Re: [slim] Re: Squeezebox no longer startup automatically

2007-01-24 Thread Michael Herger
That sure would fix some things. However, it also then requires to resetup your network etc which is pain to have to do everytime an update happens to SlimServer. Did you try it? Did it help? -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/S

Re: [slim] Nintendo Wii + Slimserver?

2007-01-24 Thread Michael Herger
I thought maybe if there was a way to develope a new slimserver theme with an embedded flash player that maybe that would work but I'm not sure. Or would it take some sort of special web portal? A search in the forum showed up this: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31252&highlight

Re: [slim] Re: Combining Slimserver and PVR?

2007-01-24 Thread Peter
ceejay wrote: Yes, I have looked at that - my problem would be that I really don't want any kind of PC in the place where the PVR is. It looks like the 6000 would do the job, if only they'd make a suitable UK version... That's the whole point of the Lirc module. You don't want a PC in the p

[slim] Re: Combining Slimserver and PVR?

2007-01-24 Thread dSw
ceejay;173455 Wrote: > Yes, I have looked at that - my problem would be that I really don't > want any kind of PC in the place where the PVR is. It looks like the > 6000 would do the job, if only they'd make a suitable UK version... > > Ceejay If its just a network connection that you're after

Re: [slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation

2007-01-24 Thread Peter
mustbemad wrote: 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.

Re: [slim] Re: "Powered offf" screen saver suddenly stopped working

2007-01-24 Thread Peter
lemmy999 wrote: azinck3;173574 Wrote: Try pressing the "brightness" button...:) I feel like an idiot..thanks! Don't worry, we all felt like idiots... ;) This happens a lot and if something like this goes wrong so often it's time to consider the possibility that the software

[slim] IRBlaster plugin acess from CLI

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Agar
Does anyone know of a way I could control the irblaster from the console on the machine slimserver is running on? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Old versions of Slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread jonf
How do I get hold of old versions of slimserver? I upgraded to 6.5.1 and can not get the web front end to load at all. Switched off firewall and everything else on here to do but no joy so want to uninstall and go back. I hear the 'best' version is 6.3.1 - is that correct? -- jonf -

[slim] Re: Combining Slimserver and PVR?

2007-01-24 Thread ceejay
Thanks for the comments. Wiring a PC to the place where the TV/SB/PVR are isn't feasible, unfortunately. But I do have a wireless LAN going to the SB (actually a TP). Hence the 6000 seeming exactly what I need. There are three things stopping me doing the 5800/NSLU2 thing: 1 - I'd have to fin

Re: [slim] Old versions of Slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Michael Herger
How do I get hold of old versions of slimserver? http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/ I upgraded to 6.5.1 and can not get the web front end to load at all. Switched off firewall and everything else on here to do but no joy so want to uninstall and go back. I hear the 'best' version is 6.3.1 -

Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: bergek wrote: > brunodenis;173329 Wrote: That would be a great idea. We already have Moose and SlimRemote, but they're hardly full featured or easy to use/install. Hint: Have a look at http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php guys. It's not that hard to

[slim] Re: Remote Streaming Restriction

2007-01-24 Thread Siduhe
RalphO;173370 Wrote: > One idea I was looking to explore was some of Radio 5 live feeds. You > see I am a Brit living in the US. Premiership football matches are > only available on the Radio 5 web site for UK listeners. I had the > idea that if I could get my brother (in the UK) to install S

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread AudioFrog
Unfortunately when I attempt to run slim.exe from a CMD prompt, it just sits there with no text output in the command window. When I attempt to use the Slim Tray, the Icon just flashes as if it was trying to start but never does. When I break out of slim.exe with a CTRL-C, it returns something to

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread brunodenis
Dr Lovegrove, In my previous posts, I was talking about integrating harmony3 like features to Moose, not the automatic download. Moose has access to SS or the folder's structure if I remember well, it could therefore generate another display mode using the Harmony3 DLLs (if we could get the sourc

[slim] Re: Slimserver, Shoutcast and Winamp

2007-01-24 Thread Scardeville
I've had much the same problem over the past few months since version 6.5. I mostly listen to CBC Radio 2 in the morning. I've chased the stream around in various forms including the http: link from CBC Radio's links page and the mms:// link. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I had this

[slim] Re: Remote Streaming Restriction

2007-01-24 Thread bpa
I think it might work if you can use a RealAudio connection to 5Live or if you force slimserver to the transcode the 5Live WMA stream to say a lower bit rate - the connection will be made from where the slimserver is connected to the network - so if the slimserver is based in the UK the connectio

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread servies
brunodenis;173421 Wrote: > 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. No, IMHO they must not and they should not. This mostly resul

Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 24/01/07, brunodenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my previous posts, I was talking about integrating harmony3 like features to Moose, not the automatic download. Moose has access to SS or the folder's structure if I remember well, it could therefore generate another display mode using the Ha

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread brunodenis
servies;173635 Wrote: > No, IMHO they must not and they should not. This mostly results in an > application which does its several jobs in a very mediocre way, in > stead of its one job superb... > Par example IMHO iTunes doesn't even get near the quality of EAC > considering CD ripping..., > >

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread AudioFrog
Oops, maybe instead of trying to use the web interface to play a song for debugging sakes I was supposed to use the squeezebox via remote. I'll try that when I get home for lunch. -- AudioFrog AudioFrog's Profile: http://f

Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Peter
servies wrote: I don't know. I'm not sure if there's enough memory in the squeezebox to be able to fully implement the iTunes protocol next to the slimserver protocol, and then there are still the license issues... and the problem of a protocol over which you have absolutely no control. Tha

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread servies
brunodenis;173650 Wrote: > Again, you misunderstand me. I am not saying that software companies > HAVE TO do that swiss knife but they are trying in order to satisfy > users (average joes who may be reluctant to install multiple soft on > their machine and who do not spent lots of time on forums

Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Michael Herger
That's why a sound device driver that talks directly to the squeezebox could be a better option. It can't be that hard to write a device driver that streams audio to a squeezebox, but it would be a nice extra to have. We all know everything is really easy, if you know it. But unfortunately nob

Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Marc Sherman
Peter wrote: That's why a sound device driver that talks directly to the squeezebox could be a better option. It can't be that hard to write a device driver that streams audio to a squeezebox, but it would be a nice extra to have. The slim protocol is documented on the wiki. Go right ahead!

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread brunodenis
servies;173659 Wrote: > Ah, probably the misunderstanding is caused by both being not native > English speakers, I was under the impression you were in favour of > this... > > Let me assure you that there can be a major difference in the resulting > rip by the different CD ripping programs. The

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread oreillymj
When you start slim.exe from a DOS prompt, you need to go back into the WEB UI and re-enable the d_source debugging option. Then try play an ALAC file from an SB2/3 The debug info will appear in the console window. BTW - Andy updated the Alac binary to fix a bug but only added it to 7.0a If y

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Siduhe
brunodenis;173666 Wrote: > As far as itunes does not comply with flac, as far as SS can use itunes > library but cannot rip CDs. Your advise would then to rip CDs with EAC > in maniac mode and then encode them in apple lossless so that > soundfiles are compliant with both. I'm not quite sure if

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread jeffmeh
brunodenis;173666 Wrote: > Is there a huge difference between Applelossless, flac or any other > lossless codec ? This one has been discussed before. 1) Lossless is lossless, so the bits are the same when they are decompressed. 2) They can differ in terms of how much compression they achieve,

Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Peter
Marc Sherman wrote: Peter wrote: That's why a sound device driver that talks directly to the squeezebox could be a better option. It can't be that hard to write a device driver that streams audio to a squeezebox, but it would be a nice extra to have. The slim protocol is documented on the

[slim] Re: Can't play WMA after upgrade to 6.5.1

2007-01-24 Thread colin_young
If you look at my original post, you'll see that I was able to play these files with the previous version of the server software (and in any case at least one of the problem files is WMA7). Since there has been no interest or likely solutions, my next step is to uninstall everything slim related

[slim] Re: Slimserver, Shoutcast and Winamp

2007-01-24 Thread andyg
Since you said it works for you on SqueezeNetwork, it's probably just a file type problem in SlimServer. Make sure you have "Windows Media -> Windows Media (built-in)" checked under Server Settings -> File Types. Don't check any other Windows Media boxes. -- andyg

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread AudioFrog
Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try in about 1 hour and report back. Ed -- AudioFrog AudioFrog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9568 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread SteveEast
You can also start the server with the debugging options by typing: "c:\program files\slimserver\server\slim.exe" --d_source --d_paths Steve. -- SteveEast SteveEast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?use

[slim] Re: IRBlaster plugin acess from CLI

2007-01-24 Thread 4mula1
See this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31665&page=2 -- 4mula1 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?

[slim] Re: Compilation albums - problem

2007-01-24 Thread jimwillsher
Same problem for me, still not fixed in 6.5.1. I've just filed another Slim bug (4708). It's probably a duplicate, but this bug has been present for so long now that duplication is inevitable. Jim -- jimwillsher jimwills

[slim] Re: "Powered offf" screen saver suddenly stopped working

2007-01-24 Thread snarlydwarf
Peter;173601 Wrote: > > This happens a lot and if something like this goes wrong so often it's > > time to consider the possibility that the software usability design is > > at fault. I'm sure the SD support desk gets a lot of calls because of > the brightness button. How about a nice and bri

[slim] Re: squeezbox on a Mac

2007-01-24 Thread MelonMonkey
Read the countless threads in the forum and you will come to the conclusion that running Slimserver under Mac OS will in all instances provide you with a much better experience than running it in a Windows environment. I know not of a single headache caused by the fact it's a Mac OS installation,

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread AudioFrog
Here is the output just starting slim.exe: C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server>slim.exe --d_source --d_paths 2007-01-24 11:27:01.3906 Checking for mDNSResponderPosix.exe in C:\Program Files \SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\mDNSResponderPosix.exe 2007-01-24 11:27:01.3909 Checking for

[slim] Re: FF very rough

2007-01-24 Thread MelonMonkey
Using one button for Fast Forward and Next track is pretty common in an audio player. Nothing wrong with that. What complicates matters is that holding the button does not do a standard fast forward (one that forwards at a specific rate while holding and starts normal playback once released). I

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread AudioFrog
and here is some of the very long output when trying to play a song: 2007-01-24 11:29:33.3442 00:02:08:00:00:01 New play mode: playout-play 2007-01-24 11:29:33.3449 00:02:08:00:00:01: Current playmode: playout-play 2007-01-24 11:29:33.3450 No pending chunks - we're dropping the streaming connec t

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread AudioFrog
There was a lot more debugging output but I was only allowed 1000 characters for the posting. -- AudioFrog AudioFrog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9568 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevic

Re: [slim] Re: FF very rough

2007-01-24 Thread kdf
On 24-Jan-07, at 8:34 AM, MelonMonkey wrote: What complicates matters is that holding the button does not do a standard fast forward (one that forwards at a specific rate while holding and starts normal playback once released). please feel free to line up the sample set and prove "standard".

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread kdf
you generally don't need to post more than that. it seems that the transcoders are no longer dumping any info, or arent the problem after all. There is an open bug report that seems to indicate a problem with command length in windows. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4705 there is

[slim] Re: squeezbox on a Mac

2007-01-24 Thread Eric Seaberg
Thesil, I have SS running exclusively on a Mac MINI 1.83GHz Core Duo. I don't want to waste bandwidth here going into how easy it was to setup and keep running, so if you want to email me offline, I'd be happy to help in anyway I can. -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg - San Diego [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[slim] Re: Sean "Please" -SlimServer & Salling Clicker 3.0

2007-01-24 Thread donmesserli
I did get some progress done on this and then life got hectic as it usually does. Unfortunately, I have accepted a new job at a company where this would be a conflict of interest. I will no longer be working on this. Sorry. Don -- donmesserli

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread SteveEast
I suppose you could try some experiments to shorten the total command length. One would be to create a small test music folder somewhat closer to the root of your disk. Another would be streaming as WAV which would avoid the flac command. Steve. -- SteveEast ---

[slim] Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread thesil
Well I finally downloaded LAME, and I have two questions. First, What quality level should I choose, and what bitrate level. Thanks everyone for all your help, I am a little new at this -- thesil thesil's Profile: http://f

[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND

2007-01-24 Thread AudioFrog
Thank you for all your help. Sorry this is an existing issue and that you had to re-diagnose the problem. This has been baffling me for awhile now and it appears that 7.0 has the same bug (I tried it before posting my issue then went back to 6.5.1). I will sign up for that bug tracker notification

[slim] Re: Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread snarlydwarf
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME is a reasonable start. (Though they should have boldfaced that "archiving" with mp3 is silly.) -V0 --vbr-new is probably what you want. You may be able to survive with -V1 or -V2 as well, depending on your hearing, but the disk space isnt that

[slim] Re: Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread JJZolx
thesil;173745 Wrote: > Well I finally downloaded LAME, and I have two questions. First, What > quality level should I choose, and what bitrate level. Thanks everyone > for all your help, I am a little new at this Quality level - I'd definitely increase it from the default 9, but it will increase

[slim] Re: squeezbox on a Mac

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin O. Lepard
Thesil, I have SS running exclusively on a Mac MINI 1.83GHz Core Duo. I'm doing the same on a comparatively ancient 700 MHz G3 iMac. Works great. Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists

[slim] Re: Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread thesil
I am sorry, but I don't understand, please bear with me. I have already downloaded Lame, you gave me another website for downloading. I just need to know what bitrate level anf what quality level to set my player at. Thanks in advance -- thesil --

[slim] Wired SB3 no longer offered?

2007-01-24 Thread jmpage2
I was just going to order a new SB3 for my family room and noticed that the wired version is no longer offered? I have wired cat5 to every room in my house on a switched network, and I really, really don't want to have to spend an extra $50 on something I will never use (that's beer and nachos mo

[slim] Re: Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread JJZolx
snarlydwarf;173749 Wrote: > http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME is a reasonable > start. (Though they should have boldfaced that "archiving" with mp3 is > silly.) > > -V0 --vbr-new is probably what you want. You may be able to survive > with -V1 or -V2 as well, depending on your

[slim] Re: Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread snarlydwarf
thesil;173751 Wrote: > I am sorry, but I don't understand, please bear with me. I have already > downloaded Lame, you gave me another website for downloading. I just > need to know what bitrate level anf what quality level to set my player > at. Thanks in advance That isnt a site for downloading

[slim] Re: Wired SB3 no longer offered?

2007-01-24 Thread widman
Agreed. I recently bought a wired model and was hoping to get a second wired Squeezebox this year. pete -- widman widman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8695 View this thread: http://forums.s

[slim] Re: Wired SB3 no longer offered?

2007-01-24 Thread Skunk
I would like to add: Please? -- Skunk Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32039 __

[slim] Re: Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread snarlydwarf
JJZolx;173757 Wrote: > He's talking about the two settings available in SlimServer's player > settings > audio. SlimServer uses ABR, so the -V settings don't apply. Yeah, I see that ... sort of.. But he originally wrote in http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32010 that he didnt know

[slim] Re: Nokia N800

2007-01-24 Thread mrchrispy
CNet posted a great review of the Nokia 800: 7.7 out of 10 and called it the ultimate WiFi tablet. Review here: http://reviews.cnet.com/Nokia_N800_Internet_Tablet/4505-3126_7-32309517.html?tag=cnetfd.mt -- mrchrispy mrch

[slim] Re: squeezbox on a Mac

2007-01-24 Thread Rick B .
Mark Lanctot;172430 Wrote: > > The main question is, why do you want to do this? :-) In my case - My son has a Windows laptop and his wife has a Mac laptop. We were firstly going to set up only my son's laptop to access all music on both computers. His wife asked "What happens if he takes his

[slim] Re: squeezbox on a Mac

2007-01-24 Thread Mark Lanctot
Rick B.;173766 Wrote: > In my case - My son has a Windows laptop and his wife has a Mac laptop. > We were firstly going to set up only my son's laptop to access all > music on both computers. His wife asked "What happens if he takes his > laptop out of the house? Hmm > > We instead installed

[slim] Re: squeezbox on a Mac

2007-01-24 Thread thesil
Thanks guys for all your help and advice. I am currently in the process of converting to Mac from PC and it is a little confusing. I have downloaded SL to my Mac but haven't played it yet as I was having some trouble with the LAME file on my PC. If you read my other posts, you will understand. Tha

[slim] Mulitple directory capabilities for Music folder

2007-01-24 Thread sfraser
Hey guy's I am not sure how difficult this would be to implement, but with all the questions/answers in regards to implementing shortcuts, correct permissions etc. for the Slimserver Music directory, how difficult would it be to implement a feature where the user would be able to specify multiple

[slim] Re: Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread thesil
Hi guys, I will only be streaming at home. The only reason I got involved with LAME is that I noticed in my settings that it was not there. So, first I had trouble downloading, then when I did I was not sure what settings to use. I am not much of a "tekkie", so I don't know too much about encodin

[slim] Re: Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread snarlydwarf
You only need it if you transcode to mp3. This is useful for things like listening to music at work (which will take other setup as well and may or may not be doable depending on firewalls at work...) where you really don't want to be streaming 800kbps FLACs and using a lot of bandwidth for radio

[slim] Re: Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread JJZolx
thesil;173771 Wrote: > Hi guys, I will only be streaming at home. The only reason I got > involved with LAME is that I noticed in my settings that it was not > there. So, first I had trouble downloading, then when I did I was not > sure what settings to use. I am not much of a "tekkie", so I don

Re: [slim] Mulitple directory capabilities for Music folder

2007-01-24 Thread kdf
Quoting sfraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hey guy's I am not sure how difficult this would be to implement, but with all the questions/answers in regards to implementing shortcuts, correct permissions etc. for the Slimserver Music directory, how difficult would it be to implement a feature where th

[slim] Re: Mulitple directory capabilities for Music folder

2007-01-24 Thread Fletch
You might want to try this new plugin: http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-multilibrary -- Fletch Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: ht

[slim] Re: Mulitple directory capabilities for Music folder

2007-01-24 Thread JJZolx
sfraser;173772 Wrote: > Hey guy's I am not sure how difficult this would be to implement, but > with all the questions/answers in regards to implementing shortcuts, > correct permissions etc. for the Slimserver Music directory, how > difficult would it be to implement a feature where the user wo

[slim] Re: Another LAME question

2007-01-24 Thread thesil
Great! thanks, Jim -- thesil thesil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9197 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32038 ___ di

[slim] Re: Mulitple directory capabilities for Music folder

2007-01-24 Thread sfraser
kdf;173780 Wrote: > Quoting sfraser forums.slimdevices.com>: > > > > > Hey guy's I am not sure how difficult this would be to implement, > but > > with all the questions/answers in regards to implementing > shortcuts, > > correct permissions etc. for the Slimserver Music directory, how > > dif

[slim] Re: Wired SB3 no longer offered?

2007-01-24 Thread loran
All the squeezeboxes still have the option for ethernet via rj45. What has changed is that a wired only version is not available. That causes those of us that hardwire everything have to pay the extra $50 for the wireless function that we will not use. On the other hand, the function is there i

[slim] Re: Mulitple directory capabilities for Music folder

2007-01-24 Thread kdf
JJZolx;173781 Wrote: > Much less so for the typical Windows user. Does Microsoft know how hard their drag n drop concept is for people? I feel kinda stupid knowing that I have to re-read the help every time I want to create a link on my slimserver machine. -kdf -- kdf --

[slim] Re: Mulitple directory capabilities for Music folder

2007-01-24 Thread JJZolx
sfraser;173789 Wrote: > It's funny, i have had issues where slimserver is using the same account > (service account) as I am logged in with, all folder shortcuts reside on > a the same platform (multiple drives however). Slimerver cannot access > some shortcuts, yet I can bounce around with file

[slim] Re: Mulitple directory capabilities for Music folder

2007-01-24 Thread kdf
sfraser;173789 Wrote: > That never made any sense to me, the SS should have same access rights > as the account it uses to initiate itself? yes, it should. This can depend on whether the server is initiated as a system service (default), as a user service or manually by the user. *nix is a bit

[slim] Re: Can't play WMA after upgrade to 6.5.1

2007-01-24 Thread oreillymj
It's likely you've gone from a version of Slimserver where WMA files had to be transcoded to a format supported by hardware/Softsqueeze to the current version where WMA files can be decoded natively by the Squeezebox hardware. Unfortunately the Softsqueeze app still does not support native playba

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread morberg
Peter;173227 Wrote: > I suppose it wouldn't be a very difficult task to create SB3 firmware > that behaves as an airport express, so why don't you get some others to > > join you and write it? I'm guessing it would be rather difficult 'considering the FW is closed source' (http://forums.slimdev

Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Peter
morberg wrote: Peter;173227 Wrote: I suppose it wouldn't be a very difficult task to create SB3 firmware that behaves as an airport express, so why don't you get some others to join you and write it? I'm guessing it would be rather difficult 'considering the FW is closed source' (http

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread bpa
The iTunes protocol is proprietary and needs to be licensed from Apple. Roku got a licence for the own branded devices but when Pinnacle started selling their version of Roku products, Apple refused Pinnacle a licence. So Roku had to adopt a server mt-daapd and then developed a proprietary protoc

[slim] Re: Slimserver, Shoutcast and Winamp

2007-01-24 Thread MrSinatra
i was thinking along those lines for him too andy, i'll be curious to see his reply... however, assuming that ISN'T it, i would ask how long did you try the SN? my results were that sometimes SN would last a bit longer than the local SS/SB setup. sometimes worse. very random. also, have you t

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread MrSinatra
is there a reason why we can't have both? why can't there be a virtual device driver to power the SB so that any app on your computer could power it? it would really be great for those of us who find the SD way annoying to frustrating to awful. not to mention a great workaround for the technica

[slim] Re: Is firmware open source?

2007-01-24 Thread funkstar
mswlogo;171298 Wrote: > Is the firmware open source or just SlimServer. Just SlimServer. I think part of the problem is that the development environment for the Ubicom processor is $20k or something like that. There was a project page on seanadams.com that spoke about this at one time. -- funk

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread snarlydwarf
MrSinatra;173824 Wrote: > is there a reason why we can't have both? > > why can't there be a virtual device driver to power the SB so that any > app on your computer could power it? No reason at all you can't. All you would need is a shoutcast server that acted as a VXD on Windows. The only p

[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!

2007-01-24 Thread Balthazar_B
mrchrispy;173454 Wrote: > 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 accept

[slim] Re: Slimserver, Shoutcast and Winamp

2007-01-24 Thread bflatmajor
I used to have a similar problem, Some shoutcast streams would work and some wouldn't Some shoutcast streams would work and then low and behold it would stop working. what I noticed was that my network was dropping packets between my pc and sb 2. Btw, it's a wireless connection from pc to sb2 .

[slim] Hash (#) signs in music library directory names

2007-01-24 Thread 2eleven
Hi Folks, I came accross this when I upgraded from 6.2.2 to 6.5.1 recently. I'm wondering if anyone has filed a bug, and if not, what the proper way to go about filing one is. If you have a '#' in a directory name within your library (like Big Star "#1 Record" or "Reggae Compilation #3") slimse

[slim] Re: Slimserver, Shoutcast and Winamp

2007-01-24 Thread MrSinatra
my MTU is 1492, whats yours? (btw, some people in here are wired with the problem, fyi) -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.1 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram MrSinatra's Profile: htt

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread MrSinatra
forgive me for being thick, but how does one take the massive SS pgm and make it into a vxd? i thought someone would have to write a vxd based on portions of the SS source code, to make a far smaller file. if its as easy as you make it sound, i think a lot of cranks (like me) on here may find ni

[slim] Re: Hash (#) signs in music library directory names

2007-01-24 Thread ceejay
go to buzilla at bugs.slimdevices.com - you'll need to create an ID for yourself to create the bug report, though you can search first without an ID. Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member

Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Marc Sherman
MrSinatra wrote: forgive me for being thick, but how does one take the massive SS pgm and make it into a vxd? i thought someone would have to write a vxd based on portions of the SS source code, to make a far smaller file. You would write a vxd that communicated directly with the squeezebox u

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread snarlydwarf
MrSinatra;173840 Wrote: > forgive me for being thick, but how does one take the massive SS pgm and > make it into a vxd? i thought someone would have to write a vxd based > on portions of the SS source code, to make a far smaller file. No reason to: just a VXD that appears to Windows applicatio

[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!

2007-01-24 Thread Pale Blue Ego
mrchrispy;173454 Wrote: > Related to the above point I'd like to see some way to initiate a > limited rescan on specific items. For instance if I've just corrected > a tag in some way I'd like to ask Slimserver to rescan that album > rather than just generically telling it to look for new and ch

Re: [slim] Re: Hash (#) signs in music library directory names

2007-01-24 Thread kdf
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4652 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Hash (#) signs in music library directory names

2007-01-24 Thread 2eleven
Thanks - done. John -- 2eleven 2eleven's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32043 __

[slim] Re: Hash (#) signs in music library directory names

2007-01-24 Thread ulvi
> If you have a '#' in a directory name within your library > (like Big Star "#1 Record" or "Reggae Compilation #3") > slimserver >= 6.5.0 pukes when attempting to play a song from > that directory. Filenames are ok with the '#' - "Funk #49", > for example, plays fine. I have lots of directories

[slim] Re: Hash (#) signs in music library directory names

2007-01-24 Thread 2eleven
Doh! I guess I can dup the bug I just filed... -- 2eleven 2eleven's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32043

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread bpa
IIRC last year somebody added a soundcard to their PC and looped a cable from speaker out into the "line in" and then created an MP3 stream from the "line-in". The MP3 was then fed to slimserver using something like Shoutcast. This can be done today with no s/w development and small h/w costs.

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread snarlydwarf
bpa;173857 Wrote: > IIRC last year somebody added a soundcard to their PC and looped a cable > from speaker out into the "line in" and then created an MP3 stream from > the "line-in". The MP3 was then fed to slimserver using something like > Shoutcast. > > This can be done today with no s/w dev

[slim] Re: Hash (#) signs in music library directory names

2007-01-24 Thread 2eleven
Interesting Ulvi - my files are all flac. I wonder if that's part of the formula. I'd love to find a workaround if I can. For me, it's consistently reproducible in 6.5.0 & 6.5.1. Further, 6.3.1 and 6.2.2 both work fine. Seems this might have come in with the mysql stuff, but perhaps it doesn't af

[slim] Re: Can't play WMA after upgrade to 6.5.1

2007-01-24 Thread colin_young
Unfortunately no. You'll note from my original post that I've already tried that. I'm uninstalling now and then I'll manually search for any leftovers to see if that fixes things up. -- colin_young colin_young's Profile: h

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