I must be a glutton for punishment after the debacle that was Squeezebox server 7.6 but I downloaded and installed the Logitech Media Server v7.7.0 beta for Mac OS X earlier this afternoon.
Whaddya know, it's slick, fast, scans quickly and smoothly, doesn't mess about pre-caching artwork and is generally a good bit of software.
The guys on the Slim Devices forum reckon it might be due for a release in October.
After all the flak over 7.6 this is more like it
Steve
Sgt. Baker started talkin’ with a Bullhorn in his hand.
That is Mac - I only do PC. Perhaps there will be an upgrade to 7.77777 on PC soon. There wasn't this morning because I checked.
hope. hope, hope!
Last night I laboriously went through every folder checking/converting that all artwork was maximum 500X500. This morning was hell trying to get something to work. Even the PC software Squeezebox didn't want to read and recognise the 'new' folders. A new hard drive wasn't being recognised on the USB input to the Squeezebox as the onboard server kept switching off. Didn't even get a chance to scan and fail to read artwork.
And that's how I've left it till I get home.
Philosophers have only interpreted the world - the point, however, is to change it. No it isn't ... maybe we should leave it alone for a while.
I feel your pain Andrew and hope you get it sorted. My experience with Squeezexxxx is that it's fine whilst it's running but upgrading can be a complete pain, in which case you need to be more techy than a techy thing to sort it out. Or get lucky like I did. Good luck!
andrew Ivimey wrote:That is Mac - I only do PC. Perhaps there will be an upgrade to 7.77777 on PC soon. There wasn't this morning because I checked.
hope. hope, hope!
Last night I laboriously went through every folder checking/converting that all artwork was maximum 500X500. This morning was hell trying to get something to work. Even the PC software Squeezebox didn't want to read and recognise the 'new' folders. A new hard drive wasn't being recognised on the USB input to the Squeezebox as the onboard server kept switching off. Didn't even get a chance to scan and fail to read artwork.
And that's how I've left it till I get home.
Hmm
If you go to the URL I posted you'll find the Windows .exe installer right at the top of the list.
But I'd uninstall the whole bloody lot of it before installing the Logitech media server.
You'll be prompted for a firmware update to the Touch, let it install that and hopefully you're good to go.
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Sgt. Baker started talkin’ with a Bullhorn in his hand.
I had that prob. The Touch wouldn't see the newly ammended artwork until I did a total re-scan of the library. if you go into the Squeezeserver page in your PC browser there's a little button in the bottom right hand corner 'labelled' settings. Enter that page and there's an option for library rescans via a drop down menu. Select 'Clear and rescan entire library' (or summat like that and hey presto, jobs a good un.
andrew Ivimey wrote:checking/converting that all artwork was maximum 500X500.
That's "only" pixels, what you need to worry about is kilobytes/megabytes. Ideally your resizing dooberry needs to get the file sizes smaller. Although reducing the pixels will do that but might go smaller again by reducing the "quality" percentage, I'm assuming jpg files.
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