Re: [slim] Search Kills Slimserver

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
> What's the status with version 7? Close to final. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Squeezebox do not connect to Slimserver, Weird network problem

2007-12-18 Thread geir
I can open SS, it has indexed all my cd's/songs. I did a clean reinstall of win xp sp2. When I try to open softsqueeze internally all i get is nothing. The player is just black. When I open it externally all i get is "Trying to connect to slimserver" Is there some security settings in SS which mig

Re: [slim] Multi Zone Installation help please

2007-12-18 Thread Peter
meep wrote: > And then there's this apporach; > > I have a similar star configuration with all my speaker cables running > back to a single point. This point is adjacent to my structured wiring > panels, network hubs etc. Essentially, everything terminates proximate > to each other in my attic. > >

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread utowana
Michael: happy to help if I can. I'm running a windows xp machine, service pack 2, 2.4 GHz, 512 RAM with a swap file size of 1536 MB. I've been running Webroot Spysweeper and NOD32 antivirus for several years now. Other than that, pretty vanilla. Belkin Pre-N wireless router has been running

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
> - initial scan was 2+ hours (1600+ albums, 20,000+ songs, 1,500+ > artisits, 160GB of disk space on an internal hard drive) Is this slower than it was before? Are you using MusicIP or iTunes? When looking at the scanning status page, where's most of the time spent? > - screen "refresh" was l

Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN

2007-12-18 Thread gorman
I hope some of the developers can look into this. I bought my new SB3 just to be able to adopt WOL on my server (before I had a SB1 and SB2)... :( -- gorman gorman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Craig, James (IT)
>> - screen "refresh" was labored and delayed > Player screen or web interface? Hi Michael, I've been meaning to say for a while, I find the new web interface incredibly slow. I'm running from SVN on Windows XP, Firefox 2. Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load. Secondly, I have observ

Re: [slim] No Sound

2007-12-18 Thread jordi . c
peejay;249735 Wrote: > Questions: > 1. How are the Logitech speakers connected to the squeezebox? Via the > RCA outlets at the back, or the headphone socket - the latter is not > recommended > 2. You mention 3 other units, do all units go silent at one time? > 3. Have you adjusted the volume

Re: [slim] SYNC Problem

2007-12-18 Thread thefunk
I have tried running sync on 6.5.4 loaded to my PC (rather than QNAP) but the results are the same. Havnt tried SC7 yet but will it make any difference? I am beginning to wish I hadnt bothered buying the active speakers (or more accurately done some more research upfront - I thought sync was a sta

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread mflint
I've been running SC7 for some time now, and haven't noticed any speed differences between SC7 and SC6.5. That's not to say that there aren't speed differences - but in my experience any difference isn't significant enough to be noticed in every-day use. A complete rescan still takes a while, bu

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread peterw
Craig, James \(IT\);249801 Wrote: > > Hi Michael, I've been meaning to say for a while, I find the new web > interface incredibly slow. > I'm running from SVN on Windows XP, Firefox 2. > > Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load. > Secondly, I have observed that if I open two tabs in F

Re: [slim] SYNC Problem

2007-12-18 Thread radish
Well the SB2 and SB3 internals are basically the same, so the real question is how well have people done with sync on the SB1. I did use to have one and it generally worked but did have problems. Remember that the SB1 is MUCH more sensitive to wireless problems than the SB2/3 and when synced that

[slim] SqueezeCenter issues running on Vista

2007-12-18 Thread heyho
I have recently moved from running Slimserver on a Buffalo Linkstation (successfully working for 12 months) to running it on my PC (Vista o/s). Slimserver 6.5.4 and 6.5.5 have been stable and performance excellent but when I install SqueezeCenter 7 it installs the software but never goes past the

Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter issues running on Vista

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
> excellent but when I install SqueezeCenter 7 it installs the software > but never goes past the 'loading' SqueezeCentre prompt. Where do you see this "loading" message? Do you see any SC related messages in the Windows event viewer? ___ discuss maili

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Craig, James (IT)
>> Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load. >Are you running short on memory? What's the machine's specs? It's a 2Ghz P4 with 1Gb of memory. SqueezeCentre is running on the same machine. I think there is plenty of memory, about 600Mb in use normally. >> Firefox uses 100% CPU time. Switch

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
> Another unrelated New Default comment: especially on short item names, > there's a lot of blank horizontal space between item name and the small > Add/Play/etc. icons. It's sometimes a hassle to mouseover the item and > then slide right to the icon -- it's easiest to select an item by What proba

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
> Hi Michael, I've been meaning to say for a while, I find the new web > interface incredibly slow. You're late in the game to expect major changes... > Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load. Are you running short on memory? What's the machine's specs? > Secondly, I have observed that

Re: [slim] SYNC Problem

2007-12-18 Thread thefunk
thanks radish, I may as well give SC7 a try. Incidentally I've found SB3 to be no better than SB1 regards wireless stability (ie my SB1 is fairly solid). Anyone out there got a SB1 sync'd with a SB2/3? -- thefunk thefunk's

Re: [slim] SYNC Problem

2007-12-18 Thread m1abrams
thefunk;249824 Wrote: > thanks radish, I may as well give SC7 a try. Incidentally I've found SB3 > to be no better than SB1 regards wireless stability (ie my SB1 is fairly > solid). Anyone out there got a SB1 sync'd with a SB2/3? If you are only streaming mp3s you would not see much difference i

Re: [slim] SYNC Problem

2007-12-18 Thread thefunk
well i'm very confused now since SB3 seems to be the weak link!! Loaded SC7 and sync'd both SBs. Both started playing (SB1 wireless strength 30% & SB3 68%) for approx 30-50secs then SB3 stops playing and starts re-buffering. Manage to restart but then them almost immediately SB3 re-buffers again.

Re: [slim] customizing screensaver text

2007-12-18 Thread eater
Thanks -- I didn't see that plugin in the official plugins list, but now I've found it and installed it. So far I can't get it to work in "off" mode without prominently displaying the "Nothing" that's currently playing. But assuming I get over that hurdle, how would one go about creating custom f

Re: [slim] Multi Zone Installation help please

2007-12-18 Thread meep
I am aware of that! I'm presently building a garage with loft that's going to be my home office. This is seperated from the main house and I'm not running speaker cable to it. I'll be purchasing a Squeezebox for aural entertainment there -(and to ease my guilty conscience!) Peter -- meep

Re: [slim] Squeezebox do not connect to Slimserver, Weird network problem

2007-12-18 Thread ErikD
Hi Geir. >From your name I guess you are Norwegian. I am sitting in Oslo with the same problem, only on a new aquired IMac. I have an old Squeezebox wired and a new on WLAN, and both boxes gives me "lost contact with slimserver" I have worked the IMAC over for several hours, particularly to get

Re: [slim] Wireless Server Questions

2007-12-18 Thread maggior
bflatmajor;249709 Wrote: > No.. After updating my router's firmware, I NEVER had to go into the > router's settings to reinstate previous changes. > But that question is best left up to linksys tech support. > > If this was happening to me, I would also call your DSL tech support. > They may ha

Re: [slim] Slimserver data location & creating lists

2007-12-18 Thread SilverRS8
aroide;186013 Wrote: > I have around 400 CDs shared via slimserver. That's too many for me to > remember even what I own. I want to print lists by Album and Artist to > have as a cheat sheet in my living room to refer to. > > the web interface is clunky for this and I haven't found a plugin th

Re: [slim] Squeezebox do not connect to Slimserver, Weird network problem

2007-12-18 Thread geir
Yes Erik, I am a norwegian as well, sitting in Oslo/Smestad. I have been able to get Softsqueeze up internally, but not even that is able to connect to Slimservice as all I get is:Trying to connect. I am doing a clean install now, and keeping my fingers crossed. But if anyone knows/can make a vali

Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN

2007-12-18 Thread mswlogo
Server (PC) wakes fine for me. It will wake and run for 2-3 sessions and then SC7 service dies. -- mswlogo Thinkpad XP SS > Cat5 > SB3 > SPDIF-COAX > Meridian 861V4 (Trifield, Room corrected, Upsampled) > DSP5500 Mains, DSP5500HC Center, DSP33 Rears ---

[slim] Sleeping server with Wake-On-Lan no longer works on SC7

2007-12-18 Thread mswlogo
I had version 6 working fairly stable for about a year with a server that sleeps when not being used (XP SP1 Laptop). I have tried several builds with SC7 and it works for a couple boots and then craps out. The PC boots but SC7 service dies. I have not tried another build in a couple weeks. Is

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread psykoptic
Michael Herger;249814 Wrote: > > > > That's not something you should see (at least I don't). Do you have any > FF extensions installed? Eg. Firebug is known to slow it down to a crawl > (but I couldn't do without :-/). > > Michael me too Firebug can cause problems for certain sites, local or o

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread jmschnur
So what are the benefits of 7 over 6.4.5. A list of +/- would be very useful. Joel -- jmschnur Joel jmschnur's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8604 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.co

[slim] another scanning issue

2007-12-18 Thread theStimmer
can anyone help with a sql error that is thrown when scanning...? I'm currently running 6.5.5I upgraded to see if it fixed this problem which started in 6.5.4 The scan populates the DB with most of the files...but no artwork...it appears that is has something to do with compiling the "variou

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread erland
jmschnur;249929 Wrote: > So what are the benefits of 7 over 6.4.5. > > A list of +/- would be very useful. > > Joel The changelog is here: http://svn.slimdevices.com/*checkout*/trunk/server/Changelog7.html At the moment, I can't really think of any negative things. I personally don't like all

Re: [slim] another scanning issue

2007-12-18 Thread Siduhe
-DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Can't create/write to file 'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\#sql_768_0.MYI' (Errcode: 13) at C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\CPAN/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 771- This error normally means that your onaccess virus scanner is preventing MySql from writing to a temp file. Can

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread funkstar
Perhaps not what you are looking for, but this is the SqueezeCenter7 Spec document from the Wiki http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServer7Spec -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.p

Re: [slim] Unending trouble with Wake on LAN

2007-12-18 Thread gorman
I am ready to run whatever diagnostics tools are required to understand what's going on. Computers don't work by magic (packets)... -- gorman gorman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56 View this t

Re: [slim] Losing Connection Regularly

2007-12-18 Thread Mark Lanctot
See http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?NetworkProblemsSecondGuide DD-WRT may or may not help your problem but apparently it can be installed even on the cut-down models. http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/stable/dd-wrt.v23%20SP2/hwsupport.txt lists the older WRT54G v1 - v4 with identifi

Re: [slim] Wireless Server Questions

2007-12-18 Thread dizzie
bflatmajor and maggior, Thanks for the help on router firmware updating. I did it and the router worked first try. I am glad I removed that possible problem but I don't think that is the main issue. I shut my modem off last night and took the router out of the loop. This morning I started the m

[slim] Saving Favorites and Other Problems

2007-12-18 Thread dizzie
Where is my hammer? The SB is supposed to be fun but all I have done is fight with it. I love listening to net radio but have several things I can't make work. NOTE: All issues deal with internet radio. I am not trying to use the SB as a music server for stored music. I can't set favorites so

Re: [slim] Saving Favorites and Other Problems

2007-12-18 Thread bpa
> > I don't get why there is both a SqueezeNetwork and SlimServer but at > least I have figured out where I need to be to do certain things. > Simplistic answer. Squeezenetwork does not need your PC running so it is only used for Internet Radio and network services such as MP3Tunes, Pandora etc

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Ted Cabeen
erland wrote: > At the moment, I can't really think of any negative things. I > personally don't like all the skin changes in the classic skin and in > the new default skin, but that's just a matter of taste because other > people loves them. Overall I would still say that the skin changes is > an

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread bflatmajor
and I was hoping for drag and drop within a playlist How about drag and drop from the left panel/screen into a playlist? Is that possible? I haven't played with 7.0 and I'm currently running the latest version 6.5.?? TIA -- bflatmajor

[slim] Power Switch II plugin seems to have smoked two of my headphone/ir outs

2007-12-18 Thread 2eleven
Hi Folks, I'm a little sad tonight - I hope someone has some insight. I wanted to try out the Power Switch II plugin since I'd like to use it to switch my amps on/off. I haven't built the relay board yet, but I installed the plugin and wanted to make sure it was working (ie, outputting 3.x volts

Re: [slim] Problem: Lost contact with Slim Server

2007-12-18 Thread SoundOfMind
I uninstalled 6.5.4 and installed 6.5.2 and it works perfectly. I am going to let it run for a few days to ensure that all is stable. If pressing "Click here to download" to update to 6.5.4 within slim server messes me up again, then I will have something more meaningful to report. The problem

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread erland
bflatmajor;249989 Wrote: > and I was hoping for drag and drop within a playlist > > How about drag and drop from the left panel/screen into a playlist? Is > that possible? > Drag&drop within the current playlist works in both Fishbone and Default skin in 7.0, the classic skin(called default in

Re: [slim] Power Switch II plugin seems to have smoked two of my headphone/ir outs

2007-12-18 Thread peterw
X-10 hardware is cheap. It's clunky. It's loud. But if you need something like PowerSwitch and your headphone outs are toast, look at my BottleRocket plugin. Oh, yeah, if you have a Windows system it can support Insteon, which is more expensive, reliable, and nicer than X-10. Good luck. -- pe

Re: [slim] Problem: Lost contact with Slim Server

2007-12-18 Thread haunyack
Happy listening! . -- haunyack haunyack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9721 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41091 _

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
> Agreed. I like the new default skin quite a lot. The only thing that > it seems to be really missing is drag-and-drop playlist reordering. d'n'd in Default currently is available for playlist (current & saved) and favorites reordering. ___ discuss

[slim] Music stops - windows home server firewall issue?

2007-12-18 Thread FredBasset
Hi guys, I had very good advice from a number of contributors here a few weeks ago and bought a number of SB3's and a Windows Home Server Tranquil T7. I set the first room up with a T amp and some Tangent Evo speakers on Saturday but have been beset by problems with songs stopping at random (they