Re: [slim] Mip: R.i.p?
Does anyone know how to fool the Mac version of MusicIP into doing local analysis? Under Options Server I've unticked the Connect to server box but when I select Start Analysis MusicIP comes up with a dialogue box saying OK to sync? I need to synchronise with the MusicIP server with Yes and No options. If I select Yes, I get Unable to establish connection and No doesn't do anything. I've put music.predixis.com localhost in the Mac /private/etc/hosts file but this didn't seem to do anything. mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100790 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech divesting from some product lines
I've been using an iPhone/iPad app called Roomie Remote (www.roomieremote.com) to control my AV kit and this works with an adaptor from www.globalcache.com for devices that still use IR. I think Roomi is great - really easy to set-up and use. I think the future of dedicated remotes like Harmony is quite limited. mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97925 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool
I've been using UDAP to set-up a Receiver and everything seemed to be working ok, however I've noticed that if I stop and start LMS, LMS doesn't recognise the Receiver until I switch the Receiver off and on again. The LMS interface says Your player was not found. If I switch the Receiver off and on again, it is recognised immediately by LMS. Receiver is set up wired with DHCP and the router (Air Port Express) is set-up to reserve a specific IP address for the Receiver. Any ideas why LMS isn't recognising the player after LMS restarts? Logitech Media Server Version: 7.7.3 on OSX 10.8.4 UDAP [1] (squeezebox 177d5e) list bridging: 0 hostname: SBR Living Room interface: 1 lan_gateway: 0.0.0.0 lan_ip_mode: 1 lan_network_address: 0.0.0.0 lan_subnet_mask: 255.255.255.0 primary_dns: 0.0.0.0 secondary_dns: 0.0.0.0 server_address: 0.0.0.0 squeezecenter_address: 10.0.1.12 squeezecenter_name: iMac Music wireless_SSID: wireless_channel: 6 wireless_keylen: 0 wireless_mode: 0 wireless_region_id: 4 wireless_wep_key_0: 00 wireless_wep_key_1: 00 wireless_wep_key_2: 00 wireless_wep_key_3: 00 wireless_wep_on: 0 wireless_wpa_cipher: 3 wireless_wpa_mode: 1 wireless_wpa_on: 0 wireless_wpa_psk: mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57861 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to stream audio to Squeezebox on OS-X. Anyone?
You can use Nicecast (http://rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/) to select an audio source on the Mac then stream this to a Squeezebox. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76794 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeezebox power supply in UK
Anyone know where I can buy a replacement Squeezebox power supply in the UK? One I have seems to have died. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54044 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox power supply in UK
many thanks for the quick replies -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54044 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] MusicIP Rocks!
I'm not keen on archiving the MusicIP fingerprint data to tags on tracks. I tried it about a year ago and found that it stopped AAC and ALAC tracks playing on an iPod shuffle. The way that MusicIP added the tags changed the order of track atoms that the shuffle was expecting. It took me a long time to clean this up so I'd rather not take the risk again. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48270 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looks like Blu-Ray has won
Pat Farrell;271248 Wrote: jjanis wrote: Think about the bandwidth required to stream 1080p content to thousands and millions of customers. Can you imagine it becoming available anytime soon? I don't think so. Its available today in much of the developed world. Not in most of the US because of monopoly telco resistance. Altho Verizon is rolling out FIOS (fiber to the house) which is available today in many areas. Korea and Japan are way ahead of the US in broadband availability, faster and cheaper than we see in the US. In Korea, Japan and some European countries, a high proportion of people live in urban apartment blocks so it is economical to run fibre to the basement. The economics are tougher to serve suburban detached populations with smaller population densities. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43609 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
A couple of questions - will it be possible to generate MusicIP playlists using the Squeezebox Controller? (you can do this by holding down the play button on the current IR remote) - planned date for UK availability of Squeezebox Controller? -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Homeplugs
davidcotton;247501 Wrote: Hello Decided to get a set of homeplugs but can't decide which. I've seen the devolo 14mbps set for £60.00. I've also seen the maplins own brand netricity 85mbps set for about the same. I guess I'm asking how come the maplins own brand can do the higher rated set for the same price as the devolo? Also is 14mbps more than enough to stream FLAC/Wav files over the network? Cheers. I've been using a pair of devolos for over a year to connect a Squeezebox in a wireless deadzone (can't remember the model numbers...) They've been completely problem free and I haven't touched them since I set them up. I'm not sure what the max bandwidth is but I've been streaming Apple Lossless at approx. 1Mbps without a problem. Both adaptors are also connected into extension leads rather than directly into a wall socket. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Mac user: should I update to 6.5.4?
whitman;224608 Wrote: I'm happily running Slimserver 6.5.1 on OS-X on my iMac. I'm inclined to the 'don't mess if it's working' approach, but am also tempted to update to 6.5.4. I've never updated before: have run with 6.5.1 since the dawn of (my) time. Can some other Mac users advise me? Is it straightforward to update? Are prefs, plug-ins etc kept automatically on the new version? Is it worth it? Are grown-ups getting you down? I wouldn't bother. I'm on a Mac and was running 6.2.2 and tried 6.5.4. Bugs I raised in 6.2.2 were still there, importing from MusicIP doesn't work properly and I couldn't see any other advantages of 6.5.4 so went back to 6.2.2. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38121 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Be Careful With ITUNES7
See 'bugid 4151' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4151) and there may be some others on this issue as well. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28340 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes 7
There have been a couple of bug reports raised because of issues with Slimserver and iTunes 7 - see 'this thread.' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27503) -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27333 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Thanks QTFairUse6-2.4 - I can now play iTunes purchased music on my SB3!!!
EnochLight;137313 Wrote: I was excited to read this post and check out Beatport; it does look pretty cool. But when I went to purchase my first album in WAV, I was slapped with a $9 USD handling fee. That sucks, because I would love to be able to find a store comparable in price to iTunes but offered WAV downloads. Needless to say, I cancelled that purchase an opted for the .mp4. Yeah - the WAV pricing is crazy isn't it? For an album, the Beatport WAV handling fee on its own is often more than the cost of buying the CD! It is made even worse by the exchange conversions used for GBP and EUR which are significantly worse than the usual rip-offs we are used to getting. There are a lot of complaints about this on the Beatport forum so hopefully they will get the message soon. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27490 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes 7 (QuickTime 7.1.3) Rips Don't Play
Nostromo;137428 Wrote: I'm not sure about that, since I don't have any problem with the tracks I ripped with iTunes 7, all of them with the cover art. OTOH, the cover art never appears in Slimserver. But that's another matter. Based on my experience the problem doesn't seem to happen with all CDs. I've ripped two CDs to Apple Lossless since upgrading to iTunes 7 last week. Slimserver can play tracks with artwork ripped from one CD. However Slimserver won't play tracks with artwork ripped from the other CD - but Slimserver will play tracks ripped from this CD if they don't include artwork. I'll raise a bug report later today and include a copy of a track with and without artwork. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27503 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes 7 (QuickTime 7.1.3) Rips Don't Play
I haved raised 'Bug ID 4151' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4151) for this issue. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27503 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes 7 (QuickTime 7.1.3) Rips Don't Play
I've also come across a problem where a CD ripped to Apple Lossless by iTunes 7 won't play on Slimserver with log: ERROR: Couldn't open song System is Slimserver 6.3.1, iTunes 7, Quicktime 7.1.3 on Mac Mini G4 OSX 10.4.7. On first investigation it appeared to be related to adding cover art using iTunes. The tracks ripped by iTunes without cover art played ok on Slimserver. However when I added cover art using iTunes (manually, not using the new iTunes cover art feature) and did a clear and rescan, the tracks appeared on Slimserver but the cover art wasn't displayed and the tracks wouldn't play. Tracks without cover art with a cover.jpg file in the same directory displayed cover art and would play. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27503 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Thanks QTFairUse6-2.4 - I can now play iTunes purchased music on my SB3!!!
Nostromo;136928 Wrote: Yes, its very convenient. That's why CD's will eventually disapear and we'll buy all our music online. But like stinkingpig pointed out, there are other options out there. Beatport, for example, looks like an excellent music store for electronic music. You can download your tracks in MP3 @ 320kbps or in WAV. And no DRM. Beatport does indeed have an excellent selection of electronic music but they have totally stupid pricing for WAV files and non-US dollar purchases. For example, a particular CD is GBP 7.78 new on Amazon Marketplace including post and packing from the US to the UK. Buying the same tracks as WAVs on Beatport would cost GBP 24.97. Needless to say, I've stopped using Beatport. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27490 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Looks like Apple are joining the party
radish;135598 Wrote: I'm interested, but I'm going to hold off until someone I trust tries the gapless out. There are far too many variables for me to just take Steve's word for it ;) Well you certainly shouldn't trust me ; ) but it seems to work ok. iTunes 7 introduces a new tag for gapless tracks. I set this on a few albums and the gapless playback seemed ok. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27325 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Powerline ethernet: Macintosh? Which brand of adapter?
kmccourt Wrote: The devolo dLAN units include support for Mac OS X. See http://www.devolo.com/co_EN/produkte/dlan/index.html I'm using the devolo products with a Mac. They were easy to install and I haven't had to do anything to them since then. Both are actually plugged into 4 way extension leads rather than a plug on the wall and while I haven't measured bandwidth, I've had no problems streaming FLAC. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26446 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Experience with powerline ethernet?
Milhouse Wrote: Question from the UK: Anyone know if these powerline devices work OK when plugged into 4 or even 8-gang socket extensions? I may need to buy a pair of Powerline/Home Networking-type devices for my folks (85Mbps should do the trick) as I've just about given up trying to get decent 11g wireless coverage between ground and top floors of their house. However there's a shortage of power outlets near the ADSL router (ground floor) so the powerline device may have to go in an extension socket assuming it will fit - how big are these devices, larger than a standard UK plug? I'm using a pair of Devolo MicroLink dLAN adapters for a point-to-point link to a Squeezebox in the kitchen where wireless reception isn't great and cuts out when the microwave is on. Both of the adapters are on 4-way extension leads. I've had absolutely no problems with them and I'm streaming FLAC. I'm sure having the adapters on extension leads isn't optimal but it works fine for me. The adapters are bigger than the typical plug so I needed to juggle around other plugs to get things to fit. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26104 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: USB power: the same in England as US?
ftlight Wrote: Fifer wrote: Most sporrans are wireless now. audiofi Wrote: Except Scotland where they still rely on cave painting to communicate, I hear electricity is due up there soon* You do realise that if wasn't for that great Scot, James Clerk Maxwell, you probably wouldn't have had any power for your damned USB port ... ;) And no Internet without Kelvin's contributions to undersea cable theory and practice! -- Bill Burns Long Island NY USA http://ftldesign.com ah, but Lord Kelvin (real name William Thompson) wasn't Scottish but was from Belfast in Northern Ireland. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26220 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: USB power: the same in England as US?
ftlight Wrote: But his father had moved to Belfast from Scotland a few years before William was born. Does that make him Scottish or Irish? ... not according to 'Wikipedia' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson%2C_1st_Baron_Kelvin) (which I admit isn't always the most reliable of sources) It says (which was my understanding) that he was born in Belfast and moved to Scotland later when his father was appointed to a position at Glasgow University. From my biased perspective, he was an Ulsterman and that takes precedence over being Scottish or Irish :) -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26220 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Feature request and discussion: Flash/Ajax/... for UI
bklaas Wrote: because there's no way a squeezebox plus slimgraphicalremote would be appreciably cheaper than the Sonos solution. #!/ben These are UK prices but a minimal Sonos setup (2 x ZP80 Zone Players and a Controller - the remote) comes in at £779 while a Squeezebox is £215 so the Squeezebox is £564 or about US$1000 cheaper. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Feature request and discussion: Flash/Ajax/... for UI
ajmitchell Wrote: Mike that doesn't seem a fair Sonos comparison given that the small package you quote is *two* Zp80s giving two distinct zones out-of-the-box (albeit one wired). Thus I would say with the new Zp80s the price differential is much narrower than previously 2xZp80 + graphic controller = £779 2 Sb3s (£215) = £430 Differential = £349 (just about the cost of the fancy remote when bought seperately. For me, its a very tough choice, but I am a slim fan and prefer (slight differences in) quality over (modest differences in) image/presentation. Also Sonos will not update itunes as it plays, once it does.who knows I may change. ps. Perhaps there could be a new sub-forum specificallu for feature requests??? Fair point... however I think in the Sonos system with just one Zone Player, you must have this connected to the music source and wireless router with a wired connection, which isn't the case with the Squeezebox. In my particular setup with a computer and wireless router in one room and hifi system in another room, I'd need to have a Zone Player in the room with the computer where I don't listen to music and then have another Zone Player in the other room to listen to my hifi. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25395 ___ 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)
bmountney Wrote: I began having this same problem after upgrading to 6.3.0, and in my case it appears to be related to the data coming in from MusicIP Server, rather than from SlimServer's own scan. If I do a full rescan with Don't use MusicMagic the duplicate albums are gone. If, on the other hand, I point SlimServer's music library at an empty folder, and enable MusicMagic, I get all of the duplicates, which completely eliminates SlimServer's own scan from the experiment. So, SlimServer appears to be misinterpreting MusicMagic's data. - Bill I came across exactly the same scenario. Going back to 6.2.2 fixed the problem and no duplicates were displayed. I don't think Slimserver is misinterpreting MusicMagic's data - MusicMagic just provides a list of file paths. SlimServer still needs to go to the files and extract the tags so the problem seems to be with the interpretation of the tags. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 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: Squeezebox and Infrant ReadyNAS NV
JJZolx Wrote: Dan has said this will be doable in SlimServer 6.5, where the scanner is a program separate from SlimServer itself. If given access to the music files, the database, and the SlimServer preferences, it can run on another machine. Keep in mind, though, that the music files will have to be pulled across the network by the scanner. A scan running locally on a slower machine in which the music drives are mounted may end up being quicker due to faster file access. ..but I noticed that the Infrant supports Gigabit Ethernet, so if the PC also has GigE and you have a GigE switch, how would the network transfer times compare with an external USB or Firewire drive? (which is what I've got at the moment) Would GigE not be at least comparable? (I'm not an expert on this and I'm sure there are lots of factors that would affect performance) -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24523 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox and Infrant ReadyNAS NV
Infrant Wrote: And if anyone has any questions about our product, I would be more than happy to try and answer them. We are very excited to be working with SlimDevices and hope to make this a beneficial partnership for all of our customers. -Sam Infrant Technologies A few questions... - I've been put off NAS devices for Slimserver by the perception they tend to be a bit underpowered when it comes to things like rescanning the database and browser response. Any comments on this? How long would it take to do a rescan for, say, 10k MP3 tracks? (On this point... a question for Slim... with the 6.5 split scanner release, would it be possible to divide these tasks between processors? That is, using an ordinary PC to do rescans creating the database file when needed, but the NAS for everyday music playing) - support of Apple Lossless? - plans for support of Alien BBC? - possibility to support Music IP Mixer from predixis.com? (and if the NAS can't run Music IP, does anyone know if it is possible to query a different computer that is running Music IP?) -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24523 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox and Infrant ReadyNAS NV
Infrant Wrote: Mikerob, The re-scan performance is definitely slower, but if your music collection doesn't change a lot then the biggest hit will be the first time you set things up. For 10K tracks, we estimate it will take 2-3 hours (this is assuming pretty detailed ID3 tags). We are looking into ways to modify the re-scan procedure so that it only scans what has been changed; thereby significantly reducing the re-scan time when you add/delete music from your collection moving forward. Right now, I don't know when this will be implemented. We should support Apple Lossless today, please let me know if you have found otherwise? Alien BBC is on the To Do List, but I don't have an ETA at this time. Hadn't heard of Music IP Mixer, but I will have someone look into it. Thanks for that... I don't have an Infrant NAS at the moment but was thinking about one purely for storage so was interested about Slimserver support. On music scanning, I don't tend to find the Look for new and changed music option on Slimserver very reliable so I usually do a Clear and re-scan every time I add new music which is just about every week, and it takes 20-30 minutes for about 10k tracks using my Mac Mini. This is one of the more annoying things I find about Slimserver... I'd be interested if it was possible to do the re-scanning on a separate machine to generate the database file for those who may find 2-3 hours too painful... I've no experience with the Infrant products so didn't know if Apple Lossless was supported or not. Music IP Mixer (previously called Music Magic Mixer) seems to be pretty popular among the Slim community and I'd recommend you take a look at it to understand what it does. I use it all the time as with a large-ish collection, there is loads of music that I have forgotten about or haven't really listened to and Music IP is a great way of automatically generating playlists to reveal music that I may have passed over. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Music IP analysis function is far too heavy duty for a NAS but similar to the re-scan question, maybe there is a way of using a Music IP database file that has been generated using another PC. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24523 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] BBC multicast trial
fyi in the UK the BBC and ITV are doing a multicast trial where certain BBC and ITV TV and radio stations are being streamed over the internet. Access is meant to be restricted only to the UK AND is available only through certain ISPs, but Slim gurus in the UK may be interested in looking at this to see if there could be good integration between this trial and Slim. TV is being streamed in Real, Windows and H264 and radio in Real and AAC. Details at www.bbc.co.uk/multicast This is a trial and I know that a number of ISPs haven't got it working properly yet... -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23827 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: mac mini Squeezebox?
davidcotton Wrote: Had a quick look through the forums and used search but couldn't find an appropriate thread. Curious about the possibility of using a mac mini as a server to play back through a wired squeezebox and wondered what I would need. Basically I have about a hundred or so audio storys and about a hundred or so music cds that I would like to back up to harddrive and use squeezebox to play back so I can box the cds up and put them in a box in the loft out the way. I had been contemplating using a setup using a shuttle size case with a 300 gig hd and using squeezebox. Only problem with that scenario is the size and noise of the shuttle box, small though it is. This would be for a bedroom and so would have to be as quiet as possible. Also size of the mini mac would be an advantage as well. Would 80 gig be enough for say 200 or so cds? How easy would it be to set it up? What I want is to have it as :- Mac mini (plus usb hard drive if size isnt enough?) connected to wired squeezebox 3, which in turn is plugged into an m-audio 2496 dac connected to a marantz 66 KI Signature amplifer and Mission 780 speakers. In a bedroom without any other pc present. I'd use the existing monitor and keyboard to set everything up, then move the mac/sb3 into another room and use it there. Would this be doable and how much would I be looking at to set it up? Also using macs would I be limited to Itunes to manage cds or would there be other programs I could use (I know nothing about macs). Cheers... I use a Mac Mini + external 320G LaCie drive for Slimserver and it works great - I have 3 SBs in other rooms with 2 connected wirelessly and 1 wired. I used iTunes to rip my CDs to Apple Lossless. I use a wireless router for connectivity between the Mac Mini and SBs and the router assigns IP addresses to each device using DHCP. If you want to connect the SB directly to the Mac Mini, I think you will need to configure IP addresses manually - however it makes sense for the Mac to be connected to a router with internet connectivity as you will need this when ripping CDs - unless you want to type in all of the CD track information manually. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22172 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Playing songs purchased from iTunes Store
Philip Bouscarle Wrote: It's not just iTunes now though. I recently bought Beth Orton's new album, Comfort of Strangers on CD. This is protected by IFPI and will only play on a computer through its own programme. You can burn a backup disc but that is still protected and it will not import into iTunes. As far as I can tell, there is no way to get it into Slimserver. (Anyone know different?) So I had to cough up another $2 to download a copy from allofmp3 that I can use on the SB and my iPod. Just makes me want to bang all their heads together! Philip I recently bought this CD (from amazon.co.uk) and didn't have any problems ripping it (using iTunes on Mac OSX 10.4) + playing on my SB. Maybe the protection is region and/or OS specific? -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22072 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: OT: Slim's HQ in Google Earth?
stinkingpig Wrote: Interesting... using the address, Google Earth/Maps is about three houses off when looking at my house too. Makes ya wonder. -- They have also shifted the Greenwich meridian... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/06/greenwich_meridian/ -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20827 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Windows to Linux to Mac...
I use a Mac Mini as a dedicated music server for my Squeezeboxes and have had no issues with it (other than the usual set of bugs you get when trying out the nightly releases...) You don't need to do any other configuration to install and run Slimserver. There are a couple of Mac specific points you should be aware of. Slimserver doesn't support yet Mac aliases but you can create symbolic links to do the same thing using the terminal interface (see FAQ for details) Also, there are limited options for encoding and tagging FLAC files on OSX. I've played around with the few applications available but I don't think any of them yet have the functionality and usability of iTunes. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20679 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes and DRM
kdf Wrote: In summary, look for info from Apple, becuase unless they are willing to license it, no *hardware* outside of apple producst will support it. -kdf The Motorola ROKR (aka CROKR) mobile phone does support DRM protected iTunes Music Store tracks (www.apple.com/uk/itunes/mobile/faq/) but Motorola appear to be the only company to date that Apple has done a licensing deal with. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20083 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Special characters (accents, etc)
I've had an accented character in a track title crash Slimserver a while back when using 6.1 nightlies (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709) and the points I noticed were: - the crash happened when playing the track on a SB1 but not a SB2 - I had ripped the track using iTunes. The offending character was an e acute however if I manually replaced this with an e, or manually replaced it with an e acute using the Mac keyboard, then the crash didn't happen. - I had other tracks with an e acute and other accented characters that didn't crash I know very little about this subject, but can only surmise that maybe iTunes downloaded tag data where an e acute was encoded in a particular form that the Mac could display OK, but a SB1 couldn't handle. That would imply that the encoding of an e acute for that particular track in CDDB or where ever iTunes gets its info from was different from the encoding if you enter that character directly using the Mac keyboard. Rather than replace the accented character with an unaccented one, you could try to replace accented character with the same character using whatever the keyboard command is for the accented character. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18985 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Special characters (accents, etc)
Michaelwagner Wrote: Mikerob: If I remember your problem correctly (and I'm thinking of the right one), it was a crash during playing (actually probably displaying) the song with the odd character in it. And it was some problem with looking up the right character to output to the screen. That's correct - the song started to play. The SB display size and track title and artist length were such that the accented character wasn't displayed on the SB initially. Then when the SB display scrolled to show the complete track title, when it reached the accented character, it repeated itself so the display was filled with the same character. The track stopped playing after a time - I assume when the SB buffer emptied after Slimserver stopped. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18985 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Browse Artwork issues
I've raised this bug http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2682 for issues displaying artwork in 6.2.1 however for me it is with Mac OSX and ALAC/AAC files so may not be the same as the problem you are reporting. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19218 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Native AAC Support
Although I understand that non-DRM AAC isn't proprietary - it is defined as part of the MPEG-4 standards. That's not to say there isn't licensing issues with AAC (just as there is with MP3 - hence LAME) - but Roku and lots of other applications have implemented AAC. My Sony Ericsson mobile phone plays AAC tracks as ringtones without a problem. I'm sure it is a priority call by Slimdevices - while AAC may not be a proprietary technology, I'm sure there are lots of other things that are higher priority than native AAC on the Squeezebox given there already is a workable solution based on server transcoding. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19155 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Purchased iTunes music not visible?
neilcoburn Wrote: Thanks for the tip re JHymn, though the website says it doesn't work with music purchased using iTunes 6.0 onwards (and you now have to use 6.0 to buy stuff) If you have already bought music using iTunes 6 then iTMS won't let you buy music with an earlier version of iTunes. However you can set up a new iTunes account (and all the details can be the same except for the userid), buy music using iTunes 5 or earlier, then use JHymn. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18803 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is this possible?
Jim Larson Wrote: I've finally got my SB2 working ( sounding) great now. What I'd like to do next is to sync the music playing on the SB2 with iTunes (or MusicMatch) running on the same PC as slimserver. Then turn on the G-force visualization, run a cable to my big-screen Sony TV, turn down the lights, pour up a big glass of Cabernet, and ... instant disco/nightclub with synchronized lighting! Obstacles: 1. I've read here that it is only possible to sync the hardware SB's or SoftSqueeze. I don't see any sync option yet with just iTunes playing the slimserver stream. 2. Even if I could sync my SB2 with a software player supporting PC-based visualizations, there is still the short buffer delay (5-10 seconds?) Anyone here tried something like this yet? Watching the screensaver visualizations on the squeezebox display is still pretty cool, but watching an in-sync g-force visualization on a big screen TV would be amazing. Jim A very cool idea. As you say, it doesn't seem possible to synchronise the SB or SoftSqueeze with a slimserver stream to make use of an iTunes visualiser. To achieve something similar, I synchronised my SB2 with SoftSqueeze, then using Nicecast, I broadcast the SoftSqueeze audio from a URL. I was then able to point iTunes at the URL and use the iTunes visualisers. I then connected my PowerBook to the TV. There is a delay of a second or so between the audio from iTunes and audio on the SB2 but the visualisers are so abstract that I didn't think this really matters. (I obviously muted the audio from the PowerBook and TV when listening to the SB2) I think there is a PC application similar to Nicecast which allows you to broadcast audio from a URL but I can't remember what it is called. One problem with this method is that because I am using Nicecast to broadcast the audio, you don't get the track information. I think a better solution would be some sort of integration between SoftSqueeze and a visualiser like G-Force. I see that G-Force already supports integration with a number of players such as iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, J River, Foobar and others - I'll post a note on the 3rd party plug-ins forum to see if anyone knows if work would be required on G-Force, SoftSqueeze or both. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18360 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slow searches in 6.2.1
There seems to be a distinct slow down of web browser searches on my system since going to 6.2.1. It takes between 25-30 seconds to return a search result for a 4-5 character phrase and can take as long as 45-60 seconds. My collection is 4500 tracks with a mixture of AAC, ALAC and MP3. System is Mac Mini 1.42GHz 1GB RAM running OSX 10.4.3. I don't use iTunes or many other 3rd party plug-ins (except Music Magic Mixer but this doesn't make any difference) Safari and Firefox both give similar search times. I get these search times with no music playing and the Mac Activity Monitor doesn't show anything unusual - perl ticking along at less than 5% CPU. In Home / Server Settings / Performance I have Database Temporary File Tuning (SQLite) set to Use RAM as temporary storage and Database Cache Size Tuning (SQLite) set to 30. Searching used to be a lot faster in previous releases - what times are other people getting with 6.2.1? What debug options would be best to collect during a search to see what is happening? -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18286 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slow searches in 6.2.1
Cheers Dan - I've got some d_sql traces and I'll put them in a bug report (unless I hear that searches of 30-60 seconds are to be expected!) -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18286 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slow searches in 6.2.1
Hmmm... very strange - I restarted the Mac and the search results are now virtually immediate. I'll raise a bug with d_sql info if it happens again. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18286 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slow searches in 6.2.1
mikerob Wrote: Hmmm... very strange - I restarted the Mac and the search results are now virtually immediate. I'll raise a bug with d_sql info if it happens again. The problem seems to be time related (memory leak?). After my Mac had been left on for a few hours, the searches take at least 25-30 secs again but go back to virtually immediate after a restart. Have raised bugid 2591. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18286 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slow searches in 6.2.1
Dan Sully Wrote: * mikerob shaped the electrons to say... [color=blue] How much memory is SlimServer taking after it starts exhibiting slow searches? Will email you with after it has been on for a few hours Dan. Unfortunately I didn't check before the last restart. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18286 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Who is the UK distributer for SB3?
Patrick Dixon Wrote: Thanks. Interesting - you seem to imply that Audio T already do Roku then? I suppose I should get out more! Audio T do list Roku together with about 100 other hifi brands on the Brands Stocked page on their website. I'm not sure this means much - their branches don't stock all of the brands listed and even when they are meant to stock a brand, any time I have called their London branch, they've never had the items I've asked about in stock - I always found Sevenoaks much better. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18207 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB 3 UK Distribution problems??
Geoggy Wrote: Hi - can i ask what is hapenning with SB3 shipments to UK suppliers? Its now the 16th November and most of the major re -sellers have no stock or are awaiting stock. In fact i can't find a black wireless SB3 model in stock anywhere! How long do us guys across the pond have to wait to get our hands on this item?? Yours impatiently!! Geoggy Get to the back of the queue! I pre-ordered mine 3 weeks ago... -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18241 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB 3 UK Distribution problems??
NigelC Wrote: I had a quick look at www.dabs.com yesterday afternoon, and saw they had a white wireless unit in stock, so I ordered it , and its here already! I'll be setting it up tonight. Maybe I was very lucky, but Dabs have done well Nigel The white SB3s shipped before the black ones. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18241 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Who is the UK distributer for SB3?
Khuli Wrote: Ah.. the official distributor is Ingram Micro, but I daresay they will refer you to a reseller. http://www.slimdevices.com/au_resellerinfo.html The link above has two distributors for the UK - Ingram Micro and Progressive AV. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18207 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Places to buy lossless tunes?
bludragon Wrote: Are there any sites that sell popular music (i.e. anything I might find at cdwow.com) in a lossless format that can be converted to flac without losing any bits (i.e. doesn't include some limiting DRM). Maybe not to your musical taste, but www.stompy.com sells tracks in wav format. Stompy is an online boutique specializing in Downloadable House Music. We bring you the chunkiest front edge deep underground house SINGLES that yearn to be played -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18214 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: any messages for auntie (BBC)?
radish Wrote: I found the podcasts useless, I couldn't find a single XML feed with all of them listed, you have to go to seperate pages for each show to see if it has a podcast. All the BBC podcasts are listed at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/subscribe.shtml Some feedback from my perspective. Firstly, I listen to BBC podcasts every day during my commute on the tube and would listen to more if they were available - for example the BBC R4 comedy shows. Secondly, as mentioned by others, why do they do podcasts in an open format (mp3) while streaming uses a closed format and proprietary player? -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18096 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Need Australian female voice talent
Have you tried Nicole Kidman? I hear she is between projects. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18104 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Phones that don't interfere with wireless networking
Digital Cordless (DECT) phones available in the UK use a dedicated frequency of 1900MHz therefore don't interfere with 802.11b/g wireless networking that uses 2.4GHz. The 2.4GHZ band is unlicensed and therefore by definition any device can use this frequency so I suppose you could get a phone using 2.4GHz that has been imported from the US but I can't say I've ever seen them. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18065 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: iTunes radio stations
I successfully added a number of iTunes radio stations to Slimserver playlists yesterday. I did this indirectly by finding out the radio stations source from iTunes (e.g. http://www.di.fm/) then went to the source site where in most cases you could download a .pls file with the radio station details then copied the .pls file to Slimserver Playlist directory to listen to the station. -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17927 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Accents on Exbrowse3
Exbrowse3 doesn't seem to display track/artist/album names with accents properly (see attached screenshot) The problem happens on both Safari and Firefox. I'll raise a bug report, but is there any particular debug information that would be useful? (6.2.1 11-05 nightly Mac Mini OSX 10.4.3) +---+ |Filename: Accents Exbrowse3 Safari Screenshot.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=474| +---+ -- mikerob mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17945 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2
Well, I saw the SB3 at the Mac Expo show in London today and I have got to say when you actually see it in real life, it definitely looks better than the SB2 (in my opinion). While the SB3 design is understated, I thought it made more of a visual impact than the SB2 which looks more and more like a clock radio every time I look at it after having seen the SB3. A friend and I both put in an order for a black SB3 at the show! -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is it me or is the web interface getting slower on every new release?
slimserversql.db file emailed to you Dan -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is it me or is the web interface getting slower on every new release?
meyergru Wrote:
A temporary fix would be to edit %SLIMSERVER%/Slim/Web/Pages.pm at line
188-190 where it says:
$params-{'song_count'} = _lcPlural($ds-count('track',
$find), 'SONG', 'SONGS');
$params-{'artist_count'} = _lcPlural($ds-count('contributor',
$find), 'ARTIST', 'ARTISTS');
$params-{'album_count'} = _lcPlural($ds-count('album',
$find), 'ALBUM', 'ALBUMS');
Change those three lines to read:
$params-{'song_count'} = 0;
$params-{'artist_count'} = 0;
$params-{'album_count'} = 0;
By doing this, you lose the statistics on the start page but web access
is just as fast as before 6.2.
I tried this and the browser navigation is virtually immediate compared
to 10-15 seconds previously. A great improvement over the original 6.2.
Would be great to get this speed + the album/artist/track counts...
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[slim] Re: Is it me or is the web interface getting slower on every new release?
Just to echo others' comments, I've seen an massive slow-down in browser response with 6.2. It is taking 10-15 seconds to navigate between browser pages and the search function is taking 30-40 seconds to return results. I'm running OSX 10.4.2 on a 1.42 GHz Mac Mini / 1G RAM - the Mac is only used for Slimserver - I've got 400 albums / 4400 tracks so not a large collection compared to some. I run Music Magic Mixer but don't use iTunes or other third party plug-ins. Both Safari and Firefox seem equally slow. I'm using the Default skin. The Mac CPU doesn't seem to be maxing out - when doing a search or moving between browser page the perl process seems to tick away at around 10% CPU I ran a lot of the 6.2 nightlies and don't remember the browser response being this slow before - in particular seach used to be really quick. What debug information would be useful to find out what is going on? -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Squeezebox in the UK
I see you will be at MacExpo in London this weekend - will it be possible to buy a Squeezebox 3 at the show or is still too early for this? Will any of the guys from Slimservices be at the show or is it your UK distributor? cheers, -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Squeezebox in the UK
seanadams Wrote: Patrick will be there. Please do stop by if you can. QUOTE] Will do - I had planned to go on Saturday as the show isn't far from where I live. -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Tracks featuring other artists
Howie - that title only has a pres. and a feat. - I managed to find a couple with a a vs. and a pres. -Jay-J Chris Lum vs. DJ Chus pres. The Groove Foundation I put everything in the ARTIST tag... -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: UK Publicity: Squeezebox2 on The Gadget Show CH5
Who does this sort of stuff cater for? The Great British Public, or 6% of it, which is C5's share of UK terrestrial broadcasts. Older episodes of The Gadget Show are also continually rotated on, Bravo, (I think) which is on Sky Cable so the piece on the Squeezebox will be seen on UK TV for the next year or so. From a Slim Devices perspective, I would have thought any publicity (and the piece certainly wasn't negative) is good publicity. -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: UK Publicity: Squeezebox2 on The Gadget Show CH5
I thought that the Squeezebox came quite well out of the feature. A 2 minute piece on primetime TV covering 4 different products for streaming music is not going to provide a detailed analysis of any of them, but from the perspective of the general public, I would think Squeezebox had the least worst of the disadvantages given for each product (iTrip : illegal in UK, Airport Express : need to go back to computer to change tracks, Squeezebox : doesn't play tracks with iTunes DRM, Sonos : v. expensive) OK, they didn't mention that Sonos doesn't play iTunes tracks with DRM either but I think the price quoted for Sonos (starting at GBP1400 for 3 rooms...) would be enough to put off the average viewer - particularly when they would be more likely to earmark the family budget for the HDTV kit shown on the first feature in the program... The viewing figures for the show should be on www.barb.co.uk in a couple of weeks. -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally
For dance music check out www.stompy.com WAV and mp3 downloads, however downloading WAV files takes forever... -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Songs show in search, but not in Browse artist
Have the missing albums been filed under Various Artists? Recent functionality in the 6.2 release means that Slimserver will do this if the compilation tag is set - I don't know if this is also in 6.1.1. -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums?
The majority of my collection are mix CDs that I also rip to individual tracks. I would listen to some mixes from beginning to end but despite the best intentions of the DJ, many mixes can get a bit samey after a while and have tracks that I would consider bad or indifferent in addition to the good ones. I do therefore listen to a lot of random playlists generated by Music Magic Mixer. Yes, the transition between tracks is never seamless and some selections are a bit weird or don't work however it is a good way of revealing some tracks you may have passed over and it sometimes comes up with some really, really good combinations that has me scrambling to my computer to make sure I note them down. -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox/Slim Server Mismatch
Does the artist title contain accented characters? I raised bug http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877 for a problem where I was getting certain artist names duplicated (+ another issue which is different) Tracks from the same artist were from different sources and it appears some tags were encoded differently. A fix has just gone in for the bug and I'll be trying it out tonight. -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem with Accented Characters
I had exactly the same problem and raised bug http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709 I tried the 2005-07-07 nightly yesterday and this seems to have fixed the problem with the exception of one particular album title which is still garbled on SB and browser. I will investigate this further. -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Accented characters become garbled in SlimServer
I installed the 24-Jun 6.1 nightly and it looks like the fix for this issue is broken - tracks, artists and albums with accents in their titles appear twice in listings. One record is garbled (accents don't display properly) and has the mm icon next to it and the other record is displayed correctly but doesn't have the mm icon. This doesn't appear to be the only issue with accents which has reoccurred. I raised bug report 1709 yesterday (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709) for another issue with the latest 6.1 nightly where tracks with accents in their title crash the Slimserver and a very similar issue was reported and fixed back in April (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=1746highlight=accent) -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Continuing problems with 6.1
I have same problem with 6.1 on OSX 10.4. After a number of hours when my Mac isn't being used (e.g. overnight or when I'm at work), Slimserver becomes inaccessible through the web browser and needs to be stopped and restarted. What debug information could I collect? -- mikerob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
