Applying old patch to 7.3 code

[lemmy999]

I may be forced to go with 7.2 or newer because I really want a Boom. I have stayed with 6.5.4 because I manually went in and applied the patch to allow the squeezebox to sort albums by year (I know the server software can already do this, I am talking about it doing it on the squeezebox). I did this by manually editing the 4-5 perl files that needed changing.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112

The latest patch for that bug was written around 7.0 I think. Has the code changed so much from 7.0 to 7.3 that I wouldn't be able to manually edit the perl files and find the proper location and insert the patch code? I really don't want to go back to having albums sorted alphabetically.

[lemmy999]

I looked through the files that have to be changed for this patch and 7.2.2 still have all of those files and I was able to find the location where the changes should be made. But with 7.3 all of those files are gone. So it looks like I am stuck with 7.2.2 (but squeezeplay will only work with 7.3 right?).

[funkstar]

I looked through the files that have to be changed for this patch and 7.2.2 still have all of those files and I was able to find the location where the changes should be made. But with 7.3 all of those files are gone. So it looks like I am stuck with 7.2.2 (but squeezeplay will only work with 7.3 right?).

Correct.

I would guess the reason those files are gone is to do with the complete re-write of the streaming architecture in 7.3.

See the Wiki for details: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph..._new-streaming

[erland]

The files still exists in 7.3 but they aren't installed on Windows if you install with the exe distribution. I think you will need to download the zip or tgz distribution instead to get all the perl files which can be patched. In the exe distributions the perl code is compiled into a squeezecenter.exe file and can't be patched.

I suspect you will be able to download and install the exe and then just take the contents of the "Slim" directory from the zip distribution. After patching, you will need to run it through ActiveState perl, it won't work if you run it from the tray icon or through squeezecenter.exe.

[lemmy999]

Currently I have 6.5.4 and I used the .exe to install and all of the perl files were there. I patched the perl files and then used srvany and perl to run my slimserver as a service using the patched files. But with 7.3 I looked in the .zip file and those files weren't in there anywhere. They were in the 7.2.2 .zip file though.

[JJZolx]

Currently I have 6.5.4 and I used the .exe to install and all of the perl files were there. I patched the perl files and then used srvany and perl to run my slimserver as a service using the patched files. But with 7.3 I looked in the .zip file and those files weren't in there anywhere. They were in the 7.2.2 .zip file though.

I just took a look at the latest patch posted to the bug report and all the files referenced are in my 7.3 installation. You may be able to apply the changes by hand. Or make a request in the original bug report asking for an updated patch against SC 7.3.