Could not be happier with my TP-Link C9:
http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Archer-C9-Wireless-1300Mbps/dp/B00PDLRHFW
Rock solid, unbelievable range. Very clear and simple UI. Doesn't have a
billion features but covers all the basics extremely well. (For things like
routers I'm happier knowing the
Hmm. Thought I understood this, but maybe it's just a matter of rephrasing.
Let's assume mysb.com goes away.
At that point, assuming I'm using a recent 7.8 build, will the Tunein app on my
Radio still function as expected?
I realize I can always save individual URLs as favorites, but Tunein
Tunein.com is a massive list of online streams. The Squeezebox app shows up for
the Radio and iPeng, I'm guessing the Touch, less sure about other/older
players. Provides access to Tunein.com through a nice menu-based GUI on the
player. Tunein also sends back artwork for the player to display,
Excellent, that's as I thought.
And thanks again to Michael for doing this important future proofing for the
SB community.
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On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:16 PM, garym
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Yes, with 7.8, tunein will continue to work without needing mysb.com.
I believe iPeng 7 is a universal app, so if you're running iOS 7 that's the way
to go. It's great as a controller and even better when you add the in-app
playback to turn it into a full fledged Squeezebox player.
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Your link finds it but search in the App Store does not. Weird. I guess it's
still updating somewhere in the depths of the App Store.
I'm definitely upgrading, it's a great app right now and the new version looks
way better and nicer for iOS 7.
Just curious, what's the discounted price and
Thanks, I'll use your link.
Weirdly search still only shows me the old version (I'm searching for ipeng
-- I also get ipeng ue and ipeng party as matches), and searching for
ipeng 7 comes up empty. Maybe they update their search indices in batch
overnight or something...
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On Dec 10,
Just bought it via your direct link. It works fine, in app purchase transferred
as expected, and I deleted the old version.
It's really great to have such dedicated development for the Squeezebox system.
Thanks again for all your efforts.
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On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:57 PM, pippin
They don't seem to be supported through the Tunein app, though you can find and
listen to then via Tunein on your phone or desktop. On the other hand, you can
find these stations via the Internet Radio app which lets you search
Shoutcast. Just search for 1.FM and you'll see all the stations;
Amazing that this forum still exists at all -- how dare I complain that
the email gateway is down!? ;-)
But glad to hear it's being looked at. It's so much easier to read the
forums via threaded email, I'd miss it if it were gone for good.
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Maybe it's hard to compensate the time that the people currently driving
the development of this project invest. But what *should* be possible is
to compensate their expenses e.g. for hardware they're buying to test.
Any thoughts how this can be organized? Should we setup a list where
these
A former SB guy now is working for TuneIn. He's a good guy :-). I've
already sent him a mail about this issue. Hopefully he can give us some
good answers.
I sure hope this can be worked out. It's a great example of something
that's worth a lot, and I do think people would be willing to pay for
Yes, that's kind of what I had in mind, too.
Would have to be something like wikipedia or a publicly available site,
though, a lot of the commercial ones don't allow you to use their data
for commercial Apps.
I'd settle for an search on Allmusic.com -- even just opening the page in
Safari
I can't remove it completely (or it would be that way for everybody) but
I need another screen there for some other use case so eventually I can
do an option to use something else, probably a music information screen,
in it's place.
A quick links page that lets you go directly to Allmusic.com
+1
It also gives a visual indication of volume setting.
As well as finer control over volume. I do use the visual slider in the
Music app on my iPhone.
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The Squeezebox Classic is back on Buy.com for $169.95:
http://openrocket.store.buy.com/p/logitech-squeezebox-network-media-player/206671999.html
And the Radio is available for $119.95:
http://openrocket.store.buy.com/p/logitech-squeezebox-radio/212543844.html
Both are reconditioned, and both
Another update: he dropped me email today saying that he's also going to
be restocking his buy.com store shortly, so anyone who is interested but
unsure of dealing directly with the seller may want to keep buy.com in
mind.
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This is the Logitech branded and renamed Squeezebox 3. I recently picked
up a spare from buy.com via a third-party seller on their site:
http://openrocket.store.buy.com/
It may just be a used model, not a refurb. However, it looks new, came
with all accessories including remote and tested
Are you saying he has some more to sell despite the sold out note on
his site?
According to him, if you contact him directly. Like I said, I am simply
passing along this info. (I assume that buy.com takes a big cut of his
sale and this way he'd get to keep more, but I don't know that for sure.)
I've heard/read that HDMI may not be ideal in some ways, therefore this
dock which has a DAC but can be bypassed via 2 digital non-HDMI outputs,
may be a great Touch sub when combined with an iPod and iPeng playback:
PURE i-20 Digital Dock for iPod/iPhone with Hi-Fi Quality Audio and
Video
I agree entirely - the last thing we want in our living rooms is some
hideous-looking geekbox. But the point about using a Pi is that it would
be a purely digital transport and can be hidden away out of sight.
Precisely. Like the Duet receiver, you don't have to look at it, it can be
stuffed
I've gotten no email from any of my forum/mailing list subscriptions for
the past couple of days. I know in the past it's occasionally had
problems; is it working for others?
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I'd appreciate someone trying these streams on their end to see if it
is something unique to me or ?. Thanks. Streams below:
http://wnycam.streamguys.com/
http://wnycfm.streamguys.com/
Those seem kind of messed up, as you say. The initial welcome message is
fine, but it's a mess after
Not working now - have you tried WNYC since Saturday afternoon?
Both the AM and FM streams loaded via RadioTime have the same problem.
In fact I was listening to WNYC 820 this morning on my Squeezebox Radio,
around 8AM or so. Very odd. I see that the RadioTime web page has a
problem tuning to
WNYC on my Touch via MySB and SBS and TinySBS is just the intro loop.
I did get the AM one to play on TinySBS but a second attempt is just
the loop.
Thanks! Same as me then (absent tinysbs, which I haven't tried)
I see my Radio is playing the AAC stream via RadioTime. That might be
what's
I'd like to buy a Squeezebox Radio, but it just seems fundamentally
broken/flawed for what I want.
In order of feature importance: I want a reliable alarm clock first and
foremost.
My primary concern as well. If your Internet or Wifi connection flakes
out, the Squeezebox Radio uses an
My Boom has always provided the backup alarm if there is no internet
connection. (I use WiFi and msb.com, not a local server.) I do
remember reading that it will only remember the next alarm when it
loses connection.
Huh. I'll have to check that. Apologies if I've provided misinformation. I
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Fortunately I don't need to do a rescan very often and typically
initiate it manually -- it's easy enough to turn off realtime protection
while the scan is running. Still, it's annoying.
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d'n'd in Default currently is available for playlist (current saved) and
favorites reordering.
I'm curious about the state of playlist management generally in 7.0.
Adding songs to an existing saved playlist is fairly tedious in 6.5, at
least with Fishbone. I haven't experimented with 7.0 yet,
(right now that's the thing they're least happy about, given that they
otherwise love their Squeezebox).
C'mon? Which other kid can call a SB his SB?!? They must be happy! Ok?
:-)
And it's SuperDateTime that sold them. They are lunatic sports fans and
love getting the latest scores on the
Like CeeJay mentioned the issue is lazy search (and regular search as I
recall) both rely on the letters in addition to the numbers to use them
effectively. Lazy search is just too helpful for me.
That's the one thing I don't like about my Harmony -- no letters. Makes
search very difficult or
That's the one thing I don't like about my Harmony -- no letters. Makes
search very difficult or impossible. Are there any decent universal
remotes that have letters as well as numbers on the keypad?
Actually I see that the 880 has letters on the keys, but even discounted
it's a pricey remote.
Ross from SlimDevices did comment... and he declined to predict when
6.5.1 would be released. I'm sure if he wanted to offer more insight,
he would have.
This reminds me of that famous Onion article:
God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy
'No,' Says God
December 9, 1998 | Issue
Michaelwagner wrote:
I was explaining why I have a knee-jerk reaction to Flash, and why I
have a hard time considering it a real development environment.
No doubt good work can be implemented in flash.
Many Slimdevices users are already familiar with good Flash design: the
Pandora music
It is a matter of preference... but how many times and how many buttons
did you have to press to get to Pink Floyd?
Let's see... click the Right button to get to Browse, Click the Down
Button to get to Artists, Press the 7 to Quick Jump to P. How many
Artist do you have that start with P? I have
30 here. Time to start wearing sensible clothes and reading real
newspapers. I'm also making lists of things to shout at kids when they
stray onto my lawn.
Nah, just make it up as you go along: the real art is to be able to
mumble and yell at the same time, so it doesn't really matter what you
Kyle wrote:
Robocopy seems to be a great way to automate backups, and thanks to
dangerous dom, I have a script that will either perform the mirror or
the backup function. But I want to be sure I understand what these two
functions do. The way I understand it, backup will copy every file from
Mark Lanctot wrote:
It's because it's erroring out at the end. It tries, errors, waits 30
seconds, tries again, errors, waits 30 seconds etc. I have to kill the
process.
I'm pretty sure if it completed successfully I'd get a report.
You need to tell it to not retry open files a million
Kyle wrote:
Is robocopy part of Windows XP or does it require a separate install?
It seems that robocopy and xxcopy are similar. Let's say I've got an
updated music folder on drive H and an outdated music folder (some new
files not there) on drive I. What command would I use to update the
Kyle wrote:
This sounds like what I need. If my music files are in a folder called
FLAC Files on both drives, and I only want to mirror that folder, how
would I write the command? Would it be:
/mir h:FLAC Files\source i:FLAC Files\dest
That's correct, assuming you want to mirror that
The other nice thing about robocopy is that it does write verification;
the robo prefix stands for robust, according to the docs.
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danco wrote:
So how can I tell which base station the Squeezebox is connecting to,
and can I force it to choose one over the other?
I had a similar problem and solved it by turning on MAC filtering and
setting things up so that Squeezebox connection attempts are rejected by
the undesirable
ModelCitizen wrote:
Read this thread and it's simple to understand why SlimDevices will
never produce a boombox.
Well, to counter that, I suggest you read this thread:
http://www.slimdevices.com/au_news.html
which goes all the way back to June of 2001 (scroll all the way down to
the bottom
This smells more like a retailer game than something put up by Sonos...
It's the first match (the I'm Feeling Lucky match) you get back from
Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=slimedevicesbtnI=Google+Search
In fact that page does contain the word slimedevices. A few other hits
as
They're working on the Slim Boombox I'm going to buy from them so I can
listen to it out on my deck and when I'm working in my yard this spring.
Come on guys, just a couple more months to go...
;-)
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Most boomboxes sell for, I'd guess, $150 to $250. A Slim boombox would
be starting with a $300 streaming component and then you would have to
add speakers, an amplifier and maybe CD and radio, too. Knowing the
quality audio that Slim Devices likes to deliver, I doubt this would be
entry-level
Bradley wrote:
Actually if you even listen to the actual audio stream directly from
the satellite using Sirius hardware, you'll hear a lot of imperfections
and digital artifacts. Satellite radio is far from Hi-fidelity. It's
more about variety. So you may want to reconsider your point.
Philip Meyer wrote:
I was just reading through a thread and found 5 out of 6 messages
where completely irrelevant to the initial post. I was just going to
ignore the thread when I stumbled across a message that I was
interested in that had nothing to do with that thread.
To recap, the problem
Thanks for the info. Before exploring AlienBBC I'd like to get the
player working on SB2/3's. I'm kind of confused why it is not working
on them and so far I'm surprised I haven't gotten much response to my
questions for help.
Have you tried using mplayer and/or wmadec directly (on the
But without doing the above test you can't really know if the URL itself
is wrong or if there's something about the WMA stream that's confusing
the WMA decoding code in the SB2/SB3 firmware.
Sorry, I should have read a bit further; it sounds like you've done this
already and have a URL that's
GoCubs wrote:
Plugin or not, no Howard. Unfortuantley only the music channels are
available online :(
Though according to what he's said on his show this week, that's due to
change in the near future. They have to build out a lot of server
infrastructure first, though, to handle the
Kevin Deane-Freeman wrote:
it will be for tomorrow's build. sorry about that.
Cool. This has been a very minor pet peeve of mine, that if you change
the formatting to something other than just plain TITLE, you don't get
the individual, clickable links anymore. But as it was such a minor
kdf wrote:
that problem still remains. it is not feasible to parse out the
titleformats on the fly to create links. If your titleformat contains
ALBUM or ARTIST, then they will not be linked. All I've done here is to
fix what should have been an album link.
I see.
Maybe a future
Can't Slimserver just be configured to stream to the Squeezebox
whatever is being delivered to the soundcard?
That would be pretty cool:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643. I added my vote.
There's a discussion of this going on right now in the Beginners list,
where pbjbryan
bklaas wrote:
thanks, that makes sense. Bummer, but reasonable. I got a gonzo cool
idea about the publicradiofan.com page while thinking about this last
night...I'll spare the details until I see if I can get it working, but
I'll give you a hint: rhymes with creasemonkey.
Yes indeed. I've
I had the same problem upon switching to the Jan 2 nightly. I'll
download the Jan 3 nightly tonight as I believe it is supposed to fix
this problem.
(It's kind of a shame that the 6.2.2 branch regressed in this way. I
thought the idea was to have it pick up tested bug fixes only, with new
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The problem: if you have a genre with all albums in the genre having
Various Artists (and assuming you have the Various Artists setting
turned on), then when you go to browse genres and choose that genre you
don't see anything on the page other than an artist
My comment about Flash was half-joking.
I agree that there is a place for Flash.. but I think that an AJAX
solution could be a lot better for a browser environment - if well
designed.
However, I do agree that new ideas for user interfaces should be
encouraged.
I'm not generally a Flash
Another vote for Maxtor here.
Me as well. Just got the Maxtor OneTouch 300GB Firewire/USB2 model
yesterday, plugged it into a spare Firewire jack on my PC last night and
was all ready to go in a couple minutes. (This is to augment the 250GB
model that I got last year. Man, those FLAC files
I did not find ID3v1 tags at the end, I found APE
tags.
Just curious: how do you find out if a file has APE tags?
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super nice, super simple, flash-based interface
Now that's an unusual combination of words!
I agree. I am normally very down on Flash -- this is one of the few
times I've ever seen it used in a way that improves on the user
experience one would have without it. Compare and contrast with,
We too share your enthusiasm for Pandora.
All I can say is that I've been friends with the founder for years. You are
welcome to read between the lines. :-)
Wow, I just tried it out. It's got a super nice, super simple,
flash-based interface -- just hit the home page, enter an artist you
Wow, I am speechless. I tried so many different links, but not this
one. How did you look at URL's source? I tried to download it with
wget. But this gives me a different URL. Just curious about this.
People speak highly of this shareware tool:
I only have a few tracks/albums that really have no titles and that's
usually stuff by Aphex Twin or whatever name you're used to calling
him. But if you look around any music store rather than list it as
nothing they refer to it as (Untitled) which I do too.
Sigur Ros is the ultimate tagging
Have a look at Mp3tag (ignore the name - it works on most audio file
formats):
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
You can set up actions in Mp3tag that will build tags from other
tags, or from parts of the file name. And vice versa, you can rename
files based on tag information or from parts of the
The interface for browsing by album art is fine except browsing by
album title is a pain when you would like to see all the albums by a
specific artist.
I believe if you set the ALBUMSORT tag (for FLAC) or TSOA tag (for MP3
files) then the server will use them whenever a sorted list of albums
Which Tagging programs do allow editing of AlbumSort on FLAC files? I
currently use TagRename, which makes it easy to edit tags on many
tracks concurrently by creating masks. Only problem is that it doesn't
support the AlbumSort tag at all.
I've never used it, but Helium2 seems to support TSOA:
Jeff Moore wrote:
Yep. Last time I checked, I think the Panasonics 5.8s tromped all
over everything, but the 5.8 Unidens stayed in their own yard.
Actually the Panasonics are good, they only use 5.8. Decent phones, too.
We have this model:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2384232C
and a
Mike Anderson wrote:
Do you have a link? Moose isn't specific enough to track it down in
Google.
Well, if you Google for moose slimdevices you do get some likely
looking matches...
In any event:
http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove/
Looks a lot like what many people here are asking
JJZolx wrote:
Add an ALBUMSORT tag to all tracks (TSOA tag in id3 tags). Populate
that tag with the artist name, followed by the album name. I prefer to
have an artist's albums sorted chronologically, so I also insert the
year before the album name. For example:
Amos, Tori|2005|Beekeeper
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by a few pixels, that'd fix it.
2. The update frequency uses a slider, but there's no indication of
whether all the way to the left is 0 or 60.
Other than that, it's beautiful, it's functional and it's taken up
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kdf wrote:
in the fishbone skin, I put a form in the header that is just a direct
entry into the static results. Live version can't work from there.
I actually much prefer this interface and was glad to see it show up in
Fishbone. Keeps things simple. I don't see much value in the dynamic
ovonrein wrote:
Managed to perform a Factory Reset and reconfigured from scratch -
unchanged. SSID has a signal strength of 88% (supposedly) and it
simply refuses to connect.
To simplify a bit, could you disable WEP and enable SSID broadcast, then
try again? (This is just to test whether
ovonrein wrote:
o I reconfigure the encryption and ... no problem grabbing carrier, no
problem obtaining IP, then comes Connecting to SlimServer..., where it
gets stuck.
o When I press remote to reconfigure, up pops Now Playing - eureka!
Weird, but I have say that I know the WEP key is in
Neil Cameron wrote:
I want to access Paste Radio via Slimserver - it's on
http://www.accuradio.com/paste/.
But the stream URL appears to be very well hidden; does anone know how to
get it to work?
In the past people here have mentioned URL Snooper:
Thanks Dan. Guess I'll wait for 6.2.1 because I have a lot of Various
Artist albums tagged and stored as Various Artists/Album Name/Artist -
Song Title.
Well for what it's worth, for someone like me who has an
album-per-directory structure, the Various Artists feature works like a
charm. My
Jeff52 wrote:
Steve I have my albums in folders as follows:
Various Artists/Album Name/Artist-SongTitle
i.e., each compilation is in a Various Artist Folder under the album
name with all tracks in the album folder. Are you saying that presents
no problems in SS 6.2? If that is the case then
As an aside, can anyone shed any light on why the stock Slimserver
scanning seems so primitive?
because it is actually fairly tricky to accomplish a solid fwd/rev san while
holding the button. IR is notoriously flakey, and there are loads of audio
formats and sources to handle, each with their
Jason Voegele wrote:
Sure, Apple has a QA department and generally produces fairly high quality
software [...]
Tell that to the poor souls who installed iTunes 5.0...:-/
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bishopdonmiguel wrote:
There are times when you have guests around and you don't want
to be a rude inconsiderate host. I have a sizable collection
explicit songs. Instead of showing off the Squeezebox when guests
are over, I usually shut it down and go with the radio or pop in a CD.
For
a good first step might be to confirm that their redistribution
licensing is indeed unrestricted. it may be that the client user of an
application developed with the TR-SDK might need a licensed copy of the
TR component.
Could be. Though given that the application itself sells for $11.95
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Apologies for that brief, misdirected personal note in this discussion
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and is actually pretty decent. So I'll blame my stupid fingers and/or
the late hour instead.
I'll be more careful in the future.
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Vidur Apparao wrote:
You're right - I believe there is scope for substantial improvement
here. Please file an enhancement bug at http://bugs.slimdevices.com,
assign it to me and target it for 6.1.
Cool. I just changed my recently filed bug 1497 from a bug to an
enhancement request, targeted it
Dan Sully wrote:
Bug 288 is open on this - to handle VA albums better.
Cool. I'll go add my name.
Artist names are shown in these listings in the 6.1 tree. We listen! :)
Nice! I haven't played with 6.1 yet; I'm just enjoying the nice, stable
6.0.2 for a while and staying off the bleeding edge.
Dan Sully wrote:
Question - What do you have Sort By File set to? It's in Settings- Behavior
It's set to Sort by File Name. I figured this would be the faster of
the two options (where the other one is Sort by Song Information),
though in my case it wouldn't make a difference as all my tracks
JJZolx wrote:
IMO, it's just plain silly to use this method of navigation to build
the database. Aren't there better options for low-cost methods of
cataloging newly added files?
I kind of understand what's going on behind the scene. If you think
about it, what can SlimServer do when it
worked on -- that there was a lot of unnecessary work going on with the
DB in addition to just doing a readdir() -- but if that's not the case
I'll file a bug report (or add my comments to an existing report if
someone else has already done so).
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When I browse the music folder via the web interface I see the display
on my SB2 freeze up (i.e., the large font that was scrolling the Now
Playing info stops dead in its tracks -- pardon the pun) until results
are returned to the browser. Music continues to play; I don't know,
however, if
I've seen the same delayed/queued display updates using a recent 6.0.2
nightly (from about one week ago).
It's not just the clock; it's a more generalized problem, one that I've
most recently seen in scrolling Now Playing info.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out how to cause the
What button is that? Could you provide some more detailed instructions
about how you do this in foobar 2000? I'm assuming that you are
coverting into mp3 or ogg. Does it also transfer the metadata from the
FLAC file to the other format?
I'm not sure about a button, but if you select all the
it being an app, i'd expect it to have better general UI responsiveness
than the webUI on a PocketPC or PalmOS device. maybe someone who's used
it can comment on it.
It's interesting, but the Live Search feature now makes Slimserver
nearly as responsive (if not quite a smooth) as an app. I've
JJZolx wrote:
But consolidate the operations on the same page and explain it a little
better. Get rid of the Wipe Cache on the Performance page and add a
checkbox above the current Rescan button. Label it something like
Perform a complete rescan from scratch. Add more informative text
JJZolx wrote:
I was going to suggest this as well, but since the Rescan every ...
is currently a plugin I figured the reaction would be that it's already
implemented as a plugin, so there's no need to add it to the server
while higher priority jobs need to be taken care of. And then I
figured the
Sean Adams wrote:
Please just realize the irony in pointing out that the list is
overloaded, while simultaneously overloading it further with a verbatim
rehash of the forum vs list debate. Instead, please direct your
suggestions to the CEO, who cares and will read them: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And
I'm seeing the same problems as well. (6.0.1 4/2 nightly on Windows).
Albums listed under the wrong artist [...]
Same here. Problems started this afternoon while playing an album,
Beck's Guero (highly recommended, by the way). The first couple of
tracks would play, but then it wouldn't proceed
Bill Moseley wrote:
It would be helpful to have a small tool where I can pass a
file name and see how slimserver parses and how it would index. I
know I can turn on debugging and rescan, but I'd like to be able to
work with single files.
I've used the log file in the past. Start the server with
I mentioned a few days ago that it seemed like rescan wasn't working for
me, but I wanted to do some more testing. Now I'm seeing it again for
sure with the 3/19 nightly (running on Windows XP with Fishbone).
I just added several folders (each folder is an album containing well
tagged MP3 or FLAC
Dan Sully wrote:
Thanks - I'll let Richard know. We'll roll a b3 with this updated once it's
fixed.
I got it as well from the 3/19 nightly. Curiously if I just download the
nightly ZIP file and navigate to the Softsqueeze folder, I can run it
just fine by doing:
javaw -jar Softsqueeze.jar
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