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

2009-01-11 Thread whoosh
Outstanding! Glad you're up and running. -- whoosh *Server*: Ubuntu 8.04 Server on Intel 1.66GHz Core Duo Mac Mini, 1GB RAM, 72GB internal for OS, 750GB Maxtor One Touch Firewire for media. SC 7.3.1~24372 *Main Audio*: SB Duet > Audio Research LS2B mkII > Audio Research VT100 mkII > Soliloquy

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

2009-01-10 Thread gmachine_24
Whoosh!! You are my new hero. I copied my original softsqueeze.jnlp back to the /softsqueeze folder, then looked for the "preferences" tab you mentioned the next time I started SoftSqueeze, and changed the setting for the SqueezeCenter to the computer name as it appears on my network and voile, al

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] can't get music to play Ubuntu 8.04 and SC 7.3

2009-01-04 Thread gmachine_24
Ok, so, after many hours of research, trial-and-error, whatever, I finally got SqueezeCenter to play through my Amarok player . . . however, I still cannot get the Softsqueeze player to work... (v. 3.7) although the GUI opens I only get the message Please wait. Connecting to Slim Server . .

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

2009-01-01 Thread radish
whoosh;377762 Wrote: > in MediaMonkey, I got a "Welcome to SqueezeCenter" dialog in the player, > and the timer was incrementing as if it was playing something, but > nothing was coming from my PC's speakers. > That sounds normal, it streams silence until you put something in the player's playli

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

2008-12-31 Thread whoosh
I tried with Winamp and MediaMonkey to use the http://server:9000/stream.mp3 method. From Winamp I simply got a file download dialog box that never ended. in MediaMonkey, I got a "Welcome to SqueezeCenter" dialog in the player, and the timer was incrementing as if it was playing something, but not

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

2008-12-31 Thread Guido
I couldnt get 7.3 to work on Ubuntu 8.04LTS. Gave up and installed 7.2.1 - this worked fine. Havent tried 7.3.1 though. Happy with 7.2.1 for my SB3. -- Guido Guido's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

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

2008-12-26 Thread gmachine_24
Ok, so I tried various .mp3 players but nothing works. I still can't get any songs to list in the right window of the Squeezecenter software ... so when I attempt to get the .mp3 player - such as Amarok - to play using the link http://192.168.0.103:9000/mp3.stream there are no songs listed in

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

2008-12-25 Thread Millwood
You can also connect a media player (winamp) to http://server:9000/stream.mp3 and then control it from the web interface to the server. -- Millwood 2 SB3, 1 Duet Debian Etch server 2 AP (netgear, linksys) wireless network. ---

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

2008-12-25 Thread radish
Squeezecenter is just a server, it can't play anything itself. If you want to use software players, you have three choices that I'm aware of - SoftSqueeze, Squeezeslave and Squeezeplay. The first is Java and provided you have sunjava installed you should be able to webstart it from any machine via

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

2008-12-24 Thread gmachine_24
Hi. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and SC 7.3. The software seemed to install OK and I was able to open a Firefox browser window using the http:// address for the machine on which Squeezecenter is installed. I do not have a player and just want to use Squeezecenter as my GUI across a network with se