[slim] Broken playlists with SoftSqueeze
Now playing: 10. "'Robot Riff' from 'Symphony no. 6 in B minor, op. 74 'Pathetique' - New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein' by Reef"??? I'm currently listening to a shuffle of all my songs using SoftSqueeze 2.0b3 and SlimServer 6.0.1. I removed the previous track from the playlist whilst it was playing (by pressing Add), and SoftSqueeze seems to have got a bit confused. It's mixing up all the track names and album names. Is this a known bug? PS Did the New York Philharmonic ever record Reef, or did Reef ever record Symphony no. 6 in B minor? I'd gladly pay money for either! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Broken playlists with SoftSqueeze
I should have said that the track listing is still fine in SlimServer itself. I restarted SoftSqueeze, but it hasn't helped. I'm now listening to "18. 'Recit with Chorus: Now from the sixth hour' from 'A Hard Road' by JS Bach." I rather suspect that Bach didn't have a lot to do with John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers! Thinking about it, I also did a Wipe Cache on the server whilst the playlist was being played. An additional point is that every time I restart SoftSqueeze I have to press Brightness to make the display visible - it defaults to off. Max PS "8. 'Tele He's Not Talking' from 'Danse Macabre' by Ocean Colour Scene". This is beginning to grow on me - maybe it should be left in as a feature. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Broken playlists with SoftSqueeze
Restarting did fix it. That was the only thing that did though. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Backing up ripped music
Manuel Rathmann wrote (in "New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver"): > [..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox. This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours ripping all my music when I'm done, and there will be around 100GB of data. How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has anyone else got any workable solutions? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
Manuel Rathmann Wrote: > Well Max - this is what I am exactly trying to work out. The idea I had > is > to buy a Buffalo Linkstation. [...] Oh sorry, I've hijacked your thread in that case. I hadn't understood what a linkstation was - I assumed it was just another piece of network kit. Maybe I should have actually _read_ your post... ;-) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
How many FLAC albums do you get on a DVD on average? I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB. Nice and accurate! ;-) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music
What flac options are you using? I think I'm using -6. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: More item display options, please.
Agreed. In my mental to-do list of things to change when I get round to hacking the code, adding display of the number of albums in each category is right at the top, alongside the ability to tick a few genre's and say play, or tick a few and say play everything else. I'm hoping this sort of thing would be easy to do... -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Dropouts with softsqueeze playing FLAC?
I get dropouts as well. This is running SoftSqueeze 2.0b3 with SlimServer 6.01. SlimServer is running on a dedicated server connected (currently) via a 100Mb crossover. It's not so bad as to be a huge problem, but I'd definitely be upset if my SB2 ever does this. I'll let you know when/if it (ever) arrives... :-( -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can I have more slim software players on single ip ?
jmpage2 Wrote: > You will notice that I edited and tempered my hasty response. One of > the benefits of a forum over an email distro. Sadly it looks like the > email went out before I could edit. Are edits sent out to the email list/newsgroups? I edited an early vbulletin post and it didn't seem to be reflected on the newsgroups (my old way of reading these forums). -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Pony???
Okay, at the risk of missing the obvious, what is it with Slim Devices and ponies? Is it some American in-joke, or do I just not watch the right television/read the write books/listen to the right radio? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Softsqueeze Version number
Did you know that the title tag for the SoftSqueeze home page is still set to Softsqueeze 1.0? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Dropouts with softsqueeze playing FLAC?
rtitmuss Wrote: > You should not get any dropouts with the latest version, unless your > hardware is underpowered. What is the cpu usage like on the machine > running Softsqueeze? Ah, you may have me there. I've been spending a lot of time ripping and encoding to FLAC recently. That said, I think I remember it "dropping out" when I was doing nothing but running SoftSqueeze. Please don't waste any time on my report until I get a chance to verify it properly - I was a bit hasty with that post! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The New Crack - Phillips RC9800i
Could you not just install something like Twonky Vision? This is a uPnP server that will run on Linux and others. I don't know how uPnP works, but I'm guessing that the client basically pics a file off a filesystem and plays it, so SlimServer's pushed method wouldn't work anyway. This is all guesswork though - I'm very new to SlimServer! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
Don't know about FC3, but Subversion is at http://subversion.tigris.org/. Once it's installed, you need to do "svn co ". From then on, you just cd to the directory where you put it and type "svn up[date]" - it will know where to go. Sorry for the skeletal response - I've never used the Slim repository - but it might at least give you some pointers. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
A quick click around the Community links at the top of the forums pages shows that the svn url that you're after is probably http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/server/. Try "svn co http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/server/ ". You can then cd into and do "svn update". "svn status -r" would, I think, tell you if you need to update, but I could be wrong about the -r bit - you need an argument to tell it to check the remote repository rather than just to look at your local copy. "svn help update" will tell you what you want. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Whole album FLAC files, multi-CD albums and tagging
I practically wrote a bash script to do this but then ran into problems with characters such as '* etc in the filenames - I couldn't work out how to escape them safely. I would be very interested in both the perl script and the python script that has been mentioned here. No attachments have appeared in the online forums - am I missing something, or does vbulletin just strip them out. Either way, how do I go about getting them? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Whole album FLAC files, multi-CD albums and tagging
Thanks, I look forward to seeing it. I was going to have one last look at my bash script and then start again in Perl, so I'll hang on a bit. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Just getting started...
robertwallace Wrote: > I have all my CDs as FLAC. When I need a bunch of tunes for my > portable, I drag them into foobar2000 (a player) and hit a button on a > > pulldown menu. A suprisingly short time later, I have all the tunes I > > wanted in a "portable player" format. What button is that? Could you provide some more detailed instructions about how you do this in foobar 2000? I'm assuming that you are coverting into mp3 or ogg. Does it also transfer the metadata from the FLAC file to the other format? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Recommended Solution for Sharing FLACs w/ MP3 Players
How did you create the mirror? There's a few of us trying to do this sort of thing at the moment. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Recommended Solution for Sharing FLACs w/ MP3 Players
Does dbpoweramp preserve file structures? Does anyone know if foobar2000 does? I'll fiddle with these over the weekend. Cheers, Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Recommended Solution for Sharing FLACs w/ MP3 Players
gorman Wrote: > Being a Karma user myself... what would be these "known issues"? Connecting to them via USB can be a complete bugger. I bought my wife one a week ago and haven't managed to get it working via USB2 yet - you just get errors saying something like "the connection failed for some reason". Searching various forums shows that the Karma seems to be extremely temperamental about which USB configurations it will work with. But hey, it's not as if we wanted to put files on our 20Gb MP3 player... ;-) PS USB1 does work for us, and you can also use Ethernet to put files on the device, but that's not really the point. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Problems starting SlimServer
I run SlimServer 6.01 on Debian Sarge. It used to start up fine, but at some point stopped starting at system startup. No message is logged to the log file, but if I watch the console (difficult as the server is normally headless) I see a message saying that SlimServer failed to change to group slimserver. If I wait until the server has started and then manually start slimserver, it starts perfectly. Can anyone offer any suggestions as I'm a bit stumped! I've attached my /etc/init.d/slimserver script as slimserver.txt My /etc/default/slimserver file is attached as slimserverdefault.txt The slimserver user and group exists. +---+ |Filename: slimserverdefault.txt| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=92| +---+ -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Update on Platinum Wireless SB2s?
I've just been told by MultiTaskComputing that the Platinums are still delayed due to supply problems with the case. "SlimDevices have said this delay may be significant." I remember reading on these forums that the delay could be up to a month. I've just reluctantly asked for my order to be switched to a black SB2. The phrase "significant" scares me! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SV: Lost contact to Slimserver for v.6.1
Why do your posts keep creating new threads with the old thread's subject prefixed with "SV: ", Tore? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
Having just used Subversion to get the 6.0.x branch, I can now tell you that the command you want is: svn co http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/branches/BRANCH_6_0_x/server Dir is the directory that you want to create to contain the code. Took me a while to find this as the url to browse this same code in your web browser is http://svn.slimdevices.com/branches/BRANCH_6_0_x/server - note the missing repos/slim bit! Thought I'd just post this here in case it was useful to someone else! I suppose it should really be in the WIKI - who knows, it probably is already. ;-) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No Windows Nightlies 20050417 ARRRRRRRRGGGG!!!!
Doesn't it just depend on what level you check out? I checked out http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/branches/BRANCH_6_0_x/server to /usr/local/slimserver_v6.0.x. I keep a simlink from /usr/local/slimserver to whatever I want to run so I don't have to change any init scripts or config files. I notice having written that last post that all the information I needed had already been added to this thread anyway - not quite sure how I missed it! Whilst I'm here, how do you control the ownership of files that come from svn? I've chowned the tree to slimserver:slimserver, but any files that get added when I do an update will assumedly be root:root (or whatever). Do I need to chown manually, or can I configure something cunning? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimlyrics crashes server
Where are you getting the lyrics from? This plugin sounds like a bit of a laugh. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The pony shat on my sb2 :(
Try getting a free replacement from SlimDevices. I suspect that they have a sense of humour! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 missing end of FLAC files
jth Wrote: > If you use single-album flac files with external cue sheets, it is > possible to lose 1/100 of a second of audio at the end of a track > because of a rounding issue. Most people shouldn't notice this though > ... 1/100th of a second??? I'd ask for my money back if I were you! ;-) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: UK Wireless Squeezebox2 availability?? (black) from multitask-computing
Multitask haven't been good at responding to my emails (I don't think they've responded to any of them!). *However*, *when I've rung them they have been excellent*. Multitask have a newsletter that they send out whenever they have an update on the Squeezeboxes. Give them a ring and get them to make sure that you are on the list. I suspect that part of the reason behind the poor email response rate is because they assume that people are on the list so already have the information they need. I ordered my Platinum SB2 wireless at the end of March and am still waiting. I've now switched to a Black model and apparently can be hopeful of getting it in the first week of May, or next week if I'm lucky. There have been bad supply problems with the Platinum cases (don't know exactly what), so these have all been delayed significantly. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 missing end of FLAC files
PAUL WILLIAMSON Wrote: > >>> max.spicer.1nzvw0 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com 04/24/05 > 9:27 AM 1/100th of a second??? I'd ask for my money back if I were > you! ;-) > > Odds are it was free (flac that is) in the first place, so I'm quite > confident > he'll be able to get 100% of his money back! LOL... > > Paul Careful, I wasn't trying to say anything against the original poster's problem. I'm not doubting that he is experiencing problems that are very real. I was simply amused by the error that meant that -some- people could miss 1/100th of a second from the end of the FLAC file. This is, I imagine, an entirely different problem to that of the poster's. I wasn't trying to flame! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Not Meaning To Be Cheeky
Yes, fair point. The web page does say "Introducing SqueezeNetwork" but apart from that it very much suggests that the whole thing is available right now. It even says "Today, take advantage of:[...]". If you didn't read these forums, you'd certainly be misled. I assume that the plan was for SqueezeNetwork to be launched alongside SB2, but something slipped. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 Geek Connector pin-out/functions
Have a look at the recent posts in this forum for more info, but basically there isn't currently a geek port connector on the SB2. The headphone socket will provide the geek port connection, but the firmware support isn't there yet and is not a priority this close to the release whilst other issues are ironed out, apparently. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Rescan Folder Bug
Go to server settings and, I think, troubleshooting and select Wipe Cache. If it's not there, dig around under server settings until you find it (my wireless network has just bombed so I can't look on my slimserver). SlimServer does lazy deletions of albums and will not notice the removal of an album until it actually tries to read it (e.g. browsing to the album using the browse filesystem featur, or probably trying to play it). Wipe Cache sorts out this sort of error. Apparently, more aggressive removal of deleted files will be a part of future implementations of Rescan. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Softsqueeze 2.0b6 (Over SSH), Slimserver 6.0.2-1, No audio...
malsbury Wrote: > pbrubaker wrote: > Are you by chance using the "Primary Sound Driver" option in the audio > > settings section of the preferences? I was seeing a similar behavior > this morning, and was able to get around it by changing the setting to > > "Java Sound Audio Engine" You'll seriously degrade audio quality by using the Java Sound Engine over the Primary Sound Driver. I'm not just talking a slight difference here - the JSE output is terrible compared to the PSD. Mind you, compared to no sound at all, I'd imagine it's a 100% improvement. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problems starting SlimServer
I'm still having this problem and would appreciate any help in finding a solution. When slimserver tries to start at system startup, it fails with the following error message: "Unable to set effictive group(s) to slimserver (1001) is: 1001: " Note the carriage return at the end of that output, as if something is missing. However, if I start it manually (by calling "/etc/init.d/slimserver start" as root) immediately after the system starts, it works fine. Slimserver is almost the last thing to start at bootup, so this is puzzling! The only thing that runs after slimserver is S99stop-bootlogd. I run slimserver as S99slimserver in order to make it come after the S99rmnologin script (an act of desperation that yielded nothing). Any suggestions appreciated, no matter how vague! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problems starting SlimServer
mherger Wrote: > Does your user slimserver exist (grep slimserver /etc/passwd)? Does it > > have read/write access to /etc/slimserver.conf and > /etc/sysconfig/slimserver? If the very first time slimserver was > started > as root, there might be permission problems with these files. Slimserver runs fine when I manually start it by calling /etc/init.d/slimserver start. It does the same user and group changing then (I think!) as when it is run at startup, meaning that the user and group does exist and the file permissions are fine (again, I think!). To be paranoid, I've checked /etc/passwd and /etc/group and the user and group are in there. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problems starting SlimServer
mherger Wrote: > Have you also checked permissions on the two files I mentioned? > slimserver > should be owner of /etc/slimserver.pref. # ls -l slimserver.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 slimserver slimserver 16397 Apr 27 19:58 slimserver.conf /etc/sysconfig/slimserver does not exist (this is Debian), but: # ls -l /etc/default/slimserver -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179 Mar 22 19:35 /etc/default/slimserver It shouldn't need write access to this file. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problems starting SlimServer
mherger Wrote: > and do the numerical IDs correspond? Just a thought... I'm sure it's > a > permission issue ;-) > > What about those two other files/folders /var/log/slimserver.log > /var/cache/slimserver? dante:/etc# ls -l /var/cache/slimserver/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 slimserver root 4096 Mar 22 19:19 usr dante:/etc# ls -l /var/log/slimserver.log -rw-r--r-- 1 slimserver root 1410369 Apr 25 19:11 /var/log/slimserver.log They aren't group writable, but that shouldn't matter, should it? I don't understand why permissions would make a difference. Root is starting slimserver at startup and I'm running as root (su -) when I start it manually. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slim and Spinal Tap
Is it me, or has someone recently changed the volume control in SlimServer from 1-20 to 1-11? I could have sworn the maximum was 20 a few days ago, but it's now 11 in the 1.0.x branch that I'm running (last updated a couple of days ago). I highly approve of being able to go to 11 when I need that little bit more! ;-) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim and Spinal Tap
kdf Wrote: > Default skin has always gone to 11. I've realised the confusion - it's because SoftSqueeze (and assumedly SB2 - I'd know if mine ever arrives...) goes up to 40. Is it a Spinal Tap reference? I hope so! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim and Spinal Tap
mherger Wrote: > http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads-5.4.1.html - in the web > interface > it's been 11 for quite a while. The player uses another scale. It's touches like that that make me glad I've bought a Squeezebox! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Making slimserver open & close its log file
Non-unix users, move along - there's nothing to see! I've just added a logrotate entry for slimserver. The postrotate entry is currently /etc/init.d/slimserver restart, which just kills slimserver and restarts it. I'm unlikely to be listening to music when this happens, but it would be a pain if I was. I don't suppose there's some way of getting a running slimserver to close and open its log file by sending it a signal, is there? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Making slimserver open & close its log file
dean Wrote: > On Apr 27, 2005, at 1:56 PM, max.spicer wrote: > > Non-unix users, move along - there's nothing to see! > This is why we have a unix-specific forum. :) Oh, erm, yes. Sorry, I'll get my coat! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SlimServer CLI
Where can I find information about the SlimServer cli, please? I'm just curious to see what it does. Thanks, Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SlimServer CLI
kdf Wrote: > Quoting "max.spicer" forums.slimdevices.com>: > > > > > Where can I find information about the SlimServer cli, please? I'm > just > > curious to see what it does. > > > help section of your slimserver web interface, under technical > information > > -kdf Ah, I'd forgotten that the web interface has a help section. Thanks, Max PS Manuals: something that men read to find out why it didn't work. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Black Screen of Death?
Snowflake: would you mind using a non-animated avatar? Having it pinging away in the corner of posts is really distracting! Thanks, Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Softsqueeze 2.0b6 (Over SSH), Slimserver 6.0.2-1, No audio...
rtitmuss Wrote: > Please try Softsqueeze 2.0b8 either from the softsqueeze sourceforge > downloads, or in tomorrows slimserver 6.0.x nightly build. > > Richard I've started updating my SlimServer 6.0.x via subversion. Will I still get the new SoftSqueeze this way, or will I need to manually drop it into the slim folders? Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Softsqueeze 2.0b6 (Over SSH), Slimserver 6.0.2-1, No audio...
rtitmuss Wrote: > > Yes, the new version of Softsqueeze is in the Slimserver 6.0.x > downloaded using subversion, or the nightly build. This fix is not yet > > available in 6.1.x versions. > > Richard Ah, I'd just logged on to say that I'd done an svn status -u and noticed that it does indeed appear. You beat me to it. ;-) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: sort order and database speed
Dan Sully Wrote: > > Artist names are shown in these listings in the 6.1 tree. We listen! :) This is a preference in 6.1. If you want to enable it , look under Server Settings->Formatting (a strange place to put such prefs, IMHO!). Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 Ethernet Bridge
seanadams Wrote: > You need to have the ethernet port connected. If going to an Xbox you > will need to use a crossover cable. > > If the ethernet link does not come up (which I suspect is what's > happening here) then it won't ask you about bridging. This is just to > > make setup easier for the typical case (no bridging). I don't know about the Xbox, but the PS2 doesn't bring up the ethernet link unless it is actually in use. You would therefore assumedly need to be in a game and connected to the internet at the time of performing your wireless setup. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB availability
slayaz Wrote: > Is anyone else in the UK still waiting for an SB2 in black? > > I ordered mine nearly 2 months ago from Multitask and am still > (patiently) waiting. I believe MultiTask computing are expecting another shipment next week that should enable them to clear their backlog. Obviously though, you need this sort of information from the horse's mouth in order to rely on it! If you give them a ring directly, they should be able to give an accurate estimate. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Loosing path to music folders
dominique.roland Wrote: > I am using slim server 6.0.1 - 2895 and I keep my music folders on an > external iomega 160 go hard drives. > > I have noticed two strange behaviours : > > 1) Despite proper configuration, the server is not activated > automatically when I start my XP (SP2) computer. > > 2) The server is loosing the path to my iomega hard drive, even if the > hard drive is switched on before the computer and I have to enter it > manually. It is a little bit annoying, not really for me, but for the > rest of the familly. Is the service set to start automatically? Can windows see the disk fine, yet slim server fails to do so? Are your preferences being saved correctly - can you see the path in your prefs file when the service is not running? It rather sounds as if issue 2 may be causing issue 1. I have a similar, but I suspect unrelated, issue on my Debian server. SlimServer fails to start at system startup but always starts fine when I manually start it immediately afterwards. My music is stored on a SATA disk that is controlled by a PCI controller and so is mounted late on in the boot process. It is however fully accessible before I try to start slimserver in the startup scripts. I suspect this is all a red herring, but thought I'd mention it. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can't find all flac files in Music Folder
kdf Wrote: > wipe cache is located in server settings->performance > it should only be used as last resort since it triggers a complete > rescan of > everything from an empty database. > > -kdf But is nevertheless often necessary. I'm updating my genre tags at the moment and have found that Wipe Cache is the only way of getting SlimServer to properly notice the changes. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Dodgy headphone connection on SB2?
Philip Meyer Wrote: > > Hmmm, I received mine from Broadbandstuff yesterday morning. Maybe > there's a dodgy batch. > > If we order replacements, what's the chance that they simply send us a > new faulty one? > > Phil Well mine should be arriving from them tomorrow(!), so I'll keep you posted. Max PS Five exclamation marks? Yes, a sure sign of insanity and, I feel, justified after over a month's waiting! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SoftSqueeze playback problems
When I play tracks on SoftSqueeze, they occasionally stop during playback and only a continuous non-music noise is output. It's hard to describe - it's like a mechanical noise that is constant. Once started, this noise continues until I click fast forward to play the next track or restart the current track. There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the server when this happens - the web interface responds normally. If I replay the problem track, it will play absolutely fine so this doesn't appear to be a problem with my music files. I'm using SoftSqueeze 2.0b8, but it happened with b6 and the build I used before that (and probably others before then). I run SlimServer on a Debian Linux machine that is connected to my pc via a 3com 11g wireless router. All my music is in FLAC format and is mostly ripped with EAC. This error has just happened but there is nothing in the Console. That said, I don't currently have any of the (new?) debug options ticked. If people (Richard?) tell me what options to enable, I'll gladly enable them and provide an update next time it happens. I don't know if this happens with a real SqueezeBox, but my SB2 arrives tomorrow (I'm sorry, I still haven't said that enough!) so I'll watch out for it. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slightly OT: Small Amplifier recommendations
Are there any UK suppliers for the T-amp? Also, could I repeat the request for recommendations of small speakers that would be well paired with the T-amp? Ideally, they would cost 15 pounds and be better than 1000 pound models... ;-) Max PS Has anyone noticed the price for the ac adaptor on the t-amp pages? It's 1/2 the price of the amp! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] A few SB2 questions
My SB2 finally arrived this evening. I plugged it in, it talked me through the setup process and then worked. Very nice! Thanks to all who make this thing happen. I have a couple of questions now that I've used a real Squeezebox for the first time. This list may well grow, but I assume noone will mind. 1) Is there a way of zapping everything but the currently playing song from the play list, or of replacing everything but the current song on the play list? I keep adding a load of tracks, then changing my mind so want to add totally different things to play next whilst leaving the current song playing. 2) Does the SB2 need saving i.e. can it be damaged by displaying the same content continuously? I'm using the RSS screensaver at the moment but have noticed that it constantly displays the feed sourcce on the top line. I only have one feed, so this never changes for the whole time that the SB2 is off. That's it for now! Thanks, Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Platinum vs Black cases
Now that I've got my SB2 (sorry, did I mention that already? I'll get it out my system in a year or so...), and so have seen it in the flesh, I have to say that I'm not at all regretting having had to switch from black to platinum. I love the understated look of the black box with nothing but the display visible. It's currently outlined against my window, displaying the fantastic Analog VDU and it looks stunning. Having a platinum border around the screen would really spoil the effect. When I put it in my cabinet, you probably won't be able to see the case at all; just the display. It will look great! I'm really looking forward to inviting friends around tomorrow in order to show off! ;-) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Help! SlimServer appears to have totally crashed
I was listening to all my music on random when I decided to delete a track from the coming list by pressing add. At this point, the display on my SB2 froze and it stopped responding to any buttons on the remote. After several minutes, I had a look at the server and found that slimserver was using 99.9% of my cpu. I killed slimserver, at which point the sb2 immediately said that it was trying to connect to the server. I then restarted the server and it went straight back to 99%. The SB2 display went black and it didn't respond to anything. In addition, the web interface never returns - Firefox just sits there saying Connecting. I stopped and restarted the server, but just got the same. In desperation, I cleared out my cache directory (/var/cache/slimserver) and restarted the server, but I still get no response from the SB2 or the web interface. The cpu usage is now only 85%, but nothing else. What do I do now?? SlimServer running on Debian Sarge. I'm running 6.0.x at Revision 3121. The SB2 is Firmware 11 and is a wireless model. My wireless network is absolutely fine - I can connect to the router's web interface and the slim forums from the same browser that I am trying to connect to the slimserver web interface. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help! SlimServer appears to have totally crashed
Having left the server running and to its own devices for about ten minutes, the SB2 has just started playing and the web interface has returned. Is there some known issue with deleting tracks from a shuffled playlist with many items in? It surely shouldn't do what it did! Bizarrely, it's now playing a single album rather than the random shuffle, but that could be in response to some of the blind keypresses I did when it wasn't responding, I guess. My library contains 4145 songs by the way, so we're not talking a crazy sized random shuffle by any means. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: brandnew SB2 with a major problem ;(
mantis007 Wrote: > Hi All, just unpacked my SB2, configured the network etc.. Started right > up - as soon as my music starts its all staticy cutting in and out - > sounds terrible. I'm using the SPDIF out to my Tact 2.0S DAC - if I > unplug the SB2 and put my SB1 back in - problem gone. Any ideas??? How does your analogue output sound? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help! SlimServer appears to have totally crashed
Woops, there it goes again. Whilst it was still playing the single album, I pressed shuffle once to turn off shuffle and then once again. At this point the display froze and the server is now back to 99.9%. It's just come back very briefly and the display is now frozen saying Shuffle By Song. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: brandnew SB2 with a major problem ;(
mantis007 Wrote: > Hi, my Tact only has digital inputs - no analogue ;( Don't you have headphones or something? I won't be able to help, I'm afraid, I'm just trying to get some more info to help with debugging. Is it the SB2 that's dead, or the sync to the decoder etc etc. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help! SlimServer appears to have totally crashed
kdf Wrote: > wipe the __*.m3u files from your playlists folder Thanks, it's okay again now, but I'll be ready with that one if it happens again. Any idea what happened? I forgot that it created m3u's on the fly. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help! SlimServer appears to have totally crashed
kdf Wrote: > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160 This sounds a bit like what happened, except that the main trigger seemed to be deleting a track from an already shuffled playlist. I didn't switch the shuffle mode in doing this and it only took a few seconds to do the initial shuffle. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help! SlimServer appears to have totally crashed
kdf Wrote: > large playlists hammer the db like crazy. server runs and hides. But I've been playing my music on random via SoftSqueeze for a few weeks ago and have never had this happen before. It seems strange that it triggers the moment I use a real SB2 although correlation does not imply causality, as my old stats lecturer used to tell us repeatedly. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Scanning - How smart?
JJZolx Wrote: > A few questions regarding scanning, for those who understanding the > inner workings of SlimServer... > > With discussions of external scripting to modify the library contained > within SlimServer's database, I'm slowly realizing that doing a "wipe > cache" is not at all desirable. But the question remains - How smart > is SlimServer currently, and how smart will it be in the future? > > Can SlimServer remove references to deleted files from the library > without doing a wipe cache? For instance, if you remove an album > directory, or a single track. > > When doing a rescan, does SlimServer pick up internal changes to files, > such as the change of an artist tag? And does it correctly handle what > it sees? I don't understand the inner workings of SlimServer. However, from personal experience: Without a wipe cache, slimserver won't notice deleted files unless you browse to them. I believe work is going on in 6.1 to fix this. Without a wipe cache, changes to tag info (genre in my case) are not picked up. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Playing (unripped) CDs
jrp Wrote: > OK, but it also plays streamed music. Is there any way of getting > Windows Media Player or some other widget read a CD and stream it to > (a) Slimserver or (b) directly to SB2. You don't stream to a slimserver, a slimserver streams. Streaming to a squeezebox would, I imagine, be theoretically possible, but you'd have to implement the entire squeezebox protocol i.e. write another slimserver. I think thhe short answer is probably no to both questions. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problems starting SlimServer
max.spicer Wrote: > I'm still having this problem and would appreciate any help in finding a > solution. When slimserver tries to start at system startup, it fails > with the following error message: > > "Unable to set effective group(s) to slimserver (1001) is: 1001: > " > > Note the carriage return at the end of that output, as if something is > missing. > > However, if I start it manually (by calling "/etc/init.d/slimserver > start" as root) immediately after the system starts, it works fine. > Slimserver is almost the last thing to start at bootup, so this is > puzzling! The only thing that runs after slimserver is > S99stop-bootlogd. I run slimserver as S99slimserver in order to make > it come after the S99rmnologin script (an act of desperation that > yielded nothing). > > Any suggestions appreciated, no matter how vague! Now I've got a real squeezebox, this is becoming far more of a problem. The error I'm getting is being generated by slimserver.pl at line 974 (rev 3144). Could someone give pointers about exactly what would be causing the error and what it's trying to say - from my output, it looks like some bits are missing. I've checked and double checked permissions, and it's starting as root anyway, so I'm stuck! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Dodgy headphone connection on SB2?
Philip Meyer Wrote: > >Well mine should be arriving from them tomorrow(!), so I'll keep > >you posted. > > > Any luck with yours? > > Phil Hmm, I only get output on the left channel unless I really wiggle the connector about and pull it out slightly. Looks like broadband stuff have a bad batch. Time for an email to them and slim support... -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Dodgy headphone connection on SB2?
max.spicer Wrote: > Hmm, I only get output on the left channel unless I really wiggle the > connector about and pull it out slightly. Looks like broadband stuff > have a bad batch. Time for an email to them and slim support... I've just tried another pair of headphones. Again, only the left channel worked. The right channel just got a clicking noise that triggered every time the right needle of the vu meter moved to the right, almost like someone hitting a pair of claves to the rhythm. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2
Marc Sherman Wrote: > rds wrote: > It might be helpful for all the people with headphone jack problems to > > post their MAC addresses, in case this issue can be isolated to a > specific production batch. > > - Marc Has there been any official comment on this headphone issue? The Slim staff seem to be somewhat quiet! Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2
mherger Wrote: > > Has there been any official comment on this headphone issue? The > Slim > > staff seem to be somewhat quiet! > > It's sunday here... > Fair point. The issue has been discussed for longer than the last two days though. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: sb2 DHCP problems
dean Wrote: > > That's a link-local address. If the DHCP request times out, it will > use a 169.254.x.x address until DHCP succeeds, at which point it will > > switch to the new address. > What is a link-local address? Windows boxes fall back to 169.254 when they can't get an address and I've always assumed this was just Microsoft being random. How does it help to pick a seemingly invalid address that almost certainly won't work in any situation? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: problems with finding music since slimserver 6.0.2
oiler1fan Wrote: > Problem now is that artists like Michael Bublé, Beyoncé, Sinéad O'Conner > with the é character in their name show up multiple times in the libary > or in the wrong place as well. Just delete anything in your collection by Michael Bublé - this will solve many problems at the same time! A similar approach should be applied to anything by Rolf Harris. :-) Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Recommendations for backup to DVD software
I want to start backing up my collection of FLAC files to DVD. My server runs samba and is headless. On my WinXP Home pc, I have a dvd writer so hope to use this to backup the files straight from my server. I'll be relying on the BurnProof ability of my writer here as I can't mirror my entire collection on my PC (I've spent enough on my SB2/FLAC project as it is). Could anyone recommend some good, preferably free, backup software that will produce incremental backups of my files and write them to DVDs? I've just found Peter's backup (http://pbackup.sourceforge.net/backup.html), which looks like a contender. Any others out there? -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Wireless ADSL router recommendations
I currently have a 3Com Office Connect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall router but it's giving me all manner of grief. My various wireless devices keep losing the connection and then will not connect again unless I reboot the rooter. That's another story though - I'm not asking for support here! However, my problems are not due to signal strength - al my clients get at least 90%. Assuming that I end up binning the router, could someone recommend a good alternative? I need 11g with WPA and it must have a built in ADSL modem and switch with at least 4 ports. My current router is killing my SB2 enjoyment, so something that's rock steady and just works would be great. I'm in the UK, and would be looking for something in the <£100 price range. Thanks, Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless ADSL router recommendations
dean Wrote: > Is it possible to disable the router in your current device and just > use the ADSL modem part? You'll have a wider selection of wireless > access points/routers to choose from and will save some money to boot. I'm hoping to get my money back for the 3com - it's less than 6 months old and is faulty (as far as I'm concerned). Interesting suggestion for if I can't get a refund though, but I'm not sure I'd want multiple boxes. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple Items In Tags enhancement
RACliffe Wrote: > The multiple tag problem has been submitted as a bug in 6.0. (see bug > number 1209 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209). > > The seperator character seems to work under windows, but not under > Linux (at least on my version of Linux) It certainly does work on Linux, and I can't think why the OS should make a difference. I have my genres split using the semicolon on Debian/Sarge and it works a treat. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Showing now playing at the start of each track
I love the Analog VU screensaver and have it set to turn on after 30 seconds. However, I like to know what each new track is called, so constantly have to press Now Playing when a new track starts. There's not a setting that I've missed that would do this for me is there? I basically want the screensaver to be interrupted every time a track start event is fired. Hopefully, Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Showing now playing at the start of each track
dean Wrote: > That's a great suggestion. Can you file an enhancement request on > http://bugs.slimdevices.com Done: bug 1607. Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Track search forward/Backward
Do you mean in SoftSqueeze, or on a Squeezebox 1/2? I used to find the fastforward and rewind unusable in SoftSqueeze in much the same way that you've described (playing flac files), but it seems fine on my SB2. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Web interface broken in 6.1
Is it just me, or is the web interface broken in the current 6.1s? I'm finding that my browser keeps constantly failing to load pages from the web interface - it sits there constantly loading, but never displaying any new content. I'm running the Default skin, but was previously on Default 2. If I restart the server, the interface starts to respond again, but quickly goes back to failing. It's only the web interfaces that stops working - SoftSqueeze and my SB2 remain perfectly responsive. R3311 on Debian Sarge. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Web interface broken in 6.1
deef Wrote: > I am having the same problem with the web interface on 6.0.2 running on > Mac OS X. Not using SoftSqueeze or SB2, just trying to stream to a > remote computer. The stream keeps going up until the end of a track, > then stops even though there are other items in the playlist. This doesn't sound like the same issue. Playback is unaffected in my case - I just lose the ability to view the web interface. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Web interface broken in 6.1
Dan Sully Wrote: > Could you send the output of --d_http > > > > > Here you go. It's a zip file, I'm afraid, as the log is relatively > > large. This is the complete log from slimserver start up to the first > > occurence of the hang. This took no more than a minute. I started > > slimserver, pointed my browser at it, clicked browse albums, clicked > > the artist link of the first album in my list, at which point the web > > interface hung and the browser (Firefox 1.04 on Windows XP SP2) just > > sat displaying the current page with the status constantly Loading > > The steps to get it to hang were random - I've done different things > > every time. > > > > Max +---+ |Filename: slimserver.log.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=145| +---+ -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Web interface broken in 6.1
I've just rolled back to {20050524} and all seems well again.
Slim/Web/HTTP.pm was one of the files that was updated in the roll
back, which looks like a bit of a smoking gun to me.
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[slim] Re: Lost Screen Saver?
earthbased Wrote: > One of my SB2s has lost it screen saver when powered off. I can find no > way to enable it again from either the HTML GUI or remote. Help please! Have you tried pressing the brightness key when the SB2 is off? It could just be that it's been set to the display off level for the off state by accident and is now remembering that setting. Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: softsqueeze sync problem
I'm running SoftSqueeze 2.0b7 on Windows XPSP2, with Java Version 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0_02-b09). SoftSqueeze is using the Java MP3 plugin and the Primary Sound Driver. I've not managed to get it to sync with my SB2 wireless - there's a delay of somewhere under 0.5 seconds (to my ears). It's fine if neither device is overloud and you're nearer to one, but if you move to the boundary between the two, you really notice it. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: softsqueeze sync problem
A bit more carefull listening reveals that my SoftSqueeze is a fraction ahead of my SB2, not behind as I previously stated. When I turn on one of the devices, I don't get synchronisation initially, but I wouldn't expect that given the way the sync works. However, if I leave it playing, rather than start a new track (in order to get synced), it sometimes jumps a track on its own. This also happens if I turn off a device: I had SoftSqueeze and my SB2 synced and then turned of my SB2 via the web interface. SSq carried on for about twenty seconds, then skipped to the next track. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Querying the slim database using SQL
I'm in the process of tidying up my music's tags, having gone through the process of ripping it all. At some point in the future, I intend to go through the process of enjoying listening to my music. ;-) When I browse year's in slimserver, I get several lines for seemingly blank years, and others for years with non numeric characters in (see screenshot). Unfortunately, the slimserver web interface doesn't let me find out what albums have generated these entries, as there isn't a clickable link in many cases, and in others clicking the link gives a blank list on the next page. What I'd like to do, is have look at the database itself to see what tracks have the dodgy years. Could someone suggest an easy way of firing sql at the database? I have no problem with SQL, but no experience of SQLite. Thanks, Max PS My first thought was to do a grep of the source code for something like select *, but I thought I'd ask here first. :-) +---+ |Filename: screenshot.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=146| +---+ -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS BEEN ADDED TO MY WHITE LIST
Please, don't anyone see this as an opportunity to start debating the joys of top posting! I've seen that done to death in far too many forums already. Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Querying the slim database using SQL
Thanks for the links. I'll go and play. I have more than enough things to get working properly before I even consider complicating things further by moving to MySQL. None of them are the fault of the squeezebox or slimserver though. Max JJZolx Wrote: > I've used SQLite Database Browser, which will do what you want. Nothing > fancy, but it works: > > http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net > > A larger list of SQLite tools can be found here: > > http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=SqliteTools -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote Functions and Synchronization
mikeb Wrote: > I am looking to purchase an audio system for my home and have narrowed > down my choices to Squeezebox2s with 802.11b PDAs and the Sonos Music > System. I don't know anything about the Sonos system, but SqueezeBoxes are great. I can't imagine any other device having the community, the features and the sheer wow factor of the SqueezeBox2. SlimDevices really care about their users and their product - you frequently get the chief executive answering your questions on the forums. How often does that happen anywhere else? I can't speak for synchronisation between real boxes, as I only have the one (so far). I bought my SB2 a few months ago, and have no prior experience of any SlimDevices product. However, I'm definitely a satisfied customer. Don't miss out! Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Web interface broken in 6.1
max.spicer Wrote:
> I've just rolled back to {20050524} and all seems well again.
> Slim/Web/HTTP.pm was one of the files that was updated in the roll
> back, which looks like a bit of a smoking gun to me.
I've now updated to R3330 and all seems well again. Ta muchly to
whoever fixed the problems.
Max
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[slim] Visualiser bug in SlimServer trunk
I asked about this a while ago but got no response. Since I switched to the SlimServer trunk around two to three weeks ago, I've had a slight bug when exiting the Analog VU screensaver. If the screensaver is active and I do something to make it inactive, like press a key on the remote, the display text appears on the screen, but for about a second the screensaver continues to draw. This looks a mess, and means that you can't read the text until the screensaver has gone away. Does anyone else experience this, or is it just me? Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Visualiser bug in SlimServer trunk
kevin Wrote: > Can't seem to reproduce this with trunk r3330... Was a visualizer > enabled when on Now Playing? Or only the screensaver? > > What's set for each of the screensaver modes? (playing, not playing, > and powered off?) > > (edit): Also, what audio format? And operating system? I was running R3330. In Now Playing mode, I only have the progress bar and time elapsed displayed - no visualisers. For playing, I have the Analog VU kick in after 30 seconds, for not playing I don't have a screensaver and in powered off I have the RSS ticker, but keep the brightness off generally. I am running SlimServer on Debian Sarge and only ever play FLAC files. I'm going to be away from my SB2 until Sunday night, but will gladly provide any more details required after that. Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Visualiser bug in SlimServer trunk
Triode Wrote: > Can you remember whether the text displayed after the screensaver was > scrolling (or would have scrolled after the pause phase?) The text would have scrolled after the scroll pause, but wasn't durning the time that the visualiser was erroneously displayed. Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ver 6.1 5/27 & 5/28 nightlies problems
mirage62 Wrote:
> Does anyone have the SlimServer_v2005-05-18 6.1 version ?
>
> It's not on the website anymore, and I've lost it myself after testing
> the latest version (the problem is still there, and it's there in the
> earliest version from 05-20 as well)
You could pull it out of the repository with something like svn
update/checkout -r {20050519}. Note the 19 rather than 18 in that
argument - it means the state that it was in at 00:00 on the 19th.
Not much help if you don't know or don't have subversion, in which case
I apologise.
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