OK, I have a provisional, hacked-up solution as follows. For the record,
this is server version 6.5.1 on linux (though I think this code should
be the same for other operating systems..?)
In /opt/slimserver/Slim/Buttons/BrowseDB.pm, lines 155-158 read:
$client-showBriefly({
'line'= [ $line1,
You can always change it by yourself in your local installation.
Find the file skin.css in the HTML/Fishbone directory i the SlimServer
installation.
Find this section:
Code:
.listing, .listing2, .even, .odd
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
Well
I can't get it to fail again now either!
Nothing has changed on the system but I have come to the conclusion
that it must be something to do with the fact that I run my machine on
a stripped out set of services in services.msc to get maximum
performance. Occasionally this causes me a
As it turns out, the simple modifications above work fine, but they
interfere with adding things to the playlist (it always goes directly
to now playing, even if you just pressed add). So I added in a
couple of if statements.
I've attached the modified files; search in them for bukharin in
order
Hi Marc, thanks. No,the buttons are not hooked up to anything. It
was suprisingly easy to put together, once I had taken the squeezebox
out of the case.
I control it with the remote or thru the web.
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Finally uninstalled McAfee (completely, including fixing winsock after
Mcafee left it busted) and still can't play wma, with only flac
selected.
2007-04-29 07:43:29.9102 e0:16:d1:d3:4e:b3: Switching to mode stop from
playout-stop
2007-04-29 07:43:29.9254 e0:16:d1:d3:4e:b3 New play mode: stop
For anyone who's interested, I've changed all of the English text in
strings.txt to Australian English. This means that favorites becomes
favourites, etc. It's nice to have everything look correct!
An updated strings.txt for server 6.5.1 can be found at my website:
waldy, what is the purpose of the t-amp?
Thanks,
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Hi all,
I realize my thread title is a bit vague, but let me describe what is
going on:
I use an Infrant ReadyNAS to run Slimserver, v 6.5.1. No real issues
to report except recently.
I've been using Random Mix quite a bit lately, and noticed that every
few songs, my SB3 will mute its output
The sockwrtwrapper problem usually show because of additional s/w and
not because s/w is disabled.
The following command (to be run from command line window) will show
all the network s/w that is installed - it might show any non-standard
stuff such as spyware !
netsh winsock show catalog
Can
Hi
Im thinking to buy a squeezebox.
But I am wondering are there any signs or news about a newer version of
the squeezebox being developed and released for sales anytime soon??
If so does anyone have a clue as to what one can expect of a new
version in the form of fuctionality design and such??
Do you now have the standard Windows firewall enabled?
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Purchased a new PC (basic Dell) with Vista about two weeks ago, as it
was time. Vista is definitely proving itself to be buggy with other
applications, but nothing like Silserver. I'm a certified Old Guy, and
not computer literate by any stretch, but I do worship the slimserver
experience, both
I am running SlimServer on Infrant repertoire.
The WMA Lossless files are all present in the server catalogue.
I am unable to play any files because of the above problem.
This is true for a SB3 on a wireless network and SS on a local wired
router.
The SB3 can get to SqueezeNetwork.
The Repertoire
bukharin wrote:
For anyone who's interested, I've changed all of the English text in
strings.txt to Australian English. This means that favorites becomes
favourites, etc. It's nice to have everything look correct!
Ahem. First of all, your subject is missing some subjects (of the Queen,
that
OK, here's a strange one. I have one artist that does not want to be
placed where he belongs. He is Max Richter. Instead of showing up
with the other Max's in the M's, he wants to hang out under Richie
Sambora in the R's. I've cleared out all bogus tag information with
Media Monkey, I-tunes,
A bit of an update. I activated the Show Buffer Fullness feature and
watched it as a new song started from the random mix playlist.
Everything starts fine, but you know how it takes a few seconds for the
title/display information to reset after a new song starts playing?
Well, it appears the
Why does Squeezebox shut down every time I reboot?
It's a problem for me because the box is located about 150 feet from my
pc. I've got to get up, walk to the Squeezebox and restart it with the
remote.
Is there a fix?
Thanks,
Fred
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There is a highlighting feature in the 6.5.2. builds to address this
kind of problem.
Moving the mouse over the list will highlight the active row.
-kdf
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If you find anything I've missed, please let me know!
Have you changed Welcome to Squeezebox to G'day cobber! :)
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since 3-4 weeks I have a similar behavior.
songs stop and restart from the start without a reason.
If it would just tumble and continue it could be a wireless link issue,
but the restart from zero is strange.
I have experienced this with both 6.5.1 and 6.5.2; I have also tried to
swap my 2
I'm thinking SqueezePod, like an SB3 with an iPod dock, so you can
navigate the iPod contents and see it on the SB display and playout on
the SB SPDIF and analog connection.
And SqueezeShow, with an HDMI output able to do video up to 1080p with
support for divx codecs.
Both will exploit the
bukharin;198287 Wrote:
* favorite to favourite
* visualize to visualise
* customize to customise
* synchronize to synchronise
* analyzer to analyser
* analog to analogue
Nearly the same in Canada as well. You also see hard disc.
Although I don't see analogue all that often, it's
Ideas anyone
I'd guess there remains another tag. Have you really used mp3tag to
show all the tags (ID3v1, ID3v2, APE,...) in the file.
Failing that, try using foobar2000 to rewrite the tags.
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amcluesent wrote:
I'm thinking SqueezePod, like an SB3 with an iPod dock, so you can
navigate the iPod contents and see it on the SB display and playout on
the SB SPDIF and analog connection.
And SqueezeShow, with an HDMI output able to do video up to 1080p with
support for divx codecs.
I am using RAID10 (stripe + mirror) on my HP workstation server. I use
4x250G high speed SATA drives. HP workstations have Intel RAID built
in.
RAID 10 has both speed and redundancy advantages. It will continue
working if one drive goes bad. Obviously it makes sense to have a spare
drive handy
On 29-Apr-07, at 7:22 AM, Marc Sherman wrote:
An updated strings.txt for server 6.5.1 can be found at my website:
http://www.bukharin.net/phil/linux/slimdevices/
Any chance of getting this integrated into the server as a proper
localisation so that it's kept in sync with server changes?
On 29-Apr-07, at 9:09 AM, fredila wrote:
Why does Squeezebox shut down every time I reboot?
The Squeezebox is a dumb client. Everything, right down to each letter
of text is sent from the server. Reboot the PC, shuts off the
slimserver application so the squeezebox goes blank.
It's a
Any chance of getting this integrated into the server as a proper
localisation so that it's kept in sync with server changes?
There's an open feature request for doing this (including a possible
patch):
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4828
Feel free to vote for it or whatever :-)
I've been using custom-strings.txt for some time now to alter certain
strings. it avoids the need for a complete strings file saved over the
standard, and it isn't overwritten when you install a new version of
slimserver.
...and using my StringEditor plugin you can even handle this without
For completeness, it would be interesting to see of replacing
socketwrapper by this version
http://homepage.eircom.net/~altondsl/slim/socketwrapper_0.12_20060220.zip
fixes the problem. From your system description it shouldn't but it
helped a few other users in a similar situations. My present
In addition to the restart problem, sometimes the music skips just
like on old LPs. There is an instantaneous interruption and jump
forward in the music stream.
I have tested the files with other players and the music file and
stream is intact, so it seems to be an issue with the server (as I
I am renovating my kitchen (about 15' x 22') and right now it's stripped
to bare walls. I want to put in speakers and some sort of
amplification/power that will attached to a Squeezebox that I intend on
installing in there.
I am thinking 4 in ceiling speakers and a sub woofer, but can be
Go to Server Settings - Debugging and select d_source. Try to play a
few files and post the log here. The log can be accessed from the last
word at the top paragraph, where it says here.
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Hi all,
I have a folder in my music archive like this:
.../lossy/tracks/artistname/filename
These are one-off songs that don't belong to an album. In fact I've
blanked the album field in the tags, to make sure they don't pollute my
'Albums' view.
Problem is, when I try to browse these songs
Thanks for the response.
Unfortunately, I guess I'm one of those users whose system does not
reconnect when I reboot.
Fred
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fredila;198352 Wrote:
Maybe I should have made myself a little clearer.
Not only does it not reconnect. Squeezebox actually shuts down and I
have to repower it.
Fred
that's strange, they always wake and say trying to connect if the
slimserver is down and I press the remote power
Maybe I should have made myself a little clearer.
Not only does it not reconnect. Squeezebox actually shuts down and I
have to repower it.
Fred
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bukharin;198287 Wrote:
For anyone who's interested, I've changed all of the English text in
strings.txt to Australian English...
* favorite to favourite
* visualize to visualise
* customize to customise
* synchronize to synchronise
* analyzer to analyser
* analog to analogue
Isn't
I'm using 6.5.1
I'm on a desktop that sends a hard wired signal from my DSL wired
router to a repeater in another room. The repeater sends a wireless
signal to the Squeezebox.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the input.
Fred
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I've never heard good things about in-wall/in-ceiling speakers. They
are expensive, inflexible and don't sound very good.
It would probably be a better idea to put in a cable run and use
bookshelf speakers on wall mounts.
Then again, I've never done this before. I'm just going from what I
It is almost certainly a wireless bandwidth problem in mik63's case. Go
to Help - Server Network Health and try a few Network Tests, then
Enable Performance Monitoring, play a few tracks and post Player
Statistics here.
The solution is to increase compression. Try FLAC first, go to Server
micke1967;198296 Wrote:
Hi
Im thinking to buy a squeezebox.
But I am wondering are there any signs or news about a newer version of
the squeezebox being developed and released for sales anytime soon??
If so does anyone have a clue as to what one can expect of a new
version in the form of
Is your Server Settings - Formatting - Guess Tags Formats (bottom of the
page) set correctly to take these into account?
There's also a setting to group No Album files by artist. What worked
for me was Server Settings - Behavior - Compliations - Albums that
contain songs that are tagged with a
I listed all the tags in the file. I just installed Foobar2000 and
removed all tag information so Slimserver would use the directory
structure and filenames for the info. Same results.
Added new tag info. Same results. This is really puzzling.
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I like the new addition of the highlighting in 6.5.2, but one possible
improvement would be that when highlighted the entire row becomes a
hyper-link rather than having to move the mouse over the text to select
the item.
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Slimserver
Could you have a stray ARTISTSORT tag ? I seem to recall this will
override any Artist tag, even if completely different from the Artist.
Have a look in Foobar, or add an ARTISTSORT tag of Max Richter. Then
do a full clear and rescan.
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fredila;198359 Wrote:
I'm using 6.5.1
I'm on a desktop that sends a hard wired signal from my DSL wired
router to a repeater in another room. The repeater sends a wireless
signal to the Squeezebox.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the input.
Fred
That helps, is the repeater (Access
I didn't see an Artistsort field in Foobar. In MP3Tag under Extended
Tags there appear to be no tags at all. I removed all tags so this
shouldn't be an issue anyway.
Interestingly, I can pick any song in my library, change the Artist tag
to Max Richter, Album to Blue Notebooks, and that will
Mark Lanctot;198364 Wrote:
Unfortunately SamS' problem is different. It could be a server issue.
The Performance Monitoring - Server Statistics would be of help here.
Thanks for the input. I see the Slimserver screen for Home / Server
Settings / Performance. Where do I go from here?
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I would like to see a digital photo frame styled unit which could
display photos in screen saver mode and a full graphic interface, along
with album art on the unit itself :)
I'd buy that. All the current digital photo frames I've looked at
suck (no
SamS;198389 Wrote:
Thanks for the input. I see the Slimserver screen for Home / Server
Settings / Performance. Where do I go from here?
As I described to mik63:
Mark Lanctot;198364 Wrote:
Go to Help - Server Network Health, then Enable Performance
Monitoring, play a few tracks and post
Hi Mark,
Under Help, I only have:
* Frequently Asked Questions
* Getting Started
* Internet Radio
* Remote Control Reference
* Player Setup
* Remote Streaming
* Technical Information
* Using the Slim Devices Remote
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Thanks Siduhe! Adding the Artistsort tag and rescanning seems to have
resolved my problem. This forum is freakin' awesome!
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Here are the results:
===
Performance Summary : Office
Please queue up several tracks to play on this player and start them
playing. Then press the Reset link below to clear the statistics and
update this display.
Reset
Summary
Control Connection : OK
SamS;198403 Wrote:
Hi Mark,
Under Help, I only have:
* Frequently Asked Questions
* Getting Started
* Internet Radio
* Remote Control Reference
* Player Setup
* Remote Streaming
* Technical Information
* Using the Slim Devices Remote
Looks like you're running an older
mik63;198407 Wrote:
Here are the results:
===
Performance Summary : Office
Please queue up several tracks to play on this player and start them
playing. Then press the Reset link below to clear the statistics and
update this display.
Reset
Summary
Mark Lanctot;198410 Wrote:
Looks like you're running an older SlimServer version that doesn't
support this.
I'm running 6.5.1, should I go to 6.5.2?
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The server is currently collecting performance statistics for this
player.
You may set warning thresholds for each measurement. This will record
in the server log whenever the threshold is exceeded. The most recent
log entries can be viewed here.
Signal Strength
This graph shows the strength of
SamS;198412 Wrote:
I'm running 6.5.1, should I go to 6.5.2?
Go to Server Settings - Plugins and enable Network Test. If the box
above reads Load plugins on-the-fly, or if you change it to this,
simply go back to the home page and the option should reappear.
If you keep it as Load plugins at
I have discovered that the player was not directly connected to my
wireless server but to a WDS repeater and then to the server from
there. I use 2 WDS repeaters (wireless to ETH converters) in other
parts of the house. The WDS have the same SSID of the main wireless
switch to allow transparent
the problem wss not stuttering but skipping this is why I find it
strange...
I can understand the stuttering, but how can it skip a big chunk of
the audio stream and flawlessly start 1/2 a sec. later form a position
in the audio stream that can be 20sec. or 1min later?
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fredila;198352 Wrote:
Maybe I should have made myself a little clearer.
Not only does it not reconnect. Squeezebox actually shuts down and I
have to repower it.
That would be consistent with the bug that many people have reported.
Since the Squeezebox display goes blank when not
I believe so.
Fred
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Marc Sherman;198301 Wrote:
Ahem. First of all, your subject is missing some subjects (of the Queen,
that is). Second of all, it's not Australian English, mate. :)
Yeah, I thought that would get your attention!! ;-)
An updated strings.txt for server 6.5.1 can be found at my website:
fredila;198424 Wrote:
I believe so.
Fred
Ahh, you might be having a NAT timeout problems.. the wifi device the
squeezebox is talking to could be getting confused. It might help if
it were possible to disable DHCP/NAT and run the device in a bridge
only mode. I guess I'd have to know
David, the t-amp is used to drive the speakers
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mik63;198420 Wrote:
I have discovered that the player was not directly connected to my
wireless server but to a WDS repeater and then to the server from
there. I use 2 WDS repeaters (wireless to ETH converters) in other
parts of the house. The WDS have the same SSID of the main wireless
Mark Lanctot;198415 Wrote:
Go to Server Settings - Plugins and enable Network Test. If the box
above reads Load plugins on-the-fly, or if you change it to this,
simply go back to the home page and the option should reappear.
If you keep it as Load plugins at startup only you'll have to
Hi SuperQ,
It's a Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL router.
The items attached to it include the DSL box, a print server and a
connection to the cat5 line that feeds the remote repeater.
Thanks for your help,
Fred
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By the way, I didn't have this problem until I installed Slimserver
6.5.
Fred
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SamS;198436 Wrote:
Thanks Mark, that did it!
I wish it did, it hasn't solved your problem. ;-)
Normally, I have great performance. It is only when the next track from
a Random Mix playlist tries to load it's text data does the buffer ever
fall below 100%. If it only dips to 20% or so,
fredila;198439 Wrote:
By the way, I didn't have this problem until I installed Slimserver 6.5.
Yep.
Another workaround that may work for you is to restart SlimServer
itself on the server. Could keep you from having to get out the remote
and walking 150 feet to the SB. This used to work for
Thanks for the advice. but not knowing anything about flac format -
whats the general info on it and is it as transportable as MP3 - ie to
ipods etc?
Mark.
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The PC board that connects to the Transporter displays, and I believe
the Squeezebox display as well, is named SHOCKER V2 or some sort of
version number (V1.2?)
Is there an amusing story behind this? I know the display uses high
frequency AC, that could tickle stray fingers even at low
Sadly being in the UK we cannot get rhapsody yet Napster or virgin
only...
Mark.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flac
Generally, what you need to know:
- it's lossless
- it's compressed so it saves hard drive space
- it's natively supported on the Squeezebox
- it's easy to stream wirelessly
Unfortunately the iPod doesn't support it unless you use the Rockbox
firmware. But
micke1967;198296 Wrote:
But I am wondering are there any signs or news about a newer version of
the squeezebox being developed and released for sales anytime soon??
They don't talk about what is in the pipeline, but I'm predicting
something will happen around June 1st, based on the fact that
On 29-Apr-07, at 4:59 PM, Mark Lanctot wrote:
Is there an amusing story behind this? I know the display uses high
frequency AC, that could tickle stray fingers even at low voltages.
:-)
shocker was the name of a new player model (presumably just a 'project
name' for Transporter)
There was
kdf wrote:
There was a little bit of code that went into svn about 9 months before
the Transporter announcement
but it got very little notice (I can recall only one post asking about
something called 'shocker'). That's the only story I can tell.
Seriously? C'mon, Sean, can't you lift the
On 29-Apr-07, at 6:39 PM, Marc Sherman wrote:
kdf wrote:
There was a little bit of code that went into svn about 9 months
before
the Transporter announcement
but it got very little notice (I can recall only one post asking about
something called 'shocker'). That's the only story I can
Yeap, to paraphrase Bernstein-Sondheim's West Side Story, something's
coming...
I'm thinking about several possiblities here:
1- A scaled down Logitech branded Squeezebox, produced totally in
China, to be sold at retail outlets.
2 - An enhanced SB with a Sonos like interface. Perhaps a color
Hey All,
I recently received a reasonable request from my roommate to point
my SB3 in the living room at his Windoze PC running Slimserver, so he
can listen to his music library. I thought this would be an easy task,
but I can't seem to find anything in the menu system that would allow
me to
Currently the system is designed for multiple players and one
slimserver. There isn't anything from the web UI, but using the remote,
you can press and hold the left arrow. After a second or two this will
bounce the player into setup mode where you can select a different
server to connect to.
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