Re: [slim] Hide UPnP devices from menu ?

2007-09-02 Thread kdf
On 1-Sep-07, at 10:24 PM, erland wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to hide/remove the UPnP device menu entries in the web interface and SqueezeBox menus ? --noupnp in the startup command args should remove any upnp support. -kdf ___

Re: [slim] Help with Slimserver installation

2007-09-02 Thread davep
Try something simple first - turn off/disable both your antivirus and your firewall and see what happens. If you get SlimServer and your SB to work properly then you reactivate each of the disabled programs and see which one is the culprit. On the firewall you need TCP and UDP exceptions for

Re: [slim] Microwave ovens (revisited)

2007-09-02 Thread danco
Pat Farrell;224416 Wrote: danco wrote: Nobody has yet commented that changing the wireless channel can often solve microwave interference problems. It does work sometimes. Worth a try. But I never had any luck with it. Worked fine for me. I used to have dropouts whenever I used the

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread Listener
erland;224500 Wrote: IMO the problem isn't the open source model, the problem is that there needs to be a single person/group that decides how all users wants it to work. As you have already said, the current SlimServer tries to make everyone happy, the result is that it makes some

Re: [slim] Deezer!

2007-09-02 Thread -Stef-
Ramage;224436 Wrote: You're almost there. The instructions are not very clear, but you need to navigate to the Plugins menu on the Squeezebox using the remote, then move up/down to find wavein then press play. If you have an output from your PC audio card then this should now stream to

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread erland
Listener;224509 Wrote: iTunes is one music player program that has a decent user interface. Its design decisions are not inevitable in a program with a good user interface design. Bill I think we are talking about two different things: 1. A good user interface design and user friendly

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread amcluesent
But Apple still have to make and publish on-line 'how-to' videos for itunes/ipod, so there must be noobs who don't find it easy. Apple's 'we know best' attitude is why itunes automagically alters tags and moves files around. Not what I want! But as I use customised CustomBrowse and MusicInfoScr

Re: [slim] Deezer!

2007-09-02 Thread Ramage
-Stef-;224519 Wrote: I see it in my Plugins menu but when I press play I only get white noise out of my speakers. BTW the file format says FLAC when I play a song with the Deezers embedded player. edit: I unticked the FAC format in the SS settings/file types so now only the WAV and the

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread Michael Herger
Well, the V7 beta interface is different... That's just a new skin. It's the same interface. A new skin doesn't automatically meen the same interface. Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Deezer!

2007-09-02 Thread -Stef-
Ramage;224525 Wrote: Which OS are you running? In any event, you need to ensure that you have enabled Wave Out on your Volume control settings Recording Control Wave Out Mix. This ensures that the output of your sound card is input to the recording mixer. I have Windows 2000 running but

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread Siduhe
erland;224500 Wrote: I think you are correct in that combining both these user categories in the same software can be extremely hard, so branching a version to support category 1 might be a good idea. Or maybe even build something completely new to support this category. However, I don't

[slim] Text file for music library?

2007-09-02 Thread mphearn
I would like to create a text file containing lists of Artists, Albums and Song Titles contained in my Music Library. Is this possible? If so please advise how. Many thanks. Malcolm H -- mphearn mphearn's Profile:

Re: [slim] Deezer!

2007-09-02 Thread Ramage
-Stef-;224533 Wrote: I have Windows 2000 running but that doesn't seem to have that option in its Volume control settings. Sorry I have no knowledge of W2K, and cannot be more specific. Try checking your sound facilities through Control Panel. -- Ramage T5500 1.6GHz, Slimserver 6.5.4 -

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread Michael Herger
Well, the V7 beta interface is different... To give some more details about the changes: one target is to simplify the access to SlimServer by hiding the numerous, but rather seldom used items. The main menu should be much easierly accessible than before. If you're interested in how it's

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread Marc Sherman
erland wrote: IMO the problem isn't the open source model, the problem is that there needs to be a single person/group that decides how all users wants it to work. As you have already said, the current SlimServer tries to make everyone happy, the result is that it makes some advanced

Re: [slim] SS 6.5.4 - IE Frame Refresh

2007-09-02 Thread 04dgmsilv
This does not change the outcome. I tried it on all three laptops and the desktop that has SS running on it. Still does the same thing. Any other thoughts? -- 04dgmsilv 04dgmsilv's Profile:

Re: [slim] SS 6.5.4 - IE Frame Refresh

2007-09-02 Thread Michael Herger
This does not change the outcome. I tried it on all three laptops and the desktop that has SS running on it. Still does the same thing. Any other thoughts? Is the server still running or has it crashed? Can you open http://yourserver:9000/status_header.html? Michael

Re: [slim] Help with Slimserver installation

2007-09-02 Thread cavediver
davep;224506 Wrote: Try something simple first - turn off/disable both your antivirus and your firewall and see what happens. If you get SlimServer and your SB to work properly then you reactivate each of the disabled programs and see which one is the culprit. On the firewall you need

Re: [slim] SS 6.5.4 - IE Frame Refresh

2007-09-02 Thread 04dgmsilv
SS is still running, all I have to do is a manual refresh of IE and it comes right back. I'll let it play with just that frame open and see what happens. -- 04dgmsilv 04dgmsilv's Profile:

[slim] Artist vs. composer

2007-09-02 Thread jka
I have a small problem or thing that annoys me. I have a lot of music in my library in many different genres. Among those genres are some classical music. Whem I rip my cd's with Itunes, the name of the orchestra usually goes to the artist field and the composer to the composer field. Nothing

Re: [slim] Artist vs. composer

2007-09-02 Thread erland
jka;224590 Wrote: I think, that what I need is a feature that lists artist for all albums and a feature that permits me to, for any single album, to say For this album, I would like to list the composer _instead_ of the artist. Of course, I could edit the information for the albums in

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread erland
Marc Sherman;224561 Wrote: erland wrote: IMO the problem isn't the open source model, the problem is that there needs to be a single person/group that decides how all users wants it to work. As you have already said, the current SlimServer tries to make everyone happy, the

Re: [slim] SS 6.5.4 - IE Frame Refresh

2007-09-02 Thread 04dgmsilv
Well, I ran through an album with that frame only running in the browser and had no lockups. I went back to the normal SS interface in the browser and it is acting just as before??? Confusing... Thanks for the help though, much appreciated. -- 04dgmsilv

[slim] Mac user: should I update to 6.5.4?

2007-09-02 Thread whitman
I'm happily running Slimserver 6.5.1 on OS-X on my iMac. I'm inclined to the 'don't mess if it's working' approach, but am also tempted to update to 6.5.4. I've never updated before: have run with 6.5.1 since the dawn of (my) time. Can some other Mac users advise me? Is it straightforward to

Re: [slim] Artist vs. composer

2007-09-02 Thread jka
erland;224598 Wrote: I think the closest match for a plugin you are going to find is the Custom Browse plugin. It makes it possible to create separate browse menus for Artists and Composers. You can also create different browse menus for classical music and non classical music, only

Re: [slim] Mac user: should I update to 6.5.4?

2007-09-02 Thread Pat Farrell
whitman wrote: I'm happily running Slimserver 6.5.1 on OS-X on my iMac. I'm inclined to the 'don't mess if it's working' approach, but am also tempted to update to 6.5.4. I can't spell Mac, but there is a serious rule in technology: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I ran SlimServer 5.4 for

Re: [slim] Artist vs. composer

2007-09-02 Thread erland
jka;224607 Wrote: The problem is, that I don't want it for all records. For example, Dire Straits, Money For Nothing has Dire Straits as artist and Mark Knopfler/Sting as composer. In this case, I would like to keep the artist in the list. There is no reason that the SQL can't exclude

Re: [slim] Artist vs. composer

2007-09-02 Thread amcluesent
CustomeBrowse should help you. I have mixed genres, so have a used the Composers menu, which reads from the COMPOSER tag. I don't filter this by GENRE, as I never tag non-classical music with composer. Home/Composers Items 1 to 65 of 438 Abel, C F Adams, J Albeniz, I Albero, S Albert, H ...

Re: [slim] Hide UPnP devices from menu ?

2007-09-02 Thread andyg
UPnP can also be disabled in the network settings page. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38109

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread Listener
erland;224520 Wrote: I think we are talking about two different things: 1. A good user interface design and user friendly interface 2. A user interface with a lot of customization possibilities I'm just saying that these two solutions might be hard to combine. It is not an impossible task

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread kdf
On 2-Sep-07, at 1:32 PM, Listener wrote: A good design would have provided some feedback that SS was still scanning and when the scanning was done, would have updated the scree A progress bar for scanning status does exist, but it is not part of the new default skin just yet. You'll

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

2007-09-02 Thread Michael Herger
A progress bar for scanning status does exist, but it is not part of the new default skin just yet. Oh, thanks for the pointer! I'll add it to my todo list right now. Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] gapless flac playback doesn't work (6.5.4 debian/ubuntu)

2007-09-02 Thread ephemere
Not an important feature for me. When I sync my SBs it's usually because I want background music all over the house, and a small gap isn't so critical for background music. -- ephemere ephemere's Profile:

Re: [slim] Mac user: should I update to 6.5.4?

2007-09-02 Thread mikerob
whitman;224608 Wrote: I'm happily running Slimserver 6.5.1 on OS-X on my iMac. I'm inclined to the 'don't mess if it's working' approach, but am also tempted to update to 6.5.4. I've never updated before: have run with 6.5.1 since the dawn of (my) time. Can some other Mac users advise me? Is

Re: [slim] Mac user: should I update to 6.5.4?

2007-09-02 Thread bolfings
I updated - haven't had any problems so far, and doubt I will. Running Intel mini with 10.4.9 - -- bolfings bolfings's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4440 View this thread:

[slim] nb alloc failed in slimproto reboot when wireless bridge is enabled.

2007-09-02 Thread slimnick
Hi All Here's a problem I'm experiencing, and I'm interested if anyone else has seen it, and whether there is a solution. My set-up is a Squeezebox 2 running firmware version 81. The server is 6.5.4 running on Fedora Core 6 x64. The Squeezebox is connected both to LAN and WLAN with the

Re: [slim] Help with Slimserver installation

2007-09-02 Thread davep
cavediver;224574 Wrote: I've done all this on both computers and the scanner still quits with the error. I'm at a loss as to what is the problem. OK, maybe we are looking at the wrong thing here. If the problem is that after some period of scanning your music files the system quits could it

[slim] Advice on Music Manager

2007-09-02 Thread Don Hanson
I listen to my music collection on my Slim Devices and my Dell DJ. I've been using MusicMatch to manage my music as it was originally supplied with my Dell. Since it has been replaced by Yahoo Jukebox, I'm looking at other alternatives. Ideally I'd like something that works will with Slim Devices

Re: [slim] Help with Slimserver installation

2007-09-02 Thread cavediver
davep;224674 Wrote: OK, maybe we are looking at the wrong thing here. If the problem is that after some period of scanning your music files the system quits could it be a problem with something in the music files directory, such as a recursive playlist? Could you try putting a few music

[slim] WTB: Modded Squeezebox 3

2007-09-02 Thread elmalloc
If anyone knows where I can find a used modded Squeezebox 3 (SB3), please let me know. I heard the machine stock has average DACs, but the modded ones are quality. Otherwise the new bolder cable mods are a little expensive but I'd do it... Thanks, ELmO -- elmalloc

Re: [slim] Help with Slimserver installation

2007-09-02 Thread davep
Just for the record, what version of Slimserver are you running (details can be found at the foot of the page when you click on Server Settings)? davep -- davep davep's Profile:

[slim] SB3 24/48 FLAC Spontaneous Trouble

2007-09-02 Thread jt25741
Hi all, I have a rather bazaar scenario with my SB setup. I have for some time been enjoying about 10 or so 24bit/48Khz FLAC encoded albums(decoded on the SB) without issue. These are stored with FLAC 5 Compression(default). The SB has not ever stuttered or had trouble with these same exact