Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-27 Thread neeraj0272
neeraj0272;690196 Wrote: Update: after 5 days of use of my hdd, so far not a single issue. My hdd goes into sleep mode after ten minutes or so. After 8-10 hours of sleep, it jumps into action and starts playing music in 2-3 seconds. So far very pleased with the result and no need to turn on

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-15 Thread congole
Further to my post 10 days ago and neeraj's action, I removed a part of artwork and files from my HDD and using latest firmware 7.7.1 tried to do a clean scan... failed. So I removed more files - now instead of original 17k-18k audio files and cca 1350 image files there remained cca 14k audio

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-11 Thread neeraj0272
neeraj0272;688776 Wrote: After sorting out all potential trouble maker issues, now my usb hdd has only mp3, flac and wma files. Wifi strength is around 90%. I will be watching it for 2-3 days. If it still gives trouble then I will go back to using my pc. Update: after 5 days of use of my

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-09 Thread congole
dasmueller;689140 Wrote: It appears you can determine which file Tiny SBS is crashing on ? ... It is odd that when you run wifi there is no issue. Something in a file or files that Tiny SC is not liking. I tried to pinpoint the file, but it does not appear in the log file (even after I

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped after update (using USB HDD)

2012-02-09 Thread congole
Check this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87971 -- congole _ SB Touch; Denon DVD-1920; Revolver SEE+ Sumiko BluePoint; Luxman L-405 (impr.); VTL straight-line (impr.); Luxman T-240 (impr.); AKAI GX-95; AIWA AD-F640Z; Usher S-520.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-08 Thread Dave1972
Welcome to the world of buggy, under-resourced Logitech server! I still get this problem frequently (although not half as much as I used to in the early days before the firmware was significantly improved). Artwork does NOT havr to be 150x150 max. Mine is typically 768x768, and I have had

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped after update (using USB HDD)

2012-02-08 Thread Dave1972
I had exactly the same problem - music service stopping for some unknown reason. For the last 24 hours I could only scan in half a dozen albums or so (and had to move most of my data into a folder starting with a full-stop to prevent it scanning) or else the music service stopped while scanning.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-06 Thread congole
Mnyb;688900 Wrote: And there are some embarrisng issues with the onboard server and the Touch. ... Which tells us that with some content it will always crash ? ... a development where it can spit out problem files and log them without crashing is needed... Here's one note to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-06 Thread dasmueller
congole;689130 Wrote: Here's one note to support the always part: when the artwork scan starts it looks like in my case it really crashes at the same point (cca 215/1220) every time(!) And for the development part: How come that after all this optimization it manages to pass somehow this

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-05 Thread Rgke
Interesting. I spent hours resizing all my artwork to 150 x 150 which did not solve the problem... However I have just found an .m4p file lurking which I didn't know about! I'll report back in a couple of days if this solves the problem. -- Rgke

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-05 Thread neeraj0272
After sorting out all potential trouble maker issues, now my usb hdd has only mp3, flac and wma files. Wifi strength is around 90%. I will be watching it for 2-3 days. If it still gives trouble then I will go back to using my pc. -- neeraj0272

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-05 Thread congole
Here is the update: ' Used the latest 7.7.2. firmware. Wipe Rescan. Discovery - fine. Audio files scan - fine. Artwork scan - cca 1000 discovered, scan starts and than the LMS/TinySC stops. I went through the log and it is again the same low memory/out of memory problem; the LMS/TinySC

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-05 Thread garym
congole;688801 Wrote: I would really like to hear from someone from Logitech on the alternatives to overcome this problem instead of having the software killing the process that is experiencing the problem itself. This is a good forum to get other user feedback/help, but if you want anyone

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-05 Thread congole
garym;688807 Wrote: ...if you want anyone from logitech to read your request, you'll need to post at the logitech official forums ... or post a bug ... You are right (I actually forgot about that one) - though I hoped that someone from Logitech occasionally looks through these threads as well

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-05 Thread garym
congole;688833 Wrote: You are right (I actually forgot about that one) - though I hoped that someone from Logitech occasionally looks through these threads as well (Maybe not all users are technically so apt but would certainly know what they would like to see as a feature or hate as an

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-05 Thread Mnyb
And there are some embarrisng issues with the onboard server and the Touch. It has only 128mB of ram and no swapfile . A person on this forum managed to get a swapfile running on a sd card or usb stick ? And noticed that during some phases of the scan it was actually used . Which tells us that

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-04 Thread congole
neeraj0272;688515 Wrote: Are you sure you have removed all vid files? In my case there was one .m4a vid file that I had overlooked and did not delete. after deleting it, it is running smoothly. You actually were right that one .avi file kept being overlooked! Thank you for pointing that

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-03 Thread congole
It actually may be related to artwork, but not just the size of image files. I am experiencing this quite often (unfortunatley) as I am using a much large HDD with a large number of files. My artwork files are all under 50k (there may be some zip files on the drive besides the flac or mp3, but

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-03 Thread neeraj0272
congole;688389 Wrote: It actually may be related to artwork, but not just the size of image files. I am experiencing this quite often (unfortunatley) as I am using a much large HDD with a large number of files. My artwork files are all under 50k (there may be some zip files on the drive

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-02 Thread toby10
The only way to find out if adding a USB extension cable will work is to try it and see. Too many variables to be a universal Yes/No result. :) -- toby10 toby10's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-02 Thread neeraj0272
toby10;688046 Wrote: The only way to find out if adding a USB extension cable will work is to try it and see. Too many variables to be a universal Yes/No result. :) Ok. Will do that after completing my testing of my hdd setup. Update about that is that when I reached home from work , sbt

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-01 Thread Rgke
Ok, I've been through all the artwork and resized it. I'll monitor it over the next few days. Thanks -- Rgke Rgke's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=53398 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-02-01 Thread neeraj0272
I too have attached my old 3.5' 160 gb seagate barracuda internal ide hdd by using a USB external enclosure with power supply . at present it has nothing but 50gb of audio files compatible with squeezebox touch. I have removed all type of artwork embedded or otherwise. So this hdd contains only

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-01-31 Thread dasmueller
I believe the recommended max artwork size for using TinySC is 150x150 -- dasmueller dasmueller's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38035 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2012-01-30 Thread Rgke
I know this is a few months old but I'm having the same problem. I'm using the Touch as a self contained unit with a 32Gb class 4 card. How did you manage to find out this was the problem? I can't see any way of debugging this device. What sort of artwork size was causing the problem? --

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped after update (using USB HDD)

2012-01-08 Thread harryfink
Thanks a lot! I tried the 7.6.2 - it's still going through all the songs, but I am successfully playing a song via the Music Folder. Will get back to you if problems occur, but so far I'm optimistic! Thanks again :) -- harryfink

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped after update (using USB HDD)

2012-01-08 Thread bitstopjoe
Very welcome and if you feel brave you can let it update to 7.7.1 again. At least you know a way to go back.. -- bitstopjoe Joe Sica 2 SB Radio's ( 1 black and 1 white) and 1 Touch ( Analog cap mod) bitstopjoe's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped after update (using USB HDD)

2012-01-07 Thread harryfink
Hi, I did the recent firmware upgrade for my Touch that renames the server to Logitech Media Server. After this, I constantly get the Local music service stopped error. Most of the time I can't even connect to the server, and when I can it dies during or right after playing just 1 song. I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped after update (using USB HDD)

2012-01-07 Thread bitstopjoe
Go here http://update.slimdevices.com/update/firmware/ and get the last version which worked on your Touch. Copy the file to the root of your attached USB drive, do a software update and choose the file you just copied there. Maybe something glitched when yours updated. Be sure to d/l the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2011-05-30 Thread L.B.
Well, it seems that the problem had to do with the size of artwork files. It would have been nice if that problem was mentioned in the trouble shooting guide - that would have saved me many hours :-( A new problem is that many of the albums figure twice now ??? -- L.B.

[SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2011-05-27 Thread L.B.
I have tried with 3 different USB cabels, 3 different HDD and 2 different SB Touch. Each time I get this screen when the disk has been scanned: Local music service stopped I have tried to do what is stated in the troubleshooting guide, but still the same problem. It is driving me crazy! When I

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Local music service stopped :-(

2011-05-27 Thread L.B.
This is the screen: +---+ |Filename: 200px-Unable_to_start_Squeezebox_Server.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11904|