SqueezePlug Media-Server 4.0 (final Release)

[JimPro]

Got it going, thanks. I had been hesitant to use that path since I had separate email exchanges with Wilbert directly and he had recommended that I go the debian file route, as I have no Linux knowledge. But his instructions do indeed work. Now have 7.7.2 running smoothly. Like you I use the LMS only for internet radio, but also Spotify.

[Apteryx]

I have just setup & configured nicely my new Raspberry Pi - all good, configured LMS and it was all working. Shut it down, move it to wiring closet and it fails to complete booting - it is stuck on the line below. it will respond to pings but i cannot SSH or Webmin to it as the boot has not completed. I moved it back to where i set it up, but still could not get passed this error. I reflashed the card, went through the whole process again... and yes, once i moved it, the failure occurred again....

Last line of boot is:

"bound to 192.168.xxx.xxx - renewal in 33428 seconds"

Then it just stops

Not sure what to do here - cant seem to break out of the boot process but i'm getting a little tired of rebuilding this thing

Raspberry PI has latest image as via Thomas's menu, webmin, LMS and that's about it. Music is on a NAS, mounted as a CIFs partition (configured via webmin rather than fstab) LMS could see and scan the location, so it updated the library. PI is on a wired network connection, with DHCP.

Can anybody please point me in the right direction where to go with this?

[kesey]

Apteryx, are you using Squeezeplug ver 6.02 on your RPi? Assuming you are, I would again reflash your SD card and take things step by step...make sure that as you get everything working that you copy each progressive image to your computer, so that if things mess up, you don't have to go back to scratch each time.

What type and class of SD card are you using? I would not use anything above a Class 6...I've got stuck every time I tried it.

Ok let's say, you're using an 8Gb Class 4.
Reflash the Sd card with a clean version of Squeezeplug 6.02.
Open a terminal using Putty or whatever. Expand the size of the terminal.
Type setup.
Do all the following major operations from the Squeezeplug menus, not manually from the terminal

Expand the image to fill the card. Quit the Sheevaplug app back to the terminal. Reboot using shutdown -r now.
Type setup again, having expanded the terminal size.

Update Debian. This will take a while....
I would not install or use Webmin yet: it makes it way to easy to make mistakes can be difficult to recover easily from.
Install Samba from the menus, set up the music library, and then quit the Sheevaplug app back to the terminal. Reboot using shutdown -r now.

When the Pi reboots, open a terminal and do a df -h and whatever you want to be happy that all is working properly.

Do a shutdown -h now.
Power off the Pi and copy the updated .img to your computer hard disk.

With this updated 6.02 .img saved, you can install LMS, knowing that the Pi is behaving properly and that you are able to read and write to the card from your other computers via Samba.

[cadfish]

Recently the raspyfi project reported a major progress on the usb adio problem:

http://www.raspyfi.com/raspberry-pi-usb-audio-fix

Appaerently picoplayer was also able to take advantage of the kernel improvements

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...l=1#post748321

Any plans to have them in SqueezePlug as well?


Guenther

[Apteryx]

Thanks for all that!
I laboriously went through all that again with saving & backups and got it there this time - still ended up having to edit FSTAB for some nonsense, but otherwise ok..
I'm thinking my old server - rough as it was, being Fedora, just seemed to be a little more robust & tolerant of an amateur like me
Anyway, thanks for the tips - i've left it rescanning the library... before another backup & attaching all the squeezeboxen

Apteryx, are you using Squeezeplug ver 6.02 on your RPi? Assuming you are, I would again reflash your SD card and take things step by step...make sure that as you get everything working that you copy each progressive image to your computer, so that if things mess up, you don't have to go back to scratch each time.

What type and class of SD card are you using? I would not use anything above a Class 6...I've got stuck every time I tried it.

Ok let's say, you're using an 8Gb Class 4.
Reflash the Sd card with a clean version of Squeezeplug 6.02.
Open a terminal using Putty or whatever. Expand the size of the terminal.
Type setup.
Do all the following major operations from the Squeezeplug menus, not manually from the terminal

Expand the image to fill the card. Quit the Sheevaplug app back to the terminal. Reboot using shutdown -r now.
Type setup again, having expanded the terminal size.

Update Debian. This will take a while....
I would not install or use Webmin yet: it makes it way to easy to make mistakes can be difficult to recover easily from.
Install Samba from the menus, set up the music library, and then quit the Sheevaplug app back to the terminal. Reboot using shutdown -r now.

When the Pi reboots, open a terminal and do a df -h and whatever you want to be happy that all is working properly.

Do a shutdown -h now.
Power off the Pi and copy the updated .img to your computer hard disk.

With this updated 6.02 .img saved, you can install LMS, knowing that the Pi is behaving properly and that you are able to read and write to the card from your other computers via Samba.

[kesey]

Apteryx, you're very welcome. You'll find the Pi is very solid once she settles down. I find the Sheevaplug a bit less contrary..but the Pi is 1/3 of the price. I'm very happily using it as my main LMS machine at the moment. Not a hickup in sight. So far:-)

The Wandboard project that the CSOS guys ( http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...-Squeeze-OS-R3 ) are making amazing progress with may suit you, being Fedora based. I still find Fedora a bit baffling whereas I can find my way around Debian, stumble after stumble:-), fairly handily.

The CSOS setup has mighty possibilities which look very close to fruition via the phenom. efforts of JackofAll, JohnSwenson, Triode and friends.

[kappclark]

I have successfully installed the VM of squeezeplug in Virtualbox on a XP host..it works fine, except some streams (example WXXI FM Rochester) go at 'mickey mouse' pitch.

If I access this stream from another vortexbox on the same XP host, it comes through fine...Is there a simple fix for this ?? I suspect it ie the squeezeslave player that is causing the issues..

THX for the great package .. going to get a Pi very soon..

Bill Clark
Windham, VT