Re: [slim] Community Squeezebox: The Name Vote (Round 2)
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98200 Question: What should we call this new device? - Open Music Box - Melodia - Phoenix - Harmonic - None of the above Concertina? Bandoneon? (to go with the squeeze box/accordion angle)... dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98200 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Which Web Browser do you use
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56180 Question: Which Browser do you use? - Firefox 2.x - Firefox 3.x - Internet Explorer 6.x - Internet Explorer 7.x - AOL Browser - Opera (any version) - Safari (any version) - Google Chrome (BETA) - Internet Explorer 8 (BETA) - Other Michaelwagner;382509 Wrote: Nope. Care to elaborate? http://noscript.net An essential tool for surfing the web... Daniel -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.5 - 16330 - Debian - EN - utf8 Buffalo Linkstation HD-HG300, 266MHz PowerPC, 128MB RAM running Freelink (Debian etch) SlimDevices Squeezebox 2 wired dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56180 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Grandfather clock plugin, possible?
Indeed... :) with interchangeable chimes (Westminster, Whittington or St. Michael's, whatever, cuckoo clock!) and selectable period (off, 15, 30, 60 minutes) and probably a turn off the chimes at night option too. If I get this project in a decent state, I might enlist someone with an actual GF clock to send me some sound clips so as not to get on anyone's bad side by lifting some clips off the internet... Once I can get actual wav or mp3 clips playing at will, then I'll concentrate on the rest of the logic. Think about it, an SB with a decent amp would make a terrific high-tech grandfather clock! You could even have ol' Big Ben in your living room! ;) -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12387 - Debian - EN - utf8 Buffalo Linkstation HD-HG300, 266MHz PowerPC, 128MB RAM running Freelink (Debian etch) SlimDevices Squeezebox 2 wired dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Grandfather clock plugin, possible?
Thanks for the reply guys, Unfortunately for now, I'm stuck with V6.5 as I'm running off a NAS but I guess I could take a peek at the V7 code to see how it's done. I've been digging deeper in the squeezebox slimp3 comm protocols and I've found commands to feed a stream directly into the SB decoder. It's as low-level as it gets but I'll see if I get lucky figuring out how it works without getting the SB into an incompatible mode WRT the rest of slimserver and its main task of playing music... -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12387 - Debian - EN - utf8 Buffalo Linkstation HD-HG300, 266MHz PowerPC, 128MB RAM running Freelink (Debian etch) SlimDevices Squeezebox 2 wired dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Grandfather clock plugin, possible?
...or a tropical rainforest or waves crashing on a beach, etc. The nice thing about a clock is that you _expect_ the sounds to be repetitive... a 5 second snippet of a roaring fire in a loop will probably get on everybody's nerves real quick! ;) -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12387 - Debian - EN - utf8 Buffalo Linkstation HD-HG300, 266MHz PowerPC, 128MB RAM running Freelink (Debian etch) SlimDevices Squeezebox 2 wired dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Grandfather clock plugin, possible?
I have an idea for a plugin that would actually involve playing some sounds without actually playing a track. My idea is for a grandfather clock plugin that would always emit (for lack of a better word) the tick-tock sound and would also play chimes every 15/30/60 minutes and would also count the hours. I was planning on allowing for the linking to a display plugin (such as WeatherTime which I use) to handle displaying something on the SB's screen. My question is: is it possible to feed the Squeezebox with some short sound clips without actually going through the whole play track code? I've looked at the Squeezebox communication protocol and did not find what I was looking for. Before I embark on this journey, can anyone in the know either confirm or deny this possibility? (and if possible, a short explanation would be great!) Thanks, Daniel -- dborn SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12387 - Debian - EN - utf8 Buffalo Linkstation HD-HG300, 266MHz PowerPC, 128MB RAM running Freelink (Debian etch) SlimDevices Squeezebox 2 wired dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43105 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Netscape saved me from ditching Squeezebox
Same here. IE 6 and IE 7 just work (slimserver running on Linux) -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36856 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How do you use your Squeezebox/Transporter?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36061 Question: When you listen to music, do you connect to Slim Server or SqueezeNetwork? - a) 100% of the time to Slimserver (on computer or NAS drive) - b) 75% of the time on Slimserver / 25% on SqueezeNetwork - c) 50% of the time on Slimserver / 50% on SqueezeNetwork - d) 25% of the time on Slimserver / 75% on SqueezeNetwork - e) 100 % of the time on SqueezeNetwork 100% SS. Never even *tried* SN... I'm non-US with bandwidth-limited internet account and ~20,000 tracks (all high-quality mp3 rips) running on a nas with 24/7 uptime. That says it all :) -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36061 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Quick way to remove note image from Now Playing dispay?
Just use the Music Information Screen plugin... -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36118 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 6.5.2 with trepidation
I download a new nightly of the most recent 6.5.2.x (on a linkstation no less) every 3 months or so, and have had no problems to speak of. I always keep the previous nightly as well as the latest official release at hand so if I run into problems, I can quickly revert to a previously running version. -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35563 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Displaying Now Playing information in web page
Is there a way, using an existing plugin or otherwise, to display the Now Playing data for the currently playing track in a nice and appealing format with all the music related information present such that it could be displayed on a computer screen and be visible from a distance? Something similar to Michael Herger's Album Review plugin but using only the local information? This page would not have any buttons or controls, just for display purposes. I wouldn't want to see info such as bitrate or filesize or date modified. I imagine a page with the cover art followed by title, album, artist, genre, perhaps comment. Having the ability to specify which field to use and in which order would also be nice. I've gone through the slimserver technical information pages and I don't see anything that would do what I want. I haven't found any plugins that would do this either. I know that there is an issue of catching a track change from a web page (how to get a dynamic update of tracks?) I was thinking of maybe using Michael's plugin and modifying it to do this but was just wondering if anybody had done it already. Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] at my wit's end with SB3
Since we're throwing ideas around, you might want to try this: At the EXACT physical location of your SB3, disconnect the SB3 and try connecting a laptop in the _same_ power outlet and connect it to your lan using the _same_ ethernet cable... You could even use softsqueeze to emulate the SB3 and play some music. What does that do? Any difference? Good luck chasing the ghosts... ;) Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35065 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox
Perhaps this message is generated locally when your squeezebox doesn't find the SqueezeNetworks server (assuming you're using that?). Besides, how would the server notify you if it is down!? Perhaps you should turn down the brightness or turn it away from your face when you sleep. From where I'm standing, you appear to be slightly over-reacting. If this is the only aggravation in your life, you are lucky. Maybe you should return the unit because if this little thing makes you jump out of your skin, I wouldn't want to be near you the next time a song skips or slimserver crashes... ;-) Peace man. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31652 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: High bandwidth useage when only displaying the clock
I host my slimserver (V6.3.1) on a Linkstation and since it has a network activity led on the front panel, I can see that displaying the clock even with just HH:MM format, still sends data every second to my SB2... As always, YMMV. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30205 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SqueezesoftHeadless.exe
in your batch file, simply kill any possibly running softsqueezeheadless.exe before starting up the current one. I'm not sure windows has a command-line kill command available but search for the sysinternals website (THEY were bought out by Microsoft, so hurry...), they have some command-line tools that will do what you want. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver scan procedure needs some serious work!
For what it's worth, here are my rescanning numbers: All my music is MP3 with proper tags (no embedded artwork though), there's more or less 80% of my collection that has album artwork contained in a single cover.jpg file per directory. 17666 songs, 1311 albums, 656 artists, 9 playlists (!) For a full rescan, it took exactly 2 hours and 45 minutes and that's running on an Linkstation HG300! with 128MB or RAM and a 266MHz RISC processor! The scanning process is taking 1.78 seconds per file and that's WITH the d_scan debugs turned on! This is running on a computer the size (and power) of a toaster! ;-) I can only imagine it would be much faster on any half-decent desktop computer... Anyway, my $0.02... Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26350 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: older version of slimserver
V6.2.2 runs fine on linkstations. That's what I run. -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26729 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Error: Problem Can't Connect To Server For: Songname
Is there a way you could connect on wired ethernet long enough to rule out any wireless issues? This is where I would start... Good luck! Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26595 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Gigabit Linkstation flashing with Openlink or Freelink or original firmware?
I've been out of the loop concerning flashing the HG300 for a long while. Ever since the original ordeal of last December/January and Buffalo's non-support on the issue, I've decided to copy stuff to the HDD from my PC and to never flash the little critter for fear of inflicting cerebral death to it. -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24868 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Gigabit Linkstation flashing with Openlink or Freelink or original firmware?
Be careful with the HG300. It's been known to brick when you flash it with ANY firmware. I have one myself and bricked the first one. The replacement one I got, I opened it up and fixed up stuff on it from a PC running Knoppix. I'm not sure buying an LS to run slimserver on, is such a good idea anymore (Slim Devices is dropping the support for the LS on version 6.5 of SS). Many other NAS'es offer built-in support for slimserver these days at similar or slightly higher prices. My 2 cents, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24868 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Gigabit Linkstation flashing with Openlink or Freelink or original firmware?
Yeah, I apologize. I misunderstood what Dan meant exactly when he mentioned not offering support for the LS in 6.5 Yes a Linkstation is cheap. If you can afford something better, consider it. Otherwise an LS (gigabit or otherwise) will work. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24868 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware
17381 tracks, 1202 albums, 861 artists (all mp3) slimserver 6.2.2 Linux Hardware: Linkstation HDHG300, PPC 266MHz, 128MB Squeezebox: SB2 wired. Network: 100Mbps Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to always start playlists at track 1?
I found a way to get what I want, I just remove the first line (CURTRACK...) in the file and slimserver doesn't add it back and the playlist always starts at track #1. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23287 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Running 6.2.2 on a Linkstation NAS
I remember reading threads about memory upgrading on the Yahoo Linkstation group and if I remember correctly, this was not a very feasible solution... I have an HG300 and the main difficulty is with flashing this unit with a hackable version of the OS. I finally caved in and physically opened up my box and connected the hard disk to my PC so that I could plant a telnet on the box. For more info on the Linkstation, see http://linkstationwiki.org Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23171 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Running 6.2.2 on a Linkstation NAS
I would venture that you have 64MB. I run SS 6.2.2 (recent nightly) on my HG300 (with 128MB) and use the default value of (Use RAM and 1) and it works fine. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23171 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: A Silly Poll
Age 44, Male, Canadian, 1 SB2, SlimServer running on LinkStation HG300. The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys is my motto. :) -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22941 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why is rescan playlists taking so long?
Good suggestion, thanks! I see that the rescan starts at 09:44:15 and ends at 09:44:27 so a total of 12 seconds... However SlimServer is still doing something (not showing in the d_scan log). Then at 09:52:20 it seems it started scanning my playlists once again until 09:52:25. At 09:58, the web interface is still showing SlimServer is still scanning your music library... (even after doing refreshes). At 09:59 the web interface returns to normal and no additionnal debugs were seen in the log file. Strange. Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21860 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why is rescan playlists taking so long?
I'd LOVE to use the MusicMagic plugin but unfortunately they don't have a version that runs on my Linkstation (only x86) so I have to use the MusicMagic Mixer on my WinXP PC, save the playlist on my Linkstation in a Samba share. Then I have a Perl script that checks every 30 seconds for new/modified playlists. If it finds some, it will copy the playlist in the proper slimserver playlist folder and converts the windows M:\folder\file.mp3 format into /mnt/music/folder/file.mp3 format and then my script uses the SlimServer CLI to trigger a rescan playlists. Which seems to take way too long to complete considering that the playlist folder only has 1 playlist containing 10 songs... Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21860 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Why is rescan playlists taking so long?
Hi, I'm working on a Perl script to copy MusicMagic generated playlists from my WinXP PC to be copied and converted to a Linux SlimServer-like playlist. Once the playlist is generated, my script will notice it, convert it and copy it in the proper directory for the slimserver and then it requests the slimserver to rescan the playlist folder through the CLI interface. My music collection is large (~17000 tracks) but my playlist directory contains 1 test playlist of 10 songs and yet, slimserver will be busy rescanning the playlist folder for several minutes (10 or more?). It seems it might be scanning more than just the playlist folder. is this normal and if so, why? Is there a better way to get that new/modified playlist into the slimserver (using the CLI interface from within my script)? I'm running the latest 6.2.2 nightly from about a week ago. Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21860 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why is rescan playlists taking so long?
Also, I know there is a way for SlimServer to use MusicMagic directly from the Squeezebox but is there a way to specify that the MusicMagic server is actually located on a different box? (such as SS on Linkstation and MMM on a WinXP PC?) Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21860 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why is rescan playlists taking so long?
Resanning everything is understandably slow in my case but doing a rescan playlists should take only seconds with a single playlist of 10 songs...? -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21860 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why is rescan playlists taking so long?
Fred Wrote: I guess you could try building the playlist on a player (without playing it) and then save it. HTH Fred Yes but that would be no fun... The whole idea is to let MusicMagic generate a mix and, within a few clicks and a few seconds, have this playlist playing on my SB2... -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21860 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Using externally generated playlists
Hi all, I run slimserver on a linkstation (linux version) and I cannot use the MusicMagicMixer directly since it only runs on x86 linux platforms... I've found a way to run the MMM on my WinXP PC and then to generate a playlist which gets copied and converted (changing '\' to '/' and such) by a perl script running on my linkstation. This should all work beautifully but one difficulty I'm having right now is simply reading in this newly named playlist into slimserver... If I just copy this new playlist in slimserver's assigned playlist folder, it doesn't get found automatically. I looked in the .conf file for a possible repository of created playlists to amend but I didn't find any. One solution is to create a dummy playlist in slimserver (such as mmm.m3u) and then overwrite that one playlist from my little perl script but this is a bit limited in the sense that I can only have one MMM generated playlist at a time. How could I get slimserver to automatically see any new externally generated playlist when doing a browse playlists? Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21627 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using externally generated playlists
Great! Thanks Erland. This should be easy to do then. I'll give it a try. Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21627 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver
Wow, thanks to everyone for documenting the tags that are used by SlimServer. This will simplify things for many people I'm sure! Looking at the list of supported tags, most of them are straightforward and self-explanatory, others are a little less clear what they are used for (and how they should be filled). Such as: Album sort (TSOA) Artist sort (TSOP) Compilation (TCMP) Title sort (TSOT) For discnumber (TPOS), I used the following format: 1/2 (meaning disc 1 of 2) even though my collection may only contain that one disc and not the second... This seems to work ok. Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver
Yes, thanks Geoff. Doing that little subset allowed me to quickly fix most of my problems. The disc and discc tags ended up just being user-entered tags so the one I had to use was discnumber or something similar (the one that gets mapped to TPOS) and that worked. Now I have my multi-disc sets properly identified and the purely various artists also. Now I just need to figure out how to deal with albums by one main artist that have contributors for certain songs. Probably setting album artist/band (TPE2) set to the main artist and artist (TPE1) set to the contributor(s) will do the trick. For those albums, do I need to set all tracks album artist = main artist even if certain tracks don't have other contributors? should the artist tag be left blank? (this might confuse other simpler players though?) Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What is the performance like on a Linkstation
I first had slimserver running on a linkstation HD-H160 and now have moved up to a HD-HG300. The first was usually fast enough (web update was a little slow but not too bad) now in the HG300, it's faster. I find it quite acceptable and I am not considering moving slimserver to a more powerful machine in the forseeable future. My music collection has 17500+ tracks (in 1300+ albums) and I have slimserver look for artwork too. The HG model has a 33% faster CPU (266 vs 200 MHz) and double the RAM (128 vs 64MB) so it might be better to choose an HG. Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21268 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver
Thanks Jim, I exclusively use MP3 files and use Mp3tag to maintain the tags. I can create a tag named compilation and set it to 1 but will it be recognized by SS? I guess I could go digging in the perl code to try to understand what it does but I would think that some people here (especially the slimserver developers) would know this already. What's the use of adding all these spiffy features if many (most?) people aren't able to use them!? I can't be the only one here... I would think that this info should be part of the help files distributed with the slimserver package. I think that the development of slimserver is like a speeding train, it will never stop long enough for the developers to have time to do a full documentation effort on slimserver so it would be best to do short bursts of it as things get developed and put in place. Just a suggestion. Thanks, Daniel P.S. Maybe I should open a bug report on this? (if there isn't one already) -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?
I already have too many things that I need to pay for. Radio isn't one of them (not even TV)... Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20621 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver
You got my vote... :-) I guess I should try a small subset of my music collection with maybe 1 or 2 multi-disc albums and 1 or 2 various artists albums. Now it takes too long to go change everything (even if Mp3tag is good) and then rescan the whole database. Last time I tried to use the multi-disc album, I set the title to the same thing for each disk, numbered all my tracks starting at 1 for each disk and then I used tags disc of discc to identify the order of the discs. This did not work, I got all of them mixed up with multiple tracks #1, #1, #1, #2, #2, etc... For the various artists albums, I tried setting the artist field to each individual artist (my albums are organised by folder with names of '%artist% - %album%' I don't remember what it did but it did not work correctly. So I moved the individual artist to the performer field and hard-coded the artist field to Various Artists. What I would like to do is to avoid having thousands of artists with albums of 1 song. I would like to have a way to search the album artist field and the song artist (performer) field. I've been following the classical music thread on tagging and it looks real interesting. My needs are modest though, I'd just like to be able to define in slimserver which fields to search on (such as album, artist, performer, conductor, year, genre, language, etc...) And about the genre issue, there's got to be a better way to use this... I use separate genres with a ';' in between but I end up with hundreds of genres to the point that it becomes unuseable. I've been searching the allmusic.com site and they use genre and style and a few other descriptors (such as mood IIRC) which would help alot in organising interesting playlists. Also, I've got too many albums listed as rock, pop or jazz which seems to be way too general to use and hope that the music I select by genre only goes well together... Ah the dilemma of having too much music to listen to... ;-) Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix: Limiting what is played
So I am wrong to assume that if I have songs with multiple tags such as: 01-song1 genre: rock;grunge 02-song2 genre: rock;light 03-song3 genre: rock;hard 04-song4 genre: pop;light And I decide to play songs with the following criteria: include rock, exclude grunge This would return me songs 2,3 (instead of songs 1,2,3) This sounds wrong to you?? so how would you make the exclude thing work then?? -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20623 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix: Limiting what is played
Peter van Cooten Wrote: Another question is what happens when you have the genre tag rap;indecent, and start a random mix INcluding rap and EXcluding indecent. I don't know, but I guess it still would be played based on the rap tag. I would think that any EXclude should take precedence over any INclude... -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20623 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver
Hi, I've read many threads and have had my share of tagging questions concerning slimserver. It would be very useful to have documentation on the subject of what tags should be used and how, in order to use all the great features in slimserver. Maybe it's just me but I can't get most of the special features of slimserver to work (such as compilation albums, multiple-disc albums, etc.) I use Mp3tag and have many tags (such as performer, composer, disc, discc, language) so that I can save this info somewhere until I can figure out how this is supposed to work. For the Various Artists albums, I finally gave up trying and just set Artist to Various Artists and put the individual artists in the Performer tag. As a software developper, I know how boring writing documentation is but a quick reference would be nice... ;-) Thanks, Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to choose a default SB to appear in the web interface
I wouldn't say I'm irritated but I would like to be able to specify which player is listed by default. I haven't tried it yet but maybe re-ordering the player info in the config file? (running slimserver on Linux). Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18757 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Songs added in reverse order from softsqueeze
I'm running slimserver 6.1 nightly from 05/24 I went to softsqueeze and did a search for artist. I searched for arioli which returned 3 artists: Susie Arioli Band Susie Arioli Swing Band and Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer Each of these have 1 album each. From there, I went to All Albums (4th choice after the 3 artists) and pressed Play. This added all songs for all 3 artists but in reverse order! (15, 14, 13, 12, ..., 1, 13, 12, 11, ..., 1, 14, 13, 12, ..., 1) Anybody else experienced this? Daniel -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Songs added in reverse order from softsqueeze
Bug 1621 was submitted as I did not find it in bugzilla. Daniel -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: kdf
Funny, I've been wondering the exact same thing... :) -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Browse by genre with Various Artists has a problem
I'm seeing this problem with both 2005-05-01 nightly of 6.1.x branch and with 6.0.3 release (non-nightly?) First, a bit of background info: I have slimserver running on my PPC linkstation and I have over 12000 MP3s (900 albums) with 131 Various Artists albums. 23 of those albums also have the Jazz genre. Now what works properly: I have some music playing. I browse by artist, go to the Various Artists entry and click on the link. My 131 albums show up in a few seconds with no interruption in the music. What doesn't work: I have some music playing. I browse by genre, go to the Jazz entry and click on the link. All my Jazz artists show up. I go to the Various Artists and click on the link. The web interface just sits there. Within 20 seconds, the music stops playing, my Linkstation's CPU is pinned at 100% for about 7 minutes before I get control back, showing the 23 albums (!) and the music slowly starts to play again (1 second on, 1 second off for a while) until everything returns to normal. There seems to be something wrong here. Also, I would prefer to have the Browse by Genre selection show me albums instead of artists when selecting a genre. Would it be very difficult to have some way of selecting one way or another? (genre-artist genre-album) either as a server setting or some kind of radio button in the browse by genre page? (I'm also guessing that showing the albums instead of the artists, would solve this problem too...) :-) Thanks for any feedback, Daniel -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Multiple disc albums using DISC DISCC doesn't work.
I'm using a recent 6.1.0 nightly and I filled DISC DISCC tags for my multi-disc albums album title (disc %DISC% of %DISCC%) and then removed the (disc x of y) part in the album titles. And then I rescanned. This doesn not seem to work (or I don't understand how it's supposed to work!?) because regardless of the Group Discs setting, all my multi-disc albums show up as single albums with tracks all listed in numerical order (not according to disc order). I've already filed bug 1473. Anybody else seen this? Daniel -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple disc albums using DISC DISCC doesn't work.
Yep. The album names are the same but I didn't move the mp3 files into the same directory... (e.g. /mnt/music/AC-DC Live (disc 1 of 2) /mnt/music/AC-DC Live (disc 2 of 2)). I wouldn't think that the directory names matter..? I used the tags disc discc but it pretty much reacts as if these tags didn't exist. Some only have the disc tag with no discc (disc 2). I tried both settings for grouped albums and wiped cache before each. No difference was perceived. Also, how would the tracks appear if I chose to have all multi-disc albums show up as single albums? 01 - track 1 of first disc 02 - track 2 of first disc (...) 01 - track 1 of second disc 02 - track 2 of second disc (...) OR 01 - track 1 of first disc 01 - track 1 of second disc (...) 02 - track 2 of first disc 02 - track 2 of second disc (...) I would assume #1 makes more sense musically..? Thanks, Daniel -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Any chance of SlimDevices making a visual media player?
This is something I would love too. Playing my .jpg picture files on the TV screen would be awesome. Being able to play DVD quality mpeg2 files with ac3 sound also would be great but there may be a bandwith/storage space issue to consider... Daniel -- dborn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
