One of murphy's laws of technology was
"it is a mistake to allow any machine to know that you are in a
hurry".
This seems like a similar situation, where it is a mistake to let a
wireless SB know you are impatient to hear your music.
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Thank you guys, it makes much more sense now. I always thought that the
tag info was stored in a seperate file some where. Big Duh on my part
but I'm fairly new to this ripping and encoding thing.
I'll try mp3tag.
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Long if I don't shut it off.The song stops playing and it sound like a
dead short.Thanks for the help anyway.I'll figure it out.
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No WAF to overcome here, but the GF got me a turntable for my birthday.
While having it's charms, more than anything it makes me appreciate the
Squeezebox.
For ultimate WAF the player's display should show vacation photos when
idle.
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for the reply. I am now running 6.3.1. The attached file shows
the info making it into the m3u. Just a couple of squiggles.
After this all my SB3s go dark and the web page returns with unable to
display. I no longer have access to the shares except using RAIDar and
I have to r
Are you, by chance, using the _preamp volume control_ in 'player
settings'?
Long noise, short noise, white noise, pink noise?
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A terrible loud noise when I switch to a different song off my hard
drive,Almost like a cable shorting out.I'm worried it's going to harm
my speakers!
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Robert_W Wrote:
> So my question is where the heck is SS pulling this information from?
> Are there tags hidden some where that are created by EAC that I
> can’t find and SS is reading them?
Tag data is stored within the audio files themselves. While you should
keep your music library's director
Ain't it the truth. I'm crackin up snarly. I wonder if the mere threat
of going with the hard wire scared the SB straight.
I know as long as that wire is in the house that sucker is gonna work
perfectly but if I throw it away or take to the office that wireless is
gonna shut down.
I think I'll j
This is one of the fields that has taken a lot of computer research, and
as much as I hate to admit it, Microsoft is probably well ahead of the
pack: Artificial Intelligence.
Your Squeezebox, router or perhaps your server wanted to teach you a
lesson. You can bet that it is busy laughing at you
As the thread title suggests I make up 50 ft. of CAT 5 cable so I can
snake it through the house and get my beloved Squeeze Box back on track
with a hard wired ethernet connection.
The wireless connection has been dead for 4 or 5 days and I have been
fratically trying every thing to get it back o
You don't say how you are looking at the information. If you make
changes to filenames, file locations, directory names, etc. then you
should see these changes if you use Browse > Music Folder. BUT, viewed
in any other way, slimserver is using metadata from tags that are part
of the file. You prob
I'm using dd-wrt with fwbuilder to configure the firewall.
It is just iptables under the hood, so what you want is some thingly to
help ease the config
btw -this is my first post from a 770!
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OK just when I think I'm fairly computer literate I cant seem to find
the answer to what seems to me should be simple.
IE, I have SS pointed to C:/Music which contains all of my files. Im
using EAC to FLAC and am very happy with the results. Heres my dilemma
and forgive if this has been asked
bklaas Wrote:
> one question on the comment you made about firewall-- is it deficient to
> your SMC in ease of configuration, or in actual ability to block
> incoming attacks? Anything specific that has you concerned?
I guess I'm going by "number of buttons". :-D
The SMC had a whole page full
thanks for the replies, Mark. I was reading through the wiki info on
setting up scripts and so forth...I agree that it's mind boggling what
a cheapy router can do when you put on some geekware. amazing.
good advice on the signal boosting...I can't see how I'm going to
resist boosting the signal t
I have a set of Harmon Kardon Soundstick IIs in my bedroom.
One significant down side to them is they have a rather bright blue LED
in the Sub. Currently have a t-shirt draped over the top to stop this
keeping me away, but i do intend to open it up and snip the thing out.
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Also Ben, a Linux guru like yourself can go even further. Obviously the
device runs a Linux kernel and you can get a command-line either through
the web interface or by telnet.
You can load scripts and schedule them via cron.
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bklaas Wrote:
> Sounds like you're happy with how the linksys hacking went? Any major
> gotchas? Are you boosting your signal?
Boosting the signal was why I went to DD-WRT in the first place. Turns
out it's maybe not the best thing to do - causes overheating and can
shorten the life of the radi
AJ, your ampersand bug does not appear to happen in 6.5. If anyone
thinks differently, please let me know!
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Some programs let you change which IP they will bind to but I don't
think that Rhapsody does. I couldn't find it in any documentation.
There are ways to change the order that the IP's are returned from
Windows which *may* help. You can search Microsoft knowledge base for
something like 'How to Cha
I have an NV here, and I was very concerned that maybe this was a bug
that slipped though my testing.
However, I'm not able to reproduce these symptoms.
Slimserver saves its playlists to wherever it says on the Server
Settings page. (often the same directory where your music is stored)
Is there
hi Mark-
serendiptous of you to post this today, as I just ordered a WRT54GL
this morning for exactly this purpose, and have been reading up on
DD-WRT for the last few hours. Sounds like you're happy with how the
linksys hacking went? Any major gotchas? Are you boosting your signal?
Version 24 s
I've been using a Linksys WRT54G v4 router with DD-WRT 23 firmware.
Lasy May (yes I'm slow at this) DD-WRT 23 was upgraded to "DD-WRT 23
SP1".
Since everything was working flawlessly with my wireless network and my
SB3, even with WPA2/AES, I was hesistant to upgrade the firmware from 23
to 23 SP
I'm subscribed to the beta forum, so I've seen the thread. It would
seem you have your answer from Dan.
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There are a lot of powered speaker solutions out there, ranging in price
from $20 to over $1000. But for what you describe it seems a lot of
people like the Tivoli Audio table radios.
This has come up a few times in the forums, but here's one good thread,
the highlight being the matching custom
Speaking of duplicate entries... anyone seen this
thread? This bug hasn't yet been reported on bugzilla since I
haven't had any confirmations about it... input would be great if others
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dnighorn Wrote:
> I know that I've seen this reported before and there may be a solution.
You've seen it before (specifically in this
thread and this other thread). There
*may* be a fix, specifically replacing the mov123 executable with alac,
but this fix breaks other things and is really much m
SlimServer 6.3 is locking up as it starts to create the m3u file.
This is painful because it takes Soo long to build a playlist using
Slimserver that I hate to lose the hours of work. But since I cannot
save it, I will lose the list if I want to (or accidently) play
anything else!
Does anyo
I've had the 880 since it first came out and I'm happy with it. I did
have a few snags during initial setup (discrete input codes on a
Princeton Graphics HDTV), but a call to Harmony quickly got it
resloved. Their tech support people are very good, they jump right in,
isolate the problem, and fi
I’m looking to finally replace my college-era $9.99
beep-beep-beep digital alarm clock with something a little more aesthetic which
can play music. The squeezebox seems the obvious choice, except for the lack
of speakers.
What are people using? Are there any solutions that sound
decen
Following advice from members on another thread, I disabled the 'use
itunes' checkbox on my slimserver. Now I end up with the first second
or two cut off from each track.
I know that I've seen this reported before and there may be a solution.
The problem is that the search engine did not readily
LOL -- mostly Harry PotterOn 7/21/06, aubuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:stinkingpig Wrote:> Interestingly enough, my 8 year old son figured out the Squeezebox. I
> had to help him distinguish between browsing and searching, but he> knows how to find the Ramones and play audiobooks, and that's all h
Found out what problem was thanks to fred7. I have VMWare installed
which has 2 virtual network addresses and it was picking one of those
instead of the IP address of my actual PC. After disabling them it now
works fine. Is there no way of telling it which ip address to use ?
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obstreperousness Wrote:
> Does that mean, then, I can fire an audio stream at the correct TCP port
> on the SB and expect it to turn it into sound, bypassing SlimServer and
> all its advanced features? Would you have to tell the SB anything else,
> like what format to expect? There's got to be mo
I think you and it are just in different usability worlds.On 7/21/06, ron thigpen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Interesting idea for a remote control, but probably a long shot for realworld usability.
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This thing has a wheel.
http://www.frontierdesign.com/Products/TranzPort/Introduction
Maybe it could be set up to talk to the CLI.
Interesting idea for a remote control, but probably a long shot for real
world usability.
Issues:
Looks like closed software
Mac/PC yes, but Linux?
What range to
stinkingpig Wrote:
> Interestingly enough, my 8 year old son figured out the Squeezebox. I
> had to help him distinguish between browsing and searching, but he
> knows how to find the Ramones and play audiobooks, and that's all he
> wants.
I've just got to ask: what kind of audio books does an 8
My bad. Sorry.
tj
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Thomas J. Angstman Wrote:
> I think you have
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
> Yes. Note a few things:
>
> 1. When you say "over the wire" keep in mind this is not at all like
> over an audio cable. It's a stream buried in Ethernet traffic and is
> in packet format. It's not even digital audio like over coaxial or
> optical cable.
>
> 2. You're
tektite Wrote:
> Yes, well summarised. On point 6, to be fair, it wasn't "not going into
> standby was an identified problem"; rather Qnap claim there was an
> "error with standby mode (drives do not run HDD sleep mode on
> schedule)". This implies that it was *when* it happened rather than
> *
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nickrout Wrote:
> Thank you for your helpful reply. So the SB will accept wav/pcm over
> the
> wire? Apart from the fact that this will take up an order of magnitude
> more bandwidth than, say, mp3 or ogg, that could be useful for the
> approach that obstreperousness wanted to take.
>
Yes. Not
Yes, well summarised. On point 6, to be fair, it wasn't "not going into
standby was an identified problem"; rather Qnap claim there was an
"error with standby mode (drives do not run HDD sleep mode on
schedule)". This implies that it was *when* it happened rather than
*whether*.
In relation to
Jerryacg Wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to include all the findings in one post. Just
> clarify one thing. When you say "4. Clear and rescan database." is that
> relating to the "Clear Library and Rescan Everything" server option? or
> the clear database file on the Prog AV download page?My
happyfishman Wrote:
> We all seem to have tried a number of things in a bit of a 'scatter-gun'
> approach, but the end result appears to be success for everyone...
> hooray!
>
> 1. Change inactivity time to 5 mins. This was definitely a factor when
> I had older SS versions and Qnap firmware ins
Amen to the component sized, shall I add, aluminum-faced form factor!!
Hey! I'd pay extra for that!
Andrew
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Got two Squeezeboxen now (Mk3, one in black
tektite Wrote:
> Well, finally, I have a TS-101 in standby!
>
> Last night I changed the Qnap standby time from 15 mins to 5 mins
> (cant imagine that made any difference). Then I cleared the database
> and rescanned (dont see why this should make any difference either,
> but maybe it has).
Where Slimserver is installed I have used 59% (94gb free) and where /tmp
is 67% used (117mb free)
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Are you running out of diskspace on the partition where slimserver is
installed? Or /tmp (where slimserver.log will grow over time)?
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I hope that someone will be able to help me with this.
I am running SlimServer (Currently Ver 6.3.1) on a Linkstation II
Mipsel, and have been for about a year. It works fine except for one
problem with Random Play. When I select Random Play (Song) no playlist
of songs is set up. If I select Ran
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Well, finally, I have a TS-101 in standby!
Last night I changed the Qnap standby time from 15 mins to 5 mins
(cant imagine that made any difference). Then I cleared the database
and rescanned (dont see why this should make any difference either,
but maybe it has). I disconnected the Ethernet
I've decoded my problematic FLACs back to wav, and encoded them with
FLAC frontend again using flac 1.1.1
Now the SS 6.3.1 metaflac subroutine can parse and read the tags, as
well as playing them.
So the answer to my question: what has changed as from 6.3?
The Metaflac subroutine...
Peter
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What I'd really like now are two things:
1. Hi-fi separate sized unit, preferably with front panel controls so
it's possible to operate it without the r
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