Re: [slim] 7.3.3 bugs galore
What the heck packages am I using?! I think I got confused cause the milestone for one of the bugs I submitted was set to 7.3.3. Weird. Okay, I'm running 7.3.1. $ dpkg -l | grep squeezecenter ii squeezecenter 7.3.1 Streaming Audio Server How embarrassing. It's still buggy as all get-out though. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58295 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.3.3 bugs galore
Phil Leigh;385112 Wrote: Can I suggest you do a complete uninstall, cache deletes etc reboot and then install from scratch? I'm gonna assume that on Debian this means a purge and reinstall. Ugh. Maybe on the weekend, though I got it sort of working again after killing a few processes and restarting the server. Platform is Debian etch on a 600MHz VIA C3 (x86 chip) with 224MB of RAM. A bit poky at times, but has been a good workhorse with earlier versions, though I tend to use the 'light' skin when possible. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58295 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 7.3.3 bugs galore
Is it just me or is 7.3.3 and to a lesser extent 7.3.x in general full of bugs? Since upgrading, I've had a YAML-related crash that stopped squeezecenter from starting; another crash that did the same (unexplained) and caused my settings to be forgotten; Softsqueeze is mostly broken in that fast forward and pause don't work most of the time, even when I skip songs in Squeezecenter (I've had to switch to streaming to VLC); and the UI on my hardware Squeezebox occasionally becomes totally unresponsive for half a minute, when this issue had been largely corrected in previous versions. Is Logitech guiding the development of this software, or what is going on? Squeezecenter had been steadily improving until 7.3.2 - 7.3.3. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58295 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.3.3 bugs galore
My hardware player is a Squeezebox2, but other than the UI freezing temporarily it's working fine. SqueezeCenter just locked up for a while and forgot all my settings again. Sigh. I'm going to purge it tonight or tomorrow and reinstall from the Debian packages. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58295 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.3.3 bugs galore
Ben Sandee;385209 Wrote: I've been following testing for a long time and it just works. I noticed you gave machine specs in another message -- I think you should be OK with your RAM but you might consider upgrading. On my lenny box SC + mysql use ~100mb. I'll have to see if 7.3.2 requires that I upgrade Debian as well. Since this box is my primary file server and Bittorrent machine I have to be conservative with it. Squeezecenter + Transmission + samba and a few scripts actually seem to push the machine only about 20MB into swap and there's not a lot of paging, it's not too bad. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58295 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Softsqueeze 3.7 Ogg + network latency issues
I have a couple questions about Softsqueeze 3.7. 1. does it natively support Ogg as a streamed format? I'm curious because I'm having bandwidth issues between my remote Softsqueeze instance and my server at home, and I was wondering if I could transcode down to 128-160Kbps Ogg on the fly to reduce bandwidth needs. Ogg sounds MUCH better than MP3 at low bitrates, so I'd prefer to use it if possible. (Also the CPU in my server is pretty ancient, so I usually have to tell it to use faster/worse algorithms for live transcoding.) 2. I'm wondering if there's any possibility of a setting for Softsqueeze where it could grab as much of the file it's playing as possible ahead of time instead of doing continuous buffering of a couple seconds. My issues are with intermittent latency spikes, so if the app could start buffering the entire file this would greatly reduce skipping as long as my average throughput was still higher than the file's bitrate. 2.5 When I increase the size of Softsqueeze's buffer, it becomes obvious that the spectrum analyzer output is displaying what Softsqueeze is currently receiving over the network, NOT what it is currently outputting over the computer's sound system. 3. When network latency gets bad, often the UI on the Softsqueeze will get severely out of sync to the point where I have to quit the application and restart it because it will not recover. I will hit the pause button and the sound stops, but the spectrum analyzer will keep playing and Squeezecenter may think that the player is not paused. Clearly there are messages getting lost or discarded and Softsqueeze+Squeezecenter are not recovering from this. Also, sometimes the web interface in Squeezecenter fails to update when I try to control the player using it, and the player won't respond. Any suggestions or tips on these issues, and/or suggestions to file bug reports would be appreciated. I'm running Softsqueeze 3.7 on OS X and Squeezecenter 7.2 on Debian etch. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54349 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] iTunes playlists are empty
I just upgraded to SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 running on my custom built NAS box where all my music lives. The NAS box runs Debian and I use iTunes to organize my music on my MacBook and keep ratings, smart playlists, etc. I just moved the iTunes Library XML file to the NAS box and got it (sort of) working in iTunes so that I can use it with SqueezeCenter. I imported the iTunes Library XML file into SqueezeCenter and told it that the iTunes library directory is the same as the directory where the music lives on the NAS box (it's actually not, I don't let iTunes manage any of my music on disk). Now I can see my iTunes playlists in SqueezeCenter but when I play them, nothing happens. When I press the 'add' button, nothing gets added, etc. Within the iTunes XML file itself, the Location tags for the files look like this: Code: file://localhost/Volumes/media/music/adult%20contemporary,%20softer%20rock,%20etc/albums/Tracy%20Chapman%20-%20Tracy%20Chapman/Tracy%20Chapman%20-%20Tracy%20Chapman%20-%2001%20-%20Talkin'%20Bout%20A%20Revolution.mp3 However, that's from the point of view of my MacBook, which mounts the NAS box in /Volumes/media. From SqueezeCenter's point of view on the NAS box, the music is all in /shares/media. I suspect that might be the problem here and I'm kind of surprised that path translation isn't working. Or maybe it's just not obvious to me what to do in this case. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49532 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC7 - Itunes- Playlists
I tried this and SqueezeCenter can't even find my music when I only use iTunes and blank the path to my music in the basic settings (and tell it to clear and rescan my library). It finds 8 songs out of 3500. Music lives on my NAS box. SqueezeCenter lives on my NAS box. iTunes Library.xml lives on my NAS box and I use it remotely in iTunes on my Mac. However, the MP3 files are in a hierarchy of my own devising and I do NOT let iTunes manage my collection. From the Mac, music files are present under /Volumes/media/music, and this path is reflected in the iTunes Library.xml file. From the NAS (where SqueezeCenter is running), music files are present under /shares/media/music. I find it especially weird that SqueezeCenter manages to find 8 files out of about 3500 in the iTunes Library. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45198 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iTunes playlists are empty
After searching further on here and Google, I did the following: 1. Blanked the music folder in basic settings, so as to only get music info from the iTunes Library.xml file (this is not optimal for me but I'm doing it for troubleshooting) 2. Told SqueezeCenter my iTunes music folder was /shares/media, then when that didn't work, told it /shares/media/music 3. Told SqueezeCenter to clear and rescan completely. It's finding 8 files out of about 3500 in the iTunes playlist. This is extremely weird. Why would it find 8 files and not all the rest? Also, the logs contain nothing helpful. I really want to use my smart playlists in SC. Also, I don't organize my 'new' music (stuff I haven't listened to, tagged or checked for corruption) in iTunes but I want it available in SC, so the ideal solution would be to use BOTH my iTunes Library AND separately scan music in /shares/media/music/new. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49532 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iTunes playlists are empty
If you are affected by this issue, please go vote for this bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369 I originally opened it in 2005. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49532 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver 6.5 MySQL Requirement - Bad!
Andrew L. Weekes;144247 Wrote: I beg to differ. On my Slimserver box, which is a lowly PIII 600, the performance improvement from migrating the database to MySQL was DRAMATIC. Despite the extra processes, memory etc, it was a very obvious improvement in speed of response. That was under SS 6.3, so the only variable was the database itself, the SS code was unchanged. Funny, I came here to make a post asking if there's any way to improve performance on low-end machines. Hitting play on a directory with a few hundred files in it (say I want to listen to a shuffle of all my alternative music, or whatever) is absolutely glacial on my even more lowly 600MHz VIA Eden CPU (vaguely comparable to a 350MHz original Celeron, or so I've heard). The Squeezebox freezes hard for like 15 seconds until SlimServer can get itself together to build the playlist and start servicing UI requests again. I really hope future releases will address low-end performance, as I suspect that a fair portion of users are running SlimServer on NAS type boxes that aren't exactly powerhouses. And those users tend to be the type that submit bug reports and patches and get things improved, I'd wager. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver 6.5 MySQL Requirement - Bad!
Jack Coates;145137 Wrote: Honestly, I doubt that a modern machine would have issues running it, even with WoW going too :) Now if you're using a four or five year old computer as your main desktop, that's another matter. Quite a few people don't WANT to have to dedicate a modern machine to SlimServer. They want it running on a NAS-type machine. I've got a 600MHz VIA C3 with 120MB available physical RAM that I use for NAS. Since I'm using it to store all my music and other files, since it's on 24/7 and since it does nothing else, it's the only logical choice to run SlimServer. I know very well what old and slow machines are capable of, and you'd be surprised. SlimServer should not be as sluggish as it currently is on this machine. Some of what people have said above seems to indicate that MySQL will lead to a performance increase on this machine. If so, that's great. Perl itself might be the next culprit to look at -- and why the heck SlimServer is chewing up SO much RAM. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: announce list
Thanks. Oddly, I'm already subscribed but I seem to have missed some announcements. -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28510 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] announce list
Is there a low-volume announce list or RSS feed for SlimServer? -- neurophyre neurophyre's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1758 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28510 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Lower default bitrate limit for internet streaming?
Make a BugZilla account and vote for the bug. -- neurophyre ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Lower default bitrate limit for internet streaming?
gorstk Wrote: If you are using a player such as winamp, media player or itunes to conenct to http://serverip:9000/stream.mp3 try usingl: http://serverip:9000/stream.mp3?bitrate=128 or replace 128 with which ever bitrate you want to use. That's very helpful. Is there a similar way to set the qval so that it doesn't default to 9 (fast and poor quality)? -- neurophyre ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
