[slim] Pleasant surprise
For quite a while I've been on v7.3 of the server software (I think my old version used to be called Squeezecentre?). I've always been a little worried about upgrading - I don't remember a time (previously) where an upgrade wouldn't end up with several hours/days tinkering to get the software running the way I want it. I never found it to be the case that the software would simply work properly, with all my settings and plugins etc, after upgrade. (Working - or specifically working properly - is a little subjective, but hopefully you know what I mean). After very recently playing around with MusicIP, and getting it working (without all that much hassle as it turned out) I decided to go for an upgrade to SBS 7.5 (see sig). So after a long preamble, all I wanted to really say is that I'm pleasantly surprised. Things seem to be going ok, and SBS is now rescanning my music library (the rescan seems pretty quick, too). Heh - I never would have thought it. Well done to all the developers who are working on this stuff as it's come on leaps and bounds since I last dared to upgrade... That's all. No complaints. No problems (yet?) All good. Just thanks :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Squeeze Centre v7.5.3 +Multi Library +Custom Browse +MusicIP Windows 2003 SP2 Intel Pentium 1.5GHz 1.5GB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 132) Library of approx 13500 tracks (~95% FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86752 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Somebody has to say it.
I found this thread through a search. I'm considering upgrading to a newer version, and wanted to see if the system will keep my settings or whether I'll have to reconfigure everything again. (Again). And you know what? I can 100% sympathise with the OP on virtually all points raised. I, personally, am not so worked up about it - but that's because some other poor soul has already gone through the effort of upgrading and has encountered all these problems that would otherwise have hit me too. I love these forums. This community has always been extremely helpful when I've had questions, even when I've had stupid questions where the answers were just a search away... But seriously though - for the most part, I feel the responses have been pretty hard on the OP which I find surprising. So - the OP is more or less letting off steam. He/She has had problems, and isn't describing them with an end to fixing them - OP is just being angry about basically feeling let down about a couple of things. I can *completely* see what they mean! That's why I actually found this thread in the first place! If I didn't know how much of a hassle it was to upgrade (from experience going back several years of SB ownership) then I would have blindly went ahead with new version and - most likely - got myself in same situation as OP. Here's a list of OP frustrations that I can completely understand: -Software reliability... I can't remember a SS upgrade that has gone 100% without problems. A noteable one in my case was due to a brand new bug that actually made listening to music impossible until I rolled back the changes. So I can understand when someone gets annoyed that they've upgraded and hit several problems and has had to downgrade again. Because I've been there. -Effects and animation... Ok - so OP and myself have a different opinion on this, I guess. Sure, animations don't impress me that much but it's not something that cause me to be annoyed. -Settings... Heh. I am *so* with the OP on this. This is such a valid point, and is the ENTIRE REASON I even found this thread and have felt motivated to respond. This has been a hassle every single upgrade (for me). Reading that the system would keep current settings and then finding that some were still missing would annoy the hell out of me, too. Are there caveats to this? Are they documented? I'd like to avoid this frustration too, please. -Slim Network requirement... If the system requires SN to be up and running, then I'm again with OP on this. -tray icon... You've got to admit - it's fairly pointless, no? And just because OP (and a considerable percentage of other customers) are on Windows isn't a reason to be facetious. -Slim/Logitech: You guys/gals... The point here? Squeezebox is awesome. It requires SS, which in turn means that -once you've installed and configured it- (typically a couple of hours to get it exactly right, in my experience) then SS is awesome too. I think OP is trying to say that it would be great if you could download SS/SC, install it, then be up and running in 5 minutes without the (frequent) hassle of tinkering to get it set up properly. It doesn't work straight of of the box. I've been using it for 5+ years and it's NEVER been right straight out of the box. I would challenge anyone who says otherwise. -Me: I'm dumb for wasting my time writing this... Sadly there was not enough info on any of the issues to know what caused them (and therefore they can't be fixed). And original poster now has downgraded again. But I honestly was pretty shocked at the tone of some of the responses. He got no empathy. He ranted (which wasn't cool) but he had valid points. And yet the majority of the responses were either along the lines of well it worked for me or even derogatory. -Me again: I'm also dumb for upgrading to 7... Once again - I know exactly what this guy means. That's why I'm being really cautious about upgrading. And you know what? It's scary that people have to be so cautious before even considering an upgrade. It's -sensible- to have an element of caution - but you need to be almost paranoid when considering an upgrade or SS/SC. That can't be right, surely?! I feel like I've gone on a whole rant myself, which freaks me out a bit. Sorry for that. I just felt (and continue to feel) complete and utter understanding of the frustrations of OP and I was quite shocked by what seems (to me) to be such an unsympathetic attitude that seems to have been adopted in response to those frustrations. When did things all get so unfriendly? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 9000 tracks (70% FLAC, 30% MP3) gutted's Profile: http
Re: [slim] Somebody has to say it.
Thanks, dude. I've got another thread started in Beginners about keeping settings. I'll add your response to there, if I may. And I'm glad that SN doesn't need to be configured before I could use my SB, becaue that would -utterly- wind me up! Cheers for clearing that up! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 9000 tracks (70% FLAC, 30% MP3) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47952 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Who are you on LastFM?
http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Anything remotely dodgy (including Dodgy) belongs to my wife. Unless it becomes cool in a few years, in which case it was mine all along. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 9000 tracks (70% FLAC, 30% MP3) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21338 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Linux help... using rsync
Thanks lads. I really am liking the idea of rsync as an alternative to SyncToy as a backup of my music RAID array, so will persevere to try and get it working... I've posted on a couple of other forums to find out whether the hardware I'm using is capable of running mount.cifs (that looks to be the simplest, if it's possible). But again - cheers for your help and advice, guys. Much appreciated! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 8800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46883 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Linux help... using rsync
So - this isn't SB related, but wondering if anyone can give me some advice on how to efficiently backup my music drive? My music is on a Windows (2k) file server, but I recently bought a cheap NAS with a Linux OS. I'd like to use rsync to check for changes on the Windows file system, and then make any changes as required on the NAS. (Until now I've been using MS Synctoy, but Synctoy doesn't delete folders that have moved or been renamed - and you end up with loads of empty folders in the backup destination). Anyway - rsync looks good, but I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to Linux. I guess that the Linux OS can't read the Windows filesystem at the moment, and I'm expecting to have to mount the music drive within Linux. I've done some googling, but now yet found anything all that helpful. Can anyone give me a couple of pointers (e.g. a link to a tutorial, or even just general info)? Cheers in advance! (and sorry for asking such a blatantly non-SB question :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 8800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46883 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Linux help... using rsync
nolan;296013 Wrote: I've done something similar in the past to back up the Music directory on my Linux based server (which I use to run SqueezeCenter) to the external USB drive connected to my Windows desktop. 1. Share the folder from your Windows machine. 2. Mount this to your Linux box mount.cifs //192.168.0.10/Slimserver /homerdrive/Slimserver -o user=nolan 3. Perform the rsync. The --delete flag also replicates deletions from the source. rsync -ar /home2/Slimserver/* /homerdrive/Slimserver --modify-window=10 --delete --progress 192.168.0.10 is my Windows machine and /homerdrive/Slimserver is the mount point for the Windows share I have created on my Linux machine. I'm doing something sightly different now as I bought a 1TB WD Netbook (as sold by PC World for £150) which after a few simple hacks turns into a tiny Linux server so my Windows box isn't involved any more but this backup method worked fine when I was doing it. Dude - you rule :) Thanks, man. And yep - I've done exactly same thing as you: I bought a WD MyBook World Edition (MBWE) 1TB drive for £150... I've already done the same as you and SSH'd into it and added Optware and then rsync (and a couple of other bits). Even after a firmware upgrade, the transfer speed is hellishly slow :( I'm hoping rsync might be a bit more efficient in backing up my music... Cheers again for your advice - I'll get onto that now. EDIT: I see that you've also decided to ditch compression... Me too :) It's one of the first things I read about when trying to reduce CPU usage on the MBWE, given that the transfer speed is already so poor. It's such a shame that the hardware can't actually cope with gigabit Ethernet speeds - but I guess at £150 I can't really complain... -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 8800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46883 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Incorrect tags hanging around after rebuilding DB
I gave that a try - still same situation. I use MP3Tag so I selected all MP3 tracks (approx 40% of my library) and clicked the Remove Tag button (MP3Tag is configured to delete ID3v1 and APE tags according to ToolsOptionsTagsMpegRemove) Short of uninstalling the software, deleting the directory, then reinstalling from scratch - is there a way to delete the database and let slim rebuild it for me? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 8800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43698 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Incorrect tags hanging around after rebuilding DB
That was my first attempt (see original post) but sadly it didn't clear that particular tag. I guess there is either a corrupt tag in one my MP3s somewhere, or there is more to it than simply ditching that file. Next step: uninstall, delete directory, reinstall. Sigh. Unless anyone else has suggestions on how to delete the DB and start again? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 8800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43698 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Incorrect tags hanging around after rebuilding DB
Slimserver reports that I've got 0 tracks by 0 artists for year 199. I guess at some point I'd incorrectly tagged something with the year 199 and then corrected it - but Slimserver still thinks it's there somewhere. How do I ditch this? I tried taking a backup of and then deleting the file C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache\MySQL\ibdata1 The file started out at something like 100MB. After Slimserver started up and (I assume) rebuilt the database, the subsequently generated file is around 10MB. I thought that would probably be the end of it, but the dodgy tag still remains :( How do I completely blitz the DB and rebuild it from scratch? (I've already tried using the clear library and rescan everything option - this runs automatically every evening, too). -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 8700 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43698 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Incorrect tags hanging around after rebuilding DB
I'm using a mixture of MP3s and FLAC (I'm gradually re-ripping all my music to lossless). I'm fairly certain that all MP3s only have ID3v2 tags, although having said that I just checked my MP3Tag options, and see that I still had ID3v1 checked (along with ID3v2, and APE). Slimserver still tells me that there are 0 tracks with 0 artists having year 199. So it thinks there is at least one file with an incorrect tag, but can't tell me what/where the file is. You think cleaning out any ID3v1 tags might fix this? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 8700 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43698 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can SB3 decode a DTS signal?
Ah-ha. That's something I -didn't- realise and it's good to know. Many thanks for this info, dude. I'll ditch that download once I get back home. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7600 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39876 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Pricing and Exchange Rates
I thought you had to write the value of imported goods on a label which is stuck on the outside of the package? If -not- then that's a very cool trick which I'll employ next time I buy something from the US. I recently bought some bits and pieces from US which cost me something like $200 (which included a FedEx cost of something like $90). On arrival to UK, I was charged an extra £40(ish) for clearing and import duty. For goods which cost around $110, I ended up paying an additional $80 (!!) on to the shipping price which, in itself, was already kind of high. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7600 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39979 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 tries to connect to slimserver even when in standby mode
The time that's displayed on the SB3 is picked up from the machine running slimserver. That, I guess, might be a reason that SB3 constantly wants to talk to the server. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7600 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39980 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Can SB3 decode a DTS signal?
I'm in process of re-ripping my CDs to FLAC. To speed up the process, I've started looking for torrents of stuff that I already own (e.g. where someone has already done the work and ripped stuff to FLAC for me :) I recently downloaded a FLAC encoded CD which apparently has something to do with DTS. There's a readme file included with the download which says Warning - make sure your system can read a DTS signal. I tried out one of the tracks, but SB3 just outputs a bunch of white noise. I guess this means that SB3 (or slimserver) can't decode DTS? Is there a way round this, or is it easier to just dig out the original CD and rip it myself? Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39876 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can SB3 decode a DTS signal?
I've done some searching on this forum, and it looks like maybe SB can play the FLAC files but only depending on the sample rate (?) they were encoded at. Er... Any way I can re-encode them using metaflac or something? What's the deal with DTS anyway - is it actually worth any effort? As per original post, I actually have the original CD stashed in the attic so it's no great trauma to actually rip from the original - but in trying to save myself some time I've become kind of intrigued by the idea of DTS... What's it all about, anyway? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7600 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39876 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can SB3 decode a DTS signal?
tyler_durden;239874 Wrote: If you're going to DL music and don't want anyone to know you need to tell a consistent story. No one here cares where you got your music. Just ask your question about DTS and be done with it. I'm 99.9% sure that the SB3 doesn't decode DTS. TD TD - I actually own the CD. I can provide a picture of the case and CD, plus a newspaper confirming the date if it would turn you on. It's currently with the majority of my other albums in a flight case in the attic (hence why I've not ripped it myself yet). Yes - I am downloading music. Music that I already own. I'm not entirely sure why that should be a problem for you. It's not a problem for me, and I make no secret of it. I'm of the impression that if I own the original recording, then there should be no problem in downloading the FLAC-encoded format. Please correct me if I'm wrong here. Clearly you have very low opinions of some people who post here, and I'm particularly flattered that you think I'm a thief; I'd be grateful, however, if you could let me know if my understanding is incorrect. Namely am I not allowed to download an album if I own the original? Contrary to your apparent belief, I'm not telling stories and I'm actually kind of fussy when it comes to owning a proper copy of the music I have in my library. I appreciate that my original copy is not DTS - I thought that the DTS was added or encoded during ripping. If I'm wrong, then fair enough and I'll delete the DTS version (since I don't own a legal copy of it). Please enlighten me. By the way... I'm not entirely sure - even after re-reading your post - why you think I'm telling some sort of story. Perhaps you can elaboarate? Meantime - cheers to the other guys who've offered me something useful. I don't have a suitable amp, so unless it's easy to re-encode/transcode then I'm wait till I get the rest of the albums down and start working through them. I've only recently finished ripping my CD singles and it was a bit of a chore - not looking forward to working my way through all the albums (again :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7600 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39876 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can SB3 decode a DTS signal?
Cool - thanks dude. But again - I don't have a suitable amp, so it looks like that one's no good to me :( It's no great shame, as it's only an extra few mins to rip the CD when I get round to it I guess. Appreciate your advice though - cheers again. Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7600 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39876 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Backing up music library
I currently use MS Backup, and this weekend ran a manual backup after upgrading a few drives for larger capacity. The backup time is crazy (it took well over 24 hours to backup and verify around 240GB of data) so I was wondering if anyone can offer some advice... I currently use normal backup option. There are several different types (differential, incremental etc). I chose normal because I wanted to make sure that every change gets backed up - even if I modify FLAC tags, but maintain the last update timestamp (which is my preferred way to go). I wasn't sure if MS backup is clever enough to know that the file has changed even if the last update timestamp remains unchanged. So to be safe, I just chose normal backup. So basically - is MS backup clever enough to detect differences in files (e.g. tag updates) even if the last update timestamp is unchanged? If so, what is the best backup option to use - differential, maybe? If MS backup won't be able to detect that change, is there any other backup utility I can use instead, and that will detect updates to tags? Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39558 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backing up music library
Cool - thanks dude. And this can detect changes to tags, even if I've configured MP3tag to maintain the last modified timestamp? If so, then it's a winner :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39558 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backing up music library
Hmmm. Yeah, that's the problem. I configured MP3tag to maintain the last modified timestamp... The reason for this is so that I can easily see which albums were recently ripped to FLAC and which ones are still MP3 just by looking through Windows Explorer. If the timestamp changes when I modify tags, then it makes it tricky to tell which albums have recently been re-ripped to FLAC (I might have changed the tags in some of my MP3s, so then it would look like these albums were recently added). There are ways round this, and I can just adopt a different system - but if I can find a backup tool that is clever enough to detect changes to tags, then that would be the ideal solution... -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39558 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backing up music library
Nice one - thanks Auto Pilot: I'll give that a try. Even if it takes a lot longer, I guess that it surely must be quicker to run a differential backup using Synctoy than running a complete backup each time... I'll post back with an update :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39558 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] ' smart gain selection ' replay gain option
I searched this forum (search string = 'smart gain selection') and also the wiki (search string = 'smart gain') but not found anything yet. What does this setting do? I guess it will choose the most appropriate setting for replay gain - but is this on a track by track basis, and what criteria denote a suitable setting? (Or is my guess way off the mark, in which case what does the setting actually do? :) Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38605 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Upgrade advice - keeping all current settings
I'm currently running 6.3.1, and am going to try 6.5.3 since I've heard several good things about it. I don't actually have all that many problems with 6.3.1, though there are a couple of things that I'd like to see resolved hence going for the newer version. Last time I upgraded (I tried 6.5.1, I think) I was forced to downgrade due to almost all tracks cutting-off a few seconds before the end. I think maybe the problem might have been affected by the hardware; since I've recently gone for SB3 (from SB1) I'm hoping I'll fare a bit better with 6.5.x But I digress. I've always found it a fair bit of hassle to upgrade slimserver what with the various plugins and stuff that I have to upgrade at the same time. This time I'm thinking of soething a bit more drastic... Uninstall 6.3.1, delete the slimserver folder, then install 6.5.3. Problem is this would wipe out all my settings (I guess). Is there a file or 3 that I could save then restore after upgrade to ensure I keep all my settings? Or is that a different/better way to upgrade from 6.3.1 to 6.5.3? Any advice appreciated - many thanks! Dan. EDIT: I just noticed that my sig sstill says 6.5.1. That's incorrect. I upgraded for a very short time, but reverted back again for reasons mentioned above. That probably means that the plugin versions are also incorrect. Probably best to ignore the first line of my sig :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36836 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Upgrade advice - keeping all current settings
Nice one - thanks dude. I'll probably have to can my plugins anyway: I upgraded them when I tried 6.5.1, but not sure whether I put them back or not (AlienBBC currently not working, so need to reinstall the correct version for example). It's more the preferences that I'm concerned about, and looks like you've covered those in your post above :) Anything else I need to be wary of? I'm probably going to start out by simply renaming the original folder so I can restore any files as I need - but if any pitfalls I should be cautious of when moving from 6.3.1 to 6.5.3, would be grateful for a heads-up. Thanks for your post though - looks like the prefs file is the one I needed to know about. Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36836 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Praise for SB3
Only very recently, I'd been using SB1. I loved it, of course, but my wife was never all that enamoured because it was prine to drop-outs - particularly when playing FLAC format. When playing MP3s, the higher the bitrate the higher the frequency of drop-outs. My server isn't all that powerful, but it *should* be powerful enough to cope with it (I'm using a 1.4GHz CPU, with 512MB RAM, using ethernet connection - old certainly, but should be enough to run SS). Anyway - I recently bought an SB3 and I've got to say that it's an amazing improvement over the SB1. I've not yet noticed any drop-outs -at all- in many hours of playback. Where previously all I'd need to do would be to make a couple of changes to the playlist through the web interface to cause a drop-out, I've not encountered any of that yet. As per a previous post a couple of weeks back, I'm still a bit put-off by the Logitech logo (especially since I -love- the analogue VU meters so a constanly looking at the SB) but the performance and reliability is such an improvement that I'm learning to deal with my brand snobbery ;) :) If anyone has an SB1 and gets an occassional drop-out that they find irritating or off-putting, trust me: upgrade your SB - the difference is quite astounding! Even my wife is back on board again now :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36655 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Praise for SB3
That's what I initially thought, though it happened even when connected to the ethernet. I assumed t was something to do with bandwidth, so installed GigEthernet hubs, cards and cables so that bandwithd would only be limited by the 100mbps port at the SB1. When increasing the badnwidth didn't help, I just assumed it was something to do with the decode on the server side (but never managed to match the drop-outs with any CPU spikes on the machine running SS). Before I switched to SB3, the last theory was that it was something do with buffer under-run, since the drop-outs seemed to be getting almost regular. But yeah, with native FLAC decode as one of the key reasons for upgrade, I installed it and it's been working like a charm for a good couple of weeks now - including a good 3 or 4 days of almost continuous playback :) :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 7000 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36655 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Very annoyed and disappointed (not with SD - read on...)
So - I'm a brand snob. I admit it. Whether you agree or not, it doesn't bother me: it's a personal opinion an everyone can have their own personal opinion. My opinion? I wanted to by an SD-branded SB3. I don't really want a Logitech-branded unit. It's the same unit - there is no difference between the one which has Logitech on it, and the one which has Slim Devices on it other than the name. If you think I'm an idiot, then that's fair and you're entitled to that view. So anyway - I've been hunting for an SD SB3 for a while. eBay has been my only real option. I found some on eBay, and contacted seller to ask. Seller seems to be selling a lot of these units. First auction I found, I asked him: is it SD or Logitech? (I explained why). No answer. Second auction, next day, I asked him same question with same reasoning. No answer. Third auction, the following day, I asked him same question with same reasoning. He finally responds with a single word: slimdevices. I follow it up asking about the logo on the unit itself and the box it comes in (and also the colour). He tells me it's an all black unit, in an SD box with SD logo. I buy it. It arrives this morning and you want to guess what? It's in a Logitech box. I'm not going to open it, as I can guess he'll be saying you've opened it, now you can't send it back. Waiting to see whether he'll sort it out, but not hopeful. Dammit though - I'm furious about this :( Meantime - anyone want to buy a Logitech-branded unit? It cost me £175 delivered so it'd be £175 plus PP (which looks to have been around £8). Still a bargain, and cheaper than your average retailer. But Logitech. For those of you out there who aren't bothered by such things, you'd get yourself a bargain. :( -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36331 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Very annoyed and disappointed (not with SD - read on...)
GaryG;210514 Wrote: I have a wireless black/silver SD SB3 for sale, PM me if you're interested. Regards Gary Thanks dude. Though I've just spent £175 on this unit and I need to try and recover that first. Don't suppose you want to buy a brand new unopened Logitech unit, do you? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36331 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Very annoyed and disappointed (not with SD - read on...)
amcluesent;210518 Wrote: I'm furious about this :( Of course, regardless of what SB3 you get, all firmware updates now have Logitech branding on the boot-up display. N...my eyes! Yeah, I know. But I rarely see that. It's extremely rare that I need to reboot my SB1 - when it's not playing, it just displays time and date. But I simply don't want to have a Logitech logo staring me in the face all the time - and our lounge is small enough that the Logitech logo WILL be visible the entire time, unless I modify the unit. And to be honest, I dodn't want to go through the hassle of removing the logo - I wanted an SD brand name, hence why I searched and thought I'd found one. Seller has actually gotten back to me, which is a surprise. He says he's always gotten SD units in the past and will try to get an SD unit from his supplier. I'm not holding out much hope of him getting hold of an SD one. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36331 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver 6.5.1 Problem: Songs Cut Off
Wow - you guys are lucky as hell. I just checked description for bug ID 4354, and the notes suggest that this problem happens for maybe 1 in 100 songs. Or even 1 in 50. Are you kidding me??? This is happening to -*virtually every song-* on my system! That's the reason I posted immediately after upgrading to 6.5.1 Is anyone else getting this problem to the same degree as me? If so, it's got to be worth logging on to bugzilla and adding your vote to the bug. So far it only seems to have 4 votes (5 including mine). I don't know how much difference it makes (if any) but voting for it has got to be better than not (?) Example - in the last 5 songs I've just played, 4 of them had the end cropped. If I can stick with 6.5.1, I'm very lucky if one in 10 songs is NOT cropped. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33277 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver 6.5.1 Problem: Songs Cut Off
hifimark - 'go to bugzilla (click here)' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/) and look for bug ID 4354. You may need to set up an account with bugzilla (it's very quick) - but once you've done so, add a vote for this bug. I don't know exactly how it works, but am assuming that the more people who vote for it, the more the developers at slimdevices will take notice. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33277 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver 6.5.1 Problem: Songs Cut Off
Damn - I upgraded the other day (see previous version in my sig) but I should have checked here first. Am also seeing this problem after upgrading :( Currently using SB1, and playing .flac or .mp3 I get the same thing. Any news on release date for next version? How stable are the nightlies at the moment - worth giving recent nightly a try? If still a while to go before next official release, i'll go back to previous version... -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33277 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] reporting against slimserver DB?
I did a quick search (using search terms database reporting) but didn't find anything: apologies if this has already been discussed and I've not looked deep enough yet! But anyway. I kind of like to report against my tags, as it helps me identify corruptions or badly tagged files. for example, if - among the various genres I've got - I find a genre called Trace Techno with only 1 file, but I also have a genre called Trance Techno with 30 or so tracks, then I can make corrections as necessary. The way I've currently been doing it is to export all tags from MP3Tag to a text file, and then report off that. It strikes me that it would be cool to have this info in a database of some sort. Then it strikes me that this info is -already- in a database: the slimserver DB. (I think it's MySQL?) So anyway - can I plug into this DB with a standard reporting tool and read what's there? Is it encrypted or anything? Has anyone already done something like this? I work for a software house that makes a reporting tool - so the benefits for me are 2-fold. I can get a clearer picture of my tags, plus I can get to grips with new company software by using it at home against my tag library :) Possible? Already done? Any comments? Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33172 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] last.fm and FLAC tags
So - I'm currently at work and don't have access to slimserver. (I can't connect to softsqueeze from here, either). So I'm currently using Winamp. I know, I know. Please don't flame me :P But when playing FLACs, my last.fm stats aren't updated. I know last.fm is working, as it's picking up MP3s fine. So my question is - can anyone confirm that slim will update last.fm when playing FLAC (e.g. is this just a Winamp prob) or can last.fm not handle FLACs? Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28600 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: last.fm and FLAC tags
I'm playing local FLAC files from my laptop HDD. (I bought some CDs while I'm down south, and ripped them to FLAC for when I get back home). It's good to know that Slim will update last.fm after playing FLAC - cheers for the confirmation. I think aubuti is right - it must be a problem either with Winamp itself, or with the scrobbler. The scrobbler works fine for MP3, but maybe I need to confirgure it for FLAC or whatever. But it's not a major conern, so long as Slim updates last.fm (which it does :) Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28600 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] When is next service pack due for 6.5.x?
I'd like to move to 6.5, but I know that some are still having a few problems and want to wait till things have smoothed out a bit. Wondering whether anyone knows when next SP is due for release, as am hoping that will iron out a few of the issues that still remain for some...? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28436 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Album year vs track year (is there already an IDv3 tag for this?)
My collection has a number of Greatest Hits type albums. I'm a but fussy with my music tags, and when I see a track I like to know whan that track was released, and not necessarily when the album was released. As such, I edit all my tags from compilation or best-of albums and correct the tag to show year of track (not year of album release). I know some might think it a bit sad, but it's just the way I like to have it working. Slim doesn't seem to like it. It might just be the whole various-artists problem that I've not correctly configured around yet, or it might be that Slim sees an album with the same artist but with loads of different year tags and gets upset. either way, Slim (quite correctly) doesn't know which year to display for the album because, according to my tagging, the album was released across a number of different years :) Basically - is there already provision in the IDv3 tag to allow for Album year - e.g. the year the compilation was released vs Track year - e.g. the date the track was originally released If such a thing already exists, does anyone use it, and how is your Slim configured to deal with it? Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28219 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.5.1 - incorrect artist count
Could it be related to the various artists functionality that has been introduced in the later versions? As in - SS might be listing 113 unique artists (including one artist called Various Artists at home page, but if you have compilation albums, then each artist may be listed separately in the albums view (so Various Artists becomes 350-odd separate artists). That would rely on you having a high percentage of compilations though, so perhaps not relevant to the symptoms you see. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28220 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer 6.5.1 - incorrect artist count
There've been all sorts of headaches with the new functionality :( I know that the official response from Support is that Slim no longer 'guesses' and now relies on 'proper tagging' but it's a change from previous versions that confused plenty of people :) :) There are a couple of settings you can play with to see if your library statistics change... I don't have access to the interface now, but there's a setting (probably under Bahaviour where you can choose to group compilations separately by each artist vs group compilations under same artist (or something like that - I'm sure someone else herre will be able to correct me, and give you the proper place/setting). If the library stats change when you play with this setting, and - importantly - correctly reflect what you should have, then let us know as there is a new tag you may need to add to your library to make slim deal with the albums correctly. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28220 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Where did bitrate limiting go?
I've got my SB running via the ethernet cable now. In theory, there should be no worries about bandwidth any more. There are only a few devices on the ethenet LAN, and the hubs/switches are both gigabit capable (to service my fileservers). So I want to remove bitrate limiting or at least set it to highest value. But I can't find the setting anymore :( I encountered it when I had problems with AlienBBC a long time ago, and I turned it down to AlienBBC working... LAME is indeed installed on my server in the correct place. But I can't even find the part that says LAME appears to be installed correctly. I'm sure it used to say that somewhere in the server settings?! I went through each of the server setting tabs and used my browser to search for the words bitate limit and LAME. But I didn't find what I was looking for. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28221 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Where did bitrate limiting go?
Ah :) Nice one - thanks for your help :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28221 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Album year vs track year (is there already an IDv3 tag for this?)
Excellent - many thanks indeed. Looks like the tags I should be using are YEAR; and TORY Cheers for that! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28219 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cannot connect to slimserver
Are the laptops running a DHCP server, by any chance? The router, by default, will have it's own DCHP server and should be asigning an IP to the squeezebox. But if laptops are also running their own DHCP server, then maybe that is confusing things. In that case, perhaps the laptop is giving the SB a new IP address as soon as you connect the wi-fi enabled laptop and you can no longer connect to SB via the router? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28149 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim 6.5.1 and MusicIP problems
Jeff - do you store MIP music fingerprint into your tags? If so, then in theory, a quick(ish) test would be to create a new music folder (test, for example) with only 1 track in it. You could use MIP to store fingerprint into the track tags and then get Slim to try and scan the track in; if that fails, try removing the fingerprint data and rescan the single track again. If it is, indeed, something to do with fingerprint data and you performed the test above you could log it as a bug (?) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28223 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim 6.5.1 and MusicIP problems
Sounds very cool (apart from the crashes and all ;) You sure you're running a version which is suitable for your updated version of slim? Maybe there are some old plugin files hanging around which are upsetting slim? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28223 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim 6.5.1 and MusicIP problems
This happens on a recent nightly? If so, I'm not sure whether users like ourselves are supposed to log problems (in bugzilla) for nightlies since they are - in effect - beta versions. Hopefully someone else will know how to address reproducible problems in nightly releases and whether they should be logged (and where they should be logged) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28223 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multi-home squeezebox? Can it use both wi-fi and ethernet at same time?
Fantastic - thanks lads! Yes, slimserver is already running on one of the multi-homed servers. I've got a mini LAN which is basically just 2 fileservers (including my music server) and I occassionally plug a laptop in there to watch films from the other server. Routing is set up between them, so whenever the filservers communicate directly with each other, they only communicate via ethernet. I've only got 1 router, for the WLAN. I guess I should set up one of the fileservers as a DHCP server, too, as currently when I plug my laptop into the ethernet I need to manually configure my IP, which is a bit of a pain. But it's cool that I can speak to slimserver on the WLAN, and then SB can read music wirelessly. I'm hoping that I'm get rid of wireless dropouts I sometimes encounter. That's really good news - and thanks again for your help! Cheers, Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Multi-home squeezebox? Can it use both wi-fi and ethernet at same time?
I want to connect to my music via ethernet cable, and want the slimserver to be able to connect to SB wirelessly. I've actually got two LANs at home - my WLAN is on a different subnet to my LAN. While my music server is multihomed (so in theory slim could communicate with SB exclusively on the ethernet LAN), the wireless laptops can only connect to the WLAN. Is it possible, therefore, to speak to slimserver from laptops wirelessly, but then have SB communicate with the music server on ethernet? I'm not sure, but I think this would require SB using both wi-fi and ethernet at same time. I've not tried to get it up and running yet, so maybe it will all be fine with SB using only the ethernet. But just wanted to run it past you guys for advice. Cheers, Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Can't connect to SoftSqueeze, or remote Slimserver
Strange problem... When I'm in one specific area, I can't connect to the SoftSqueeze of the remote web panel for Slim. So - from home, I can connect via my DynDNS name (e.g. I go outside the local LAN, and can connect to Slim/SoftSqueeze. Additionally, friends from different parts of the country (e.g. someone from their home around 200 miles away, plus also a colleague in the same company but a different office about 150 miles away) can connect fine. But when I'm in my normal office, I can't connect. I thought, at first, it was because there was some network security from my office. In fact, I found that one of our internal apps use port 9000. While working at home, and with a colleague in the same office testing, I tried a range of different ports (even including port 80) but still couldn't connect from the office. I put it down to the fact that the office security is too tight and gave up. But I found yesterday that when I try to connect from a house close to the office (the place I stay when I'm working down here) that I couldn't connect either! I've found 2 places (in the same town) where I cannot connect. Is it possible that I can't connect from this particular town?! Anyone got any ideas? It's really bugging me :( Cheers, Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27997 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How to stream slim to where I work?
I know it's possible, but can't find the info. Can someone perhaps direct me to an article in the wiki? I want to open up my slimserver so that I can access it from work and play music on my PC at work from my collection at home. I currently *DON'T* have a fixed IP at home, but so long as the connection doesn't get reset, I should keep the same IP for a while. I only really need this to be available for a few days. Can anyone help out? Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27269 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to stream slim to where I work?
Many thanks indeed! Already on the case with a free DNS service from DynDNS. Now just got to see if I can remember how to configure port forwarding on my US Robotics router. Excellent stuff though - thanks again. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27269 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to stream slim to where I work?
Cool - thanks bernt! I've got slim working (sort of) using DynDNS. I'm working from home today, but someone in our office in Maidenhead can access my SlimServer - while someone in our West London office can't access it :( Sadly I'm normally based in the West London office, so I need to get that location working. But it's definitely close though. If I have no joy getting it working as is, then I'll try Hamachi. Excellent - cheers! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27269 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Download playlist from slimserver
Is there any way I can download all tracks from a given playlist as -actual MP3 files-? (MP3 in my case, though the same of course applies to other formats) I have a playlist I formulated and I want to take those tracks to work with me, to merge them with another couple of playlists. A few of us are getting some stuff together for a work party. With playlist in front of me, I clicked Download but discovered it imports the playlist into my default player (Winamp, in this case). I was kind of hoping I might be able to download the individual tracks to my local PC. Is there a way to do what I want? Or do I need to manually gather up the tracks from the physical location? Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27284 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Security question - multiple user-profiles to access slim?
Sorted out slimserver to stream it through my firewall - I now can access my music collection from work. Good news for me, but perhaps not so good for my employer :) But anyway - I was testing that it works, and asking various friends around the place to try to access it to see that it works... In the course of this, I've been telling everyone to download softsqueeze from the main SS web panel, rather than play around with SS itself. It strikes me that it would be excellent to be able to have multiple user profiles access SS remotely. e.g. an Admin/root user profile, and a guest profile. Is this already possible? Or do guests need to have my username and password before they can run softsqueeze from my library? I'd like my friends to be able to play from my music library, but I don't really want to give too many people a login to the web interface; I can imagine that at least one of my mates would find it hilarious to start it playing on full volume at 2am on a Saturday morning or something. I want to remove that temptation! Any thoughts? Cheers, Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27285 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7
I've not read all the posts in this thread yet, so apologies if this has already been mentioned. It would be excellent to be able to cancel a scan part-way through. My library, in the scheme of things, is quite small. even so, a scan takes well over 30 mins. Others must be quite literally hours... Option to cancel a scan part way through would be ace :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.1 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6600 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26874 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Is it worth creating a bugzilla entry for this...?
Under the Moodlogic section in Server Settings, it says: SlimServer can use your MoodLogic program as source for title and genre information. Additionally you can generate instant mixes on genre, artist and song level. Check the box below to import your MoodLogic Library information. It might sound like a dumb question, but is it possible to -ignore- Moodlogic title and genre information, yet still generate instant mixes? I've found Moodlogic database to be pretty rubbish, and the tag info messes up my own otherwise quite tidy tags. I don't know exactly how ML works, and probably the case that SS requires totle/genre info to generate ML instant mixes. But if possible, would be ace to keep instant mixes but ignore title and genre info. So - possible? Or not...? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26138 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: if you want to meet me
LOL! I propose a new forum section for lonely hearts. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26009 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
Volition - have a look here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25708 It's a much shorter thread, so info is easier to find. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Various artists - multiple entires for same disc
Incidentally - thanks, Fairy, for highlighting the setting about album grouping. This has, indeed, turned off the Various Artists thing altogether :) So I have actually got the best of both worlds now: Setting COMPILATION tag fixes the problem if I want to use Varous Artists. Disabling album grouping, as per your suggestion, turns off Various Artists. I'm now one satisfied customer :) :) :) Thanks again! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25708 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
MrSinatra Wrote: what is a compilation tag? i don't see it when i edit tags in winamp. @MrSinatra: I use MP3Tag to edit my tags. The COMPILATION tag is not a stadard option as far as MP3Tag is concerned - but it lets me create custom tags. So I added a new tag (in fact, I think I needed to edit the name of an existing tag) and called it COMPILATION. I then set this to have a value of 1 and re-scanned. Problem now solved for me in 6.3.0. HTH! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Hmmm....2nd thoughts on buying SB3
I still own an SB1, but having seen an SB3 in the flesh I can say that they really are attractive machines, and the pics you'll find on the net don't really do it justice. You'l be surprised at how good it looks if (when) you buy it :) It's true that the wireless models *can* experience problems. But I believe this is true of any wireless device. When I first got mine, it took a while to get it set up and working as I wanted it - mainly due to wireless interference (nothing to do with the SB). And bear in mind I'm still using the old SB1 - I understand there have been many improvement since then (not least that it now runs wireless G). Go for it. When I first got mine, it was a great feeling to hear tracks that I'd not heard before - it gave my CD collection a new lease of life! Do it. You know you want to. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25733 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random mix annoyance
Is it possible to get SB to play tracks that are hidden in the pre-gap before track 1? I'm pretty sure that when I ripped the CD, the hidden track called Lights Go Down Knives Come Out was encoded into the MP3 before the track This Is What It Means by Hybrid, from the album Morning Sci-Fi. I'm using Fishbone skin, but can't work out how to go back beyond 00:00. Can it be done? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25734 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random mix annoyance
radish Wrote: Heh :) That's the track I was thinking of in my post just now. You're obviously a person of impeccable tastes :) :) radish Wrote: This thread has some more info: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=38551hl= Nice one - thanks duder. radish Wrote: The next problem, of course, is what to put in the Track Number tag :) I usually use 0 Good call - that's the way I'll go if I can get these tracks ripped (there are apparently a few in my CD collection - but the Hybrid one is about the only one I've heard so far!) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25734 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Slim Devices Product? The Transporter per 6moons.com??
seanadams Wrote: That price is wrong Care to elaborate? :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
MrSinatra, With MP3Tag you can filter on various things. In my library, I've got each individual disc in a folder name like artist name - title. So in my case, I just filtered the file path to include Various Artists. That gives me all my comilation albums available for edit - then you can tag the whole lot in one go. It's pretty cool - and it's freeware. There are loads of other tag tools available, but MP3Tag is working well for me right now. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Various artists - multiple entires for same disc
Cool - thanks for your reply, Fairy. I've tried cahnging setting for Use MoodLogic (e.g. I turned it off) and that reduced the number of duplicates - but only because ML seems to ignore my own tags, and put what it thinks should be the tag (which is also very annoying, but that's a post for a different time!) I'll try disabling Use MusicMagic and see if it helps - good to know about the bug though, as it means that Slim are already aware of it and working to fix it :) Cheers again, Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25708 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Various artists - multiple entires for same disc
Fixed? (Maybe?) Been reading a few other threads on related issues and I followed a suggestion to add a further tag to all MP3s which are from Various Artist compilation albums. It's relatively straight-forward in my case, since all individual discs are in folder names of artist - album title (with disc number, if appropriate. In all tracks having path name including Various Artists I added a new tag called COMPILATION and set this to have a value of 1. In middle of a rescan right now, but it looks a lot better. Only getting one entry per individual disc, so far. Never used this tag before - previously it was not added to any of my MP3s. Maybe SlimServer now uses this tag since 6.3, and was upset when it couldn't find it? Whatever the case, it certainly looks a bit better now. Will report back if the problem re-occurs after the rescan is completed. (Still using MusicMagic at the moment, by the way) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25708 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Double entries - not sure why - causing trouble
Go to the server/cache directory (typically this is at C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Cache) and rename the file called slimserversql.db. This is your library database. Slimserver should be stopped when you do this. Having renamed it, slim will now build a brand new one (e.g. will build a new library DB, which should remove any dodgy or duplicate entries). You can revert back to the old one, should you need to, by restoring the old slimserversql.db you renamed previously. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25743 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Various artists - multiple entires for same disc
recently upgraded to the 6.3.0 release, but I noticed this even in earlier releases (I think I first started seeing it in one of the 6.3 nightlies). What's the deal with various artists category? I see a listing for various artists when I browse albums or artists - it's kind of annoying, and I want to turn it off. Is there a setting to disable it? Aside form the fact that I'd prefer not to have it, it seems to list multiple entires for the same disc. I'd expect it to list more than 1 entry for same album if same album spanned more than 1 disc... But even on single-disc albums (with all tracks released in same year) I see several entries. It looks like the disc is divided into sections: I'm getting a separate disc entry for artists beginning with D, another one for artists beginning with O, and yet another one for artists beginning with R and S (combined). So for this particular album I have 3 different entries for teh same album. Firstly - can I turn it off? Secondly - if I can't turn it off, can I at least change a setting so that I only have 1 entry per disc (or better still one entry per album, including where album has multiple discs)? Cheers! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.3.0 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25708 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Rescan crashing PC
What are the symptoms of the crash? Does the PC reboot, or lock up, or blue screen? etc? On my system (see sig) the CPU usage more or less hits 100% during a rescan; CPU hovers around 95% for pretty much the entire scan. I guess it might creep a bit higher if I had a larger music collection. Have you recently added any music to increase the library size? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24677 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ive made a mistake !
I don't use SB3 (so my apologies if this isn't actually relevant) but is it anything to do with wireless security? Like - have Slim Devices introduced new wireless security into the latest build that may need to be reconfigured before your player can be seen? Perhaps a previous security setting has been over-written by the upgrade? WPA, WEP etc? I'm assuming you're on wireless, so may be wrong on that count too :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24463 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Another 6.2.2 issue - 'corrupt' tags
I've followed your advice and ditched my MIP fingerprint and data tags from all MP3s. I stopped both MIP and ML and then rescanned everything to hopefully clear the corruption. Then I've restarted MIP and ML, and slim is in the middle of a rescan again. I think you're right on both counts - the MIP fingerprint and data tags are having an impact, plus MIP and special characters are a bit of a problem. I've been scanning through some of the posts on the MIP forums, and both the extra tags and special characters were mentioned a couple of times. For the record, I'm also seeing blank squares in some of my tracks - notably those with special characters. These would also appear to be the same tracks where the year tag suddenly disappears. (Though the year tag problem has also happened on nomal tracks) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] wireless hardware - Apple Airport base-station and adapators
I've done a bit of research on he best hardware available, and found that my current hardware (US Robotics) might be in need of an upgrade. Accroding to the Which? consumer association (UK), it looks like Apple Airport base-station gets best marks. They also provide some info on the Apple network adaptors (for Mac OS). It looks like these are also pretty good :) Just wondering whether anyone knows if Apple have yet (or will ever) released a wi-fi adaptor for generic 'Wintel' PCs? Either that, or is there any sort of PCI adaptor which makes it possible to install the Apple card? (Or would that simply not work? My knowledge of Mac architecture leaves a lot to be desired!) I'd like, if possible to stick with same-brand networking to be able to take advantage of the turbo or extreme speeds, greater than 54Mbps. Though I'd be interested to know if anyone is using the Airport Extreme with non-Mac PCs and how the general network speed is... -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24351 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: wireless hardware - Apple Airport base-station and adapators
Fair enough - I'll see what I can find in the wiki, thanks :) My main concern is that the USR kit has a tendancy to fall over if/when transferring a large amount of data over wireless. From what I've heard, most wi-fi routers or access points have their own little quirks. (I've heard horror stories about USR, D-Link etc). Was hoping to find a device that is basically robust and reliable, hence why I was looking at Which? Has anyone done (or is it worth doing) a poll on which hardware people are using? If there is a thread, can anyone direct me to it? I hear lots of nice things about Netgear, for example. Anyone had any problems with Netgear, or does it suffer the same sort of quirks as most/all other kit? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24351 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: wireless hardware - Apple Airport base-station and adapators
azinck3 Wrote: If you're looking for a tried and true router/WAP ... Indeed, that's what I'm after. I've kind of steered off the main topic/title of the thread as I started out with thinking Apple was the best (based on various bits of research) - but yeah, that's my main reason for posting. Cheers for the info and link to the thread - I'll check it out :) As for which particular bit of kit I'm looking for, it's the complete package - I'd get a router first and then match all the PC card and PCI cards to hopefully take advantage of the turbo speeds. aubuti Wrote: In fact, I often wonder if the complaints about my wireless was fine before, so the problem must be the SB! aren't really cases where the router/network has weaknesses that didn't show themselves before they were asked to move so much data around. Fair comment ;) It sounds like most (maybe even all) routers suffer from this, then. Maybe it's not worth my upgrading my USR for a while then :( Currently I only have MP3s, though I'm planning to move to FLAC at some point. But even streaming with a bitrate limit of anything more than 192 causes problems on my home wi-fi LAN :( :( :( Trying to stream FLAC over wi-fi (if my understanding is correct) is just not going to happen with my current setup :( Cheers for the tip about the Belkin kit - I'll have a look at that, too. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24351 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Phantom tags - WTF do they come from?!
I checked both versions of the tag information (v1 and v2) but couldn't find any problems. I'll check the playlists - I don't actually use playlists (and it wouldn't be a track that was recently played) although I know that MoodLogic generates loads of playlists, so I'll see if maybe it's that. Cheers! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24312 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using the Squeezebox as wireless music player?
rasmuskarlsen Wrote: If i wanna search the market for other players, what can i use as search string? Are there a common name of all theese devices? I think all devices would be basically listed as network MP3 players. I did a quick search on Google with this search string, and I'm mainly getting results for slimp3 and squeezebox. (Note: slimp3 is the older version of Squeezebox: for the purposes of this discussion, it can be thought of as being the same thing). -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24278 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Phantom tags - WTF do they come from?!
Was having a few problems with 'corrupt' tags. Date tags in particular were not being displayed, even though the MP3s were correctly tagged. Full rescan (from within web interface) didn't fix it so I took a backup and then actually deleted the .sql file from the hard drive. And now I see a dodgy tag and I can't figure out where it came from. In my defence, the MP3 is one of my wife's ;) But the problem is so irritating, I'm willing to brve the shame and embarrassment disclose details of the offending MP3: Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This. There is only 1 file on the server like this - it has the same filename, except with a '.mp3' on the end. Yet slimserver can see 2 tracks: Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This Daniel Beddingfield - Gotta Get Thru This When I try to display track details of the phantom one, nothing is there - e.g. slim can't tell me which file this bad data is coming from. I have checked the tags and ALL versions of ID3 tags are synchronised - I can't find any bad data anywhere. So where is slimserver finding the bad data??? The data is good in MoodLogic interface, too - I had automaticaly assumed ML was the cause, but it checked out fine. Bear in mind that this is actually physically deleting the slim database and rebuilding it from scratch - there should be no cache of any sort (?) How do I track this and/or remove this bad data from the slimserver?? Any help appreciated. Cheers! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24312 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Why does slim keep rescanning my library?
I've got the rescan music library set for 5:00am each day. So whatever is going on, it's not that. Symptoms are that every now and then, especially since installing MoodLogic it seems, slim decides it will rescan my library. The web interface *doesn't* say that there is a scan in progress, though it's fairly obvious for a couple of reasons: 1) a rescan has quite a distinctive CPU usage pattern; and 2) the disk temperature goes up drastically during this time (e.g. this is the disk that stores ONLY my music - nothing else). So - clearly something is scanning only my music, and the CPU usage profile suggests (very strongly) that it's slim. Any ideas what's going on? It seems that any changes/corrections to song info though the MoodLogic interface trigger some sort of rescan. Not sure if it's a full rescan, or if slim is looking for changed or added music. Not 100% sure, in fact, that it's a slim rescan - but it certainly does look like one ;) NB - when correcting data through ML interface, I'm not updating tags as such - I'm just correcting my local ML database, as some of the ML identifications are not right. Cheers! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24272 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why does slim keep rescanning my library?
Good idea. Previously, both MIP and ML were set to the default of 60 - this has now been changed to 86400 ;) And as it happens, slim has just finished the rescan so I'll try again and see if I can trigger a new scan. As an aside, I'd be interested to know what your MIP configuration settings are. Any chance you can post the details? Either that, or (if easier or more appropriate) you can mail me at dan_goodinson AT hotmail DOT com. EDIT: nope :( That didn't fix it :( Changed an entry in the ML database, after having set the new value for the reload interval, and CPU has gone crazy again. slim.exe is the culprit, and as before it looks like a rescan. :( -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24272 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why does slim keep rescanning my library?
Just realised that I can't seem to set a value of 86400 for the reload interval. I'd assmumed it had set correctly, but noticed a message saying invalid value 86400 and the setting remained unchanged. I've now set both to zero. Will wait for slim to finish what it's doing, and then try again. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24272 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why does slim keep rescanning my library?
Yep - that looks to have sorted it. Many thanks! :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24272 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware
Most info in my sig - but the web panel reports the following: 1022 albums with 6397 songs by 609 artists. Other details: Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard, with an adaptor to allow installation of the 1.4GHz Celeron chip. 512MB Crucial RAM. Soundcard is actually disabled in this particular PC, as I don't use it for anything other than storing MP3s and running slim. EDIT: reason that mine is all MP3 is because at the time I started ripping my CDs I couldn't afford the disk space. Now that prices have come down so much, I plan to get a couple more disks at some point and begin the long process of ripping everything to a lossless format. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 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: Why does slim keep rescanning my library?
Siduhe Wrote: Oh, one other thing where I do think Moodlogic has the edge is that MusicIP does seem to play favourites - there are about three or four songs that I've had to exclude from mixes altogether, because MusicIP will insist on putting one or more of them into every mix I create, even if they don't really go - a good example recently was Fair by Remy Zero in a drum bass seeded mix ! I totally agree :) I've got a Boy George track, which is on one of the various chart compliation albums on the server. MIP seriously does -love- that track, and it used to turn up anywhere from dark drum and bass, to funky house, to breakbeat, to mellow indie mixes. I never thought the Boy George track was all that great, but I've really gone off it now :) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24272 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Year tags becoming corrupted :(
A while ago, I spent ages updating all my tags to include year. In fact, more than that, I spent bl00dy ages going through each Best of style complication, and setting each individual track to the correct date of release. Beginning to see some corruption in my tags though - SB is supposed to display the year at the end of the track, or display nothing if no data exists. But several tracks are popping up that show a year of (0). I've checked these tags, and all data seems to be correct - it's just that SB (or SS) is reading them wrong (or something). I recently upgraded to SS 6.2.2. I also recently installed MoodLogic. I also upgraded all other plugins at same time. I've tried a complete delete/rescan of the library from within SS. The only thing I've not yet tried is physically deleting the library from my hard-drive and letting SS properly rebuild it. Anyone got any ideas why the year data is beginning to get lost? It almost seems like it's getting worse - I barely noticed it at all the other day (so I thought I'd just missed a tag or something). Now I'm seeing it all over the place :( -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 +MusicIP Mixer 1.6b2 +MoodLogic 2.7.1.18 +AlienBBC 1.02a +Slimscrobbler 0.34 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 40) Library of approx 6300 MP3s gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24248 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there still a moodlogic plugin for Windows?
Ah - I messed up there. I thought it was a new release /embarrassed. Anyway - finally got most of the tags sorted. Only had about 30 mins to try out a mix though - can't play with MoodLogic until I get home again, a few days from now. But on the strength of the short test-run, I've got to say that I'm fairly impressed. The 1 mix that I had seemed a great deal smoother than the MusicIP one. I'll test it out some more when I'm back home, but things are looking good! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24060 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there still a moodlogic plugin for Windows?
Thanks KDF. I found it in the end. Reason for the initial question is that I'm looking to try out MoodLogic, now that there is a new version available. A friend of mine, who first introduced me to Squeezebox in fact, reckons that he find MoodLogic mixes a bit better than MusicIP mixes. He feels that the generated mixes contain more complimentary songs. Given that MoodLogic seems to be still hanging in there (and releasing a new version) I thought it worth a try. Sadly the database seems to be a bit of a mess, and the tracks submitted by users are not always correctly tagged. It's true that I've found a couple of incorrect tags in my own MP3 library thanks to MoodLogic; but at same time I've had to spend HOURS correcting the MoodLogic tags so that they are in sync with my own libary. (Otherwise SS thinks that I have multiple tracks - e.g. tracks by 'Charlatans, The' (from my library) and various duplicate tracks by 'Charlatans' or 'The Charlatans' from the MoodLogic database). Anyway - having sorted a good 75% of the tags, now going to give it a try to see if the mixes really are any better than MusicIP. SS rescanning my library now... I'm holding out for something special, given all the hours I've put in :) Anyway - thanks again or your response, KDF: much appreciated! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24060 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Is there still a moodlogic plugin for Windows?
Can't find it in the plugins section, and can't find any info on Slimserver or Squeezebox on the Moodlogic website :( -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24060 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MusicIP questions
I think you still need to purchase a subscription to MusicIP. Perhaps that's whay MIP is no longer analyising your new music (?) -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24056 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Sb2?
Having seen an SB3 in real life for first time last night (round a friend's house, the same friend who introduced me to slimp3 and SB all those years ago ;) I'm totally going to get an SB3 now :) I was basing my opinion on the pics I've seen of SB3 on websites and stuff. Gotta say, though, that the pics don't do them justice - they really are a whole lot smother than I had envisaged! Slim Devices - get some more pics of the SB3 up for marketting purposes! Had I not seen an SB3 in the flesh, I still wouldn't be up for buying one! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23942 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox keeps dropping out
I also have an SB1, and when I first got it I encountered exactly the same problems as you (e.g. the intermittent reboot of SB). Even though my wireless signal strength was very high, like yours, I still put the problem down to interference. Indeed, trying different wireless channels affected the frequency of the reboots. Given that I'm UK based, I can use channel 13 (not available in the US). I've found this to be by far the best and most stable channel for my location. I've also got a pair of +5dB antennas on my wireless router to try and pump out a stronger signal and overcome some of the random blips that kill my SB1. I've not had problems for quite a while using this configuration. I still get the occassional drop-outs, but it's limited to once every couple of weeks now - rather than the initial once or twice per hour. At the time I was debugging it, I couldn't detect any other wireless LANs in the area - I think one of our neighbours has a cordless phone or something :( Since then, however, I've started to notice a couple of other wireless LANs popping up, but so far these don't appear to have increased the number of drop-outs on channel 13. Hope that helps! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23994 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Sb2?
ModelCitizen Wrote: You prefer the look of the SB1/2 to the SB3? I'd love to see the inside of your residence. MC LOL! :D It's just that I have the perfect place for the SB right now - it's kind of perched atop a CD storage tower. I reckon that an SB3 would be a bit precarious up there, and wouldn't quite look right. Why not just put it somewhere else? you say... True, except that our place is unfeasibly small and there genuinely isn't a lot of space to put stuff. Finding a new niche for an SB3 would involve some sort of serious re-arrangement of the lounge. It'd be easier for me to just find an SB2! :P -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23942 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Another 6.2.2 issue - 'corrupt' tags
Yes, this would totally work. (And I've re-scanned numerous times since the upgrade, even without the automated re-scan each night). The strange thing, though, is that if I add all tracks from chillout genre, for example, I'l get a couple of corrupt tags. If I then clear the playlist and add the same tracks again then the corrupt ones will be fine again. I've yet to identify whether different tracks will be affected or whatever. So - the actual library is unaffected. By me talking about corrupt tags, I'm being a bit misleading since only the playlist is affected. Perhaps I should say corrupt playlist instead. Attempting to play one of the corrupt items in the playlist, SB reports unable to open file for track - it's as if SB can no longer see that file, though I know beyond any doubt that the filename has not changed, nor has the file location. And If I search on that file manually, SB can see if and play it fine. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Another 6.2.2 issue - 'corrupt' tags
Anybody? :( EDIT: For convenience, have included SB setup in my sig (see below). -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Sb2?
I like the shape of the SB1 and SB2 - but SB1 lacks native FLAC decode and wireless G speeds. I'd really like to keep the look of the SB1, but with additional native FLAC decoding and improved wireless... Can't find SB2 for sale anywhere - can I still get them from Slim Devices? Or do I have to go for a 2nd hand one? Nothing against the SB3 as such, just kind of prefer the style of SB1/2. But if I went for SB3, what other enhancements (other than wireless G and FLAC decode) would I get with SB3? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23942 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Sb2?
Thanks ceejay. I've been keeping my eye on eBay, but nothing turned up yet. (In fairness, though, I've only been looking for a couple of days so far). Lots of SB3, though - like I said - I actually prefer the old-style look of the SB. Fair enough then - will keep my eyes peeled and see what I can find. Thanks again. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23942 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Sb2?
Excellent - thanks again. I'll keep monitoring every couple of days, in that case. Couple of questions though... I'm UK-based... Can I simply use my existing SB1 power supply for a non-UK SB2? Also - it SB2 *definitely* wireless G (not B)? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23942 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Sb2?
Once again, thanks to both of you. Next step is to find an SB2 on eBay :P Cheers! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23942 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Another 6.2.2 issue - 'corrupt' tags
Yes indeed - MP3Tag is my tagger of choice (though I've also got MP3TagTools around, somewhere). I don't use MusicIP as a tagger as such - it would be handy to use it if I spotted an incorrect tag while using MusicIP Mixer, though I've found that whichever tags it updates are subsequently missing when I check in MP3Tag. So - when I say I've been adding tags, by this I mean I've saved archive analysis into music. This adds a new tag called MusicMagic Fingerprint (I think) into the MP3. I don't use MM to actually edit tags as such. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.2.2 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 1 wireless Library of approx 6300 MP3 gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
