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I'm now concentrating on getting mt-daapd and Squeezecenter to stream mp3 files without gaps.

I notice that iTunes on a Windows computer on my network stops playing its Squeezecenter stream after a few files. At that moment, on the Bubba Two, nmbd has stopped running. nmbd is one of the two ...

My Bubba Two runs 1.0.13.

Download performance:

Kastanje:~# wget http://download.excito.net/web/BubbaServer/Bubba_Users_Manual.pdf
--18:12:40-- http://download.excito.net/web/BubbaServer/Bubba_Users_Manual.pdf
=> `Bubba_Users_Manual.pdf'
Resolving download.excito.net... 213.180.89.191
Connecting ...

Turned out Dave Douglas HAS sounded better -- playback of the original .m4a file on the Bubba using Squeezecenter is slow, happens with many gaps (unexpected silences) in between and Bubba Two itself looked like it was working too hard for its own good.

What was so bad? I ran the command ...

Under File Format Conversion Setup, pairs of file formats are listed and you can select a method to convert one to the other. The information used to build this interface is read from the two *.conf files in /etc/squeezecenter. The conversion I am looking for, is from "AAC or Movie File" to MP3. By ...

I've got lame and faad working. Yet, Squeezecenter doesn't serve up the .m4a files -- so THAT was not the problem.

Playing .m4a still doesn't work, though. In the server logs, I still find:

[08-12-30 16:54:36.3361] Slim::Player::TranscodingHelper::getConvertCommand (311) Error: Didn't find any ...

I read through the convert.conf and slimservice-convert.conf files and came up with a list of all non-squeezecenter binaries squeezecenter uses "out of the box":

[alac]
[faad]
[flac]
[lame]
[mac]
[mov123]
[mplayer-stdout]
[mppdec]
[sox]
[wmad]
[wmadec]
[wvunpack]

Now this list is to be used with ...

The packages that I have defined as dependices for squeezecenter is ...
If I've missed some package/converter, please tell me, and I'll try to fix that proble
Carl

Thank you Carl, great to know that you're looking over my shoulder. I'll figure this out for you.

I'm going to lay this to rest ...

faad can easily be installed by running

apt-get install faad


apt-get install lame liblame0

Doesn't work yet, though:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package lame is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing ...

Rather than poking around in configuration files and logfiles, one could try the web interface. Just open http://bubba:9000 and choose Home, Settings, SqueezeCenter Settings, File Types. File type mov is not listed, but "Apple Lossless" is. The menus that could be used to make settings are all ...

I'm one of those guys with an iPod and a nice collection of music encoded in m4a files, which I've put on my Bubba Two. After installing Streamserver, I could browse my albums and playlists in the browser (on http://bubba:9000). Cool.

But I couldn't actually play the files. That was not so good ...

However on playing my music via my squeezebox3 I was somewhat surprised to find that every track stops playing after about 3 minutes. I have tried to ascertain if there was a fault in the Squeezecenter or my Squeezebox and cannot locate anything. This happens whether I connect my music through ...

I have a working configuration now -- problem solved, with many thanks to the guys who responded and to Excito support.

My network configuration has a modem, then a Netgear WNR854T wireless router to which My Bubba TWO is attached LAN-port to LAN-port. All workstations connect to the router ...

I've now made absolutely sure that the Bubba is not switched off without a proper shutdown. And I did an apt-get dist-update and an apt-get update, then configured Samba (again). The machine ran great all through yesterday.

After waking up and classes, I switch on my workstation. Bubba shares are ...

After reinstall from the USB stick, Bubba is back again. I've now configured it to obtain its IP address from the router, and I've reserved the address on the Router, so I know it will always be the same.

Brought Bubba down, rebooted; and it reappeared on the network.

I shut Bubba down tonight (carefully, pressing the button). This morning, it starts up properly (showing both its blue and green lights) but fails to appear on the network: no SMB, no ping, no www.

I know I can reinstall it again, but that will be a labor intensive solution given that I plan to ...