Mark Lanctot Wrote:
It's easy to compensate for with a firewall as you
just enter your entire DHCP pool range as a
trusted zone - therefore any possibility is
covered. If you do this, you'll only have
difficulty with browsing to the SlimServer web
page with another networked
I would suspect that iTunes Update plugin is actually working when you
run slim.exe and hence triggering constant iTunes library rescans.
Setting the iTunes reload interval to 0 is the right thing to do, but
you may still have to wait for an initial scan to complete if SlimServer
is in the middle
Hi all
I think this may be a bug but thought I'd check before I formally log
it as one... It appears that slimserver won't read through a Windows
Shortcut for playlists, although of course it does read through
shortcuts for the music files themselves.
I tested this by:
- creating a directory,
For the past few nights I have been looking for the nightly update for
6.5 so I could see the changes Ben has made. Unfortunately, I have not
been able to locate the 6.5 update for MAC OSX. The last update I found
available for download was the image file for
SlimServer_v2006-01-03.dmg. No
kdf Wrote:
On 5-Jan-06, at 8:10 PM, 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
I believe that cauth won't the same for
To the community at large looking for an inexpensive 'server'
Anyone looking over this thread or searching on 'Xbox' for information
on putting slimserver on the Xbox...
It works _great_ provided some considerations are addressed.
I highly recommend visiting the xbox linux project home page:
Squiffy,
I have been reading your mails with interest as I have just acquired a
2nd hand xbox on ebay.
The one thing I don't understand clearly yet is that if I wish to:
A) retain the ability to play xbox games (not interested in xbox live),
B) run Linux (including replacing the hard drive)
-
OS : Windows 2000 S.P.4
Server version : 6.2.1
A full rescan has been done before log.txt, but I may have made some
changes during my tests. I'll do a full rescan with the current
settings and I'll let you know.
After the rescan, I'll try the latest nightly build if the rescan
doesn't help.
Recently upgraded to 6.2.2 from 5.4.1 after discovering my Perl
Interpreter Failed problems on W2K were the result of playlists which
contained invalid entries (non-existent paths). That solved, I've been
happily using the new version, which seems quite stable by the way, but
recently noticed my
As PoW states, can you connect to a local SlimServer?
SqueezeNetwork is nothing more than a modified
SlimServer running on the Internet. It doesn't
care about WEP or any other local networking
configuration - that is between your Squeezebox
and your router.
However there is one extra step
bishopdonmiguel Wrote:
Should physical paths within the SlimServer DB be case sensitive? Is
this by design, or a bug?
They must be! Otherwise no files would be found on case sensitive
OSes/filesystems (like Linux, MacOS, Unix...).
You will need to find a workaround for your windows
Hi,
I cannot find it anywhere. Can anyone enlighten me?
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slimpy Wrote:
Just as an addition to Mark's post:
Using the convenience of DHCP with the advantages of fixed IP
adresses is possible if your router allows manual configuration
of IP addresses within your DHCP pool. This lets yout tie IP
addresses to a specific client's MAC address. When
MatB Wrote:
Hi,
I cannot find it anywhere. Can anyone enlighten me?
From the plugin section of the Wiki:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginPlayers
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case sensitive OSes/filesystems
I was afraid of that. Do these other OSes really consider Myfile.txt
and myfile.txt as distinct files? Seems very messy and confusing, but
perhaps I've been using Windows too long and I'm biased.
Also wonder why this didn't happen under 5.4.1. Was that
Well, at long last my review is finally published!
http://www.abxzone.com/abx_reviews/fraoch2/article_p1.html
If you recall, I had asked for opinions regarding
any factual errors in my first review. This was a
revision to cover the SB3, so I didn't ask for
opinions this time.
Thanks for the
That's indeed an interesting option. I have never seen it with the
NETGEAR/SMC/Linksys (DD-WRT) routers I've used, but it would be a great
option.
That's strange. I use netgear routers (and have in the past used both
linksys and smc) and they all have/had the option to allocate fixed
IPs.
Just did the full rescan : all working fine (yesterday, I did many
rescans, but each time one of the parameters must have been wrong).
It looks that whenever you touch a something concerning artwork, you
have to do a full rescan if you want to browse artwork the way it
should be.
The Art of
The NETGEAR was a really cheap wired RP614v1.
The SMC was an SMC2804WBRP-G. There's no point in
working with this one, it doesn't connect to the
Squeezeboxen at all.
The Linksys is a WRT54G. I certainly didn't see
the option with the stock firmware 4.20.6 and
4.20.7 and I don't see it with
catdna Wrote:
Hi All
I've been playing with the XML skin (and I must say, it's so much
faster in 6.2 than previous releases - good job !)
I've noticed that when using the 'search.xml' page, I'm getting *html*
returned, eg :
http://slimserver:9000/xml/search.xml?type=artistquery=ozric
I had a similar problem that turned out to be a permissions problem.
The directory needed to belong to the slimserver account in my
particular installation. The issue was write access. I'm running
linux (ubuntu) 6.2.1 and the logfile indicated that it could not write
the playlist. I can now
Wow you're right, the WRT54G doesn't support reserved DHCP. Crazy! I
would have thought such a popular device would have done so for sure. I
guess you can always flash one of the replacement firmwares...
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Hi all
I do have the same problem on my G3 with 128MByte OS 10.2.8 running.
Even installing PERL 5.8 did not resolve it. So I do note really think
it is a PERL problem?
Like in Andy's case upgrading to Tiger is not an option as my G3 is my
media server (not enough ram for Tiger). I could opt
I wondered if anyone has had experience using the Palm Treo 650 as a
remote control for slimserver.
I recently purchased the SB3 with the expectation that I could use
Salling Clicker on my Treo 650 to control the slimserver, but as it
turns out, Salling Clicker currently only supports
On 1/6/06, Peter Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wondered if anyone has had experience using the Palm Treo 650 as a
remote control for slimserver.
I recently purchased the SB3 with the expectation that I could use
Salling Clicker on my Treo 650 to control the slimserver, but as it
turns
You prompted me to update my 3rd party Linksys
WRT54G firmware from DD-WRT 23 beta 1 to DD-WRT 23
final.
This option is now there in Administration -
Services - DHCPd - Static Leases.
radish wrote:
Wow you're right, the WRT54G doesn't support
reserved DHCP. Crazy! I
would have thought such
Thanks Geoff,
So does the pTunes program allow you to control the slimserver (browse,
stop, play, etc) from the handheld?
Does it also support cover art?
Thanks,
Peter
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The RandomMix plugin currently takes no steps to avoid playing the same
track more than once. However, I've started work on a change to stop
songs being played more than once using the last played timestamp
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2551). This will get
done, but I'm still
Craig, James (IT) Wrote:
Squiffy,
I have been reading your mails with interest as I have just acquired a
2nd hand xbox on ebay.
Congratulations...hope you got a good price ;-)
Craig, James (IT) Wrote:
The one thing I don't understand clearly yet is that if I wish to:
A) retain the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Max.spicer
wrote:
The RandomMix plugin currently takes no steps to avoid playing the same
track more than once. However, I've started work on a change to stop
songs being played more than once
Are you going to make that an option? I have mine on random mix
On 1/6/06, Peter Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Geoff,
So does the pTunes program allow you to control the slimserver (browse,
stop, play, etc) from the handheld?
Does it also support cover art?
In fact, I don't have a Treo 650, so haven't tried it. I would suspect
not, rather that
Well, suprise suprise, but advancedmp3 are now showing an expected
delivery date of Wednesday 18 January.
Presumably Progressive are back off holiday now and can add something
to this discussion?
Paul
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On 1/6/06, Kevin Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Max.spicer
wrote:
The RandomMix plugin currently takes no steps to avoid playing the same
track more than once. However, I've started work on a change to stop
songs being played more than once
Are you going
I'd be interested to see what kind of fade the Squeezebox is doing.
There are few different kinds - linear, log, exponetial, cosine. An
initial enhancement could let you determine the type of fade in and
fade out curve to use. A further enhancement would be to let you shape
the curve - but I
kweller Wrote:
In article max.spicer.21881b (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com,
Max.spicer
wrote:
The RandomMix plugin currently takes no steps to avoid playing the
same
track more than once. However, I've started work on a change to stop
songs being played more than once
As an interesting sidenote, this was brought up a while back in a forum
about the Phatbox. The Phatbox exhibits the peculiar behavior of
playing the exact same songs in random mode both forward and back. For
example if I started on song 10 of 100, then then next song in random
mode would always
I have a Treo650 and it can control the slimserver with the built in
blazer web browser. If you then use a mp3 player and point it to your
slimserver like you would with winamp, and play it in the background
you can open up the browser, log onto the slimserver and control it
from the Treo. I have
I found this bug report
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2677
It's both similar and different.
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Just got myself a Denon AVR-4306, one of it's novel features is a
network connection.
There is a web interface that allows you to control the amp.
My thinking is to investigate the network control protocol, then
somehow to get slimserver to control it.
What do you guys think?
Does anyone else
Quoting sined [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sorry for the trouble.
no worries. The goal would be to avoid the scan, but with the amount
of artwork showing it is currently just too much work to look for all
the possible artwork for each album listed, every time the page is
loaded. The server does
Since I have absolutely no Linux experience, I'm a little shy of going
the NSLU2 route, but can I find an old laptop in the under $200 price
range? No luck so far! Does anybody care to speculate regarding the
development of an out-of-the-box Slimserver NSLU2, or mind pointing me
in the direction
Yeah I see it..I got my SB3 from them when it shipped from Slim and
the customer service is good but I'm not putting my money down in
advance when the dates for the Qnap keep being pushed back.
I'm actually now tempted to use an old pc as a server instead.
I'll be able to add any plugins
I'm reading about many media server PCs being shown at CES that's going
on now in Vegas; one particular company is Aopen who makes small
cube-based PCs using Intel Pentium M (laptop) chips for lower power
consumption and heat. They should make killer Slimservers; of course
most of them at CES
I think I'll try this latter suggestion.
I have the new linksys USBBT100 bluetooth adapter, which has a range of
up to 100 yards and covers my entire apartment (through several walls)
without a hitch, so as long as I can set up the LAN connection through
bluetooth, I should be OK.
I found the
Ben,
The new skin is looking great. I don't have a nokia, but I've tried it
out with regular old firefox. I've noticed a couple strange things in
the now playing display. It seems that the progress bar might be
updating too fast, as it gets to 100% before the end of a track, and
keeps
First I've got to say this sounds amazingly cool -
controlling both a Squeezebox and a receiver
through SlimServer. And you could have the
receiver connected to the network using the
Squeezebox wireless bridging feature!
While the operation would be through a fairly
simple parser, the GUI
thanks for taking a look at the skin, kdf. I too have seen the weird
progress behavior on firefox, and not sure how to deal with that. I
don't get the progress bar pushing off the screen thing on the Nokia
(for that matter, I don't think on regular Opera either). But clearly
something's wrong
Quoting bklaas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
kdf, since I've got you on the proverbial line, do you know if there is
a variable (when viewing status.html) that can determine whether the
current song is a remote URL?
does itemobj.isRemoteURL work?
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kdf Wrote:
does itemobj.isRemoteURL work?
bingo! we have a winner!
thanks a bunch, that was giving me tons of grief...
#!/ben
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Note: if you go to a static IP arrangement you have to
make changes on all your network devices.
On each computer, you have to specify your IP address
by using Start - Settings - Control Panel - Network
Settings - Local Area Connection/Wireless Network
Connection - Properties - Internet Protocol
Got the SB2 from Santa... works like a champ. Had RF television
inerference that was barely visible, but disconcertingting nonetheless.
Made use of the outdated zip drive cable 5V 1.0A. Now its perfect.
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seanadams Wrote:
If you happen to have one of the old Zip drive power supplies, it'll
work fine.
Sean, I just took a look at the power supply from my 250 MB Zip (can
you say dinosaur?), and it's exactly as you say. There's a little
(magnetic?) box or filter wrapped around the cable. Do you
Here's a pic. Is this some sort of tweak?
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I can't seen to add to a playlist using the remote. I believe I followed
the instructions:
1. found an album
2. clicked the Add button
3. clicked Now Playing, Play and the the right arrow
4. named the playlist
5. found another album
6. clicked the add button
...but my second album was not
That's a ferrite core. You will find it on most
computer cables.
http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/other/other_components_ferrite_cores.htm
It's to reduce electrical interference on the circuit.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a pic. Is this some sort of tweak?
ceejay Wrote:
And, no, it is not just you for whom List Pages select letter is broken
(also using Win XP and Firefox 1.5).
Ah yes - it's not an isolated problem.
Win XP/FF 1.5, list pages broken here too.
At first I thought general HTML intra-page bookmarks were broken in FF
1.5, but the
Hi there
I just got my new Squeezebox v3 and I love it so far. It's far
exceeding my expectations..
However one problem I've noticed is that my remote does not seem to
fast forward through songs from my music collection when I hold it down
(like the manual says). I have to imagine this is
Could it hurt to put it on my new Elpac linear power supply? Or should I
say, will it help?
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Some at AVS Forum have suggested that it might help
reduce EMI, yes.
It won't hurt at any rate.
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Could it hurt to put it on my new Elpac linear power
supply? Or should I
say, will it help?
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On 6-Jan-06, at 7:29 PM, ezkcdude wrote:
Could it hurt to put it on my new Elpac linear power supply? Or should
I
say, will it help?
can't hurt. Hard to say off-hand how much it would help. Might be only
a little, might be a lot :)
-k
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Hi,
I'm trying to get hebrew tags displayed on my SB3. I followed the
instructions ( http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?UnicodeFonts ) and
verified that the test files from the SVN show hebrew chars on the SB
display.
However, there are two problems:
1. Hebrew strings are reversed.
2. Most
On 6-Jan-06, at 7:43 PM, mack wrote:
Has anyone tried integrating fribidi into slimserv ? A perl library
exists (
http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/FriBidi/FriBidi-0.04.tar.gz )
so it should be possible.
it's been mentioned, but no one stepped up to do it. Feel like being
the first?
I have exactly this same issue. Does no one know how to rectify it?
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I am trying 6.2.2 and so far performance has been good. However,
Slimserver got the initial view of iTunes and has not updated since.
And it's been a few days. The iTunes Reload interval is 3600. Is
there anything else I should be setting?
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On 6-Jan-06, at 8:29 PM, dancarne wrote:
I am trying 6.2.2 and so far performance has been good. However,
Slimserver got the initial view of iTunes and has not updated since.
And it's been a few days. The iTunes Reload interval is 3600. Is
there anything else I should be setting?
the
ok, so here is how this goes
What server version are you using?
If the answer is 6.2.1, try the nightly build of 6.2.2 found here:
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/
if you feel a bit braver, try the nightly for 6.5 (bit experimental,
with new features).
i believe at
kdf Wrote:
On 6-Jan-06, at 7:43 PM, mack wrote:
Has anyone tried integrating fribidi into slimserv ? A perl library
exists (
http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/FriBidi/FriBidi-0.04.tar.gz
)
so it should be possible.
it's been mentioned, but no one stepped up to do it. Feel
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