[slim] Various Artists Tagging Query
Historically I have always tagged albums which contain tracks by various Artists so that each track has the Artist Name set to the Artists Name, the Track Title set to the Title of the Track and the Album Title set to the Title of the Album. I and using Tag Rename to do all my tagging. In this way if I browse artists I can see all the tracks by that artist including their entries on Various Artist Albums. I have started using AAC seriously now and it seems to pick up each instance of an Artist with a song on a Various Artists album as a separate Album. Is there something I should be doing in Tag and rename to flag the fact that it is a Various Artists album (I see that there is a tickbox for 'Compilation Album' and should this in turn have some impact on the way that AAC 2.x sees the albums? Testing so far has been unsuccessful to when I get a VA album with 20 artists - AAC will ask me 20 times to select the album art - which I guess cannot be quite correct? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Various Artists Tagging Query
Hmm, I think I have 'cracked' it - in as much as I can now see that if so much as one of the tracks has a slightly different album title - it shows as multiples - I just corrected this in two test cases and the albums in question are now only listed once as being by 'Various Artists'. That may just be it - it's all in the tags (and how many times have I read that on these forums!) From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of Richard Scales Sent: 10 January 2010 15:31 To: 'Slim Devices Discussion' Subject: [slim] Various Artists Tagging Query Historically I have always tagged albums which contain tracks by various Artists so that each track has the Artist Name set to the Artists Name, the Track Title set to the Title of the Track and the Album Title set to the Title of the Album. I and using Tag Rename to do all my tagging. In this way if I browse artists I can see all the tracks by that artist including their entries on Various Artist Albums. I have started using AAC seriously now and it seems to pick up each instance of an Artist with a song on a Various Artists album as a separate Album. Is there something I should be doing in Tag and rename to flag the fact that it is a Various Artists album (I see that there is a tickbox for 'Compilation Album' and should this in turn have some impact on the way that AAC 2.x sees the albums? Testing so far has been unsuccessful to when I get a VA album with 20 artists - AAC will ask me 20 times to select the album art - which I guess cannot be quite correct? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ACC Guide for installation
I have tried connecting via the ODBC driver and failed (MYSQL Error ever time) - I also tried removing the password and then the user name from the ACC hta file - still same problem. Should I be able to test the connection to the database using the ODBC Admin tool? I will try removing the ODBC drivers and re-installing the 32 bit one (64 bit driver installed at present) I did edit the .tt file but right now I am trying to connect locally. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of SilverRS8 Sent: 30 December 2009 09:04 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] ACC Guide for installation scalesr1;500253 Wrote: Hello. I am struggling with ACC. I am running Server V7.41 on a Windows 2008 64 bit platform. I have installed Album Catalogue Creator V1.6a and installed the ODBC driver 3.51. ACC complains that it cannot connect to the MYSQL database and suggests that it may not be set to use the default credentials or that the required OSBC driver is not installed (the v5.x ODBC driver is also installed) I can see from the ACC code that it is expecting username and password to be 'slimserver' If I use the ODBC administrator I cannot connect to the database either. Does anyone have this combination running successfully or can anyone advise what tests I might perform in order to resolve the situation? When ACC was first launched I can it successfully on an old Windows 2003 SBS box (32 bit) but that hardware has long since gone! Regards Richard Scales ACC has been reported to work on a 64-bit platform if you install thet 32 bit ODBC driver on the 64 bit platform. Ofcourse you have to perform the manual pre-requirements first like modifying the mysql my.tt file to allowe for remote access. the usernamen and password (both slimserver) can be left out as it is no hard requiremend (but can't do any harm either). -- SilverRS8 Author of -'AlbumCatalogCreator' (http://acc.vanholt.nl)- for SqueezeCenter '_' (http://www.badkamerpech.nl) SlimServer. 2xSB3, 1xDuet, 1xiPhone iPeng, Ubuntu NAS + SC, Denon PMA-1500AE + DacMagic + Monitor Audio Silver RS8 = :-) SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73198 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ACC Guide for installation
Installed 32 bit driver - error has gone away - now status is 'creating ACC table'. As I have a large library (5K+ Albums) I shall leave it for a while. Fingers crossed. Richard -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of SilverRS8 Sent: 30 December 2009 09:04 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] ACC Guide for installation scalesr1;500253 Wrote: Hello. I am struggling with ACC. I am running Server V7.41 on a Windows 2008 64 bit platform. I have installed Album Catalogue Creator V1.6a and installed the ODBC driver 3.51. ACC complains that it cannot connect to the MYSQL database and suggests that it may not be set to use the default credentials or that the required OSBC driver is not installed (the v5.x ODBC driver is also installed) I can see from the ACC code that it is expecting username and password to be 'slimserver' If I use the ODBC administrator I cannot connect to the database either. Does anyone have this combination running successfully or can anyone advise what tests I might perform in order to resolve the situation? When ACC was first launched I can it successfully on an old Windows 2003 SBS box (32 bit) but that hardware has long since gone! Regards Richard Scales ACC has been reported to work on a 64-bit platform if you install thet 32 bit ODBC driver on the 64 bit platform. Ofcourse you have to perform the manual pre-requirements first like modifying the mysql my.tt file to allowe for remote access. the usernamen and password (both slimserver) can be left out as it is no hard requiremend (but can't do any harm either). -- SilverRS8 Author of -'AlbumCatalogCreator' (http://acc.vanholt.nl)- for SqueezeCenter '_' (http://www.badkamerpech.nl) SlimServer. 2xSB3, 1xDuet, 1xiPhone iPeng, Ubuntu NAS + SC, Denon PMA-1500AE + DacMagic + Monitor Audio Silver RS8 = :-) SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73198 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ACC Guide for installation
All working well, now it would seem that I need to sort out my album art (again!!! - last did this 5 years ago) Thanks for your help. Regards Richard -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of SilverRS8 Sent: 30 December 2009 09:04 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] ACC Guide for installation scalesr1;500253 Wrote: Hello. I am struggling with ACC. I am running Server V7.41 on a Windows 2008 64 bit platform. I have installed Album Catalogue Creator V1.6a and installed the ODBC driver 3.51. ACC complains that it cannot connect to the MYSQL database and suggests that it may not be set to use the default credentials or that the required OSBC driver is not installed (the v5.x ODBC driver is also installed) I can see from the ACC code that it is expecting username and password to be 'slimserver' If I use the ODBC administrator I cannot connect to the database either. Does anyone have this combination running successfully or can anyone advise what tests I might perform in order to resolve the situation? When ACC was first launched I can it successfully on an old Windows 2003 SBS box (32 bit) but that hardware has long since gone! Regards Richard Scales ACC has been reported to work on a 64-bit platform if you install thet 32 bit ODBC driver on the 64 bit platform. Ofcourse you have to perform the manual pre-requirements first like modifying the mysql my.tt file to allowe for remote access. the usernamen and password (both slimserver) can be left out as it is no hard requiremend (but can't do any harm either). -- SilverRS8 Author of -'AlbumCatalogCreator' (http://acc.vanholt.nl)- for SqueezeCenter '_' (http://www.badkamerpech.nl) SlimServer. 2xSB3, 1xDuet, 1xiPhone iPeng, Ubuntu NAS + SC, Denon PMA-1500AE + DacMagic + Monitor Audio Silver RS8 = :-) SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73198 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v1.5 (ACC)
Having used this in its early days I am now failing miserably! I have downloaded ACC V1.6 and am on Server V 7.41 From SB Server Control panel Version: 7.4.1 - r28947 @ Tue Oct 20 08:13:15 PDT 2009 Hostname: W2K8 Server IP Address: 192.168.100.190 Server HTTP Port Number: 9000 Operating system: Windows 2008 - EN - cp1252 Platform Architecture: 586 Perl Version: 5.10.0 - MSWin32-x86-multi-thread MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt Total Players Recognized: 4 I have installed ODBC drivers (64 bit) for 3.51 and later versions and I still get the following message after clicking 'start' in ACC. I have checked the hta file and the credentials used for connection to the database are slimserver/slimserver - have these changed now that the name of the server has changed to 'squeezebox server' ? I have also tried this from other workstations running Vista and XP 32 bit but get the same response. All pointers gleefully received! Regards Richard Scales -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of fphredd Sent: 29 December 2009 01:37 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v1.5 (ACC) When I use the ARTISTSORT feature, the artists are listed correctly, but in the 'Quick Reference' they show separation letters by first name. IOW, 'Joan Armatrading' and 'Louis Armstrong' are both listed alphabetically by their last name, before Joan Armatrading is a 'J' separator, and while directly following her is Louis Armstrong, their is a 'L' separator. Make sense? -- fphredd fphredd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66555 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss image001.png___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] ACC Guide for installation
Hello. I am struggling with ACC. I am running Server V7.41 on a Windows 2008 64 bit platform. I have installed Album Catalogue Creator V1.6a and installed the ODBC driver 3.51. ACC complains that it cannot connect to the MYSQL database and suggests that it may not be set to use the default credentials or that the required OSBC driver is not installed (the v5.x ODBC driver is also installed) I can see from the ACC code that it is expecting username and password to be 'slimserver' If I use the ODBC administrator I cannot connect to the database either. Does anyone have this combination running successfully or can anyone advise what tests I might perform in order to resolve the situation? When ACC was first launched I can it successfully on an old Windows 2003 SBS box (32 bit) but that hardware has long since gone! Regards Richard Scales ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Timed Playlist Execution
Not at all - I am a little out of touch - I currently use SB2's and Classic and I have some Slimp3's which I no longer have connected - it was the Slimp3's which got me interested in these products and I have evangelized them ever since. I will most likely update the latest versions at some time but for me it is all working really well. Regards Richard From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Hickinbottom Sent: 14 December 2009 15:55 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Timed Playlist Execution No problem - I thought it was a trick question at first! Stuart On 14/12/2009 3:08 PM, Richard Scales wrote: That is fantastic - I had no idea (I had not looked there!). That looks like it will do exactly what I want it to. Thank you for your speedy reply. Kind regards Richard From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Hickinbottom Sent: 14 December 2009 13:34 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Timed Playlist Execution Could you do that with an alarm? You can assign playlists to alarms. Stuart On 14/12/2009 1:09 PM, Richard Scales wrote: I would like to be able to control the music being played according to the time of day - Is there a method (either by plugin or otherwise) whereby I can force the playing of a particular playlist at a particular time? This is for a setup which has two players (no need to sync) but I only want to control the playlist for one of them. Can I use the Command Line Interface to achieve this? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Timed Playlist Execution
I would like to be able to control the music being played according to the time of day - Is there a method (either by plugin or otherwise) whereby I can force the playing of a particular playlist at a particular time? This is for a setup which has two players (no need to sync) but I only want to control the playlist for one of them. Can I use the Command Line Interface to achieve this? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Timed Playlist Execution
That is fantastic - I had no idea (I had not looked there!). That looks like it will do exactly what I want it to. Thank you for your speedy reply. Kind regards Richard From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Hickinbottom Sent: 14 December 2009 13:34 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Timed Playlist Execution Could you do that with an alarm? You can assign playlists to alarms. Stuart On 14/12/2009 1:09 PM, Richard Scales wrote: I would like to be able to control the music being played according to the time of day - Is there a method (either by plugin or otherwise) whereby I can force the playing of a particular playlist at a particular time? This is for a setup which has two players (no need to sync) but I only want to control the playlist for one of them. Can I use the Command Line Interface to achieve this? ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Web Interface with control of multiple devices?
I would like to see something like this - a kind of 'Slim Central' app handling the basic function of all defined players. Perhaps with individual control over each player including sync status as well as some master overall volume/mute capability? -- Richard Scales 2 x Slimp3, 3 x SB2, 1 x SB3 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of twynne Sent: 01 November 2009 16:48 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Web Interface with control of multiple devices? Hmmm... well either we're the only 2 interested or it's a slow day on the forums. :-) I wonder if it's worth submitting the suggestion to the SB guys... not sure what the process is for 'suggestions', do they go via the bugzilla route? Alternatively maybe a post in the developers forum to see if anyone can assist? I can't imagine something like this would be that difficult to throw together. Clearly integrating in the standard UI is a bit more complex. Thoughts? -- twynne 2 x Booms, 2 x SB3, 1 x Duet, 1 x SB Radio twynne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1326 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70764 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Backlight/non-backlight remote
Thank you for that - I suspect that whilst white LED's may be easy to do - light pips sound like a custom piece of plastic - so I suspect the easiest option will be to buy a new backlight one! Thanks again Richard -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of fcm4711 Sent: 11 February 2009 10:06 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Backlight/non-backlight remote Hi Richard There are two versions. The one that comes with Transporter has backlights and the one shipping with SB3 does not have them but is identical except for the missing white LEDs and probably the light-pipe. I do not know if both versions are available as spare parts though. Felix -- fcm4711 Focus means saying no. - Steve Jobs fcm4711's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59946 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Backlight/non-backlight remote
When the 'new' remote control (the one that ships with the transporter) was released as an accessory, I ordered one up to use with the Slimp3/squeezebox collection. Nice remote - very pleased - except that there was no evidence of any backlighting going on. I queried this with the reseller (UK based company) - they thought that it should have been backlight - though sadly I did not pursue this - I assumed that there were perhaps two versions and somewhere along the way - I had received the wrong one but had decided is was not worth the hassle to resolve the situation. So, please can anyone confirm whether or not there are actually two versions of the remote. If not - how might I activate the backlight? Or if there are two versions - does anyone know if I could add the components (LED's etc) to make mine light up? I have not yet checked under the hood but I would be surprised if I could not add the missing bits (if they are in fact missing!) Regards Richard Scales ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Just curious: when/why did you get your first Slim/Logitech player?
I think it must have been some time on 2001 but we had just decided to decorate and as part of the preparation an entire wall rack of CD's had to be taken off the wall and stored. After the painting was done it was time to put the whole thing back up. I had already used a PC to store music for parties that I would play via playlists and as I assessed the task of putting all these cd's back on to the freshly painted wall I thought that there had to be a better way. It did not take much research before Audiotron and Slimdevices were found. Once I saw a picture of the Slimp3 I was hooked. It did exactly what I needed - play my ripped CD collection from a central store - distributed over Ethernet with a cool display and remote. I found a UK reseller and ordered one immediately. It worked out the box, everyone was impressed, 4 friends of mine did the same. A few years later we moved to a new house which we had built - fully wired Cat5 to all rooms for obvious reasons. We have awaited each new product release with eager anticipation - the SB1, then upgrading it to an SB1G, then the SB2 (wired and then Wifi) which we use mostly. I have only recently added an SB3 just because I wanted another unit. I think I must be a very much 'old school' user as the idea of a player without a display is a tough one for me - and to have a neat colour LCD based controller that could easily get dropped (you should meet my family!) would not be good right now! Historically I have always ripped to MP3 but recently I have performed some tests with Flac files and despite many years of seeing Rush Live - I could hear a difference immediately. Now, when I get the chance - I shall have to teach some children how to open a CD case, pop it into a PC and rip it to Flac - x 500. 'I want a squeezebox boombox' and will be getting one when funds permit. I like the look of the Transporter but it would be wasted on me. I love the products, they have always worked, never had any real problems with Slimserver/Squeezecenter and I love my weatherdisplay plugin. When I have the time - I would like to write a plugin that could give me the local wind forecast for the coming days. Being keen divers - if it always said less than 10 knots - that would do! Regards Richard Scales 2 x slimp3, 1 x SB1G, 4 x SB2, 1 x SB3 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Lanctot Sent: 16 October 2008 14:55 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Just curious: when/why did you get your first Slim/Logitech player? I'm particularly interested in the forum members with older players back when this stuff was -really- obscure... This thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53642 prompted me to think about when I first heard of Slim Devices. I probably heard of the Squeezebox from the AVS Forum. The main stumbling block for me was price and the fact that it was 802.11b with WEP. However I thought SlimServer was very cool, installed it and played with it. I guess I'm easily impressed, I thought it was very neat that it ran a remote web server that could be controlled over the network. At that time I started cleaning up my tags and ripping my CDs to FLAC. Eventually I uninstalled SlimServer as it wasn't doing anything for me and I almost forgot about Slim Devices. Fast-forward to October 2005 when (again through AVS Forums) I learned about the SB3. I went to the website where I discovered the remaining SB2s were on sale. The SB2 addressed the issues I had with the SB1 and seeing as it was on sale and money was better for me at the time, I dove in. I wrote a review article for a computer forum I was active in at the time, ABX Forum, but I posted it here first for comments. Sean Adams wondered why I was reviewing the SB2 and an older version of SS (6.0.2?) and sent me an SB3 for review. I was thinking of a use for 2 players at the time, so when the review period was over I ended up buying that SB3. The rest is history... So what are your stories? -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How many boxes do you have?
1 x SB3 2 x SB2 1 x SB1G 2 x Slimp3 4 x Softsqueeze users 1 x boom on my wish list All but SB3 wired to a Win2K30-SBS, SB3 Wireless (and most used device) - mostly MP3 though moving to FLAC as time permits- no issues since installing the first Slimp3 though rarely more than 4 devices running at one time. Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonnio Sent: 03 October 2008 22:10 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] How many boxes do you have? I am curious how expandable my current system is (I am at 2 SB receivers, and SBC, and a Boom with more in the near future) I am curious how many receivers people have run before they started running into sync or bandwidth issues. -- Jonnio Jonnio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18575 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53394 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 for £129.99 in PC World
I reserved one in Portsmouth - arrived at the store and they could not find it - eventually found it 'pre-loved' in the stock room - picked it up for £99 - in and running - very pleased - my first SB3 in a house full of SB2's. Richard Scales -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of EZRyder Sent: 03 August 2008 17:32 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: SB3 for £129.99 in PC World I reserved 2 (2nd for me, 1 for my father-in-law)from the Selly Oak storeand they only had one when I arrived. Managed to get then to take #10 off the price due to their error, so got it for #119.99. Amazon UK has them for #134.99 -- EZRyder EZRyder's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15049 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50488 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
I would love to see it optionally seek out any missing album artwork. Thank for all the hard work. Richard Scales -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SilverRS8 Sent: 18 January 2008 22:31 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer To solve the track sorting problem with tracks with other artists featuring, I have to change quiet a lot of the query code. Actually I have to split the query into returning all the results as it does now, the process them and determine if it is to be marked as Various album or not. I will also use the followong algorithm; If an artist performed more than half of the songs and also features in the other songs (with other artist featuring) that that artist is marked as Album Artist. Finally when all this is done the total recordset will have a trustfull Album Artist column which can be sorted on. I think this will work quiet well and even eliminate the use for specifying the compilation folder. But this will cost some time though to implement and test so bare with me on that one please. I would also like to ask which new features you would like to see implemented? I'll collect them all and see which are implemented in the next version. Anyway, thx guys(/girls?) for your support of ACC so far... Frank -- SilverRS8 Author of AlbumCatalogCreator for SlimServer SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Just tried the latest version - superb - thanks again for all the hard work. Please could you confirm the operation of the 'Various Artists' function? Would I be right in thinking that if I collated all my 'Various Artist' style albums into one folder, performed a re-scan in SS then ran your script specifying the various artist folders - then it would simply show the album once in your list and not split it out for each artist? If so, I shall attend to some file housekeeping and make it so! Now, it may be beyond the capability of the environment which your script is written in but it would be an absolute killer app for me if it were to locate and download (perhaps with some user interaction) any missing artwork! Thanks again, Richard Scales -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SilverRS8 Sent: 04 January 2008 19:48 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer I just posted Beta 4 on http://www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm The following changes are made: FIXED: Album cover not displayed if album path name contains non alpha numeric chars FIXED: Script hangs when an album path containing non alpha numeric chars was selected as starting folder FIXED: Very last album was never included in the catalog FIXED: Album counter did not refect the actual processed albums FIXED: The very last line of albums in the catalog were followed by empty dummy albums with no album cover ADDED: acc.log file created on every run Album covers should now be displayed correctly even if there are non alpha numeric chars in the path name. Please let me know if this fixes indeed solves some problems you were having. Frank -- SilverRS8 SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
Thanks again for that, I already figured out the line for adding cover art info. I can see now that I will have to sort out all my various artist albums because it seems that I should not include them in the 'artist' sorted list. I will try the other sorts next Thanks again Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SilverRS8 Sent: 02 January 2008 09:54 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer Richard Scales;253115 Wrote: I must confess that I have not got a specific folder for compilations so I did not specify one. Neither had I specified a starting folder though for testing purposes I can see that it might help as running it against my entire collection takes a while! Thx for the update. I fixed it because this should work ofcourse. Richard Scales;253115 Wrote: File system is not case sensitive (Windows) and I can confirm that cover art is named folder.jpg, cover.jpg and I seem to have a lot of dlimage.jpg (generated by a cover art generation script!) I assume that I could just rename these to cover.jpg etc. No need to rename files. You can easily add you cover files used to line 70 (of the current script version - download again for current version please): sCoverFilename= cover.jpg,folder.jpg So your change would look like: sCoverFilename= cover.jpg,folder.jpg,dlimage.jpg Regards, Frank -- SilverRS8 SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
I too got the same results. Clicking OK revealed that a catalogue had been created but listing all albums as being by 'various artists', very few with cover art but nothing else. Apart from that - looks really good. I will investigate with more sort options. Thank you for the good work and have a great new year. Richard Scales SS 6.5.1 running on Windows 2003 SBS with 3,300 albums -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MillmoorRon Sent: 31 December 2007 23:16 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer I get the same error as tamanaco but it still seems to work OK! The results are excellent. I do have a feature request: can it be made to ignore 'the' etc. (per Slimserver setting?) so artists are in a more sensible order? -- MillmoorRon MillmoorRon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6413 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer
I just ran the updated version and can confirm the following: No error message once catalogue is created. I must confess that I have not got a specific folder for compilations so I did not specify one. Neither had I specified a starting folder though for testing purposes I can see that it might help as running it against my entire collection takes a while! File system is not case sensitive (Windows) and I can confirm that cover art is named folder.jpg, cover.jpg and I seem to have a lot of dlimage.jpg (generated by a cover art generation script!) I assume that I could just rename these to cover.jpg etc. If I specify a starting folder in order to select a subset of my collection then the artists displays perfectly - so it seems that it only displays 'various artists' for all albums if no starting folder is specified. I expect that if I specify the root as the starting folder - it might work just fine. Thanks again for this - nice work. Richard Scales -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SilverRS8 Sent: 01 January 2008 10:35 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer Richard Scales;253106 Wrote: I too got the same results. Clicking OK revealed that a catalogue had been created but listing all albums as being by 'various artists', very few with cover art but nothing else. Apart from that - looks really good. I will investigate with more sort options. Thank you for the good work and have a great new year. Richard Scales Hi Richard, I did a minor update on the file creation error. Also the help screen, when windows is not installed in c:\windows should work now. Can you test this and let me know the results? Can you also let me know: - what paths you use as Starting folder and as Compilation folder? - What cover art file names do you use? Cover.jpg and folder.jpg should be supported if they are placed in the same directory the track file is located. Is you filesystem case-sensitive? Thx for the effort and nice to hear you (and others) find the script also very useful. If you have made any additions yourself please send them to also so I can include them for maintaining a single 'master' version for other forum users to use. Frank -- SilverRS8 SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife won't use it...
Hmmm, I do believe that there is a plugin that addresses that 'issue' by slowly restoring the volume to its previous setting following such an intrusion! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of adamslim Sent: 22 May 2007 15:47 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Wife won't use it... Skunk;202766 Wrote: she did and even managed to increase volume So far my wife has only found the volume down controls, at least when it's my music playing! -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+to p+artists) SB+, EAR 859, Living Voice Auditorium II plus some other stuff SB3, Shek d2, Ming-Da MC84-C, Harbeth HL-P3ES adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34495 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Slimp3 - a life changer!
The TF5800PVR only has a USB port - lots of people network to this via various devices which effectively provide the USB to Ethernet link including small linux/windows PC's and other devices. Assuming that you are connected in this way then yes you can then install TAPs etc via the link as it is simply a matter of sending the required file to the correct folder. Richard Scales -Original Message- From: autopilot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 November 2006 11:11 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Slimp3 - a life changer! Questions for the Toppy owners; The Topfield 58000 has an ethernet connection right? Can the Toppy added to my WiFi network by using my SB3 is a wireless bridge? Can TAP's be installed over the network? -- autopilot *SlimServer Version:* 6.5 - Windows XP. *Amp:* Cambridge Audio 640a (living room) / Denon MD30 (bedroom). *Speakers:* Mission 701's (living room) / Kef Cresta 1's (bedroom). *Remote:* T-Mobile MDA Vario / Sony PSP / Harmony 525 (IR). *Clients:* 1 Squeezebox3 + Softsqueeze. autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29322 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] USB to Ethernet adaptor and SB3 as bridge? Is what i want todo possible?
You could check out the relevant section on the Toppy forums here: http://forum.toppy.org.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=8sid=b386e6d00ec47fb89df5bd 2c2fd8ff57 Richard Scales -Original Message- From: autopilot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 November 2006 14:22 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] USB to Ethernet adaptor and SB3 as bridge? Is what i want todo possible? Does anyone here know anything about USB to Ethernet adaptors? i.e. something that would allow me to add a USB HDD to a network? I am planning to by a Topfield 58000 PVR, which has a USB port only for moving files on/off it. When you connect it to a PC, you can view the files/folders in Mass Storage Device mode - but i don't want to keep dragging it upstairs to my PC. I want to add it to my network using my Squeezebox3 as a wireless bridge. What i plan is this; PC - Ethernet cable - Wireless access point - WiFi - Squeezebox 3 - Ethernet cable - Ethernet to USB adaptor - Topfield PVR. It should work, right? Thing is i has never used an Ethernet-USB adaptor, has anyone got/used one or have any link to suitable products? And what issues may i encounter using the SB3 as a wireless bridge? -- autopilot *SlimServer Version:* 6.5 - Windows XP. *Amp:* Cambridge Audio 640a (living room) / Denon MD30 (bedroom). *Speakers:* Mission 701's (living room) / Kef Cresta 1's (bedroom). *Remote:* T-Mobile MDA Vario / Sony PSP / Harmony 525 (IR). *Clients:* 1 Squeezebox3 + Softsqueeze. autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29486 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Slimp3 - a life changer!
Toppy is only for FREEview - hence no subscription charges - which benefits me immensely! Richard -Original Message- From: Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 November 2006 10:05 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Slimp3 - a life changer! I'm a Sky+ devotee! The days I received SKY+ and my Squeezebox are in my top five of all time, only to be eclipsed by getting married, the birth of my children and losing my virginity! Stuffed a 250gb in the box and we have 100 hours capacity in the original broadcast quality. What are the bebefits of a Toppy over Sky+? -- Warren Warren's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29322 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimp3 - a life changer!
Hello all, I have been a keen user of Slimp3 then SB and now SB2s and it has completely revolutionised the way we listen to music here total access to entire collection etc.etc.etc we know all this! There is another gadget that has had a similar effect on home entertainment in our household and I thought I would share it with the forum (this is most relevant to UK viewers). I was a Sky subscriber for years but gave up before SkyPlus came out and defected to the FreeView service. Now we have a TopField 5800 PVR Hard Disk recorder which as well as allowing me to trash the VCR (and that mountain of tapes) has revolutionised the way we watch TV here. I know that SkyPlus folk will know all about hard disk recording and there is the TiVo community but the Topfield 5800 product sits well in our setup. There are 3rd party plugins that extend the functionality of the basic unit and it is partly because of this that I thought I would bring it to the attention of this community as I know that some of us like that sort of thing! There is a user group at www.toppy.org.uk It might be interesting to know how many other Slimp3/Squeezebox users are also Toppy owners! Regards Richard Scales ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Slimp3 - a life changer!
Would I be right in thinking that you have got some device doing the EthernetUSB connection at the Toppy end? I have heard that the next version of the product will be networkable which would open the door to all sorts of opportunities! -Original Message- From: dSw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 November 2006 20:59 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Slimp3 - a life changer! Richard Scales;151983 Wrote: It might be interesting to know how many other Slimp3/Squeezebox users are also Toppy owners! Me for one! It's definitely in the same category as the Squeezebox i.e. if you have the technical know-how and can be bothered spending time on it then it will work wonders, but there are other devices out there that do similar things and are more user friendly.. but aren't quite as good. I actually use my SB2 as a wireless bridge to allow WLAN access to my Toppy - they work very well together! -- dSw dSw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=362 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29322 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Simple question folling 6.5.1 installs
Hello all, I have upgraded to latest official release and have had good results thus far though I do have one very simple query that I have so far failed to resolve. On previous versions, Brows Artists, would eventually produce a list of albums which had all songs at the top of this list, selecting all songs would produce a list of all songs from that artist which I am sure was sorted alphabetically. I note that this is no longer the case and the resultant list appears not to be sorted. I changed the settings so that the track number is no longer displayed with the song title but I am left with a list which is not in order. Am I making this up or has something changed which I am not aware of and if so is there an option to have the list sorted by song title by default? I know its not very exciting in the scheme of things but Id love to resolve it if possible. Thanks in anticipation Richard Scales SlimServer is running on Windows 2003 Small Business Server with 2 x wired SB2 and 1 x Wireless SB2 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: 6.5 post upgrade query
Thank you for this - I have tried MP3Tag but have thus far failed to view TSOA. One thing that confuses me though is that all the CD's concerned were ripped by me using the same application (Music Magic Jukebox back then) and as far as I can remember - nothing different was specified when ripping - Additionally, All albums for Robert Plant / Robert Palmer are affected - it is as if SS has correctly grouped them all correctly under the same artist name but has then made a decision based on something about the artist name which results in the symptoms now displayed. I shall persevere! Richard -Original Message- From: Mark Lanctot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 October 2006 23:25 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: 6.5 post upgrade query Incidentally, Mp3tag does support TSOA: http://www.anytag.de/forums/index.php?showtopic=2614 ...not that those instructions say how to display it, but it seems to be able to write to it. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28222 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.5 post upgrade query
I just installed 6.5 over 6.31 working well at present though I have noticed a couple of things that I have tried to resolve but the resolution has yet to materialise! Firstly, in both web and player interface if I look for Robert Plant he no longer appears under R but Robert Plant is listed under P (for Plant). Robert just about everyone else appears under R (Palmer for example). I use Tag Rename and have looked at the Artist field and they are formatted (as far as I can tell) the same for both Roberts that is FirstnamespaceSecondname however, they are now appearing in different places. Where should I look further? I am assuming at this stage that it will be in the handling of the tags and I should therefore look at the tags in more detail which I will! The second observation is that when I list All Songs for any given artist, I am sure that they used to be listed in alphabetical order they no longer appear like that instead it looks like the appear to be listed in one long list album after album. I have stared at all the settings but the answer eludes me still any pointers gratefully received. Kind regards Richard Scales ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Macintosh Help!
Thanks for all the MAC help - working well now. Thank again Richard -Original Message- From: danco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 September 2006 14:11 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Macintosh Help! If you prefer to use a symbolic link then (in addition to creating one via Terminal) look on VersioTracker for programs that will create such a link. There are some stand-alone (free) programs, and some shareware programs that do this and a lot more. You can then move the symbolic link (which is just a small file) anywhere you like, and you should be able to treat that link as the required library. Or, as far as I know, olof's suggestion will work. -- danco danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27231 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Macintosh Help!
I am not very Mac literate I set up an SB3 for a colleague of mine, got Slimserver working and everything was fine. His music collection grew to the point where it needed to be housed on another drive. We moved it all over but I have had no success in making Slimserver see the new drive. In the path to your music I have tried putting in the drive and folder as follows: \SEA_DSK\music but that is not recognised. I believe that I might have to be doing something with a symbolic link but neither of us know much about those. The mac is running OSX and there is no Itunes integration required or anything else out of the ordinary. I would be grateful for a pointer in the right direction. Regards to all Richard Scales ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Macintosh Help!
Many thanks - will try this later this morning. Richard -Original Message- From: olof [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 September 2006 08:27 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Macintosh Help! Try this : /Volumes/SEA_DSK/music In Mac, you have to use /, not \. -- olof olof's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7235 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27231 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Best Wireless Access Point for use with SB3?
I have been using a Dlink router dsl-604T and a DWL-2000AP+ access point for what seems like forever and have had superb service from them (3 x SB2 Wireless) I have also installed over 100 DSL-604's (some were the DSL-G604 wireless variant) and I did have some issues with encryption when the SB3 first came out but these were resolved with later SB3 firmware. I have several clients using Dlink access points with SB2/SB3 and they have had no problems at all with their WiFi. In general I have found that using a WAP has always been faultless but routers were an issue once. Just my 2p! Richard Scales -Original Message- From: DavidB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 September 2006 16:48 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Best Wireless Access Point for use with SB3? I used to have a DI-624, but as a result, I would never buy anything from D-Link again. The DI-624 couldn't even stay alive as a switch for more than 4 hours, let alone with wireless. Switched to a WRT54G and have never looked back. Good luck. -- DavidB DavidB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7233 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26968 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] SB in the kitchen advice please
Well, I can make recommendations based on what I didn't forgot to do! We had a house built and put CAT5 everywhere (except the one spot in the Kitchen where the SB2 went - so we have a WiFi SB2 there which works great) - put in plenty of CAT5 and then some more if you can. Because I failed to think about it - we now have some Samson Active speakers on a shelf which also has the SB2 - I wish I had gone for ceiling mounted speakers - unobtrusive etc. So - ceiling mounted would get my vote any day (for the Kitchen at least) There are lots of threads around on good amps which take up very little space - I will go there one day! Plenty of conduit or wire going from ceiling space to SB location for amp/speakers etc - I hate visible wires which could have been hidden easily at build time. I know I have not answered your question specifically but I hope it helps a little. Richard -Original Message- From: Seineseeker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2006 11:25 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] SB in the kitchen advice please We are having a new kitchen put in and I want to incorporate a Squeezebox into the project. Has anyone got any advice on what to use for the amp and speakers? I was thinking maybe a car amp and speakers would do the job, but would that be a bit naff? Anyone got any suggestions? I am thinking of siting the speakers in the suspended ceiling, is that a good idea? For the kitchen setup I'm not looking for super amazing sound quality as its a noisy place anyway. -- Seineseeker Seineseeker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4591 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26578 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums
Tag rename works well for me: http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm Richard Scales -Original Message- From: oriordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 August 2006 06:22 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums Thanks for the suggestions. I did check to ensure there weren't any extra spaces or the like before my original post. Can you point me to an MP3 tag editor? This is not something I'm familiar with. -- oriordan oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26186 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Syncing music libraries (QNap 101)
Following some recent threads on the subject - I am now using robocopy in a number of places - including backing up of my music library. It is part of the Windows 2003 server resource kit and is available as a free download from Microsoft. Hope it helps. Richard Scales -Original Message- From: Andy Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 June 2006 11:32 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Syncing music libraries (QNap 101) Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], vurted[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what software people use to replicate their music library across to the the music directory on the Qnap and then keep it in sync. I don't think much of the replicator software that comes with it as it doesnt appear to let you replicate to sub directories on the Qnap shares. Any ideas on what to use instead? If you're using XP, there's a Microsoft PowerToy called (something like) SyncToy. Check out the Microsoft web pages... Andy ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Play direct to PC speakers
You could try installing 'SoftSqueeze' which is the software player included in the SlimServer package. Use your browser to navigate to your slimserver homepage at http://127.0.0.1:9000 (or use the IP address of your slimserver) And follow the links at the bottom of the screen for softsqueeze. Enjoy! Richard Scales -Original Message- From: Flatpik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 June 2006 06:30 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Play direct to PC speakers I'm just getting started trying to build playlists. It will be easier to do this by viewing albums directories and sampling songs on my PC rather than sitting downstairs and fighting with the remote. How can I make Slim Server play thru my PC speakers instead via the Squeezebox - stereo? -- Flatpik Flatpik's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24425 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Slim Devices at MacGathering, LA 5/19-5/20
Hmmm, Goodwood F.O.S - that's less than 5 miles from me! You could count on me for support! Richard Scales SB2 x 3 - and all round Slim Devices Evangelist -Original Message- From: Jez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 May 2006 17:30 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Slim Devices at MacGathering, LA 5/19-5/20 Rudholm . . thanks for the offer . . we'll consider it . . you'll hear back from us . . honest . .really . . just wait by the phone . . any day now . . LOL TCM - a european trip would be very cool as I'm recent expat Brit and Patrick is French. We are actually planning on hooking up with Paul and Co at CEDIA UK next month but as that's a trade only show, I'm sure it wasn't what you had in mind. Now if I can only find a way to justify a booth at the Goodwood Festival of Speed . . hmmm -- Jez Jez Hildred Senior Manager - Sales Marketing Slim Devices, Inc. Jez's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4300 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23820 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Poll: What is your library size and hardware
2803 albums | 48526 songs | 6783 artists All MP3 stored on a Fujitsu Primergy Econel E50 server 4GB RAM, 2 x 300GB HDD in Raid mirror. Running Windows 2003 Small Business Server 2 x SB2 wired 1 x SB2 wireless Slimserver 6.2.2 Richard -Original Message- From: erland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 May 2006 11:31 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Poll: What is your library size and hardware I need some information about how large libraries I should use when testing performance on my plugins. So could you all post some information about the number of albums/tracks in your library and which hardware/software you are running slimserver on. Please post your configuration independent if you are using my plugins or not. I'll start with my own configuration: Library size: 217 albums with 2779 songs by 96 artists Hardware: Athlon XP 2500+, 1GB memory Software: Slimserver: 6.2.2 Database: MySQL 4.0.23 OS: Ubuntu 5.04 (Linux) -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-tracks tat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://tinyurl.com/pptqy) and 'DynamicPlayList' (http://tinyurl.com/kfrgs) plugins) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] A Silly Poll
Well, I would be male, aged 15 - plus 29 years experience! Richard Scales -Original Message- From: jonheal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2006 13:15 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] A Silly Poll Here's a silly poll for y'all ... I'm curious as to the age distribution of Squeezebox users. If you care to admit to your age, do so. I'll collect the results and make a little graph. I'm geezing at ... well, I'll be 48 next week. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22941 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Alien BBC Plugin.
I know that hearing Well it works for me is of no comfort to those who perhaps continue to struggle with getting a particular feature or plugin to work with their particular configuration so I wont say that! I was inspired to give this a go mainly because of the exposure that Alien BBC has had over the last week on this forum. My setup is quite plain Win2K3 SBS running Slimserver 6.2.x, 3 x SB2 all working fine. I ran the latest install from the Alien BBC page which took longer to download on broadband than it did to install. I admit that I skipped the pre-flight checks and tests and went straight for it (shame on me) re-started SS and it just worked. I suspect that I had it so easy because I used the latest download that seemed to install everything automatically. Now we have Steve Wright in the afternoon in the morning and the evening too. (though we may not all consider that a benefit!) So I would just like to thank the Alien BBC team for all their hard work and effort in developing this solution really good work. I shall now be trying the same trick on a MAC for a colleague of mine. Thanks again Richard Scales ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Latest Beta
Hello all, Reading all the threads has inspired me to upgrade from 6.2.1 to 6.2.2 though I cannot seem to find install files for Windows environment. Can anyone point me in the right direction? 6.2.1 does appear to work flawlessly for me so why upgrade I wonder? Just because I can I suppose! Kind regards Richard Scales ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Latest Beta
Thank you - I shall watch this space! Kind regards Richard Scales -Original Message- From: Patrick Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2006 09:29 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Latest Beta The windows 6.2.2 nightlies don't seem to have been built (yet?). Try again in a while - they are probably being built as we write ... -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21913 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Dlink ADSL Router with WiFi
Hello all, Does anyone out there have a Squeezebox 3 connected via WiFi to a Dlink Wireless Router DSL-G604T? I myself have SB2s connected via a Dlink DWL2000AP+ Access Point and have had complete success but I just set up a Squeezebox3 for a friend. It connected OK initially but after 8 hours it lost the network connection and it would not re-connect. The only way I could get it to re-connect was to change the SSID of the router it worked OK then for another day after which it lost the connection again. Using latest standard release. I also noticed that the Squeezebox would NOT connect when encryption was set to WEP so we are currently not encrypted. There are two PCs in the same building that connect via b rather than g though I do the same here with a PDA in with a b adapter without problems. I would be interested to see if anyone else has any experience with the Dlink DSL-G604T and a Squeezebox in Wireless mode. Kind regards Richard Scales ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] MAC Help
Hello all I have been a keen Slimserver user since I bought my first Slimp3 I have just set a friend of mine with 2 x SB3 running on a MAC. I have no experience of Mac (and although he uses it for his work he knows nothing about networking etc). My primary problem is this: In Slimserver settings I want to specify the music folder. The software installed and seems to point to an Itunes folder on hard disk 1 (HD1), in the web interface the format is: /users/alexvonkoettlitz/music where alexvonkoettlitz is the username that he logs in with and music is the folder name containing the music sub folders. What we actually want to do is specify folders on HD2 (a second hard disk) as the default location for the music. I tried creating an alias to HD2 and dropping it into the existing music folder but it did not find the new music following a re-scan. What format/syntax do I use to specify this alternative music location? We do not want to utilise any Itunes integration if we can avoid it. A second question is centered around the scenario where he has a PC running Tag Rename to do the tag updating but he can only see the folders under his username on the MAC from the PC how can I get the folders from the second drive to appear? Any pointers gratefully appreciated. Kind regards Richard Scales ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: MAC Help
Thanks to you and Ben for your tips. I will try it all, I just set up remote access to the Slimserver in question so it will be fairly easy (well easy to 'have a go' anway!) Kind regards Richard -Original Message- From: thepainter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 February 2006 15:57 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: MAC Help You did almost everything right - instead of making an alias of HD2 and putting it in the music folder you need to make a 'symbolic link' of HD2 and put it in the music folder. Do a version tracker search for symbolic link - I believe there is a program that's called symbolic linker that does a good job and that should be it for both questions 1 2. I believe there is also a FAQ on the subject at Slimdevices.com -- thepainter thepainter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3437 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20760 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The only downside I've noticed
So, how about exporting the list of album names to a file (a process about which I know nothing!) then with some careful font trickery, print out something which looks like all the spines of your CD's - pin this to the wall in sections and hey presto - random, browsable and inspirational - finally, grab the remote and play your selection! - On a more serious note - I would love to be able to easily 'get at' the data held by Slimserver in some text file form - if only to permit fine tuning of all my tags - though I would like to produce some form of catalogue for perusal. In the mean time I use the web interface to spot inaccuracies like miss-spelt artists and/or albums that produce duplication etc. Richard Scales -Original Message- From: Geoff B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 January 2006 19:08 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Re: The only downside I've noticed On 1/17/06, cliveb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth, I control the SB2 purely through the standard remote. I do this also, and know exactly what you mean about wanting to scan quickly through CDs to see which one 'jumps out'. One thing that sometimes works well is to hit one of the keys on the remote while browsing by artist. Hit it 1-3 times, and you end up in a semi-random place in your collection. Then, either scroll down one-by-one, or if you have a lot of albums, hold the scroll for a while. Assuming you previously sorted your physical CDs by artist name, this at least simulates walking up your CD storage unit, picking a shelf at random, and scanning it. Cheers Geoff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Where to buy an IR Blaster?
AFAIK it is just an LED wired (the correct way around of course) to a jack plug. Not beyond the realms of home creativity for anyone with a soldering iron and access to the components (Local Maplin shop?) Richard -Original Message- From: Dave Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2005 07:30 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Where to buy an IR Blaster? Hi, I thought that the IR Blaster was a SlimDevices product and didn't know that it was a generiec device - can anyone confirm that this is the case and these particular ones work ok with the SB? If so, I'll order some from Ebay. Thanks! Dave Or maybe even this one: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ssPageName=MERC_VIC_ReBay_Pr4_PcY_BIN _IT -- Dave Edwards Dave Edwards's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1171 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18059 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: SlimServer on XBOX ?
I am just curious to know what this actually means. I assume from your post that your Xbox hardware is now running Linux (and hence SlimServer) - how does this work for all the games etc. Do you have to select a different mode of operation at startup or something like that? How would this work for 'a friend of mine' who has upgraded his xbox hard disk and modded the bios so that games can be saved on that disk (or so I am informed)? Richard -Original Message- From: jackyhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 November 2005 06:08 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: SlimServer on XBOX ? Just a update, I successfully installed slim server on my xbox with Gentoox, it runs perfectly on one 300G hard drive now, now my xbox truely becomes my home media center, I am so joyful. -- jackyhan jackyhan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1957 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18107 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Where to buy an IR Blaster?
Dave - how about this one? -Original Message- From: seanadams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2005 04:15 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Where to buy an IR Blaster? Dave Edwards Wrote: Dean, Sorry to bother you again. I just rechecked the shipping charges and although they have gone down a little, they are still very expensive! Could you please check that they are now set to the price you intended?($43.89 or $40.09). The IR blaster has been reduced to $7 (thank you!), I expected to pay less than 6 times the value of the item to ship it to the UK. Would it not be possible to just put it in a padded envelope and send it via normal mail? I'd be willing to take the risk of losing it - I would just buy another (or 2, or 3) to replace it. Thanks, Dave Dave, The US Postal service is very bad when it comes to international commercial shipments - unfortunately we're only set up to ship higher value packages by UPS. Those are in fact their minimum rates. Maybe you can find someone locally who is buying a squeezebox (anyone?) and roll the IR blaster in with the order. Otherwise see if you can source one there... -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18059 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Where to buy an IR Blaster?
Dave, How about this one: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=5833625124 -Original Message- From: seanadams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2005 04:15 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Where to buy an IR Blaster? Dave Edwards Wrote: Dean, Sorry to bother you again. I just rechecked the shipping charges and although they have gone down a little, they are still very expensive! Could you please check that they are now set to the price you intended?($43.89 or $40.09). The IR blaster has been reduced to $7 (thank you!), I expected to pay less than 6 times the value of the item to ship it to the UK. Would it not be possible to just put it in a padded envelope and send it via normal mail? I'd be willing to take the risk of losing it - I would just buy another (or 2, or 3) to replace it. Thanks, Dave Dave, The US Postal service is very bad when it comes to international commercial shipments - unfortunately we're only set up to ship higher value packages by UPS. Those are in fact their minimum rates. Maybe you can find someone locally who is buying a squeezebox (anyone?) and roll the IR blaster in with the order. Otherwise see if you can source one there... -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18059 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Where to buy an IR Blaster?
Or maybe even this one: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=5830395883ssPageName=M ERC_VIC_ReBay_Pr4_PcY_BIN_IT -Original Message- From: seanadams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2005 04:15 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Where to buy an IR Blaster? Dave Edwards Wrote: Dean, Sorry to bother you again. I just rechecked the shipping charges and although they have gone down a little, they are still very expensive! Could you please check that they are now set to the price you intended?($43.89 or $40.09). The IR blaster has been reduced to $7 (thank you!), I expected to pay less than 6 times the value of the item to ship it to the UK. Would it not be possible to just put it in a padded envelope and send it via normal mail? I'd be willing to take the risk of losing it - I would just buy another (or 2, or 3) to replace it. Thanks, Dave Dave, The US Postal service is very bad when it comes to international commercial shipments - unfortunately we're only set up to ship higher value packages by UPS. Those are in fact their minimum rates. Maybe you can find someone locally who is buying a squeezebox (anyone?) and roll the IR blaster in with the order. Otherwise see if you can source one there... -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18059 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Audiotrons?
Did somebody say USB Knob? http://www.macplus.nl/pages/detail.php?productID=532 Richard Scales -Original Message- From: Michaelwagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 October 2005 19:26 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Audiotrons? A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17641 Question: Audiotron(s) - Had one, but no longer have it. - Had more than one, but no longer have them. - Have one, have it still. - Have more than one, have them still. I liked the idea someone mentioned about a USB knob ... -- Michaelwagner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] OT - General networking Question
No problem at all, just house your patch panel and switch at some convenient point in the building, then patch all your PC's, Squeezeboxes, and any other network connected peripherals into the points around the house. Patch these points to the switch next to the patch panel and hey presto, you have a network. For the ADSL router/switch, just locate this at some convenient point where there is a phone socket (for the ADSL) and a network socket (to go to the patch panel). Use any of the available network ports on the ADSL router and then patch the associated point on the patch panel to any available port on your network switch. If neither your ADSL router or network switch have autosensing/crossover ports then you will need to use a crossover cable at some point - otherwise use 'normal' network cables. I have exactly this setup here - except that my ADSL router is in the wiring cabinet along with the network switch and patch panel - all in the loft (which is a right pain when I need to power cycle the router!) Hope this helps. Richard -Original Message- From: gingerneil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 October 2005 08:20 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] OT - General networking Question Hi all, Lots and lots of knowledge here, so I'm hoping someone can help with a question. I currently have a Netgear DG834G ADSL wireless hub (or maybe its a switch, I'm not sure!). When we move house, I'm planning on installing cat5 and a patch panel. Due to layout, I wont be able to have the netgear close to the patch panel - so I'll need another switch next to the patch panel. How, therefore, do I wire the netgear and a new switch (ie www.ebuyer.co.uk Quickfind code: 63776) into the network so that I can use the netgear to access the internet from the PCs/SBs ?? I'm thinking: PC switch(via patch panel) then switch - netgear. Do I then just set the gateway/dns etc of the PCs to the LAN side address of the netgear like I do now, or does the inclusion of the switch complicate things ?? Also, can I use any port on the switch to connect up to the netgear on any of its ports ?? Any help much appreciated. -- gingerneil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] OT - General networking Question
I jest checked ebuyer and there seems to be no information about the ports on their switch. I use Netgear switches and these are usually either auto-sensing or have one port that can be used as a 'crossover' connection via a front panel switch. All you PC network configs remain as they are. Kind regards Richard -Original Message- From: gingerneil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 October 2005 08:20 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] OT - General networking Question Hi all, Lots and lots of knowledge here, so I'm hoping someone can help with a question. I currently have a Netgear DG834G ADSL wireless hub (or maybe its a switch, I'm not sure!). When we move house, I'm planning on installing cat5 and a patch panel. Due to layout, I wont be able to have the netgear close to the patch panel - so I'll need another switch next to the patch panel. How, therefore, do I wire the netgear and a new switch (ie www.ebuyer.co.uk Quickfind code: 63776) into the network so that I can use the netgear to access the internet from the PCs/SBs ?? I'm thinking: PC switch(via patch panel) then switch - netgear. Do I then just set the gateway/dns etc of the PCs to the LAN side address of the netgear like I do now, or does the inclusion of the switch complicate things ?? Also, can I use any port on the switch to connect up to the netgear on any of its ports ?? Any help much appreciated. -- gingerneil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] UK Squeezebox 3 Promotion?
Is there any news of a promotion being run in the UK along the lines of the SD website promo ($100 off 2 players) ? Richard Scales ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] other features?!
How about this: http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WGT634U.php Richard Scales -Original Message- From: markhaslehurst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2005 15:28 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] other features?! Hi, does anyone know of anything like the squeezebox that you could also connect a USB hard drive to, so that the hdd could be accessed by a laptop on the wireless network, and then the audio could be streamed back to the squeezebox...?! its just such a pain having to have my external hdd connected to the laptop all the time, so that would be a great way to kill 2 birds with one stone! also, u know if it can work on a WPA network?! -- markhaslehurst ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: New low price on SB2!
.. and I bet he lived in t'shoe box in t'middle of road etc.etc.etc. -Original Message- From: max.spicer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 October 2005 17:15 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: New low price on SB2! You had MINES etc etc ;-) Max Bill Burns Wrote: dean blackketter wrote: On Oct 13, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Bill Burns wrote: Richard Scales wrote: Well, I have never owned an Amiga - I started out with an Ohio Scientific Superboard with 4K of Ram, to fit more I had to build my own memory add-on board. I am struggling to think what was around before this - but I bet someone out there had some 8080 based thing with a hex keypad and some 7 segment displays - am I right? Hex keypad!!! We used to *dream* of having a hex keypad and seven-segment displays! My Altair (still in the attic) had toggle switches and LEDs; if you were very lucky you could key in the Teletype KSR interface in about 5 minutes, then you could load programs from paper tape into the 1K of memory. YOU HAD LEDS AND SWITCHES? I would have killed for that! We had bare wires and relays and were happy to have them! You had WIRE!!! We had to get up in the morning and go down t' mine, dig the copper ore, smelt it, and make our own wire every day. -- Bill Burns Long Island NY USA mailto:billb (AT) ftldesign (DOT) com -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: New low price on SB2!
Well, I have never owned an Amiga - I started out with an Ohio Scientific Superboard with 4K of Ram, to fit more I had to build my own memory add-on board. I am struggling to think what was around before this - but I bet someone out there had some 8080 based thing with a hex keypad and some 7 segment displays - am I right? Richard -Original Message- From: Michaelwagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 October 2005 05:10 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: New low price on SB2! jimdibb Wrote: I've got a whole amiga 1000 setup, working condition, with external ram (starboard II, maybe not working), disk drives, lots of floppys/sw in various conditions, mouse if anyone is interested. I could come back with a more complete list and an asking price. I had a 1000 with 2MB external RAM thing, whatever it was called back then, and an extra drive. Haven't powered it up in years, but it's in good condition. Should try some time. Software too, but I don't know how well it fared stored in the basement. -- Michaelwagner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?
And another 2c: I ran Slimserver (up to 5.4) on a dual PII-733 box, 1GB RAM for several years - mostly OK. I now run the latest 'official' release on a P4 3Ghz box with 1.5GB RAM under Windows 2003 Small Business Server and it mostly performs at rocket speed - there are however significant delays (3-8 seconds) when navigating right from 'browse artists' or 'browse albums' before the list of artists/albums is displayed. Once displayed I can navigate through the list at high speed. I suspect that the source of my particular problem is as follows: 2596 albums with 48489 songs by 6223 artists Regards Richard -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 October 2005 03:01 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations? Music Machine wrote: Two cents from the Peanut Gallery It seems like people are pretty happy with performance if they have around 350 or less albums in the database. 750 albums or more is about the place where no one seems satisfied with performance. Between those quantities satisfaction varies quite a bit. I could easily have missed posts to the contrary. On the surface it looks like data handling is the bottleneck, not processing power. I have no problems running SS on w2k with a 800mhz PIII and only 256 meg ram. My database has a little less than 350 albums. Regards, Music Machine 728 albums with 8504 songs by 755 artists My performance is still fine on 6.1.1, though there can be some slowness in browsing music. I guess I'd better quit buying albums :) -- Jack At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin so across the Western ocean I must wander -- trad. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] active speaker suggestions
Hello all, Can anyone recommend some nice powered/active speakers to run from an SB2 to go into a living room which is full of predominantly wood finish items as opposed to anything black. They need to be available in the UK and whilst I am not looking for an audiophile solution neither am I looking for a PC accessory. Kind regards Richard Scales ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Dabs.com 7 Day Deal
Well, I have dipped my toe in the ebay water - you might find it there! -Original Message- From: Tim Morley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 August 2005 16:33 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Dabs.com 7 Day Deal What you doing with old one :) - Original Message - From: Richard Scales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Slim Devices Discussion' discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 6:44 AM Subject: RE: [slim] Dabs.com 7 Day Deal OK, that's my last Slimp3 Upgraded then! -Original Message- From: cuk0724 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 August 2005 22:41 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Dabs.com 7 Day Deal Just noticed this http://www.dabs.com/uk/productview?quicklinx=3Q51referrerid=FC Dabs are doing the Wireless Squeezebox 2 for £159.99 for 7 days. -- cuk0724 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Dabs.com 7 Day Deal
OK, that's my last Slimp3 Upgraded then! -Original Message- From: cuk0724 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 August 2005 22:41 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Dabs.com 7 Day Deal Just noticed this http://www.dabs.com/uk/productview?quicklinx=3Q51referrerid=FC Dabs are doing the Wireless Squeezebox 2 for £159.99 for 7 days. -- cuk0724 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Data Duplication
By 'easy' I mean something that I can do in a couple of hours - the alternative being to go through every artist (2500 of them) and look for duplicate album entries. By 'duplicate' I mean that I simply want to locate multiple instances of the same album for a given artist. Can you give me any pointers as to where I might look to configure ODBC drivers - mysql.com have an odbc driver download which I will look at - from memory I believe that once the odbc driver is configured and a data source added, any odbc compliant app can access the data - does this sound right to you? Kind regards Richard -Original Message- From: Pat Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 August 2005 17:13 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Data Duplication On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 08:54 +0100, Richard Scales wrote: My question is - is there a relatively easy way / tool / trick to seek out all such duplications and if so how / where should I look. Define easy. But first, define duplicate. If the album has the same name, then it is very easy in Sql. If the names vary slightly, it is much harder, altho by no means impossible. Or do you mean some are .mp3 and some .flac and some .wma? I am running SlimServer 6.1 - would I be able to use my favourite database environment Filemaker pro to hook into the SQL database in some way? - If so I could then do it in filemaker I would guess. You need the OBCD driver to talk to the SlimServer database. Once that is setup, do whatever sql you want. Or even write Java/Perl/PHP to talk to the database. You may want to look at the calculated hash for each song, if you are interesting in song-level duplication. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Data Duplication
Hello. My music library has grown hideously over the years and I am starting to sort it out Currently standing at around 250GB, 47K songs etc. One problem I have is that on occasion I find that I have an album in two places when I play the album, it plays each track twice. If I check the UI I can see that each track is listed twice, I can then easily find out where each one is hiding, decide which one to remove and that problem is sorted. My question is is there a relatively easy way / tool / trick to seek out all such duplications and if so how / where should I look. I am running SlimServer 6.1 would I be able to use my favourite database environment Filemaker pro to hook into the SQL database in some way? If so I could then do it in filemaker I would guess. Kind regards Richard Scales ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Does Slimserver download cover?
Well, the only cover art that I have is for my own CD's that I have converted. I used MusicMatch Jukebox software which also did the tagging so I would guess that this is where the cover art was added to the ripped music files. I have looked around today and found a couple of tools for adding cover art to your existing MP3 database (subject to the quality of your tags). I'll let you know how I get on if it helps. Kind regards Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 June 2005 21:02 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Does Slimserver download cover? Jacob Potter schrieb: On 6/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just discovered that there are more covers displayed in my slimserver than i did download. Is slimserver downloading the cover from somwhere? No, although some MP3s have the cover art embedded in the ID3 tag of the song file itself. That could explain the extras. Thanks for the info, although this is strange. Because the extra covers are not for downloaded mp3s, but for the albums i converted from my own CDs. And i do definately not know how to embed cover art in the tag... I am somehow confused now. Joachim ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Wireless ADSL router recommendations
I have had lots of luck with Dlink products, DSL-G604T is the 54g WAP variant of their ADSL router which also has 4 x 10/100 wired ports. I use this with SB2 and it is rock solid. I previously used their DSL-504T ADSL router with a separate DWL2000 AP+ 54G WAP - again rock solid but too many boxes! We also use a laptop around the house here - rock solid on three floors and no interference from microwaves etc. I usually get all my ADSL gear from www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk who also supply the DSL-G604T in a bundled package with either USB or PCMCIA wifi adapters etc. Hope this helps. Kind regards Richard Scales -Original Message- From: max.spicer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 May 2005 17:14 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Wireless ADSL router recommendations I currently have a 3Com Office Connect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall router but it's giving me all manner of grief. My various wireless devices keep losing the connection and then will not connect again unless I reboot the rooter. That's another story though - I'm not asking for support here! However, my problems are not due to signal strength - al my clients get at least 90%. Assuming that I end up binning the router, could someone recommend a good alternative? I need 11g with WPA and it must have a built in ADSL modem and switch with at least 4 ports. My current router is killing my SB2 enjoyment, so something that's rock steady and just works would be great. I'm in the UK, and would be looking for something in the £100 price range. Thanks, Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Remote Delays?
OK, I see this too - since upgrading from 5.4.1 to 6.0.1 (released) - I use a dual PIII-733 box running Windows 2000 Pro in 1GB of RAM. I notice it particularly when navigating from Browse Music, Via Browse Artists to the list of artists. A several second delay (may be up to 5) whereas it used to be nearly instant on 5.4.1. I can confirm that this is the same on SB2, SB1 and Slimp3 (all running from the same server). Richard Scales -Original Message- From: Craig, James (IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2005 14:22 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Re: Remote Delays? I also see this on XP - SqueezeboxG seems very sluggish when I haven't used the server for a while. Something to do with memory being swapped out perhaps? (SlimServer process loses about 40Mb of memory in Task Manager when it's inactive.) On the other hand my old character display Squeezebox seems much quicker from the same server? James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of quick_snack Sent: 25 April 2005 14:14 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Remote Delays? I have this issue's too when using XP as server. When I serve via a linux box the response is much faster. Maybe is has something to do with the infrastructure of XP. -- quick_snack ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Squeezebox2
Good work sir! Please can you advise as to when you expect your UK distributors to have stock? (and perhaps which ones might have them first?) Richard Scales -Original Message- From: Sean Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2005 05:30 To: Slim Devices Discussion; Slim Devices Developers Subject: [slim] Squeezebox2 Hi everyone, Lots of folks noticed that we were running low on inventory, spending less time here, and working our butts off on SlimServer 6. As suspected, there is a new product. Squeezebox2 is in full production now, and the first units will ship on March 31. Squeezebox2 addresses all of the top performance and functionality requests that come up here every day. 802.11g/WPA: for better range, compatibility, security, and throughput FLAC: for reduced bandwidth usage More memory: for better streaming of PCM audio over wireless I'm just getting started... don't worry, I'll get to the pony. :) Although I don't often contribute to the audiophile discussions, I really do enjoy reading them. Regardless of who can hear what, the fact is that there are indeed some real measurable characteristics such as output levels, THD+N, and clock precision where we had room for significant improvement. Squeezebox2 has completely done away with all the limitations - we're now doing all of the audio decoding and DSP work in software, and this gave me the freedom to design the digital outputs and analog stages exactly the way I wanted them. Please see the FAQ and the hardware specs page for details on the new design. Among other things, the new design has allowed us to implement cross fading and some very impressive visualizers. Of course, having it all done in software (on an extremely fast processor) leaves the door open for more functionality down the road. Now some people have pooh-poohed the idea of visualizers as just being eye candy, but personally I think a high resolution, ultra-fast spectrum analyzer is quite a thing to behold. We've got one now - full screen, 64 bands, 30 frames per second, and perfectly synced with the audio. There are a few visualizers to choose from, including a smaller spectrum analyzer and analog VU meters. Squeezebox2 also has a new vacuum fluorescent display - we had it custom designed by Noritake specifically to support the ideas we had in mind for new fonts, animations, and visualizers. The display is slightly larger physically, and has more than twice the resolution at 320x32 pixels. It has multiple brightness levels of course, but it also has grayscale capability, which we use for the visualizers and graphics. A few bonus features that you might not have expected: Dual antennas: Squeezebox2 has both an internal AND an external antenna. The 802.11g radio takes advantage of this configuration to automatically select the best antenna for transmit/receive, optimizing signal strength and vastly improving range/throughput. Bridging: yes, Squeezebox2 can share its wireless connection with a wired ethernet device connected through its (100Mbps) ethernet port. This allows other devices in the home theatre, such as Xboxen, Playstations, Tivos, or HTPCs to connect wirelessly to your access point. Pony: there is a discount code, FREEPONY. Enter this on the order page to get $20 off on either the wired or the wireless model. Finally, a big thank you goes to every one of our customers and especially the people on this list. Thank you for promoting the product, helping us improve it, and suggesting ideas. The new web site is up now: http://www.slimdevices.com Sean ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Now Playing information
Thanks for the pointers - I should have thought of that myself! Kind regards Richard -Original Message- From: Michael Herger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2005 07:12 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Now Playing information On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 06:58:18 -, Richard Scales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would really like to be able to extract information such as 'Now Playing.' from my slimserver to include on a web page but have absolutely no idea where to start. I can see that I can point a browser to my slimserver web interface which is visible on the internet, enter my username/password and view that information - is there some way that I can code this so that I can display the information another web site? I appreciate that it might need to get past the username/password thing which may render those credentials being visible in some viewable source but that aside - can anyone point me in the direction of some html code that I could plunder to do this? Did you have a look at the plugins page (http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_plugins.html). There's some stuff like slimclass.php, Geeklog etc. which will help you getting the information you need to your page. -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the SlimString Translation Helper (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
