[slim] Serious question about current quality
Hey all, I've had a slimp3 since sometime in 2003, running some late 4.x server and updating regularly to my current 7.5 install on linux. I've been keeping my eyes open for quite a while, thinking about when to upgrade. I've been considering the boom, the radio, the touch for a bit, but I hold reservations about current quality. I know back in the day (slimp3, sb1(no g, g), etc.) that many people would have issues with the server responses, etc.. but as an experienced user/sysadmin-type I could always work with whatever. With the motion towards the player-side thicker logic, it seems that the general quality level is a bit more challenged these days. My question: For slim-experienced and generally technically capable folks, are the new devices production-stable enough for daily use? Which is best? I'd be inclined to think the boom just from its legacy design sw-wise. Do people feel that the boom will be on its way out soon to be replaced by a similar squeezeplay-based device? I don't want to get a boom and then have it feel like a stepchild in 1-2 releases, but I'd prefer it over radio for the sound quality. Since I already have the slimp3 in the living room, this next one would be more likely a bedroom or kitchen purchase. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77447 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Serious question about current quality
I guess my primary concern is that I seem to get some willies about depending on a squeezeplay device, since everything seems so shaky right now. I know with the boom i'd get my reliable and familiar experience, but the newer features of the GUIs tempt. I think if I had to make a purchase right now it would be the boom, but I'm inclined to stay on the sidelines a little longer and see how well the squeezeplay-platform devices stabilize. If something boom-sized and boom-sound-quality came out with a (matured) squeezeplay interface, that would be the ideal for me. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77447 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Serious question about current quality
Goodsounds;536131 Wrote: I get the willies thinking about having to listen to music through a device that arguably was obsoleted 5 years ago. For many people, the relevant quality factor is sound quality. While you've been waiting on the sidelines, many increasingly capable and excellent versions of these devices have provided great service to a lot of people. The product you have would be unacceptable to most people these days. I'm not sure what you're waiting for and frankly I suspect it's not so clear to you either. My device doesn't give me the willies because it's proven over the long term, so it's not a consideration that it would stop working unless something finally fries or the server support drops. You're correct in the fact that I'm not 100% sure what I'm waiting for either, but this was an attempt to get a feel from more experienced users over the years about the current state of things, in context. I could look at all the negative posts and conclude that things are bad, but I know better from both my knowledge of the product history and my awareness of internet forums. I'm detecting a small note of hostility in some of these responses. I'm really just asking some questions and expressing some concerns; there's no need to jump on me for it. I was an early supporter and will likely be a future supporter, I'm just trying to get a grasp on the best timing for what will work for me. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77447 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Woeful sync SB3 Boom - just me?
I can't recommend this NTP server enough: http://www.meinberg.de/english/sw/ntp.htm It disables the (crappy) windows time service, sets up a port of the real NTP, and its own user, and comes with a great list of pre-defined server pools. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76378 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] fix for Actiontect router?
SteveSatch;397173 Wrote: I spent a lot of money on two Duets and another hard drive to fit my music on. These simply do not work with Verizon's Actiontec router. When can we see a fix? Hello, First, please understand this is NOT an official support forum, just a forum frequented by fans of the devices and some of the staff. You'll have much better luck with the support phone number and e-mail address. Secondly, I have Verizon FIOS with an actiontec router. I'm using this for wireless as well as my main gateway, and my slim setup is perfect on it. I have a slimp3 connected to a Netgear wireless game adapter with no problems, and I use things like Pandora all the time from it, also with no problems. Could you detail what *specific* problems you're having? Your tone doesn't suggest someone who wants this to work, rather someone who wants to complain and stamp his/her feet. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60199 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox connected directly to PC with wireless card
Instead of creating an ad-hoc computer wireless network try this: Go to the 'sharing' option under the system preferences, and choose to share your ethernet internet connection with users on airport. You can define a network name and password here. That should do it! -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to play .asf file in SB3?
Using .asf with audio only (in a windows media codec) is like using .mov with audio only (in an aac codec). I think the SW should support it. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59006 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC 7.2 and SLIMP3?
Mine's working like a charm. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51607 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] duplicate artists in sc7
Hey y'all, I'm seeing duplicate artists in my main artists list in sc7. I didn't see them in 6.5.4. I did *not* migrate my preferences on purpose so I could get a fresh setup, fresh scan, etc. Is there a setting I missed or some file I can provide? Running on linux with the default TGZ release and the bundled mysql. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44224 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] silly question: slimp3 and squeezenetwork?
Is this possible? -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44225 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] silly question: slimp3 and squeezenetwork?
I realize that SC7 works just fine, I'm using it and have been using pre-5.0 slimserver versions and on with my device. It just won't die, so I can't get a WA for the duet! I wasn't able to find any of the 'add player' business in the sc7 menus for my slimp3 to get PINs, etc. for the SN site. How are the SN features to be used with the slimp3? -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44225 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Everything is running fine!!
I figured this forum could use a message like this. Please list slimserver specs and library specs if everything is fine for you! Device: Original SliMP3 Library: 3722 albums with 50888 songs by 1257 artists SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11206 - RedHat - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.6 i386-linux-thread-multi MySQL Version: 5.0.21-standard Athlon XP 1700+, 512M RAM, running Fedora Core 3 Music Storage is 4 * 250GB Hitachi SATA on a HighPoint 1640 RAID-5 Controller I play music all the time, and am currently enjoying Global Communication's lovely ambience. No stutters, *ever*. Using a netgear wge111 to talk 802.11g over WPA to a linksys wrt54G that the server is wired to. The MySQL 5.x work with SlimServer 6.5 has made a huge difference from the SQlite days, and obviously light years from the 5.x stuff. Kudos, slim team and thanks! I wish my device would break so I had an excuse to get a sb3 (or whatever's next!) -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33076 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] maybe silly CLI question
digging around, i realized i can just run: # scanner.pl --rescan --progress /dir/with/new/stuff Very nice. Unfortunately, one of the things in that dir got re-tagged and now i have duplicates of tracks in that album. Any idea of how to get rid of those without either doing a full rescan or manually hitting the database? -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32700 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: AsyncHTTP errors
This may be out of context, but why isn't the code using the system default host resolution paths? Most applications should be able to use the system paths (I know linux uses nsswitch.conf for example) so that you can fall back on whats known to work? If files don't have it, then go to dns, etc.. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25454 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 'Browse Artists' always starts at the top of the list (slimp3)
no, this is when using the player like normal. A typical usage: Turn on slimp3, go to browse music, browse artists navigate to artist, album, (song maybe), hit play button Hit now playing on remote, then go back to browse music and artists and the list will be at the top again, at 'Various Artists' -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25288 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 'Browse Artists' always starts at the top of the list (slimp3)
A workaround was posted in the bug, and I'm all set. Thanks! -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25288 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 'Browse Artists' always starts at the top of the list (slimp3)
I've filed this as http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3704 It seems that in 6.3.0, every time I go to the 'Browse Artists' list, it's at the top. Previous releases would keep the last position of the list cached. Anyone else see this with the other players? If there's debugging output I can provide, let me know. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25288 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announcement: SlimServer 6.3.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -Uv SlimServer_v6.3.0.noarch.rpm Preparing packages for installation... /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.12490: line 11: syntax error near unexpected token `' /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.12490: line 11: ` .mine' error: %pre(slimserver-6.3.0-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping slimserver-6.3.0-1 Merge failure in the release or something? I was running 6.2.1 with MySQL. I installed perl-dbd-sqlite and perl-gd RPMs as directed by RPM before starting. -- herbman herbman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25039 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
