Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac

2007-05-07 Thread tday01
I followed the instructions and installed mplayer as described (after I had worked out how to view hidden files). Alien BBC works fine. Tony -- tday01 tday01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=113

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac

2007-05-07 Thread tday01
I just went to load alienbbc on my mac and noticed the following warning at stage 3 (MPlayer): "These binaries are built on Mac OS X for the PPC platform. They will not work on Intel-based Macs. " Is there a work around for this? Thanks Tony -- tday01

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: InguzEQ / InguzDSP room correction

2007-05-07 Thread inguz
Bah, sorry, bugs crept in amid the rework for adjustable band centers. Fix soon. -- inguz inguz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.ph

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Moose connecting to mac?

2007-05-07 Thread tday01
Does anyone have Moose running on a system where slimserver is running on a different machine and that machine is a Mac? if so I would love some advice on setting it up. For example, i can't find anything pertaining to mysql on the mac. Many thanks Tony -- tday01 ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: InguzEQ / InguzDSP room correction

2007-05-07 Thread totoro
I took the opportunity to upgrade from 6.5.0 and then install the latest inguzaudio fresh. Things worked completely ok for a bit, but now my squeezebox display shows some odd things in the eq submenus. If I try to adjust flatness, I get a display that says PLUGIN_INGUZ_FLATNESS(X) where x is the

[SlimDevices: Plugins] live 365 on squeezebox

2007-05-07 Thread mrgothic
hi ive just got my new squeezebox up and running and would like to get live 365 playing on internet radio i have signed up as regular on the live365 website, what are the next steps to get live365 to play on my squeezebox i would like to have a genre of music i listen to on squeezebox or do you ha

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Astronomy Information Plugin - useful to amateur astronomers

2007-05-07 Thread Mitch G
Not a bad idea. Let me think about it. (Although I think last time I said that it took me a year before I made the update. :o) I'll probably have to rearrange the clear sky clock submenues. So, I'll have to think about how best to present the information. Mitch -- Mitch G --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2007-05-07 Thread nicketynick
Thanks for the responses Greg. A simple server restart did the trick - must be something didn't initialize properly on startup last time. The weather.com icon threw me - I thought it was coming from the web, but I guess you have it right in the plugin! -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F1

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Plugin for easy creation of dynamic playlists

2007-05-07 Thread smc2911
Success! Efficient as ever, erland. Thanks very much. -- smc2911 smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21790 _

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Plugin for easy creation of dynamic playlists

2007-05-07 Thread smc2911
Wow! I haven't even left yet, so I can try it. -- smc2911 smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21790

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Skip plugin

2007-05-07 Thread erland
A new version (1.3.1) of the CustomSkip plugin is now available, there is no new functionallity just an error correction: - Corrected problem where an empty filter set with no filter items caused dynamic playlists to always fail. NOTE 1 If used together with the Dynamic Playlist plugin you will n

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Plugin for easy creation of dynamic playlists

2007-05-07 Thread erland
smc2911;200341 Wrote: > Did spot that logging option! Anyway, I've attached the gory details. By > the way, I'll be away for a few days, so I won't be able to respond to > any further suggestions until the weekend. It was caused by a problem in the Custom Skip plugin, I just released a new versio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Plugin for easy creation of dynamic playlists

2007-05-07 Thread smc2911
Did spot that logging option! Anyway, I've attached the gory details. +---+ |Filename: dp.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2774| +--

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Another IR blaster plugin Q

2007-05-07 Thread deksawyer
Thanks Felix! Any ideas why the latest plug-in release didn't work but the next older one did? Not a problem I guess as it seems to be working flawlessly now Many thanks again. D. -- deksawyer deksawyer's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac

2007-05-07 Thread bpa
That message means the AlienBBC plugins hasn't been installed properly or slimserver hasn't been restarted after a good installation. Also make sure you have downloaded the correct AlienBBC for the version of Slimserver. One of the AlienBBC webpages has a misleading link for AlienBBC. Do you h

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac

2007-05-07 Thread smcn
1) I have an intel imac operating 10.49 2)I have a netgear wireless router 3)I have downloaded alienbbc, lame and mplayer as per instructions-ie put lame and mplayer into a folder /usr/local/bin 4)alienbbc shows on squeezebox but I have an error message "RTSP convert error check file types" this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] realaudio bit rate too fast for AlienBBC

2007-05-07 Thread bpa
That stream is marked as a "live" stream and at 256kbps which means you must have a sustained 256kbps data stream from the source with no gaps. Since the stream is live if the network cannot deliver packets in time then source will drop packets because stream is live and realtime. What happens is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] realaudio bit rate too fast for AlienBBC

2007-05-07 Thread freelsjd
I had not set my new softsqueeze player settings so that the upper bit rate for the output was still set to no limit. I just needed to modify this setting. Softsqueeze is a great new addition to the squeezebox. -- freelsjd --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] realaudio bit rate too fast for AlienBBC

2007-05-07 Thread freelsjd
URL: (this is a good example, broadcasts at 256 kbps) rtsp://160.36.178.159/broadcast/wuot.rm?cloakport=8080,554,7070 mplayer version: 1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9 linux distribution: ubuntu/i386/feisty-fawn/7.04 slimserver v6.5.2 (debian install from slimdevices) cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2007-05-07 Thread Bradley
Gregg: Thanks for the great plugin. I just started using it for the first time. Is there any way for the top line weather (and graphic) to rotate through the various weather info every 10-15 seconds, for example: "Monday May 7th 2007", then 10-15 seconds later: "Currently: Mostly Clear", then

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] realaudio bit rate too fast for AlienBBC

2007-05-07 Thread bpa
I'm sorry to say your diagnosis doesn't make sense as there are flow control mechanisms which prevent this. I think you are experiencing either * packet loss * are using an out of date version of mplayer. * CPU is not fast enough or system is too loaded. Please give more details such as URLs,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Plugin for easy creation of dynamic playlists

2007-05-07 Thread erland
smc2911;200172 Wrote: > I do not get any debugging messages (after setting d_plugins). Could you try > to turn on the debug options that exists in Server Settings/Plugin. It is shown as an option in the bottom of each plugin section. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.hom

[SlimDevices: Plugins] realaudio bit rate too fast for AlienBBC

2007-05-07 Thread freelsjd
AlienBBC is working great in most respects. I can listen to many BBC sites as well as realaudio through this great plugin. However, I have run into a problem on some of the sites which broadcasts at higher rate than my slimserver can rebroadcast. If I listen to these station remotely to my soft

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac

2007-05-07 Thread bpa
It is possible - same as an normal Mac but it will not work if you have a new Apple Airport Extreme. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.co

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] cover art

2007-05-07 Thread James_B
I have been using mediamonkey.. so far so good. For a useful walkthrough and details on how to download see http://lifehacker.com/software/album-art/alpha-geek-whip-your-mp3-library-into-shape-part-ii--album-art-231476.php -- James_B

[SlimDevices: Plugins] alienbbc and an intel imac

2007-05-07 Thread smcn
I have searched and searched and spent many a frustrating hour. maybe I am just daft --but is it possible to get alienbbc to work on an intel imac - if so how stephen -- smcn smcn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Another IR blaster plugin Q

2007-05-07 Thread fcm4711
Hi deksawyer The volume on the SB2/SB3/Transporter is set to a fixed value as soon as an IR command is selected for either volume up and/or volume down. This fixed value can be changed directly in the IR Blaster file itself if needed. Open the Plugin.pm file with an editor and find the following

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2007-05-07 Thread nicketynick
GoCubs;200221 Wrote: > 48 hours without SDT, oh no! Did you change anything on your server > machine(firewall, etc)? If it's still showing the weather.com logo you > must have restarted SlimServer at some point and it hasn't gotten good > data ever since. You can try enabling -d_plugin debuggi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2007-05-07 Thread GoCubs
nicketynick;200211 Wrote: > It's been 48 hours now, and still no SDT! A refresh doesn't get me > anything, and I'm able to stream internet radio OK (lastfm, anyway - > although it was having trouble scrobbling, but that's pretty > common). And I can access weather.com fine in a browser on th

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2007-05-07 Thread nicketynick
GoCubs;200202 Wrote: > The '?' indicates the plugin wasnt successful making the network > requests. Usually it's something to do with your Internet connection, > but it could also happen if a website goes down for whatever reason. > > The plugin should try again in 5 minutes, or you can force i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Another IR blaster plugin Q

2007-05-07 Thread deksawyer
OK, progress. I removed the plugin and installed an older version and it now works like a dream. Very nice!! My only remaining question is why is the Squeezebox volume stuck at 6? Can I change this to output at maximum? cheers D. -- deksawyer ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2007-05-07 Thread GoCubs
nicketynick;200012 Wrote: > SDT doesn't seem to be working for me today! I get the weather.com icon > on the left, and a small ? in the top right corner. My station is > CAXX0225, it seems to be working fine accessed via browser. Anything I > should do, or is it something at the weather.com end?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: InguzEQ / InguzDSP room correction

2007-05-07 Thread totoro
The inguz.exe file didn't get replaced when I ran the msi (I shut down slimserver, but didn't nuke any files. I shut down slimserver again, replaced it by hand, restarted, and I get nothing under the eq submenu now. I've clearly done something dramatically wrong, but I'm not sure quite what it

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Another IR blaster plugin Q

2007-05-07 Thread deksawyer
Hi Folks this is getting the better of me.. I've unzipped and put the ir folder in the plugins folder, like this; C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Plugins\IRBlaster Is this correct? I ask because I see nowhere to access the IR page in slmserver player setup. There's nothing in th

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Astronomy Information Plugin - useful to amateur astronomers

2007-05-07 Thread Bradley
Mitch G;199729 Wrote: > The CSC data is an average from 7PM to 3AM for the two dates it provides > data for. I figured that was generally when people observe. > Mitch The problem is that that period is large and in a fast changing weather pattern, you may indicate worse or better than it actuall

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Which Plugins can I turn off?

2007-05-07 Thread btcompute
Michael, Thanks! Shutting off unused plugins reduced the size of slim.exe running in the background, freeing up some ram. -- btcompute btcompute's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10847 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Plugin for easy creation of dynamic playlists

2007-05-07 Thread smc2911
After not checking the downloads page for a while, I've just picked up the latest version of everything (TrackStat, SQLPlaylist, DynamicPlaylist in particular) and now I cannot get SQLPlaylists of DynamicPlaylists to work. When I try to start one using the remote, say "My Top Tracks", I get an err

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] new NPR audio URL format

2007-05-07 Thread Zach Anthony
I've just had a listen to a few myself and found the same thing, though for some reason its even more pronounced when playing over the Slim. Ah well, I'll just hope that future recordings resolve this. If that doesn't work, changing the volume for all RA streams isn't really plausible, so I might

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] new NPR audio URL format

2007-05-07 Thread bpa
I noticed that as well but it seems to be that stream. I may check if it is just the latest program or other recent programs - you can make a change in the custom-convert.conf to get mplayer to increase volume but it will affect all RealAudio so you get PHC may be OK but the rest of NPR would be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] new NPR audio URL format

2007-05-07 Thread Zach Anthony
Hiya, Thanks for doing that so quickly! You seem to have fixed the streaming problem anyway, as PHC now plays. However its playing at a much lower volume than anything else (i.e. other streams, regular tracks). The volume is so low that I can barely hear it even at max volume on my player. Any i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] new NPR audio URL format

2007-05-07 Thread bpa
Re PHC. Can you try this file - an URL has changed. Unzip and place in the Alien/AlienAddon/AlienNPRProgramMenu to replacd the existing file of same name +---+ |Filename: AlienNPRPrariePlayableItem.pm.ZIP|