Re: [slim] Harmony Remote and Power Cycling SB3
Any experts able to parse this to give me some suggestions on what to do next? -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42834 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Harmony Remote and Power Cycling SB3
8:35.3498 irCode: pause, 00:04:20:06:38:d8 2008-01-29 19:28:35.3502 IR: irCode not defined: pause 2008-01-29 19:28:35.3502 IR: trying to execute button: [pause] 2008-01-29 19:28:35.3505 IR: executing button: pause 2008-01-29 19:28:36.0641 IR: 768940bf -> code: power 2008-01-29 19:28:36.0642 IR: 768940bf 821913.62 1201663716.06421 2008-01-29 19:28:36.0643 IR: found button power for 768940bf 2008-01-29 19:28:36.0644 IR: found function power_toggle for button power in mode common from map Default.map 2008-01-29 19:28:36.0644 IR: irCode = [power_toggle] timer = [821913.62] timediff = [0.97100019558] last = [pause] 2008-01-29 19:28:36.0645 irCode: power_toggle, 00:04:20:06:38:d8 2008-01-29 19:28:36.0648 IR: irCode not defined: power_toggle 2008-01-29 19:28:36.0648 IR: trying to execute button: [power_toggle] 2008-01-29 19:28:36.0651 IR: executing button: power_toggle 2008-01-29 19:28:36.3205 IR: found button power for 768940bf 2008-01-29 19:28:36.3207 IR: irCode not defined: power.single -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42834 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Harmony Remote and Power Cycling SB3
It works fine when I use the power button on the SB remote. That was what led me to believe it's a Harmony issue. >From a symptom point of view, it's almost like the Harmony is sending a "Play - Power Off" sequence when powering off and a "Power On - Play" sequence when powering on. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42834 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Harmony Remote and Power Cycling SB3
I have a Harmony 659 which works fine controlling my SB with one exception. My SB is configured to "Pause on power off/Remain Paused at Power On". However when I use the Harmony to turn the system off, I can see that it is sending some command to restart playing right before powering down. When I power on, it always starts playing again. I tried manually learning the Power Toggle command from the SB remote but that didn't have any effect. I also tried configuring the SB for "Stop on power off/Remained Stopped at Power On" but have the same results. The 659 is somewhat less flexible in terms of configuration options than other Harmony remotes; there isn't a lot of option for tweaking basic on/off commands. I'd like to fix this since it's a bit annoying to always have music coming on the minute I turn on the system. Any tips or pointers welcomed. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42834 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Crossfade problems with 6.5.2?
Looks like rescanning the library fixed the problem. I was able to re-enable the plug-ins and still have everything work properly. It's odd that I had to do a complete rescan when I upgraded to 6.5.1 to solve some problems and now a complete rescan when moving to 6.5.2 to fix this. In any case, problem solved and thanks for the help. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36199 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Crossfade problems with 6.5.2?
Thanks. Last night I cleared and rescanned my library, and also disabled the plug-ins. I'll report back on whether that fixes the problem. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36199 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Crossfade problems with 6.5.2?
I do have the iTunes update plug-in installed. It's possible that I didn't have iTunes running when I hit this problem. Let me try that...OK just tried it but no luck. I ensured I have iTunes running. I played one song and noticed that the display on the SB3 froze with 11 seconds left to play on the song. The song completed and then there was about 14 seconds of silence. The next song started and the display came back to life. I thought this might have been a one-time thing so I tried it again, and exactly the same sequence happened. This is new since 6.5.2; I had the iTunes updater running since 6.5.1 with no obvious issues. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36199 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Crossfade problems with 6.5.2?
I had been having a problem with 6.5.1 that several other people on the forums had commented on - the last fraction of a second of all songs being cut off. I was anxious to upgrade to 6.5.2 since I had heard that the problem was resolved there. Now I have the opposite problem - there is a long pause between songs, as though Fade Out was select. I have checked the Crossfade settings to ensure they're off. I even tried turning turning them on, then exiting, then turning them off, etc. Configuring the device locally rather than from the PC had the same results. Any suggestions on resolving this? Listening to the 2nd side of Abbey Road is now impossible since there's about a 5-10 second delay between the tracks which are supposed to be contiguous... TIA -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36199 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: End of song is cut off
I am having the same problem with the last quarter of a second or so of all songs being cut off. I initially upgraded to a nightly image in order to use the iTunes update plug-in and that's when I noticed the problem. I thought it might be the iTunes update plug-in but disabling it and rebooting didn't make any difference; I still hear the end of each song being clipped. I already had an email thread going with Daniel in the support team; I have pointed him to this thread and hope he'll file a bug or tell me if it's a known issue. I'll update this thread when I hear from him. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32135 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Gaps between songs in 6.5.1
I recently upgraded to 6.5.1 (nightly build) to be able to use the iTunes update plug-in. Since the upgrade, I've noticed that songs seems to start with no gap between them which I don't think was the case on the official 6.5.0. I've confirmed that my Crossfade settings haven't changed and I can't find any other config setting to adjust this inter-song gap. Is this a change in 6.5.1 and if so is there a way to configure a gap between songs? -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31433 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums
Just to close this thread out, I got some nice support from Daniel at slimdevices. He confirmed that some sample files where I was having this problem were in fact OK and should not be split across albums. A complete uninstall and reinstall of SlimServer fixed the problem. Thanks for the help along the way. I know a lot more about tags now than I did before ;-) -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Long delay before music plays with SB3
jimdibb Wrote: > This part of the problem cannot be a transcoding problem, unless he > means > that while a song is already playing it take 30-40 seconds. If it > takes > that long without music, something else must be wrong. Maybe the HD is > set > to spin-down if the system is idle. > > My laptop server under linux seems to be initially sluggish when I go > to do > the 'first' thing as well. > > On 8/10/06, oriordan forums.slimdevices.com> > wrote: > > > > > > Here are some numbers I measured last night: > > >From Browse Albums, I push Right Arrow. It takes about 30-40 > seconds > > for the 1st album to display. > > > > To answer the first point, the 30 - 40 second delay on selecting "Browse Albums" is with nothing happening; no music playing, etc. I assume it's the time it takes to get the entire library loaded. My laptop is configured to not spin down the HD and while I have several windows open (Outlook, IE, Excel, etc.), there aren't any other heavy duty applications actively running at the time. You are right that it's nothing to do with transcoding at this point since nothing is playing. As a side experiment, if I launch Slimserver on my PC, and click on "Browse Albums", it takes about 15 seconds for the library to appear. The second delay (from "play" to music actually starting) may be attributable to transcoding. Since I'm not an expert in this area (can you tell?) can someone suggest how I'd convert an album to a lossless format so I can see if that makes a difference? -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26243 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Long delay before music plays with SB3
Here are some numbers I measured last night: >From Browse Albums, I push Right Arrow. It takes about 30-40 seconds for the 1st album to display. >From the time I select a song to the time it starts playing takes about 20 seconds for the first song after turning SB3 on. There is no delay when it goes to play the next song. I suspect this is the time it takes to load mov123.exe and lame.ext If I select a different song entirely, it takes about 8-10 seconds. Do these numbers seem reasonable? If my theory about loading the transcoder programs is correct, is there a way to pre-start them so that delay can be removed? -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26243 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Long delay before music plays with SB3
Yes, 512MB. I guess it would defnitely explain slowness if it werw 512KB ;-) I have downloaded LAME using pointer on the WIKI, selected WAV PCM (which requires LAME)file format and reinstalled Quick Time. I'll try all these changes tonight and report back. Thanks for all the suggestions thus far. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26243 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums
Yes, I'm using iTunes integration. YOu are right that it can cause Dups but I am not dealing with Dups here. The Dups that iTunes typically causes are songs being repeated (i.e. 20 songs showing up in an album that has 10 tracks). What I have is songs from a single CD being split into 2 different albums by Slimserver, without any duplication. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Long delay before music plays with SB3
Thanks for the responses. Answers to both threads: The system has 512K of memory. There's between 50K and 100K free in the steady-state. It's hard for me to gauge CPU utilization right when this is happening since the SB3 is in another room. The files were all imported using iTunes with a .M4A filetype. mp3tag tells me they're all in MPEG-4 AAC format. How can I tell if I'm transcoding or not? -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26243 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Long delay before music plays with SB3
I'm having performance issues when using SB3 to the point that my wife wants to throw the thing away. Menus to navigate (e.g. Browse Music -> Browse Albums) are very sluggish. Worse, it can take easily 60 seconds from the time I select a song to the time it actually starts playing. It gets to the point where we're not sure if the box is actually responding or not, and definitely far too long when our 4-year old wants to hear her favourite song right now... Once I select an album and it starts playing, there are no break-ups, clicks, pops, or delays; it moves smoothly from one track to the next. But stopping an album and choosing something else puts me back in the same mode, though definitely not as slow as on the initial selection). I have an IBM T42 Thinkpad running Win XP; connectivity is via a wired ethernet. I am running 6.3 on the SB3. My library has about 500 albums and 6000 tracks so it's reasonably large. Things seem to have gotten worse recently. I assume all the delays are on the PC side. Any suggestions on fixes, or where to look for the source of the long delays? -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26243 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums
Thanks for this suggestion. Now I'm really stumped :-( I did what you said and mp3tag seems to show that they're all identical. For example, Slim split Abbey Road into 2 Albums, one with the first 4 songs below and one with the last 13. Here's the exported Tag data from mp3tag for the entire album. (I added Tag as the 3rd entry below per your suggestion): The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Come Together - 1 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Something - 2 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Maxwell's Silver Hammer - 3 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Oh! Darling - 4 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Octopus's Garden - 5 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - I Want You (She's So Heavy) - 6 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Here Comes The Sun - 7 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Because - 8 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - You Never Give Me Your Money - 9 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Sun King - 10 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Mean Mr. Mustard - 11 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Polythene Pam - 12 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - 13 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Golden Slumbers - 14 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Carry That Weight - 15 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - The End - 16 - 1969 - Rock - The Beatles - Abbey Road - MP4 - Her Majesty - 17 - 1969 - Rock - -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums
I downloaded mp3tag but it didn't show any obvious differences between the tracks grouped as one album and the tracks grouped as a separate one. I also am not running MusicMagic. I've noticed that it's typically the last track on the album that's split off by itself, but I did check that the TOTALTRACKS count is correct. I was going to copy and paste the tag info into this thread but I don't think mp3tag lets me do it. Any other suggestions? -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums
Thanks for the suggestions. I did check to ensure there weren't any extra spaces or the like before my original post. Can you point me to an MP3 tag editor? This is not something I'm familiar with. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums
I have about 500 Albumes in my iTunes Library. After tidying it up, I cleared the Slim library and rescanned the entire iTunes library. I now have several cases of a single CD being split into 2 different albums by Slim. I've checked both iTunes and the actual directory (e.g. ...\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\The Beatles\) to confirm that the entire CD is in fact contained as a single entry in iTunes. Any suggestions on how to get Slim to collapse these back into a single album entry? It's annoying to hear only half an album when you put it on... TIA Peter -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Deleting songs from library?
I am an iTunes user. I would like to be able to exclude songs that Squeezebox can't play (e.g. songs I bought from the iTunes store). I'd also like to be able to delete some of the playlists that I have in iTunes. I don't want to uncheck them in iTunes because then they won't get sync'd to my iPod. Is there a way to edit my Slim music library, or does it always include everything it finds? Apologies if this is has already been covered. I couldn't find it in a quick search of the forums. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20662 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
