This is a very good fix to this plugin, but I think it has been missed
by most MIP users due to the thread title. I believe it deserves it's
own thread with a title such as Great improvement in scanning time due
to MIP plugin mod.
Meanwhile, keep the very informative discussion going.
I think
Philip Meyer;340447 Wrote:
The patch has been applied to the 7.3 code stream, so will be official
in that release.That's great news, thanks :)
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I would like to have a feature that turns Squeezebox Controller off if
no music is playing and there is no user activity for a specified
period of time. That would save battery power, I think.
What do you think of that? Is it hard to implement?
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I've found out that the problem came from dbPowerAmp which put 1 in
the disc tag even though the GUI said 1/1.
I corrected the disc tags to be 1/1, rescanned, and the (Disc x)
after album name is now gone.
So it seems it only appends (Disc x) if disc tag is 1, 2 and so on.
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Do you mean in addition to the existing Power Management settings?
As I understand it, the SBC already supports Sleep (turn off screen)
and Suspend (akin to Power Off) and Wireless Power Save (turns off the
wireless functionality) - which manage the battery life pretty well.
What benefit would
I upgraded from Squeezecenter 7.0.to 7.2 yesterday. I found that 7.2 had
difficulty starting up when I switched on my PC (using Windows Vista
Home Premium). I had not experienced this difficulty with version 7.0.
I uninstalled 7.2 and tried again but still found that start up was
erratic so I've
Mark Lanctot;340514 Wrote:
Don't DRMed files have an .m4p ('protected') extension?
Yes, Mark, you are correct.
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It's entirely possible that I dreamt this but I thought it was possible
to use the remote to select the album for the currently playing song
and play it.
I've had a look through the instructions in the help for the remote but
can't find it. Did I imagine it?
Thanks.
Oh, this is using a
aubuti;340263 Wrote:
You can run SC on your basement machine and control it from your laptop.
The SC interface seems to work faster if you are not running the server
from the same machine you are using the browser on.
So in summary (in order of necessity):
a) Shorten lists
b) Run server on
I upgraded from Squeezecenter 7.0.to 7.2 yesterday. I found that 7.2 had
difficulty starting up when I switched on my PC (using Windows Vista
Could you please upload the server.log file? 7.2 should start up just fine. If
you're using a firewall, you might need to tell it about the new version
Idea - good.
Pricing - la la land.
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From Now Playing you can push the right arrow to get into track details,
where you can select the album (or artist, genre, year) to play or add
to playlist.
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If you disabled native FLAC it may be trying to stream even more
bandwidth intensive .wav, which would explain the buffering. Not sure
why the FLAC would be choppy though.
In the bitrate limiting options did it give you a warning that LAME
isn't installed?
Any way you could move the SB closer,
Sonic degradation from compression and uncompression? It's lossless.
There is no degradation. Do you avoid downloading zip files and
compressed executables as well? :)
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, kgturner
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i appreciate your input. i'm glad to know that the
I'm a bit puzzled by the updated Alarm Clock feature in SC 7.2 (under
XP, with 2 regular SB3s).
I have my SB3s synched up, but each has a different volume setting.
Under various SC versions I have had them both set to to a Monday -
Friday alarm at 7.00am, using a saved Alien BBC R3 live feed as
egd;340365 Wrote:
and it is to this inclination you're leaning when you tell people it's
difficult. Even my folks and in-laws are running Linux without
difficulty. The most complex (sic) bit about running SC on Ubuntu is
editing a text file to add it to the repository.
I can certainly
kgturner;340550 Wrote:
i appreciate your input. i'm glad to know that the transporter will work
with 6.5.4. right now it appears that squeezecenter 7.0 is working well
so i may just leave well enough alone.
i realize that tagging wavs is not the standard and leaves me in a
small minority,
Suddenly working again this AM...
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i appreciate your input. i'm glad to know that the transporter will work
with 6.5.4. right now it appears that squeezecenter 7.0 is working well
so i may just leave well enough alone.
i realize that tagging wavs is not the standard and leaves me in a
small minority, but i'm just not ready to
Why not write/email to Passionato and tell them to cop on to themselves?
I'd be happy to buy from a company with a good which was willing to
supply me in lossless format (FLAC preferably), and which would charge
me less for a download than for a CD.
I'm not prepared to download from a company
kweller;340551 Wrote:
Er, I don't suppose there's any way to make it play 'Next' is there?
I'm pretty sure you can press+hold the add button to play next.
Kevin (who wishes there was a 'next' facility in the default skin like
there was/is in Fishbone)
This URL will add the play next
Skunk;340537 Wrote:
From Now Playing you can push the right arrow to get into track details,
where you can select the album (or artist, genre, year) to play or add
to playlist. Excellent, thank you :) I'd remembered the right arrow but it
hadn't
occurred to me that was another menu!
Er, I
What is the delay between making the changes to the alarm times and
shutting your SC system down ?
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Skunk;340555 Wrote:
I'm pretty sure you can press+hold the add button to play next.
Hmm. This isn't working for me in the Now Playing screen (using a
Boom), but works from the Music Library. I'd be curious if it works w/
your Squeezebox.
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kweller;340574 Wrote:
That works on my Sqzbx :).
Maybe it's a bug in the Boom then, because from Now
PlayingArtist/Album/Genre/Year I can only add to end of playlist. If I
drill down to Now PlayingArtistAlbum, then it will play next, but not
from the top level.
That's excellent (I wonder
The SqueezeCenter tells me that LAME is properly installed. Is there a
more accurate way to test this?
Your theory that it is transcoding on the fly to wav is interesting.
How can I determine this for sure, and how can I force it to transcode
to mp3? As I mentioned before, limiting the
On your SB - using SB UI - under Extras there is a Network test menu.
Run that test - it only tests the speed between SC and SB.
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I managed to lock a Sqzbx up so completely while playing with this that
I had to reboot the PC to get it working again!
That's an easy workaround for me to remember, the problem is going to
be getting SWMBO to remember it. She's not daft but it's not intuitive.
I think I'll write it down for her
I am using Widnows XP and the release version of 7.2. When I use the
Controller to delete a song from the playlist, it won't delete the
first song in the playlist, but any other song is able to be deleted.
Can other people delete the first song in a playlist with their
Controller?
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To quote Steven Moore: it just doesn't work sometimes.To be honest, no
complicated software-upgradable/hardware bundle works
all the time in any case.
It's the same with software players on PC/MACs, Sonos, SB, even muy PS3
and my Denon 3808 have occasionnal dropouts and
ModelCitizen;340502 Wrote:
You've not supplied a description of your problem or any detail. Your
problem cannot be addressed as no one knows what it is.
MC
My thread
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52368
and
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52341#24
Blue
kgturner;340550 Wrote:
with storage as cheap as it is, i'd prefer to leave the music
uncompressed and not have to worry about sonic degradation from
compression/uncompression.
Mathematically (and practically), the degradation is zero. If you
compress a wav file using a lossless algorithm
I agree it's not very intuitive. Play next works great from the top
level of now playing on the Duet's Controller, so I went ahead and
filed an enhancement request:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9493
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I definitely agree with Themis. My calculator always works. And my
computer sometimes has problems. But you sure can do a hell of a lot
more with the computer.
I think I might be more willing to accept difficulties from stuff like
this becuase the payoff is so great. Yes, my CD player has never
We had a power failure last night and the upstairs SB3 no longer gains
an IP.
Here's the setup. WRT54G with dd-wrt firmware
Two SB3s connected wirelessly, one on the main floor, on the on the top
floor.
When I go through the setup of the SB3 it finds the network, and fails
at the Obtain IP
Skunk;340612 Wrote:
I agree it's not very intuitive. Play next works great from the top
level of now playing on the Duet's Controller, so I went ahead and
filed an enhancement request:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9493
Once I'd finally remembered my log-in details I voted for
Skunk;340555 Wrote:
I'm pretty sure you can press+hold the add button to play next. That works on
my Sqzbx :).
Skunk;340555 Wrote:
This URL will add the play next button:
http://localhost:9000/?moreThanThis=1 That's excellent (I wonder why it's not
there by default).
Thanks very much
toby10 wrote:
I'd bet the Linux less than 1% market share is mostly due to the
learning curve that most of us 90% Windows users would have nightmares
over (warranted or not):
Windows = 90.66%
Mac = 7.86%
Linux = 0.93%
As Benjamin Disraeli said, there are Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Wow... locking this so it doesn't happen again.
This was a rumor, nothing more.
Mike
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I work for a company that sells BMW automobiles. We get a lot of
complaints on the iDrive feature. Is it cool? Yes. Can you do more
with it than without it? Yes. Is it necessarily progress. No, I
don't believe so. At what point would you decide that enough is
enough? When you have to
i've read all the arguments before about flac being the equivalent wav.
i'm not going to say one is the better than the other in regard to
sound quality. but for me, my peace of mind, and my money, i'd rather
go completely uncompressed than lossless. my entire cd collection
that's taken me
Skunk;340584 Wrote:
Maybe it's a bug in the Boom then, because from Now
PlayingArtist/Album/Genre/Year I can only add to end of playlist. If I
drill down to Now PlayingArtistAlbum, then it will play next, but not
from the top level.
Ah, you're right. I only tested it with a track. The top
kweller;340594 Wrote:
Ah, you're right. I only tested it with a track. The top level menu
items will only add to the end of the playlist; that's a shame as I'd
like to play an album 'next'. Is that a bug or WAD?
Kevin
If it's the same on SB and Boom then it's prob working as designed. The
kgturner;340550 Wrote:
i'd prefer to leave the music uncompressed and not have to worry about
sonic degradation from compression/uncompression.
kevin t
eh?
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bpa;340576 Wrote:
What is the delay between making the changes to the alarm times and
shutting your SC system down ?
Several hours. I'll usually be trying to make the changes in the early
evening, and my system does an automatic re-boot at 6.00am every
morning.
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pfarrell;340625 Wrote:
Linux is huge in embedded systems, for example every
Tivo, every Linksys WRT54G router, etc.
Its simple, the computer as toaster folks will never knowingly
install
Linux. They will never choose Linux.
To summarize, quite a large section of the population uses Linux
CatBus;340639 Wrote:
To summarize, quite a large section of the population uses Linux without
even knowing it every day, and likes it. But they'd never install it.
I'd even go so far as to say they'd never install Windows or OSX
either. They buy a box, and if that box comes with Windows,
I agree, I used the FF/REW for the first time and was elated.
Philip, the old system was never consistent. Every once in a while it
would work, but generally I would hold FF, it would go to 2x, then hold
FF again, it would go to 4x, then I'd push play, and it would restart
the song, or even
is it just one flac file or all of them? i encountered this problem
once. my entire flac collection was skipping. i end up figuring out
that i was using my computer while encoding to flac. apparently the
extra processing drain caused problems. much like using your computer
while burning a cd can
ah, you mean when drilling into an item and selecting Remove from
playlist-- yes, I can reproduce that on track 1 of the playlist. I'll
open a bug and assign to myself to fix.
done!
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9497
FYI-- there's a shortcut for this action. Hitting the + key in
It's a good idea with the LiveCD, I've done it to get familiar with
Ubuntu and it's really simple added to a running Windows installation.
After playing around some time it was a much easier job to setup my
dedicated SC server (VIA C7 fanless).
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Phil Leigh;340143 Wrote:
Some more info is needed:
how did you add it?
what format is it?
what version SC?
what OS?
Thank you, I will check some of these later when I get home.
I added it using EAC in the same method I have added thousands of other
songs.
Format is flac.
I am still on SS.
schoen
For many weeks now I have been unable to update my Duet to the latest
software which seems a pretty common problem on this forum.
Having tried everything I have found an INSTANT solution.
I simply registered my Duet on my already existing Squeezenetwork
account, within minutes the upgrade
kgturner;340634 Wrote:
i've read all the arguments before about flac being the equivalent wav.
They aren't arguments or theories, they are scientific/mathematical
facts or explanations. That's like saying that you've heard all the
arguments that two nickels (USD $0.05) have the same value as
phaedra;340113 Wrote:
Guys,
I bought the Squeeze box Duet over the Sonos some 3 months ago, BIG
mistake, but the hardware seemed so much better.
Running on MacBook/MacPro Leopard/iTunes8,Squeezecenter 7.2.
The autorescan never worked since v 7.0.1 for me, now more issues
during
FYI, bug is fixed in SqueezeCenter, 7.2 subversion change 23190.
You can update to tomorrow's daily build of 7.2 SqueezeCenter to pick
up the fix:
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/latest/7.2/
cheers,
#!/ben
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iPhone;340681 Wrote:
Yes Sonos is all self-containedWell, not THAT self-contained : it still needs
a server software
installation (or a music share server software), it depends on the OS,
the firewall, the router and several other software in the same way
SqueezeCenter and SB/TP do. It also
i prefer 4.57 rupees.
kevin t
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Here's what I wrote to Luke about my initial impressions of iSqueeze:
Install went fine
It has frozen up on me a few times, most recently while trying to edit
the current random playlist.
Bug: loads fine into artist view, playlists view shows ok, album view
hangs on loading causing
iPhone;340681 Wrote:
My sister and mother have NO netwrok or computer skills other then
knowing how to turn them on, and they enjoy their Slim Devices
products. And when they do have an issue or problem they e-mail or call
tech support which has been maybe once or twice due to storms (DHCP
bpa;340596 Wrote:
On your SB - using SB UI - under Extras there is a Network test menu.
Run that test - it only tests the speed between SC and SB.
OK, I tried this, and up to 2000kbps, I'm getting 100%. As I go higher
than this (2500, 3000, etc.), it starts to degrade a bit, like 97%.
On
iPhone;340681 Wrote:
You have had it over three months and haven't asked for much help. Did
you e-mailed or called Tech Support for help? Funny that you didn't use
the 30 day no questions asked return policy.I did the same thing - I bought
it based on my experience with multiple
SB3s and a
aubuti;340645 Wrote:
Very well put CatBus!
And to Toby10, I suggest you try out a LiveCD version of Ubuntu or
some other modern Linux distribution. It won't install anything on your
machine, but you'll see that it isn't really 'scary' at all.
Yeah...sure..that's what they told me
Though I was OK with old functionality + song scanner/looper + clickable
progress bar in browser UI, I like it better now out of the box. I find
it much more intuitive. Audio feedback wasn't great before, not easy
for neophytes to use. As a musician, I still would like to see some
looping
I wouldn't rule out possibility of wireless problem just yet. 2000kbps
is borderline especially if there is anything else happening on the
network (e.g. automatic updates, networked drives, interference from
other nets).
The figure of 976 kbps VBR is probably the average (e.g. file size
divided
Philip, the old system was never consistent. Every once in a while it
would work, but generally I would hold FF, it would go to 2x, then hold
FF again, it would go to 4x, then I'd push play, and it would restart
the song
Well, I never had any trouble like that. I did have an occasional problem
The problem with loading a large amount of albums is an interesting one.
I imagine the reason its crashing for you at the moment is because the
request for the album list is taking longer than the timeout I've set
(30 seconds) and my error handling in this error is probably a bit
ropey. I could
Hi all,
I have a perplexing issue with my install of SC 7.2 today. I downloaded
and installed, everything seemed to go okay, and after a minute or so I
got the SqueezeCenter installed successfully message. But when I
restart the server from my PreferncesPane, the button does change to
Stop Server
Thanks for the great service!
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In the iPeng Now Playing screen, if I swipe left, I'm presented with the
playlist screen similar to iPod or iSqueeze, I like iSqueeze
implementation of this better.
If I sweep right, I'm presented with a track info page that is
customizable in the iPeng settings. Mine shows a link to song info,
The way I get around this is to go to the prefs. page (I don't remember
exact menu name, Interface - Thumbnail Size, I think) change it even by
a pixel and it would rescan and display the proper artwork. You can
change the Thumbnail Size back and forth; it seems the artwork is
reordered properly
So, iPeng is better for getting information on the currently playing
track, but I still find it difficult to navigate to info about upcoming
tracks in the playlist in iPeng. This is why I'd like to be able to
access an info link like in iPeng Now Playing for any item in the
current playlist.
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Evan_E;336124 Wrote:
Well, lacking any other solution, I spent 90 minutes clicking on every
one of my 1408 albums. I'm curious as to whether anybody else has had
this problem, though, and if I missed a regenerate artwork button
deep in the bowels of Settings.
I tried this, however when I
Luke Redpath;340717 Wrote:
I imagine the reason its crashing for you at the moment is because the
request for the album list is taking longer than the timeout I've set
(30 seconds) and my error handling in this error is probably a bit
ropey.
My Artist list is pretty large too at 2,273 and
Iqueeze was a surprisingly fast application...
I did some benchmarks choosing songs (from memory) in different artists
from different genres and tracks, and it seemed to me Isqueeze was
faster to get there than Ipeng. And It´s also faster to go up some
directories to choose another trach from
I have my music collection in FLAC format with embedded artwork.
Currently SS displays the cover. Is it possible to have multiple
embedded artwork be displayed at the Album level?
Generally, all tracks in an album would have the embedded cover . In
addition the first track would also have any
Did you do a clean install of 7.2? There's been previous threads
regarding the need for some mac users to do a clean install to get a
server upgrade working properly.
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I'd also like an option to have the Now Playing screen to come up on
opening rather than the library screen. I think I would more often want
to control the player than browse the library with the iPhone.
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More than 40,797 songs on 3,200 albums by 2,273 artists.
Mostly flac,
I noticed my AlienBBC add on disappeared after I had upgraded to the
latest 7.2 server software. Is it still compatible And do I just DL it
all over again?
Thanks
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Gee..i Think I have reviewed the former Tmarti Isqueeze (now named
Mobile)not the Luke...is that so? Very confusing names and threads
yet...
If so, Is it possible to get the luke version?
Thanks,
Vitor
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You need to install a new version of AlienBBC (assuming you did not
upgrade from 7.1).
There is a new release 2.02 which includes all the menu changes
relating to iPlayer.
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We're trying to reproduce this here in the QA lab, so far I still
haven't seen it. I'm using a Linksys WRT610N but I think its time to
try another.
Just wanted to post letting everyone know this is a very high priority
for us in QA. Thanks everyone for the great details.
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Ross
bpa;340749 Wrote:
You need to install a new version of AlienBBC (assuming you did not
upgrade from 7.1).
There is a new release 2.02 which includes all the menu changes
relating to iPlayer.
Thanks for the info.
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i use a static IP for my SB, and i use a reserved dhcp IP for my SBC,
and i have had occassional issues with the sbc as i've mentioned b4 i
think.
but i am posting b/c why not, in the meantime, give the SBC a feature
to restart the wireless connection from scratch, like the repair
function in
I also wanted to suggest if anyone is willing, please update our router
status wiki page with problems you see with your specific routers or
wireless access points.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/RouterStatus
I'm still in the process of adding details from all the routers and
access
Can someone with Slim / Logitech comment - was Rhapsody support out on
Sunday night? I'm trying to figure out if the issue is in my setup or
not...
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See the fine title.
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pski;340769 Wrote:
See the fine title.
I'm tired of having to RDP and signon to get it started.
I tried the feature in 7.2. (Like I tried the other versions'.)
Apparently the credentials you supply don't apply to the MySQL part. Or
something else isn't kosher.
Anybody who get's this
It's been working here for every version since 6.5, including 7.2. Can
you provide some more details about your setup?
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This would be cool. I would love to be able see more of the art/scans
in SqueezeCenter that I also have imbedded in my FLAC files. Sounds
like a cool enhancement. I'll be looking for this in version 7.4! ;-)
Just kidding. It would be cool someday, though.
Later
Buck
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CatBus;340773 Wrote:
It's been working here for every version since 6.5, including 7.2. Can
you provide some more details about your setup?
I provide my usual user name and password.
Of course, I am an administrator.
The service does not start and when I login the icon is flashing in the
Ahh, sorry. I'm working with Linux here but I have some
non-SqueezeCenter Vista experience that may be applicable.
Why aren't you running the service with the Local System account (this
should be the default)? Do you need a specific set of credentials to
access your library?
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CatBus;340779 Wrote:
Ahh, sorry. I'm working with Linux here but I have some
non-SqueezeCenter Vista experience that may be applicable.
Why aren't you running the service with the Local System account (this
should be the default)? Do you need a specific set of credentials to
access your
Wow, that's an interesting choice (and not in a good way).
You may already know this, but when UAC is enabled, even when you're
logged in as an admin, you don't actually have admin access until you
go through this elevation process (typically via a UAC prompt). If
you're trying to run the
Goodsounds;340760 Wrote:
the computer as toaster folks will never knowingly install Linux.
They will never choose Linux.
100 percent correct
a large section of the population uses Linux without even knowing it
every day, and likes it
First part is correct, of course, second part is
CatBus;340782 Wrote:
Wow, that's an interesting choice (and not in a good way).
You may already know this, but when UAC is enabled, even when you're
logged in as an admin, you don't actually have admin access until you
go through this elevation process (typically via a UAC prompt). If
Running on Windows Home Server here and it starts itself everytime the
server reboots.
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damager;340791 Wrote:
Running on Windows Home Server here and it starts itself everytime the
server reboots.
Lucky you are.
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Do you know what's failing when it tries to start? Do you have any
Windows Event log entries? Is there anything being written to the
SqueezeCenter log file?
When you remote desktop into the server, will it then allow you start
the service or are you running it as a user program?
The problem
JJZolx;340794 Wrote:
Do you know what's failing when it tries to start? Do you have any
Windows Event log entries? Is there anything being written to the
SqueezeCenter log file?
When you remote desktop into the server, will it then allow you start
the service or are you running it as a
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