Re: [slim] SB2 wireless - peer to peer - ad hoc ??

2005-05-08 Thread dean blackketter
While you could set up an ad hoc network with a wireless card, I'd strongly recommend getting an inexpensive wireless router and connect your desktop to that via ethernet. Then connect your Squeezebox to the router wirelessly. It'll be easier to set up, be more reliable and probably cost le

[slim] Re: Slimserver widget

2005-05-08 Thread harald . walker
Hi Stephen, Have a look at: http://www.bitwalker.nl/software/dashboard/slimcontrol Regards, Harald -- harald.walker ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2

2005-05-08 Thread TomGoodacre
Yep it is Sunday although do Slim Devices not provide tech support on a Saturday? I sent them an email as soon as I opened this thread - let's hope we get some response tomorrow as it seems like there are quite a few people with this problem..h.not so good when you're paying £200. I'll

[slim] Re: Can't find all flac files in Music Folder

2005-05-08 Thread HankD
Yeah, wipe cache seem to be the only way to get SlimServer to notice the updated music folder. The running of the scan never seems to stop though...but I checked the folder even if the text was still displayed saying SlimServer was scanning the music library or something. And it was updated. Reali

[slim] SB2 wireless - peer to peer - ad hoc ??

2005-05-08 Thread Deaf Cat
Hiya, Just sorting out what exactly I need to run the SB2 without wires. I have an old desk top win98 AMD 300MHz, and a more recent XP 1.2GHz laptop. It would be nice to use the desk top as the base / music store if possible. To start with though - do you think I would be able to get a wirel

[slim] Re: Where to buy SB2 in the UK?

2005-05-08 Thread slayaz
I got my SB1 abd SB2 ffom multitask and can say their service is excellent! -- slayaz -- In a land of sheep, even a toothless wolf is king ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Stability of v6.02

2005-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
What does the logfile say (/tmp/slimserver.log by default)? Are you using MySQL as database? I am using MySQL. Thought so ;-). There's a known problem with slimserver losing its connection to MySQL. The but 947 contains an "experimental fix" for this. You could give it a try (http://bugs.sli

Re: [slim] Stability of v6.02

2005-05-08 Thread Krist van Besien
Michael Herger wrote: On my system (a Linux Gentoo box) Slimserver is not very stable at the moment. I will play fine, but often when I leave it alone for a while it just goes away, crashes, stops, whatever. What does the logfile say (/tmp/slimserver.log by default)? Are you using MySQL as d

[slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2

2005-05-08 Thread max . spicer
mherger Wrote: > > Has there been any official comment on this headphone issue? The > Slim > > staff seem to be somewhat quiet! > > It's sunday here... > Fair point. The issue has been discussed for longer than the last two days though. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible

Re: [slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2

2005-05-08 Thread Christian Pernegger
> It might be helpful for all the people with headphone jack problems to > post their MAC addresses, in case this issue can be isolated to a > specific production batch. MAC Address: 00:04:20:05:A2:6A (Slim Devices) I do not have problems with the headphone jack itself, it's a tight enough fit an

Re: [slim] Stability of v6.02

2005-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
On my system (a Linux Gentoo box) Slimserver is not very stable at the moment. I will play fine, but often when I leave it alone for a while it just goes away, crashes, stops, whatever. What does the logfile say (/tmp/slimserver.log by default)? Are you using MySQL as database? -- Michael --

Re: [slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2

2005-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
Has there been any official comment on this headphone issue? The Slim staff seem to be somewhat quiet! It's sunday here... -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___

[slim] Stability of v6.02

2005-05-08 Thread Krist van Besien
Hello, On my system (a Linux Gentoo box) Slimserver is not very stable at the moment. I will play fine, but often when I leave it alone for a while it just goes away, crashes, stops, whatever. This is quite annoying, the 5.x releases happily ran for weeks on end, but now I have to keep starting

[slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2

2005-05-08 Thread max . spicer
Marc Sherman Wrote: > rds wrote: > It might be helpful for all the people with headphone jack problems to > > post their MAC addresses, in case this issue can be isolated to a > specific production batch. > > - Marc Has there been any official comment on this headphone issue? The Slim staff s

Re: [slim] Re: SB1 and Radio Playlists

2005-05-08 Thread kdf
Quoting washburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Where do I put a .pls file so that it acutually shows up as a > playlist? > server settings (link from main page of slimserver web interface) has an option for setting the playlists folder. set that to what you want, and put your playlist files there. -kd

[slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2

2005-05-08 Thread mkosma
On my (new) SB2, the right channel on the headphone jack appears not to work at all. My MAC address is 00:04:20:05:a7:ef. -- mkosma ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Apple Lossless

2005-05-08 Thread shelt
This may be a stupid question, but do you have Quicktime installed on the server box? ALACs won't play via the normal slimserver setup without Quicktime/iTunes installed. -- shelt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.sl

[slim] Re: SB1 and Radio Playlists

2005-05-08 Thread washburn
Many thanks for the patience and advice. Somehow I'd missed that config menu. All's now clear and working nicely. I must say that I'm so far very impressed with this excellent little device! -- washburn ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimde

[slim] Re: Windows Media & Surround sound

2005-05-08 Thread relen
I can play the Hitchhikers surround stream by entering the URL into the server interface, but it is evidently simply transcoded into stereo. It plays at lower level than the stereo version from "Listen Again" (which, incidentally, decodes a little unstably in PLII Movie mode) via AlienBBC but it w

[slim] Re: Where to buy SB2 in the UK?

2005-05-08 Thread lostboy
The dealer links on the slim devices website mostly hold true, but the active dealers seem to be www.multitask-computing.co.uk or www.broadbandstuff.co.uk (who claim to have black SB2 in stock of both flavours) - you could also try www.advancedmp3players.co.uk (but check you're getting an SB2). I

[slim] Re: SB1 and Radio Playlists

2005-05-08 Thread lostboy
Wasburn, go to the slimserver home page. Under the settings menu - select 'server settings'. You will then see an entry labelled 'playlists folder'. Type in the path of the directory where you want to save the playlists and select change. You may then need to 'rescan' (on the same settings pa

[slim] Where to buy SB2 in the UK?

2005-05-08 Thread pasodoble
Sorry if it's been asked before, but I can't seem to find any. I bought my SB1s from Dabs and it's disappeared off their roster of products. -- pasodoble ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinf

[slim] Re: SB1 and Radio Playlists

2005-05-08 Thread washburn
Ok, let me try to put my question more simply: .pls files I put in C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server don't show in Slimserver under "playlists" or when I go to "playlists" on the squeezebox itself. (all I get are CDDB, MP3, and SHOUTCAST menus to choose from). Where do I put a .pls file so tha

[slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2

2005-05-08 Thread cliveb
Marc Sherman Wrote: > > It might be helpful for all the people with headphone jack problems to > post their MAC addresses, in case this issue can be isolated to a > specific production batch. Just in case it's any use to the folks looking into this, my SB2 (wired) was bought in the UK through Br

Re: [slim] Re: Artwork size

2005-05-08 Thread Victor Brilon
On May 8, 2005, at 1:45 AM, Old Guy wrote: PS: By the way, I have filed a enhancement request (#1515) for "auto-resizing" the artwork on the album page. I suspect that this feature would not be useful enough to the majority of users to be included in Slim. Why not just run a few lines of perl (or

[slim] Re: Running SlimServer alongside iTunes?

2005-05-08 Thread conger
I have a SoundBridge M1000 (2.15) that I use (both together) Itunes for streaming mp3's and Slimserver 6.0.3 with AlienBBC for streaming BBC radio. It works perfectly. (PC with XP SP2.) My understanding of the SB is that there will be native Apple Lossless decoding very soon with Roku community

Re: [slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2

2005-05-08 Thread Philip Meyer
>It might be helpful for all the people with headphone jack problems to >post their MAC addresses, in case this issue can be isolated to a >specific production batch. > Good idea. Mine is 00:04:20:05:A9:64 Phil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.

[slim] Re: Running SlimServer alongside iTunes?

2005-05-08 Thread relen
kdf Wrote: > sorry, > roku hardware is not supported through this for, nor is its use with > slimserver > or any interactions with other software with roku hardware connected. The Roku Soundbridge, when used with SlimServer, essentially emulates a text-based Squeezebox 1. This was nice in its da

[slim] Re: Compatibility with Apple 10.4 Tiger

2005-05-08 Thread relen
Hi, Luke... I had the Tiger beachball problem, in particular when switching between apps, though I am not running SS on Tiger. I upgraded four machines from Panther to Tiger and only one of them had the problem (Dual 1.25GHz G4). From the Apple forums it would appear that several dual-processor

Re: [slim] 6.1 Crashes @ Searches from SB

2005-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
Since nightly-build 2005_05_06 (the one i see this first) SS crashes on my linux-box (cent-os 3.4) if use the search function from SB. When searching for song titles it's crashing in another place, too. I opened this as bug 1516 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516) -- Michael -

[slim] Re: Artwork size

2005-05-08 Thread Old Guy
A-ha! It solved. My system deletes cache every night, so this is not much issue for me... Thansk, kdf! -- Old Guy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: CPU Utilization Slim V6.0.2 and iTunes

2005-05-08 Thread Dan Sully
* tschmidt shaped the electrons to say... Yes, I have a playlist that is all the songs in iTunes that are not checked (about 7000 songs). That is the only way in iTunes to filter unchecked songs out of the library. It is also an autoupdating playlist. So does slim server reload the entire playli

[slim] Re: Search options

2005-05-08 Thread cliveb
JJZolx Wrote: > I don't think there's such an option, but unless you're actually > entering artists using the convention "LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME" then it > wouldn't work anyway. If you _are_ doing that, then it's probably > unusual enough that there hasn't been much, if any, demand for such > behav

Re: [slim] 6.1 Crashes @ Searches from SB

2005-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
Since nightly-build 2005_05_06 (the one i see this first) SS crashes on my linux-box (cent-os 3.4) if use the search function from SB. [..] Are there other people have this problem? Yes, I do with the latest trunk from SVN. -- Michael --- Help

Re: [slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2

2005-05-08 Thread Mark Bennett
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 20:58 -0400, Marc Sherman wrote: > It might be helpful for all the people with headphone jack problems to > post their MAC addresses, in case this issue can be isolated to a > specific production batch. Good idea, mine are: 00-04-20-05-a8-ec and 00-04-20-05-a9-0d, both prod