There is a KISS server available for the NSLU2:
http://www.mpeg-playcenter.com/modules.php?name=nslu2
Does anyone know if there is a SlimServer version for the NSLU2?
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Does anyone know if there is a SlimServer version for the NSLU2?
One nice things about forums is the fact that you can search them. You
don't even have to subscribe to them - quicker than asking a question.
Searching for nslu2 will give you 45 threads.
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Is there a way to pick up other digital radio stations through the
squeezebox? (SB1, SS 6.0.x)
For example - I was at a friend's place the other day listening to 'Q'
digital radio station through a TV set-top box. I got to thinking that
if SB can play BBC radio stations, is there anything
It plays the bbc feeds by streaming over the net. There is an internet
feed available for Q here:
http://www.emapdigitalradio.com/emapdigitalradio/metafiles/qradio.asx
quality is a bit crap though - mono I think.
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Yep, you're right, they were too small, I resized them to the same width
as my Rotel amp:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxfullwidth.gif
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxfullwidthblack.gif
Screen remains the same size as the current squeezebox.
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audiofi wrote:
Yep, you're right, they were too small, I resized them to the same width
as my Rotel amp:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxfullwidth.gif
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxfullwidthblack.gif
Screen remains the same size as the current squeezebox.
The
It would also be helpful to see the repeat status in the display. Is
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Is there any documentation on how to manipulate the SB2 display
anywhere?
The only plugin that seems to do anything with it is SlimTris and I
can't quite work out what's going on.
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NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and
I'm using a nightly from a couple of days ago and it seems that the menu
behaviour has changed.
I used to be able to drill in the following way using the remote:
Track - Track info, then down to artist, then - and it would show me a
list of all albums by that artist, I could then - again to
I think I've found a bug/issue with the Random Mix feature.
When you go to random track mix, it loads up 10 tracks, when it's played
one, that track gets deleted from the playlist and another one gets
added to the end of the playlist. In this way, it's always on track 1 of
10. OK so far.
audiofi Wrote:
Yep, you're right, they were too small, I resized them to the same width
as my Rotel amp:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxfullwidth.gif
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxfullwidthblack.gif
Screen remains the same size as the current squeezebox.
What about putting the buttons on the top? This would only work if
the sb is the top piece of equipment but it would give it a cleaner
front.
Steven Moore
On 15 Sep 2005, at 12:47PM, Dave D wrote:
audiofi Wrote:
Yep, you're right, they were too small, I resized them to the same
width
Aynsley Blake wrote:
I think I've found a bug/issue with the Random Mix feature.
When you go to random track mix, it loads up 10 tracks, when it's played
one, that track gets deleted from the playlist and another one gets
added to the end of the playlist. In this way, it's always on track 1
Is this using the Music Magic Mixer plugin, or the Mood Logic plugin?
Or is this a functionality provided by SB/SS?
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I'm just working on Dave's suggestions, then I'll try dropping the
controls onto the top.
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One for Robin:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxwheel.gif
and for Dave:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxwidenew.gif
The green button part is meant to be the backlight, the knob didn't
come out very well I'm afraid, I'm still a photoshop beginner.
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Using 6.1.0 - 3758 - Mac OS X 10.4.2 (8C46).
I tried to install the forecaster, album review, Biography, Weather
and recently played plugin's.
Stopped and restarted slimserver from system preferences.
Recently played plug-in works fine the others don't show up at all.
SlimDevices folder in
For a clean look, I'd rather see a fold down door of sorts.
Now what would be really cool (getting out of hand here...)
is the fold down door could house a bluetooth mini keyboard
for total control of the squeezebox.
Forgoing that idea, what about a fold down door with the look and
feel of the
Using 6.1.0 - 3758 - Mac OS X 10.4.2 (8C46).
Uh... I still don't know where you really have to install the plugins on
MacOS X...
Recently played plug-in works fine
Is it really? I thought it was broken some time ago...
the others don't show up at all.
Could you try to run the server from a
Thanks,
On the recently played plug-in I meant to say that it appeared in the
plugins section, I haven't tested it yet, so it may be broken.
I've been trying to restart the server with -d_plugins set but it
seems to reset itself every time I stop the server and restart. $%$%^!
I have
audiofi Wrote:
and for Dave:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxwidenew.gif
Hey, that's not too bad, Andrew, and quick, too. Gee, I only posted it
this morning! There can be tweaks, of course, since this is our own
imaginary design and we do what we want to:
-- screen is a
On 15-Sep-05, at 4:23 AM, Craig, James (IT) wrote:
Is there any documentation on how to manipulate the SB2 display
anywhere?
The only plugin that seems to do anything with it is SlimTris and I
can't quite work out what's going on.
using the graphics is a hard one. check out Felix's
On 15-Sep-05, at 4:47 AM, Aynsley Blake wrote:
I think I've found a bug/issue with the Random Mix feature.
When you go to random track mix, it loads up 10 tracks, when it's
played one, that track gets deleted from the playlist and another one
gets added to the end of the playlist. In this
On 15-Sep-05, at 5:01 AM, Dan Goodinson wrote:
Is this using the Music Magic Mixer plugin, or the Mood Logic plugin?
Or is this a functionality provided by SB/SS?
it is in the 6.2 nightly builds as a feature of its own.
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Cool - thanks KDF. I guess it's time I upgraded my version of SS ;)
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On 15-Sep-05, at 5:01 AM, Dan Goodinson
On 15-Sep-05, at 6:19 AM, Steven Moore wrote:
Using 6.1.0 - 3758 - Mac OS X 10.4.2 (8C46).
If you can find the slimserver.pl script, then you can try running this
from the terminal:
slimserver.pl --d_plugins
This way, you will see messages related to each plugin as it loads. It
also
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/41384712/
This might help visialise the dimensions better. It's my modded SB2 in
a 2U high case (for a hefty linear supply and other mods that I plan to
do). As you can see, there's a lot of metal.
I'd like two knobs on mine, with press to select,
I just tried again, playing the same song. At its end, playback froze.
There was no error in console this time. However, I was running netstat
-se in another ssh window. Although there's a slowly increasing number
of Segments Retransmitted the number was constant for the last minute
or so of
audiofi Wrote:
I think this has covered what you wanted:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxnew.gif
This is to scale, should be the same width as my Rotel amp and the
screen is the same size as the current one, so the height should also
be ok for size.
Yes, that's much closer to
No problem at all, I'm enjoying drawing them and as you say, it would be
good to get some ideas together.
Here are those couple of changes (only took 2 mins to do):
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxnew2.gif
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(by the way I am now running java 1.5.0_04)
Ok, now here is the debug output at the end of the track where it
freezes (elapsed=233-234):
216283 [Player Status] DEBUG player - decode: 0.0 avail=0 size=1048576
216283 [Player Status] DEBUG player - output: 0.0 avail=0 size=3528000
216283 [Player
The way do to it for graphic display is to return a full screen bitmap. Custom characters won't work for graphics displays I'm
afraid.
If you do look at it - I suggest you read the display API page in the technical infomation section on 6.2 (part of the help pages).
Please use display hash
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No problem at all, I'm enjoying drawing them and as you say, it
would be good to get some ideas together.
Here are those couple of changes (only took 2 mins to do):
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxnew2.gif
Open to any other suggestions
Mmm I'm kind of there now.
There is snow falling on my softsqueeze!
But the original screensaver overlayed the snow on top of the now
playing display or date screensaver as I recall - is it possible to do
that do you think?
James
Its definately possible to have both displayed at the same time - just include
the text and bitmap in the same display hash.
What's harder would be to locate the snow based on the rendering of the text. If you are cunning you could call $client-render
with a display hash containing the text
With Paul's changes
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxnew3.gif
I'll look into the textures tonight and tomorrow and see if I can work
out how to make it more of a matt metalic look rather than the current
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I would also like to be able to use another application to choose music
to play through SB2, in my case the application is Xlobby which is
freeware and has an outstanding user interface that can be operated via
a thin client interface to a PDA, pen tablet, laptop, etc.. I am
currently using an
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With Paul's changes
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxnew3.gif
I'll look into the textures tonight and tomorrow and see if I can
work out how to make it more of a matt metalic look rather than
the current perspex.
So, now the question
When I try to play anything in my dab folder it wont play on any of my
squeezeboxes, if I click on the folder in windows explorer and d/click
radio 1 it plays fine in winamp, I am using SlimServer_v2005-09-15, I
have tried going back to the none beta but no joy, it used to work from
any s/box. I
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:45 -0400, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
what is something like this worth?
US $349? $399?
One technical note, if the volume is set to be fixed, there
should be a way to make the volume functionality of the
knob be replaced (maybe through some sort of plug-in)
with
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I would also like to be able to use another application to choose music
to play through SB2, in my case the application is Xlobby which is
freeware and has an outstanding user interface that can be operated via
a thin client interface to a PDA, pen tablet,
I am becoming a believer in Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About), and I believe it would
be appropriate and helpful (to those who are not yet part of Slim
Devices community) to add to it information about the Squeezebox2. I
don't have a great deal of time to devote to it, but
Hmm. One more datapoint. I thought I might try to set up tunneling
through Putty instead of through the SoftSqueeze interface. So I reset
Softsqueeze to connect to localhost:9000 and 3483, and turned off the
SSH Tunnel checkbox. Then I set putty to tunnel 9000 and 3483, and
opened up a putty
On 15/9/05 at 15:49 +0200, Michael Herger wrote
Using 6.1.0 - 3758 - Mac OS X 10.4.2 (8C46).
Uh... I still don't know where you really have to install the plugins on
MacOS X...
Tried without the MHCPAN folder first, no good, then tried with it
still no good.
Is this folder for
danco Wrote:
But written with Windows in mind not only would not suit me, but
seems to me to be against the SlimDevices philosophy.
That is, one of the virtues of SlimDevices approach is that it is
cross-platform. As a Mac user (and others are Linux/Unix users) I
chose the Squeezebox
Well ... still no freezing. However, I did get a stutter at the
beginning of a song. This is what showed up in the debug window:
672972 [AudioMixer-0] WARN javasound - Java Sound Audio buffer
underrun bufAvail=3470848
672982 [AudioDecoder-4] WARN javasound - AudioDecoder could not write
buf
andtexture:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxtextured.gif
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I am convinced that applications designed in Perl do not work very
efficiently on Windows.
Most apps written in C++ or .Net seem to work pretty well in Windows,
whereas apps designed in Perl and Java (large overhead and flaky
versioning) often lead to trouble (witness original SoftSqueeze
radish Wrote:
Likewise, I am convinced that a sample size of 1 does not give an
accurate representation of reality.
SlimServer runs just fine on Windows for me. 900 albums, 1 tracks,
3500 artists. Responses via web or remote are virtually instant. This
is on a machine cobbled
is here... as of today's SB2 firmware update for the 6.2 beta.
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On 15/9/05 at 13:05 -0700, ModelCitizen wrote
danco Wrote:
But written with Windows in mind not only would not suit me, but
seems to me to be against the SlimDevices philosophy.
That is, one of the virtues of SlimDevices approach is that it is
cross-platform. As a Mac user (and others are
I began to file this as an enhancment request, but on second thought
figured maybe there's a reason that it's implemented as it is now. So
I'll ask...
I don't understand the need for user intervention to update SB
firmware. If when upgrading SlimSerer to version x.x.x, that version
insists
I can think of one very good reason. To ensure the user does not
disconnect power or the network.
If there's backup firmware, and no real update happens until the file
is transferred, then I can see auto-update being acceptable.
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audiofi Wrote:
andtexture:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxtextured.gif
Oh, beautiful!
I have a couple more suggestions and will reply to some of Paul's
suggstions a bit later. Just got home from work and have to run out
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I just realized that the Rescan of the music library isn't working
either.. help?
Thanks
Buck
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andtexture:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxtextured.gif
:-) Now my 2 cents...
- Power button and headphone jack are too close to edges of the
bezel.
- Move the power button down to about middle height on bezel.
- Headphone jack should have a text and/or
With all of those suggestions (keep them coming!)
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxtextured2.gif
Any more changes I'll do tomorrow morning (its 1am over here)
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pfarrell Wrote:
Audiophiles would want something like this:
http://www.transcendentsound.com/step%20attenuator.htm
but the part costs $120 so things are starting to
get pricey.
From what I can tell that is an actual volume control, i.e. it talks
about attenuation. In this case the actual
On 15-Sep-05, at 3:51 PM, buck wrote:
I just realized that the Rescan of the music library isn't working
either.. help?
what os, server version?
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On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 17:11 -0700, radish wrote:
pfarrell Wrote:
Audiophiles would want something like this:
http://www.transcendentsound.com/step%20attenuator.htm
but the part costs $120 so things are starting to
get pricey.
From what I can tell that is an actual volume control,
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:00 -0700, JJZolx wrote:
I don't understand the need for user intervention to update SB
firmware.
It is a huge security problem to have servers randomly make changes to
other computers. While the SB1/2 is not much of a computer, it is one.
The security principal says
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It's not really necessary except
a) as a security measure
b) to ensure the user knows it's being updated
Losing power or network connectivity during an update will not cause
any problem -the update image is downloaded and verified in a reserved
section of flash and there are protections in
It still *looks* like it was drawn...
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pfarrell Wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:00 -0700, JJZolx wrote:
I don't understand the need for user intervention to update SB
firmware.
It is a huge security problem to have servers randomly make changes to
other computers. While the SB1/2 is not much of a computer, it is one.
Very good ideas, Jim, and great job again in the illustration, Andrew.
I wanted to respond to Paul first, then to Jim.
Paul Wrote:
The power button and headphone jack look odd. I don't know why, I just
think they do. Maybe put one or the other on the top left?
I agree they looked wrong. I
Ugh, now it's ugly...
This one:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxtextured.gif
Was almost perfect IMHO.
The knob was multifunction. No need to have two separate knobs.
No need to label the 1/4 jack. I'm pretty sure most users
would understand you can't plug an amp or guitar into
pfarrell Wrote:
It is a huge security problem to have servers randomly make changes to
other computers. While the SB1/2 is not much of a computer, it is one.
The security principal says that you need a user action to confirm
any changes to a computer. Even the Microsoft Windows update does
radish Wrote:
From what I can tell that is an actual volume control, i.e. it talks
about attenuation. In this case the actual attenuation is happening
digitally, in the SB, so the wheel itself just needs to be an encoder.
I think it does not even need to be an encoder. We just need to sense
PAUL WILLIAMSON Wrote:
This one:
http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxtextured.gif
Was almost perfect IMHO.
I agree, but I like _some_ aspects of what Jim and Andrew came up with,
specifically:
-- the display moved a bit more to the right and centered vertically.
It is much
I agree they looked wrong. I think Jim Andrew fixed this, but the
power button aspect is still a bit long. I would make it a bit more
square, then flip it vertically.
Rethinking the power button... Should it just be a stop button
(usually denoted with a solid square icon) since I'm assuming
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 18:25 -0700, MrC wrote:
pfarrell Wrote:
It is a huge security problem to have servers randomly make changes to
other computers. While the SB1/2 is not much of a computer, it is one.
The security principal says that you need a user action to confirm
any changes to
How do I use this feature with a SB2?
JJZolx
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is here... as of today's SB2 firmware update for the 6.2 beta.
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danf Wrote:
How do I use this feature with a SB2?
- You need replay gain tags on your files.
- Download and install tonight's version 6.2 nightly beta release.
- There's a server setting to enable the use of replay gain. I
haven't seen it yet (still at work), but I assume would replay
Windows XP SP2.
Slimserver 6.1.1
Sorry, I should have included that in my original post.
The strange thing is, I thought that I had used the browse music
folder and rescanned the library since this download. I did have to
reload some of my programs recently. (I did a recovery of WindowsXP
I was just doing a wipe rescan of my server to remove some unused
genre entries (I'd just deleted some old music files) and it died
during the scan. From the application log:
Code:
Operation `ne': no method found,
left argument in overloaded package
Jim, the volume knob acts as a volume knob by default. If you press
Select, you'll go into Menu Mode. The the volume knob acts like an
up/down menu control. If you press-hold Select you'll go back to
Volume Mode. If you do nothing, it will go back to Volume mode
automatically after a timeout.
JJZolx Wrote:
- You need replay gain tags on your files.
So for us dummies: would I need to re-rip everything?
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no there are various tools to add replaygain after the fact - metaflac,
mp3gain etc.
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What time do the nightlies get made? I'm in Oz so I have to factor in
US time
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On 15-Sep-05, at 7:48 PM, bossanova808 wrote:
What time do the nightlies get made? I'm in Oz so I have to factor in
US time
about 1am Pacific Time (about 5 hours from the time of this post)
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Well the uninstall and reinstall fixed it. Sorry to clog up the forums!
:-)
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Jim, the volume knob acts as a volume knob by default. If
you press Select, you'll go into Menu Mode. The the
volume knob acts like an up/down menu control. If you
press-hold Select you'll go back to Volume Mode. If
you do nothing, it will go
I find myself doing the same thing with shuffle--hitting the button to
see which mode is active and it switches modes. I would vote for such a
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PAUL WILLIAMSON Wrote:
I'd like this do be controlled by software. I have really
no need for a volume knob on this unit, because it
will be connected via optical and the volume will be fixed.
If this form factor is built, I'd probably pick one up for
the bedroom, but still wouldn't use
Dave D Wrote:
So for us dummies: would I need to re-rip everything?
No. You just need to run a program that will examine each file and add
the replay gain tags. I'm looking for a way to do that myself for a
library of flac files, since I didn't add replay gain tags when I
ripped the CDs and
2005-09-15-17:59:31 Daniel Cohen:
I'm not objecting to you, or anyone else, using Windows. I hope there
will be a version of SlimServer that works well and easily on
Windows. But cross-platform is important to me, and to others. I
don't want to be caught in a Windows dictatorship.
Well
Any luck with this issue. I can not get the jvc dvd codes to work.code
006 and 011 with denon 1604 universal. had no problem with same remote
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Actually, ReplayGain is set to Smart by default.
I'd personally prefer it if it was set off by default. Although I
suppose that if you didn't want to use ReplayGain, you wouldn't have
the tags in your music in the first place???
Anyway, I've switched it off now, but I might have a play with it
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