Re: [slim] Announce: Official SlimServer v6.5.2 Release
SamS: for each duplicate album, are all of the album's tracks listed? Or are the tracks split between the 2 versions of the album? If it's the latter, it may be a tagging issue. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35480 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] transfering favorites
You can copy the relevant section in your slimserver.pref file. I don't know if this qualifies as easy so much as quick. Someone was talking about writing a plugin do do this for you, but as far as I know this hasn't yet happened. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35500 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] low volume
jlrood;176692 Wrote: I'm using analog ouput ,i know all about the volume gains the preamp volume the remote volume, the this the that it plays my music ALOT LOWER than anything else I have hooked up to my stereo! that includes my old dell mp3 DAR that played the exact same mp3's off my pc. can anyone help?!!! But you still haven't told us if you've disabled ReplayGain, which is totally different from pre-amp volume, remote volume, and probably also the this the that... In the SlimServer web interface, select Player Settings for (your player) / Audio In the VOLUME ADJUSTMENT/REPLAY GAIN section, make sure you've selected Disable Volume Adjustment -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32271 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play all computer audio
Some people have set up their PCs to act as shoutcast servers using what you hear as the source; they can then tune in slimserver to the shoutcast stream. I've never tried it, but there's no reason it shouldn't work. Of course, the quality will be lower and the devices won't be in perfect sync. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35449 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!
Michael Herger;198953 Wrote: I used your plugin to find all of the strings, but editing them didn't work for either the main set of strings or for plugins Something must be terribly wrong with it. You're not the first to report this, but I wasn't able to reproduce so far :-(. This makes the whole plugin rather useless Well I managed to get it to spit this out: Could not open /etc/slimserver-strings.txt for writing: Permission denied I'm running slimserver on Gentoo linux, using the official gentoo package. Slim::Utils::Prefs::preferencesPath() returns /etc slimserver does not have permission to create a file in /etc This behaviour is correct. The problem is that your plugin is wrongly assuming it can create and modify a file in preferencesPath(), which in my setup (and probably other linux setups) it can't. When I manually created /etc/slimserver-strings.txt and gave slimserver permission to alter it, the plugin started working as expected for built-in strings (the server's still ignoring the custom strings for plugins, but at least /etc/slimserver-strings.txt contains the requested modifications). I'd suggest adding an error message in the web interface that explains the problem and suggests manually creating the file. Or at least modify the installation instructions to mention this problem. Cheers -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
slimkid;199023 Wrote: looks good. Now, a suggestion for a few luxury items. Lots of people use Lazy Search plug-in. Looks like that one would require similar change. Then, make this configurable among other server settings and you are rocking big time. Cheers Thanks for the feedback! 1) I just spent a bit of time hacking the Lazy Search plugin. After a while I tried the original plugin - it already works fine for me, with no modifications at all to the plugin! This is with LazySearch2 v2.3 for slimserver 6.5.x, and the second version of my modified modules. What behaviour are you seeing? 2) Yes, a server-wide option would be good. I don't have time to do this now, but I'll definitely want to add it in. The problem is that I'd probably want to submit it as a patch to the official tree in order to avoid needing to re-write it for different versions. This would therefore require a lot more testing. Cheers -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
slimkid;198711 Wrote: So, I tried it briefly, and like it so far. Glad to hear it. I'd be interested to know your opinion about doing it with pushModeLeft instead of pushMode. I'm not sure what equals what in terms of jump back, so I've provided a new set of modules with the relevant changes. I think I prefer things this way but I need time to play with it and get used to it... +---+ |Filename: Favorites.pm | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2742| +---+ -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!
kdf;198324 Wrote: I've been using custom-strings.txt for some time now to alter certain strings. it avoids the need for a complete strings file saved over the standard, and it isn't overwritten when you install a new version of slimserver. Thanks for this, kdf - I wasn't aware of this function (shouldn't it at least be mentioned in the explanatory comments of string.txt?!) When I get time I'll replace my strings.txt offering with a custom-strings.txt for Australian localisation, since that's clearly a more elegant solution. If people stop bickering I may also make one for Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, New Zealand, South Africa... ;-) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!
Hi Michael, I used your plugin to find all of the strings, but editing them didn't work for either the main set of strings or for plugins (none of the changes were saved, or indeed even showed up in the web interface). I didn't have time to troubleshoot this last night when I last posted. I realise that the plugins define their own strings in their source code; I just thought that slimserver should load those strings, and override them with custom-strings.txt. Thinking more about it in terms of the plugin mechanism, that's quite unlikely (unfortunately). How does your plugin fix this? By hacking the source code of the other plugins? -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!
David Lawrence;198504 Wrote: Ahem. The correct spelling of visualize is visualize, as in the Oxford English dictionary. 'Visualise' is a faux-French bastardization. You're right, of course - and that's precisely why I deliberately called it Australian English! The most common spelling of all -ise/-ize words in Australia is -ise; indeed, the Macquarie Dictionary (the closest Australia has to a definitive reference) lists the main spelling as visualise, with visualize as an alternative. Now let's not start a flame war! -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
OK, I have a provisional, hacked-up solution as follows. For the record,
this is server version 6.5.1 on linux (though I think this code should
be the same for other operating systems..?)
In /opt/slimserver/Slim/Buttons/BrowseDB.pm, lines 155-158 read:
$client-showBriefly({
'line'= [ $line1, $line2 ],
'overlay' = [ undef,
$client-symbols('notesymbol') ],
});
I commented out those lines and replaced them with this single line:
Slim::Buttons::Common::pushMode($client, 'playlist');
I then did the same thing to /opt/slimserver/Slim/Buttons/BrowseTree.pm
(lines 109-112), and to /opt/slimserver/Slim/Buttons/Favorites.pm (lines
223-225)
Then after restarting slimserver, pressing play from browsing either
the database or the music folder, or from favorites, goes directly to
now playing. Great!
There are many other conditions that could occur other than the 3 I've
covered. So I'll test this out on my system for a while and see if any
bugs appear. However, so far it's working well.
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Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
As it turns out, the simple modifications above work fine, but they interfere with adding things to the playlist (it always goes directly to now playing, even if you just pressed add). So I added in a couple of if statements. I've attached the modified files; search in them for bukharin in order to see my changes. I suspect there's one more file that needs to be modified in a similar way (Buttons/BrowseUPnPMediaServer.pm), but I have no way of testing it so I've decided not to touch it. Again, these files are for the linux slimserver 6.5.1, but probably work for other operating systems. I'd be interested to know if anyone finds this works, and if so, if they find it useful. If so, I may be tempted to add in an option for this behaviour, and submit the whole thing as a patch. +---+ |Filename: Favorites.pm | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2736| +---+ -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!
For anyone who's interested, I've changed all of the English text in strings.txt to Australian English. This means that favorites becomes favourites, etc. It's nice to have everything look correct! An updated strings.txt for server 6.5.1 can be found at my website: http://www.bukharin.net/phil/linux/slimdevices/ If you want to do it yourself for another server version, it's really easy. For reference, these are the changes I made to the English text in strings.txt: * favorite to favourite * visualize to visualise * customize to customise * synchronize to synchronise * analyzer to analyser * analog to analogue Of course, I changed all the variations too (such as Favorite/Favorites/favorites). I decided to leave hard disk alone, since that's pretty much the standard spelling in Australia. If you find anything I've missed, please let me know! -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!
Marc Sherman;198301 Wrote: Ahem. First of all, your subject is missing some subjects (of the Queen, that is). Second of all, it's not Australian English, mate. :) Yeah, I thought that would get your attention!! ;-) An updated strings.txt for server 6.5.1 can be found at my website: http://www.bukharin.net/phil/linux/slimdevices/ Any chance of getting this integrated into the server as a proper localisation so that it's kept in sync with server changes? - Marc I'd be happy to be a maintainer for such a translation, but see kdf's post... amcluesent;198312 Wrote: Have you changed Welcome to Squeezebox to G'day cobber! :) I was tempted to do that to see if anyone noticed :) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] finals - who will win? cricket!!!
Mods - please delete this thread -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34843 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
Thanks kdf. I'm running linux which should simplify things - anything that doesn't work will be my fault, rather than any fault in the perl setup. If I need a hand I'll check out the developers forum. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking at improving multi-player synchronization
Generally it works quite well, and the interface to sync/unsync is good. However, sync has a number of issues which prevent it from being as 1st-class as the rest of the system - so, thanks very much for working to improve it! A few comments about things that could be better: 1) gapless + sync should work together, and IMHO this needs to be engineered into any sync design from the start. This is my biggest disappointment with the current system, and is the one thing that could lead me to switch to The Competition 2) the music sometimes gets stuck between tracks (never happens when not sync'd). Presumably this relates to buffering and the players being in different states. 3) the ability to sync mid track is required for various other problems: - when a player gets behind (eg from a buffer underrun), it's behind until the next track. What _should_ happen in this circumstance is that the affected player starts playing again, at the same point it would be at if it hadn't dropped out - fast forwarding/rewinding when players are sync'd is not usable - syncing a player to a player which is already playing something should just join in rather than forcing the other player to start the current track again. This sounds petty but it's not when tracks are long and fast-forwarding doesn't work I'm more than happy to assist with testing any new software/firmware to get the above issues sorted out. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34133 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
It seems so simple, yet it's eluding me... When I press play on the remote, I'd like my squeezebox to go directly to now playing without me pressing now playing or waiting for the screensaver to become active. I realise that it doesn't do this by default in case you want to add more music to your playlist, while you're still in browse mode. However, I would very, very rarely do this, and I find that my routine is always to press play and then press now playing. Is there any way to configure the server/player to do this? As a backup, I thought I could use my Harmony remote to issue the 2 commands consecutively when I press play on the Harmony; this also seems impossible. Hmmm... -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Help! Wireless Nightmare - music trapped on computer!
If you leave the DWL-G700AP with its default settings, it's trying to act as a competing access point (ie competing with your original one). Think of it like your neighbour's AP - there's no way for it to know that it's supposed to be boosting the signal of the first AP. Thus, the squeezebox would happily link up to the new AP, but would (by design) not be able to connect to the rest of the network. In order for your setup to work, you'd need to configure your new AP to join your original wifi network. I don't know enough about wifi to know how this works; back when I played with this stuff a few years ago, I understood that you needed your AP to support repeater mode, which yours doesn't. However, your AP is clearly advertised as being able to extend a wifi network. Perhaps a wifi guru can help you out. In any case, your setup should theoretically be able to work, as long as it's configured correctly and there's adequate signal between the 2 access points. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34735 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
Yes - it means that 1 second after pressing any button, the display goes dim. This makes browsing the menus very clumsy. I've also tried setting it to 0, which seems to disable it altogether. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
JJZolx;197791 Wrote: Also adjust the brightness so that doesn't happen. I considered doing that, but presumably the display would then stay bright the whole time? I like the fact that it dims after 30 seconds - it both looks classy and prolongs the life of the VFD. Swapping one annoyance (needing to press now playing) for another (needing to press brightness) doesn't really do it for me - not to mention that it's clearly a workaround... :-) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?
Oh well indeed. For now I'll just live with it (it's no big deal obviously - just a niggle). When I get a chance I'll look into the server code and see how hard it is to modify the behaviour there - surely it wouldn't require too much hacking... (famous last words) Cheers -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playsist Gets Stuck During Synchronized Playback
I've seen the same problem when synchronising an SB3 with softsqueeze; server 6.5.1 on linux. It's only happened a couple of times, so I haven't yet worked out a pattern. If I do I'll report back. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34707 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Softsqueeze is very buggy. Is there a new version?
I had the same problem in Windows, and upgrading to the latest version of java (from java.com) solved it. I'm still having those problems in Mac OSX despite upgrading java. Linux always worked perfectly (!) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34625 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Softsqueeze is very buggy. Is there a new version?
For Windows, I initially tried softsqueeze_windows_with_jre_3_3.exe. This failed miserably with problems as described above, so I installed jre1.5.0_11 from Sun's website, and installed softsqueeze_windows_3_3.exe. I then added javamp3-1_0.exe (the java mp3 plugin) as recommended by softsqueeze On OSX I think I have java 1.5 installed; I'll check later on (it's not on this computer and I need to go do some real life stuff) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34625 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slim 6.5.1 just hangs- will not run
I guess a few things to try: 1) are you sure you're pointing your browser to the correct address? Try http://127.0.0.1:9000 (without the :9000 it won't work) 2) is there a firewall blocking access to port 9000? 3) it may also be worth trying to connect to the server with softsqueeze, to see if the problem is just with the http server (which btw is totally separate from IIS) 4) I don't know where slimserver keeps its logs in Windows, but if there's a logfile somewhere, this may provide some clues Good luck! -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34560 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums
I had a similar problem with 1 album or 2 albums. I eventually fixed the problem by doing the following: 1) moved the affected album out of slimserver's music folder 2) re-scanned my music folder (so the album was wiped from slimserver's database) 3) deleted all tags in the album, and saved the files in that state 4) re-tagged the files and saved again 5) moved the files back into slimserver's music folder 6) re-scanned the music folder I haven't had any such problems since. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] While I wait to get my SB3 - External Hard Drives
I'm thinking of writing a small plugin to eliminate this delay. The idea would be that every time the server expects you're about to play something (eg when the SB/Tp is turned on, or when browse is pressed), it reads a small file from the hard disk in order to wake it up. I'm not sure how this would work with caching filesystems; writing a file would work better, but would depend on write access to the filesystem, which can't be assumed. Do you guys think that would be useful? Or is the delay really not bothersome? -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34177 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
