I run a SB3 at home, and really just want the availability that gives me
in my work place as well. the thing is I don't want to go buy a new sb3
to put in my lab as it will get splashed, corroded, etc etc etc. For
discussions sake there is no wireless, but I was wondering if there is
anywhere to
I've noticed that starting on system boot doesn't work for me with
Leopard and 6.5.4. Starts manually fine, going to try on user login to
see if that works.
That's bug 5781 - http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5781
If you have any additional information, please add it to that report.
Often, after saving a new internet station to the Favorites list using
the remote, the name of the new station in the Favorites list is
strange or not something that can easily be remembered and associated
with the real name of the station.
Is there a way of editing the name of the station in
Is there a way of editing the name of the station in the Favorites list
so that the name can be changed to something more desireable?
In SC7 there is. What version are you using?
Michael
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Thank you for your help. I tried what you've suggested. Unfortunately,
it didn't work. Last night, I installed Slimserver 6.5.4. on my Windows
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I've just uploaded new builds for SS6.5.5 and SC7 which should work fine
on Leopard. Please give them a try and report back:
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/7.0/
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.5/
Please note: there won't be another official 6.5.x
Have a look at an interesting post by a frustrated lady. I came across
this at one of the popular auction site. But i must say the offer is
worth taking a look.
It's an auction to sell a black Jaguar S type.Car Belongs To Cheating
Rat Of A Husband. But The Idiot Had The Car Registered In My
Unfortunately, nothing happenned. The problem still exist. The
Squeezebox is not able to connect to slimserver. I tried both nightly
build 6.5.5 and 7.0 as you suggested. I did a clean install each time
for both. I followed these instructions by Logitech:
First, go to System Prefs, click on
I am using version 6.5 on my Windows PC. I know how to modify the name
of a station placed in my PlayList on the PC, but the problem I have is
that, when using the remote with the Squeeze Network (not through my
PC), I would like to change the name of stations placed in Favorites
(since the
Unfortunately, nothing happenned. The problem still exist.
Does it work if you open the preference pane, change form at boot to never
and then back to at boot again?
- home - Library - PreferencePanes - SlimServer.prefPane
Can you run find /Library/PreferencePanes -name start-*? You should
Does it work if you open the preference pane, change form at boot to
never and then back to at boot again?
The answer is no. I tried several times.
Can you run find /Library/PreferencePanes -name start-*? You should
get one or more filenames. What does it find?
I don't know what you means
I experimented with buying an album of mp3 tracks from the new Amazon
MP3 store. I'm running Slimserver 6.5.4 - 12568 - Debian - EN -
iso-8859-1 under Ubuntu 7.10. Since Amazon hasn't released a Linux
version of their download tool, I downloaded the album on my Mac at
work.
Here's the thing: the
Can you run find /Library/PreferencePanes -name start-*? You should
get one or more filenames. What does it find?
Please open a terminal and run the above command in there.
Michael
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it says: No such file or directory.
Do you see /Library/StartupItems/SqueezeCenter/SqueezeCenter?
What does ls
/Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/Resources say?
Please note that these instructions are for SC7, not SS6.
Michael
Do you see /Library/StartupItems/SqueezeCenter/SqueezeCenter?
Answer: no such file (StartupItems) in my library
What does is
/Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/Resources
say?
Answer: No such file
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Permissions on the files?
(ie, does the Slimserver user have permissions to read them...)
I downloaded an album from Amazon and it worked fine.
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Im pretty hoocked on bying a squeezebox BUT.
The soundbridge is an option and af far as i can see it does everythin
the squeezebox does plus beeing mouch more autonome (can function with
upnp alone. Unfortunately it is really ugly.
I havo now been throug lots of reviews but noboddy addressed the
It does less?
News to me...
It also sounds better, since it doesn't resample everything.
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The Cuwon is not my favorite player because I have no real use for
mobile video but it is a niece piece of gear for flac music if you
don't mind the size.
As others mentioned the main drawback of FLAC on a portable player is
thier size but this or any 30GB unit would allow for 900+ flac songs.
Do you see /Library/StartupItems/SqueezeCenter/SqueezeCenter?
Answer: no such file (StartupItems) in my library
It's not in _your_ user's Library, but in the root of your filesystem (the
system wide library). Open your main volume to see it.
Michael
snarlydwarf;238939 Wrote:
It does less?
News to me...
It also sounds better, since it doesn't resample everything.
I think he means it's better because it's autonomous - it doesn't
REQUIRE a server, just a UPNP server (or a Samba share?). Maybe I'm
just confused.. it's been a while
snarlydwarf;238939 Wrote:
It does less?
News to me...
It also sounds better, since it doesn't resample everything.
Guessed so, since it only plays an mp3 stream i thought it needed a
much smaler cpu, am I wrong ?
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The Soundbridge takes CD-type input (44.1kHz sampling) and resamples to
48kHz. That degrades quality. (You can see the effect visually by
resizing an image to a non-multiple. The real world doesn't work like
TV where CSI can enlarge a photo to infinite resolution... what happens
when you
And more little we cut corners things:
M1001: 280x16 VFD (4480 pixels)
SB3: 320x32 grayscale pixels (10240 pixels).
No wonder the display looks so icky in the Soundbridge pics.
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The Roku is basically a knockoff of our old SB2.
You can go with the BMW or the Hyundai. They both do the same thing,
but one is definitely superior to the other.
Mike
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Sorry for the mistake. I found Startupitems but nothing inside this
file.
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The Soundbridge takes CD-type input (44.1kHz sampling) and resamples to
48kHz. That degrades quality. (You can see the effect visually by
resizing an image to a non-multiple. The real world doesn't work like
TV where CSI can enlarge a photo to
Thanks for the input.
I could newer afford a BMW.
Musicquality matters, as I intend to use i with a nice system
Display does not (if it did I proberly would get a sonos)
Opensource matters two (I'm listening to slimserver with softsqueeze
right now)
But to summerize:
Soundbridge would connect to
Dave Dewey;238963 Wrote:
And that FLAC support is through transcoding to mp3, right? It
doesn't support FLAC in hardware.
Well the Soundbridge says it does WAV, so their ancient version of
SlimServer could transcode to WAV... (only to have it resampled to
48kHz...)
I'm very interested
Actually, soundbridge emulates a Squeezebox _1_ (2003), but since it has
a different button arrangement, it doesn't even do that correctly.
Ejevs, if you are really on the fence then I would recommend buying
both and returning whichever one doesn't work for you.
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A key differentiating feature that I see is gapless support with both
lossless (FLAC, etc.) and LAME mp3 formats. I've seen discussion of
gapless support in the Roku forums and to my knowledge the feature has
never been delivered.
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The above post discusses a noise problem introduced in M1001 due to
hardware redesign. There are many complaints about the noise in this
model because of its re-sampling.
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ejevs;238962 Wrote:
Thanks for the input.
I could newer afford a BMW.
Well, the price difference in this case is a hundred bucks not
thousands...
Musicquality matters, as I intend to use i with a nice system
The SB3 easily wins that.
Display does not (if it did I proberly would get a
Do people have a preferred way of these two working in harmony?
personally, I can't stand iTunes so know little about it but as an IT
manager I've introduced a fair amount people into the world of
slimservers and slimboxes. Later, they have gone ahead and installed
iTunes and are now
Is this any help?
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToiTunes
Ceejay
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I'm afraid you didn't understand the analogy...
The Roku is inferior in almost every way.
DAC, Signal to noise ratio, formats supported, software, support,
construction, wireless spec and wireless security. Go compare the spec,
and make sure you are looking at the m1000 and not m500 specs as
ceejay;238976 Wrote:
Is this any help?
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToiTunes
Ceejay
damn wiki's ... yes, it answers a lot.
so i'm guessing the only legal way to see iTune's downloaded music is
to burn a CD and then delete the music from the library and rip it back
ejevs wrote:
Im pretty hoocked on bying a squeezebox BUT.
The soundbridge is an option and af far as i can see it does everythin
the squeezebox does
Most of us don't agree that it does everything, And its clear it does
not do what it tries to do as well.
More importantly, the SB3 is
Just a note that we support AES/TKIP WPA2, not the server based
enterprise stuff.
Mike
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Incredible, i posted this question about an hour ago.
And am now convinced that this is the right bye for my studio (and
later proberly also home), I was already convinced but then the last
post nailed it reg. WPA2 support, theres is no way i'm gonna settle for
WEP at work.
I be back when I got
Hi,
Just bought an additional SB3. When listening to the same Internet
radio streams from both players I believe my net connection is is
pulling the data twice. Is it possible to set up a proxy or something
on the server so the data is first downloaded from the Internet to that
and then the
For the sake of being correct.
The M1001 which replaced the original M1000 supports WPA but because of
confusion with users Roku now call the M1001 - M1000. So now there are
two different specs for the M1000 depending on whether it is the old
or new model.
Also outside the US the Roku is sold
aguess;238977 Wrote:
so i'm guessing the only legal way to see iTune's downloaded music is
to burn a CD and then delete the music from the library and rip it back
into the library?
Yes, but I'm not sure everyone in the music industry consider it a
legal way though.
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aguess;238977 Wrote:
damn wiki's ... yes, it answers a lot.
so i'm guessing the only legal way to see iTune's downloaded music is
to burn a CD and then delete the music from the library and rip it back
into the library?
OR you buy stuff from them that is iTunes PLUS! No DRM and it's
Favorites are stored in the slimserver.pref like this:
Code:
...
favorite_titles:
- Chromanova Psytrance
- Chromanova Ambient
- PsyRadio Chillout
favorite_urls:
- http://85.25.86.69:8000
- http://85.25.86.69:8100
- http://streamer.psyradio.org:8020
I have been trying to get to grips with anapod today, trying to avoid
the curse of a second mp3 library :-:
However, I can't seem to copy a .flac file over via drag and drop, or
any other way to be honest! The help isn't to helpful, so I'm kinda
stuck atm.
Can I copy flac usignt he trail
I use slimserver on a SuSE 10.3 server and with SB3. Me to, I have the
wrong time, UTC instead of the timezone I have set on the Server
(Yast). Could it be that the user slimserver needs its one timezone
setting or that perl has an own timezone to set someware?
Fabio Vassalli
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Ok then:
M1001 WEP/WPA : SB3 WEP/WPA/WPA2
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I had the same problem recently and the slimserver preferences page
fixed most of the problem. However, note that the stream itself may
actually change your carefully prepared station name when it is in play
mode, even if you changed the name in preferences. I think this has
something to do with
JimC;238038 Wrote:
Great. No one here is saying there's no problem -- we just need to
understand what the problem is so we can track it down. Obviously, it
doesn't happen to everyone, but we'd like to fix it if we can figure it
out.
-= Jim
As I said on a previous post, I have had this
but the problem I have is that, when using the remote with the Squeeze
Network
If your problem is renaming Favorites on Squeezenetwork then do the
following.
1. Login in web interface of Squeezenetwork
2. Goto Favorites Tab
3. You will see a list of Favorites - click on the little pen
This is the main reasons why I chose Squeezebox over Soundbridge.
1. Native flac support.
2. 802.11g.
3. The look.
4. Server Plugins.
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A few more differences between Roku and Squeezebox.
Only native lossless formats supported are WAV and AIFF.
Itunes integration only using Roku branded unit - if Pinnacle branded
unit is used then Itunes support is only possible using the Firefly
server which user will need to install
guy's I seen some of these issues over the past month or so. I think I
fixed it over the weekend by reloading the firmware to my SB3. I won't
guess at why this seemed to fix my issues (music halting for no reason)
but the problem has not happened since.
Cheers,\
Scott
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2 Chan.
I know this must sound strange, but I've been off work for a while, and
I have noticed that my SB3 turns itself on and starts to play random
songs! It has happened enough to make me take note. There is no-one in
the house, nothing in the room that the SB3 is in is on, SB3 is off
(not on pause)
the house, nothing in the room that the SB3 is in is on, SB3 is off
(not on pause) and it wakes up and starts to play. This is happening
2-3 times a week.
Alarms set? Ports opened to the internet?
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This occasionally happens to my wireless SB3 as well. It happened up
through SS version 6.5.4 on Windows XP. I just moved up to SC 7.0 on
Ubuntu -- hasn't happened since then, but I only just moved to this
new setup.
On 10/18/07, mertles
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Just adding myself to the
bpa;239032 Wrote:
If your problem is renaming Favorites on Squeezenetwork then do the
following.
1. Login in web interface of Squeezenetwork
2. Goto Favorites Tab
3. You will see a list of Favorites - click on the little pen icon -
the middle one of the 3 small icons at the LHS of each
Thomsen;238988 Wrote:
Hi,
Just bought an additional SB3. When listening to the same Internet
radio streams from both players I believe my net connection is is
pulling the data twice. Is it possible to set up a proxy or something
on the server so the data is first downloaded from the
Your solution involves changing the name from the PC (I presume)
From any browser - it is just accessing a web site - does not have to
be from your PC or the PC running Slimsever. You can change the order
and add levels.
I don't think it is possible to change from the remote - just add
BTW You can link you Squeezenetwork favorites into your Slimserver so
that you just have one list.
Cool! How do I do that? Thanks.
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By default, Leopard turns off the firewall and allows any incoming
connections! If you turn it on, SlimServer will not work.
But I cannot find any way in their GUI either under Sharing or under
Security to open a port, or to specify UDP or TCP!
I think we will have to configure ipfw manually.
I'm having this slowness problem as well but mainly when browsing albums
(especially when album art is enabled).
It takes about 4 or 5 seconds for the page to appear (when album art is
enabled) and another couple of seconds for the images to draw. In other
respects my PC seems pretty fast and
Install the MyPicks plugin (see Wiki entry and WikiRadio entry) - this
enables you to manage Radio URLs like the list on Squeezenetwork.
MyPicks will appear as a top level menu.
If you go into MyPicks editing, create a new entry and copy the link
from the bottom of Squeezenetwork favorites page
BigTony;239009 Wrote:
Can I copy flac usignt he trail version? It say that you can get the
flac plugin from redchair, but I can't find that on the website either,
do you need to buy and register before you can test this out with flacs?
I think it should be possible without registering, but
Doh. That was it. Thanks!
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jarome;239090 Wrote:
By default, Leopard turns off the firewall and allows any incoming
connections! If you turn it on, SlimServer will not work.
But I cannot find any way in their GUI either under Sharing or under
Security to open a port, or to specify UDP or TCP!
I think we will have
dcote;238091 Wrote:
that being said, i am not sure if sonos is smarter - to me it seems they
are simply addressing a different market:
SONOS: customers with higher budgets, primarily seeking an audio device
which is sexy to look at, has less knobs to tweak and which is easy to
buy - i.e.
Has anybody tried to modify SlimServer to display the current time?
Either as part of the Elapsed Time / Remaining Time or as a different
mode altogether?
There's plenty of screen real estate left on the SB3; the right side
would be my first choice.
Which perl modules handle that?
(btw, I've
Oh and don't forget the free pony you get with every unit purchased! :)
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It is just good to see some additional coverage of something we all care
about.
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john_ops;239115 Wrote:
Yep. I bought both. Stuck with Sonos. My SB3 sits atop my sonos in my
bedroom, haven't turned it on in months
J
Different strokes for different folks. Its exactly the opposite for me.
More often than not, it is the Sonos that stays idle, while the SB2 is
constantly
Has anybody tried to modify SlimServer to display the current time?
Either as part of the Elapsed Time / Remaining Time or as a different
mode altogether?
Use my MusicInfoSCR as a replacement or inspiration on how it could be
done.
http://www.herger.net/MusicInfoSCR
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