1. I have used itunes to get my Mp3s organised, but the Slimserver
upload seems intermittent?
Is there a very quick and easy to understand ..this is how you do
it.. guide?
I blanked out the MP3 library folder option bit said to use itunes,
but sometimes it does not pick up new albums even if i
Mark, silly me, yes the volume was set low. I assumed the output was
fixed. Problem solved, many thanks!
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Hi All, what wireless security can be used on a SB3 ? I currently use
WEP which I've heard is next to useless
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pkfox;181653 Wrote:
Hi All, what wireless security can be used on a SB3 ? I currently use
WEP which I've heard is next to useless
I use WPA/PSK for my SB3 with no problems.
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2pods;181654 Wrote:
I use WPA/PSK for my SB3 with no problems.
thanks , I was a bit confused as the SB's setup only offers WEP, then I
saw in another post that you need to setup the router's security first,
which then changes the SB's option, thanks again
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Hi!
When I'm connected to squeezenetwork = perfect
When I'm connected to slimserver = not perfect. Streaming music files
from NAS works ok. But when streaming internet radio I often get
timeout/it stops streaming.
And I can't find the reason. No firewalls, good signal on both my
boxes.
Any
reeve_mike;181529 Wrote:
Did you get the script working? If so, please could you post the fix
...? THANKS!
No I didn't. Could somebody post the working script?
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As I was typing this I might have answered my question, but thought I'd
ask anyway to make sure.
Is the Slumserver install independent of the OS architecture (32 bit vs
64bit) because slims erver is entirely written on Pearl?
Assuming you have the right version (32/64bit) of Pearl installed, I
My understanding was that to use a UNC in Slimserver, it was not allowed
to have password protection. I guess the mapped drive approach gets
around that.
Steve Terry
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6.5.1 came with a firmware upgrade. If I reinstall 6.5.0, will it work
with the new firmware?
Firmware is paired with server version. If you reinstall 6.5.0 it'll
put the appropriate firmware back on the Squeezebox.
Kevin
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pkfox;181653 Wrote:
Hi All, what wireless security can be used on a SB3 ? I currently use
WEP which I've heard is next to useless
I use WPA/PSK for my SB3 with no problems.
Same here. And you are correct, WEP is functionally useless against
any kind of mildly interested attacker.
Kevin
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mawfin;181596 Wrote:
Due to change in circumstances, need to go wireless but could not get
wireless ethernet adapters to work properly with my units.
Thought I would ask here before going to eBay. If you do not need
wireless, these will be very good value (and wired is much better if
Firmware bug in update from 69 to 71.
Quick summary for those starting at the last post: I have 4 SB3s and
since upgrading to 6.5.1 one of them would play a few seconds or a few
minutes of music then reboot. I downgraded to 6.5.0 and the problem was
resolved.
Following a message from Jeff52 I
I'm attempting an 'SB3 as über clock radio' scenario in my bedroom.
After reading all the powered speaker threads, I'm intending to get a
pair of _'Acoustic_Energy_Aego_M'
(http://www.acoustic-energy.co.uk/Product_range/Aego_series/Aego_M.asp)_s.
However, I'd like the speakers to power on/off
oktup wrote:
I'm attempting an 'SB3 as über clock radio' scenario in my bedroom.
After reading all the powered speaker threads, I'm intending to get a
pair of _'Acoustic_Energy_Aego_M'
(http://www.acoustic-energy.co.uk/Product_range/Aego_series/Aego_M.asp)_s.
However, I'd like the speakers
i would be interested in the sb3's if you still have them.
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chaotic33,
I recently got a SB3 and hooked it up directly to my Primare SPA21 and
so far I can't tell the difference in sound compared to my Primare CD
player. I'd like to know if you tried using an external DAC to see how
it compares to hooking it up directly to the SPA21?
BTW, I'm also
Hi All,
I am currently running SlimServer 6.3.1 on Windows Vista Basic. I
couldn't get SS 6.5.1 to work with Vista so that is why I am using the
older version. That's a whole other story, but I've gotten version
6.3.1 to work pretty well thus far. My only issue with it is that it
won't display
I've added a comment to bug 2283 to let Richard know that the MAC
corruption bug either came back around FW ver. 70 or was never fixed
properly.
Added a link to this thread.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2283
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Perhaps but mac corruption wasn't the cause of my SB3 rebooting.
Michael
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Hi All, I recently started to use my SB3 again after a layoff of about
three months and am experiencing problems with both SS and SN, the
setup I have, has not changed (hardware or otherwise) since the time
when I used it daily. Problem one: Turn on the SB, messages include
Waking up
Hi. Tag Rename will let you save the embedded art work to a file.
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Is TagRename smart enough to put it in the right folder for
SlimServer to associate with the right music file. Are there any
quirks I need to be aware of?
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The statement was made that with 6.5.1 you can now use mapped drive
letters, I tried this but it is still not allowing me to specify my NAS
drive by my mapped drive letter! Is using a mapped drive letter
allowable or was the original statement wrong
Although I can have many nested sub folders
Hi
This issue has been reported intermittently in the past. I know Sean
has been trying to reproduce the issue but hasn't had enough data to
work on.
So here's what happened to me yesterday morning.
I was planning to replace 2 light switches with dimmers. Since I didn't
know what fuse to throw
oreillymj;181704 Wrote:
I then cycled the power and everything went back to normal.
My unit in the kitchen was fine. I can only assume that the power surge
when I threw the fuse caused some sort of glitch.
The only audible glitches I've had were power surge related as well,
and power
Presumably a plug-in won't help if connected to SqueezeNetwork though...
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I ran into this late last year, when I set up an Icecast server for
streaming audio from a police/fire scanner that I have. The scanner
also has a serial port hooked to the computer that outputs the talk
group IDs. I have a Perl script that monitors the serial port,
translates the IDs to names
I'd use homeplug (ethernet over mains power) rather than woreless. It's
much easier to set up (plug it in and turn it on) and there's much less
to go wrong than with wireless.
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Does SlimServer 6.3.1 support .m4a files?
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I haven't played with that function much. I know that when you open a
FLAC file with embedded art and click Save to file (or something to
that effect) under the thumbnail, it will default to saving the file in
current directory. As far as whether or not it is possible to automate
the task, I
Hi,
This is a bit weird and I'm sure its probably a Windows XP / OS fluck
up but do any of you have any ideas please?
All was fine Ive had no problems innearly a year and have two
squeeseboxes. The other day I foolishly installed a new version Windows
of Media Player on my PC. Anyway I coudn't
For the next slimserver release (7.0), I've checked in a bunch of
changes over the last week or so for Touch and Nokia770 skins. I
figured a wiki page with screenshots was probably the best way to show
what's coming, so here ya go...
Not wanting to start a flame war here, but seriously is the current open
source approach to developing Slimserver viable?
I appreciate that the community provides plug-ins etc. but so does the
community for PhotoShop, it just needs a documented API.
If 'mainstream' consumers are dropping a few
Will give it a shot. Tks
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Is it time for Logitech to fork the build, so that the community can
take the GPL version for U*nix and there is a closed source Win32
binary for the man-in-the-street?
What advantage would you hope to see by closing the source?
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amcluesent;181733 Wrote:
I appreciate that the community provides plug-ins etc. but so does the
community for PhotoShop, it just needs a documented API.
Non-Slim employees contribute to the main codebase as well as external
plugins.
If 'mainstream' consumers are dropping a few $100 on the
On 19/02/07, bklaas
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For the next slimserver release (7.0), I've checked in a bunch of
changes over the last week or so for Touch and Nokia770 skins. I
figured a wiki page with screenshots was probably the best way to show
what's coming, so here ya go...
amcluesent wrote:
Not wanting to start a flame war here, but seriously is the current open
source approach to developing Slimserver viable?
Do you have any idea what open source software means?
Do you know that at least 50% of the servers on the Internet, worldwide,
run Apache, which is open
That looks excellent, the only downside is you've now given me the
urge to try 7.0 out :)
Yeah, Ben should have mentioned that you do _not_ use trunk just because
auf his skins. It's far from being stable.
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Looks great, hope 7.0 will be shipped with SlimDevices announcment about
a touch screen remote similar to sonos
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Is it time for Logitech to fork the build, so that the community can
take the GPL version for U*nix and there is a closed source Win32
binary for the man-in-the-street?
What advantage would you hope to see by closing
Looks great, hope 7.0 will be shipped with SlimDevices announcment about
a touch screen remote similar to sonos
Watch out: April 1st is close :-)
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by not
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Development is pretty well controlled by Logitech. There aren't many
outside developers with write access to the trunk.
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My Slimserver is working completely with a NAS mapped as drive Z:.
ST
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sterry21;181663 Wrote:
My understanding was that to use a UNC in Slimserver, it was not allowed
to have password protection. I guess the mapped drive approach gets
around that.
Password authentication would not be a function of SlimServer, but of
the operating system. If you have the remote
awesome, thanks guys. i should have read more in the faq to find that
feature. embarrassingly, i've been using a sb and slimserver combo for
years and never noticed that. :)
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as buggy and difficult as some of the recent releases have been
perceived as being.
as always, by a disproportionally vocal minority, pushing hard on
advanced features, rather than the best practises for slimserver
methods while claiming all they
Long term viability: if Slim Devices or Logitech ever suddenly vanish
from the planet, SlimServer is already public. Anyone, anywhere can
add new features until the last piece of hardware goes dark.
Amen. That's why I picked Slimserver over closed solutions.
Kevin
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Hi,
I am using a linkstation2 to host / fun slimserver and so can only use
inbuilt decoders.
Does slimserver 6.5 have an inbuilt decoder for wma lossless.
Cheers
Steve.
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Open source doesn't have to be of low quality! My experience with
ever-changing Eclipse proves that to me very well. It's all a matter of
good organization, good project management (read - testing control),
and final quality control (testing, again).
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simaudio nova cdp simaudio moon
I added +/- buttons on the right side of the volume controls on the
now playing page. These buttons adjust the volume up or down by 1
increment, rather than the large increments of the existing bars.
Changing the volume in any fashion will display an OSD message
briefly to inform the user of the
H.COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
RM B, 9/F, Seapower Industrial Centre,
177 Hoi Bun Road Kwun Tong, Kowloon HONG KONG.
Date established1990
Legal FormLimited Liability Company
Co.Registration No.: 281566
(H.COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED ) well known in the area of
TELECOMMUNICATION.we sell whole sale
A kango hammer is probably known as a pnuemnatic drill round your
parts.
Anyway.. I'm not sure if what I experienced is the White noise people
using analog output have experienced.
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Closed or open source, doesn't matter a wit to me. If making it closed
source would somehow hasten SlimServer's development into something
more stable and usable, I'd be all for it. SlimServer still feels
pretty primitive to me and its progress into something more advanced is
progressing at a
Yes, may well give those plugs a go (if I can offload that useless
wireless ethernet bridge !!) although I have set someone up with two
wireless SB3s and they work a treat.
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Oh, a jackhammer. Well, I think the white noise of death can have bass
notes, as well as be analog or digital. Perhaps it's the CPU in the Sb
getting out of sync with the DAC etc. *
The main thing to keep in mind is that the noise of death can be
limited by external analog attenuation, so
BUG: 6.5.1 Does not work on Vista Ultimate 32 bits
This customer feedback: Fixing this BUG should be SD main priority.
After 2 weeks of no music I am getting, let's say, impatient.
When will be the fix available?
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JJZolx wrote:
One, there are very few developers on the project, despite
the open source approach.
Open or closed has nothing to do with speed of development. And adding
more developers usually slows development efforts. Microsoft claimed to
have 5,000 developers on Vista, it came out
Pat Farrell;181799 Wrote:
Open or closed has nothing to do with speed of development. And adding
more developers usually slows development efforts. Microsoft claimed to
have 5,000 developers on Vista, it came out late, buggy and missing key
features. Read Fred Brook's Mythical Man Month
JJZolx wrote:
There are obviously things going on right now at the former Slim
Devices to which we aren't privvy. Hell, maybe they've already made
the decision to abandon SlimServer as it now stands and are feverishly
working on a proprietary Windows-only package being outsourced to a
coding
If only all problems in life were this easy to solve! :-)
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brucesee;181614 Wrote:
Well, as embarassed as I may be, I've no idea how to roll back to a
prior version. One of the recommended fixes had been to roll back to
6.3.1. How do I do that? Thanks.
There were a lot of changes going from 6.3.x to 6.5.x, so it's best to
uninstall and delete the
I have my Squeezbox some cat 5 cable and a network card but they dont
work is it because I should be using crossover cable or do I need a
router?
driving me mad can some one plese help me with this?
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What SlimServer version?
More recent versions have a radio station buffer seconds in Server
Settings - Performance. The most recent nightlies have the capability
to proxy connections, which works very well for some users.
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It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with
The SB3 also supports WPA2/AES.
Now WPA/TKIP hasn't been broken yet so it's probably overkill, but as
they say, go big or go home...WPA2/AES works just fine for me and was
as easy as WPA/TKIP to implement.
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It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble
You are connecting what to what?
Computer to SB: crossover cable.
Hub/router to SB: patch cable.
Now many computer NICs are auto-switching, meaning you can use whatever
you like, but if you're having trouble a crossover cable should work
with all NICs.
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It's like, you know,
crimson_squee wrote:
I have my Squeezbox some cat 5 cable and a network card but they dont
work is it because I should be using crossover cable or do I need a
router?
Nic to Nic needs either a cross over cable, or a hub or switch.
You can make a crossover box for about $3, which I prefer over
To connect directly from an ethernet card to the Squeezebox you need a
crossover cable. If that is the only ethernet card in your PC you will
not have any other network access. You can use a second ethernet card
to get access to the local network.
Yes, you are probably better off getting a
sorry should make that a bit clearer the sb is connected to a 15m cat 5
cable to a internal network card but I keep getting the message cable
unpluged, should it be a crossover cable and not cat 5 i use?
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Closed or open source, doesn't matter a wit to me. If making it closed
source would somehow hasten SlimServer's development into something
more stable and usable, I'd be all for it. SlimServer still feels
pretty primitive to
I would be very surprised if you needed a crossover cable. AFAIK,
nearly all PHYs and NICs manufactured over the last 5+ years have auto
MDI/MDIX. Maybe you just have a bad cable or NIC?
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I have two ethernet cards in my computer and a external broadband modem
that can connect to my pc by usb and cat 5. Currently the modem is
connected by usb so the two ethernet cards are free but if its
crossover cable I need would this work
Fletch;181823 Wrote:
I would be very surprised if you needed a crossover cable. AFAIK,
nearly all PHYs and NICs manufactured over the last 5+ years have auto
MDI/MDIX. Maybe you just have a bad cable or NIC?
That's probably right on the money. Usually this never comes up.
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The cable is good as I have had the sb up and running with the
girlfriends laptop I suppose the cards could be duff but It would seem
starnge that both broke at once.
pfarrell I just read your post is the link I posted the kind of thing
you are referring to?
So there is no way I will be getting
crimson_squee;181822 Wrote:
I have two ethernet cards in my computer and a external broadband modem
that can connect to my pc by usb and cat 5. Currently the modem is
connected by usb so the two ethernet cards are free but if its
crossover cable I need would this work
I believe it uses Quicktime (mov123) to transcode?
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Ya, get a router. Not much more expensive than a cable and it usually
comes with a cable!
Some cheap ones at Newegg.com:
http://tinyurl.com/28hxxd
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I assume the NIC has an LED near the connector. Does it go on when you
plug in the cable?
What do you mean by
...I keep getting the message cable unpluged...
? Is this message coming from Windows or elsewhere?
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I think something similar was happening here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32651
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Mark Lanctot's
it did with the girlfirends laptop but nothing on my home computer
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Mark Lanctot;172762 Wrote:
Slim Devices had a one-time recommendation for 'Ruckus Wireless'
(http://www.ruckuswireless.com/) routers.
I replaced my cheapo Actiontec router with a Ruckus MediaFlex and that
seems to have completely cured my problem with stuttering and UI
non-responsiveness. It
Pat Farrell;181799 Wrote:
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Open or closed has nothing to do with speed of development. And adding
more developers usually slows development efforts.
On point one: well, sort of. I guess the issue here might not be
open-source, so much as the leaders of the project being able to
crimson_squee;181834 Wrote:
it did with the girlfirends laptop but nothing on my home computer.
Did you try it with both NICs?
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crimson_squee wrote:
pfarrell I just read your post is the link I posted the kind of thing
you are referring to?
Perhaps. The photo shows one jack and one plug, so you could plug a good
cable into your PC, the sex change dongle into the squeezebox and be
happy. It is cheap enough that it
Yes many many times :(
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dlevine;181833 Wrote:
I replaced my cheapo Actiontec router with a Ruckus MediaFlex and that
seems to have completely cured my problem with stuttering and UI
non-responsiveness. It was a little on the expensive side, and it
shipped with NO documentation so that I had to work with Ruckus
totoro wrote:
On point one: well, sort of. I guess the issue here might not be
open-source, so much as the leaders of the project being able to
force/entice/whatever other contributors to do things they don't feel
like doing. This is a classic problem in all-volunteer open source
projects. Of
No, the WMA Lossless decoder is built into Windows Media Player.
There's no standalone equivalent that could be ported into the
Squeezebox firmware.
I may be wrong - maybe mplayer can decode WMA Lossless? mplayer
could be installed into a LinkStation. I believe AlienBBC uses
mplayer? Could
crimson_squee;181838 Wrote:
Yes many many times :(
Weird. This suggests that neither of the NICs nor the SB support auto
MDI/MDIX. FWIW, I still think this is a red herring. Just for fun,
what happens if you connect this cable between the two NICs?
Also, FWIW, even though I think getting a
Pat Farrell wrote:
Yes, the only way I've ever seen folks get motivated to doing the
unglamorous/unpleasant/boring/miserable stuff is to pay them. And
sometimes that isn't enough. Software developers are rarely motivated
by money. They all want to do the cool stuff.
I think you need a carrot
arge;181797 Wrote:
BUG: 6.5.1 Does not work on Vista Ultimate 32 bits
This customer feedback: Fixing this BUG should be SD main priority.
After 2 weeks of no music I am getting, let's say, impatient.
When will be the fix available?
I am in no way affiliated with SDjust a slimdevices
Hi All,
I'm changed to a new provider but now I have a problem playing my music
with softsqueeze.
I can connect to my slimserver and go through my music but when I
select play, it seems to hang. My provider says that they do not block
anything. Can somebody tell me what the problem is. I have
amcluesent;181733 Wrote:
Not wanting to start a flame war here, but seriously is the current open
source approach to developing Slimserver viable?
Is it time for Logitech to fork the build, so that the community can
take the GPL version for U*nix and there is a closed source Win32
binary
The version 3 Squeezebox has now been out there for over a year. Granted
they released a Transporter, it's hardly in the same league. Although
this device seems to stand alone in user satisfaction, it would be nice
to see one which supported multi-channel digital out via HDMI and
perhaps the
The version 3 Squeezebox has now been out there for over a year. Granted
they released a Transporter, it's hardly in the same league. Although
this device seems to stand alone in user satisfaction, it would be nice
to see one which supported multi-channel digital out via HDMI and
perhaps the
The version 3 Squeezebox has now been out there for over a year. Granted
they released a Transporter, it's hardly in the same league. Although
this device seems to stand alone in user satisfaction, it would be nice
to see one which supported multi-channel digital out via HDMI and
perhaps the
I had no problems at all... Then installed(configured)a xbox360 as a mce
extender. That pice of sh... not only deleted my entire mediaplayer
library, it also changed file permission of my music folder. I only
give read right to microsoft software... Also slimserver now has a
problem streaming
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