Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Multi library/user support ?

2007-01-09 Thread ron thigpen
JJZolx wrote: There was a short thread a couple years ago regarding user profiles. That's been about the extent of the discussion: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15652&highlight=user+profiles At the time, this seemed to be backburnered for a couple of reasons. Mainly, there w

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Multiple databases using the bundled MySQL?

2006-10-26 Thread ron thigpen
Michael Herger wrote: It can be done if you run your own installation of MySQL server. Then you edit each prefs file to point to a different MySQL database. But I think this is exactly the way to do it: I think there may be some confusion here. I interpreted the original questions as aski

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Scanning Newly Added Files - Windows Explorer Integration

2006-08-28 Thread ron thigpen
Phil Meyer wrote: I haven't got a scanner.exe. I run the source code interactively with activePerl. Does it work if I call the scanner.bat that is dynamically created? Try it from the command line. If it works from there, it will work when invoked via this means. --rt ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Scanning Newly Added Files - Windows Explorer Integration

2006-08-28 Thread ron thigpen
Dan Sully wrote: Right now this doesn't run any of the Various Artists, Artwork, or DB optimization that runs after a normal rescan / wipe. Is this true just when running against sub-directories of the main music directory, or for all runs with the "--rescan" flag (find new and changed)? I'

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Scanning Newly Added Files - Windows ExplorerIntegration

2006-08-27 Thread Ron Thigpen
I think the double backslashes are just the escaped version of the backslash. Use the escaped form if you are going down the route of using the .reg file. If you are entering these keys directly, use the single backslash form. I entered the path with the single backslash form and the escaped

[SlimDevices: Beta] Scanning Newly Added Files - Windows Explorer Integration

2006-08-27 Thread Ron Thigpen
I've found a way to easily kick off scans of just one directory of music that you've just added to your collection. This is very handy for immediate gratification playback of new rips. Adding the following to your registry will place an item named "SlimScan" in the Windows File Explorer conte

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: huge delay on "new music"

2006-08-16 Thread ron thigpen
Dan Sully wrote: I checked in some changes to include additional indexes in the schema. You'll need to wipe & rescan. Installed 6.5b1 - 8964 - Windows XP last night. Performed full wipe and rescan. As a side note, scanner.exe seemed a better behaved than previous w/r/t memory usage. Res

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Firmware 59

2006-08-16 Thread ron thigpen
I've seen what I think is a similar problem. It appears that somehow my two wireless SB2s were getting the same IP address from the DHCP server. The workaround for me was to set up my DHCP server to always give the same two IP addresses to the player's two MAC address. This worked and resolv

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: huge delay on "new music"

2006-08-10 Thread ron thigpen
Dan Sully wrote: Ron - are you running on svn? Thanks Dan. I'm not on svn, but will try it out from the nightlies (though not likely to happen before early next week) and report back. Given that we're on mySQL now, I may even be able to pitch in with some performance tuning work. I am a

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on "new music"

2006-08-10 Thread ron thigpen
Michael Herger wrote: 6800 songs, C3/1GHz, 25 albums to display: 2-3 seconds (player and web interface). There must something be wrong with your configuration. Previous time was from the webUI with 'Show Artist with Albums' enabled. Disabling this option dropped the result from 20 sec to 15 s

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on "new music"

2006-08-10 Thread ron thigpen
gandt wrote: But does everybody else find clicking on "new music" responds quickly - mine is taking over 1 minute to come up My settings are to get the most recent 40 albums from the approx 4000 albums in my library. Takes about 20 seconds. Athlon XP 2400, 1GB, lightly loaded SlimServer Ver

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: "No Album"

2006-07-28 Thread ron thigpen
JJZolx wrote: dangerous_dom Wrote: Is it posible to hide the "no album" album? What do you see when you click on the album? Does it have any tracks? Normally this is just a collect-all for tracks that haven't been tagged with an album name. I suppose there is an argument to be made that dis

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread ron thigpen
Dan Sully wrote: I've already optimized RandomMix in the split-scanner branch. It's the genre excluding code that's causing it. Thanks Dan. Good to know it's been looked at. I had suspected the Genre filtering and given it a go with both All genres checked and No genres checked (on the the

[SlimDevices: Beta] Sync broken in Random Mix playback

2006-05-08 Thread ron thigpen
I've just added Bug #3401 - "Sync broken in Random Mix playback" to cover the specific interaction between Random Mix and SB synchronized play. Some of the underlying causes and fixes may help with other sync and dropout issues. As the issue is occurring for me in the 6.5b branch, and seems l

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: SB1's struggling to keep up

2006-05-08 Thread ron thigpen
Craig wrote: I'm still getting pauses when Random Mix makes a new selection but I've tracked this to DBI:Find and I guess this will be covered by the move to mySQL?. This glitch is also apparent on my SB2s. It really messes up any attempt to use Random Mix with two boxes sync'd. Do you kno

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 6.2.2 Release Canidate

2006-04-26 Thread ron thigpen
Dan Sully wrote: We've pushed a number of bugs that were originally targeted for 6.2.2 off to 6.3 - so please search http://bugs.slimdevices.com/ before filing a new issue. This URL should give you a list of the bugs targeted for 6.3 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advan

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Removing Common Album Titles - simplifying album creation logic.

2006-04-25 Thread ron thigpen
Phil Meyer wrote: I think you are saying that there is no user workaround for this one - except I suppose to change one of the album names. Not at all. Reading the bug report comments seems to indicate that if these tracks are tagged correctly as belonging to a compilation album, then they

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: Problem With 6.5b1 April 22 Nightly Build

2006-04-22 Thread Ron Thigpen
Dan Sully wrote: I'm fixing this now and rebuilding. I've just installed the rebuilt 4.22 build and it seems to be working well. Thanks Dan. And Richard. --rt ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/li

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Problem With 6.5b1 April 22 Nightly Build

2006-04-22 Thread Ron Thigpen
I think this build may be incomplete. Filesize is closer to 12MB than the 17MB size that previous days had been running. I'm gonna drop back and try the 4.22 build. --rt ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/l

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Running slimserver not as service

2006-04-21 Thread ron thigpen
Des wrote: b. get the service to see the share? You need to run the service under something other than the LocalSystem account. Go to Services and look at the Properties for the SlimServer. Have it Login as another user. You can create a new account just for the service or use and exist

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Firmware 41

2006-04-15 Thread Ron Thigpen
rtitmuss wrote: This version will work with the majority of routers and access points and includes support for WEP, WPA and WPA2. Just installed latest nightly (6.5b1 - 6938 - Windows XP - EN) to try Firmware v41. WPA connection is working like a champ with my router (D-Link DI-624 rev C

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Firmware 37

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Thigpen
No other problems here with the 624revC. Been sticking with the 2.50 firmware and it has been doing fine with 2 SB2s, a laptop card and the Nokia 770 using WPA TKIP. Not sure what the issue was with FW37 but given that it can and does work under without issue against SB FW36, I'm confident th

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Firmware 37

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Thigpen
Quick report on my experience with FW37. Running two SB2s, wireless. Connecting via D-Link DI-624 rev.C over 802.11g, WPA-TKIP. Not using Super-G, Turbo, Enhanced Range or other proprietary modes. Wireless connection working fine under FW 36 using 4.03 SS6.5b1 nightly. Installed 4.09 nigh

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Nokia 770 skin

2006-02-15 Thread ron thigpen
gandt wrote: [...] it'd being nice to get back the screen real estate taken up by the url link aand other buttons at the bottom of the screen. Anyone managed to get around these (minor) issues? sure. with a web browser window open, do the following: hit the settings key (just above the home k