[SlimDevices: Touch] Will this setup work?
I have had incredible issues with my Touch when my external hard drive is directly connected to the Touch. My Touch is hard-wired to my internet. Last night, I attached my hard drive to my laptop and ran the server through my laptop (wireless). Worked beautifully. Squeezeplay worked beautifully as well. But I don't want a hard drive connected to my laptop, so here's what I'd like to do: Connect my hard drive to my old desktop (bought in 2003). Run the Squeezebox Server off of my desktop. I'm confident that my Touch will work well. But here's the thing I want to be able to do. I want to be able to control the Touch remotely using my laptop (and Squeezeplay). Will that work? I'm wondering if Squeezeplay only works on a computer that is also running the Squeezebox server. Thank you. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80544 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] artwork problems
ratso;546888 Wrote: yeah, frustrating isn't it? i should note that the 900 something songs with incorrect tags was actually the TAGS not the art that needed fixing. luckily most of them were missing artist name or album name so i could correct them an album at a time. still took a whole night though. not exactly how it's supposed to work. i switched back to squeezebox from sonos, for the better sound quality. it's a hell of a toss up - do you want a player that sounds good or one that works right? cuz it doesn't seem anyone offers both... I've decided, for the time being, to just live with the incredible slowness of it all. Once it pulls up an album and starts playing, I don't have any problems. And I've decided to live with the fact that when I hit song B on album B, it'll play song c, thereby requiring me to pull up the playlist and select song A. I'm hoping that playlists work well. Otherwise, the thing is going to be pretty worthless for parties. Another thing is that I've been incredibly disappointed with logitech's customer support. The last 4 people I have spoken with have very, very limited knowledge about their own product. And Tier 2 support is nonexistent. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78538 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] artwork problems
ratso;545578 Wrote: yeah so now i want to throw the damn thing out the window. manually redoing the artwork on 20 or so covers was just a minor PITA. but as i was going through it, looked in the no album listing and found i have 946 songs with incorrect tags. and that's just with about a third of my collection scanned. this is flipping ridiculous and i am getting sorry quick that i bought this. i am supposed to manually fiddle with the tags on literally THOUSANDS of songs? on tags that are showing as absolutely fine on subsonic. I used mediamonkey to fix the tags of songs. You can do them album at a time. In other words, you can select all the songs on the album and then tag them with the album art all at the same time. Unfortunately for me, I have about 1100 albums to go. For the time being, I've given up on album art. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78538 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Experiencing Touch for a couple of days
c3p0;542867 Wrote: I am running a touch feed by ethernet via a vortexbox and controlled by ipeng iPod app and loving it. I bought it purely for the hi Rez capability, don't use its touch screen or it's server. Sound quality is superb ( feeding coax to mf v-dac). I think that this is one of the most cost effective ways into hi Rez music. Don't give up on the touch yet, it's early days and as we know from the other squeezebox products the software is improving with each release. Are the issues with staying connected to an external hard drive by USB and issues many seem to be having with processing/scanning large amounts of music something that can be fixed with a software upgrade? I thought that these might be hardware limitations. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78211 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] A few questions before buying the Touch
There was talk earlier in this thread about large collections and how they perform on the Touch. What is considered to be a large collection? I have about 23,000 songs (600 GB) on an external HD connected via USB to the Touch. It'll take at least 40 seconds to get a song selected to play. Once it plays, there are no problems as it moves through the album. If I try to select a song from a different album, while a song is playing, then it either slows down and I get a message saying the Touch is trying to connect to the USB or it pulls up the album after about 40 seconds or so. I have no idea why this is happening. The scan was completed without any interruptions. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78141 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Rescan SBS from Touch Interface
I think you can do this one of a few ways. 1. Factor reset through the Touch menu. First, properly eject the USB. Then, go Settings --- Advance --- Restore Factory Settings. Once it boots up again, then attached the drive. 2. Do the same as above, but after ejecting the USB, then hit the factory reset button above the power plug in. 3. And option, this is what I think you're going for: Settings --- Advance --- Squeezebox Server --- Stop Squeezebox Server. then go back through the same way and start the Squeezebox Server. It'll give you a Wipe and Rescan option. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78177 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] WD Elements 1TB - Any good with Touch?
KJAM;540967 Wrote: Ferdie...I am using a 1TB WD Elements with my Touch. It does indeed spin down and go into stand-by mode when the Touch is not active...and then spins back up when I wake up the Touch. I am having some trouble with the Touch not being able to connect to the drive from time to time, but I'm not convinced it's the hard drive yet. I think it's a problem with the Touch. Let me know how it's working for you when you get it. I would be curious to know if you have any issues. Kevin I have a 1.5 TB WD Elements connected via USB to the Touch. I have a lot of trouble with connection. I regularly get messages saying the Touch is trying to connect. Or sometimes where it can't connect only for it to connect after a wait. Hugely frustrating. I have about 600 GB of music on it. I don't think this is too big of a collection for the Touch to handle. All music is FLAC. I don't think it's the HD either. It's newer than the Touch. Once I pull up an album (about 40 seconds when working well), it play songs through the album very well. But if I try to change it to another song on a different album, I run into problems and delays. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77998 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Scan experiences with the internal squeezebox server of the Touch (USB-HD)
mlsstl;541981 Wrote: While I'm very pleased with the performance of the Touch with my external music server (46,000 songs) I've not had a successful scan by the built-in server in three tries with two different copies of the external backup drives. The first scan ran 14 or 15 hours before I gave up. The next two tries seemed to scan through the drive in 4 or 5 hours only to have the internal server crash at the very end. (And yes, firmware is up to date.) I did try it with a 2 GB USB flash drive and it all worked very nicely. Since the Touch works extremely well for the purpose I bought it for, I'm pleased. However, I can't say I'm impressed with the Tiny SBS function, especially since this was the cause of the four month delay in product release. I have a 1.5 TB Western Digital Elements external hard drive. The scanning process is not bad. But I'm having a lot of trouble with the Touch staying connected to the hard drive by USB. And when connected, it's taking 40 seconds and longer for the Touch to pull up and then play songs. This can't be right. I have about 600 GB of songs (roughly 22,000 songs). The long delays and the regular problems connected through the USB is making the Touch very unusable for me. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77600 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] So, I'm having problems with my Touch. User error?
Thank you! I had forgotten. Here is what's showing (of course, my Touch keeps having trouble connecting to the hard drive): Mem: 122056K used, 3768K free, 0K shrd, 3056K buff, 15972K cached CPU: 0% usr 1% sys 0% nic 98% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq Load average: 0.57 0.43 0.40 1/88 30325 PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND 1013 988 root S 7024 6% 1% jive_alsa -d default -c default -b 2 -p 2 -s 24 -f 1 988 1 root S45264 36% 0% /usr/bin/jive 1012 988 root S 7104 6% 0% jive_alsa -d plughw:2,0 -b 2 -p 2 -s 16 -f 2 9 2 root SW 0 0% 0% [sirq-tasklet/0] 30314 30311 root R 2724 2% 0% top 49 2 root SW 0 0% 0% [IRQ-34] 30309 936 root S 2528 2% 0% dropbear -i 22387 1 root S N 55284 44% 0% /usr/bin/perl /usr/squeezecenter/slimserver.pl --charset utf8 --noweb --notranscoding --nosb1slimp3sync --nostatistics --noinfolog --no 5 2 root SW 0 0% 0% [sirq-timer/0] 116 2 root SW 0 0% 0% [IRQ-10] 22389 1 root S N 10220 8% 0% /usr/bin/perl /usr/squeezecenter/gdresized.pl 29164 22402 root S6684 5% 0% /usr/sbin/smbd -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78077 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] So, I'm having problems with my Touch. User error?
peterw;542285 Wrote: What does it look like when you have trouble? Not good: *Mem: 123976K used, 1848K free, 0K shrd, 3536K buff, 16724K cached CPU: 100% usr 0% sys 0% nic 0% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq Load average: 3.86 3.68 3.24 3/88 30957 PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND 1012 988 root S 7104 6% 24% jive_alsa -d plughw:2,0 -b 2 -p 2 22364 1 root S3044 2% 20% /usr/bin/ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 988 1 root R45972 36% 16% /usr/bin/jive 22387 1 root R N 2 44% 8% /usr/bin/perl /usr/squeezecenter/slims 1013 988 root S 7024 6% 8% jive_alsa -d default -c default -b 200 30957 30955 root R 2720 2% 8% top 9 2 root SW 0 0% 4% [sirq-tasklet/0] * -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78077 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] So, I'm having problems with my Touch. User error?
Here's more info: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 2930272256 512-byte hardware sectors (1500299 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 2930272256 512-byte hardware sectors (1500299 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through Here's more: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 180742255 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 180742256 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 180742257 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 180742258 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 180742259 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 180742260 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 180742261 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 180742262 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 180742263 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 180742264 __ratelimit: 28 messages suppressed Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 786433 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 786433 usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using fsl-ehci and address 3 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD Ext HDD 1021 2002 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 2930272256 512-byte hardware sectors (1500299 MB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 2930272256 512-byte hardware sectors (1500299 MB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk usb-storage: device scan complete usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3 usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using fsl-ehci and address 4 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 4 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD Ext HDD 1021 2002 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 2930272256 512-byte hardware sectors (1500299 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 2930272256 512-byte hardware sectors (1500299 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk usb-storage: device scan complete -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78077 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Scan experiences with the internal squeezebox server of the Touch (USB-HD)
realmassy;542283 Wrote: After reading of all these issues I think I'll pass on this, and I'll wait for a firmware upgrade. Any chance to build the database on a pc and then re-attach the drive? As for the scan on the built in server it shouldn't be too difficult implementing a basic scan for artists and album only to build the index and then decorate the files with all the other tags the first time the user access to them...a sort of lazy loading strategy. I haven't tried running it through my computer, because that defeats the point of having the Touch for me. I want it to work well with my external hard drive directly connected to my Touch. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77600 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Scan experiences with the internal squeezebox server of the Touch (USB-HD)
realmassy;542298 Wrote: This is exactly my thought: If I wanted to use my pc to listen to the music I would have built a music server with a Mac mini. I gotta tell you, this is getting really frustrating. Doing my second factory reset. Don't know why my Touch is having issues with my hard drive. not even doing wireless. I've got 600 GB of songs so doing resets are annoying having to wait the several hours for rescanning. If it worked, it would be awesome. Love the interface and the specs of the Touch. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77600 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] So, I'm having problems with my Touch. User error?
JohnSwenson;542364 Wrote: Hmmm, that 24% for the jive_alsa is very unusual, thats the process writing to the internal speaker that is used for beeps and such, I don't know why its running so high. The server and jive numbers are not out of the ordinary, but the ntfs one is quite high. Given the messages about errors on the disk I'm wondering if its having to try multiple times to get a good read, that MIGHT be a reason for excessive usage in the ntfs driver which could lead to the maxed out CPU. John S. I'm reaching the end of the rope. I can't figure out why I'm having problems. I did another factory reset. It started working fairly decently. Then, when switching to another album, the entire thing crashed. Before it crashed, it lost USB connection again. I hit diagnostics. This time it came up with the IP address, Subnet,gateway, dns server, all blank and ping as not working. that was interesting. Then it crashed (something that hasn't happened before). The Touch shut down and restarted. I don't think I have an unusually high number of songs. I think I just read someone else say they have 2 TB of music. I have 600 gb. As I typed, it stopped again. It's almost like a buffering issue. I appreciate the patience you guys have in trying to help me through this. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78077 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] So, I'm having problems with my Touch. User error?
peterw;541841 Wrote: Really? sda1, sdb1, sdc1? Do you have three other drives? In Linux naming conventions, sd means SCSI or SATA, a means first disk, 1 means first partition. So if you had one disk, I'd expect sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4 if you had 4 partitions. Anyhow... First, grab an SSH client if you're on Windows. I like Putty a lot. If you're on a Mac, there's already an ssh command you can run in Terminal.app. Home Settings Advanced Remote Login and Enable SSH Log in to your Touch with your SSH client At the command line, type *top* and hit return You should see something like Code: Mem: 121080K used, 4744K free, 0K shrd, 9988K buff, 20892K cached CPU: 7% usr 15% sys 0% nic 76% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq Load average: 0.24 0.37 0.35 1/82 14664 PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND 14664 14474 root R 2720 2% 12% top 687 1 root S46932 37% 6% /usr/bin/jive 720 687 root S 7024 6% 6% jive_alsa -d default -c default -b 200 14522 1 root S N 47292 38% 0% /usr/bin/perl /usr/squeezecenter/slims 14524 1 root S N 10216 8% 0% /usr/bin/perl /usr/squeezecenter/gdres 719 687 root S 7104 6% 0% jive_alsa -d plughw:2,0 -b 2 -p 2 639 1 root S 2804 2% 0% /usr/sbin/inetd 616 1 root S 2728 2% 0% /sbin/syslogd -S 14474 14441 root S 2724 2% 0% -sh 689 1 root S 2724 2% 0% /sbin/getty tty3 9600 VC vt100 1 0 root S 2720 2% 0% init 618 1 root S 2720 2% 0% /sbin/klogd 732 1 root S 2720 2% 0% udhcpc -R -a -p /var/run/udhcpc.wlan0. 688 1 root S 2720 2% 0% init 14441 639 root S 2528 2% 0% dropbear -i 456 1 root S2036 2% 0% /sbin/udevd -d 674 1 root S 1904 2% 0% /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -Dmarvell 676 1 root S 1812 1% 0% /usr/sbin/wpa_cli -B -a/etc/network/wp 621 1 root S 1804 1% 0% /usr/sbin/watchdog I expect that when you have trouble you'll see a high %CPU number by one of the perl processes -- slimserver.pl or gdresized.pl. In my case, the process %CPU were low but the overall io was high. And the darn disk LED lit constantly. To quit 'top', you can just tap the q key. To log out, it's the exit command. Or you could just close your SSH window, no big deal. I generally recommend that you leave SSH disabled. Oh, and you'll get bigger logs on your hard drive if you make a directory named log in the top level of your hard drive (and reboot Touch so Touch sees it; safest way to reboot is to SSH in and run the reboot command). Thank you for this. I'm using Windows Vista, so I'll download putty. I'll try this when I get home. What is considered to be high %CPU and io numbers? Yes, those are the Folders I saw when I used my laptop to see what devices were on the network (my hard drive connected to my Touch). When I have the hard drive connected to my laptop and I look in the F: drive, I don't see those. I figured out the album art situation. The tracks in the folders were not tagged with the jpg file. So when even though the album art was contained in the folder with the tracks, they weren't linked up. I spent some time using mediamonkey to tag the tracks with the jpg file. I then did a wipe and scan overnight. This morning, I saw the album art for the ones that I fixed. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78077 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Internet radio problem
avta;541772 Wrote: Try a factory reset. There is a button just above where the power connects to the back of the reseiver. Hold that in until the screen shows it's been reset. However, before you do that disconnect the power from the wireless router and modem you are using and leave them unplugged for about 30 seconds. Plug them back in then do the reset. Keep us posted. Is there a difference between pushing that button and hitting factor default settings through the menus? -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78082 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Server stopping.
Yup. I have run into the same problem. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78031 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
[SlimDevices: Touch] So, I'm having problems with my Touch. User error?
I have a little over 600 GB of music stored on a WD Elements 1.5 TB hard drive. I have that directly connected to my Touch. My entire reason for getting the Touch was so I would not have to use my laptop. My Touch is directly connected to my router (i.e., not using wireless). I'm having two problems. One is with album art. The second is with speed. First problem: That 600 GB of music contains album art. The music that I ripped named all the album art folder.jpg. These have always show up on my Touch without any problems. The music I received from a friend has all the album art named as coverart.jpg. I understand that coverart.jpg is a name that the Touch will not recognize. So I changed all of them to folder.jpg. I did a wipe and rescan on the Touch. Still no art. Any suggestions on what I need to do now? Second problem: My Touch is operating really, really slowly. It is taking upwards of 40 second to a minute before a song plays. (These are songs stored on the connected HD.) Any suggestions on why? Plan of action: I plan to do a factory reset to see if that will work. I'm hoping it will because as is, the Touch is not usable for me. I'd really like to hear your suggestions/advice. Thank you. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78077 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] So, I'm having problems with my Touch. User error?
Yes. I've tried wiping and rescanning a couple of times now. I do that directly on the Touch, and at night. I then check to make sure that it's scanning, and then I go to bed. In the morning, I check it out and make sure the scanning is complete. There are three Completed notations. I then try to listen to the music. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78077 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] So, I'm having problems with my Touch. User error?
peterw;541729 Wrote: Regarding the second problem, I'd be curious what 'top' shows when that happens. Are you comfortable enabling SSH on your Touch and logging in to run 'top' while recreating the problem? FWIW, in the last couple months I've had intermittent trouble with a WD Caviar Green drive in my DVR / SBS server. When the problem occurs, 'top' shows high iowait percentages. Apparently the fix might be as simple as 'partitioning the drive carefully' (http://forums.opensuse.org/get-help-here/install-boot-login/437111-iowait-slows-system-down-2.html#post2154647). One annoying factor for me is that the drive caused no trouble for the first couple months I had it in service. If I had very specific instructions, I would be comfortable. When I use my laptop to see what devices are connected to my network, I see the following: logs media-sda1 media-sdb1 media-sdc1 media-sdd1 printers All must stuff is in the sda1 folder. I was told that these are most likely partitions. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78077 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
[SlimDevices: Touch] media-sdx1 folder setups
When I go into my networked/shared devices on my laptop, one of the devices I see is my squeezebox. When I click that, I see the following folders: logs media-sda1 media-sdb1 media-sdc1 media-sdd1 printers Other than the sda1, the media folders are all empty. Can I delete these? Why were they added in the first place? Thank you. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78055 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] media-sdx1 folder setups
JJZolx;541508 Wrote: Those aren't folders, they're network shares. They must be separate partitions on your disk drive. Got it. Thanks! -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78055 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to see artworks
JJZolx;541506 Wrote: Squeezebox Server recognizes artwork image files named 'folder' and 'cover', not 'coverart'. I'm glad you're on because you're answering all my questions! That would it seems like after I searched around. It seems as though I can add coverart.jpg as a recognized name for songs on my computer, but that I can't do anything about it for files attached directly to the Touch via USB. Is this correct? Do you know if there's a way for me to do a global change of all files in a folder? For example, I'd love it if there was a way for me to run a command where every file named coverart.jpg in my music folder is changed to folder.jpg? Otherwise, I'm looking at having to do this manually over 1300 times. :( -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77977 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax and rca out
Mnyb;537350 Wrote: If you have an 2 zone amp you can have multiroom el cheopo . I see, because Zone 2 often (always?) requires analog. Thanks. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77580 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax and rca out
Mnyb;537350 Wrote: If you have an 2 zone amp you can have multiroom el cheopo . I see, because Zone 2 often (always?) requires analog. Thanks. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77580 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax and rca out
iPhone;537530 Wrote: Works well if one upgrades ones HT Receiver and wants to put the old one in a nearby room. My across the street neighbor did just this. Moved the old Receiver down stairs and dropped a Toslink cable down through the wall. And he put a pair of powered speakers in the dining room ceiling off of the RCA outs while he was fishing cables in the wall. Coax to new HT Receiver of course. Three zones for the price of one Squeezebox. Of course the Zones all have to play the same song since it is really one big zone, but it does what he wants it to. The Master Bedroom is offset right above the Kitchen so he is putting a Touch in the wall of the Master Bedroom, dropping the RCAs down the wall to the MS whole house Intercom System AUX In (3m RCA pair reaches with room to spare) and bringing the Coax Out to a small Receiver with built-in DAC in the bedroom. I hope Logitech releases the wall mount soon and its the same size as the beta ones as he used my Touch Wall Mount to make his cutout already. His Touch should be here this week, just waiting to hear about the wall mount. He has an iPhone with iPeng to control it all with. This gives me some ideas. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77580 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to get to the Home screen
awesome. Thank you guys! -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77621 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax and rca out
May I ask why one would want to use both (or have both available)? I thought about doing this so that I had the option of listening to music in two channel without the subwoofer (using RCA). But just curious why others would want to. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77580 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Question about using web remote control
JJZolx;536400 Wrote: I just use Windows Explorer. The Touch should appear under My Network Places Microsoft Windows Networks Workgroup. At least that's where it appears on my XP Pro computer. Other versions of Windows may be organized differently, but you should be able to find it through Windows Explorer. Then just drag and drop, delete files, whatever you normally do with local Windows files. For some reason, sometimes the Touch doesn't show up in the workgroup and I have to goose it a little. In the address bar enter \\Squeezebox Touch\logs and substitute the name that you've given to the Touch for 'Squeezebox Touch'.The Touch with all of it's shares should then appear in Explorer. The USB and SD card shares are prefixed with 'media-'. Thank you! I was able to get in. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77417 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Question about using web remote control
aah, finally got it to work. Of course, user error. I did not properly install Squeezeplay. Thank you all who responded! -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77417 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB is not working like Logitech said.
squeezetouch;536026 Wrote: Spent a bit of time with USB drives. Once it has scanned the drive for the first time and built a database (which is stored on the very same drive - but hidden) it no longer needs to rescan all files to re-build the library after disconnecting (always use the unmount option) and reconnecting again. It will, however, check for new files and when found add them to the library/database. Ron Not having to rescan is very good news. I was wondering about this. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77434 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Question about using web remote control
garym;536016 Wrote: Great. Lot's to learn to fully use all the options. But it sounds like you're off to a good start and listening to music (the main point!). Play with it for a while and then post questions when you run into things you don't understand. As you can see, this is a helpful group. Very good group of people and very helpful. Thank you. I got this because I wanted the 24/96 capabilities with FLAC. And I didn't want to have to turn on my projector every time to listen to music (I was going through PS3mediaserver and the PS3). I think I'll ultimately get an Ipod Touch to use as a controller. Now I need to figure out why certain songs and albums show up twice and why there are dead spots in some of my files. I used db poweramp to rip them. I'll have to check that attaching the HD to my laptop instead of the Touch. Might be my next set of questions. ;) Thanks again to all! -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77417 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Question about using web remote control
JJZolx;536238 Wrote: Samba is always running (sharing the system's log files), but you have to enable the sharing of the attached drive or SD card. Settings Advanced USB SD Storage Sharing Enable Sharing You might also clear the sharing password while you're at it if you don't need the extra security of password protecting the share. What program do you use on the laptop to access the documents on the HD attached to the Touch? The squeezebox server? I have mine set to enable sharing. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77417 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Question about using web remote control
aubuti;535845 Wrote: Wireless or ethernet shouldn't matter. What server are you trying to use, mysqueezebox.com or a local SBS server? If a local SBS server, are you using the SBS that is built-in to the Touch, or one running on a computer or NAS? If you are using the Touch's built-in SBS, it does not support the web browser interface. I downloaded the squeezebox server 7.5 version. I'm new to all of this so I'm not sure what you mean by local SBS server. I should have provided more information in my original email. I apologize for not doing so. I have an external hard drive connected to my Touch. My touch is hard wired to my internet. I have a laptop that I want to use to control the music play on the touch (like a remote control). I have downloaded squeezebox server and am running it. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77417 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Question about using web remote control
garym;535857 Wrote: OK. let's take it one step at a time. First, any squeezebox product needs to talk with a squeezeboxserver (SbS). There are basically two ways to do this. One is to run a local version of SbS. A second approach is to connect to the network version of Sbs, which is now called mysqueezebox.com (mysb.com). If you are using the network, mysqueezebox.com approach, you can only do things like listen to internet radio, pandora, etc. You can't listen to your own music files if strictly connected to mysb.com. So I assume you want to listen to your own music. But even if using your local SbS, you'll still need to sign up for a mysb.com account. Within your local computer SbS, you'll need to add those credentials (SbS Settings mysqueezebox.com tab). The Touch does add a twist. The local SbS can now either be on a computer within your home network or the TOUCH itself runs a limited version of the SbS server. I don't have a TOUCH yet, but you should just have to plug your USB drive into the TOUCH and give it some time to scan the drive adding the tracks to the internal SbS system. You can switch back and forth to (1) mysb.com (2) SbS on your local network computer or (3) SbS on the Touch. No need for (1) because as long as you are running SbS locally (own computer or the touch) you get all the same mysb.com stuff. It sounds like you are trying to use the internal SbS software on the touch AND you've installed SbS on a local computer. Make a decision about which approach you prefer. Using the internal touch SbS means you don't need your computer on 24/7. But accessing the Touch via the web is slightly more complicated. With this background, let us know a little more about what you're trying to do, what errors, if any you're getting, etc. and folks here can help. p.s. welcome to the forums. You'll find it useful. Thank you for the welcome and your prompt advice. I am able to connect to mysqueezebox now. Went through settings to switch to mysqueezebox. So I'm able to get internet radio through mysqueezebox remote on my laptop. And as you said, I could not get to any of my music on the external hard drive. What I'd like to be able to do is have the option of playing/controlling my music stored on the external hard drive with my laptop. How do I do that? Thank you. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77417 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Sales or discounts?
JJZolx;534482 Wrote: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=0t=1972898 This is the deal I took advantage of today. Ordered today and shipped out today. Should have it Thursday! Canceled my Crutchfield order. -- crimscrem crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77178 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
