Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playlists - sharing between Windows and Linux...?

2009-01-05 Thread atrocity
pablolie;378944 Wrote: > Of course it is the $...@! volume naming for the same drive in both > environments that causes the issues - anyone know of a trick to > overcome it? I just use relative paths. To Windows, my main music directory is "Z:\SqueezeboxMusic", to Linux it's "/home/administrato

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] can't get music to play Ubuntu 8.04 and SC 7.3

2009-01-05 Thread whoosh
Rather than trying to brute-force the setting in the config file, have you tried setting the hostname for SC in the preferences on SoftSqueeze? There are a series of little buttons in the upper-left of the player when it comes up. 2nd from the left of those is the preferences button. Not sure if t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playlists - sharing between Windows and Linux...?

2009-01-05 Thread radish
If you could persuade whatever's writing the playlists to use UNC that could work, but assuming you're using SC I'm not sure how to do that :) -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playlists - sharing between Windows and Linux...?

2009-01-05 Thread pablolie
Just what I was afraid of. Wish there was a way to "virtualize" volumes/folders in a consistent way that makes targets transparent to whatever OS there is... Thanks for the suggestion! -- pablolie ...pablo Server: 3.3 GHz Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo (8GB) - Vista Ultimate 64 & Ubuntu 8.10 64 Sour

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter install on Dell Mini/Ubuntu - Squeezecenter died. Restarting.

2009-01-05 Thread r...@tregare.net
dingJam;379594 Wrote: > > > Basically, it boils down to I don't know how to install squeezecenter > on this system since the "standard" instructions don't seem to apply to > me. Further suggestions appreciated What bothers me is that Squeezecenter is in fact architecure neutral and should

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter install on Dell Mini/Ubuntu - Squeezecenter died. Restarting.

2009-01-05 Thread r...@tregare.net
dingJam, Note the process I am describing could be dangerous. By that I mean that you could be forced to reinstall the machine. If that is a problem then do not try my following suggestion. The minipc from dell is i386 compatible so it should work. I was not aware that the lpia architecture tha

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu on fit-pc from scratch

2009-01-05 Thread thurstongarden
Well the fit-pc went for more on ebay than my miserable budget would allow. But my old dear has a 4 year old dell tower in her loft, so this might be just the ticket! http://vortexbox.org/ -- thurstongarden Thurston Garden SB2 - Duet Controller - NAD 3020e - Mission 773's ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter install on Dell Mini/Ubuntu - Squeezecenter died. Restarting.

2009-01-05 Thread Dougal
Hi, Is the info in this post on the Ubuntu forum any help? http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6058820&postcount=1 Doug. -- Dougal Headless Mini-ITX running Ubuntu 7.1 Server SlimServer Version: SqueezeCenter 7.1-xxx - Debian - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.8 i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi MyS

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter install on Dell Mini/Ubuntu - Squeezecenter died. Restarting.

2009-01-05 Thread dingJam
Thanks for the reply. I went through the process you described and am having problems. The "standard" installation process just isn't going to work for me. Everything is fine until the "apt-get update" step. After this command, one of the pieces of text feedback that is displayed is: "W: Fail

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 7.3.1 working okay with perl 5.10??

2009-01-05 Thread aubuti
Thanks guys. I'll probably try it out on my laptop first, and if that goes okay I'll upgrade perl on the main server. Cheers. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this threa

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter 7.3 and danish characters

2009-01-05 Thread Fedder
Hi, Are you sure that filenames with Danish characters display -and work correctly in both locally on the Linux box, as well as remotely from your Windows box? I.e. can you: Create a file named: "æøå.txt" from Windows, and find it on your Linux system (i.e. using putty) using the command: $ find

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezecenter 7.3 and danish characters

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Herger
> This works out almost perfect, except when I am trying to copy/play > files with danish characters such as æ/Æ, ø/Ø and å/Å. Particularly the > combination of .wav/.cue files causes some problems. Would they work if you transcoded them to flac? I think we still have some issues with perl 5.10.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 7.3.1 working okay with perl 5.10??

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Herger
> The other day I noticed that my Ubuntu 8.10 server wanted to upgrade > Perl from 5.8.8 to 5.10. I held back because I had noticed earlier > threads about various compatibility issues with 5.10 I'm not sure. I've added a new perl 5.10 bug keyword - but there's only one issue so far ;-) http://b