Re: [slim] ID3 editor?
If you can Tag on a Windows machine, I'd use TagRename by softpointerDOTcom. -- D --- Koenraadr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for your help so far, I'm well on my way encoding my FLAC and MP3's (sorry, girlfriend needs Ipod compatibility). Question: I have my music on a Linux (FC5) machine although windoze is possible elsewhere in the house. I and am wondering if there is a good ID3 tag editor as I'm getting a lot of genres and albums hits on my SB3 which could be simplified now the library is up to some 4000 tracks. What do you folks use as I'm trying to make my SB3 visitor / girlfriend friendly by keeping it all simple. Koenraad -- Koenraadr Koenraadr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5142 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23975 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss __ 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] Re: How do YOU backup your music?
My $.02... I have my SlimServer on a dedicated WinXP workstaion with an external 640GB FireWire800 RAID-5 array attached to the PC in my back room. In the living room I also have a M$ Media Center edition with a dedicated 500GB LaCie FireWire800 HD for a duplicate music library. In having a very very very large library (67,000) that has been painstakenly tagged to accommodate both SlimServer Windows Media Player to my liking, there are times when retagging and/or tweaking is necessary. As I only like to do this once and forget about it, I have incorporated a free M$ PowerToy applet named SyncToy. It doesn't matter which library I amend, add-to or delete from. If I make a change on one, it can update the other as well. It also ensures that files don't get totally deleted. I manually run SyncToy, but you can have this as an automated process. I only run it when I have changed anything in either of my libraries. It's free, it works on attached drives on seperate PCs, it has a GUI and hasn't messed-up anything in my libraries. -- D --- Steve Baumgarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other nice thing about robocopy is that it does write verification; the robo prefix stands for robust, according to the docs. SBB Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss __ 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] Can someone once and for all clarify how to get multiple CDs to appear as one album?
Can someone please clarify 1) Is there a certain directory structure that needs to be adhered to? 2) What tagging should be used? In the past DISC=n was all that was needed. Now it is not working. I tried to set DISCC together with DISC and also DISCNUMBER. No luck. All CDs in the same set have the same name. I have a large library (66,000) and I had anticipated multi-folder(disc) sets some time ago to avoid such issues that you are experiencing. For box sets, multi-discs and the like that share the same album name, all I did was keep the iteration of the track numbers sequential regardless of the files' location. I.e., However many tracks a certain album/box set contains, that should be the last track number in the track number ID tag of the last track. I avoid starting over in track numbering in subsequent CDs/folders of a particular album/box set. I also lump all tracks into a single folder for simplicity as I see no benefit in keeping the CD folders separated in multi-disc box sets. This may not be the case for everyone, but I see no reason to keep em separate. I don't know if this is the case, but I am also assuming that reducing the number of folders to be parsed over the entire library may even give me an overall gain in efficiency (just my own assumption). Anyways, this is what I do, I am sure everyone has their own way of going about this that fits their own needs. -- Dondi __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Terabyte Storage
--- Ultramog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been SB2/Slimserving for a couple months, very happy camper. Local OSX drive is filling up and I calculate I'll need about 500GB for the current collection, which grows steadily. Should I get: 1) A 500GB external drive and then another after that's filled and storage costs have continued to drop? Will SlimServer maintain a library over multiple drives? 2) A NAS? 3) Something else... TIA. I suggest whatever your end-solution, you also have a backup/duplication plan with that large of a library. One you tag, sort and preen your large library, you want to keep it safe, duplicated and/or rebuildable in the event of a catastrophe that are so common with Hard disks these days. Options can consist of RAID-5 storage on an array (external etc), or buy 2 of whatever primary storage solution you go with and keep a duplicate on the second for backup purposes and periodically update and increment changes, etc. Whatever you do, just have a second version of your library somewhere so that WHEN YOUR DISASTER STRIKES (and it WILL happen), you should be able to replace the entire library without much fuss. I have a large library and presently I have one machine dedicated as a SLIM server that has a Firewire 800 MicroNET 1TB RAID-5 array hanging off of it. I also have a Windows Media Center PC machine that has one of those 500GB LaCie Bigger Disk Extremes with triple interface connected via FireWire 800 which also acts as a secondary recording Hard Drive for TV/Movies on the MCE. When changes are made to the primary music library (the MicroNET/Slimserver library) they are automagically made on the MCE library via Microsoft's Free SyncToy utility that increments and executes differences in directory tree structures. This is just the way I do things... I'm sure every person in this forum has their own unique way of protecting, sorting treating their own libraries. To defend against criticism flaming in advance, I AM NOT saying what I am doing is better, wiser, safer, more efficient, smarter or the like. I am just saying that this is what I DO. Ok, flame away!! -- D __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets
And sometimes, you want to split up a single CD into multiple albums. For example, I did that to the 1999 reissue of Pet Sounds, which has the entire album twice, first in the original mono, and then a new stereo remaster. That's why my feature request included the menu option to jump to the second (or subsequent CD) in a disc set. Looking across my library I estimate that about 90% of multi disc sets are as one. If they are different there is a need to keep them separate, I accomplish this by varying the name of the album slightly. Like if I have a very high bitrate recording, I add the word (Hi) in parens, or whatever the difference is, I ADD to the album name. Like in the above example I would name both albums the same, just adding the word (mono) for the 1st and (stereo rmstr)for the 2nd. If track order is also important, just make sure that the album name is the same up until the added unique word/words that are added. Maybe just use an iterative # like 1 and 2. It seems that in these rare cited examples, the thinking is that they ARE SEPARATE albums and as such need to be treated as such. -- D __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets
I'm with Takashi on this... I have tagged an extensive library (4500+ albums) and when it comes to multidisc sets, I just keep going with the track number. To me, I don't care what disc number it is from. I treat the entire disc set as a single disc and the track numbers are iterative so no matter what player I am playing from, I am sure to not run into the multidisc issue. Example, Eric Clapton's Crossroads box set has many discs... my track numbers start at #01 and go through to #92. I'm not sure what the value is to start over at track one on the second disc. It is the same album. This method has added greater value to my library as well, and just one of those avoided headaches that I don't have to deal with. Just my $.02, -- Dondi __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Some enterprising person
The screenshot of the 'Java Interface' has the SoftSqueeze java app with the name 'SofttSqueeze' still embedded in the app window http://www.mp3beamer.com/ss_java.html -- D --- kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ironically, I don't think the squeezebox is listed as supported, but the thing is running slimserver, so I can't imagine it doesn't support a squeezebox... just look through the screenshots... web interface, Java interface. They look VERY familiar. I'd say dead cert that a squeezebox would work just fine with MP3 Beamer -k-- NOT a Slim Devices employee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss __ 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] Re: Best Performance - recommendations? -- no, but I can tell you what *isn't* working for me..
--- radish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I don't understand is why the scan time is seemingly exponential. I can do a full wipe and rescan of about 10,000 tracks in under 15 minutes (more like 10), so why does 7x the tracks take 96x as long to scan? Radish... diff OS?? Is Linux the answer to those with large libraries? Haven't had the time nor the courage to make the leap to Linux, but if I can get a wipe-scan time of an hour or two as opposed to almost 2 days, then Im all for it. The dual-processor box I have is a dedicated SlimServer, so I dont mind at all trashing the thing to make my SB experience a bit slicker, but I have yet to figger out how to accomplish this with a large library (absolutely no playlists involved in the library, no FLACs; just MP3s). So, to the original poster, I wouldn't throw a mondo-amount of hardware at this project. It's only my opinion and from my experience, there hasn't been any gain in efficiency, especially if you have a large library. Just grin bear it. The rescans are fine. So again, maybe we can narrow this down a bit -- what are people with large libraries getting for scan times and what OS are they using?? Maybe its the demonic windows that bogs the deal down?? -- Dondi Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations? -- no, but I can tell you what *isn't* working for me..
* radish shaped the electrons to say... Could it be file types? I'm mainly vorbis FLAC, with only a very few mp3s. I know vorbis tags are supposed to be somewhat better designed than ID3, but I don't know if they're more efficient to read. Also do the obvious things like making sure your virusscanner isn't scanning the music files, and that the disks are in decent shape re: DMA settings fragmentation. I personally don't have an issue with my long scan times. I have already resigned to the fact that it takes me about 2 days to scan my library. My RAID is defragmented on a regular basis by PerfectDisk and I am aware of my bloated MP3s and the metadata contained therein i.e., album review for the COMMENT, embedded JPG album covers, and data for ALBUM ARTIST as my MCE needs this info to discern compilation albums from regular albums. I understand the process for parsing the metadata, and as I said, I have already surrendered the effort for efficiency. I had always had this battle with my library and SlimServer's scan times and had posted my then issues eons ago as my library, at the time, was unusually large. As time goes on, everyone's large library will be considered normal. My $.02, -- D __ 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] Best Performance - recommendations? -- no, but I can tell you what *isn't* working for me..
Just to chime-in I have a dual 500MHz Dell Precision workstaion with 2Gb RAM and a 640Gb MicroNet RAID-5 connected via firewire 800 that stores my 70,000 tunes on WinXP SP2. I have been a SlimDevices customer since around v3 of the slim server software. An initial scan of the library takes over a day. Always has. You just need to sacrifice a day and half for the initial scan with large libraries IMO. I turned-off scheduled rescans, as I have never been able to get SS to pick-up new music on the rescans. I have added music to my library in the past, but SS never seems to see it. For me, the scheduled rescan is only good after correcting tags. That's about it. If I add music, I need to forfeit 2 days of a hard rescan of the library. -- Dondi --- Kevin Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stewart Loving-Gibbard wrote: The larger the music library gets, the worse the performance. It's getting to a stage where it really isn't good enough to run - when for example two people run searches on the music library, all three players will stall. Ah, a topic near to my heart. In the meantime, I'm going to throw an absurd amount of hardware at this problem. I'm putting together a dual Xeon 3ghz server, likely with a Areca SATA RAID 5. (The performance of the 3ware RAID cards has always been underwhelming, Perl proc hogs aside. The Areca/Tekrams I have running elsewhere seem far, far better.) I'd be curious if anyone out there with a large library (I'll let you define what that means) is getting good or even snappy performance with their setup? Care to brag? Hi Stewart, A topic near to my heart too. I would caution against throwing absurd amounts of hardware at this as a solution. SlimServer runs for me on XP on a 3.4GHz 4GB memory machine, almost dedicated and the results , although slightly better than before, are still flawed. Memory - which was a big issue on v5 is now not an issue under v6. Here's my experience... I have a very large library - circa 100K tracks, and I have 8 players although only ever about 2 or 3 are playing. The V6 Slimserver has helped solve a lot of my problems (stalls) but it hasn't fixed what I believe is an architecture issue in SlimServer to do with threading. It is not the number of players that is the issue btw. On searching my library I can interrupt all playback and displays for over 15 minutes !! This is to do with the search results being large, if you search for narrower terms then control returns quicker, say 2-3 minutes but once you exceed 10 secs or so then music stalls so it's still an issue. . If I rescan my libray it takes over 24 hours :-( and all player interaction is lost for that time. This has got much worse btw in recent (beta) builds. There has been a bug filed over a year since v5.1.6 - it was hoped to fix this in v6 with the new DB architecture and then when it didn't pan out it was intended for 6.1 but now yet again it has been pushed to a 6.2 target. I can't help feeling that this is a big issue in how SlimServer is architected and may not be so easy to remedy. No consumer product should really lock out users for long lengths of time however my library size is hardly typical consumer either so that is unfair. If people with much more typical libraries are seeing this then it's an issue though. I feel the display, IR remote and playback should be threaded separately from the other processes such that they can continue to function without interruption. mp3 playback (no transcoding) is a very light cpu task and the DB searches now seem lightning fast in their responses - it's the subsequent data handling and the library scan task that seems to kill anything - which to me ( as a novice programmer) seems something that shouldn't be happening, but may be a bi-product of Perl or something.. In a way I wish a big development pause/splurge could be had on the fundamental performance issues of SlimServer rather than fancy new features, but that's not so interesting to people I guess. The open source side does tend to become a bit of a rollercoaster sometimes - but that's why I love SlimServer too - all the new things that it can do . My purchase has grown in functionality for free. I am hanging on in there for this fix as SlimServer is potentially such a great product for me (if it worked) , the current situation is very fragile though. The fact that player actions effect other players (stalling / interrupting music) is my main problem. I control via AMX and Crestron and these modules get really messed around by stalls in the CLI interface too. But, I'll wait to 6.2 and pin my hopes on that once more. No other solution is as accessible and flexible for me as SlimServer and fits so well into my HA setup so fingers crossed. Indeed I'm struggling at
Re: [slim] Universal Remote - Philips Pronto NG
My $.02 as to Universal Remotes My Harmony 768 has performed flawlessly for my for more than a year now and controls EVERYTHING I own... even my appliances, downloads TV listings, controls the SB, LCD-TV, VCR, DVD player, Windows Media Cntr Edition, lights, air conditioner, fireplace, thermostat, stereo and all linked to activities, so if I wanted to create an activity lets say 'Play Reggae music with visualizations'... the remote would cycle through the LCD-TV's inputs, select INPUT PC, select DIGITAL2 on the HomeTheater, navigate to MyMusic inside Windows Media Center, select the correct playlist, hit PLAY and then cycle down to the VISUALIZATIONS button and select that to turn on the psychadelic Vizs in MCE, all with a single press of a button... kinda cool and it works with no issues, unless you point the remote away from the devices. Harmony has all codes and any it doesnt it learns and then uploads to its online database Again I have the 768.. a bit pricier, a little smaller and alot more functionality than the more popular 688 model, but definately worth it in the long run, for me anyhow. -- Dondi --- Nic Wardle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I know its not actually to do with Squeezebox, but do any users have experience of the Pronto NG universal remote by philips? Especially with regard to using their SB with it? I am looking for a one-for-all solution to the miriad of remotes I now have. I remember some comments on the harmony remotes - but liked the look of this touch screen device Any comments/experiences welcomed!! Nic -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
