Hi again!
Well I did that but I couldn't copy the text to paste it
unfortunately!
I have noticed though that the problem is in fact still there, but I
have also noticed that what happens is that sometimes the end of a song
is truncated and THEN you get the socketwrapper message when you go and
If you open a command prompt box and then issue the command
netsh winsock show catalog netshlog.txt
The output will be in the file netshlog.txt
Regarding cutting short songs., This bug 4544 has been reported for a
while but when updating socketwrapper to fix network problem, it was
found
Well
I can't get it to fail again now either!
Nothing has changed on the system but I have come to the conclusion
that it must be something to do with the fact that I run my machine on
a stripped out set of services in services.msc to get maximum
performance. Occasionally this causes me a
The sockwrtwrapper problem usually show because of additional s/w and
not because s/w is disabled.
The following command (to be run from command line window) will show
all the network s/w that is installed - it might show any non-standard
stuff such as spyware !
netsh winsock show catalog
Can
I tested AVG on a test machine and it didn't seem to cause the original
problem which replacing socketwrapper fixed.
Do you have any other special networking software installed such as a
VPN client to access/use company network securely from home.
I did a little bit of testing with
OK - great.
I am having a slight problem in that socketwrapper.exe occasionally
closes due to an error on the PC. Nothing seems much to consequentially
fail as a result but it happens quite regularly.
I am not using a firewall other than the Netgear router hardware
firewall.
I am using AVG
Socketwrapper will start and stop with each track. What is the error
message you get or how do you know there is a problem ?
There is another version of socketwrapper but it only has more messages
and error handling for debugging. It may be useful to install it and a
debugging version of 6.5.2
Hey thanks bpa for all your help - it's really appreciated!!
Bascially windows throws a Socketwrapper.exe has encountered a problem
and needs to close error.
The windows firewall is off, yes, and the only firewall is on the
router itself at the front of the system.
The anti virus is,
So just to recap - this seems a popular fault.
1) The Slimserver software worked fine and controlled the SB3.
2) The ordinary MP3 music files played.
3) The Apple files (m4a) did not play - instead the display would lock
and not do anything with the song stuck at 0.00 time.
The actions I took
It's good to get a summary of what worked for you.
From 6.5.1 a change in Slimserver makes use of socketwrapper for
formats that needs transcoding such as m4a. However some security s/w
stops the distributed socketwrapper from working (usually they think it
is a Trojan app) - this may be the
Thanks for reading!
I bought my SB3 a few months ago and fired it up straight away using a
laptop to test it. Everything worked fine and my itunes files played
(except the DRM ones, obviously).
The laptop then died - motherboard failure... so I whipped the hard
drive out and rescued the itunes
1. Have you quicktime installed ? - if not then install it.
2. What security s/w have you installed (e.g. ZoneAlarm, McAfee, NOD32)
? Can you make Socketwrapper.exe a trusted network app.
3. If that fails then replace socketwrapper.exe by the one in this
zipped file.
Are you using itunes update plugin? That can cause delays between
tracks if you are running slimserver as a service, and it cannot
connect to itunes running under a user id.
-kdf
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Hey cheers chaps.
I have done a bit more fiddling, installed the socket thingy and now it
works off the remote but not from the slimserver webhost.
How do I check the apple itunes update plugin - should this be
disabled?
Thanks for your speedy help!
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Julian Thompson
OK - so I rebooted the machine and now it works fine...
...bl00dy hell I remember how good this product was.
Just a shame the software thing will always be a pain with the computer
world (and apple!) all stampeding forward to confuse the issue!
Great forum too - thanks guys!
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Julian
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