http://serverIP;9000/default/
Or rather:
http://serverIP:9000/default/
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The plugin works fine for me as well. I'm runing slimserver 6.2.2
February 10 nightly release.
The plugin doesn't really dim the display, it turns it completely
off, and this behavior is not controlable by the user. However, it's
pretty easy to modify the plugin. The dim setting is done in
Robin Bowes Wrote:
Patrick Dixon said the following on 02/26/2006 06:55 PM:
I have a WAG54G and found that I had problems with a recent SB2. No
problem with the older SB2 which uses a different wireless card IIRC.
Updating to the latest SB2/3 Firmware (FW35) seemed to solve the
Sounds like an excellent idea. I've wasted days and and days trying to
get my squeeze box to communicate flawlessly. I'm not there yet.
I found that anytime the signal strength drops below 60% or god fobid
lower that you will hear drop outs and wose still the squeeze box will
re-boot.
I
I am running SlimServer Version 6.2.1 -5194-Windows XP-EN-cp1252
What happens is:
I set an Off time in Autodisplay
I set the plugin to On
The time passes but the display does not change (even after waiting a
few minutes past the time)
The time on the web interface has reset itself to 00:00
I don't believe I'm running a firewall.
Don't you _believe_ or don't you _know_? Windows XP SP2 by default turns
on the firewall (though this does imho not block outgoing traffic).
iTunes is running on the same
machine as slimserver. iTunes works fine accessing the internet and
radio, but
goldnet Wrote:
Can you leave it at 108mbs speed or do you limit it to the 'g'
connection for the SB?
That is the beauty of it using g or b devices is not supposed (which
appears to be true) to slow if down at all.
Absolute rock solid connection.
Security is WPA - TPIK which is fine for me.
on 2006-02-26 18:30 Michaelwagner said the following:
OK, I can understand why you'd want multiple genres and multiple
artists for a track, but why multiple titles?
Is this for, like
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) Cher ?
So it would show up under both if I recoded it as
The Shoop
Hi mattybain,
which exact Belkin model do you have? Is it the F5D8230-4 or the
F5D8230-4 v2000?
I tried the latter and was very displeased.
Thanks for your feedback
Nikos
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JJZolx Wrote:
2.2 is different, but what about 2.3 and 2.4? If a tag new to 2.4 is
used in a 2.3 formatted id3 tag, will it be recognized by SlimServer?
If so, then there's no need to document them separately.
I use TSOP frames (new as of 2.4) in existing 2.3 tags without any
problems.
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Hi mattybain,
which exact Belkin model do you have? Is it the F5D8230-4 or the
F5D8230-4 v2000?
I tried the latter and was very displeased.
Thanks for your feedback
Nikos
v2000 UK - did you update the firmware? what sort of problems did you
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chrisal Wrote:
Yep - my 44.1khz flac files definitely play back gapless
Using firmware 35 currently and I'm certain it worked ok before I
upgraded too.
hi chrisal,
If you need the music segments(44.1k flac files),Send me email to
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
1. what version of slimserver are you running?
2. are your music files on a local hard disk or somewhere else?
3. Under Server / Performance / Database Temporary File Tuning
(SQLite), make sure it's set to Use RAM
4. next down, Database Cache Size Tuning , 10,000 is
Michaelwagner Wrote:
While it's a bit tough to plow through, the definitive reference, such
as it is, for id3 tags (the ones used in mp3 files) is located here:
http://www.id3.org/develop.html
For the three sort order tags, here is the explanation from that web
site:
TSOA
The
Danco,
Looks good.
May I suggest a third point along these lines:
3. Low signal strength.
3. If the signal strength is low, the data transmission speed is
adversely affected and the music may suffer dropouts or the SB will not
connect. If you think you have this problem, a simple way to test
rudholm Wrote:
... Nice. Made a wiki out of it:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AutoDisplay
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WiFi mode)
Jungle Wrote:
Upgraded to latest nightlies earlier today and to FW35 but the problem
still persists.
Any further suggestions to solve the issue would be gratefully
received.
Having looked through other posts, I have managed to get this issue
resolved. All it took was to manually enter IP
Danco
definitely a good idea, though I think it needs some more detail...
here are a few suggestions:
(1) expanded discussion on MAC addresses - you've referred to MAC
filtering but I think its worth a little more. Should also point out
how to check that the SB's idea of its MAC address is the
I agree, this is a great idea. Is it worth including a section on
diagnosing performance issues? Some suggestions:
- Checking server load through top or task manager
- Verifiying WLAN performance through a test download on another WLAN
connected device
- Using the net test plug-in.
I'll be
I've been off the air while a build a dedicated slimserver box. It looks
like this issue may be resolved - I downgraded to firmware 28 and
slimserver 6.2.1 5194 and the player is running with a 100% buffer and
playing like a dream.
Just to confirm, I upgraded to the latest nightly and the
Have you tried shutting down the server, removing slimserversql.db and
restarting it again?
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that if you don't enter the time perfectly HH:MM AM|PM then it doesn't
work. Try entering the time using the remote and see if that works.
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google parallel port LCD - it's relatively easy to hook up
and there is software out there to drive it.
So what did SlimDevices do with all the returned LCD panels
from the SB1?
Paul
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Moreover, since DHCP sometimes inexplicably does not work despite the
SQB ability to join the wireless network, a guide on manual
configuration of a compatible IP address on the SBQ would make sense.
i.e. if you DHCP server serves addresses out of a certain range, how to
assign an address that
Yep.
I kept the library very small. Just for testing purposes.
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There has been much discussion of tagging deficiencies when it comes to
classical music. Frankly, this has not been a huge issue for me, even
though I have a fair amount of classical music in my collection. No, I
cant track what color shirt Mozart was wearing when he scrawled out
Eine Kleine
Could be a flaky player. My Slimp3 works fine using 6.22. I ran it for
a long time using 5.4.1, which was a nice, stable release.
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Checked your firewall?
Blocking port 1069/UDP?
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slimpy Wrote:
Not having a sort tag related to TPE2 (Band) is a major flaw.
There's no reason SlimServer couldn't create some (non-standard) sort
tag for BAND/TPE2/ALBUMARTIST.
ALBUMARTISTSORT?
If I'm not mistaken, ID3v2.3/4 permits freeform tags by using its TXXX
tag, so it could have the
tgoldstone Wrote:
Are you entering the time in the web UI? One thing I have noticed is
that if you don't enter the time perfectly HH:MM AM|PM then it doesn't
work. Try entering the time using the remote and see if that works.
I entered it using the remote and now it works. Thanks for your
Patrick Dixon said the following on 02/27/2006 09:21 AM:
What's a POS?
Piece of ...
Mine's worked fine for a couple of years now - no disconnections no
overheating. Maybe I just got a good one.
Perhaps you had a later version? The v1 units were attrocious - google
shows up loads of people
* Brian Schwarzkopf shaped the electrons to say...
Sorry, I should have mentioned I am running Slim Server on a Mac OSX Tiger,
so it runs as part of System Preferences.
Brian - look at the NoSetup plugin: http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/
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Looking ahead, I can't help but wonder if Slim is preparing for Vista.
I currently have SlimServer running without any problems on WinXP 64
Bit. But I don't know if this guarantees that it will run in Vista.
Are you guys preparing for the new OS? It is supposed to be on the
streets sometime in
danco Wrote:
Problems with wireless connection seem common, so I reckon it's time for
a wiki entry. I haven't added anything yet, but am posting a first
attempt here for corrections and improvements.
A while back, I started a Wireless wiki entry in CeeJay's beginner's
guide - have a peek
FWIW, I had the same problem. When I entered times via the web
interface, I had difficulty getting the settings to take, but it always
worked without problem when I entered them on the Squeezebox. I haven't
made any changes to my server's time format (although I have configured
it so that the
Is Slim on XP 64 any faster?
I'd imagine since it wasn't specifically designed as a 64bit app there
might not really be much of a difference?
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Isn't it in perl? So, if perl is faster, it will be faster. Maybe the DB engine is faster too.To the original poster, since it's in perl, why wouldn't it just work on vista?
On 2/27/06, joncourage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is Slim on XP 64 any faster?I'd imagine since it wasn't specifically
Robin Bowes Wrote:
Patrick Dixon said the following on 02/27/2006 09:21 AM:
What's a POS?
Piece of ...
Mine's worked fine for a couple of years now - no disconnections no
overheating. Maybe I just got a good one.
Perhaps you had a later version? The v1 units were attrocious -
mherger Wrote:
Have you tried shutting down the server, removing slimserversql.db and
restarting it again?
Thank you for the suggestion ... this did the trick. After removing
slimserversql.db, the initial scan of 584 albums took about 20 minutes
... and the re-scan for new and changed
It's written in Perl, but the perl runtime _may_ need to be updated, but it's unlikely.There's a chance that we can make it faster by using a Vista-optimized version, but that depends on an updated version from ActiveState.On Feb 27, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Jim Dibb wrote:Isn't it in perl? So, if perl
What does this really mean,
I could guess that it is either reducing the size of the packet being
sent to the SQ3, but i have also seen the word chunk to represent
memory ?
2006-02-27 10:45:43.2618 reduced chunksize to 3769 for metadata
2006-02-27 10:45:43.3135 reduced chunksize to 3769 for
Patrick Dixon said the following on 02/27/2006 06:36 PM:
Pretty much every router I googled when I was looking had loads of
people slagging it off, and a few saying it was OK! I updated mine to
the most recent firmware I could find and it's been fine. I'm not a
very demanding wireless user
That's just some verbose logging of SlimServer looking for metadata
in an incoming radio station stream (song title, etc...)
Looks like it's working.
-dean
On Feb 27, 2006, at 10:49 AM, kkken wrote:
What does this really mean,
I could guess that it is either reducing the size of the
Since the Treo is served up a new IP address from time to time I get a
bunch of new IPs in the Slimserver address drop-down menu in the web
interface.
I understand that there are ways in the convert.conf to set the IP or
MAC address of a device but I can't find out what the MAC address of my
you need the id3v2 tag support component, and you need to set write v1
v2 tags in preferences/standard inputs ... also on the id3v2 preferences
make sure you select whether you want ISO ot UTF tags (default setting is
UTF i think).
it workd fine for me on 12K tracks ...
- Original
How do I name my own favorite radiostations on my SlimServer? I can
enter a radio url like
http://www.dr.dk/netradio/Metafiler/PLS/DR_Barometer_128.pls (DR
Barometer, great alternative music) by going to Radio Tune In, and
the music will play, but...
If I add DR Barometer as a favorite together
I have just discovered that I can add the same station and get the name
defined by choosing the same stations .asx stream instead of the .pls
stream:
http://www.dr.dk/netradio/Metafiler/asx/dr_barometer_128.asx
But still, if the station are only available as .pls, how do you give
it a name?
Stig Nygaard Wrote:
It's not a problem on www.squeezenetwork.com, but I can't figure how to
do it on my SlimServer?
The easiest way to add/edit your favorite radio stations is to use your
own page in squeezenetwork. Whatever you change there will show on your
squeezebox.
Just remember
Folks,
The most frequent thing I want to do is to add a single
song to the Now Playing playlist. But the (documented)
behavior of the ADD button is to add the entire album
to the Now Playing playlist... so I'm constantly getting
a whole album's worth of songs added to Now Playing
when I want to
The most frequent thing I want to do is to add a single
song to the Now Playing playlist. But the (documented)
behavior of the ADD button is to add the entire album
to the Now Playing playlist... so I'm constantly getting
a whole album's worth of songs added to Now Playing
when I want to
Stig Nygaard Wrote:
I have just discovered that I can add the same station and get the name
defined by choosing the same stations .asx stream instead of the .pls
stream:
http://www.dr.dk/netradio/Metafiler/asx/dr_barometer_128.asx
But still, if the station are only available as .pls,
That's exactly what I would have expected it to do so I'm glad you've
made me read the instructions.
I'd be interest in that modification. How about suggesting it to Slim
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JJZolx Wrote:
You can do this if you shut down SlimServer and edit the slimserver.pref
file. Not very convenient, but it works.
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loneagle Wrote:
A more intuitive way for ADD to work would be:
Displaying a song - ADD - Add single song to Now Playing
Displaying an album - ADD - Add album's worth of songs to Now
Playing
Displaying an artist - ADD - Add all songs by artist to Now Playing
That's exactly what it does
Dean suggested I drop in and introduce myself. I'm starting today as QA
Manager here at Slim Devices.
I'll be working not only on testing hardware and software, but on the
larger statistical picture and on our processes to try to catch future
problems before they get out the door.
I come to
loneagle Wrote:
I *wish* mine behaved like yours... mine acts as documented
in the user manual:
http://slimdevices.com/documentation/Squeezebox-v3-Owners-Guide.pdf
Page 12, step #5:
When you find an album, artist, genre or song you want to listen to,
press PLAY to play all the songs
Richie Wrote:
Server Settings Behaviour PLAY OTHER SONGS IN ALBUM
allows you to choose between the single track or the whole album.
Richard
Thanks a bunch-- that's what I wanted it to do!
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Hang on - I just noticed in your original post you said ADD, whilst in
the recent followup you quoted the manual talking about PLAY. They are
different. ADD works as I described, PLAY has a switch to make it take
the whole album if you want to - look in Server Settings/Behavior/Play
Other Songs
I understand the difference between PLAY and ADD, and
with your suggested server setting the Squeezebox works
as I think it should.
I think the trouble I got into was using PLAY to play (and
add to Now Playing) the first song, but because I hit PLAY
I got all the album's songs added to the
Not sure if it is underscore related ... but I can't log-in to Live365
via SlimServer but I can via Squeezenetwork ... and I have an
underscore in my Live365 account name.
I am running 6.5 nightly (yesterday's).
Pretty sure that it used to work (but I don't use Live365 much - and it
might well
Slimserver seems to run fine on the latest Vista release already. It's
too early to say anything about performance however...
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Some time ago, vocaboca suggested a more pleasing crossfade would be one
that would start the next track at full volume at some point during the
previous track's fade out.
I agree 100% that this is the way to go. Myself, I turned crossfading
off because I can't stand the effect of songs fading
jonheal Wrote:
Some time ago, vocaboca suggested a more pleasing crossfade would be one
that would start the next track at full volume at some point during the
previous track's fade out.
I agree 100% that this is the way to go. Myself, I turned crossfading
off because I can't stand the
mherger Wrote:
Kerry
I had no problems on 6.2 getting access to internet radio stations
but
now I get the error:
There was an error parsing the stream information. Try reducing the
number of streams if you've set a great number. (2)
Did you follow that advice? Do you still
radish Wrote:
Couple of points:
(a) The gap doesn't precede the next track, it's at the end of the
current one.
(b) If you have gapless tracks you shouldn't be crossfading at all, you
should be playing them straight through. Crossfading is simply a hack to
try and make non-gapless tracks
Hey, Michael. How come that worked? I thought that was only for
switching versions. ...
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I think we need to beware of making any one page too big and unwieldy -
although the opposite problem of fragmenting into pages with only 5
lines of content is just as bad!
My suggestion would be to
(1) split MrC's piece on Wireless Security (currently in
BeginnersGuideToNetworks) off into a
Just got and configured a new ReadyNAS NV (now I can sleep a little
easier knowing my large music DB is backed up). Before I make the
decision to install SS on it I have a few questions.
-Can I have 2 SlimServers running at the same time?
-If so, how do I select which one to use via the SB
joncourage Wrote:
Is Slim on XP 64 any faster?
I'd imagine since it wasn't specifically designed as a 64bit app there
might not really be much of a difference?
It actually runs under WoW or Windows on Windows, a compatibility
mode. In other words, it's running as a 32 bit application.
But
JohnQuirk Wrote:
Slimserver seems to run fine on the latest Vista release already. It's
too early to say anything about performance however...
well that's good to know. It'll probably run fine on the final shrink
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I had turned off the XP firewall. I did have some other (Norton)
antivirus/firewall software on here, but I had removed it earlier. No
proxy, this is a home pc connected to a cable modem.
It sounds like this is purely a problem on my machine, and not some
larger heres how you do it.
an iPod killer?
http://www.pulse24.com/Business/Top_Story/20060226-001/page.asp
And on this site, the product code is SWIMP3!
http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/search.do?productCode=SWIMP3
Michael, did you have anything to do with this?
http://www.swissbit.com/haupt.asp?nv=2323spr=2
Hi Chris,
its good to observe the seriousness of Slimdevices as a company to
hire an experienced person like yourself in the role of Quality
Assurance manager.
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On 2/27/06, rkeeney
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-Can I have 2 SlimServers running at the same time?
-If so, how do I select which one to use via the SB interface?
Provided that they are on two different systems (a PC and a NAS, for
example), yes. The SB2/SB3 will give you the option to select
Probably should have piped in earlier with what went wrong and how I
solved it.
Not sure why the underscore problem was happening, but reinstalled slim
server, only to keep having login problems.
Put in my username/password again and again, and it kept failing. My
password contains the letter
I'll be stopping by for an audit.
Just kidding!
Nice to meet you. I deal with QA/QC quite a bit in my line of work. I
inspect heat exchangers in power plants, many of them Nuclear plants. I
also run our company's calibration lab.
So the concept of quality is not new to me. I'm glad to see that
I figured out some of the settings required to get the TC-10 up an
running.
Using the latest version of Arch Linux (which I use at work), 2.6.15
with udev pretty well gets all the hardware.
Ethernet is natsemi
You have load evdev driver to provide kernel support for the touch
screen. I added
snarlydwarf Wrote:
The first two are related. This device behaves exactly as a Long Cable
From Your Sound Card would behave:
1) No display.
2) No remote.
That's precisely why I bought the SB. I've used the music serving in
Tivo, Linkplayer2 and other approaches and it came down to
I just noticed that when an artist doesn't have an album associated
(blank tag for album), that artist isn't shown in the Browse Artists
list.
Is this intended functionality?
Is there any way to reverse this so all artists show under Browse
Artists?
Thanks!
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Well I guess I'll have to take a look at the time input function.
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Thanks for the thoughtful replies. The virtual albums is an innovative
idea, once I get the time for it. I see a paraphrase of an old saying:
A digital library's tags are never finished - only abandoned. Or
There is always one more tag (to be tweaked). That's why, even though
none of the data in
I also use a Dell Axim as a remote using the handheld skin, and it does
work well. But it would be nice to use a different interface when you
access it via another browser type. I don't know anything about this,
but certainly commercial websites (stellar example is the BBC) exhibit
different
On 27-Feb-06, at 8:19 PM, ShorinSean wrote:
I also use a Dell Axim as a remote using the handheld skin, and it does
work well. But it would be nice to use a different interface when you
access it via another browser type. I don't know anything about this,
but certainly commercial websites
Hello members,
I am new to this forum and recently purchased the SB3.so far i am
enjoying it alot and I listen to XM radio on my aol account alot.is
there a way i can play XM radio through aol with the SQ? if yes,please
show me how to do it..thanks
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I intend to write comparison of the Squeezebox (I have a v2 wired and a
v3 wireless) and the Sonos Zone Player 100. Sonos has a deal in which
they are actually loaning equipment to trusted friends of selected
customers. They extended this offer to a friend of mine who,
naturally, sent them my
The Dlink doesn't have a TV display either... it just takes sound
output through virtual device driver, wraps it in IP and sends it to
the device...
As someone else pointed out, that will include all the bleeps and
bloops and clicks that Windows likes to make, too...
The device baffles me
snarlydwarf Wrote:
The device baffles me because I really do see no use for it at all.
This PC I'm typing on is just around the corner from where I listen to
music most of the time.. I could put an amp in here and run speaker
wire into there... and it would sound fine... but.. I'd have to
Hi Chris
Welcome to the world of Slim Devices. Good to have you with us.
Cheers
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Everyone said: This cannot be done. But one day someone came along who
didn't know about this - and did it. (Source unknown)
Yes, I reckon a post such as my one that started the thread does imply
willingness to start such a page.
I'll leave it a few more days for other people to make further
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