I had thought all was well, installed 6.5.1 without any issues, had
logged in via IE7 to the browser interface, set up my libray (I've just
switched to WMP11/WMC from iTunes) and after updating the SB firmware,
music had been playing via SB OK.
Since then it's all gone a bit pear shaped.
I notic
I'd love some encding scheme that was less demanding on the server, but
didn't find readily available information about "live" FLAC streaming.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
I did some testing tonight and found it interesting that the "obsolete"
OSS interface (I'm running Linux) performs noti
It is easy to get downhearted when the complainers seem to have a louder
voice than anyone else, but take this post that I spotted over on the
Topfield forums as inspiration:
>>Good grief. I've just got my Squeezebox. I had installed the server
t'other day. I plugged it in and after 10mins was me
JJZolx;181793 Wrote:
> 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 a
Thanks bpa. Yes, I meant mplayer. I should also have said that I'm
running 10.4.8 on an Intel Mac. So what precisely should I look for and
where?
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Download the following which is the MplayerOSX - AFAIK it is universal
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayerOSX_1.0rc1.dmg
I'm not sure about the next step - whether you examine the DMG or
install it so you can follow Danco's advice to get the right mplayer
executable.
If you're real
I hope reading the forums isn't the tech support level two training
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werock;182182 Wrote:
> It is easy to get downhearted when the complainers seem to have a louder
> voice than anyone else, but take this post that I spotted over on the
> Topfield forums as inspiration:
>
> >>Good grief. I've just got my Squeezebox. I had installed the server
> t'other day. I plu
hunta;181202 Wrote:
> ...otherwise I'll raise an enhancement request.
Enhancement request duly raised. If you'd like to support it please
vote here:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/votes.cgi?action=show_user&bug_id=4775#vote_4775
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Thanks Skunk. I'm doing the scrolling, but I still worry about the
little "Now Playing" above the scroll. Thing is that where I have my
SB3 located, the brightest setting really does help.
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Thanks bpa; I've downloaded mplayer from the place you suggest. But the
contents don't reflect danco's instructions: there is no
External_Binaries folder. How should I proceed?
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thanks kdf,
quick and easy answer!
i appreciate it.
because this is just a minor issue to me, i'll wait till the next
release.
thanks again!
dom
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I'm using 6.3.1 too. I'm happy with it so far. I was wondering if it
was possible to use the Nokia 770 skin with it? i see that it comes
bundled with the 6.5.1 build, but I can't see anywhere to download it
on its own. I am currently using the Touch skin. I hear that the 770
skin is based off
marlar;181872 Wrote:
>
> But what will I miss if I downgrade? I have not been able to find a
> version history for SlimServer
>
http://www.slimdevices.com/Changelog6.html
info on previous releases:
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_changelog.html
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I've just started using this, and really like the clean look and
simplicity. (Firefox 2.0.0.1, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11206 -
Windows XP - EN - cp1252.) Perhaps this is due to the fact that I'm
not actually using a Nokia770, but the progress bar is pretty
meaningless. It doesn't increment
Hi, over the last 10 days I tried (I think) all suggestions posted here,
yet my itunes-based playlists remain empty. They are ok within iTunes,
Slimserver displays them, it also shows the music (below albums,
artists and so on), but playlists remain empty.
Slimserver is the latest (6.5.1 I believ
I found my notes and extracted what I think is the right mplaye files
from the dmg - you could do the same using the path below.
./MPlayer
OSX.app/Contents/Resources/External_Binaries/mplayer_intel.app/Contents/MacOS/mplayer
The intel mplayer app zipped is saved here.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~
Some tracks in Random Mix aren't being displayed properly:
- In the Nokia770 skin, the track name is missing from the "Now
Playing" screen, and clicking the track in the playlist produces a page
with no track information. The track names DO appear on the right,
where the previous, current and ne
I was wondering if it's possible to have the playlist view automatically
scroll to show the currently playing track. When using Random Mix, the
current track is usually off the bottom of the window.
Also (and this may be due to the fact that I'm not actually using a
Nokia 770), pressing PageDown
Let me start by saying that I'm 100% open to anyone suggesting fixes for
this, including a total reimplementation if needed. I think it's a
stretch to call the progress bar meaningless, but it's so far from
perfect I've toyed with removing it altogether.
The gory technical details of the progress
So things may have changed from the time I made my instructions.
But essentially just follow my procedure, but look through the various
folders till you find the suitable items. The crucial point is that the
MPlayer OS X application is a package, so you have to Show Package
Contents (via control-
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I'm running SlimServer 6.5.1 on a QNAP TS-101 NAS drive. There's only a
small music library at present, but still performance is sluggish - it
streams music OK it's just slow to respond to instructions (from the
remote, the web interface and via CLI commands).
Could I expect more responsiveness
peterw;182178 Wrote:
> I'd love some encding scheme that was less demanding on the server, but
> didn't find readily available information about "live" FLAC streaming.
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
According to icecast.org, FLAC is supported by icecast 2.3.1.
What sound card do you have?
Thank you bpa and danco. Sorry; I'm confused now. That zipped intel
mplayer you mention, bpa: I've downloaded that. Is it all I need?
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It should almost certainly be faster.
Slow performance is going to be caused by some "resource" running low.
Memory, CPU, Bandwidth, I/O speed, etc. It is possible in software to
do things like "increase memory for more caching to cover up slow I/O"
or "use CPU time to compress on the fly to re
Thanks. I'll give it a go, I was just concerned it would be the same or
worse, since the whole music file has to make it's way from the NAS
drive to the PC wirelessly at some point anyway. I just didn't know
where the bottle-neck was. But as I said it was streaming the music OK.
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AFAICT it's all you need. Just download the zipped file, unzip it - it
has just one file "mplayer" and then install mplayer in the right
folder probably /usr/local/bin with the correct permissions and
ownership.
I basically followed Danco's advice except on a Linux system - I went
through the dmg
Quoting bklaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> TrackStat looks really cool...do you know if any other skins support
> it? That doesn't mean I won't do it if they don't, but would give me a
> template to get started. I've put support in for Album Review and
> Artist Biography plugins on the "now playing" pa
Hrrm... you may want to look at the Server Health page and see if
bandwidth is being a problem.
If your NAS is wirelessly connected, that could point to wireless
problems. Can you wire it to your router?
Should take 30 seconds and eliminate that as the resource that is
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I have slimeserver 6.2.2 runing with a suse 10.0 Linux machine...Until
now, I was runnint this agains to squeezebox soft emulators...Today I
have just received a "real" squeezebox hardware v3...
Is roth to upgrade from 6.2.2 to 6.5.1? What are the differences?
With many thanks in advance
To me, the biggest difference is quicker scans and better integration of
cover art in the UI. If these are not important to you, I wouldn't
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Kyle;182266 Wrote:
> To me, the biggest difference is quicker scans and better integration of
> cover art in the UI. If these are not important to you, I wouldn't
> switch.
Thank you
JP
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great work...
what i've been doing is just quitting slimtray every so often.
i have to say, i am disappointed in the lack of response either of my
bugs has gotten from SD. maybe your grunt work will prod them along.
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Using:
Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.2 (beta!?) - Wi
Excellent, bpa. That was indeed the correct file, and I'm up and
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I 'm using a SlimDevice wireless SB3 setup which reads from my Seagate
300GB HD which I have approx. 700 CDs ripped. From time to time, it
stops reading in middle of a song &/or it will not skip to the next
song ie: stuck at the end of last played song.
What I discovered is if I re-ripped the sa
Or should I be posting this in some other forum?
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SuperQ;182252 Wrote:
> According to icecast.org, FLAC is supported by icecast 2.3.1.
>
> What sound card do you have? You should not have any difference
> between OSS and ALSA, unless the drivers for the card suck. What linux
> distribution are you using?
Icecast: I found some source clients
johann;182107 Wrote:
> That is playing a 88.2 kHz 24 bit FLAC file, the ouput was quite a
> suprise.
Could that just be the name of the file (of track tag), which was
downsampled on the server to 48 kHz?
Abel
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ajburgh;182290 Wrote:
> Could that just be the name of the file (of track tag), which was
> downsampled on the server to 48 kHz?
>
> Abel
No, the FLAC file really is 88.2 kHz.
There are a few threads on this in the Audiophiles section.
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When accessing my server over the internet, I'm surprised to find that
my Squeezeboxen are accessible via the web interface. I figured that
only the software player (e.g. Windows Media Player) on the machine in
the remote location would be visible.
There's certainly no point (AFAICT) in being ab
SD customer support suggested that, to prevent Apple Lossless files from
cutting out, I follow the instructions in the forum (post #16 and
post#20) at
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30251&page=2&highlight=alac
>From subsequent postings, I'm not sure that their suggested fix work
dbls wrote:
> When accessing my server over the internet, I'm surprised to find that
> my Squeezeboxen are accessible via the web interface. I figured that
> only the software player (e.g. Windows Media Player) on the machine in
> the remote location would be visible.
>
> There's certainly no poin
Has anyone with this problem tried the alternate socketwrapper.exe
from:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~altondsl/slim/socketwrapper_0.12_20060220.zip
It seems to solve all sorts of weird and wonderful problems with
transcoding.
Steve.
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But I was hoping I could do this with just the stream.mp3.
Anybody else want to chime in? Is what I want impossible?
Thank you!
Rob
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I was a little too harsh in my description of the progress bar's
usefulness. Sorry.
I've now tried the Touch skin, and I still never see the progress bar
filling more than about 75%. And I'm still seeing the counter include
the time paused (after unpausing).
Maybe its just me!
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brucesee;182311 Wrote:
> SD customer support suggested that, to prevent Apple Lossless files from
> cutting out, I follow the instructions in the forum (post #16 and
> post#20) at
>
> http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30251&page=2&highlight=alac
>
> From subsequent postings, I'm n
> It would also be rather hard for slimserver to guess which of the
> players I would want to control when I'm behind my (wireless and
> thus mobile) laptop.
I'm not talking about using a laptop as an overpowered remote for a
Squeezebox
within listening range; I'm interested in playing some trac
Turns out that the problem is probably in the implementation of perl
used by SlimTray. Slim can't do anything to fix that bug, so I would
recommend not running SlimTray if you plan on leaving your machine
running without rebooting for more than a day or so.
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dbls wrote:
>> It would also be rather hard for slimserver to guess which of the
>> players I would want to control when I'm behind my (wireless and
>> thus mobile) laptop.
>>
>
>
> I'm not talking about using a laptop as an overpowered remote for a
> Squeezebox
> within listening range; I'm i
well, wait a minute...
it seems to me that thats a bad answer as a long term plan.
surely, if they want people to have slimtray, that have to offer a
slimtray that isn't leaky?
if the whole perl interpreter is in the exe itself as jim suggests, why
not use a version of perl that isn't deficient
My audio installer told me that there is a remote display device from SS
that works with SB3 so that I can keep my SB3 in my main listening room
and see what is playing on the satellite device in another room. Is
that true, and if so, where can I get one? I haven't seen or heard of
this anywhere.
Must of my music is in AIFF format and I am having the same problem
about 5 seconds on the end seems just to be skipped.
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Quoting thesil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> My audio installer told me that there is a remote display device from SS
> that works with SB3 so that I can keep my SB3 in my main listening room
> and see what is playing on the satellite device in another room. Is
> that true, and if so, where can I get o
thesil;182376 Wrote:
> My audio installer told me that there is a remote display device from SS
> that works with SB3 so that I can keep my SB3 in my main listening room
> and see what is playing on the satellite device in another room. Is
> that true, and if so, where can I get one? I haven't se
Thanks for the good debug job. The new Slimserver software works fine
now on my server :-)
Greetz,
happy Jackoo
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peterw;182286 Wrote:
> Icecast:
Hrm, I suppose I could look into it this weekend.
peterw;182286 Wrote:
>
> My sound card is a 7 year old Creative Ensoniq PCI card.
> I might replace the sound card if I were confident that the new audio
> in would be good enough to archive old analog recordi
ipy;182278 Wrote:
> I 'm using a SlimDevice wireless SB3 setup which reads from my Seagate
> 300GB HD which I have approx. 700 CDs ripped. From time to time, it
> stops reading in middle of a song &/or it will not skip to the next
> song ie: stuck at the end of last played song.
>
> What I disc
TechHome;175840 Wrote:
> user "Thoughtfix" has a blog on the 770 & 800. Here's a link to his
> "must have" applications. Follow the links and you will find
> installation info. Have fun
>
> http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2006_12_17_archive.html
What a great resource. Thanks TechHome.
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happen. That's all I
I'm glad that it was helpful. I posted it here in the hopes that
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I've located a radio station that I would like to stream.
I'm having trouble getting SB2 to play it.
It plays through WMP
All I get on my SB is it saying connecting.
Here are the url's that I've tried.
mms://69.80.226.199/krvr-fm?MSWMExt=.asf <-- always says connecting
http://69.80.226.199/list
This actually is something I'd been thinking about recently.
I have three Squeezeboxes (in my living room, bedroom, and office). I
also have some friends who I've given my DynDns alias to so they can
access the Slimserver. A while back I had a really weird problem pop
up where when one of my fr
SuperQ;182385 Wrote:
> Hrm, I suppose I could look into it this weekend.
>
> ...
>
> The ensoniq is a mediocre card, comparable to an onboard card. You
> didn't say how old, but I'm thinking you should try
> upgrading/re-installing with a more modern core OS.
>
I'd be grateful if you found a
(1) Can I configure it? Currently, when you press the "now playing"
button in the now playing screen, you cycle through gazillion different
ways of displaying the info. It can be irritating if you press the
button twice by error. You have to cycle through all those gazillion
options to return the
On 21-Feb-07, at 7:19 PM, Nostromo wrote:
>
> (1) Can I just
> erase them in Slimserver?
>
yes. see player settings
> (2) Suppose I'm browsing by artist, looking for Bill Evans. I press "3"
> once and it gives me, correctly, the first artist starting with "D".
> But
> when I press it again to g
I read this thread after attempting to install 6.5.X for what will
probably be the last time for me. I still can't get MusicIP (used to be
MusicMagic) to work. I had it working with 6.3, and tried several months
ago to upgrade to 6.5. I never got it to work then, but I thought time
would heal all
AubreyCTurnerJr;182409 Wrote:
> It would probably be nice to have a user management module tied into a
> permissions module so that control could be assigned on a per-player
> and per-user basis.
>
> I know I've also seen similar requests with regards to which players
> could play which songs
Is there a way to equalize/normalize the playback volume in slimserver
so all your music plays at the same volume?
This is especialy important when mixing songs from different albums
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Simonfish;182358 Wrote:
> Turns out that the problem is probably in the implementation of perl
> used by SlimTray.
How did you come to that conclusion, rather than it being an issue
within SlimTray itself? Was the most recent SlimTray compiled with a
different version of ActivPerl than in the p
You can use a tool called Foober2000, which can add replaygain tags to
your music. replaygain tags track the difference of each track from a
normalised volume, and also a second value against the normalised album
volume level.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RGFoobar
http://wiki.slimdevi
what about us poor mac users:(
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Hi guys.
Ive been having some probs with playback on an audiobook. Its a single
400 MB file that plays fine on multiple other players (iTunes, Winamp,
WMP) but always stops about 6-7 mins in. On top of that, the ID3 tag is
not showing up the correct details. I have modified it using a couple of
WELCOME MAC USER!!! I have an app called iVolume found at
http://www.mani.de/en/software/macosx/ivolume/. Shareware that does a
GREAT job working with iTunes.
I rip all of my stuff Apple Lossless using iTunes, mainly because it's
so easy to deal with the tags. I then open iVolume and have it
heffa;182434 Wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> Ive been having some probs with playback on an audiobook. Its a single
> 400 MB file that plays fine on multiple other players (iTunes, Winamp,
> WMP) but always stops about 6-7 mins in. On top of that, the ID3 tag is
> not showing up the correct details. I ha
First problem solved.
As for the first problem, what do you mean by wait time? That I have to
press the button fast enough? Yes, I was aware of that. Like I said the
problem I encounter is intermitent. When that happens, even though I
press the button fast enough, I stay stuck on the first letter
On 21-Feb-07, at 10:17 PM, Nostromo wrote:
>
> I remain stuck. Its as if that button was "reinitializing" or
> something. I also noticed that when it happens, the other buttons work
> just fine.
>
I'm not sure what to say about that. It's certainly not what I'm
seeing. There is a known problem
That could be it. I'll check it out soon.
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None of the title formats options are fully satisfying. Is there a way
to customize them? For example, my title format of choice is the
following:
TRACKNUM. TITLE - ARTIST - ALBUM
But I'd like to add (TRACKSTATRATINGDYNAMIC)to it. Maybe at the end,
I'm not sure yet.
Or maybe there's a way to
On 21-Feb-07, at 11:09 PM, Nostromo wrote:
>
> None of the title formats options are fully satisfying. Is there a way
> to customize them?
look in server settings, formatting. you can set up the list of
choices there, then in player settings you have access to those.
if you want more flexibil
Great! Problem solved.
Again, thanks!
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