[slim] best way to move plugins durring slim upgrade

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Alioto
Title: best way to move plugins durring slim upgrade Hi I was wondering if anyone has any suggestion regarding moving ones plugins to a new installation. Is there way to keep them outside the slim directory like you can do with prefs and cache? I’m running perl tar.gz on a linux box and I

RE: [slim] Power on Resume Options in Player problem with stream?

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Alioto
> > I turn off the SB while it is playing this stream. When I turn on the > SB again, nothing happens - no resume of the stream. > I pause the stream before turning off my SB if I want to resume later without restarting the stream. Disclaimer about the below disclaimer. The information cont

RE: [slim] Re: SlimServer 6.2b2 problems?

2005-10-20 Thread Matt Alioto
> * Matt Alioto shaped the electrons to say... > > >> When using playlist rescan from server settings music stops on all > > Matt - I fixed this bug just this morning. Thanks. Fix will be in tonight's nightly? Bugzilla is my friend... At least I'm not tota

[slim] SlimServer 6.2b2 problems?

2005-10-20 Thread Matt Alioto
Sorry to post this twice. I should have started a new thread. > Hi > I was wondering if anyone has had any of the following problems with the > releases from the 18th til todays nightly(19th) including the 6.2b2 > released today. > > When using playlist rescan from server settings music stops o

RE: [slim] Re: Announce: SlimServer 6.2b2

2005-10-20 Thread Matt Alioto
Disregard this one. Cleared cache and fixed. I kill people like me for beaskfast. (notice now how I add songs instead of somes). When doing a browser refresh the player always reverts back to a perticular player. If I refresh while I'm adding songs to player B it will change to player A. I

RE: [slim] Re: Announce: SlimServer 6.2b2

2005-10-20 Thread Matt Alioto
Hi I was wondering if anyone has had any of the following problems with the releases from the 18th til todays nightly(19th) including the 6.2b2 released today. When using playlist rescan from server settings music stops on all players and what ever is queued up to play on each player is gone f

RE: [slim] Performance measurements ?

2005-10-13 Thread Matt Alioto
Can you post the source? Need to run on Solaris. Linux version errors. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I renamed settime.bin to settime. Set execute permissions ssettime is in my path slimserver.pl is in my path as slimserver.pl and as slimserver user can read input file. If I were to run it fr

RE: [slim] Re: Unreliable Wireless Connection

2005-10-12 Thread Matt Alioto
Exactly 26 characters? Matt Alioto malioto (AT) acpac (DOT) com Don't let education interfere with your learning... > > Ok, here's your problem. You've entered a passphrase as your > encrytption key. This is not allowed in your router, nor with WEP. > You need to

RE: [slim] Re: Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off?

2005-08-31 Thread Matt Alioto
I've upgraded to the 8-30 nightly of 6.1.2 and it still seems to behave the same. Same= If I'm in the middle of a song and power off, then power on the song starts at the beginning again instead of from where I left off. I've tried unplugging and replugging squeeze box, forcing firmware upgrade,

[slim] Re: Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off?

2005-08-30 Thread Matt Alioto
Hi I was wondering if anybody knew if this was going to be changed back to the original behavior. I've searched the bug/enhancements but don't see anything on it. Thanks matt > This was an intentional change, in part to fix a bug where the volume > levels got messed up if you paused, but mostl

RE: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread Matt Alioto
> > well, I think I'm just getting the impression that demands for how this > must > work will end up causing the one instance to double up on so much already. > Its > a given that once such a feature is created, there will be a user out > there who > will demand that it works in every different

RE: [slim] Mount SB2 upside down - rotate display text

2005-08-09 Thread Matt Alioto
Although I haven't taken mine apart before so there may be other issues here but how about physically fliping the display upside down in the case? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of gonk Sent: Tue 8/9/2005 12:42 PM To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Mo

RE: [slim] Updating Slim Server?

2005-08-09 Thread Matt Alioto
I just use symbolic links. unpack the tar ball to say /usr/src/Slimserver_6.x.x ln -s /usr/src/Slimserver_6.x.x /usr/local/slimserver Just make sure your startup script points to /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl (for this example). this allows you to keep a few versions of Slim around with thie

RE: [slim] Re:Security consequences of opening port 9000 "and beyond"

2005-08-05 Thread Matt Alioto
I agree If someone wants something bad enough there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop them short of destroying what they want. There comes a point when the cost of securing something out weighs its value. It's up to you to determine what that value is and how far you are willing to go to

RE: [slim] 5 Aug Nightlies Double Songs

2005-08-05 Thread Matt Alioto
just realised it doesn't happen if I use the interface > from > another networked PC... > > -- > > Neil > > > "Matt Alioto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > This has been happening to mine for quite some tim

RE: [slim] 5 Aug Nightlies Double Songs

2005-08-05 Thread Matt Alioto
This has been happening to mine for quite some time now due to .cue and .m3u playlist files in the directory with mp3's. Commenting out the file types in types.conf stops the duplicates but breaks Playlist functionality. It also gives you a more accurate track count with cue and m3u commented out.

RE: [slim] Re: Sean Adams caught red handed!

2005-08-05 Thread Matt Alioto
Humm.. Lets see. Yahoo has an online music subscription service. I imagine they use DRM. Lots of people want to play DRM on squeezebox. Sean caught at yahoo. Hummm.. The information contained in this e-mail is strictly confidential and for the intended use of the addressee only; it may also be le

RE: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations? -- no, but I can tell you what *isn't* working for me..

2005-08-04 Thread Matt Alioto
Maybe a .cue/.m3u problem? A lot of the CDs I have ripped have playlist files in the dir with the music. If I browse folders and play a directory containing a CD that has a playlist file in it I get 2 of each song. I commented out .cue and .m3u in types.conf to remedy.(which of course broke playl

RE: [slim] Best Performance - recommendations? -- no, but I can tellyou what *isn't* working for me..

2005-08-03 Thread Matt Alioto
OK here goes.. Setup. 2 SB2's wired and 1 SB1 wireless Cisco AP-350 Dell 3024 Sw Sun Enterprise 3000 - 6 250Mhz Ultra Sparc - 3 gig mem. 10 73 gig scsi Seagate barracuda 16meg cache, Soft Raid 5. 600gig MP3 store/250gigs Mp3 - 40,000 songs perl 5.8.5 lame 3.96.1 Slimserver 7-31 nightly Solaris 10

RE: [slim] Skins - many don't seem to work.

2005-08-03 Thread Matt Alioto
RE: [slim] Skins - many don't seem to work. Have you tried the pill or a contraceptive jelly. Sorry couldn't resist. Matt The information contained in this e-mail is strictly confidential and for the intended use of the addressee only; it may also be legally privileged and/or price sensitive. No

RE: [slim] Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off

2005-08-02 Thread Matt Alioto
I too would like it to remember track position between power cycles. Matt ... > > >How about an option to keep position within track when switched off? > >What do others think about this behaviour? > > > I would prefer to revert back to the previous behaviour too. I frequently > play long track

[slim] RE: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-02 Thread Matt Alioto
ile an enhancment request? not sure if this qualifies as an enhancment. Send specs and a gift basket to kdf? Secret ballot? I sure don't have the skills to do this. Also very much in agreement that this thread needs a new name. Matt > Matt > > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 03:23, Matt

RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-02 Thread Matt Alioto
> Matt > > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 03:23, Matt Alioto wrote: > > How about using my selection option and have the selection default to > > the last Playlist you "sent to", Or to a predefined configurable default > > "send to" playlist? Would tha

RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Matt Alioto
Alex How about using my selection option and have the selection default to the last Playlist you "sent to", Or to a predefined configurable default "send to" playlist? Would that be more acceptable? Maybe a dual function key? Press once fast and it automatically adds to a predefined default "send

RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Matt Alioto
Sorry Alex, I didn't see your post cause of the prepended subject line. The serious flaws part was cut off. The reason I suggested to select a playlist was I never plan on making the playlist ahead of time. I've got over 40,000 songs in almost every part of the spectrum and I forget what's in ther

RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Matt Alioto
I'm sure this kitchen can use another cook.. How about a "send to" plugin During the playback of any song, playlist item ect.. Hold down some button on the remote. A send to dialog would appear on the screen allowing you to choose an existing playlist to add that song to or option to create a ne

RE: [slim] sometimes slow response from squeezebox

2005-07-28 Thread Matt Alioto
> > > > I'm running 6.1 on a win2003 machine with musicmagic plugin working. I > > have slimserver check my library every night. Now what I experience is > > that SOMETIMES the squeezebox 2 responds slow to remote control > > commands. It buffers the commands so they do get carried out eventually

RE: [slim] Re: SB2 Remote control clashing

2005-07-28 Thread Matt Alioto
> > The remote sends only our own codes (not JVC any more - that was just > back when we shipped a universal remote with SLIMP3, our first > product). > > However, there are a few devices out there that will also respond to > our codes. They are VERY rare - apart from this incident, the only >

RE: [slim] Re: Should Library Scanning Bring Server to a Halt

2005-07-27 Thread Matt Alioto
> > I'm running on an old Athlon with 512mb, and like Kevin a scan takes > around 15 mins. Playback usually isn't affected, I certainly don't have > any players losing contact. This is with a library of 9,500 tracks > (~150gb of flac & vorbis). > > radish Hi Sorry to butt in, I just have a quic

[slim] 6.1 alarm problems?

2005-07-22 Thread Matt Alioto
Hi I've been using the alarm very reliably up to 6.0.2. After starting on the nightlys from 7-14, 7-17 and including 6.1 it has been very unreliable. Problems range from PLs mysteriously missing from SB although the m3u file is in PL directory to SB starting and although it is set to a good PL it

[slim] 6.1 lame convert problems

2005-07-21 Thread Matt Alioto
Hi Just upgraded from 7-17 nightly to 6.1. I've been listening from work(64kbs) for months with no problems up to the 7-17 nightly. With this latest release, 6.1 lame crashes During playback and it reverts to maximum kbs. When I load the songs initially it says converted to 64kbs in the Web UI b

RE: [slim] Re: 2 players, 1 network = stopped working

2005-07-21 Thread Matt Alioto
> > I'm in the UK. Thanks for the link - I'd definitely not come across > that before. > > Interesting that Dean regards the association between SlimDevices and > cannabis as fortuitous. :-) :-) > Being a San Francisco native and the owner of several SB's it makes me just that much prouder t

RE: [slim] Re: web interface browse music folder

2005-07-19 Thread Matt Alioto
> > > > > > kdf, I'm not sure if you realize it, but "infoFormat" is pretty > > > meaningless to those of us who haven't been neck deep in the code. > > > Maybe you could explain a little about what it is and how it affects > > > the web interface. > > > > it makes it go very slow > Ya that's pr

[slim] web interface browse music folder

2005-07-19 Thread Matt Alioto
Hi I Recently started on the nightlies again and am running 7/17 6.1b2. I noticed that if you go to browse music folder in the Web UI, that instead of having the letters on top that you can click to go directly to the page containing say albums that start with an "L" it now has page numbers. Is thi

[slim] good lookn' out

2005-07-18 Thread Matt Alioto
Hi Just wanted to comment on how well the newer versions of slim are performing. I was running 6.0.2 for a while, mostly cause' I was just being lazy. Recently started back on the nightlys and wow! I can't believe the increased performance of the web interface and the menus on the SB. Thanks for

RE: [slim] Re: kdf

2005-05-27 Thread Matt Alioto
What about the trees? Does he speak for the trees? Sorry, it's Friday - I couldn't resist. Matt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dean blackketter > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 2:11 PM > To: Slim Devices Discussion > Subject:

RE: [slim] Re: SB2 playback freezes

2005-05-20 Thread Matt Alioto
> > I've got the same problem. This does not occur with a particular song or > album, but seems to occur randomly. The display scrolls and everything > appears normal except that the playlist simply halts. It only occurs at > the end of a song and will resume playing the next track when I press >

[slim] Re: SqueezeBox2_Lite for remote control and display only?

2005-05-18 Thread Matt Alioto
3) You could get a palm sized computer (e.g., PalmOS or WindowsPC) to use as a remote. 4) I believe some cell-phones can be made to do this via software (e.g., Sailing Clicker) though I haven't explored this myself. Personally, since (3) would give you visual feedback and the others would not

[slim] Re: Slim Server Scan fails

2005-05-12 Thread Matt Alioto
I've also had this problem and checking the logs indicated a particular file it was crashing on. Moved file out of MP3 directory and solved the problem. Renamed and retagged file for permanent fix. matt The information contained in this e-mail is strictly confidential and for the intended use o

RE: [slim] Re: How to clear playlists

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Alioto
To clear play list from remote press the back arrow (<) on the remote Until it will not go back any more. Then scroll to the now playing and press the + button and it will clear the current play list. I'm pretty sure you have to use the back arrow and not the now playing button for this to work.

RE: [slim] .ape and slim crash 4_26 nightly

2005-04-27 Thread Matt Alioto
> > I get the following errors when scan hits a particular .ape file. > I have others that don't seem to have a problem. > This causes slimserver to become unresponsive. > Process still runs but SB and SB2 loose connection and web interface > times out. > Running on Solaris 10, 6.0.2 4/26/05 candi

[slim] .ape and slim crash 4_26 nightly

2005-04-27 Thread Matt Alioto
Hi I get the following errors when scan hits a particular .ape file. I have others that don't seem to have a problem. This causes slimserver to become unresponsive. Process still runs but SB and SB2 loose connection and web interface times out. Running on Solaris 10, 6.0.2 4/26/05 candidate releas

RE: [slim] now playing database error

2005-04-19 Thread Matt Alioto
Hi I'm not sure if this is the same problem so I'll describe the symptoms. I sync one SB and one SB2. I them unsync the SB and the music stops playing on the SB and continues on the SB2(normal so far). From there on out the SB2 is one track behind on the now playing screen. I'm running the 6.0.

RE: [slim] Re: Any chance of SlimDevices making a portable player?

2005-04-11 Thread Matt Alioto
A pony might be easier but..how about a portable player with limited local storage (big buffer/cache) and a 3G or better celular connection to stream from slimserver. Service charges might kill you that would truly be a portable squeezebox. The worlds first celular streaming MP3 player, or a pony

RE: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-04 Thread Matt Alioto
I've had it do similar while having wireless SB1 synced with SS2. I think I just pressed play to get it going again but can't remember for sure. It did stop between tracks. Don't let education interfere with your learning... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: [slim] Re: Re: Is it time to recall 6? Anyone get it working onSuse orRH 7.2?

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Alioto
Might it also be possible to install a different/working version of Perl in a slightly non-standard location to run Slimserver with? Matt Don't let education interfere with your learning... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sully Sent: F

[slim] mpc -> mp3

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Alioto
HI All I have a few CD's in mpc and noticed there was some talk in the past about getting Slimserver to stream them as mp3. Is this possible, and if so how? Thanks The information contained in this e-mail is strictly confidential and for the intended use of the addressee only; it may also be leg

[slim] logging question

2005-04-01 Thread Matt Alioto
Title: logging question Hi All Can anyone tell me what the following logging output is about.  I get it with --d_remotestream 2005-03-31 23:42:47.0015 Opening connection to http://localhost:10002/api/version: [localhost on port 10002 with path /api/version with timeout 5] 2005-03-31 23:42:4

RE: [slim] SB1 and SB2 Case interchangeable?

2005-03-31 Thread Matt Alioto
ehalf Of Sean Adams > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:30 PM > To: Slim Devices Discussion > Subject: Re: [slim] SB1 and SB2 Case interchangeable? > > > On Mar 30, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Matt Alioto wrote: > > > Quick question. > > Are the cases for the SB1 and SB2

RE: [slim] struggling with AlienBBC and Mplayer

2005-03-30 Thread Matt Alioto
didn't make a difference. I ended up with 1.0pre5 cause I found it pre-built for Solaris. Any help to solve this error would be appreciated. Matt Are you able to use mplayer 1.0pre6 on your system? I use it on Windows and it works ok with the stream you tried. Neil Matt Alioto wrote: &

[slim] SB1 and SB2 Case interchangeable?

2005-03-30 Thread Matt Alioto
Quick question. Are the cases for the SB1 and SB2 interchangeable? I would like to buy a wired SB2 and wrap it in an orange case >From a SB1. Will it fit? Thanks The information contained in this e-mail is strictly confidential and for the intended use of the addressee only; it may also be legall

[slim] struggling with AlienBBC and Mplayer

2005-03-29 Thread Matt Alioto
Hi All I've been try for a while to get AlienBBC working. It says it's playing but no sound comes out. Can someone please suggest a way to test mplayer on the command line but not using a real audio stream as I think that might be the problem. I saw a post from a while back that had an example

[slim] AlienBBC - Mplayer on Solaris w/ no sound card

2005-03-28 Thread Matt Alioto
Has anyone had success getting AlienBBC working on Solaris 10 w/ no sound card on server. I've been trying with all the recent nightly releases using mplayer 1.0pre5-3.4.2(mainly because I found it as a pkgadd and when I've tried to build my own I get an error: Error: Illegal operands: There are o

RE: [slim] Problem with New Music

2005-03-24 Thread Matt Alioto
For what its worth I tried it with 3-24 nightly and it seems to work normally for me.     Running 3-24 nightly 6.0b3 trunk Solaris 10, Enterprse3000, 6 250mhz proc, 1 gig mem. MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.2 AlienBBC 0.94 Perl 5.8.5     -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

RE: [slim] AlienBBC won't play

2005-03-24 Thread Matt Alioto
___ I can answer that and that would be a yes for me. I am using 3-20 nightly with SoftSqueeze. I changed the server settings and still no sound but no flac error either. That was with SoftSqueeze. I'll try SB when I get home. Thanks Matt Alioto 415-503-3821 [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [slim] AlienBBC won't play

2005-03-23 Thread Matt Alioto
I can answer that and that would be a yes for me. I am using 3-20 nightly with SoftSqueeze. I changed the server settings and still no sound but no flac error either. That was with SoftSqueeze. I'll try SB when I get home. Thanks Matt Alioto 415-503-3821 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't let

[slim] AlienBBC won't play

2005-03-23 Thread Matt Alioto
Hi I've been working on installing AlienBBC and have overcome many hurdles but this has got me stumped. I'm so close now... I get no errors at startup via --d_plugin I see the plugin in the web UI and SB. I get to the part where you press play and this is what I get. _