[slim] Re: SHN Help Please
I was having the exact same problem (click on the "play" or song link, and it immediately stops) with both FLAC and shorten. I got FLAC working, but I have been unable to get SHN files working. I've tried both renaming Shortn32.exe to "shorten.exe" & copying that file and Shrtn32.dll to my slimserver/bin/windows... path, and I've tried the same with the cygwin 3.6.0 version of shorten (as well as copying in the cygwin1.dll file), as instructed here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?Shorten Both methods have yielded nothing for me. Can this be done? And which checkboxes should I have checked in my server settings under File Types? If I check SHN/wav, SHN/flac, and SHN/mp3, will it conver to all 3 and let my client player (iTunes in this case) decide? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- tfish77 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: NEW iTunes Playlists Not Appearing
...but sadly, I have no solution to offer. I too have read many posts about *no* playlists appearing, but I've been able to get all my existing playlists on the SB and they play just fine. However, even when I've set the "rescan iTunes library" interval to 30 seconds, forced library rescans, just playlist rescans, etc. I can't get the SB to see newly added iTunes playlists. This is a bummer. Anyone out there have an answer? -- tfish77 ---- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18589 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: NEW iTunes Playlists Not Appearing
Well, I tried again with setting the iTunes library update to a small number, like 30 seconds. After I did that (don't know why this didn't work the first time), there was a period of choppiness on the SB, and I knew something was happening back at the server. Well, a few minutes later the sound smoothed out, and my new playlists had appeared! Amazing. I'm not sure why the "Rescan Playlists Only" option didn't do it, but at least it worksfor now... -- tfish77 -------- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18589 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SHN Help Please
tasty Wrote: > i'm on the same boat, tried a million executable + config combinations . > . . i vote for removing the wiki and conf entries until there is at > least basic support for shorten -- "Shorten support is available for > the Windows version of slimserver" is misleading. this was a selling > point for me. Yeah, I'm also in the same leaky boat. I love the living crap out of my SB3, but damn I wish it could play SHN. It's bad enough that the music library scan finds the SHN files then won't play them - what a tease! Slimdevices...Please help! -- tfish77 ---- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=4299 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How I got SlimServer v6.2.1 working with MySQL
> Mr Nõu wrote: > Incorrect interger value: '' for column 'year' > Scanning doesn't pick up anything that doesn't have a year assigned. > > I am having the exact same problem. Running MySQL 5 on Windows and after jumping through many, many hoops to make Slimserver connect to it properly, I am now presented with this problem. Should I set the default value of that column to 0? Would that help or make things worse? -- tfish77 ---- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20397 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Fewer albums in Slimserver 6.5?
Last night I upgraded from 6.2 to 6.5b, and did a rescan. Now that the scan is complete, Slimserver's telling me I have about 50 fewer total albums than it used to. I don't know if any music is actually missing (haven't found anything missing yet) or if the way it classifies something as an "album" has changed. Has anyone else experienced this? -- tfish77 ---- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21951 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Fewer albums in Slimserver 6.5?
I am using iTunes, but so far everything I've looked for (whether it be a song in my iTunes library or an iTunes playlist) has appeared. And I cheked on a couple artists with non-English characters and they also appeared fine. I wish I knew what was missing, but since the number went from 1706 to 1653 it would probably take me a few days to track down every album. -- tfish77 tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21951 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Android app to stream stream.mp3
Hello, I've tried DroidLive and it no longer seems to support the Squeeze stream. I tried "A Online Radio" and it didn't work either. Just tried StreamFurious, and it looks like you need the Pro version to add a custom URL - before I spend $ on it, does anyone know if it will actually successfully stream from Squeeze? Thanks in advance... I tried for years (truly) to stream Squeeze to my Blackberry, and I hoped that with an Android phone I might finally be able to do this. -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com ---- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78493 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!
erland;566383 Wrote: > > 1. How do you find music in your own library ? > -Most of the time, I use the My Music -> New Music link. I frequently add new albums to my collection, and I like to have an easy way to access the latest music I've added. When I do a search, I tend to just type into the search box. -If I'm at work, I will use the web interface or Moose (depending on how tight the network settings are at the office I'm in). At home I tend to use Moose or one of the Android-based Squeeze interfaces to control the SB. -I do use automated mixes - I use the MusicIP plugin. Unfortunately, development on MusicIP stopped a year or so ago, but the plugin still works fine and I use it to generate a mix based on a track/artist/album. That's one of my favorite uses for my SB. I think MusicIP doubled the usefulness of the SB for me - I make mixes based on it all the time, it's like having my own Pandora/Slacker/Last.FM radio right on my computer. erland;566383 Wrote: > > 2. How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently > don't have in your library ? > -Can't remember the last time I heard something new on the radio, unless it was being showcased on NPR. -I read music blogs like Pitchfork, get recommendations from my older brother (who is a new music junkie), check out the Hype Machine once in a while, and frequently ask my friends what they're listening to these days. -Tend to do all my searching for new tunes via my computer. Yes, I preview before purchasing (on my computer speakers). -I have an eMusic subscription, and use that to preview/buy most of my music. erland;566383 Wrote: > > 3. How would you like to be able to find music in your own library in > the future ? > -I would absolutely love to have a service like MusicIP, but with a real development team behind it, that can scan my music for similarities and make recommendations/mixes based on attributes of a selected track/collection of tracks/artist/album/genre/ -Once in a while I browse by genre (mostly around December when I want to find my "holiday music" tag. Sometimes I will combine that with another genre tag, so a multiple-genre browse would be nice. erland;566383 Wrote: > > 4. How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the > future ? > -I don't really see the need to purchase through the SB as a priority. erland;566383 Wrote: > > 5. What kind of tagging/management do you do on new music you add to > your library to make it easier to find stuff later on ? > - Which additional tags do you add which isn't handled by standard SBS > today ? > - Is the folder structure the music files are stored in important ? > - If you use Custom Scan, which additional tags do you add besides > those supported by SBS ? > - Do you manually add ratings to your music ? Why ? > -I use my folder structure to separate FLAC and MP3s. -I don't usually add additional tags, but I always set title, artist, album, date. -I sometimes rate songs, but I almost never remember to go back and make a playlist of highly-rated songs (though I would like to do this if it were easier to rate while playing). erland;566383 Wrote: > > 6. Do you synchronize the data in SBS with some other application to > make it easier to find interesting music ? > -I use the Last.FM plugin to report all playback to my last.fm profile, then I use that to analyze my listening. I would also love to be able to integrate with my MP3 player (Sansa Sandisk). Thanks, Erland! -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Poll: What is your library size and hardware
5003 albums with 41168 songs by 1574 artists. SYSTEM: Dell XPS 410 2 GB RAM Intel Core Duo 2 @ 2.13 GHZ STORAGE: Readynas NV 4 500GB Seagate ST3500641AS HDDs X-RAID -- tfish77 tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] remote access to my library?
Hi, this blog post I wrote a while back might be helpful for you - it covers remote streaming, ports, and some other configuration options that might be helpful. http://wiredformusic.blogspot.com/2008/05/squeezing-most-out-of-your-squeezebox.html Enjoy! -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75558 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver/Softsqueeze and FLAC files
Mark, Thanks for the info about Bitrate limiting. Fixed my "playing my FLAC at work" problem perfectly! :) -- tfish77 -------- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23557 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver/Softsqueeze and FLAC files
I don't quite understand the difference between LAME quality and bitrate - which one affects audio quality more? I'm trying to find the "sweet spot" between the 2 that allows for skip-free tunes that still sound good. Thanks again for the advice. -- tfish77 ---- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23557 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Playlist proplem with Music Magic Mixer from MusicIP
Man, I would have spent hours trying to figure this out on my own. Thanks for the great information! -- tfish77 tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24442 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Playlist proplem with Music Magic Mixer from MusicIP
Now that I have MusicIP set up to use the UNC path instead of a drive name, it gets paste Stage 1 of the analysis just fine, but it freezes up on stage 2 (the actual analyzing). Did you have this problem as well? -- tfish77 tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24442 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Trouble with MusicIP
alter_sack, if I'd just read your message before I spent hours trying to get MusicIP to run as a service on my own...I didn't realize the new version comes with such an easy way to do it! Thanks for the post. -- tfish77 -------- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24457 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] MusicIP & 7.1 automatic re-scans
I am having a strange issue with MusicIP & SS 7.1: some songs/albums/artists that are mixable in the Music IP Mixer application, and that are mixable via a direct browser call to the API are not showing as mixable in SlimServer. I have SlimServer set to run a library rescan every night, and I have MusicIP enabled. I also have a path set for the music library, since the path scan will pick up some files that MusicIP just never recognizes for some reason. I have the MusicIP reload interval set to 0, since when it was set higher SS was initiating rescans all the time, seemingly at random (i.e. when it appeared that the MusicIP library hadn't changed), and setting this to 0 stopped that problem. In previous versions of SS, this setup worked fine - when the nightly rescan was triggered, it did a MusicIP import as well as a directory scan. But now, it appears that tracks I've added recently to MusicIP are not getting picked up as MusicIP-mixable tracks in SS, which implies to me that the MusicIP import is not running when the automat re-scan occurs. What is the best way to test this theory? And has anyone else had this issue? Thanks in advance for the help. -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com -------- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] MusicIP & 7.1 automatic re-scans
Thanks, Brian. I actually have a nightly task that runs on my computer and adds all newly added files to my MusicIP library before the scheduled SlimServer automatic rescan. I can see these tracks in MusicIP, and I can generate a mix using the MusicIP API in the web interface, but it seems that SlimServer doesn't know the tracks are mixable - I don't get an empty mix, rather I get no "m" icon at all. -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com ---- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] MusicIP & 7.1 automatic re-scans
I just set my MusicIP reload interval to 1, and it immediately kicked off a re-scan, here's the results: Code: Directory Scan (3 of 3) Complete 01:17:03 Playlist Scan (24 of 24) Complete 00:01:50 Merge Various Artists (6262 of 6262) Complete 00:01:53 Database Cleanup #1 (60989 of 60989) Complete 00:13:27 Database Cleanup #2 Complete 00:01:08 Database Optimize Complete 00:03:17 SqueezeCenter has finished scanning your music collection. 01:38:38 As you can see, the MusicIP import never happened. Is this a bug in 7.1? I couldn't find any reference to it in bugzilla, but I'm not sure if I should add it - I can't tell if it's a bug or if my settings need to be changed. -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com ---- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] MusicIP & 7.1 automatic re-scans
Exactly, the MIP import seems to be getting skipped entirely. The tracks that are mixable were already marked as mixable before I upgraded to 7.1 (but I don't know for sure if 7.1 is the issue). I can make mixes from these songs in MusicIP itself, so I think this must be a SS issue. Off to file a bug... -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] MusicIP & 7.1 automatic re-scans
Haven't tried a full clear and rescan yet; I hate doing that so I'm holding that out as an absolute last resort (since it takes approximately forever). -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com -------- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Easy, stable SC client for Mac?
My wife recently got a Macbook and I'm trying to help her access my SC music library. On her old Windows laptop, I had Moose set up with SqueezeSlave, which worked great. I've tried installing SqueezePlay on her Mac, but I don't think it's quite ready for prime-time. I'm looking for something that's as easy to use as Moose is for Windows - she's pretty computer-savvy, but has a very low tolerance for things that "aren't as easy to use as iTunes" in her words. My own hatred of iTunes aside, can anyone recommend a good solution? Thank you! -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com -------- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63119 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Easy, stable SC client for Mac?
Thanks for replying, Ben. The issue there is that the web interface launches SoftSqueeze, which is a little too confusing for her - I don't mean to say that she's dumb, far from it, but it's more that unless you're already pretty familiar with how the hardware SB works (which she isn't - I am definitely the primary user), the software version is not very intuitive. I guess "intuitive" is a key word here. Thanks! -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com -------- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63119 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Easy, stable SC client for Mac?
@davep: thanks for the idea! I didn't realize SqueezeSlave could run as a "service" (not sure if that's the right term for a Mac) on a Mac - but that sounds like a pretty good solution. The web interface isn't perfect, but I think it might do the trick. Thank you! @cunobelinus: thanks, but in this case she's actually using the Mac as the client, there's no iPod in the house! -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com -------- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63119 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Easy, stable SC client for Mac?
Hi everybody, Thank you all for your responses - very helpful. I've been experimenting with "headless" Squeezeslave (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezeSlave#Mac_OS_X_installation) and it's working off & on. Squeezeplay would really be ideal but at the moment it's only working in 1 Mac profile and not the other (I've filed a bug about this but haven't heard back yet). Anyway, just wanted to say thanks. -- tfish77 Jordan Hirsch Technical Project Manager Content Management Expert http://jordan.teamhirsch.com -------- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63119 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How do you use your Squeezebox/Transporter?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36061 Question: When you listen to music, do you connect to Slim Server or SqueezeNetwork? - a) 100% of the time to Slimserver (on computer or NAS drive) - b) 75% of the time on Slimserver / 25% on SqueezeNetwork - c) 50% of the time on Slimserver / 50% on SqueezeNetwork - d) 25% of the time on Slimserver / 75% on SqueezeNetwork - e) 100 % of the time on SqueezeNetwork I guess I'm in the "a" group, thought that may change soon since I'm about to sign up for the 30-day free Rhapsody trial. That could change things for me a bit, but overall I definitely spend the vast majority of my listening time streaming from the PC. -- tfish77 ---- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36061 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How do I clear log.txt?
I'm sure this is a silly question, but I can't find the answer in the forums or the wiki. I am running SlimServer on a Windows XP box, and I want to clear out the log.txt file. I am not specifying a specific filename when I start SS, I am just using the default. I can browse to http://localhost:9000/log.txt, and I see some entries in there. I'd like to clear that file out to do some testing without re-starting my SlimServer and specifying a new file name for the log file. Is this possible? I have searched my entire box for log.txt and slimserver.log but haven't found either. Thank you! -- tfish77 ---- tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36692 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
