The new client is pretty slick with some creature comforts.
It does not work with Real Slim. Real Slim does not recognize that
Rhapsody is running.
It does download 160kbps audio files. Mine show up as WMAs but I think
its likely that WMP is my default player for the type it downloads.
malsbury Wrote:
pbrubaker wrote:
Are you by chance using the Primary Sound Driver option in the audio
settings section of the preferences? I was seeing a similar behavior
this morning, and was able to get around it by changing the setting to
Java Sound Audio Engine
You'll seriously
Dan Sully Wrote:
What version of MusicMagic are you running?
I downloaded it from the Predixis site a few days ago - 1.1.4, I
believe.
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or alternatively, don't do a complete
recheck until the size of the main folder has stabilised for a certain
duration ? (maybe that's what the setting does?)
No, the scan just checks for the modified time changing on the XML file.
This seems like a really sensible suggestion as the user's
I see this too, any time anything new gets added to the MM library. The
CPU usage does return to normal after a while, though.
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also restart your slimserver and/or your PC. I have found that when
AlienBBC crashes it locks the slimserver solid, and becasue the
squeezebox depends on the server for _everything_ a dead slimserver
will make the squeezebox look dead too.
Pete
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Thanks for the replies.
I have power cycled a number of times, to no avail. I get the audio
thump on power-on, but no display or web control.
The web server was running, but I restarted it anyway.
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ChrisB Wrote:
I see this too, any time anything new gets added to the MM library.
The
CPU usage does return to normal after a while, though.
Chris, how long is a while? I tried leaving it on the basis that it
could take a while to initialise the first time but gave up after, say,
an hour.
Sorry, I don't tend to keep a stopwatch on it, but it does seem to take
quite a while (30 mins?), even for small additions (10-20 tracks) to my
library.
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On 4/27/05, Matt Alioto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I get the following errors when scan hits a particular .ape file.
I have others that don't seem to have a problem.
This causes slimserver to become unresponsive.
Process still runs but SB and SB2 loose connection and web interface
times
I get the following errors when scan hits a particular .ape file.
I have others that don't seem to have a problem.
This causes slimserver to become unresponsive.
Process still runs but SB and SB2 loose connection and web interface
times out.
Running on Solaris 10, 6.0.2 4/26/05 candidate
That's not exactly true. With the default setting, SlimServer will
wait a minimum of 60 seconds after ending an import of your iTunes
library before starting a new one. If your library is very large and
you are ripping for a long time, you may see that the iTunes importing
is running most of
Which version of slimserver are you using?
On Apr 26, 2005, at 3:37 AM, mcauter wrote:
My wireless SB2 is connected wirelessly via a router to the server. It
is a permanent on connection which works very well except from time to
time (2-3 times a week) the clock screensaver stops at a certain
I've seen the same delayed/queued display updates using a recent 6.0.2
nightly (from about one week ago).
It's not just the clock; it's a more generalized problem, one that I've
most recently seen in scrolling Now Playing info.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out how to cause the
ChrisB Wrote:
Sorry, I don't tend to keep a stopwatch on it, but it does seem to take
quite a while (30 mins?), even for small additions (10-20 tracks) to
my
library.
Blimey, that's quite a hit. That means every time you add something to
your library you need to wait for MM to analyse and
Indeed.
BTW KDF changed the iTunes scan for 6.1 - setting the interval to 0
should now disable the automated scans.
James
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don't think it's a problem with the file/encoding etc. as it works fine
in version 5.x... must be summat borked in the code for 6 that just
doesn't understand it..
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Phillip Kerman wrote:
Looks pretty good for me so far. One weird thing, on my SB2 I got into a
situation where the FLACs (I didn't test anything else) played in FF mode.
I even turned it off then on again and it would be playing FF. I think I
recovered by pressing and holding the | button.
By
I do not work with playlists, I always start my music using browse music
folder.
Since upgrading to Slimserver version 6 I noticed that the reaction to my
remote-commands are very much slower.
I was under the impression there was another database architecture so that
response would be faster?
No dice. Java Sound Audio Engine will still not play unless the
playback is paused and unpaused.
And on a side note, I'm downsampling the audio to 96kbps because I have
a really crappy upload speed on my home connection, so I really wouldnt
notice any extra distortion that the Java Sound Audio
Great news.
Steven Moore
On 27 Apr 2005, at 5:39 pm, Craig, James (IT) wrote:
Indeed.
BTW KDF changed the iTunes scan for 6.1 - setting the interval to 0
should now disable the automated scans.
James
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Server: All versions, Windows XP SP2.
Hardware: Squeezebox MK1
This has been happenig for around a month now, despite complete
uninstalls of Slimserver, installs of official release versions,
installs of latest nightly etc... etc... I've decided it is an issue
with my system somewhere and had
Jim wrote:
I can play FLAC files on my SB1 if I run the Slimserver under my
administrator account (not as a service).
You've checked the permissions on the FLAC files, have you checked
permissions on the decoder?
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snip
I can play FLAC files on my SB1 if I run the Slimserver under my
administrator account (not as a service).
If I run Slimserver as a service (under account SYSTEM) it skips over
all FLAC files, yet plays everything else.
snip
Any other logs
fuzzyT Wrote:
You've checked the permissions on the FLAC files, have you checked
permissions on the decoder?
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As stated:
Jim Wrote:
*I've checked the Effective Permissions for the flac.exe* and SYSTEM has
full control, SYSTEM also has full control of all FLAC files and all
I'm still having this problem and would appreciate any help in finding a
solution. When slimserver tries to start at system startup, it fails
with the following error message:
Unable to set effictive group(s) to slimserver (1001) is: 1001:
Note the carriage return at the end of that output,
Jim wrote:
*I've checked the Effective Permissions for the flac.exe* and SYSTEM has
full control, SYSTEM also has full control of all FLAC files and all
programs in the Slimserver folder.
sorry about that, scanned too quickly.
next up: are the FLAC files on a local drive? SYSTEM only has
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:31:38 +0200, max.spicer
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I'm still having this problem and would appreciate any help in finding a
solution. When slimserver tries to start at system startup, it fails
with the following error message:
Unable to set effictive group(s) to slimserver
As a test I've set my music playlist library to point to C:\Program
Files\Slimserver\Music
I copied a FLAC there, and again rechecked the permissions on the
file.
I try to play the song and the same happens.
A temp playlist was created in this folder however, which again
suggests that System
Phillip Kerman wrote:
Looks pretty good for me so far. One weird thing, on my SB2
I got into a
situation where the FLACs (I didn't test anything else)
played in FF mode.
I even turned it off then on again and it would be playing
FF. I think I
recovered by pressing and holding the |
Now I am baffled.
I've changed the Slimserver service to logon as my account (Jim).
When starting Slimserver manually under this account remember that it
worked.
However running as a service under this account made it fail.
I have tweaked/disabled a few services on this XP install and it is
mherger Wrote:
Does your user slimserver exist (grep slimserver /etc/passwd)? Does it
have read/write access to /etc/slimserver.conf and
/etc/sysconfig/slimserver? If the very first time slimserver was
started
as root, there might be permission problems with these files.
Slimserver
[..]
To be paranoid, I've checked /etc/passwd and /etc/group and the user
and group are in there.
Have you also checked permissions on the two files I mentioned? slimserver
should be owner of /etc/slimserver.pref.
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mherger Wrote:
Have you also checked permissions on the two files I mentioned?
slimserver
should be owner of /etc/slimserver.pref.
# ls -l slimserver.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 slimserver slimserver 16397 Apr 27 19:58 slimserver.conf
/etc/sysconfig/slimserver does not exist (this is Debian), but:
I was under the impression that it should be possible to place shortcuts
to other folders within the folder that SlimServer scans in order to
include music held elsewhere.
Well, I've tried it and it just doesn't seem to work. Even a shortcut
to another folder on the same disk didn't get picked
To be paranoid, I've checked /etc/passwd and /etc/group and the user
and group are in there.
...and do the numerical IDs correspond? Just a thought... I'm sure it's a
permission issue ;-)
What about those two other files/folders /var/log/slimserver.log
/var/cache/slimserver?
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Please file a bug and attach the track to the report. This looks like you have
some sort of corrupted tags that cause the parser to run past the end of the
file. One case that caused this in the past was ID3 tags written in and
overlapping the APEtags. The current module should be handling
Any ideas on this? It seems to be tied in to losing the network
connection very briefly - put it in my field of view and even when on
standby was aware every so often of the clock stopping, then flashing
up a lost connection message, then going back to normal. Wireless
signal's always 50% when
Here's the output from my d_source / dsource_v:
Code:
2005-04-27 16:32:09.6350 Setting maxBitRate for Living Room to: 0
2005-04-27 16:32:09.6352 Setting maxBitRate for Living Room to: 0
2005-04-27 16:32:12.2343 Backtrace:
frame 0:
Happy to jump on the grenade. Least I could do.
It will be a few days before I can get back into this. I did notice
that you can download in different file formats. Perhaps wma is not
the best to stream this kind of protected content from. Maybe better
as mp3? Anyway, hang in there.
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and do the numerical IDs correspond? Just a thought... I'm sure it's
a
permission issue ;-)
What about those two other files/folders /var/log/slimserver.log
/var/cache/slimserver?
dante:/etc# ls -l /var/cache/slimserver/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 slimserver root 4096
I believe that Brose Music Folder is slower in some cases, although I'm
not sure as I don't use it much. Search the forum and I'm sure you'll
find the details.
But - you don't need to use playlists to use the regular browse
funtions. I have 10k tracks and not a single playlist, I just browse by
Quoting Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Here's the output from my d_source / dsource_v:
well, I haven't looked at enough flac source debugs to be sure, but the only
thing that stood out for me was the --skip=0 --until=-0. That could be the
proper output for a full single track, but again, I haven't
Is it me, or has someone recently changed the volume control in
SlimServer from 1-20 to 1-11? I could have sworn the maximum was 20 a
few days ago, but it's now 11 in the 1.0.x branch that I'm running
(last updated a couple of days ago). I highly approve of being able to
go to 11 when I need
SoftSqueeze works, but I guess that's because it is transcoding to FLAC
like a Squeezebox 2.
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Quoting jonsandys [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Any ideas on this? It seems to be tied in to losing the network
connection very briefly - put it in my field of view and even when on
standby was aware every so often of the clock stopping, then flashing
up a lost connection message, then going back to
Quoting max.spicer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is it me, or has someone recently changed the volume control in
SlimServer from 1-20 to 1-11? I could have sworn the maximum was 20 a
few days ago, but it's now 11 in the 1.0.x branch that I'm running
(last updated a couple of days ago). I highly
Is it me, or has someone recently changed the volume control in
SlimServer from 1-20 to 1-11? I could have sworn the maximum was 20 a
few days ago, but it's now 11 in the 1.0.x branch that I'm running
(last updated a couple of days ago). I highly approve of being able to
go to 11 when I need
kdf Wrote:
Default skin has always gone to 11.
I've realised the confusion - it's because SoftSqueeze (and assumedly
SB2 - I'd know if mine ever arrives...) goes up to 40. Is it a Spinal
Tap reference? I hope so!
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mherger Wrote:
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads-5.4.1.html - in the web
interface
it's been 11 for quite a while. The player uses another scale.
It's touches like that that make me glad I've bought a Squeezebox!
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The wild things roared their terrible roars and
Is it me, or has someone recently changed the volume control in
SlimServer from 1-20 to 1-11? ...
I highly approve of being able to
go to 11 when I need that little bit more! ;-)
in the web interface it's been 11 for quite a while. The player uses
another scale.
This feature appeared around
I have exactly the same issue and have tried a number of nightly builds
(currently on 6.0.1 2781).
I actually bought MusicMagic specifically for the Slim integration, but
given my machine grinds to a halt (AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with a GB of RAM)
everytime I add tracks I have had to disable the MM
* Chris Howard shaped the electrons to say...
I actually bought MusicMagic specifically for the Slim integration, but
given my machine grinds to a halt (AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with a GB of RAM)
everytime I add tracks I have had to disable the MM - Slim linkage.
I see 100% CPU for periods of around 30
This is getting increasinly more complicated.
When I turn on the dsource logging whilst running the SlimServer in
working mode (i.e. started as an application rather than a service)
the server crashes!
I look at the processes and flac.exe has started and is doing nothing.
I'm running out of
time to see if this fixes my slow/frozen screens
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Yes - 100% completed - status bar is reading 0 / 0 / 0 so all tracks
have been analysed / added etc.
Whether I start slim.exe manually or via the service it starts ok then
within about 5-10 minutes it will ramp up to 100% CPU and stay there
for 20-30 minutes. It will then come back down again.
Managed to get a working log, cleared the cache:
2005-04-27 17:46:03.9242 00:04:20:05:8e:14: Switching to mode play from
stop
2005-04-27 17:46:03.9359 openSong on:
file:///C:/Program%20Files/SlimServer/MUSIC/01%20-%20Computer%20World.flac
2005-04-27 17:46:03.9389 openSong: getting
Non-unix users, move along - there's nothing to see!
I've just added a logrotate entry for slimserver. The postrotate entry
is currently /etc/init.d/slimserver restart, which just kills slimserver
and restarts it. I'm unlikely to be listening to music when this
happens, but it would be a pain
We're happy to announce a maintenance release of SlimServer 6.0.2. As
always, the latest release is available for download (and Torrent) via
http://www.slimdevices.com/download.
This releases fixes several bugs in the previous 6.0.x releases. For a
full list of changes, please see
kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it reads the data fairly fast. The problem is that MusicMagic itself can take
DAYS to run full profiles on all the songs. This means that the database is
always changing, so the server will keep reloading the musicmagic data 60's
seconds after it finishes the
Quoting Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is getting increasinly more complicated.
When I turn on the dsource logging whilst running the SlimServer in
working mode (i.e. started as an application rather than a service)
the server crashes!
what's the crash message?
-kdf
OK, so now I'm puzzled. Has a turd been planted somewhere in the
registry or something?
I decide to uninstall Slimserver and install it again to C:\Program
Files\Blah
The working log now says C:\PROGRA~1\BLAH\, the non-working
C:\Program Files\Blah\
So again I uninstall Slimserver and install
Sorry guys, I had assumed that the sb2 would have at least implemented
the same feature-set (treble + bass controls) as the sb1... being a
newer product and all.
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Thanks Jim. As I think about it, it may be because I have it set up as
follows: drive/A SELECTION OF TWO DIFFERENT FOLDERS (FLAC
MUSIC)/Artists/Albums/Tracks
If I got rid of the two different folders within the drive, I am
thinking that it will expand down to the track level.
I think it can
kdf Wrote:
what's the crash message?
-kdf
Cannot replicate that again, think it's just a red herring.
The interesting thing now is why Slimserver is using the path/file to
flac.exe C:\Program
Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\flac.exe when
running as a service, which
Yes - 100% completed - status bar is reading 0 / 0 / 0 so all tracks
have been analysed / added etc.
Whether I start slim.exe manually or via the service it starts ok then
within about 5-10 minutes it will ramp up to 100% CPU and stay there
for 20-30 minutes. It will then come back down
i see shorten listed as windows-only support. my slimserver is running
on osx.
although the time it would take to script converting all my shn to flac
would be significantly less than it would take to write osx support,
i'll still bite. before i dig too much thought is there some serious
reason
On 4/27/05, bill fumerola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i see shorten listed as windows-only support. my slimserver is running
on osx.
Bill,
I use shorten just fine on my Linux box. I think I compiled my
shorten binary myself and it just worked. I'd recommend giving it a
shot.
Ben
Just installed SlimServer on my laptop.
All works absolutely fine on here.
So this proves 3 things:
1 - It is not a player (hardware) issue.
2 - It is not a network issue.
3 - I do know what I am doing.
So back to my server
If all security settings were not correct 2 things would
kdf Wrote:
not implemented is not the same as taken out. The SB2 is an entirely
different
creature from the SB1. It, or something like it, will come in time, I'm
sure.
-kdf
Not wishing to be pedantic, but if you go from version 1 of something
to version 2 of the same thing, and whilst
Quoting Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The interesting thing now is why Slimserver is using the path/file to
flac.exe C:\Program
Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\flac.exe when
running as a service, which doesn't work. And why it then uses
Quoting radish [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Not wishing to be pedantic, but if you go from version 1 of something
to version 2 of the same thing, and whilst doing so a feature ceases to
exist, I'd be happy using the phrase taken out. Sure, the technology
under the hood is totally new, and I quite
My XP installation is working fine for everything - except this.
Long ago (up this thread) I had resorted to having 1 test FLAC file in
the same folder as Slimserver.
I also tested this from C:\MUSIC too.
Just one file.
Rather than reinstall XP I'd like to find out the root of the problem -
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:07:37PM -0500, Ben Sandee wrote:
On 4/27/05, bill fumerola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i see shorten listed as windows-only support. my slimserver is running
on osx.
I use shorten just fine on my Linux box. I think I compiled my
shorten binary myself and it just
No, I wrote it.
Jim wrote:
I didn't write this!
I presume this is a bug with the post to forum via email feature?
Jim Wrote:
relen wrote:
This means that basically the quickest way of listening to Live365
stations with a VIP account is to have them in your favorites list
at
Live365 and access
Wanted to make sure I'm not missing something (including a previous bug filing) before I file this. When I initiate playing via the remote and then subsequently add songs via the CLI, "Now Playing' does not correctly display the song playing.
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On 4/27/05, abunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I just start music magic in the absence of slim,
the cpu pegs and the MusicMagicMixer.exe is the culprit. But, no
analysis is being done. At least, it claims not (there are a few tracks
that mm lists as unanalyzable - too short). It's a drag; but
Wanted to make sure I'm not missing something (including a previous bug
filing)
before I file this. When I initiate playing via the remote and then
subsequently
add songs via the CLI, Now Playing' does not correctly display the song
playing.
Whenever you post a problem, _please_ include the
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