disk is unmounted. However, if an 'alias' is not a Mac OS/UNIX style symbolic link, I don't know. Unmounting and remounting your music disks when SC is running is not a good idea. Yeah, all those questions and points might help and have good point. Let me go answering one by one: 1. The two external HDs are connected to the Mac at the same time? Yes, they are! 2. Both HDs are powered up and spun up when you boot the Mac? Yes! 3. Both HDs are mounted on their same respective mount points each time the Mac boots? What is the mount point? If it's simply a place on a desktop I don't know, I think they are at the same place. 4. An 'alias' on a Mac is the same as a symbolic link? I think it is! 5. Your defined SqueezeCenter music folder is in your users directory? Yes! 6. You have two symbolic links from your defined SqueezeCenter music folder pointing to the mount points, or sub directories of those mount points of the two HDs? To sub directories where the music is stored. 7. SqueezeCenter starts after all internal and external disk partitions are mounted? Well NO, it wasn't! I have recently changed that, I will see soon if anything changes. 8. When you shut down Mac OS, SqueezeCenter stops before the two external HDs are unmounted? I think it does, but I'm not sure. Thanks in advance -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58048 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 simply won't play...
It wasn't starting at all or it was starting -before- the HDs were mounted? If it starts after they are mounted then it probably stops before they are unmounted. It is worth checking. No, I think I unmounted and remounted the same HD drive while SC has been running. But I will certainly check the thing with terminal it might help. In the meanwhile, here what terminal says now on mount and df commands: Last login: Fri Jan 16 20:24:58 on console Macintosh:~ viktorjovic$ mount /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) fdesc on /dev (fdesc, union) map -hosts on /net (autofs, automounted) map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted) /dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/NO NAME (msdos, asynchronous, local, noowners) /dev/disk2s1 on /Volumes/My Book 1 (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners) /dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/My Book (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners) Macintosh:~ viktorjovic$ df Filesystem512-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/disk0s294109696 52522048 4107564857%/ devfs216 216 0 100%/dev fdesc 2 2 0 100%/dev map -hosts 0 0 0 100%/net map auto_home 0 0 0 100%/home /dev/disk0s322406800 13453312 895348861%/Volumes/NO NAME /dev/disk2s1 624984640 45656960 579327680 8%/Volumes/My Book 1 /dev/disk1s1 976529472 420266624 55626284844%/Volumes/My Book Macintosh:~ viktorjovic$ Macintosh:~ viktorjovic$ -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58048 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 simply won't play...
Well so far the problem seems to appear over and over. It is not dependent at all on anything known, the thing is that even when discs and folders are named the same, the library is not with right paths, and the SB3 does not want to play/stream files. It is annoying to rescan your stored music which takes over 20 minutes for before it starts to stream songs. So once again: Mac mini with Mac OS 10.5. One external drive is firewire Another one is USB They both have the same names as well as folders with music on them. Every now and then it looses paths stored in primary Macintosh volume in users folder where the aliases (shortcuts) are, so you have rescan the library again everytime this happens. Please, any clues? -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58048 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] repair of squeezebox?
Hello , I would suggest to put some pictures of opened SB with loosed (and fixed) connectors on our forum to see what could possibly go wrong, just for knowledge base. I also advice against wireless headphones, since SB is used primarily for lossless files and quality listening which wireless heads are not able to provide. Cheers! -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] External HD - PC/Mac compatibility
FAT32 on external HDs is not the same as on internal drives and is much more stable than the last one. So every modern mac will read it. No need to reformat to NTFS (what might cause problems on macs) or format in Mac OS. The only thing that might cause problems on Mac OS platforms is aliases problem that get confused with multiple drives. -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58033 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 simply won't play...
Well it seems that the problems with aliases to specified folders are repeating itself. Does anybody have any solution about it or one should rescan huge library on MacOS platforms over over? -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58048 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 simply won't play...
Imof, yes, they have already been mounted from the computer startup, now when problem reappeared. And you are right! The mount sequence suppose to be a problem. I will figure out something, but what? Dont want to spend more time in mounting and rescaning than listening to music. -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58048 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeezebox 3 simply won't play...
...despite all the network is OK, from Squeezecenter all starts perfectly and running (including the songs), but on the playing now panel of SB3 is written stopped or it is shown as it was about to start playing but it simply doesnt start. I run Squeeze center 7.2.1 on a Mac Mini with two external harddisks attached. Thanks for help I am totally unhappy... -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58048 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 simply won't play...
Well, I have just fixed it! Kind a strange thing happened... Music is on two external HDs. From another folder on a Mini Mac two aliases (shortcuts) describe paths from which the music will stream. by clicking those aliases the one would go straight to the particular folder. These aliases have been changed. Why, I dont know. So many reasons: - I frequently mount and unmount my discs in Mac OS. - I keep SC starting as the Mac OS starts... - ...and frequently reboot to Windows and the other way around Any of aforementioned processes might influence I suppose. ... I created two new aliases (they are both checked and working), rescanned both of my drives again and voila... It started to work again. No firewalls (except built-in Mac OS) no antivirus softwares. Kind a trivial thing but might happens... -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58048 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 simply won't play...
seanadams;382785 Wrote: Can you play internet radio? Seems to me that this was the adequate question. It should work but I didnt check! Anyway, it would be nice test to check the problem. -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58048 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Power supply for SB3 options
Just to update myself: I have found one of Russ Andrews PSU, up to 80 pounds. How does it score? Anybody knows? -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54803 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Power supply for SB3 options
As in a head: What options for PSU for SB3 are available other than USA ones (Bolder Cables, CIAudio and Wlborne labs) particularly for Europe market? Those units might not have CE certification and the shipping to Europe (Slovenia) is rather Risky, requiring additional declaration payments. -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54803 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
