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Found it!
When I looked at the Artist Info for the tracks in Media Player (v11),
each one had the Album Artist set correctly but the Artist tag was
empty.
So my guess is that SlimServer doesn't look at the Album Artist tag.
The same problem is in 6.5.3.
I updated the Artist tags and did a
On 12-Jul-07, at 10:21 PM, atlslim wrote:
Nigel and kdf are working on this currently and Nigel has confirmed a
fix for the Nokia 800. A suitable patch/updated file for the 770 should
be forthcoming...
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5093
needless to say, this means it is
Hi,
I've developed a Slimserver gadget for Google Desktop. This lets you
remotely control your Slimserver players.
# Displays the album cover art for the current track
# Supports multiple players
# Displays a popup notification with details of what track is playing
# Play, pause and skip tracks
mattybain;214175 Wrote:
Not working so well here. Main problems are that the display doesn't
want to update and that the FWD button doesn't seem to do anything.
Apart from that it is looking sweet.
What version of Slimserver are you runnning?
Have you configured the server address and
Not working so well here. Main problems are that the display doesn't
want to update and that the FWD button doesn't seem to do anything.
Apart from that it is looking sweet.
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JoyrexJ9;214178 Wrote:
What version of Slimserver are you runnning?
Have you configured the server address and player name in the options
(right click - Options)?
BTW - The display update is not realtime, it's controlled by a refresh
interval (also in the options) the default is 40
JoyrexJ9;214166 Wrote:
Hi,
I've developed a Slimserver gadget for Google Desktop. This lets you
remotely control your Slimserver players.
# Displays the album cover art for the current track
# Supports multiple players
# Displays a popup notification with details of what track is
Is this anything to do with the fact that you have security setup on the
NAS box. Slimserver runs as a local system service and will therefore
get access denied when trying to view files on the NAS.
Have you tried configuring this to run with your account password?
Not sure about ITunes
Fletch;189354 Wrote:
And with unison, it's twice as scary. Unison is basically a two-way
rsync so if the backup somehow gets destroyed those changes will be
propagated back to the main storage.
Yes I should have mentioned that originally! However, I am happy to
carry on using unison until I
I have had similar problems, while upgrading to SS 6.5.3 and iTunes 7.3.
It seems there are some incompatibilites in the way the latest versions
of iTunes and SS handle tags.
Solution for me what to delete all Composer and AlbumArtist tags in
iTunes.
Richard_2482;210603 Wrote:
I have noticed
grein002;214195 Wrote:
OK, I must be a moron -- how do I add this to my Google desktop? I've
added stuff before, but always from their list or by URL. I tried
adding by URL (using the link on Ben's page for downloading the gadget
-- the link does allow me to download it to my computer), but
Mark Lanctot;214182 Wrote:
JoyrexJ9: thanks very much for your work! Would you be so kind as to
post it to http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginRemoteControls ?
Thanks!
Sure thing... Done!
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mattybain;214200 Wrote:
SlimServer Version: 6.5.2 - 11665 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Yes everything is configured fine, it finds the server and also the
players(3). I thought it could be because I was using softsqueeze but
it is the same with all the players.
The FWD button does work
darrenyeats wrote:
From what I've read from your link, rsnapshot isn't what I want. It
seems rsnapshot is great for, erm, snapshots. But snapshots aren't
backups.
I want backups for when a disk fails, and it seems rsnapshot, by
relying on hard links, is not intended to propagate data
On 13-Jul-07, at 6:54 AM, bklaas wrote:
Therefore, what do you think about backing out the user agent redirect
altogether? The problem I see arising is that even if we cover all the
current Nokia user agent strings, new versions of Opera on the Nokia
tablet may again change the user agent
I use this skin and have not encountered the problem described.
Do you have Javascript enabled on you 770?
Do the players also retain the playlist information although the music
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I am a long time Rhapsody subscriber and would like to get off players
that rely on UPnP to Rhapsody running on a local PC, but I have a
couple of questions:
1) When linked directly to Rhapsody do I just see my Rhapsody music
library or can I also directly search all of rhapsody and play and/or
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jleinbach;214222 Wrote:
I am a long time Rhapsody subscriber and would like to get off players
that rely on UPnP to Rhapsody running on a local PC, but I have a
couple of questions:
1) When linked directly to Rhapsody do I just see my Rhapsody music
library or can I also directly search
In association with Zenon-Media and the Fraunhofer Institute of
Erlangen, French Broadcaster Radio Classique has launched at NAB 2007
in Las Vegas a streamed surround 5.1 Webradio.
Stream URL == http://str2.creacast.com:86/
And for those who read french :
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It's not hard to switch to SqueezeNetwork.
Searching is very easy, you can even search via the SN website. Go
give it a try. :)
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Thanks for the insanely fast response. A couple follow up questions:
1) I don't want to go the SlimServer 7 trunk route because then
everything is reliant on the PC being up and running (I'd rather just
lose the local stuff if it get's itself in trouble). How cumbersome is
the 'switching'
I wondering if there any posibility with SlimServer to add only new
folder/files to existing library without scanning all the files again
?
If I choose look for new and changed music it's take almost the same
time as clear library and rescan everything. It's waste of time in
case when I want to
Hi Andy,
From the streaming info the radio is broadcasted in content type MP3S.
However even if the SB is a 2 channel media it should be able to open
the stream as the stream is claimed compatible with any other
players...
Quote from Zenon-Media :
Zenon-Media joined the Fraunhofer Institut of
Actually, it will play but because of the content-type audio/mp3s you
need to edit types.conf to add this to the mp3 line.
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I don't see where that device can play streams from Slimserver, aside
from stream.mp3, but then you need a laptop to choose music, and you
might as well just use Softsqueeze.
If you only want Internet radio, that's fine, but a lot of us prefer
our own libraries :)
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That which
I've checked in support for audio/mp3s.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/13/freecoms-musicpal-wifi-radio-now-on-pre-order/
Isn't this what you're talking about ?
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This is a pretty nice stream actually, 192k too. I do hear some audio
glitches every once in a while, maybe this is from the extra surround
data? It also needs better formatted title metadata. :)
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hi, there seem to be so many posts on this, but I ca;t find the right
one. On QNAP which directory (assuming defaul install) are the
settings saved in, so I can perform a manual backup and restore if thee
is an issue??
Does this save directory locations, plugins etc or are the multiple
Browse Music Folder will do exactly what you want.
Just browse to the new album and it will be added to the database.
Unfortunately, cover art won't be included, but you can play it.
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Yeah, I've got the same here, some glitches but the program is really
nice with a mix of classical and movie soundtrack...
Thanks Andy It worked all right now after editing types.conf, it took
me a little long my server is on ...Mac, it wasnot easy to find the
file...
Now my output is Dolby
AC3 was a bit of a joke, we won't really be doing that. :)
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andyg;214270 Wrote:
More info: http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/EN/bf/amm/mp3sur/index.jsp
It does sound similar to Prologic.
Could be - although they're light on the specifics, they do say:
MP3 Surround enables high-quality surround sound at bit rates comparable
to those currently used to
Hi,
I just upgraded Slimserver 6.3 to 6.5.3, using the Suse10.1 system's
mysql server.
My Server is a VIA C3 / 1Ghz 256MB
my music consists of 1400 albums with 18434 songs by 560 artists.
Basically everything works fine so far, only when I browse my music for
genres, the cpu load goes to 100%
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Here are the relevant settings in /etc/my.cnf:
[mysqld]
innodb
port= 3306
socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-locking
innodb_fast_shutdown = 1
max_connections = 4
thread_concurrency= 4
key_buffer = 32M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_cache = 256
sort_buffer_size
More info: http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/EN/bf/amm/mp3sur/index.jsp
It does sound similar to Prologic.
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Reading the latest news about the CRB and Internet Radio rates, I'm
struck by the royalty formula
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/07/webcasters_face_music
Webcasting royalty payments for Jan. 1, 2006, to July 1, 2007, due
under the new scheme would total $.000762 times the
Synced players on radio stations automatically proxy the stream through
SlimServer. While on SN, each player will make a separate HTTP
connection to the audio server.
There is some good news today though: http://blog.wired.com/music/
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Thanks, Andy, that's good to know about the architecture.
The business/political news is somewhat encouraging, but it seems more
encouraging for mid/large outfits like Pandora and Live365, and less
encouraging for small outfits like Folk Alley and Twang City.
We need to keep calling our
What OS are you using?
If it's Windows, 256 MB is marginal.
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The NAS has no security setup ... and a different XP box was accessing
it with slimserver just fine.
But I tried that anyway. I tried to set Slimserver to run as a Network
service and also under my account.
When I set it as a network service, it started to startup and then
would stop.
When
I'd like to add that all other ways of browsing are AMAZINGLY FAST. Way
faster than at my 6.3 installation. Only broswing for genres that
contains lots of albums in my database like Rock and Pop take INSANELY
long time.
Therefore I assume that it is not about my relatively weak hardware,
nor
As Mark says, and... try running scanner.exe from the command prompt. I
added this to the end of my ripping/copying scripts and it seems to spot
and add new music very quickly.
Ceejay
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tyler_durden;212676 Wrote:
Where would you use such a portable device?
Slimserver is wireless. Where wouldn't I use one?!
answer: anywhere my wireless doesn't reach - other than that I'd take
it all around my house. Not all of us have the money or the space to
put a squeezebox, amplifier
deadwood;214263 Wrote:
Now my output is Dolby Prologic on 5 channels
Note that you can apply Pro-Logic to any 2-channel source, so this mode
wasn't necessarily triggered by the stream.
You may want to search on this forum regarding Dolby Digital
pass-through. There are some solutions but
ceejay;214314 Wrote:
As Mark says, and... try running scanner.exe from the command prompt. I
added this to the end of my ripping/copying scripts and it seems to spot
and add new music very quickly.
I can't think why the scanner run from the command line would be any
faster than launching it
7eva;214237 Wrote:
If I choose look for new and changed music it's take almost the same
time as clear library and rescan everything. It's waste of time in
case when I want to add something new.
I used to think the same thing, but after actually timing it realized
that there's a significant
Is it possible to play music on a non-modified xbox 360 streamed from a
slimserver?
Thanks
Bert
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I, personally, have a rather complicated strategy.
I rip all my CD's to FLAC for archival purposes, but do to disk space
costs, I keep my online storage in MP3.
I store my MP3's on a RAID array, and backup weekly to a second hard
drive in an external moveable enclosure.
My FLAC's I currently
Maybe it is just me, but I am having an issue with the latest release,
6.5.3 downloaded July 13th (is that an omen?). In any event I do prefer
to be able to see what album/artist I am listening to on occasion. (i.e.
there's a problem with the cut, so I want to know what I need to fix) So
6.5.3
Mike White;214365 Wrote:
Maybe it is just me, but I am having an issue with the latest release,
6.5.3 downloaded July 13th (is that an omen?). In any event I do prefer
to be able to see what album/artist I am listening to on occasion. (i.e.
there's a problem with the cut, so I want to know
I'd like to encourage everyone with SlimServer 6.5.3 issues to create
separate discussion threads.
This thread now locked
Mickey
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NWP;214315 Wrote:
Not all of us have the money or the space to put a squeezebox, amplifier
and speakers in every room of our homes. I'd like one squeezebox for my
main stereo and I'd use a boombox everywhere else. Even in my
bedroom... Why should I need an amp with speakers in my bedroom?
Here's a weird one...
We use our Squeezebox almost exclusively through Squeezenetwork (for
Pandora and streaming net stations).
Quite often when we play the stream for our local NPR affiliate, KQED,
which we have as one of our favorites, the SB freezes, there's a very
loud pop out the analog
Since upgrading from a recent 6.5.3 nightly to 6.5.3 release (or 6.5.4
nightly) I am having the scanner die with a SQL error:
== slimserver.log ==
frame 13: Slim::Music::Import::runImporter
(/usr/local/slimserver/Slim/Music/Import.pm line 265)
frame 14: Slim::Music::Import::runScan
Well, the reason it was not caught by QA is because it's not a bug! Go
to Player Settings, and on the Basic Settings page look for Title
Format. Change it to something like TRACKNUM. TITLE from ALBUM by
ARTIST or one of the other choices.
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What URL are you using as there are MP3, WMA, quicktime and Realaudio
streams.
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snarlydwarf;214370 Wrote:
Is this on the SB display only or also on the web interface? If only
the SB display: press Now Playing on the remote until it shows what
you want. Each press will go through one of the chosen displays...
accidentally pressing it while it is already showing the
andyg;214382 Wrote:
Well, the reason it was not caught by QA is because it's not a bug! Go
to Player Settings, and on the Basic Settings page look for Title
Format. Change it to something like TRACKNUM. TITLE from ALBUM by
ARTIST or one of the other choices.
Okay, I have changed the
I bought - a number of months ago - a setup that allowed me to broadcast
my music (via SB2) to a pair of speakers that could be either battery
powered or plugged in.
It is not the best thing in the world, but we can put the speakers
anywhere, either with or without batteries (we have never used
Yeah it's a bit confusing, the server formatting pref is for when you
view titles from the web interface. Player formatting is for viewing
on the player.
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Looks like Congress has flexed it's muscle:
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/07/webcasters_face_music
Great work everyone who called.
Everyone who hasn't should still call and put their word in to their
representatives.
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Andy, looks like that solution is no longer effective.
Any other ideas?
thanks
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Question: Who can we boycott to protest this situation?
Dollars are the only arguments these people understand. Threaten them
with a loss of sales, and maybe they'll start behaving reasonably.
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The SlimDevices Picks by Webcaster Radioio still is working for me.
Occasionally the stream is interupted by ads but the link still works.
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2 SB3, 1 TP, 1 SoftSqueeze
10,000 tracks FLAC, 6,000MP3
Hi there. I can't get my squeezebox3 to connect to my wireless network.
I can't get it to connect to the squeeze network or my computer. I have
a dlink dva-g3340s adsl voip wireless router with a extra range aerial,
so wireless strength is not the problem. I am using vista with the
latest
NWP;214315 Wrote:
Slimserver is wireless. Where wouldn't I use one?!
answer: anywhere my wireless doesn't reach - other than that I'd take
it all around my house. Not all of us have the money or the space to
put a squeezebox, amplifier and speakers in every room of our homes.
I'd
It's working now, but it wasn't earlier.
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WTF? I upgraded to 6.5.3 and everything is working.perfectly.
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bdelp;214437 Wrote:
WTF? I upgraded to 6.5.3 and everything is working.perfectly.
Give it time. :)
Seriously though - Very few known bugs remain in this release. I think
the developers and QA did an outstanding job of making sure that 6.5.3
was well-tested and that nearly all of the
Sorry about that. Now you will have to find something else to do this
weekend, while you're listening to your music instead of having fun
debugging Slimserver.
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It's been my experience that 6.5.x (latest 6.5.3) is the worst POS
software I've ever had the misfortune of using, bar none.
If you press the stop button on an AACplus internet radio stream,
SlimServer locks up and may render the server unusable without a
reboot.
If a .ogg internet radio stream
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I'm an EE software developer. I've actually worked at companies where
there is software QA.
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On 13-Jul-07, at 10:49 PM, andy_c wrote:
I'm an EE software developer. I've actually worked at companies where
there is software QA.
Since you have pointed it out, I'm sure that as a professional, you are
well aware of the need to respect others in the industry and refrain
from the widely
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