[slim] Re: New user alert!
A quick question for OSX iTunes users. I went back into SlimServer this morning only to find all my music had disappeared. All my iTunes settings had vanished. The only thing I had done was install the LastFM and SlimScrobbler plugins and then re-cycled the server. After this re-cycle, I got the "Your music contains 0 artists" type of message. The iTunes settings on the config page seemed to have been wiped. Most odd. So I clicked the 'Use iTunes' button again, and re-cycled, still nothing. Then changed the rescan option to "Clear library and rescan everything". Hit rescan, still nothing. The only thing that seems to have got my music back was entering the path to my iTunes Library xml file in the appropriate box. My library's on the same machine as the server, does anyone know why SlimServer wasn't able to pick up all this info automatically (like it did when I first booted it up)?? -- GeeZa GeeZa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24020 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New user alert!
Alright, I'm officially gob-smacked by the software and the Nokia skin. Just got all my music scanned and have been playing around for the last hour or so. Wow. The box hasn't even arrived yet! Eeeek. -- GeeZa GeeZa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24020 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New user alert!
GeeZa Wrote: > On the DRM'd AAC front I was thinking of either setting up an Audio > Hijack session or (as someone else told me) doing the convert in > iMovie. I have quite a few files so I really want to try and automate > it, it's a difficult one really. That'll teach me to upgrade. If I > settle on a quick and decent solution I'll be sure to post it here. Just have a look at tunebite Premium (www.tunebite.de). You need a Windows-PC for it. -- can't post can't post's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3552 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24020 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New user alert!
Many thanks for the responses guys, very helpful information all round. :-) I will most certainly be trying out the Nokia skin tonight, looking forward to it. Also quite pleased to know I can continue using iTunes to manage my songs, that's quite a bonus. I'm guessing the server simply refreshes it's catalogue each time you add new songs? Looks like my Powerbook will host the server, although thinking about it my PC gets far less use so I may use that instead. Hmmm. On the DRM'd AAC front I was thinking of either setting up an Audio Hijack session or (as someone else told me) doing the convert in iMovie. I have quite a few files so I really want to try and automate it, it's a difficult one really. That'll teach me to upgrade. If I settle on a quick and decent solution I'll be sure to post it here. -- GeeZa GeeZa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24020 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New user alert!
> Actually one question I do have is what people have found the best > method for re-ripping protected AAC files? What a lot of people do is use iTunes to burn CDs of the DRM'd songs, and then rip those CDs to a lossless format like Apple Lossless or FLAC. Of course, you don't gain back what was lost in the initial lossy compression to AAC, but at least you don't lose anything more. If, by chance, you've never upgraded to iTunes 6.x you could alternatively use jhymn to strip the protection from the AAC files. http://www.hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/ If you have a lot of protected tunes and don't want to waste a lot of CDs in that intermediate step there might be a way to do it all on your hard disk, but I don't know it. The big constraint seems to be that iTunes is the only software that can play those files, and the only non-CD-burning conversion option it offers is MP3. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24020 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New user alert!
hi GeeZa-- I'm the Nokia770 skin guy, so I'll answer to that and let others talk about the rest... You'll need Slimserver 6.5 for the Nokia770 interface. Pick up the latest nightly build of it from here-- http://slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.5/ You might as well do it now...it's free! And you can stream directly to your 770 before your squeezebox even arrives: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimserverAndNokia770 also, subscribe to the rather ginormous Nokia770 thread here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19369 that thread has become the de facto standard for announcing changes and enhancements to the skin. Also, remember that you can access *all* slimserver skins simply by fully qualifying them. This way you can use Nokia770 on your 770 and a different skin, e.g. KDF's excellent Fishbone, on a laptop or PC. http://localhost:9000/Nokia770/ http://localhost:9000/Fishbone/ good luck with your new toy! #!/ben -- bklaas bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24020 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
