B3 and squeezecenter

[albert]

Has anyone got sqeeuzecenter to work properly?

It is up and running now (although I had some errors first, they seem to be fixed after a reboot, all plain stock installation).

Unfortunately, I can only see the first artist on the share and its album, but nothing more, so it only scanned the first directory (which was "A flock of seagulls", so alphabetically the first one to be found). I tried restarting squeezecenter, but it didn't found any more.

FYI I am using the java client softsqueeze, which shows only one artist and its album.

[Binkem]

I haven't got a B3 (I'm a B3 user). But this might have something to do with the read/write permissions on your music files. Sometimes i need to set the permissions to 777 before Squeezecenter will index the files.

[Ubi]

squeezecenter needs write access on the mp3 file?

[Binkem]

I can only get the thing to work if I set the permisions to 777. But that may be because I don't understand these permissions (and ownership) well enough.

[ryz]

Squeezecenter does not need write permission it needs read permission thought. Since Squeezecenter is run by the user squeezecenter wich only belongs to the group nogroup the mp3 files needs to be readable by others.

There is a known bug in Squeezecenter where it bails out on certain mp3 files. You can find more information here http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 00&start=0

[ryz]

Binkem you do know that directories needs both the execution and the read bit set to be accessible?

If you only set the read bit it means you can do an ls in that directory but you can not access any of the files. If you only set the execution bit you can access the files in the directory if you know there name because you can not list the files.

[albert]

My directory access rights where fine.

However, I got an answer from excito (thanks Tor). According to him the update of the squeezecenter wasn't done properly. So I had to remove it and reinstall.

As root:

apt-get remove --purge squeezecenter

Make very sure that it says 1 packet to remove. If not cancel the operation.

Answer yes to any questions regarding deconfigure and removal of
database. This is crucial to fix the problem.

When done issue

apt-get update
apt-get install squeezecenter

The database password, asked for at removal is an empty one (so just return).

For me this still didn't work So after the apt-get remove I did a reboot, then a apt-get clean to get rid of cached files. Then the apt-get update and the install.

It now works fine. Mind you first startup can take a while because of the scanning of your mp3 files.

I can now use the softsqueeze java implementation on my laptop and it sees all files and actually works great!

Albert