[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
I have been testing various ways of getting my OLD laptop (166Mhz 80Mb RAM Toshiba 305CDS) to run as a music player from a remote slimserver. This is where I am at: I have an XP machine running Slimserver - no probs. I have a DSL Linux running on the laptop. I can play stuff well using XMMS and a browser - the only exception being the BBC streams from AlienBBC (incidentally I still dont really understand why these wont play if they are being encoded to MP3 at the server end?). I cannot use Softsqueeze with either the GUI or Headless as the machine grinds to a slow but sure halt - CPU 100% (have tried various combinations of jLayer, MP3 Plugin and buffer sizes). Frustratingly I can get snippets of BBC Radio using this method which tells me that Im close...I have pretty much given up here though as I think the machine just doesnt have the guts to run Java. Now along comes SqueezeSlave which I have been testing over the last few days - playing MP3's from my collection is VERY responsive compared to any other method (CPU - 30%) so far although occasionally I do seem to loose the connection or Squeezeslave stops running. Encouragingly I have also played some non-BBC stations from AlienBBC although I do get encode errors showing in the terminal. Suppose I just wanted to encourage the development of this great app and let you know that for some of us it may be our only hope! :~) If there is any constructive feedback I can supply please let me know, bearing in mind that I am pretty new to Linux and the SS world Thanks -- cookeal cookeal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3582 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
First thanks for a great bit of software. I am running squeezeslave on gentoo linux, it correctly detects two soundcards, but I cannot find a way of forcing which card is selected. I would like to run 2 copies of squeezeslave on one machine, one for each soundcard (they feed different rooms), so I have the option of different or synced music between the rooms, and a squeezebox. Is this possible? Also are there any plans for ALSA device support? Thanks, Graham -- f948lan f948lan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3961 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
f948lan wrote: First thanks for a great bit of software. Thanks. I am running squeezeslave on gentoo linux, it correctly detects two soundcards, but I cannot find a way of forcing which card is selected. ... Is this possible? Not at the moment, but I will be adding this as an option soon. Also are there any plans for ALSA device support? I don't have any plans to add this myself. I think that the latest version of the PortAudio library (that's used for audio playback in squeezeslave) supports ALSA playback. This version of the library has been in development for years, and I have not tried it yet! I would be interested in patches ... Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
rtitmuss Wrote: On 11 Feb 2006, at 15:18: Can you try running with 'squeezeslave --debug slimproto slimserverip', and then post the output. Here's the output: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\TheoC:\Documents and Settings\Theo\Desktop\SqueezeSl ave.lnk --mac 00:09:5b:95:7c:42 192.168.100.5 --debug slimproto C:\Documents and Settings\TheoFound 4 devices Primary Sound Driver : : 2 SoundMAX Digital Audio : : 2 Primary Sound Capture Driver : 11025.00 22050.00 44100.00 : 2 SoundMAX Digital Audio : 11025.00 22050.00 44100.00 : 2 slimproto_connect(192.168.100.5, 3483) PortAudio on DirectSound - Latency = 5376 frames, 121 msec Connected to 192.168.100.5 slimproto_send: cmd=HELO len=10 slimproto_recv cmd=vers len=9 Cannot parse vers slimproto_recv cmd=grfb len=6 Cannot parse grfb slimproto_recv cmd=grfe len=1120 Cannot parse grfe slimproto_recv cmd=visu len=50 Cannot parse visu slimproto_recv cmd=audg len=22 Cannot parse audg slimproto_recv cmd=grfe len=1120 Cannot parse grfe [Above line Repeats infinitely] rtitmuss Wrote: On 11 Feb 2006, at 15:18: OT: Anyone have any way to diagnose the softsqueeze problem? I can't seem to get anything useful to show in the console. I was able to get one version of softsqueeze to generate an error.log file. In that file it had a NullPointerException relating to UDP. This is all on a XP system that uses a content filtering mechanism called ContentProtect. Could you post the exact error? It may be that ContentProtect is not allowing Softsqueeze/squeezeslave to communicate with the slimserver? Richard Here's the error: Exception in thread SlimUDP-0 java.lang.NullPointerException at com.slim.softsqueeze.Protocol$UdpSocket.run(Protocol.java:525) Richard: My desire is really to get Softsqueeze working again as this is my son's computer. I have tried disabling the Content Protect application, but it has no effect. Softsqueeze UI comes up but it never gets to Welcome to Slimserver and the Remote Buttons are unresponsive. However, the web interface will display (although it won't show softsqueeze as a player) and the options windows/tabs will show up as well, but I can't find any options that will make this work. I very much appreciate your help. *Bradley -- Bradley Bradley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
Richard: I did figure out a way to get Softsqueeze working on the above mentioned machine. It apparently was the ContentProtect content filtering mechanism that was causing the problem. However, fixing it required downloading the Windows exe version of Softqueeze 2.3 and then entering softsqueeze.exe as an application override entry in ContentProtect in order to get Softsqueeze to get past the above mentioned error. Now Softsqueeze is working on that PC so, I can avoid using SqueezeSlave. Nonetheless, hope the above debug information is helpful in the evolution of your software. *Bradley -- Bradley Bradley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
On 11 Feb 2006, at 15:18, Bradley wrote: I'm able to get music started with it, but then it doesn't respond to any commands from the player's web page once it gets started. Can you try running with 'squeezeslave --debug slimproto slimserverip', and then post the output. OT: Anyone have any way to diagnose the softsqueeze problem? I can't seem to get anything useful to show in the console. I was able to get one version of softsqueeze to generate an error.log file. In that file it had a NullPointerException relating to UDP. This is all on a XP system that uses a content filtering mechanism called ContentProtect. Could you post the exact error? It may be that ContentProtect is not allowing Softsqueeze/squeezeslave to communicate with the slimserver? Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
On 8 Feb 2006, at 01:14, mash wrote: Now I want it for my AXIM PPC (please) Patches welcome ;) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
On 7 Feb 2006, at 17:07, Dave2 wrote: My wired and wireless Squeezeboxes are working. But from Squeezeslave I'm getting fluttery/motorboat sound. What music format are you streaming? I know of a bug for mono mp3 streams, they don't play correctly. Could you send me a track that does not work, I'd like to understand if it's the decoder or the audio output that's going wrong here. Thanks, Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
On 7 Feb 2006, at 00:15, tfec wrote: What do you mean it does not yet support direct streaming (e.g. internet radio)? With Slimserver it plays all radioio and shoutcast stations. Direct streaming is used by the squeezenetwork, so I suppose I really mean that the squeezenetwork is not yet supported. Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
rtitmuss Wrote: On 7 Feb 2006, at 00:15, tfec wrote: What do you mean it does not yet support direct streaming (e.g. internet radio)? With Slimserver it plays all radioio and shoutcast stations. Direct streaming is used by the squeezenetwork, so I suppose I really mean that the squeezenetwork is not yet supported. Richard And, squeezeslave is starving after some minutes playing radioio. Also it doesn't work with the LastFM plugin. Everytime I change the LastFM station, I have to restart squeezeslave on my debian slimserver machine. But, I think you are working on all this shortcomings, cause squeezeslave will make the slimserver into a fantastic music server, even without a squeezebox. :-) -- tfec Gruss, TISI entweder man lebt, oder man ist konsequent. -(erich kästner)- tfec's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
I tried this as an alternative to Softsqueeze on a machine where softsqueeze stopped working properly (UI comes up but stays dark - it doesn't communicate with Slimserver). I'm able to get music started with it, but then it doesn't respond to any commands from the player's web page once it gets started. I know this is an early version, so just wanted to give feedback. I'm not seeing the CPU gains another user describes. Mine is at 100% while this is running. OT: Anyone have any way to diagnose the softsqueeze problem? I can't seem to get anything useful to show in the console. I was able to get one version of softsqueeze to generate an error.log file. In that file it had a NullPointerException relating to UDP. This is all on a XP system that uses a content filtering mechanism called ContentProtect. *Bradley -- Bradley Bradley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
My wired and wireless Squeezeboxes are working. But from Squeezeslave I'm getting fluttery/motorboat sound. ... 0.4.1-win32squeezeslave.exe 127.0.0.1 Found 6 devices Primary Sound Driver : : 2 Playback through TotalRecorder (emulated) : : 2 SB Live! Wave Device : : 2 Primary Sound Capture Driver : : 2 Record through TotalRecorder (emulated) : : 2 SB Live! Wave Device : 11025.00 22050.00 44100.00 : 2 PortAudio on DirectSound - Latency = 5376 frames, 121 msec Any suggestions? Thanks. Dave2 -- Dave2 Dave2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1556 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
tried squeezeslave for the first time today - I LOVE IT appreciate the small footprint, no hissing on my XP system. Now I want it for my AXIM PPC (please) M -- mash mash's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=354 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
Great work Richard! I've been using squeezeslave since I first ported it to linux after the first release. The ability to sync multiple squeezeslaves is my favourite feature. I've been running my SB3 wired v29 sync'd with two squeezeslave clients almost every day for the last two weeks and it's been flawless. Both slaves run ArchLinux. For one I'm using an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 440cdt 133Mhz Pentium MMX with 48MB of memory, the other on my P4 2.4GHz Dell machine. The laptop never misses a beat. I've used FLAC and mp3 files served with slimserver 6.2.1 without a hitch. While playing either of these file formats the laptop CPU utilization never peaks above 62% and all the clients stay close enough in sync that as I move from one room to another there is no noticeable diffence in playback position of the song. Ralphy. -- ralphy ralphy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3484 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
Mark Lanctot Wrote: One thing I notice is that SlimServer cannot differentiate Squeezeslaves running on different machines. There's only one SlimServer player entry for Squeezeslave and it reuses the one I specified for my main PC. I assume this is due to the program's early development, but it will become an issue once its use is extended to multiple machines.You need to use the --mac option to set player mac address. It does not autodetect and set the mac address of the local NIC like softsqueeze does. I'm sure that it will at some point, but for now you can set it from the command line just like you do to specify the SlimServer IP. --Tom Malsbury -- malsbury malsbury's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
Aha - that makes sense. Thanks Tom. malsbury wrote: Mark Lanctot Wrote: One thing I notice is that SlimServer cannot differentiate Squeezeslaves running on different machines. There's only one SlimServer player entry for Squeezeslave and it reuses the one I specified for my main PC. I assume this is due to the program's early development, but it will become an issue once its use is extended to multiple machines.You need to use the --mac option to set player mac address. It does not autodetect and set the mac address of the local NIC like softsqueeze does. I'm sure that it will at some point, but for now you can set it from the command line just like you do to specify the SlimServer IP. --Tom Malsbury -- ___ Mark Lanctot ___ __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
Ahh that's better, no hiss. Having problems with synchronisation today, it is coming up with Slimproto_send: Error sending cmd: Unkown error Was working fine yesterday though. -- mattybain After intensive investigation (comma) of the markings on the alien pod (comma) it has become clear (comma) to me (comma) that we are dealing (comma) with a species of awesome intellect (colon). Good. Perhaps they might be able to give you a hand with your punctuation. - Rimmer and Holly mattybain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
Hissing doesn't seem any better for MP3's on 0.4 compared to 0.3. 0.4 also complains that pthreadGC2.dll is missing, copying it from 0.3 gets it to work. This is on Windows XP SP2. Good work though, I am very impressed with the synchronisation. -- mattybain After intensive investigation (comma) of the markings on the alien pod (comma) it has become clear (comma) to me (comma) that we are dealing (comma) with a species of awesome intellect (colon). Good. Perhaps they might be able to give you a hand with your punctuation. - Rimmer and Holly mattybain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
Is anyone able to download the OS X version. It appears to start and then I get the following message: You are requesting file: /softsqueeze/squeezeslave-0.4-osx.zip There was a problem downloading the file from sourceforge.irlab.pnap.net. Please try a different mirror. Pat On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:31 AM, mattybain wrote: For me that links to 0.3, 0.4 is linked from here. http://tinyurl.com/b8tpu -- mattybain After intensive investigation (comma) of the markings on the alien pod (comma) it has become clear (comma) to me (comma) that we are dealing (comma) with a species of awesome intellect (colon). Good. Perhaps they might be able to give you a hand with your punctuation. - Rimmer and Holly -- -- mattybain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php? userid=44 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Announce: squeezeslave 0.4
Great to hear that the hissing problem is solved. I wanted to try this out, this time on my laptop. But something strange happened - Squeezeslave only runs for a second or so, just long enough for me to see the screen, then quits. There's nothing unusual about the laptop. It plays a SlimServer stream through foobar2000 just fine. It's WinXP Pro SP1. Pentium M 1.5 GHz, 512 MB of RAM. Anything to look for? I have a sneaking suspicion it's ZoneAlarm Pro. The first time I ran it, the screen remained open until I ackowledged ZA that it had permission. As soon as I did that, the Squeezeslave screen disappears and won't stay on for more than a second after that. But if I remove Squeezeslave from ZA's list, it runs just long enough for ZA to ask permission again, then quits. --- rtitmuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK that's what happens when you rush things. I've editied the url in the first post, and also release 0.4.1 for Windows and Linux (I missed the little endian case for the hissing fix). -- rtitmuss rtitmuss's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
