Is it little Pac-men running around, the time (ho hum) or what?
My vote is for the analog VU meters (ootb - there may be others I don't
know of), way above anything else. Any other faves which come close or
surpass the bouncing needles?
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After Silence, that which comes nearest to
It'd be very useful to have input from a SlimDevices developer about
these changes being made the MySQL settings. Erland... as the person
who may well be closest to the SlimDevices developers (due to your
wonderful plugin developement) have you any idea which developer would
know most about the
I like many screensavers.
SlimPanelz when off
when playing, I like:
1. music info
2. analogue VU
3. back to music info
4. spectrum analyser (both analogue vu and spectrum analyser are not
very useful, but are stunning to look at)
5. album review
no surprise here that Saver Switcher is the one
jfo;185321 Wrote:
How does one do this?? I can't seem to find this in the admin tool.
Go to your SlimServer installation folder, and edit MySQL/my.tt with
your favorite text editor.
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If I am using iTunes / WinAmp / WMP on another PC to stream my
Slimserver feed how do I sync this with Softsqueeze my Squeezebox?
You don't.
It's impossible.
Regards,
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cruster;185328 Wrote:
Well...I told it to clear and rescan. It hasn't worked since. SlimServer
won't stay running. My SB won't connect. Any ideas...?
Its very unlikely that the rescan had anything to do with your other
problems. For a start lets get things fixed in the right order.
First
My situation was multiple folders of music spread over two disks. Not so
easy for Slimserver to scan when you input one Music Folder.
My solution is to use NTFS Junction Points
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point), creating a single
directory with symbolic links to all my music
peterw;185205 Wrote:
Try rebooting by holding the remote's Power button until you see the
Slim Devices boot logo.
Good luck,
Peter
Thanks, that did it! Weird because I upgraded to last firmware which
triggers a similar reboot, which did nothing to help!
I am a happy camper!
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Suddenly in the random songs mode the music
cuts off before the very end of the song making for exremely ugly
segues :-)
This may be related to my issue where music occasionally stops playing when the
end of a song is reached (instead of playing the next track).
I am not transcoding though
I waited for three weeks to get my transporter back from the retailer
ripcaster.co.uk - Bear in mind it was my original one repaired.
I got it back yesterday, and funnily enough two hours after setting it
up again it died again.
The screen suddenly went black and no sign of life.
Is there a
Is there a way to add the currently playing song to a chosen playlist?
I'd love to be able to gradually sort out my collection into mood
playlists e.g. party, mellow, ambient and drop the currently playing
song (assuming I like it) into a playlist I'd previously setup
maybe by pushing and
Cleve wrote:
Yes. Here's the whole Netstat report... This is with Slimserver shut
down.
And just so you know - I've uninstalled and reinstalled 6.5.1 numerous
times. I've even deleted the Slim folders before reinstalling. I got
it to run ONCE - but as soon as I shut it off, and
As I have a black TP on order, I would hope that the 3 week backlog may
have to do with a revision of the culprit hardware.
I look forward with some trepidation now.
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Take a look here
http://www.hergest.demon.co.uk/Music/slim/PlaylistManPlugin.htm
This works for me but seems not to do so if you also have TracStat
installed.
davep
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i just bougth a v3 squeezebox, which is connected to my stereo system.
I want to stream the sound of Video/TV-Card etc under windowsXP to my
squeezebox via LAN to omit the connection PCstereo system.
I suppose, i need an windows driver that works as streaming server.
Have any of you some
It would help if someone senior within Slim Devices were to comment
about the matter.
Most people here are (I think) patient - they will stick with their
order as I will - provided some light is shed on the matter.
Thanks
Giacomo
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It would help if someone senior within Slim Devices were to comment
about the matter.
Most people here are (I think) patient - they will stick with their
order as I will - provided some light is shed on the matter.
This is not an official Slim Devices support forum.
If you
Running Netstat -a -b reveals that my McAfee Security Center's Data Back
Up is the program listening on port 9000. My computer came with a
demonstration license of McAfee - which I recently (within the last two
weeks) upgraded to a paid subscription, and the software updated itself.
Honestly,
When off: Weather/date/time or none (blank)
When playing: MusicInfo
When stopped: Now playing
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C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slimserver.pref
Steve.
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Is there a way to display the network utilization (e.g. bytes
sent/received per second) of SB3 when it is connected to Squeezenetwork
?
In that mode the SB3 connects directly through the router so looking at
the Windows task manager of the slimserver PC is irrelevant
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Phil,
I have also had tracks stall just before the end of the song. I'm not
transcoding either. Didn't you start a thread about this? (I can't seem
to find it now.)
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I got it back yesterday, and funnily enough two hours after setting it
up again it died again.
Harsh. I'd bell Citizens Advice and look at rejecting it as not fit for
purpose and getting a refund.
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Now I don't use iTunes, but does this behaviour persist after a rescan?
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Plain ol' boring here:
Off: Time, no seconds.
On, stopped: Now Playing
On, playing: spectrum analyzer
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Mark Lanctot's
Steve. I changed the port from 9000 to 9100. Slim Server WILL start
now.
HOWEVER, the browser interface isn't working. Firefox prompts to Open
a program from Localhost 9000 - here's the message when I switched to
Internet Explorer -
.NETÁSystem.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException:
amcluesent wrote:
I got it back yesterday, and funnily enough two hours after setting it
up again it died again.
Harsh. I'd bell Citizens Advice and look at rejecting it as not fit for
purpose and getting a refund.
Why not contact Slim Devices directly in the first instance? Their
customer
Search the forum for icecast. You then tune into this stream as if it
was an Internet radio station.
(Rant, not directed at you in particular) I'm not sure why this request
is so popular. You'll also hear the various boops, beeps and YOU'VE
GOT MAIL!!-type announcements Windows likes.
Also
Off Stopped: Date/Time, no seconds
Playing: Now playing
On the Transporter, I have the VU meters going just because there's
nothing else to do with the second display, but I usually turn the
display off completely when listening. It's more distracting than
anything else.
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Jim
You would need something in your router or on your network.
What I have might get a little close - I run 'SmoothWall'
(http://www.smoothwall.org/) on an old PC.
SmoothWall reports traffic stats in an aggregate fashion, but being
Linux, it almost certainly can be customized to show real-time
You need to specify the new port when trying to access SS. Use:
http://localhost:9100/
Not sure about the timed out message, but it sounds like a firewall
problem.
Steve.
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I ripped a four CD set (A Night Out with Verve) and it shows up in some
spots, but not others. For example, the album title shows in music
folders, but none of the disk subdirectories/songs appear. However, if
you go in through genres (Jazz) everything is fine.
I tend to access the bulk of my
Yeah I'm doing a variation of that.
I bought a separate 500GB drive for my music files, and instead of
giving it a drive letter, I just mapped it to D:\media
That paired with a 500GB USB drive lets me keep my music in one place
and have a backup strategy.
About removing junctions without
SteveEast;185427 Wrote:
You need to specify the new port when trying to access SS. Use:
http://localhost:9100/
Not sure about the timed out message, but it sounds like a firewall
problem.
Steve.
Steve,
It was a firewall problem - not with McAfee, but with Windows Firewall.
I
Mark Lanctot;185416 Wrote:
I'm not sure why this request is so popular.
Off the top of my head, wouldn't it let me play a CD through my stereo
without ripping it first?
When my old Denon CD player (circa 1985, with rosewood side panels!)
died, I didn't bother to replace it, because I've got
Thanks. I tried this before in Notepad and simply didn't scroll far
enough to find the settings! Another simple question...I see a
rectangular box symbol at the end of each setting statement. Is it
necessary to add this if I include the innodb variable? If so, what is
it??
Thanks. Jim
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Mark Lanctot;185416 Wrote:
Search the forum for icecast. You then tune into this stream as if it
was an Internet radio station.
(Rant, not directed at you in particular) I'm not sure why this request
is so popular. You'll also hear the various boops, beeps and YOU'VE
GOT MAIL!!-type
jfo;185447 Wrote:
Thanks. I tried this before in Notepad and simply didn't scroll far
enough to find the settings! Another simple question...I see a
rectangular box symbol at the end of each setting statement. Is it
necessary to add this if I include the innodb variable? If so, what is
it??
TimothyB;185444 Wrote:
Off the top of my head, wouldn't it let me play a CD through my stereo
without ripping it first?
Yes, you're right, it would.
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haunyack;185452 Wrote:
Control panel/Sound/sounds/sound scheme/no sounds will turn off the
various boops,bleeps and 'YOU'VE GOT MAIL!!-type announcements
Windows likes
Tried that but various other programs like installing their own little
sound bytes which crop up unexpectedly.
The other
Mark Lanctot;185467 Wrote:
Tried that but various other programs like installing their own little
sound bytes which crop up unexpectedly.
The other day I was trying some sort of DVD archiving tool which played
a loud, long and very annoying cutesy calypso tune when it finished
archiving a
haunyack;185468 Wrote:
No options in the app for supressing cutesy jingles?
Probably, but I was more interested in uninstalling it rather than
searching for it!
OK - I'm sorry if I attacked anyone's pet feature here. I guess it
doesn't fit with my usage pattern and I have a hard time
Mark Lanctot;185469 Wrote:
Probably, but I was more interested in uninstalling it rather than
searching for it!
OK - I'm sorry if I attacked anyone's pet feature here. I guess it
doesn't fit with my usage pattern and I have a hard time understanding
why people want to use it this way.
JFO, the my.tt file was written out with only carriage returns, not
carriage return / line feed combinations as notepad requires. You can
load it in WordPad which will handle that and write it out with the
CR/LF combos so notepad can then open it.
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I know this must have been asked before but I was wondering what the
prercentage is of Windows vs Linux as the OS of choice for running SS.
I am going to take the plunge into the world of Linux soon so I was
just being curious.
p.s. I tried to do a poll but I couldnt figure out how to do it :o
fast eddie wrote:
I know this must have been asked before but I was wondering what the
prercentage is of Windows vs Linux as the OS of choice for running SS.
Since 95% of the world or so runs Windoze, if you ran such a poll, and
got even 93% SlimServer on Linux, it would be a very high amount.
Take a look here
http://www.hergest.demon.co.uk/Music/slim/PlaylistManPlugin.htm
This works for me but seems not to do so if you also have TracStat
installed.
This is a known issue with my plugin - it's because currently Slimserver API
only allows one plugin to override a key, no matter what
I'll try the command line and see what happens. The only odd thing is
that I've not had any problems with it since I went to an earlier build
of 6.5.1 a couple of months back. It's been running straight through
since then.
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I know this must have been asked before but I was wondering what the
prercentage is of Windows vs Linux as the OS of choice for running SS.
I am going to take the plunge into the world of Linux soon so I was
just being curious.
I primarily run OS X and Slimserver has been trouble free from the
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Yeah I'm doing a variation of that.
I bought a separate 500GB drive for my music files, and instead of
giving it a drive letter, I just mapped it to D:\media
That paired with a 500GB USB drive lets me keep my music in one place
and have a backup strategy.
About removing
Mark Lanctot wrote:
Search the forum for icecast. You then tune into this stream as if it
was an Internet radio station.
(Rant, not directed at you in particular) I'm not sure why this request
is so popular. You'll also hear the various boops, beeps and YOU'VE
GOT MAIL!!-type announcements
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fast eddie wrote:
I know this must have been asked before but I was wondering what the
prercentage is of Windows vs Linux as the OS of choice for running SS.
I am going to take the plunge into the world of Linux soon so I was
just being curious.
p.s. I tried to do a poll but I couldnt
jonheal wrote:
I guess that means I'm stupid.
no, you seem to have missed
All IMHO, of course.
and the implied :-), :-P, etc
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Steven Moore wrote:
Netgear DG834G.
It's works excellently with all the computers in the house, all macs 1
wireless, 2 wired and 1 sb wired. It's just the sb that gives the
trouble.
As I said power cycling the router every morning 'cured' the problem.
My Draytek has some problems where
I have AlienBBC installed (I'm using Mac OS X) and it turns out that my
Squeezebox will indeed play MLB Gameday Audio streams. But of course,
what I have to do is navigate to the site, log in, get the stream
playing on my Mac, and then translate the stream URL and paste it in to
Slim Server.
I
Thanks Mark. Indeed it can be done with dd-wrt router firmware which
supports ntop statistics tool
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I did it, the key issue was replacing mysql with a self-compiled binary
(5.0.36)
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Have anyone tried to send stream FROM slimserver TO icecast2 for
distribute the same stream to multiple computers/clients?
I have tried this both on winxp and linux, but the behaviour is the
same. Slimserver runs wild and start skipping tracks.
I tried to pick up the stream with
I just got a new Apple Airport Extreme 802.11n base station and
initially managed to set up my existing Squeezebox on it with no
trouble. But suddenly yesterday it lost its connection and now it
cannot gain access to the DHCP server to get an IP address. I did not
change anything, and multiple
Ya, harsh, incredibly irritating.
I will.
This post does not want to be a criticism of ripcaster.co.uk, who were
swift in apologizing, offering a refund and taking it back for repairs
instead when I asked them to. I just wanted to give that Transporter
another chance...
Does anyone know
I just clicked the refresh DHCP server button (or something like that)
in the Networking panel of System Utilities, and now it works fine.
Thanks for the help!
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This happens to me once in a while also. I go to server settings, and
internet setup. I find that my Live 365 setup is missing/empty. I
punch in my username and password again, and all is well.
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I can't remember the syntax of the file at the moment; I'll post it later if
you are interested.
Inside your slimserver installation folder go to .\server\IR\, and create a
file called custom.map.
Inside the file, enter:
[playlist]
add.single = add
add.hold=
gbruzzo wrote:
Ya, harsh, incredibly irritating.
I will.
So, you find me suggesting an approach that will most likely get you a
result to be harsh and irritating?
Whatever.
R.
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I rolled the software back to v6.3.1 and that did the trick. Obviously,
as the bugs that were reported pointed out, v6.5.1 is the culprit, at
least when it comes to using Apple Lossless.
Thanks to everyone for your help.
Craig
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I heard there is a plugin to alert me when I receive new mail. Can I
make a suggestion? Is it possible to please modify the box so that it
can read the e-mail out loud (and can I also request a sexy female
speach engine voice please)? It would be real cool if there were a
button on the remote
are you seeing this with compilations / misc. artist albums?
if yes, you are probabaly seeing this bug:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4516
should that be the case, you may want to vote for it.
best regards,
dom
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I have also had tracks stall just before the end of the song. I'm not
transcoding either. Didn't you start a thread about this? (I can't seem
to find it now.)
Yes, in the beta forum (the thread is titled Slimserver not always
transitioning between tracks), since I'm running 6.5.2, which isn't
Ok, I have a large flac library that is linked to my slimserver. I also
have a large itunes library that I do not want to link to slimserver for
2 reasons. 1 - lots of duplicates in the 2 libraries. 2- I would like
to filter what is high quality and what is steve jobs.
However, I have an
roll - gybe;185579 Wrote:
I tried putting a shortcut to the album in the my music folder, but it
won't play. i updated the library before trying to play it. Is this
because of do not use itunes? is it an m4p
m4p = protected (to use the apple term). You want m4a.
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mlsstl;185436 Wrote:
I ripped a four CD set (A Night Out with Verve) and it shows up in some
spots, but not others. For example, the album title shows in music
folders, but none of the disk subdirectories/songs appear. However, if
you go in through genres (Jazz) everything is fine.
If they
Everything has been lovely for the first month of ownership of the
squeezebox 3. But just tonight I restarted my computer, and upon
rebooting I discovered the squeezebox was asleep and slimserver won't
start. If I hit the start button it just goes back to start server
after a few seconds of
...uninstall Slimserver, delete the preferences, reinstall. That was
how I solved the same problem. This will wipe out any customizations
you made so record your settings. The pref file you need to delete is
user/Library/SlimDevices/slimserver.pref
By any chance were you tweaking the
If by deleting you mean dragging the slim devices folder in to the trash
and deleting, then I did that. I then reinstalled 6.5.2 and it still
does the same thing. I tried deleting the .pref file a bit ago and
when I tried to start the server again it just recreated it but still
does not work.
Let's see if it's an issue with your user prefs: Open your System
Preferences and create a new user. Log into this user and install the
SS software. Since you can set it so is starts on boot it shouldn't
matter who has the SS server running.
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kphinney;185592 Wrote:
Let's see if it's an issue with your user prefs: Open your System
Preferences and create a new user. Log into this user and install the
SS software. Since you can set it so is starts on boot it shouldn't
matter who has the SS server running.
It works fine with a
Are you good with letting it run under a new user? It shouldn't affect
the Mac's performance. To be honest, I'm at the limit of my knowledge.
It appears that some preference is in conflict with another, but I
don't know how to resolve it. You can set the server to start at boot
and forget
kphinney;185594 Wrote:
Are you good with letting it run under a new user? It shouldn't affect
the Mac's performance. To be honest, I'm at the limit of my knowledge.
It appears that some preference is in conflict with another, but I
don't know how to resolve it. You can set the server to
Thanks Mark,
After I rescanned my library those songs showed up in SS. Haven't
checked if they will appear when searching the SB3 via remote
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I don't think it is a permissions issue. Everything in my directory has
the same ownership and permissions. And it may be related to the bug
noted, but it is hard to tell because I'm not a playlist user.
I ended up clearing the library and rescanning everything and the
directories showed up
What you're doing should work I believe. What actually happens when you
try to play the track? Can you supply a d_source debug log?
Steve.
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utowana wrote:
I've owned a SB for over a year and, after my wife and daughter, it
would be the next thing I grab in a house fire.
I understand the sentiment, but my SB would be the LAST thing I
grab in a fire.
Yes, sir. That's where I had my Transporter. Er, both
Best of luck and please let me know if you find a fix.
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Robin Bowes;185568 Wrote:
gbruzzo wrote:
Ya, harsh, incredibly irritating.
I will.
So, you find me suggesting an approach that will most likely get you a
result to be harsh and irritating?
Whatever.
R.
I do not think his remarks refer to your suggestion.
Give him some space,
buckleup;185596 Wrote:
After I rescanned my library those songs showed up in SS. Haven't
checked if they will appear when searching the SB3 via remote
The player is powered by SlimServer and uses the same database. Think
of the player interface as a different version of the web interface.
i_have_a_question wrote:
I heard there is a plugin to alert me when I receive new mail. Can I
make a suggestion? Is it possible to please modify the box so that it
can read the e-mail out loud (and can I also request a sexy female
speach engine voice please)? It would be real cool if there
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