[slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread Bruce Hartley
I don't know about the whole profiles thing, maybe that's overkill. But I would like a way of segmenting the music library. Particularly I would like a way of limiting the choice that the random plugin could make, but I guess that's one for the 3rd party forum. Cheers, Bruce. -- Bruce

[slim] SlimServer refuses to start on OS X

2005-08-11 Thread JohnK
Hi All, After installing 6.1.2 yesterday on OS X.4.2, slimserver just refuses to start from SystemPreferences pane. Going back to 6.1.1 (which used to work perfectly) now gives the same error. Here is the log but I can't really make any sense of it... 2005-08-11 17:20:23.1315 SlimServer HTTP

[slim] Re: Playlist problems

2005-08-11 Thread mirage62
Just tried the version SlimServer Version: 6.2b1 - 3920 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252, and its still not working m3u files are still scanned in the music dir resulting in strange entrys. I don't think it's quite the same result, but under Browse Artist, No Artist, No Album there is a lot of entrys,

[slim] Re: Browse Artwork - categorise pages by letter, not page number?

2005-08-11 Thread Patrick Dixon
It's a new feature request. You can change the number of items per page though (Server Settings-Interface-Items per Page). I'm using 60, since it's divisible by all the integers up to 6, you should always get a full bottom row of cover artwork - which looks neater! -- Patrick Dixon

[slim] Blanks in Playlists

2005-08-11 Thread Neil Cameron
I am running latest nightlies on Win XP with MP3 files only. A week ago I noticed that when I added a song to a playlist it was added twice; now I am getting blank entries when I add a complete playlist - no song name, but a gap where it should be with the little up, down and delete icons on

[slim] Re: Small FM transmitter...

2005-08-11 Thread Craig
This place seems to have loads of em and UK based too http://www.egears.co.uk/cat_fm.cfm Craig -- Craig ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Multi Folders

2005-08-11 Thread Roy Owen
It appears that you are running some version of Windows, if you are running SS as a service you won't be able to access the network shares via drive letter. Change the SS service to log in as a named user, and then change your short cuts to use UNC notation rather than a drive letter.On 8/10/05,

Re: [slim] SlimServer refuses to start on OS X

2005-08-11 Thread dean blackketter
Is it possible that SlimServer is already running on that machine? What happens if you open http://localhost:9000 in your browser? On Aug 11, 2005, at 12:31 AM, JohnK wrote: Hi All, After installing 6.1.2 yesterday on OS X.4.2, slimserver just refuses to start from SystemPreferences pane.

[slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread Randall
kdf Wrote: were you asking for ideas, or merely giving orders? if it's the latter, you can take a number... http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825 -kdf He ordered me first! -- Randall ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Blanks in Playlists

2005-08-11 Thread dean blackketter
That may indicate that the item in the playlist can't be found by slimserver. Can you check the playlist and see if the song referenced is actually there? On Aug 11, 2005, at 2:15 AM, Neil Cameron wrote: I am running latest nightlies on Win XP with MP3 files only. A week ago I noticed

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread dean blackketter
On Aug 11, 2005, at 7:34 AM, Randall wrote: kdf Wrote: were you asking for ideas, or merely giving orders? if it's the latter, you can take a number... http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825 -kdf He ordered me first! Now, boys, I don't care who started it. Don't make me pull

[slim] player freeze?

2005-08-11 Thread Chris Kantarjiev
I have a Squeezebox (1st version) that suffers from random music dropouts of many seconds. It's over WiFi, and I've always blamed the access point. It's not at all reproducable, I'm afraid - there are times when the buffer display just goes to empty and the music stops. I recently tried running

[slim] Installed SlimServer on Terrastation

2005-08-11 Thread lordboots
So, I grabbed the new open firmware for my Terrastation at: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/itimpi/buffalo.htm and followed the directions at http://fieldnetworks.com/slim/linkstation.html to install slim server, and the Terrastation is now my best friend. The Slim Server runs well on it, and I'm

[slim] Re: player freeze?

2005-08-11 Thread Yannzola
Chris Kantarjiev Wrote: I have a Squeezebox (1st version) that suffers from random music dropouts of many seconds. It's over WiFi, and I've always blamed the access point. It's not at all reproducable, I'm afraid - there are times when the buffer display just goes to empty and the music

Re: [slim] player freeze?

2005-08-11 Thread kdf
This does sound a lot like wireless troubles. The Squeezebox is essentially a dumb terminal. The IR codes are sent to the server, and the server generates all of the responses, text, etc. The player itself does very little, outside of character generation, mixer control and minimal data

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Amster
Randall wrote: kdf Wrote: were you asking for ideas, or merely giving orders? if it's the latter, you can take a number... http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825 -kdf He ordered me first! I did not see the issue until you explained the user/squeezebox control

Re: [slim] Re: player freeze?

2005-08-11 Thread kdf
Quoting Yannzola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW: I've been checking the debugging boxes (_musicmagic, _info, etc.)... hoping to get some diagnostics info, but have as of yet never been able to locate the log.txt file anywhere. It doesn't seem to be getting created anywhere in the Slimserver directory

Re: [slim] player freeze?

2005-08-11 Thread Chris Kantarjiev
This does sound a lot like wireless troubles. The Squeezebox is essentially a dumb terminal. The IR codes are sent to the server, and the server generates all of the responses, text, etc. The player itself does very little, outside of character generation, mixer control and minimal data

[slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread JJZolx
User profiles strike me as a feature that must happen at some point in time. But the idea of multiple libraries is something that wouldn't have to depend on user profiles. It might be a browse level above Browse Music. The question I'd have is how do you designate what is contained within a

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread ron thigpen
JJZolx wrote: But the idea of multiple libraries is something that wouldn't have to depend on user profiles. It might be a browse level above Browse Music. true, it doesn't have to depend on user profile, but it helps. some of the user issues that were driving the requests for multiple

[slim] Re: Playing all songs in folder

2005-08-11 Thread BodieBill
Hi Dean and kdf, Indeed it works starting from the folder itself. I may now re-organize my classical flac files: a multi-movement piece in a separate folder rather than all pieces in one folder. Thanks for helping out. Regards, Dennis -- BodieBill

Re: [slim] player freeze?

2005-08-11 Thread Greg Klanderman
what does it report the wireless signal strength to be? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread kdf
The server does already make use of the HOME environment for users in some OSes. If the server were tweaked a bit to allow it to easily run as multiple servers, the user profile slimply becomes a matter of running the server under a different user, with associated prefs, library, db, etc. You

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread ron thigpen
kdf wrote: The server does already make use of the HOME environment for users in some OSes. If the server were tweaked a bit to allow it to easily run as multiple servers, the user profile slimply becomes a matter of running the server under a different user, with associated prefs, library, db,

[slim] Play other internet radio stations than those in shoutcast, radioio, ...

2005-08-11 Thread tetrode
Hi I just bought the SB2 and I already couldn't live without it. I initially bought it for my CD collection (that I already ripped) but I see now that I am equally (and perhaps more) using it as a radio, thanks to the possibilities in the SB2 to connect to Shoutcast, RadioIO, Podcasts, ...

[slim] Re: Play other internet radio stations than those in shoutcast, radioio, ...

2005-08-11 Thread radish
I think (and I may be wrong) that if you create a playlist (i.e. m3u file) with the URL in it, and throw that in your music directory, it should play it. -- radish ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Play other internet radio stations than those in shoutcast, radioio, ...

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Herger
http://internetradio.vrt.be/dab/hoeluisteren/pc/help/gebruiksvoorwaarden/stream_21.m3U Open the Internet Radio page from the help section. There's a tune in field where you can paste that url. -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer

[slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread JJZolx
fuzzyT Wrote: i'm thinking of multiple libraries all being in the same database, just with tracks having a reference to the library that they belong to. Trying to refactor the existing server to run multiple libraries concurrently would probably end up being very similar to running

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread kdf
Quoting ron thigpen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: also, wouldn't this increase overhead for system resources to load multiple instances of all the server bits? well, I think I'm just getting the impression that demands for how this must work will end up causing the one instance to double up on so much

Re: [slim] Play other internet radio stations than those in shoutcast, radioio, ...

2005-08-11 Thread kdf
Quoting tetrode [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://internetradio.vrt.be/dab/hoeluisteren/pc/help/gebruiksvoorwaarden/stream_21.m3U When I download that via wget, I get a file with three lines in it: http://mp3.streampower.be/ra2ant-mid.mp3 http://mp3.streampower.be/ra2ant-low.mp3

[slim] Re: Play other internet radio stations than those in shoutcast, radioio, ...

2005-08-11 Thread tetrode
thank you - that worked. I am amazed - about the Squeezebox, about its features and the speed of answer in this forum. Mark -- tetrode ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Installed SlimServer on Terrastation

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Edwards
Dave, This is very interesting - I didn't know that SlimServer could be installed on a Terastation. Is there a good recovery path on a Terastation if anything goes wrong? I've installed SlimServer on a Linksys NSLU2 but I knew if anything went wrong there, it was simply a case of reflashing

[slim] Re: Small FM transmitter...

2005-08-11 Thread jscovell
I picked up a microtransmitter last month at Radio Shack for $30. It works fine in my office, uses two AAA batteries or a 5v DC plug-in. Range is stated as being 10 to 30 feet, but I have not experimented much; the radio in my officce is about 10' away. -- jscovell

[slim] timekeeping glitch

2005-08-11 Thread jscovell
Ever since I had a power failure a few days ago, my wireless SB2 hasn't been able to keep the correct time zone. I am in GMT -5, and this is selected both in Slimplayer and SqueezeNetwork home, but the SB2 wanders around the planet no matter what I do. It also won't hold my settings for

[slim] browselist pagebar in xml

2005-08-11 Thread mikeryan
Hi I'm working on a more dynamic web interface using AJAX for the back and forth. I've got a lot working but right now I'm trying to get the browselist_pagebar data from the xml and I can't figure out how to do it. Is there an xml page somewhere from which I can get the info I need to generate

Re: [slim] timekeeping glitch

2005-08-11 Thread kdf
Have you tried re-flashing the firmware? Press-and-hold brightness button to force a firmware reload. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

RE: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread Matt Alioto
well, I think I'm just getting the impression that demands for how this must work will end up causing the one instance to double up on so much already. Its a given that once such a feature is created, there will be a user out there who will demand that it works in every different way

[slim] 543 Users...

2005-08-11 Thread Yannzola
What happened on 04-11-2005 at 05:27 PM? -- Yannzola ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] 543 Users...

2005-08-11 Thread kdf
Quoting Yannzola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What happened on 04-11-2005 at 05:27 PM? I'm guessing you are asking about the 'most users online' bit. the forums went live. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Installed SlimServer on Terrastation

2005-08-11 Thread lordboots
I'm not sure what would happen if you killed your terrastation, but I would guess it shouldn't be too hard to recover. My guess would be that you should be able to flash the thing. I haven't had to recover a dead terrastation yet. The one thing that I consider is this: It's a RAID, so if a

Re: [slim] timekeeping glitch

2005-08-11 Thread dean blackketter
In the network setup, check the MAC address on the player and make sure it matches what's printed on the bottom of the player. If it doesn't press RIGHT to be able to edit it and set it back. -dean On Aug 11, 2005, at 4:16 PM, jscovell wrote: Ever since I had a power failure a few days

Re: [slim] Re: player freeze?

2005-08-11 Thread Renyao
Hi SB2 wireless users, Please Try using 11M 802.11b mode instead of 54M 802.11g mode when you have dropout or similar problems . when using 54M 802.11g wireless mode,the receiving error rate in my computer's network card reaches(5%~30%),and SB2 will refuse to work in about every 50

Re: [slim] Re: player freeze?

2005-08-11 Thread dean blackketter
Renyao, On Aug 11, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Renyao wrote: Please Try using 11M 802.11b mode instead of 54M 802.11g mode when you have dropout or similar problems . when using 54M 802.11g wireless mode,the receiving error rate in my computer's network card reaches(5%~30%),and SB2 will refuse to

[slim] Re: player freeze?

2005-08-11 Thread Chris Kantarjiev
kdf, you must have nailed it. As I wrote, I changed from channel 1 to channel 4, and it's been playing flawlessly for about 12 hours now... FWIW, I'm running 802.11b though a second gen airport. The crash-on-countdown is still there, and I, too, can never get anything meaningful in my logfile,

[slim] Re: player freeze?

2005-08-11 Thread MrC
Remeber too folks, those 2.4Ghz cordless phones wreak havoc on some wireless b connections, as they're in the same band. The manuals or tech support for these phones usually tell you the channel(s) being used by the device. Configuring your AP to avoid those channels will help. -- MrC