Re: [slim] Slim server web page for PDA's

2006-04-18 Thread kdf
Quoting mdub [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. If I use the PDA can I change or add to the playlist of any hardware device connected to the network, or I am limited to having the PDA bound to the one device. yup. if the server finds multiple players, you'll see a pulldown list to choose the player.

Re: [slim] Slim server web page for PDA's

2006-04-18 Thread kdf
Quoting mdub [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. If I use the PDA can I change or add to the playlist of any hardware device connected to the network, or I am limited to having the PDA bound to the one device. yup. if the server finds multiple players, you'll see a pulldown list to choose the player.

[slim] Problems with WinXP Firewall???

2006-04-18 Thread hifisteve
Morning all. As per usual I'm in need of help again... I made the (foolish?) decision to rebuild up my PC recently, including a load of mirrored RAID storage for all my music. That cause me nearly 2 weeks of keyboard-chewing frustration in trying to get all the new bits to play nicely with

[slim] Windoze XP dropping wireless connection.

2006-04-18 Thread hifisteve
Morning everyone. Well hopefull this time I'll be contributing something rather than just asking for help like I usually do... I had been having the classic situation where Windoze (XP Pro, SP2 fully updated) kept randomly dropping the wireless connection for no obvious reason and I now seem to

Re: [slim] Can't connect from outside world

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Herger
I point my player to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9000/stream.mp3 It says connecting...buffering...and then playing, but there is no sound. It also says Welcome to SlimServer. ...which means you can correctly connect to your server. Good. Maybe you missed the obvious: did you add some songs to the

[slim] Re: Multiple Fonts on 'Now Playing'?

2006-04-18 Thread Khuli
Thanks, I'll try that! -- Khuli http://www.last.fm/user/khuli Khuli's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=851 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22914

Re: [slim] Problems with WinXP Firewall???

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Herger
In short my SB3 can't connect to my PC (although it connected to the wireless network perfectly) and on my PC the system tray just says 'starting Slimserver' Reinstall SlimServer - this should fix this problem. Incidentally, under the exceptions tab in the firewall setting, the 3 specific

[slim] SB3 has constantly low buffer.

2006-04-18 Thread Cubed
Hi Posted this on beginners but no real solution - perhaps more joy here. Very frustrated due to constant low buffer causing stuttering till track stops. Internet radio also stutters and stops. Squeezenetwork works fine however. Facts are: Server - Mac G5 with 1GB RAM running iTunes 6 and OSX

[slim] Re: SB3 has constantly low buffer.

2006-04-18 Thread Triode
Have you tried one of the latest slimserver builds with firmware 41? This contains some fixes for buffering. If not, what does the server response time graph in Server and Network Health show? [For info, NetTest actually overreads if the server is running slow, i.e. it does not count packets

[slim] Re: SB3 has constantly low buffer.

2006-04-18 Thread Cubed
Not sure - I'm not at home at the mo - I'll check tonight However from what I can remember, the top summary of the health screen was all OK except 'Low Buffer' i.e there was never 'Poor response from server' However, there does seem to be a whole lot of Perl activity going on according to my

[slim] Re: Problems with WinXP Firewall???

2006-04-18 Thread hifisteve
Hi Michael, Thanks for replying. Right then, (hopefully) relevant info: Latest version (i.e. 'official' release not Beta) straight from the SD site, version 6.2.1 I believe. Not exactly sure what you want to know about the network set-up but here goes: Belkin wireless route and PCI LAN card

[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?

2006-04-18 Thread Browny
If you move to MySQL then you could try giving the Slimserver user only read access to the database...don't know if the code would put up with this though - its not exactly what it was designed for. Rather than go any further down this route would it not be easier to just right a function within

[slim] Re: Problems with WinXP Firewall???

2006-04-18 Thread Siduhe
One other thing (non-Firewall related) to check is that you don't have any of the Security settings enabled in the Slimserver web interface. Server Settings / Security / Incoming Connections set to Do Not Block. This caught me out once on reinstalling slimserver and setting up a new PC. --

Re: [slim] Re: Problems with WinXP Firewall???

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Herger
Not exactly sure what you want to know about the network set-up but here goes: I was thinking about IP configuration: ipconfig /all from a command window, and Settings on the player. Internet access is fine and yes, my SB can access the Squeeze Network OK which is why I assume the XP

[slim] Re: Problems with WinXP Firewall???

2006-04-18 Thread hifisteve
I was thinking about IP configuration: ipconfig /all from a command window, and Settings on the player. Ah right. Don't know and can't check as I'm at work at the mo' Certainly have changed it from whatever the default setting is. This is good to know. Can you verify you're not connecting to

[slim] Re: How to play SlimServer library on a computer

2006-04-18 Thread Malor
The nice thing about SoftSqueeze (well, other than being free :) ) is that it looks exactly like another Squeezebox to your server. You can do music syncing with other machines. The sync isn't as tight as it is with the hardware boxes... things will be a second or two off. But it's still quite

[slim] Re: A Silly Poll

2006-04-18 Thread Malor
38 here. (sigh, I can't just say 38 here. because that's not 10 characters. So this is a mindless paragraph, completely wasting your time, because I'm just a touch annoyed with the forum software. Why are you still reading? No, really, you should stop reading now. Ok, well, fine, I'll just

[slim] Re: How to play SlimServer library on a computer

2006-04-18 Thread smc2911
dwc Wrote: I like foobar2000. Seconded. Sean. -- smc2911 smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23063

[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?

2006-04-18 Thread JSonnabend
I reached the same conclusion as Malor and Brownie after thinking about my alternatives. I don't have Access, so I'll have to write a routine in Delphi or C# using DAO/ADO/OLEDB/ABCDE (or whatever MS is calling the COM interface these days). We can tell SlimServer not to scan, it's too bad we

[slim] Re: FLAC to MP3

2006-04-18 Thread bobharp
Jason, I have used MediaCoder (http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder) under Windows. Good luck! What kind of car? -- bobharp Bob Harper bobharp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=600 View this

[slim] SB3 kills DAB reception

2006-04-18 Thread finnie
Just plugged one of my SB3s into my new Yamaha DAB reviever and amp. As soon as I apply power to the SB it kills all DAB reception. I suspect that this may be due to the WIFI transceiver in the SB, but has anyone else found this side effect ? Regards, Andrew. -- finnie

[slim] Re: How to play SlimServer library on a computer

2006-04-18 Thread chris . mason
Foobar2000 definately. Plays FLAC very well, and supports gapless playback. Not very elegant UI, but functional. Otherwise, you could use Winamp, but you'll need to install a plugin to play FLAC files - available from the winamp web site. Just want to make sure I understand : how are you

[slim] Re: Slimserver fails to start/stay on

2006-04-18 Thread jwarburton
also had this problem on a Windows 2003 server -- jwarburton jwarburton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1750 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22622

[slim] Re: Audioholics Review

2006-04-18 Thread Mark Lanctot
Seems to be a very nice review but there's one big omission - how does it SOUND?!? :-) In his Squeezebox2 review, he mentioned that MP3 playback was good but it was...MP3 playback...and you really needed lossless to let the unit shine. Very true. Yet he didn't review lossless playback. He

[slim] Re: MLB.com gameday audio on a SqueezeBox?

2006-04-18 Thread Chippy
Oh yeah! Add me to the list. Especially now that MLB.tv support for Macs has plumbed new depths... -- Chippy Chippy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=247 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Audioholics Review

2006-04-18 Thread Jeff
Clint posted an addendum to his review based on my comments. He said: - Jeff, I've added the addendum (and included a screen capture and link to your file): http://tinyurl.com/qxb4j Thanks and have a great week! - I checked, and it's there. I was a bit surprised he didn't edit

[slim] Re: Audioholics Review

2006-04-18 Thread ezkcdude
Mark Lanctot Wrote: Seems to be a very nice review but there's one big omission - how does it SOUND?!? :-) I had the same thought. Is it Audioholics or Featureholics? -- ezkcdude SB3-Derek Shek TDA1543/CS8412 NOS DAC-MIT Terminator 2 interconnects-Endler Audio 24-step Attenuators

Re: [slim] Re: MLB.com gameday audio on a SqueezeBox?

2006-04-18 Thread ron thigpen
Jack Coates wrote: MLB is a draw, but only local, and there are also a ton of other local radio shows/resources that I or my wife want to hear. I've tried a number of different solutions, but ended up just providing a tabletop radio next to the SB in many rooms. You're assuming that listeners

[slim] Re: How to play SlimServer library on a computer

2006-04-18 Thread ceejay
in addition to the suggestions above ... Music IP mixer ,from version 1.6, will also play FLACs itself. Does nice mixing, too, even in the free version. Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile:

[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc

2006-04-18 Thread Mark Lanctot
Isn't there any fan speed adjustments in the BIOS? Or you could run SpeedFan: http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php which isn't resource-intensive and is much more powerful and configurable than anything you could do in the BIOS. Windows only though. -- Mark Lanctot

[slim] Re: Windoze XP dropping wireless connection.

2006-04-18 Thread MrC
hifisteve Wrote: and unchecked the 'let Windoze badly managed my network setting' option on the Belkin software. Since then I've had 97% signal strength and not a single dropped connection. Indeed, this is the solution found by many experiencing random disconnects w/WiFi and Windows. Its

[slim] Re: Slim server web page for PDA's

2006-04-18 Thread azinck3
I don't know if it still works with the latest versions of slimserver, but you might also try taking a look at Telcanto (http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_telcanto.html). Always heard good things about Telcanto, but it seems like slimremote now provides much of that functionality for free. --

[slim] Re: Slimserver on Evesham mini-pc

2006-04-18 Thread gharris999
I'll give SpeedFan a try. One of my gripes with AOpen is the sorry state of their downloadable support files. I flashed the bios of the replacement motherboard with an allegedly newer version of the bios and actually LOST some functionality. The old version (which I stupidly didn't back up)

Re: [slim] Re: MLB.com gameday audio on a SqueezeBox?

2006-04-18 Thread ron thigpen
Jack Coates wrote: via SqueezeNetwork is a good point -- I was imagining something clunkier. I'd actually prefer a direct SS to MLB connection, as it would allow for sync'ing players. But I think in this case, the login handoff routine could be more closely guarded if it only happened in

[slim] Re: A Silly Poll

2006-04-18 Thread dborn
Age 44, Male, Canadian, 1 SB2, SlimServer running on LinkStation HG300. The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys is my motto. :) -- dborn dborn's Profile:

[slim] Re: Hidden Messages.....

2006-04-18 Thread Mark Lanctot
Certainly sounds like an Easter Egg! I've never seen it before and it's probably not in the firmware since the firmware is very minimalist. It's probably in the server where there's ample resources to do this and there would be no impact on performance. Also I can't get the same behaviour with

[slim] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...

2006-04-18 Thread Mark Lanctot
ceejay Wrote: We've had lots of discussions on the maturity or otherwise of wireless networking generally: and one of the comments that is often made by people who are struggling to get their SBs working wirelessly is but my laptops / PDA / whatever have always worked first time (implication

[slim] Re: Hidden Messages.....

2006-04-18 Thread rtitmuss
Mark Lanctot Wrote: Also I can't get the same behaviour with 6.2.2 build 6858 and firmware 37, so I suspect it's the server. Keep looking ;-) -- rtitmuss rtitmuss's Profile:

[slim] Is your 'brushed aluminum' faceplate falling off?

2006-04-18 Thread philodox
Hey all, Just noticed the other day that one side of the aluminum bottom piece on my Squeezebox 3 is falling off. Should I just crazy glue it? Thanks in advance, Jay -- philodox '*' (www.stopthesealhunt.ca) stop the seal hunt '*' (www.stopthesealhunt.ca) box clever, watch your system come

[slim] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...

2006-04-18 Thread MrC
ceejay Wrote: We've had lots of discussions on the maturity or otherwise of wireless networking generally... I had sight, recently, of customer satisfaction data from a major PC manufacturer (best to remain nameless!) and in particular there was a table of reasons for dissatisfaction ...

[slim] Re: Is your 'brushed aluminum' faceplate falling off?

2006-04-18 Thread Siduhe
I was going to say search and you shall find, but then I noticed that the thread I was looking to point you to has aluminium spelt wrong...hope this helps. ;-) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22790highlight=aluminium -- Siduhe

[slim] Re: Why does my squeezebox work?

2006-04-18 Thread Mark Lanctot
If you're curious, try the Server and Network Health plugin. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Is your 'brushed aluminum' faceplate falling off?

2006-04-18 Thread abdomen
Siduhe Wrote: I was going to say search and you shall find, but then I noticed that the thread I was looking to point you to has aluminium spelt wrong... Aluminium is the British spelling, and aluminum is our lazy yank way. :) -- abdomen

[slim] Re: Is your 'brushed aluminum' faceplate falling off?

2006-04-18 Thread philodox
Great, thanks for that link. :) -- philodox '*' (www.stopthesealhunt.ca) stop the seal hunt '*' (www.stopthesealhunt.ca) box clever, watch your system come together crazy weather at the end of my tether ::#12427;:: heavily modded akg k340 xlr out lavry *black* da10 headphone out john

[slim] Re: A Silly Poll

2006-04-18 Thread baz
I'm 36. Some typing to make the message longer ;-) -- baz baz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2194 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22941

[slim] Re: A Silly Poll

2006-04-18 Thread philodox
26 years old here... -- philodox '*' (www.stopthesealhunt.ca) stop the seal hunt '*' (www.stopthesealhunt.ca) box clever, watch your system come together crazy weather at the end of my tether ::#12427;:: heavily modded akg k340 xlr out lavry *black* da10 headphone out john grado hf-1 slim

[slim] Re: Is your 'brushed aluminum' faceplate falling off?

2006-04-18 Thread Siduhe
abdomen Wrote: Aluminium is the British spelling, and aluminum is our lazy yank way. :) But not Aliminium ? ;-) -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Is your 'brushed aluminum' faceplate falling off?

2006-04-18 Thread abdomen
Siduhe Wrote: But not Aliminium ? ;-) Ah, I missed the title on that thread. I'll stop recycling the issue. -- abdomen abdomen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1205 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Slimserver player graphics not always showing

2006-04-18 Thread Mark Lanctot
Since you list two OSes here I assume you're browsing to it from another PC. Is there sufficient network bandwidth to get these images to load? Also you're using Windows Server 2003, which is unusual. I believe it should work but there may be some issues which aren't often encountered because

[slim] Re: Hidden Messages.....

2006-04-18 Thread Mark Lanctot
rtitmuss Wrote: Keep looking ;-) LOL! I tried exactly as Assonica suggested though, but I will keep looking. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this

[slim] Re: Slow startup and scan

2006-04-18 Thread Mark Lanctot
Your amount of memory is borderline. I'm not too familiar with Linux memory requirements but I don't believe they're so much better than Windows that you could run an OS and SlimServer on 128 MB. -- Mark Lanctot Mark

[slim] Re: Hidden Messages.....

2006-04-18 Thread dangerous_dom
I also got a 'hidden' message once. Cant remember how or what, but i think it was after a SS/Firmware update. -- dangerous_dom dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this

[slim] Re: A Silly Poll

2006-04-18 Thread loran
00110101 years old -- loran loran's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=433 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22941 ___

[slim] Re: SB3 kills DAB reception

2006-04-18 Thread tomsi42
finnie Wrote: Just plugged one of my SB3s into my new Yamaha DAB reviever and amp. As soon as I apply power to the SB it kills all DAB reception. I suspect that this may be due to the WIFI transceiver in the SB, but has anyone else found this side effect ? Regards, Andrew. IT

[slim] Re: A Silly Poll

2006-04-18 Thread Ross L
http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php Very cool for decoding binary! 23 here! -- Ross L Ross Levine Slim Devices Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.510.743.1152 ext. 3 Ross L's Profile:

[slim] Re: Hidden Messages.....

2006-04-18 Thread eq72521
Mark Lanctot Wrote: I like seeing stuff like this - shows the developers have a sense of humour. Not surprising with this company though - ever notice that the volume goes to 11? :-) Somewhere on the website I think that the phrase This one goes to 11 was used as a tagline. Also, if you

[slim] Re: Hidden Messages.....

2006-04-18 Thread eq72521
eq72521 Wrote: Somewhere on the website I think that the phrase This one goes to 11 was used as a tagline. I'm too curious to let that lie. According to a 'search' (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22This+one+goes+to%22+site%3Aslimdevices.com) it was on the the old download page for

[slim] Streaming to PSP

2006-04-18 Thread oreillymj
Ok, so I know the primary purpoe of Slimserver is to stream to a Squeezebox, but it would be nice to be able to stream to my psp as I work around the house. I tried modifying the handheld skin to use the RSS functionality in the 2.6 firmware on the PSP, but I always got an error. I originally

[slim] Re: Streaming to PSP

2006-04-18 Thread oreillymj
Actually, the perl source is here. http://tinyurl.com/f7h7k -- oreillymj oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23098

[slim] Re: Hidden Messages.....

2006-04-18 Thread Mark Lanctot
eq72521 Wrote: Also, if you still have it you can check: there is an icon of an accordion on the outside of the packaging among other more normal packaging icons. It was there on the old SB1 packaging and my wife was [concerned isn't the right word, but it's the first one that comes to

[slim] No Connection!!

2006-04-18 Thread Gooner
Most of the time my SB3 plays ok - I've had it for 4 days Tonight, I had friends over, extolled the virtues of squeezebox etc, then failed to play any music for about 2 hours. I'd choose a cd and it would keep cutting out. The squeezebox would state it was unable to find Slimserver... I

Re: [slim] Re: Hidden Messages.....

2006-04-18 Thread dean blackketter
On Apr 18, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Mark Lanctot wrote: eq72521 Wrote: Also, if you still have it you can check: there is an icon of an accordion on the outside of the packaging among other more normal packaging icons. It was there on the old SB1 packaging and my wife was [concerned isn't the

[slim] Re: No Connection!!

2006-04-18 Thread ceejay
Start here... http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?NetworkProblemsBeginnersGuide Or, for a really quick answer, start by changing the wireless channel on your router. If you can't get it tow work after trying all those things, report back with Slimserver and Firmware versions... Ceejay --

[slim] Re: No Connection!!

2006-04-18 Thread Siduhe
The cutting out and failing to find slimserver bit sounds like the wireless connection was being interfered with somehow. Possible culprits include: another wireless network near yours on the same or an overlapping channel (download NetStumbler to check out wireless networks in your area); a

[slim] Bored with Slimserver 6.2.1

2006-04-18 Thread joek
The last officially released software (slimserver 6.2.1 and f/w 28) was five months ago. Seems a bit lengthy. I prefer released software (no nightly or beta), because I don't want to tinker and troubleshoot - It's All About The Music of course. -- joek

[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?

2006-04-18 Thread JJZolx
JSonnabend Wrote: I reached the same conclusion as Malor and Brownie after thinking about my alternatives. I don't have Access, so I'll have to write a routine in Delphi or C# using DAO/ADO/OLEDB/ABCDE (or whatever MS is calling the COM interface these days).[] We can tell SlimServer

[slim] Re: No Connection!!

2006-04-18 Thread Gooner
ok - thanks guys I'll check out those things. I live in a decent sized detached house and at the time, no other devices like the tv, sky+ box, or any of the kitchen appliances were on I have a Linksys WRT54GC router - does anyone know its range? -- Gooner

[slim] Re: A Silly Poll

2006-04-18 Thread Gooner
Hello boys! I'm Danielle and I'm a bikini model. Hmmm. only joking. Simon, 34 and feeling quite old!!! -- Gooner Gooner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5056 View this thread:

[slim] Re: A Silly Poll

2006-04-18 Thread Cronos
loran Wrote: 00110101 years old Should I be concerned that I read that without missing a beat and know your age in dec? 1C here. -- Cronos Cronos's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2445 View

[slim] Re: reducing chunksize ?

2006-04-18 Thread JimB
2006-04-18 23:45:40.0171 reduced chunksize to 6295 for metadata 2006-04-18 23:45:40.0174 would have blocked, will try again later 2006-04-18 23:45:40.0794 reduced chunksize to 6295 for metadata 2006-04-18 23:45:40.0796 would have blocked, will try again later 2006-04-18 23:45:40.1419 reduced

[slim] Re: SB audio quitting after one track

2006-04-18 Thread Wirrunna
It started today, plays a few tracks and then stops. Power button wouldn't restart, found that the slimserver service had stopped. Firmware 41, Win XP SP2, wireless link from Netgear router. -- Wirrunna Wirrunna's

[slim] Is anyone else having shoutcast problems?

2006-04-18 Thread reduakm
This is what I have found. If you use the sb3 to search playlists it seems to use a URL such as http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunin-stationpls?id=3499filename=playlist.pls. About two days ago this stopped working on the squeezebox. It won't play most stations. If I un plug the sb3 and plug

[slim] Re: Streaming to PSP

2006-04-18 Thread oreillymj
Integrating into Slimserver would mean my main media database would work with the PSP. I only use iTunes for tag editing as I don't have an iPod. It would also sve me running 2 http servers. -- oreillymj oreillymj's