[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Various Artists in 6.2 with MP3

2005-10-11 Thread chopdog
I am using the Various Artists facility and find it THE single most useful features of 6.2 Superb - Thanks Dean. -- chopdog ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta

[SlimDevices: Beta] First install of 6 series SlimServer, wonderful

2005-10-11 Thread Pat Farrell
Thought it was time to stick my feet into the 6.* world. I have been running 5.4.something for a long long time So I downloaded the current nightly slimserver-2005_10_11-1.noarch.rpm onto my Mandrava 10.1 system. Pointed urpmi at it, and hit enter. Took a while, maybe 4 or 5 minutes to install t

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: A Question

2005-10-11 Thread MrC
Neither zipping nor installing a new version atop of an old one will deal with Windows registry entries, uninstall data, obsoleted plug-ins or skins, so beware. -- MrC ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: A Question

2005-10-11 Thread MeSue
My way is slightly simpler. I just make a copy of the whole SlimServer installation folder under a different name. Then I run the regular installer to install over the old one. (The first time I tried 6.2 I also had to clear the cache folder and the prefs file.) If something goes wrong I just end

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Unicode problems

2005-10-11 Thread gharris999
I would encourage you to enter a bug report at bugs.slimdevices.com about the 6.2 specific issues and post some test files in a zip to the bug that demonstrate the problem. I've usually created "fake" audio files containing just a few seconds of silence but that contain all the metadata so as to n

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: A Question

2005-10-11 Thread oreillymj
Here's what I do. I'm assuming you're on Windows. Shutdown down the Slimserver service and kill the SlimTray exe to remove lockes on the database etc.. Then zip the entire c:\program files\Slimserver directory. I normally call it Slimserver_dd_mm_yy.zip. Now download the zipped nightly (not the

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: A Question

2005-10-11 Thread dfk
MrC Wrote: > dfk - there are always ways to get back to your 6.1.x version, but they > may be more effort than they are worth. > > I'll go out on a limb. Migrate to 6.2 and you *won't* want to go back > ! Many users have migrated and are very pleased with the new features, > performance, etc.

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Various Artists in 6.2 with MP3

2005-10-11 Thread tass
The TPE2 field is available via MP3 Tag Studio - http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/ Hope this helps someone :) I've been waiting for this feature... time to upgrade and give it a go -- tass ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://li

[SlimDevices: Beta] Unicode problems

2005-10-11 Thread Peterb
I've had some trouble with getting Swedish characters åäöÅÄÖ to work in Linux and have done some testing with different versions of Slimserver. All mp3 files are on a Linux-pc (Red Hat 9) that are also running Sambaserver to enable acces from the Windows XP pc where i usually rip. The linux-pc use