[slim] Re: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
HDMI outputs. Not convinced wi-fi g is really up to it, plus there's the matter of insufficient media, but I would like to be able to get rid of the dvd player as well as the cd player! -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703 kefa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=421 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there a play history feature?
Have a look at this discussion that will do what you want (and more, actually, but you can always ignore/not use the bits you don't want) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18597 ... make sure you read all the way to the end, in its first release I don't think it would have met your need, but I think it will now. There was also a discussion on other ways of achieving this at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18520 HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21436 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox3 stutter/skip
Thanks Dean. Kevin from support has been helping with this. I upgraded to yesterday's nightly inc. firmware 35 and the situation does seem to have improved, though it seems to still be running with a low buffer. The couple of tracks I played played without a skip. I'll be testing extensively this weekend and will post back my experiences. Best regards Phil -- moby_uk moby_uk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21265 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How can I speed up the web interface?
Hi all It takes about 10-15 seconds for the web interface to appear for me. I've switched to MySQL and that didn't make a difference, although searching is now super fast. My server is a fairly new P4 2.4Ghz with 1Gb RAM running Fedora Core4. It doesn't do anything other than run slimserver. I'm using server version 6.2.2-6245 from a few days ago. My music library is pretty small I'd have said - just over 5000 songs. Looking at the server now, whilst it's streaming music, it's at 98% idle. Also, if I browse music folder the music being played stops momentarily, and the CPU usage shoots up to about 98% busy (slimserver.pl). What steps should I take to get to the bottom of these two problems? Which debugging flags should I be looking at? Thanks for any help... Jon. -- jonmyatt jonmyatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21437 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
by the millions. Slimservers too geeky, not suitable for music appliances. SB3MFA3.24DACAlps pot2 Naks PA7sBW802Nautilus After 2 months ownership, still could not figure out if Slim is porting over Itunes data at all since no playlists appear on SB. Only songs with truncated names and titles. Truly weird wild stuffs! But SB3 sure sounds so much better than Roku gear. -- empty99 empty99's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3488 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
mkozlows Wrote: Prepping for the Pandora SqueezeNetwork stuff, most likely... Busy working out how Pandora/SqueezeNetwork is going to benefit anyone outside the US... -- Bart Bart's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=116 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: adding favorites with remote
Yes ok, i understand. Thank you very much for your assistance, for your patience and your clear answers. -- Gilord Gilord's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4146 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20064 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] When setting File Type not accepting changes. Why ???
Since I have not got any answer to my question I would be grateful for your help. The problem is that all my music does not show up in Slimserver. Thats why I send this mail. Kind Regards Frn: Tore Johnsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 19 februari 2006 19:59 Till: Slim Devices Discussion (discuss@lists.slimdevices.com) mne: Settings File Type: Message not accepting changes! I changed Settings-File types in Slimserver and marked all of the types Then I got this message after pressing change button Please explain what this means and what to do. I have copied Lame to Slimserver/Server/Bin Required binary was not found: [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ --abr $BITRATE$ $FILE$ - Required binary was not found: [mac] $FILE$ - -d | [lame] --resample 44100 -x --silent -q 9 --abr $BITRATE$ - - Required binary was not found: [flac] -dcs --skip=$START$ --until=$END$ -- $FILE$ | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ --abr $BITRATE$ - - Required binary was not found: [mov123] $FILE$ | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ -r - - Required binary was not found: [sox] -t ogg $FILE$ -t raw -r 44100 -c 2 -w -s $-x$ - | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ --abr $BITRATE$ -r - - Required binary was not found: [shorten] -x $FILE$ - | [flac] -cs --totally-silent --compression-level-0 --endian little --sign signed --channels 2 --bps 16 --sample-rate 44100 - Required binary was not found: [shorten] -x $FILE$ - | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ --abr $BITRATE$ - - Required binary was not found: [shorten] -x $FILE$ - Required binary was not found: [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ --abr $BITRATE$ $FILE$ - Required binary was not found: [wmadec] -r 44100 -b 16 -n 2 $FILE$ | [lame] -x --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ --abr $BITRATE$ - - Kind Regards Tore ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] When setting File Type not accepting changes. Why ???
The problem is that all my music does not show up in Slimserver. Please give some information about your system: operating system, slimserver version, file path, file types etc. I changed Settings-File types in Slimserver and marked all of the types Required binary was not found: [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ --abr $BITRATE$ $FILE$ - Required binary was not found: [mac] $FILE$ - -d | [lame] --resample 44100 -x --silent -q 9 --abr $BITRATE$ - - Required binary was not found: [flac] -dcs --skip=$START$ --until=$END$ -- $FILE$ | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ --abr $BITRATE$ - - Required binary was not found: [mov123] $FILE$ | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ -r - - Required binary was not found: [sox] -t ogg $FILE$ -t raw -r 44100 -c 2 -w -s $-x$ - | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ --abr $BITRATE$ -r You have activated some formats which need external binaries to do transcoding. But you don't seem to have those installed (lame, flac, sox etc.). Do you really need all those formats? What format do you use in your collection? -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the SlimString Translation Helper (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How can I speed up the web interface?
1Gb RAM running Fedora Core4. It doesn't do anything other than run slimserver. I'm using server version 6.2.2-6245 from a few days ago. My music library is pretty small I'd have said - just over 5000 songs. Disable the library statistics (Server Settings/Performance). This might speed it up. -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the SlimString Translation Helper (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver ODBC driver problem
... which implies that the UTF-8 driver isn't compatible with SQLite3 , so not much chance of me getting it working :( -- Khuli Khuli's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=851 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21423 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How can I speed up the web interface?
I've already got that disabled :( -- jonmyatt jonmyatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21437 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How can I speed up the web interface?
A couple of questions - are you using ITunes at all (either the update plugin or the integrated ITunes features of Slimserver ? How is your music library set up - networked drive or on the hard drive ? What browser / what skin ? Wired or wireless connection for the SB ? I'm running Slimserver on an [underpowered] 2 year old Buffalo Linkstation with a substantially bigger library and I would say the web interface takes no more than 4/5 seconds to come up on average, so hopefully it will be something that can be tweaked for you. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21437 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How can I speed up the web interface?
Hi, no - I'm not using iTunes. The music library is on the hard drive on the linux server. It's a (software) RAID1 array. SB is connected via wireless, but I could connect via a cable for any testing. Thanks Jon. -- jonmyatt jonmyatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21437 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] FLAC tagging and Cover Art
Hello, I would like to change my collection of MP3 to FLAC, i'm redoing all the re-encoding of it, but now i have some problem At the moment i'm using mp3 with all tags defined, including cover art for each file. Now there's the problem: i tried a lot of software searching to include the coverart inside the Flac, but it seems nearly impossible :-/ I tried with Mp3Tag, Media Tagger, The Godfather, everyone always don't give me the possibility to add the coverart. To be more specific, seems that it's impossible to add an ID3v2 tag with cover art inside I would like to understand if i'm trying to do something impossible, or if someone already tried it, i would like to ask how they managed to do it work correctly. (Another thing: on my PC i'm using WinAmp + CD case to display the cover while playing the file, i would like to be able to do it using always the same program using the Flac file and maybe the Id3v2 Tag) Am i trying to do something impossible or am i doing something wrong? Thank you for your help. -- Danguard Danguard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21443 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using stream.mp3 - Chicken and egg problem
JJZolx Wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to easily be able to use the stream.mp3 connection method to playback music at work from my home server. The connection is no problem, I have a VPN nailed up between work and home and I can easily connect to the SlimServer http server, and I can also connect using SoftSqueeze. But sometimes I'd like to use Winamp instead. If I pull up the web UI, the office computer player doesn't show up (I have one called 'WorkPC - Winamp', in which I've set up the desired bitrate limiting and other preferences). If I try to connect to stream.mp3 at this point I get a synch error in Winamp. Ok, there's no stream happening, so I understand that. I guess. So I play something to a Squeezebox on my home(?) network. Now I can connect to stream.mp3 from Winamp, but I get no music. I suppose that makes sense, the music isn't being streamed to this player. Now, at this point the player will show up in the SlimServer web UI and I can then add music to its playlist. Press 'play' again in Winamp and I get music on the office PC. All pretty damned confusing, as I'm not sure exactly what's going on here. Is there an explanation, or is this just the quirky way this has to work? it would appear that's the way it works unless you use softsqueeze. i was doing the same thing for a week or so -- vain4 vain4's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3502 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21434 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Who are you on LastFM?
http://www.last.fm/user/Hergest I'm not sure if there are any real benefits of having a generalised slimscrobbler group, as undoubtedly we are all going to have rather radically different music tastes. Phil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC tagging and Cover Art
There is no point in changing your mp3 into flac files. By encoding into mp3 you have already lost data. If you want to have flac files you have to re-rip and encode to flac. Simply re-encoding mp3 files to flac will only accomplish creating good copies of lossy files. Once you have the flac files generated you can use 'TagRename 3.2' (http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm) to take care of tagging and cover art. -- nelamvr6 nelamvr6's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3113 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21443 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC tagging and Cover Art
flac does not support embeded art. I'm using Godfather and the AMG patch to get and save the coverart in the album directory. -- bernt bernt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1342 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21443 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Crashing SLIMP3
I've just bought a second hand SLIMP3 player. Nice machine, but mine doesn't work like it should. It finds te server, but when i press play it hangs. The menu freezes and i cannot ping the player anymore. It tried many different setups: - ss (winxp) 4.2.4 on laptop via linksys router and WiFI - ss (winxp) 6.2 on laptop via linksys router and WiFI - ss (winxp) 6.2 on desktop via linksys router and ethernet - ss (debian under VMware/win32) 4.2 on desktop via linksys router and ethernet - ss (debian under VMware/win32) 6.2 on desktop via linksys router and ethernet - ss (winxp) 6.2 on desktop via crossover cable - ss (debian under VMware/win32) 4.2 on desktop crossover cable - ss (debian under VMware/win32) 6.2 on desktop crossover cable I've also upgraded the firmware from v2.2 to v2.3. I tried both automatic and manual configs. The player can find the server without any problems (and has for a moment even played some music!) but it's unstable as hell! Does this sound familiar to someone ? Any help is appreciated. -- eflukx eflukx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4165 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21447 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC tagging and Cover Art
Media Monkey does it too. -- vdorta DIY computer (EAC/FLAC) -- wireless SB2 (Bolder digital analog mods, Sonicap Platinum bypass caps, Bolder Deluxe Power Supply) -- Stello M200 monos -- ACI Sapphire XLs on dedicated Sound Anchors and REL Storm III | JMT PPA headamp with custom bass boost -- AKG K501 and Etymotics ER-4S vdorta's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21443 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC tagging and Cover Art
nelamvr6 Wrote: There is no point in changing your mp3 into flac files. By encoding into mp3 you have already lost data. If you want to have flac files you have to re-rip and encode to flac. Simply re-encoding mp3 files to flac will only accomplish creating good copies of lossy files. Once you have the flac files generated you can use 'TagRename 3.2' (http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm) to take care of tagging and cover art. Yeah sorry, i wasn't clear enough, i'm re-ripping them from my CDs and re-encoding them in FLAC format :) -- Danguard Danguard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21443 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is a Slim boombox really feasible?
Jack Coates wrote: My target setup is a $300 Squeezebox with a $200-$300 pair of powered speakers. So a Squeezeboombox that costs $500-$600 is in range with what I'm doing now, only integrated. I'd like to pay a bit less than that, say $400 tops. I do want an FM tuner, I don't want a CD player, I don't want output jacks if they're going to increase the cost, I do want a remote (the shipping one, not something running its own OS). FM tuner is optional for me; I know my wife would really like one, though. What's not optional for me is buttons on the device itself. If it includes a remote as well, that's gravy. - Marc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is a Slim boombox really feasible?
funkstar Wrote: *IF* there was to be a SqueezeBox BoomBox i would be very dissapointed if it had a conventional CD and radio in there too. Me too. It wouldn't make much sense. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21421 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using stream.mp3 - Chicken and egg problem
If I try to connect to stream.mp3 at this point I get a synch error in Winamp. Ok, there's no stream happening, so I understand that. I guess. That bit sounds wrong. You should get a silent stream. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21434 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?
Here i am :D http://www.last.fm/user/danguard -- Danguard Danguard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21338 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote Looks Sloppy but Isn't!
Jon- if I recall from some of your previous posts you only got your SB3 in December.. I can see why you have issue with the degredation of the remote if that is how quickly it gets marked.. for whatit is worth I also got my SB3 in December but fortunatley my remote is still in good nick... but mine is the white version which appears less reflective than the black version.. bearing that in mind it could be specific to colour or as radish said it could be the 'sandpaper' effect!! ;-) if no new remote is forthcoming you could always try getting a manicure once a week to save the remote !! ;-) -- rick's cafe WHEN MUSIC HIT YOU YOU FEEL NO PAIN!!! rick's cafe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21041 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is a Slim boombox really feasible?
IMO, Slim Devices would be crazy not to include a radio and CD player in any boombox design. How many people are going to buy a boombox that you can only use in your house and maybe your yard? Put in a tuner and CD player, and you can take it anywhere. The additional cost is not that great, and you've greatly enhanced usability. -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21421 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?
Here I is: http://www.last.fm/user/nappyhead/ NH ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there a play history feature?
Thanks for the replies. I did a bit of digging around the schema as well in the meantime. I devised the following query which is useful for listing which songs you have listened to recently. Unfortunately, slimserver only records lastPlayed on a per track basis... which means you can't get an exact listing of what you have been listening to. However, if you are happy to see a listing of the most recently played tracks (subtly different) then this will work: select from_unixtime(lastPlayed),t.title,a.title,c.name from tracks t, contributors c, contributor_track ct, albums a where t.playCount is not NULL and t.id = ct.track and ct.contributor = c.id and t.album = a.id order by t.lastPlayed desc; -- nico nico's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=672 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21436 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Coloured squeezebox availability in uk ?
More than a month after the fact, I just received an invoice from UPS for the PST (Provincial Sales Tax) of 8%. Why in the world didn't they COD this when I got the item? - I had to pay the 7% GST at that time. If UPS is this inefficient, it might explain why their shipping charges are so high! -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=10272 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
How about video output? Either just for a user interface or maybe even ultimately to stream video libraries and cool audio/video plugins... -Greg -- GoCubs GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is a Slim boombox really feasible?
I think they'd be smarter to put a small (80Gb) hard disk and a slug in it and make it self-contained when taken out of wifi range. Good software that allowed you to say let me take all my beach music to the beach and then downloaded from the Terabyte store we all have ( :-) ) 80Gb of beach music and you're good to go. Same guts, different case, could go in my car. Same idea. When parked in the garage, connects via wifi (doesn't everyone have a hot spot in their garage) and downloads the latest - songs, podcasts, etc. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21421 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 48KHz playback?
Renyao Wrote: I did several experiments yesterday and confirmed that wav file playing in SB2 is smooth and gapless ,while flac file playing in SB2 has gaps between tracks no matter in 44.1khz or 48khz the files are. Hmm - I'll double check again tonight to make sure but I'm 99% certain my 44.1khz stereo flac files are playing back gapless. Renyao - Perhaps you have another issue -- chrisal chrisal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=235 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=6405 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Coloured squeezebox availability in uk ?
nicketynick Wrote: More than a month after the fact, I just received an invoice from UPS for the PST (Provincial Sales Tax) of 8%. Why in the world didn't they COD this when I got the item? - I had to pay the 7% GST at that time. If UPS is this inefficient, it might explain why their shipping charges are so high! Is it an invoice? I got a strange mailing from them showing PST/GST charges but saying this is not an invoice, do not pay. Weird. Obviously since I already paid PST/GST I was about to cause a ruckus if it was an invoice. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=10272 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem: Can't connect to wireless network
Marc and Crooner, Thanks for the followup advice. I finally got everything working after a quick call to Slim Devices tech support on Wednesday evening -- my problem started Friday night, and between the long weekend and family stuff on Tuesday, this was the first chance I had to call them. The problem, as you suspected, was that the router somehow had lost all my settings. Once I reentered the settings and changed channels, my Squeezebox was finally able to recognize the network, but it couldn't establish a connection. It took the tech just a minute or so to figure out that I was not putting the right password into my Squeezebox settings. I kept entering the password for my local network, when I should have been entering the key I had created for WPA encryption. Thanks again. Dave -- Dave G Dave G's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2949 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21280 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Using stream.mp3 - Chicken and egg problem
radish wrote: If I try to connect to stream.mp3 at this point I get a synch error in Winamp. Ok, there's no stream happening, so I understand that. I guess. That bit sounds wrong. You should get a silent stream. I concur. I just tried this very thing this AM in an effort to debug something related to the player itself. As soon as you point xmms/winamp at [yoururl]:9000/stream.mp3 you should get a silent stream at 320K. That's how you can tell if slim is even running without looking for processes. Just my experience. -- Chip Hart - Pediatric Solutions * Physician's Computer Company chip @ pcc.com * 1 Main St. #7, Winooski, VT 05404 800-722-7708 * http://www.pcc.com/~chip f.802-846-8178 * Pediatric Software Just Got Smarter. Your Practice Just Got Healthier. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Coloured squeezebox availability in uk ?
nicketynick Wrote: Nope - definitely an invoice! And its definitely for PST. (I only paid GST when I got it, about $48, as I think you did IIRC)Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.. Weird. I don't like UPS. And I don't know anyone who does. I believe the only reason they are still in existence is that they offer something special for shippers. They certainly don't do anything for the shippee (sp), besides the high shipping charge, leaving products on the doorstep and these strange invoicing issues. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=10272 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Coloured squeezebox availability in uk ?
No, I did the 2for1 deal, which was $694.70 CAD x 7% = $48.63. Don't understand why they didn't charge me PST with the COD I would (and will) just order from a Canadian reseller if/when they can do the same price as direct. Slim really needs to do a little better than UPS - maybe if they had higher volumes shipping to Canada. -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=10272 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wiki Questions: Posting Screenshots?
JJZolx Wrote: Given EAC's limited auto-tagging capabilities, I don't see anything in the setup that would be considered specific to Slim users. There are a number of additional tags SlimServer can use that might be added after ripping, but all of them require other software packages. Just to clarify, I've posted about 50 times in these forums pointing people to ripping, tagging, and replaygain guides. As Slim becomes more popular the technical background of its user base drops. The point of these guides (as the name Beginner's Guide suggests) is not to give every option or even to provide what I'd consider advanced features. The point was to get new users no familiar with the technology a one-stop guide to get the collection ripped, tagged, replaygained and into SlimServer. I think this consolidated guide does a pretty good job. If you don't think so, please feel free to update it... thats the whole point. My only request is that you keep things as simple as possible... covering every single option at every single step is just going to make it an overwhelming (and thus useless) guide. ss. -- street_samurai street_samurai's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=199 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21279 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC tagging and Cover Art
MusicMagic Mixer supports the COVERART tag as well. I think you need to be running SlimServer 6.2.2 or higher for them to show. Please correct me if I am wrong. -- Spies Spies's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=307 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21443 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
I predict a new QA department that thoroughly tests products before shipping. I predict they work hard to create a better out-of-box experience. I predict they source higher quality wireless cards and power supplies. If this was all they did for a year I would buy (3). -- slimdemage slimdemage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3606 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
Satellite Radio Killer: Satellite radio like car unit that can blue tooth or otherwise connect to an internet capable mobile phone and has an aux-out and/or built-in FM modulator. In other words, use the cellular/PCS data network that is being deployed to stream internet radio stations, squeeze network or even attach to your slimserver back home. But, a video streaming capability would be cool too. :) Mitch -- Mitch G Mitch G's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=548 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wake up slimserver (Wake-on LAN) through wireless network
I am running Slimserver connected by cable to a Netgear wireless router. My Squeezebox 3 connects wirelessly to the router. This works fine and the SB3 wakes up the PC running Slimserver. I would like to connect the PC wirelessly. I have tried doing this by connecting a wireless Netgear Printer Server/Bridge (WGPS606) via cable to the PC nic. This works well for streaming music but it does not wake up the PC. The PC has to be woken manually. Has anyone else tried this or similar. -- Joe Dowling Joe Dowling's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3742 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17891 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Boooooo.........Sonos
On accident I typed slimedevices into the address bar of Firefox (no .com) and out pops this: http://tinyurl.com/ez62o just a tad shady g -- blah509 blah509's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1405 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21452 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wake up slimserver (Wake-on LAN) through wireless network
Do I understand properly? You have a wired connection from PC to WGPS606, then go wireless to the Netgear router? I think you have to speak to Netgear customer support and find out whether they will pass on the magic packet that does WOL. They *should*, but that's not the same as *they do*. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17891 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Boooooo.........Sonos
On accident I typed slimedevices into the address bar of Firefox (no .com) and out pops this: http://tinyurl.com/ez62o just a tad shady I don't know, maybe they truly are slime devices. Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Boooooo.........Sonos
Richie wrote: On accident I typed slimedevices into the address bar of Firefox (no .com) and out pops this: http://tinyurl.com/ez62o just a tad shady I don't know, maybe they truly are slime devices. Richard ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss This smells more like a retailer game than something put up by Sonos... -- d. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using stream.mp3 - Chicken and egg problem
My guess (and it's only a guess) is that there's something with your VPN setup which is causing you difficulties getting a connection established for some reason. Try the exact same steps, but from home on the same local LAN. If that works, it's the VPN, if it doesn't, it's a SlimServer bug. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21434 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] syncing via cli
hi -- using the cli, i'd like to sync a given player with whatever player most recently started playing. is there a way to do that? i don't see a way to query for any sort of is-playing state on a player, let alone a when-did-it-start-playing query. having this would (usually) reduce the sync me ui to a single button press, rather than needing to select the remote player. paul =- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 31.5 degrees) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using stream.mp3 - Chicken and egg problem
radish Wrote: My guess (and it's only a guess) is that there's something with your VPN setup which is causing you difficulties getting a connection established for some reason. Try the exact same steps, but from home on the same local LAN. If that works, it's the VPN, if it doesn't, it's a SlimServer bug. Yep, it worked from a PC on the LAN, as you said, with a 'silent' stream. Today, it's also working like this today from the office PC. One difference between today and yesterday, though, is that the 'WorkPC - Winamp' remained in the server's list of players overnite. I'm wondering whether the player needs to be listed by the server for this to work smoothly. What causes the player to be removed from the server? I assume there must be some sort of time period after which these software players get removed, even though their preferences remain in SlimServer's data file. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21434 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Boooooo.........Sonos
This smells more like a retailer game than something put up by Sonos... It's the first match (the I'm Feeling Lucky match) you get back from Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=slimedevicesbtnI=Google+Search In fact that page does contain the word slimedevices. A few other hits as well, here and there: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=slimedevicesbtnG=Google+Search But that page was #1, so chances are he has Firefox set to give him Google's I'm Feeling Lucky match when he types a bare word (or words) into the address bar. In other words, no dark conspiracy here. SBB Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Boooooo.........Sonos
I also notice there's a cybersquatter at slimnetwork.com. Don't go there! It's one of those All the web's best searches! pages. You know, the one that sets off the idiot alarm in your head. blah509 wrote: On accident I typed slimedevices into the address bar of Firefox (no .com) and out pops this: http://tinyurl.com/ez62o just a tad shady g -- ___ Mark Lanctot ___ __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Boooooo.........Sonos
blah509 Wrote: On accident I typed slimedevices into the address bar of Firefox (no .com) and out pops this: http://tinyurl.com/ez62o just a tad shady g It's because that webpage is the first google hit for 'slimedevices'. If you look at the reader reviews, one of the people typed slimedevices when they meant slimdevices, which is what google is hitting. If you just enter slimedevice into google, while it brings up that page first, it does ask you 'did you mean slim device?' which then links you to the right place... Ben -- Ben Ben's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=54 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21452 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?
And me... http://www.last.fm/user/delbz/ -- delbz delbz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3745 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21338 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: FLAC tagging and Cover Art
Dan Sully Wrote: * bernt shaped the electrons to say... flac does not support embeded art. Actually it does. We've seen two formats in the wild, and support them: J River Media center Base64 encodes artwork into an COVERART tag. Escient devices set a new Application metadata block ID and add a jpeg. -D -- Djall and I also learned that a meat vortex takes meat away from you. Great news. Thanks for the information. -- bernt bernt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1342 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21443 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Boooooo.........Sonos
Check out that remote. Color display, artwork, no line of sight needed. I'll take two for my Squeezeboxes as soon as they're available. -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21452 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
dip Wrote: A big color LCD display which allows to display art work during playback and even during browse music (for the cases you don't know the name of an album but you exactly know how the cover looks like). While they are at it they should make it touchscreen/stylus capable with a default jukebox skin! -- fathom39 fathom39's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
Just give me my radio alarm clock already :) - independent clock, synced when network is reachable - multiple alarms per day of the week - next active alarm should work even if there's no network at the time - integrated amplifier - integrated speakers (for saving space if desired) - buttons for rudimentary operation, snooze, etc... C. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using stream.mp3 - Chicken and egg problem
It should appear in the list when you connect to stream.mp3 and disappear when you disconnect. Just like regular squeezeboxes appear and disappear as they connect/disconnect. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21434 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Boooooo.........Sonos
They are. Google 'Nokia 770'. ;) -- Fifer Fifer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=639 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21452 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
With 'Now Playing Information' set to 'Remaining Time' wouldn't it make more sense for the progress bar in to _decrease_ in size? That is, to start full-sized to the left and then decrease in size to the right, essentially just inverting the pixels in the bar. As it is now, the bar is displayed exactly the same whether displaying elapsed or remaining time. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21459 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
Quoting JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With 'Now Playing Information' set to 'Remaining Time' wouldn't it make more sense for the progress bar in to _decrease_ in size? it already does. It starts dark, and becomes light. -k ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How can I speed up the web interface?
mherger Wrote: Disable the library statistics (Server Settings/Performance). This might speed it up. Michael Is this an option in the 6.2.1 server version? If so, I don't see it. Rob. -- rkeeney rkeeney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=351 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21437 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Forgotten Password
I was wondering how you do this when slimserver is loaded on windows XP. thanks. -- miaent miaent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2412 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=4437 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
kdf Wrote: Quoting JJZolx JJZolx.23r8w01140820202 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com: With 'Now Playing Information' set to 'Remaining Time' wouldn't it make more sense for the progress bar in to _decrease_ in size? it already does. It starts dark, and becomes light. It fills, it doesn't empty. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21459 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How can I speed up the web interface?
mherger Wrote: 1Gb RAM running Fedora Core4. It doesn't do anything other than run slimserver. I'm using server version 6.2.2-6245 from a few days ago. My music library is pretty small I'd have said - just over 5000 songs. Disable the library statistics (Server Settings/Performance). This might speed it up. I recall this being talked about but hadn't noticed that it had been implemented. Nice. When library statistics are enabled, does _every_ page take this performance hit, or is the information cached somewhere? Any chance of creating a statistics page in the server settings area, so that library statistics could be disabled, but the information still readily available without having to toggle the setting on and off? -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21437 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
Quoting JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It fills, it doesn't empty. ah, ever the optimist then :) -k ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: syncing via cli
Paul Fox Wrote: i don't see a way to query for any sort of is-playing state on a player You can get the list of players from the player or players query. Once you have each player id, you can use the mode ? query: if it returns play, well, the player plays. You could also use the status query that returns a lot of info on a player, including what it plays if it does play. let alone a when-did-it-start-playing query This is not currently kept track of in SlimServer, and consequently not available from the CLI. I am not personally convinced it is that useful, but feel free to add an enhancement request on bugs.slimdevices.com! HTH Fred -- Fred Fred's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21454 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
kdf Wrote: Quoting JJZolx JJZolx.23r8w01140820202 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com: With 'Now Playing Information' set to 'Remaining Time' wouldn't it make more sense for the progress bar in to _decrease_ in size? it already does. It starts dark, and becomes light. It fills, it doesn't empty. It does on mine. The dark gets emptied right out every time. ;-) Seriously, though, all the progress bars I've seen progress from left to right just like the one on the Squeezebox. Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Forgotten Password
edit c:\program files\slimserver\server\slimserver.conf and do the same thing. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=4437 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
Kevin O. Lepard Wrote: kdf Wrote: Quoting JJZolx JJZolx.23r8w01140820202 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com: With 'Now Playing Information' set to 'Remaining Time' wouldn't it make more sense for the progress bar in to _decrease_ in size? it already does. It starts dark, and becomes light. It fills, it doesn't empty. It does on mine. The dark gets emptied right out every time. ;-) Seriously, though, all the progress bars I've seen progress from left to right just like the one on the Squeezebox. The direction is correct, just not the polarity. I feel an enhancement request... oh hell, make it a bug report, coming on. It's just plain wrong, I tell you. Honestly, I don't know how I've been able to cope with it for as long as I have. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21459 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
and here I thought for sure you had to be joking ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
JJZolx Wrote: The direction is correct, just not the polarity. I feel an enhancement request... oh hell, make it a bug report, coming on. It's just plain wrong, I tell you. Honestly, I don't know how I've been able to cope with it for as long as I have. Well, Jim, you could look at it this way: The progress bar taken by itself, indicates how much of the song has played. Now, whether the digits to the right are indicating time remaining or time played, the song still starts, it plays for a while and then it ends, and that's what the progress bar reflects. (I can't believe I've chimed in on this ...) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21459 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
JJZolx Wrote: The direction is correct, just not the polarity. I feel an enhancement request... oh hell, make it a bug report, coming on. It's just plain wrong, I tell you. Honestly, I don't know how I've been able to cope with it for as long as I have. Well, Jim, you could look at it this way: The progress bar taken by itself, indicates how much of the song has played. Now, whether the digits to the right are indicating time remaining or time played, the song still starts, it plays for a while and then it ends, and that's what the progress bar reflects. (I can't believe I've chimed in on this ...) I thought the whole thing was a joke too. Oops. For the record, I like it this way. Kevin -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21459 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Linksys's new Slim-killer
Linksys has a new product out called an audio bridge http://tinyurl.com/fv6pj This device has software that allows you to use *ANY* media playing software to stream over your existing wireless network to the stereo of choice. By definition, I should be able to use JRiver Media Center to stream wirelessly over 54g to my stereo any file format that software plays, which includes Apple's .m4p... I've been engaging in several lengthy discussions on this forum over the streaming of any audio source to the SqueezeBox, such as: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20083page=9 and http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18764page=4 This product and it's associated software claims to do exactly what i was hoping the SlimServer software could accomplish to warrant purchasing the hardware. I have one on order so haven't tried it out yet, but the reviews look promising. If there was one single thing on the what's next list for Slim, it ought to be this sort of capability. The fact that this product was developed and put on the market should be evidence enough that there is *some* decent interest in getting any audio that is sent to your audio card also streamed wirelessly to the stereo. -- kewe65 kewe65's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3295 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21466 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Fatal YAML bug 6.2.2. Fix needed.
When slim starts crashing, is it eating up all your RAM? If so there is some more discussion on the forums. Try searching for memory leak. There doesn't seem to be any resolution for this except to uninstall and reinstall. I don't think anyone's been able to pin point the cause yet. -- Mr_Smiley Mr_Smiley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3213 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21307 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] How New is New Music
Are there any options to set for the New Music menu selection? I've only been able to find how many songs to put in this section not anything related to how old the music is. -- Mr_Smiley Mr_Smiley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3213 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21467 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linksys's new Slim-killer
It has serious limitations that make it useless for me (and many others probably): The first two are related. This device behaves exactly as a Long Cable From Your Sound Card would behave: 1) No display. 2) No remote. I have no PC in the living room, and none in my bedroom. I would have to walk across the house to play music in the bedroom. 3) Windows Only. 4) Limit of one device per PC. If I wanted sound in the bedroom, I'd have to have a second PC to serve it. I would still have no use for it. I don't see the benefit of it at all, actually. Since you need a genuine Windows PC to control it, you're bringing a PC into your listening space, at which point you may as well just run the PC sound card outputs to your amp and save the money. (Unless you like running into another room to queue up some tracks, hit the 'play' button, and then run back to your listening room.) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21466 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linksys's new Slim-killer
The link to the data sheet wasn't working so I couldn't really find out too much about it. Nowhere does what I was able to read talk about the type and/or quality of the on board DAC or whether or not digital out is available for use with an external DAC. As of right this minute I'd have to agree with andyg's assessment. -- nelamvr6 nelamvr6's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3113 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21466 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linksys's new Slim-killer
kewe65 Wrote: Linksys has a new product out called an audio bridge http://tinyurl.com/fv6pj This device has software that allows you to use *ANY* media playing software to stream over your existing wireless network to the stereo of choice. By definition, I should be able to use JRiver Media Center to stream wirelessly over 54g to my stereo any file format that software plays, which includes Apple's .m4p... I've been engaging in several lengthy discussions on this forum over the streaming of any audio source to the SqueezeBox, such as: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20083page=9 and http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18764page=4 This product and it's associated software claims to do exactly what i was hoping the SlimServer software could accomplish to warrant purchasing the hardware. I have one on order so haven't tried it out yet, but the reviews look promising. If there was one single thing on the what's next list for Slim, it ought to be this sort of capability. The fact that this product was developed and put on the market should be evidence enough that there is *some* decent interest in getting any audio that is sent to your audio card also streamed wirelessly to the stereo. You know what? I don't even care. It's innevitable -- there *will* be competing devices. There may come easier to use or better engineered devices. But the SqueezeBox works for me and I'm happy with it, and more importantly, with Slim Devices, as a company. Try getting some personal attention from Cisco/Linksys. I doubt they have the time or resources to give an airborne act of copulation about you. At one time, there was something called brand loyalty. Companies often sit on their laurels (or worse), and abuse that loyalty, but at least at this point, if there was ever a company that was earning its brand loyatly, it's Slim. The American consumer needs to rediscover the notion that when you buy something, you're not just buying a product at the lowest price, or that's easiest to get, or whatever; you're buying a product from *someone*. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21466 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Volume Normalization
iTunes has a handy feature that analyzes your library and normalizes the volume throughout. I haven't seen anything in slimserver that does this. Am I missing something or is there a way to import this feature from iTunes? -- Mr_Smiley Mr_Smiley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3213 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21468 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
kdf Wrote: and here I thought for sure you had to be joking You think I'd kid around about something like this? Well, yeah, actually. To each one's own, I guess. Me, I hope they spend time fixing bugs that are other at best subjectively cosmetic. Still, that's what the bug reporting and voting system is for, so if that's what people want, then so be it. Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How New is New Music
It isn't limited on how old. It is simply a list in order of newest to oldest, where you can limit the number to show. -k ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Volume Normalization
Slimserver itself doesn't do this, but it will use volume normalization that is stored in the tags/comments in the music file. For example, FLAC files have replaygain (replaygain_album_gain, replaygain_track_gain, etc.). I don't know how MP3 or other file formats handle it. What format are your files in? Robin Bowes has a real nice Perl script that will apply replaygain tags to any flac encoded files in your music library. It's called apply_replaygain.pl, and you can search for it on this forum. A lot of people use foobar for this instead. It appears that foobar will apply replaygain to MP3s and other formats as well as flac. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21468 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Linksys's new Slim-killer
my god it's gorgeous! those colors! that display! i must have one! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Linksys's new Slim-killer
Linksys has a new product out called an audio bridge http://tinyurl.com/fv6pj This device has software that allows you to use *ANY* media playing software to stream over your existing wireless network to the stereo of choice. By definition, I should be able to use JRiver Media Center to stream wirelessly over 54g to my stereo any file format that software plays, which includes Apple's .m4p... That's great if it fits your needs, good luck with it! For me, not so much. Virtual sound card, windows only, will probably play those annoying IE clicks and you've got mail! over your stereo. No display, no remote, no computerless usage. Oh, and it's a Linksys -- the people who've produced two DOA's and two damaged-but-barely-functionals that I've bought. I might pay more for a Squeezebox, but I know it will work or be replaced if it doesn't. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards
kdf Wrote: and here I thought for sure you had to be joking You think I'd kid around about something like this? The glass shouldn't be depicted as half full when it is actually half empty. Make mine a Balvenie, as long as you're filling glasses. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Is a Slim boombox really feasible?
I think they'd be smarter to put a small (80Gb) hard disk and a slug in it and make it self-contained when taken out of wifi range. Good software that allowed you to say let me take all my beach music to the beach and then downloaded from the Terabyte store we all have ( :-) ) 80Gb of beach music and you're good to go. one of the design goals of a boombox is rugged. It'd have to be a pretty pricey hard drive /slug /sb / speaker combo to survive a spill out of the back of the car into the parking lot :) To me the mobility is only required for moving from room to room or backyard... important thing is that it's all in one box so you can carry it around. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Crashing SLIMP3
I've just bought a second hand SLIMP3 player. Nice machine, but mine doesn't work like it should. It finds te server, but when i press play it hangs. The menu freezes and i cannot ping the player anymore. It tried many different setups: - ss (winxp) 4.2.4 on laptop via linksys router and WiFI - ss (winxp) 6.2 on laptop via linksys router and WiFI - ss (winxp) 6.2 on desktop via linksys router and ethernet - ss (debian under VMware/win32) 4.2 on desktop via linksys router and ethernet - ss (debian under VMware/win32) 6.2 on desktop via linksys router and ethernet - ss (winxp) 6.2 on desktop via crossover cable - ss (debian under VMware/win32) 4.2 on desktop crossover cable - ss (debian under VMware/win32) 6.2 on desktop crossover cable I've also upgraded the firmware from v2.2 to v2.3. I tried both automatic and manual configs. The player can find the server without any problems (and has for a moment even played some music!) but it's unstable as hell! Does this sound familiar to someone ? Any help is appreciated. the slimp3 has a very small buffer, but I'd still expect all these to work. In the 6.x versions, has the server finished building its library? I don't recall if 4.x had to chew on it for a while or not... -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How can I speed up the web interface?
Hi all It takes about 10-15 seconds for the web interface to appear for me. I've switched to MySQL and that didn't make a difference, although searching is now super fast. My server is a fairly new P4 2.4Ghz with 1Gb RAM running Fedora Core4. It doesn't do anything other than run slimserver. I'm using server version 6.2.2-6245 from a few days ago. My music library is pretty small I'd have said - just over 5000 songs. Looking at the server now, whilst it's streaming music, it's at 98% idle. Also, if I browse music folder the music being played stops momentarily, and the CPU usage shoots up to about 98% busy (slimserver.pl). browse music folder is a lot slower than the other methods. Also, which skin are you using? If you specify Light or Handheld and Browse New Music, does that perform well? Is the browser on localhost, or on another machine? -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Static discharge has fried my SB2
I walked across my carpet to make an adjustment to my DAC. While reaching behind my hand went near my SB2 and there was a static discharge. The sound went dead and I now can't get it to play (The SB responds to all comands except play). I tried turning off, rebooting my computer, unplugging the SB and reconfiguring the SB. Nothing works. F.K! Can anyone help -- gdg gdg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21470 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Is there a play history feature?
I too think that a history log for songs played from your music library would be useful (particularly for those with large collections) it could be set up as a recently played list and from the webinterface you could define how many tracks are to be kept in the list - say the last 100 tracks... I dont know any kind of programming that would enable me to develope such a plugin - although I would be interested in learning.. however where does a newbi like myself start? Simply extend the database schema by one column, record the time played in there, and then copy the new music feature :) Oh wait, that's not very simple... maybe I'll just finish cleaning out the inbox and go to bed. in the meantime, use slimscrobbler and last.fm to get what you want. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Handheld Interface - Disable Pop-ups
I am trying to use the Handheld web interface on a pda, but the browser does not support pop-up windows. This happens occasionally (e.g. playing an individual song from the browse albums screen). Is there any changes I can make that would stop pop-ups? -- pkcrawford pkcrawford's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21471 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is there a play history feature?
The TrackStat plugin will do exactly what you want in the latest version. It shows statistics in the web interface such as: - Top rated songs - Top rated albums - Top rated artists - Most played songs - *Last played songs* - Least played songs - Songs played long ago -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21436 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linksys's new Slim-killer
1 device to 1 computer correlation would strike me as a deal-killer. Also, I'd be a bit skeptical about the audio quality out of a networking-oriented company... but who knows? Display and remote aren't huge things for me. And while at first I didn't really get or appreciate slimserver, I now really understand the massive benefits of a tag-database-based interface - the practical organizational benefits of this design makes tags truly useful to me for the first time and provide by far the best playback and music-access interface of any PC-based player I've ever used (and prying me away from WinAmp was no small task), even though the actual GUI can be a bit klunky. The webserver implementation is also a great thing, really making client-side device control both generic and very portable, and is a huge convenience with a ton of sex-appeal. -- joncourage joncourage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21466 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate Artists
I experienced something very similar when I was using WMP to tag my files. Even though the artist tag looks the same in one piece of software, it is (not sure if this is actually, or just perceived by Slimserver) seen as two different artists. The fact that it seems to be fine, then gets bad again may be because of the ITunes database refresh if you are using ITunes to tag your files. I would suggest downloading a third party tagging program. I use Tag Rename which has a free 30 day trial, but some people find it overly complicated. Select the album that is giving your trouble and force a retag of the *artist* field for *all* of the songs in the album. Not just the song that is giving you trouble. Then select clear and rescan library in Slimserver. That should sort the problem out. Let us know if not. are you using the LazySearch plugin (http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/development/slimserver-development/lazy-search/)? It had a problem with 6.1/6.2 and would cause duplicates when you used browse music folder. This was fixed in the 6.5 branch only. FWIW, I use Lazy Search on 6.2.1 and just avoid browsing music folder. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Static discharge has fried my SB2
On 2/24/06, gdg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I walked across my carpet to make an adjustment to my DAC. Whilereaching behind my hand went near my SB2 and there was a staticdischarge. The sound went dead and I now can't get it to play (The SBresponds to all comands except play). I tried turning off, rebooting my computer, unplugging the SB and reconfiguring the SB. Nothing works.F.K!Can anyone helpIt's probably still under warranty...! SB2's were released in March of last year if I remember correctly? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver will not find audio files within a subdirectory of a mapped drive
I'm using an external sata drive attached using a USB as my media storage and I'm having the exact same problem. The (WinXP) disk manager says this is a 'dynamic' drive. The first scan appeared to work correctly, then I added more music and it wouldn't find them on a scan for new music. I tried clear and rescan everything and lost everything, no amount of rescanning helped. I tried the 'Play All' option and it re-added everything minus the album art (no biggie to me). Clearly this is either a bug or external hard drives just aren't supported. The workaround is a-ok with me, but if anyone else has found a solution, please add it to this thread. Thanks! -- ronjon ronjon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3472 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20099 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Is there a play history feature?
Actually, the track stat plugin stores the last played time for each track. It should be possible to create a SQL playlist to play the last n tracks played (via the SQL Playlist plugin). The only problem is it isn't a complete history, as it only records the last played time of each track. Also, it will by default queue up n tracks, after which it would repeat those tracks. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25/02/06 05:28:47 To: Slim Devices Discussiondiscuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Re: Is there a play history feature? I too think that a history log for songs played from your music library would be useful (particularly for those with large collections) it could be set up as a recently played list and from the webinterface you could define how many tracks are to be kept in the list - say the last 100 tracks... I dont know any kind of programming that would enable me to develope such a plugin - although I would be interested in learning.. however where does a newbi like myself start? Simply extend the database schema by one column, record the time played in there, and then copy the new music feature :) Oh wait, that's not very simple... maybe I'll just finish cleaning out the inbox and go to bed. in the meantime, use slimscrobbler and last.fm to get what you want. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional [Message truncated. Tap Edit-Mark for Download to get remaining portion.] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
