[slim] MusicIP Replacement
Since it seems pretty likely that MIP is going away (maybe to be reborn) does anyone have any suggestions for a replacement? -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63671 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.3 looks good, seems stable
I think that controller playback will be beta even when 7.3 releases but I've used it a few times and find it to have very good sound quality and it makes moving around the house when you can't have the house systems on a real pleasure... -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55622 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Report on powerline ethernet (five weeks later)
Kyle;140721 Wrote: I'm also using a Belkin Pre-N with about a 30-40-foot distance through numerous walls in my house. Although my signal is anywhere from 35-75%, my music streams flawlessly 99% of the time. I can't say I never have a problem, but no more than once a month or less. I also use Belkin pre-n. Essentially, never a drop problem. I think that the n-based access points really up the reliability and certainly up the range. I know of others that have had major problems with reception with b and g level access points and have upgraded to n based units and now have no problems either. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27990 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] PlayStation 3 browser and the SC Web UI
What I wanted was just the web ui to work - don't need the streaming, I've got an sb3 for that. Essentially, I thought it might be nice to have on during a party, etc. to display the album that is playing. Also useful to not have to get to a computer if I want to use the full UI instead of the controller from time to time. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] PlayStation 3 browser and the SC Web UI
Well, sounds like I'll have to give it a try, anyway. Thanks! I will have a wired 1g network to the unit but I doubt that it will be much faster. Still may beat going to the computer. I wonder if a handheld skin would work well just using the remote to scroll around instead of a keyboard, etc. too. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] PlayStation 3 browser and the SC Web UI
I was planning on using my sb3 to actually do the music playing - just wanted the ps3 for doing some bigger controlling UI work. Would be nice to have a video server, though - I'll have to take a look at the software you mentioned for that. Thanks! -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] PlayStation 3 browser and the SC Web UI
I'm thinking of getting a PS3 soon (mainly for the Blu-Ray). One of the things that I noticed was the browser capabilities of the unit. Has anyone tried using the SC web UI on it? Any particular skin? Jumping up a usage level, what I'm also really looking for is something that looks as cool as a windows media player system browsing through the albums graphically. I always figured that I'd have to get a quiet linux box with wireless keyboard/mouse and hook it up to the AV Reciever to do something like this but the ps3 will already be there... -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Off Topic - Logitech Marketing e-mail
This is completely off topic, sorry, but I thought that it might be possible that someone here knows... I just got an e-mail from logitech: logitechmktg at logitech dot com that had some sort of announcement about a webcam contest. It was kind of difficult to tell, really, since the e-mail was in Dutch and I'm essentially a single-language American. So I'm thinking that I've got a profile somewhere that has a setting messed up a bit and I was wondering where I might find it to correct it. By the way, the contest does sound interesting (I have a Dutch co-worker that read parts of it too me) - something about sending in your interesting stories about how you use a webcam and you could win a webcam? -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52040 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement Squeezecenter 7.2
Mitch Harding;335341 Wrote: I am observing the same missing spaces issue (although in truth, to me they just look like very small spaces). I tried removing fontcache and restarting SC, but the issue persists. On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:28 PM, aubuti aubuti.3ez0jz1220124601 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: pablolie;334379 Wrote: But with 7.2 running on Linux Ubuntu 7.2, I seem to notice that the SB3 no longer displays the spaces in folders or file names, a behavior I can't recall from 7.1. It s not a big issue, but I was wondering else notices that a folder that is named George Benson now is displayed as GeorgeBenson through the SB3 display when browsing in folder mode (which admit is my favorite mode of browsing music) and also in Now Playing. Note the song and artist titles show *with* spaces on the controller. A bit of a guess here, but your problem might be related to some display font changes they made to accommodate the smaller VFD on the Boom, including fiddling with the space characters. Try deleting the fontcache file on your SC installation. It should be in your cache directory -- I think the standard Ubuntu location is /var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/fontcache. Restart SC after deleting the the fontcache file. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51633 If it is a small space then I think that it is intentional. I think that the there was some discussion about the space character becomming smaller with the new font a while back - but it has been a while now. It is sort of a compromise, but things are not totally strung together and I've not been bothered by it, I guess. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51633 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Outoor Controller High-Contrast color scheme
It often seems difficult to see the controller's sceen outside in/near the sunlight. I was wondering if a black text on a white background color scheme would improve things. There seems to be a lot of light text on dark background schemes (probably because they look better inside). Also, if it might has anyone built one? -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49039 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Incorrect time displayed
The US had Daylight Saving kick in Sat/Sun - Spring ahead. Timezone issue? In the past I've seen lots of Windows boxes setup with the wrong timezone but the time was set correctly - only would see a problem if sending meeting requests across timezones or when Daylight Savings changes... -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44481 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sound quality difference CD player vs SB3 FLAC playback?
I've got a Dennon DVD 3910 and when I first got my SB3 I did some side-by-side and blind tests. I made sure that the player had processing turned off by using the Direct and Pure Direct modes. There seemed to be a difference between normal and the direct modes of the player (it was doing something), but I couldn't tell a difference between the player's direct modes and and the SB3. I always had the Reciever's (Denon AVR-4306) processing turned on to adjust for balance, timing, room accoustic handling, etc. I also make sure that the SB3's volume control doesn't do anything to the digital outputs - not sure if that would have any impact on precieved sound quality or richness, though, if the end volume was the kept the same. I also ripped the CDs to flac using EAC and checked with AccurateRip to confirm a good rip. I COULD tell a difference between the highest bitrate mp3 and a CD every time. On the pratical side it matters little what is right, it is your ears and perception that is important - perhaps you could adjust your reciever to process the sound to make it better to your ears? In the past I've liked modes like Jazz Club, etc. because they give a warmer feel... -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44394 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Off Topic - SqueezeVideoServer??
I'd be happy if it would keep me from having to wade through a pile of physical DVDs looking for something... Just like SC does for CDs. Yes, it does the i-radio stuff as well, but I have Tivo for that on the video side. This would be simply for the library portion. Hopefully that would cut down on the format complexity. Thanks for the pointers!!! -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42790 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Off Topic - SqueezeVideoServer??
Anybody have any ideas/tips on how to go about building or buying one? I've been so successful in moving all of my CDs to flac now I'd love to start thinking about doing it with my DVDs. Of course HD-DVD/Blue-Ray down the line as well... The server/player model (with multi-device synchronization) would be fansatic. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42790 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Down to the wire between SB Duet vs. Sonos
I run a belkin pre-N wireless network (before draft N). Wireless SB3s work just fine in that envirnment. The N standard is supposed to support G (and B, I believe) devices. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Unknown Artist when it isn't
I've got one album that always shows up under Unknown Artist when the artist is known. The track artist shows up correctly but somehow the Album Artist is flagged as Unknown so the album shows up in SS under U all of the time. I've looked at various places (mp3tag and MusicIP fix tags being the main ones) to change the tag but cannot figure out how to change this particular tag. Does anyone know of a package that will allow changing the Album Artist tag? Thanks! -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40722 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Unknown Artist when it isn't
Yes, I realized that a couple of minutes after posting it here - sorry for the double post. I added a print screen of what SC is displaying in the ripping forum post. It looks like it thinks that the Album Artist is Unknown Artist when the track artist is all I can figure out how to set. I didn't see an entry for Album Artist in the link you provided. Since this is the beta SC I might have to post over in the beta section - I thought that this might be non-SC specific, though, so I started over here. Thanks for the response!! -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40722 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] LIbrary/Directory Organization - Seasonal Music
Getting close to tis the season again. Does anyone have any suggestions for organizing seasonal music? Is there some way to have all of your christmas music available, but ensure that it isn't picked in July? I tried searching the topics for christmas but too many people are asking for christmas presents here to find this, unfortunately, so please forgive me if this has already been discussed to death. How do people keep this broken out, if they do? I suppose I could setup an entirely independent SC Server but that seems a bit like overkill. I'm using SC 7 and MusicIP as well so if there are any features there that make it easier that you could tell me that would be great! Thanks! -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39942 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox Boombox
I'd love to have one that was small enough to put into carry-on luggage, etc. Great for hotels, cabins, etc. when travelling. Probably smaller than what a lot of people would think of as a traditional boombox, but still be able to project decent sound. Certainly need to have it easily rechargable. Currently around the house I have a few wireless speakers - the problem with them is that you have no control or display of what is playing. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36603 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Device - Headless SB Remote Display/Control
Been away for a few days - sorry for the delay in responding. It was a few years ago when Belkin first came out with mimo-style pre-n, not the current draft n. It had security options that my old G hub didn't support. My laptop with built-in b didn't support it either. They probalby do now, I've no idea and no real interest in it either. There is no point in designing a new device using old standards - as people have pointed out there probably isn't much in the way of a signifant price difference, just a simplicity/efficiency one. My pre-n certainly appears to me to have much better range and reliability than my old G hub. Not a scientific test, but it has been confirmed with multiple devices (using the belkin pre-n cards and hub) vs the old G hub that I had for a while. It went through walls much better, no dead spots and null zones in the house and even work further out into the yard. So speed isn't the only thing to consider. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36169 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Device - Headless SB Remote Display/Control
From a speed point of view, 11n might not be needed but from a compatibility point of view it is. At least I setup my pre-n network to use security not available in b or g so they aren't compatible. I wouldn't want to add another wireless hub with a lower level of security and it would be a pain to create stuff like an untrusted subnet, etc. I'd even use it in the same room as the sb because its display can't be read from very far away. If it had a big enough display it would be very useful for picking albums to play and other functions that you now tend to turn on a computer for. It should have a screen that can be read outside in bright sunlight as well... I guess I'm thinking of more of a hand-held type of device so it wouldn't have to respond to the remote control. Thanks. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36169 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Art?
Did you scan them into the SlimServer prior to finding the art? If so, I've noticed that it doesn't EVER reload the image from the cover.jpg file unless you totally clear all and rescan. I had a few that were incorrect (I found a better image) and a couple that took a while to find. Rescanning from scratch brought them in. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35995 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Playlist Conversion Utilities
I've looked around and haven't seen any. I'd like to be able to convert playlists from different products to native SlimServer playlists. Specifically MusicIP, but others would be potentially useful. I am running SlimServer on a dedicated Linux music server and, as I understand it, for SlimServer to use MusicIP playlists currently both SlimServer and MusicIP have to be running on the same box. MusicIP only runs on Windows so that is out. Thanks! -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36037 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech Branding
I guess that I would be considered one of the new arrivals. I just recently discovered SlimDevices and Squeezebox - after it was acquired by Logitech, as it turns out. I found out about it from a BestBuy MP3 player with Rhapsody that my wife bought at Best Buy - sorry. :) The SlimDevices and Squeezebox names don't do much for me, truthfully. Since I don't have the history they don't evoke a sense of high-end audio - or maybe it is just that I'm not a big fan of accordion music. And transporter is a movie about several car chases...I liked it, but it doesn't sound like audio equipment to me. Ironically the Logitech name does mean high-end equipment to me - their trackball has certainly saved my hand over the years and I don't know how I (or my wife) would be able to operate our AV equipment nearly as efficiently without our several Harmony remotes (discovered after they were acquired by Logitech, but not through Logitech). The Logitech experience with my Harmony remotes has been very good and they seem to want to make sure to take the time to properly support their customers. The same can be said for their trackball when I had to call them several years ago when upgrading computers with different ports. All in all, to me, the Logitech brand was a bonus and the promise of more to come. I would suggest to them that the existing experienced users be consulted with special focus groups, early access, advisory groups, etc. There is a wealth of knowledge to be drawn on and a lot of boundaries to be pushed back, etc. -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33966 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
