Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-06-30 Thread CatBus
Spoke too soon. One thing I'd really like to get working is the VU meters. I'd actually gotten it working once under 6.0, but I don't remember how. I'm using the Grid skin, and under Jivelite VU Meter, I've chosen Kolossos Oval. I choose Download or Save, and both appear to work OK. But what

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-06-30 Thread CatBus
Greg Erskine wrote: > hi CatBus > > I use a JustBoom DAC all the time, so I know it works. > > 1. Fresh Sd card > 2. Select JustBoom DAC/AMP (and Zero/AMP) > 3. Press Save. > 4. Reboot. > > It should be a really simple process. > > If you are still hav

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-06-10 Thread CatBus
I lost my first original Squeezebox a few weeks back and have been looking at this project as the replacement. So far, I've gotten everything working, except... no audio. Here's my setup: - Raspberry Pi 3 B+ - Standard 7" touchscreen - JustBoom DAC HAT I started out with 6.0 but am perfectly w

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] OpenSUSE 13.1

2014-01-27 Thread CatBus
You may need to install sox. IIRC that's used for a lot of format conversions. CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100402

[SlimDevices: Unix] Could LMS be packaged using a Perl Packager?

2013-04-03 Thread CatBus
Would it be possible, would it be beneficial, etc etc? I have no experience with such things, so I just don't know. I was thinking that since packagers include the Perl runtime, LMS could be packaged with a compatible version of Perl, and then it would be portable to (binary-compatible) systems

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] opensuse 12.2 fails to run logitechmediaserver-7.8.0-0.1.1347896053

2013-03-11 Thread CatBus
CatBus wrote: > So on that note, has anyone tried running the Windows version of LMS > under Wine? Seems like it'd be worth a shot. FWIW, I tried this out and it did not work in any way I could see how to easily fix. Looks like for the foreseeable future, running openSUSE 12.1 in

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] opensuse 12.2 fails to run logitechmediaserver-7.8.0-0.1.1347896053

2013-03-06 Thread CatBus
bugmenot wrote: > So the server should be built against the best compatible Perl version > and that version should come bundled as files with the server. Thus, all > of this Perl nonsense would be eliminated. A Perl i386 version included > would work with the majority of systems, and those using

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Won't start in OpenSUSE 11.3

2010-12-24 Thread CatBus
jarome;596931 Wrote: > As Andy said a few posts up, you need to use the 7.5.3 nightly, and make > the link in my post to get it working. Thanks Jarome it's working now. I misread Andy's post and thought it was working in 7.5

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Won't start in OpenSUSE 11.3

2010-12-24 Thread CatBus
JSON::XS YAML::Syck Sub::Name Any workarounds? Should I go back to 11.2 until this is fully resolved? -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Won't start in OpenSUSE 11.3

2010-07-16 Thread CatBus
To clarify: I'm sticking with 11.2 until this is officially supported. I only went a few hours without music ;) -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Won't start in OpenSUSE 11.3

2010-07-16 Thread CatBus
Thanks Andy. I think I'll just hold off for official support. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Won't start in OpenSUSE 11.3

2010-07-15 Thread CatBus
Same story here--bummer! Looks like it's just a matter of search paths but I'm reluctant to do too much testing on my own system... -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?u

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ogg Vorbis Beta Encodings

2010-05-25 Thread CatBus
doesn't work for you, the only option is to re-encode (I recommend aoTuV) -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Advantages of Linux over XP?

2009-07-17 Thread CatBus
you must be updating the driver for non-security reasons) Either way, I think it's safe to say you *need* to reboot Linux a lot less than Windows. Whether you actually *do* or not is another matter. -- CatBus CatBus'

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Can I use Linux, and which one?

2008-11-14 Thread CatBus
any distro. Sure there's GUI tools, but SUSE people won't be able to give GUI instructions to Ubuntu people, etc. The shell always works for copying and pasting from web forums. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Can I use Linux, and which one?

2008-11-12 Thread CatBus
omeone's ability to install SqueezeCenter and a SqueezeBox--I completely agree that knowing how to do the latter doesn't in any way imply the ability to do the former. So we end in agreement ;) -- CatBus --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Can I use Linux, and which one?

2008-11-12 Thread CatBus
n buying an iPod. We're not talking about the people who still have 12:00 flashing on their microwave ovens, because they are not the audience for this product. Perhaps with one or two exceptions. -- CatBus C

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Can I use Linux, and which one?

2008-11-12 Thread CatBus
ld be offended by having some of the proffered solutions to their problem be too technically complicated. Goodsounds;359268 Wrote: > We have a lot of lower level worker bees here. We also have me. -- CatBus Ca

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Can I use Linux, and which one?

2008-11-11 Thread CatBus
tiny fanless VIA computers that run SqueezeCenter quite nicely and absolutely sip power. But if you want to do something other than run SqueezeCenter, then maybe having such a powerful PC isn't such a bad idea. -- CatBus CatBus&

[SlimDevices: Unix] Problem w/ SC 7.2 RPM on 64-bit SUSE 11

2008-09-17 Thread CatBus
the wrong paths for plugins. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52738

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] n00b - which flavour of linux?

2008-08-18 Thread CatBus
27;d be interested. That said, my preferences for one desktop over another aren't necessarily the same as everyone else's. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?u

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] n00b - which flavour of linux?

2008-08-18 Thread CatBus
and probably many others. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51224

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian character-set problem (UTF-8 changes to ISO-8859-1)

2008-07-30 Thread CatBus
Fletch;324356 Wrote: > Change 22244 in 7.2/trunk makes utf8 the default in the RPM and deb. As usual, Fletch is da man. I can't see who would disagree with this change, and even if they did, it's an easy thing to change.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Would I benefit from switching to Linux on my server

2008-07-18 Thread CatBus
ntage is that it's on the machine right now and 2) A current operating system that he will have no problem getting working and costs nothing I can't see why anyone would recommend anything except #2. -- CatBus C

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] openSUSE 11.0

2008-06-20 Thread CatBus
I have no experience downloading any versions of SqueezeCenter other than the official released versions. Where would I get a 7.1 RPM? -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] slimserver 6.5.4 on openSUSE 10.3 x86_64

2007-12-03 Thread CatBus
Not a lot of help, but I have no idea how I resolved this particular issue--probably by building the modules. My contribution is that I got it working, so I know it's possible ;) -- CatBus CatBus's Pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] (x) ubuntu server, 64bit

2007-11-15 Thread CatBus
id Linux probably supports PAE better than any other OS, but the technology is basically crap. Whether that's true or not, I use a 64-bit OS on machines with less than 4GB RAM without any noticeable performance hit, mostly because I want to be able to use the same binaries on all of my machines.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] OGG not in Slimservers Database

2007-05-06 Thread CatBus
;m assuming your Ogg album is not already in the database in a different format? SlimServer may not deal gracefully with duplicates. Also be sure to dump the database and rescan everything. -- CatBus Ca

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-22 Thread CatBus
Interesting solution to a very similar (perhaps the same) problem: http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/6477489.html Put a CD in the CD drive--that'll stop the periodic timeouts. Interesting. -- C

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-22 Thread CatBus
indicate this this particular event can happen when HAL periodically polls a SATA optical drive. So I shut down HAL because I don't need it on this server. Let's see how far we get this time...all suggestions welcome. -- CatBus -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-21 Thread CatBus
e disk due to the router's noisy death, and the network connectivity errors were primarily caused by the router, and secondarily by the disk filling up. Either way, it's okay now! -- CatBus Ca

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-15 Thread CatBus
r already! I'll report back in a week or so if there are no problems. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-14 Thread CatBus
uter death I've ever witnessed. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34229 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-13 Thread CatBus
erver is a few weeks old. I'll run memtest on all three and see what I get. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-12 Thread CatBus
nd scurry away, or something got fixed. Perhaps totally unrelated to the original problem, but something. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimd

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-10 Thread CatBus
e / partition (through spamming /tmp or /var/log or whatever). So far, no indication of who the culprit is, but I'm looking. My server has been obnoxiously well-behaved for the past few days, so there's nothing to see. -- CatBus -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-10 Thread CatBus
x27;s not it. I'll also check free space more regularly just to see if there's sudden spikes in disk usage for any reason. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 Vi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-10 Thread CatBus
GB of data is an open question. No idea. However, that does bring up an interesting point. If rebooting the server always brings it back after it suffers an episode, I could schedule a periodic "therapeutic/preventative reboot". Just like managing a Windows server.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-10 Thread CatBus
everyone else is doing. Talk about stabs in the dark! -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34229

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-10 Thread CatBus
the SOFTFDLIMIT. I can imagine a database opening more than 1024 simultaneous file handles. I sure hope SS doesn't leak filehandles though... -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.ph

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-07 Thread CatBus
o confirm the lack of a problem). -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34229 _

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-06 Thread CatBus
I can do that (not at the moment). /usr is on /. I wonder if this could perhaps be a ulimit problem? I've never worked with ulimit before but I believe SuSE has been using it by default since ~10.1. -- CatBus Cat

[SlimDevices: Unix] Periodic inexplicable server death (no space left on device)

2007-04-05 Thread CatBus
. My collection is 3566 files. What on earth can be going on! Could SlimServer really be creating 15Gigs of data files and crashing the server? Even if I can't stop this, how can I minimize the risk of this? Any other troubleshooting tips? -- CatBus --

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: 6.5.0 to 6.5.1 upgrade

2007-01-18 Thread CatBus
Upgrade worked fine for me. I had to manually restart SlimServer afterwards to get the new version though. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Getting UTF-8 filenames working on SUSE 10.1

2006-10-09 Thread CatBus
off with the locale/charset in "su". Anyway, all fixed now. Sorry to be a bother. And ARTISTSORT/ALBUMSORT is probably the best underadvertised feature of this product. My god it's nice to browse my music correctly! -- CatBus --

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Error scanning collection

2006-10-08 Thread CatBus
That sounds right. If you don't hear back, that was it. Thanks! -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

[SlimDevices: Unix] Error scanning collection

2006-10-08 Thread CatBus
found lots of mentions of this in the German forums, so this may be a SUSE-specific problem. But my German isn't good enough to determine if there's a fix for it! -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.sl

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Getting UTF-8 filenames working on SUSE 10.1

2006-10-04 Thread CatBus
I saw (completely by accident!) that the bundle deal was extended. Oh happy day! You can tell your marketing team that it worked. I bought the bundle today, to avoid missing out on it again. -- CatBus CatBus's Pr

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Getting UTF-8 filenames working on SUSE 10.1

2006-10-02 Thread CatBus
16 - Linux - EN - iso-8859-1. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthr

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Problem with special chars in file name / Unicode problem

2006-10-01 Thread CatBus
You may also want to look at a thread on this topic I started just recently. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.sli

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Getting UTF-8 filenames working on SUSE 10.1

2006-10-01 Thread CatBus
Any more ideas on this one? I can certainly use this workaround, but would be happy to try out better more complete solutions (thanks for making SlimServer open source, or I'd be in REAL trouble!) -- CatBus Cat

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Getting UTF-8 filenames working on SUSE 10.1

2006-09-26 Thread CatBus
even when the browser is set to UTF-8, the line across the top of the file browser screen that says what your current directory is still displays garbage characters. So it's not a fix, but it's still a huge improvement.

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Getting UTF-8 filenames working on SUSE 10.1

2006-09-26 Thread CatBus
Probably not exactly the long-term solution for everyone, but it works for me. I'd be happy to help troubleshoot this further for a better fix though. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/memb

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Getting UTF-8 filenames working on SUSE 10.1

2006-09-26 Thread CatBus
ulling the trigger and buying the bundle. Now I guess I have some more time to test, with nothing to lose by waiting anymore. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View th

[SlimDevices: Unix] Re: Getting UTF-8 filenames working on SUSE 10.1

2006-09-26 Thread CatBus
Edited the init script, stopped and restarted the process--same deal. I also changed my browser's default encoding to UTF-8 and nothing changed. It sounds like I'm on the right path at least, but just haven't figured out the problem ye

[SlimDevices: Unix] Getting UTF-8 filenames working on SUSE 10.1

2006-09-26 Thread CatBus
Server thought I was using ISO-8859-1. Any ideas? I really need UTF-8 filenames to work because I plan to use music folder browsing almost exclusively. Other than that, it seems I can't open playlists that aren't in the &qu