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Try connecting to 127.0.0.1:9000 and see if that works.
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solated problem.
What should I do?
I would have thought the answer was obvious.
Contact scan and complain, it's their responsibility to supply you
you with the product you ordered.
Alternatively, contact SlimDevices directly.
I'm not sure which would be
sons given.
For the ones I listen to less often (country, jazz, speech, and a few
others) I have them in one the CaseLogic cases, with the insert
sitting next to the CD. It makes for fairly easy browsing, and a
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Generally speaking, things that you change from the default should be
in the SlimDevices folder if possible, as this does not get changed
when you upgrade the software. If you change a file inside the
preference pane, you will have to change it again when you
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but (on a Mac) I have occasionally
had trouble with it.
A statci IP address is not a bad idea, anyway.
Instead of localhos you could try 127.0.0.1, which should always work.
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at me.
Oh, the sweetness!
I don't think you can do this directly. It can be done indirectly,
losing the lossless effect, by Nicecast (on a Mac, similar programs
on Windows, don't know about Linux) to make a broadcast stream from
the computer's sound, and getting the SB to
doing this?
I've no experience of that router, and some SB/router combinations
work well, others don't.
But I can confirm that WPA/TKIP on SB2 (you didn't say if you had an
SB2 or 3 or just an SB1) does work on my system.
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encryption rather than TKIP, but I am not sure if SB3 supports WPA-AES.
I believe it is supposed to, but in practice, partly because there
may be issues with the network, it often doesn't.
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mDevices folder may, depending on your
installation, be in your own Library or in the main (all users)
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Settings, Network bump up the Radio Station Timeout - I use
120 seconds, which is probably much higher than needed, but I don't
think it can cause any harm.
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s, Network bump up the Radio Station Timeout - I use
120 seconds, which is probably much higher than needed, but I don't
think it can cause any harm.
9. What *exactly* happens when you try to play something, what
messages do you get?
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It might be a good idea if SlimServer gave an actual option for more
than one music folder, but it doesn't.
Since it follows links in both Linux/Mac and Windows,
why would it be a good
I suspect so, but I don't use iTuines myself, so I am not sure.
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rather than just /ExternalDrive/Folder. Something of the sort may
work for you, but not knowing your OS makes it difficult to give
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Basically, loosen some screws and maybe use superglue to reglue the
panel. But *don't* take my word for it, read the relevant posts.
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, accepted responsibility and
agreed to an exchange; they have also suggested a fix that some
people might prefer to sending their box away.
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s. If it
gets all the way through the process before failing it shouldn't be
an encryption issue, but it is still worth (if you haven't done so)
trying to connect with all encryption and security off.
I take it that the iBook and PowerMac can connect to each other OK.
as on. It
does sound a good idea for an option (an option only, as Macs don't
seem to need it) if it is practical.
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with that to help diagnose the prob;em.
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"symbolic link" and you will find a couple of programs that let
you create a link using the GUI.
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Well, to diagnose I would have a look at what Activity Monitor says,and
also at SlimServer's Network Health.
From the little info you give, one can't say if you are having
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just for international calls, with UK calls still on your usual
provider. I have all my calls with OneTel, and pay 2p per minute for
calls to the USA.
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ssy codec!
Is there any way this can be done?
It *could* be done, but I don't know if it is worth the effort (or
cost). You could use a program that broadcasts sound, and use an
Internet radio playlist.
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license Apple Lossless and include it in their firmware.
As has been said before (many times now), at present Apple will not
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ppens to be one of its features.
And while you (and others) may choose to use Apple lossless, there is
a straightforward FLAC ripper for the Mac for those who want it,
namely xACT. I haven't tried a direct comparison of xACT coded FLAC
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hassle. However the Song Scanner plugin,
though still not what you want, does improve moving through a big
file, especially if you edit it to scan in large chunks.
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Squeezebox.
Thanks in advance.
Simplest is to move all your wav files into one folder and use that
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#post66628)) - the
order is not defined by the BBC, but by AlienBBC.
But I think the question was the order of individual programs on a
particular BBC channel. I doubt if that can be changed.
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It just occurs to me. On the Mac, as I mentioned previously, the
slimserversql.db is inside the Caches folder of the user library.
Some of the cleaning utilities can, I think, empty all this folder.
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I couldn't make sense of what was shown, but then I hadn't even
glanced at any documentation.
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to the key pressed.
It moves to that number in the list, but as we've seen the list order
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hing the page. Turn it off if you want.
Does this happen with all browsers, I wonder, or is it specifically a
Safari issue.
There seems to be no good reason why refreshing a page should take
100% CPU usage even for a small amount of time.
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think) Perl modules should live.
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beginners guide to the top of the main slimserver wiki page.
I put in a couple of Mac items.
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is is on OS 10.4.3, SlimServer 6.2.1.
Someone else reported that with SlimServer 6.2.2 (and IIRC on some
earlier versions) having SlimServer on does not prevent EnergySaver
putting the computer to sleep.
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don't themselves work
that well with AES at present. This has been said about the one I
use, the Apple Airport Extreme, although it is fine with WPA Personal.
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Oh if only telecommuting from Britain were an option!
But isn't that the whole point of telecommuting!
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It is
working now, so I can't re-create the issue.
-Dan
I have a bookmark that opens the Web interface with a particular SB
http://localhost:9000/index.html?player=
where after the = sign one puts the MAC address of the SB.
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they had the Roku but not the SB. And, as I have mentioned, they
insisted that the Roku was the better product.
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orrectly (which my
squeezebox does) they need to work a little at it to get the results
desired.
This guy just says that, when he had not yet got the SB, "the
software refused to work". I wonder what he was trying to do.
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whole lot of other programs open. That's fast enough for Wake on LAN
to be useful, even if it may be, as you imply, not totally necessary.
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Everything is back to where it was before sleep within a few seconds.
This is on a Mac.
I'm not even sure why they implemented it in the SB2, considering how
awfully it must perform.
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Wake-on-lan, and the Execute Script plugin let me wake and sleep my
computer from the SB, the two being in different rooms.
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ought it was useful to mention how Macs behaved, as not
all Mac users with an SB may have noticed this.
But perhaps I should have made it clearer that I wasn't disagreeing
with you or other posters, just indicating some differences.
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from a menu or from the command-line. The only reason I know about
the command-line is that I have a script to send the machine to
sleep, and I can use execute.pm to put it to sleep from the SB.
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Roku? They insisted to me that the Roku was much better. The only
excuse I could think of (and even then I doubt if it would have been
true) is that they were comparing with SB1, not SB2.
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full 6.2, and I was surprised that there wasn't a lot more time
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your way of putting it may be a little confusing.
Wake on LAN probably does not work if the computer has a wireless card.
My own setup has my computer and my wireless gear (Airport Extreme)
connected by Ethernet to my router, and the SB on wireless. The SB
Wake on LAN works fine in this set
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starting up. The puzzling thing is that mplayer can be run from the
terminal under the slimserver login (playing a BBC stream) with
settings as you suggest.
That does suggest a permissions issue to me. But if changing the
group does not work, I am unsure what
player has user myshortname,
group admin.
I had to set the group to admin manually, as mplayer did not work
with the group being myshortname.
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those who only want to use mp3 files on a Windows box, and I wouldn't
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So asking in the forum should come before posting something as a bug.
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tance, whether to show elapsed or remaining time, whether or not
to show a visualiser.
What Enabled does is just to allow buffer fullness to be *one* of the
options that can be reached by pressing Now Playing - you still have
to decide whether or not you want
rver
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But none of this really explains why this only happens on CDs.
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e. And there doesn't seem to be any advantage in
starting at boot (even if it works) in this situation.
Maybe someone from SlimDevices can give a definitive answer, but it
would not surprise me if "Start at Boot" only works when the
preference pane is instal
"password not accepted"
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nd to enough
buttons on the remote.
Also, for those not experienced in reading plugins, I think a
detailed explanation is needed of where scripts have to go in order
for the plugin to see them (and, perhaps, of how to alter the plugin
if one wants to put the script
I play any track from the root?
I wonder what is going on here, if you have something odd in your setup.
Certainly, when I Browse Music Folder I see both files and folders,
and pressing Play will play the file.
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possible to work from the command line. xACT us a reasonable flac
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...and if anyone has got it working for Mac OS X, I would also really
appreciate some more guidance.
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can't help with listen luve, but it works fine with listen again.
browse the threads if you nrrf info
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kdf, would it be worth having an explanation of how to do this on the
web page ?
if you want to provide it (since you went through the process), I'll certainly
post it :)
my computer use is limited
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fast and a slow version.
kdf, would it be worth having an explanation of how to do this on the
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chose the Squeezebox precisely because it was not Windows only.
Possibly they could make more money designing for Windows only, but
money is not the only criterion.
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I just want a responsive application that plays my music. This is
primary. All the
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is that it is
cross-platform. As a Mac user (and others are Linux/Unix users) I
chose the Squeezebox precisely because it was not Windows only.
Possibly they could make more money designing for Windows only, but
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ts of
lines with the same four keys: flc flc * * etc - in which case I
think the last one overrights the previous one..
This must be a rare situation, but a definitive answer might still be useful.
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flac mp3 * *
appears before
flac flac * *
was more than just a convenience in listing, did it give one
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# your player supports. SliMP3 supports only
# MP3. Squeezebox currently supports mp3, aif
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>You wouldn't need to "choose" until a second player was detected.
Once a second player comes into the mix, it may be random as to
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>All players show up in the menu -- how would you know which player
you were trying to control?
Of course. I meant that it was showing as the chosen one, an
his info helps. I have renamed my second SB, changing the
alphabetical order, and sure enough my main one now appears as the
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Yes, that was it. But I am not sure why the secondary SB was showing
in the menu.
All players show up in the menu -- how would you know which player
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