I'm having the same problem with iTunes and Slimserver, except that SOME
of my iTunes playlists are seen by SlimServer/SB3, and some are not! All
Albums are seen, though.
Any ideas what I could do to fix it? My iTunes library files (the XML
stuff etc) are in C:\My Documents\My Music, while the
This Thread was of great help and did convince me to move to mySQL.
I have pretty good SQL experience Oracle and Microsoft but had never
done mysql.
I did download the RPM's from my SQL and did an install on my test
slimserver 32bit and had no problems.
The mysql admin tool made me feel pretty
Try the latest nightly 6.2.2 or 6.5 build. The SB3 firmware has just
(yesterday?) been updated to v29, which fixes a number of problems with
routers running in turbo or 108mbps mode.
Chris
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Dr Lovegrove Wrote:
On 27/01/06, ezkcdude ezkcdude.22bbwn (AT) no-mx (DOT)
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I just tried Moose for the first time, and I like it. I noticed that
there is no vertical scroll bar in the track listing display when
you
click on library. I assume this is not a
Hi - I am trying to program a third party remote (onkyo) to use to control basic functions of theSB remtoe. I have tried the JVC DVD code 0623 and the Squeezebox code 0533 and neither work.Can anyone tell me if these are the correct
codes? i have only seen them referenced in other posts but
Patrick Dixon Wrote:
Just remove the wireless card - it's a piggy back on the CPU.
I know it's a piggy back card. But does the software handle removing it
OK?
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funkstar Wrote:
isn't the wireless card dissabled when a wired connection is detected?
No, otherwise bridging wouldn't work.
Even if you don't set up bridging, that doesn't tell me that
electrically the card is turned off. I don't want to be radiating
inside a metal case containing 3 other
isn't the wireless card dissabled when a wired connection is detected?
i'm sure i read this before. and no, the software doesn't mind it you
just remove the card.
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Are the functions used in .map documented? Where?
Right now, what I'd like to do is to change the rew-fwd behavior to be
like Winamp. In Winamp, a single press jumps fwd/back about 5 seconds
- holding the button does an accelerating skip until you
seanadams Wrote:
If you haven't heard this effect before it's pretty slick - i don't know
of any easy tool to do it - last time i did this was ten years ago with
SoundEdit on the Mac.
In case you need an incentive to do this, the software that comes with
Creative's $50 USB sound devices can
funkstar Wrote:
isn't the wireless card dissabled when a wired connection is detected?
i'm sure i read this before. and no, the software doesn't mind it you
just remove the card.
Yes and yes.
The bridging option is only presented when you are connecting via
wireless AND there is a link
Not having an Onkyo remote I can't say. But make
sure the JVC DVD player remote codes are being
used through SlimServer by going to Player
Settings - Remote and making sure the jvc_dvd box
is checked. However, this is its default setting,
so that may not help.
Does the remote have a
Michaelwagner Wrote:
No, otherwise bridging wouldn't work.
Even if you don't set up bridging, that doesn't tell me that
electrically the card is turned off. I don't want to be radiating
inside a metal case containing 3 other processors. But if removing the
card isn't upsetting to a SB, I
seanadams Wrote:
Yes the CPU is capable of generating arbitrary output clocks instead of
from the external 44.1 and 48 KHz external crystal references. Going
slower would be possible, but going faster would at some point
(probably about +10%) hit a limit either in the output pipeline or in
macallf Wrote:
I had the same problem using MySql 5. Removed 5 and installed 4.1,
recreated the slimserver database and assigned all permissions to user
slimserver.
Thanks, Mark. I had noticed warnings from others about using v5 so I
installed v4.1 and no luck. I completely uninstalled
I am a paid subscriber of the NaxosRadio classical music service
(www.NaxosRadio.com) and was wondering if anyone else has attempted to
configure slimserver to 'see' and use this service. If not, I'll bang
on it and see if I can get it to work. I'll report results.
Rob..
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If it's any consolation, we're working on updating some of the
documentation in the wiki in this area.
But the facts change weekly, so it's hard to keep up. Slim in the last
week released 2 new firmware images to solve some of these problems.
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I used it for the first time last night and WOW that display is bright
at its lowest brightness setting!!
I have seen others complain about this and never really paid attention
but man, it's enough to cast shadows all the way across the room (and
it's a pretty big room) and it's even bright
It may not even need that at its lowest setting.
I could have easily avoided obstacles in the room
with that amount of light. ;-)
IR detector/emitters can be used as motion
detectors (there's a neat program for my HP48GX
calculator that does this) but not an IR detector
like the SB uses.
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Are we having thread munging problems again?
This posting on the web site
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=82210#post82210
seems like a non-sequitur w.r.t. to the quote.
I probably just clicked quote on the wrong post.
In any case, to answer your
I've had a similar experience with 3 sb2's (two wireless and 1 wired).
It seems to happen frequently when my wireless strength drops below 50%
or so. I remedied the situation, for the most part, by changing
channels and using an external antenna. I think wireless networking is
a big pain to
Please do, we'd love to have that service work with Squeezebox!
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Jon wrote:
When you say avoid wireless, are you referring specifically to the
end-to-end connection between the server and the Squeezebox (via a
wireless router), or just to the portion of the connection between the
server and the router?
I have two Squeezeboxes arriving next week, I was
On Jan 30, 2006, at 6:53 AM, seanadams wrote:
Michaelwagner Wrote:
No, otherwise bridging wouldn't work.
Even if you don't set up bridging, that doesn't tell me that
electrically the card is turned off. I don't want to be radiating
inside a metal case containing 3 other processors. But if
OK. This evening. Work is interfering with my hobby again
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I used it for the first time last night and WOW that display is bright
at its lowest brightness setting!!
Hrrm, my eyes are closed when I sleep, so I never notice.
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Sorry, don't seem to be able to turn MIMO off. You can turn the device
down to 802.11b, which I have done but that doesn't seem to help. I
think it's got to do with the 6 antenas etc. but that's just a guess.
I want to try the 29 firmware, but don't want to use the 6.2.2 build as
I use Gentoo
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Or if the function exists to do it separately, turn off turbo and leave
mimo on.
Mimo is not the same as some of the other turbo schemes, and seems to
have a better chance of working with SBs.
As a last chance, turn them both off.
I have a Belkin Pre-N MIMO router,
snarlydwarf Wrote:
Hrrm, my eyes are closed when I sleep, so I never notice.
thick eyelids?
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Yes but it's so bright you can almost see it through your closed
eyelids! Also I have a hard time falling asleep if it's not totally
dark.
I have it literally at the edge of the nightstand, it's about 18 away
from my face.
Anyway I've been informed that this is the minimum brightness the
Part of it may be that mine is across the room next to the TV, DVD and
amp... in Huge font, the display is no brighter than my alarm clock.
(On the far side of the room because that's where the speakers are,
too. Though it might be neat to have a pair of speakers on the bedside
tables for a
Slightly off topic, but thought this recent article on Netgear MIMO
routers and the effect on a standard G network was interesting -
particularly given you can't switch MIMO off.
One more potential variable to plug into the mix for people having
problems connecting to their wireless networks...
dhartz Wrote:
I want to view and play music located on other computers on my home
network. The documentation says all I need to do is create a short cut
in \My Musc\ to these files. This does not work. I use iTunes on all
3 computers. What am I doing wrong/
How do you create the
rkeeney wrote:
macallf Wrote:
I had the same problem using MySql 5. Removed 5 and installed 4.1,
recreated the slimserver database and assigned all permissions to user
slimserver.
Thanks, Mark. I had noticed warnings from others about using v5 so I
installed v4.1 and no luck. I
Could it be that the receiver is expecting something other than PCM
(say, Dolby Digital)? Some receivers mute themselves until they figure
out how the stream is encoded (so you miss the first second or so of
sound), but I have seen others that don't mute. If the receiver
doesn't self mute and
Malor (and others),
I can confirm that the bug was resolved.
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Just ran slim.exe from the CMD line and lo - Playlists have appeared!
Let it run for about 5 minutes and then re-started slimserver from
slimtray.
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snarlydwarf Wrote:
And, yeah, I worked nights 20 years ago, so I long ago learned to adjust
to sleeping in bright light.
Me too, well evenings, but I had blackout curtains then. SWMBO doesn't
like blackout curtains. Nothing wakes her up, everything wakes me up
:-(
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Quoting Charles Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi - I am trying to program a third party remote (onkyo) to use to control
basic functions of the SB remtoe. I have tried the JVC DVD code 0623 and
the Squeezebox code 0533 and neither work. Can anyone tell me if these are
the correct codes? i have
Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyway I've been informed that this is the minimum brightness the
display hardware will allow, so I should choose a smaller font, use a
coloured filter or move it further away.
The display is grayscale though, right? How many levels are there?
Quoting Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yes but it's so bright you can almost see it through your closed
eyelids! Also I have a hard time falling asleep if it's not totally
dark.
I have it literally at the edge of the nightstand, it's about 18 away
from my face.
Anyway I've been informed
Hi,
Didn't somebody write a little time ago that he/she had started
writing a server in java for the SqueezeBox?
The only thing I can find in the email archive is about slimpy, which
is for Slimp3.
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I have the original SliMP3 (vintage 2003). The ReadyNAS X6 looks pretty
interesting, and it runs SlimServer, but all the information I have
turned up refers to the Squeezebox.
Will the ReadyNAS X6 work with my SliMP3? Anybody running this
combination?
Cheers,
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This is based on what Dean says here:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2893
What you propose sounds interesting, but I don't
want Slim to take heroic measures to hack a lower
brightness.
Greg Klanderman wrote:
Mark Lanctot
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writes:
Anyway I've been informed
Cool but when I wake up in the middle of the night
I'm often curious what the time is.
Also I'm running this off SqueezeNetwork.
Great plugin though, thanks kdf.
kdf wrote:
Quoting Mark Lanctot
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yes but it's so bright you can almost see it
through your closed
eyelids!
Quoting Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Cool but when I wake up in the middle of the night
I'm often curious what the time is.
Also I'm running this off SqueezeNetwork.
Great plugin though, thanks kdf.
It isn't actually oe of mine. I don't connect to squeezebox all that
often, as it does
I never thought of that, good point.
Unfortunately I don't think this is happening. My
receiver remembers the last decoding setting I had
on a particular input. On that input I never
choose Dolby Digital decoding, and you can't even
activate DD decoding unless it's actually
receiving a DD
As long as your collection is in MP3 and not being transcoded on the
server it will work fine. The infrant release does not provide support
for any format conversion on the server and the Slimp3 only supports
MP3 files.
Other than that, the software is standard Slimserver 6.2 so the Slimpy3
will
No, it will be in firmware 30 when that is released. The bug will be
marked resolved at that point. Probably a day or two.
On Jan 30, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Malor wrote:
Excellent. (that was fast!) Is the updated firmware in the nightly
6.2.X build?
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You shouldn't see choppy play on either the sb2 or sb3 unless you're
doing transcoding on the server or streaming something uncompressed.
The buffer size is pretty healthy on the sb2/sb3 and should cover up
any small network burping.
What sort of files are you playing?
Are you transcoding
Sounds good, but I don't have the skills to do
this and it would probably have to be a firmware
thing.
As I indicated, I don't think Slim should go to
heroic measures to do this.
Michaelwagner wrote:
Mark: How about pulse width modulation? If you did
it in the SB itself,
you could turn the
Excellent. (that was fast!) Is the updated firmware in the nightly
6.2.X build?
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Mark Lanctot Wrote:
it would probably have to be a firmware
thing.
Yes. You aren't going to be able to do pulse width modulation from the
server. Just *way* too slow.
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Folks,
Apologies if this question is a repeat. Although, I couldn't find
anything in the archives w.r.t. my issue with SlimServer.
My Purpose:
Access my mp3 music at work over the internet
Background:
1. I have SlimServer 6.2.1 running at home on XP Pro.[say IP add is
1.2.3.4]
2. the ip
pankaj Wrote:
Hello
I'm considering getting my local computer hardware supplier to put
together a standalone, low-cost, 24x7 computer to serve as my music
server, and I was looking for some advice on what is the minimum I
should purchase, a Bill-Of-Materials (BOM) so to speak.
Any
mparin Wrote:
Folks,
Apologies if this question is a repeat. Although, I couldn't find
anything in the archives w.r.t. my issue with SlimServer.
My Purpose:
Access my mp3 music at work over the internet
Background:
1. I have SlimServer 6.2.1 running at home on XP Pro.[say IP
Thanks for trying to get something functioning with better
synchronization abilities than SoftSqueeze. I have a SB 2 connected
wirelessly to a Win XP server through a linksys wireless router
(WRT54G). Softsqueeze was consistently a few seconds behind the SB 2
when I would try to sync.
I
John Hernandez wrote:
Thanks Richard! I have it working on Linux using OpenSSH tunnels. It's
very lightweight, and I appreciate that.
That's ok, thanks for the feedback.
Question: When you say it does not support high quality mp3 playback,
do you mean that there's a bitrate limitation
John Gorst wrote:
Tried to run it on XP with no success (exited after telling me I have
four sound devices). However not much time to play with it yet and you
probable know about the bug anyway.
I'd be interested if the new version works any better for you? If not
does it do anything other
Is it possible your wife's employer is blocking http traffic to those
sites?
I'd try manually entering the 34.35.36.37:9000 just to eliminate the
intermediaries. The telnet trick is a good one, too.
Good luck. I ran SlimServer from home and listened at work through
iTunes for awhile before
MrC, Thank you so much, Sir!
That seems to be her problem... when she types the following at the
command prompt: Telnet ipaddressofserver 9000, the error message she
get is as follows:
'Could not open connection to host on port 9000: Connect failed'
So, given that that is the problem, is there
evergreen25 wrote:
I installed the squeezeslave executable and after a few hiccups related
to the bitrate limiting player settings in slimserver it is now running
on the same computer I use for Slimserver (Win XP box). However, the
sync is not quite right - I think the squeezeslave is about
It looks like your Java installation may be broken, it might be worth
trying to reinstall Java or trying the
softsqueeze_windows_with_jre_2_3.exe download from sourceforge.
Richard
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mparin Wrote:
MrC, Thank you so much, Sir!
That seems to be her problem... when she types the following at the
command prompt: Telnet ipaddressofserver 9000, the error message she
get is as follows:
'Could not open connection to host on port 9000: Connect failed'
So, given that that is
MrC,
Yes, she did try the actual WAN IP address and the connect failed.
So, I will try to setup an SSH server on the same machine as my
SlimServer and install the SSH client on her machine and give it a
shot.
My guess is that its most likely her work's firewall that is blocking
the port,
Thanks, funkstar. All my music is in VBR MP3s, so it sounds like I'll be
good to go.
Cheers,
Pat
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Ok, updated to the 6.2.2 build and the v29 firmware and ..it seems
to be working! I will test further and post my results.
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mparin Wrote:
My guess is that its most likely her work's firewall that is blocking
the port, because if it was my router/my firewall or the SlimServer
then in that case I would have the same issue, i.e. I would be
unsuccessful in accessing the SLimServer as well.
Not necessarily - port
Mark Lanctot wrote:
I used it for the first time last night and WOW that display is bright
at its lowest brightness setting!!
I have seen others complain about this and never really paid attention
but man, it's enough to cast shadows all the way across the room (and
it's a pretty big room) and
Bill Burns Wrote:
For the SB1, the remote is the perfect size, when balanced on edge in
front of the display, to completely hide it.
You'll need a higher-tech solution for the SB2/3.
A book ?
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ezkcdude wrote:
If the display is too bright, maybe just use some kind of neutral
density filter, like you would for a camera lens.
There is no need to have it be good quality.
Any high school stage will have burned out 'gel' for the
lights, Get some, put them on the display.
You can buy them
mparin Wrote:
MrC,
per your instructions, we just tried it with your setup and we ended-up
with the same error message.
Hopefully, your logs will clarify things a bit ..
I just PM'd you again. Its her end - port 9000 is not getting out.
Try the same test with port 22 to the IP I gave
Hi all,
I'm planning to get a new squeezebox to replace my old slimp3, but at
the same time I was thinking of getting a new remote control for the old
slimp3 - it still has the original Sony control, which is always a bit
confusing for guests etc.
What I want to know is - does a new squeezebox
Quoting Kornelis Sietsma [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I know there *was* a slim-specific remote control for the slimp3, but
is it the same as the shiny new black-and-white controls?
It's the same thing, with an added button for favorites (sic)
-k
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OK, I've just found I broke the sync just before making the last release
while doing portablitity fixes. Give me a couple of days, and I'll push
out a new version including flac ...
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I Just received my brandnew SqueezeBox 3 some 24h ago and have to admit
that I really love this little magic box.
Some trouble came up when I started to play around with the
internetradio features of the box. The box freezes and behaves weird
and seems to experience some trouble/errors.
My
For some reason I cannot access Radioio Ambient anymore - this just
started a day or so ago.
I can access all the other Radioio stations/genres -- but the Ambient
station was the only one I listened to regularly.
Can somebody out there verify that I'm not the only one with this
problem?
Thanks
I've been working on the installation documentation for the
PublicRadioFan.com Browser since there have been a few questions
related to it on the forums lately. I have basically compiled
information from my own installation, my emails with others while
helping them set it up, and old related
Go to Start - Run - services.msc. Locate
SlimServer.
If it's listed as started, stop it by right-clicking.
Now try to start it using the normal method.
Sometimes when slimserver crashes it leaves itself in
memory, preventing a new occurance from starting.
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I've been using it for a while now; I enjoy it much, thanks!
Somewhere around here, there's a thread in which I posted my questions
(and others' answers) about getting it installed.
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Mike Anderson Wrote:
Somewhere around here, there's a thread in which I posted my questions
(and others' answers) about getting it installed.Yeah, I used the info I gave
you in that thread and that you confirmed
worked for you on XP as the basis for the Windows install instructions.
Thanks
Don-Quay --
I was able to revert my Squeezebox2 to firmware 15 (works OK with
6.2.1). But my Windows XP machine still goes to sleep after five
minutes (from my power setting) while I am trying to play music. Maybe
it's because I am using FLACs (not WMAs) which I think are decoded on
the
joncourage Wrote:
not to mention they'd be some dumb firewall admins at her work if they
restrict HTTP traffic to 80/443 but then let ANY out on 22 (or anything
else for that matter...). If that's the case tell her mgt to give me a
call, my consulting fee is only $250/hour!
Uh, at
Hello All,
1. I tried playing WMA in native format, in Squeeze-box 2.2
and Slimserver 6.2.1. For this I chose, ServerSettings -- File Types
--FileFormat=Windows Media, StreamFormat =Windows Media,
Decoder=Windows Media; When, I clicked play from the slimserver, the
Play option is not
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