yet, I can certainly see that it would be very hard to write a plugin
that would simply merge into the server in a ways that would be nice
to see as an integrated solution.
Rather than have this button on every page I'd see one separate page where you
can select which settings you want to
A couple of supplementary points arising from my reply above:
1. Why would a song have 2 genres - as shown in your example? Surely, a
song is either 'Opera' or 'Death Metal'!
2. It seems to me that there are 2 distinct functions to the
SqueezeCenter application. One is to gather the information
larrettp;299951 Wrote:
A couple of supplementary points arising from my reply above:
1. Why would a song have 2 genres - as shown in your example? Surely, a
song is either 'Opera' or 'Death Metal'!
I don't want to get involved in the minutae of database structures as
that is not my
But it shouldn't be necessary to set COMPILATION=0 in most cases. I
think that's because there are guest performers and no album artist has
been set. So setting an album artist (or allowing an option for TPE2 to
be regarded as Album Artist), would fix that problem.
It was required with
Thanks, sometimes it's difficult to see the usage of something if you
are not using it in that way yourself. Obviously, people do use
multiple genres and that's not a problem in the structure I'm
proposing.
Anytime I need any help with Undersea Communications, I know who to
come to! ;)
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My SB3 and Duet have worked best since I switched from a shared PC
running windoze to a dedicated machine running linux. The effect that
antivirus and antispyware software and the frequent windows security
updates and reboots take on windoze performance in general
MuckleEck;299958 Wrote:
Perhaps I am in the minority!
I'll double the size of your minority.
MC
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.png .jpg and .jpeg files are all associated with Irfanview, as
expected. I'll keep an eye on it; I'll keep the artwork logging set to
debug and check the logs again if anything else strange happens. Let's
face it though, it's 99% certain to be IE7's unique approach to
things that's to blame!!
Hello Mike
Thanks for reporting this. It looks like the code in SC changed like
you described in that it does not send volume commands if already at
the top.
I need to look into it and figure out if I can fix it within the
IRBlaster plugin. For now, try setting the fixed volume (in IRBlaster)
Why not add the name of the performer to the album title e.g. ZZ Top
Greatest Hits. I find that this make things easier to manage and
easier to read/find
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Hi there,
I am currently using SC7 in dual-boot and I find quite inconvenient to
have to update slimserver each time I use a different OS. Is there any
get around? Same thing happen when my partner (who use mostly Vista on
her laptop) wants to use slimserver after me (as I use Ubuntu most of
the
Hi Folks,
Sorry if this has been covered before - I am new to the game. When my
PC is switched off my SB3 switches off. If I switch on the SB3, it has
a think then immediately switches off. From the Slimdevices info
Internet radio is meant to be on regardless of the PC being on-
Always-on
You would be best to log into Squeezenetwork before you switch your PC
and Slimserver off. How you do this will depend in part on what version
of Slimserver/Squeezecenter you are running?
Squeezenetwork is a separate service provided free of charge by Slim
Devices which connects your
Hi,
I use the Audioengine 5 speakers with Squeezebox in the bedroom. Sound
is great, but I have had one problem, and was wondering if others get
the same.
When the speakers go into sleep mode after no music has been played for
ten minutes, there is a powering off noise. On my first set of
Menno,
I had the same issue with a pair of AudioEngine 2s in that they would
make a slight popping sound.
I set the squeezebox to turn off the outputs when it went to sleep and
this seemed to stop it.
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jaffacake;27 Wrote:
Because the album isn't called that.
I'm a bit pedantic.
Whilst I like things being just so...there is a time where some
deviation can be accepted and this could be one of them.
I have found that if you have a lot of greatest hits albums and use
some in-car ipod
First, let me clarify to some of the folks that posted that I am not
entirely non-techie. I have no issue with networks, wireless or other.
I run and maintain a MPLS network and am *the* IT department (as part
of my job)for our company of 250 employees spread over 4 locations. I
have programed
To do any development on XMRadio - the user also needs to be a
subscriber which limits the pool of developers.
As the Plugin is currently implemented I think SBC support would need a
rewrite of some sections. I checked out a problem with XMRadio a few
years ago and I got a temporary id which
Johnboy169;299977 Wrote:
Why not add the name of the performer to the album title e.g. ZZ Top
Greatest Hits. I find that this make things easier to manage and
easier to read/find
Johnboy
Because the album isn't called that.
I'm a bit pedantic.
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Ben - eco conscious techie
Hadn't seen your message, but check the web site every morning. I just
bought my second receiver.
NOW, GET TO WORK AND MAKE THE 3rd PARTY PLUG-INS SANCTIONED LOGITECH
PLUG-IN'S!!! :-)
Seriously, this *could* be a super cool product if some of the ideas
that others have tried to make work
I use the QNAP TS-109. The main reason I use this instead of an old PC
is that the power usage in operation is 14.4W and 6.6W at idle.
It does run Linux, which you say you'd rather not use, but in my
experience this is much more stable to run 24/7 than a Windows OS.
See the third party hardware
To finish off this discussion, I double-checked my collection last
night, added Discnumber=1/1 to my Closer albums and rescanned. Both
appear separately in the album list with a recent 7.0.1 build, so it
does appear as if this bug is now fixed.
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Hi and thanks for the info. I'd be more than willing to put you on my
XM account if you think you could get it working. I'll even throw in a
couple of months of free listening :-) I would really like to see the
plug-in work because in my opinion it is the second most valuable
feature of the
On my first set of speakers it made the pop even with the Squeezebox not
connected. ie I played music, and then unplugged the Squeezebox from the
speakers, and after ten mins, still a popping noise.
But I'll give that a try when I get home. Didnt realise you could setup
the Squeezebox to switch
Thanks guys, I didn't realise there wouldn't be a simple answer to this
:)
Thinking about it, if the player settings dropdown had a 'master'
section and then the individual player sections had an 'inherit master
settings' or similar then this would achieve what I want.
Shame I'm not much of a
An Express helped with SB3 reception in my bedroom. At first I tried the
Express right next to the SB, but that only bumped the signal a little.
The real improvement came when I plugged in the Express in the hall
outside the bedroom. Thick concrete walls in my (Tokyo) apartment were
eating signal
Was just surfing the web looking for a Duet supplier and saw the
following TranquilPC Windows Home servers:
http://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node/241
Cheers,
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Thanks for the reply Felix.
I forgot to mention I did actually try changing the fixed volume amount
to 60 and oddly enough it still did not allow me to increase the volume.
Both the SC web page and the SBC still behave the same way. It was
like setting the volume to be fixed at 60 in IR-Blaster
I just moved SC from a NAS to a PC. I didn't actually move it, I just
installed SC on a PC and pointed my SB receiver towards that. The odd
thing is my playlists still show on the controller. There are no songs
listed under them, but the play lists are all there. If you click on
one it says
Howard Passman;23 Wrote:
so any of you guys who like to fool with this rather than listen to
music have any ideas?
So because I took the time to respond to you two days ago, when I had
20 minutes to kill in the morning (before meeting a customer at home
depot to pick out their
I'd be more than willing to put you on my XM account if you think you
could get it working.
I've a list of things to be done and I'd prefer to reduce that list
before taking on another item. So at the moment I don't want to make a
commitment that I can't meet.
SB could be so cool if
Siduhe;34 Wrote:
To finish off this discussion, I double-checked my collection last
night, added Discnumber=1/1 to my Closer albums and rescanned. Both
appear separately in the album list with a recent 7.0.1 build, so it
does appear as if this bug is now fixed.
Thanks for that,
Thanks BPA, I knwo what you mean about projects. I wonder what will
happen if the Sirus/XM merger goes through??
Skunk. Nah, I wasn't really saying you don't like music, but to me
listening is the part I like the best. I agree XM lacks the quality of
listening to ones files, but when I want
Howard Passman;300021 Wrote:
I just moved SC from a NAS to a PC. I didn't actually move it, I just
installed SC on a PC and pointed my SB receiver towards that. The odd
thing is my playlists still show on the controller. There are no songs
listed under them, but the play lists are all
I think you've got it. I forgot that the playlist file is on my storage
device. When I set up the PC I made a new folder for playlists, but
forgot to delete the file from the old storage device.
Thanks for waking me up and have a great day,
Howard
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Sike;299623 Wrote:
I have a good dozen devices running seamlessly. The only real problems I
have had have been my own fault like faulty access points*, but rarely a
problem with the software or hardware.
The bottom line is: If your computer does not have any problems and
your access
I want to use my Duet in bridged mode where the Receiver is connected to
a wired ethernet connection and the Controller connects to the wireless
of the Receiver. This works, but during setup I am never given a choice
to set up WPA2 encryption and to enter a key. How do I set up WPA2 in
this mode?
ncarver;299765 Wrote:
I used my daughter's recently discarded 2.5GHz P4 to set up a dedicated
server to run SC, DNS (Bind), support file backups, and serve photos,
etc. Bought two 1TB drives and a SATA controller card, and am running
the drives in RAID1 using Linux software RAID. Machine
You can't, the Receiver is not an access point - when you connect
directly to it from the SBC you're using an adhoc connection. I believe
the connection is in some way encrypted but I don't know the details.
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I'm trying to retag my entire library and used one of these program to
export all the tag information to a csv and have nearly finish sorting
it all out in excel. However I neglected to spot that there wasn't a
facility to read in the fixed tags from a file.
My only solution at this point is to
if your csv files are consistent in content/layout, you can use mp3tag
to import the tags from text (csv) file. load all tracks in mp3tag,
sort them in the required sortorder (ie match that in the csv file),
highlight all tracks, right click/Convert Text File-Tag , then enter
the field/tag
But you don't have to update anything when you switch OS. The key is to
make sure that you have _the_same_version_ of slimserver/squeezecenter
on each OS, and on each computer. Then just leave it that way. When you
want to upgrade to a newer version, upgrade all of them to the same
version.
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From what I've read, the main issue seems to be that you want to be able
to just kick back and have a service like XM play music for you rather
than deciding on what to listen to from your CD collection. (I can
relate since I like this hands-off way of listening, too.)
But, is sounds like the XM
I'm glad all of your stuff works. Really I am. And I guess I could be
down there in the gene pool as your signature seems to imply others
might be. If that is the case, you could (A) help resolve the problems
of us lesser mortals or (B) don't waste your time telling me how easy it
is for you.
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Yep, you pretty much hit the nail on the head. I do like to listen to
my music when I am sitting down and can pick out a playlist. It's
what's really cool about the SB over just playing CD's. When I want
background music is when I like XM. I mentioned earlier that I already
have XM stations I
Good stuff. Any idea when/if spares will be available such as a charging
docks?
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*Players:* Squeezebox 3 (main room) / Squeezebox Receiver (bedroom) /
Softsqueeze (home office).
*Amps:* Cambridge Audio 640a (main room) / Denon MD30 (bedroom) /
larrettp;299951 Wrote:
2. It seems to me that there are 2 distinct functions to the
SqueezeCenter application. One is to gather the information abou all
the tracks in the library and the other is to access that information
to play the track (i.e. access and run the file).
It's already
CatBus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not the one throwing around the phrase standard tags as if it
meant something and refusing to use ID3 2.4 because it's only been
around for a decade.
It's hard to keep track given the extreme volume and tedium of this
(and related) threads, but which tag
MrSinatra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ok, but its the same thing. SORT tags will override the VA logic just
like ALBUMARTIST will. (so VA logic is not necessary for you)
incorrect.
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Phil Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SqueezeCenter library stores an artist id with each album record
(ie. a single artist needs to be associated with the album), so I
wonder what it has stored in this case? I thought it may make
several albums, such that it had a single artist associated
I had succeeded in getting fwd.single = scanner to work in previous 7.1
Since the scanner to SongScanner change, I can't seem to swap the
keys.
I tried the mindless obvious - looked in default.map and swapped
fwd.single and fwd.hold. This doesn't work, in that fwd.single then
engages fast fwd
I had succeeded in getting fwd.single = scanner to work in previous 7.1
Can someone who knows the code just point me to the right place?
my guess is that you must have editted the initPlugin() section of the
Plugin.pm where the mapping is set up. See
Slim/Plugins/SongScanner/Plugin.pm.
-k
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No timeline on those yet, but we do intend to add them for sale.
Mike
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grrman;300054 Wrote:
With the SATA card, how many drives will it support?
The card I got was a Promise SATA300 TX4, which supports 4 (internal)
SATA connections.
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Matt Wise;300112 Wrote:
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couple hours for everything to move properly and for DNS to update.
Bugzilla has been moved. If you point to http://74.201.85.76 you
Just to confirm, the new server is working here and DNS has propogated
(Nildram ADSL, UK)
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kdf;300129 Wrote:
[color=blue]
my guess is that you must have editted the initPlugin() section of the
Plugin.pm where the mapping is set up. See
Slim/Plugins/SongScanner/Plugin.pm.
Thanks for the pointer - I'd forgotten that code. Once I saw that the
name is now song_scanner it turns
Ben Sandee;300165 Wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Matt Wise
Matt.Wise.393u0b1210271702 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com
wrote:
Bugzilla has been moved. If you point to http://74.201.85.76 you
should
see it come up directly. DNS is still propogating ... but depending
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Matt Wise
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Unfortunately thats a frustrating issue with Bugzilla... Everything
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bugs.slimdevices.com as resolving to 74.201.85.76.
Oh I see. the old
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Please nobody break the ability to use multiple ALBUMARTIST tags!
Interesting. I've never thought of adding multiple album artists. What ends
up in artist column of the album table for such an album?
I don't think I can see the need for multiple album artists, as I generally
make a single
Is it really necessary to use these long page names without any spaces
in now when we are using MediaWiki as the wiki system ?
For example:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SwitchingFromSubversionBackToGeneralReleaseOrDowngradingSlimServer
Wouldn't it be better to use names with spaces so
not only that multiple ALBUMARTIST work on album. One can actually mix
and match various ALBUMARTISTS across the tracks of an album:
track1 - ALBUMARTIST = a; b
track2 - ALBUMARTIST = a; c
track3 - ALBUMARTIST = b; c
album is listed by a, b, c
very good feature that definitely shouldn't be
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Hi all,
I've done a search and not come up with anything, but just wondering if
there's any known issues with SqueezeCentre and XP SP3 released a couple
of days back?
Any people here installed SP3 and still running SqueezeCentre without
any problems?
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slimkid;300185 Wrote:
not only that multiple ALBUMARTIST work on album. One can actually mix
and match various ALBUMARTISTS across the tracks of an album:
track1 - ALBUMARTIST = a; b
track2 - ALBUMARTIST = a; c
track3 - ALBUMARTIST = b; c
album is listed by a, b, c
very good feature
Yes dude, congratulations! : )
PS: do you know if 3rd part plugins for standalone receiver Setup are
already operacional?
mvalera;299823 Wrote:
Hey all,
You'll all be happy to hear that we're now shipping both the Squeezebox
Receiver and Controller to all countries served by the
Howard Passman;300083 Wrote:
I'm glad all of your stuff works. Really I am. And I guess I could be
down there in the gene pool as your signature seems to imply others
might be. If that is the case, you could (A) help resolve the problems
of us lesser mortals or (B) don't waste your time
Rightly or wrongly, I would assume that because no-one has said it
doesn't work after this amount of time then it should be a problem.
There isn't a huge amound of difference between a fully patched XP SP2
system and SP3. On one system I've seen only 62MB was needed to apply
SP3. That compairs
Ok my SBR arrived today.. apologies to Logitech Europe (for doubting)
and commiserations to anyone else (still waiting) :)
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I just received a second SR. So I have two receivers and 1 controller.
I noticed you have to switch to each receiver to control each receivers
volume when synced.
Is there a way to control both receivers volume at once when synced? I
assume in order to control anything on the other receiver
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:26 PM, strawnj
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to control both receivers volume at once when synced? I
assume in order to control anything on the other receiver you have to
connect to it.
Yes, under Server Setttings-Player-Audio there's an option for each
JJZolx;300194 Wrote:
Huh
Of course you can put any damned thing you want in the tags. But
ALBUMARTIST is an _album_ tag. Album tags should be consistent across
all tracks in an album. The example you give would be like tagging
different tracks in the same album with different
erland;300183 Wrote:
Is it really necessary to use these long page names without any spaces
in now when we are using MediaWiki as the wiki system ?
For example:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SwitchingFromSubversionBackToGeneralReleaseOrDowngradingSlimServer
Wouldn't it be better
I recently purchased a pair of Audioegine 5s and they most definitely
hiss/hum but do not pop. The hiss/hum is, however, too loud when
trying to sleep.
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slimkid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Huh
the fact that you THINK it makes no logical sense, says only about your
limited experience. I also fail to see the relevance of the analogy to
album reply gain tag.
Good think is that above mentioned scenario works just fine and no
further
I have serious sync problems and we (slim tech support) have established
that the machine I run SC7.0 on does not keep good time. In my case
this was identified with the sync.player logging option set to debug,
resulting in a constant stream of 'adjust jiffies epoch...'
I have only experienced
Howard Passman;300028 Wrote:
Anyway, didn't mean to insult you especially after taking the time to
repsond. Please accept my appology.
Accepted, but truth be told it prob didn't even deserve an apology on
your part. I meant to say that to my GF but displaced it! Besides, I
tend to give
gregklanderman;300223 Wrote:
Gotta agree with JJZolx on this one - ALBUMARTIST is by definition a
property of the album. It is nonsensical to have different values for
different tracks.
And, what definition would that be? Nonsensical in what way?
gregklanderman;300223 Wrote:
Why is
Phil Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Interesting. I've never thought of adding multiple album artists.
What ends up in artist column of the album table for such an album?
Hi Phil,
You mean album.contributor? Haven't looked at it in a few months, but
I believe it's set to the first
slimkid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And, what definition would that be? Nonsensical in what way?
ALBUMARTIST by definition pertains to the ALBUM - in fact, notice
how those are the first 5 letters.
TRACKARTIST (aka ARTIST) pertains to the TRACK.
greg
seanadams;299799 Wrote:
The crystals in SB3 are specified to within 50ppm accuracy, so if you
take the worst case where one is fast by 50ppm and the other is slow by
50ppm, then you have a total drift between the two of 100ppm or
0.000100. After one hour, the faster player would be ahead by
Thanks for that information.
Anyone else know what type of encryption or security is used for the
wireless connection from the Duet controller to the Duet receiver?
I do not feel comfortable using this mode of operation without knowing
the security risks.
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I have one of the original Squeezeboxes with WiFi. I would like to have
one just like it because of the small face. It sits in a 19 rack and I
don't want to waste two rack units for this tiny little device.
If you have one you are willing to part with or were considering
upgrading to the newer
jaffacake;299637 Wrote:
I don't know of any products with an upper track limit when running off
a server
There was something called an -Audiotron-, made by Turtle Beach. It
read music files from a SMB server (which may or may not count as
running off a server). Upper limit around 14K tracks.
I
bobkoure;300265 Wrote:
There was something called an -Audiotron-, made by Turtle Beach. It read
music files from a SMB server (which may or may not count as running
off a server). Upper limit around 14K tracks.
I think you might find that a lot of folks here had at least one of
these
After a fresh install of SqueezeCenter I'm not able to run scanner.exe.
The error message I get is:
D:\MultiMedia\Music\SqueezeCenter\serverscanner.exe
The following CPAN modules were found but cannot work with
SqueezeCenter:
Net::DNS (loaded not found, need 0.58)
To fix this problem you have
I downgraded to the released version of SqueezeCenter(7.0) and my
initial scan is now running.
I guess I'll stick to the official release for now although I still
would like to know what was causing the issue.
Hans.
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The message connection reset by remote host has suddenly started
showing up when I'm listening to Internet Radio via Squeezebox Network.
Happening even with low bandwidth stations. It stops, rebuffers, and
stutters back on eventually. Lots of cutouts--driving me mad, mainly
because I am so
When I look at my scanner logs I see hundreds (maybe thousands) of
messages like the below. What are they telling me. They clearly are a
reason scans are slow
[08-05-08 04:38:50.1951] MPEG::Audio::Frame::broken (618) Warning: Use
of uninitialized value in right bitshift () at
pippin;299889 Wrote:
No. I have the same thing in my car radio. This is usually not a
correlation thing, because you don't hear correlations, as soon as the
first track is different you are on a completely new trail and don't
tell me that you can hear a correlation like in
1 20 4 80 5 vs 2
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harleyman wrote:
I recently bought a ROKU Soundbridge and I'm very unhappy with it.
Thinking about upgrading to the logitech system want to make sure this
really works before I spend more cash
I've bought five of them. They really work.
But you need a server. Don't start with a cheap NAS,
harleyman;300285 Wrote:
I recently bought a ROKU Soundbridge and I'm very unhappy with it.
Thinking about upgrading to the logitech system want to make sure this
really works before I spend more cash
They offer a thirty day satisfaction guarantee. Try it and find out.
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