[slim] stream.mp3 with Query String

2006-09-15 Thread tradersystems
Hi, Is it possible to connect to SlimServer from a third-party mp3 player using the url: http://:9000/stream.mp3 and pass the track or playlist in the URL so the device receives the stream immediately? E.g. http://:9000/stream.mp3?play=123245 Or is there another way to achieve the same resul

[slim] Re: Linkstation - Slimserver - Speed up

2006-09-15 Thread stevos
Cheers, i have done most of the sugguestions and things have improved quite a bit. Still a bit low, but much better. -- stevos stevos's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7145 View this thread: http:

Re: [slim] stream.mp3 with Query String

2006-09-15 Thread Michael Herger
Or is there another way to achieve the same result (without using the web user interface)? It's not the graphical web UI, but some there are some commands to manipulate a player's playlist and behaviour. Please see the documentation installed on your slimserver: http://yourslimserver:9000/

[slim] Live365 free trial promotional code

2006-09-15 Thread adult
I can't figure out what the announcer says the current promotional code for free 5 day trial is? Could someone tell me, please? -- adult adult's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7362 View this thre

[slim] Re: Network always busy

2006-09-15 Thread hermetic
I have this behaviour as well. Even tough the SB3 is powered off, with no clock or anything in the display, it keeps sending packets to my computers port 3483. Normally I wouldn't mind, but my problem is that these packets seem to wake up my computer from standby, and so leaves my computer runn

[slim] Re: Using FLAC files

2006-09-15 Thread Jig
Thanks all, I used mp3tag and it worked fine. I also ended up moving my .db file and regenerating it from scratch as a number of tags were showing up incorrectly, duplicates etc. Now just off to go and do a listening test to see if I can tell the difference with the flac files! Thanks for all

[slim] Re: Using FLAC files

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff52
Jig;136251 Wrote: > ...what's the best way for managing FLAC tags? > Check out mp3tag: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ -- Jeff52 Jeff52's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=103 View this thread: http://fo

[slim] Re: "Your player cannot be found" message

2006-09-15 Thread bgriffis
Is anyone else having this problem? I've updated to 6.5b3 and still see the same issue. My computer with SS was asleep all night and I woke it up about 20 minutes ago but it says "Your player cannot be found" when I open the web page. It looks to me as if there is a timeout mechanism in the fir

[slim] Album name problem with 6.5b3

2006-09-15 Thread meyergru
I have found many duplicated album entries in slimserver 6.5b3. As it looks, every single track has its own album. It seems that slimserver 6.5b3, the separated scanning process differs from how it was done up to 6.3.1. There are multiple 'Importers' that can put entries into the database, one i

[slim] MySQL problem with 6.5b3

2006-09-15 Thread meyergru
I have just scanned my 4+ title music collection and found that after that, only about 2+ titles had made it into the database. Looking into the slimserver log, I found this one: Code: 2006-09-15 11:44:44.3703 About to look for files in /music/m 2006-09-15

Re: [slim] Album name problem with 6.5b3

2006-09-15 Thread Michael Herger
I have found many duplicated album entries in slimserver 6.5b3. As it looks, every single track has its own album. You'd better post this to the beta forum as it is rather technical stuff. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimC

[slim] Re: Live365 free trial promotional code

2006-09-15 Thread jed
Promotional code is pmitunes Regards Jed -- jed jed's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27420 __

[slim] Re: Album name problem with 6.5b3

2006-09-15 Thread meyergru
I would. But I can not delete nor shift my posts. Is there a moderator who can do that? -- meyergru meyergru's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/s

[slim] Re: Live365 free trial promotional code

2006-09-15 Thread adult
I tried it, but then I get this message: You have entered an invalid or expired gift certificate/promo code. -- adult adult's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7362 View this thread: http://forums.sl

[slim] Re: Linkstation - Slimserver - Speed up

2006-09-15 Thread Michaelwagner
Well, that's good news. Do you have any numbers? Did you turn off the options one by one and see which one was of how much help? When I turned a bunch of the plugins off in my windows system, it made a few MB of difference to the storage image size, but it wasn't a huge difference. I have no id

[slim] Re: Album Art Images in Browser Interface

2006-09-15 Thread msandover
The .db is persistent - it comes right back after being deleted after Slimserver has been stopped, the database has been deleted, and then Slimserver has been restarted! Same size, etc. The erase and rebuild scan now shows Artist names in text in the Browse Album Art function but still no pictur

[slim] Re: Slim Server Squeezebox vs. Sonos

2006-09-15 Thread ceejay
This has been discussed quite a few times, for example: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23490 Try a search for "sonos" Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148

[slim] Re: Slim Server Squeezebox vs. Sonos

2006-09-15 Thread radish
For a lot of people the most significant difference is price - the sonos remote costs more than a whole squeezebox. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://fo

RE: [slim] Re: Macintosh Help!

2006-09-15 Thread Richard Scales
Thanks for all the MAC help - working well now. Thank again Richard -Original Message- From: danco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 September 2006 14:11 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Macintosh Help! If you prefer to use a symbolic link then (in addition to c

[slim] Re: Slim Server Squeezebox vs. Sonos

2006-09-15 Thread m1abrams
I have not personnally tried the nokia770 remote, however the skin made for it is rather nice and if the nokia770 renders it well then I would say if you want the remote of the sonos with a squeezbox just get a nokia770. About the same price as the sonos remote. But not using either one myself I

[slim] Slim Server Squeezebox vs. Sonos

2006-09-15 Thread klunde
I purchased the squeezebox a couple of weeks ago, but have recently seen the Sonos system, which looks pretty cool with its wireless remote. Can anybody tell me some of the differences between the two? Thanks. -- klunde

[slim] Re: ? gapless playback of lame mp3s ?

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Lanctot
b6662966;136347 Wrote: > i now consider purchased sonos system, but urge slimdevices also > applying gapless playback for mp3 as you make very nice product but > without gapless. SlimServer supports gapless playback just fine, but not on MP3. I suppose since iPod supports gapless MP3 playback n

[slim] Re: Looks like Apple are joining the party

2006-09-15 Thread bklaas
kdf;136219 Wrote: > Quoting bklaas forums.slimdevices.com>: > > > > I'll look into adding the pulldown. FYI-- setting a cookie from a > > different skin for album sort order doesn't do the trick. Hopefully > I > > can get something in place to make that a moot point. > > > ah, how odd. its so

[slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin

2006-09-15 Thread bklaas
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[slim] Re: "Your player cannot be found" message

2006-09-15 Thread danco
I'm not sure if the problem I have is related. For some time now (can't recall when it started, it certainly occurs on 6.3.x but I'm not sure whether it happened in any versions of 6.2), when I wake my computer from sleep the Squeezebox sometimes lights up (in the Off state) but, particularly aft

[slim] Re: Looks like Apple are joining the party

2006-09-15 Thread Michaelwagner
Nostromo;136323 Wrote: > It seems I did sound like a whiner after all :lol: You sounded a lot like someone else who came only a few weeks before you and managed to anger practically everyone. Perhaps unfortunate timing as much as anything else. -- Michaelwagner -

[slim] crumblist issue when sorting by artist, album

2006-09-15 Thread bklaas
I'm seeing some strange behavior in the web UI when I browse->album, then sort by artist, album. The crumblist-- the index at the top looks like this: 1 2 3 4 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Μ If I click on the D, I get listings for artists starting with D and E. If I cli

[slim] Re: crumblist issue when sorting by artist, album

2006-09-15 Thread aubuti
Yes, it's a known bug. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3255 -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=2743

[slim] Re: crumblist issue when sorting by artist, album

2006-09-15 Thread bklaas
thanks. was searching under crubmlist rather than alphapagebar... put in my vote for a fix on that bug. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=

[slim] Re: ? gapless playback of lame mp3s ?

2006-09-15 Thread oreillymj
Event though I've voted for this bug, I have to say, with crossfade enabled, the lack of gapless playback is of minimal impact to me. -- oreillymj oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 Vi

[slim] Album/artist sorting issue in 6.5

2006-09-15 Thread ModelCitizen
XP Pro, 6.5b3, default skin. If I list albums all OK, then from the resulting dropdown I select I select Artists,Album I would expect to get Artists listed in alphabetical order on the left with their albums on the right. Instead I get albums on the left and srtists in alphabetical order on the

[slim] Re: Album Art Images in Browser Interface

2006-09-15 Thread Kyle
This may not be the case for you since you apparently once had album art working, but I use Windows, and I worked for weeks to get album art to show up. Seems my OS was set not to display the .jpg suffix, so I had to turn that on manually. Once I did that, album art displayed fine. -- Kyle --

[slim] Where can I download SlimScrobbler V0.35?

2006-09-15 Thread AndreasG
Hi everybody, I am unable to find a download location for SlimScrobbler V0.35 - any hints? Thanks in advance, Andreas -- AndreasG AndreasG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4834 View this thread

Re: [slim] Where can I download SlimScrobbler V0.35?

2006-09-15 Thread Dave Dewey
Quoting AndreasG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi everybody, > > I am unable to find a download location for SlimScrobbler V0.35 - any > hints? You need to download it from the Sourceforge CVS repository. Geeky instructions here: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=105780 _

[slim] Re: Where can I download SlimScrobbler V0.35?

2006-09-15 Thread aubuti
If I recall correctly, the developer was waiting for the official release of SS 6.5 before doing an official release of slimscrobbler 0.35. If you can wait a little, the official SS 6.5 is supposed to be out next week. If you want to get it right now, you can get slimscrobber 0.35 from the CVS at

[slim] Re: Where can I download SlimScrobbler V0.35?

2006-09-15 Thread Siduhe
Do you specifically want 0.35v or the latest version (0.36v) ? 0.36 is on James' site http://www.jamescraig.co.uk/SlimServer 0.35 should still be available on Sourceforge ? -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimd

[slim] Re: Album/artist sorting issue in 6.5

2006-09-15 Thread aubuti
My understanding of the dropdown is that it is only for the sort order, not for the display of each entry. And indeed, that's what you're getting, except for the Various Artists issue, which I think is a registered bug (but I'd have to check). You might be able change the listing Artist - Album b

[slim] What's wrong with radios !?

2006-09-15 Thread damned006
Hi everybody, I run slimserver 6.3.1 with SB3 and have always problems connecting to my favourites radios. Why, please tell me why, it sometimes - very rarely - works with no problem and few hours later it's impossible to connect. Most of the time i can get access to only 1 of my favourite, whet

[slim] Re: Album/artist sorting issue in 6.5

2006-09-15 Thread ModelCitizen
aubuti;136509 Wrote: > The relevant bugs are: > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3350 > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3323 Crikey, you're good at finding bugs! MC -- ModelCitizen Why does it always happen to me? Squeezebox2 > Benchmark Dac1 > Naim NAC 82 > Naim NAP

[slim] can't get streaming Slim to play....

2006-09-15 Thread ncpl
Hi Folks, I've done a stack of searching and testing but can't seem to get over the finish line. I have an SB3 and all music is .flac Lame.exe is copied into the bin/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread directory. Slimserver sees Lame as installed and I have rate limited to 192. When I select the 2nd pc at

[slim] Re: can't get streaming Slim to play....

2006-09-15 Thread funkstar
Have you selected anything to play? the IP address of the machine you are streaming to will show up as a player with it's own playlist. You should be able to sync it with your SqueezeBox if thats what you want too. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RemoteStreaming -- funkstar

[slim] Re: can't get streaming Slim to play....

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Lanctot
Can you load SlimServer's web page from that machine? If you can, the stream uses the same port so it should play. Otherwise check your firewall settings. Do you have anything set in Server Settings - Security? -- Mark Lanctot -

[slim] Re: What's wrong with radios !?

2006-09-15 Thread Dougal
I save my radio stations as an individual "Playlist", this way is more reliable than using "Favorites". Doug. -- Dougal Dougal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5489 View this thread: http://forums

[slim] Re: What's wrong with radios !?

2006-09-15 Thread damned006
Dougal;136541 Wrote: > I save my radio stations as an individual "Playlist", this way is more > reliable than using "Favorites". > Doug. really ?? actually it's still pain in the a... with direct access but it's worth a try, thanks -- damned006

[slim] Itunes / Album Art Issues in 6.5

2006-09-15 Thread chaz
I've got album art for 99% of my albums set up in Itunes (new version 7.0. Can anyone tell me why only about 50% of it shows up in Slim Server? Seems pretty random as to which one's do and don't show up. Any suggestions would be most appreciated -- chaz --

[slim] Re: Album/artist sorting issue in 6.5

2006-09-15 Thread aubuti
No thanks to my still-feeble bugzilla search skills. Truth be told, I cut & pasted those links from a post by kdf in the Beta forum. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View thi

[slim] Re: Itunes / Album Art Issues in 6.5

2006-09-15 Thread Nostromo
I have the same problem. But, in my case its not random, I cannot see a single album cover I added using iTunes. I can only see those I manually added myself. -- Nostromo Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/m

[slim] Re: "Your player cannot be found" message

2006-09-15 Thread Ross L
Could you tell me about your network setup? I've tried to reproduce this here by shutting down my computer or putting it in stand by, but no matter what I do after I 'boot' the computer again, the Squeezebox connects to it right away. Do you guys see this often, everytime, or just once in a wh

[slim] Re: Itunes / Album Art Issues in 6.5

2006-09-15 Thread andyg
I think iTunes 7 stores album art in a new directory (~/Music/iTunes/Album Artwork) and we don't currently read this directory. Support for this, if possible, will certainly need to wait until after SlimServer 6.5 is out. -- andyg ---

[slim] Re: Itunes / Album Art Issues in 6.5

2006-09-15 Thread chaz
Well that's bad news. And here I was all excited to finally have artwork for EVERY album. Once Itunes went and did it's thing (it probably got art for around 60% of my library) I went through and painstakingly added all the rest myself. Took forever. Well at least I can see those. Hopefully s

[slim] Re: can't get streaming Slim to play....

2006-09-15 Thread ncpl
Thanks for the quick responses. Tracks were selected and I had the IP of the machine I wanted to stream to showing up as the player. I could see the :9000 page no problem. I decided to name the player. For some reason, when WMP was closed I seemed to be able to get the :9000 page play button t

[slim] Re: "Your player cannot be found" message

2006-09-15 Thread danco
For me the situation is Four-port router and ADSL modem combined, providing the IP address. Wired connection from this to my Mac and to an Airport Extreme Base Station. A second Airport Extreme Base Station acts as a remote station (as I got too low a signal with only one of them), with the SB c

[slim] Volume Adjustment with iTunes 7.0

2006-09-15 Thread WhaleOil
I have my music as Apple Lossless in iTunes. Slimserver 6.5b3 was able to read the Volume Adjustment/Sound Check information (and show it in 'Song Info') and all was fine. However, I have just ripped some new CDs using iTunes 7.0 and done a full clear and re-scan of the slimserver library and no

[slim] Re: What's wrong with radios !?

2006-09-15 Thread smc2911
Better still, try the My Picks plugin for managing internet radio station. Link available here http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginsAudio. -- smc2911 smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?user

[slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin

2006-09-15 Thread cshaida
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[slim] Re: HawaiianRainbow.com

2006-09-15 Thread Mike White
That fixed the problem - if you have the time, let me know how you got the actual url - it would help me not have to bother you in the future. Mike -- Mike White Mike White's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.

[slim] Re: "Your player cannot be found" message

2006-09-15 Thread bgriffis
I also have the problem only when my computer has been asleep for a long time. I think I may have an idea of what the issue is (for me anyway). I think it may have something to do with the computer changing IP addresses. That is, the computer goes to sleep with one address and when it wakes man

[slim] Re: "Your player cannot be found" message

2006-09-15 Thread bgriffis
Yes, I just tested out my theory and it appears to hold up. My player was showing up a minute ago, but after switching to static IP and then back to DHCP the router assigned me a new address and now the player cannot be found. How can I get around this? I don't want to set my network to be all

Re: [slim] Re: "Your player cannot be found" message

2006-09-15 Thread Gregory Hamilton
On 9/15/06, bgriffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, I just tested out my theory and it appears to hold up.  My playerwas showing up a minute ago, but after switching to static IP and then back to DHCP the router assigned me a new address and now the playercannot be found.How can I get around thi

[slim] Re: "Your player cannot be found" message

2006-09-15 Thread bgriffis
OK, I've successfully converted to a "mixed" environment containing both static and dynamic IP addresses. I'm not positive if this was the problem, but I've been wanting to go to this sort of setup for a while to resolve some other issues like having to hunt around for the slimserver from my lapt

[slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7

2006-09-15 Thread Nostromo
Very good suggestions all around. - I'd also like a better UI. I'm using the default skin and it feels clunky and unresponsive. It also lacks essential functionalities like drag and drop. The UI should be as responsive, as intuitive and as functional as iTunes or Windows Media Player. Now the qu

[slim] Rhapsody setup - I need a clue

2006-09-15 Thread sb3d
Hi, I have a Rhapsody account. I started Rhaspody player and signed on, went in to Tools and turned on UPnP. I slao have the latest SlimServer 6.31 web UI but Rhapsody does not show up under Browse Music. The wiki says: "Check the SlimServer web UI. In the Browse Music section, you should see "R

[slim] Re: Rhapsody setup - I need a clue

2006-09-15 Thread pm314
sb3d;136636 Wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Rhapsody account. I started Rhaspody player and signed on, > went in to Tools and turned on UPnP. I slao have the latest SlimServer > 6.31 web UI but Rhapsody does not show up under Browse Music. > > The wiki says: "Check the SlimServer web UI. In the Brows

[slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin

2006-09-15 Thread MikeGilpin
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[slim] problem connecting to SlimServer, but not SqueezeNetwork

2006-09-15 Thread toxikman
I recently upgraded my router to the relatively new Netgear Rangemax Next WNR834M (firmware 1.2.15). My squeezebox is able to connect to the SqueezeNetwork, but it can't access the SlimServer on my desktop machine. I turned off Windows Firewall. I have the same problem regardless of Ethernet (wire

[slim] Re: problem connecting to SlimServer, but not SqueezeNetwork

2006-09-15 Thread toxikman
I did not uninstall the old SlimServer when I upgraded to version 1.6.3 at the same time I installed my new router. So basically it was the server not responding for some reason. Uninstall and reinstall fixed the problem! -- toxikman -