Richie Wrote:
I think you underestimate peoples ability. Slimserver doesn't require
any more skill than any other piece of software I've installed. In
fact it's easier to use in my opinion. My first SB1 was up and running
within ten minutes of taking it out of the box. No fiddling or
But that's my point, we aren't average consumers, we're technically
able - we're on a forum for the product after all.
I think PCs aren't for the average user - though everybody uses them. A PC
based product therefore can hardly be.
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My neighbour is having a very similar problem. He is getting close to
finishing ripping his collection of 2000+ CDs and has not managed a
complete re-scan since I put 6.2 on his system. The re-scan (or delete
and scan from scratch) seems to hang and consume ever increasing
amounts of memory
Well nope, it didn't. Googling all over the place, it appears as
though WMA and ReplayGain dont really go together. I'm therefore about
half way through the process of converting everything to mp3... I will
then add replaygain.
I originally went for wma to save disk space, but I have recently
bit of a hi-jack this...
but can you comment on the performance of the linkstation ?? How big is
your library, do you stream to more than one SB at a time, was it easy
to get up and running ??
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Hello,
When I 'browse by genre' on the squeezebox, the list that appears is
ordered by 'album artist'.
That's fine for pop music etc., but not for classical, where the album
artist is often a musician or a conductor.
Is it possible to set it up so that when you choose 'browse by genre',
you
CardinalFang Wrote:
It's still not what the consumer expects for a mass market consumer
electronics product. Ever have to wait for bug fixes for your TV? Or
for the rest of your HiFi?
Whilst I understand the point you are making here, I think it misses
the OP's point which appeared to be that
CardinalFang,
Most mobile phones are eventually ship accepted by an operator which
will allow concessions on a number of bugs to go through as long as
they don't affect the customer in too major a way. In fact, this same
bug list might be considered unacceptable to another operator. Typical
ovonrein Wrote:
Incidentally, my first SB2 [...] refuses to come back on-line.
Managed to fix this problem (for now, fingers crossed) by restarting
the router. Not clear what made SB2 lose connection in the first
place, mind. The thing gets a heart-beat every second (for the clock
display)
Gatchers Wrote:
So I guess what I'm saying is that as a piece of consumer electronics
kit, if it isn't quite 'there', it's definitely very very near it.
I think we're all saying the same thing, these products are for people
who don't mind installing software and ripping CDs.
I think we've
Fifer Wrote:
I think most of us would have expected the SB to score better in that
particular group of products.
Agreed, I wandered off onto my very own soapbox for a while there...
As I said in another post, I think a lot of it is down to looks and the
SB3 fixes that. Also journalists are
But Allan you can already do this... Don't tell me you didn't read the
readme file!!!
Set the iTunes rescan interval to 0 (no rescan) and use the Rescan
plugin to set a fixed time daily rescan.
James
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Dear All,
I'm using AlienBBC for the first time - all up and running (apart from the live
stream
problems that I've seen mention of elsewhere). This is on Mac OS X and
SlimServer 6.2.0
with mplayer from the ffmpegXbinaries20050814 archive. I've had to make my
mplayer binary
have a root suid to
CardinalFang Wrote:
why did SB come off worse against similar products with similar
installations and feature sets?
The review concluded: The Roku SoundBridge can play protected files,
connect to almost any server, has a similarly flashy design and costs
£25 less.
a product comparison chart
Hi,
Are there any technical restrictions on decoding AAC directly on the
SqueezeBox, or is it down to the cost of licensing the AAC decode
software/algorithm for this use?
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On 4/11/05 at 01:03 -0800, CardinalFang wrote
Gatchers Wrote:
So I guess what I'm saying is that as a piece of consumer electronics
kit, if it isn't quite 'there', it's definitely very very near it.
I think we're all saying the same thing, these products are for people
who don't mind
On 4/11/05 at 10:16 +, Andrew Heald wrote
Dear All,
I'm using AlienBBC for the first time - all up and running (apart
from the live stream
problems that I've seen mention of elsewhere). This is on Mac OS X
and SlimServer 6.2.0
with mplayer from the ffmpegXbinaries20050814 archive. I've
when did you order? I got no shipping info up to now.
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Thanks, Daniel. I'm installed for a user named slimserver and not for
all users. I don't log on under this account and have the server set to
start on boot.
I've tried your suggestion to no avail. Mplayer just dies after starting
up. The puzzling thing is that mplayer can be run from the
mkozlows Wrote:
At any rate, I don't think the SB2 is way out of the norm for modern
tech-gear, in terms of ease-of-use. I wouldn't give one to my mom, but
anyone who can set up a wireless network in the first place can
definitely get an SB2 working no problem.
A quick perusal of the
MKS Wrote:
A quick perusal of the Beginners' Forum shows that quite a few people
are having trouble getting Squeezebox to work out of the box and to
connect to the wireless network. Mike
Thats a meaningless statement !! quite a few when compared to the
number of total sales equals tiny !
KDF,
Thanks for the reply. Everything seems to be working fine now. It is a
little inconvenient to keep switching firmware, but as long as it
doesnt do any irreversible damage, it doesn't concern me too much.
Gingerneil,
The library on my linkstation contains about 3600 songs, most of these
bear in mind also that the nature of a forum is that people tend to post
with problems you don't often see people posting to say everything
was fine
I agree that there is pretty much no other way to judge, but still:
using the number of posts in the forum is not the best way to gauge how
seems like the best solution - having a browser locally will not do the
trick, having another PC started is not really an elegant solution and
I still would like the PC to shut down when the SB2 is powered off.
The simplest solution would be to have the SB2 generate a small amount
of keep-alive
I've been running MMM as a service using AppToService in Windows XP and
it works really well, except that I've run into a problem after adding
new music to my library. Slimserver (6.2) doesn't seem to pick up the
newly analysed songs (though they are definitely there in the MMM GUI),
and reverts
gingerneil Wrote:
Thats a meaningless statement !! quite a few when compared to the
number of total sales equals a tiny proportion ! Because you have to
come to the web site to get the software, I would suggest that the
website would be where most people start to look for help. Therefore,
(Taking your analogy to extremes, and for this I apologise, but just to
illustrate a point...) If you compare the number of people smoking to
the number of people who smoke with cancer / heart disease then it
would only be a TINY proportion. But the links are regarded as real, as
they should
Fifer Wrote:
If your analogy was valid I'd agree, but it isn't. It's estimated that
around 50% of life-long smokers will die of a smoking related illness.
That's not a tiny proportion.
Bah! I'll give up then ;-)
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Just in case there's anyone here who is interested in this as a
SqueezeBox remote, it looks like Nokia have started shipping in
Europe.
See here:
http://direct.nokia.com/Countries.aspx?u=/Product.aspx?model=770
and more info here:
http://nokia770.com/
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mherger Wrote:
As an aside, if you set your SB2 to Squeezenetwork and then from the
server try to play a Shoutcast stream, that this kills the server.
Do I understand you right: when playing a Shoutcast stream from SQN,
your
local server will crash?!? This would be too odd...
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Also good to catch up with Patrick Colsson (SD Marketing VP) who hinted
at the roadmap/sales figures but wouldn't give away anything concrete.
The only thing he did talk about
Is Sqeezebox compatible with Airport or is it better to just put a
wireless ADSL router on the Ethernet? If so which one is best.
Should I use iTunes for my library? If so which lossless file type is
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when did you order? I got no shipping info up to now.
Around the 26th
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bringing in additional colours for Christmas time.A Red Green Squeezebox?
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Don't throw away the valid point for the imperfect analogy.
Regardless of how many/what proportion, beginners are having problems
and it needs to be taken seriously. I don't know if it's 1 in 100 or 1
in 10 or 1 in 1000, but there is one thing you can count on. I learned
this as a dance teacher.
3) From the left pane of the server try to play any Shoutcast stream
(even though the player is not being seen by the server as it is
connected to SQN)
Did you close the web interface after you went on SQN? Or was the
shoutcast page already open? Can you confirm that there's a player=...
in
I've filed the bug, and of course there hasn't been an incident in the
last 24 hrs. When Perl thing happens it will just keep going until it
completely stops slimserver and I manually restart the service.
Of course, if the service is starting, failing, then restarting
frequently, you might
I've been happily using the SB1 for about 6 months with no problems.
Lately, I've started experiencing a strange issue where the squeezebox
unit seems to reboot itself...blank screen, reconnect to wireless
network, restart current song from the beginning. The situation is
somewhat random, but
I'm with you - can we have the old volume curve back...
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Well, I uninstalled completely and just reinstalled 6.1.1. Easier than
fussing around. Everything works perfectly again. Teach me to upgrade
for no reason.
Sounds very much like wireless interference. Possibly a neighbour has
recently setup a WLAN, or has maybe recently bought a 2.4GHz cordless
phone?
Try changing your WLAN channel on your router, and see if the problem
becomes less frequent. I had a similar problem on my SB1, but after
changing
I absolutely agree that as much help as possible should be provided, but
that wasn't the point being debated, it was whether the number of help
requests on the beginner's forum indicated a significant problem in the
general population of users. This is a perennial poser on most technical
forums.
this kills me it's not available in the U.S. I've been jonesing for this
thing as my squeezeboxen kontroller ever since I posted this thread way
back when: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14419
If anybody gets their hands on one of these, please post to the thread
with
On 11/4/05, Neil Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm with you - can we have the old volume curve back...I'm against you -- the new volume curve is much better. There's actually a smooth transition all the way up to max whereas before the first 10 stops were 90% of the volume.
* JJZolx shaped the electrons to say...
Couldn't changes to both 'Articles To Ignore' and 'Group Discs' be
effected by running through a couple tables in the database and
changing the data that's already there?
I've been pondering how to make both of these options dynamic, but haven't
come up
If by Airport you mean an Airport basestation, then yes, as that's just
a regular WAP.
Use iTunes if you like, personally I don't but many do. If you do use
iTunes you're limited to formats it supports (far fewer than slim
server itself supports) - Apple Lossless is probably the best choice.
Mike Benjamin wrote:
Jack Coates wrote:
Mark Lanctot wrote:
Has anyone experimented with QoS with an SB2?
QoS might help during times when something else was going on (like
VoIP or BitTorrent). However, it will only matter if the router is
between the server and the squeezebox, which
Fifer Wrote:
Statistically, there's very little relationship between the
self-selecting sample who come here for help and the total population
of owners.
Oh I don't know about that, I think a much bigger percentage of owners
than you might think are on these fora. It's that kind of product.
I'd like to hear some discussion about why the new curve isn't good
for some folks.
The old curve had some very large steps at the bottom levels and
nearly inaudible steps at the higher volumes.
The maximum volume is the same.
At a given spot, the new curve may be lower in output level
I went back and reread the readme, and sure enought this tip is in
there, although it's not super clear for someone (me) who is new to all
this. At the time I just trying to make sure I was doing everything
right to get it to install properly! Maybe put a suggestion in the
readme for a value to
Hey,
I did not mean to imply that we would release more colors before Christmas.
If I left you with that impression, I apologize.
We have our hands full with white and black.
Cheers,
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
Don't throw away the valid point for the imperfect analogy.
Regardless of how many/what proportion, beginners are having problems
and it needs to be taken seriously. I don't know if it's 1 in 100 or 1
in 10 or 1 in 1000, but there is one thing you can count on. I
dean blackketter wrote:
I wonder if it's possible for the string rendering code to look at the
character range and then simply change the order of the rendering of
the characters based on some rules:
look at a character
if (it's in the range of characters that should be rendered right to
I've seen a few posts like this. I haven't seen any replies from Slim
Devices personnel, but it feels to me like people are taking advantage
of the company. It seems to me that the offer is for people that:
a) actually want two new players
b) want a player and already personally know someone
Just a quick note that I am also having problems using AES as encryption
scheme with SB2/Linksys WRT54G under SlimServer 6.2. There are
currently 4 options in my router setup for WPA:
1) WPA with TKIP
2) WPA with AES
3) WPA2 with TKIP/AES
4) WPA2 with AES only
Option 1 is the only one that
mherger Wrote:
Did you close the web interface after you went on SQN? Or was the
shoutcast page already open? Can you confirm that there's a
player=... in the link you click?
Michael pictures say more than words (hope they upload OK):
On the first image, you can see that the server is
patrick Wrote:
I did not mean to imply that we would release more colors before
Christmas.You know what happens now, Patrick? Colour Squeezeboxen become the
new
pony (popcorn button) (until the next one comes along).
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Marc Sherman Wrote:
ID3v2.2 used 3 letter tag names, such as TCO.
http://www.id3.org/id3v2-00.txtWell, will you look at that! I started getting
into this around the time
of 2.3, so I never went back and looked. I just assumed the upwards
compatability thing worked.
So really, the code
Au contraire - we are glad that people are looking for friends to go in
together on an order. Spread the word!
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Yeah, I'm having simalar problems.
Using SlimServer 6.2.1. Files a are all .flac with the Vorbis(?) tags,
not id3 tags.
It seems related to the problems users have discribed with playlist.
Most tracks I see under my 'New Wave' genre also happen to be in a
playlist. But a few tracks show that
Quoting dfk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Can't call method execute on an
undefined value at C:/Program
Files/SlimServer/server/Plugins/ShoutcastBrowser/Plugin.pm line 876.
ok cool. that matches up with what I'm seeing.
it's a simple fix, which would block the page from loading and instead show an
error
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is SlimDevices a way cool company or not?
Way cool. I just e-mailed a buddy of mine in NYC to
see if he is interested. I'll send something out when
I hear back from him.
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kdf Wrote:
Quoting dfk dfk.1xzm4d (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com:
Can't call method execute on an
undefined value at C:/Program
Files/SlimServer/server/Plugins/ShoutcastBrowser/Plugin.pm line 876.
ok cool. that matches up with what I'm seeing.
it's a simple fix, which would
Quoting dfk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Great. Are you getting the exact same issue as me? For example when
you click on say a Slim Device Pick that the server does not crash it
only crashes when selecting Shoutcast? Is this just a Shoutcast plugin
problem?
right. the shoutcast plugin currently
Is SlimDevices a way cool company or not?
Absolutely. No question.
Having said that, regarding this specific promotion, I can't help but
secretly wonder if for every ecstatic buyer who can use/afford 2 new
units, they are also disappointing two potential buyers who don't want
2 units, can't
On 04 Nov 2005, at 18:21 , Lumsmore wrote:
Otherwise, I have to say that your plug-in is THE reason I purchased a
slimserver. Nice work.
I hope you didn't pay much, cuz the server is free ;)
OK, I know what you mean.
And I agree, without the iTunes Update plugin, slimserver would be
much
I've recently noticed that my AAC files won't play any more on my
SlimServer. The files are encoded from CDs I own via iTunes but are
definitely NOT iTunes protected. They play fine in programs like WinAmp
and used to play fine w/ my Slimp3 player and SlimServer.
I've done a full lib rescan and
Bump.
I was wondering the same thing. Can't find any answer in the forums
(forae?).
As far as I can see in the server code, the cross-fading is specified
by a bit in the TCP protocol (byte actually, since it seems to allow a
few options, fade in, fade out, crossfade).
To me, the question is,
kdf Wrote:
Quoting dfk dfk.1xzmtb (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com:
Great. Are you getting the exact same issue as me? For example
when
you click on say a Slim Device Pick that the server does not crash
it
only crashes when selecting Shoutcast? Is this just a Shoutcast
So, let's say one's friend kills one's SB2 wireless card through some
mods. Is there a supply of wireless boards that one could buy from
SlimDevices? I mean in a purely hypothetical sense only. And would one
just contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or is there a purportedly better
way to do this?
I
Well, I thought I'd solved my problems with reading files by simplifying
my directory structure. However, I copied some more CDs to my HDD this
afternoon, and problems cropped up again.
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I have one. And yes, it kicks ass as a Slim remote :)
Victor
On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:53 AM, bklaas wrote:
this kills me it's not available in the U.S. I've been jonesing for
this
thing as my squeezeboxen kontroller ever since I posted this thread
way
back when:
On 4/11/05 at 12:30 +, Andrew Heald wrote
Thanks, Daniel. I'm installed for a user named slimserver and not
for all users. I don't log on under this account and have the server
set to start on boot.
I've tried your suggestion to no avail. Mplayer just dies after
starting up. The puzzling
On 4/11/05 at 06:35 -0800, octavian wrote
Is Sqeezebox compatible with Airport or is it better to just put a
wireless ADSL router on the Ethernet? If so which one is best.
Should I use iTunes for my library? If so which lossless file type is
best?
It's certainly compatible with Airport
Heh - I live 2500 miles from Slim and I got it in
18 hours (I couldn't believe it!)
And I didn't specify fast shipping either, I
chose the 2 to 5 business days option.
Kenr wrote:
I got my notification that my SB3 shipped. I only
live 20 miles from
Slim devices so hopefully I will get it
On 11/4/05, Cleve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I thought I'd solved my problems with reading files by simplifyingmy directory structure. However, I copied some more CDs to my HDD thisafternoon, and problems cropped up again.
Your attachment doesn't go very far in describing the problem you are
OK, had my SB2 for 2 weeks now (so glad I got it when I did, not that
the SB3 is bad, but I saved £50!) and all is fine(ish)
I love what it can do and even my wife is impressed with AlienBBC, but
several times now the track displayed as playing has lagged behind the
actual track being played.
Have you tried (just as a test) extracting the files exactly in the
same way but with a different ending format, lets say mp3, to see if
the problem persists? That could help isolate the problem or point you
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Victor Brilon said the following on 04/11/2005 22:46:
I have one. And yes, it kicks ass as a Slim remote :)
I am s tempted by one of these...
I am also s poor at the moment, so I'll resist for now.
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I have been running Slimserver on a 5-6 yr old Toshiba Portege laptop
for a while now, and have had very acceptable performance given its
spec (Pentium II 300 MHz, with 128Mb RAM, running Win 2000). My music
is 400 albums, 5275 tracks, 220 artists, mainly FLACs with some MP3s,
sitting on an
Got back from my business trip today to find my replacement graphical
display waiting for me, but alas no fitting instructions.
I've obviously got to remove the old IR sensor from the SB as the new
display has one intergrated, but beyond that I'm clueless. Do I need
to solder the existing IR
Ignore me (most do) I've just found the instructions. My girlfriend had
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Néstor Wrote:
Have you tried (just as a test) extracting the files exactly in the
same way but with a different ending format, lets say mp3, to see if
the problem persists? That could help isolate the problem or point you
in the right direction.
Nestor, this was a good suggestion. I
Does this function work on the server? It would be useful if it did.
SlimServer Version: 6.2.1 - 5024
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I had posted these earlier, but I'll do it again in case you missed
them. These are screenshots of browsing on the 770 in full-screen
mode using the WebPad skin:
http://victorland.com/slimp3/1.jpg
http://victorland.com/slimp3/3.jpg
http://victorland.com/slimp3/3.jpg
Victor
On Nov 4, 2005,
This may be a serious issue, but it may be quickly fixed.
Use http://bugs.slimdevices.com to create a bug report, and upload all
the info you have, the more complete you can.
I have had different issues using SlimServer, and everytime I found
what I thought was a bug, I opened a report. I
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Does this function work on the server?It would be useful if it did.SlimServer Version: 6.2.1 - 5024ThanksWhat is text entry timing? Google != joy for me.TIA,Ben
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I am a big fan of the handheld skin for use as a remote on my Palm TX.
However, it seems to be missing one thing - an A-Z list at the top of
the Browse Artists and Browse Albums listings. I can only ever see the
first page of my artist listings - which gets me to somewhere in the
middle of the
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Sorry, most people probably won't care about this, but there isn't a
more suitable forum ...
Does anything about the SB care if I tie the power ground of 2 units
together?
No
Would anything bad happen?
No
Does anything care if I power 2 units off one 5V power
dean blackketter wrote:
I'd like to hear some discussion about why the new curve isn't good
for some folks.
...
My method is to turn the volume all the way down on the amplifier,
and turn the volume all the way up on the Squeezebox and play a
(loud) song that I know well. Then adjust the
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Bossa,
Just to add to my point (that the SB still feels a little beta to me)
look at the server change logs from 6.1 to 6.2. In the bugs section (I
know not all items are bugs) there are over 230 items that were
fixed/manipulated. http://www.slimdevices.com/Changelog6.html
Many of these 230
Any ideas? or recomendations to make the new machine run any faster?
I accept its not a head to head comparison as I'm running differnet
versions but even so
In very recent builds there's a performance parameter which let's
slimserver use ram instead of the disk to do some caching. Could
However, it seems to be missing one thing - an A-Z list at the top of
the Browse Artists and Browse Albums listings. I can only ever see the
You're on 6.5? Please open a bug for this issue (bugs.slimdevices.com)
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error message that the client isn't valid/found. I can drop that in
tonight unless michael gets to something first :)
Thanks for the fix! I was busy eating this season's first cheese fondue
with friends :-).
Don't expect too much code from me for the next few weeks - cardboard
boxes are
mherger Wrote:
However, it seems to be missing one thing - an A-Z list at the top of
the Browse Artists and Browse Albums listings. I can only ever see
the
You're on 6.5? Please open a bug for this issue (bugs.slimdevices.com)
6.2 should be fine.
Michael,
I thought I remembered
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