I have a set of 'Creative Gigaworks T20's' (http://tinyurl.com/z3j5b)
in the kitchen.
Sound is quite loud, plenty of bass from a speaker set without a sub,
quality is pretty good. I would buy again.
Around £80.
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Ok the firmware update has been tested and seems to be good to go so
anybody with a TS-101 can go to
http://www.progressiveav.com/ts101_update/ and download the firmware
update file.
The only drive I haven't tested it on yet is the 160Gb version that we
supplied but as we haven't sold many of
My experience was that the command line
~/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/slimserver.pl
--daemon
wouldn't work for me unless I renamed SlimServer.prefPane to remove the
'.' such that OSX treated it as a regular folder. Otherwise OSX didn't
seem to recognise the
bjackson Wrote:
I forgot my remote control for my SB2 at home. I won't be back there
for some time, and I still have my SB2. Is there any way to control it
without getting one? I have tried all the JVC universal codes for the
remotes I have here
I figure if I could get it to
Paul,
Thanks for dealing with this so quickly and keeping us in the loop.
Re: the standby issue. This is a selling point in the Qnap
specifications and I am keen to make sure that it does work or will be
fixed if it doesn't. I have two drives that operate in this way and on
a point of principle
Try some different wireless channels?
Ceejay
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I'll look into this issue and come back to you.
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back to the ODBC driver (BTW a new version was released last month)
I can't seem to set the Data Source Name in the admin popup box.
If I try it via the ODBC administrator all I get is general error:
invalid file dsn - then path to DSN.
If I connect via Access, it asks for this accepts it, but
ultra238a Wrote:
It gets warm but that is always going to
When you say warm, how warm exactly?
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dean Wrote:
Sorry that it's not working for you, and thanks for taking the time
to debug this.
Oh, you know, we love our squeezebox and the people that bring it to
us. *hug*
On Mar 17, 2006, at 7:42 PM, trebejo wrote:
Sooo undocumented.
Well, it's in the normal place for Preference
netim3 Wrote:
My experience was that the command line
~/Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/slimserver.pl
--daemon
wouldn't work for me unless I renamed SlimServer.prefPane to remove the
'.' such that OSX treated it as a regular folder. Otherwise OSX didn't
As one of those who tested the fix last night, I just wanted to provide
some feedback on my experience. Also as one of those who was pretty
critical of Progressive's communication during the delays in delivery,
I'd like to thank Paul for his superb efforts in resolving this problem
so quickly and
Good info - now that I took a bit more time to search the forums, I
found this to be an oft covered topic. Sorry for any redundant posts.
I really am looking for specific feedback about the Bose unit, however.
If anyone has any experience with it, I'm interested in hearing from
you.
Otherwise,
He's not at home, so needs to reconfigure it for a new wireless network.
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Fifer,
You said that you moved the Qnap connection from the PC to my wireless
router/modem. Does that mean that when you copied over your music that
you connected the qnap directly to your PC, or via the router?
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Powered speakers would work, or an executive (=ostensibly high-WAF)
shelf system with Aux input like Philips, which gets you radio and CD
player if you want those. Personally, I like passive speakers and a
Sonic Impact T-Amp, which is too small to annoy anyone. If you were
thinking of spending
probably the interference from the neighbours was causing more than one
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I have just copied 40Gb over to a 500Gb TS-101 through a router without
any issues. I have only ever used this box through a router to be
honest.
Paul
Progressive Consumer Electronics Ltd
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Fifer,
You said that you moved the Qnap connection from the PC to my wireless
Since the slimserver.db is created from file tags, why not just use a
different tool to read those? No SQL required.
MPEG Audio Collection can read mp3, wav, ogg, ape, wma, aac, and flac
files.
Point it at your music collection and it pulls in:
FILE path/size/type/bitrate/duration/sample
Tom - ok...I saw those little speakers that stick on surfaces. What the
heck? Have you heard how they sound? Of course, they won't sound like
an enclosed speaker, but I wonder if they sound ok for a low-mid end
residential application like music in a small library/den sized room.
Very
Dave Bird Wrote:
It would seem that the tracks that are not appearing are the ones with
no Album specified, can it be that these are being grouped as a
compilation, and then not shown in my compilation directory as the name
is blank?
There is special handling in slimserver for No Album
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stick them to some art (a Picasso or a Garfunkel).
A bare naked ladies fan! And you thought no one would notice :-)
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that's not bad - I like tha fact that you can set it to open stuff in
Foobar - my choice of PC players. Cheers.
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
probably the interference from the neighbours was causing more than one
problem.
I figured as much ... I am just baffled as to how interference would
have caused me problems accessing my lan server (which is hardwired to
the router, btw)from my laptop but not cause
Jon Wrote:
I figured as much ... I am just baffled as to how interference would
have caused me problems accessing my lan server (which is hardwired to
the router, btw)from my laptop but not cause problems accessing the
internet. At any rate, I am thankful that my Squeezebox was having
I've installed the firmware update. I didn't see any instructions to
remove mapped drives before doing so, but it doesn't seem to have
caused any problems as all my previously created drives seem to be
accessible and working. I am now copying over my music files. It's
fairly slow, but I am
Michaelwagner Wrote:
On a network that's marginal (and I have some), sometimes you get some
of the resources, sometimes you don't. Try it twice in a row, you can
get different results.HTH
Thank you ... this explains a lot. My ability to see the lan server
resources through Network
I realized, after I wrote all that from memory, how sad my life has
become that I can recite all that from memory and yet can't recall the
errand my girlfriend asked me to do yesterday
That is considerably more information than any user would ever want to
know about such a trivial service,
To bring this incedent to a close; the replacement squeezebox arrived
yesterday, three weeks after the failure was initially reported. The
manufacturer was most appologetic, saying that my emails were
inadvertently caught in an AppleMail spam filter.
To make up for the mistake they cross-shipped
I don't think Slimserver 6.5 is MySQL 5 ready yet, and I believe that
there are outstanding bugs filed on this. If I remember correctly,
there is a problem with one of the data definitions that Slimserver
uses. Try installing MySQL 4.1 and using that version. It works just
fine for me.
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Well, as a bit of extra data, I have just upgraded Mac OS 10.4.5 to the
latest (version 1.1 of update 2006-002) and am using SlimServer 6.2.1.
Absolutely NO problems. It started at login, and I have been able to
listen, to stop and restart the preference pane and so on. So it looks
as if it must
As posted in the other thread, I've just installed the latest Tiger
update, with some trepidation after your problems, and it's all working
fine.
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rpalarea Wrote:
Tom - ok...I saw those little speakers that stick on surfaces. What the
heck? Have you heard how they sound? Of course, they won't sound like
an enclosed speaker, but I wonder if they sound ok for a low-mid end
residential application like music in a small library/den sized
Just to let you know, I've been using tiger and slimserver with no
problems at all.
I will look and see if I can find such a thing on my system too - but
let me suggest that you look around and try to find a cache file for
the slimserver preference pane - or for all panes in general. Blowing
Just a minor bug to note regarding Random Mix: when I select Now
Playing will show 2 upcoming songs I only get one upcoming song on the
playlist.
Any other number seems to work fine.
Just posting here for comfirmation before I file a bug report. It's a
minor issue but it is a bug and 100%
Search the forums (or use Google to assist) as this topic has been
discussed in the past.
I ended up going with a pair of Swan M200
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16836136102 but if I
could do it again, I'd look for some NHT powered monitors
tom permutt Wrote:
I have a pair in my office (in Silver Spring, by the way: we're
neighbors). They make decent near-field monitors (i.e., computer
speakers) when used with shoeboxes as, er, waveguides. But, no, I
wouldn't recommend them as low-mid end. There, I think you'd be
better off
kanoot Wrote:
Just to let you know, I've been using tiger and slimserver with no
problems at all.
I will look and see if I can find such a thing on my system too - but
let me suggest that you look around and try to find a cache file for
the slimserver preference pane - or for all panes in
danco Wrote:
Well, as a bit of extra data, I have just upgraded Mac OS 10.4.5 to the
latest (version 1.1 of update 2006-002) and am using SlimServer 6.2.1.
Absolutely NO problems. It started at login, and I have been able to
listen, to stop and restart the preference pane and so on. So it
Wow - the NHTs look pretty sweet.
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The bike is likely built as a generator, with a variable (electrical)
resistance to provide physical resistance. Assuming they just threw a
bunch of magnets and coils together without much shielding it'll be
throwing out EMI all over the spectrum.
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trebejo Wrote:
Hmmm... an intriguing suggestion. Apparently I've got some quirky thing
going on because other users with the same OS upgrade haven't had the
same problem. That's a relief.
So what files do you mean? I deleted the usual
~/Library/Caches/SlimServer directory before I started
Hi,
I s there a solution to the problem of the constantly crashing
Biography plugin. My experience is it crashes almost always on fisrt
time use with an artist i haven't chosen before.
The windows event viewer shows this;
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be
I've downloaded and installed Slimserver (version number? How do you
find the version number?). Anyway, this version was downloaded three
days ago, if that's any help.
I used the same installer on two laptops in my house. Both Win XP, SP2,
latest updates, same browser (Firefox) on both, same
Dear Mr. Squirrel,
On Mar 18, 2006, at 9:31 AM, rocket j squirrel wrote:
On laptop #1, Slimserver starts fine, and fires up the web browser
interface. On Laptop #2, Slimserver sticks at starting Slimserver,
no browser interface launches.
Try running the installer again on the failing machine.
thanks - switching to MYSQL 4.1 fixed the issue. The other problem that
I have been having that for the last few days the builds that I have
downloaded, keep crashing, part way through the scan (6.5b1), - this
always occurs around 350-400 albums - any ideas - should I revert back
to 6.2...
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I s there a solution to the problem of the constantly crashing
Biography plugin.
Yep: buy a Squeezebox or do at least use Softsqueeze ;-). Or politely ask
the author to fix it...
I guess you're using some MP3 software player?
information is part of the event: Can't locate object method
I've gone through this before and now it's back again.
I can not play the following url that is listed below.
I can play the url when I'm using version 6.1.1.
Now I'm on 6.2.2 with firmware version 35 and it does not work AGAIN.
Can someone please try the url and let me know if they can play
topcarsales Wrote:
Fifer,
You said that you moved the Qnap connection from the PC to my wireless
router/modem. Does that mean that when you copied over your music that
you connected the qnap directly to your PC, or via the router?
When I copied over my music, the Qnap was connected directly
mherger Wrote:
Yep: buy a Squeezebox or do at least use Softsqueeze ;-). Or politely
ask
the author to fix it...
OK. I,m asking politely! :-)
I guess you're using some MP3 software player?
No as a mather of fact i am using softsqueeze. But i'm using Winamp
also @work for
radish Wrote:
The bike is likely built as a generator, with a variable (electrical)
resistance to provide physical resistance. Assuming they just threw a
bunch of magnets and coils together without much shielding it'll be
throwing out EMI all over the spectrum.
Aha - so I'm not crazy. :-)
I was trying to back up my music folder to a separate hard drive using
SyncToy's echo function. I had reformatted the hard drive I was
backing up to because it contained some corrupted files. Everything
seemed to go fine, but now I can't access any of the files on the new
drive, and the files
I can't play it on 6.5b1.
I can play it on both winamp and windows media player.
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are you sure MLB radio is Real Audio? I think it is also available in
windows media player formay. You can play their streams through
Windows Media Player (instead of the MLB browser).
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/help/faq_technical.jsp#q7
That said, I have still not been able to play
Do I have to install the quick install wizard to run the qnap upgrade?
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After resetting the MAC of my player, on the advice of slim support due
to a bug with Squeeze Network, my player is no longer connecting to my
network. I think it is a problem with it's DHCP function as when it
obtains an IP address it is totally unlike that of the other devices on
my network. I
I don't think so. You can run the install update utility from the web
front end. I think it's best to use the quick install wizard to map
Qnap drives though.
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I didnt run it as I was concerned about the section advising to format
the hard drive. Did you just ignore format when you got to that
section?
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Yes. Don't format your drive. The Quick Install utility is slightly
misleadingly named. It's more of a configuration utility. All I've used
it for is to map drives and to check the IP address of the Qnap.
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That's really something man, but uhh.., can you direct direct me to the
URL's to download the fixes?
Ooops... http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/
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For those still running a wireless Squeezeboxes in ad-hoc, or just
anyone looking for an inexpensive wireless router, D-Link has some good
mail in rebate deals going on right now. You can pick up the DI-524 for
under $20.
D-Link DI-524 802.11g Wireless Router w/4 port switch
$40.99 - $25.00
That's really something man, but uhh.., can you direct direct me to the
URL's to download the fixes?
Ooops... http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/
BTW: isn't this the address where you got it in the first place? :-)
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I got it! Wrap the bike in aluminum foil! Actually, that may not be a
bad idea, if you can isolate the unit spewing EMI try to cover it with
a box lined with aluminum foil. It wouldn't cost you more than $2 to
try and I'd love to hear the result.
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notanatheist wrote:
I got it! Wrap the bike in aluminum foil! Actually, that may not be a
bad idea, if you can isolate the unit spewing EMI try to cover it with
a box lined with aluminum foil. It wouldn't cost you more than $2 to
try and I'd love to hear the result.
Would work better if you
radish Wrote:
The bike is likely built as a generator, with a variable (electrical)
resistance to provide physical resistance. Assuming they just threw a
bunch of magnets and coils together without much shielding it'll be
throwing out EMI all over the spectrum.
Are you sure that it'd reach
If it obtains an IP address unlike the rest of your network (i.e.
168.xxx) then can't access your wireless network at all. It has
nothing to do with DHCP, it can't communicate with your router.
Do you have MAC address filtering activated in your router?
You haven't changed wireless passphrases
Strangely I just did ~12 minutes on the bike and the Squeezebox worked
flawlessly...
It was certainly reproducible yesterday.
Oh well, at least I got everyone's brain cells working. :-)
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I've certainly had that happen before. And it nearly aways comes down
to bad metatags in my audio files. You might try using some of the
debug flags (e.g. --d_scan) and see if you can spot an offending file.
Then try removing that file from your library and scanning again.
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Hi, thanks. The two machines are not the same brand, one being a Fujitsu
laptop (Slimserver runs), the second being a little travel laptop from
PC Club. Both Wintel, both with lots of memory, and plenty fast. I will
re-install slimserver and see if that helps.
But one BIG difference between the
Currently MLB is on XM Radio, or at least was last year. They advertised
their packages as every game and technically that was true.
But.they only carried the teams home games so for 81 games per year
you had to listen to the other teams announcers (while your team was on
the road) Not a huge
Hey -- that was it: needed to run the slimserver install proggie again.
Now it works as advertised. Many thanks for the tip!
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I have disabled MAC filtering (called Access Control on my Netgear
DG834GT)to no avail, (the SB2 had worked with this turned on before
anyway)and also entered the reset MAC address into the access control
list, agian to no avail. The SB connects to the router when I disable
all security settings,
Was the SB in the same physical location relative to the bike ? The rf
from the bike may be quite directional.
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Is is possible?
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Hi,
I'm interested in both accessing my ReadyNAS from the internet and
also accessing Slimserver over the internet. I have an RCN cable modem
connection at home. I set up an account at ddns.org, and put that
information into my Linksys WRT54G ddns settings. I'm not able to
connect directly to
Anyone know if the Qnap can play Apple AAC files? Cant seem to get mine
working and when I try to select File Format Conversion Setup I get
the error Required binary was not found: [mov123] $FILE$ | [lame]
--resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ -
Can I only play the types lst
We are working on Apple AAC files this weekend. As soon as we have an
update available to download I will publish a link and you can just
drop the file into the updates directory and reboot.
It should be available within a week as long as there are no problems
with source code and cross
Well thanks for al the info guys.
I now have robocopy and it's just what i needed. I had not writen a
complex batch file for some years, so i was a bit rusty, but now i have
a nice batch with a menu that can select mirror or backup modes. If
anyone wants to see it, i will post the code.
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I don't know anything about Linux or MySQL, but I'd love to get Sliver
Server installed with MySQL on my Buffalo LS Ver 2.5. Really afraid of
bricking the drive and would rather not take the chance if I don't have
to.
I have a brand new Squeezebox that just shipped last week, so I'm
assuming
Well, I went the easy way out - uninstall everything and reinstall
everything and then run the system - worked this time and picked up
most of the tracks and also it seems that It is no longer just shutting
down in the middle of playing.
Interestingly, it will now only play music if started in
CardinalFang Wrote:
Are you sure that it'd reach the gigahertz spectrum though? I can see it
getting into a few tens of hertz with the eddy currents in the disk and
the speed of rotation, but not high enough frequency to upset a
wireless signal
He's a Canadian. No telling how fast he
Dear Mr. Squirrel:
I'm not sure what it is you're trying to do, and maybe with them both
being laptops this makes sense, but I hope you do realize that one
instance of the server can run both (actually many more) squeezeboxes.
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rocket j squirrel Wrote:
I've downloaded and installed Slimserver (version number? How do you
find the version number?).
From the web user interface, go to server options (left pane), then
bottom of the resulting page.
From the player itself, with the remote,
get to squeezebox home (easiest
Wirrunna Wrote:
Was the SB in the same physical location relative to the bike ? The rf
from the bike may be quite directional.
You may be on to something. The Squeezebox is directly in front of it,
about 7-8 feet away.
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
He's a Canadian. No telling how fast he peddles :-)
LOL!
Just to see how high I could get it to go, I reved it up to 45 km/h
yesterday. But at that speed my legs are pumping up and down so fast I
thought it was going to tip over. :-)
Most of my session yesterday was at
Something to try with your new drive if you haven't done so already:
Open Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer). Select *Folder
Options...* from the *Tools* menu. Click on the *View* tab. Under the
*Hidden FIles and Folders* item, tick the radio button that says *Show
Hidden Files and
Saw this with a build of SlimCD which had about 4 volume-related plugins
installed - the volume would decrease progresively from maximum to zero
in about 2 minutes.
I moved the plugins out of the Plugin directory and it appeared to stop
the problem although I never did identify which plugin was
If you want to access SlimServer from the Internet, you should picture
what you're trying to do. You'll access the IP address you obtained
through DDNS. This will bring you to your router - then what?
Everything behind your router is not directly connected to the
Internet, it's on your private
Oh ho -- there it is! Lurking at the bottom of the page, as described.
Thanks!
PS -- My dad's name is Mr. Squirrel. I'm just Rocky.
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Bug created:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3182
Marked trivial, P5.
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Did you have any delivery problems with the SB there in Frostbite Falls?
According to the wikipedia article, there's only one road in and out ...
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I've been using SlimServer's Server Network Health utility to
monitor one of my Squeezeboxes that is located a bit from my router.
The wireles signal strength averages at just over 50%, with a minimum
of around 30% and maximum or around 70%. Server Network Health
reports this player's signal
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John,
I have just started to get similar problems with my Slimp3 player
(doesn't seem to affect the later players. They have bigger buffers
but I haven't done much testing to see if the interface hangs on those
from time to time as well). Mine are all connected wirelessly, and so
I always look
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I've run with no problems anywhere from 40% to 60% and occasionally
lower. It might depend on outside inteference factors which could
cause problems even at 50% or more. Evidently, I don't have anything
else causing inteference.
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Jon Wrote:
Streaming Connection will ocasionally go from OK to Inactive even
though music from my hard disk is streaming to it and playing fine.
Any thoughts on what would cause this?
This is normal. With a small MP3, the server will only stream for a
short while. Once the buffer has the
External drives can have recycle bins too.
There's a setting for whether they do or not.
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