This guide is a direct copy of the post by WBK in the AVS forum and is for the purpose of troubleshooting the Olive 03HD, 04HD AND 06HD Media Servers to correct various malfunctions including frozen or sluggish navigation screens, and restore normal functionality. It is suggested that all the […]
There is a lot of information on the AVS forum about troubleshooting the Olive. However, the information is very scattered and a lot of questions are asked again after a while. This post contains links to the most used and informative posts on the forum. For now only the link […]
On the Audioficionado forum, I found a post that describes the update of the firmware. I have not tried it myself, since my firmware was already at v3.0. On the AVForum, user 3M3rson did the upgrade without the Olive website up, so the firmware is not depended on the software. […]
After software version 4.1.9, an incremental backup method was introduced. However, the Olive 4 software stopped at 4.1.9. So therefore, with every backup, all data was copied. That could last more than 24 hours, so Franck “frolic” and Marc “Mumsoft” at the AVSforum came up with the following method based […]
Every now and then, Olive internet connection turns from white to amber even thought internet is available. As a result, Internet Radio is disabled. The reason for this is that Olive does a check if the olive.us website is available. If the website is not available, bad luck, no internet… […]
Marc “Mumsoft” found out how to improve the list of composers and conductors in the Olive. This will improve the autocomplete code in Maestro. A new file has to be placed on the Olive with the aid of ssh (see previous post: SSH to Olive). The instructions to do so: […]
The following information can not be found on internet or is deeply hidden. I collected it in the last couple of years, just be aware that it is old information and may not be correct anymore. On the other hand, it might be just the information that you’re looking for… […]
With software greater than 4.1.9, an incremental backup can be made from the Olive. The drive can be seen in Linux and all the audio and album art files can be copied. However the name convention is crap and the tags are stored in an encrypted database, not in the […]
If you don’t know what SSH is and how to use it, it is best not to even start reading… Ok, then.. SSH is a method to access the internals of the Olive (or any other linux machine). Via a program like Putty or WinSCP, the Olive can be connected […]
After I obtained a second hand Olive 3HD, I wanted to increase the harddisk size from 500 GB to 2TB. That would also provide me with a correct backup drive to test the unit when or if it would fail (bad experience with an Opus 4!). The replacement was more […]
This site will be focused on the various tools I created in windows and the information that I have collected on the Olive Sound equipment. This includes a tool to extract the backup files and database information! Further projects may follow. Occasionally posts will be made in dutch, because of […]
Who or what is Olive? Olive Media Inc.® is a U.S. based company that develops and sells Hifi digital Music Systems. They are now focussing on the Olive One product but this site is just about the Olive 2, 4, 3HD (all three owned or still own) or 4HD, 5HD […]