I believe my last replay wasn't completely correct. I just finished
playing with this again tonight and think I've figured it out a little
better.
One of the problems is that when SoftSqueeze is run on Windows
apparently neither the two SoftSqueeze EXEs nor the application in the
Java .jar,
WMA stream?
Squeezebox decodes wma, but if you use softsqueeze the server needs to
do it and assuming you are running windows it is able to do so as long
as you have the relavent Microsoft components installed.
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WMA stream?
Squeezebox decodes wma, but if you use softsqueeze the server needs to
do it and assuming you are running windows it is able to do so as long
as you have the relavent Microsoft components installed.
Aha! Yes, I believe the station I was trying to listen to
andlauer;169833 Wrote:
Q1: Is there a known way to start softsqueeze as a Windows XP service?This
isn't a service but the effect is similar. You could try using
Windows Task Scheduler (Control Panel Scheduled Tasks). Something
like this should work:
- Create another user on the computer
andlauer;169833 Wrote:
Q1: Is there a known way to start softsqueeze as a Windows XP service?
If so, where is it documented?
Q2: Has anyone here experienced and solved the above problem? If so,
how?
I'm doing this on my PC at work. A couple of important steps:
- Run the service logged in
Sorry, it sounded to me like you were asking about using SoftSqueeze to
access your SN favorites. I don't use WinAmp, so I'm not sure about the
feasibility of what you're trying to do. I don't think there's a version
of WinAmp for phones or PDAs, but it seems there are clones, like
WinAmpAQ.
Try
But SoftSqueeze needs to be installed on any PC from which I want to
access my favorites, right? Most PC's already have Winamp. With this
in mind, it might be easier to create an m3u file containing the urls,
save that online or carry it with me on a floppy or thumb drive, and
load it into
You can use SoftSqueeze to access your SqueezeNetwork favorites from
anywhere. You just need to link the SoftSqueeze player to your SN
account. Just start SS on a computer somewhere, and then scroll down to
the Player PIN menu on SS (right after Settings, I believe). Click the
right arrow and
jbuccino;142363 Wrote:
I get the following when trying to run the new Softsqueeze 3.1. Version
2.8 works fine (but still tells me to download a new version.) Does
anyone have any suggestions?
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no jawt in java.library.path
Looks like I broke Softsqueeze on
Thanks. I apologize for the misplaced post.
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I get the same, with Mac OS 10.4.8. What is your OS?
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Same as my setup.
And in the Plugins forum (where your original message would have fitted
better) someone else has the same issue on 10.4.7 and an Intel iMac.
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Happens to me too, but not very often.
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Jazz1;131293 Wrote:
I had this working great and tried to change the skin and now it won't
work. The Squeezebox finds the server with no problems. So the
SoftSqueeze check the server settings does not seem to makes sense.
I've also restarted the server and rebooted host and client Macs.
I'm looking forward to trying out the new version of squeezeslave.
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SS 2.8 does not work reliably for me with transcoded FLACS over 2Mbps
line. When I try to play something, the song may start initially, but
the buffer does not get refilled, and after some 20 seconds the song
stops.
Another symptom is that the audio does not start at all. The Server and
Network
rtitmuss Wrote:
Jon, I have had a quick look at the trace and so far it appears to be a
problem with the flac decoder. Do you also get this problem playing
other formats, or just flac?
Thanks,
Richard
Richard,
I have only one mp3 album, but SoftSqueeze played it all the way
through (10
jonheal Wrote:
Usually, the CPU pegs 20 seconds before the end of the first track I
play. I noticed the message frames decoded at this point in the
command window during the test. I don't know if that's a clue to the
problem, or not.
The file you requested was too large to be displayed
rtitmuss Wrote:
No your not the only person with this problem. I had the first reports a
few months ago, but cannot re-create this myself.
Can someone with this problem run Softsqueeze from the command prompt
(using java -jar SoftSqueeze.jar). When the CPU is high press
Ctrl-Break in the
jonheal Wrote:
Am I the only person experiencing pegged CPU utilization (and then
stoppage in playback) after Softsqueeze has played for a bit?
No your not the only person with this problem. I had the first reports
a few months ago, but cannot re-create this myself.
Can someone with this
rtitmuss Wrote:
No your not the only person with this problem. I had the first reports a
few months ago, but cannot re-create this myself.
Can someone with this problem run Softsqueeze from the command prompt
(using java -jar SoftSqueeze.jar). When the CPU is high press
Ctrl-Break in the
I've experienced something similar with Softsqueeze 2.8. I've gone back
to 2.3 and things seem to be working again for me (I wasn't able to run
any of the versions between 2.3 and 2.8 -- they would just launch a jvm
process and then nothing).
Colin
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Am I the only person experincing pegged CPU utilization after
Softsqueeze has played for a bit?
I've tried versions 2.3, 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8. It sort of seems to be
buffer related, but I've tried allocating obscene amounts of memory to
the buffer to no avail.
My system is fairly plain vanilla XP
Jon,
No, you are not the only one seeing CPU Utilization pegged after
playing. (I thought I was the only one!) Sometimes Softsqueeze will run
many hours (5-8) then a total lockup. Others it will run a short time
30-45 minutes and I can close the process window and start over. The
first thing that
This version of squeezeslave seems to have lost its ability to be a
background process:
[root]# ./squeezeslave 10.0.0.61 --mac 02:00:00:00:00:00
[1] 9023
[EMAIL PROTECTED] SoftSqueeze-2.8]# Output devices:
0: /dev/dsp
[1]+ Stopped ./squeezeslave 10.0.0.61 --mac
I'm running the Windows version of Softsqueeze (2.7). I had a persistent
problem of it stopping playing somewhere around the third song of any
given album. When I checked Task Manager it would report 90% or greater
CPU utilization attributed to Softsqueeze.
I seem to have fuxed the problem by
rtitmuss Wrote:
All the builds on sourceforge, including the RPM, are created using a
tool called install4j. I will send a request to see if this can be
fixed.
Actually looking at it again the version number in the rpm is wrong
(2.0-1), do you think this would work ok if the version
jonheal Wrote:
I'm running the Windows version of Softsqueeze (2.7). I had a persistent
problem of it stopping playing somewhere around the third song of any
given album. When I checked Task Manager it would report 90% or greater
CPU utilization attributed to Softsqueeze.
I seem to have
I posted on another thread, but I'm not sure Mr. Titmuss is monitoring
that one, so I'll try here. I've tried several versions of SoftSqueeze
up to and including 2.8. I've had the same performance problems with
all of the versions I've tried. I'm running it on Windows XP Pro. My
collection is
jonheal Wrote:
I posted on another thread, but I'm not sure Mr. Titmuss is monitoring
that one, so I'll try here. I've tried several versions of SoftSqueeze
up to and including 2.8. I've had the same performance problems with
all of the versions I've tried. I'm running it on Windows XP Pro.
I've run into this problem resently as well when starting squeezeslave
from the init scripts.
Turns out, in my case anyway, that the read keypress loop spins, due
to not having a true pty to read from.
Try redirecting stdin and stdout to an unused pty.
I've also redirected stderr to the pty as
chrisla Wrote:
When I
run it on my damnsmall linux box I get the error:
PortAudio error: Host error.
Previous versions of squeezeslave worked on this same box.
This means that squeezeslave could not find any audio devices for
playback. Do you have OSS installed? It's been a while
Fletch Wrote:
Is the rpm .spec file or an SRPM available somewhere? I can't seem to
find them on sourceforge or in SVN. I'd like to try to fix this:
All the builds on sourceforge, including the RPM, are created using a
tool called install4j. I will send a request to see if this can be
Alas no, I tried from a web browser as well. Not sure wget even has an
ASCII mode.
-Chris
On 7/11/06, oreillymj
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I've seen this error in the past after FTP'ing a tar ball in binary
mode, when the tar was created as ASCII.
Try changing the transfer mode.
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chrisla Wrote:
I think the Linux squeezeslave tar file is corrupt, I have tried
uncompressing it on both Linux and OSX, from two different mirrors and
always get an unexpected end of file.
Yes, it looks like the file was truncated when I uploaded it. I have
update the linux and OSX files,
rtitmuss Wrote:
You can find new releases of Softsqueeze and squeezeslave now available
on sourceforge (http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net).
Is the rpm .spec file or an SRPM available somewhere? I can't seem to
find them on sourceforge or in SVN. I'd like to try to fix this:
Code:
Got it now. When I run it on my Fedora core 4 box, all is well. When I
run it on my damnsmall linux box I get the error:
PortAudio error: Host error.
Previous versions of squeezeslave worked on this same box.
Any idea what that means? Are there any debug flags I could turn on to
provide more
So here's the screenshot from SlimCD. The border problem is
the same on Windows (or even worse: it's a lighter grey than on Linux).
I still cannot recreate this one.
Shouldn't be that hard: download those 100MB from
http://www.herger.net/SlimCD and run it on your PC (or in VMWare) :-)
Michael Herger wrote:
I just saw you checked in a possible fix today, but seems to be source
- will there be a binary to test?
Yes, I managed to recreate the problem on Ubuntu running on vmware. I
still don't understand why it works differently for you on XP. I will be
making a new binary
I just saw you checked in a possible fix today, but seems to be source
- will there be a binary to test?
Yes, I managed to recreate the problem on Ubuntu running on vmware. I
still don't understand why it works differently for you on XP.
It is imho the same issue on all platforms I tested.
I
Seems to be fixed (only tested on Windows). Thanks!
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Certainly fixes the out by one error I reported with Excession Thin.
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This border on the Windows version started at 2.5 iirc.
There were Mac related border changes made which also affected
Windows.
Not just on the excession skin, but also the default skin.
There is also a noticable paused at the midway point of a horizontal
scroll and a glitch.
It seems that
I've seen this error in the past after FTP'ing a tar ball in binary
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Bump. Anyone?
It's up to you: you said you were going to try my tip. Didn't get any more
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Was referring to the original problem in that the built-in ssh client
doesn't work. I would ideally like to use that rather than have to use
an external client ...
I did as you said, passing the extra port via OpenSSH, this allowed me
to connect ok, though I get no sound. I can choose a track to
mherger wrote:
So here's the screenshot from SlimCD. The border problem is
the same on Windows (or even worse: it's a lighter grey than on Linux).
I still cannot recreate this one. Can you double check the version of
Softsqueeze that's running. What version of Java are you using (mines
I'm having the EXACT same problem. Downloaded the latest server edition,
and SoftSqueeze doesn't work anymore. The server software download
apparently included an update of SoftSqueeze from 2.2 to 2.7 -- you
probably noticed the new shortcut on your desktop -- but it's
apparently inert. Hopefully
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I have no experience with porting apps to the 770 though, so someone
else will have to pipe in with that.
The 770 runs the Maemo distribution. It's GNU/Linux. I believe most of
the available apps are written for GCC. The new version has support for
building applications in
Thanks, will try that.
Still don't know why the built in ssh tunnelling doesn't work.
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softsqueeze is java, 770 doesn't do java, so methinks not.
there is, however, softslave, which I believe is written in c or c++,
so it potentially could be ported to the 770. I have no experience with
porting apps to the 770 though, so someone else will have to pipe in
with that.
cheers,
#!/ben
See:
http://www.knigma.org.uk/scratch/softsqueeze.jpg
for the minor effect. Bottom images is 2.7 top is 2.3. Both run on
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Very minor but Softsqueeze 2.7 with excession-thin on Windows XP with
Sun Java Version 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0_06-b05) has the LCD screen a few
pixels too low and to the right. Softsqueeze 2.3 doesn't suffer from
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I'l try again, with Softsqueeze 2.7 :). This should fix the border on
Windows
I still see the same behaviour as before (grey border).
Additionally it does not seem to be working any more at all on Linux (at
least not on my SlimCD :-/). I'm getting the following exception:
Error starting
Michael Herger wrote:
I'l try again, with Softsqueeze 2.7 :). This should fix the border on
Windows
I still see the same behaviour as before (grey border).
Hmm, it looks fine on my PC. Can you post a screenshot?
Additionally it does not seem to be working any more at all on Linux
(at least
rtitmuss Wrote:
I still see the same behaviour as before (grey border).
Hmm, it looks fine on my PC. Can you post a screenshot?
I don't know why it now is working even on SlimCD. I tried again here
at home (though I did both tests on VMWare) and the update worked
flawlessly. So here's the
Version 2.7 works fine for me on a Mac OS X Powerbook 10.4.6. The
scrolling between screens is still a bit jerky (compared to version
2.3) but it is improved from 2.4 and 2.5 and cosmetic only. (It was
really nice in 2.3 though.) I have had no problem playing music and the
double key press issue
oreillymj Wrote:
On Windows, Softsqueeze 2.6 now has a white 3D border around both the
player and on-screen remote windows.
The border flashes when you click any key. Looks weird.
I'l try again, with Softsqueeze 2.7 :). This should fix the border on
Windows, fix the keyboard shortcuts
I'l try again, with Softsqueeze 2.7 :). This should fix the border on
Windows, fix the keyboard shortcuts and not break OSX!
What about the Linux version? Wanted to test, but my Linux box isn't on
SVN and the nightlies are broken...
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Wanted to test, but my Linux box isn't on SVN and the nightlies are
broken...
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105169
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Let me know if you spot anything else.
Any chance of getting album art (esp in fullscreen) working again?
I've had a skin idea to work on for a while, but the album art support
seems to have been removed at some point.
-Chris
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Sourceforge seems to have a problem right now, too. Whether I click that
link or google around I get a 500 - Internal Server Error. Bad luck for
today. I'll try tomorrow. Thanks.
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On Windows, Softsqueeze 2.6 now has a white 3D border around both the
player and on-screen remote windows.
The border flashes when you click any key. Looks weird.
Also at some point Softsqueeze appears to have gone back to using the
SB2 icon with antenna.
Purely cosmetic issues I know, but
I have just released Softsqueeze 2.6, it should be in the next nightly
releases of the slimserver and also on sourceforge (although the
sourceforge site seems a little sick at the moment).
This should improve the UI performance on OS X so Softsqueeze will be
usable again.
Richard
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Thanks, Richard
I just tried version 2.6 and although it does not scroll as smoothly as
version 2.3 at least it is now usable and doesn't give me double clicks.
The inability to play music was a server issue (bug 3582 which is now
resolved).
I'll use version 2.6 some more and let you know if I
Richard,
A minor cosmetic issue with 6.5:
When I click on the little down arrow in the bottom left corner of the
Excession skin, the window that popped up displaying credits no longer
appears.
Windows executable version.
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jbuccino Wrote:
I am running the latest nightly of 6.3 which is working fine on my
various SB2 and SB3 units but I decided to update Softsqueeze from 2.3
to 2.5. Unforunately version 2.5 is not working. It appears to connect
but will not play any of my tracks and keypresses on the virtual
I checked but SoftSqueeze shows Java version 1.5.0_06 which is the
latest version for OS X 10.4.6 on my Powerbook. All other Java
functionality seems to be working.
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jbuccino Wrote:
I checked but SoftSqueeze shows Java version 1.5.0_06 which is the
latest version for OS X 10.4.6 on my Powerbook. All other Java
functionality seems to be working.
I've not tried Softsqueeze on OS X fro a while. It does look a bit
broken with OS X 10.3.9. I see what you mean
Fixed now - cleared out my known_hosts file (as I was using the same IP
for the linux server as I am now for XP it most probably got
confused).
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MrC Wrote:
This is a driver problem, most likely, as you've noted with your PCI/USB
card. Ensure you have an up to date driver. You can also try to remove
the USB device from windows device manager and let it reenumerate the
USB tree - it will recreate the device.
Unfortunately the
Via and USB don't go together, they have a legacy of broken USB
implementations going back years to one of their early mobo chipsets.
I'm sure things have improved but I've been happily USB trouble free
since I swore off Via. You might want to try something with the NEC
chipset, which has worked
MrGadget Wrote:
Ok i'll give it a try.
I've done this and I have the blue screen of death (BSOD)
I get this message at the top of the screen:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Further down below 'Technical information'
***STOP: etc.
*** tcpip.sys - Address .blah blah
MrGadget wrote:
The PC is an old one that I was hoping to use in conjunction with a
Squeezebox3, this will be its sole usage...
...if you're willing to experiment, why not load Fedora or
Ubuntu Linux on the box? Much more stable, etc. And free.
[Personally, I find
chiphart Wrote:
MrGadget wrote:
The PC is an old one that I was hoping to use in conjunction with a
Squeezebox3, this will be its sole usage...
...if you're willing to experiment, why not load Fedora or
Ubuntu Linux on the box? Much more stable, etc. And free.
MrGadget Wrote:
I've done this and I have the blue screen of death (BSOD)
I get this message at the top of the screen:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Further down below 'Technical information'
***STOP: etc.
*** tcpip.sys - Address .blah blah blah
Softsqueeze
I don't know about 2) but 1) is caused by the syncing of the two players
at track boundaries. You can either hace syncing or gapless, not both.
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slimpy Wrote:
I don't know about 2) but 1) is caused by the syncing of the two players
at track boundaries. You can either hace syncing or gapless, not both.
-s.
Thanks - that is a bit of a pain to say the least! Would it be the same
if I sync'd two squeezeboxes (rather than SB with
Surely all you need is a buffer to keep everything in sync. Oh well
I guess I can just burn those CDs where it matters into one long FLAC
file.
Any thoughts on the fast forward? Or is this not going to work in sync
mode either?
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slimpy Wrote:
There already is a buffer. However I fail to see how it should keep
everything in sync. The buffer makes sure the player does not run out
of data but it does not guarantee synced timing of the data actually
being played.
Does it stop when fast forwarding across track
I ran chkdsk and it found errors
the size of the \windows\temp\sqlite_X entry is not valid
I tries fixing it but I think the problem remains.
My next plan of attack is to clean install XP again.
I did recently add a USB2.0 PCI card and I did have crashing problems
straight after
The disk problems are almost certainly due to the crashes - if the
system dies while writing to disk (and you're not using NTFS) you'll
get corruption. The underlying problem is a hardware instability caused
by the USB card or it's drivers. Check for updates, if none exist, take
the card out.
If WindowsXP is rebooting instead of showing you a blue screen when it
crashes do this:
1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Under Startup and Recovery, click Settings to open the Startup and
Recovery dialog box.
4. Clear the Automatically
radish Wrote:
The disk problems are almost certainly due to the crashes - if the
system dies while writing to disk (and you're not using NTFS) you'll
get corruption. The underlying problem is a hardware instability caused
by the USB card or it's drivers. Check for updates, if none exist,
Personally, I'd go with 2000pro rather than XP on a computer that old if
you have a copy lying around.
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I had a similar problem last week, I was trying to run softsqueeze on
the same platform that my house hold slimserver is running on. I have
done this many time. This time the platform froze with the Slim logo
(softsqeeze) and then rebooted. I tried it again, same thing. I was in
the middle of
It would be a good idea to have winamp, windows media player or some
other player that can play mp3 streams on hand. You would at least be
able to tell if the problem is being caused by slimserver or
softsqueeze.
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It sounds more like a hardware memory problem to me.
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You're saying Windows itself is crashing? That's very unlikely to be
anything to do with the Slim software.
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chrisla Wrote:
Can you get your IR setup to input X IR code and output Y keyboard
press? SoftSqueeze already has a full host of keyboard shortcuts, the
easiest thing to do is send those.
This is what I do with my setup though not using a slim remote.I'm not sure
if I can do this or not;
I do this very thing with Girder on Windows.
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Yes, Windows XP reboots. Win XP just had a clean re-install recently
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On 5/1/06, MrGadget [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:Yes, Windows XP reboots. Win XP just had a clean re-install recently
too.I can't think of a way for Slimserver or Softsqueeze to cause it -- both are written in high-level languages with no access to the hardware, and you need direct driver access to
stinkingpig Wrote:
On 5/1/06, MrGadget MrGadget.275dez1146518101 (AT) no-mx (DOT)
forums.slimdevices.com
wrote:
Yes, Windows XP reboots. Win XP just had a clean re-install recently
too.
I can't think of a way for Slimserver or Softsqueeze to cause it --
both are
written in
This might be tricky - keep in mind SoftSqueeze only accepts media
streams from SlimServer. It isn't general purpose audio playback
software like WMP, Winamp or foobar2000. You can't use it to play MP3s
directly or Windows system sounds.
I believe there is some compatibility with multimedia
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
This might be tricky - keep in mind SoftSqueeze only accepts media
streams from SlimServer. It isn't general purpose audio playback
software like WMP, Winamp or foobar2000. You can't use it to play MP3s
directly or Windows system sounds.
I believe there is some
Whoops - I just remembered it was Moose and not SoftSqueeze that added
multimedia keyboard support. Sorry.
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kdf Wrote:
go into the softsqueeze prefs. try selecting different audio drivers.
If you haven't installed the java mp3 plugin, try that. If you have
and you are using it, try going back to jlayer.
-k
Yes, I think that is the issue! My prefs had been set to use java mp3
plugin. I
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