Mark Lanctot wrote:
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I'm trying to learn perl but it's been very frustrating so far. I
wanted to write a plugin from scratch but it's so confusing I just
decided to modify the DateTime plugin to do this.
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Slimserver is a tough place to learn -- I do fairly well in Perl, but
it's
Can anyone tell me... is the renowned geekport of the Squeezebox an
output only interface, or does it also have ability to be used for
input?
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stinkingpig Wrote:
Slimserver is a tough place to learn -- I do fairly well in Perl, but
it's quite complex, and I haven't been able to make any headway in it
the few times I've taken a stab at something. I'm lucky to have two
hours in a row to work on a side project like this, and
mherger Wrote:
And afaik there won't be a Pandora integration into the slimserver
(please
search the forum for the discussions).
Oh, is that one of those things that is only going to be integrated
with the squeezeboxes and not slimserver, sort of like SqueezeNetwork?
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AFAIK it's output only. At least, those are the advertised capabilities.
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There was a problem with SB2/3 and some versions of the server, where
the remote keys were doubling up. What version of the server are you
running?
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Just for amusement, I visited the good old page.
http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audiotron/producthome.asp
It's still currently unavailable :-)
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
Just for amusement, I visited the good old page.
http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audiotron/producthome.asp
It's still currently unavailable :-)
You gotta wonder if the Squeezebox design, with its total lack of user
controls and the goofy case designs, purposely
If I understand the timeline, they co-existed in time. The minimalist
approach of the SLiMP3 was probably because that was all they could do
in a garage design (and it's quite impressive that they did what they
did).
Why the design continued that way when the SB1 hardware did have the
ability
Michaelwagner wrote:
Why the design continued that way when the SB1 hardware did have the
ability to handle limited key input and so forth is a bigger question.
Well, the name of the company gives away the philosophy.
It is Slim Devices.
The idea of a slim client is a good one ...
And the
Oh, is that one of those things that is only going to be integrated
with the squeezeboxes and not slimserver, sort of like SqueezeNetwork?
Pandora is in fact only running on SqueezeNetwork.
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pfarrell Wrote:
The Audiotron, for all that it wasn't as audiophile, was a more complete
solution and for that reason, appealing.
For your needs, you can claim. Please don't make
such claims for me
Pat, I think you misunderstood my point.
I'm not even making such claims for myself. I had
Michaelwagner Wrote:
Now you can't put a knob on a remote without turning it into a 2 hand
remote, but I have seen remotes with knurled knobs that do essentially
the same thing. I had a VCR with one years ago (the VCR died, so I
threw out the remote, so I can't include a picture, but the
pfarrell Wrote:
The idea of a slim client is a good one ...
And the other approach has been taken by many folks, from Turtle Beach
to Sonos and now Microsoft and Apple.
Sounds like a trend. Maybe there's a good reason.
I can not understand why people want controls and buttons
on the
Gildahl Wrote:
I own a couple of SqueezeBoxes and just visited the Sonos site for the
first time upon reading this thread. the Sonos is definitely a cool
looking product (at 3x the price per station, it should be), but it
really is in a different category than the SB.
To me, the SB is
JJZolx wrote:
pfarrell Wrote:
And the other approach has been taken by many folks, from Turtle Beach
to Sonos and now Microsoft and Apple.
Sounds like a trend. Maybe there's a good reason.
Sure its a trend. Turtle Beach's product died.
Microsoft and Apple are in bed with the content
Michaelwagner wrote:
pfarrell Wrote:
The Audiotron, for all that it wasn't as audiophile, was a more complete
solution and for that reason, appealing.
For your needs, you can claim. Please don't make
such claims for me
Pat, I think you misunderstood my point.
Probably so.
I'm not even
Well, double D-Oh!!!
Dunno how I missed that.
Sorry to see it can't be made to display on the SB itself.
Also, I tried this with text editor on my Mac. After opening
slimserver.pref there was no favorites section so I just typed in the
two favorites paragraphs per the example in the correct
My Mac (OS 10.4.5) is connected to two Squeezeboxes wirelessly using two
Airport Extreme base stations as main and remote in a WDS network (the
Mac to main base station is a wired connection). By the way, my DHCP
server is my router, wired to the main base station.
Apple states (and I have
Hello,
First post, new SB3 user, please be gentle..
NETGEAR model DG834PN Firmware V1.03.18 Latest and only version
available.
SLIMSERVER: SlimServer_v2006-03-04.exe Firmware version: 35
WINXP SP2 fully patched, new install.
Successful connections using:
Disable - This will disable the
danco wrote:
So how can I tell which base station the Squeezebox is connecting to,
and can I force it to choose one over the other?
I had a similar problem and solved it by turning on MAC filtering and
setting things up so that Squeezebox connection attempts are rejected by
the undesirable
Michaelwagner Wrote:
You are, of course, correct, radish. If SSL is good enough for the
internet at large, it's going to be OK in a 200 foot wireless radius.
My comments about wardriving a cray were meant to be humourous.
And they were :) I was just imagining a trailer with one of those
JJZolx wrote:
I'd never buy a preamp, for instance, that only used a remote control.
Imagine not being able to walk over to your stereo and turn a knob or
press a button to turn the damned thing up or down. That's the
Squeezebox.
I agree with this - I'd like to be able to control the SB
Many have questioned why SD doesn't market an audiophile form factor
SquieezeBox - there's been much talk about this and even I was posting
in the past hoping for a positive response.
SD maintains they need a mass market device and yes, they have one but
audiophiles have championed the 19 rack
Thanks, that did it. Just set the main base station to only accept the
remote station, not the SB.
Had to go through the setup again on the SB, at first it couldn't find
the network. But now it is getting a sensible 80% strength while before
it was hovering around 20% (the more distant SB had
Well, for what it's worth, here's a subscription that ain't happening
because of no Slimserver support.
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Just FYI Mark. in Unix, everything is a file... except, of course,
when it's not :)
To talk to the user in a simple way, open standard input as a file and
get lines from it. Likewise, you print to standard output.
This is primitive and ugly, but it should work for simple stuff.
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Malor Wrote:
Just FYI Mark. in Unix, everything is a file... except, of course,
when it's not :)
To talk to the user in a simple way, open standard input as a file and
get lines from it. Likewise, you print to standard output.
This is primitive and ugly, but it should work for
Is it possible to play a CD live through SB? I envision putting an
Audio CD into the CD-ROM drive of the slimserver host PC, or other
network shared CD-ROM drive, then stream it through SlimServer so that
I can listen to it on my main system where Squeezebox is installed.
As it is now, I have
I got his in my Inbox yesterday. I don't even know what the hell Pandora
is, but it seems this marketing email from Patrick did not get much of a
reading. Posted in its entirety below:
Dear Slim Devices Customer,
We're excited to announce that we've added support for Pandora, an
amazing music
Nice job, Masterbaron! That must have taken a hunk of time to get it all
integrated and packaged so neatly.
I like the look of the stock SQB3 myself, but you are right - there is
a need for a rack mount player. Pro studios could use a player that can
play all compressed formats with excellent
So I've read that with a palm tx with wifi using blazer as my browser I
should be able to access my slimserver and control my squeezebox using
http://yourserver:9000/Handheld/. After substituting my server address
I continue to get that the page you requested cannot be displayed.
There must be
Media players don't really stream the PCM from the CD.
What they do is tell the CD Drive, Please Play, and adjust the sound
card's CD input for audio. (There is a little 3-pin wire that runs
from your CD drive directly to your sound card.)
The OS never actually sees that audio so has no way of
Open standard input, as a file, for reading. Open standard output for
writing. It's possible perl may have automatically done some or all of
this... I'm NOT a perl expert by any means.
There's a function that gets a line from a file. Use that function on
your new filehandle. That pauses,
Actually, these days, most media players (on Windows anyway) do stream
the PCM - at least as an option. I know I don't have any of the CD
audio cables hooked up in my machine and it works just fine.
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Hi,
I was an old SB2 user that eventually abandoned it because of chronic
issues with the box and the server software. This was about 9 months
ago. Recently, lured by both Squeezenetwork (generally) and Pandora
(specifically) I jumped back in and bought 2 lovely new black SB3s.
pfarrell Wrote:
I don't think the traffic on the forums is a reliable statistic.
A fair point.
How many people who buy it, connect it, and install the
software and are happy are likely to post?
I don't know. Does anyone know sales numbers for the SB3? We could
subtract the complaints that
I went looking for a picture of our machine, but couldn't find any
online. We had a Cray XMP on our machine floor. In the '80s, these were
considered top of the line cryptanalysis machines. We didn't use them
for that - we (well, the people we worked for) were solving chemistry
and astronomy
pfarrell Wrote:
I'd love to know how many real world customers consider the
SqueezeBox and decide against it because the setup is too hard.
Heh, count my 77-year-old Dad as one of them. He's got XM Radio but
wants to drop it at the end of his committment because he only listens
to one
Pat Farrell wrote:
Michaelwagner wrote:
pfarrell Wrote:
The Audiotron, for all that it wasn't as audiophile, was a more complete
solution and for that reason, appealing.
For your needs, you can claim. Please don't make
such claims for me
Pat, I think you misunderstood my
stinkingpig Wrote:
Flexibility roots in and results in the issues that people complain
about here whenever they want to tell SDI how to run its business.
I don't understand this paragraph.
And I don't understand how a suggestion about a UI element turns into
telling SDI how to run it's
Malor wrote:
Open standard input, as a file, for reading. Open standard output for
writing. It's possible perl may have automatically done some or all of
this... I'm NOT a perl expert by any means.
...
here's an example program to play with:
* Christopher Biscoe shaped the electrons to say...
I was an old SB2 user that eventually abandoned it because of chronic
issues with the box and the server software. This was about 9 months
ago. Recently, lured by both Squeezenetwork (generally) and Pandora
(specifically) I jumped back in
* Michaelwagner shaped the electrons to say...
I went looking for a picture of our machine, but couldn't find any
online. We had a Cray XMP on our machine floor. In the '80s, these were
considered top of the line cryptanalysis machines. We didn't use them
for that - we (well, the people we
What a difference a decade makes, eh? 1984 state of the art, 1998 on the
way to the washroom.
I forgot the best part. That XMP took so much juice, we had to run a
new line from the local hydro substation 3 blocks away.
Not going to be easy war-driving, that's for sure :-) Need a second
So I've read that with a palm tx with wifi using blazer as my browser I
should be able to access my slimserver and control my squeezebox using
http://yourserver:9000/Handheld/. After substituting my server address
I continue to get that the page you requested cannot be displayed.
Have you
No the perl script complains about the XML:Parser not being compiled -
when you run the suggested perl script to compile it, it complains
because you need make and gcc installed. So part of what runs is
actually compiled on the platform.
- Simon.
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Ok - downloaded it and it worked first time. I'm now very happy - one
of the downsides to switching to MySQL was loosing Moose. Thanks for
all your efforts
Just a question for the future - If your running on MySQL is there any
need to snapshot the whole database into a moo file? I
You may remember I reported:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Weller wrote:
I really like Moose but whenever I use it synchronisation drifts very
quickly, often within the first track after I start it.
Well it seems to be resolved with v0.25 of Moose. It's been playing all
morning with
Thanks Michael - I shall just relax and chill to the music then:-)
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Have just been to the Bristol hi-fi show and it looks like Sonus are
bringing out a streaming device along the lines of SB that doesn't have
built in amps (thier existing system is more a multi-room solution) but
still features their incredible hand held controller...now that's
interesting.
I
superbad wrote:
I can't believe there are people who shut off their computers. I
seriously haven't turned my computer off (apart from when I've had to
move or replace it) since I first got DSL in 1997.
Mine go down periodically, have to change batteries in the UPS,
upgrade the OS, etc. My
mherger Wrote:
I'm running Windows XP, using firefox, but also tried in IE with same
result. I don't have PERL installed that I know of. SlimServer
Version: 6.5b1 - 6309 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
I can't understand this. I tested this today with the latest nightly
and
cound not
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cshaida Wrote:
the late, lamented 'knob'... but that's a whole 'nother story
I'd like to renew my request for this kind of interaction.
To recap, the late, lamented
I have reinstalled with the latest nightly build and it still produces
the same error. For me Shoutcast would be a nice to have, but not a
necessity so I'll just disable it.
This is a pitty (I'm using shoutcast a lot myself). But I'm pretty sure
there's a networking issue. If only I knew
Everytime I start SlimServer the Player pane always displays:
PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED.
Performing a REFRESH on the page does nothing. It only goes away and
shows the correct page when I select something to play.
I am running 6.2.2
Hello, I have only been using my Squeezebox for a few days and really
like it! I feel stupid for not figuring this out, but have searched the
FAQ's and Forums and haven't been able to find an answer.
I have used the Internet Radio function to tune in an AM station from
my old home town, KFAB.
I purchased to of the previous Squeezeboxes just a few months prior to
the new ones coming out. I really like the looks of the new
Squeezebox. Is there that much of a preformance upgrade that I should
sell my old ones and buy 2 new ones?
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I have a wired sb3 that is with out doubt the best addition to my
system. I've noticed a problem while a song is playing and I try to
browse other artists, when I hit the down arrow it schrolls more then
one line at a time and I have to arrow up to see what I missed. Am I
missing somthing in
Try adjusting the CSRF Protection Level setting under Server
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radish Wrote:
One thing which sometimes gets people is the delayed write of
preferences. For performance reasons the changes you make are not
written to disk right away, so if you shutdown quickly after hitting
Change you might lose the setting. Make sure you wait a few minutes
before
Timbo Wrote:
Have just been to the Bristol hi-fi show and it looks like Sonus are
bringing out a streaming device along the lines of SB that doesn't have
built in amps (thier existing system is more a multi-room solution) but
still features their incredible hand held controller...now that's
That certainly doesn't appear to be the case... when streaming from a
server under my control, the connection count goes up by only 1 when
streaming three devices. And I see only one TCP connection in my
firewall.
Now, it's possible that it's multiplexing three streams over one
connection or
First let me say how much I LOVE my SqueezeBox.
So do I. And I still love my good, old SliMP3, too :-).
I did a search in the forums for this but I came up empty: It is
possible to configure the squeezebox to automatically display the Now
Playing screen when I press PLAY from a music
Had an audiotron, hated the slow web interface, hated the window ce,
hated the display, LOVED THE KNOB.
one wonders if squeezebox could support a usb to take input from
this--
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/
pie-in-the-sky I know, but I must repeat: LOVED THE KNOB
cheers
one wonders if squeezebox could support a usb to take input from
this--
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/
I really like to show off this over and over again :-)
http://www.herger.net/slim/powermate.avi
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As it happens - it came up recently in here.
Not an optimal solution - but it does at least get the radio station
name to appear in the Slimserver web gui (but not on the SB).
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21562
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How did you do that?
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one wonders if squeezebox could support a usb to take input from
this--
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/
I really like to show off this over and over again :-)
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This is strange, but I don't have a slimserver.pref file anywhere on my
system. Hmm...
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How did you do that?
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=61788postcount=38
But you obviously need to connect the Powermate to a computer. Not
anything you'd want to have in the living room. Plus the interface with
only one button/knob leaves a lot of room for improvement: it's
mherger Wrote:
I really like to show off this over and over again :-)
)
As well you should, it really is quite lovely. It's tantalizing in a
concept car sort of way. If you build one that somehow works directly
with the sb, I'll buy 3(!)
The issue for me is not so much the
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