[slim] Re: pops between tracks
I have all wma files that are converted to mp3 files (via Lame) when streamed and I get a pop/click in between each song also. My slimserver runs on linux, so the only way to play the wma files is to have them converted to ffmpeg first and have the output piped to lame so that the stream is played as mp3. I just got used to it, although I'd love to figure out how to get rid of it. -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Thumbnail Artwork not displaying
I have all my artwork in a separate directoty, with a naming convention of Artist_Album.jpg. When Browsing Albums, the cover art is displayed fine for each album. However, when Browsing Artwork, no artwork is displayed at all. My interface settings are as follows - Artwork Folder: C:/My Music/Artwork Artwork: %ARTIST_ALBUM.JPG Artwork Thumbnail: %ARTIST_ALBUM.JPG If I copy a specific jpg to the directory where the album resides and rename it to folder.jpg, then the thumbnail will display for that album. But if I use the variable filename feature for thumbnails, the thumbnails do not display when Browsing Artwork. Also, I'm running Linux SlimServer Version: 6.0.2 - trunk. Any ideas out there? Thanks, John -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags
kdf, Bingo! The files in question all had the Composer tag valued and that was causing them to appear in the artists list of albums and also the composers list of albums. I tried changing the setting under Behavior to not include composer, band and orchestra but that had no affect (even after clearing the cache). Only way to fix the problem was to clear out the Composer tag in all the files and clear the cache out and rescan the library. Everything is working fine nowthanks for the help. -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags
cdfreak Wrote: It's not a bug per se, more of the way Slimserver does the albums. It already knows to look for Greatest Hits and Best of as an album name and split the albums out...but others (ie, Footprints in your case) will show up in the same list when browse by album is chosen. In slimserver.. server settings...behavior there is a section called Common Album Titles. You'll see Greatest Hits, Best of, and Live already listed there. Add Footprints (and any other duped album names) to the list, click change, and then do a cache wipe and re-scan. It should hopefully put them in seperate folders now. I'd add Best Of, The Best of, The Best Of as well... hope it helps! Thanks for the response, but I don't think that's what is happening here. The album is not duplicated, the song title is. In my example, Footprints is on Miles Davis' album Miles Smiles and is also on Wayne Shorter's album Adams Apple, so I can't add an album called Footprints to the 'Common Album Titles' section. Is Slimserver truly reading the MP3 tags or does it create it's music database from the directory structure? It is definitely a bug (IMHO) because when I view an artist, Slimserver will show an album that is not by that artist, all because in that album is a song title that also happens to be by the original artist. This is wrong and does not happen on any other music software I use (including portable music players). -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Duplicate albums titles from tags
I have 4000 songs by 120 artists on 500 albums, all MP3 files and all tags are in perfect shape. Here's the problem. When 'browsing artists' a number of albums that are not by that artist appear in the list. If I click on the album title, I then see a few songs (not all of them) with the other artists name displayed. I have finally seen the pattern here. The duplicate albums or songs are always titles that just happen to exist on an album by BOTH artists. For example: Footprints by Wayne Shorter and also by Miles Davis, on different albums. When viewing albums by Wayne Shorter I see all of his albums PLUS the one additional album by Miles Davis that also has a track called Footprints. I've checked all tags and am certain they are correct which I can also verify because other software I use reads the tags fine. I've also wiped the cache and rescanned the library and still have the problem. Anyone else have this bug? -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Streaming playlists
Is there a way to have anyone who plays my stream (for example: using Winamp) to stream whatever playlist is currently streaming? It seems that it is always necessary to first connect into the web interface, create a playlist and start playing it, then play the stream.mp3 through winamp. I'd like to be able to give out my address to friends and have them be able to play the stream that I am listening to and not have to create their own (plus it would be nice to be able to password protect the web interface, but not the stream). -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim Server 6.0.2 not playing
What kind of music files are you trying to play (wma, mp3, etc.)? -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver for Win98 and SB2
Deaf cat, I'm using SlimServer on a Windows ME machine with no problems at all. Only catch is I can't run it as a service, I have to start the app up, close it and leave server running. John -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim Server 6.0.2 not playing
I downloaded both lame.exe and lame_enc.dll and placed them in the bin directory and everything then worked perfect: http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Running as a server in Windows 98/ME
Anyone know how to start the slimserver as a server and not have to start the entire slimserver program/interface in Windows 98/ME? I know it's possible to start it as a service in XP, but want to do something similar in 98/ME. It seems to be possible in some way because if I start the slimserver program and then close it up, it asks me if I also want to stop the server - I just say NO and the program exits, but the server keeps running in the background. One reason to do this is because if I turn on password protection for the slimserver web interface, it also password protects the slimserver program, which prevents it from starting up automatically at bootup (it waits for a userid/password to be entered). Thanks for any help. -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Running as a server in Windows 98/ME
Both ways seem to work, but annoyingly it leaves a slim MS-DOS window active. I can set the properties to run the window minimized, but the slim MS-DOS window is left in the task bar. My fear is someone will close up the window which exits slim.exe and shuts down the server. Any way to get the slim server to startup in the background and stay running without ANY windows from appearing? -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Windows Media Files
A little help here please. I'm able to get MP3 files to stream no problem, but I have over 5000 tracks in WMA format and none of them will play in SlimServer. I see the WMADEC.EXE file in the SlimServer/server/Bin/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/ directory and my convert.conf file has the following default entry: wma mp3 * * [wmadec] -r 44100 -b 16 -n 2 $FILE$ | [lame] -x --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ - - so I look all set to go, but when I access the FileTypes page in SlimServer and turn on the Windows Media...MP3...wmadec/lame entry and click on Change, I get the following error message: File Format Conversions 27: Required binary was not found: [wmadec] -r 44100 -b 16 -n 2 $FILE$ | [lame] -x --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ - - What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help! It's greatly appreciated! John -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Windows Media Files
No, they were all ripped from my own CD's and are 64kbps. -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Windows Media Files
Nope, double-checked, my files are definitely NOT copy protected in any way. Thanks for the idea though. I'm thinking this has something to do with WMADEC or LAME...any other ideas out there? Thanks! -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Windows Media Files
Please excuse my ignorance here: I have lame_enc.dll (needed it for some of my ripping software), do I need to have a lame.exe? Never needed that before - not even sure where to find it. Thanks for the response. -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Windows Media Files
Problem solved! Found a copy of lame.exe out on the web and just copied it to the /bin directory and my wma files are now working just fine. Thanks for the help. John -- jwgraves ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
