Michael,
I noticed that the SlimCD page on your site states that SlimCD has been
downloaded more than 11,000 times in the past two years. That is quite
impressive!
-Ron
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*Main rig:* NAD 7600 + NAD 2600A -> Phase Tech
Michael,
Thank you. You are right - I have been using the HDD install, not
frugal, and I had forgotten about the restore:) It is working great
now, and I see you have 1.87a online!
The creation of SlimCD is a great service Michael.
-Ron
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> Boy you got it up fast - I am sorry about that ^M thing.
No problem - it was me :-). You sent me the full strings.txt from which I
extracted the custom-strings.txt. What's odd in all this is that I've set
my editor to always use Unix style line endings (as I've encountered the
issue before
Michael,
Boy you got it up fast - I am sorry about that ^M thing.
As far as Rev 76 firmware - that is very strange. For both 1.87 beta #1
and then beta #2 I checked the Slimserver Firmware folder,
/opt/slimserver/Firmware, and Rev 81 is in there! So, what was going
on?
When testing with my SB3,
> I noticed that I was not getting the AACplus label in Slimserver's File
> Format browser display - it was blank. It turned out that there was a ^M
> character terminating the lines in custom-strings.txt, which I removed
> using the nano editor.
Ouch! That's a text file edited in Windows... I'll
Michael,
Oh - one issue that is easily fixed...
I noticed that I was not getting the AACplus label in Slimserver's File
Format browser display - it was blank. It turned out that there was a ^M
character terminating the lines in custom-strings.txt, which I removed
using the nano editor. After res
Hi Ron
> test files, and they all worked. I did not worry about the specific
> conversion rules, I just wanted to see if each file type would play,
> and they did.
Great news, thanks!
> arrow keys will work until Softsqueeze loses focus.
Yes, I know :-(. But I don't know what is responsible: is
Michael,
Ok - I burned the SlimCD 1.87 Beta 2 ISO to a CD and booted. I had
created a bunch of test files and put them on a USB pendrive. I simply
mounted the pendrive, pointed Slimserver to it, and then played all the
test files, and they all worked. I did not worry about the specific
conversion
Michael,
Ok - I will do testing on this new beta tomorrow, and report back.
-Ron
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*Squeezebox setup:* wireless SB3 -> CI Audio VDA.2 DAC + VAC.1 PSU
*Main rig:* NAD 7600 + NAD 2600A -> Phase Tech PC-6.5 speakers
*Headphone rig:* Headroom Max -> Sennheiser 650s
*Music Server:* Nano-I
Ron,
thanks for testing. I uploaded a new version with the fixes you
mentioned:
http://www.herger.net/slim/slimcd-1.87b2.iso
I changed all the calls to flac according to the aac->flac conversion.
.mov and some other hat to be fixed as well.
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Michael,
Testing custom-convert.conf for SlimCD...
The AACplus rules are working.
ALC -> WAV works.
I found a problem with ALC -> FLAC, apparently I have the same mistake
in my own convert.conf file. I have been streaming ALC -> WAV in my
version of and didn't catch it before - sorry. We need
Michael,
I shall definitely do so - and thank you very much for the work!
-Ron
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*Squeezebox setup:* wireless SB3 -> CI Audio VDA.2 DAC + VAC.1 PSU
*Main rig:* NAD 7600 + NAD 2600A -> Phase Tech PC-6.5 speakers
*Headphone rig:* Headroom Max -> Sennheiser 650s
*Music Server:* Nano-ITX
Ron,
I've finally built a SlimCD 1.87 - could you please give it a try to
verify the changes you've proposed? Thanks again!
http://www.herger.net/slim/slimcd-1.87b1.iso
Michael
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> If I were doing this all over again, I think I would try installing
> with DSL-N, and then install Slimserver on top of that, along with your
> download of Perl - which I think would work?
I think so. It's the same as I'm using in SlimCD.
> I did wind up adding a lot of things to SlimCD, but no
Michael,
Since we were talking about SlimCD as being used as a permanent music
server instead of just a demo earlier in this thread, I thought I would
post the following here.
I have gotten my SlimCD installation, running on a Nano-ITX machine, to
the point where I am satisfied with it.
In the
> Ahh, that's why you have so much memory left. I'm keeping my database
> in memory, so it only gets written to the pen drive when I do a backup
> or close down the system.
Yeah, frugal uses a little more memory. I did frugal myself, only backing
up to flash as you do.
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Ron F.;206271 Wrote:
> Steve,
>
> At present I am storing the SS database on the internal IDE flash, and
> the music tracks are on an external hard drive. I have also smbmounted
> drives across my local network.
>
> Ultimately, I would like to be able to put in a larger IDE flash and
> put all
Michael Herger;206301 Wrote:
> > At present I am storing the SS database on the internal IDE flash,
> and
> > the music tracks are on an external hard drive. I have also
> smbmounted
> > drives across my local network.
>
> How did you guys install SlimCD? Frugal or HD-install?
>
> Michael
Frug
Michael Herger;206301 Wrote:
> > At present I am storing the SS database on the internal IDE flash,
> and
> > the music tracks are on an external hard drive. I have also
> smbmounted
> > drives across my local network.
>
> How did you guys install SlimCD? Frugal or HD-install?
>
> Michael
Mich
> At present I am storing the SS database on the internal IDE flash, and
> the music tracks are on an external hard drive. I have also smbmounted
> drives across my local network.
How did you guys install SlimCD? Frugal or HD-install?
Michael
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Steve,
At present I am storing the SS database on the internal IDE flash, and
the music tracks are on an external hard drive. I have also smbmounted
drives across my local network.
Ultimately, I would like to be able to put in a larger IDE flash and
put all the music on that, but I guess we are
Ron,
Where are you storing the SS database?
Steve.
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The Nano-ITX enviroment that SteveEast and I are using is small, but
SlimCD fits easily with lots of room to spare. I have 1 GByte of IDE
flash, and 256 Mbytes of RAM. I have filled about half of my flash
drive. Aside from the DSL environment and Slimserver, I have added the
XMMS music player, the
Well it certainly helps to have a Unix background. On the other hand,
when I look at what I've had to add or tweak to get it to run, it's
really very little. Modify bootlocal.sh to mount my network music
drive, configure the backups, dsl password - must be more, but not
much. The key is only using
>> (don't tell anybody - I would _not_. It's a demo cd. Oh well...)
>
> But for these nano-ITX machines that Ron and I are running, SlimCD is
> perfect. It just sits there and runs...
I know. SlimCD's origin is a mini-itx system I built for myself, running
everything from a compact flash card. B
Michael Herger;206033 Wrote:
> > - I would recommend it as my first choice for driving a Squeezebox.
>
> (don't tell anybody - I would _not_. It's a demo cd. Oh well...)
>
> Michael
But for these nano-ITX machines that Ron and I are running, SlimCD is
perfect. It just sits there and runs...
S
Michael,
It appears that the alac codec I have is not working, and that is why I
could not decode Apple Lossless files.
When executing alac, I get the fatal message that the kernel is "too
old" followed by a segmentation fault.
The solution was another modification to SS's convert.conf file, an
Michael Herger;206033 Wrote:
> > - I would recommend it as my first choice for driving a Squeezebox.
>
> (don't tell anybody - I would _not_. It's a demo cd. Oh well...)
>
> Michael
Michael,
Wait a minute, I got aac and aacPlus working now, but I am having a
problem with files using Apple Los
> - I would recommend it as my first choice for driving a Squeezebox.
(don't tell anybody - I would _not_. It's a demo cd. Oh well...)
Michael
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bpa;206008 Wrote:
> The SlimCD mplayer is NOT standard mplayer so I'd be very wary about
> adding such info to wiki as it may confuse users unless there are very
> clear warnings that it is non standard and only applies to SlimCD.
Well then, maybe when Michael has time, a future version of SlimC
> Son-of-a-gun - that works! I can use both aac and aacPlus now, using
> SlimCD on my fanless nano-ITX.
Great!
> Since SlimCD comes with mplayer Michael, I suggest that either
> convert.conf be modified in the distribution to support these formats,
Could you please send me you're file? I'd be ha
The SlimCD mplayer is NOT standard mplayer so I'd be very wary about
adding such info to wiki as it may confuse users unless there are very
clear warnings that it is non standard and only applies to SlimCD.
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bpa, Michael,
Son-of-a-gun - that works! I can use both aac and aacPlus now, using
SlimCD on my fanless nano-ITX.
Since SlimCD comes with mplayer Michael, I suggest that either
convert.conf be modified in the distribution to support these formats,
or maybe the existing wiki page for aacPlus be u
I forgot SlimCD had a special version of mplayer. Not only is the output
of the -ao changed but also the mplayer messages are sent to stderr (2)
and not stdout (1) to there is a "2>/dev/null" redirection change
needed.
I think the conf line should be as below. Minimum cache setting is
dependent
Ron,
I'm no expert in transcoding and mplayer (that's rather bpa). But there's
one important note regarding mplayer used in SlimCD: it's flipflip's
patched version to allow piping data to stdout. This was needed because
there are some limitations writing to the audio output device in SlimCD.
I changed convert.conf to try something more similar to what is on the
wiki aacplus page.
Attempting to tune into the Radio Paradise 64k aacPlus stream...
2007-05-30 07:20:50.3037 Testing aap-mp3-*-* vs aap-flc-*-*
2007-05-30 07:20:50.3071enabled
2007-05-30 07:20:50.3107 Found command: [m
Hi bpa.
The convert.conf statment that works for Alien BBC is:
rtsp wav * *
[mplayer] -really-quiet -vc null -vo null -bandwidth 1000
-cache 128 -af volume=0,resample=44100:0:1,channels=2 -ao
pcm:nowaveheader:file=- $FILE$ 2>/dev/null
I am doing the same thing for aap wav * *.
When attempt
mplayer has problems outputting to stdout and so tricks with /dev/fd
overcome this.
Can you show
(i) The RTSP-WAV line that works for AlienBBC
(ii) The AAP-WAV line that you have tried.
Show a debug log with d_source and d_remotestream when trying to play
the AACplus station.
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I am running Michael's DSL-based SlimCD 1.86 on a nano-ITX board, and I
am having trouble streaming aacPlus streams off the internet.
I was able to pass the initial experiment of playing:
mplayer -playlist http://www.sky.fm/aacplus/classical.pls
That worked fine, and I could hear audio on the min
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