Thanks for that.
I know I can add the station specifically, but I like the way the
station shows you what show is on.
I guess I'm also asking how the Internet Radio part works - it seems to
use RadioTime, but how does that relate to the RadioTime App you can
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ian_heys;486705 Wrote:
Chris how do you get to be a Senior Member? I notice you've been around
about the same length of time as me.
Its a measure of knowledge and wisdom...;-)
Its based on post-count I believe, rather than duration of membership.
Not sure how many posts you need before you
Hi all,
I've just upgraded my SB server from 7.3.4 to 7.4.2.
Using the Internet Radio menu, I found and played the ClassicFM radio
stream. Now this should be a 128k stream (I even purposely picked the
stream that is supposed to be 128k). However when it plays I actually
get 48k (which is
The ampache installation requires you to create a mysql user, and setups
a tablespace. I'd rather avoid that - any thoughts? Just want the
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I use SSH so I don't need to open ports 9000 and 3483, plus
public/private key. It all works fine, but I liked the idea of the
webserver+flash player solution.
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raven22;437951 Wrote:
a very nice option i use is ampache (www.ampache.org), just use the
buildin flash player and you can play all your music files on any
computer with just a browser installed, no other programs needed.
Hey Raven, can you explain a bit more about what you did? I really
Hi all,
I have a PC running Ubuntu 7.10, with SlimServer 6.5.4.
I recently re-installed everything on this machine, after buying a new
hard disk. I put back everything as it was before.
When I play a track through my Squeezebox, I used to be able to go
right at the Now Playing menu, which
I just tried doing a full rescan - no difference.
I did wonder if it was a MusicIP problem - I've just realised its not
running, but I since did another rescan, to no avail.
Another symptom - when you select browse - album - album name -
track name - you got nothing - comlete blank, after going
mvalera;240363 Wrote:
We have Audioengine 5's and Swans here. Love em both.
Mike
Bit out of my price range. I'd like a good set of 2.0 speakers in the
same price range as the Aego M's - around £90.
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I'm also looking for some good quality powered speakers, but they have
to be 2.0 - I don't have the space for the sub.
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I've just migrated from Windows XP to Ubuntu 7.04 (linux).
I'm running 6.5.5 from a couple of nights ago:
(SlimServer Version: 6.5.5 - 13494 - Debian - EN - iso-8859-1)
When I'm playing random songs, every now and then, a song won't be
played completely through - its as if SlimServer has
OK, I think I may figured out the problemSlimServer isn't cutting
the songs short...the songs themselves are too short!
Just did a test on a track this was happening too, and it would happen
every time. I double checked the file size against the original copy I
still have on my windows PC,
Robin Bowes;222086 Wrote:
4mula1 wrote:
chris.mason;221771 Wrote:
Mark, thanks for such a full answer. I'm pretty comfortable with
Linux
command line (I use Solaris in my job, and thats a possibility I
guess).
Solaris handles SlimServer pretty well. Some programs are a bit
Well, I'd still like to get Slim working on Solaris, just for the hell
of it!
I think though the main focus will be on Linux.
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I'm going to play with both ClarkConnect and Ubuntu I think, and see
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Hi all,
I've been running SlimServer for over a year now on Windows XP.
During that time, Slim's performance has largely been ok, but its not
been helped by the fact that the PC I use for SlimServer is also my
main office PC.
I have recently bought a new PC which will be the main office
Mark Lanctot;221769 Wrote:
Having run SlimServer on Windows XP and now Linux, I'd say Linux,
definitely. Less memory usage and rescans are MUCH faster.
I'm partial to Ubuntu Linux, but if you're running it headless, the
GUIs may consume resources with no real benefit. The Server Edition
I wonder if a hybrid solution might be possible then - SlimServer on a
Linux flavour, and MIP on my Windows machine - I'd run the MIP service
(as I do know), which Slim could connect to. Of course, that would
require the Windows PC to be on...
I don't use MIP that much, but I like it to be
snarlydwarf;221796 Wrote:
I ran MIP headless on Linux for a while, but finally got bored having it
analyze things and doing funky stuff with tags. (It liked adding
additional tags on import...)
It worked fine, though the startup script didn't work.
Back to original subject: if you're
bklaas;221801 Wrote:
I agree with Pat, but if you are the pizza-and-beer guy, I'd tell you to
go with Ubuntu.
My distro experience is RedHat, Mandrake, Corel Linux (r.i.p.), Fedora
Core, RedHat Enterprise, Gentoo, and Ubuntu. I've easily been happiest
with Ubuntu. Gentoo is the linux
erland;221810 Wrote:
Please note that even though a lot of people in this thread recommends
Linux, I'm pretty sure most people that uses SlimServer runs it on
Windows. SlimServer will run perfectly on Windows if you have a 2GHz
computer with 2GB memory as you specified in your initial post.
I have a Nokia E61...and I can stream music from my SlimServer.
What you need for it to work those is some extra software to handle
media streaming - I couldn't get it to work with any of the apps that
came with phone. However, those clever people at Nokia labs have
written a couple of apps to
Also, as you are only streaming MP3, you don't need port 3483 open -
thats used by Softsqueeze and Squeezebox.
Can I make a suggestion? Irrationally, (or not), hearing that you have
got ports 9000 and 3483 open to the world gives me shivers...
What about using OpenSSH and forwarding those
Could the Softsqueeze issue be firewall related? I mean the firewall at
where ever you are trying to connect from?
If you can get SSH set up, and get it working, that won't be an issue
anyway.
As for SSH setup, if you're on Windows, try using OpenSSH on Cygwin.
Straight forward to setup, and
Hmmm...(blushes)...one reboot of my router later and all is OK (well,
how OK remains to be seen, but my SB3 and Slim are now talking to each
other).
I started getting suspicious of curious behaviour on my PC (where
SlimServer is), I couldn't get to various devices on my LAN, which led
me to the
Hi all,
I've been running SlimServer 6.5.2 from a while ago - think it had
firmware 72 with it.
I've had some problems with stuttering on my sb3 recently - the display
stutters, as does the audio.
My SB3 is connected wireless by the way.
Before you say to check my wireless connectivity, I
Anybody got any ideas? Am I the only one with this issue?
If someone could tell me how to revert firmware, that would be a good
start!
Thanks,
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SB3 refuses to connect to SlimServer.
Do the debug messages I listed give any indication to the issue?
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This sounds like its getting increasingly complicated...
Work firewall issues aside, all you should need to do to allow audio
streaming remotely (from your home slimserver to you at work) is this:
1. Configure your router firewall to forward incoming TCP port 9000
traffic to port 9000 on the
azinck3;188023 Wrote:
Good, comprehensive description, Chris. Two small things to add:
there's a typo there, it should be stream.mp3
Also, to use softsqueeze rather than stream.mp3 (you want to use
softsqueeze, trust me, stream.mp3 is a strange and horrible beast)
you'll need to
shadowboxer;188053 Wrote:
I second that request! I have hamachi working most of the time.
Wondering if ssh would be effective and would love to know where and
which ssh program you downloaded.
thanks in advance
dale
It is straight forward, honest! Would I lie to you..? ;-) I think
azinck3;188035 Wrote:
I'm surprised you haven't run into the awkwardness of stream.mp3.
Perhaps some streaming clients work better than others.
This is why I don't like it:
1) Setting bitrate limiting for the first time is a little strange.
You have to connect to your server, then
Very glad that you've got this working!
I feel I should stress though that you should really avoid opening your
slimserver directly to the world through ports 9000 and 3483.It
presents a security risk. Using SSH (or VPN) is a much safer approach.
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I've read through this thread, and I've not seen this suggested
anywhere, so here's a thought...
Winamp is a software application that decodes a shoutcase stream, and
gives it to Windows to play. SlimServer has to direct the SB to
connect to the URL and play that, and it decodes in hardware (or
jamullian;168552 Wrote:
In my case, attempting to play on SoftSqueeze is no more successful than
with the SB3.
That is very interesting...it suggests to me that the problem is
definately NOT the network connection between your PC and SB or router
and SB.
Which version of SoftSqueeze did you
jamullian;168558 Wrote:
My point exactly.
Indeed. Could it be a buffer issue? Does winamp handle buffering
differently, use a bigger buffer? Is it at all relevant that Winamp
and Shoutcast and made by/run by the same company, Nullsoft?
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MrSinatra;168622 Wrote:
the OP isn't wireless to begin with, but this still only strengthens his
point.
however, i have read that softsqueeze is NOT a perfect emulation of a
SB, in that some things are not the same and are not emulated.
therefore while it certainly strengthens the
Ah, of course you are right, the simple search does return tracks - I
wasn't thinking clearly, for some reason assuming song titles were
different from tracks...
However, the problem still remains, but I don't think I've explained
the issue clearly.
If I search for Vivaldi using the simple
Apologies if this has been discussed before, but a cursory search
through the forums didn't reveal anything.
I'm running SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11039 - Windows XP - EN -
cp1252.
I have my music collection all ripped to FLAC, and using MusicIP to
look after the library.
Here's the problem.
I'll add my tuppence as well...
I spent a lot of time researching the best format to use for my needs,
wanting to keep the quality of my CDs intact.
I decided to use FLAC, and have not regretted it, for all the reasons
already mentioned.
If your SB3s are going to be connected via wirelss to your
PhilNYC;163480 Wrote:
I recently converted my entire Apple Lossless collection (about 5000
songs) to WAV. When encoded to a lossless format, you cant' fast
forward/review within a song, but with uncompressed formats, you
can...
My experience is that you can fast fwd/rwd, but I think it
Hi Derek,
Can I ask why you want to hardwire the SB3? If its never going to
move, thats fine. I can understand that you want your laptop to be
mobile, but when you are running SlimServer on it, can you not hard
wire (i.e. plug) it into the router? As has been pointed out,
minimising the
nicketynick;153264 Wrote:
After 3 weeks, seanadams is way behind on his long-term average of 2.78
posts per day. I'm sure a large part of this is because he is
constantly tied up in 'integration' meetings (been there, done that,
most of it is a waste of time - sure hope Logitech isn't a
Hi all,
Don't know if anyone else has seen this this:
When listening to music using XMMS (and I believe also winamp),
streamed from SlimServer (6.5 official), the tag information that is
displayed keeps jumping around. To explain...
In the main XMMS information window, now playing information
Hi all,
I've been using slimserver 6.5.0 (official release) on Windows XP (SP2)
for a few weeks now, and noticed that under Browse Albums, the artist
count doesn't match the count on the home page. I upgraded to the
latest 6.5.1 build last night to see if this behaviour persisted, and
it does:
Yeah you could have a point there, and I was wondering about that. It
might also be to do with tracks that are tagged with multiple genres -
I have quite a few tracks like that.
I also have a far number of Various Artist compilation albums as
well, but I'm not sure if the numbers tally. I could
Interesting...as you suggested, I changed bevaviour from Group
compilation albums together to list compilation albums under each
artist. Now I have 408 artists under the Home view, and in Browse
Artists. Browse Albums is still showing 465 though.
Almost right, but not quite!
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I upgraded to the latest 6.5.1 build last night (SlimServer Version:
6.5.1 - 10130 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252), and did a rescan, ending up
with 0 albums.
I have MusicIP server installed and running, and everything worked
correctly under 6.5 (official release). If I switch off Use
MusicMagic,
Yeah, I agree its not an ideal solution, and not one I really wanted to
implement, but it was the only way I was going to get my classical
music to appear properly in Slim.
If I recall, I used tagrename or mp3tagger (can't remember which) to
change the files/folder names. There was a simple
jeffluckett;142436 Wrote:
Yeah ... on last night's nightly build. I won't log a bug unless
directed to by someone.
I cross-linked this thread to the one I originally started in the Beta
newsgroup, before this one became the active discussion thread. :P
Hopefully someone will pick up on
Hi all,
I think I must be going mad...
I just recently upgraded to Slimserver 6.5 (from 6.3.1) on Windows XP
(good work by the way, big improvement).
I can't find Pandora anywhere in the SlimServer settings or the
Squeezebox menus. I can access it via Squeezenetwork no problem.
Its not listed
Ah, yeah, I did know that in fact!
Like I said, I'm going mad..!
Thanks!
Chris.
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aubuti;140245 Wrote:
Jeez, and if I had left you hunting around the slimserver options a bit
longer you could have gotten there (i.e., mad) sooner. Sorry about
that! ;o)
Yes! Damn you, a few more moments and I would have gone completely
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This is now working for me:
I happen to have my compilation albums (where there are multiple
artists) grouped under a directory called Various Artists then the
album name, otherwise all albums are grouped under the artist name.
For all compilation albums, each track has the tag Compilation,
I assume you mean that SlimServer doesn't actually renumber the tracks
for you while browsing them, just then they are shown in the correct
order...e.g.
disc no - track no. song title
I *did* have my albums numbered contiguously, but since I've figured
out how to get this working (thanks to
I'm seeing this behaviour as well.
I've just upgraded to 6.5.0 from 6.3.1 on Windows XP (sp2).
I have a number of compilation albums spread across two or more disks.
On the hard drive, they are structured thus:
d:\music\flac\The Greatest Songs (Disk 1)
d:\music\flac\The Greatest Songs (Disl 2)
cygwin is your friend, althought I guess it looks quite complicated to
set up, but its not really.
(http://www.cygwin.com).
Michael's suggestion might be more straight forward though.
Chris.
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I second Michael's suggestion regarding SSH, although hamachi is
interesting so I will take a look at that.
My suggestion would be to go the SSH route, although that does have
some overhead for encrypting/decrypting the stream. It is easy to set
up though. If you are running Linux make sure
Urmaboyblue;136117 Wrote:
What about SSH on a Mac? How easy/difficult is that?
Thanks for the great help regarding my original question.
-Blue
Well there you're in luck, assuming you are running OS-X. OpenSSH is
installed by default, and there are a number of OS-X SSH clients
available
Can you describe your slimserver set up?
My guess is that you have SlimServer installed on a PC at home, running
on a LAN behind a broadband router of some description...
If that is the case, unless you have stupendous amounts of upload
bandwidth in your broadband connection to the 'net, and you
Installing lame is pretty straight forward; you basically download it,
and drop it in the bin directory for slimserver and restart slim.
Here is one place you can download from:
http://www.free-codecs.com/Lame_Encoder_download.htm
(or here to go direct to the download for version 3.96.2:
Hi Doug,
Yeah, you should probably leave the server config stuff alone, except
that you should make sure that under Server Settings - File Types that
you have FLAC to MP3 selected (i.e under the File Format heading, FLAC
is selected, and under the corresponding Stream Format heading, MP3 is
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
Yes, Server Settings - File Types is a GLOBAL setting and will affect
all players.
To enable bitrate limiting, use Player Settings for the desired player
- Audio - LAME Quality Level and Bitrate Limiting sections near the
bottom. Try the highest bitrate setting to
radish Wrote:
Just to clarify - as I don't see this mentioned anywhere in this thread
- you can't stream FLAC (or anything except mp3) from slimserver to a
non-slim client (e.g. Winamp or iTunes). That doesn't mean you can't
play FLAC files, just that you must have lame setup (as described
I'm continually impressed with how the whole thing is put together -
SlimServer and Squeezebox. Whenever I think I wonder if can do
that..? I usually can. For example, streaming my music to my office,
through our firewalls over SSH using a SOCKS proxy. Oh yes, that works!
Even better,
I forgot to say, I also use the wikiradio plugin, which is also a great
idea. However, I have it de-selected in the list of internet radio
stations. I discovered that this meant the plugin is still available
to be used by other plugins, but doesn't appear in the list of internet
radio stations.
MyPicks rawks, as they say.
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OK, so this probably sounds like a really dumb question.
Is the only difference that from the player itself (SBx/softsqueeze)
you can catch a radio station/track/whatever you like a capture it as a
favourite?
From the web interface, you can save playlists anyway, so I don't see
the advantage of
The only advantage I could think of was for catching those tunes on
random mix...
As for radio stations, I've used the radio playlist plugin, and more
recently the excellent MyPicks plugin for organising radio stations.
I'm thinking of switching off the favorite plugin ya see, to stream
line the
My 5 year old daughter really likes it too. She can find her Disney
audio books on there, and her music too (all listed under her own
genre...).
My wife too thought I was mad spending sooo long ripping (and sometimes
re-ripping) CDs (using dbpoweramp), spending ages getting the tagging
schema
I've spent about 8 months deciding whether or not to buy an SB3. I've
used that time ripping my CDs, and using/testing SlimServer and various
plugins, using SoftSqueeze as an SB replacement.
I'm very glad I bought my SB3. Its fantastic. Excellent audio
quality, very easy to use, looks
Hi all,
Is there any way of configuring the menus on a squeezebox at a deeper
level than the top of the tree?
For example, I'd like to remove Browse Music Folder from the Browse
Music menu. I know I could remove Browse Music, and just add the
specific browse options I want, but that would make
My library has 217 albums with 2645 songs by 108 artists.
My configuration is :
Windows XP SP2
MySQL 5.0
SlimServer 6.3.1 (lastest official build)
Music IP 6.4 beta
Intel Pentium 4 2.5ghz
2Gb RAM
SqueezeBox 3 running wireless
All music has been ripped to FLAC.
This PC also runs other stuff
Hi all,
I FINALLY bought an SB3. I've only been playing with
slimserver/softsqueeze (which is fantastic btw, thanks to Richard
Titmuss for all the work on that - its allowed me to try everything
out) for 8 months...
So I took the plunge when I saw the SB3 being sold by Scan
No one got any thoughts on this?
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Apologies if this has been discussed before...
I've got SlimServer 6.2.1, 6.2.2, and 6.5b (6.2.2 and 6.5b builds as of
20th April). I wanted to see if there was any real gain in moving from
6.2.1 to 6.2.2.
As a side note, one thing I noticed is that 6.2.2 seems to consume a
great deal of CPU
Hi all,
I'm messing about with SlimServer 6.2.2 at the moment. I noticed how
much it slows down my system on startup, and when rescanning -
something 6.2.1 never did.
This is running on Windows XP sp2 BTW.
I checked the process list, and looked at the process priority and it
was set to High -
Foobar2000 definately. Plays FLAC very well, and supports gapless
playback.
Not very elegant UI, but functional.
Otherwise, you could use Winamp, but you'll need to install a plugin to
play FLAC files - available from the winamp web site.
Just want to make sure I understand : how are you
Great news!
Richard, I frequently use SoftSqueeze- its been a Godsend - its allowed
me to test out Slimserver before I go and buy a squeezebox, and I use to
listen to music remotely.
All the best,
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I believe I have the same problem.
I've never used Music Magic 1.5, I went straight to MusicIP 1.6b2.
I'm using Windows XP with SP2, running SlimServer 6.2.1.
I'm running the MusicMagicService that came with MusicIP (the Slim
Service is set up to be dependant on MusicMagic so it starts in the
Yeah I saw that today. I shall have a play with it later, but I don't
think I saw anything regarding fixing unicode character encoding in the
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strapats Wrote:
my system seems to act very much like russj's. i never changed any
settings, but still my sb3 is able to start up my pc. contrary to russj
however, i'd really like to disable this function. strange thing is
though, in my bios it says Power On by Modem/LAN - Disabled. the
OK, I've just MIP Server up and running (following your instructions
FairyLiquidizer - thanks!).
One question: HOw do I get the server or slim to obey settings I have
in MusicMixer, such as don't include songs which aren't enabled in
mixes.
THe mixes I'm getting include tracks from my library I
Wish I'd known about getting a trial license key. I wanted the slim
integration, so I paid the the license. Still £11 is really not much to
pay, especially if it turns out to be as good as everyone here thinks it
is.
Currently, MIP is analyzing my music collection - its not very big -
2500 odd
I'm just looking into this as well, as I've recently finished ripping
all my CDs. I was under the impression that Moodlogic was able to
generate playlists based on mood (the analysis of which is surely
subjective, and based on user feedback), while music magic created
playlists based on style of
Really? Thats pretty cool - but again how does it understand mood? I
really don't want to install both moodlogic and musicmagic.
JUst noticed that MusicMagic is now called MusicIP - is that right? If
you go to the predixis web site you get redirected to MusicIp.com.
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I've just installed the new music magic mixer - now called MusicIP Mixer
(what a terrible name). Its version 1.6.
First thing I noticed is that the UI is pretty awful. Its also not
documented well, and makes no mention of needing to pay for an upgrade
to get all the features - you stumble on
Siduhe Wrote:
Chris,
Am I right in thinking that if you are a premium user of MusicMagic,
you can't use that key to access the premium features of MusicIP ?
I like the idea of MusicBrainz integration a lot, but not sure if I
like it enough to pay twice over.
You got me, mate. Looks
Hi all,
I don't know if that has been happening for a while, and I've just
noticed this, or its recent (I think its recent):
Using pretty much any of the supplied web browser interfaces for
slimserver, the web page gets refreshed far too fast - about every 8
seconds, which is quite annoying.
I
I regularly listen to music streamed from my SlimServer at home, from
work.
I have windows XP, running Slim, behind a router and firewall.
I connect using SSH. I have Cygwin installed on my windows PC, and
have port 22 (standard SSH port) forwarded to that machine.
In my work place, I can get
is the only thing I care about, getting caslled out on
a Sunday because the music system is crashing and our guests are complaining
is not fun for me. I dont care about the gimmicks.
Chris Mason
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to program and great to use. If anyone
needs the device file I am happy to share it.
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I have no idea what that is. The MX-700 can only learn from IR codes
transmitted from the remote. I think you must be thinking of a different
system.
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So if I change
power = power_toggle
To
power = power_on
The unit will only be turned on with the power code? I have no need of
turning it off.
Chris Mason
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Use a programmable remote and remote controlled power switch. Alternatively,
the quiescent current draw of an amp is minimal, why bother?
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If you have more buttons available on your remote than are
available on
the standard remote shipped with the Squeezebox, you should probably
create your own .ir file.
There would not be anyway to program them, as the remote does not generate
those codes.
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Does anyone have equivelent JVC codes for discrete slim remote functions
Search Artista/Albums/Songs? I am trying to program a MX-700 remote but
I can only learn or use known JVC codes.
Chris
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