tonymcc Wrote:
For the time being I am using the multi genre support to create a
playlist of 'quiet' music, but I can't use the fast random mix and
every time I add a new album I have to rebuild/update the play list.
Doesn't
Random Mix - Select Genres to include - (select just quiet)
nicketynick Wrote:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - actually just a plug-in for the
Squeezebox 7!
...or the other way round: Squeezebox 7 as a plugin for the
Hitchhikers' Guide: gives you not only access to the information on all
the planets there are but also to all the music there is!
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Yes they are really just zero's 0, no O's and it's my own network with
my own WEP Key! It's no problem to surf the web reguarly, just no way
for slimserver ?!?
And I think it couldn't have anything to do with a 0 error like in
this http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19436 post
Photos and chat about it on engadget (started 24th December with
pictures from FCC)
http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/24/sonos-zoneplayer-zp80-leaked/
including a couple of SqueezeBox/Sonos comparisons.
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If so... maybe the good doctor could solve this keyboard button
dilemna...
I posted this awhile back...
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280 but the feature
request recieved very little traction (too Windows-centric, I guess).
JJZolx Wrote:
You're talking about the Random Mix plugin, correct? Given the way the
Random Mix plugin operates - by placing N items into the playlist, then
when on has played, selecting another, I wouldn't be surprised if it
does a very simple random selection with replacement.
I believe
Hi - any chance of you doing some work on the crossfade to make it a
little more sophisticated?
Most tracks start suddenly then end in a slow fade - in those cases a
good crossfade doesn't play with the faders much at all - the first
track is rapidly faded at (say) 8 seconds from the end whilst
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So it's not so easy as it sounds to get a satisfying random feed of
music (perhaps one that biases a little towards tracks it hasn't played
recently would be a good compromise?).
..and one that biases towards tracks with higher ratings would be nice
SB2/SB3 support wma decoding in the player. Softsqueeze does not.
So if you play a wma stream using Softsqueeze, then the server decodes
it. On windows this is via wmadec, on linux you can use mplayer. I
suspect wmadec supports all streams, mplayer may support less.
If you play a wma
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Mikerob:
ajmitchell, jhurley:
There are several SB1 models - with graphic displays or with the old
displays. Which do you have?
I have 2 original unmodified SB1's.
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Another (although not free) way of doing this would be to use
MusicMagicMixer which can have different settings for each player
including the Filter setting. You then define your selection criteria
in MMM and name these as a filter which is then assigned to your choice
of player - (if you see
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I have a SB1 wired, SB1 wireless and 2x SB2s. The Sbs 1 have a standard
graphical display approx half the resolution of the 2's.
From your preliminary tests above Michael, it may be a
squeezebox/itunes integration problem
R
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I did a full uninstall/re-install, and that fixed everything... I'm not
sure what corrupted my database - it was either the installer or the
removal of an entire disk volume via deletion of the shortcut to it. I
now believe that the perl interpreter failed was probably related to
resource
Is there a way of setting the IR Blaster to just relay all IR commands it
receives?
I've got a load of equipment in a cupboard and currently I have to have the
door open to use the remote. However, the SB is outside the cupboard, so it
would be useful if it could simply re-send all commands to
On 1/5/06, Dr Lovegrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As in CTRL+P, etc ? Yeah, that shouldnt be too tricky.. Moose would
need to be the selected app though..
You could use the method referred to in the last message of this thread:
ajmitchell Wrote:
From your preliminary tests above Michael, it may be a squeezebox/itunes
integration problem
Anyone with iTunes care to attempt to reproduce this problem?
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This is already logged as an enhancement request. Go to
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2743
and vote for it!
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Coming to this thread late. Re crashing on SB1 with character displays
[original SB1]. There was something added to svn r3620/r3628 to avoid
non latin1 characters crashing the server. However this only does it
for the bottom line [line1 of the display] and not for the overlay
[bit on the right
malsbury Wrote:
As far as the publicradiofan.com plugin not showing any info in the web
interface, I think that is by design.
...He said that when he got permission from the owner/creator of
publicradiofan.com to write the plugin the owner's only requests were
that the info scraped not be
I don't have my PSP in front of me, but are there any browser
configuration settings that the PSP allows you to play with?
Do you have any sort of firewall software on your server box that is
set up to only accept traffic from certain addresses?
Have you tried giving your PSP the same address
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Hi Triode:
I don't know where the bad character is/was, because I couldn't
reproduce. However ...
Can you explain what you mean by the overlay and maybe it will become
clear if my test was incomplete.
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thanks, that makes sense. Bummer, but reasonable. I got a gonzo cool
idea about the publicradiofan.com page while thinking about this last
night...I'll spare the details until I see if I can get it working, but
I'll give you a hint: rhymes with creasemonkey.
Yes indeed. I've
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it looks like this is a bug #2475 which had been opened a while
ago. does anybody know if this is being worked on?
while we are waiting for it, does anybody know of any utilities
(windoze) that can take unicode dir/file name and convert it
to resonable latin charset (and back)?
thanks
_mike
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Steve Baumgarten Wrote:
bklaas wrote:
Yes indeed. I've often thought a right-click menu item in Firefox that
did a Send to Squeezebox would be great. It would do the equivalent
of
copying the URL, bringing up the Radio Tune In page via the
Slimserver
and pasting it in to play it.
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Dr Lovegrove Wrote:
As in CTRL+P, etc ? Yeah, that shouldnt be too tricky.. Moose would
need to be the selected app though..
Sweet! The way things are going with Moose... I may never need to
control playback via the Slimsever web-interface again. Good riddance.
Thanks again for all your
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mcw Wrote:
I believe it's hard to get a pseudo random number generator to produce a
sequence without patterns.
I'm not talking about random number generators. I'm talking about the
behavior of the Random Mix plugin. Because of the way it operates:
- Pick N random songs (I forget the default
Isn't there a way to prevent the player from decoding the stream itself
and have mplayer pick it up and decode it first ?
It is the only radio channel I am interested in and being the bright
lucky chap that I am, it is also the only http:/mms stream I have tried
out of at least 20 or so that
The display is built up from 6 components:
Line1 - left justified text on top line
Line2 - same for bottom line [this bit can scroll]
overlay1 - right justified text on top line [normall used for progress
bar/count]
overlay2 - right justified text on bottom line [normally used for
arrow/notes
An interesting question no one's answered yet. Now I haven't actually
done this so I have no practical experience with it, but I'll take a
crack at it:
andy_c Wrote:
1) Will the SB2 see the SlimServer running on the quiet PC connected
to the ethernet port of the SB2?
I'm trying to wrap my
Thanks for the info Michael! The code definitely attempted the drops -
they just failed with image/database corrupt/malformed messages...
instead of erroring out gracefully at that point (and saying something
about my DB being screwed up :) ), I think it just stopped trying to
scan, leaving
I am currently trying MusicMagic (about 1 day's worth of validation
left to go!) and I was curious about the following option in SlimServer
Server settings:
SlimServer can use your MusicMagic program as source for title and
genre information. Additionally you can generate instant mixes on
On 1/4/06, Neil Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Geoff; unfortunately none of those sites explains how to generate Key
Pairs - or what to do with them. I've found sites that purport to explain
it; but not simply by any means!
One more note on this: there is a reasonable page here
Quoting dSw [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am currently trying MusicMagic (about 1 day's worth of validation
left to go!) and I was curious about the following option in SlimServer
Server settings:
SlimServer can use your MusicMagic program as source for title and
genre information. Additionally you
ben Wrote:
as for this thread, post #100! woohoo! do i win something?
Our eternal gratitude ... ;)
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Thanks for the prompt reply.
So, if I updated a tag or moved a file do I still need to do a rescan
on SlimServer, or will this 'newer' information be picked up from MM at
some point (assuming that I have MM setup to 'watch' for changes)?
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I was actually going to post on this topic today... the only thing I
miss from my pre-SlimServer days is my crossfading. I've used a
crossfade plugin for Winamp for several years that basically allows me
to do more of an 'overlap' than any actual fading. I listen almost
exclusively to random
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Thanks for the prompt reply.
So, if I updated a tag or moved a file do I still need to do a rescan
on SlimServer, or will this 'newer' information be picked up from MM at
some point (assuming that I have MM setup to 'watch' for changes)?
The server checks
Well I've even tried that (disabled the built in wma) but to no
avail...
Here is the stream : mms://193.194.64.116/chaine3
If anyone can hear any sound through a SB3 please let me know how.
But please remember my server is running on Linux.
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My wireless squeezebox 3 and the latest version of slim server are
running wonderfully when slim server is running as a service under Win
XP. However, I want to use the iTunes Update and iTunes Party Shuffle
plugins. To do this I have to cancel slim server as a service and run
slim.exe
See http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368 for detailed
discussion. I don't know why deleting the built-in WMA from the
configuration file doesn't work, but it didn't for me, either.
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tom
dean Wrote:
I added a change to 6.5 today that will resize cover art thumbnails
in slimserver on the fly. This makes the artwork page in the 770
skin (and other skins) much faster. Right now it should work on
Linux and Mac OS X, Dan needs to update a library for Windows in a
Given that you are on linux you can change the server code more easily.
A work around would be to modify Slim/Player/Squeezebox2.pm so that sub
canStreamDirect does the same as the softsqueeze one:
Code:
if ($handler $handler-can(canDirectStream)
thanks Neil, but no go on either channel - still crashing (I tried most
channels several days ago). I've no unusual wireless interference in
the house and all don't suffer issues with other wireless devices.
Enough time wasted trying to resolve this - time to email support. At
the end of the
Triode mate I owe you a beer !
It's bl**dy worked mate !
Is it safe to leave it like that ? won't is mess up the rest of my
things ?
Completely shuffed for the missus - was the only thing she wanted from
the SB3 :)
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I don't mean to derail this thread but a while back I pulled up the
slimserver from the psp browser and it was terribly formatted. I was
using the Default2 skin and I also tried ExBrowse3. Anybody know a
skin that works well with the PSP browser.
I was extremely disappointed when I
It probably can be fixed. Best to post a bug report with details and
examples on http://bugs.slimdevices.com/
-dean
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I also got browsing the SlimServer to work on the PSP - but it was
rather unwieldy - not really very usable. The formatting was awkward
and the speed the pages were updated left a lot to be desired.
I'd meant to try again with the Handheld skin - have you tried that?
I was also searching for a
dean Wrote:
And don't forget to update the HTML markup to include img tag
height and width attributes. This hints the layout engine and
allows for quicker paints.[/color]
I believe that these are already present.
yep...I don't think there's a single spot in the Nokia770 skin
bklaas Wrote:
I don't see the black background with dark text thing though...that
sounds like a css issue that I cleared up (possibly earlier today).
give it a shot with tomorrow's daily build (or update your svn tree),
and let me know if it looks better now.Ben, I tried getting the latest
I have exactly the same problem with two SB3's I got for Christmas.
Wired works like a dream as soon as I try wireless I have no end of
problems. Crashes, as you have experienced, and also frequent factory
reset where it looses its MAC address something I have hardly ever come
across. I am
Incidentally, I'm typing this from my laptop, which I just connected to
an SB3 using a crossover cable. Completely painless, and works like a
charm.
The lights on the laptop NIC immediately turned on and Windows
indicated an active 100 Mbps connection but I initially had no
connectivity - then
Man is that a mouthful. So, as Tom Malsbury described in a different
thread
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=75612postcount=97), the
handy publicradiofan.com plugin works great via the remote but, by
request of the site owner, has no slimserver browser access. In light
of that, I
bklaas Wrote:
This is a first pass, so if you try it out and have suggestions for
improvement, I'm all ears.
most of this text is more or less reprinted at
http://benklaas.com/slimserver/
I just have to wonder if you are getting any sleep with the amount of
work you have been doing on your
I really like that idea vacaboca, it seems this would add a very dynamic
quality to the crossfade. Almost as if a person were behind when the
next track started.
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Interesting enough, I had the exact same problem with a different mms:
station. I've logged the following bug,
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529
My workaround was to go back to a prior version of the software, 6.1.??
Going back to the prior version allowed me utilize the
That's actually why I like it - it feels a bit more like a radio or
party DJ - it's always interesting to me to hear what's going to come
next, and how the transition sounds... but maybe that's just me. Like
I said, it's really the only thing I miss in my switch from WinAmp
proper to
eliw Wrote:
Is it safe to leave it like that ? won't is mess up the rest of my
things ?
Yes safe to leave like that, but remember to change it when ever you
upgrade [depending on the way you upgrade the server]
All this is doing is stopping direct streaming for mms streams on a
SB2/SB3
Handheld and touchscreen skins both work well on the PSP. I wouldn't be
surprised if the new Nokia 770 skin also looks good, the screens are a
similar size and shape.
As for streaming, the PSP doesn't yet support streaming and there's not
really any way around that, sorry.
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Interesting!
I ran some tests using 'RacoonWorks SpeedTest'
(http://www.raccoonworks.com/Products.htm#SpeedTest) and here are my
conclusions:
1. Wireless networking speed is a tad slower than with my laptop
wireless NIC, but it's more stable for web browsing and general usage
as my wireless
thanks, Tom. Actually it's my 2-year-old daughter and her new-found
penchant for waking up for the day at 5am that is cutting most into my
sleep. Not to say that I haven't been spending quite a bit of time on
slimserver stuff (I'm embarassed to tell you how long it took me to
write the 15 or so
That would be a great feature indeed!
I'd pay to see that.
-Chris
On 1/5/06, bklaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks, Tom. Actually it's my 2-year-old daughter and her new-found
penchant for waking up for the day at 5am that is cutting most into my
sleep. Not to say that I haven't been
Thank you for your suggestions! As soon as I have time for it, I'll try
it again on another network. Maybe it works with a network of a friend.
When I have News, I'll tell you.
But if it won't work, do somebody know a device to control my MP3
Collection, which is as smart to handle as the SONOS
edit in the correct mac addr and ip address for your slimserver
To be clear, this is the mac and ip of the slimserver PC nic, and not
the mac/ip of the Squeezebox. (right?)
Thanks,
Dan
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Thanks for reply.howeverI have already enabled this for the
network yet I still cant get the sharing tab to appear. It is very
strange!
Any other suggestions?
Thanks, Neale
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Didn't help. It doesn't seem to be a problem with iTunes or slim
server. It only happens when I run slim.exe directly. iTunes Update
and Party Shuffle do run some perl scripts, but I thought slim server
did plenty of that on it's own so that shouldn't be the issue. I tried
reducing the reload
sorry, should have been clear there.
mac address of the squeezebox (you should be able to glean this
information from one of the slimserver web interface urls)
ip address of the server
that should get you there...
cheers,
#!/ben
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Hi everyone!
Total newb here. I have a question regarding the Nokia 770. This might
seem like a stupid question, but will this device stream video and
pictures over my home wireless network? My idea is that I can use the
Nokia 770 to be a nice remote for my Squeezebox 3, as well as surf the
streaming video isn't really there yet, but because of the open-source
nature of the product, it has potential (I will be watching that effort
heavily too).
the best option for this is probably someone porting vlc to the 770. I
figure it will happen, it's just a question of when.
fwiw, i've
why is public key auth better than userid and password?
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why is public key auth better than userid and password?
Highly secure. The time it would take to crack is significant whereas
user/pass is generally vulnerable to brute force attack.
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On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 18:29 -0800, rme wrote:
why is public key auth better than userid and password?
Fundamental security.
If done properly, it is not subject to replay attacks.
With userid/password, once you snoop it, you can use it forever.
And implemented properly, it is no more work for
bklaas Wrote:
I should note that while this script is specific to publicradiofan.com,
the possibility of this to be generic to all sites exists, and would
extend the appeal immeasurably. Ideally, what I'd like to see is what
Steve Baumgarten mentioned on the Nokia770 thread-- a right-click
No artwork is displayed when browsing artwork.
Look for Artwork in Server settings / Performance is activated.
Artwork in Server settings / Interface is set to %ALBUM.
Artwork Thumbnail in Server settings / Interface is set to %ALBUM
V.
Artwork Folder in Server settings / Interface is set to
a very thorough report, but a couple important questions:
which os?
what server version?
was the log.txt with d_artwork from a rescan or just browsing? The
browse_artwork feature requires a full rescan in order to collect
artwork based on any changed settings.
also try the latest nightly
malsbury Wrote:
I guess you might need to add a cauth security parameter to the
reformatted url, whatever that might be. Since it said I could use the same
cauth value for any request I
edited the script and added this:
Code:
var urlStubTwo =
Alright, I tried the handheld skin and Whoa! it is perfect! So at the
very minimum I have a very full featured wireless control device.
Next I tried to get the rss streaming method to work. Here is the xml
file I put on my web server and pointed the browser on the PSP at. The
PSP browser
On 5-Jan-06, at 8:10 PM, malsbury wrote:
malsbury Wrote:
I guess you might need to add a cauth security parameter to the
reformatted url, whatever that might be. Since it said I could use
the same cauth value for any request I
edited the script and added this:
Code:
But the PSP is a handheld, no?
There are tablet PCs out there though.
However the Nokia 770 (no, it's not a phone)
apparently has a screen that blows most handhelds away
and is probably the equal to the PSP - well, closer
than a Palm or PocketPC anyway.
People are already developing a
hi Tom--
couple of notes in response...
the cauth thing...you need to go to your slimserver server settings,
click on the security link, and select 'none' for CSRF security (should
be at the bottom of that page). After that, there is no need for a cauth
param on your URL.
on your code to add
Mark Lanctot's replies should either be in a sticky or the wiki !
Firewalls and DHCP servers are a constant source of puzzlement for PC
users venturing into networking, which is just what the SB3 will be
encouraging.
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Alright, I tried out a few combinations but didn't have any luck. First
of all I tried a few different MIME types, none of these worked:
audio/MP3
audio/x-mpeg
audio/mpegurl
audio/x-mpegurl
I kind of doubt this is the source of the problem. I also installed
lame on my server and tried setting
I have tried to access the Squeeze Network wirelessly when my router is
set to WEP, no luck. When I change the router to no security, voila!
Squeezenetwork works fine.
Any thoughts here?
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Do you have a local slimserver and can you connect to it using WEP? If
the answer is no I'm guessing you are missing something small (ie
encryption config) when you are configuring your SB for your network.
If you can connect to a local server, I'm not sure.
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