[slim] iPeng - Prevent Sleep Mode causes problems
Hi - not sure if this is reproducable on other iPhones but when I select 'Prevent Sleep Mode' in the settings and then try scrolling that same settings page it Is causing black screen dropouts and momentary hangs. Can anyone else confirm this isn't just peculiar to my phone? Many thanks Luga -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87195 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] iPeng offline mode
I've recently been using the Spotify iPhone app and a very nice feature is the 'offline' mode which allows you to download your playlists/albums for playback without an internet connection. I'm wondering if there are plans for a similar feature using iPeng? I asked a similar question to this some time ago but I understood that a legal issues prevented features such as this. luga -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86450 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng roadmap poll
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85135 Question: Which of these iPeng enhancements would be most important for you? - Non-Swipe Now-Playing UI for iPhone - SqueezePlay-like menu operation - Main Player controls permanently available instead of shortcut bar - Smaller and lower resolution artwork - New Main Screen UI for iPad - Advanced Synchronization - Additional Functionality (please elaborate) I'm constantly looking at the App update screen in the hope that iPeng as a player has been implemented. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85135 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] IPeng Internet Radio
Hi Pippin - thanks for the quick reply... I'm using 7.4.2 and the latest iPeng release (as of last week). In the web browser I can only see BBC iPlayer and Tune in IRL. I'm not using MySqueezebox.com - I'm accessing the internet radio from SqueezeServer. This sounds like I need to finally upgrade to a later revision of the server. I had stuck with 7.4.2 as it was stable for me. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81078 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] IPeng Internet Radio
Great, thanks Pippin -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81078 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] IPeng Internet Radio
OUCH! I just stopped and restarted SqueezeServer (without doing anything else) and suddenly my complete radio list is back. Hmm, goodness knows what's going on there. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81078 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] IPeng Internet Radio
Hi Should I be able to access all the default internet radio stations using Ipeng? I have an SB3 classic and when I access the Internet Radio menu using the default remote I can access internet radio stations from around the world both local and by city etc. I cannot see how to do this using IPeng. When I use the 'Radios' section of Ipeng all I see is the BBC iPlayer. Luga -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81078 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Simple Favorites View
Hi My son is still quite young so I'd like to create a favories folder for him containing only the songs/albums he likes. It would be great to see this favorites page in a very simple layout showing only the album covers arranged in a similar way to how apps icons look on an iphone so he can just tap the one he wants and it starts playing (on a touchscreen device - like Joggler/touch screen notepad etc.) Would anyone know if there is any way to achieve this? regards Luga -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79150 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Ipeng as a library sync agent
Hi if you own the excellent iPeng iPhone app then then you are already playing/controlling a library of music with a device that is capable of playing selected albums/playlists from that library as glorified iPod. Wireless (WiFi) syncing of iTunes tracks to the iPhone is (as yet) an unsupported feature so I'd be interested to know how feasible it would be to have this feature as part of the iPeng UI. ie. you select and album or playlist in your library using iPeng and one of the options is to sync (send to) iPhone as an iPod album/playlist. I'm thinking this would probably only be feasible if your library consisted of mp3's - otherwise they would need to be transcoded from flac or whatever on the fly and that probably isn't possible. Just curious. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75539 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Ipeng as a library sync agent
Ah, shame - would have been very cool, I think. Thanks for the quick reply, Pippin. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75539 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.2 for iPhone now on the AppStore
Hi Pippin, First time I've been able to use it for a while as I had to upgrade to 7.4 a couple of months back after the Slim team fixed a problem for me. It all works fine except occasionally I find that I'm stuck in Now playing mode (the three screen swipe) with no way to get out. The icon at the top of the screen is missing and hence there is no way to break out. Just wondering if you've come across that before. I'm going to try and reproduce to see if I can consistently make this happen as I'm not sure what is causing this at the moment. I've attached screen shots of the Now playing screens. regards Russ +---+ |Filename: 065.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8281| +---+ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68698 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Need help on WiFi Network design
I have done this myself and it works fine. You need to buy a Wireless Access Point like this one: http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-WPN802-RangeMax-Wireless-Access/dp/B0009W8M8Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1248970904sr=8-1 To enable roaming you just need to make sure that the access point has the same SSID and password. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66087 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Devolo 200AV Homeplug digital noise interference
I'm confused now because according to this thread... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15102highlight=rf+interference ...the problem was fixed back in 2005 and yet I'm still getting it. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55345 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Devolo 200AV Homeplug digital noise interference
I have 5 squeezebox 3's around the house all connected to a MediaSmart home server via Devolo 200 AV homeplugs. I've never noticed any problems with this setup until I happened to plug a pair of headphones into one of the boxes this morning. I noticed that whenever the activity light on the Devolo flashes (to indicate network activity( it causes a digital noise click through the headphones even when the SB is switched off and playing nothing. Things really start to hot up when the SB is switched on though. Any scrolling activity causes digital noise and when a track is eventually played, the digital interference sounds almost like a fax machine through a telephone receiver (albeit much fainter). This is definitely a problem caused by the Devolo homeplugs as I've tried plugging the ethernet cable directly into the PC and it is compleletly noise free. Has anyone experienced this and is there a way to eradicate it? cheers for any help. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55345 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Devolo 200AV Homeplug digital noise interference
Actually, as a quick update I've found that the problem is that the power supply I have with this particular squeezbox doesn't have the little black box built into the lead. Not sure if that's relevant. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55345 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] squeezebox - losing player config
Press and hold down the left cursor on the remote to go into player config setup. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53329 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Loud static burst, song position skipping and random stopping
Yes, I did contact support about 2 weeks ago. After several mails back and forth with things to try I was told that the problem was being escalated to a second tier support team and I should await a mail from them. Then yesterday I received a mail saying that because I hadn't been in contact they were treating my problem as SOLVED. marvellous. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52766 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Loud static burst, song position skipping and random stopping
Hi, I've had four SB3's around the house for a couple of years now. Since moving up to 7.x I've started expriencing odd behaviour. Around 6 months ago two of the boxes started to stop tracks dead for no apparent reason - completely randomly also. A couple of weeks ago some tracks started to jump song position, skipping to around a minute or two further on into the track - again completely randomly. This morning I noticed that one of these skips was accompanied by a loud burst of static (sort of white noise). I've never heard this behaviour on the two downstair boxes but only on the upstair boxes. All the boxes have exactly the same firmware version. Four x SB3 wired using Homeplug powered ethernet. 7.2 Slimserver (nightly downloaded yesterday and reinstalled). Windows XP dedicated PC for server. All tracks FLAC compressed using DBPoweramp. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52766 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Connection reset by remote host
I too had this problem at the weekend. I noticed that two of my SB3's had the same IP address even though I was using automatic IP assign. Giving each of them a unique address (manually) fixed this for me. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47409 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can we please have a sort by Album Artist option
Man, this problem has been around for what seems like a generation now. I'm not sure why SlimDevices persist in not having an Album Artist category in the Browse/Search menus. Is there some technical reason why they don't just do this. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45457 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wireless - yes, Homeplug - No
I'm using a router with homeplug built in as they are already available - it works marvellously. http://www.homeplugs.co.uk/acatalog/info_10.html -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42220 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Quality of FLAC Audio
I think that's the whole point of the OP's post. He is saying that although the source is the same for both playback systems Winamp seems to 'Sound' better than Softsqueeze when playing them back. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39333 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does not advance to next song in list
6.5.3 - not sure what nightly. Flac files Usually happens on my daughters nursery rhyme album - around 24 songs quite short in length. I can't tell when or where it stops as usually I come to the player and find it has already stopped somewhere in the album. Could be any track. Not sure if it's in the middle of a song or if it's just a track advance problem. All my SB3's are wired using homeplugs. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36835 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does not advance to next song in list
Thanks, that's very good of you to let me know. I'll give it a shot although I'm not sure the tracks are quite that short. Luga -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36835 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does not advance to next song in list
Yes, this is now happening on our SB3 system and seems to have been introduced after installing 6.5.3. Can someone tell me how to revert to an earlier firmware but keep 6.5.3? I've searched but can't seem to find anything. R -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36835 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
OK, I've been round the houses with this and I've finally hit upon a way to get exactly what I wanted. I now get all my artists listed as Album Artist with no various artist folder at all. Just one point - I'm using MP3Tag to tag my FLAC files so I can't vouch for any other method of tagging or other file formats. Firstly, I realised that having the COMPILATION tag was generally messing everything up for me (even if it was set to 0), so I stripped it out of all my tracks. I then realised that the band/orchestra tick box was not working at all so after a bit of digging in these forums I found that although I was using both ALBUM ARTIST and ALBUMARTIST tags, the key tag in MP3Tag is the BAND tag. I copied the ALBUMARTIST tag value to the BAND tag value for all my tracks, rescanned and voila it shows all my album artists (ahem Bands) in the artist list with no track artists at all. So to recap. 1)Don't use the COMPILATION tag 2)Make sure the there is a BAND tag in all your tracks showing what would normally be the ALBUMARTIST 3)Make sure the Band/Orchestra tick box is ticked. 4)Clear and rescan. Hope this info works for someone else. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
OK, cheers. How do I set the compilation tag? I'm assuming that it is 1 by default (which seems very strange to me) as I've never used this tag. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
Thanks for the replies everyone. Great reply MM. I'll give this a go this evening. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
Well I have to say that I'm finding this all extremely frustrating to say the least. After playing around with this for almost 3 hours trying all sorts of combinations of tags, behaviour settings, and rescanning my library about 10 times, I'm almost ready to throw in the towel. Each of my tracks (FLAC) is now setup thus: (using an example) ALBUM = Classic Steven Stills (for all tracks on the album) ALBUMTITLE = Classic Steven Stills (for all tracks on the album) ALBUM ARTIST = Steven Stills (for all tracks on the album) ALBUMARTIST = Steven Stills (for all tracks on the album) ARTIST = Steven Stills, Jimi Hendrix (for this track only) COMPILATION = 0 Under COMPILATIONS in the Behaviour settings I have: Group compilation albums together List albums by band I've also tried the band/orchestra box both ticked and unticked. AND STILL Jimi Hendrix persists in being listed in the Artist browser. I cannot see what I'm doing wrong here at all. Russ ps I'm using 6.5.2 -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll give it a go one more time I think. One question though, given that I only want to browse by album artist, I still want to 'search' by track artist. Will an artist search now only find Album Artists? If, for example, a friend asks me if I have any tracks by 'Billy Whatever' and I seem to remember that he appears as a guest on one of my albums (and is indeed the track artist for the track), I'd quite like to be able to find it with a search. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
Great, thanks for you help, Ben. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
Well, it nearly worked. ...except that every album that has more than one track artist on it is considered a compilation (which not all albums are of course) and are placed in a generic 'various artists' heading. I still need to see these albums listed as Album Artist. I'm going to have to rethink this one. russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Album Artist Browsing - PLEASE
It would be great if Slim could provide an Album Artist category in the browser. I understand a lot of SB users on this forum are perfectly happy with the fact that when browsing through artists there are hundreds of obscure artists listed by virtue of the fact that they appear on a compilation album somewhere. There are also a lot of us that don't want to see this and would rather browse by Album Artist. I've tried everything to get the behaviour I want using the tick boxes on the behaviour page but to no avail. Surely having a new browse category would please everyone (?) Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Crossfade help needed
Hi, Can someone clarify whether the crossfade option applies an ingoing and outgoing fade? I would rather that the incoming song be started 5 to 10 seconds before the outgoing song ends *without* adding any fades, so that the incoming song retains it's impact. regards Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31975 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Logitech's Windows Media Extender
Given that Logitech is: one of Microsoft´s premier hardware peripherals partner for marketing Windows Vista-based communications solutions http://www.logicool.co.jp/index.cfm/news/CA/EN,contentid=12915,crid=34 and with the launch of Vista at the end of this month, I wonder how plausable it is that the purchase of Slim at this time could be a bid to use the Squeezebox technology as a step into the Windows Media Extender market. These Windows Media extenders essentially do exactly the same job for anyone using a Media PC running Windows Connect on a 'master' PC as the Squeezebox does for anyone running Slimserver in the same manner (albeit without video or photos). -luga -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WMA Lossless natively, when?
There should be no audible difference between EAC and Audiograbber FLAC files at all (unless one of them is adding some gain compenstaion or normalisation) otherwise they wouldn't be truly lossless. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26133 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Artist search produces 'empty' playlist
Downloaded the 16/10 nightly and.. it works up to a point. In fact it only seems to work for album artists. If I do a search for 'John Smith' for example it finds the artist and a right cursor will now show all the relevant albums but only if 'John Smith' is the *Album Artist*. If 'John Smith' is on a compilation album, then the album is not shown in the list. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28719 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: problems displaying art - causes slimserver to crash
Are any of you using Firefox to browse slimserver? r -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27797 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: problems displaying art - causes slimserver to crash
OK, I was just wondering if this was related to the memory leak that some Firefox users are experiencing when browsing. r -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27797 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help please
Also, are you using the analogue or digital outputs from the Squeezebox? And are they going into an amp? When you say 'tuner mode'do you mean the tuner mode of your amp or internet radio on the squeezebox? -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28765 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Artist search produces 'empty' playlist
After doing an artist search in 6.5 the artist that it finds is displayed (as you'd expect). However, if one then cursors right to see the all the tracks by that artist the list is 'empty'. However, I can still play this empty playist and sure enough track advance (FF) goes through each track that I would have expected to be in the playlist. Does anyone know if a bug has been raised for this issue? I notice there is a similar bug for LazySearch but I'm not using that plug-in. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28719 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Artist search produces 'empty' playlist
Thanks for the replies. I'll give the nightly a go and see if it's fixed. r -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28719 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering
Yes, it works Andy. I now see seconds displayed instead of a percentage. However, I still get stuttering on all stations in Shoutcast that were absolutely fine in 6.3. Some are worse than others but on the whole they all start stuttering eventually. I've set the pre-buffer to 30secs but I see this dwindle down to 0 seconds after about 20 seconds or so and it starts stutteting again. With 6.3 I used to be able to listen to shoutcast streams for hours but now it's un-usable after a few minutes even on the most stable streams. v confusing. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28392 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim Server keeps stopping itself
I do have virus scanners active but I've pretty much discounted them on the basis that there seems to be no correlation. Rus -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28501 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What happened to Artist on display?
I just received notification that this may now be fixed as of 4th Oct nightly. (bug #4215). The windows .exe and .zip downloads don't seem to be up yet however. r -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27706 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Transporter - Native support for WMA Lossless?
WMA lossless is not currently supported natively. You can choose to transcode to flac or wav. I don't think there are any plans for native decompression as there are MS licensing issues. r -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28267 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Transporter - Native support for WMA Lossless?
Windows Media Player does support FLAC through DirectShow filters. Do a search on Google. r -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28267 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What happened to Artist on display?
Yes it works, and the zip and exe downloads are now up also. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27706 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?
I wonder if the designers at SD have considered having both AlbumArtist and Artist (track artist) in the browse and search menus. This would solve nearly all the artist listing dislikes that people experience. R -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28229 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Artwork Problems - Need confirmation
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4269 -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28067 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Artwork Problems - Need confirmation
Sure, here's an example. I've opened the gallery view and chosen an album for which there is only placeholder artwork. I think at this point Slimserver tries to open the first track to retrieve the embedded artwork and fails. If it also does this during a rescan then this explains why I'm getting only placeholder artwork for these albums. I had no problems with these albums under 6.3 by the way. Russ Retrieving artwork (cover) for: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Russ/My%20Documents/My%20Music/Austin%20Powers/Austin%20Powers/01%20The%20Magic%20Piper%20(Of%20Love).wma readCoverArtTags: Looking for a cover art image in the tags of: [C:\Documents and Settings\Russ\My Documents\My Music\Austin Powers\Austin Powers\01 The Magic Piper (Of Love).wma] ERROR: coverArt: Exception when trying to call readCoverArt() for [file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Russ/My%20Documents/My%20Music/Austin%20Powers/Austin%20Powers/01%20The%20Magic%20Piper%20(Of%20Love).wma] : [Can't use string ( 1) as a HASH ref while strict refs in use at C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server/Slim/Formats/WMA.pm line 94. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28067 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: [Announce] MusicInfoSCR 2.99
Hi Michael, I did what you suggested and while my new format strings appear in slim's own list, they don't seem to show up in MusicInfo's list of available strings... Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27982 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: [Announce] MusicInfoSCR 2.99
My mistake, SS doesn't actually shut down when you 'Exit' from the task bar. Works great. Thanks for all your work on the plugin. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27982 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Artwork Problems - Need confirmation
Can someone at Slim please confirm that the gallery view only uses artwork found in the library folder of an album (ie folder.jpg) if it doesn't manage to find any cover art embedded in the tags of any of the album tracks? This seems to be the case looking at the debug log after a clear and rescan. If this is true then it will help me track down why only a few of my albums aren't showing artwork for no apparent reason. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28067 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Artwork Problems - Need confirmation
Thanks for the speedy reply. This is probably the answer to some of the people on this forum experiencing artwork problems with WMA files. I have no idea why this is the case but I do know that when opening those albums from within the gallery view, wma.pm is throwing an exception when trying to get the embedded art. (something to do with hash prefs). ..and no the nightly does not fix it. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28067 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Browse by Artist - alphabetical error
6.5(v2006-29-09) I've noticed that when browsing by Artist in the Fishbone skin, there are a couple of anomolies in the alphabetical ordering. There are one or two stray artists that are not in the correct alphabetical position in the list. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28068 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: [Announce] MusicInfoSCR 2.99
It seems crazy to me that this is has not been taken up by Slim as the default 'Now Playing' feature of Squeezebox. My understanding is that this is a screensaver only (ie you have to wait for the screensaver to cut in before this information is viewable). I like to hit the 'Now Playing' button when I'm ready for it and it would be great if Michael's information was available at that point. Great work, Michael. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27982 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: [Announce] MusicInfoSCR 2.99
Hi Michael, is there any reason why one cannot choose just 'Artist'or 'Album' from your list of choices? I'm assuming that your hands are tied to the values that Slimserver allows. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27982 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Experience with powerline ethernet?
I echo what most have said here about using a fourway. There is a substantial drop in bandwidth but that may be acceptable depending on the usage. Just as an aside, I found myself in the same situation in one of the rooms where the double socket was already in use. I found a 'triple' socket in BQ, swapped it with the double and this worked absolutely fine. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26104 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Powered speakers
I went for the Edirol MA-15D's about a year ago. Both my kids have them in their rooms but as a composer of music for computer games I am quite picky with monitors and these are so good for the price. Also they have a dedicated optical input. http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/5965 Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26226 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Experience with powerline ethernet?
Yes, I use them all over the house. We live in a old Victorian cottage and wireless won't pass through the walls. I have 3 SB3's and a dedicated music server in a cupboard under the stairs. I use the powerline plugs for all the connections and they are fantastic. The 85mbps ones typically give me around 60-70 mbps depending on which part of the house they are in. If you can wait til October, the new 200mbps adaptors are coming onto the market. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26104 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Server not seeing playlists
I've said this on a different forum but essentially this is not a bug that we should be 'voting' for. If basic functionality advertised on the product page is broken then it should have the highest priority in the fix list. AFAIC voting should only apply to wishlist features and very minor bugs. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Server not seeing playlists
Apologies in that case. I read from Dip's message that this was broken in 6.2.2 -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote Button Sensitivity
Yes, a very annoying problem which also happens with wma lossless. I only experience this when a track is playing however. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Duplicated track entries when using playlists - POSSIBLE SOLUTION
I've had the same problem that a lot of people on these boards seem to have had with M3U playlists causing double entries in the album track listings. I've tried moving the playlist to a different directory and telling SS about it but this and other things I've tried did not work. I did notice however that playlists created from within the SS web interface did not cause this problem and it was only when creating playlists with WMP10 that the duplicate entries occured. The problem seems to be that WMP10 M3U entries use an explicit ip address to the server whereas the web interface entries use a local drive letter. eg. This is from a WMP10 created playlist and causes a duplicate: #EXTINF:0,17 God Only Knows.wma \\192.168.1.3\Music Library\Beach Boys\The Very Best of the Beach Boys\17 God Only Knows.wma This is the same entry from an M3U created by SS web interface that doesn't create any duplicate entries.: #EXTINF:0,17 God Only Knows.wma D:\Beach Boys\The Very Best of the Beach Boys\17 God Only Knows.wma I apologise if this already a known issue but it could help some people in the interim. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19638 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Edirol MA-15D warning
There are plenty of companies in the UK that stock them. DolphinMusic is probably the cheapest but I used StudioSpares here as we have an account with them. r -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19314 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Edirol MA-15D warning
aah, Real Ale, It must be hard over there. :) -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19314 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Edirol MA-15D warning
...well, not so much a warning as something to look out for if you are hyper-crytical (which I'm not). I recently purchased a pair of these powered monitors and as they have a spdif input they are ideal to use with the SB3. Actually, they are excellent speakers and I highly recommend them. However, they feature a bass-enhancment option which you can switch in or out on the rear of one of the speakers. Although you get complete silence when nothing is playing (hurray), I was convinced that I was hearing some sort of white noise over the top of tracks that were actually playing and, in fact, if you stop a track that is playing, for about 500ms or so you can hear this white noise in isolation after the track has stopped. At first I thought this was an SB3 problem as it happened with all the outputs, but after a bit of experimenting I've found that the culprit is the bass enhancement feature. If you switch it off the problem goes away. As this bass feature is psycho-acoustic it is adding some degree of unpleasant side-effect to the music. I must admit that the bass effect is quite good in itself and you have to be really listening hard to hear the white noise but it is there and I thought I'd just post my findings in case any of you were experiencing the same thing. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19314 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Edirol MA-15D warning
They are great speakers for the price, especially considering that they are active and accept both optical and coax. If you switch the bass enhance off and they are as clean as a whistle but lacking in bass (obviously). I can actually live with the bass enhancement switched on as the bass it adds is actually very nice and the noise it introduces is virtually imperceptible at the levels you would normally listen at. I'm using them in both the kids bedrooms, quite small rooms. The lead they ship between speakers is around 1.5 to 2m long but is not the best quality lead. It's only a phono to phono though so you can replace this no problem. Anyway, I thouroughly recommend them. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19314 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Browse Artwork issues
I had a lot of artwork display problems and have now got it to work how I want it to. However, it was a laborious process and I had to do a lot of diggin around to solve the problem. Basically, when Windows media player rips a CD it creates it's own Folder.jpg and some other artwork thumbnails that put a real spanner in the works. It hides these as system files so they don't show up in explorer. To get round this problem you have to open an explorer window, in the top menu go to Tools-Folder_Options and in the panel that opens click on the 'View' tab. Now check the 'Show hidden files and folders' button. You can now see all the offending automatic artwork (folder.jpg, windows small thumbnails etc) I delete all the thumbnail jpgs and folder.jpg that windows creates as I don't need them. I then rename all my artwork to cover.jpg for each album. Then before a rescan I delete the IE tempory internet files folder which caches a lot of the artwork and uses it next time you scan (or at least it seems to). Give this a go, I'm not sure if this will solve your problem but it helped me get what I wanted. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19218 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Request for clarification from SlimDevices please.
I posted this thread a few days ago: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18935 and it has since sunk under the sheer weight of messages this board receives. Radish's possible fix (ie changing the transcode to Wav instead of flac) doesn't seem to work for me so I'd like some indication from the guys at slim as to a)whether this is a known problem for WMA lossless or b)it's due to be fixed in 6.5 at some stage. It's quite an annoying bug especially with so called 'gapless' orhcestral albums. regards Russ Shaw -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19037 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Request for clarification from SlimDevices please.
Ah, thanks for that, Michael. I'll give that a go. Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19037 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 - WMA lossless song gets cut off at end
I'm probably going to regret this but how do I force SS to transcode wma lossless to wav rather than flac? cheers Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18935 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 - WMA lossless song gets cut off at end
After further investigation this happens with a lot of my music. The amount cut off at the end seems to variable - anywhere between 0 - 2 seconds or so. I would guess that the last buffer is not being played and as this last buffer could contain any amount of data depending on the very last refill then this would explain it. Also, looking at the bug database I notice a similar bug which reported the same thing happening to flac files and as wma lossless is transcoded to flac for playback it's probably the same bug. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434 Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18935 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 - WMA lossless song gets cut off at end
Was this bug really raised way back in April? If I'm right in assuming that it has still not been fixed then I'm shocked as it's a class A bug, surely. It's a possible show stopper for me and the units will have to go back. If I'd bought a CD player that did this I wouldn't have kept it for 8 months that's for sure. -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18935 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] AlbumArtist v Artist listings
As a new SB3 owner, I'm less than enamoured with the current method of browsing through swathes of contributing artists for all the reasons I've seen a hundred times on this forum. I understand that the guys at Slim haven't had the time or the inclination to address this as it's probably well down on their list of priorities. The 'ideal' for me would be for SS to 'not' show any contributing artists in the browse list but AlbumArtist only. But to include the contributing artists in any 'artist search' that I might do. My question is 'Can this be done with a plug-in of some kind?' I work for a large computer games company and obviously know a great many talented coders. I would get one of them to write a plug-in to do this and make it available to others wanting this feature but only if I know that it is feasible in the first place. regards Russ Shaw -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18833 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: AlbumArtist v Artist listings
Well, it's a thought:) Everyone here uses I-Tunes through our network but I know a lot of the young lads here (there are 250 of them) would be interested in the SB system so I'll probably try to get them interested first and who knows what that will lead them to write. They all 'love' open source stuff obviously. It's in their blood :) Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18833 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Amazon comments
Ouch!, Amazon.co.uk is showing the SB3 as Out of stock or discontinued - please look at the alternative products shown below Not a very good endorsement. Maybe someone should contact them about this. luga -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18658 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Display composer in Now Playing
I have seen all the various options for how the current track is displayed in the Squeezebox 'Now Playing' display. I'm wondering if it's possible to show the composer in this window rather than the artist. This would work particularly well with my classical collection. regards luga -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18512 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Yet another Various Artist/Compilations thread!
Dave, I do the exact opposite to you. The Album Artist for me is the artist for the whole album so I would categorise 'Hits of the 70's' for example, as the Album Artist and all individual contributing artists under 'Artist'. This is the way it works for WMP10 and for while is the way it worked for SS 6.2 although it seems to be broken again under 6.5 beta. Luga -- luga00 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Yet another Various Artist/Compilations thread!
Oops, did I say 'Dave'. I meant 'Sue' obviously. Sorry Sue. luga -- luga00 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Speed concerns
Hi, I am considering purchasing a number of Squeezeboxes for around the home and as an experiment to see how well it works I've ripped the entire collection to WMA lossless, downloaded Slimserver 6.2 and a copy of Softsqueeze. I'm running the SS on a 2.2ghz P4 with 1GB RAM. When I play any track from my library from our second machine (which is more powerful than the server machine) using WMP10, playback is very near instantaneous as is any track browsing by album, artist, genre etc. However, when I now try to use the Slimserver coupled with Softsqueeze 2.0 and the web interface (again from the second machine) , its a differnent kettle of fish entirely. When I click on a track or album to play it, Softsqueeze takes around 25 seconds before it actually starts playing. The same delay also occurs when I skip to the next track in the playlist and when I do any sort of search using the Softsqueeze software remote. My question is, does this sound like I have a problem or is this behaviour just something that one should expect from using Softsqueeze? Will I see a vast improvement (the same sort of instantaneous playback I get with WMP10) once I swap Softsqueeze for a Squeezebox? regards Luga -- luga00 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Speed concerns
Thanks for the replies. It seems to happen with MP3 also. luga -- luga00 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2
Ditto, I was just about to buy 5 x SB2 units to kit out the whole house. However, I'm not tempted by the SB3 design - I prefer the SB2 'lay down' approach and it seems to be the same beast under the hood in any case. Looks like I'll be trawling e-bay in the coming weeks especially if there are going to be some bargains to be had. -- luga00 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] The 'Perfect' Remote?
Having just seen this on the web, I do believe that something similar to this would be my 'ideal' remote, especially if the screen had the resolution to handle album art. luga. http://www.tvcompass.com/images/wi_fi_remote.jpg http://www.tvcompass.com/remote_control/index.html -- luga00 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The 'Perfect' Remote?
Yes, quite. I too old now to live in hope but you never know ;) -- luga00 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
