You've not said what OS you are using.
There have been some problems with ALAC decoders, I think. As a test
you could try ripping or transcoding an album or two to FLAC or WAV and
check that this is ok.
Also, when you try to play something, do you get an error, or does the
SB look like it
meltsheep;172223 Wrote:
Because it is sonically inferior to Squeezebox to the point where its
painful to listen to . There's a technical explanation somewhere on the
Stereophile website as to why SB is so much better.
Sorry, first post but seems to be totally wrong. Check info about LA
Just thought I would add my h'pennies worth.
Being new to the SS/SB world, I am still blown away by the concept.
The fundamental principals of the system design is excellent. In
keeping with the design philosophy I think audio quality should away be
kept at the fore. You can buy any number of
Stop is just done by pressing AND HOLDING the Pause button.
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steve4586;173211 Wrote:
The other thing is a stop key on the remote to compliment the play,
pause, ff, rwd keys. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but sometimes I
just want to stop the music, which I can do from the web interface, but
not the SB.
Use the Power button. Since the SB is
ErikM;173192 Wrote:
Ok just loaded a new copy of Slim server. When I try to open slim server
an explorer window tries to open but it doesn't! I get a outline of an
explower window but it's like just an outline and it just hangs up???
Slim server is running and music is playing but I can't
brunodenis wrote:
meltsheep;172223 Wrote:
Because it is sonically inferior to Squeezebox to the point where its
painful to listen to . There's a technical explanation somewhere on the
Stereophile website as to why SB is so much better.
Sorry, first post but seems to be totally wrong.
I sense anger in you padawan
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Interesting point - I had never quantified the actual cost of leaving a
server on - so here are some live measurements costs per month given
my electricity supplier's rate of GBP 0.11 per KWh:
Xbox with one HD ~ 260mA ~ GBP 5
Libretto 70CT (weather station) ~ 38mA ~ GBP 0.72!
Vaio Laptop ~
Well, I'm feeding this post all by myself...
I think I've find out why the stats would decrease...
I checked which artists where missing, and they all have only a few
tracks, no entire album.
So I went in the settings to find if something could be responsible for
this behaviour, and I did find
Peter;121523 Wrote:
I have MythTV running with my Slimserver setup. Both on a Linux
machine.
My 4 SB3's can control MythTV over a Slimserver plugin and a Perl Lirc
junction box I wrote.
If anyone's interested I can make the files available.
I was planning to document this, but I
You may be onto something for the minimum and maximum duration of songs,
and I'm not sure that it is only a Track stat issue.
MusicIP imposes both a minimum and maximum track length time below /
above which it will not analyse the music. I have a couple of very
short clips (loops) that aren't
hi ceejay,
Slightly OT. I recently bought a Topfield TF6000PVR which has wireless
networking. Works OK, but they could learn a few things from
Slimserver/Squeezebox.
Another option, I have heard people connecting PVRs USB to an
intermediate box (ICE box2??) then brigding through a wireless SB.
Well, I checked this too. But I've 13 non-mixables tracks in MM, and
only 5 tracks not shown in SS.
And this certainly doesn't explain the 19 artists missing. I checked
what artists were missing (I only found 18, but that maybe my mistake,
reading 2 lists of about 240 names) and they are artists
I already read it, but I'll repeat it once more.
I'd like the SB4 to be something you put out of sight and and put the
display into the remote. A color touchscreen for displaying the artwork
and the buttons would make it complete.
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brunodenis;173205 Wrote:
Sorry, first post but seems to be totally wrong. Check info about LA
Rosita (Apertura) [image: http://images.cinenow.com/a/1/966.jpg] which
is based on airport express. It is apparently far beyond SB3 due to its
conception.
I doubt it...
Currently considering
I'd like to see the display in a rotate-able section in the end of the
Squeezebox, so you can have it in the end like the SB 1/2 or rotate it
round the side like the SB3. I know peaople want both, hell make the
display a slim removable module that could be extended and remote
mounted (or replaced
Uninstall and reinstall of 6.5.1 worked for me as well! Sorry for not
trying that first! Won't happen again...until the next update at
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servies;173258 Wrote:
I doubt it...
This anyway has to be compared and validated, i agree.
No problem around here. But then I don't use an inferior application as
iTunes to rip my music and I use other applications to (re)tag my music
if they're missing or incomplete.
I try to use the
Zed Roeder wrote:
Hi Peter!
I'm just setting up Mythtv an Slimserver on the same machine and i'm
very interrested in controlling mythtv over my SB3 remote.
Can you please document your setup and make the corresponding files
available.
Hi Zed,
The latest plugin is available here:
GenPatton;173190 Wrote:
Great!
Got all your suggestions.
As to running Vista, I would rather crawl on broken glass.
I will be running Win XP Pro or Win2k3.
Thanks again for all who replied and your kind help.
I decided on getting two gigs of ram just to be sure.
Yea thats the nice thing
You don't have to use the switch in LAME to produce gapless files it's
been doing it automatically at least since 3.96.1. 3.71 is now the
official version anyways.
It's not really a cludge. Rockbox supports gapless playback of MP3s,
the shibatch mpg123 plugin for Winamp supports it as does the
The reason is that SlimServer sends files to the player not starting at
the beginning but at the start of the audio data, since there may be
lots of tag data in front. This is partly to support the legacy
players I believe. Anyway, previous versions had the offset value
wrong so the LAME data
brunodenis;173273 Wrote:
I do not see your point as your server might be in another room if you
use such a device I was talking about.
That only shows that you really don't get it.
The AAE is (roughly seen) just a cable between your computers audio
outputs and your HIFI's inputs. It has no
Peter;173280 Wrote:
Zed Roeder wrote:[color=blue]
Now you must edit the mythtv .lircrc file to tell mythtv what buttons
to
react to and what to do when they are pressed. Note that Lirc.pm only
forwards codes it recognizes. At the moment that means the slimdevices
remote, but the code
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I could not find a thread on this ...
I was wondering if anybody could help me. Yesterday I updated to
SS6.5.1 and updated my Squeezebox 2 as well, but now it does not seem
to be working :-( The squeezebox cuts out after between 5 seconds and 3
mins or so. In fact it seems like the SB
It is as the name suggests - it fades one song out while it fades the
next song in. Devide the crossfade time to know how far before the end
of the current song it will start fading out the song and how long it
will take to fade the next song in to full volume.
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Have just upgraded my Win2k box to 6.5.1. Works ok except no radio
streams connect nor do the RSS feeds work. I also upgraded my SB3's (4
off) to the latest release set Softsqueeze to v3.3.
My Linux box, which I use only as a back up, is still running 6.5.0 and
everything is still fine - even
I am having the same problem with my SB2 and slimserver 6.5.1
I am not able to start my squeezebox from the player or web interface.
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cumry;173294 Wrote:
Hi there,
I could not find a thread on this ...
I was wondering if anybody could help me. Yesterday I updated to
SS6.5.1 and updated my Squeezebox 3 as well, but now it does not seem
to be working :-( The squeezebox cuts out after between 5 seconds and 3
mins or so.
ceejay;173309 Wrote:
What version were you at previously?
I do believe it was actually 6.5. as I update evertyhing once it is
released.
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Greg Erskine;173241 Wrote:
hi ceejay,
Slightly OT. I recently bought a Topfield TF6000PVR which has wireless
networking. Works OK, but they could learn a few things from
Slimserver/Squeezebox.
Another option, I have heard people connecting PVRs USB to an
intermediate box (ICE box2??)
cumry;173313 Wrote:
I do believe it was actually 6.5. as I update evertyhing once it is
released.
ok, that eliminates a few possibilities...
Can you try it wired instead of wireless, just as an experiment?
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uninstalled, reinstalled it a THIRD time, must be a charm.. seems so far
to be fine.. weird...
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ceejay;173318 Wrote:
ok, that eliminates a few possibilities...
Can you try it wired instead of wireless, just as an experiment?
OK will try that but it will take me some time to set up. I will let
you know of the outcome. By the way, if it is important: the wireless
signal is between
servies;173285 Wrote:
That only shows that you really don't get it.
The AAE is (roughly seen) just a cable between your computers audio
outputs and your HIFI's inputs. It has no control over the iTunes
application, therefore I need the computer on which iTunes is running
to be within
Until last night, everything was working just fine. Now, several seconds
after I start playing any track, the sound distorts and breaks up
severely.
I'm guessing that the several seconds delay might be something to do
with a cache emptying somewhere, but why the sudden symptoms.
The bandwidth
brunodenis;173329 Wrote:
I am not a apple fan but I love the coverflow feature. I wish it could
be integrated into SS but repsonse times would be even slower.
Dito on the Apple fan part. You are not alone at thinking that the web
gui is awfully slow and not really that fancy looking. At the
If you are streaming WAV that's pretty much worst case for the wireless
network - perhaps you have a new source of interference nearby?
Try setting the server to allow it to send FLAC streams instead of WAV,
that's a little bit easier ... or a different wireless channel.
Ceejay
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bergek;173335 Wrote:
People want coverflow.
FWIW, use the Touch skin and select 1-by-1 Artwork from the main
page. This coverflow-like feature will be further enhanced in 7.0.
I doubt this will appease the why can't slimserver do things exactly
like I think it should crowd, but this is at
bklass,
Have you heard about harmony3 from thirteen23.com(.net3 coverflow
equivalent) ?
Do you think such kind of feature might be integrated into a skin or
plugin or whatever tweak to develop ?
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bergek;173335 Wrote:
I wish that SS would be more layered (i.e. core functions separated from
the web gui). To overcome the slowness of the web gui, I have been
thinking about making a very simple client application (or even a new
web application) to quickly be able to browse my collection
Hi ceejay,
I use XP 2 and
SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11206 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Server IP address: 192.168.0.1
Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-
I just tried to play MP3 and wav. ok for mp3 but for the .wav it plays
the first mp3 i read,
damned006;173352 Wrote:
I just tried to play MP3 and wav. ok for mp3 but for the .wav it plays
the first mp3 i read, strange !
Actually I just use ALAC files from itunes 6 and SB3 acts like it plays
something, there is no error but no sound...
try turning off your firewall on your server.
As well, thinking about iphone's abilities to drive itunes might be fun
and easy integration.
talking back about La Rosita (Apertura), I haven(t heard the product
yet but will report as soon as I have been able to compare.
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bergek wrote:
brunodenis;173329 Wrote:
I am not a apple fan but I love the coverflow feature. I wish it could
be integrated into SS but repsonse times would be even slower.
Dito on the Apple fan part. You are not alone at thinking that the web
gui is awfully slow and not really that
brunodenis;173349 Wrote:
bklass,
Have you heard about harmony3 from thirteen23.com(.net3 coverflow
equivalent) ?
Do you think such kind of feature might be integrated into a skin or
plugin or whatever tweak to develop ?
In short, no.
Just looked at it. Interesting, but it's basically a
Do not feel lonely:-)
I'm having the same problems as you guys. Freezing SB3 for approx
30sec.
My PC and my SB3 is connected to wireless but this have been ok for a
week now. (Just bought my SB3)
Suddenly this problem accured. Why?
It seems to happen more frequently when i'm browsing in large
snarlydwarf;173353 Wrote:
try turning off your firewall on your server.
(When you upgrade software, the firewall will not know that it is the
same program and will block it.)
I just did, exactly the same, radio ok, mp3 ok but no sound for my ALAC
files... i need music i think i'll go back
Still no Java? Man, I have Java on my RAZR phone!
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Thanks I found your reply and the other thread very interesting. I am
not sure that I am up to altering the code of AlienBBC to make this
work. However, your reply did give me an idea. I tried to listen to
an alienBBC feed on my laptop using softsqueeze and it works. So I
have a
bklaas;173356 Wrote:
In short, no.
Just looked at it. Interesting, but it's basically a coverflow
knock-off designed for use only in Windows Vista. That doesn't fit into
the slimserver architecture in any way that I can see.
They use Amazon's search API to auto-download cover art and
Zed Roeder wrote:
Peter;173280 Wrote:
Zed Roeder wrote:[color=blue]
Now you must edit the mythtv .lircrc file to tell mythtv what buttons
to
react to and what to do when they are pressed. Note that Lirc.pm only
forwards codes it recognizes. At the moment that means the slimdevices
sfraser wrote:
GenPatton;173190 Wrote:
Great!
Got all your suggestions.
As to running Vista, I would rather crawl on broken glass.
I will be running Win XP Pro or Win2k3.
Thanks again for all who replied and your kind help.
I decided on getting two gigs of ram just to be sure.
Yea
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bergek;173335 Wrote:
At the same time I am a firm believer in having a home server which is
on 24/7 and not requiring your desktop computer to be on just to play
some music.
Run that by me again?
You're a firm believer in having a home server which is on 24/7. Which
can be a desktop
I am not sure that I am being helpful here, but when I upgraded from
6.5.0, to 6.5.1, I found that the browser window would not open for me
either.
What turned out to be the problem was that the Norton personal
firewall that came installed on my computer was blocking internet
access for 6.5.1,
As i said, just moved back to 6.5.0 and it works, only radios are a bit
more difficult to get.
let me just say, as a SB3 lover, how pain in the ass is Slimserver. I
just can't understand how the official release can't just work properly
!! Is it really to much to ask ??
I'm very aware of all
So, I checked how slimservers creates it's own m3u, when calling long
media files with cue sheets. The songs in the cue are called with this
format:
Example:
Did you happen to check if the Server Settings|File Type default values
changed during the upgrade?
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albums? Seems that there would a problem Other than Slimserver to cause
that. I have 14,000 songs that Slimserver can access and it never has
a problem. The only slowness I ever see is when I initially browse my
music via
Skunk;173407 Wrote:
Did you happen to check if the Server Settings|File Type default values
changed during the upgrade?
Yes i checked this. No change around here
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ceejay;173315 Wrote:
Yes, it looks good, but AFAIK still some way from being available in a
UK DVB-T configuration, although I think this has been talked about for
months.
Ceejay
I have a Topfield TF5800 (dual tuner DVB-T PVR) and it's fantastic (see
http://www.toppy.org.uk/ for more
funkstar;173105 Wrote:
Do you have Lame installed and available to AlienBBC/Slimserver?
RadioIO is already in MP3 (at least i'm pretty sure it is) so
SlimServer just send that stream directly to the player. AlienBBC
transcodes the RealAudio streams with MPlayer to get them to play. By
brucegrr;173411 Wrote:
I think Nero is a good example. Their recent release has everything but
the kitchen sink (and it is in there somewhere I suspect)IMO the
program is bloated and the extras they have crammed into the program
are not as good as separate programs that can be bought
Regarding AlienBBC not working on non Squeezebox devices - in this case
N800 - this thread may help
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26315
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bklaas;173107 Wrote:
how about cutting the middleman and streaming BBC directly to the audio
player on the N800? Seems like that's the way to go here.
Thanks for the reply (and the 770 skin - great stuff)
The BBC stream in either Real or Windows media although some of the
archived shows are
I partitaly agree. but softawre companies must answer all the needs from
lots of different users. that's why they cover so much and some of us
want some, others want other. This leads to your swiss knife.
To some up only for my personnal case, pushing music from server
(itunes for its graphical
Mark Lanctot;173390 Wrote:
Run that by me again?
I must have misunderstood.
The home server is quite different from a desktop computer.
In my world a desktop computer at home is the computer most people
would see as the computer. I don't know about you but I have yet to
experience a
norman12;173423 Wrote:
Thanks for the reply (and the 770 skin - great stuff)
The BBC stream in either Real or Windows media although some of the
archived shows are mp3.
I may be wrong, but I don't think the N800 can handle these formats on
its own.
The N800 should be able to handle Real
bergek;173422 Wrote:
The home server is quite different from a desktop computer.
In my world a desktop computer at home is the computer most people
would see as the computer. I don't know about you but I have yet to
experience a desktop computer with a performance that I can live with
Hi,
I have exactly the same problem. The strange thing is that when I first
installed Vista and Slimserver, it worked ok for a bit.
Internet Explorer and FireFox just hang when I load slimserver...is
anyone else having trouble?? Sorry I have no resolution :(
Cheers
David
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Victor;173424 Wrote:
The N800 should be able to handle Real streams just fine
Victor, when I navigate to BBC6 and click the listen live (realplayer)
button a box comes stating that realplayer is not installed. I have
read that the N800 is supposed to handle real streams, but I can't get
it to
Ok, so the N800 can handle the real stream, just need to click stand
alone player!
Thanks to all who replied - a case of looking for problems where none
exist!
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I have the EXACT same problem with 6.5.1. My Itunes collection is made
up of 440GB of Apple Lossless files and no matter what I do, whether it
be a fresh XP install or existing, the SB2 acts like it will play but no
sound is made. 6.5 and lower work ok. I have disabled all firewalls that
I have
The media player on the N770 was a version of RealPlayer - and I guess
it is the same for N800.
I think you should also try to use the BBC's listen again facility
through the browser from the BBC web site. If that works then all
AlienBBC facilities are available natively on the N800.
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Found a piece of software from Disk Internals Research called Linux
Reader - free - seemed too good to be true!
http://www.diskinternals.com/
It mounted my disk on a Windows XP machine via USB, and reads every
file on it without any trouble. Just extracting all the data now.
This is a great
bpa;173435 Wrote:
The media player on the N770 was a version of RealPlayer - and I guess
it is the same for N800.
I think you should also try to use the BBC's listen again facility
through the browser from the BBC web site. If that works then all
AlienBBC facilities are available
Doing a quick google - it seems that there is no RealPlayer plugin for
the Opera on the N770.
I am not familiar with Opera but some browsers let you launch an
external player, if a plugin is not available. If this choice is not
offered - then you have a reason for using Slimserver/AlienBBC.
Not much new for me to add, but wanted to be another voice in the chorus
of people looking for a slick ui on the computer side. In an ideal
world iTunes would be able to actually drive the squeezebox since
millions of iPod users have made it the most widely accepted standard
out there (itunes
dSw;173414 Wrote:
I have a Topfield TF5800 (dual tuner DVB-T PVR) and it's fantastic (see
http://www.toppy.org.uk/ for more info). Not quite capable of running
Slimserver, but I do have a Mini-ITX Linux PC connected to it via a USB
cable and use my SB2 to bridge onto my wireless LAN. This
Bpa, yes, I had a google too - a good reason to stick with the
slimserver/alien setup. Using the 770 skin is also a little easier than
navigating the BBC website.
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In my slimserver settings,I noticed that LAME was not installed, so I
tried to download with no sucess. Do I really need LAME?
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Subject says it all...if I subscribe to di.fm premium streams is there a
way I can connect to them from my SB3?
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Today I upgraded from 6.2.1 to 6.5.1 and I'm having no problems playing
my music. It's 90% ALAC and 10% AAC. Most of the ALAC was ripped with
iTunes, some was ripped vinyl converted from WAV to ALAC with
dBpowerAMP. I'm using XP SP2.
What processes do you see running when your music is playing
If you transcode you do.
Did you follow the instructions in
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?LAMEForTranscoding?
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Lame is needed if you need to convert a stream into MP3. The main cases
are
1. Destination device is a SliMP3 or possibly SB1
2. Want to use bit rate limiting (e.g. connecting an SB to Slimserver
over internet)
3. Want to send a Slimserver stream to a non Squeezebox device device
(e.g. PDA)
bpa;173473 Wrote:
Lame is needed if you need to convert a stream into MP3. The main cases
are
1. Destination device is a SliMP3 or possibly SB1
2. Want to use bit rate limiting (e.g. connecting an SB to Slimserver
over internet)
3. Want to send a Slimserver stream to a non Squeezebox
Pale Blue Ego;172477 Wrote:
DRM is a useless battle. If you can hear it, you can record it.
But that doesn't matter to these CongressCrooks. They're used to
passing stupid and ineffective legislation. They don't care, they are
happy to rubber-stamp anything Hollywood hands them, as
There is certainly *a* way. Whether it suits you, or whether there are
better ways, I don't know.
There are programs that will take the sound going through your computer
and broadcast it as a stream that the SB can pick up.
Not knowing your OS, I can't give more detail.
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from their site, it seems that one of the formats is plain old mp3
delivered via HTTP basic authentication.
That should work fine.
(They list xmms as a supported player, so no DRM.)
Try their $2 day pass thing and see if it works.
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It seems that the LAME file is password protected. Now what?
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snarlydwarf;173491 Wrote:
from their site, it seems that one of the formats is plain old mp3
delivered via HTTP basic authentication.
Right - but how would I set that up? I've spent almost no time playing
with Slimserver so would it be setting up in there or via the Squeezebox
directly?
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an unfortunate way to learn about the vulnerability of RAID.
my two cents: I'm a television editor and the use of raids for storing
and quickly accessing massive amounts of video/audio media is
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I've ever worked for has gone
Use either the Tune in URL from the web interface and enter the proper
URL (which should be something like:
http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/whatever .. thats basic HTTP
authentication). You can also add those stations to your Favorites
from the player itself (pressing the right arrow).
You
Meatwad650;173494 Wrote:
Right - but how would I set that up? I've spent almost no time playing
with Slimserver so would it be setting up in there or via the
Squeezebox directly?
I use my di.fm premium all the time. There is nothing to setup.
There are 2 ways to do this:
1: right-click
I'm telling SlimServer to use iTunes instead of scanning the library
manually...I'll try bookmarking it in my iTunes library and if that
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