Re: [slim] How do I use multiple hd's?

2005-10-21 Thread Ben Sandee
On 10/21/05, zybar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to use multiple hd's (in a non-RAID) configuration on mypc?Basically I want have some of my music on one hd and some on a secondone until I decide what to utlimately do for my storage. http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#setup-multiple

[slim] How do I use multiple hd's?

2005-10-21 Thread zybar
Is there a way to use multiple hd's (in a non-RAID) configuration on my pc? Basically I want have some of my music on one hd and some on a second one until I decide what to utlimately do for my storage. Thanks. G -- zybar ___ Discuss mailing list D

[slim] Re: "I want a Squeezebox boombox"

2005-10-21 Thread mrfantasy
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Re: [slim] Selective Play

2005-10-21 Thread Kevin Weller
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max.spicer wrote: > If you want them played randomly, then the random mix plugin will do > this for you It certainly does. > With later builds it should be in > your home menu i.e. at the same level as Browse Music It seems to be there now. That works really wel

Re: [slim] Selective Play

2005-10-21 Thread Kevin Weller
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Cohen wrote: > Certainly, when I Browse Music Folder I see both files and folders, > and pressing Play will play the file. Me too. I obviously didn't explain myself very well - what I wanted to do was ask it to play any track from any branch off the root. T

[slim] Re: Script .bat for scheduled power on /off

2005-10-21 Thread dangerous_dom
i saw a program once on www.downloads.com that could run and end programs at set times. Can't remember what it was called though sorry. Also, could you not use windows task scheduler? EDIT: Oh, i see you need to run a specific playlist too. -- dangerous_dom ___

[slim] Script .bat for scheduled power on /off

2005-10-21 Thread vayaruina
Hi , Does anybody knows how to make an script to run it on Windows XP with the Task Manager ( a batch file *.bat ) in order to power on the SQ2 and play a Playlist . I´ll need also another script to power it off. The alarm feature starts it , but every day at the same time ( even on saturday and

[slim] Re: "I want a Squeezebox boombox"

2005-10-21 Thread dangerous_dom
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[slim] Re: Handheld3 Skin

2005-10-21 Thread JohnQuirk
Thanks Mike, that unzips fine. The selection for the player doesn't appear to work. Does that make any sense? === Mikeb, > I like the look of that skin and would like to use it but Winzip can't > open the TAR file. (Error reading header after processing 0 entries). > Will the skin work on Window

[slim] Re: Cant connect using wired network

2005-10-21 Thread gingerneil
Hmmm... just ran through the 'connect by ethernet' setup again and it has connected this time Strange. Is this a known bug ?? -- gingerneil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Cant connect using wired network

2005-10-21 Thread gingerneil
Hi all, I am using the latest beta release of 6.2 with a SB2, Windows XP SP2 (firewalls turned off). I can connect and play music no problems when using a wireless connection to the network for the SB2. BUT When using a wired connection, I can connect to the network OK (DHCP IP address assi

[slim] No music in Slimserver now

2005-10-21 Thread meryvn
I am using the iTunes library information to import music into my Slimserver (i have decided to do this rather than have Slimserver scan my music folder due to a doubling songs issue) however even if i point Slimserver to my iTunes library file it always tells me i have no music files present. I

[slim] Re: "I want a Squeezebox boombox"

2005-10-21 Thread JJZolx
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Re: [slim] Terabyte Storage

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Payonzeck
I have a dedicated LaCie 1TB Bigger Disk Extreme backup drive for my library as well which does automatic incremental backups via the DejaVu pref pane (based on rsync) of the internal drive on my old skool PowerMac Cube (dedicated SlimServer box.) If you have a copy of Toast, you probably have a f

[slim] Re: "I want a Squeezebox boombox"

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Webster
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[slim] Re: "I want a Squeezebox boombox"

2005-10-21 Thread JJZolx
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[slim] Album in M4A skipping whole tracks

2005-10-21 Thread vdown
I have a couple of albums in M4A format. Which if I start to play will for example skip the 1st 3 tracks and jump straight to the 4th one. The server can read all the properties of the file but wont play it. I am running the lastest 6.2beta2 build and had the same problem with a 6.12 build as we

[slim] Great Idea (if I do say so myself)

2005-10-21 Thread JJZolx
I really find it frustrating when I just want to listen to a few new tracks of music right NOW. Download a twenty second demo clip of music and want to listen to it through the Squeezebox? Royal pain in the butt. This has been added to bugzilla as a future enhancement request. Please vote. ht

[slim] SlimServer 6.2 loses music and playlists?

2005-10-21 Thread ModelCitizen
Hello, Twice now since I have upgraded to 6.2 SlimServer has lost the path to my music and playlists. When I go to the initial server settings page the text boxes for both have been blank. I have had to add back the paths and rescan (takes an age). Since installing 6.2 I have been running a new XP

[slim] Re: Most podcasts play, but not this one

2005-10-21 Thread zentinal
Thanks! I'll install it and let you know what happens. -- zentinal ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: web interface problem ?

2005-10-21 Thread giulianoz
MrC Wrote: > Your system by default will look first in the hosts file, and then query > DNS if items are not found. It is also doubtful that your ISPs DNS > servers have incorrect entries for localhost. ( In fact, the first DNS > server you list does not have any entries for localhost., and the

Re: [slim] Selective Play

2005-10-21 Thread Daniel Cohen
On 21/10/05 at 11:23 +0100, Kevin Weller wrote How do I persuade the Squeezebox to play any track from the root music folder? If I browse music folders it lists the second-level folders and I can hit play from there but the result is it obviously only plays files from that folder branch. How do I

Re: [slim] SlimServer/SoftSqueeze

2005-10-21 Thread Kevin Kitts
Hi Mike, Thanks for the tips! I have a few ways (besides PCs/Laptop) that I might use to access the SlimServer WebServer - a WAP (802.11b) - accessed via either a Playstation Portable (has Wifi and Browser) or a Palm LifeDrive PDA (also has Wifi and Web browsing built-in). I realize that my Sli

[slim] Re: Doubling up on songs in Slimserver 6.1.1

2005-10-21 Thread meryvn
Robin Bowes Wrote: > Steve said the following on 21/10/2005 13:35: > > discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com wrote: > > > >>>Quite few of my albums will have one or more songs listed twice as > >>>per the example here '[image: > >> > >>>Does anyone have any > >>>suggestions as to what

[slim] Re: web interface problem ?

2005-10-21 Thread MrC
Your system by default will look first in the hosts file, and then query DNS if items are not found. It is also doubtful that your ISPs DNS servers have incorrect entries for localhost. ( In fact, the first DNS server you list does not have any entries for localhost., and the second one has a cor

Re: [slim] SlimServer/SoftSqueeze

2005-10-21 Thread Mike Benjamin
Kevin Kitts wrote: I plan to run SUSE Linux 9.3 on the PII/266 for the server and Windows 98 on the PII/233 for a client (with Softsqueeze). I'd like the PII/233 to be "headless" - you can run Windows 98 without a monitor. Is it possible to use the SlimServer software to "drive" the client? Is

Re: [slim] Terabyte Storage

2005-10-21 Thread Brian Curtis
On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Ultramog wrote: 1) A 500GB external drive and then another after that's filled and storage costs have continued to drop? Will SlimServer maintain a library over multiple drives? I'm using OS X and I've got my collection split over 2 drives. iTunes can find all y

Re: [slim] Terabyte Storage

2005-10-21 Thread Dondi Fusco
--- Ultramog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been SB2/Slimserving for a couple months, very > happy camper. Local > OSX drive is filling up and I calculate I'll need > about 500GB for the > current collection, which grows steadily. Should I > get: > > 1) A 500GB external drive and then anoth

[slim] Re: Linkstation Rescan?

2005-10-21 Thread jackmanfred
Marc, Heres the output from the top command, when running a rescan. I would really like to see some benchmarks results from your tests mike. Maybe as theres a lot of people out there running linkstations and slimserver, slimdevices might be able to write a cut down version of slimserver for the

[slim] Re: Map of us all

2005-10-21 Thread sleepysurf
Hey, how 'bout making this thread a "Sticky" and perhaps even posting a permanent link to the Frapper Map on the Slim Forums home page! -- sleepysurf squeezebox2 (with elpac wm075-1950-760 linear psu) direct to amp using slimserver preamp vol control, 300gb buffalo linkstation (remote flac aud

Re: [slim] Re: Moose 0.05

2005-10-21 Thread Dr Lovegrove
Ok.. I've just put a new build of Moose up.. * Should hopefully fix the problems people are having with the Play button. * Added a 'music-only mode' in the songs list, which is currently the default. If you want to see ALL the files as before, right click the songs list and it'll toggle between t

[slim] SlimServer/SoftSqueeze

2005-10-21 Thread Kevin Kitts
Hi All, I'm new to the list and have not used this software before. I'd like to set up a system so that I can look over the software and see how everything works. I have a couple of old PCs (a PII/266 with 384M Ram and a PII/233 with 384M Ram) - and my house has wired ethernet to almost every roo

[slim] Re: Terabyte Storage

2005-10-21 Thread sleepysurf
Check out the Buffalo Linkstation or Terrastation... http://www.buffalotech.com/products/storage.php I'm using a 300GB Linkstation, works great, and the price is right. Some techies have figured how to run Slimserver directly on the Linkstation, but I'm happy controlling everything from my offic

[slim] Terabyte Storage

2005-10-21 Thread Ultramog
I've been SB2/Slimserving for a couple months, very happy camper. Local OSX drive is filling up and I calculate I'll need about 500GB for the current collection, which grows steadily. Should I get: 1) A 500GB external drive and then another after that's filled and storage costs have continued to

Re: [slim] Re: Handheld3 Skin

2005-10-21 Thread Mike Benjamin
JohnQuirk wrote: Mikeb, I like the look of that skin and would like to use it but Winzip can't open the TAR file. (Error reading header after processing 0 entries). Will the skin work on Windows? And if so could you make it available in some other format that we can access? Weird. Here it is i

[slim] Re: Stopping hard drives on serveur ?

2005-10-21 Thread Khuli
My HD's don't turn off either, and SlimServer is the only thing the PC gets used for (using Win2K). -- Khuli ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] sox, replaygain, and ogg

2005-10-21 Thread mlmurray
I have a SqueezeBox 1, thus when I listen to an *.ogg file it must either be converted to wav or mp3 format in order to be played. I have quite a few files in ogg format and I have tagged them all using vorbisgain to generate the appropriate replaygain tags. Slimserver reads these tags fine in t

[slim] Re: Moose 0.05

2005-10-21 Thread Yannzola
I get the folowing error whenevr I try to play a song: --- See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ** Exception Text ** System.FormatException: Input

[slim] Re: Most Current Slimp3 firmware version for 6.2x?

2005-10-21 Thread max . spicer
Yes. Only the Squeezebox2 supports WMA natively. Max bouton Wrote: > Ahh - ok, thanks > When I installed slimserver 6.2x it said there was a new slimp3 > firmware update. > > Maybe that instruction should be changed/updated? > > So for a slimp3 the wma transcoding is still done via software

[slim] Re: Most Current Slimp3 firmware version for 6.2x?

2005-10-21 Thread bouton
Ahh - ok, thanks When I installed slimserver 6.2x it said there was a new slimp3 firmware update. Maybe that instruction should be changed/updated? So for a slimp3 the wma transcoding is still done via software? Katherine -- bouton ___ Discuss mail

[slim] Re: Linkstation Rescan?

2005-10-21 Thread Michaelwagner
Marc D.Field Wrote: > maybe 4x as much music takes *far* more than 4x as much time to scan... It's possible. I went over the MP3 tag scanning code and, while some of it may be "improveable", the performance numbers weren't all that bad. Dean wrote me that he thinks the "scanning performance probl

Re: [slim] Most Current Slimp3 firmware version for 6.2x?

2005-10-21 Thread Ben Sandee
On 10/21/05, bouton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the most Current Slimp3 firmware version for slimserver v 6.2x?A link in the wiki points to 1.3 - the link doesn't exist but a 2.3does exist. the directory under slimserver/server/firmware has no files named slimp3... just squeezebox*** and the

Re: [slim] Doubling up on songs in Slimserver 6.1.1

2005-10-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Steve said the following on 21/10/2005 13:35: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite few of my albums will have one or more songs listed twice as per the example here '[image: Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to try from here as it is really annoying when listening to shuffled albums. -

[slim] Re: Doubling up on songs in Slimserver 6.1.1

2005-10-21 Thread meryvn
stevek1006 Wrote: > discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com wrote: > >> Quite few of my albums will have one or more songs listed twice as > >> per the example here '[image: > > > >> Does anyone have any > >> suggestions as to what to try from here as it is really annoying > when > >> l

RE: [slim] Doubling up on songs in Slimserver 6.1.1

2005-10-21 Thread Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Quite few of my albums will have one or more songs listed twice as >> per the example here '[image: > >> Does anyone have any >> suggestions as to what to try from here as it is really annoying when >> listening to shuffled albums. > > - update to at least 6.1.2, bette

Re: [slim] Re: Moose 0.05

2005-10-21 Thread Dr Lovegrove
Thanks for the feedback Matt.. I'll fix the play problem with the next build.. Looks like a problem caused by older server builds (and my dodgy c sharp code).. I tend to use/test on a week-old nightly 6.2, and occasionally on 5.4.. The Name and Date tabs control the sort order of the list. Name s

[slim] Re: Handheld3 Skin

2005-10-21 Thread JohnQuirk
Mikeb, I like the look of that skin and would like to use it but Winzip can't open the TAR file. (Error reading header after processing 0 entries). Will the skin work on Windows? And if so could you make it available in some other format that we can access? Thanks JQ === I posted the "Handheld

[slim] Re: web interface problem ?

2005-10-21 Thread giulianoz
Niek Jongerius Wrote: > > on windows xp when I doblue click on the slimtray the default web > > browser pops up. sometimes it opens "localhost.be" instead of > > "localhost". this happens since my first slimserver install (august) > > and continues up to the lasets beta I tried (20/10). Do you h

Re: [slim] web interface problem ?

2005-10-21 Thread Niek Jongerius
> on windows xp when I doblue click on the slimtray the default web > browser pops up. sometimes it opens "localhost.be" instead of > "localhost". this happens since my first slimserver install (august) > and continues up to the lasets beta I tried (20/10). Do you have any > idea about this one ?

[slim] web interface problem ?

2005-10-21 Thread giulianoz
Hi on windows xp when I doblue click on the slimtray the default web browser pops up. sometimes it opens "localhost.be" instead of "localhost". this happens since my first slimserver install (august) and continues up to the lasets beta I tried (20/10). Do you have any idea about this one ? the

[slim] Handheld3 Skin

2005-10-21 Thread Mike Benjamin
I posted the "Handheld2" skin a while back, well I updated it to match the existing Handheld better and called it Handheld3. Below are the obligatory screenshots. This is in Windows Mobile 2003 Internet Explorer with the Address Bar turned off; http://www.mikeb.org/IE-Hh3.bmp and this is WM

[slim] Changing email address in bugzilla

2005-10-21 Thread max . spicer
Can I change my email address in bugzilla? I'm sure I've done this on other bugzilla's in the past, but can't find the option in settings. Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible c

[slim] Re: Selective Play

2005-10-21 Thread max . spicer
If you want them played randomly, then the random mix plugin will do this for you. You need the 6.2 beta or later for this. With the beta, random mix is under the plugins menu. With later builds it should be in your home menu i.e. at the same level as Browse Music, Settings etc. Once you've fo

[slim] Selective Play

2005-10-21 Thread Kevin Weller
I've had my Squeezeboxes for a while - one v1 and the other v2 - but have only played around with them rather than used them seriously. I'm about to change that just as soon as I can find the mains plug for one of them! (Is it possible to buy a replacement in the UK if I can't find it?) That l

Re: [slim] Input from WinAmp

2005-10-21 Thread Kevin Weller
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Herger wrote: > Shoutcast can be used as (is a?) WinAmp plugin. Thanks Michael, I've downloaded the server edition to have a play. Kevin ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimd

Re: [slim] Re: HandHeld skin problems in 6.2b2

2005-10-21 Thread Michael Herger
Personnaly I've run the handheld skin on my PSP and never had any problem with it, so the change you've made is just a work-around for IE. Correct. My good, old Zaurus and it's Opera 7.x work perfectly well, too :-) Can I suggest you add a comment to change 4917 to explain why you need to m

[slim] Re: Active Speakers not powering down

2005-10-21 Thread oreillymj
I wonder if this request is related to bug 1397 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397 Unfortunately, it's not going to be fixed for 6.2 -- oreillymj ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists

Re: [slim] HandHeld skin problems in 6.2b2

2005-10-21 Thread Michael Herger
I'm actually in FreeBSD, but I was worried about that. I remembered that Solaris strftime() doesn't have a %s as soon as I sent that. I would make it %Y%m%d%M%S then.. just to ensure uniqueness. I checked it in. Thanks a lot! This should be in tomorrow's nightly build. -- Michael ---

[slim] Re: HandHeld skin problems in 6.2b2

2005-10-21 Thread oreillymj
Michael, Personnaly I've run the handheld skin on my PSP and never had any problem with it, so the change you've made is just a work-around for IE. Can I suggest you add a comment to change 4917 to explain why you need to make a random change to the URL. Otherwise you run the risk of someone th

[slim] Re: Active Speakers not powering down

2005-10-21 Thread max . spicer
Don't worry, that's a given. I doubt SlimDevices would ever intentionally do something that would detrimentally affect the sound quality! Max Dave2 Wrote: > To Sean Adams -- or whoever -- Just one customer's vote here, but Please > do not, do not, do not modify this product in order to "power-

Re: [slim] HandHeld skin problems in 6.2b2

2005-10-21 Thread Mike Benjamin
Michael Herger wrote: I actually made it %s as that should always be unique, and added a semicolon after Date.format(); Are you on Linux? On my Windows %s does not return a value :-/. I checked in my '%M%S' version - does the job, too. I'm actually in FreeBSD, but I was worried about that.

Re: [slim] HandHeld skin problems in 6.2b2

2005-10-21 Thread Michael Herger
I actually made it %s as that should always be unique, and added a semicolon after Date.format(); Are you on Linux? On my Windows %s does not return a value :-/. I checked in my '%M%S' version - does the job, too. Nasty hack to get around it.. but at least it works. Yeah! Thanks a lot for

Re: [slim] HandHeld skin problems in 6.2b2

2005-10-21 Thread Mike Benjamin
Michael Herger wrote: I wonder if we put a random argument that changes with every refresh in the Handheld meta tag if it would solve the problem. I don't see an obvious Template Toolkit function for random, am I missing one? There is: Math.rand - math the math plugin is not installed. One

Re: [slim] How to access folder on another computer?

2005-10-21 Thread Michael Herger
I'm trying to use SB2 with a downstairs computer while my music is on the upstairs computer (in folder "music" of drive C). What address do I put into "music folder" on the downstairs computer? Maybe this FAQ helps: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#troubleshooting-sharedvolume -- Michae