06 Nov 08 Forum

Hi. First post here. Firstly i'd like to say thanks to Andrew for an excellent piece of ripping & streaming software. I have installed on an Asus eeePC that was basically redundent prior to this.

Everything is working apart from squeeze center. It works expcept for when i want to use the eee pc as a player. It plays for roughly 15 seconds and then everything goes silent. The player is still playing in squeezecenter, just no sound coming from eeepc until i press play again and the song plays from the beginning for 15 seconds and cuts out.

When i nstalled vortexbox first i had an external usb 300gb drive connected. I then chose <30gb hard drive install as it wouldnt install using the first choice. This has the problem with eeepc that  it stops playing music after a while.

So i then backed up my ripped flac & mp3's then reinstalled vortexbox using the manual method and choosing the eepc's 4gb inbuilt sdhc drive. However i still have the problem that the eepc stops playing music after about 15 seconds.

My question is, as i have an 8gb sdhc card that i can plug into the eeepc, i should be able to install vortexbox to this drive giving more memory available for the install.

Would this possibly fix the issue with the eepc stopping playing music, or is there something else i can do? i.e. something easier than backing up all flacs & mp3s from usb drive and reinstalling and updating the vortexbox, then re-copying all music files back to usb drive.

I really do need the eepc to be a player as well as a server and ripper.

Many thanks for any help you can give me. p

Thanks for your speedy reply. At least i know im not going mad… well not as far as the vortexbox goes hehe.  So I will try an install onto the 8gb external sdhc card. I'll let you know if this makes any difference. cheers p

Post edited 1:10 am – October 13, 2009 by Moonbase

Had a lot of problems with SqueezeSlave here, too. Manually "upgraded" to a debug version (of SqueezeSlave) which improved things a bit, but it still freaks out on several occasions — like switching from a radio station to local music.

Andrew: Maybe you'd like to include the more "stable" debug version of SqueezeSlave in the updates/ISO (it won't have the not-yet-found "racing condition" that often) and also include a default SBS rule to resample to 44.1 kHz for the local SqueezePlay (since it's MAC address is known anyway and sox will do a reasonable good job — much better than having SqueezeSlave freak out and needing to kill -9 it because it won't be stoppable thru "services")?