Wavinput is a good general solution but Phil seemed eager for a proper
CD solution.
CDplayer plugin might be useful for people with Vista or with soundcard
where Wavinput doesn't work.
The cdda2wav app takes the PCM stream straight from CD - Wavinput is
taken after Windows has processed the
bpa;260635 Wrote:
Wavinput is a good general solution but Phil seemed eager for a proper
CD solution.
CDplayer plugin might be useful for people with Vista or with soundcard
where Wavinput doesn't work.
The cdda2wav app takes the PCM stream straight from CD - Wavinput is
taken after
Phil,
That's good to know. Keep an eye on whether there are any memory or
handle leaks or any processes left hanging around.
Did you have any problem with finding and altering the device number
0,0,0.
As my test system is XP with one DVD drive, I'd be interested to hear
of user experiences
bpa;260637 Wrote:
Phil,
That's good to know. Keep an eye on whether there are any memory or
handle leaks or any processes left hanging around.
Did you have any problem with finding and altering the device number
0,0,0.
As my test system is XP with one DVD drive, I'd be interested
The modified socketwrapper seems to get all the stray cdda2wav
processes. It used to occur, if I lined up a number of CD tracks to
play and then as soon as one started, I skipped onto the next track.
Also on one occasion desktop Explorer disappeared and restarted itself
- technically
I think the output is protected, possibly because it is transformer
coupled.
You're probably fine. There shouldn't be any kind of subtle failure
mode for this kind of thing. Typically you blow components and it
either will sound horrible or not at all.
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I'm also a long-time user of James's excellent plugin, but true
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Can you be more specific
1. Are you using the RealAudio or WMA streams ?
2. Are you based in the UK ?
3. Does Radio 1, Radio 2, 5Live or World Service work ?
Tried both, but I now understand RealAudio isn't meant to work. But
WMA doesn't either.
Yes, UK based.
Can get R5
What does scanner.exe actually do? I have my server set to use the
iTunes database, so it can't be scanning folders for files, can it?
(scan of the iTunes xml should take a few seconds only). If not, what
else does it actually do? It's taking ages and slowing down my whole
pc.
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Some ASX URLS are playlist and not playable streams URLS but the
majority of ASX URLs are playable streams.
RealAudio will work if using a Slimserver/SqueezeCenter and you have
installed AlienBBC. RealAudio will not work on Squeezenetwork.
Are you using SqueezeNetwork ?
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It's causing a problem for me because I download some new music, add it
to iTunes, and want to play it on my Squeezebox quickly, but I can't
get it on the SlimServer database for ages! Why? What can I do to speed
this process up?
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I had trouble getting my server to hibernate until I loaded this plugin
- http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=206358postcount=17
Works well, drive it with the remote and my server goes to sleep until
I want it to wake up.
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I download some new music (legally, of course), and want to play it on
my Squeezebox quickly, but it doesn't appear on the SlimServer database
for ages! Why? I want to play it!!
When does scanner.exe get invoked automatically and why does it take so
long to run? What can I do to speed this
I have the same issue. If I change one component of one track in
iTunes, within the hour my machine goes into full scan which consumes
my CPU and takes nearly 40 minutes.
I've been poking through the iTunes plugin, but I'm not much of a coder
to sort out what it is attempting to do. (and how
In between I had built the library after installing perl, and running
perl scanner.pl --wipe and it worked (have not tried with itunes
options)
I had some problems with my antivirus for some reason that I have not
been able to understand.
After an other reinstall with a different antivirus
As I can't seem to fix this I thought I'd ask for help.
When I browse Artists everything seems fine ... untill I get to this
..
YZ
Various Artists
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Frank Zappa
Curious.. and there is no mention of Dylkan or Mitchell in their
respective order. I've used
bpa;260597 Wrote:
I got the same result - however if I edit Favorites.opml and add a
type=audio to the Radio 5 entry - it will play.
It looks like there is a some sort of bug which needs more
invtesigation. More likely the Favorites
editor needs to have a feature to be able to mark an
The usual fix for getting to new music quickly is just to use the Browse
Music Folder facility to browse to where the music is - that forces a
scan of just that directory and adds the music to the database.
Or you can force a rescan any time you like using the web interface
(server settings).
Yup, that will be some rogue ARTISTSORT (or equivalent) tags. I'm not
familiar with the tagger you mention: mp3tag http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
is the one I and many others use. Use it to have a look at ALL the
tags on the files.
Are these mp3 files? If so you might want to try asking mp3tag
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToiTunes
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Thanks!! That's brilliant. The info I found was:
The default setting is to rescan the iTunes library every time it
changes and more than an hour has elapsed. If your iTunes scan takes
some time and is affecting playback you may wish to increase the
interval or disable automatic scanning
In case it helps other people that may encounter this problem in the
future, what was the name of the anti-virus software that was causing
the problems?
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Vallier;260682 Wrote:
Thanks!! That's brilliant. The info I found was:
The default setting is to rescan the iTunes library every time it
changes and more than an hour has elapsed. If your iTunes scan takes
some time and is affecting playback you may wish to increase the
interval or
bpa;260662 Wrote:
Some ASX URLS are playlist and not playable streams URLS but the
majority of ASX URLs are playable streams.
RealAudio will work if using a Slimserver/SqueezeCenter and you have
installed AlienBBC. RealAudio will not work on Squeezenetwork.
Are you using SqueezeNetwork
If you are in the UK and the BBC servers think you are using a UK ISP
then you should be able to play all the BBC WMA stations which includes
Radio 1,2,3 4.
Some problems do happen.
1. You are using an ISP which looks like it comes from outside UK (e.g.
person working in UK for a large non-UK
Perfect! Many thanks. I have set it to 0 so I'll see how it goes.
Thanks again.
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sorry, forgot to mention that all files are FLAC.
Will try and find the rogue tags, but nothing has turned up so far.
BT
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I had problem with Avast, BUT I have had it for a long time and do not
recall any issues with it and slimserver in the past, so I am not sure.
I reinstalled it since, but I am not going to retry from scratch
(library is large).
We just need to know that there should be both a scanner.exe and a
As a Chicago native, I am well aware that although WFMT is a fine arts
station, it is not public radio. My suggestion to resolve this problem
is to contact the radio station and see if it can help you work through
the looping issue.
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I had the same problem a year or so ago. I used mp3tag to add an
ARTISTSORT field in which I entered the artist's name. It sorted
correctly after that.
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Is there any way to see the remaining playtime of playist in slimserver
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As a station owned by Window to the World Communications, who by the way
gets large grants from The corporation for Public Broadcasting, in my
eyes is a public radio station.
Also they ask for money from people to pay for their programing so that
also puts them in the category of public radio.
syburgh;260729 Wrote:
If the SB3 and server are connected using a combination of wired and
wireless, then you may have a bridging issue with your router (some
routers even place wired and wireless segments on different IP
subnets). How are they connected?
WOL does work-- I have SB3s
If the SB3 and server are connected using a combination of wired and
wireless, then you may have a bridging issue with your router (some
routers even place wired and wireless segments on different IP
subnets). How are they connected?
WOL does work-- I have SB3s connected using a L2 switch to the
Try the following URL - it is the 2nd URL in the pls file and so
skipping the announcement
If using SN - you may need to wait about 20 secs for music to start
http://wttw.ic.llnwd.net/stream/wttw_wfmt_MP3
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I should have read more closely. Sounds like a Windows+driver issue to
me, but I've not run SS on Windows, so it's just speculation:
1. Are you sure the driver is waking only on magic packets, and not on
unicast/multicast traffic as well? It is common for both to be
possible, and as SBs have
I see on Gigabyte's 'site'
(http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2624)
that this board has a Realtek 8111B based NIC, no idea whether WOL
support for this works well in Windows, but the latest drivers
reference lots of changes to WOL in the changelog.
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I don't think they work the weekend. Will probably be corrected next
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pnielsen;260598 Wrote:
Yes, and this is not a good thing. This amp forces you to control the
volume in the digital domain, and as a result signal resolution is lost
at lower playback levels than maximum level.
If the amp is inexpensive, why not. However, the true digital feature
of this
Heimiko;260653 Wrote:
Asking price is currently 183 Euros.
Might even increase a bit when they start shipping internationally.
Woah - seriously? That's $267 USD and *WAY* overpriced for a 35 watt
amp. Forget it!
This thing should push 100 watts RMS per channel and not resample the
audio
I'm interested in this too, I would like to show the remaining playlist
time, or if this is too difficult, at least the total playing time of
the playlist. Right now I'm using Squeezecenter 7.0
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I was thinking of replacing my SB and Rega Apollo CDP with a
Transporter. The thing is, it appears the digital inputs are limited.
Suppose I want to run the digital outputs of my DVD and Cable box to the
transporter as well. Why didn't they put several optical or digital RF
inputs on the
it appears it's not very easy to switch between these inputs on the
Transporter
And IIRC the firmware bug that causes problems on input switching is
still to be properly fixed.
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Once again, I'm receiving the Internal Rhapsody Error...unable to
authenticate... message when trying to use Rhapsody.
I've been a longtime SB user and supporter, but I'm tired of the
endless frustration in using it with Rhapsody. Even when there isn't a
full blown error, there are constant
Any suggestions for an amp that meets these specs?
Woah - seriously? That's $267 USD and *WAY* overpriced for a 35 watt
amp. Forget it!
This thing should push 100 watts RMS per channel and not resample the
audio to even begin to be worth that kind of
tony larson;260371 Wrote:
Gotta believe someone has done a comparison. Thanks.
Taking into consideration that the power supplies you mentioned
actually cost more than a Squeezebox, you might have a hard time
getting unbiased opinions. If I just dropped that kind of cash on a
replacement power
Lot's of folks up-in-arms about the Controller... This post from Mike
is the first one to mention ALL the capabilities.
In fact, the slimdevices web site does NOT have any information about
the Controller having the Wolfson DAC. With the DAC, the Controller
now goes way beyond a controller.
I know this is a really minor nit, but I've noticed it for a long time.
Slimserver displays, on the Squeezebox and the web page, the bit rate for FLAC
and other lossless material as CBR (Constant Bit Rate). Lossless compression
algorithms like FLAC, ALAC, Monkey's Audio, Shorten, etc, are never
And yes - I also get occasional drop outs, skips and hang ups with
Rhapsody on the SB3 that do not occur with the Rhapsody PC client. I
think that the buffering of the SB3 is more sensitive to network
disruptions. Or perhaps it is a firmware bug. Or a server-side issue.
Still it works ok most of
Yes, saw unable to authenticate as well but now it's ok
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gcrashpdx;260780 Wrote:
It would be wise to either correct Mike's post, or correct this
significant omission of the technical specs on the web site.
Gary
No, it would be very -unwise-. The DAC wont be used when the controller
goes on sale, it will be inactive. It probably will be used in
Really weird, but the ZIP-file is invalid and onnly 60kB when
downloading it with IE7, but not so when downloading it with Firefox
(then it's 74kB and working)
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Possibly too late. Irish Times report on CES 18-Jan-2008
It's a market such as this that the new Squeezebox Duet from Logitech
is designed to address. You can even plug your headphones into its
wireless controller.
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Saw a great demo from Macworld in a thread below. Controller looks like
a great piece of hardware. But no demo of it in use with Rhapsody. Can
anyone describe how that integration works?
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Shatzy,
It seems that the drive mapping works if squeezecenter/slimserver is
run at login and makes use of a users account information to colelct
the mapping info...I run SC as a service and it doesn't see the
mapping.
I am using a thexus 2100 NAS
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Alasdair
3 SB3s - AudioEngine
Browse Music Folder isn't available when the database is integrated with
iTunes.
Where can I find info on invoking scanner from the command line?
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I have fixed this and a bunch of other bugs, but I have to wait until
7.0 branches to release a beta. Should be soon.
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Get a command prompt, go to the slimserver directory, type scanner
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shawkie;259280 Wrote:
So I think I'm going to seriously look at writing a native remote
control application (much like Moose) for the Axim PDA. This should
give me much more control over the user interface than a web-based
solution and it will use a local copy of the database so it should be
My display which is set to display Now playing while playing music
goes black after estimated 30 seconds. It hasn't always been like this,
I've not initiated this change and doubt that my kids (aged 1 and 3) has
done this intentionally. Is this an error? How do I re-enable constant
Now playing
Hello,
I'm perplexed since the ODBC System DSN tests OK (via the ODBC Data
Source Administrator) and the entire SQL command string (copied from
the ACC.log) succeeds with the MySQL Query Browser but the ACC script
itself fails with an error 0.
My system config:
Windows XP x64 SP2 (O/S on C:,
And yes - I also get occasional drop outs, skips and hang ups with
Rhapsody on the SB3 that do not occur with the Rhapsody PC client.
Come on, tell the truth. Do you occasionally have problems with
Rhapsody or are you astonished during the rare (if ever) times when
Rhapsody works as it
Settings-Screen-Screen Dimming-(set delay)
cheers,
#!/ben
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On Jan 20, 2008, at 12:16 PM, bpa wrote:
Possibly too late. Irish Times report on CES 18-Jan-2008
It's a market such as this that the new Squeezebox Duet from Logitech
is designed to address. You can even plug your headphones into its
wireless controller.
It's true, you can plug headphones
I have the following file in a folder
02 - Dvo#345;ák - Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 'From the New
World', II. Largo.mp3
The slimserver scanner does not seem to pick up files like this with
strange characters in. Is there any fix for this, other than manually
renaming my files?
I'm using
Great! Changing brightness from 0 till 3 appear to have made all the
difference!
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Personally, I've been giving Rhapsody quite a workout lately (including
plenty of whole albums, queued up one after the other) and I have had
no problems at all. I do sometimes have drop-outs with last.fm, but I'm
yet to experience that with Rhapsody.
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Check brightness.
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I'm using NIC Linksys EG1032 v3 with latest drivers. The advanced
properties in the driver panel do not contain WOL entries. I configured
WOL through the standard XP Power Savings panel (allow device..., only
management stations, etc.).
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Chop;260822 Wrote:
I'm dying to know if people have the same problems with the Sonos, Roku
and others?
Right now the Roku is 149.99, is tightly integrated with iTunes (based
on its native support of ALAC and AAC), and works with all Play For
Sure formats. Granted, I can't read RSS feeds
This was probably caused by a tap of the brightness button on the
remote, so one of your kids could indeed have done it. :-)
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Sean Adams: So you mean, aside from the fact that Squeezebox does not
do 96KHz, why doesn't it do 96KHz?
I meant details of the arguments - your suggestion made it sound like
you can direct scanner to look in a particular place, rather than
scanning everything.
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That won't hurt it.
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If you type scanner as I suggested you should be given a usage dump
which lists all the arguments.
You can point it at a specific directory, though I find (on my
non-itunes system) that just letting it scan the whole thing doesn't
take too long (it looks for changed files).
HTH
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I used to have a lot of problems with Rhapsody and other services before
I changed ISP's. After that the SB3 performed flawlessly. Recently, I
switched ISP's again for one offering more bandwidth at a cheaper
price. All my old problems came back and after a few days I switched
back to the
dean, you missed a good job here, sounds like you would have been
qualified:-)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7198512.stm
dean blackketter;260844 Wrote:
On Jan 20, 2008, at 12:16 PM, bpa wrote:
Possibly too late. Irish Times report on CES 18-Jan-2008
It's a market such as this
Well as I read this I'm listening to Lemon Song by Led Zeppelin and the
SC7 webpage and the SB3 display both say 820 VBR.
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This is a know bug and is being worked on. Expect to see some
improvement in SqueezeCenter 7 when it is released.
In the mean time, yes, renaming your files is really the only fix. But
you don't need to do it manually. If you are running Slimserver under
windows, I wrote a little utility
amcluesent;260770 Wrote:
it appears it's not very easy to switch between these inputs on the
Transporter
And IIRC the firmware bug that causes problems on input switching is
still to be properly fixed.
Not everyone has seen this input switching bug on the Transporter. I've
had mine for
Make sure that your file names start with lower-case letters also. I
had an issue where my program was saving as Folder.jpg, had to go
through and rename 50 or so as folder.jpg
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On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:20 PM, smc2911 wrote:
One thing I've been wondering about (apologies if it's been covered
elsewhere) is how do you enter a wireless key for the SBR?
When the Receiver comes out of the box it's waiting to be set up.
First, you set up the Controller to connect to the
pichonCalavera;260488 Wrote:
The Last.fm scrobbling/radio integration with Squeezebox has been for a
while with plugins and more recently with the Squeezecenter 7.0 beta.
Don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I just found this
page on Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/hardware
BPA, many thanks! The link you provided for WFMT Chicago worked right
off, with no delay, and has stayed stable for half an hour now. We've
been trying to figure out how to receive WFMT off and on since we got
our first SB half a year ago, so your help is especially appreciated.
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Same problem. XP and IE7.
nicky6;260797 Wrote:
Really weird, but the ZIP-file is invalid and onnly 60kB when
downloading it with IE7, but not so when downloading it with Firefox
(then it's 74kB and working)
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Hi,
Been loading discs onto the HD from time to time. Using ITunes.
Sometimes I load a disc into ITunes and it shows up there just fine.
Can play it on the computer. But Slimserver wont find it. I have tried
clearing and rescanning the library. Also scanned for new music. I have
looked at the
MuckleEck;260808 Wrote:
Shatzy,
It seems that the drive mapping works if squeezecenter/slimserver is
run at login and makes use of a users account information to colelct
the mapping info...I run SC as a service and it doesn't see the
mapping.
I am using a thexus 2100 NAS
MuckleEck,
I
Clive, can you explain how you switch between inputs?
Basically after checking earlier today I figure I can optical in from
the DVD and Coax in from the Cable box. I'm thinking I'll put my CDs
on the computer in lossless format.
Right now I have a SB and a Rega Apollo CDP which the
I have had no problems with Rhapsody. Ive been using it since the
really old days of RealSlim so the integration was very important to
me. No issues.
I'm running wired though, didnt see if you were running wireless.
Ive tried Roku, its not a stable device.
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yes. just point the 880 web browser at the server address.
eg: http://local host:9000
your local host (server ip address) can be found on the bottom of the
squeezecentre settings page
-D
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Can the Nokia 800 be used with Slimserver just as the 770 can?
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Thanks. I suspect I'll be trying it myself very soon...
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Yes. The Noika770 skin works perfectly with the N800. There are a
bunch of advantages that the N800 has over the 770, but, for Slimserver
browsing, my experience has been that the N800 connects faster, the web
browser is faster, the battery life is better. I don't have any
experience with the
Linksys EG1032 v3 'appears '
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-January/016388.html)
to be another Realtek chip, RTL8169S
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I have a SB3, and I had not updated the software in a long time. Tonight
I clicked on my SLimServer icon and on the webpage it noted that there
was a sw update available. So, I dl'd the version 6.5.4 installer.
During installation I got an error message that sayd DeleteFile
failed; code 5. Access
FWIW, I'm running wireless and have had two different ISPs. Also, I
have plenty of bandwidth.
What confuses me the most is why is it that I can sit here and
flawlessly stream rhapsody through the rhapsody player in my laptop but
if I try to play it on my SB2 via the SqueezeNetwork, I have
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