[slim] Rescan speed

2007-10-13 Thread KBP
Hi I have SS installed on a Syn Diskstation, and I am about to change my setup. The Diskstation setup is getting too slow for me... I guess SS will be much faster on a 3 ghz Pentium 4 with 1 GB ram. But how fast will the "look for new and changes" - rescan be? I currently have 47 GB with music.

Re: [slim] Itunes artwork in slimserver

2007-10-13 Thread Craig, James (IT)
Hi Pierre, Did you enable the artwork option? It's not on by default. Have a look at Server Settings -> iTunes Update Please note that the plugin only fetches artwork for the currently playing track, so you won't see artwork when you browse the library (other than for tracks that you've played si

[slim] Questions

2007-10-13 Thread PeterDB
Hi, Following the setup of my second SB3 and very soon my 3rd SB3, I have run into a few questions. 1. How do I sync the settings between the players? I know, I can sync the audio, but I would like the interface to be the same also 2. I am running the latest nightly build of SqueezeCenter (as o

Re: [slim] Questions

2007-10-13 Thread Michael Herger
Hi Peter > 1. How do I sync the settings between the players? I know, I can sync > the audio, but I would like the interface to be the same also You can't. That feature has been mentioned before, but it's not implemented. Might be an interesting once you've read that "learning perl" book ;-)

[slim] Manual scan?

2007-10-13 Thread Vallier
Hello, Is there any way to have Slimserver NOT scan? The problem is, due to podcasts, etc,. everytime I turn on the computer, Slimserver starts the 25 minute scan. Can I set it so that I choose when to scan the system rather than it being an automated process? Many thanks, -- Vallier ---

Re: [slim] Nokia 770 Skin

2007-10-13 Thread timmorris
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Re: [slim] Questions

2007-10-13 Thread PeterDB
Hi Michael, As with regards to SQN, I wanted to log onto it, since - like you - I hadn't noticed that features were now in SC, until now that is... I am to used to SS I guess For the settings... hmmm.. my perl is already rusty as it is... studied advanced application development back in the

Re: [slim] Nokia 770 Skin

2007-10-13 Thread NigelMSB
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Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread Peter
Empgamer wrote: > Personally, being a new convert I think it's excellent VFM. > I hate it when I miss out on another buzzword. What's a VFM??? P. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/disc

Re: [slim] Alarm "bell" symbol

2007-10-13 Thread Peter
Michael Herger wrote: >> Hi can anyone tell me if there is Alarm functionaliy in the Date Time >> screen saver that shows the bell symbol on the display if there is an >> alarm set in the next "n" hours (e.g. 12 hours). >> > > I've changed the behaviour in SC7 for exact your reasons: it now sh

Re: [slim] Nokia 770 Skin

2007-10-13 Thread timmorris
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Re: [slim] Unable to Connect to the Radio through SB

2007-10-13 Thread zanash
yes I've the same problem ...it times out before it will connect -- zanash Acoustician and builder of interesting cables zanash's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12157 View this thread: http://for

Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread mflint
Peter;234857 Wrote: > Empgamer wrote: > > Personally, being a new convert I think it's excellent VFM. > > > > I hate it when I miss out on another buzzword. > What's a VFM??? > > P. I guessed "Value For Money". Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (h

Re: [slim] Unable to Connect to the Radio through SB

2007-10-13 Thread bpa
Are you using Squeezenet or SC ? If you are using SC - increase the Timeout under Server Setting/Network/ Internet radio Timeout to say 40 secs. If that doesn't work then check your Router/firewall etc is not blocking access from SB direct to the internet. -- bpa -

Re: [slim] Itunes artwork in slimserver

2007-10-13 Thread isabellep
Hello James: Thanks for your response. I tried to enable the artwork option, but there seems to be a problem with your settings page. With other settings pages, a "save settings" button appears in the bottom left corner of the page. But on your page I don't se any such button. Instead I see the t

Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread Peter
mflint wrote: > Peter;234857 Wrote: > >> Empgamer wrote: >> >>> Personally, being a new convert I think it's excellent VFM. >>> >>> >> I hate it when I miss out on another buzzword. >> What's a VFM??? >> >> P. >> > I guessed "Value For Money". > Sounds plausible, thanks

Re: [slim] Zonealarm crashes Slimserver!

2007-10-13 Thread Sharper
If you've gotten SB to run with ZoneAlarm, please tell me how you did it. I have ZoneAlarm on my PC running XP Pro and also have the Z100G router. I'm getting an IP address from the router but cannot connect to SlimServer. I HAVE opened ports 3483 & 9000 in both TCP and UDP in ZoneAlarm and hav

[slim] Anyone tried running SlimServer on a fit-PC?

2007-10-13 Thread Linzer
Extreme Tech has a review up of a 4.7 x 4.5 x 1.5-inch PC that draws 5-watts of power. IMO 256 MB of RAM would be the limiting factor as would the 500 MHz processor. For smaller music collections this looks pretty attractive for a stand alone, easily hidden server. Comes with Ubuntu 7.04 pre-ins

Re: [slim] Nokia 770 Skin

2007-10-13 Thread bklaas
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Re: [slim] Nokia 770 Skin

2007-10-13 Thread timmorris
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Re: [slim] Rescan speed

2007-10-13 Thread Mark Lanctot
When I was on Windows XP with a 2.8 GHz P4, 512 MB RAM, I could scan ~100 GB of music (3500-some-odd tracks, mostly FLAC) in about 5 minutes. This is a clear-and-rescan scan though, but it actually doesn't take that much longer than a look-for-new-and-changed rescan. Now that I'm on Ubuntu Linux

Re: [slim] Anyone tried running SlimServer on a fit-PC?

2007-10-13 Thread Mark Lanctot
Looks marginal but it would be better than a NAS because the OS is automatically open. It would run even faster with Ubuntu Server on it, or a stripped-down Linux distro like DSL. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost

Re: [slim] Nokia 770 Skin

2007-10-13 Thread bklaas
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Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread st2000
amcluesent;234682 Wrote: > Let's not forget that Logitech shelled out $20M for Slimdevices. I > expect their Treasury have set a hurdle-rate of > 20% for projects, or > they'd be better keeping the money in the bank. The price of SB varies > considerably by country, suggesting that it's priced at

Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread amcluesent
>I remember the first time I set eyes on the squeeze box web pages< So does the Way Back Machine - http://web.archive.org/web/20020726222416/http://www.slimdevices.com/ -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.sl

Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread haunyack
amcluesent;234911 Wrote: > >I remember the first time I set eyes on the squeeze box web pages< > > So does the Way Back Machine - > http://web.archive.org/web/20020726222416/http://www.slimdevices.com/ Thanks for the link. I found the News and Development Log very interesting reading. Just t

Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread st2000
st2000;234906 Wrote: > > But what really caught my eye was the beer next to the parts in the > back ground. If I had lived closer I would have gone over to help out > - I think it would have been fun. > YES... (here it is): http://web.archive.org/web/20021112224742/images.slimdevices.com/pho

Re: [slim] SqueezeFox - Slimserver extension for Firefox

2007-10-13 Thread bephillips
With the update to 0.8.1, it is back to taking a long time to update the track title every time, and at the moment that it is updating, Firefox freezes (OS X spinning beachball) for several seconds. Skipping tracks with Squeezefox 0.8.1 is now sluggish and gives the beachball freeze for a few seco

[slim] Help: Can't rescan iTunes

2007-10-13 Thread meep
All I had my slim server set up to use my iTunes library and it worked great with my multiple soft squeeze instances. (everything on same Win Server 2003 box: slim server, iTubnes, softsqueeze). Yesterday, I wanted to see how FLACs wouyld work with my setup. I used EAC to create a FLAC version

Re: [slim] SB3 auto-on? Help!

2007-10-13 Thread bernt
Found this in the slimserver log at the time of the last "autostart". 2007-10-13 20:07:32.9844 Backtrace: frame 0: Slim::Player::Source::errorOpening (/mnt/slimnas/slimnas/slimserver/Slim/Player/Squeezebox2.pm line 579) frame 1: Slim::Player::Squeezebox2::failedDirectStream (/mnt/slimnas/slimnas

Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread funkstar
st2000;234906 Wrote: > I remember the first time I set eyes on the squeeze box web pages. The > squeeze box (if that's what we called it back then) was in parts on a > work bench. The text said something about: "...waiting for other parts > - then will start building prototypes...". That was th

Re: [slim] SqueezeFox - Slimserver extension for Firefox

2007-10-13 Thread bephillips
The link for v0.8 above still worked, so I successfully downgraded. I'll put up with the superfluous mute button for smooth functionality. Incidentally, I think 0.8.1 was also occasionally breaking playback of tracks: In the middle of a track there would be a crackling artifact or two then playba

Re: [slim] Anyone tried running SlimServer on a fit-PC?

2007-10-13 Thread bonze
Was looking at this one recently: https://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node/241 Seems to have enough memory, although comes with Windows and consumes a bit more power. -- bonze QNAP TS-101 (version 2.1.1 build 0827T) SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11206 - Debian - EN - utf8 2 x wireless SB3 (Firmware Ve

Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread Bill Burns
amcluesent wrote: >> I remember the first time I set eyes on the squeeze box web pages< > > So does the Way Back Machine - > http://web.archive.org/web/20020726222416/http://www.slimdevices.com/ If only they'd been able to spell "hierarchical", who knows what they might have made of themselves..

Re: [slim] Anyone tried running SlimServer on a fit-PC?

2007-10-13 Thread funkstar
bonze;234940 Wrote: > Was looking at this one recently: > https://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node/241 > Seems to have enough memory, although comes with Windows and consumes a > bit more power. That is a very similar spec to a Thecus N5200 NAS box, and that has the advantage of being a 5 drive NAS as we

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-13 Thread SlimPvC
I have noticed this behaviour also. Would like to see this solved, because I have some very desirable partyplaylists (M3U format) covering quite a few years (and would not like to have these entered manually track by track). Strange thing is that SOMETIMES (maybe after complete reinstall??) the

Re: [slim] Unable to play any playlists through Squeezebox/Slimserver 6.5.4

2007-10-13 Thread vnvjeep
W00t... you guys are all starting to come out of the woodworks now... :) All my M3U's play just fine with Winamp as well... never had a problem with that, or Media Player... There's definitely some weird formatting going on that Slimserver doesn't like. It's GUI-created playlists definitely look

Re: [slim] Help: Controlling my SB3 via my Laptop

2007-10-13 Thread radish
Did you try pinging the mac? From the windows machine, open a command prompt (start > run > cmd) and type "ping x.x.x.x" where x.x.x.x is the mac's IP. It should say something like this: Code: Pinging squidward [192.168.2.109] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 19

Re: [slim] Anyone tried running SlimServer on a fit-PC?

2007-10-13 Thread craigim
>From the fit-PC forums, someone is using one with an external HD and XP Pro (I'm not sure exactly why). S/he claims to be running three squeezeboxes and a transporter. http://tinyurl.com/2kl6lb The same thread has a post from one of the admins saying that one can upgrade the internal HD, but t

Re: [slim] connecting laptop to SB3 to access internet?

2007-10-13 Thread radish
In my experience you don't usually need a crossover cable, but you do need to switch bridging on, as has been mentioned. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http

Re: [slim] More problems with Vista

2007-10-13 Thread SubLo
This just plain sucks. I'm a Systems Admin for a large company dealing with thousands of managed PCs. I've been running SlimServer for a couple of years and it is by far one of my greatest joys at home! However, after installing Vista Enterprise at home a couple of months ago, I've been racking

Re: [slim] minor no artwork default image issue

2007-10-13 Thread MrSinatra
can someone at least say if i should file this as a bug or not? -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.5 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's Profile: http://foru

Re: [slim] dumb question

2007-10-13 Thread MrSinatra
ok, another dumb question... has development stopped on 6.5.x? b/c now i see new ones are there again: http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.5/ are these just the same thing getting posted as new every day? confused, -mdw -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2

Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread plympton
So, what part of the firmware is responsible for the "surveillance", and are our SB's spying on us? (Without permission, of course, lots of "with permission" spying going on... :-)) The hardware and firmware were designed by Slim Devices specifically for high speed embedded Internet applications,

Re: [slim] dumb question

2007-10-13 Thread kdf
On 13-Oct-07, at 10:18 PM, MrSinatra wrote: > > has development stopped on 6.5.x? There are no changes being made to 6.5.x. All work is on 7.0a1. What you are seeing the the nightly downloads for 6.5.x is the same as the day before. --kdf ___ discuss

Re: [slim] Zonealarm crashes Slimserver!

2007-10-13 Thread y360
Steve, I assume your SB and PC are on the same internal network. If that's the case you do not need to open ports on the router. In the ZoneAlarm you should add the ip range of your internal network (probably 192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.255) as a trusted zone. -- y360 -

Re: [slim] Why is SB so expensive?

2007-10-13 Thread haunyack
plympton;235009 Wrote: > So, what part of the firmware is responsible for the "surveillance", and > are our SB's spying on us? (Without permission, of course, lots of "with > permission" spying going on... :-)) > > -Dan The camers is in your Comcast DVR set-top box. The IR receivewr doubles as