Fletch: your RPMs modify iptables and selinux to expose the appropriate
ports, yes? How difficult / desirable / dangerous would it be to
expose 9092 to the local subnet so that other machines could query SC's
MySQL?
Doesn't make sense including this in a package, as MySQL is configured not
I still seem to have a vertical scroll-bar problem in the Settings pages
(11/24). The bars are there, and slide up and down, but the page itself
doesn't move with it - is there something I can do to fix this?
Are you using MSIE, very likely MSIE7? I vaguely remember an issue with it.
Will
I'm just doing this at the moment - support have asked me to try the
beta to check a random mix issue.
They imho shouldn't tell anyone to test a version which is officially not
supported. Unless they want to get rid of that customer ;-).
I'm being told to exit the setup
wizard and create a
Leave it empty and do without. You don't have to enter them.
You should mention that possibility on the dialog. Or add a radio
button user - local system
Good idea! Could you please file an enhancemente request/bug report at
http://bugs.slimdevices.com - thanks!
Michael
800 x 600.
Thanks - will have to fix this issue.
Michael
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It should be possible using the Win32 API to get the currently logged on
user.
The currently logged on user is the administrator, not your own user, in many
cases.
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I can't swear by it, but I think I just installed over SS6. In any
case, does that mean if I want to restart SC, I have to either restart
XP, or shutdown via Task Manager?
You should not need to do so. But it has fixed many issues in the past...
Michael
now. There must be other functionalities in the works?
There's a feature request to add a control panel style application which would
be called from the tray icon. But it's not in the works.
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Is there a better warning message that could be displayed? (probably
not)
Installation programs usually ask you to close all other applications for exact
this reason. Did you see this in the Service enabler or the installer?
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The development of the look of the SC7 web gui now appears to be
heavily influenced by an informal conscensus of (generally) technically
orientated SlimDevices forum users who, in my opinion, are have managed
to subvert the original elegant design.
Could you please explain further? All that
Having just upgraded from 6.5 to 7.0a a couple of days ago, my first
impression was that something wasn't quite right with the look. I think
it's down to the various inconstancies with white space and metrics.
What do you mean by the metrics?
Font selection seems a bit odd too, and you can
If I browse to the directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\SqueezeCenter and double click the file/shortcut
labelled SqueezeCenter Web Interface I receive the same message, this
time titled http://127.0.0.1:9000;.
Then this is not a SC issue, but a problem with your
and saved the file? Restart slimserver (service)? Or just restart SC7
interface?
The usual procedure: clear all caches, reload, try harder.
Michael
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I checked that fix in (plus the missing E). Does fix the issue on IE7
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I'm pretty sure there is nothing I can do about it in Windows Control
Panel/Add Remove Programs and I've already reset the association in
File Types.
In XP there's a button Set Program and Access Defaults in the Add/Remove
Programs dialog. There you can define the default handler for various
I did some experimenting. The problem seems to have been caused by an
interaction between the Google toolbar extension/add on and a number of
other (installed by default) Firefox plugins.
There are no extensions installed by default, are there? Hmm... anybody else
out there using the Google
I have to run SqueezeCenter under an account with network privileges as
my music is on a networked drive. I've just installed the latest
Windows executable nightly over my existing SC7 and the account the
SqueezeMySQL service logs on as has been reset to the Local System
Account (which does
My overwritten version was three or four days old.
Did you successfully update before, without losing the service's credentials?
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However, I missed the first few messages in this thread, due to the broken
nature of the mailing list (non-unique message ids meaning threading isn't
correct). What is the issue that needs testing?
Opening SC7 from the tray icon. But according to the origial poster the issue
has been fixed
On the latest nightly I am missing the scroll bars on the settings pages
when using Safari on Mac OS X 10.5, but they are OK with Firefox.
Thanks for the report. Another case of fixing one browser to break the other. I
didn't test on 10.5, but on 10.4.11 only. But I'd expect it to be fixed in
I was on the verge of swapping over my devices to use SC7... but am now
wondering if this is wise as the plugin preferences location has been
changed form the C:\Program Files\SlimServer\Server\Plugins directory
to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SqueezeCenter.
Settings
now... but realise that the plugins preferences directory has just been
moved so am wondering if the existing SC7 plugins will work as they were
made before the change of location of this directory.
As I mentioned in my earlier post plugins don't care about where prefs are
stored. They just
I did not edit the registry.
Do you see both SlimServer as well as SqueezeCenter folders in c:\program
files? Do you have a prefs folder in one of them?
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It's still occurring for me on version 14982 (nightly). I have 5
players (SB3, 2xSB1, 2xSLIMP3) and the alarms appear on all 5 when set
on 1. I've worked around the bug by just using the CLI for alarms.
So what you're saying is that using the player or web interface would mess up
the alarms,
I have just downloaded the latest Windows executable after uninstalling
my existing SC7 installation, deleting cache etc and, apart from still
wanting to install by default into a directory called Slimserver, the
As long as you don't clean the registry, it will always want to install there
Is there a way to skip the wizard that comes up each time I install a
nightly update?
It should only come up the very first time you install SC7. Do you install the
updates on top of an existing installation?
Once you've fininshed the wizard there should be a wizardDone:1 in the
server.prefs
So we all know where this is heading - towards a request for full user
control of the colour scheme!
This will never happen. A skin is more than just a color definition. But then
there's the possibility to have various skins - which we do have. The blueish
style is still available from SVN.
sorry, when can I find the preference file to check.
There might be the problme: it can be somewhere in c:\documents and
settings\all users\application data\squeezecenter\ (this can vary if you're on
a non English version of Windows) or in a Prefs subfolder to where you've
installed
The text spacing and default messages will still be badly placed
though. I keep opening up SC7 after a (failed) rescan to see the word
Empty jammed up against the left hand side of the right hand pane. It
I hope you've updated, cleared the cache and all the usual procedure. There
should now
What about the preference file? Do you have wizardDone in there?
I downloaded the windows executable, ran it and then
it took me through the wizard again, instead of adopting my existing
settings. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
Did you install on top of the existing installation? Has any of the
rm: /Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane: Permission denied
SqueezeCenter installed successfully.
That's the path to the SlimServer preference pane. IMHO it should not exist if
you do a clean install. Try removing it manually before installing SC7.
Michael
Windows Services.
If you stop SlimServer using right click on the tray icon the
SlimServerMySQL service does not stop.
If you have the option to stop SqueezeCenter from the tray icon, then it's not
run as a service. Or are you really talking about SlimServer 6.5.x?
Via the SC7 interface it
Welcome back!
I'm not back yet :-).
I'm running XP... and SqueezeCentre is run under a network friendly
administrator account so, if I underestand your other post
correctly, SC is not run as service by default.
Correct. SC7 defaults to app mode. It will install the service if it finds
Is it possible for me to change my SC7 to run as a service?
You'll find this option in Windows' SqueezeCenter start menu item.
This logon account/network/UNC/mapped drive stuff seem to be a bit
tricky.
It is. The step towards running SC as an app by default was discussed a lot.
And we hope
As I did a clean install of 7 very recently my version of SC7 does not
run as a service anymore, but runs as an application instead (this on
Please don't cross-post your issues in X different threads. Your issue is
discussed in its own thread and imho unrelated to this thread. Thanks!
Michael
Clive,
I've recently noticed (in SC 7.0) that when browsing the music folder,
the Squeezebox display now shows the full pathname rather than just the
last part of it. (For example, whereas before it might have just
displayed The Wall, it now displays
\\musicserver\e-drive\FLAC.N-Z\Pink
Maybe i've completely missed an obvious answer somewhere, but does SC
update itself automatically?
No. You might see an information telling you that there's a new version
available. But it won't update automatically.
not that i'm having any real problems other than it doesn't
particularly
Since I last posted this has got stranger. I now have playlists that
contain both mapped drive paths and UNC paths (as I made some
playlists vis Slimnserver yeserday and they contain mapped paths).
Could you please file a bug report with a clear description of what you're
seeing und what
Just in case it helps, i'm running xp pro and SC 7.0 and I don't see
this, when browsing music folder I just get the filename, so for
example
It's very likely limited to UNC paths. If you're using a drive letter or a
non-Windows system, you should be fine.
Michael
If you are playing a named playlist wouldn't it be a good idea to
display the playlist name somewhere on the web UI?
It should have been there all the time, but a typo broke it. I've just fixed it.
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Thanks to everyone for their input. I note that others have reported not
seeing this on Linux, so it looks like a Windows-specific thing.
Windows and UNC paths only. I checked in a fix. Please give the 12-09 nightly a
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run under my administrator account and restarted them. SC7 still could
not see any mapped drives in the Music Folder Browse window. I set it
back to running it as an application and then mapped drives appeared
and all was well.
A service doesn't see your mapped drives, whether you run it as
Oh. Cheers for the explantaion Michael. I think I'd better give up now
and leave SC7 testing to those more technically experienced than I.
No, please continue testing. I only wanted to explain the reason why you
didn't see the drive letters. And there's much more to test than just
startup
I get a stack overflow at line: 103 error when I clic on browse to
choose the music folder and then, in the browsing window, my local
Now... this is getting interesting. There was a bug report opened today:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6300
But I haven't been able to reproduce
Not much additional information here I'm afraid:
Can you try running squeezecenter.exe --d_startup from the command line?
This should get you some more information about what's wrong.
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Attached...
Thanks, but doesn't make it much clearer to me. Thus a few more questions:
- did you do an update installation on top of an existing version? If yes,
what version?
- what does 'netstat -na | find 9000' run from the command line say?
- do you have a working TCP/IP configuration
I've now read the developers forum service/application discussion and
the wikki but can't find any clear explanation as to why I should want
to run SC7 as a service.
Then just don't :-).
Am I correct to think that the reason I should run it as a service is
that SC will then start up with
This issue should be fixed in the next nightly build - please give it a
try. Thanks!
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I take it then that this is not documented.
It wasn't, as it's a dynamically generated query, identical to the radios
query. I added those few lines to the documentation.
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Port 9000 doesn't seem to be in use. Running the netstat command as
requested didn't return anything.
Could you please run squeezecenter.exe --debug network.asynchttp=debug?
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dispatchable!
Did you have the SC7 web interface open in some browser? It should know
when player's disappear, but sometimes does not.
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I just installed MusicinfoSCR ver 3.99.2 beta on SC 7.0 12/01 build, but
I when I prees the Repeat/Shuffle buttons in the remote the
Repeat/Shuffle Symbols (icons) on my SB3 do not change state. Is this
function available in this beta release?
I guess this is related to the issue Phil has
This is interesting. The dump (below) indicates SC is attempting to use
a proxy server even though I have this disabled in the internet
connections dialogue. I've tried deleting the entry completely (rather
than just unchecking the box to use a proxy server), and rebooting with
There's no
The left side blinks when being refreshed due to actioning a button.
The new colors are still in a flux. Could you try adding body to the
following defintion in HTML/Default/slimserver.css:
#playlistPanel, .inner_content, #maincontent, body {
background-color: #3d6266;
}
Then force a
It normally looks a bit unsightly for a split second (or five) but
today we're using CS7 across the Internet so load times are slower and
the odd half panel stays around for considerably longer.
That's the nature of web pages: the layout can be somewhat broken as long as
it's not fully
Using the remote to browse the music folder was instant on previous
versions of SS but now it takes 45 secs before the folder appears.
That's not normal. Is your scan still going on? What's your folder structure?
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The latest nightly is looking very nice now!
Thanks for the feedback. It's still some work in progress (some of the font
colors don't match etc.). But good to know some people like it :-)
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That's unrelated to the browse issue.
Folder structure is E:\Music and then subfolders
Sure, but all subfolders in Music, or do you use something like
Music/Artist/Album? Or just Music/Album?
Hmm, thats a shame. It's not possible to set the height of the
scrollable div (if that is what it is, I've not checked) to 100%?
It's not 100%, but 100%-Xpx. And even then doesn't the browser know how
much 100% are, before he knows about the surrounding elements' size.
I've just tried i.e 6
Wow. I just updated to the latest. A little depressing, isn't it?
Jim, don't get too depressed. We all love you so much. :-)
Is there no way to incorporate some more contrast and a bit of color
other than shades of gray and teal?
We had black (or dark grey) on white - this depressed people
just got back to machine, i've done nothing and the blinking seems to
have stopped?
Well, I've never seen it in FF. But probably your machine was under heavy
load (initial scan?) thus took a longer time to load?
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Sorry Michael, I'm not at work for 2 days now so can't easily provide
screenshots from IE6 via an Internet connection, but this one from IE7
on a LAN connection illustrates part of the vagary nicely.
We had this issue before. But in this case the GUI hasn't finished loaded
yet?
Paul,
I'm sorry for being a bit slow... Only now I realised that you can't
access the web interface due to this issue. I think you hit
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5673
What is SC attempting to use this proxy for, and how can I disable it
from using a proxy if I've been
I've noticed that occasionally, Browse Music folder will trigger a
rescan.
I thought that it was because I had re-arranged my music on disc into
Yes, when it finds a changed item in the tree, it will launch a rescan of that
folder and all subfolders.
Why can't the color scheme be an option is setup?
I always said that the blue color schema was still available from our
version control. Feel free to extract and maintain it as a separate skin.
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I love the playlist drag and drop function but don't understand why it
has been only partially implemented (i.e. rhs/playlist pane only).
It's been implemented in the left part, too. But not left-right for one
simple reason: these are different frames, technically said, different
documents.
When would you use it in the left part?
Playlist Favorites editing.
BTW, completely agree - left to right would be great.
Indeed :-).
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But in this case the GUI hasn't finished loaded yet?
I've just had a chance to try agin acessing my home SC7 from work via
IE6 (cache cleared) and the same thing happened. The lh pane did not
Ok, will have to take a look at this.
shoddy looking white background
Please get a new monitor.
Because some didn't like it. It's as simple as this. We can't please
anyone.
Or would you say everyone? Didn't want to sound rude :-).
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I had an older version of SC7 installed, (perhaps 2007_10_30) or so. I
uninstalled and then installed 2007_12_12. The system tray icon showed
Please see the following thread for some information about what might be your
problem:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40018
We moved
When I try the new Default skin, Drag and Drop doesn't work. I can grab
a track, but as soon as I move the cursor over another track the cursor
changes to a slashed circle and nothing happens. I am running two
different browser environments - IE6 on the server machine where
SqueezeCenter is
track display. Is this how it is supposed to work? This means D'n'D
is not available unless covers are displayed.
No, it should work anywhere _except_ on links. Do you have extremely long song
titles?
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I notice when you select Extras - SoftSqueeze you're sent to the Help
menu but there's no breadcrumb trail to get back to the Home menu. The
Thanks for the hint - I changed this now. Please test again with tomorrow's
build (or svn up now).
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My song titles are standard, and usualy quite short.
Is it a one liner or three lines? (Screenshot?)
I tried a saved playlist as suggested, and the behavior is the same. I
don't know what Favorites means so I couldn't try that.
You can mark playlists and radio stations as favorites which
I selected an album to play, and the now playing screen said it was
playing, only it wasn't. I hit pause, and then unpaused and the first
track started to play. However, the progress bar and time remaining are
still not updating.
And this is not with the MIS screensaver? Just making
I don't find the thin black line to be clear enough, especially when the
grey highlighting is on the dragged item.
You mean it's not visible enough?
There is an inconsistency with the Edit Playlist D'n'D. In that
I'm currently refactoring the d'n'd code in a common class which will be
I've asked a few of my web developer friends about this and none could
think of any examples. However, all expressed surprise that a web site
would use frames.
I didn't want to use them neither - we stuck with them for simplicity. But otoh
I'm not sure we could reliably manage dynamic paging
You mean it's not visible enough?
Sorry, yes - not visible enough - clear could have two meanings :-)
I'll think about this a bit more. Don't know yet how to handle it best.
isn't this part of what Brian commented to your bug:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5797#c5 ?
I don't
I now see that I can grab the gray bar and move the track, in addition
Oh, you didn't know that? Then I understand your trouble :-).
to the from and by words. If the cover is displayed, I can grab
only the cover or the gray bar, since every piece of text is a link.
I'll see what I can do
My acount username has a space in it
Hmm... I'll have to fix this. This _could_ be a reason for it to break.
If you've really been asked for the service credentials, then you must be
running some _very_ old version (at least a month or so back). It was in
there for only a few days.
I am experiencing extremely slow music folder browsing after upgrading
to 7.0a1 as well. My folder layout is artist/album/song
Can you give us some more information about when you see this, your setup,
collection, hardware etc.?
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I have the username of Michael Valera on my home machine.
Could you please try again with the latest nightly build? I've now put the
credentials in quotes to make sure a whitespace isn't breaking it.
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Is it just on my set up or do the album cover thumbnails in playlist
pane not vertically line up with the now playing cover graphic?
You mean horizontally?
It looks like the left hand side of each graphic should be vertically
aligned but the now playing one is a little to the left.
Make a
The first page of the left window doesn't load properly.
Konqueror is not supported, I'm sorry.
But then, if it has worked before, then we should try to fix it anyway. Did you
update recently (Konqueror or SC)? Do you see JS errors?
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If you put a ruler on the left hand side of all the album thumbnails
(i.e. so it was vertical) I'd have expected the left hand side of the
Now Playing cover graphic to line up with them... but on my XP Pro
Firefox 2 set up it doesn't. Maybe it's not supposed to though
Ahm... your
Another issue with showing the isertion point is that it sometimes
doesn't seem to calculate it correctly, or not at all.
Could you please give this another try. I refactored most of the d'n'd
code to use a unique behaviour across all lists. Thanks!
Michael
After a few successful d'n'd's, I had a failure. Whilst dragging, I couldn't
see the insertion line, and the other items in the playlist were being
highlighted as I dragged the item over it. I released the item, and then I
noticed that I had a duplicate. I repeated this a couple of
I see ext 2.0's out now.. I wonder if that would help things ?
Not sure. They claim it's faster, but I haven't seen details about this. And
don't expect the migration to ExtJS 2.0 in SC7.0 :-)
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My SC7 web interface barely opens up now and takes ages to respond to
anything. It's quite unusable. I'm going to re-install the app but
That's rather a caching issue than anything related to the the app itself. Shut
down SC, clear _all_ caches (browser disk, browser memory, SC's
Problem solved with SqueezeCenter_trunk_v2007-12-18.
Thanks for your testing!
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I don't want to make too much noise here, but: Should it really take as
long as 10-15 seconds?
No it definitely is not. Are you using the player or the web interface? A
few details about your configuration? And you're on the very latest
version?
This is through the web interface.
Ok, do you see the same delay on the player interface? Just so we know
whether reading the filesystem is the issue or creating the web page.
I upgraded from 6.5.4 to 7.0a1 a
week ago using apt-get. This is a 500mhz Debian box with 256 MB ram. My
While
has run under the account name with a space that I set (SqueezeMSQL
used a a Local System Account).
That's correct, MySQL will always run as the system account in service mode. As
it doesn't need to access your files, that's ok.
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I've seen the following error crop up in the nightly 7.0a builds since
I started using them on 12/4. That is to say, the error may have been
there before, but I don't know because I didn't use earlier versions.
Please give the latest nightly (12/20 - available in an hour) another try. I
One quick caveat... if you're currently running the SlimServer...rpm
versions of our code, you will loose your preferences when you install
the SqueezeCenter RPM.
Ok, I just did the switch. The key not to have to reconfigure everything is in
the backup - of course ;-).
Here's what I've done
cannot coexist. Using -Uvh will properly remove SlimServer when
installing SqueezeCenter but -ivh will leave them both installed and
things will be broken.
Ahm... would this have migrated my previous settings? :-/
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Note that this is only a limitation when upgrading from an old-style
RPM SlimServer nightly.
Yep, that's what I understood.
properly import the old prefs. I figured that anyone using a trunk
nightly can also manually copy over the prefs file.
I doubt it...
it's important, I'll look into
OK. BTW, Installation.txt says 5.8.3. I think I also saw a post
recently saying that some CLI things may be broken on versions earlier
than 5.8.8.
There are issues with at least 5.8.5 when there are several connections to the
CLI.
Please note that this doesn't affect Jive or any JSON/RPC
3) the right site now has all of the songs but the bottom section of
the right side does not display the generated playlist name (seen at
the top of the left side).
That's not a playlist name, it's just an indicator what is displayed: a
MIP mix based on album XY.
Also, if you pick a SAVED
least one user reported it working on ClarkConnect (I forget the
version) and Michael installed it today on SME. Of course, it's up to
AFAIK they're both based on CentOS 4.
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