Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
erland;273527 Wrote: If you are talking about the Multi Library plugin I don't think there is a template for defining a library through a tag scanned with the Custom Scan plugin. It is still possible to do but you will have to customize the library definition and edit the the SQL statement. Erland, Many thanks for the advice...however I am using the comments tag for information about the artist/album/piece so would prefer to use custom scan. I shall persevere with it. -- MuckleEck Alasdair 3 SB3s - Linn - Acoustat - AudioEngine 2 - Cambridge Audio 640R - Mordaunt Short MuckleEck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11301 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 stops randomly
My SB, bought in Germany, worked flawlessly for a couple of years. One day it started to stop in the middle of a song, reboot ... and start the song from the beginning. Just as many other people are talking about. All my IPs are static, I'm using a cable, etc. I didn't try the factory reset that was mentioned in this thread before ... I'll give it a go. I basically haven't used it for 1.5 years because of this problem. -- eurale eurale's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2987 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43298 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 stops randomly
in the seconds after I pushed post ... it just stopped, rebooted ... here we go. I'm running v7 with the latest firmware as of 28th Feb (9pm Aust eastern daylight time). -- eurale eurale's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2987 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43298 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet ETA?
vdorta;273375 Wrote: Ideology trumps good sound as attested to by your sig :P -- egd All music also sounded completly different , and extremly musical. egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43658 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Dead Ethernet port SB3
That brought my ethernet port back to life after a close by lightning strike. Of course, YMMV. Cordially, -- jaywills jaywills's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15379 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43893 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeezecenter...What I'd Really Like to See Someday
I have a large music collection that I recently scanned in Squeezecenter 7.0. In browsing through my collection I have witnessed some problems with the way the tags are interpreted. For example, I have an album with out of order tracks. I'm guessing this is because the last two tracks are somehow tagged with a disc number and the rest aren't. So the tracks on this album are listed as 2-10 then 1 and 11. I used MP3tag to remove all tags and then did a rescan for new and changed music. This didn't fix things. So, I'm guessing for some reason either MP3tag didn't remove the disc number or Squeezecenter didn't think the tracks had changed. If the latter is the case I'd like to see a Delete from Database link so that when I do a rescan the modified files are picked up. On a side note, does anyone know of a tag editor that displays all of the potential tags in a file? With the editors I'm using I'm not sure where the disc number is coming from. -- Juliozaffo Juliozaffo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15512 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezecenter...What I'd Really Like to See Someday
mp3tag, properly configured. -- egd All music also sounded completly different , and extremly musical. egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezecenter...What I'd Really Like to See Someday
Juliozaffo;273560 Wrote: On a side note, does anyone know of a tag editor that displays all of the potential tags in a file? With the editors I'm using I'm not sure where the disc number is coming from. I agree with egd that mp3tag will see all tags that exist in a file, probably in the extended tags section. -- MuckleEck Alasdair 3 SB3s - Linn - Acoustat - AudioEngine 2 - Cambridge Audio 640R - Mordaunt Short MuckleEck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11301 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezecenter...What I'd Really Like to See Someday
If you have mp3tag set not to update the file timestamp when you save tags then SS doesn't know that anything has changed (it only looks for changed timestamps). You need to do a full rescan in this case (Clear library and rescan). Make sure you only have one set of tags in your files (eg not both id3v1 and id3v2). -s. -- slimpy slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezecenter...What I'd Really Like to See Someday
Also if you're using MusicIP Mixer as your album data source that'll complicate the picture. -- hunta hunta's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=333 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezecenter...What I'd Really Like to See Someday
If your files are mp3, you'll probably find the tags much easier to find (and edit) with 'ID3Tag-IT' (http://www.audio-toolz.de/download.php?id=70001) than with mp3tag. -- Khuli http://www.last.fm/user/khuli Khuli's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=851 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Investigating Lousy Internet Radio Connectivity
I'm just starting to research this, so I want to get my facts straight. Lately, it is becoming obvious that keeping a connection with an Internet radio station for more than a short period of time in our household is impossible. This is not a wireless issue -- I'm talking about a wired SB3 connecting to the Internet over a 5Mbps FiOS connection. My first inclination was to blame it on flaky or overloaded servers at the broadcasters end. But when normally very reliable broadcasters like Radio Paradise started dropping out on me, I began to suspect that something else was at play. Then, a week or so ago, it became apparent that Verizon, my provider, was changing IP address many times per day. (I've got a script running right now to see just how many times it changes a day.) My assumption is that if Verizon changes my IP number while I'm listenting to an Interent radio station, I'll lose my connection, correct? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43939 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] upnp/dlna support for squeezebox
andreask2;273368 Wrote: But are you sure that there are more people who need these plugins, than people who want to use their existing upnp servers? Logitech doesn't dictate which plugins get written, they get written by users who wanted to solve a problem they have or extend functionality. So it's not a choice of one or the other. A UPNP client would have to be built into the player firmware, no small feat. It's up to Logitech of course, but there's a lack of interest in this forum because SqueezeCenter (even if not everyone likes it) provides many, many more features than a UPNP server. Personally I'd rather Logitech work on just about anything else...I'd never use a UPNP server myself and I have no interest in it. I'm using mediatomb as upnp server, and here you can change the whole listing and browsing structure of your files. This is the most critical task I think. I think that most people want a convenient listing of their files, and want to browse through the mp3-metadata of their music collection. That's what you can do with an upnp server like mediatomb. mediatomb is really nice, as here is a very active community which improves the server, and it's very customizable and runs nicely on a NAS (there are already ipkg packages for most NAS). Then why can't mediatomb be made to speak SlimProto? SlimProto is as open as UPNP. Why does Logitech have to adapt the Squeezebox to it and not the other way around? -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon. SB2, Transporter, beta SBR, beta SBC, pre-production SBC Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43923 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
Last night I 'discovered' Erland's excellent Multi Library and Custom Browse plugins. My SB3 experience has been transformed! At my wife's request I had included her iTunes library (principally because she wanted her playlists accessible), but the big downside was that many of our CDs and tracks were listed twice when browsing - once as the original FLAC file in the main library, and once as the MP3 created for use on an iPod. Worse still, it took a lot of button presses to find which version I was looking at. However, using the Multi Library plugin I was able to include all my best quality files files in my 'Standard Library' (defined as anything on my S: drive) and all the iTunes files in their own 'iTunes Library' (defined as anything on the P: drive). Using the Custom Browse plugin I was able to set things up so that at the top level of 'Browse' I see only 'Music Folder', 'Search', 'Standard Library' and 'iTunes Library', and entering either of the libraries I then get all of the original Browse options. Much simpler, and my wife and I can each find our own files without confusion. -- chill chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet release date?
olc;272664 Wrote: I prefer the policy of setting a release date which would give enough time to get the thing to market. If you finish before that you can release early. My biggest complaint about everything computer is the inability after all these years to release anything as promised. All over the month a sign says: Pre-order now! Pre-orders are expected to ship to customers by the end of February. Come on guys, it's february 28! Vitor -- vitoruch vitoruch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13918 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42964 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet release date?
On 28-Feb-08, at 8:33 AM, vitoruch wrote: Come on guys, it's february 28! Come on, guy, read the Duet ETA thread. ;) -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet release date?
Come on guys, it's february 28! Luckily enough we're in a leap year ;-) -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet release date?
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:46:30 +0100, Michael Herger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Come on guys, it's february 28! Luckily enough we're in a leap year ;-) LOL! Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
Here's a rhetorical question... How come AV Receivers don't include some kind of visualizer module so you can watch pretty colors on your TV jump around to your music? Or do they? I don't know ... don't have one ... -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
Would that be a unique selling point? Personally I don't see much use in turning my TV on when I want to listen to music. It just distracts from the actual 'music expierence'. -- SilverRS8 Author of AlbumCatalogCreator for SqueezeCenter SlimServer SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
SilverRS8;273623 Wrote: Would that be a unique selling point? Personally I don't see much use in turning my TV on when I want to listen to music. It just distracts from the actual 'music expierence'. Well ... I'd like it. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
I don't think there is a way for a plugin to put menus directly on the home menu of the SBC but I haven't investigated it in detail. Yes, it can be done using Player Settings - Menus Thank you Erland for the excellent plugins. Cheers, -- shvejk shvejk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
AV receivers don't focus much on music playback. The hardware is there, although I'm not sure about the CPU power (most of the brains is in the DSP). -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon. SB2, Transporter, beta SBR, beta SBC, pre-production SBC Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
shvejk;273627 Wrote: I don't think there is a way for a plugin to put menus directly on the home menu of the SBC but I haven't investigated it in detail. Yes, it can be done using Player Settings - Menus On the SBC? As opposed to an SB3? -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon. SB2, Transporter, beta SBR, beta SBC, pre-production SBC Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
Mark Lanctot;273629 Wrote: On the SBC? As opposed to an SB3? I was thinking about SB3. Sorry -- shvejk shvejk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How do i connect A NAS to a PC ?
SteveEast;169141 Wrote: You don't connect anything between the PC and the NAS. Both the PC and the NAS would be connected to your router using Ethernet cable. If you have to do any configuration of the NAS then it would usually be done with a browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. The NAS would appear under My Network Places when using Windows Explorer. If you only have 1 PC, then a NAS might be overkill for you - another USB attached drive might be a better option. Steve. Can I use my LaCie external hardrive to staore my music from Squeezebox? I have the triple connection interface. 800/400/usb -- Limitless Limitless's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15737 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31522 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
I know more than one person that has asked why the squeezebox doesn't have TV output. My main answer is a lot of squeezebox owners put them in a room without a TV. Personally I just wish there was a SqueezeVideo. I've been looking for something to front-end my video media and have found nothing but half-ass buggy interfaces. For now I've given up and just attached a PC to my TV for movie playback. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Accessing SqueezeCentre installed on WHS
Hi - apologies for a potential newbie question. Searched but could not find the answer. I have installed Squeezecentre 7.0 as a service on my new Windows Home Server box (HP EX745) and it works like a dream, with one small caveat. I can not access Squeezecenter via http://servername:9000/ from my laptop -- strangely it works properly from two other desktops on the network. I have checked that the 3 ports are open on the WHS firewall (3483 UDP/TCP, 9000 TCP) and even tried adding them as an exception to the laptop firewall. When I bring up IE on the laptop, I get an Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage error message, split into two panes (left and right). Any help appreicated :) -- pjwilson pjwilson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15738 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:05 PM, SuperQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know more than one person that has asked why the squeezebox doesn't have TV output. My main answer is a lot of squeezebox owners put them in a room without a TV. The funny thing is, which video output would they choose? Composite? God no. Component? Eek, *three* extra ports. DVI? HDMI? The truth is they would need *all* of them. It ceases to be a simple change at that point. If you go that far, you might as well turn it into a video squeezebox, which you discuss in your next paragraph... Personally I just wish there was a SqueezeVideo. I've been looking for something to front-end my video media and have found nothing but half-ass buggy interfaces. For now I've given up and just attached a PC to my TV for movie playback. Everyone is all a-ragin' about AppleTV. XBMC would be *great* if it could decode mpeg4, but it's not powerful enough. The thing is, any device that comes out right now is really still in the 'early adopter' phase. I'd say that in 18-24 months you're going to see a serious uptick, spurred in large part by AppleTV. The first device that plays all media from UPNP servers and also integrates with Netflix will be a real winner, in my book. Ben ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
Mark Lanctot;273628 Wrote: AV receivers don't focus much on music playback. The hardware is there, although I'm not sure about the CPU power (most of the brains is in the DSP). I can see how visualizations would require some hefty processing since iTunes on my Mac and WMP on the PC both heat up the processors a bit when running visualizations. Does the iPhone do visualizations? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
Winamp does amazing visualizations. Isn't there a plugin that streams Slim to Winamp? This is kludge, but on the machine with Winamp couldn't you could enjoy the visualizations on that, or even hook that machine up to your TV? I've hooked up a machine with Winamp running to a projector that casts the visualizations across a small dance floor in my basement. Great fun eye candy and people love it. -- Kurt Kurt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accessing SqueezeCentre installed on WHS
It may be a security setting in IE to do with javascript, Or try FirefoxI have the same problem on one of my laptops (just tried it) but since I use Firefox I hadn't seen it before. What version of IE are you using? -- MuckleEck Alasdair 3 SB3s - Linn - Acoustat - AudioEngine 2 - Cambridge Audio 640R - Mordaunt Short MuckleEck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11301 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
jonheal wrote: I can see how visualizations would require some hefty processing since iTunes on my Mac and WMP on the PC both heat up the processors a bit when running visualizations. I have a friend who back in the 60s hacked his Heathkit color TV, drove the vertical with one channel, the horizontal with another, and drive the color circuit with some part of the frequency/gain. It was cool, altho very 60s/70s effect. There were no CPUs in use, this was long before the Altar MITS systems were available. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
Ben Sandee wrote: The funny thing is, which video output would they choose? Composite? God no. Component? Eek, *three* extra ports. DVI? HDMI? The truth is they would need *all* of them. It ceases to be a simple change at that point. If you go that far, you might as well turn it into a video squeezebox, which you discuss in your next paragraph... As stupid as I think the clamour for a video squeezebox is, given the niche this product was designed for, I have to argue with this strawman. DVI-I is the obvious choice for a single plug; it can be easily converted to all the other formats with an appropriate cable. - Marc ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
Ben Sandee;273654 Wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:05 PM, SuperQ SuperQ.35i8yn1204225801 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: I know more than one person that has asked why the squeezebox doesn't have TV output. My main answer is a lot of squeezebox owners put them in a room without a TV. The funny thing is, which video output would they choose? Composite? God no. Component? Eek, *three* extra ports. DVI? HDMI? The truth is they would need *all* of them. It ceases to be a simple change at that point. If you go that far, you might as well turn it into a video squeezebox, which you discuss in your next paragraph... Personally I just wish there was a SqueezeVideo. I've been looking for something to front-end my video media and have found nothing but half-ass buggy interfaces. For now I've given up and just attached a PC to my TV for movie playback. Everyone is all a-ragin' about AppleTV. XBMC would be *great* if it could decode mpeg4, but it's not powerful enough. The thing is, any device that comes out right now is really still in the 'early adopter' phase. I'd say that in 18-24 months you're going to see a serious uptick, spurred in large part by AppleTV. The first device that plays all media from UPNP servers and also integrates with Netflix will be a real winner, in my book. Ben What I was imagining was an AV reeciever that behaves the same way AV receivers behave now, which is they take a bunch of audio and video inputs and output them to your TV and speakers. Only an option would exist to output to your TV, a video signal modulated by the audio signal from one of the receiver's audio inputs (fed by your Squeeze-thingy of your choice). -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Marc Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Sandee wrote: The funny thing is, which video output would they choose? Composite? God no. Component? Eek, *three* extra ports. DVI? HDMI? The truth is they would need *all* of them. It ceases to be a simple change at that point. If you go that far, you might as well turn it into a video squeezebox, which you discuss in your next paragraph... As stupid as I think the clamour for a video squeezebox is, given the niche this product was designed for, I have to argue with this strawman. DVI-I is the obvious choice for a single plug; it can be easily converted to all the other formats with an appropriate cable. That's cool, I didn't realize that. It boggles my mind that more products don't use that technology if it's so easily available. My point still stands, once you have the ability to output video you would quickly want to use it for much more than visualizations and once you get to the point of decoding video and all of the assorted audio encodings you have a much more complicated box on your hands, not just a squeezebox with a handy 'video out'. Ben ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Investigating Lousy Internet Radio Connectivity
jonheal;273575 Wrote: I'm just starting to research this, so I want to get my facts straight. Lately, it is becoming obvious that keeping a connection with an Internet radio station for more than a short period of time in our household is impossible. This is not a wireless issue -- I'm talking about a wired SB3 connecting to the Internet over a 5Mbps FiOS connection. My first inclination was to blame it on flaky or overloaded servers at the broadcaster's end. But when normally very reliable broadcasters like Radio Paradise started dropping out on me, I began to suspect that something else was at play. Then, a week or so ago, it became apparent that Verizon, my provider, was changing my IP address many times per day. (I've got a script running right now to see just how many times it changes a day.) My assumption is that if Verizon changes my IP number while I'm listenting to an Interent radio station, I'll lose my connection to whatever station I'm listening to, correct? It may not have looked like it, but my last sentence was a question I was asking ... hoping for confirmation one way or another from more network-savvy people than myself. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43939 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:08 PM, jonheal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I was imagining was an AV reeciever that behaves the same way AV receivers behave now, which is they take a bunch of audio and video inputs and output them to your TV and speakers. Your thread was inadvertantly hijacked by the 'video squeezebox' concept... I see your point about an AV receiver doing this. I just bought a new receiver that will aggregate all video signals into an HDMI connection to my TV and I wonder if there's some sort of loopback video device that you could hook into an existing receiver so that the audio is piped in from the SB, processed for visualizations, and then the resulting video is generated and sent back to the receiver and finally forwarded to the TV. Ben ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
Ben Sandee;273686 Wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:08 PM, jonheal jonheal.35ibqn1204229401 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: What I was imagining was an AV reeciever that behaves the same way AV receivers behave now, which is they take a bunch of audio and video inputs and output them to your TV and speakers. Your thread was inadvertantly hijacked by the 'video squeezebox' concept... I see your point about an AV receiver doing this. I just bought a new receiver that will aggregate all video signals into an HDMI connection to my TV and I wonder if there's some sort of loopback video device that you could hook into an existing receiver so that the audio is piped in from the SB, processed for visualizations, and then the resulting video is generated and sent back to the receiver and finally forwarded to the TV. Ben I definitely see a product there, if it doesn't exist already!! -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Dead Ethernet port SB3
a ? Blue -- Blue Fishey Blue Fishey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43893 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Dead Ethernet port SB3
Blue Fishey;273694 Wrote: a ? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PlayerFirmware -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43893 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
SuperQ;273643 Wrote: Personally I just wish there was a SqueezeVideo. I've been looking for something to front-end my video media and have found nothing but half-ass buggy interfaces. For now I've given up and just attached a PC to my TV for movie playback. I got one of these recently... http://www.popcornhour.com Not flawless, but so far I'm impressed. -- bishopdonmiguel bishopdonmiguel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=278 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
SuperQ;273643 Wrote: I know more than one person that has asked why the squeezebox doesn't have TV output. My main answer is a lot of squeezebox owners put them in a room without a TV. Personally I just wish there was a SqueezeVideo. I've been looking for something to front-end my video media and have found nothing but half-ass buggy interfaces. For now I've given up and just attached a PC to my TV for movie playback. I'm using MythTV (from www.g-ding.tv) for this on one TV (an old Sony 32 Analog). I have a Mac mini on a newer Samsung LCD. The mac mini will do 1920x1080 - I picked it up off Craigs List for a bargain $200.00. I'd buy another one if I could find one for that price... -- kkitts kkitts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Goodbye lousy internet radio - Hello streaming?
Like Jon Heal in his Investigating Lousy Internet Radio Connectivity thread, I am at the stage of abandoning internet radio. In my case this is due to network congestion and, I suspect, traffic shaping by France Telecom/Orange. I do however get excellent radio from my satellite receiver! A couple of years ago there was some discussion on this Forum concerning the streaming of PC audio to a Squeezebox. However, if I remember correctly, this was fairly (to me!) complicated and required Apache Server or some suchlike application. Did it go anywhere? Such a facility would really make SlimServer a complete home audio solution! Cheers, -- Countryman Countryman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8458 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43957 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Investigating Lousy Internet Radio Connectivity
Yes, it would break the stream. A TCP stream is defined as a unique pair of IP:PORT, IP:PORT. If the IP changes, the stream goes away. Why on earth they would change a dynamic IP so often is another matter: that is just plain nuts. Something sounds wrong with their setup or your router or modem if it is changing DHCP that often. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43939 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Goodbye lousy internet radio - Hello streaming?
There are many wasy to do satellite radio and IIRC the apache server approach was used to separate the PC receiving satellit from the PC running Slimserver. If you can use a simple application to control the staellit hardware which is a command line application where command line options specify the channel to be used and the output of the spplication is an audio stream (e.g. wav, mp3, wma). The analogy would be the Griifin radioShark - which is a USB FM/AM radio - this is straightforward to stream through Slimservers. If you have a USB interface to the satellite receiver - then this approch will be applicable. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43957 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accessing SqueezeCentre installed on WHS
I'm running IE 7.0 (with all latest patches) on XP Pro. Just had a look through the various options, and can't see anyhting obvious -- pjwilson pjwilson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15738 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accessing SqueezeCentre installed on WHS
Just played further, and it now works, but who knows why... if I type the address into an open IE window, it now works fine... it does not work with the shortcut from my desktop that I had created previously (which is identical)... ??? New shortcut created on desktop, and all appears smooth :) -- pjwilson pjwilson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15738 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] An Idea For AV Recievers
kkitts;273709 Wrote: I'm using MythTV (from www.g-ding.tv) for this on one TV (an old Sony 32 Analog). I have a Mac mini on a newer Samsung LCD. The mac mini will do 1920x1080 - I picked it up off Craigs List for a bargain $200.00. I'd buy another one if I could find one for that price... I give up ... my thread has been hopelessly hijacked. :-) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accessing SqueezeCentre installed on WHS
Sounds to me that the name resolution isn't working. What is doing the name resolution in your network. This would tend to be the router. But it may also be necessary to set up the default domain suffix in order to pick up the right DNS name. To check this first try using the IP address of the server as in http://192.168.x.x:9000 replacing the 192.168.x.x with the address of your server. Assuming this works then it is purely down to your name resolution. In this case look at the network settings on one of your laptops and match them on the laptop. The other place where the resolution could be occuring is in the hosts file. -- Zaragon Zaragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14577 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Goodbye lousy internet radio - Hello streaming?
bpa;273717 Wrote: There are many wasy to do satellite radio... this is straightforward to stream through Slimservers. /QUOTE] Thanks for the response BPA. If this is 'straight forward', could you please give an idea as to how it is achieved? I can either feed the audio output from the receiver into the soundcard inputs or use a PCI card-based receiver such as the Skystar. Cheers, -- Countryman Countryman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8458 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43957 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Deleting Favorites from Remote
Ross L;227187 Wrote: Pete, Browse to your favorites with the remote, find the favorite you'd like to remove hit the right arrow and you'll see the option (Go right to delete) For adding stations via the URL of the stream, I'm not sure of a way to do this with the remote, that would be painful. From the web interface it's simple, you'll see Tune in URL under Internet Radio in the SlimServer web interface. I find that right arrow does not always give the option Go right to delete. For several favorites right arrow does nothing except bounce the display a bit. -- clowenstein clowenstein's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15740 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38397 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezecenter...What I'd Really Like to See Someday
Hi, your issue may also be related to APE tags that your current tagging software does not pick up (I fought a long time with this). http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43167 Workaround: Use Mp3tag to delete all your APE tags and please sign up for the bug mentioned in above thread to be re-opened. -- sellars sellars's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=525 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Deleting Favorites from Remote
clowenstein;273732 Wrote: I find that right arrow does not always give the option Go right to delete. For several favorites right arrow does nothing except bounce the display a bit. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7066 Could it be this? -- Ross L Ross Levine - Slim Devices Quality Assurance Ross L's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4416 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38397 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Audioengine 5
Mark Lanctot;272315 Wrote: I found the A2 finish better than the A5, a glossy piano black, very smooth, much like the SB3 black plastic and the remote plastic. The A5s looked cheaper actually, a matte plastic, some fit and finish blemishes and not the nice finish the A2 comes in. Mark, can you clarify the finish on the A2s. Glossy Black or Matte Satin? I ask because I originally bought the A5s but found they were just too big for the desk. Although they sounded great and wanted to keep them - they would be used on my wife's desk so it was a no go. I replaced them with the A2s, which also sound good. But the A2s came with the Audioengine logo on the front/bottom of the speaker. Which I think just looks terrible (nothing against the logo). It just takes away from the clean, sleek look. On the webpage they dont have the logo. The A5s didnt have the logo either. I emailed support and they said the logo is new and the webpage hasnt been updated. They said they changed the finish on the A2s from glossy black to Matte Satin because the glossy black was easily scratched. They gave me the option of switching for the glossy black without the logo since they still had a few in stock. So which did you have on the A2s, glossy or satin? and did yours have the logo? Thanks. -- Club1820 Club1820's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10999 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40455 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Audioengine 5
Club1820;273737 Wrote: Mark, can you clarify the finish on the A2s. Glossy Black or Matte Satin? I ask because I originally bought the A5s but found they were just too big for the desk. Although they sounded great and wanted to keep them - they would be used on my wife's desk so it was a no go. I replaced them with the A2s, which also sound good. But the A2s came with the Audioengine logo on the front/bottom of the speaker. Which I think just looks terrible (nothing against the logo). It just takes away from the clean, sleek look. On the webpage they dont have the logo. The A5s didnt have the logo either. I emailed support and they said the logo is new and the webpage hasnt been updated. They said they changed the finish on the A2s from glossy black to Matte Satin because the glossy black was easily scratched. They gave me the option of switching for the glossy black without the logo since they still had a few in stock. So which did you have on the A2s, glossy or satin? and did yours have the logo? Thanks. I have two sets of A2s, one glossy black and one glossy white neither with logos. Both look very good, but as both on shelves fairly high up unlikely to get scratched... -- MuckleEck Alasdair 3 SB3s - Linn - Acoustat - AudioEngine 2 - Cambridge Audio 640R - Mordaunt Short MuckleEck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11301 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40455 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Goodbye lousy internet radio - Hello streaming?
What OS are you using ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43957 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Goodbye lousy internet radio - Hello streaming?
bpa;273746 Wrote: What OS are you using ? Vista Home Premium 64 -- Countryman Countryman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8458 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43957 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Goodbye lousy internet radio - Hello streaming?
I'm not sure of the interface standards for DVB-T cards and Vista. A starting point would be to try running mplayer. The command syntax would be something like mplayer dvb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] [options] If mplayer can select a channel and play - then I have a simple test plugin which will do the rest and pass the stream through Slimserver. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43957 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Goodbye lousy internet radio - Hello streaming?
VLC is an alternative to mplayer in case mplayer doesn't work. The post below shows how a user used VLC to play a satellite stream from a Dreambox. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=265531postcount=15 VLC also works with DVB-T interfaces on Vista. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43957 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Goodbye lousy internet radio - Hello streaming?
Many thanks indeed BPA. VLC works very well on my machine so I will try that. Mind you, I haven't ever used the command line in it so will have to do some reading up. Cheers, -- Countryman Countryman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8458 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43957 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] thesixtyone music streaming site
Well I search the forums for any info on thesixtyone. Terms searched thesixtyone sixtyone 61 sixty one, so sorry if a thread already exists, I tried. Anyhow I recently discovered this site http://www.thesixtyone.com/ and at first glance seem to like it. Lots of free streaming music, that is actually quite good. Music is voted on by the users, a somewhat similar model to the Digg website. Not sure of the streaming bitrate because have only used the web interface, however the quality appears pretty good. My only complaint is that I do not see a way to listen to the streams outside of the browser. Maybe the guys at slim could talk to them and create an interface via slim, even have a way to vote using the remote :). -- m1abrams m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43960 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Audioengine 5
I don't have too much to add to this thread, only: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonbauer/2125369542/ - Jon -- jonbauer jonbauer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13615 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40455 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Remote control not working since server upgrades
When I press the 6 button on my remote, favorite #31 appears. Other buttons don't work at all. What's happening? Thanks. -- NauticusLX NauticusLX's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8981 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43962 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Artwork issues with Nokia 770 skin
Just got a used 770 and have beening loading all the artwork but I'm having this problem as well. Did this get resolved somewhere? Thanks -- utep10 utep10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9131 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41051 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezecenter...What I'd Really Like to See Someday
sellars;273733 Wrote: yWorkaround: Use Mp3tag to delete all your APE tags and please sign up for the bug mentioned in above thread to be re-opened. That is what I do as well. Spent quite some time and database rescans to figure what was going on. -- Espen Espen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43938 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
