Okay, nevermind... it works if '/' is the only character in the list.
(h. bug?)
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When SlimServer is idle, it uses 0% and once every 10 seconds or so 2%,
on an otherwise idle machine. When scanning, and nothing else is
happening on the machine, why shouldn't slim.exe use close to 100% of
the CPU cycles? Why waste them on the System Idle Process? This is of
course regardless of
Thanks - that helped a lot!
Andreas
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The devolo dLAN units include support for Mac OS X.
See http://www.devolo.com/co_EN/produkte/dlan/index.html
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Were you running any plugins or skins previously? That could be
affecting things. I've been running 6.3 since it's official release and
haven't had it down once.
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Slim::Schema is a 6.5 module. Did you downgrade from a 6.5 nightly at
some point? Try completely deleting your SlimServer directory and
reinstalling.
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I'm very happy with the performance of the Netgear units. Zero problems
in more than 2 years of use, and plenty of bandwidth for uncompressed
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Is your laptop also wireless?
If so, you will almost certainly have problems. The data has to go a
total of three times across your wireless network:
1) from the NAS to your laptop, via the access point
2) from your laptop to the access point
3) from the access point to the Squeezebox
For Flac
This is a forum regarding SqueezeNetwork, an alternative, non-PC
solution that utilizes Slim Devices external server.
It appears that you are having issues on your PC or home network.
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fingers Wrote:
> I run SlimServer on multiple machines. All the machines are a minimum
> of 2.8GHz up to 3.06GHz. All my machines have 1GB of RAM and large
> hard drives with more than enough space remaining on each drive.
> Everyone of my machines not only pegs the CPU when scanning. But als
Is it possible to change the sort order for album artwork when browsing
by artwork?
"Browsing by artwork" is being replaced in 6.5: you'll be able to switch
between list and gallery mode wherever you have an album list. And this
list can be ordered in several ways.
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The verdict is very positive for the Squeezebox:
With good looks, the most flexibility in terms of codecs and operating
systems supported, plus great audio quality, there's no other sensible
standalone ch
Well, I decided to rescan my library.
So far it's running about 80% CPU (on a machine half the speed of
yours, and half the memory).
I have 100MB of free physical RAM while the scan is running.
OK. It just finished. 15 minutes for 8752 songs by 2264 artists.
During that time, I checked my emai
Thanks for the reply. My first post was pretty vague and needs
clarification. (The answer is not in the wiki, or in the forums as far
as I can search.)
I already use foobar2000 for tagging. Wherever I can, I use multiple
tags: this works in FLAC and in GENRE in MP3s. However, multiple ARTIST
tags
Michaelwagner Wrote:
> Sigh ...
>
> Almost everything you told us, in flamebait and now more calmly, is
> already known.
>
> You could have found this out yourself with a little light reading.
>
> Slimserver is written in perl. Whether you are a perl fan or not,
> that's the language it's wri
Michaelwagner Wrote:
> I assume you mean GB?
>
>
>
> I haven't tried 6.3 yet, but based on my experience (I also use 320KB
> MP3s) that should scan in less than half an hour.
>
> How long does it take?
Yup... GB
Sometimes a couple hours
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In the ones I've seen, the windows program is only used to set up
encryption.
Unless you're worried about your next door neighbour tapping into your
network, encryption isn't worth the trouble.
The signals don't flow through the air, only through the powerline, and
only as far as the next transf
>From the wiki:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToTagging
Multiple Tags for genre / artist
There are 2 ways to add multiple genre tags to a file (for instance
Rock and Hard Rock).
The first is to use a tool like foobar2000 to add multiple tags. By
specifying genre = "rock\h
Sigh ...
Almost everything you told us, in flamebait and now more calmly, is
already known.
You could have found this out yourself with a little light reading.
Slimserver is written in perl. Whether you are a perl fan or not,
that's the language it's written in. Warts and all.
perl did not ac
Is it possible to use a forward slash to split "MULTIPLE ITEMS IN TAGS"?
I can't seem to make it work. Do I need to escape it somehow? (WMP uses
a forward slash, and I'd like to keep my tagging compatible with other
apps when possible.)
Actually, I'd really like to use multiple tags a la vorbis,
Well, I had to check in on you guys.. ;)
Could somebody please tell me where I asked for help? My intention was
to let whoever made the scan process know that it has the possibilty of
freezing at 99% for hours and hours.
I might have gone out on a ledge when i said that my system was the
perfect
fingers Wrote:
> 2x250MB hard drives.
I assume you mean GB?
> 923 Albums / 11374 songs by 554 artists
> File format: MP3 320KB
I haven't tried 6.3 yet, but based on my experience (I also use 320KB
MP3s) that should scan in less than half an hour.
How long does it take?
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Thank you for your response.
Are you satisfied with the performance and reliability of your
Squeezebox with your Netgear powerline ethernet network?
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
> It's hard to make intelligent comments on this performance without more
> information.
>
> How many tracks? What format are they in? What version of the server
> are you running?
>
> For comparison, I have about 8500 tracks, all MP3, 1.8GHz processor,
> 512MB Ram. My libr
fingers Wrote:
> The thing that I don't like is that when scanning it can completely peg
> the CPU. My box is a 3.06GHZ proc, 1GB Ram and 2 250GB HDs. So, it
> amazes me that it does that.
It's hard to make intelligent comments on this performance without more
information.
How many tracks? Wha
I'm using the Netgear XE102 adapters. It says Windows only but you
don't actually need any OS to use them. Just plug them in and they
work.
There is a small Windows program that lets you view the powerline
network and encrypt the signal (it's only 64-bit encryption, though.
I guess you could
I have been using two SB3s for some time, and have finally decided that
wireless is just too frustrating--I can't stand the dropouts and
stuttering about 40% of the time. It would be difficult and expensive
to install a regular ethernet connection in my house, and, given that
people on this forum
When I originally set up the SB2 as a device on the MX800, I started
from scratch and learned all the commands directly from the SB2 remote.
When I learned the "Play" command, I pressed the "Play" button on the
SB2 remote briefly, got a "GOOD" message from the 800, and everything
worked fine.
Whe
Just gave it a try and I think there is a reason I am not posting in the
audiophile forum. I THINK I could discern a difference in the sound.
Seemed more focused and the base seemed to be a bit punchier even
without the subbie run from the receiver.
I have a pair of Axiom M22's which are light on
Don't get me wrong I love my SB2 but not the interface. I was just
curious if 6.5 would resolve some of my issues...speed, non-standard
tags, etc.
Any comments from those who have ventured to use 6.5 beta?
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geoffb Wrote:
> On 8/16/06, MrSinatra wrote:[color=blue]
>
> If you want to rant, do it at your spouse or significant other.
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
Wow! Sounds like you must have a terrific relationship with your
"spouse" or "significant other" ;)
For whatever it's worth, I have experienced sca
lrossouw Wrote:
> Wooohooo! Thanks for your help. Got it to work.
> "My" first perl!
>
You're welcome. Glad it works.
lrossouw Wrote:
>
> Created slimplay.bat with
> ***
> @echo off
> perl "C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\Perl\play.pl" %1
> ***
> Created play.pl with conte
Is it possible to change the sort order for album artwork when browsing
by artwork?
I generally prefer to browse by artist rather than album title and
would like to be able to do this from the artwork; does anyone know if
it is possible to configure this.
I'm using SlimServer 6.3.1 on Windows -
Does Tag&Rename work with Apple Lossless files? As I understand, these
tags are different from those used on MP3 files.
David
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Wooohooo! Thanks for your help. Got it to work.
"My" first perl!
For those who are interested:
Created slimplay.bat with
***
@echo off
perl "C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\Perl\play.pl" %1
***
Created play.pl with contents:
***
use Net::Telnet ();
use URI::Escape;
my $f;
my
What surprised me is that I know the author in Real Life (tm) which
makes the internet feel really small. I'm just chatting to him on MSN
now.
Fairy
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It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion
I've been keeping up to date with the 6.5 nightlies, hoping this might
help, but so far no joy. Is anyone else able to play this stream (2SER
radio in Australia)?
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Since you really need to escape a number of characters, use the URI
escape module
http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/URI-1.35/URI/Escape.pm
The modified example would be:
use Net::Telnet;
use URI::Escape;
my @cmd;
my $result;
$cmd = $ARGV[0];
foreach (@ARGV) {
push (@cmd, uri_escape($_));
}
ok i now have play.pl:
/start code
use Net::Telnet ();
my $f;
my $result;
$f = $ARGV[0];
$t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10);
$t->open(Host => "localhost", Port => 9090);
$t->print("00:04:20:06:3b:85 playlist play ". $f);
$result = $t->getline;
$t->print("exit");
print $result;
/end of code
Th
yeah i placed it there.
i have written a bat file that contains the following:
@echo off
perl runslim.pl "00:04:20:06:3b:85 playlist play %1"
this passes the parameter of the bat file to the perl. this works ok
if the parameter does not contain a space...
but as most music folders contain spa
One thing to note though, if the tagging software doesn't change the
time stamp on the files, slimserver won't realise that the file has
changed. If thats the case you need to get it to forget everything and
completely re-scan.
I use Tag&Rename and it has an option to change the modified time sta
can't wait. The Reg photos aren't that great.
bring on the hardware pr0n :D
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Yes, ok, i can see that single quotes won't work as command line quotes
in cmd.exe. Sorry, I was using the cygwin bash shell under Windows.
You can place the Telnet.pm module under C:\Perl\lib\Net in ActivePerl.
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cool
i was blind soz. the version is working but it seems to need double
quotes.
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>Maybe it's just the consequence of the main issue: as the topic is started
>within another thread, it has gone unread.
Sounds likely.
So can people that are affected by this please vote for bug 2712.
Phil
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lrossouw Wrote:
> ok went for perl option.
>
> installed activeperl.
>
> it doesn't have net-telnet library?
>
> how do i get it?
I enclosed a link in my previous post. Its a single perl module file
(.pm). Just place that next to your script, or in your perl path
somewhere.
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Probably not - I haven't been dipping into the discuss mailing list as much,
due to the problem ;)
It's much less of a problem with other (lower traffic) lists such as "beta".
Perhaps most people there use email?
>I think I've always had them... (and no, it's not th
ok went for perl option.
installed activeperl.
it doesn't have net-telnet library?
how do i get it?
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JJZolx Wrote:
>
> Is this only a problem with folders that have unicoded names, or it it
> a more general problem that would include unicoded file names and tag
> contents?
The problem only with folder and file name mainly.
Thanks
Rocky
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dnighorn Wrote:
> In a nutshell, if I re-tag my music files, will Slimserver be able to
> re-scan and show the new tags?
>
> I ripped all of my music with iTunes into Apple Lossless. At the time,
> I was pretty new to this and didn't realize the importance of paying
> attention to the tags. Now
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I'm not sure what's going on, but I installed 6.3 on Saturday. The server stays-up just fine - unless I play music. It will play fine for a minute or so and then die with some message about Slim::Schema or something like that (sorry, I don't have the exact message with me right now). Is anyone
So what did you change?On 8/15/06, opchiasm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:Please forget this thread. I've got it working. Thanks for the response.
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My guess is that is it is a problem with the Roku emulation of a
squeezebox.
Are you sending MP3 to Roku ?
If Roku does not get data within 6 secs it breaks connections and stops
playing anything sent by Slimserver.
Try using d_source and look at log when making this happen.
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Running latest version of slimserver (just installed today)and when i do
a search it stops the slimserver. I have to press stop and play to get
it working again.
This has always happened and now the wife is killing me.
digital music player: roku m500
server: win 2k
music stored on a snap server m
In a nutshell, if I re-tag my music files, will Slimserver be able to
re-scan and show the new tags?
I ripped all of my music with iTunes into Apple Lossless. At the time,
I was pretty new to this and didn't realize the importance of paying
attention to the tags. Now I do.
What I would like to
depeche Wrote:
> Did we aver get the internal pictures of the Transporter?
>
> Andrew
We will have a bunch of internal pics in a week or two - I have been
waiting for production boards to arrive. The ones we have right now are
partially hand-soldered and not as pretty.
For a preview, check out
Did we aver get the internal pictures of the Transporter?
Andrew
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MrSinatra wrote:
> well, he directed his "insult" at the slim server dev team, not people
> here, and it wasn't an insult, it was a complaint, lets not be so thin
> skinned.
Actually, a fair number of the folks who post here *are*
responsible for the code in one small place or anot
andyg Wrote:
> http://bdcast-infinity-kllc-fm.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_infinity_kllc-fm
Thank you very much!
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On 16-Aug-06, at 7:17 AM, Mark Lanctot wrote:
Hard to tell from the back - Dean maybe?
off by one letter.
-k
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On 8/15/06, MrSinatra wrote:
guys,
i'm browsing artwork, and every so often, clicking on an album to look
at the songs on it.
i noticed it oftentimes lists way more artists then are on the album!
for example:
"1 album with 7 songs by 6 artists."
in reality, only one artist, and in checking th
On 16-Aug-06, at 12:16 AM, MrSinatra wrote:
dumb question[s]:
where do you find the logs?
Windows:
c:\program files\slimserver\server\slim.exe --logfile c:\mylog.txt
or a view of the "live log" at http://:9000/log.txt
Linux RPM:
/tmp/slimserver.log
OSX:
~Library/Logs/slimserver.log
On 8/16/06, Michael Herger wrote:
> But the link to the executable is currently dead :-(. Maybe you could
> write the author to ask for it.
Niek just sent me the new links for sstime:
- C source: http://www.qwertyboy.org/files/sstime.c
- Windows .EXE: http://www.qwertyboy.org/files/sstime.exe
-
Sweet... I knew this forum would find a solution.
Just didn't know it be so quick and easy. Thanks Mark!
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On 8/16/06, MrSinatra wrote:
Michaelwagner Wrote:
> That's factually incorrect. He wrote:
>
>
>
> after saying that the quality of the code was such that it had to have
> been written by an intern. I think the implication is clear.
no, its not "factually" incorrect. his first post starting the
That actually does sound pretty cool.
Works just fine - right-click on the Winamp link, select "Properties"
and you'll see that it points to:
http://hype.non-standard.net/playlist/time/today/m3u/1/today.m3u
Enter this as a URL into SlimServer, either under Radio Tune In or Help
- Internet Radio
May I, also put some statistics forward:
I'm on 6.3.1
Just re-scanned after inital re-install,
got 257 albums, 7862 songs (I wish), 383 artists
cleared and scanned again:
got 257 albums, 3580 songs (more like it), 162 artists,
Now, I don't agree with the artists list, as I have not got many
I've taken to using The Hype Machine as a (free) music discovery tool.
http://hype.non-standard.net/
For those who haven't played with it, it's a pretty cool audio
aggregator that crawls blogs and then allows you to listen to mp3s.
I'm not a techie, but I'd love to be able to listen to music
looking good! cant wait!
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davep Wrote:
> From the photos of the internals I would say that there is an awful lot
> of gubbins in there.
Yeah the motherboard takes up the entire width of the device.
That power supply looks good - I'm trying to identify the blue
cylindrical objects with fins. They look like transformers?
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Mikael Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I rip a HD CD to my SlimServer and use the Digital output from the
> Squeezebox then I can see that HD decoder in my DAC is activated.
> So what if I use the analog output on the Squeezebox instead?
> Would the signal be treated as a normal CD or as the better HD CD?
>
In a slightly related vein, does anyone else find that the mailing list
misses a few new threads?
Often I won't see the start of a thread but will see its responses.
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WSLam Wrote:
> Are you playing back WMA files?
No all .mp3 files.
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Just saw this and read through it - very positive. I thought it made the
point quite clearly that the benefits would be for music stored in
lossless formats, which makes it somewhat frustrating when the first
comment posted on the Register site stated "But no matter how good they
make it, the idea
Shame about the diddy who commented that it can't be high end because it
uses compressed files ...
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I thought the first post *was* offensive.
In any case, let's skip the netiquette and get to the heart of it.
Where your logs are depends on what system you're running.
For a windows system, KDF posted the answer some number of replies
back.
> server settings->debugging
>
> start with d_import
Nice pics and surprisingly informed technical piece:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/16/preview_slim_devices_transporter/
Last comment in the article is:
"Stylish looks and audiophile sound quality - and it's not even
finished yet..."
MC
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Hi,
Just wondering if SSOD on the Diskstation plays/transcodes APE encoded
files?
I found a DS-101 for $129 CAD but my collection is in .ape and was
wondering if there is support for this format nativley on embedded
Linux and Slimserver. If so I will purchase.
Another question is I see the late
Hallo everybody! I have been playing in casino successfully enough for
a long time. to my opinion, Concerning games, I think The most fair
game is conducted with those casinos which have not sufficient quantity
of constant players (probably I and am mistaken). Therefore I prefer to
play in no
Hello All, whilst running some performance comparisons between a
ReadyNas and a Linux Fedora box I noticed a difference between the
library stats reported on SS running on the ReadyNas, and, SS running
on the Linux box. On the ReadyNas the stats are: 250 albums,3212 songs,
by 136 artists, on the L
dwc Wrote:
> I think DaveP is on to it. If you "simply moved" your music library
> including playlists, you may have in effect just broken your playlists.
Hi there, my Linux box is also very slow scanning (I only have 3200
files, scan can take up to a day ~12 hrs ) do playlists (I've never
know
Hi,
If I rip a HD CD to my SlimServer and use the Digital output from the
Squeezebox then I can see that HD decoder in my DAC is activated.
So what if I use the analog output on the Squeezebox instead?
Would the signal be treated as a normal CD or as the better HD CD?
Thanks
Mikael
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SB2s tend to hold their price well because people want them specifically
for their shape/size. SB3s are a little cheaper, but not massively. As
richidoo said, there will probably be more SB3s out there on the likes
of eBay etc. once the Transporter startes to ship. Although there has
already been
Michael Herger wrote:
Oh no, I've got mailing list replies that are connected to the wrong
threads again.
Have they ever disappeared? I think I've always had them... (and no,
it's not the forum users to be damned :-))
I've seen less of them, but they're still here yes...
I think it need fixin
If you're using the Slimserver pre amp volume control be careful when
switching to SqueezeNetwork. SqueezeNetwork will not be aware of your
pre amp volume control, which can give you (and your speakers) a bit of
a shock !
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Have they ever disappeared? I think I've always had them... (and no, it's
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Oh no, I've got mailing list replies that are connected to the wrong threads
again.
I can see that the "message-ID" header item has been made bigger than it used
to be, but sadly it's still not unique. As a result, a reply can end up
threaded to some other message, and therefore I miss message
Oh no, I've got mailing list replies that are connected to the wrong threads
again. Damn forum users.
I can see that the "message-ID" header item has been made bigger than it used
to be, but sadly it's still not unique. As a result, a reply can end up
threaded to some other message, and there
dumb question[s]:
where do you find the logs? are they always being made? do you have
to enable debug stuff? are there multiple logs? do they autodelete
after a time?
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Using:
Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.3.1 - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gi
I'll just interrupt this little share-fest for one more attempt at
asking for logs. As this thread, like so many others, is
long-digressed from its original purpose, please consider mailing logs
(using my previously posted debug options) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for 6.3. They can then file a bug
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