Re: [slim] Music playing at work options?
Thanks for the reply, could you be a bit more descriptive please? what do you mean by an external enclosure? I know you can get hard drive enclosures with audio out, but they require a tv or something to view the files to decide what to play and thats not really practical. -- Gibbo Gibbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 showing the wrong time
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29155 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39729 -- bhaagensen bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39751 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Wireless bridge w DOS client half works
I'm sorry if the following paragraphs seem to jump around a little. I've copied them from my Logitech support e-mails (over a period of weeks), with no solution from the support team. They suggested I try the forum. Sorry about the length of this post too, but describing everything I've tried might save a bit of to-and-froing. I've done minimal edits to try to improve the flow... The touch-screen PC that I've programmed to control my (complex!) audio system runs DOS 6.22 with Microsoft NET Client V3.11. In my previous house I had this connected to my main (Win2000) PC via Cat5 cable. Because there is no TCP/IP utility with NET (I found later there is - see below), I accessed this touch PC using NetBIOS (in both directions). Having recently moved to a new house, I was hoping to avoid running a cable between floors by using the wireless bridge facility of my recently-acquired Squeezebox 3. I connected the touch-PC to the Squeezebox via a crossover cable, and the green light on the touch-PC indicates it has a hardware ethernet connection. I enabled wirelss bridging on the Squeezebox, but I don't get a network connection in either direction between the two PCs (but things improved - see later). OK, I finally found time to spend on this problem. I found information on the 'net that eventually (after many hours!) allowed me to get TCP/IP running on my DOS machine (using Microsoft drivers, as it happens - there's a bug in their installation procedure that omits a vital file!). When that DOS PC is plugged directly into my wireless router (wired Ethernet port) I can still share resources between the two machines (my main PC runs Win2K, remember), moving files between them for example (only in a DOS window on the Win2K machine). I could also 'ping' my Win machine from the DOS machine, getting a response: [1] echo received from 192.168.1.1 with roundtrip 50 msec But when I take the DOS machine back upstairs and plug it into the Squeezebox, it fails to establish the 'shares' that succeed when directly connected. But I can still ping the Win2K machine, with the same (successful) result as above. On the DOS machine, DHCP was enabled (not now - see below), but caused problems. So I've now changed the Touch-PC's network configuration to use a fixed IP address, and then done some more tests. To simplify the following discussion, I will refer to each PC by its network name: HIFI is the DOS-based touch PC (running Microsoft Network Client 3.11) wireless bridged via a Squeezebox 3, and ADVSOL5 is the Win2K machine with a wireless router attached (also the network 'gateway', though I don't think this is relevant, since I'm not wanting to access anything other than Advsol5 from HiFi). When HiFi and Advsol5 are connected by Ethernet cable (via a wired Ethernet port in the back of the wireless router), HiFi 'connects' to Advsol5 OK during boot-up (can then access Advsol5's disc drives and printer), and Advsol5 also connects with HiFi (can access HiFi's drives). Keep in mind that accessing HiFi from Advsol5 always requires opening a DOS window and using only DOS commands if I try to look at HiFi drives via Windows Explorer (the HiFi name does appear in the list of networked computers) it causes an error saying something like 'this network function not supported'. I can ping successfully in both directions. On HiFi I have both NetBEUI and TCP/IP protocols enabled. If I disable NetBEUI (leaving TCP/IP as the ONLY protocol), HiFi then won't connect with Advsol5's drives or printer. This would suggest (to a novice like me) that the protocol being used between them is 'NetBEUI over TCP/IP'. I found the following information on a website about OS/2 networking (I think most of this is relevant to DOS too): NetBIOS (NetBEUI) over TCP/IP (called TCPBEUI on OS/2) * Implementation of NetBIOS to operate with TCP/IP as transport mechanism * Defined by RFCs 1001 and 1002 * Solves the need to route a non-routable protocol * Encapsulates NetBEUI data in a TCP/IP or UDP/IP frame * Three modes of operation - Broadcast, Point-to-Point, and Mixed/Hybrid * Service: NetBIOS Name Server (NBNS) * Service: NetBIOS Datagram Distribution (NBDD) So having got the WIRED LAN running to my satisfaction with fixed IP address on HiFi, it was back upstairs to try it over the Squeezebox wireless bridge again. At boot-up, HiFi failed to 'connect' to Advsol5's resources (drives printer). But I could still successfully ping Advsol5, and now the ping also succeeded in the reverse direction. Furthermore, although HiFi couldn't access any Advsol5 resources (since they weren't 'connected'), Advsol5 could now access HiFi's drives! On Advsol5, HiFi's drives are given substitute names: \\hifi\c: - T:, \\hifi\d: - U: This drive assignment is done with the following DOS commands on Advsol5: net use t: \\hifi\c net use u: \\hifi\d (having instructed HiFi [in its AUTOEXEC.BAT] to share its C: drive as 'c' and D: drive as 'd') With a wired
[slim] SB3 showing the wrong time
I have a SB3 connected to a Qnap TS209, everything works well, both are good pieces of kit. However since BST ended and we're back on GMT my SB3 is still showing the wrong (old) time. I don't know where the SB3 gets it's time from and how I configure it. So far I have logged on to the GUI for the TS209 and ensured that it's pointing to a reachable NTP server. The TS209 is able to get the correct time and logging on to the TS209 via putty and running the date command shows that it's got the correct time. I've had a look at the SB3 and gone into as many menus as I can find. From memory I went into Squeezenetwork and I think I saw an entry for Time Format and Time-Zone. The Time-zone is correct and the time in this menu option is correct. However when the date/time screensaver kicks in I still get the wrong time displayed. Has anyone seen this before? I'm sure the problem is probably between the keyboard and the chair. Any help appreciated. -- Gumboe Gumboe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13535 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39751 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Sound card w Toslink for playing DTS FLAC files
I'm a newbie to this forum, so forgive me if this topic has already been covered at length (please just direct me to the thread in that case). I recently acquired a couple of Squeezebox 3's, and have set up one with my Hi-Fi system, streaming the audio from my 'server' PC via a wireless router. The Squeezebox connects via Toslink to a surround receiver, and works perfectly playing DTS tracks from either WAV or FLAC ripped DTS files. But I also want to hear these same tracks on my second surround receiver connected to the SlimServer PC (in a different room), also via Toslink. Trouble is my present sound card (HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold with X10 SPDIF Input Extension board), though connected via Toslink to my second DTS receiver, won't play DTS WAV/FLAC files correctly (I just get the usual analogue white noise). This board correctly plays DTS CDs DVDs when the 'S/PDIF In Loopback' option is selected, provided the disc drive's digital output is plugged into the Mystique's (internal) digital input (the board is then simply passing-through the DTS bit-stream from the disc to the Toslink output). But playing a ripped DTS track (via any of several player applications, including SoftSqueeze) somehow corrupts the DTS stream. I'm guessing it's changing the gain via the board's software mixer, even if I disable all inputs other than 'WAV' and set its 'volume' to maximum. So what I'm looking for is a (preferably low-cost) sound card that allows playback of uncorrupted DTS WAV and FLAC files via a Toslink output to an external DTS surround receiver, using any common player software (but particularly SoftSqueeze and SqueezeSlave [now preferred over the flaky SoftSqueeze]). The board must also have a Toslink input, for digital recording. Anybody have experience with such a board? Recommendations? Preferably something available in Australia (the Audigy 2 Platinum eX Audio Cards currently being sold on eBay are not available to Australia). Incidentally, I'm running Windows 2000 in a PC with PCI slots and room on the front for a 5.25 module if required, if that's relevant. -- DanielTheGreat DanielTheGreat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13031 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39754 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 reviewed in England's Daily Telegraph
haunyack;238594 Wrote: Would these users be satisfied with 160kpbs? I understand the economy of it, but with that bitrate, there is no reason as of yet NOT to purchase CD's or vinyl. For a lot of users, yes, 160kbps is probably fine. There are a lot of people out there who will be quite happy with that level of sound quality, and be overjoyed at the convenience of not having to mess around with CD's or vinyl any more. Different strokes for different folks :) Cheers Richard -- SixedUp SixedUp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13452 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39740 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sound card w Toslink for playing DTS FLAC files
Windows the card's drivers do a lot of processing to the sound before it gets out - mixing, eq etc and as you suspect this is killing the DTS bitstream. Try using ASIO drivers if you're not already, and look around the home theater forums (like avs) for tips on getting bitperfect output from that card. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39754 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Anyone using Windows Home Server?
FWIW, after installing SlimServer on my WHS box, I pointed it at d:\shares\Music (the path from the server's point of view, not the clients') to find my music. Installation was just like installing on any other Windows box. I remoted in to the WHS desktop, installed it, and it just worked. -- byKnight Really, it was like that when I got here. byKnight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7011 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39732 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 Question: How are you starting SS/SC on Windows? - when the machine is booted - when I log in to Windows - don't know - I'm using iTunes integration - my music is stored on a NAS Windows XP Pro Run as Service No ITunes No NAS SC 7 -- MajorD MajorD's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2447 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SqueezeCenter 7.0 and Mac OS X 10.5
Hello Everyone, I finally got my SlimServer running on Leopard Mac OS 10.5. I'm using version 7.0 and so far no problems. I had unplugged my Squeezebox and let sit for awhile. I then plugged it back in and the SlimServer began to communicate. I'm now a happy camper. I also created a widget to access my SlimServer and control my music. This is awesome I love the new interface on version 7.0. I know it's under testing right now so use it at your own risk. -- wb52 wb52's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39757 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter 7.0 and Mac OS X 10.5
I finally got my SlimServer running on Leopard Mac OS 10.5. I'm trying to fix the start at boot issue right now. Would like to know what else you encountered. to communicate. I'm now a happy camper. I also created a widget to access my SlimServer and control my music. Yeah, Safari's new widget tool is really cool! Here's a screenshot... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39756 Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Wireless Strength vs Network Test
The other day when listening to the SB3 (wireless) any FLAC song played started to fade in/out. This has on occassion happened before. I was able to minimize it by moving the router and SB3 a little bit. When this has happened before - I noticed that the wireless strength was low (50% - 68%) and it increased when I either changed channels or moved the router. Well this time the wireless strength was good (75%-87%) but the FLAC files were still fading in out. So I decided to do the Network Test Plugin and was very surprised that even at 1000 kbps it was only avg. about 80%. I thought that was odd with such high Wireless Strength. So I switched channels on the router from 11 to 1. This resulted in a Wireless Strength of 50% - 66%. I then did the Network test again and (surprise) it gave me 3000 kbps at 100%, 4000 kbps at 97% and 5000 kbps at 92%. What gives?Isnt the wireless strength the indicator of the reception of the SB3? How can I stream at higher levels when the wireless strength is lower? Thanks for your replies. -- Club1820 Club1820's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10999 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39758 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Mac Leopard Support
Slimserver is working ok for me on Leopard with Squeezebox, but the Softsqueeze gui doesn't even appear when I attempt to start Softsqueeze 3.4 20-50-30 -- Cintra Cintra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39401 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playsist Gets Stuck During Synchronized Playback
upstatemike;238597 Wrote: The common theme seems to be mixing SB2/3s with SliMP3s or Softsqueeze. So is it definite that we can't synchronize an SB3 with Softsqueeze without encountering problems? This is how I synchronize and often (most of the time) have issues. -- Club1820 Club1820's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10999 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34707 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wireless Strength vs Network Test
Fade out? Wireless strength has nothing to do with volume of the audio. There are -many- ways to measure network performance: signal strength is only one of them. Signal quality, for example, is another metric, measuring how much noise is appearing on the network, which will require retransmissions. Likewise, any other data moving on the network will affect things (only one device can transmit at any given instant..) therefore, having a Server sending to a Client.. if both are wireless, requires two hops: Server-AP, and AP-Client... this is true if it is SlimServer, Bittorrent, HTTP, SMB, whatever. Try to minimize wireless hops so devices don't have to wait for the network to be available). But, again, Signal Strength by itself is a meaningless number. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39758 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Harmony remotes
I am using the Harmony 1000. Love the large LCD color touch display. It has huge WAF! If something does not work properly (which isn't often) the better half can press help and the remote finds the problem for her and corrects it. No other universal remote I tried did this. Speaking of remotes, they are all gone. No more buying batteries! The charging cradle is a great place to find the remote, no more searching. Everybody puts the remote back on the charging cradle when they are done so we always know where its at. I have had it several months and am yet to find something I dislike. So far so good. There is room on the remote to add some soft keys that might be nice for advanced users. I guess because unlimited keys can be added to the large LCD display it was felt this was not needed. But I think advanced users would have liked to program a few most used keys without going into a menu to get to them. -- iPhone iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37083 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data
CPAN has lots of modules for querying FreeDB. The problem you'll find is that they tend to need the DiscID or the cdrom available as /dev/cdrom etc... Searching through CPAN modules with freedb id3 finds WebService::FreeDB which looks like it will do the trick. However accuracy may be a problem when multiple records are found. -- Benway Benway Benway's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8944 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data
Musicbrainz often has that information, the catch is you may not agreee with their definition of release date. (ie, re-issues and remasters are supposed to get a new release date...) Allmusic.com may also have it, but they want a license signed before using their data. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
I have all my music CD's ripped to NAS storage as FLAC and this all works beautifully with Squeezecenter and my SB3. However, some times I would like to listen to the same music on a portable device. Currently I have an original 2GB Nano but I am thinking of getting a new device. 1. Should I get a new iPod? If so which one, Touch, Classic? 2. Should I get a non-iPod device (Zune Gen 2, Archos, Zen, Cowon, etc); I assume I will still need to transcode from FLAC to Mp3? 3. Which Music Manager is best for ease of use, MediaMonkey, Sveta from dbPowerAmp. etc? I don't really want to rip to FLAC and MP3 and maintain two copies. -- Paul_B Paul ~ Slimcentre 7.0A1 on EPIA VIA EN15000 Mini-ITX running Windows 2003 R2 (SP2). Remote storage QNAP(2.1.1T)~(300GB WD) SB3 (x1) RIP - dBpowerAMP R12.3 to FLAC ID3 Tags - MP3Tag v2.39 ~ Paul_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
Quoting Paul_B ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have all my music CD's ripped to NAS storage as FLAC and this all works beautifully with Squeezecenter and my SB3. However, some times I would like to listen to the same music on a portable device. Currently I have an original 2GB Nano but I am thinking of getting a new device. 1. Should I get a new iPod? If so which one, Touch, Classic? 2. Should I get a non-iPod device (Zune Gen 2, Archos, Zen, Cowon, etc); I assume I will still need to transcode from FLAC to Mp3? I use MediaMonkey to transcode to mp3 to my iPhone and formerly to my ipod. Works fine. There are also alternate firmwares you can load for older ipods that will allow them to store and play flac, but this is overkill probably. No such firmware exists yet to my knowledge for the newer iPods (classic, touch, iphone). You can also look into mp3fuse if are a linux person and/or have a technical bent. Both of these allow mp3s to be loaded to portable devices from flac sources without requiring 2 trees. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wireless Strength vs Network Test
Club1820;238688 Wrote: The other day when listening to the SB3 (wireless) any FLAC song played started to fade in/out. This has on occassion happened before. I was able to minimize it by moving the router and SB3 a little bit. When this has happened before - I noticed that the wireless strength was low (50% - 68%) and it increased when I either changed channels or moved the router. Well this time the wireless strength was good (75%-87%) but the FLAC files were still fading in out. So I decided to do the Network Test Plugin and was very surprised that even at 1000 kbps it was only avg. about 80%. I thought that was odd with such high Wireless Strength. So I switched channels on the router from 11 to 1. This resulted in a Wireless Strength of 50% - 66%. I then did the Network test again and (surprise) it gave me 3000 kbps at 100%, 4000 kbps at 97% and 5000 kbps at 92%. What gives?Isnt the wireless strength the indicator of the reception of the SB3? How can I stream at higher levels when the wireless strength is lower? Thanks for your replies. Even if you have a lot of signal, you could have an interfering device that is causing packet loss. The signal strength is based on the ratio of signal to noise. Channel 11 may have a lower noise level, but has a device that doesn't play well with wifi (cordless phones can do this) that is causing it to fail. Channel 1 may have a higher noise floor but it doesn't have anything that is really causing problems. Personally, I would ignore the signal strength thing, and just make sure you can do 2000kbps with no packet loss. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39758 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] help with script to scrape album year data
Over the weekend I spent a little time trying to figure out a way to populate the year field in ID3 tags where it's missing. I wrote a Perl script (on Linux, but I think it's portable to other OS's) to zip through my collection, find files with missing year tags, and output the results one-line-per-artist/album to a file. Now I'm looking for a way to scrape the missing year data from the web somewhere by supplying an artist-album tuple. For example, I send artist=Beckalbum=Sea+Change to TBD website/whatever, and I parse the year data from the result and write the tag accordingly. Has anyone done this or have advice on where to look for these data? I'm looking for something that would return structured data in an as-simple-as-possible format for parsing. cheers, #!/ben btw-- would be happy to share what I've got so far, but figure I'll wait until I add the scraping code. -- bklaas the Nokia770 skin guy http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver
So when I got in tonight I found a network cable for the mini, wired it into the LAN and turned off the Airport. The SB2 immediately found the server and started talking. I didn't need to play with the firewall, enable sharing or anything else, it just worked when I went wired. It's interesting that the SB2 is still wireless, I only had to wire the Mini into the LAN in order to get things working. I don't pretend to know what happened at a hardware level to cause that sort of bizarre behaviour but the lesson is go wired to get the SB talking! I also read the other posts re: problems running on system start so I re-installed slimserver into the user, rather than the system and set it to auto start when I log in. Since the mini is set to auto-login anyway that has the same effect. Wired is a pain for me, aesthetically, but it's doable so I can live with it. Now it's time to install Mono and get Inguz working - that'll be interesting :-) Marc. -- sugarmonster Toys: http://www.coolest-gadgets.com Photos: http://www.sugarmonster.net sugarmonster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
3. Which Music Manager is best for ease of use, MediaMonkey, Sveta from dbPowerAmp. etc? IMHO (of course) OrangeCD. It understands how to scan FLAC and mp3 and can, with it's plug-in, also send music to be played on your SB3. I don't really want to rip to FLAC and MP3 and maintain two copies. I haven't yet found any another way that works long term. It's quick enough with foobar2000 to encode with LAME V0 vbr. Perhaps someone will write an Windows installable filesystem that accesses a physical disk and automagically offers all lossless files as lossy, encoded as you choose. Would make a nice assignment for a comp. sci. undergrad! -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver
Yes that's right, the Mini and the SB2 were both connecting to the access point, and the SB2 was also operating as a wireless bridge (to an Xbox) for good measure! Then the mini would have been streaming the data wirelessly to the SB2. Sounds odd but it does work - I did it with a Vista laptop while I was trialling Inguz. Granted I was at the very edge of what wireless could achieve but it did work surprisingly well. Still, at least it's working now that's the main thing! -- sugarmonster Toys: http://www.coolest-gadgets.com Photos: http://www.sugarmonster.net sugarmonster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
J River Media Center is a pretty decent library manager, and has a FLAC plugin. As for portables, I use one of the many flac2mp3 scripts floating around to keep the mp3 tree in sync. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver
So you were trying to have the MINI connect to your network wirelessly and ALSO have the SB2 connect wirelessly? The MINI was connecting to your access point, yes? I wouldn't even attempt that due to the amount of traffic put on the network! I really think you'll prefer the way it works by having the MINI wired to your LAN, then the SB2 can access wirelessly. -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg - San Diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Seaberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
If you're a windows user have a look at Anapod from www.redchairsoftware.com. It's not a music manager, more of an alterntive way of copying music to the iPod. I have FLACs organised in a folder structure (genre/artist/album) so I don't really need the library stuff. Anapod lets you drag/drop from windows to the iPod and transcode FLACs to WAV/MP3 on the fly with tags intact. It's a *very* slow process to transcode several thousand flacs if you want the whole library on the iPod but that'll be the same with anything and you only need to do it the once! But... I've recently become a dbPowerAmp convert for ripping and they have a companion product for iPod copying. It's not yet compatable with the latest dbPowerAmp but I'm keeping an eye on it because it might make things a bit more integrated. IMHO the Touch is exceptionally cute but mostly wasted effort. Nicely implemented though the browser is, I don't really need a portable wifi device; I can't see a use for it in my environment. One of the HTC smartphones makes much more sense to me. Plus the wheel on the classics is just hard to beat for usability in terms of a) scrolling through a huge music list and b) a volume control. Having said that once you pick a touch up you really won't want to put it down again :-) Marc. -- sugarmonster Toys: http://www.coolest-gadgets.com Photos: http://www.sugarmonster.net sugarmonster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimserver on Thecus 5200BR
Is there a wiki, docs or any other info on installing and configuring Slimserver on a fresh Thecus 5200BR? -- *Johnny Stork* Business Technology Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data
fantastico, radish! That looks like it might just work. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas the Nokia770 skin guy http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data
Discogs.com? They have a fairly google like search engine and the DB is pretty damn extensive. In fact, the biggest problem you're likely to run into is narrowing results down - even a pretty specific query like this: http://www.discogs.com/search?type=allq=change+or+die+artist%3Asunscreem+country%3AUK+format%3Acd gives 3 results. I guess you'd have to come up with something to pull each result and take a best guess of the correct year. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] At the risk of chawing off Slim Devices...
JimC;235431 Wrote: Chumby may not have the required Java or CODEC support -- not really sure on that one. The Chumby can definitely play the /stream.mp3 URL and runs Flash apps, so in theory the SlimFX skin might work when combined with running btplay (the app on the Chumby that plays MP3 streams) in the background. I'd love to see an all-in-one Flash solution! -- cepstein cepstein's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=391 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39351 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data
Discogs has an API. Doesn't look too bad. http://www.discogs.com/help/api -- bklaas the Nokia770 skin guy http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
1. Should I get a new iPod? If so which one, Touch, Classic? For all of my needs I'm staying with solid-state players, despite their obvious storage limitations. I like the durability, the size weight, and have no need to carry around 500 hours of audio. The new Touch, however, is overpriced and the 3rd generation Nano has very odd dimensions to accomodate its (worthless) video screen. Consider picking up a now discontinued 2nd generation 8GB Nano for cheap. 3. Which Music Manager is best for ease of use, MediaMonkey, Sveta from dbPowerAmp. etc? I'll second the recommendation for Anapod Explorer. Not a manager, just a way to load MP3's onto your iPod without having to resort to the godawful iTunes. I don't really want to rip to FLAC and MP3 and maintain two copies. Rip and encode in FLAC, but maintain a mirror MP3 library. This is by far the most convenient approach, at the cost of not a lot of hard disk space. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
also, there are portables that support flac out of the box: http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#hardware (scroll down to portables) the iaudio and trekstor are pretty popular. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
JJZolx;238771 Wrote: Find (or write) a script that transcodes from Flac to Mp3 and keeps the library updated. I schedule mine to run nightly and any updates to my Flac library are automatically reflected in the Mp3 library. I've written many (http://etree-scripts.sf.net/), but that doesn't make the job any faster, use any less disk space, or make tag changes propagate automagically. All in all, I find transcoding to be an unacceptable solution. This is one of the main reasons I have a Squeezebox in the first place, why I loved my Rio Karma for its oh-so-brief lifetime, and why I own a Cowon A2. -- cepstein cepstein's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=391 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data
bklaas;238755 Wrote: Digging my old CDs out for this would take WAY more time then just manually searching google for album release year. CDDB is not a good solution here, esp. because I don't have DiscIDs saved into the tags either. I started ripping music well before I understood why verbose tag metadata was a good idea. I'm trying to come up with a solution that doesn't involve the physical media. I will give Musicbrainz a shot, though my prior experience with that service has not been good. cheers, #!/ben You can fuzz search cddb or musicbrainz with the media files, even if the result are less exact than with the real disc/discid. I think I remember musicbrainz and discogs information about release date are not that bad, they may even include some original release date. If your albums are not too rare you could look at wikipedia. But if I were you, I would a bot to query google with an algorithm like this: Code: search google with full album name do: fetch Nth result page in the Nth page look for patterns near the album name collect all you found in the page while at least XX date fields are collected For each collected list of analyze statistically (if a date is present 95% of time keep it silently, 75% keep it with a Notice, 50% with a warning) This algorithm can be fooled by re-release date, but if you select a good pattern detection you can get good results... -- vrobin vrobin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
cepstein;238768 Wrote: Transcoding is convenient? I find it to be a major pain. Find (or write) a script that transcodes from Flac to Mp3 and keeps the library updated. I schedule mine to run nightly and any updates to my Flac library are automatically reflected in the Mp3 library. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
JJZolx;238743 Wrote: Rip and encode in FLAC, but maintain a mirror MP3 library. This is by far the most convenient approach, at the cost of not a lot of hard disk space. Transcoding is convenient? I find it to be a major pain. I loved my Rio Karma (http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=261) for the week or so that it actually worked. That was the best portable player going (at least in theory) with a large-ish hard drive, and gapless FLAC playback. If only they could have made it a little more durable. Maybe a portable player than can run Rockbox would be a good solution? -- cepstein cepstein's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=391 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data
Benway;238717 Wrote: CPAN has lots of modules for querying FreeDB. The problem you'll find is that they tend to need the DiscID or the cdrom available as /dev/cdrom etc... Searching through CPAN modules with freedb id3 finds WebService::FreeDB which looks like it will do the trick. However accuracy may be a problem when multiple records are found. Digging my old CDs out for this would take WAY more time then just manually searching google for album release year. CDDB is not a good solution here, esp. because I don't have DiscIDs saved into the tags either. I started ripping music well before I understood why verbose tag metadata was a good idea. I'm trying to come up with a solution that doesn't involve the physical media. I will give Musicbrainz a shot, though my prior experience with that service has not been good. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas the Nokia770 skin guy http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
cepstein;238778 Wrote: I've written many (http://etree-scripts.sf.net/), but that doesn't make the job any faster, use any less disk space, or make tag changes propagate automagically. I think the inital run on my system with 1600 album took about three days. Once done it won't likely need to be done again. Once the initial library is built, the script will only be adding new content and updating changes. If you have a really busy day and have ripped 20 new albums the script might run for a few minutes. While you're sleeping. Tag changes can easily be automagically propogated by comparing file timestamps. I have my script give the resulting Mp3 files the exact same timestamp as the orginating Flac file. As for disk space, my Flac library uses about 550 GB, while the Mp3 mirror is 94GB. I find that perfectly acceptable. One fifth of a $150 500GB drive costs me about $30. This is one of the main reasons I have a Squeezebox in the first place, why I loved my Rio Karma for its oh-so-brief lifetime, and why I own a Cowon A2. Playing Flac files on disk-based portables lessens playback time on a battery charge considerably. On solid-state players it's generally not a viable option. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver
A bonus, as I just found out, is that the SB wakes the mini up from sleep when it needs to play something. How cool is that? I love this thing :-) -- sugarmonster Toys: http://www.coolest-gadgets.com Photos: http://www.sugarmonster.net sugarmonster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver on Thecus 5200BR
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Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver
sugarmonster;238741 Wrote: Yes that's right, the Mini and the SB2 were both connecting to the access point, and the SB2 was also operating as a wireless bridge (to an Xbox) for good measure! Then the mini would have been streaming the data wirelessly to the SB2. Sounds odd but it does work - I did it with a Vista laptop while I was trialling Inguz. Granted I was at the very edge of what wireless could achieve but it did work surprisingly well. Still, at least it's working now that's the main thing! I'm doing the same with a XP laptop ans SB both running wireless with no problems. Just ordered a Mini and now wonder if the dual wireless will be a thing of the past. -- elvinjr elvinjr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13766 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Mac Leopard Support
I've noticed that starting on system boot doesn't work for me with Leopard and 6.5.4. Starts manually fine, going to try on user login to see if that works. -- flatpackedworld flatpackedworld's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39401 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data
Thinking about it, Amazon Web Services might work well too - I know a lot of apps use it for getting cover art, you can give it some pretty vague queries and it will do it's best to match. The advantage that would have would be that parsing neat XML is typically easier than scraping HTML, in my experience. http://www.amazon.com/E-Commerce-Service-AWS-home-page/b/ref=sc_fe_l_2/105-5797087-3222059?ie=UTF8node=12738641no=342430011me=A36L942TSJ2AJA -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music playing at work options?
Do I really have no options? -- Gibbo Gibbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music playing at work options?
Gibbo wrote: Do I really have no options? The Wiki has a fair amount of discussions of how to use SSH to tunnel from an office to your home SlimServer. Once that works, you can use any SquezeBox, Transporter or even Softsqueeze. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music playing at work options?
Just for starter you could buy two 40 gig iPods or one 80 gig. All kidding aside, what kind of WAN/LAN is available? Are you running an SB at home yet? -- iPhone iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Mac Leopard Support
My squeezebox, with Leopard, is not able to find the Slimserver even If I try to start manually in the preference system. I did everything, no response... -- mario21 mario21's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11423 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39401 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music playing at work options?
Gibbo;238791 Wrote: Do I really have no options? It's a little unclear what you're trying to accomplish. Using an iPod/portable player is infinitely simpler than using a Squeezebox. Just not as flexible. Here are a couple of Squeezebox options: 1. Run SlimServer on a PC in the office. Store your music on a hard disk in (or attached to) the PC. Stream music to a Squeezebox. With just one shared PC in the office, that could be tough. The individual logons might not pose a problem if you can install the server as an Administrator on the PC and run SlimServer as a service when the machine boots up. A more likely problem would be that SlimServer would use up valuable resources on the PC and interfere with users' work, or (even more likely) that work would interfere with SlimServer and cause music interruptions. A personal laptop, if permitted on your office network, would be another option. So would building an inexpensive dedicated SlimServer. 2. Set up a Squeezebox and connect to your home SlimServer. Will require a fair amount of bandwidth, so you'll need reasonably fast connections at both home and work. This isn't an option in many offices, as network activity is often closely monitored and a constant stream of bandwidth being used will raise red flags and may even get you fired. May take some technical prowess in figuring out how to allow traffic into your home network and through any firewalls that may be in place. 3. Set up a Squeezebox and use SqueezeNetwork to listen to only Internet radio. Same bandwidth issues and cautions as above, but you won't need to worry about the home SlimServer end of things. And no easy way to play your own music. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39738 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Mac Leopard Support
I tried with version 7 alpha. No response... -- mario21 mario21's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11423 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39401 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 showing the wrong time
So to sum up what all the posts on this forum hint at, there appears to be a problem in the way that slimserver (running on a Qnap TS209) stores the timezone. There are workarounds available, however the good that these do is rubbed out when upgrading. From what I've read so far, this appears to have been a problem since 2006 and still isn't fixed. I suppose I have 3 questions: 1) Is the problem with slimserver or with the Qnap firmware? 2) Why is this still a problem for so many people? 3) Who is responsible for fixing this? -- Gumboe Gumboe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13535 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39751 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver
Try it and let us know. Looking around these forums it seems that there's any number of working (or not) configurations so just because it didn't work for me doesn't mean you'll have the same issues. -- sugarmonster Toys: http://www.coolest-gadgets.com Photos: http://www.sugarmonster.net sugarmonster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 showing the wrong time
So the problem lies with the Qnap OS, does anyone know if they are addressing this issue? Thanks for the quick reply Andy -- Gumboe Gumboe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13535 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39751 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 showing the wrong time
Time and timezone comes from the OS, not SlimServer. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39751 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 showing the wrong time
Gumboe;238810 Wrote: 1) Is the problem with slimserver or with the Qnap firmware? From reading the threads linked above, it looks like a problem withe the start script used by Qnap to launch slimserver. 2) Why is this still a problem for so many people? Because no-ones fixed it yet :) 3) Who is responsible for fixing this? As that script is supplied by Qnap (as far as I can tell) they'd have to be the ones to fix it. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39751 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox stopping
I find I'm getting the same problem at times but I need to check it's nothing up with the ripped tracks. I fairly certain now it isn't. Only noticed it on one SB3 at the moment. It's wirless running from a QNAP TS109 Pro on a Netgear DG834PN. Signal strength never lowe than 60%. Symptoms are that a track will be playing then sound simply stops coming from speakers. Track progress bar continues to move and the 'Now Playing' screen saver with the twin VU bars continues to show as if playing. Often I find that either increasing the volume (and no these are not quiet sections of tracks), re-strating the track or skipping to the next seems to kick it back into life. -- Empgamer Streamers: 2 x SB3 / 1 x SoftSqueeze NAS: QNAP TS109 Pro (v.1.1.2) / Slimserver (6.5.4) Spkrs: 1 x Accoustic Energy Aego M / 1 x Audioengine A5 Router: Netgear DG834PN (v 1.3.18) Windows XP Home Media Centre on Dell XPS 600 Empgamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12652 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39473 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for SqueezeBox display
Thanks for the information. I had tried contacting support a few times, but it was during the whole Logitech switch, so it must have been lost. I received several messages from people with the old text screens and I was able to get one and get it up and working again. I forgot how much I missed it! Thanks go out to wolo for the help; it is great to have such a helpful community! -- Jami Jami's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13645 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39541 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Internet Radio failure to parse error
I had pretty much given up on getting internet radio streams to work with slimserver - but here it is, a year later, and after the last update - to version 6.5.5, it is magically working again. -- rfreedman rfreedman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7270 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27986 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox and Local Radio?
Hello HAL, Before I start do you know how the script writes came up with the acronym for HAL9000? I am betting you already know since that is the handle you use, IBM minus one letter each. Have you tried Radio Time inside of Squeezebox Network? It is free all one has to do is sign up. Put in ones zip code or country and then pick your radio stations that have audio streams to Squeezebox. I have not played with the alarm setting selections on the SB yet (I wake by whatever song the server selects at random) so I do not know is if one can select a station in the Radio Time Favorites to wake by. If nothing else, one could wake by a song in their music collection then grab the remote and click on Sqeezenetwork, Internet Radio, My Local Stations (Radio Time) and then pick a station. Hope that helps some. Somebody with more alarm experience might be able to bridge my gaps. -- iPhone iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39376 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers
I just got an iPod video 80GB (previous 5th generation) for my portable solution. I am using the Rebel Forces firmware Rockbox. It does flac, and frees your iPod from the Apple's Evil Empire (alas, this is what they've become.) http://www.rockbox.org/ Issues: No Rockbox yet on the latest generation of iPod/Phone/Touch, and unlikely anytime soon due to good encryption on the new Apple firmware. This is why I bought a used iPod Video, the largest HD based player that runs Rockbox. Some refurb units are currently still available from apple.com. Used on craigslist or ebay. Battery life is less both due to flacs needing to access the HD more, and that Rockbox isn't (yet) as efficient as the apple firmware, but improvements in this may be expected. On older platforms Rockbox does better on battery life than the native firmwares. I use mine most in the car or in the hotel room while traveling, I'm not much for walking around with headphones on. Could be an issue on a long airplane flight. Video is not as good on Rockbox as with the native apple firmware, but Rockbox allows dual booting, so one could watch video with the native firmware. I don't like to watch video on tiny screens, so not an issue for me. Not all iPod accessories that interface with the ipod beyond power and line out (remotes and such) work with Rockbox. Simple folder-bassed organization, keeps its own database, provides for recording. Nice skins. Free, open source and customizable. Other advantages. I'm loving it so far. I have a very large collection, and didn't want to maintain an mp3 mirror, and I didn't want to spend the time converting files. This seems to be the best solution for me. I'm still hoping for flac support to come from Apple at some future time. -- bephillips More than 35611 songs on 2849 albums by 2050 artists. Mostly flac, some mp3. SlimServer Version: 6.5.3 - 12361 Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard On a 1.2GHz G4 Mac iBook with 768MB RAM http://db.etree.org/bephillips bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Mac Leopard Support
mario21 -- I wonder if it is the Leopard fireall. How do you have your Leopard firewall set up? See part 3 of my post in another Leopard thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39749page=2 muski -- muski muski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39401 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeeze is in baby
Seems that the band Squeeze would be the logical choice. Logitech is big enough to be a sponsor of the reunion tour. Squeeze the Logical Choice Sponsored by Logitech and their Squeezebox products I am no ad man but somebody that is should be able to do something with all the paradigms and synergy in these names. -- iPhone iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39306 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver
I run Slimserver on a MacBook Pro and have wireless connectivity for my SB3s Transporters -- ie. everything is wireless (running through an AirPort Extreme now, previously an Airport Express). I upgraded to Leopard this weekend and got both Slimserver Inguz working fine. A couple of random ideas: 1) When you were running wireless, were you sure of the IP address of the Mac mini running slimserver (you can see it at the bottom of the Server Settings). I only suggest this because if your Airport is also new, I seem to remember that it defaults to a 10.0.1.xxx subnet. 2) When you were running wireless, could you see the web interface from another computer? 3) Under Leopard, the Firewall settings have been (annoyingly) moved under the Security tab (and, worse, the firewall is turned off by default!). First, stop Slimserver from its preferences pane. Then in the Security-Firewall settings, choose Set access for specific services and applications. Then go an start Slimserver again. Right afterwards, you'll get a popup access if you would like to allow incoming connections to mysqld (hit always allow), and then the same for perl (mine came up twice). Again hit always allow. Seems like the old Windows Zone Alaram model, but I don't like it all. Just seems really lame and less secure than the old way of just opening up a couple of ports under 10.4. (BTW, I also select the Enable Stealth Mode under the Advanced settings of the firewall.) It will be interesting to see what the review say about the Leopard Firewall settings... Disclaimer: I only just started playing with the firewall settings on Leopard -- so play modify yours at your own risk... I was able to get Inguz working. Seems like the instructions I posted still work under Leopard. muski -- muski SB3-Bryston BP25DA-Bryston 4B SST-Wilson Watt Puppy 7 Transporter via XLR-Headroom Max Balanced Headphone Amp-Balanced AKG701s HD650s muski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
