Experience/Problems moving to Linux....

[Andrew W. Donoho]

Folks,

The SqueezeBox arrived and I am impressed with it as a fine piece of
stereo equipment. Moving off of Mac OS X to my home Linux server has
been a challenge.

First, SlimServer really likes to own the music directory. If not, it
gives you a "Oops message" that "something" is wrong with the
directory. This error message needs to be improved.

Second, it is not apparent how to get my non DRM AAC files to play from
Linux. On Mac OS X, they are clearly being converted into AIF or WAV
and sent to the SqueezeBox (AAC files use about 1.5Mbps versus the
bitrate plus a little for MP3). I have installed LAME 3.95. I have
looked at and edited convert.conf. The SqueezeBox thinks it's playing
the file but nothing is coming out. (I have since reinstalled
SlimServer (hence returning to distro scratch).) Any suggestions on how
to get some AAC love? I have also downloaded FAAD2 and it has a
makefile error on my RH9 system. Any chance that SlimDevices will port
mov123 to Linux and FAAD2?

Overall, things are a little rough on Linux.

Andrew

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[Jack Coates]

On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 13:30, Andrew W. Donoho wrote:
> Folks,
>
> The SqueezeBox arrived and I am impressed with it as a fine piece
> ofstereo equipment. Moving off of Mac OS X to my home Linux server
> hasbeen a challenge.
>
> First, SlimServer really likes to own the music directory. If not,
> itgives you a "Oops message" that "something" is wrong with
> thedirectory. This error message needs to be improved.

[root@felix root]# grep slim /etc/group
users:x:100:jack,laurel,slimserver
slimserver:x:526:
[root@felix root]# ll /mnt/
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 227 root users 12288 Feb 6 10:38 music/

groups are a fine thing.

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[Andrew W. Donoho]

On Feb 15, 2004, at 15:41, Jack Coates wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 13:30, Andrew W. Donoho wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> The SqueezeBox arrived and I am impressed with it as a fine piece
>> ofstereo equipment. Moving off of Mac OS X to my home Linux server
>> hasbeen a challenge.
>>
>> First, SlimServer really likes to own the music directory. If not,
>> itgives you a "Oops message" that "something" is wrong with
>> thedirectory. This error message needs to be improved.
>
> [root@felix root]# grep slim /etc/group
> users:x:100:jack,laurel,slimserver
> slimserver:x:526:
> [root@felix root]# ll /mnt/
> total 12
> drwxrwxr-x 227 root users 12288 Feb 6 10:38 music/
>
> groups are a fine thing.


I did that also. It still wasn't as happy as it has been since I made
it the owner. Little things like Browse Music FOlder were not working
very well - missing directories, etc..

Andrew

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