I still can't get mine to work... it used too. 12/20 nightly... weird.
Are you using a password? If not, can you try after having set one? Thanks!
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I can also confirm that the current nightly RPM for SqueezeCentre works
Except that the build failed last night :-/. We'll have to fix this.
Excellent work...I'm loving the SqueezeCentre experience so far.
Thanks for the feedback!
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Recently upgraded to 7.0 and I must say its a much improved experience
compared to the previous version.
Thanks!
There's a setting for the player, and it works as expected but where is
it in the web interface? I'm pretty sure it was available in the
previous version, but I'm not entirely
information is part of the event: FATAL: There is already another copy
of the SqueezeCenter running on this machine. (Unknown error) at
/C:\Program
Files\SqueezeCenter\server\squeezecenter.exeSlim/Networking/UDP.pm
line 37
Are you using the very latest nightly? I fixed an issue where the
Are you folks forgetting to fill in those values, so we know when the
last release was made?
That date will be set when the release is made. Nightly builds aren't official
releases.
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AlbumArt_{EA10FCC1-D9A4-482E-A565-BF5DF664F60C}_Large.jpg
SC expects cover art to be named cover.jpg - it won't recognize that name.
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28 third-party plugins in the plugin folder
Oops, sorry for the wrong counting ;-).
I moved my third-party plugin folder sideways and restarted (still with 12 of
the official plugins disabled). Mem usage was 82Mb. Is that normal?
Yes, I would have expected about this amount.
Out of
information is part of the event: Undefined subroutine main::main
called at slimserver.pl line 86.
What antivirus or security package are you using? Any 3rd party firewall?
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I like to adjust this by dragging it left a bit, as the right-hand side needs
more space, but the setting is always lost. Could the page remember the
current position/width of left-frame?
I'm not sure this is easily possible. It's not that great feature, but just a
frameset we're using
One further thing: any reason this is not simply put on *all* pages?
Searching in radio station lists isn't possible in all cases, or there are
several ways to search for in some services. Displaying the search field in
these cases might be confusing. But we're listening... let's wait a bit
It sure looks like browsing the music folder when a UNC path is used is
broken in this version of SC7.
Would you mind opening a bug on bugs.slimdevices.com? Thanks!
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'dbi:mysql:database=slimserver_trunk:mysql_socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock',
2007-12-27_13:16:07.32771 'slimserver',
2007-12-27_13:16:07.32772 'YYYpro65X',
If that was your password, then you should probably change it :-).
So, why isn't scanner.pl getting the correct
There is one entry in the server.log that repeats MANY times:
[07-12-27 07:12:48.6832] Slim::Web::JSONRPC::requestMethod (383)
request not dispatchable! Any idea what this is?
I've seen this when I disconnected a player while a browser still held the web
page open. See
Folder, although I can play music through any other method. Where are
the log files that I should be looking at? (I did a quick scan, but
I've forgotten what to look for.)
Documents Settings/All Users/Application Data/SqueezeCenter - and in the
Windows eventlog. Thanks!
Michael
26th Dec nightly seems to have some problems with memory usage on my
machine. Slimserver.exe has taken up too 325mb once and then 242mb the
I assume you mean squeezecenter.exe? What version did you use before? I'd be
surprised to see that happen, as there have been virtually no changes over
if folks think it's not a problem...
As you like... change 15635
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Last night I finished up the buildRPM() function and it seems to
work... I've got some tweaking to do to most of the functions to clean
them up a little bit, and provide some more functionality (as well as
look at things with a clear head, now that the holidays are over!).
The filename has
I'm finding that I can't delete the topmost entry in the now playing
pane. In order to remove the the topmost entry, I'm having to drag it
to another position before the X delete button will work.
Thanks. Should now be fixed in 15642.
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I've since restarted SC7 (and, incidentally, closed the browser window)
and now none of the 'not dispatchable' errors are showing up in the
log.
That issue hopefully is fixed in tomorrow's build (or in SVN). Please give it
another try. Thanks!
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I think the search input bar could always be displayed in the header - no
need to be clever and show/hide it with mouse-over.
In some cases it could hide the page's title or require wrapping. And it's so
much more inobtrusive when it's hidden.
Alternatively, the search input bar could be
Doesn't seem to be working.
Right, the timer wasn't correctly set. Please update, I've checked in a fix.
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Am I right in thinking that the file that controls all these
preferences under Win XP is C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\SqueezeCenter\prefs\server.prefs and that to
reuse an old prefs file you simply stop SC, copy over this files and
restart?
Almost, yes. Backup/restore
Template::Stash::XS object version 2.19 does not match bootstrap
parameter 2.15 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line
253.
Looks like a version mismatch to me. What happens if you remove/rename
slimserver's version at
/usr/share/squeezecenter/CPAN/Template/Stash/XS.pm line
I'm mainly speaking about the addition of the OPML browser amd the
direct editing of Favorites.
Both functions are too confusing and unwieldy for the home page,
Isn't the OPML browser optional, must be turned on in the Favorites plugin? And
there's no direct editing of Favorites in the main
I very much doubt SC7 is causing all this
So do I. Can you do some more load tests: lot's of transfers over the network,
memory load etc.
I googled for the blue screen you got, and one recommendation Microsoft is
giving is about installing the latest service pack - define latest...
I opened bug 6506 to document this.
Thanks. Would the others please add their comments (if Greg didn't copy them
all) to that bug? I'll take a look at it early next year.
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Is the search box supposed to be permanently visible now? Or was this
change addressing something else?
The change added the page to all pages, not only _some_ pages. But it didn't
change the hiding behaviour.
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I too would love to see the third party skin development increased.
This way the Logitech crew could focus on the core and let the
community provide all the extras.
One of my plans for post 7.0 is making the whole JS stuff I've done for the new
Default skin inheritable classes. Some are
Well, it seems to me that pretty much everyone who's commented has been
of the opinion that a search box should be always present.
Maybe most don't care about that box and do not miss it?
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initially installed SqueezeCenter; in that case, I was using a UNC path
(\\office\music_1) for the music folder. I then mapped the network drive
to z: and rescanned, and it finished the Merge phase, then followed
with Artwork Scan and Database Optimize. When it finished, the
artwork appeared
Oh, one more thing... from your log file:
[07-12-30 11:52:38.7917] Slim::Schema::throw_exception (217) Error:
Carp::Clan::__ANON__(): Error executing 'SELECT me.id, me.url, me.content_type,
me.title, me.titlesort, me.titlesearch, me.album, me.tracknum, me.timestamp,
me.filesize, me.disc,
I don't search all that much from the web UI, mainly from the
playerUI, and there's a button on the remote for that (the remote
button is always available, so in my opinion it would be most
appropriate that the search bar in the WebUI is always available
too).
A very good point, extremely
And likewise, those of us using the beta software who disagree with
decisions that have been made feel no need to be silent just because
*you* tell us to.
Please stop argueing what should be said and what not. Let's stick on topic.
Which is: you want the search field displayed all the time.
When you do this I think it also would be good to consider moving some
stuff into cmdwrappers and the other component template files which are
re-usable.
Default is still based on the same wrappers and templates. Only a small number
of them has been customized. But I've added a lot of new
I BELIEVE we would need a generalized API to provide the functionality
that cmdwrappers is delivering now (opening a container, placing an
item, selecting stuff) through the JSON/RPC I/F.
Isn't this exactly what ExJS, Scriptaculous/Prototype and many others do? They
offer JS classes to
Sorry, forgot - will try to get a screenshot tonight when I'm in.
Don't worry - I've downloaded the evaluation version and installed on my
Symbian based phone. I'm seeing the issue. This Opera version doesn't like
table width=100%. If I set it to 240px instead, then it's fine. I have to
find
[08-01-02 18:29:50.6676] Slim::Schema::Storage::throw_exception (67)
Error: DBI Connection failed: DBI connect('hostname=127.0.0.1;p
ort=9092;database=slimserver','slimserver',...) failed: Can't connect
to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (10061) at C:\trunk\server\CPAN
/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm
I can't see the delete item from playlist button still. I've cleared my
cache.
Change 15820 should fix this (even if you had the moreThanThis parameter
enabled).
Ah, I'm not sure I was too clear in my previous mail - I can get it to scroll
up/down whilst dragging if I move slowly to the
Using IE 7 the Settings/Advanced page looks a bit odd when sized down a
bit... two lots of vertical scroll bars betwen the frames, overlaying
text, erratic behaviour of menu highlighting etc.
Thanks - change 15821 should fix this.
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Softsqueeze 3.5 is installed and seems to run ok from the GUI. But if
I try to control it from the SC7 web interface it quickly misbehaves
(won't play tracks) and crashes (the GUI stops - I have to close
Softsqueeze and restart it).
The subject suggests that the problem only arises when
When I try to control it with the web interface, then *Softsqueeze*
crashes but the server keeps going.
Would the same happen if you browse any other page? Or if you accessed the
web interface from another computer?
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OK - you're spelling squeezecentre wrong aren't you!
(Probably not the best choice of name)
It's always wrong for some of us. What would you think about SqueezeZentrum?
:-)
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With Softsqueeze running, I can do other stuff in the web interface,
including controlling a real SB that is also attached.
Can you run SoftSqueeze from a shell using java -jar SoftSqueeze.jar from
HTML/EN/html/softsqueeze? You should then see error output by SoftSqueeze.
You do not by chance
Having some sort of official yumifizing your
plugins howto would be helpful for plugin developers. Then they could
theoretically keep their own plugins updated in the repo.
We plan to implement a plugin manager in SqueezeCenter, allowing installation
of these extras through the web
Am I supposed to be able to drag and drop items within favorites?
Yes. But what you report looks like some fat bugs. Please file a report
and assign it to me. Thanks!
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I am remember correctly Network Statistics was not on by default in
6.*.* versions. Perhaps this ought to be the case with SC7 too?
The option to disable them was added later - it has always been enabled by
default.
http://svn.slimdevices.com/branches/6.5/server/Slim/Utils/Prefs.pm
On OS X.5 (Leopard) with the latest Firefox I find that I get the
Beachball of Death for a second or two after every page load. Anybody
else see this? During those couple of seconds, nothing responds.
Probably running some javascript code or something.
Do you have Firebug installed? Or some
Thanks. With Library Statistics turned off the Genre Various Artist
queries are almost instant... such a difference. I wonder why?
So do I... Is this reproducable? Did you try a full wipe rescan? Would
it improve? If not, feel free to file a bug report. Please add a SQL log,
too.
Michael
However, I'll need to know how to provide an sql log.
Settings/Advanced/Logging - set database.sql to Debug
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I'm seeing some visual peculiarities with the default skin on IEv6,
that at first I thought were just Magnatune problems. The first item in
a list (e.g. the Artists list) doesn't highlight correctly on mouseover,
and there's some ugly fringes around some of the graphics. I'm on IE
v6.0 on
I'm more and more convinced I've got some corrupt tracks from copying
them from old drive to new drive.
Rebuffering is usually due to network issues or if the server lacks the power
to serve the files. If there's lots going on on your machine or it's short on
memory, this could happen.
I upgraded to the latest SC on the 30th of december when I installed
the second SB. The problem is, since connecting the second SB /
updating SC, I'm having drop outs.
I guess you did have to do a firmware update, too? Do you see the drop-outs on
all players?
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1-9. Mama
Virgin's 21st Anniversary Sampler (1983)
Genesis, Banks/Collins/Rutherford, Various Artists
That's good looking :-).
1-4. Ashes to Ashes
Scary Monsters (1980)
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie
That's not.
In all other places the information looks fine (eg in the Track info
Otherwise the information can just look silly and repetitive, eg
1-4. Ashes to Ashes
Scary Monsters (1980)
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie
This is fixed in the next nightly build (or SVN rev 15996).
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If I enter Järvi into the page header search edit box, the search
returns No search results. But if I enter Jarvi, the search
returns Albums matching Jarvi: 17 with all the albums containing
Järvi in the title.
I think there's still an issue in the http handler messing up non-latin
I can't reproduce it by restarting squeezecenter - so I'll see what
happens when I apt-get upgrade next. Is it possible a cache gets wiped
and not recreated or something?
Or as scan was still running when you opened the page for the first time?
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Please _completely_ uninstall your SC, make sure there's no SqueezeCenter
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customer going to know what OPML is, do you think, and even after
reading Wikipedia, will they be any closer to understanding what an
OPML Playlist is, and how they use it?
The OPML editor must be enabled manually in the _Advanced_ menu. Don't go
there, don't enable it if you don't know what
I'm intruigued to know how it works though. The url added to favorites looks
like db:album.titlesearch=IN%20RAINBOWS for Radioheads latest album.
Yes, it's a valid URL type.
Also, I went to a Greatest Hits album (one of many with the same album
name), and indeed the link looks like
There appear to be other places in the web UI that don't currently have
add/remove favorites icons. Eg. Search results.
16111 adds them to the search results. Please let me know if you know others.
Oh... songinfo page...
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1. Do i need to clear cache,log,pref at C:\Program Data\SqueezeCenter\?
You should not need to. But it usually doesn't hurt deleting Cache (except it
will do a full rescan of your collection).
2. I have several stations saved in favorites, will i get back these
saved stations after uninstall
Am i right to say i should not delete pref folder?
Yes. At least make a backup before doing so.
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7.0 yesterday. i chose to go with the beta, despite my lack of
experience since it seems so close to release.
A good choice!
do i know which of the nightly updates i should install and how do i
Depends on your operating system. If you're on Windows, just take the .exe file.
install them
No, it's definitely occurring when I go through the New Music link.
Frankly, I never use Browse Music Folder.
Ok, saw it. Will investigate later. Thanks!
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etc. If you go to the same album via the Music Library - New Music
path, you see nada. Just the album art and the list of tracks.
The subject is a bit misleading (or wrong): what you say is true for Browse
Music Folder, but not for New Music. You don't see any more information in BMF
as
a fix is in svn at 16190.
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ARTIST=Paul Simon
ARTIST=Art Garfunkel
ALBUMARTIST=Simon Garfunkel
I'm wondering if this is a change
Yes, it has been added this week. And computers are stupid: how should they
know that the above in fact are only two? You wouldn't want them to consider
Elvis the same artist as Elvis
A bug?
Yes, synching is under discussion right now, as we seem to have found three
different ways to implement it (player, web, controller). Expect fixed
behaviour soon.
But most importantly: you shouldn't even be able to select a stream.mp3 player
as a device to sync with. It can't be
All my VA albums include the following extra tags:
Compilation=1
AlbumArtist=
I'm sure you've disabled any third party plugin and done a full wipe rescan
to be sure?
I'm a bit flummoxed. I'm sure it's simple but so far it's beaten me.
Sometimes things aren't simple. I'm trying to
I've found that SC7 scanner log file is almost 1gb.
Ouch... you're on Windows? AFAIK log rotation is done on *x systems. But
Windows is still an open request:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943
The server log file seems to suffer from a similar problem but grows
more slowly
I am logging at the default level and it can only be two or three weeks
since I did a full reinstall of SC so it appears to grow pretty fast.
But you can move the old log aside, forcing SC to create a new one. In a
week you safely delete 1GB of log files. Consider this the poor man's log
Joking aside, I don't understand your comment.
Artist and albumartist are different contributor types. And as they aren't
identical neither they're three different in this case. It's probably
related to the VA searching issue I'm currently trying to understand: if I
have a compilation with
The log file had reached 1gb and was too large to look at so could get
no info there.
Please delete that file and try again. Or at least move it somewhere else.
My library contains 1500 flac albums and I've noticed that when I
action a full clear and rescan SC7 becomes unstable (locks up)
When I select a RadioIO feed the icon appears in the right hand panel
and larger in the now playing bar - this looks great.
All the others (Staff Picks, Ratio Time, SHOUTcast, AlienBBC) don't do
this, they just display the radio transmission tower icon. - can these
show their icons like
Information Browser displays the logo from the information source (BBC,
CNET, NY Times etc...) but as a square image, this looks a bit iffy if
the original is rectangular, have a look at: Home Information
Browser NYT NYTimes.com Home
Hmm... interesting. It's using the Album view :-). I'm
There are some problems with Squeezenetwork... the wizard wanted my
login. I wouldn't be surprised if it's expired, as I never use
Squeezenetwork. Anyway, since the setup wizard insists, I tried a
It should not insist. Wouldn't you be able to skip it if you didn't enter
anything? The current
Is this a known bug?
It's working for me. Please flush your browser's cache and force a full reload.
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I also discovered that not only Pandora but RadioTime also does not
work from the palyer when it is connected to local slimserver: error,
can't connect to server.
Then you have a network configuration issue. This most likely is a dns or
gateway set wrong. Or temporary connectivity problems on
Not sure what I've done wrong, as I'm sure that this was working before,
but I'm finding that the icons for Internet Radio Stations and Music
Services are not loading (neither on the Web UI or on the JHB).
We have moved around some artwork files. Those files should now be under the
plugin's
Since a couple of days ago, I see these in the server.log:
[08-01-13 12:00:39.3242] Slim::Networking::Select::select (245) Error:
Select task failed: Can't use an undefined value as a SCALAR reference
at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Web/Graphics.pm line 188.
Please see the following thread (which is
My SB volume display has recently changed from the nice friendly
0-100 display/setting to a new bar graph and weird db display that
makes no sense at all to me.
That's part of my MusicInfoSCR - if you've installed it :-). You can disable it
in the player settings/Music Information Screen.
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I'm a little less uncertain about BAND, which is widely used like album
artist, but maybe could be considered as a real contributor to a song, rather
than presentation/grouping.
I think ALBUMARTIST isn't even a standard tag, but an iTunes thing. More
standard is BAND or TPE2. ALBUMARTIST is
But, in good news I just upgraded to the latest nightly and it's
working again for me :)
Thanks for the feedback. I started to worry about this as I wasn't able to
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Perhaps my attempts at humor were not understood or appreciated.
Ahm... I interpreted it as a parody of what will be going on in our support
department, sorry. Your _question_ has been drowned in too much humor, I guess.
Yes, I do have my files on a network drive. Win XP? Yes. As a
Lol Oh dear, sorry about that. Yes I had installed it, although in my
defence it was to support Trackstat and I hadn't realised there would
be other side effects.
It's a feature, not a side-effect. But it's an optional feature, so you can
turn it off.
Just out of interest, what are the db
name resolution is OK. Pandora and RadioTime also work fine when the
player is connected to SqueezeNetwork, it only fails when connected to
local SqueezeCenter. So I guess it's not as simple as some network
configuration setting screwed...
Try increasing the Radio Station Timeout in
Filed bug 6609 on this:
No need to start a thread once the bug is filed. This only risks to scatter
around the discussion. Better start a thread first - some bugs are solved by
explanation ;-)
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ALBUMARTIST is imho mapped to BAND, as does eg. mp3tag as well.
mp3tag is my main tag editor. The author did change a recent developer build
(v2.39h) to make TPE2 map to ALBUMARTIST. However, this change was reverted
a couple of days later (v2.39i). ALBUMARTIST is a TXXX frame. They are
This ONLY occurs on the home page. If I'm browsing artists/albums, no
problems... If I leave it on the home page
(http://localhost.localdomain:9000/) then it appears to be stuck in a
state of loading
Do you still see this issue after you have
- installed the latest build
- cleared your
The problem is that I don't see a way to stop Slimsever any more.
Slimtray just offers Open Squeezecenter, Go to LogiTech Web Site and
Exit.
You'll have to use Windows' service manager.
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I checked it but the player screensaver is set to 'Date and time
screensaver'. In the player section there is no option to change the
time format though.
Sorry, it's not in the player settings... Settings-Plugins(Extras)-Date
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As I mentioned, I am running SqueezeCenter (the latest nightly) on two
different machine. One is running as a service and the other is not.
How did that happen? How can I switch back and forth between running as
a service and running as an application?
Start - SqueezeCenter - Manage startup
I found Component Manager.
Just to be sure: it's the service manager you need.
Is it possible to run SqueezeCenter the way
it was in version 6.x, controlling it from SlimTray?
The short answer is: no. The long answer can be found in a thread where we were
discussing pro and contra running
I like the time format to be 24 hour notation but none of the format
change result in a different display of the time format when the SB is
off.
The screensaver can overwrite SC's setting. You'll find it in the player
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However, SC does not accept mixes passed to it from MIP. MIP gives
Error sending playlist to player. If I change the MIP Send to
preference to Winamp (or any other) it functions correctly.
On which of your systems is this? Is SC running as a service or app?
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It should work, but I don't use the .deb so can't confirm directly.
Is this what you fixed in 16266?
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Is this change just in documentation/discussions or have you actually
changed something in the code that I should adapt to ?
No, it all should be covered by the strings changes we did. All you'd have
to do is update your documentation.
(don't tell anyone, but in the code the menu items are
Are there other valid db: link formats? eg, for artist name search?
Yes. A quick grep resultet in some of the following:
db:contributor.namesearch=%s
db:genre.namesearch=%s
db:year.id=%s
There are very likely more, eg. for all of the Schemas defined.
Would this produce a heirarchy of
I frequently reinstall squeezecenter from scratch and while I love the
install-wizard-like prompts, asking where your music is stored,
playlists stored, etc... I do wish I had the option of NOT scanning my
music right away and here's why:
Hmm... the wizard should only be run the very first
1) I should run as a service.
This depends on your use case. I do prefer it.
2) The Music Folder (under Basic Settings) should be
//RedSavina/media/music instead of R:\Music.
Just make sure you use backslashes instead. And you run the service under
your user account (the option is given in
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