ecial case where one user = one player. And I
don't think it solves the general "Collection" problem, which allowed
for overlapping sets of music to be in use at different times.
Having said that, I've been trying to think of an alternative "simple&q
get this separation of concepts clear, we risk having a
load of plugins which address different areas of the problem which
don't quite fit together, which would be a shame.
Any other thoughts out there?
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drastic version is to delete everything in the slimserver folder first,
though you'd probably want to keep a copy of the slimserver.pref file as
well as any plugins you've downloaded.
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There are some settings in Server settings / Internet Radio you might
want to have a look at... its possible the upgrade has changed some
settings? e.g. number of streams to get, number of streams to include
in "most popular".
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get.
> - Dave
>
>
Like these people ... http://www.coomber.co.uk/ ... my wife bought one
of their real-time CD recorders for recording school music performers -
anyone can use it!
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You should also check out the advice at
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http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?NetworkProblemsBeginnersGuide
Or, for a really quick answer, start by changing the wireless channel
on your router.
If you can't get it tow work after trying all those things, report back
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in addition to the suggestions above ... Music IP mixer ,from version
1.6, will also play FLACs itself. Does nice mixing, too, even in the
free version.
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Many threads on this. for example
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20672&highlight=flac2mp3
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ocation - so something like
> 192.168.0.300, or 192.168.1.300 ?
... I think that should be 192.168.0.200 or 192.168.1.200 ...
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they don't both have the same MAC address, by any chance?
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was a
table of "reasons for dissatisfaction" - in other words, if you were
dissatisfied, what was the reason? And for laptops, by a significant
margin, the main reason was "couldn't get wireless networking to
work".
So its not just the SB
You might want to try 6.2.2 For example, this bug
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294 although not quite
what you are describing is definitely in the same area and seems to
have been fixed in 6.2.2 a few months ago.
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again.
You never know, it might be as simple as that...
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Sounds like you need AlienBBC ... much discussed in the 3rd Party
Plugins forum.
You might also want to look at LastFM (plugin also available).
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garden. With a wireless PDA in my pocket to act as the remote, I can
play music all day anywhere I like...
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Are you using Browse Music Folder? If so, there is a bug report for
this. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2594
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have 28 installed currently but could not find a link to it on the
> site.
>
> Many thanks.
Nightlies available at http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_nightly.html
If you download the latest 6.2.2 it will bring the latest firmware with
it... 37, I
tprint than battery operated
devices like wall or alarm clocks.
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e found to keep this
> straight. (I am not blaming SS for this).
Well, you are right that there is no *easy* way, but there certainly is
a way. Some ideas are discussed in
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToClassical
OSER, you might also want to
look at my enhancement requests
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2698
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2699
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2701
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at the tags with mp3tag.
For example, if these are MP3 files, and you have both ID3v1 and ID3v2
tags present, Slimserver gets confused and may well behave differently
from iTunes.
What file type is it?
Are you browsing by Music Folder, or by Artist/Album?
Is "sh
se
are likely to give you the wrong order as well: should be 01- , 02-,
03- etc
Finally, how are you getting to the album? Are you using Browse Music
Folder, or Browse by Album/Artist etc ?
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1 was always meant to be No Genre?
I really shouldn't speculate about code I don't understand, though
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which
means you will be updated as this is dealt with. You will need to
create an ID for yourself on bugzilla, it's not the same as the
forum's.
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allofmp3 ...
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may be relevant! My guess is that some logic isn't quite right here...
I can't see this in bugzilla - if no-one can tell us why this is
happening, I'll post this as a bug later.
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best to guess from file names, but you will get so much more from this
if you convert to FLAC as you rip with EAC. You'll save disc space, and
get more ways to browse and find music (by genre, notably).
Ceej
o know that just now!)
Good luck
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FYI, I've just added a link to this thread from the
BeginnersGuideToServers (backup section)
So if there are any more bright ideas of tackling this problem, lets
have them!
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ultrazone Wrote:
> I have four entries for the "Windows Media" filetype. 3 of them are
> checked: FLAC, MP3 and Windows Media(built-in). Should I remove all
> except the last one ?
Yes, that would be a good place to start...
Welcome!
And thanks for the contribution. I've linked into it from
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToTagging to make
it easier to find...
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You might want to try 6.2.2 from
http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_nightly.html
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Mark Lanctot Wrote:
> I wanted to put it in the Beginner's Guide but couldn't think of a good
> place.
Reference added in BeginnersGuideOverview (under "Squeezebox")
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not seem quite so elegant, but if it works
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lder,
it will take only minutes to execute.
You can then ask Random Mix to include only the Genre "Music", which I
think is what you want.
Note, by the way, you can't exclude a genre - you can only not include
be able to give more specific
guidance.
HTH
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Not sure if there are any clues in here for you, but someone else had
exactly the same problem a while ago...
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15732&highlight=allofmp3
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Is this music DRM'ed by any chance (downloaded?) - if so it won't work.
If not, what file type is it?
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Try some different wireless channels?
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t do anything you
like from the browser interface. Can you expand on this?
Trying a universal remote set to a JVC CD player is a good idea, just
make sure you have told slimserver to accept the commands - player
settings / remote in the w
with mini jack
> connections. Have no idea how the speakers/sub sound.
>
>
If the powered speakers you end up with do have a mini jack input, get
yourself a converter cable to go from the RCA outs on the SB rather
than using the headphone output.
Readily available on the high street or onli
year ago - with plenty of
room for growth - has nearly been filled up by the extraordinary amount
of music I've bought in that time! So now I've got to consider buying
another drive for the server, and another external drive for backup,
and all of a sudden the backup scenario looks a lo
d to spend $25 to do this, just
use any tagger that allows you to add an arbitrary tag (I know mp3tag
can do this, I would guess that tag&rename might).
HTH
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or turn debug on while you completely
rescan your library (you might want to set up a test library with just
a handful of albums in - make sure you have some "normal" as well as
compilations in there or you'll trigger
27;t cover everything yet, but it would
be really helpful if you could say
(1) whether you've already found this page
(2) whether you've tried everything in there
(3) what version firmware you have in your SB
Don't worry, we'll get you going
When you are "browsing", is that by Music Folder or by one of the other
routes? (the mechanism and behaviour is quite different...)
Have you verified (using MP3tag or similar) that the tracks in question
do have a tracknumber tag in them?
Ceejay
Not as far as I know, although this enhancement request
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2700 might give you want
you want.
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he same one! Hence the
suggestion to pick an address above where its likely to go. Feel free
to amend/elaborate as you wish, I was just trying to make the point
that manually assigning an IP address seems to work for quite a few
people...
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If it really hasn't finished after a long time (hours) - you should stop
the server, reinstall and start again. This has magically worked for
several people without (AFAIK) a good explanation...
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works for me too.
May not be exactly the same problem, but have a look at
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helps
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ur kitchen / bathroom / garage using one of your old
SB2s, and put a nice new SB3 in its place...
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ous people have asked
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the artist (in the Artistsearch
column, I think), it appears to the code that the artist for the newly
added album is different to the one already in the database, so a
duplicate gets added.
Have a look in the Plugins forum for threads about LazySearch.
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parate page, as discussed previously,
but I fear there might be a bit of overlap between this and your new
page.
How do you think we ought to work this?
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that simply using the CLASSICAL genre would not always
work, I think a userdefinable Genre would be better - I meant that
having this facility would at least open the option up for someone to
use CLASSICAL as a quick fix.
I'm sufficiently curious that I might even have a look myself...
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ld give users the easy option of just saying that
all "Classical" music gets this treatment.
Having said all that, this wouldn't be a huge priority for me
personally but if others feel strongly then you could always post
saw multiple identical
TITLEs and didn't know to look in PART to work out what to do with
them.
Can you think of any other ways of achieving what you want?
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Could slimserver be having trouble getting to the files? Are they on a
local hard drive, or a USB drive, or a network drive? What OS?
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d say that was a result and
leave it alone (others have had to do the same). Wireless is still a
bit of a black art, it seems.
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ll the other genres and random play will play
them for you.
Or does this music have multiple genres associated with it?
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have a volunteer to collate and write up the troubleshooting
page? Is that you, Danco?
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s in the right range.
Doubtless there are other suggestions
HTH
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number tags set in the files. What file type
are you using? Try using a tagger such as Mp3tag to read the tags and
check they are ok.
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list, in which case you'll see any time the status changes.
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At the risk of repeating myself, isn't this very close?
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18597
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e met your need, but I think it will now.
There was also a discussion on other ways of achieving this at
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18520
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http://www.last.fm/user/Ceejayfm/
Most annoying - someone beat me to "Ceejay" and then never used it!
Unless of course it was me and I forgot.
I must say the variety of musical taste being displayed here is most
impressive - I'm sure that at least half of the artists on people&#
kweller Wrote:
> http://www.last.fm/user/kweller/
>
> Kevin
Wow! 30,000 tracks? In 5 months? 6,000 per month? 200 per day? At 3
mins per track, 600 mins or 10 hours? Man, the music obviously never
stops in your house...
Respect.
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> Hey Ceejay, can you expand on that a bit? I've got Partition Magic here
> - can I use that to format my 250GB drive with FAT32? (maybe 2
> partitions - 1 for back-up, 1 for FLAC files) Which will enable me to
> properly use the DLink DNS120 Network Storage
want us to stick to NTFS - which, to be fair,
is more resilient.
However there is nothing to stop you using another piece of software to
create a partition of any size you like. Windows will quite happily work
with it, it just won't create one
Delete it (or rename) and restart slimserver, it should create a new
one.
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andwidth then as notanatheist suggests
you can tell slimserver to transcode to a lower quality MP3 stream, but
this will lose music quality.
What file format are you trying to send? And did you just buy a new SB
(an SB3) or is it an ol
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> from from club-huggers. :-)
Nahhh... I decided a long time ago that exercise is bad for me, that's
why I delegate it to my kids...
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d not want to depend on someone elses idea of
genres...
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the "Plugins" forum for many threads on this topic.
HTH.
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et. It might be best to pick up the discussion over on
that thread...
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20710&highlight=intel
Lastly, unless you have a good reason to be using 6.5, you might be
better to start with 6
might not have a long life expectancy! :)
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jonheal Wrote:
>
>
> W! I don't wnat glasses!!
So this really was a case of the blind leading the blind!!
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Then don't forget to enjoy the music!
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Long shot, I know, but have you considered the possibility of a faulty
(wired) network? I can recall at least one instance of someone having
all sorts of problems that came down to a faulty LAN cable
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not very long ago giving exact instructions on how to do this, have a
search...
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it as
some of it is gapless classical stuff.
So we need to find out what's unusual about your setup.
A good place to start mught be to check that Crossfade is turned off
(Player Settings /Audio).
Then to confirm exactly which build of 6.2.2 you have (bottom of Server
Settings pa
Try setting the secreen saver to "Now Playing (Jump Back on wake)". The
if you have it normally displaying the LastFM plugin menu, the
screensave will cut in to give you Now Playing, but it will Jump Back
when you press, say, the up key...
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x, with an 11G network. I didn't have to do anything special
to make it work. This is my version of reality.
So is everyone like you? Or is everyone like me?
Or neither?
Enjoy the music, whatever it takes
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grouping going on with this disabled, which is what I think you've
said.
One thing I think we've touched on before... I personally really
wouldn't leave ARTIST blank for anything, its just asking for trouble
with computer audio players which expect that as basic information. If
rt for both would be ideal.
If Slim are going to incorporate pandora into Squeezenetwork, is there
any chance of maintaining a level playing field by giving a similar
integration to last.fm (crudely, putting the last.fm plugin onto the
Squeezenetwork servers - though I realise there's a bit
m. If Random Mix picks an album
> I don't want to listen to, I just hold down 8 again and get another
> one. Rinse & repeat until I've got something I want to listen to :)
Thanks - what functions have you mapped those keys to?
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> good. Any ideas?
>
> Chris
So, what IS in the Artist tag? If its blank, Slimserver might be doing
its best to guess: see Server Settings / Formatting / Guess Tags
Formats.
HTH
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mean that searching time doesn't interfere so
much with important stuff like playing music
5 - tweak the OS - I note you are running solaris, can you ensure that
slimserver has one of the CPUs to itself?
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Play something else!
Or, if you're in the web interface, click "clear" !!
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