Re: [slim] Newbie Squeezebox 3 owner track selection problem

bearuk;179523 Wrote: > I am a new squeezebox 3 owner and have a strange problem. Can anyone > help? > > I have dumped a lot of music in my 'music' folder, along with some > subfolder for particular artists or file types (such as wav > collections). Ouch. That may do for now, but long term it w

Re: [slim] Trouble w/Music Folder on MAC

It should be in this form: /Volumes/"Your_HD_Name"/"Your_Music_Folder"/ -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=3264

Re: [slim] Scanners for scanning in LP covers?

Alternatively, scan in two overlapping pieces and use a photo stitching feature (used to create panoramic pictures from multiple photos) to make one picture. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?u

Re: [slim] Slimserver won't start automatically

Eserim >>> Is this a new issue? Assuming you have antivirus software running try setting it to ignore .myi and .myd files. Otherwise, I can't guess what's going on here, I'm afraid. If no-one else comes up with a useful idea, I'd suggest e-mailing Slim Devices support about this. -- Diana -

Re: [slim] Use Squeezebox to control iTunes

[EMAIL PROTECTED];179492 Wrote: > I have used slimserver for some time and have a few squeezeboxes around > the house. I also have iTunes connected to airport express that links > into the same whole house audio system as the PC running slimserver. I > have found that I use iTunes to play music m

[slim] How to remove specific tracks?

Is it possible to remove tracks from the library without doing a rescan? I run Slimserver 6.5.1 under Windows XP and OS X. Thanks. -- downtime downtime's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3463 View

Re: [slim] How to remove specific tracks?

> Is it possible to remove tracks from the library without doing a rescan? No. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR _

Re: [slim] Poll: What is your library size and hardware

MrSinatra;178460 Wrote: > ...so, close on the albums, and pretty close on the songs, but wild > differences on the artists, same dir of files. maybe it counts "album > artist" or something, i don't know. I've wondered whether this is due to a 'type' vs 'token' distinction. Is the home page cou

Re: [slim] I wish double-disc albums were handled differently....

Marc Sherman;179404 Wrote: > There are some cases where the 2 CD split is part of the artistic > package. For example, Kate Bush's Aerial is practically two completely > > different albums that happen to have been sold together in a single > package. Another example is The Soft Boys' Underwate

Re: [slim] Use Squeezebox to control iTunes

I guess you could sync a SB with SoftSqueeze and then control using the (muted) SB3 while the sound plays on your computer, but SoftSqueeze is less reliable than a SB3 (in my experience). I'm with the knee doctor - troubleshoot your SBs. I think most people get them to work well. It's certainly

Re: [slim] Use Squeezebox to control iTunes

adamslim wrote: > I guess you could sync a SB with SoftSqueeze and then control using the > (muted) SB3 while the sound plays on your computer, but SoftSqueeze is > less reliable than a SB3 (in my experience). > Better: Control SoftSqueeze from the SB with the excellent ShadowPlay plugin. > I

Re: [slim] Wireless bridge question

Ramage;179405 Wrote: > My test setup worked OK; however I was using SS v6.3.1 and SB3 FW > version 55. > > I tried the same setup today but with SS 5.6.2 FW 72 and the wireless > bridge did not work. Looks like the FW update may have broken it. Tested my setup today after downgrading the SB t

Re: [slim] Wireless bridge question

Leaving my wireless bridge set-up in place, I upgraded the SB3 to FW 72. On restart, the bridge worked as expected. BTW upgrading to FW72 does not require the connection to be set up from scratch, so that the bridge settings were left in place from FW55. The problem seems to be that FW72 does n

Re: [slim] Wireless bridge question

Thanks Ramage, If I get a chance later today I will try to revert to fw v55 to see if it works. -- bludragon bludragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1530 View this thread: http://forums.slimdev

Re: [slim] wrong order

ceejay;179531 Wrote: > That will be because you were Browsing Music Folder, not Browsing > Albums. > > In BMF SS pays no attention to tags but just looks at the file names > and shows them in alphabetical order. > > Two solutions: > > (1) Browse Albums instead of Browse Music Folder > > (2) R

Re: [slim] Gapless playback not working?

Today downloaded the newest test version of slimserver (6.5.2 - 11395 - Debian - NL - utf8) but sticked to firmware 72. I wonder at what term I can test the new changes... The files (among many others) that cause problems are attached. There is a noticable hick-up/stutter in the applause of the

[slim] Wireless Signal Strength

Recently I heard about some high definition downloads on the audiophile forum. The music can be found at: http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/...TS&Category=14 When I tried to play these downloads I suffered from intermitent break up of the music. This surprised ne as I had not had any issues b

Re: [slim] Slimserver won't start automatically

it is intermittant, sometimes it works, whilst other times it fails. I think it is getting confused that slimtray is run on login on !All users", but tries to make user specific changes maybe :-D -- Eserim Eserim's Prof

Re: [slim] wrong order

If you're not using MBF then SS will look at the tags. If you're not getting the order you expect then look closely at the tags. As you have mp3s, do you perhaps have multiple tag types in your files? Ceejay -- ceejay ce

Re: [slim] Poll: What is your library size and hardware

Slimserver 6.5.1 says "Your music library contains 1323 albums with 15128 songs by 2577 artists" iTunes 7.0.2 says 15235 songs. (? not sure why the difference, Slimserver just rescanned my library last night, so... maybe 'unchecked' items in iTunes?) most ripped from my CD collection as Apple

[slim] volume scale issue

using 6.5.1 i discovered a strange problem with the volume on the sb. i used to be able to increase the volume in increments of 1 - now it goes mute,2,5,7,9...sometimes steps of 2 and sometimes steps of 3. it still *sounds* like it's scaling in ones, but the screen doesn't show this. did i change s

Re: [slim] Poll: What is your library size and hardware

4606 Songs ~80 GB Computer (own build): C2D E6700 @ 3.4 Asus P5W DH Deluxe 4GB Corsair XMS2 eVGA 8800GTX 150GB WD Raptor (OS drive) 500GB WD5000KS (Data drive) Scythe Infinity heat-sink Antec P180B case Seasonic S-12 500 -- CFP Squeezebox 3 digital out > Panasonic SA-XR57 > Energy Veritas 2.

Re: [slim] Poll: What is your library size and hardware

1586 albums with 15850 songs by 1158 artists owner build usb 2.0 250 gig my book (using 171 gb currently) AMD athlon 64 x2 dual core 3800+ 1 GB of 2 ghz RAM 50 gb internal drive DVD Dual layer dvd burner 20" samsung lcd -- brunoflipper --

Re: [slim] wrong order

ceejay;179658 Wrote: > If you're not using MBF then SS will look at the tags. If you're not > getting the order you expect then look closely at the tags. As you have > mp3s, do you perhaps have multiple tag types in your files? > > Ceejay the tags in the files are all correct and they are all

Re: [slim] wrong order

Checked setting of Shuffle? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32635 ___

Re: [slim] Scanners for scanning in LP covers?

Ron Olsen;179578 Wrote: > Why not take a photo of the album cover with a digital camera? > > Here's an LP cover shot I took with my Canon SD550, macro mode, no > flash. > That looks really good actually. No dust/scratches filter needed either! I recommended a homemade copy stand before, but

Re: [slim] Alienbbc stops after about 6 minutes

OK - I've built a number of versions of mplayer 1.0rc1 (the version after 1.0pre8) for Windows. It's possible that the 1.0rc1 release has fixed the processor issues so that is why I have included a reference version. They all work on Pentium 4 on REal, AACPlus, WMA and MP3 streams. The problem

Re: [slim] Alienbbc stops after about 6 minutes

could anybody tell me if the source for 1.0rc1 already has the patch within demux_real.c for the garbled stream problem when listening to live streams? if not is there a diff anywhere for the 1.0rc1 source code? many thanks Matt -- MattC --

Re: [slim] Alienbbc stops after about 6 minutes

The mplayer team rewrote the RealAudio support in March 2006 so any build after that of mplayer includes all the fixes needed to overcome the garbled audio bug. 1.0pre8 (release around June 2006) and 1.0rc1 have all the necessary RealAudio fixes. -- bpa

Re: [slim] volume scale issue

On 11-Feb-07, at 7:44 AM, dijon wrote: > using 6.5.1 i discovered a strange problem with the volume on the sb. > i used > to be able to increase the volume in increments of 1 - now it goes > mute,2,5,7,9...sometimes steps of 2 and sometimes steps of 3. it still > This happens when using the volu

Re: [slim] wrong order

snarlydwarf;179713 Wrote: > Checked setting of Shuffle? Shuffle was on!i knew i was doing something stupid. thanks! -- vain4 vain4's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3502 View this thread: http

Re: [slim] Slimserver Problems running on Windows Vista

Vista Home Premium 32-bit SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11206 No error messages Firewall disabled, no antivirus SlimServer seems to intall and run fine but reports "your player was not found." I don't know whether this is a SlimServer problem or a Vista problem, though I've tried changing all the s

[slim] How to Solve Gallery Thumbnail Woes

Hi all, I found it tough digging through the multitude of threads about the sudden disappearance of thumbnails after an upgrade to 6.5.1 and subsequent rescan. I run use iTunes as my mail source for library management so all this talk of 'cover.jpg' etc quickly started to confound me. My music d

Re: [slim] How to Solve Gallery Thumbnail Woes

On 11-Feb-07, at 3:31 PM, skieswideopen wrote: > "c:\program files\slimserver\server\scanner.exe" --d_import --d_scan > --d_info --d_itunes --wipe --progress --itunes > if it is the thumbnails that you want to focus on, I'd add --d_artwork to that command line as well. -kdf

Re: [slim] New 6.5.1 Install Doesn't Work

FWIW, I cannot get Slimserver 6.5.1 to run on Mac OSX 10.4.8. Player firmware is 64. After installation, Slimserver starts momentarily and then stops. The slimserver log shows the following: 2007-02-11 18:28:56.5002 SlimServer settings effective user and group if requested... 2007-02-11 18:28:

Re: [slim] New 6.5.1 Install Doesn't Work

You need to manually delete the database as the automatic migration scripts have not worked: If don't have your own mysql - delete the contents of the "Cache" folder. If you have your own mysql - drop and create database slimserver. -- Triode --

[slim] My Garage SB3

Hey All Just FYI I live in Canada and have been running my #2 SB3 in my unheated garage all winter so far Does not freeze in there but gets very cold. (minus 20'C outside the garage) The unit is usually turned on once a day and somedays will run an hour or two. Was told the display would be good

Re: [slim] Now playing window not updating during album playback?

Screensaver when playing and stopped is set to "None". Screensaver when off is set to "Date and Time Screensaver" -- Jezclayton Jezclayton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9615 View this thread: h

Re: [slim] My Garage SB3

There may be some exceptions that prove the rule, but for the most part wireless speakers have problems with static, dropouts, and generally not very good sound. As an alternative, could you move the SB out to poolside, and use them with some active (aka powered, amplified) speakers? Active speake

[slim] Incredibly Frustrated

I have 2 Squeezeboxes (wired via powerline adapters to a PC with Windows XP) that were working fine for the first few days, then inexplicably started hanging, turning off spontaneously, and being unresponsive to the remote. I've tried reinstalling Slimserver multiple times, powercycled my cable mo

[slim] Can't connect to wireless network

All of a sudden, my SB3 won't connect to my wireless network. The only thing that I've changed is it was unplugged for a couple of hours yesterday, and now no matter what I try it won't connect. It works fine with an ethernet cable, but that's all. My laptop connects alright wireless ly, so it'

Re: [slim] Incredibly Frustrated

meh53169;179795 Wrote: > I have 2 Squeezeboxes (wired via powerline adapters to a PC with Windows > XP) that were working fine for the first few days, then inexplicably > started hanging, turning off spontaneously, and being unresponsive to > the remote. I've tried reinstalling Slimserver multipl

Re: [slim] My Garage SB3

You have pools in Canada !!! -- mswlogo mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32676 __

Re: [slim] My Garage SB3

Hi ebin! ebin lives in my city and I sold him that SB3. I just didn't realize he'd freeze the poor little thing! (just kidding!) Actually this was his plan all along - I checked the specs for the display: operating temp to -20 C, storage temp to -40 C. We did have a few -20 nights a week or s

Re: [slim] My Garage SB3

mswlogo;179807 Wrote: > You have pools in Canada !!! Yes, when the igloos melt,, they have pools. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums

Re: [slim] Fat Gooey for Slim Server

Thanks for the feed back. I just added a very nice Screen Saver to the FatGooey files. I want to do a little more work on it, but it is totally usable. If it finds no Slim devices powered up it displays album covers as thumbnails in a "Pong" window. If it finds one powered up it displays the pla

Re: [slim] Wireless bridge question

In the test I did recently, bridging in FW72 worked fine _except_ in Ad-hoc mode. No problems bridging to a Linksys AP. If we're all seeing the same thing then we should open a bug. -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http

Re: [slim] My Garage SB3

At this very moment Logitech's testing facility is subjecting SB3s to storage at -40 to +70 C temperatures, vibrating the heck out of them, dropping them, etc. I even saw them grind one up and put it in a x-ray spectrometer to look for lead, mercury, chromium etc. Fun stuff! -- seanadams --

Re: [slim] How to Solve Gallery Thumbnail Woes

I have to say, with quite a bit of sadness that after running the a rescan from the web interface that once again my beloved thumbnails are gone. I have to say. I realize there is a community of intensely generous people that contribute to this project. However after ponying up $300 to buy the Sq

Re: [slim] Incredibly Frustrated

meh53169;179795 Wrote: > I have 2 Squeezeboxes (wired via powerline adapters to a PC with Windows > XP) that were working fine for the first few days, then inexplicably > started hanging, turning off spontaneously, and being unresponsive to > the remote. ... I've been researching this type of ne